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I have an excellent episode of store for you, guys.
I have Tim Moon here. The author of tomato Fields,
Tim's, a cryptozoologist with a passion for writing fiction
mystery. He likes scary, monsters history
and philosophy on this. Awesome conversation with Tim,
we A little bit about his book. His testimony, everything that
God has helped him overcome throughout this journey this
process and where he's at in life.
It's really, it's such a beautiful story.
You guys in Tim's own words. He sent me a message and just
Amanda was so much flow and connection in our conversation.
He was really happy to have been here on the podcast just as
happy as I was to have him. He's working on a part 2, a
sequel to Tomato fields which has excellent Aunt reviews at
this point in time is very well received among the community of
people who are willing to think outside of the box a little bit
and just take a different approach to what some of these
Cryptids might be. Now in Tim's own words.
He said to me when we got off air and this is what was really
solid for me. He said, I felt so good about
getting certain things off my chest.
There's parts of his testimony and about the power of God and
how Tim emptied himself. We just dive into his story and
he was expressing to me, how rewarding, and how much better
of fell for him to get everything off his chest.
And to put it out there for me, hearing that it was so powerful
because it just reminds me of the ripple effect, you know,
having a podcast, capturing our own journey and then taking the
time to hear other people out and see what they went through,
see how God has worked in their life, it really is edifying as
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Welcome back to the show. Everybody, I have the one and
only Tim Moon here, who is the author of a popular book, tomato
Fields? Tim, welcome to the show.
It's an honor to have you here. Well, thank you.
It's an honor to be here. Here.
Absolutely. So it's your first time here
with us and I'm really excited for you to tell us your
testimony and then we'll dive into a little bit of your book
here. So do you want to start off just
kind of jumping into telling us how you became the 10 Moon, you
are today. I don't know, I don't really
know how to answer that. I have gone through quite a bit
in my life. I yeah.
Are you talking more from my beliefs in Bigfoot and or you
talking more from my maybe religious beliefs or so, I mean,
I have heard you talk a little bit about, you know, kind of
like growing up in a haunted house and like, just some
different things that you've dealt with.
Yeah. Do you want to kind of start
off? Just telling us what you believe
and what led you into writing the book and then a couple
experiences that have happened over the course of your life.
Oh yeah, easy enough. I've changed a lot over the
years. I was what you would call born
again in college. I'm long past college.
And I went through several experiences and I'm consider
myself kind of a Christian Mystic.
Now, a lot of the stuff just didn't fit didn't work for me,
and I have come to believe that we are in God.
We are in Christ. it's not somewhere else or somewhere else
we're all in him and all things are held together in him and I
believe that that involves the entire known universe and
unknown universe and it's it's Because I believe that and I
know that all things are in Christ and all things, he uses
all a lot in the Bible and that he is more powerful than any
other force that exists and that he's holding us together.
And I believe Redemption was for the entire universe, not just
for earth-centered. Group of people on the Earth.
And so I see it in a much more comprehensive.
Big picture, mystical way in a Oneness in God in Christ, and
that we can have that all the time.
And not when I hear the reference getting close to God,
I always think, well, how can you not be close to God?
He's everywhere and you're somewhere, you have to be next
to him coin is that they're not consciously close to God because
in their mind there, Focusing, their security and attention on
things that are, they're not separating them from God,
they're just not allowing them to be conscious of God, they're
not allowing them to focus on God, but when you, but that
doesn't mean you're not close to God.
You're always close to God. He's everywhere.
And it's just so I see it more. As we just need to be
consciously aware of his presence.
And typically, we're not, when we're focusing on other things
to get security or Because we're afraid or because we're angry
and those things then draw our attention away from God and
focus in on something else. But we're not separated from
God. We're just our focus is
separated from God. I believe, is most Christianity
in the world is not Protestant. It's Catholic or Orthodox and of
those I think Orthodox is probably closer to the truth at
least they Tour. The mystery of the faith a
little bit better than than Catholicism does not that I'm
have anything against Catholicism.
Some of the finest people, I know, are Catholic, and some of
my best friends are Protestant, but I'm probably a little more
leaning toward the Orthodox without accepting everything
carte blanche because I don't do that anymore.
Absolutely. Okay.
I believe that Christ is a mystery that the Trinity is
Mystery. If you think you can explain the
Trinity. Yeah, good luck.
