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JAY LOWDER | Men and Suicide (Ep. 397)

December 9, 2022 49m 53s Full transcript available
JAY LOWDER | Men and Suicide (Ep. 397)
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In this episode, Kyle Thompson sits down with Jay Louder to tackle the critical issue of men and suicide. They discuss the stigma surrounding mental health, the importance of open conversations, and the warning signs that can help prevent tragic outcomes.
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0:00 (upbeat music)
0:02 - This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.
0:21 I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:23 Let's get into it.
0:24 All right guys, today we got a special guest
0:25 on the podcast.
0:26 His name is Jay Louder.
0:27 He's the founder of Jay Louder Harvest Ministries,
0:30 and from their side, I'm actually gonna read this
0:31 what they do.
0:32 The life, death, resurrection, and message of Jesus Christ
0:35 is a centerpiece of all of our outreach efforts.
0:37 We are committed to utilizing innovative, creative,
0:39 and nontraditional approaches to have the greatest impact
0:41 and influence upon diverse groups of people.
0:43 For over two decades, Jay Louder Harvest Ministries
0:46 has drawn the masses to Christ through live events,
0:49 training, television, and crusades.
0:51 And one kind of major through point
0:53 and cornerstone of his ministry
0:55 is focusing on suicide prevention.
0:56 And today we didn't have all the time in the world.
0:58 There was a whole lot of other topics
0:59 I would have loved to have gotten into,
1:01 but we went deep on the issue of suicide
1:03 and even specifically men and suicide.
1:05 So we've talked about that several times on the show.
1:07 Even here, not that long ago Sarah Wilkinson came on
1:10 to talk about her story with her husband Chad.
1:12 Well, we've talked about member of my foxhole,
1:14 land, and taking his own life.
1:15 And so we've certainly talked about it quite a bit on the show,
1:18 but it's something that bears repeating.
1:20 And in this show, we get really granular
1:22 because Jay at one point had a pistol to his temple
1:25 and he was gonna take it all, right?
1:27 And, you know, it reminded me of Chad Robachow,
1:30 who the first time he was on the show,
1:31 he talked about that as well
1:32 and how, you know, some interesting circumstances
1:34 led him to not taking his own life.
1:36 And so we get really, really granular on the show.
1:38 We talk about his history
1:40 and kind of what brought him to that point,
1:42 some warning signs for all of us to be looking for.
1:44 Like should you ask people,
1:46 because there are people that think you shouldn't ask people
1:47 if they're feeling suicidal,
1:48 'cause it might lead them to suicide.
1:50 So should you ask people, and spoiler alert,
1:52 yes, you should have that conversation with people,
1:53 but then we talked about, you know, depression and suicide
1:58 and is all that a mental health issue
1:59 or is it something that some people could just fix with,
2:01 you know, getting some rest and, you know,
2:04 going to, going and, I don't know,
2:06 just taking care of their bodies more,
2:07 like going and working out and eating right
2:10 and things like that.
2:11 We talked about the disease model
2:12 and is it always good to talk about things
2:13 in terms of a disease model?
2:15 And again, I wanted to talk about
2:16 a whole bunch of other things today,
2:17 but this is kind of where we landed on.
2:19 And in the time we had,
2:20 I just wanted to talk as much about that subject matter
2:22 as possible, it's a very, very important subject matter
2:24 and also a very, very important interview.
2:26 So guys, without further ado, let's get into it.
2:30 - Jay Lauter, welcome to Undaunted Life of Man's podcast.
2:33 - Man, good to be with you today.
2:35 - So I want to start out, again,
2:36 I'm not really known for easing into a lot of the things
2:39 that I talk about and certainly with interviews,
2:41 I like to do some introductions
2:43 and blah, blah, things like that.
2:44 Obviously, I talked about you a little bit in the intro,
2:46 but I want to get right to the meat
2:47 of a lot of the stuff that you do
2:49 in terms of your ministry now,
2:50 and it has to do a lot with suicide.
2:52 And suicide prevention.
2:53 And so we've had some people in the show this year
2:55 that have had direct experience with suicide
2:57 is something that I've talked about on the show before.
2:59 But my understanding is that you were very up close
3:02 and personal with that particular subject matter
3:04 because at one point in your life, you had a gun to your head.
3:06 So let's start there
3:08 and then we'll back into the rest of the stuff you're doing now.
3:10 - Yeah, man, well, it's hard to start there
3:12 because there's a lot that led up to it.
3:14 But if you're wanting to get straight to where I ended up,
3:17 man, it's 21 years of age,
3:19 living in an $80 a month rent house
3:21 with a buddy of mine, no job, no car, no girlfriend.
3:26 I had all that, but I had lost it
3:29 and 21 years of age, man, that was a big loss.
3:31 And so fighting a lot of hopelessness, depression,
3:36 I grew up in a successful home,
3:37 father was a successful businessman,
3:40 the expectations for me were high.
3:42 And here I end up, it just, man, skid row big time.
3:46 And I just felt like there was no other option.
3:48 I didn't know where else to turn.
3:50 I didn't know what else to do.
3:52 And so I took out a pistol underneath the sofa
3:55 that was my bed and decided to end it all.
4:00 And man, through a miraculous series of events,
4:04 my life was spared, but I'd been struggling
4:07 with suicidal tendencies for years.
4:11 And quite honestly, even though it's not popular say,
4:13 even struggle with it a little bit
4:15 at some other seasons after I became a believer.
4:18 So let's talk a little bit
4:20 because you mentioned it a little bit there,
4:21 but there's a stigma that's often associated
4:23 with depression and mental health issues.
4:25 And I wanna provide a little bit of a caveat.
4:27 We live in the most medicated,
4:29 doped up society in human history.
4:32 And yet depression is through the roof,
4:34 mental health issues are through the roof.
4:35 And basically, if you're a kid below the age of 18
4:37 and you don't have some sort of intersectional box,
4:39 you can check or some sort of a mental issue,
4:41 you're the weirdo now.
4:43 And so I think a lot of it is a little bit fabricated
4:45 and it takes a lot of the focus and attention away
4:47 from people that really do have honest to goodness struggles
4:50 with depression and mental health issues.
4:51 But talk to me a little bit about the stigma about,
4:54 especially men and then on and to men of faith
4:57 having these type of actual struggles.
