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Welcome to the millennial 
Mustard Seed, pod cast. 

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Hey guys. 
Thank you so much for being here

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tonight. 
We're going to do things a 

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little bit differently. 
I'm gonna be sharing two of my 

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favorite stories. 
I hope that this helps you guys 

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take your mind off of some of 
the chaos and the trauma. 

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That's being felt right now in 
our neighborhoods and all around

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the world. 
Let's jump right into it. 

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This is a story about never 
giving up a story of giants. 

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There's A long ridge in central 
trip, County South Dakota, it 

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looks out of place. 
It was a time when it wasn't 

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there. 
They say it was a summer of 

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storms, when red caps people 
were camped, south of the great 

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muddy, now known as the Missouri
River. 

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Cloud and Plum were married in 
the moon of ripening berries, 

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two evenings later, A storm blew
in big black clouds rolled 

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across the sky and the Thunder 
shouted. 

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Angry Eyes flashing with the 
light of 100 Suns, but the storm

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was not the worst thing that 
happened. 

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Something dark and ugly came out
of the night, ripping into the 

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village. 
Cloud and Plum huddled in their 

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Lodge from the darkness to her 
cries of Terror, women and 

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children screamed something 
ripped into the lodge. 

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A mountainous black finger. 
He was ER the giant with the 

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strength of a thousand men, 
blackest of hearts and the 

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bottomless hunger. 
A hand larger than a grown man, 

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snatch Plum away from cloud and 
tossed her into a mouth, like a 

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large hole in the ground and she
was gone Viator part, The 

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Village to satisfy his hunger. 
No one could stop him. 

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He grabbed girls and young women
and toss them, into his wife 

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slobbering mouth, and he was 
gone into the Blackness of the 

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stormy night. 
By Dawn, the storm weakened read

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calf gathered, the Council of 
old men to consider what to do. 

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It was no use to do anything. 
Some said he is too big and 

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powerful move the village and 
hope he doesn't return some 

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advised. 
Cloud didn't intend to make the 

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move. 
He was angry and announced. 

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He would gather his weapons and 
strikeout after a year. 

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Seven, others joined him. 
Eight young, men, hit at East 

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armed with Lance's, knives and 
bows and arrows. 

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He has true was easy to follow 
his Footprints were, so deep, 

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rain water collected in him. 
They found him asleep on a 

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hillside. 
He was an ugly beast, naked, and

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unwashed twigs, and branches 
caught in his long tangled hair.

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Cloud in the others had never 
seen here. 

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The knew him as an imaginary 
creature in the stories told by 

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the old ones. 
Now, there he was bigger than 

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any living thing inside his 
stomach were Plum and the other 

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girls. 
But Fox asked the question and 

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all their minds. 
How will we defeat such a thing?

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We will think of something. 
Cloud said. 

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He arose and walked Eastwood 
flattening everything in his 

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path. 
They followed until the giant 

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stopped at dusk to sleep. 
In a gully young men made camp 

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and Cloud suddenly thought of an
idea to kill him. 

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We will trap him. 
He announced. 

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He has a weakness. 
He is always hungry. 

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We will use it to trap him. 
I will offer myself. 

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I will get him to chase me and I
would lead him into the trap, a 

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hole in the ground that we will 
dig. 

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Through the night. 
They talked six would dig a hole

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a cloud in one other would decoy
Kia to the Trap. 

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The place where the Trap was a 
dried Creek with a ground was 

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sand and easy to dig in 
Maidstone axis. 

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The digging started in cloud and
yellow Hawk left to find the 

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Giant. 
They would keep him decoyed. 

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When the signal fire was lit. 
They would know. 

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The Trap was ready and it would 
lead him to it. 

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They found him easily or even 
never bathed and could be 

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located at Great distances when 
the wind was, right. 

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The others dug and dug dirt 
piled up on each side of the 

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trench as they dug deeper and 
deeper days and nights passed. 

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The diggers worked without rest 
out. 

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On the Prairie. 
He has set out with long, 

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strides cloud, and yellow Hawk 
ran to keep Pace. 

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All went well until he has 
spotted them with a yellow 

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surprise and anger. 
He stumbled after them the 

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ground shook. 
His feet were like Boulders 

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crashing to the Earth yet. 
They were able to stay away from

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him. 
It was a dangerous game and 

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cloud in yellow huhu. 
Huuuu tired, because they could 

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not rest. 
Back to the West, the trench was

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growing deeper and deeper. 
The others worked, their 

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fingers, bloody the thought of 
their women inside the ugly. 