Okay. And there's three and there's a
there. There is a connection there that
the East and the West, the East focuses on do a non Duality
because the belief that all reality is is is connected and
it's and it's in it and it has its source in some kind of
universal. So divine power and the West
breaks, everything up into this. And that and here and there and
divides, everything logically and we Define everything.
And when you define something, you not only Amplify a little
bit, you also limited. So I believe the to have to come
together for people to have a spirituality and proper
understanding of God and it's they don't they're not designed
to be fighting and only religions fight over things.
And it's typically ego-driven people are created in the image
of God. Everybody is, these are precious
people. They're created in His image,
they are his Divine image and We need to love each other and
that's not. That means everybody just needs
to love each other and get over their power struggles.
That's kind of where I'm coming from.
I'm not one religion anymore, so and I just try to do my best to
love my neighbor. I mean, I'm getting hit with the
scripture where you're talking about, where could we go?
That God's not. Okay, I think I want to say it's
David and doesn't he say, where can I go?
And not find your presence? He's like I can go all the way
down to sheol or down to the underworld Are you are people
need to hear this? I'm so happy.
We're having this conversation when people say, oh, I'm growing
closer with God. It's like no, you may be
adjusting your focus. You may be trying to.
Yeah, we have to be willing to accept what God has already
done. He's the beginning the end, he's
the right now. He's the future, right?
And it's like a lot of the times we like to take these little
Snippets and give some focus and then say Oh God is good or he's
doing this or that or acknowledge him, but then 90% of
the time. Just you know, my God, my belly.
What I want, right. And we see that a lot of them in
the culture as it appears, he goes and we decorate them and we
put on it home for people and it isn't, it is not putting our
focus on God, and when you, when they say you're separated from
God, you're not separated from God, use your focus is separated
from God because you are alienated and hostile in mind
and You could be a born-again Christian and be alienated and
hostile, because your focus is not on your need and dependency
on him. It is on you.
I didn't mean to. I don't mean to preach course,
in a new side of Tim here, I'm going to kind of walk into from
here. Let's talk a little bit about
your book. Well, this about the book, you
wrote tomato Fields, what? Well, I've been so I've been
studying this in fascinated by this since I was a kid.
And I saw the movie, The Legend of Boggy Creek and That's a
classic now, but it's almost a cult film.
But it's really, it was a low-budget movie that that just
captivated my understanding of Bigfoot, or my awareness.
And I, for some reason just always felt there probably is
truth to this. This thing probably does exist
and it just was in the back of my mind for much of my life.
But in the last 20 years, I started really looking Into it
and really doing the research more as a historian because I'm
a historian by trade and listen to thousands of stories.
And just I can't get enough list of the stories on it.
And I started to think that maybe, if you could use fiction
properly that you could have a bigger impact on drawing people
to this mystery, then you can with facts because you can use
nonfiction and All the facts and all the details.
And I think people just turn that off sometimes but they're
motivated by stories. Stories cell and facts tell and
but stories go down a little deeper.
If you can develop the right characters and you can you can
have the right amount of of drama and tension.
You can maybe draw people into characters who they might
believe even though they may not have believed the book by By
biologists to took took, you know pictures and had some hair
samples, people just low that off.
I found in my opinion, what I saw people were just blowing
that up. And so I was just hoping that
maybe someone could write a fiction that would Captivate
people in catch them and draw them in.
So, that's what I'm trying to do.
I can't guarantee you that I've done it but I'm trying.
I think that someone is you. I hope so.
I like to write a couple more. I think it's really interesting
that, you know, taking the approach to trying to get people
emotionally. Yeah.
Interested in the topic. Yeah.
I mean I had Brian good dowel on a few years ago and just we
talked about the power of Storytelling.
Yes. Right.
And we see how Hollywood will use these half-truths to
entertain people and it's always from It's not a fully truthful
perspective but yet they'll get people familiar with these
ideas, almost to systematically desensitize them to what the
truth is. But when we take the approach
and get people emotionally involved and interested in these
topics, very smart move, I must say very smart.
Well, I'm hoping it'll work. I think that stories are
important and we really made to tell stories.
Most history has been passed on through telling stories.
Now, I just want to undo this mention real quick as we are
laughing about this. A few minutes ago off are your a
crypto Zoo. Novelist.
I made that up after listening to someone else funny played on
Words With cryptozoology. So I thought, well, maybe so.
I did that. I think it's kind of cool, but
it sounds like you absolutely epic.
Yeah. It's definitely an attention.
Grabber, you look at the word and it's like, you think?
Something that you may have seen before.
So you get it, read it and try to pronounce it and you're like,
whoa, s, so really works Rosie off that first.
