Jim Breuer, Spiritual Stories and the Caesar's Palace Notebook
Jim Breuer recounts his initial motivation to write a book focused on deep spiritual experiences rather than typical comedy stories about Dave Chappelle. While staying at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas for a comedy festival, he began documenting these accounts in a notebook. He describes a moment of spiritual defiance where he challenged dark forces from his hotel window, asserting that his message would change lives.
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00:00 I know for a fact, and I gotta say since I was young. I'm trying to remember the exact moment but there were moments in my life where it was that moment we go okay you're gonna tap into God or the devil? Or are you gonna tap on the devil? Dude I remember...I'll tell ya what! I don't even know if I said this. I tried to remember..I have a couple instances where I challenged the devil It didn't turn out very well. This was a weird one, so I decided to write a book and at the time everyone wanted me to write this book like put the Sunday Live stories in there when you were half-baked tell all of the funny Dave Chappelle stories which I have plenty of stories that's my...I tell stories
00:51 But what I really wanted to put out were these deep spiritual stories that I thought would impact people. That's your core? Correct, and that has always been my core throughout everything I did You know, I get tempted And then I run to God like oh no they do! I thought being in Hollywood was the thing I wanted Well okay you're outta there Uh I though saved my marriage So I've always anchored God With my decisions. I'm writing this thing and i've got my regular stories but now, I'm writing the spiritual stories God and all this stuff And how it how this happened But then this happened because ask god dadadada and here's a great story Now when I got to the hotel was doing some comedy festival in Vegas and we were staying at Caesars or something All the big names are there and I got my wife there
01:45 I'm telling you on my life, on my... The demons were throwing themselves at you. No no no! I'm telling you this is a true story sounds crazy but i'm telling you and that I have nothing to sell but the truth right here alright? And the book doesn't even exist so I'm not going to try to do with it. You can't get anymore So all right I have a notebook I'm writing all this and on the flight. I already wrote about 12 pages, I've never written This much of my life back in both sides of the page you're inspired my phone Oh My god, my fingers are dented and they hurt where at my wife's like can we go downstairs? You know do our nails I Go I took my notebook cuz that's all I want to do is write my nook And I went to the window in Caesar's Palace and I said
02:39 I'm in the devil's den and you can't stop what i'm about to put out there. Because what I did was before that, I was trying to hide it God forbid someone came in and didn't want anyone to steal my notebook Which is already a crazy thought Who's breaking into a suite at Caesar's Palace to steal a notebook? Oh yeah, no and I'm like I know we're gonna change lives with this one. So I put it in the drawer and putting it between the bed sheets And what am I doing? What am I afraid of? so I went to the window and said I challenge you To try to stop me It was a long table on there, big living room So I put it on the table right next to the window
