EP261: An Aussie Discovers American Wings and Using Welding To Change Lives

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This is when you sell American stories tell stories about everything here on the show including your story. Send them to L stories.com sell American stories.com story is a story from a list of all places, and how he came to fall in love of the food that is uniquely American buffalo wing: victuals 50s old and currently a living strike is on the other side of the country about 4000 km or 2 1/2 thousand miles away from where I grew up. At age 29 technology settle from Warwick holiday in the United Kingdom them away in the London's Kensington where I would between playing cricket land, among others. We mingled with students from and we kind of different tuition on each other's worlds over a few beverages, goals and during this time on my friends so I didn't have any great conviction about where is going to travel to my wiki holiday and so I decided to go to the US and visit some of the friends that I might Warwick and my first stop was James who I met was bicycle Coke at University in a small college town called Hamilton you James lived across the road from Playskool be old pizza pub. My very first not that us died and I traded buffalo wings from day and I've never had them before Moloch infected never even before and I didn't have to do much to convince me to try them and as eyesight was love at first bought those hooked on this new type sensations try to why what I remember most about that first-time experience was the tenderness of the chicken that fell off the fine quiet virtually required no chewing chicken might close the tiny like the sensation that exploded in my math and the Blue Jays did always remember just how smooth and creamy. That wasn't Complemented the wings and enhance the flavor. I see that's where my love with it with Buffalo wings started and continues to the start my most memorable experience. Well as eyesight is nothing like the first time so I think that is not good chimes in his college buddies aiding wings for the first time that Tomas reminds my greatest and most lasting memory but 07 of the strong memory always brings a small device and that's actually an evening spent With some of those cold that unique frames James Jeff Childs and Fran in New York City and not a 92, 22nd birthday and we stumbled upon a place by accident, courts nine squad that evening. I can't recall this was a typical New York City dog dog body up so I most places these wings and legs wings were ranked on a scale according to the degree of this school chilling effect on aimed at the saving at the top of the cyclist was cold should not wings and it was a huge sized wing and my only allowed them to be served one at a time that Lisa saving restriction on my case was a requirement that was applied to the back by the local fire department or at nearby health facility. Common sense would tell you to avoid the sort of danger. But as eyesight Mike growing up and down and I went the final time to Derek Saturday things ferociously wings the closing signs of a rocky movie and down with 102 plot beverages had a few regrets. The next morning and the next afternoon.

By the middle wing I don't like, well, the answer is yes. What about when the wings to serve whole and I haven't been cut up the flex syndrome places and the tips have been cut off and thrown away on this tells me that there is a lazy and unsophisticated method.

Holiday swings that I probably bring precooked and frozen, which means that the flavor is substandard and pretty blamed really. This is generally backed up by rank source wings rather than thinking Blue Jays did mine eyes. I only source wings of the heavily black breadcrumbs are also just the real thing and call me Wingstop if you like, but if they know will think anything of genuine and if they know the real deal in my love, Tom and Kay, then you better off doing a tight spot by the going without. Is there an American food and do I think that food is the butterfly wing. The answer is quite simple. Yes, some people might look at the hotdog and paint takes her in Chicago the end of the day they just hybrids compared to the butterfly wing was born and raised in the US at the back story to have the wing was invented on that famous product not of the anchor bar knotting 64 proves that this right. This is purely American is it originated at the anchor bar originated in Germany or Italy or even a strata was in upstate New York Yankee I got this scene I was standing thought like that evening in a group of his friends arrived with a big appetite and he asked his mother Theresa to prepare something for his friends to wait.

