Juggling for Jesus with Jesse Joyner

Jesse Joiner is a variety performer and he uses his gift of juggling, amongst others, to bring others into a deeper relationship with Jesus.

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Jesse Joyner: So here we are today's show. I am so glad to welcome into the podcast, my friend. We went to seminary together. Jesse Joiner Jesse. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you, Andy is so good to be here.

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Andy Miller III: Well, it's good to see you again. I don't know if we've seen each other since we were in Wilmore, Kentucky. But I've seen you online. And here's part of why I've seen you online.

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Andy Miller III: My daughter this summer went to Summer camp, and Jesse is a variety performer as a part of his ministry and calling. He is a juggler, and amongst other things that he does as well. But he's no just average juggler who's just going around as a variety of performer. He's a juggler, juggler, scholar as he just complete his Phd. In the last year or so, looking at the vocational direction that people have as variety performers. So, Jesse, this is a high

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Andy Miller III: on top of that. He's also an adjunct professor at a cent seminary, so he teaches um on youth, discipleship, and New Testament courses. There, suggested man. It is really a treat to have you done a lot since we last saw each of it.

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Jesse Joyner: I haven't used. Well, yeah, it's It's exciting to to see your base again. You age. Well, you you look very similar to you twenty years ago. Well, the the gray hair in my beer. It doesn't make me feel that way. But there you go.

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Jesse Joyner: You, too, you, too, Jessie.

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Jesse Joyner: I'm interested now. I knew like. I remember being in Seminary, and I remember seeing you juggle there, and I knew you were serving a youth ministry that have been your church. I think that. And I remember knowing that that was your passion. And there were things about your life that stood out to me like you were one of the first people I saw like even in seminary practicing a Sabbath like I was. I always knew there was something to think about you. But tell me, did you, immediately after seminary go into juggling, or in a variety of performing?

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Jesse Joyner: I did it. It's funny just hearing you kind of talk about that historical trajectory for my life. It it was something I was like. I was interested in jumping. That is, as early as middle school like I was okay to do it as an eleven-year-old when my friend could do it. So I wanted to learn what my friend could do, and uh and it stuck, and I practiced, and I got better, and it it was one of those hobbies that just grew in Red Room because I was so

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Jesse Joyner: fascinated by juggling in particular, and I eventually learned how to perform it, and and I didn't know that it

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Jesse Joyner: twenty, thirty years into the future of my life. I was still going to be doing it, but

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Jesse Joyner: and and that that just happened to be the Catholic, or it took me down that not much has changed

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Jesse Joyner: of the things that I am that I enjoy, and that i'm passionate about ever since I was eleven, twelve years old, and and for that i'm very grateful. Um. But But yes, that has. That has been the main thing I have been doing since coming right out of Seminary Back with you back in. I graduated from Asbury.

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Andy Miller III: Yeah,

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Jesse Joyner: and I was. I was at one of those That's ah, that's a crossroads point for a lot of center and graduates, you know. You graduate, and you figure well. I followed this because I felt call to ministry and and you that now it's like, What what do I do with this? Where do I go next? And so I was at that crossroads. Like many others,

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Jesse Joyner: I I applied to a few churches to maybe work on staff at a church, and I

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Jesse Joyner: I was interviewing with a church in Cairo, Egypt, and in rural Illinois I mean. I was because I was interested in children's ministry. So a lot of churches then, and now are still. They're always looking for children.

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Jesse Joyner: It's a big need out there. Um! So I I considered that path, but I also had this door open where I had met someone at a Children's Ministry Conference, who who basically

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Jesse Joyner: you know books, entertainers at Christian outreach events, and It's an organization called for his kids,

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Jesse Joyner: and they have a roster of entertainers who are Christians, who many of us have a

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Jesse Joyner: some sort of a message or an evangelistic, you know, vent to the content of our entertaining. So you have magicians and jugglers and clowns whatever doing an act, but at the same time. It's, maybe at an evangelistic event

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Jesse Joyner: that the act is done in a way that tells the story of the Gospel, or it tells a story from the Bible it doesn't have to be. I don't think good good art or good performing has to have

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Jesse Joyner: a particular Biblical message explicitly, and that's all other discussion. But there's a lot of events that is their focus. And I had put together by that time in my life a program of a juggling show that

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Jesse Joyner: walked through the story of the Gospel, using the juggling as object lessons and object illustrations, and found out that a lot of people, a lot of churches were very interested in seeing what that was, and you know, using it as an opportunity to reach out to their community.