I have it on Instagram and Twitter and so you're a history
buff. Yeah, now I teach history.
So I do Administration to and so various types of jobs I do
you're on the west coast Austin, Texas.
Okay, in Austin Texas, I grew up in Washington and my brother
lives in Washington and that's where he had his encounter.
He still lived in that house house is their house in the
book. Your childhood home was where
what state was that in Seattle Magnolia area?
Now, I've heard you talk a little bit about some strange
things that happened. Growing up, fill me in the
audience, and we were little kids from the time, I was in
about fourth grade till I was in about seventh grade.
We lived in a house, really nice house.
We loved it. Great.
Memories. But we we think there was a
ghost in that house and different things would happen.
Joe, my brother actually seen it.
Once walking, following my dad into the bathroom.
He could see it in close, but it was also see through it looked
like a little boy, was the image of a little boy, but it was
see-through. And then he followed my dad into
the bathroom. And he so Joe ran in the
bathroom to see who this was following his dad and there.
Was nothing there. And there were many other
experiences when my grandma experienced something scratching
under her bed and she got really scared eventually and left the
house, got a taxi and went to a hotel and there was a time when
mantelpiece lived It Off The Mantel of the fireplace and
lifted out into the ways and then drop to the ground and
shattered. And then there was some time, I
heard it doing things, and there's other times, other
people heard it doing things. And my mom, seen enough things,
they got out a Ouija board. And before I say this, I just
want you to know. I do not endorse that, but I was
only like a and I knew nothing about Ouija boards.
Now, I do not endorse those. I would avoid them.
If, if I was you, but she did it and she found out the, the
initials that she thought of this, his spirit.
I remember watching. It was pretty strange.
And and then she apparently went downtown and checked it out, and
found out that a little boy had died in the house.
We just came to realize that it was their kind of part of the
family and we just accepted it. Took it for granted and if we
heard something kind of knew what it was but it never was
malevolent aside from arguably scaring my grandma.
And oh wow, and dropping that thing off The Mantel.
But aside from that, I remember no instances of any kind of
stick something to be afraid of. We'll just to reiterate what you
were saying. And my audience, obviously knows
this but highly recommend, never playing with the Ouija board
trouble, and you can't, yeah, you can't mess with those
things. You can invite trouble, since
you can't go looking for. If it comes to you, I think we
have the ability to deal with it.
But if you're looking for it all the time, I That's another
thing. Yeah, it's interesting how many
people open doors and they don't know the doors even there to be
opened in the first place. Like you said, when you're
inviting these things in, there's plenty of stories out
there of just crazy stuff happening because of that, but
it reminds me of in the Bible. God says, don't speak with the
dead. He doesn't say, you can't speak
with the dead. He doesn't say it's not possible
to, he's like saying, don't it's not good for you.
I think a lot of time Christians will be like oh no, you can't or
that's all fake. It's like know that stuff is
real and there's you gotta you gotta realize some of that's
protestantism and there is a there is probably some biblical
reasons for believing that the saints that there's some
interaction between us and the saints that have gone before us.
But that said, there is spiritual Dimensions out there
and they involve entities, Paul said it powers and
principalities in the higher places and have absolutely huge.
Don't, you've got to be Discerning and careful.
I remember once we had a Catholic girl, he's one of the
best kids and she was an employee for us in a business.
We owed once and we argued all the time because I was staunchly
Protestant and she was staunchly captive.
I said, well, I wish I could talk to Paul because there's
some things I don't understand. And she said to me, will you
just ask me and I'll talk to him?
Oh no, but Um so I think probably is a place to be
inspired and get inspiration and and it does say that the cloud
of witnesses there cheering people on and they're cheering.
You know, they're praying for the Redemption of the entire
planet in the entire universe. So anyway, I don't want to over
do it. Possibly having your grandmother
talk to you from the grave. It might not be demonic.
So it's okay. But there could be times when
stuff like That is so you just have to be Discerning.
And in my opinion that's just my opinion, you know, it reminds me
and I'm just going to say this based on the scriptures, we were
talking about a few minutes ago, but the Apostle Paul says, I
wish, the Saints knew the lengths, the depth, the breadth,
and the height, there's just so much more going on the veils
thinning. Tim the veil is thinning.
So you got, you know, non-believers you got atheists,
you got Christians, you got all these different groups of
people. Whoever they are, they're all
starting to really realize there's so much more to the
picture here. I think it's amazing that he
uses three dimensional groups dimensional reality.