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Giant stomach was enough to make
them work harder. 

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The trench was as deep as five 
men standing on top of one 

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another, it was finished. 
It was time to Signal cloud and 

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yellow Hawk. 
The diggers get a Driftwood and 

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dried brush to cover the trench,
then another pile of wood was 

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set on fire. 
Cloud and you'll hooks out a 

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fire in a distance. 
The others had finished the 

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trap. 
Now, Cloud would have to leave 

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the John. 
He prayed and made offerings and

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what? 
After the angry and dangerous 

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area. 
It was easy to get him to follow

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but to stay alive, Cloud have to
keep out of the Giants Long 

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Reach, the chase continued 
through the day and Cloud was 

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tiring. 
He Let er across the Prairie and

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toward the trench. 
The other saw Co approaching and

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he did, if he fell into the 
trench, they had to collapse the

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Mounds of Earth into the hole. 
Australia came looming, larger 

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and larger. 
They saw a man running before 

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him. 
It was Cloud. 

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Stumbling badly soaked in sweat.
He ran only on sheer willpower. 

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He fell many times and fought 
mightily stand and push on. 

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On a grassy slope Cloud lost his
footing and slid. 

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His hand came down like a 
falling tree Cloud rolled and 

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barely avoided being flattened, 
but he had no more strength. 

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He was too exhausted to be 
afraid. 

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He had given everything he had. 
Could do no more closing his 

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eyes. 
He waited for, ER, to crush the 

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life out of him. 
Somewhere deep inside. 

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He found a pebble of strength. 
One last spark of hope to say 

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plum and the other women for the
Bellow of Rage. 

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He rolled away from EOS 
outstretched fingers and leaped 

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to his feet. 
The ground shook under, he has 

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clawed, ran for the trench 
behind him. 

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He has mouth, was curled into a 
snarl, his yellow teeth, bared, 

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and his long, black hair. 
Swirling, like black smoke, 

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cloud, reach the trench and was 
halfway across when he heard a 

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shout of Triumph. 
And yes, Cry of surprise and a 

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loud cracking. 
Dear fellow cloud and Brooke to 

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the trench covering was far too 
heavy and he went down into the 

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trench. 
Deer fell to the bottom caught 

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firmly in the whole dust bill. 
It upward as he struggled, 

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filling the air with his 
deafening yells of Rage. 

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The others collapse the dirt 
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He has yells turn to whimpers, 
its arm reached up, one hand 

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clawed at the edge of the hole, 
but he could not free himself. 

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He has struggled with all. 
His might coughing Us, dirt 

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covered his head struggles 
weakened and he calls no more, a

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silence fell over the land. 
All the young men stood gaping 

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at the dead giant somehow they 
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Cloud. 
Jumped into the trench and 

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sliced open his stomach. 
Paul are in a green yellow slime

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leaked out. 
He reached in and pulled out the

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body of a girl more dead than 
alive. 

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With the all the other young men
jumped into the pit as Cloud 

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enlarge the opening and found 
more bodies. 

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All the young women and girls 
were barely alive. 

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Young men, pulled them out of 
the giant stomach and took him 

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to the nearby stream and it's 
Cool Waters. 

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They were gently revived and 
cleaned. 

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The young men filled in the hole
to cover his body and the dirt 

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piled, higher and higher, until 
it became a long rich in time 

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grass and Cactus grew on it. 
Cloud and Plum blue old 

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together. 
They raised two children along 

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the way and hurdle after several
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One Stormy summer nights Plum, 
would gather her grandchildren 

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and tell them the story of a 
terrible ugly. 

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Giant. 
The little ones would ask 

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Grandma Plum have Giants for 
real and she would only smile it

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was so long ago that summer of 
many storms in the days before 

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the coming of horses, Plum, 
cloud and others, live only in 

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stories. 
Now, the same is true of ear. 

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But there is a long ridge 
covered with grass and Cactus 

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running east to west along a 
highway. 

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Many people drive by it every 
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To most it is only a Long Hill. 
A few of us though, still. 

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Remember the story of how he, 
oh, was defeated. 

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We know that Ridge is his grave,
but in our hearts we think of it

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more as something built by love,
courage and perseverance. 

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And by Giants because that was 
crazy. 

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Every time I hear that story. 
It's like the first time I heard

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it again. 
Drives me crazy in the best way 

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possible. 
Now, we're on to the