When No One Could Diagnose Him, Faith and Family Got Him Through
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, Cliff Shiepe was working his dream job on the backlot of Disney when his body began to fail. A series of unexplained fevers sent him from studio sets to his childhood bedroom, where he would spend the next decade bedridden. Doctors couldn’t explain what was happening. Most people would have given up. Cliff didn’t. He leaned on his faith, the unwavering care of his mother, and a quiet hope that healing was still possible. Cliff joins us to share his remarkable story. Cliff's website is CliffFalls.com. Be sure to check it out!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. |
| 0:08.5 | Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? |
| 0:15.1 | Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. |
| 0:18.5 | From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi. |
| 0:23.6 | What difference at this point does it make? |
| 0:26.6 | Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.6 | You know, This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, the show where America is the star and the American people, coming to you from the city where the west begins, Fort Worth, Texas. |
| 0:56.3 | And we love sharing faith stories with you on this show. Send yours to Our American Stories.com. |
| 1:02.7 | Up next is exactly that, a faith story. Here to tell it is the author of Cliff Falls |
| 1:08.8 | and Guidepost magazine contributor, Cliff Schipe. |
| 1:12.8 | We begin our story in Boston. |
| 1:15.6 | Take it away, Cliff. |
| 1:18.5 | We moved to California when I was four. |
| 1:21.6 | We left in a nor'easter. |
| 1:23.4 | We were the last plane out. |
| 1:25.1 | And my dad took me into the restroom. |
| 1:28.8 | We had taken off all our winter coats, the scarfs, the jackets. |
| 1:32.5 | And we put them on the hooks. |
| 1:34.4 | And so when I washed my hands, I turned towards the hooks for my dad to take them down so we could put our winter coats on again. |
| 1:41.8 | And I felt this hand on my shoulder. And my dad said, |
| 1:46.9 | we are never going to need that stuff again. We got on the plane and landed in Southern California |
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