Yeah. And he uses that scripture or
the height the depth and the width.
Okay. And that's three dimensional
reality, but Dimension. There it's very likely that
we're living in the multi-dimensional reality, many
meaning, more than for the Fourth one is time and what one
is is using for their he says Lang a lot depth length, breadth
and height and hives for those are.
Yeah. But those are length and width
and height and depth depth is part of the three, but the idea
is he's using three dimension to our understanding of
three-dimensional reality when he says that.
And they didn't understand the dimension of time back.
Then, because of Uncle mention is time.
There's really multiple Dimensions that are if you if,
if you You can you know if you trust some of the quantum
physics that we're learning there's probably some guesses,
many as 11 knock moderate. He's back and I think it was
like the 12th century studied. The Book of Genesis and came to
the reality that we lived in ten Dimensions.
I think it was like Mark he was killed for it back then.
Now modern science is like oh we live in 11 Dimensions, this is
another real interesting thing. I didn't even plan on going this
direction but sometimes these are the Conversations.
Yeah it's so cool that think about this but anyway yes, the
best conversation is really when it's not really playing.
I mean we're not far off track. But what when the Apostle Paul
talks about, he knew a man whether in the body or out of
the body, he did not know who went up to the what the second
or third heaven. Yeah, I mean, come on.
I love when the smoking guns are all over the word of God about
this. People actually have good
questions. I mean I'm coming across more
people in a daily weekly monthly cases that actually have good
quite like detailed questions. About how does this stuff
operate? Five years ago.
They used to make fun of you for being a Christian or believing
in. You know, anyone strange stuff,
but I think that Paul story that's door.
Paul was, I think Paul had a near-death experience.
Have you ever heard of near-death experiences?
Yeah, I had one at 19 years old. Well, he tied if you read, he
died. He was stoned to death.
And they knew when they killed him, they were, they were
professionals. Stoners.
Yeah, you're right. They need and and he and then
wow. And he rose from the dead and he
he was healed even after he'd been killed with a bunch of
rocks, hitting them, I mean, they break your bones, they
break your legs, they there they bruise.
You and he walked back into town.
He had a near-death experience and his description of that is
what he's describing. That's my about, that's an
interesting take. See, I never really thought of
it like that, I've personally I've talked about this on, on
the show on and off just little Snippets here and there, but I
had a near-death encounter like 19 or 20 years old.
I got jumped by a handful of guys, and I mean, not just like
a black eye. They stopped me into the ground.
These guys were trying to kill him and I started setting up out
of my body. I'll never say I died.
Yeah. Because I don't believe I died
but as the me that is It's hard to explain but it was me coming
out of me, you know, whatever. He like almost physical body,
still here. But the thing from like your
forehead, all the way down to your solar plexus or your gut
that makes you, you can cut off your arm, your arm is going to
rot in the ground and you're still you, right?
You don't lose any personality because you're losing a limb,
but it is so strange, you know, my brain swelled up on this,
tapping the inside of my skull. I started setting up out of my
body. It felt strangely almost like
slight pressure all around, kind of, like, if you're in water,
you know, like the atmosphere is different.
It felt similar like that but it was very dark.
It was Eerie. It was, it was strange.
It was not not. I mean, obviously, I'm not saved
at the time. I didn't grow up in church.
I didn't even know to really call on the name of God.
Like, I mean, I knew of God, we were like Easter Christmas
Christians, but I'm not sure I'm not going to stand on my side.
Soap box with this, this story, the audience's heart and plenty
of times, but yeah, I had a near-death encounter and that's
what launched me into, you know, my whole journey of what I'm
doing today. So read, I've listened to so
many near-death experience accounts because I had an
experience. Please tell me I didn't have a
near-death experience, although I probably would have eventually
died. I went an addiction issue, an
alcohol issue and I had a and I had been a Christian in the past
and then I started having these problems as as an older adult
and it just got out of control and had another spiritual
experience in that recovery that really was life-changing and it
pletely, set me free. From the cravings.
And the can you tell us? Yeah, I can tell you all about
it. Well, I resisted for a long
time. The fact that you could drink,
you couldn't just drink moderately and that it was
completely under your control. And to say, you're powerless
over that, which is what the 12 Steps teaches is to say that you
can't just do the right thing. You're a victim.
And I resisted that victimization and because I
thought I had to be able to conduct my to a discipline
self-discipline life, be able to stop this and that didn't work.
I kept doing stupid things that you just wouldn't do.
