This Guy Could’ve Been a Country Music STAR! Here’s what changed…| Ben Fuller
The 9941 Podcast
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🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
This week singer-songwriter Ben Fuller shares his powerful journey from a broken upbringing in Vermont to finding redemption in Jesus Christ. Raised on a dairy farm without faith, Ben turns to alcohol and drugs to cope with deep emotional wounds. After losing his best friend to an overdose, he pursues music and moves to Nashville, where early success at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge deepens his struggles. Everything changes when a family invites him to church, leading to a radical encounter with Jesus in 2019. Ben is baptized and immediately leaves behind his addictions and old lifestyle. Since then, his music and life center on proclaiming the Gospel. He tours with major Christian artists, finds accountability through a Christ-centered community, and commits to regular Bible reading and prayer. In their conversation, Granger encourages Ben to stay rooted in Scripture, reminding him that storms will come but Christ remains steady. Ben now lives with the simple prayer: "Here I am, Lord. Send me," faithfully using his voice — and his life — to point others to Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | is what I just want to see Ben Fuller. I have been just trying to get you to stop talking so we can finally record so I can hear what you have to say. Okay. Brother, you, let's go back. You and I started texting not that long ago. Yeah. We've both known of each other, but we started texting, what, three or four weeks ago? |
| 0:21.5 | Yeah. And I was like, you know what? I don't remember how it got to this point, or it's like, man, we just got to get you on the podcast. And when's the next time you're in Texas? And you're like, um, like three weeks. I'm going to have a day off. Yeah. And about an hour from you. |
| 0:38.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.7 | And so I was like, well, man, I know it's difficult, but is there a way to rent a car and drive? |
| 0:47.9 | And you were actually like, actually, I think I want to do that. |
| 0:51.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.6 | It was my pleasure. |
| 0:53.3 | I walked 35 minutes to the rental place this morning and got in the car. |
| 0:58.2 | Where was the rental place? |
| 0:58.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm not a big Uber guy, you know? |
| 1:01.8 | So anyway, I just, it was a lovely day. |
| 1:04.7 | We're in Waco, got a couple days off in Waco, and the weather's perfect. |
| 1:10.0 | Every time I've been in texas it's like |
| 1:11.8 | really hot and so i was really nice right now yeah it's like 50 58 degrees and i was like man i'm |
| 1:18.0 | going to walk so i walked and and uh was able to i was love having church places that i go and |
| 1:24.0 | you know it's like man what do you do for a living you know and it just the door is kicked open and it's like well i sing about And, you know, it's like, man, what do you do for a living, you know? And it just, the door is kicked open. |
| 1:29.0 | And it's like, well, I sing about Jesus, you know. |
| 1:31.3 | And so it's just been really cool. |
| 1:33.7 | Yeah, so I've been having church all morning on the way here. |
| 1:36.2 | You live in, like, the most beautiful country that I've ever seen. |
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