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Jesse Joyner: So yeah, all that to say that when I met for his kids at this conference that was another door that I was praying about like, is this is this: But you know an avenue or follow, and by the time I graduated I I felt the Lord leading me in that direction. And so I said I, and it was a leap of faith, as you say. Well, okay, I want to take this this path of being under. Ah, someone who entertains that events, for

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Jesse Joyner: you know one time events. You're essentially you're kind of like you're. You're self-employed there's no guarantees. There's no, you're not employed by anyone it's. It's. More of a independent thing, and you have to do Your everything is on faith that it's all going to work out.

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Jesse Joyner: So I took that leap of faith. I felt like God was leading me in that direction, and they sent me to a church in Florida

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and some vacation Bible school, I think, in the summer, and I and I did some messages for the kids, and I did my juggling act, and it was,

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Jesse Joyner: I think, well received, and I enjoyed it, and that was that that was the beginning of my relationship with for his kids like, I guess I guess the the feedback from that church was, You know,

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Jesse Joyner: this guy's not a terrible that works. So they they kept voting me at other events, and it just grew where I started, being able to speak at many week long summer camps serving as they can't pass through a week.

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Jesse Joyner: That was exciting because it's not. It's not just a one, and done try it. I get to spend a whole week with the campers and teach through the Bible or the theme of the week. Teach them memory versus and i'm all along the way. I'm using juggling and other kinds of tricks to engage the

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Jesse Joyner: the kids, and that's the language they speak. You know they speak the language of fun. So it's a way to interact with people.

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Jesse Joyner: Okay, let me stop you. I want to come by now. So okay, you speak the language of fun.

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Jesse Joyner: That sounds like something you've thought of. You've thought through what that means. Yeah, Like when you engage Kit. And this might be helpful for anybody

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Jesse Joyner: working with kids, any any type of youth, and you know, honestly like adults, right? But by the language of fun,

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah. So

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Jesse Joyner: mean we've all been kids before we, you know if you're walking on this earth. Most of us remember. I know that you know many people have

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Jesse Joyner: hard childhoods, you know traumatic events in their childhood.

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Jesse Joyner: Even even so, I think we all still eat,

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Jesse Joyner: whether you had a great childhood or not.

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Jesse Joyner: We all understand that, being a child, there's something about that time of our lives. That is, there's something fun about it, or something amazing about it. And even if your whole world as a child was not fun, there's still a hope There, I think there's still a dream that yeah, yeah, that that something out there is better.

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah, yeah, that maybe what i'm experiencing right now in my life. You know a lot of these kids that come to camp. They're they're They're coming from very difficult, you know. Maybe home life, situations and and things going on in their lives and in their worlds. So

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Jesse Joyner: you know, juggling or something fun. It helps kind of bring hope. It helps open up their eyes to something that can maybe distract them from.

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah, whether it be the mundane or the dark that that's around them in their lives like juggling, and other things can bring joy. They can bring bite, they can bring fun. And as children.

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Yeah, Again, we, I think we all understand the language of fun as children. Jesus saw it, too, when He,

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Jesse Joyner: the disciples, wanted to shoot the children away.

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah, when when the people were bringing children in Jesus. And he said, Now let the little children come to me.

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Jesse Joyner: But there's It's the kingdom of them, you know. So there's something about that like kind of like the argument from desire that authors attributed to Cs. Lewis that we we long for something else. And yeah, we we want that type of joy. And if that's in us like that's meant to be fulfilled if it's not fulfilled

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Jesse Joyner: absolutely. And I think I think kids might have that a little stronger than us, and that's why Jesus told us to have faith like them. There, there's something about them that that has more faith and more hope that than us adults. We've kind of

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Jesse Joyner: it's worn off a little bit in our lives, and so we need to keep looking back to the children to to learn what it means to have fun to have hope, have faith and those kinds of things.