If you were saying and drinking compulsion and craving got
worse, and worse and worse. And I kept saying, I just have
to be more responsible. And I have to stop doing it but
I would keep doing the things that I was ashamed of like Paul
said and I finally came to a place where I went to a
conference and some people gave me a book and I went back to the
room and started reading the book and these different
sections of the book were underlined by people who who
were trying to encourage people to stop drinking.
And to follow the program. So, I was reading these passages
and they were passages out of a book that were were written by
someone fifty years ago, and by people who didn't even know me,
but they were underlying passages that directly spoke to
me. And I thought, because of all
the things I had done that, I had disappointed, God so much
that he did not want. He wasn't going to help me.
If it was up to anything to get recover from alcohol, I was just
going to have to do figure it out.
I always heard that there's a miracle out there.
If you will, just let go and let God and admit you're powerless,
you'll have a miracle. And that's what I did.
I said, you know what, you must still love me to be able to
doing that to be doing this and showing me this and I, right,
right there. Just let go and said, I admit
that, I'm powerless over this drug.
I can't control it from that minute on.
I have not had a drink. And that was five and a half
years ago and then I learned and grown through the other steps.
Most of my recovery has been reconciling my first spiritual
experience with my second because they were both
legitimate. What was the first was a
born-again experience in a church and college, then
jellicle charismatic church. And actually, and it's so funny
because God told me, don't drink He told me to stop drinking.
And I said okay so I stopped I thought I don't know why I
didn't know anything about alcoholism.
Now I know why alcoholism is a disease that runs in many
families. Its genetic and you can't
control it. Some people and various people
have various levels of control but a real alcoholic if you
drink you are going to have trouble at some level
controlling that and some people goes to dying.
We're going insane. That's it.
I don't know why, but I'm going to stop.
So I start that in drink for 15 years.
I figured well, I'm an adult now, and I've learned moderate
myself. I can drink with moderation.
It started off being a glass of wine and then it became too.
And pretty soon I was polishing off the whole bottle and going
through multiple bottles and it just kept getting worse until I
change to part or out. Alcohol because there was less
calories and just your ability to consume it continues to rise
and it just becomes more and more of a craving more and more
of a craziness. And a drive, when compulsion to
do to fulfill, its you, that the restlessness in your heart.
And I fear and tension, and just get me out of here.
I can't take this anymore, but you have one drink.
And oh, man, you start. You start getting this crazy,
you know, and that happens to a lot of people.
Okay. So yeah, just helped expose me
because I couldn't do. I wasn't enough to fix this?
I couldn't follow enough laws. Yeah.
And anyway, I needed to be changed.
I needed to have some kind of experience, and that required me
to say, I can't do it. It's out of my control, so
powerful and if people are in addiction of any kind, It's
likely that you can't beat it yourself that you need help
from. From God.
I know it's gone. Some people say high power.
That's fine. If you want to say it's God and
God we need God. And there are several things
we're not ever going to be able to do we just have to let go of
them. Trust, God and move away.
If you tried to explain what water was to a fish.
They would think you're crazy because they just they don't
know what what what Otter is they just live in it?
And I think we live in God. The same way we live and breathe
and have our being we live and move and have our being in God,
just like a fish lives and breathes and has their being in
water. And when I started seeing God as
surrounding me, and him being my brother and being my father and
being by the presence of him being Supernatural and
unlimited. And full and complete and
everywhere started feeling that I was always in God, and that I
was all. That's when I started developing
the understanding of consciously focused on that presence that
all came to me, through the recovery from alcoholism, to me,
the Tendency to decorate egos instead of getting rid of them.
Dr. Laura was on which has been on quite a few times, but we
release an episode recently. And there's this climax during
the episode. For me, personally where she
talks about how David emptied himself before.
God, I've heard people use the term ego death, right?
Like I had an ego death, I've heard that term used and there's
something it's so peculiar because until it happens to you
or maybe you're in process, or it's coming down the pipeline
for some of us listeners. Has to this episode or maybe
we've already experienced it. But if we've ever come to that
place and we acknowledge who God is for what he says of himself,
but what he says in the word, The Great.
I Am, he's omnipotent, he's omnipotent, he's the beginning
and the end, right? Like everywhere, he's Spirit,
those who worship. God must Worship in here,
spirit, and truth, right? If we come to that kind of
conclusion a life, because The whole world is built to keep you
from coming to that conclusion, right?
Oh, entertainment, go go. Go right.