4:59 - Well, I think there's several reasons for that.
5:02 And I think there are several contributing factors.
5:05 First of all, a lot of people in the age that I grew up in,
5:10 if you had mental health issues or depression,
5:12 that just meant that you weren't praying hard enough.
5:15 That just meant that your faith wasn't strong enough.
5:17 And so there are a lot of people
5:19 that still hold to that thought process.
5:21 And matter of fact, we'll tell people that,
5:24 which only creates a bigger problem than was already there.
5:28 Because as if you didn't feel inadequate enough already
5:31 and insufficient enough already,
5:33 now you're being told that your faith's not good enough.
5:36 So it's a horrible thing to say.
5:39 So I think that plays a role into it.
5:41 There's a segment of the Christian population
5:43 that believes if you know Jesus, you shouldn't be sick.
5:47 You shouldn't have mental health issues.
5:49 And if you do, the truth of it is you're to blame for it.
5:52 Now, that's not true.
5:54 I mean, you wouldn't say that, I'll use COVID.
5:57 You wouldn't say to somebody that had COVID,
5:59 well, man, you have COVID because your faith
6:01 isn't strong enough.
6:02 You have COVID because you didn't pray enough.
6:04 No one would say that or the flu or any other ailment.
6:08 But when it comes to mental health issues,
6:10 people tend to categorize that.
6:12 And then there's a whole nother element to that
6:14 where a lot of people, especially men,
6:17 I mean, let's back up here.
6:18 First of all, men don't even like to admit
6:20 ask for directions because men don't like to admit
6:23 that they need help.
6:24 And so men are even less likely to admit
6:28 when there's mental health issues.
6:31 And let's just be real today.
6:33 You're really gonna be unlikely to do so in church
6:36 because the truth of it is while church is supposed
6:39 to be a place that you can be real and be transparent,
6:42 oftentimes it's a place you're gonna be judged worse
6:45 than any other.
6:46 So there's several different tentacles and avenues
6:49 that kind of play into this,
6:51 part of it being the inability to be real at church,
6:54 part of it into the condemnation that comes from church people,
6:57 part of it, a lack of education from understanding
6:59 that mental health, people that really do struggle
7:04 with mental health issues, that it's a sickness,
7:06 not unlike the flu or anything else.
7:10 So to kind of go back to what you were making about
7:12 how people of faith or if they assume that you have faith
7:15 that to a degree makes you immune to suicidal thoughts
7:18 or depression or anything like that,
7:20 I certainly don't subscribe to that.
7:22 But it would seem that if you do have a faith background,
7:25 you have a different level of understanding
7:27 about how you can get well.
7:28 So it's kind of the thing you've heard a lot of people
7:30 talk about Christian art or Christian music
7:32 or Christian film or anything like that.
7:34 It's some of the worst stuff out there
7:36 and it shouldn't be because Christian should understand
7:38 the beauty and grandeur of creation
7:41 through a different lens because they believe
7:43 in the triune God.
7:44 So I think that's maybe where some of these people
7:46 are coming from, but it doesn't quite come out that way
7:49 because they themselves don't struggle with it.
7:51 And so it's like, well, I don't struggle with it.
7:53 So you shouldn't either.
7:54 You should just have more faith.
7:55 But I guess talk to me a little bit about that
7:56 because that's what a lot of people have gotten
7:58 whenever they have any type of life problems.
8:00 Hey, you just need to have more faith when it's like,
8:02 hey, I have enough faith, but can you help me change my tire?
8:05 Like it's one of those types of situations.
8:08 Well, first of all, it's delusional,
8:13 even though a lot of people think,
8:14 that just because you know Jesus,
8:16 that you're immune to anything, because you're not.
8:19 Matter of fact, if you think you're immune
8:21 to having an affair on your wife, you're not.
8:23 If you think you're immune to sickness, you're not.
8:25 If you think you're immune to pride, you're not.
8:27 Now, you made a great statement in the fact
8:29 that if you do know Jesus, you do have a stronger base,
8:33 you have a connectivity, you have an ability
8:36 to overcome things, that the average guy
8:38 doesn't have the ability to overcome.
8:40 You have a friend that's closer than a brother,
8:44 which enables you to deal with things
8:47 in a better, stronger way than maybe the average man doesn't,
8:51 because you don't have that connectivity with Christ.
8:53 But that doesn't mean that just because you have
8:55 the connectivity with Christ, that you're immune.
8:59 I mean, it's real easy to praise God
9:01 and talk about what a healing, forgiving, good God he is
9:04 until the rug's on underneath your feet.
9:08 My daughter never been sick a day in her life,
9:11 never had a health issue, never went to the hospital
9:14 from the day she was born.
9:16 And about three years ago, at 18 years of age,
9:18 with no health issues whatsoever,
9:21 contracts an incurable disease and ends up
9:24 in the hospital six months straight,
9:28 literally barely living.
9:31 I mean, in ICU, somebody that's never been sick
9:34 a day in their life.
9:35 And I thought, well, hey man, you know what I mean?
9:38 I mean, I travel all over the world
9:40 telling people about Jesus, she had literally,
9:43 literally tens and tens and tens of thousands
9:45 of people praying for her.
9:47 And I went to a season of going, God, where are you?
9:50 I mean, I know you, you are my God, no doubt about it.
9:54 I'm a believer, no doubt about it.
9:55 I came to Christ at 21 years of age.
9:58 And so why are you not delivering?
10:01 Why is my daughter getting worse?
10:03 Why does my daughter have an incurable disease?
10:05 Why does my daughter, who's been the picture of health
10:08 and played competitive volleyball,
10:09 have heart and lung damage?
10:11 So the point that I'm making is,
10:12 is that yes, we do have access to a mighty God,
10:17 and there are times that God does miraculously heal people,
10:20 deliver them from addictions, the list goes on and on.
10:23 But it doesn't mean that just because you do know Christ,
10:26 that you won't struggle, or that your recovery/healing
10:30 will be immediate.
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11:02 I appreciate that perspective.
11:03 One thing that's interesting that I'd like to get into
11:05 a little bit more, because I had never really thought about it,
11:08 Jay, until earlier this year.
11:10 There was a pastor who has a ministry,
11:11 and he was basically talking about the problem
11:13 with most 12-step programs.
