The Real Reason Adam Savage Makes Things

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As Maker Faire makes its triumphant return to the Bay Area, Adam returns as well to give his Sunday sermon to a packed crowd of attendees and talk about making as an act of self improvement. In a deeply personal speech, Adam recounts his early days as a maker and why making things is such an important and formative part of his origin story.
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[@cheetah100]

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[@PoiSonSonic]

Veritasium tried, Steve Mould triend. But you, Adam Savage, you succeed. I am going to the kiwico, and ordering anything and everything, one at a time.

[@kaboom-zf2bl]

sadly items LIKE the tilt and fold desk are NOT available in Canada ... making Kiwi Co. useless outside of the USA

[@Kenkire]

Adam Savage. The ADHD icon all us ADHD and AuDHD makers need. I didn't know I was gonna cry watching this, but here we are. I was also that kid. I never thought I could create. I was bullied so much. Now I'm in my late 40s trying to make miniatures and feeling like I can never live up to people who have done it 20 years longer than I have.

[@joanhoffman3702]

Don’t measure yourself against others. You are not them. Follow your own path. Does making miniatures bring joy? Do what you love for own self. That’s what matters. 💞

[@jamfjord]

I could have written this myself, word for word. It's hard to let go of that need to compare what you make to what others make, and not to form a qualitative judgement; that's what education drills into us and society demands. But these days I try to enjoy the process, appreciate the result and embrace the reflection of me that it represents, and I'm a lot happier when I'm able to do so. Try to be kind to yourself and remember all the unique life experiences that you, and only you, can bring to your own creations. All the best 😊

[@richardcrane1262]

What the other replies have said, a thousand times over. At 70+ years, I know I will never be as accomplished as someone like Adam, but I have started to learn not to judge myself directly against others, but to take satisfaction in what I am doing, and always trying to do it a little better, in some aspect, accepting that it may never live up to my ideal, but can still be rewarding. Every so often, things do go the way I plan, and the feeling is wonderful.

[@chrcai]

I'm so Happy to a) hear the speech from Adam and b) read all those comments from the Community... Because they just connecting everything perfectly to myself... Thanks!!

[@kathyleahy7314]

I have a kid like you were. Couldn't figure out social cues, and had a hard time with friendships. Lived for Legos. He's a software engineer now, and doing well. It comforts me to know that kids like you and him grow up to be very successful adults. Thank you for baring your life details in this way. You are brave to do so, and a hero.

[@brettsalter3300]

That must have been hard, watching the joy of your life, someone you know to be so wonderful , being lonely. Overjoyed all turned out well.

[@IT_Dinosaur]

I found myself actually tearing up for young Adam (and young me). Very moving & inciteful. Thanks Adam

[@patchvonbraun]

Me too. I"m 60 now.

[@katemiller8113]

Me too.

[@louisdavis1370]

insightful

[@SolaceEasy]

Believe in yourself. Love yourself.

[@Interstate66]

🥺me too... Parts sound like he spoke not of him - but me - as child, with my Lego, and my repeating dream - and still... I'm 42 now; still fighting these old demons from the past. Thanks for sharing, Adam 🥲 Thank you so much! For all these years with Mythbusters and specially for these kind words☺

[@victorialucas9883]

I cannot tell you how deeply this speech moved me, i have never heard someone capture what neurodivergent masking is as perfectly as the idea of writing subroutines to override your innate subroutines. I connected with everything you said here so completely. Just, thank you.

[@RACOONBACON]

Your speech had me tearing up multiple times. Thank you for your honest words Adam.

[@TheFlyingMasterChef]

Your 'sermon' brought me to tears. I listened and realized you were describing me. We are the same age. We grew up pretty much the same. I live to build things, create things, MAKE things. Our childhoods were very similar. I lived for my blocks, my legos, my erector sets. I feel sad for those kids today who don't get to use their imagination because it is silenced with videos, games, and other creativity-sucking mediums. You and I could look at a tree and imagine how we would create a treehouse in it with various levels and escape hatches. We picked up a simple stick (or even a pencil) and it became a spaceship, a gun, a missile, a boat. We built dams in creeks and boats out of popsicle sticks. Our army men and cowboys and Indians had epic battles and glorious victories. We imagined and therefore we became! We experienced and therefore we grew. I dove into music and am a drummer today. I play piano, violin, cello, guitar, and drums. I can play 8 notes on a sax. :) I do web design, software and graphic design, and 3D printing/design. I build RC planes. I served my country in the USCG and can proudly say I helped many people. I am a pilot and also love to sail. (I should have been a flying fish) All the things I grew up playing, imagining, and dreaming of....I became. I became my own maker. With help from my creator, I am the maker I always imagined I could be.