Make as much money as you can't write, the soul Society wants to
harness a plow to your back and make you produce right and keep
us distracted. So I hear you talking about
tuning in your focus and then you sharing this powerful
touching? No Letting Go.
Whoo because I'm telling you that I think the fall while an
took place when they said, when man said we got this.
Yeah, you don't need. Need you don't I know you.
Yeah, stay over there. We got this.
Thanks for the planet and we don't got this but and know and
I and and often times even the born-again message, they'll say,
Get born again. I was like is though.
Praying the prayers going to change your whole future but
then the born again is really reverencing.
Trusting God like a child trust God, Like an Eagle is Eagle is
child. Trust God And be dependent on
him letting go and trusting him to guide and live your life
through him. That is different than just
saying a prayer. There's so much truth and power
to what you're saying and this is when I know this was meant to
be talked about it is on this episode is the first time we've
ever told, I'm connecting with what you're saying.
There's power in our testimonies your testimony is powerful and
then you're giving God, all the praise and glory.
Before it so like moments like this, this is why I love it.
That's something you. I love this stuff.
I loves Revelation and power that comes from really knowing
your place in God, his all-encompassing existence and
presence in the world. So, everywhere fact, I was
thinking their downs. Always been disappointed because
I can't go to another galaxy and another planet and Looking at a
tree and I thought the same God that created that other planet
is made that other galaxies is in that tree, you created that
tree. The power is holding that tree
together, just like it's holding me together.
If I can experience that tree, I'm already experiencing the
same power created, the other things on other planets.
So why should I be disappointed that I can't go there.
I can always experienced the power.
I don't know if that meanwhile to you but I loved it.
All right, dude, immediately I was getting hit with the The
Chronicles of Narnia, right? When the kids go through the
Wardrobe and it's like there's this reality.
That's right here, we have access to it.
That the scripture says taste and see that the Lord is good.
And it's all the God is beyond our wildest imagination.
He is beyond our wildest imagination, man.
I'm loving this. Isn't it?
That's what it reminded me of when you're talking about, you
know, I'm looking at this tree if, and see, I believe
repentance it also means a change of mind.
Yeah. Like, like, we change our minds
to be a danger of dependence, because you can't.
And then guidance still think. Oh man, I'm look what God's done
to me, man. I'm all this, you're nothing,
you are everything and nothing at the same time.
So, interesting show important because you work.
Created in the image of God, you are Divine creation, and you are
without that same, God, without being in that Divinity that
created you, you are not. You are like a drop of water on
a dry Rock and we are caught up in his story.
This is like you, this is his story.
This is his creation. He had us in mind and that's the
kind of Revelation that can change Generations.
The reality, when we're adjusting the way, Who we are
what is really going on in accordance with what God is
already did. And what his plans are moving
forward. It's a, it's a good thing, it's
a good thing to see. You came up with the name tomato
fields, for example, epic. I told my wife and she's like,
what tomato feels like. She thought she didn't
understand what was happening because we're big into
gardening. So she thought maybe I was like,
interviewing somebody, you know, like this gardening Channel or
something. I'm like, no, no, no.
And I explained to her. She's a call.
That's really cool. You felt confident about that
name. Uh-huh.
Was there a moment. We were like, that's it.
This is the name on choosing for the book.
This book has had one thing after another.
Other or I just felt like, that's what I should do and
they're and or someone would come and help me out of nowhere.
And I couldn't have done it without them, just here and
there. And then so in this case, my
brother saw the Bigfoot he was out working on his car and he
smelled something funny and he was living in Mason County,
Washington just above the Hood Canal, and he was there on the
weekends. He just bought the Opportunity
worked in Seattle. So he's there on the weekends.
It was in the 90s and he was working on the backfist trailer
at dusk and he smelled something really bad.
He started looking around and about 70 yards up the hill on
the wood line, by one of the big light poles, there was no houses
at that time. It was all.
It was all rural area and forests.
This thing walked out and stood by the pole and saw him, and
they saw each other. ER and JoJo's freaked.
It was eight, it was probably nine eight and a half nine feet
tall and just really wide and dark colored like dark brown or
black, and it starts screaming at him.
It was pissed off. I think it was going to get
water and Joe got in the way. And it screamed at him, you know
how they scream where it starts high, and then turns into a Roar
and it's just penetrates you, he it happened to him and he ran
for his house which was right there.