11:15 Even the ones that purport to be Christian 12-step programs,
11:18 and finding your identity in your addiction,
11:21 or in some cases, it's not even addiction,
11:24 finding your identity in this physical compulsion
11:26 to drink alcohol, or do drugs, or have sex with random people,
11:29 or something like that.
11:30 And then we had the guys on, or Adam Comeron, from S2L Recovery,
11:34 and they run one of the most successful recovery programs
11:36 on the planet that is actually biblically based,
11:38 where you don't identify as, hi, I'm John,
11:41 and I'm an alcoholic.
11:42 It's like, hi, I'm John, and I'm saved by the blood of the lamb.
11:45 And you operate from that.
11:47 And well, what a lot of these people have said,
11:49 and again, I hadn't really thought about it until this year,
11:51 but it's been a paradigm shift for me,
11:52 is not talking about this as if it's a disease,
11:55 not talking about this as if it's,
11:57 and thanks for mentioning COVID, by the way.
11:58 Now no one's ever gonna see this episode,
12:00 because it's gonna be thrown away by all the algorithms.
12:03 But it's one of those things where it's like,
12:05 it's not the same thing as the flu,
12:07 or as strep throat, or as something else.
12:09 It is something that can be controlled in a different way
12:12 than something like that.
12:13 That does require medicine to a degree to get better.
12:16 So talk to me a little bit about the, I guess,
12:19 disputatiousness around calling it the disease,
12:23 or using the disease model,
12:24 when a lot of people would say you don't need to.
12:27 Well, I mean, man, honestly, it almost,
12:30 it frustrates me to even go down this path.
12:34 Let me back up a little bit.
12:36 My wife, I'll use my wife as an example.
12:38 My wife has never taken any, never in her life,
12:42 taken any medication.
12:43 After the birth of our third child,
12:46 and man, I don't understand the genetic makeup of women,
12:49 but serotonin levels and all this stuff got out of whack,
12:52 and my wife was having a very difficult time mentally
12:56 after our third child,
12:57 never had a mental issue in her life, solid as a rock.
13:02 And I came home from work one day,
13:04 and you've heard the proverbial saying,
13:06 "Don't cry over spilled milk."
13:08 One of my children had spilled milk on a hardwood floor,
13:11 no big deal, you can throw a towel on and wipe it up.
13:15 I walked in from work,
13:16 my wife is on her knees sobbing,
13:19 because one of my children spilled milk on the floor.
13:23 Now that's when I knew something is wrong.
13:26 My wife has always been very stable.
13:29 My wife has never had mental health issues.
13:32 And I said, "Listen, I knew something was going on,
13:35 "but I couldn't figure out what it was."
13:37 And so my wife went to her position and got on medication.
13:42 She's been on medication ever since.
13:45 So I'm not the guy for those people,
13:48 and I'm not the guy to get into a discussion
13:52 about the reality of whether or not it's a sickness
13:55 or whether it's an ailment.
13:57 All I know is the Center for Disease Control
13:59 says that it's the number one ailment in the world.
14:02 All I know is I've spent 20 years
14:04 talking to every race, color, creed,
14:07 every age group imaginable.
14:09 I've spent my life,
14:10 I've spoken to millions and millions of people.
14:13 And to think that these people are somehow living a mirage
14:17 or delusional about their mental health issues
14:20 to me is preposterous.
14:22 - So I don't know if it's necessarily a mirage,
14:24 but you did bring up as well.
14:26 It's almost like where people with mental issues,
14:28 like I've said, even for the younger generation,
14:30 it's almost like an accessory that they can have,
14:34 like, "Oh, I've got this issue that I'm medicated for."
14:36 But to talk about the medication issue as well,
14:38 there's someone in my life that's very, very close to me.
14:42 Hat was going through a little bit of a rough patch
14:44 and had probably a two or three minute long discussion
14:47 with a doctor and the doctor prescribed this person Zoloft
14:52 without any discussion of potential drawbacks,
14:54 without any discussion about the term of this
14:58 and it was described to this person's significant other.
15:00 They were just like, "Yeah, it's just gonna be
15:02 "this short-term thing."
15:03 And by short term, they meant six months.
15:05 Meaning, "Hey, let's be on this medication for six months
15:07 "and then let's just see where we're at."
15:09 And then it's like, "Did nobody, was nobody there
15:11 "with this person?
15:12 "Did nobody help them maybe discuss this?"
15:14 It's almost like a lot of these MDs,
15:16 they have to get you out of the door in six or seven minutes
15:19 and so it's just easier to go ahead
15:20 and write the prescription and deal with whatever other
15:22 nonsense happens later down the road.
15:24 Six months from now, whenever they gotta put you
15:26 on a different one or change your notions
15:27 or move this around and we default to doing things like that
15:31 as opposed to a lot of data shows that if people work out
15:36 vigorously and eat right and get sleep,
15:38 it can take a care of numerous ailments,
15:41 whether mental or physical, but you don't see doctors
15:43 prescribing 90 days of clean eating and working out hard.
15:46 So talk to me a little bit about that as well
15:48 because I know that medication has helped people,
15:50 but man, it's really cumbersome to me
15:53 and it's really, I get really, really scared,
15:56 especially when kids are put on these SSRIs
15:58 and we don't have any of the long-term data
16:00 for that child as if it's going to solve their issue.
16:03 - I'm not saying that that's a dispute.
16:07 Certainly there are some people
16:09 that maybe could change their diet, their sleep habits,
16:11 but for those people that try to categorize
16:14 everybody in that category,
16:16 it's so completely wrong.
16:18 I mean, and this analogy that you gave
16:22 of this certain person, that wasn't our experience.
16:24 We didn't go in and some doctor just threw
16:26 a bottle of pills at it.
16:27 So I'm not saying that doesn't happen either,
16:29 but again, to put into a category, well, man, listen,
16:33 I'm just going to get more sleep,
16:34 I'm going to pray more and go to church more often,
16:36 read my Bible more and I'm going to be fine and dandy.
16:39 That may happen, I mean, I've got a friend,
16:42 I've got a friend right now that was on hardcore drugs
16:46 for years.
16:47 He got saved, gave his life to Christ,
16:49 was immediate delivered.
16:50 I mean, man walked away.
16:53 Cold Turkey never had another desire for drugs,
16:56 not a day in his life.