[@ShaggyJustin]

This speaks to me on such a deep personal level. Thank you Adam for always being able to explain it so I don't feel like I'm the only one to have been that kid.

[@OldMysticFantasist]

Adam, I'll say again that you are a hero for using your popularity and platforms to share such deeply personal things do comfort and motivate not only those of us who were that kid, but more importantly those who still are. ROCK ON, Brother!

[@GIBBO4182]

The world would be a much more annoying/difficult/worse place without makers. Coming from someone who is not, thank you to all those that are!

[@d0ct0r_d1g1tal]

"...not about the fair." lol I almost spit out my coffee. thanks for putting this out there, man- I haven't followed you for years, just caught a few mythbusters as a kid and always enjoyed it, but you have been more inspiring to me in the last few months than anyone else has for the last few years. the personal stuff you spilled for us here resonated with a lot of my current struggles, and I think we're all grateful you were willing to open up like that. I don't need to tell you to keep doing what you're doing.

[@TurboChicken313]

Dammit Adam, some of us weren't ready to be holding back tears on our lunch break.

[@Anotherpodcast]

I connect deeply with this. Your description of your childhood loneliness, your nightmares (I HAD THE SAME DREAMS), your drive to pursue excellence, what it all truly means - I’m nearly in tears. This is personal, moving, and beautifully written and spoken. Thank you, Adam.

[@patchvonbraun]

I'm not ashamed to say that I AM in tears....

[@cobyhoff]

That description of his dreams was deeply personal to me. The claustrophobia and feeling small. I described it as seeing myself in my room but also feeling like the room was shrinking in on myself. It was very unsettling. I haven't had those dreams for a long time, but they were an oddly terrifying frequent occurrence in my youth.

[@Anotherpodcast]

I articulated it (at least to myself) as feeling frighteningly small and shrinking, and, at the same time, frighteningly vast and expanding. Both, paradoxically. Adam’s description stopped my breath. There’s something very deep here, a startling connection of experience.

[@cobyhoff]

Yes! Very paradoxical feeling. I also had nightmares about the reality of infinity (regarding space/the universe)

[@PhilDockery]

My jaw dropped open when he spoke of those dreams. I had them, too! They were horrifying, and I've never to this day been able to figure out what they meant or represented, even though I have no trouble understanding my dreams since becoming an adult. I would love to know what research has been done on this type of dream.

[@jackmalvern2394]

This should be shown in every school everywhere. Brilliant.

[@candamorgan]

Normalising the many difficult thoughts and feelings we have as children, which *make* us into incredible adults is (one of) the most amazing gifts Adam gives us through sharing his own personal experiences. Thanks mate!

[@SxC97]

As a kid that grew up on the spectrum, I can relate so strongly to your experiences. Thank you for sharing Adam! I hope you're doing better now.

[@fabycho6791]

Honestly I don't understand how people think being a victim makes them cool if you're a loser don't tell people is not brave or anything

[@SxC97]

@@fabycho6791 Thanks for giving me tips on how to deal with being a loser! clearly you have a lot of experience in the matter...

[@steveskeletonneii6336]

@@fabycho6791 admitting your faults is the first step to becoming a better person

[@c0d3m0nky]

I laughed, I cried, I wished I could give my younger self a hug. Thank you

[@fen4554]

What a beautiful human being. The world is a better place with him here.

[@tjtobin86]

Imagine a world where Adam chooses to not share his creations with us. A world where he feels so scared / lonely that he can't imagine anyone wanting to know what he knows, feel what he feels. Small things happen in this world and change it for the better (like Adam forming a persona of himself that gave him the confidence to share himself with the world). Thank you Adam for sharing these deeply personal thoughts with us.