He was close to it because of the driveway and he grabbed his
shotgun and close the door and looked out a little window by
the door and he's saw it stop screaming and then he thought it
was coming after me. He thought he would start and it
turned around and walked back into the woods and that was the
only time he ever saw it. And he thinks he heard it, and
the whole idea about tomato Fields, was that just up above
beyond that a little higher up, the hill and then down, there's
this area that they used to dump sewage in and they dumped
sewage, they just dump the sewage out in and instead of
putting it through sewage treatment plants back then they
just dumped it on the ground. And I wrote this in the 70s.
I used the 70s as a starting place.
Age for the book and they dump sewage.
So the sewage had human waste and human waste has seeds from
vegetables and because that a lot of vegetables grew and there
was a lot of tomatoes. So Joe just thought well we
could call it tomato fields and Joe thinks that thing was headed
in the direction of what we call the Tomato Fields.
He thought that was a catchy title, I thought it was a catchy
title. When I got closer to publishing
the book I tested it with some people in every I just got good
results from that title. So I kept it and I get people
who like, it really like it and so I'm just hoping there's a lot
of them. And wow, and the whole idea the
connection between the recovery from alcoholism in the book is I
started this 10 years ago but I never could do it because I was
struggling with this addiction and I could focus but I couldn't
focus enough to but once I recovered from this I felt like
I needed to finish this because I put my hand to it.
Now I need to finish it as part of my Covery to prove.
I cannot just start something I can finish something.
And so, in a way, it's a testimony to my recovery.
So it's a multiple, there's a lot of things going on that
brought all this together for what that's worth.
But there's a lot involved and it's not a perfect book and I've
made, I've had, I still have to do a little bit editing.
Can I tell you a story about my editor?
Yes, please. She quit like, Chapters in
because she got mad because my characters were using gun,
unsafely and here. And I so I had to do a lot of
editing at the end torque by myself in order to meet
deadlines. And so there's still a few
little editing things that I'm cleaning up and so It's not a
perfect book but I think for the like it generally they like it.
Yeah. And that will be cleaned up here
shortly. As far as a part to goes, do you
have something napped out? Yo, yeah, it's not outlined yet.
It's just percolating right now. Yeah, but I'm probably in the
fall. It's a sequel.
I wanted to be sequel. I'm going to do another one on
recovery that I'm also working on.
So that'll be different more like we've covered both of them.
It'll be. Yeah, I love how this episode.
It's just your first time here. I feel like You just laid so
much out for us and you're just, you're humble, you're just
unashamed. You're like, listen, God's Got
The Power, this is the journey. I just, these are my favorite
kind of stories, because I really feel like I'm just
connecting with you and we never understand the ripple effect.
That's one of my big things I talked about.
We don't understand the ripple effect like God sees it, and he
knows to us, it just maybe, oh, we had this conversation.
Oh, I was on this podcast, but there could be somebody out
there to go. Absolutely.
Here's this interview and it's Sparks them to change their life
and then the domino effect from there.
And I think that's that's a wonderful mystery just to
consider. I'll ponder on that a lot of the
times now. Go ahead, you're getting good
reviews on the book. I think on Amazon, you're at
like to say close to 70 70, 70 plus reviews in this point in
time, are you getting like feedback from from any of the
readers on your social media site or do you?
You have like a hub where people reach out to you like your own
website. For example, most of the time
I've had two or three people comment on on Instagram I've had
people comment on Facebook. I've had friends, and people, I
don't know, just call from out of the blue and I had one just
yesterday who has a podcast and wants me to be on his podcast.
But he started telling me about the book.
He's an English major and he just likes it so much and he
likes what it's telling us about Bigfoot and the thinks it's
going to contribute a lot. So things like that, I could
never make. I could never Make those six
happened. They just are kind of
spontaneously happening to me. So I hope that it's also why I
think you got the right mentality for all this to keep
happening. And I got says, if we humble
ourselves, you know, who exalt Us in due time.
And just so cool. And humble ourselves is Letting
Go and not taking ourselves. So seriously when we need it and
not trying to be perfect because none of us are perfect.
I'm on that Journey where it's just like not, it's not trying
to Take myself too seriously. Like I got interviewed for the
first time like truly interviewed I've been on other
shows I've been on other radio programs and stuff but I had on
the guys over at days of Noah podcast, reach out a month or so
ago and they wanted to do just an exclusive interview on my
testimony. I'm like I'm thinking about it
I'm like I've never told my Testament like I've told
Snippets just in reciprocating people in the podcast or just
things that come to mind or really feel like if I tell this
person this snippet, they're going to have a good response
for me or maybe Rebuke or maybe they're going to, you know, just
something, you know, we kind of give these little pieces of of
ourselves, we don't want to set our gems in front of swine,
right? We want to set him in front of
people that we feel like are going to give back value or see
it somehow to help us possibly make sense of it.
