Bill, I don't know if you will ever see this, but I'm so glad that you have the peace of knowing where Sam is. Cancer killed my only brother in 2019. I'm thankful that he became a born again Christian just a few months before the diagnosis. Then this past March, I lost my precious little Momma. I still have my Dad, he's 92. I'm 65 and saved thank God. Some days it's difficult because I miss my brother and Momma so much. I was going to say I don't know WHY this video came up on my feed. But it's obvious that God wanted me to have it, and I'm glad. God bless you Bill, and I hope everyone who needs to see this video, watches it. Thank you.
Reminds me of a story I heard of a HS student who was terminally ill in the hospital. Some of his friends went to visit him at the hospital. While in the room talking with his friends, he turns towards the window and says, "Look at them, aren't they beautiful"? "I have to go now". And with that he closed his eyes and died right there in the presence of his friends. It sure sounds like Sam was welcomed into the eternal Kingdom. God is mercy.
But we have serial killers that "do their thing" like the Zodiak. THAT is truth and NOT AT ALL affirming of human existence. I posit that Earth is simply a predatory Planet where there is no deity and all is acceptable. This is my greatest fear. Human laws are powerless when it comes to the lawlessness of natural law.
God loves us all. We have the choice to love Him or reject him. He gave us that choice. We love Him by obedience and sacrifice. If we disobey, we have chosen to be apart from Him. God doesn’t hurt us. We choose.
@@jimmy5634 So you think God loved the people of sodom and Gomorrah the day he sent them all to Hell? The Scripture is clear and in context when it says He hates the workers of iniqutiy
In 1998 I hit a high voltage power line and was electrocuted by 28,000 volts and severely burned. I had a near death experience where I reached out to my younger brother Mark who died a year and a half before to come get me. He appeared to me and told me “It’s not your time, learn from this” and just like that he was gone and thus started a whole new life of growth and understanding. God Bless you, Bill, and your family, whom you will see again and never part!
As a school bus driver, substitute teacher I had every Sam Kinison and George Carlin etc. I could buy and cranked it up in my Jeep after school! God blessed Sam.
Bill...I know this was posted a year ago, but I just found this. I don't know if you remember me, but my dad, your dad, and all of us kids use to play together. Sam always cracking all of us up...when he was a young boy, he'd get on his knee and reenacted "you killed my brother"...lol, so it didn't suprise me when he didn't follow "both our dads" footsteps on the pulpit, but rather a comedian. My dads name was Billy Ely. My maiden name is Donna Ely. So good to see you Bill. I certainly hope you see this. It reminded me of all the good times we all had together. ❤❤❤ I was super shocked when I heard about Sam. Lots of love to all the Kinisons.
@@AndrewGrey22wow is what I was going to say. So glad to see this sort of thing, very heartwarming and emotional even for me. I'm beyond floored. Played together as kids and dads were there as well, it's too much. One of my best friends loved Sam's stand up comedy. He died five years ago from a heart attack, he was 49yo; anyway, he would have loved to know about this reunion. Sam welcomed my friend home, I like to think. See ya around sometime maybe.....
I visited Sam's grave a few years ago on my way through Tulsa but now I live just an hour away from it. I still visit him from time to time. I was 13 when he died so I never got my chance to see him live or meet him. His comedy spoke to me even at the age of 10 and it speaks to me even more now. I have teared up at the thought that I couldn't say "hello" or "thank you" to him. He's brought me and so many people laughter in this life.
When my grandson was around 10 years old, he told me something that it sounded so nonsense but at the same time so real, we were just driving, and he told me Grandpa did you know this world only exists because you're here right now?? If you're were not here, nothing you see would exist, not the stores, the people, the car, nothing, even after you're gone, this thing would exist for others who are still here but not to you anymore, your would would be wherever you're going to be.
Sam was one of the best. Helped more people than most comedians do in today's world. He seemed to be passionate about mentoring up and coming Comedians.