She had some chicken wings which would only preserve in the kitchen of the ankle and she didn't thought them flighted them with a sacred source and of course I became an instant hit and a regular on the menu, I noticed a bottle of the US and throughout the world and a strata now that very and becoming more more popular and even listening to: victuals and he's from Australia. He listens to our show in Australia too. By the way America imports so many fine things around the world are ingenuity in every endeavor including of course food when we come back more with calling battles here on our American stores. If you love the stories we tell about this great country and especially the stories of America's rich past. Know that all of our stories about American history from war, politics, innovation, culture and faith brought to us by the grateful place for students study all the things that are beautiful all the things in life if you can get the Hillsville Hills that will come to you with a free and terrific online courses Hillsville.edu to learn more return to L American stories through an Australian listener show calling battles the story of the buffalo wing and of course this Australians obsession with the early 90s Colin headed back to London from his trip to America and started work back at the builders arms bar in Kensington. Let's pick up the story from their now after my first trip to US are returned to live in London and still have a strong craving for butterfly wings but it was not wing saying in London, inherently not a 90s and so was it lot looking for a needle in a haystack and I had to go without which of course was amazing and I hadn't thought of the idea at that stage of cooking them myself. Anyway, after a period of time, my fellow bartenders and with my science team who is from New Zealand and Patrick believe it or not, from island side. Linda Betty US install bar and restaurant Conte Joe I fraud eyes I thinking: cotton and die. Julie informed me that Teja's served wings. This was a major breakthrough model that I and this you take Joe I fraud eyes became a regular form for me and often drag team and Declan Patrick a long day, and anyone else who wanted to join me in a wing fest that with the best means of it had Teja's, but that was certainly good night since we satisfied my appetite and are often thought about myself Teja's just to get a plate of wings that the age of 24 not that long after returning from living on the sales in London. I decided to going to business myself in a fortnight fish and chip shop. Now this youthful step capitalism was underscored. Five course placing buffalo wings on the menu at North Beach say foods and get my wing drain slot a lot.

Shall we cite, but in a modest way. It was just great to be sitting wings my own business. David was a fish and chip shop now one of the things that happened at that time was my marketing for the buffalo wings included I having a dedicated advertising board them on my Benny Morgan did for me and he was a songwriter and on that advertising board. He drew a picture of a butterfly cross which on site was probably about five dollars for 712 wings with Blue Jays dip customers will be coming to the shop to look at this on and got not butterflies had wings anyway thing education on buffalo wings, and I bought some.

Hopefully these chicken wings out. I went cooking formal peanut oil… Say there was a slot oceanic texture to the final flight and the chicken might also had to be frozen because it was a large number of orders on a daily basis, so had to defrost the chicken first and this meant that took a lot longer to cook field is about 40 minutes so we left Sal's but I just didn't put a runoff behind them and we had some good loyal customers who got into the habit of finding the old is a hate which is what do the fish and chip shop anyway and so I try to try them out to buy buffalo wings and getting used to the slot like ball. It was I was never going to retire on butterfly wings aligned chip shop right experience once I liked my timeline and I tried to follow through on my butterfly wing dream and I did sell them to us dragons for a walk in the light sold the shop after companies. I went to university study theater driver in English and comparative literature and creative writing. Eventually I got into a career in ruling political journalism waking in the camber press gallery for several years. The race wants probably important to talk about how I went from mining the fish and chip shop to going to university and then becoming a journalist because my journalism career as a door to some amazing communities and course part of that is storytelling and the mores and ease is not made to be up to return to the US on a general space or write stories about rule issues and farming issues and political issues and all Monday's trips I was I would visit Bianca by Buffalo New York, with butterfly wings originated now is aware of that fact because it was mentioned in the introduction to that original wing wing recipe from that recipe book that I used in 993 had been tried recipe saves this American classic originated Yankee bar in Buffalo, New York, where it is still a five with locals enters a lot now. Little did I know that one die out end up being one of those sign tourists, some 790s light up visiting that finest bar at 1047 mine straightened off like anyway when I arrived at Bianca. Of course I set the bar and was psyching the atmosphere and take my time eating a great plight of incredible original buffalo wings eventually worked up the courage to ask the bank about his executive chef Ivonne.

I told Scotty if he would agree to do a story for me that our travel from Australia to capture the story of way and have buffalo wings originated. Ivonne is generously great and he took me back into Bianca's kitchen, which is also the engine room of the business and it's where all the magic happens and I asked him some questions and he got me some great answers which oversleeping will rehearse studies.

I would cite and that lab erotic right storied history and origins of this American classic aim to be I would share that with rate is down on the net. Just a quick summary of the story that arrived and what live on.

I told me and he said that the original recipe cooking method used by Therese the same eye on the knot. She invented buffalo wings in 960 full is still being practiced at Bianca Ivonne.

I said that while Teresa didn't expect to wings to become an American legend nightmare rank alongside the hot dog James Dane and Elvis for American icons Titus and if you go to a fancy restaurant or considered by menu you will most likely find buffalo wings. Ivonne also said that Bianca Bassett 2000 pounds is 907 kg of chicken wings every single die and if I miss hot sauce is also exported to Italy, Japan, France and Germany and I also shipped fresh buffalo wings to just about anywhere in the country just like London there was no wind. Find them anywhere. So any way to solve that problem was to stop making them so so I started cooking mine wings at home and lot. Most writing inventions. The evolution of my race was born out of necessity, and it certainly involved a great deal of trial and error. Let's say the focus is on the errors at that time but started off by purchasing a race of people had the recipes for 365 different snacks and appetizers. An obstacle today among the recipes was 1 foot Buffalo chicken wings and another one for Blue Jays dip so this was at the time was a bit like discovering a map to hidden treasure or Golden ticket Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Originally I like this recipe very closely and cook the chicken wings using corn oil, peanut oil, pulling in a pot hated on electric start in an old electric start that now.