But that was that was interesting for me.
And the more I go about this and just learning, really, the idea
this show Tim is, I'm capturing the growth Journey, personally
while promoting noting, all these other people that I find
something like powerful or beautiful in their story, So I'm
just kind of capturing how I'm growing and learning the
information. I'm hearing my reactions, you
name it and then at the same time just making friends.
Just you just documenting the process.
You know what and you're saying. Stuff here tonight I'll have
your podcasts. Yeah, that's a little bit
coolest. You know, man.
That's a funny one. Because I had a podcast before
this not of this world. Hmm.
And I remember when God gave me the millennial Mustard Seed.
It's a mouthful man, people have trouble saying it.
I'm like in the beginning, I'm laughing my God.
I don't want to name it something else, you know and
he's just I just was feeling his gut.
Yeah, pulling just absolutely not.
Don't even consider a kid. Almost like something like, like
Stern old man, is over my shoulder.
Just like it, don't erase that off the paper.
That's just a feeling I got. It was so strange, but like I
also knew God had a sense of humor, and I just went with it
and it's funny. Now, it kind of fits in.
In this weird, it's a very Niche audience, I'm a small fry, don't
have a huge audience, Audience. Some of these guys out there,
they're getting hundreds of thousands downloads.
I just I'm like listen and a small Niche audience who
believes in God who's willing to Journey with me is more
important than just the masses. You know, that was my what God
kept me in that reality check. So you got to start somewhere,
right? Yeah, absolutely.
So this is always encouraging hearing hearing all these these
awesome stories but Tim, I really want to have you back in
the Teacher, I feel like I've talked a little too much on this
episode personally, but I connected with you.
A lot of fun and I'm happy to come back whenever you want to.
Okay, I'll keep you posted on what's going on.
Let the people know where they can find you Tim.
I will send you everything to put in the end notes.
Okay, okay. And I'm on Instagram and it's
just real simple tomato under underscore fields And you can
get me on Instagram right there. You can get me on Twitter, it's
a little different. It's a at, TS Moon 10 at cool,
70s, moon Titan. And my email is easy.
It's a Tim S. As in Sam Moon, all one word at
Gmail, and its Moon. Just like the moon in the sky.
Awesome. Can I say one thing?
Absolutely. If If someone's listening, he's
having issues with addiction and they just feel like they're,
they just, they have no hope, there's no way out.
There's a way out and you do have hope and you're welcome to
contact me. And I'll be glad to share my
experience with you and help you any way I can.
Okay. So anyway, I hope that that
might benefit somebody that might be the whole purpose of
This episode right here to maybe may not be also if you like
Bigfoot shit. I like Bigfoot you do you just
have this passion for these mysterious creatures.
History philosophy just there's so many topics.
I feel like I could just dive into with into with you down the
road man. Before And and I'll have to tell
you next time we talk just to kind of plant the seed on this I
grew up in an old historic it was a famous Philadelphia
Farmhouse where Peter Rod thermal painted the depiction of
the Battle of Gettysburg in the house.
I grew up. Well that's awesome.
I love Civil War history. It was definitely haunted house,
there's some interesting history there so I'd like to just even
off are just share some stories with you sometimes.
I just I just can't get enough of that stuff.
Tough. So dude I got some stories.
Woo-ha got quite a few of them. Yeah.
I got quite a few of those. Awesome.
So it was honestly an honor to have you here on this episode
with me. Thank you.
Any last words before we wind down thank you for going to show
and thank you for listening if you're listening and appreciate
your time. I know it's valuable and I'm
thankful. I could be a small part of it.
Keep looking for a mysterious creatures in the woods also Be
careful words, very well said. And you guys just remember
emptying, ourselves can be exactly what is necessary order
for us to grow and get that answer that.
We've been looking for share this episode with your friends,
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no more lives in that. Write CD date will have to flee
away. No more sin sickness, no more
heartaches here that lame the perfect day, Glory Glory we have
crazy. Praise the name of Jesus
blessed. There's at a cable in that
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today, never see anymore. I'm going home in the morning to
the lake. So bright to walk the streets of
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We have praised. Forever.
Praise the Holy Name of Jesus. Bless the Lord O my soul.
There's at a cable in that country city with the site of
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