I got to talk with him on the phone on a call in radio show. I asked him about being a preacher. He admitted he was. The DJ was being arrogant,telling me to get a life, laughing at Sam’s honest answers, though it didn’t seem he meant them to be funny. I asked him about the Persian Gulf War and whether or not he thought these were the end times. He told me the war was nothing compared to his divorce. Later in life, I learned how brilliant that answer was.
Excellent interview, wise thoughts and thank you Sam for all you did. Had me in tears laughing the first time I heard him. A friend lent me a tape of "Have You Seen Me Lately". Five minutes in I was literally on the floor in stitches. RIP.
When I first heard Bill’s testimony about Sam, some time ago, it stuck with me. I thought about what Sam said many times and I think ultimately it’s why when I came to my lowest point in life, that I asked God to help me, and knowing him and Knowing Jesus has changed my life forever. Someday I hope I can talk with Sam about everything that has happened.
I saw Sam in LAX a little after Sturgis where I saw him perform ( the 50th Anniversary). I asked him, hey Sam are you going to Sturgis next year? He yells "no! I said why? He yells because I won't be there" weird, RIP
I was a teenager when I saw Sam’s first HBO comedy special. I don’t know if I have ever laughed so hard and with so much hilarity in my heart since that day. The next day in high school everybody was talking about that show. From then on he was a legend to me.
I thought that Sam was looking up towards the sky and repeatedly asking “why God why” before finally saying ok then passing away. The whole story of Sam Kinison has one significant detail in which he was a sweet kid until he was hit by a car and I’m guessing he experienced a brain injury, which is called a TBI. A TBI can give a person a hair trigger temper. His family noticed that Sams personality drastically changed after the accident.
My Dad knew in the same way. Auto accident. Same thing. He told my mother that he knew he wasn't coming home from the vacation alive. Someone came to him and "negotiated" with him, same way as described here. I believe that when it's our time, someone we know who has gone before, will come to us and say: "it's time to go."
My wife did the same thing...She was in hospice and about 10 minutes before she passed she was looking toward the corner of the room and "talking to someone" and asking questions about one of her uncles and her dad, both of whom had already passed away. I didn't understand what was going on, so I said, "What do you need, hon?" She looked over at me, smiled, and said, "I'm not talking to you, dear" and went back to her conversation. A few minutes later she closed her eyes and she was gone...
Bill used to own Kinison's bar in upland. I spent so very many nights there with our local crew of Greasers, rockabilly's and punks. It was our nightly home for Karaoke, friends and escape. I loved that place Loved that time. Thank you Bill.
The way he did it was not mocking god but more like what if jesus had a wife or thing like that ge did not mock the action of god like some comics do today@@Titus2_13
He was just starting to become the biggest thing in comedy, it is hard to even describe how much of a phenomenon he was. No one since then has even come close.
I’m not a fan of stand up comedy but he was funny. I mean the yelling was a shtick but his material was phenomenal I won’t lie, I don’t have Sam’s voice but sometimes yelling at the end of a story just feels right
We have a merciful, Lord, more merciful than people understand. And I am a retired. Fireman have learned and saw a lot of unusual situations. I’m certain he was talking to angels, angels often take believers to heaven, well known fact. I have no doubt he is there. Sam was a believer a preacher, and then went into sin. Christ said, if you believe in me with all your heart, you will go to heaven. Sam was a preacher. He knew the Lord. Jesus and his father do not lie.
Do you think he was a real believer if he was consistently mocking Jesus in stage for years??? Scripture also says Satan disguises himself as an angel of light
I always picture Sam arriving like his episode of Married with Children. "Okay Heaven I'm back. Whad'ya mean where's my badge? It's in my luggage. THEY FORGOT MY LUGGAGE?! OOOOOOOH-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
Well no badge is needed to enter heaven. The only way any of us can enter there is if we are born again. Jesus said so. To be born again (born of the Holy Spirit of God) one needs to repent and believe in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ as The Son of God who paid for their sins at the cross. There is absolutely no other way.