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah.

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Andy Miller III: Now I I had an opportunity to look at your doctoral dissertation, and I found it fascinating, and I didn't this isn't one of the quotes that I copied and paste for my own notes for this. But

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Jesse Joyner: you quoted somebody who talked about the the reality of like sometimes in performers, and this might have been a section like I was talking about the philosophy behind circus arts in, but that it pushes to danger and darkness.

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Jesse Joyner: You just brought up darkness when you, when I asked you, come to expound on that, and I thought that was interesting. But there, there's something like that. As kids enter into this language of fun, it also includes the reality of a world that might not always work out. Do you know what i'm talking about when I was to talk about

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Jesse Joyner: So So So if you study like circus historians and people who studied circus. One of the primary definitions of circus out there is. It includes an element of either, you know, danger or risk of life, and

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Jesse Joyner: like. That's what That's what makes the circus the circus. And if you think about it, I think about all the certain shows, maybe you've ever seen or heard about or seen on Tv.

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Jesse Joyner: It's it's the lion tamers, the tyro walkers, the the people that ride, the motorcycles in the big sphere. It's the acrobats. It's people that are flipping through the air, and if they if they fall they can die. I mean it's it. It really is. The circus really is. People risking their life for the entertainment of other people.

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Jesse Joyner: That's what makes the circus. There's really nothing else out there in the world That kind of defines itself by those terms. And here's again Why, I think there's a connection to children here.

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Jesse Joyner: Yes, okay, children, their Their their bodies are growing up. They're clumsy. They're still learning how to little children are still learning how to walk. You know they're learning how to keep their balance. They're learning how to

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Jesse Joyner: being agile and coordinating with their hands and with their legs and with their their eyes and their ears. They're still as children that even as adults were clumsy. Still, too like we're all still learning. But but again, kids are really, you know, they struggle daily with

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Jesse Joyner: those developmental things and the circus. It gives you two things. The circus gives children and adults these two things It shows you, these people with seemingly superhero powers, right like a tightrope, or even juggling seven rings, or whatever these look like superhero powers in it. In some way it sparks

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Jesse Joyner: it's sparked some sort of hope, I believe Amen,

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Jesse Joyner: that there is something better out there that there is that you can do the impossible. You know. It kind of shows you that

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Jesse Joyner: that's on one side of the coin, the other side of the coin are the clowns. When the clowns come in during the circus they come in between the acts of superhuman feats.

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Jesse Joyner: You, the lion tamer, you have the lion tamer do an act. And i'm saying, that's kind of old-fashioned to say, Yeah, yeah,

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it highlights the danger

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Jesse Joyner: right? Yeah, reality is just in the past we'd use the animals. The circuses are thankfully you're moving away from the the

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Jesse Joyner: you know exploitation. That's a whole other discussion, too. I like, I think that was the the decline of Railing brothers and the increase of searches Delay one of the big. They're very interesting. Yes, the animals sick like ringling focus. So it's It's a It doesn't Use it.

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah,

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Jesse Joyner: they'll do an act very next thing clowns come out and the clowns will will walk on A. You know Don't pretend to be a type of walker, and they'll stand on something That's two inches tall, and you know a foot wide, and they'll do this, and then they'll tip over and fall like to pretend that they just can't do it.