16:57 I know another guy who's been very influential in my life,
17:00 a businessman, quite frankly,
17:02 that helped get our ministry started.
17:04 Had it not been for him,
17:05 we would have never even got going.
17:07 He was an oil man who made a lot of money
17:10 and he stored in a lot of cocaine and he met Jesus
17:14 and he got free and he was free about two years
17:17 and then he fell back in and this went on and on for years.
17:20 He'd get clean and he'd stay clean for a while
17:22 and then a trigger would take place
17:24 and then he'd fall back in and he struggled his whole life.
17:26 I don't know anybody that I'm more certain
17:28 of their salvation experience than I am this businessman.
17:32 Now, Jay, where are you going with all this?
17:33 Where I'm going is is that there are some people
17:36 that may be able to change their sleep habits
17:38 and their eat habits and that may be all that it takes.
17:41 There are other people that need medication.
17:43 There are some people that get healed instantaneously.
17:46 There are some people that I'm sure got my daughter's disease
17:48 that she's getting a 30 something thousand dollar shot for
17:50 every single month and they prayed it away.
17:53 But we can't say that because even Jesus, man,
17:56 look at when he healed the blind people.
17:58 I mean, Jesus had the ability in one case to spit on
18:01 and make some mud and put it on somebody else's eyes
18:04 and then he can speak to someone else and says,
18:06 have your vision.
18:07 We can't just put Jesus in a box or a healing in a box
18:10 and say, well, because I'm going to make my experience
18:13 empirical that may have been that person's experience
18:16 with medication.
18:17 It doesn't mean it's everybody else's.
18:18 The person who was instantaneously healed can't say,
18:21 well, if you serve the same God that I served
18:23 since I got healed instantaneously, you should.
18:26 It doesn't work that way.
18:27 So, I'm glad, yeah, absolutely.
18:30 I'm glad you actually brought up the instantaneous
18:32 healing thing.
18:32 So let's just use the example that you use
18:35 of somebody that's, you know, hardcore drug user
18:37 and then they get saved and all of a sudden
18:39 they're literally delivered from that
18:40 and there's no better word to use.
18:42 Why do you think that is?
18:44 Because what I've told people before,
18:46 because, you know, people that are maybe outside the faith
18:48 that they don't really understand, they're like,
18:50 well, I know Christians that struggle like, you know,
18:51 you made me think of Johnny Cash.
18:53 Like people watch Walk the Line and they think,
18:54 oh, Johnny Cash was delivered from, you know,
18:57 using amphetamines and he didn't struggle
18:58 with it the rest of his life because he married June.
19:01 And it's like, no, he struggled literally until the day
19:03 he died off and on with using amphetamines and other drugs.
19:07 It was something that he could never be fully delivered from.
19:10 But then there are those people that literally die, you know,
19:12 with a needle in their arm and they float over their body
19:15 and then they zoop come back and then they never touch the stuff.
19:18 And what I've told people is it's like, you know,
19:20 God will remove the things from you
19:21 that you cannot control, you know, for his glory.
19:25 But then God will also allow people to struggle for his glory
19:28 because it's like, if you have to struggle
19:30 with substance abuse or something like that,
19:32 you can minister to somebody that's struggling
19:34 with substance abuse in a way more integral way
19:38 than a guy like me that never has.
19:40 That's just kind of where I go with it.
19:41 So if someone were to ask you that,
19:43 like, why does he deliver some people completely
19:45 and not others, what would you say?
19:47 - Man, I wish I knew the answer for that
19:49 and because there is no answer.
19:50 I mean, we've got a staff member right now
19:52 that literally a week ago,
19:55 their grandbaby lived three days and died.
19:58 There are other people, their grandbaby had the same problem
20:00 in some other hospital that are also,
20:02 and she is one of the godliest, I love her like a family member.
20:06 And she's devastated, she's down the hallway,
20:09 she's devastated, and she's asking that same question,
20:11 why did God not spare us?
20:13 Why when the hurricane goes through?
20:15 Is one house spared and the other one's not?
20:17 Why is one person healed instantaneously?
20:19 One person is not.
20:21 I mean, it's way out of my pay grade
20:24 to try to understand why God does the things that he does.
20:27 But one thing I do know,
20:28 and I think it's the more important aspect
20:30 is what you mentioned, that God allows people
20:34 to go through things so that they can be
20:36 a catalyst impact to other people.
20:38 I truly believe that the enemy brought suicide against me,
20:42 I think in some capacity,
20:43 the enemy might have known what I was gonna do with my life.
20:47 And the enemy wanted to stop me from doing that.
20:49 And what the enemy doesn't realize, or he does now,
20:53 that the very thing that he brought against me
20:55 to destroy me is now the very thing
20:58 that God has used all over the world
21:00 to steal people from his kingdom.
21:04 Because my suicide story has been something
21:06 that has enabled me to connect with people
21:08 that otherwise I would have never been able to connect with.
21:11 And so God has taken what the enemy brought against me
21:13 and used it as an incredible tool for me to help literally
21:17 thousands and thousands of people
21:19 that have struggled with suicidal tendencies.
21:21 And I think at the end of the day,
21:23 there's a component where God allows,
21:25 God uses broken people, man.
21:27 Look at Genesis to Revelation.
21:29 The people that you and I respect in the scriptures
21:31 are the people that have been through hell and back.
21:33 And not only that,
21:34 but the people that made bad mistakes.
21:36 There's guys watching this podcast going,
21:37 God could never use me, man.
21:38 I've committed murder, adultery.
21:40 Well, so did David.
21:41 And so God allows people to go through things
21:44 so that he can use them to relate to other people
21:46 who are going through the same thing.
21:48 I liken it to the, I always like to reference,
21:51 you remember when David thought Goliath,
21:53 to me the most insulting part of the whole battle
21:57 was not that David defeated Goliath.
21:59 It was that the weapon that was brought against David
22:02 was then put in David's hand to cut off Goliath's head.
22:06 And I think that's what's happened in my life.
22:08 The enemy, the weapon that he brought was on the sword.
22:11 It was suicide.
22:12 But God ended up putting it in my hand
22:14 to cut off the head of the enemy
22:15 to help other people who are struggling with it.
22:17 I think to sit around all day and wonder why God does
22:20 anything is futile because no one knows.