Needless to say this somewhat primitive cooking method proved somewhat problematic and that there was some consequences that came with it, such as setting fire to the kitchen and that could on more than one occasion deftly cooking the wings on more than one occasion, resulting in complaints from night was due to smoke inhalation and other catastrophes, including splattering chili salsa melted butter. But I was determined to get the recipe right. However, I left from our mistakes and maintain a steadfast focus on continuous improvement and to spot the misfiled attempts and the curtains eventually found a grievance and into a consistent winemaking at Jason Charles buffalo wings stew cooking buffalo wings and and while I enjoy cooking, wings, family and friends.

Sometimes more time between wing hits now than I used to be my 20s and effect now and probably just as happy having the carrots and celery line and great job on that piece by Monty in a beautiful piece of storytelling by Colin battles and discovered this all this coming from you in the United States when he was a kid when he was a college kid. The next thing you know, this becomes his life's obsession story of the chicken wing and an Aussie listener of our American stories.

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I hope started about 11 years ago up on skid row in Los Angeles skid row is I guess they call it that because this country hit the skids. I guess it's huge here in Los Angeles.

In LA County numbers are as high as 70,000 people a night sleep on the streets. It's really incredible play epidemic. Whatever you want to call it way back in the day when I was younger, and growing up was usually just meant and helps families with women.

It's children you see them sleeping on the sidewalk in a little town they don't have a way to support themselves. Life is somehow going upside down for memory storage different every story he I was a pastor of a local church at the time, been on staff there for a lot of years and our church is doing what a lot of churches do up on skid row coming up there bringing food and blankets and hygiene kits and things like that.

We were working with a pretty famous homeless mission up there call for Jordan mission and that we would go up therein, and do our best to help the homeless. Each time we went up there we go every couple months.

One thing that jumped out at me as I kept seeing the same people say people online. I go up there are still here and too much later still here too much labor still here. Nothing was changing, except the lines and I know we call them homeless. To me they look hopeless is what they look. One day, the matriarch Willie Jordan came up to me and she said pastor Steve. What can we do so that were not feeding the same people all the time so she saw the same problem. I said, gosh, well, yes. I don't know. I think they need. I think any jobs I don't know how you get out of skid row without a job. I said I don't want to tell you about that our church doesn't do job training, but I said pray about it.

So I did. I started praying about it and gosh this is crazy. Think of same.

I have the idea teaching people. Well, I've learned to weld when I was young, way before I became a pastor. I knew that that's something that I could probably teach somebody and they could get a job and it would pay well so I just kept praying in kind almost hoping that ideally go wake. I just somehow the world do what where would we do it. Can you really teach homeless people well cannot even teach people well II know how to well but I've never taught it, but would leave me alone so I finally thought you know what I'm to go back to Willie just give her this crazy idea. She's like 80 and she hated. I think right get my life back so I go and I tell her and she loves the idea and I figure she's can be afraid welding and all that she says are you kidding she says let's will give you a space inside the mission will will select some homeless people for you to start with. Let let's do it. Let's get started.

I thought oh my gosh you know what I got into here, but we did.

We jumped down we started with five homeless man that they picked for us and change their lives and then everybody started hearing about wanting in the program today.

We've had some times where we found as many as 500 people on a waiting list, wanting to get in and it just started growing and growing took off like a rocket.

We we outgrew our space and for Jordan mission in the Los Angeles police department help us get a building two blocks away. It was bigger. Before long we outgrew that and we were just having to say no to too many people and we moved into by God's providing a large building here in the city of Gardena, California, which really increase the number of lives we could come alongside and we started operating out here.

We were doing over 200 students here, but now we match this out and so we got the idea. The idea came into my heart had one day what about doing this mobile. We had all these cities by now that wanted us to come not only cities locally here in Southern California cities all over America calling us after hearing about it.

Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco and I'm thinking because we can't get buildings in all the cities that's too expensive. Even the local cities here that wants to come. I thought about doing training inside big rig a big 18 wheeler doing it inside the trailer to take the trailer were everyone ago keep her main facility here Gardena and II guess that idea came to me because when I was young I was in the race cars raced a lot and sometimes we would prepare our cars inside the trailer we would weld something would break and we will never saw that as being something I would use to help other people and I was pretty self-centered that part of my life anyway and I was in a person of faith. I didn't believe in God.

I just was living for myself and I own personal happiness and my own personal goals and the thought of helping people on skid row would not appeal to me for one second. Back in that part of my life. But then God deeply changed my life took away that self-centeredness and maybe care a lot more about other people than I care about myself and that really turned my heart around for all of the stuff here that were talking about him and to see these lives changed the sea to see people rough and tattooed and looking Romanian and with tears in their eyes as there holding up her diploma having been become a certified welder. I was in a certified welder back when I was doing all the welding the places I worked in requirement. But when I started reading. I hope I thought just for the credibility of our program. Sometimes good people come up to Mingo so wait a minute you're your pastor and your teaching people how to welder you even allowed to do that. You know how to do that. I thought okay I better just go get some credentials to put people's mind at ease.

So I became certified welder myself.

I even went further and became a certified welding educator and a certified welding inspector and then this whole thing does allow us to certify students through our program.

But I didn't want that to appear to be biased at all. So what we do on certification day which is at the end of each class semester I bring in an outside inspector to test them. I don't want them to feel like pastor Steve certified me because he loves me and and I didn't want to feel that tension either because of course I would want the multipass so I bring it completely unbiased third party inspector from the American welding Society who comes in test the student and they have to pass or they don't get certified so church a real legitimate deal and it's the best certification around it's it's recognized worldwide. Actually, the American welding Society this thing really works were able in one month to take a person who knows nothing about welding and train them, give them 120 hours of training get them certified by the American welding Society and help them find their first job, and there is a nationwide shortage of welders and it's a very well-paying career you will start off real high right out of school.

But caution, four, five, six years. This is a six-figure job that completely changes the direction of you and your family forever and you're listening to Steve Bonior told the story of reignite hope and how it started and it started quite simply visiting and tending to the homeless 70,000 just in LA County. A staggering number Seeing the same people again and again he said those are homeless people. I'm saying hopeless people when we come back more Steve Bonior story and a story of so many faith-based institutions doing great work around this country here on our American story Medicare coverage decisions for next year. Healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7.

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They identified some kids out there that they were begging us to come that they called vulnerable because they knew these kids were not college material and they said if they get out of high school without a job skill that I get in trouble.

We have a lot of folks coming out of prison that hear about us kids wanting to get out of gangs want to turn a life around and come to reignite hope. People are just trapped in poverty – I get letters from inmates around the country saying hey have heard about your program. I'm about to get out.

Can I get into the program. We just had our last class a graduated just a few weeks ago.

Here, a young man got out of prison in Texas heard about reignite hope decided to move him and his wife and their kid here to California just to take the class they came they took the class went back to Texas and he texted me two days ago saying hey Pastor Steve, I just want to let you know how thankful I am for what you and the team did for me since I'm back here in Texas. I just got hired as a welder of thanks to you guys. I found God, and now I found a job and I just wanted to say thanks that story just happens over and over again when this started. It was it was so little intimidating and could could we do this because I do this. Can I find the time to do this do I know how to do all those fears and doubts come up and then I never really worked with the homeless before like with gang members I cash. I never worked for gang members, and so when we had our first gang member was like oh my gosh I know what to do here with with this. I never even talk to a gang member before.

Gosh, now we trained hundreds of them. Most all of our students come in here little skeptical because we tell them the programs free for people coming and we want to make sure their serious and motivated to do this, but it's free, but most of the been ripped off here and there, like we all have from time to time and they don't really completely believe that there's not a catcher somewhere so the first couple weeks there there kind on garden kind of kinda keeping to themselves a little bit but once they really believe and come to understand that these people just really love really care for me and there are no strings attached.

