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1% Outlaw Biker Becomes Machine Gun Preacher: Taking on Africa’s Warlords & Saving Thousands of Kids | Sam Childers

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.9606 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Sam Childers shares his journey from a 1% outlaw biker to the infamous Machine Gun Preacher. In this episode, Sam shares his incredible transformation from living a life of crime to taking on Africa’s most elusive warlords and saving thousands of children from dangerous militias. With a Hollywood movie made about his life starring Gerard Butler, Sam's real-life story is filled with action, redemption, and bravery. Get an inside look at the battles he's faced, the lives he's saved, and what it takes to become a true warrior for justice. #SamChilders #MachineGunPreacher #TrueStory #OutlawBiker #AfricaWarlords #ChildRescue #GerardButler #TrueCrime #RedemptionStory #Humanitarian #RescueMission #Warlord #InspirationalStory #LifeTransformation #CrimeToHero Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Connect with Machine Gun Preacher: https://www.machinegunpreacher.org/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/MGP Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Buy Merch: https://lockedinbrand.com Use code lockedin at checkout to get 20% off your order Timestamps: 00:00:00 Sam Childers on Books, Movies, and Documentaries 00:05:33 Embracing Life Without Retirement 00:11:07 Transition from Wealth to Missionary Life 00:16:49 The Stigma Around Motorcycle Clubs 00:22:15 Surviving the Worst Bar Fight: A Turning Point 00:27:50 Legal Struggles and Redemption 00:33:31 First Trip to Africa and Witnessing Atrocities 00:39:54 The Origin of "Machine Gun Preacher" 00:46:28 The Horrors of Child Soldiers and the LRA 00:51:25 Confronting Rebel Groups in Africa 00:57:03 Soldier Encounters and Survival Stories 01:03:08 Building a New American Style Strip Mall 01:09:04 Experiences During the Coney War 01:15:08 The Story Behind the "Never Stopped" Documentary 01:20:36 Facing Family Challenges with Alzheimer's 01:26:01 How Clyde Carter Changed My Life 01:31:57 Angels of East Africa: A Long-Term Mission to Save Children Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sam, machine gun preacher, welcome to Lockton. Thank you to Demons Row. So it's the ghost for making this happen all the way from Africa to be here. I'm glad we made this work and we can sit down with you. I'm telling you. Yeah, really awesome, man. Yeah, and for the audience, he's fired up today. He's ready to lock and load. Yeah. And I want you to plug in, you know, your books, your movies, your documentaries. You're working on a third book now.

0:02.0

Yeah. And I want you to plug in, you know, your books, your movies, your documentaries. Right. You're working on a third book now. Yeah. You have a new documentary that just came out, and I want to plug that in at the top of this. Yeah. I tell you what, for, I always say for a non-educated heelbelly, uh, God really done a lot in my life.

0:40.6

You know, we got to Hollywood movie and stuff, the Machine Gun Preacher.

0:43.2

It's still on Netflix.

0:47.9

It's still on Amazon, Amazon Prime, Hulu, a lot of places. But there's a documentary that's about 10 years old.

0:51.4

And it's still, last year my preacher found out that there was

0:55.5

a hundred and twenty-three thousand downloads and people still buying it and watching it.

1:01.3

That's the old documentary. So I have two books that's out. Another Man's War is one. Living

1:08.3

On the Edge is the second one. The third book is titled The Most

1:13.1

Unlakely. And when you open the third book, it sounds like it's about me because it has my name,

1:20.4

but really it's about you. And when you read the title, the front of the book says the most unlikely, you open it, the most unlikely

1:31.1

never to succeed in life, Sam Childers. But when you read the book, the book is about giving

1:38.1

people opportunities. Like if a man wouldn't have given me an opportunity many, many years ago, I wouldn't be here today.

1:47.6

I'd probably either be in prison or I'd probably be dead, you know, because the lifestyle I was living many years ago, there was only two things for you in that lifestyle.

1:58.9

Death or prison.

2:04.5

Where were you born? My dad was part American Indian. My dad thought unemployment was welfare. So we moved all over the U.S. I was born in

2:14.2

North Dakota. He was working on the missile plants.

2:17.7

My brothers were born in Minnesota.

2:20.9

We ended up here in Pennsylvania.

2:23.9

He was building the coal temples, you know.

2:27.4

So I went to seven different high schools over the U.S., you know.

2:31.7

So we traveled around a lot, you know.

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