22:22 His ways are, it's an understatement to say they're mysterious.
22:26 They're perplexing.
22:27 I still don't understand a lot of things
22:29 that have gone on in my life.
22:30 But what I do understand is this.
22:32 God is a good God and he allows me to go through trials
22:35 in order to help other people.
22:37 - Yeah, I've tried to encourage men
22:38 to kind of stay in the pocket.
22:39 I kind of caught myself, Jay, a few months ago
22:42 wondering what heaven would be like.
22:44 And then I just kind of like,
22:45 "Rr, stop, stop.
22:46 You have no idea.
22:47 In my wildest imagination, I can't even fathom it.
22:50 How about I deal with the stuff that's happening right now
22:52 around me as opposed to spending all day in the daydreams?
22:55 But I do want to talk specifically
22:57 about suicide and suicidality, how it affects men.
23:00 So I've talked about on the show,
23:01 a member of my foxhole, very close friend of mine,
23:03 killed himself and it was one of those,
23:06 I'll put it to you this way.
23:07 It didn't seem to be an emotional decision
23:09 as much as it was an intellectual decision.
23:11 And I'll leave the details there
23:12 because the details are very, very close to the family
23:14 and I don't really want to go there.
23:15 But this was something that was planned out
23:17 that there was no stopping it.
23:18 It wasn't like he got the sads one day
23:21 and then all of a sudden decided to blow his head off.
23:23 And I talked about, whenever I talked about that,
23:25 from the show, I talked about my own thoughts with suicide
23:27 and they were never emotional thoughts
23:29 as much as they were intellectual thoughts.
23:31 You know, at the times in my life
23:33 where I was at the lowest point of my career,
23:35 where I felt like I wasn't checking any of the boxes
23:37 that a real man should check.
23:39 You know, I was just doing the math in my head.
23:41 I was just like, well, I'm worth this much money dead
23:44 because I have this much life insurance
23:46 compared to what I might be able to make
23:47 over this period of time and blah, blah, blah.
23:49 And it was like, I never got to the point
23:51 where I pulled out a pistol and, you know, went that far.
23:53 But I had these kind of deep intellectual discussions
23:57 with myself and I know I'm not the only one.
23:59 Now, there are guys that just have the emotional thing.
24:01 They're in some sort of pit of despair
24:03 because of addiction or death in the family
24:05 or something like that.
24:06 And they just go right to the emotional response to that.
24:08 And that has a lot to do with their circumstances
24:10 and their personality.
24:11 But just talk to me about, I guess,
24:12 the breadth of different circumstances
24:15 that cause men specifically to look at suicide
24:18 as this is my ticket to peace.
24:21 This is my way out.
24:23 - Yeah, well, that's a hard thing
24:24 'cause I know it's different for everybody.
24:26 You know, I can only relate on my level.
24:28 And of course, part of it, you have to look at where I was.
24:31 You know, when you're 21 years of age,
24:34 you lost your car, your job, your girlfriend.
24:36 I mean, that's pretty much your identity.
24:38 I mean, that is your world.
24:41 And plus, on top of that, an addiction problem as well,
24:45 you know, it's a crock pot of a big mess.
24:48 And so, you know, it's, I really can only speak
24:51 from my own experience.
24:52 And of course, there was that thought process.
24:56 You know, there was a lot of processes.
24:57 Processes of, is there a hope for a change?
25:01 Is there a way to turn this situation around?
25:04 And for me, it was stuck in a rut
25:07 and feeling as if there was no escape.
25:09 I always liken it to, and it's a difficult analogy,
25:13 but it's one people relate to.
25:15 I liken it to the people in the World Trade Center towers
25:18 that we all saw jump from the windows
25:19 when the smoke was building out the window.
25:21 Those people didn't want to die, man.
25:22 I didn't want to die either.
25:24 I just didn't want to live.
25:25 And so for them, when they're standing in that window
25:28 and the flames were licking at their back,
25:30 the thought process wasn't, I want to die.
25:33 The thought process is, I want to escape the pain
25:35 I'm in now.
25:37 And I can either stay where I'm at
25:39 and go through this excruciating pain
25:42 or I can jump out the window and expedite my death.
25:46 And that was the case for me, as it was,
25:49 I believe the case for many of those people
25:50 that we watched horrifically jump
25:53 out of those buildings during 9/11.
25:55 So, again, I don't know that you can pigeonhole that.
25:58 I think part of it, again, I mentioned earlier.
26:00 I think part of it is the nature of men.
26:02 One of the characteristics of someone
26:07 who may be suicidal is isolation.
26:10 And men are good at this because we don't want to admit
26:12 we have a problem.
26:13 We don't want to admit that we need help.
26:15 And me, rather than going to someone and saying,
26:18 "Hey, man, I'm struggling.
26:20 "I'm thinking about ending my life.
26:22 "I begin to seclude myself and isolate myself
26:25 "further and further and further."
26:26 So I think part of that for men
26:28 is just their genetic makeup.
26:30 We're posers.
26:32 We camouflage ourselves.
26:35 We're not emotional beings.
26:37 We have difficulty expressing or showing our feelings.
26:40 And that all plays right in
26:43 to this whole mantra of suicidal tendencies.
26:47 I mean, honestly, regrettably,
26:50 it's a perfect match when you look at the characteristics
26:53 of someone who's in the throes of suicidal thinking
26:56 and the characteristics of men.
26:59 - Yeah, I don't think there's anything to quibble with there
27:02 because isolation, I mean, to be honest with you, Jay,
27:05 there are a lot of men in my life
27:06 that have deep levels of isolation.
27:09 They're isolated from just relationships in general,
27:12 like from community, from all these different things.
27:15 And you can only do so much to encourage that person
27:17 because you can't literally grab them by the cuff of the shirt
27:20 and drag them into community and to be known by people.
27:23 But then it's whenever the people that you do feel like
27:25 you know still do those things,
27:27 they still do take their lives or something like that.
27:29 That's where it starts getting into warning signs.
27:31 You mentioned one there, I would say, with isolation,
27:34 but just not that long ago, Sarah Wilkinson
27:37 was on our show.
27:38 Her husband was a Navy SEAL.
27:40 He was in development group
27:41 and had a lot of injuries, a lot of brain injuries,
27:44 like a lot of our special operators have.