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Jesse Joyner: And what that does is it? It brings relief to the audience and the children especially. It brings relief to the audience to say, Oh,

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Jesse Joyner: there's someone who relates to me in this show, and that's the clown. The clown relates to me because the clown, I can't do it, but neither can the clown and and that's funny you know like, because, like the the clown is self-deprecating. The clown is Ah, could I say incarnational

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Jesse Joyner: right like the cl the clown is connecting to the ah, you know a child in a and the the audience-membered, powerful way, and and to to extend on that idea of incarnational I mean

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Jesse Joyner: like Jesus What Jesus did Was was foolishness like dying on him dying on the cross. That was foolishness to those. It was weakness to what? To the Greek, and it was foolishness to the Jews right, because they were looking for. They were looking for some wise philosopher or some superhero,

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Jesse Joyner: you know, to save the day from their own. But what Jesus did Dynamic cross was both foolishness and weakness in the eyes of the

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Jesse Joyner: right. You know. Paul. Paul says it himself, but

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Jesse Joyner: that is like the strength of God. It's like as so. So what Jesus did was very much, I believe, like a boss clown.

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Jesse Joyner: Ah, I can say it that way. Yeah, interesting. Yeah, I love this, and you and I both, I think, had ah significant. We were in the same class, but we were both influenced by Ellsworth, callous, and for me, like I'm just in now, in part because I teach preaching. I think about it more.

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Andy Miller III: But he was so insistent on there being a storyline

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Jesse Joyner: pension and release, and of course, for him. He wants all that to be seen in the title of the sermon that governs no idea right and done without notes, too. That's another story. But nevertheless, like there's this. There's this direction within

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Jesse Joyner: the plot like there has to be. A plot implies this direction, and I would have never until this minute thought about the circus demonstrating those contours.

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Jesse Joyner: Now what is it? Um, when you think about the way that that it gets expressed in your act now, So you're not. You're not a full circus. You don't have a

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Jesse Joyner: yeah. Ah, you're not a lion tamer and a clown, but as A, and I know you do more than just juggle. But tell me about that like how that works. Its way out in your particular gifting or your

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah, that's actually a really good question. And I have. I have tried to

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Jesse Joyner: navigate that as a one-man show over the years and in it I think it's taken a few turns here and there, even as I've grown and learned, and develops this whole narrative piece of storytelling and the performing arts. So

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Jesse Joyner: I do a little bit of both in my own show, like I do a little bit of both the if you want to call it showing off, you know it's there's a famous juggler in the book called The Art of Showing Off. You know It's like, I think it's Dan Boltzmann, if I want to give it to you,

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Jesse Joyner: but it's the um.

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Jesse Joyner: There's parts of my show where I am demonstrating the juggling skills that I have, so so i'll jump on the shades, or i'll balance the sixty, five or i'll I'll juggle chainsaws, you know, like all my kids are all juggle six items, six rings, and those are. Those are thrilling, and they're fun to do.

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Jesse Joyner: But intermittently i'll take the audience on a journey where i'll either either pretend like I can't do it, you know, and especially if there's little kids in the crowd, you know, if you after or fall or stumble of yourself in an attempt to do this amazing feat.

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Jesse Joyner: Um, that's really. That's where you get laps. And And honestly, the connection they feel human, you know, like they feel like i'm a few minutes, and we're all okay, You know we're we're kind of together in this.

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Jesse Joyner: And so so I do both like I do both like successful. You know, feats of juggling, but I also do parts where I'm. Kind of pretending to mess up so that, and it helps them. Relate to me now the benefit that is performer is that

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Jesse Joyner: I can legitimately mess up or drop, which happens sometimes.

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah. And uh, it's been.

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Jesse Joyner: Sometimes the audio keeps the audience guessing like, Did he mean to do that, or didn't ride, and I just try to let them, you know as a performer I can just let me guess, you know, like. Maybe I did. Maybe I didn't. And other times like, when I drop i'll just look at the audience and and i'll say, well,

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Jesse Joyner: yeah,

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Jesse Joyner: you can't boo me because you can't do it.

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Jesse Joyner: Um,

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Jesse Joyner: It's okay. I would have some like juggling questions I want to ask at some point, but going back to if I remember you having like pollen, I remember sitting in the library. This is totally dating both of us here. So excuse me, but you know we got good, solid Internet at the library.

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Jesse Joyner: Oh, yeah. So like we would sit. We often like be sitting there together. And I remember you pulling out, Yeah. So I juggle. I just one of things I do in that. Yeah. But you I don't like, How do you move to how you move on a place of

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Jesse Joyner: kind of like in the juggle in high school and college seminary, to being able to do a full show. When did you make that pivot to being able to, because you had that in your back pocket when you got with for his kids. I'm curious about that. How do you make that transition.