Maybe Carl remembers shifting Sam out of the car as holding him.. time slows down. It's not accurate to say Sam was talking to no one in particular. He was talking to someone very in particular- Probably Jesus. :)
Of course why else would he say ok, ok, ok. He knows the Lord and the Bible very well if you every heard his sermons you would know he could quote any scripture and decifer exactly what God was speaking.
I wish I still had the emails and phone calls I made with Bill back in the late 2000's. I spoke with Bill about once a week for over a year and asked if I could record our phone calls while I listened to him speak about my all-time favorite comedian. A couple of times we made each other cry talking about Sam and when I talked about my older brother. Sadly, I lost the recordings when I moved in with my now ex-wife. We thought we had moved the boxes from the house I was living in to the moving truck then into the apartment. But sadly I know we left it in the moving truck. By the time we had realized it, the company had already thrown it away.
I'd like to thank Bill kinison for doing this video because I really needed to hear the last couple minutes of it... I'm not dying or anything I'm only 42 which doesn't really mean anything in the big scheme of things but I really put my mind at ease hearing him say what he said... Thank you again sir and God bless...
I have had a near-near-death experience, no visuals or meetings with loved ones, etc., but I was definitely communicating with "people" I had some kind of understanding with. I was negotiating the opposite direction. I was in physical pain and trying to get away from it, and "they" wouldn't let me come to them. It was definitely a number of individuals and I definitely knew who they were/are. The only thing I worry about now is, _how_ I get from here to there. I'm fine with going home. Whenever. As soon as I get done with what I'm here for.
I TOTALLY relate to Bills spiritual experience through life I have had the same experience though under different circumstance yet the experience and understanding of God is the same for me too.
Sam was the prodigal son. He started the race well, still loved the Lord but he got way off track into the world and the Lord just took him. It probably happens a lot.
The days before my NDE that ledt in a coma for 7 days I felt like something or someone else was making choices for me. Its one of the strangest feelings ive ever experienced. I remember feeling my grandfathers presence with me like riding tmin the car with me the day before i got home. Its like Sam knew it was going to happen but just didnt want to say it. Or maybe he was in a blur like i was. It feels alot like being drunk or high where your not really sure if its reality or not.
I have to comment on this. Sam was speaking to his holy guardian Angel. Basically it was those few minutes but an incredible amount of time actually elapsed. Sammy was in his own movie and the movie was his life story. He was also shown the future and given the type of comedian he was, he would’ve have been canceled. His time was over and it was a new chapter for him. Your time is when you have finished what you were supposed to accomplish in this lifetime. And you do come back in one way or another. Reincarnation exists and it is the only thing that makes sense. Great interview and much love to Bill.
@jackb348 Are you certain of what you wrote ? That sounds REALLY great. What do you know of Reincarnation ? I am REALLY interested in this & have often wondered about it. I've read books on it, of course, but I prefer to hear something, rather than to read about it, in this instance. I'm sure I'm not the only feeling this way. Can you give us examples, Something some of us, who may not be in good health, but need something to hope for, please !! Thank you !!
@@gritsNgravy-fn5ic Experiences of deja-vu come to my mind. Like, you're in someplace you know you've never physically been before (in you current life), yet you have the very strong intuitive sense that you WERE there sometime in the past, but you can't put your finger on it, precisely.
If someone born again drifts so far into sin (and Sam's lifestyle did), God may bring them home early (1John 5:16). I've heard anecdotes that Sam was not happy. God had something else for Sam. The most important thing of all is it appears Sam was saved. He was a preacher and knew the Gospel of salvation.
Nobody has ever made me laugh harder than Sam Kinison. His career and time were short, but to this day I think he was the best comedian there ever was.
Mr. Kinison, your brother was legend. I will always remember him as the history professor in Back-to-School grilling Rodney Dangerfield on Vietnam in the classroom scene. Funny comedy scene in movie history.