27:47 And you know, he ended up taking his own life.
27:49 And she only at that point could look backwards
27:53 and see some of the warning signs of a deep level
27:56 of a problem that kind of came through.
27:58 And for the rest of her life to a degree,
28:00 I think she's gonna struggle with that.
28:01 She's gonna struggle with what could I have done
28:03 and you know, the real answer maybe
28:06 that she could have done absolutely nothing
28:08 to save her husband and as it were.
28:10 But there are warning signs for people
28:12 that a lot of us are too distracted to really notice
28:14 because we're in our phones or we're in our businesses
28:17 or we're doing 10 different other things.
28:19 But from what you've seen and from what you've experienced,
28:21 what are some warning signs that people should look for
28:25 in their people and how should they approach that?
28:27 - Yeah, so before I get to that,
28:29 I wanna reference something that you triggered a thought.
28:32 I had a friend talking about how this all plays
28:35 into the effect on men.
28:37 I had a friend of mine and he asked me one night
28:40 if he could meet me at Taco Bell.
28:41 And if anybody would be somebody
28:42 that would recognize warning signs, it's me.
28:45 I mean, I've been doing this a long time.
28:47 And so we met at Taco Bell and I knew that he and his wife
28:50 were having some struggles but, and he met with me.
28:53 And I mean, it seemed to be really just very casual.
28:57 It didn't seem as though there was some major crisis point
29:00 in any way and he leaves
29:04 and the following day hangs himself in the shower.
29:08 It's found by his children.
29:09 And there was a lot of guilt there
29:11 'cause I'm like of all people that you would think
29:15 that would recognize it, it would have been me.
29:19 And I thought it just another situation of,
29:21 hey, we've all got marriage troubles from time to time.
29:23 We all have struggles that's married life.
29:25 So anyway, just wanted to mention that.
29:28 Yeah, so one of the warning signs I mentioned is isolation.
29:31 I think that plays a key role.
29:34 I think it can also be sudden tragedy or loss.
29:38 This seems to hold true more so in younger men.
29:42 The death of a loved one, the loss of a relationship,
29:45 a divorce, something of that nature.
29:47 Another one that we seem that we see a lot
29:50 is extreme mood swings.
29:53 Somebody who normally is very level,
29:56 now seems to be very erratic.
29:58 Someone who's normally very docile,
30:00 now seems to be very high or very low.
30:03 We also see it in an increased use
30:05 and let's say a person, maybe they're a casual drinker.
30:08 And now we see one who begins abusing drugs or alcohol
30:13 and you say, well, man,
30:14 I'm talking about even prescription medications.
30:16 So those are just some of the things,
30:18 I don't know if that's a conclusive list,
30:20 but those are some of the predominant ones
30:22 that we've seen over the years.
30:25 - Well, one thing that I would add,
30:26 and I would be curious to see if you would cosign this,
30:28 one thing at the end of my interview with Sarah
30:31 is she was like, if you get the thought
30:34 that your friend or your family member might be suicidal,
30:38 you have to ask them.
30:40 And I remember that that seems like such simple advice,
30:42 but for most of us, we're pretty nice people,
30:44 we don't like to rock the boat,
30:45 we don't really like to get into other people's business.
30:47 And so we don't ask those tough questions, right?
30:49 Like, you know, hey, man, are you cheating on your wife
30:52 or hey, man, are you still looking abhorrent?
30:54 Like we just don't want to do that,
30:56 we don't want to risk the relational capital.
30:58 But that even came up for me here recently,
31:00 I had a friend who lost a child in a tragic accident.
31:03 And whenever I was talking to him on the phone,
31:05 I made sure to ask that as awkward as it was
31:08 and he didn't get mad, he didn't fly off the handle.
31:11 He was like, man, I appreciate you asking.
31:13 And luckily the answer is no.
31:15 But for some people, I feel like that is that,
31:18 that olive branch or that hand reaching out to rescue them.
31:21 Do you feel like that people should do that?
31:23 They should be that bold and straight up ask people.
31:26 - Well, before I answer the question, let me say this,
31:29 'cause there's a lot of misconceptions about this topic.
31:32 One of them is that talking about suicide leads to suicide,
31:36 another misconception is that people
31:40 who are considering suicide don't mention or don't give hints.
31:44 And so now circling back to your question, unequivocally yes.
31:49 Studies have proven that the greatest, let me repeat,
31:52 the greatest deterrent to suicide is having someone
31:57 that you can talk to, an open line of communication.
32:01 It's the greatest deterrent.
32:03 And so this thought process that, well, man,
32:05 we can't talk about it or what if I ask,
32:08 am I gonna be leading them into thinking about something
32:11 that they weren't already thinking about?
32:13 Couldn't be further from the truth.
32:15 And especially again, we're talking about men.
32:17 Men tend to do better anyway with stuff that's straightforward.
32:21 And I don't think there could be a better question,
32:23 not an accusing way, but I think it's gotta be asked more
32:27 in the arena of suspicion, curiosity.
32:31 Hey, man, I just wanna check.
32:33 I know things have been tough lately.
32:34 I know you've been down, I know you and the wife,
32:36 you and the job, you and the finances, whatever.
32:39 And man, have you ever given any thought
32:41 or have you ever considered anything drastic?
32:44 Have you ever thought about having suicidal thoughts?
32:46 I don't think there can be anything
32:48 that can be a better question to ask.
32:50 And again, talking about social capital,
32:53 if this is somebody that you have a strong relationship with,
32:56 man, they're gonna appreciate that you care.
32:57 They're gonna appreciate that you're interested
33:00 in that you're asking, I wish to God I would have asked
33:02 my buddy that I just told the story about in Taco Bell.
33:05 But again.
33:06 - Jay, let's give him a ring.
33:08 Sorry, go ahead.
33:10 - I think he would have told me too.
33:12 I think I have asked him, Steve, listen, man,
33:16 I know things are tough right now at home,
33:18 but just level with me, brother,
33:20 have you ever thought about ending your life?
33:23 I don't think Steve would have been angry at me.
33:24 I think Steve would have appreciated me being candid
33:27 and asking that question.
33:29 - Again, talking about is always the best thing.
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34:03 - Yeah, I would cosign that for sure.
34:04 Well, let's get even more granular than Jay.