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Jesse Joyner: Okay, So I I do have to give credit to like the church environment which I was raised. It was.

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Jesse Joyner: It was a church environment that was heavy on the fine arts. Okay, the things like music and choir and the performing arts. They were all kind of held up as a as a way to worship. You know, like we we worship God. You know that the the arts is one way in which we simply reflect God's glory back to Him as image bears. And yeah, he is expressing,

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Jesse Joyner: You know, truth, beauty, and goodness through music, art, drama, and juggling, whatever it might be, whatever guests and talents that we have all been handed.

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Jesse Joyner: So it was a church that encouraged that, and and taught that, and acted it out. So it was. It was a larger church that I grew up in, and so it would put on like a big ah Easter production every year, like like a dramatization of first century. You know Jerusalem, and and that the Easter story, and the same thing at Christmas time. It's a playoff, and it to be with like live camels and flying angels with the harnesses from the ceiling. All that stuff and it was. It was like big production number kind of stuff where they had. They had a big bi,

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Jesse Joyner: I was inquire all through school myself, and traveled with choirs and um Music was a big part of my life. So, playing piano, singing, I was in a barber shop for Ted with this kid, and I. We traveled with competitions. It was ah being on stage was just something. I was all I grew up on stage. I guess I could say,

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Jesse Joyner: okay. My parents always saw that in me, too. My parents always said that I never knew a stranger. I was just the out that you're comfortable on stage, and you.

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Jesse Joyner: Meanwhile, while i'm living this church life of ah performing arts, I'm. Also living in a parallel life of learning how to juggle and going to juggling festivals like, okay, not not Christian beam or anything. This is like the the the greater wire world of

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Jesse Joyner: hundreds to thousands of jugglers, whatever whatever number of people show up. But they have in different cities around the country each year, and that's for some of the best chillers in North America. And now the world will converge, and you you meet one another, and they have competitions and workshops and

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Jesse Joyner: um, and it, you know, met a lot. I made a lot of friends that that I still have to this day, and it's at those conventions that I really learned like. I guess you could say the art of performing the skill of juggling like you. Can. You can have the skill of juggling. Anyone can can read the juggling for the complete Clutt's book, you know, or you know, these these mass-produced juggling books up there,

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Jesse Joyner: or watching on Youtube. You can you can learn how to juggle. That's one thing, but it's a whole other thing to learn how to how to be a performer of juggling. And okay what it means to to carry an audience through a forty five minute. Act all by your side of

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Jesse Joyner: whatever it is, whatever your personality is as a performer, whether it's humor or you know, virtuoso skill sets, or a little bit of both. You know you kind of

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Jesse Joyner: jugglers and other related um. You know variety performers. We have to write our own stuff usually, and put together our own content and create, you know, out of nothing something that is of enjoyable service to audiences, and you just find that sometimes, by trial and error,

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Jesse Joyner: and and being in the community of people that do it. So it was that, being around that community. People did it that I got to learn and see others how to do it, but also, and I learned this in my dissertation when I interviewed other variety performers to grow in this kind of location. One

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Jesse Joyner: at the beginning especially, just show up and do as many shows as you can, for whoever will have you for however much pay, even if nothing you know that's how most of us get our start is, I think a lot of musicians are like that, too. You just you show up at any bar or a restaurant that has, you know people sitting in the chairs.

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Jesse Joyner: You perform your acts, and you do it for the love of the act. At first you know that it grows and develop as a performer, and eventually hopefully, if you're passionate about it. Enough that it's recall you'll get good enough that people will start inviting you.

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah, or what do you? What have you worked on and like? What? What? Yeah, I'm: curious. Can you mention like the chainsaws?