[@mattdonlan7745]

If only WE had the internet back then. I'm Adam's age and I coud've been his brother. I hid myself in my art and eventually turned it into a successful career, but always a lonely one. With the internet and people like Adam, I have found more "me's" out there than i ever thought possible. Thanks for sticking to it, Adam! You are truly an inspiration as a maker, scientist, and a heart warming human. You're one of a kind.

[@ddevlin13]

Adam made me cry. I think I have a little boy inside who needs a really big hug right now.

[@mihailobradash2439]

I think as someone who had almost the exact same experiences as Adam described this is by far the best explanation of one's inner drive/desire/reasoning to make no matter what it is.

[@mikakettunen7939]

I am recent years hibernated electronic/metal/design maker 44 years of age from FINLAND - and I honestly NEVER have connected so genuinely and deeply with Adam´s definition of his early child dream of dimensions and what unfolded from his loneliness atmospheres - I burst to tears listening this - and found inspiration again - BLESS YOU ADAM + ALL MAKERS

[@oxbluepandaxo]

Adam you have been the reason I've been able to reignite my passion for making miniature dioramas again, after abandoning it since I thought it was silly. You've reminded me of the vibrancy of life when you let your inner kid hyperfocus and pour your whole self into an object. Listening to you talk passionately about the same things that are important to my soul in tested is both my comfort and inspiration thank you from the bottom of my heart !!

[@LuisCastillo-tg6xw]

Wow I didn't expect to start my day like this. Thanks for sharing this, I feel it resonated with people of all walks of life

[@grittykitty50]

Yes, "pour your whole self into an object" simply because it pleases YOU.

[@chrcai]

I know exactly what you mean... My mother still thinks, meine Modell Kids etc. is 'childish' ... And this was the reason I nearly abandoned this Hobby, too... But my own experience is: even If I so doing IT for a few years - I always end Up starting the Same Projects over and over again. And now, I've learned that it's Not only me.. Thanks

[@DS-ic5ps]

Thank you for helping us all see our younger selves through new eyes!

[@knightswhosayni]

As a UK (East end London (a real Jack Sparrow)) kid that grew up with Meccano and Airfix as their outlet for creativity in the 70s and beyond I feel for you Adam, to my international family I love you and will always seek to help my fellow makers as much as I can. Much maker love from the UK to you all.

[@isaacdave5603]

Showing love from Boston Massachusetts. Adam you ROCK DUDE

[@Ilgenfixit80]

I am sanding my R2-D2 while listening to this sermon. He's 18 months old and about 60% complete.

[@KimChristiansen01]

Occasionally, someone I admire comes out with a profound accumulation of words that my heart soars and breaks at the same time. Adam has done that here. Not since Wil Wheaton’s I am a gamer speech have a felt as connected to someone I don’t know. This is the journey for so many of us. This is the reality we faced, or a close facsimile anyway. Thank you Adam, for this gift of yourself and for everything you do.

[@stratocactus]

You just put words on my childhood, and my subsequent life. I was listening to this video in my workshop, ans had to stop working and just listen to your speech. It felt like you were actually reading my biography. I knew by watching your vids that we were from the same breed. Thanks for the deep introspection.

[@markmcgillicutty6644]

Good grief... it's like I wrote that... many years ago, after I had moved out of my parents' house, I went back to visit and apologize to them for being such a pain in the butt.. and that fear of being odd-man-out still gets me.. often... thank you for having the courage to share openly... and I'm not crying, you're crying. :)

[@monsvillerailways5736]

Wow Adam. I can really relate to your youth. Lonely childhood, few friends and Music as an escape. Autism and the focus on detail is our gift but also our curse. Happy Modelling. Mon

[@StephanusNell]

Whao, you just jolted a memory of listening to Casey Kasem counting down the top forty, just after midnight, cruising around in South Africa in the 80's

[@Blindman875]

Adam is, without a doubt, the most sagacious philosopher of our time. I'm glad to be living in the age if Adam Savage with his great wisdom that he's been able to proliferation to the masses. Adam, you're on par with, if not surpasing, Bill, Neil and Carl in your communications with the science-curious public. I'm so glad the world has you. Thanks for all you do.

[@jacobmotum]

I drew a lot of parallels between my childhood and yours, Adam. It was insightful and entertaining, thank you for sharing.