34:06 So let's go back to your buddy at Taco Bell,
34:09 and let's say you had asked in that, and he said yes.
34:12 Let's go back to my conversations with my friend.
34:13 I ask him that, and let's say he says yes.
34:16 Then what?
34:17 Then what do you do?
34:17 - Well, yeah, there's a few things.
34:19 So first of all, I wanna make sure
34:21 that that individual knows that I am accessible to them.
34:26 Now, I don't wanna say I'm accessible if I'm not.
34:28 I'm accessible to you 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
34:32 I'm here.
34:33 If that means I've gotta fly out to you,
34:35 if I've gotta drive out to you,
34:36 if that means it's at three o'clock in the morning,
34:38 if that means I've gotta call in sick,
34:41 it's gotta be, you've gotta be that kind of commitment.
34:43 It's gotta be where you are truly available to them
34:48 at any and all cost.
34:49 The second thing that I always do is,
34:50 is of course I have a network of people
34:53 that are godly people that I always encourage and ask them
34:57 if they would be willing to meet with them.
35:00 Now, I'm not against psychiatrists or psychologists in any way,
35:03 and people may have a good connection there.
35:05 For me, I try to send them to some people
35:09 who are in the ministry.
35:11 I wanna make sure that they're getting godly advice,
35:14 godly counsel.
35:15 So that may not be somebody else may go to a Christian counselor,
35:19 or have a friend who's a Christian psychiatrist
35:21 or psychologist, but needless to say
35:24 that beyond being accessible and at the ready themselves,
35:28 they need to encourage them to get help.
35:31 Then another thing I would do again,
35:32 this kinda depends on the relationship and the proximity,
35:35 but man, there are several national suicide hotlines
35:39 that I would even make available.
35:41 There is numerous materials on social, excuse me,
35:44 on websites that I would forward to them.
35:47 So I think the first line of defense, number one is me.
35:51 It's knowing I love you, I don't judge you,
35:54 I'm here for you at any and all costs.
35:56 Number two is this may not just go away,
36:00 and so we need to seek help.
36:02 Again, me as a guy that spent my years
36:05 as a full-time evangelist, I personally prefer it
36:07 to be a Christian, and I say counselor,
36:10 the guys that I send to locally,
36:12 they're not even counselors, they're preachers.
36:15 Some people may not agree with that.
36:16 So that's a second line of defense.
36:18 The third line of defense is, again,
36:21 whether that be accessibility, getting help.
36:25 And again, I would even, depending on how the process goes,
36:29 but I mean, I'm not against eventually
36:32 going to see your physician and seeing if,
36:35 like in the case of my wife, if it's a scenario
36:38 where maybe there is some medical imbalance,
36:42 chemistry imbalance that needs to be dealt with.
36:44 But the worst thing you can do is brush it off.
36:47 And I've seen people over the years go,
36:49 well, so-and-so is just trying to get attention.
36:52 Hello, yeah, they are.
36:54 Well, you know, they said they'd be better off
36:56 if they were no longer living or they didn't have hope.
36:58 I think they're just wanting people to look their way.
37:01 Yes, they are.
37:03 And so whatever you do, don't be dismissive.
37:05 - Obviously, don't be dismissive.
37:08 And one thing that I would tell you as well
37:09 is if you're gonna offer somebody like,
37:11 hey, 24/7, I'm your guy, like, let's make this happen,
37:14 this is just a practical piece of advice.
37:16 You have to get buy-in from your spouse about that.
37:19 You need to get permission from your buddy
37:21 to have that discussion with your spouse
37:23 because if you're leaving at three o'clock in the morning
37:26 to drive across town to go be with your buddy,
37:28 your wife needs to be down with that, you know what I mean?
37:30 'Cause that's gonna create a whole bunch of problems at home
37:32 that, you know, guys just, you know,
37:34 very, very practical advice there.
37:35 Make sure she's a part of that process
37:37 because she's gonna be the wind beneath your wings.
37:39 You don't want her to be a weight dragging you back down,
37:41 you know what I mean?
37:42 So there's one bit of practical advice.
37:43 But then, beyond that, and we'll make this last question
37:46 of the day 'cause I think this is really important.
37:48 Unfortunately, we don't have more time.
37:50 The need for the church, and I'm using that, you know,
37:53 I guess colloquially, the capital C church
37:55 to really allow people that are in their midst
37:58 and also people that are on their staffs
38:00 to be very, very frank and very, very upfront
38:02 about their struggles with mental health
38:04 or any of those types of things
38:06 because I know there are a lot of church leaders
38:08 that listen to this podcast.
38:10 I know there are church leaders
38:11 that have never had mental issues
38:12 and maybe they look kind of a scant
38:14 and people that have mental problems
38:15 and be like, yeah, okay, I bet you have a mental problem.
38:17 And maybe they do have a tendency to dismiss it.
38:20 What would be your encouragement
38:22 if you could speak to the capital C church, you know,
38:24 all at once in terms of how they should approach people
38:27 within their midst, even up into their own staff members
38:30 about how they should deal with mental health issues?
38:33 - Well, first of all, I would say
38:35 that there needs to be an approach.
38:38 The church has been so silent on this issue.
38:41 And very, very rarely.
38:44 I mean, occasionally here of the church
38:46 doing something on it, but for the most part,
38:48 the church has been silent.
38:49 So the church doesn't say anything about it.
38:52 And I mean, we'll stay on topic for today,
38:55 but this isn't the only issue
38:57 that the church doesn't talk about.
38:59 And so people end up getting second-hand information
39:02 or wrong information because they can't get it
39:04 from the very source that they should be able to get it from.
39:06 So first of all, the church needs
39:08 to be doing something about it.
39:10 I mean, this is a worldwide epidemic.
39:12 People are struggling with it.
39:13 And there are people struggling with it
39:15 all within the ranks of their church,
39:17 but people can't afford to say anything.
39:19 They're afraid to say anything,
39:20 especially those that are on staff
39:22 or leadership positions because the truth of it is,
39:24 in some cases, they will be fired.
39:26 Let's just be real.
39:27 They will be fired.
39:28 Because if you were godly and if you were praying,
39:30 if you were walking with Jesus,
39:32 you wouldn't have the struggles that you're having.
39:33 That's just the reality of it.
39:35 So first of all, they need to come out of the closet on it.