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Jesse Joyner: I was about to say, the chain size. That's usually the first thing on people's minds when they find out. I'm i'm a juggler. They usually ask me two questions like if a stranger meets me on a plane or something, you know. But how'd you get into that? And can you trouble chase us? And

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Jesse Joyner: And especially, I think, back in the eighty S. He was real big. He would do the the performing on ice, you know, like an ice skater, and he would juggle, and he would do fire, and he would do chain size. He was, I think, he was one of the ones that popularized the the

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Jesse Joyner: What do you? What do you call it? The um,

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Jesse Joyner: There may have been others before him. I I have to ask a friend of mine, David Kane. He's a historical, a historian on jugglers, he would know better than me, but from my memory I think Albert Lucas

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Jesse Joyner: popularized the idea of chainsaw jumpers. So ever since then a lot of people when they hear about jugglers. They want to know what the change does. So I would get that question a lot. Years ago it's It actually bothered me that I said no. And whenever people would ask me that, it kind of bothered me like, you know.

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Jesse Joyner: I Jerry, right to them. I added a a dal rod like I screwed a dal rod to them, so I can pull the dal rods.

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah, but but I I didn't Jerry rig it so that they're inoperable. I just made it so I can. You know It's the air, using using the dollar as but the whole chainsaw is still there, and it's on, and the chain is on, and I I can cut, you know a two by four, with all three of them, and then and then trouble them away, and I

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Jesse Joyner: Okay, and then I practiced it with them on, and I would step back out of the way and let him fall on the grass. If I got too scared. But you know I've only lost one finger,

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Jesse Joyner: Do stuff because we love it, and we're passionate about it ends if it brings joy and passion to other people too. Then that's wonderful, and we'll do it for for others, because it's something you can share with the world. So it's interesting as you're saying. You describe that moment where you can see them fly above your head.

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Jesse Joyner: There's something amazing about the reality of our consciousness that is incredibly powerful, while i'm preaching often while words are coming out of my mouth.

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Andy Miller III: and and and other things too, like every now and then that can happen with music. I wish I could say it happened with sports, but it was never really that good and good enough at it, but nevertheless, like there's something about like i'm saying words now, and i'm thinking about how enjoyable this is, or i'm thinking about

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Jesse Joyner: If you just throw things up in the air. That's chaos, right? Yeah, sure. But if you can somehow learn a skill or learn the skill of like throwing them at the right times in a pattern, and catching them and repeating it over and over again. When you learn that skill you are bringing order to chaos, and when you get to do it with your own hands and see it happening in front of you. It is,

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Jesse Joyner: and we we all use juggling as a metaphor in our lives all the time. I hear people say it all the time like jelling their family or their schedule work, or whatever it is, we're all jugglers, and that maybe that's why people also like juggling. Because you're seeing you're seeing a a physical literal manifestation of what we all said deep down inside. In our own lives, in our own world we all feel

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Jesse Joyner: clumsy, and that we can't fight against gravity, and we can't keep everything in order. So when you see a jeller, maybe it is a spark of hope that, like oh, there is hope in the world. It might be possible that my life, could,

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Jesse Joyner: you know, could have more word than the chaos that I feel right now, because i'm watching this corner, and I don't know, Jesse, that is good. It like I love how you bring that in, like even like the idea of the circus, and what draws us to the circus when strong people do circus throughout this century, and then, even with juggling, too, like I haven't thought about it. Why is it? But but that's it like There's there's something to that that connects us to a bigger story. Now, i'm interested to to know what is it? Ah, when you go to these International

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Jesse Joyner: honestly, I forget what the kind of record is. I think it's close to twelve or thirteen, you know, in terms of like either either what's called a flash or a jungle. A flash is when you just get you. You throw them all up, and you catch them in order. It's it's, it's it's one rotation of a pattern a junk is. You can get all those objects in, you know, through the pattern twice, so that that would be like juggling twelve balls for twenty catches.

