Walking with Jesus Daily: American Chopper’s Paul Teutul, Jr. and Father Mark Keene

Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith

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🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Paul Teutul, Jr. was just 27 years old when American Chopper: Jet Bike premiered on the Discovery Channel, featuring “Paulie” and his father, Paul Sr., That show sparked a full series following the Teutuls and their business, Orange County Choppers, that aired in 2003,. Six years of family ups and downs ensued, culminating in 2009 with Senior firing Junior. Today, Paul Jr. has gone on to start his own very successful business, and has written a book entitled “The Build: Designing My Life of Choppers, Family and Faith.” Paul details the tumultuous time working with his Dad and his difficult home life as a child, and how his faith kept him going during all of it. Father Mark Keene has been the Pastor of the Church of St. Agnes since 1999. He describes how Jesus Calling has been meaningful to his church; a community of believers sharing their daily walk together.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we speak with Paul Tuttle Jr.
0:07.0	Paul was just 27 when American chopper Jet Bike premiered on the Discovery Channel, featuring Paul and his father, Paul Sr.
0:15.8	That show sparked a full series following the Tuttles and their business, Orange County
0:20.0	Choppers that soon followed in 2003. Six years of family ups and downs ensued
0:26.5	culminating in 2009 with Paul Senior firing Paul Jr. Today Paul Jr. has gone on to start his own very successful business and has written
0:36.4	a book entitled The Build, Designing My Life of Choppers, Family and Faith.
0:42.0	Paul details the tumultuous time working with his father. family and
0:44.0	his faith
0:45.0	his father and his difficult home life as a child
0:47.0	and how his faith kept him going in spite of it all.
0:50.0	My name is Paul Tuttle Jr.
0:52.0	I have a company called Paul Junior Designs. We had a TV series called American Chopper that was on Discovery Channel for a decade and essentially what we did was we built bikes for corporations, charities or individuals via the television program.
1:13.8	That was the content for the show.
1:15.3	And we were fortunate enough to do it on a global platform.
1:19.4	I grew up in a little town called Montgomery, New York, which is where I still live currently.
1:25.6	I've been here for almost 43 years now.
1:30.3	We are raised Catholic, and so we would always go to church on Sunday and I think my mother kind of really
1:37.0	championed that for the family.
1:40.0	And then I think once I got into my early teens, we started going to a non-denominational church.
1:51.0	And so from that point on, kind of I think maybe my mother was a little bit more
1:59.9	intent on teaching us, you know, right from wrong and about Christ and what he means to us.
2:08.9	And so she definitely had a big impact on how we viewed God and she was very consistent about it.
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