They really open up and you can just get into some amazing one-on-one conversations with them. We get a chance than to speak into their lives and coach them. Pray for them and it really breaks down the barriers because I think love breaks down any barrier there is out there it's really fun to even see the barriers breakdown between different gang members because normally out there on the street, they would kill one another in here they start to love one another and become lifelong friends and all those barriers go away. It is just fascinating to watch how different they are from the first day with us to the last stay with us think they literally become new people. 600 people in our last graduation, Mama, moms are crying grandmothers. Her cry and I mean students are coming on stage and get their diplomas and in many cases this first diploma they've ever had their life because they dropped a high school got in trouble all that stuff. Gosh like I got mom said call me and now the author of the high school would just tell me they've never seen your kid this excited about anything in their life. Thank you guys for coming out there and doing the principal out there with tears in her eyes just seeing how motivated kids God when they realize that here's here's an opportunity that could really turn your life around and it's something being given to them and and it's so much more fun than sitting in a classroom doing whatever they normally do in a high school classroom right. Sometimes we we do things for other places like we used to build up bicycle ambulances for Africa so it sees ambulances that you can lay a person in hook it up to a motorcycle or bicycle and they can carry a sick person to the nearest clinic because normally in the parts of Africa where we are donating these things. There is no 911. There is no ambulance. They put you in a wheelbarrow and try to push a 10 miles and you don't make and so these things were saving one life a week in Africa so we were sending hundreds of these things to Africa in our students were building on Anna.

It would be so touching to see them. With tears in their eyes as their building these ambulances realizing they can now help somebody else instead of them. One the one always needing help.

I had great faith.

When I came into this but now even greater faith. I just see God opening doors that I could have opened if I wanted to, you know, the country singer Alan Jackson love him when he was asked about the song that he wrote about 9/11, he said.

How did he come up with that said I didn't come up with it. He said God wrote the story had to sell the pencil and feel that same way here, God wrote the story. I couldn't done this, I began to come up with this. I think also I really felt such a greater love develop a niche for these people that are on the margins of society. You know I used to, have a critical attitude toward people and gangs and all this kind of stuff you learn so much of the time. Now that they were forced into the gang. They live in a neighborhood where you get beat up every day until you join the gang and you get forced to have these tattoos on you, marking you which gang you belong to.

I used to think tattoos are such a stupid thing to do but now I realize they're forced to do that brands them.

So it's basically a brand is what it is I feel so sorry for them, but they had no choice. It's a matter of survival. So that's really turn my heart around in a big way. You gotta learn to have a heart for everyone because you're not in their shoes and their shoes.

If you see it's a lot different than you thought. This isn't just about welding. We keep reminding ourselves this is about people and so we might be in a welding booth with them beside him coaching them on how well that's a great opportunity to sense them out how things going at home. How's that thing going with your girlfriend. We prayed about last week.

How's that thing going with your aunt. She was in the hospital prayed for her.

How's that going and what they just really open up sometimes so common to say pastor Steve can I sit down, talk with you and will sit down and talk and they'll do that with the other staff members as well.

The little box at the front of her classroom. Here, where they can fill out a 3 x 5 card and drop the card in there with a prayer request and oh my gosh reading… Just heart wrenching to us to read the things are going on in their life mean one of our key volunteers are Jim sometimes talk about this if we would live 10 lives, we would've gone to with these people. Party gone through is just unbelievable. What is happened in their lives and are not only are we teaching welding every day but every day after lunch we gather them all together and we open the Bible, we talk about God.

We talk about life. We talk about choices and it's really interesting.

At the end of our program when we asked the students what is the program meant to you. They talk more about that time. After lunch each day than they do the welding. They love the welding they're excited about the welding and all that talk about what really impacted the most was time after lunch and that the Bible promises us and promises everyone that it'll change your life if you let it, and we just see that happen with them over and over again. We have free Bible separate from the classroom there there for them to take just so fun to see those Bibles disappear week by week by week. The Bible's disappearing.

So where are we just been blessed to see this change lies over and over and over again. I could tell you so many stories about change lies 11 live a big poster here in the classroom of the photo that we blew up from one of our former graduates named Rudy really came to us right out of prison heard about ring. I hope went through our program got his life right with God certified union welder in any synthesis photo of him up on top of the new RAM stadium here in Los Angeles helping build the stadium.

Please welding machine up 30 C just want to send us the pictures to show us how much his life changed and a great job on the production and editing by Robbie in faith. And special thanks to Steve Bunning for sharing his story with my goodness, what a story about what faith can do, not just in one person's life, but in the end it sounds like thousands in so many communities so many families.

We talk about God, about life, about choices with these men and these women it's their favorite time to time. After lunch, and that's what families do in the breakdown of the American family has a lot to do with this problem. We love to tell the stories is faith-based stories, especially state-funded story, the president of reignite open here on our American business knows companies want more than a one-size-fits-all one so we provide 360 support customized for business from discovery accounting expertise and solutions engineer and industry advisor already. Right now 360 you're think that unconventional thinking from T-Mobile for business millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel competent about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65.

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