[@mikevansickle2735]

A truly spiritual testimony, it is right you call it a sermon, and to it I give you Hallelujah and Amen. Thank you for sharing pieces of yourself and your craft with us for so long, Mr. Savage. ❤

[@inktologist]

Amen! That was phenomenally encouraging. Thank you so very much for the sermon and your show is the biggest breathe of fresh air on KZbin.

[@TheHBSeamstress]

I made my "maker space" MY space from a very young age, what I make has changed through the years. But it's where I connect with myself and the world, where I can do things at my own pace and understand things at my own pace! Where I have control and where I make all of the decisions! Was my "maker space" build as a survival zone, it was. But I wouldn't miss it for the world! Thank you for sharing Adam 😊 ❤

[@drmcommunicat]

OmG he is speaking directly to me.. and at me. So inspiring. Wish to be like him some day... so expressive..41 yrs on this planet and it feels like i have just started to live.

[@shadwellsong]

Love and respect ❤

[@squidobarnez]

This gave me lots of happy tears, thank you for sharing yourself and helping us all feel less lonesome. *high-five-hugs*

[@miguelmontoya1320]

Thank you for sharing Adam.

[@chrisyetka1477]

I wish everyone had this level of insight and self-awareness, thank you Adam.

[@paulschultz2331]

That was simply, beautiful. Thank you Adam for being vulnerable and sharing such a wonderful message that helps to give renewed purpose and meaning to life by embracing the silly little things we make.

[@paulbush2746]

Thank you Adam for your display and encouragement of what it is to be a maker!!

[@NewNormac]

This right here,this episode is exactly why KZbin needs and I love Button❤ Adam, thank you for bringing me to tears and reminding me to continue moving forward, thank you thank you thank you ~Smile oN

[@refurbansuburban]

Thank you, Adam, for embracing your younger self. I gave up management to pursue computers because my love of detailed design can be expressed in software. I relate to your loneliness as well, that wanting to belong. Now I have several really good friends and that makes a great difference. Thank you.

[@chaymberr_crafts]

my Childhood was very similar, i always took things apart trying to understand how it worked. Growing up with Mythbusters and Adam, i looked up to them! That´s where i realised that i´m a Maker through and through. Creativity is in my Veins and i get excited about everything! Leahterwork, 3D printing, Metalworking and so on! i want to learn all the Skills! Build up my own arsenal! Problemsolving can be frustrating but also be quite fun, because it requires you to think out of the box. Thank you Adam!

[@donnysabel23]

I wanted to tell a whole story about myself in reaction to this magnificent speech to explain why this means so much to me . Just want to say Thanks Adam . We love you 💙

[@winterlighthome]

Thank you, Adam. From the bottom of my heart.

[@MarkChuCarroll]

Thank you Adam. You. made me cry - out of both sadness and joy. I was also that kid. The out-of-control hyperactive, lonely kid, abused and excluded by his peers. That kid who, hiding from the misery of his loneliness hid in the basement, where I had a little workshop where I made model airplanes and cars and robots and *anything* I could figure out how to make from the materials I had. That making is what kept me alive and sane until I could grow up and figure out who I was. Now I'm the same age as you. (And I live in Dobbs Ferry, right down the road from where you grew up in Tarrytown!) I'm a successful software engineer - I make software tools to help other people build things with computers. I'm married to a wonderful woman, I've got two great kids, I've got a job that I love doing, with people who both like and respect me. But at the same time, I'm still that kid. I'm still fighting the social anxiety that grew out of those years of misery and abuse. But they're part of why I am who I am. They're part of why I've become a mentor to many of my coworkers, why I've written a blog and a book, and why I keep making things. Making saved my life. And you put what I feel into words in such a beautiful, powerful, compelling way. Thank you. -Mark Chu-Carroll

[@ambervanmourik8294]

❤ (Dutchie with bad English sorry) That was so greatly put in to words. For me my full attention at making went from a little kid painting and drawing to going to a study to be a painter and finding myself in the craft of shoemaking and bag making to the point i got a job making orthopedic shoes and almost completed learning every part of it til i mastered almost a of it and running to a wall not being able to learn and getting that pride of learning new skils because i wanted to much from myself. It was so hard to face my fear of failure and starting to search for a new way to express and to put de trauma away in. I just started a little bag brand in the hope to find a new place to learn. As a 28 year old i listen to your story knowing that i have to do so much hard work to learn how the be proud of myself and my younger self. Like a lot of people here your speech really really touched me and thank you for your opening and searing in al the ways you do

[@wiliame]

thanks!!! sertainly gives me a deper understanding for why i shouldnt be scared of "makeing" ... sometimes ur so scared of going in to that "hole" since all the voices may seem overwhelming, but that this helpes you overcome the sad and tramatic better untill the makeing process is more bliss... its good to be reminded of such!! so thank you adam!! thank you!!!