Great interview! I get the Therapeutic sometimes. Yes. I'll ask my wife sometimes on weekends what she thinks my brothers doing in heaven. He passed away 1.5 yrs ago at age 50 from A.L.S. I was the last person he spoke to
Why would he? People really have a false interpretation of the Kingdom. So sad what people think. Most of the nonsense you hear isn't even biblical, but opposite of what scripture says. Have a newsflash for you......Your loved ones aren't partying in heaven, looking down on us, or my least favorite....they talk to us. Open your bibles ASAP
I don’t really know why, but I always ~cared~ about Sam, even though I never met him. I think it is because he put his true self out there for all to be a part of, to experience. Honesty, sincerity, his reality. When the story broke on the news I immediately prayed to God for him. I don’t believe in praying for those who have passed (I’m not Catholic) BUT - I know that God is outside of time, not subject to time. So any prayer I say in my NOW is known to God eons in the past or future. IE- our prayers to God transcend time, through God! So I fervently prayed that God had a conversation with Sam as he was dying. And I feel strongly (just my personal feeling) that Sam ‘got right’ with his Father in those few moments. I hope to see a joy-filled Sam again one day soon. Jesus died for all of us, if we would just accept his great gift. Pray now and ask God to show it to you personally. NOW is the time, because Jesus is coming soon!
I grew up in the Bible belt basically I grew up in North Carolina in the Foothills and I never knew that he used to be a preacher until today actually and that is really wild to know but it's funny how God call each one of us to do our job in this world and yet he started out thinking that his job was to preach the word and truly his job was to make people forget about their worries. But with that being said I was only 6 years old when he passed away in 1992 but growing up I used to love watching him in movies and stand up he was such a creative person and a character in itself. But I've always said that we know not the hour and not the time of our last day in our last words but we can't control that and yes I know God knows when our time is he knows everything and with that in mind I always tell people it's not your last moments on this Earth that's going to really matter and it's not really how you leave this world that's going to really matter it's what you leave behind and this man left a lot of people that loved him for who he was ride along with all these other great comedians that was during his time and even after his time there's spirits were so bright that even when they leave and go to God that their Spirit was so bright here on Earth in front of all of us that it was shine on for decades to come and that's the type of person this man was even though I never met him like I said I was 6 years old when he died adjust the videos I've seen of him and him in movies that will last a lifetime even more than a lifetime but I often wondered how this man passed away and I never knew how he passed away but I'm leaving this comment I will say this that out of just about everybody I've lost in my family and I have lost just about everyone that was close to me I really just have my dad my wife am I two daughters play God bless me with and everyone else on my side are all about going besides some aunts and uncles button saying all this my dad how to brush with death and it happened August 8th a day after my birthday August 7th he had a brain aneurysm and out of all the people that I have lost since all this started with me I can say I never got lucky to see anything spiritual eyes up until my dad had this incident and I was coming back home to tell my wife what was going on and to get ready to go to another hospital it was another county to where they could do the surgery and on my way home to get to get her I hear a voice in my head and it was not my voice and it said for me not to worry that everything was going to be all right no my family and my wife included every one of them kept telling me all of your dad you know he might wake up and he might have to learn how to talk again he might have to learn to write he might have to learn to walk and I kept saying no he's going to wake up and he's going to be fine because God or an angel that God lets speak to me but I still think it was God who spoke to me told me that he was going to be okay no I've never heard this voice in my life up until that day and even when the doctors was telling me that these things could be taking place when he wakes up I kept saying no he's going to be fine and when he woke up there was two things that really happened but when he woke up he was fine like I said and secondly I had prayed that God allowed my grandmother his mother to come and comfort him and let him know that he's going to be okay and the day that I got down there that he woke up the first day he woke up my wife is on the left side of his bed I was on the left side of his bed and I watch team look down