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Jesse Joyner: Yes, but then you also have like um like artistic juggling. So you have this. It's kind of like performance juggling. They're not so worried about the the skills of like how many objects you can juggle, but they're more worried about like the visual,

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Jesse Joyner: the visual presentation of So if you see some of this, it almost looks like ballet or the art of movement with objects, and they might only have one or two objects, maybe three, but they're rolling rolling pins around their arms,

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Jesse Joyner: flopping the mind back in it. Then it it looks very. It's more like a dance with the objects, and some people call it flow movements, and they'll use other things that flow and move, and

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Jesse Joyner: Well, yeah, I mean, i'm actually not a very good contact triller. But it's It's where you rolled a ball, And if if anyone saw the uh, the movie, the like, they they have him, like, you know, roll rolling the balls through his hands like this. It's actually not him. It's another. It's a famous job.

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah. Okay. So i'm interested as you're able to work through this with you, you've developed this skill. You've been picked up. You're working with for his kids. Then, you know, this becomes your

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Jesse Joyner: the the means for providing for your family. You and your wife have three kids. This is this Isn't just like making money in the summertime. Talk to you of this like becoming what you what you do.

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Jesse Joyner: They're the ones who funded um the great artists like Michelangelo. And okay, maybe not dimensional. But you know the Sistine Chapel. And yeah, the you know Michelangelo's, you know, carvings and yeah, not carving sculptures. You know of

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Jesse Joyner: And I did that for about four years, and um, and i'm so glad I started out that way because I think it helped me. It helped me for the rest of my vocational career up to this point. Still kind of view, what I do is like.

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Jesse Joyner: I got to the point where my campus pastor at Taylor University. He saw what I was doing, and he was like you need to charge people for like like Don't. Just get yourself away for free and um, and and that really, that really kind of stretched me because I I almost felt like that. I felt bash or taking money, for you know, for what I was doing. And but but again over the years, especially because it's an art that I believe

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Andy Miller III: in a year of not being in a local church pastor. I've preached more than I did in the local church, and so I've had. People have asked me, and I've had to develop a cost, and I have that first a fee,

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Jesse Joyner: Money is everywhere, but it's not everything. It's it's not the main thing. It's not the driving course of what we do, but it's still everywhere, because it's how it's how we operate on this earth. It's, how we exchange it's how we barter it's how we

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Jesse Joyner: And then, finally, the oblation. That's It's an old-fashioned word. That means a sacrificial offering. So um and it was, and and that came straight out of yeah social science, Um Abraham Maslow, the the hierarchy of that hierarchy, needs. So

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Jesse Joyner: their their work was something that they poured out on an altar of of sacrifice unto the Lord. You know unto a deity, because that it's oblation is a religious term. It's used in the project of of making a sacrificial offering to a Deity. So whatever religion you're in it, they can apply a different religion. Religion term is. It's very broad. So

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Jesse Joyner: But what we do is our even the work of our hands. It's it's it's hard, it's toilsome, we sweat by it. It can be difficult, you know. It's not all fun and games all the time, even even jugglers and circumstances. It can be tough.

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Andy Miller III: and you know when that's happening, you know, when you're giving that type of offerance the best of your skill set. I imagine I could come to your show, and I might not know it when you're not a sharp. But you do.

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah, yeah, Maybe I could. I mean, I guess you could drop people. But that's the thing that there there is an old saying about travellers that, like, you know we are. We are one of the types of jobs where we do mess up. Everybody sees right.

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah, it's. It's like like referees or umpires and sports right like they. They're invisible if they're doing everything right. But once they mess up, it's very, very visible, and so jugglers are like that to read our hell to a very high standard, and with our with our claims of being able to double things.

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Jesse Joyner: your transitions like when you well, I don't know what would make it hard. But there are things about in any art form in that. This, you know, if you think of sports as an art. Um, but as as teaching as an art. So I know when i'm when i'm in the right zone. And i'm thinking when i'm doing the right, like

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Jesse Joyner: So so and you gotta. You gotta balance things like that you want to be gracious and kind and thankful, but you also at the end of the day. Sometimes you have to like, shut the door and say, i'm so sorry. I gotta go now, you know, like I I have to wake up early and catch another play uh it. Most people understand. But um, you know.