39:37 Now, what does that mean?
39:38 I mean, it means different things for different churches.
39:41 Maybe it means doing a sermon series on mental health.
39:44 Maybe it means providing a workshop
39:47 where victims of suicide that have lost family members
39:51 are people who are struggling with it, have a safe zone
39:54 where they can go in and discuss this,
39:56 where it's not people just gossiping about it
39:59 or are spreading rumors around the church.
40:01 There just needs to be some engagement
40:03 because quite frankly, there is very little engagement.
40:07 I thank God there are exceptions to that.
40:08 I was invited to Northern Ireland.
40:10 I've been now about six times the largest church
40:12 in the whole country of Northern Ireland.
40:15 And the reason they invited me
40:16 when I initially got the phone call,
40:17 they said, well, hey, the reason we want you to come
40:20 is because people are getting frustrated
40:21 because when they're driving into work
40:24 in downtown Belfast, it's very disheartening
40:26 to be going to your job and watching bodies swing in the wind
40:30 because they're hanging from trees downtown.
40:33 And so there are exceptions.
40:34 But I would say the starting place is to begin to take action,
40:38 start those workshops, start a sermon series,
40:40 start a help group where there can be a safe zone
40:44 that people can talk about it
40:45 because the truth of it is a lot of people,
40:47 especially who are believers,
40:49 there are people like me, I wasn't saved
40:52 when I attempted suicide.
40:55 So I didn't have that network.
40:57 But what's sad is is people who are believers
41:00 that should have the network and don't have the network
41:02 because they can't talk about it.
41:05 - Yeah, I think being able to open up those lines
41:06 of communication, but also there are a lot of people,
41:10 like I kind of get annoyed when people are like,
41:11 hey, we're going to do an awareness campaign.
41:13 Okay, great.
41:14 Now that you've made people aware, now what?
41:16 So you have to make sure that there is something
41:18 that is, you have some sort of a scaffolding
41:20 under your awareness campaign.
41:21 So guys, if you're going to be doing a sermon series
41:23 or an entire Sunday on mental health or something like that,
41:26 you've got to have a plan in place
41:27 for how you're going to go after catching these people.
41:29 Same thing, when I get invited to go speak
41:31 to at a men's event, I'm like, guys, I don't live here.
41:34 Like I'm going to come in, I'm going to burn it down
41:35 and I'm going to walk away.
41:36 Y'all need to have a plan on how to deal with the ashes.
41:38 Like you need to have a plan for some of these men
41:40 that are going to come to you
41:41 and basically lay their entire life on you
41:43 because some speaker got up and got them all expired
41:46 or, you know, inspired, not expired.
41:47 But it's like that you need to have a plan for that
41:49 because otherwise some guys are going to fall
41:51 through the cracks and that's not really what you want
41:53 for you and your community.
41:54 But Jay, I really appreciate all your time today.
41:56 I appreciate the things that we're able to get into.
41:58 This is not a fun subject matter,
41:59 but obviously this is a major through point for you
42:02 and for your ministry overall.
42:03 Obviously in the show notes, I'll put, you know,
42:05 where guys can go and check out your website
42:07 to see the other stuff that you're doing.
42:08 But that's all for me.
42:09 Is there anything else you want to get off your chest?
42:11 - Man, I'm going to give a plug
42:14 and people are going to think, it is what it is, man.
42:17 This is the best podcast that I've ever been a part of.
42:21 Man, I just love what you're doing.
42:23 And this isn't, you know, man, I don't even know you.
42:25 So this isn't, you know, putting air in your tires
42:28 or anything like that.
42:29 I do a lot of this stuff, man, all over the country.
42:32 And I just, man, I don't know from the jump,
42:35 just what you're doing.
42:37 And especially you connecting with men
42:39 and just the ability to, there's no fluff here.
42:42 It's, I'm telling you, it's not characteristic.
42:45 I do this stuff all over the country.
42:47 Matter of fact, I did one here about two weeks ago
42:49 and I told our press team,
42:50 I said, don't ever book me those folks again.
42:53 It was so, it was so fake.
42:55 So listen, man, I'm just telling you right now,
42:58 any time you ever want me back for anything, I mean,
43:01 the answer is yes.
43:02 And I apologize for being a little late today.
43:04 - Well, no, I appreciate it.
43:05 And I appreciate you giving me a compliment
43:07 after my voice cracked, like I'm going through puberty.
43:09 So it's just like, hey, you know, guys,
43:10 even when you have, you make a mistake,
43:12 you can still get a compliment,
43:13 but no, I appreciate that edification there.
43:15 Jay Louder, thank you so much
43:16 for coming on a Daunton Life of Man's podcast.
43:18 - Thank you, sir.
43:20 - There you go, guys.
43:21 Hope you enjoyed my time with Jay Louder,
43:22 but before I let you go, we are gonna do a quick resilience boost
43:24 and in Daunton Life, our mission is equipping men
43:26 to push back darkness with content
43:27 that forges spiritual, mental, and physical resilience.
43:30 So the one link I've got for you today
43:31 is a link to Jay's website.
43:32 That's where you can get to all the stuff Jay
43:34 and his team are doing.
43:35 So guys, go there and check that out.
43:37 All right, guys, thanks so much for listening to the show.
43:38 We do appreciate it.
43:39 Wherever you're listening to this,
43:40 please subscribe, rate, and leave us a positive five-star review.
43:43 If you want me to come speak live at your event
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43:48 That's I-N-F-O @ondaunton.life.
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43:53 including how to donate
43:54 to keep more content like this coming your way.
43:56 Please go to www.ondaunton.life and as always,
43:59 we want to thank the band, August Burns Red,
44:00 for allowing us to use their music for our content.
44:03 The music on this podcast is our song "Cutting the Tides,"
44:05 which is off their 10th anniversary
44:06 re-recording of their album, "Leveler."
44:08 The links are in the description.
44:09 I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.
44:11 Remember, keep pushing back darkness,
44:14 keep forging spiritual, mental, and physical resilience.
44:17 Keep seeking the lion of Judah.
44:20 (upbeat music)
44:22 ♪ No silence is a heart and a heart ♪
44:26 ♪ When all you want is a side ♪
44:30 ♪ It may stand as a virtue ♪
44:34 ♪ You will be revived ♪
44:52 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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