[@padoco73]

Adam is a personal hero of mine for many, many reasons. This is one of them.

[@HeatherRose23]

Wow ... I can so relate to a lot of what you said in this video. Thank you for sharing it! Knowing there are others out there who pour themselves into what they create makes the world feel a bit less lonely.

[@theblaposphere3155]

That was beautiful. I know parts of the kid you were and I definitely lived in that world as a child. I've come accept and embrace the child that still lives in me and enjoying being best most honest version of myself. 💕

[@purplemur]

That was inspiring and beautiful. You are a lovely human. Thank you.

[@darrellbarnes6905]

Truth be known we all have that little girl,boy inside us. Thank you for your honesty it is so refreshing.👍🏼🇦🇺

[@jaredt.murphy8257]

Thank you, Mr. Savage

[@j3tztbassman123]

Hit me right in the feels.

[@k3wfnUTUBE]

Your speech felt like something I could have written myself. I have ❤felt all of the things you mentioned. I, too, was created as an engineer from birth. I cannot think of a single other position that would have fit me any better. My only regret is that Mythbusters did not appear until 50 years after I needed it.

[@jude4896]

Adam, thank you for sharing

[@imrotinom]

Damn you for making me feel my feelings! Beautiful speech.

[@haydnmalyon7690]

Thank you for sharing this, Adam. Your thoughts on expression through making and invention really struck a chord.

[@Utopianx8x]

That was lovely. Thank you

[@tommylugaresi7431]

This hit particularly hard in many good ways. Thank you for sharing this Adam.

[@mookersmookers]

I have no words that can really explain how this made me feel. I'm crying. Thank you so, so much.

[@blakewalker94]

I just love your enthusiasm!

[@CaptJackPal]

Thank you for sharing

[@danherman4081]

Thank goodness for the spiritual gift of empathy! Send some love to that younger self. Yes, be the workbench. Be the room. Barbara Hand Clow, one of my favorite New Thought authors, has a quote in her book "Alchemy Of 9 Dimensions that I thought of during the statement about the cellist. Barbara says "You have existence now, and everything else is a distraction. Ask a cellist where the notes come from, and the cellist will simply keep right on playing".

[@penfold7800]

Excellent talk. 'We are all makers' ...even if its just of our own destinys. We all make something, so we all make a difference, so we are all important to the making of our world.

[@thewingedporpoise]

This was so absolutely moving and feeling, it was beautiful, and it really speaks to what I too have found in creation, in this exploration and existence that people need. But age has certainly made those thoughts in Adam much more wordly and specific than mine could be. The thing about the loneliness spoke to me, it is a very common and painful neurodivergent experience, and especially the thing about hiding your preferences, I did that so much, and I'm so happy now to have people who love me for who I am and love knowing the things I care about. Thank you, Adam Savage, for this and for all the joy and wonder you've brought through my life.

[@hammadrehman4257]

Best video of the year. 🎉

[@funkyblue3166]

Right. In. The. Feels.... Thank you

[@nicholasward5728]

This resonated with me in so many different ways as I'm sure it did for many of your subscribers. Theres a reason we all make and you hit that nail on the head. Thank you Adam for sharing your stories and vulnerabilities, as well as your love of life and the craft. You help me (and I'm sure many others) feel more comfortable embracing who we are!

[@elsagerster2369]

Learning to love the youngest version of yourself takes time, but how can the grown up version of ourselves do anything *but* love their childhood self? That kid had no idea what they were doing but they did it anyway. The earliest foundations of toy bricks allowed us to pave our own road to where we each are today, so we have to hug that crazy little kid and thank them for being the most authentic version they could be.

[@nicholasmeiboom5761]

Strange to hear Adam to talk about his and for it to be such a close reflection on my own experiences. This talk was beautiful. Thank you Adam.

