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Introduce yourself with 10 live shows you’ve seen: 1. Bad Brains 2. Swervedriver 3. Grateful Dead 4. Quicksand 5. The Police 6. Bjork 7. Blind Melon 8. Incubus 9. Jane’s Addiction 10. Fugazi I have a million ticket stubs. So many more. Early Lollapaloozas would quadruple this list alone.

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My atheist friend screamed “Jesus Christ” when something shocked him. He didn’t think about it. It just came out. That moment stayed with me longer than it should have. Why is this man’s name the default exclamation of the human race, including people who deny he was anything more than a man, or deny he existed at all? We understand the other names history kept. Alexander conquered half the known world before 30. Caesar built an empire. Aristotle shaped Western thought through institutions that outlasted him by centuries. Gandhi and Mandela had movements, microphones, elections, global media. Their fame has a traceable engine. You can follow the mechanism. Jesus had none of that. He wrote nothing. He governed nothing. He was born in Bethlehem, raised in Galilee, in a province Rome considered irrelevant. His inner circle was fishermen. He was publicly executed before his 40th birthday in a manner specifically designed to strip a man of dignity and erase his name. By every sociological law we use to predict who history remembers, he should be a footnote. A regional agitator and à case study in Roman efficiency. He is instead the most recognised name in human history. Across every language, across every century and across every belief system, including the ones that most loudly reject him. That is the only argument I am making here. Not the resurrection, the miracles or the prophecies. Just that something happened in first-century Palestine that broke the rules of how human fame works, and it has never stopped breaking them. You do not have to be a Christian to find that strange. You just have to be honest. The question is not really about whether you believe in him. The question is how a man born in a manger, executed with maximum humiliation in an obscure corner of the Roman Empire, with no army and no written word, got so deep into human consciousness that 2000 years later my atheist friend reaches for his name before his brain even catches up. Nobody has a satisfying secular answer to that. Not really.

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My pleasure brother. 🙏🏼👊🏼❤️

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Damn, man. People always eventually show you who they really are. Always thought Rogan was a mid comedian, at best. And that’s being generous.

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RIP Legend. 🙏🏼

There is only ONE King. His name is Jesus. ✝️

Gas Station Sushi Is an awesome band name. 🍣

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Happy Easter. He has Risen. I’m a Christian. It’s who I am. ☦️ If you’re here for the work, I hope it inspires you. More coming soon. If my beliefs aren’t for you, no hard feelings. Unfollow button is right there. God bless. ❤️🙏🏼

“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33