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Jesse Joyner: I try. I try not to be. Ah, you know I try not to be picky. I try to. You know I I do have a writer, but I I try to just keep it to the the necessary items that just help help the show go Well, and the yeah, well, and that's what I want. I want each of that to be a

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah. A comedian. And talking about the importance of some of those functional things that need to be in place like you might not need this, or maybe you like it. But having a spotlight for a comedian, there's something about the way they direct. The audience's attention to them.

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Jesse Joyner: So one of the things I do like to find. My podcast is called Morda's story, and I often ask that question so well. Is there more to the story of Jesse juggling in ministry.

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Jesse Joyner: I like bird watching. Okay, I like going on hikes with my family. We like to explore the national parks

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Jesse Joyner: parks across the country. Which ones have you been to recently so like? During Covid. We made it out to Grand Canyon and Zion. And okay. Ah, you know Shenandoah National Park here in Virginia. We've been to Crater Lake out in Oregon, and not just the national parks, but also National Forests and um, you know, natural conservation areas like so

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Jesse Joyner: You don't need a passport to see the world. It's it's a it's a beautiful, but we have so much, you know, here in this in this nation, and I guess as a traveler, I do.

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Jesse Joyner: Yes, I love it. Yeah, it Once you get the bug, it it's like you want to just check off a whole list or something. I I would love to make it to the mask and make it so. You know the the many works that are up there. Um, but that's a baseball cards behind you, too. I was gonna get to that. I I also collect baseball cards. My um, you know Cat Calendar, Jr. Is my man. Oh, there you go.

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Jesse Joyner: You know two-time, the Mvp World Series Champion, one thousand nine hundred and eighty, three, and the iron man you know who played more Yeah, the games than any other player. He wrote for your records. So he's. You know he's your best card.

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Jesse Joyner: That's where cards have gone now is towards like giving pieces of jerseys and autographs. My friend, he's a listener to this podcast sometimes is Jonathan Fitzgerald.

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Jesse Joyner: Interesting. Well, I have a Ryan Sandburg rookie card. That was my that's my player. That's my and I have a Walter Payton a second year card. I did. I did sell them. In my last move. I used to have so many. I sold a lot of them, but I kept kept a few of my favorites.

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Jesse Joyner: Yes. Tell some people how they can find you if they want to book you, or just find out more about what you're doing.

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah. Should I get my home address and my social security number? They want to, I think social security for me.

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah. Um,

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Jesse Joyner: Okay. So the the best place to start is my website, which is Jesse Joiner, dot com, and and it's uh there's no I in my name. It's J. E. Ss, E. J. O. Y. N. E. R.

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Jesse Joyner: Some people put an eye in my name. That's that's usually how a female Jesse spells her name so like male Jesse's are usually. J.

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Jesse Joyner: If you're wondering we we have three kids. One, our third is a boy, and we named him David. So he's. Okay, David, son of Jesse. Oh, there you go. You like that. I love it. Yeah. So,

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Jesse Joyner: anyway, very difficult. But Jesse joined her com, and from there you can link to my Youtube Channel. It's Jesse Joiner on Youtube, and I've got how to trouble videos.

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Jesse Joyner: Highlight reels from my shows that kind of stuff. If If anyone's interested. Um, Yeah, I hope they will be. The Facebook is guide. What are all that stuff? I'm. I'm not on tik tok or Snapchat. I can't keep up with all the newest figures of this. You know what I think it

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Jesse Joyner: it's, you know, for jugglers for me personally in my age it's just kind of just find your art and go do it Well, you know you don't. You don't need that.

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Jesse Joyner: You don't need tiktok to make yourself famous. At least not that i'm not interested in it so much. I just want to juggle.

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Jesse Joyner: Yeah. Oh, man, I love it. Well, i'm so thankful, Jesse, for the way you know God has taken this gift that you have, and you're using it for the kingdom to tell this bigger story. And, like I just I love. This is kind of the idea of the podcast is to get a little bit deeper, but you know, have more to the story behind what's going on juggling, so it's It's great for me, too, just to connect with you again. I hope we can do more in the future.

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Jesse Joyner: This has been fun.