[@eddykoekoek1782]

Beautifull speech, seems i wasn't the only kid who was a geek playing with Star Wars toys and lego building my world, thanks. ❤

[@mattboston74]

Absolutely loved this!!!

[@mtwhitley]

Amen brother!

[@almightytreegod]

This is amazing. As a musician that is not at all into most pop music, rock the fuck on with your poppy self, my friend! No judgement from anyone that matters.

[@paulbyerlee2529]

Your not alone anymore Adam. Your the most popular guy in the room and you are the room. You embody what it is to be a maker, a free thinker and to have an enquiring mind both outwardly and inwardly.

[@MetalRenard]

Thank you for those words.

[@NitaKerns]

While I was a pretty average kid with a bunch of friends at school, I grew up in a very rural area and was often by myself after school and on weekends. Im grateful for that time, as I've learned how to be by myself and not go nuts 😂. I was able to let my imagination run free, and no one was around to make me feel lame when I was pretending to be an elf hunting orcs or an old witch in the woods, mixing potions. Im also incredibly lucky to have parents who always nutured the maker in me, even when I left behind a mess (Dad, Im sorry for all the hammers I lost lol) 😊

[@eatenbyacow3597]

I like Adam even more now!

[@pRoFlT]

Great reflection on life. Like you said you're not the only one that felt this way.. I too feel like a kindred spirit and probably many others feel the same. Great speech.

[@subtwo2418]

Ah, I enjoyed every second of that, I can totally relate, as a kid not fitting in but had a huge imagination and hunger for creativity in art and crafting things from nothing, to now, nearly 50 years later, I’m a professional illustrator and loving each day creating. Thank you Adam, thanks for being you, an inspiration ❤

[@capttzuzu]

love your show

[@Nathanm7977]

I can totally relate to your childhood. But I was slightly different. I took everything apart to see how it works and then put it back together. Fixing small motors to car motors. Plumbing job needed to be done, I was right there. I was only close to 1 person even though I tried to be with everyone. That feeling of learning helped me grow and deal with being alone. Making little antennas from coke cans, ibuilt things in my head, learned by watching. Even today sitting at my work table it gives me comfort

[@leemarsh3569]

Many similarities from my own childhood. What’s great now is to pass on my maker skills to my young son and share the joy of making with him. Thanks Tested 😊

[@CyanTiger]

You are saying the things I could not and your truths match some of my own. TBH, we cried a little bit during your video. For me I just turned 43 this month and I am struggling with a hole host of both old and new challenges. Your words are inspiring and I too was and still am that awkward kid who loves repairing and making things. Thank you for sharing this and for all that you do.

[@mikaschwarzer1977]

I needed to hear that today, thank you

[@natemcgraw4220]

Adam, I watch all the videos but this one brought me to tears. You've said so much that rings so true. You are an idol to so many and such an amazing person.

[@lanesweaney7223]

Beautifully worded and spoken!

[@Buster-Sharp]

That was so f***ing beautiful, bravo!

[@richardlanglois172]

Thank you for so eloquently expressing... ALL of that.

[@variouscheeses]

Thank you for sharing this inspiring and insightful speech and the personal stories.

[@jamesmcnulty3035]

Thank you.

[@iryssteel]

I know you should never diagnose others but hearing Adam talk about his experiences as a youth helps me process the, maybe not repressed but hidden, Autism of my youth that had a similar reaction from my peers. Knowing that is not a solitary experience is comforting. acknowledging the differences and standing by them whole sale is so empowering. (obviously 'Tism is a spectrum and I'm not saying Adam is necessarily on that. Just the parallels are reassuring)

[@heatherreading2369]

Thank you. I was a kid like you. I remember loving to play with Lincoln logs and making "robots" out of Tinker toys. Also, I don't remember it but, my dad has told me that I could count in hexadecimal when I was 2 years old. I fell in love with books and words and can even remember the first book I read and one of the words I didn't get the first time through (it was ear btw). I have always loved problem solving. I have had many interests/hobbies so far (48 yo) in my life. Currently I am a poet, jewelry maker/designer, cook, and 1/2 of a really good build team in minecraft with a friend. In any case, sorry for the info dump and thank you for this video/sermon. It has helped clean some of the gunk off the (figurative) rear view mirror and the front windshield of some of my thinking.