at his hand he looked over at my wife and he said are you holding my hand I'll never forget that and he'll tell you this day that when he looked back at his hand he saw my grandmother's hand his mother and that's something I will always cherish with me to know that God heard my prayer and not just heard my prayer but he answered me not just with my father coming out of all this being okay but he answered me directly and that's something that I was not expecting and it didn't scare me at the time it kind of shook me a little bit but it didn't scare me it was kind of a surreal moment I was out of pieces and I was crying cuz I was upset about my dad but at the end of it all to hear that voice in the car as you're driving it was just like a sturdy man's voice is the best way I can explain it to anyone you know you hear people say oh it sounds like a roaring River and all this just sound like a man's voice that cares in the voice that I heard was Stern but so comforting that after I heard it I didn't need nothing else I didn't need to know anything this was before they got him out of one hospital moved him a 45-minute drive to another hospital and then prepped him for surgery and had the surgery and had it done I was already saying that he was going to be fine so I'll leave you all with this God is good God is greatand always remember the ones that leave us it's not free eternity it's only for just a little while for one day we'll all be together again amen
That was my old coworkers' good friend from high school. He wasn't drunk but on the way to a spring break thing, never served jail time but has been permanently messed up from the experience from what I'm told. I will not share a name. Apparently they had stacks of cases of beer in the bed and when they hit, the cases of beer kept going and blew up over the truck. Very sad. RIP Sam
@jameshepburn4631 there's a forum that has his Facebook profile even. He was more worried about his truck and even signed autographs after killing kinison
This story has always struck me as prove, there’s some type of afterlife. Iam not religious, I never have been, but Sam has confirmed in my mind, that we all move on after this life. What that existence is, nobody knows, but one day, we’re all going to find out.
@@DA-bp8lf I understand your thoughts. I’m a solid believer in Christ after reading so much about the Old Testament and New Testament for me. There’s no doubt there is a God and Christ after much reading. I believe there is a hell that would be a separation from God. not sure how bad it is, but I don’t want to take that chance. It’s easy to believe, you ask God has Jesus to come into your life and you pray three times a day maybe maybe two. It’s not a bad thing. Think about that 10 Commandments. That’s what they had in the Old Testament long long ago they took those 10 Commandments out of the schools. And the 60s. They’re 10 rules to live by. They are good rules. Nothing wrong with that, just my thoughts brother take care retired fireman.
I never enjoyed Sam's entertainment, but not his fault, just the loud male voice triggered my trauma. But it is very comforting him confirming the other side, and free will. I'd love to know the argument for him to go was. He said OK, it must have been good. Thank you all for replaying his story.
I’m sorry you went through that. These things are so hard. Wrecks are just such nightmares. Wow. I’m 70 and my husband wrecked and I was in the truck. It was an accident, however I would’ve stopped before he did, because there was a racket and he kept going. The driveline broke and catapulted us end over. I broke my neck, and he broke his leg and wrist. Anyway, that started some rough times. I never asked God why either. When my husband died, I knew he was with Jesus. I know Sam is with Jesus too.
I drove to near the spot where it happened. It's a lonely and creepy place in the desert. There are so many odd and unusual things that happened. It's almost as if he was fated to die then and there and it seems he knew it without even really knowing it. I am so sorry you lost your brother and had to witness it.
My wife used to go to a comedy club in Houston where she lived in the 70s. Her BF was a manager there. Many new comedians worked out their material there, including Sam, who got kicked out for rowdy behavior. The next night during the show the audience members were distracted from the performances on stage by the sight of Sam, who in plain view had himself 'crucified' on a telephone pole across the street.
Now this is for the those who have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior. If we turn our back on God and mock his Son by putting words in Jesus mouth that Jesus never said we can begin to lose Gods protection. Not lose our Salvation. Once saved always saved. But we can lose Gods protection. I believe with all my heart that Sam is in Heaven. People keep saying God Bless America Again. God did bless this country but we have turned our back on him. We are completely out of alignment with the word. It will get worse till Jesus return and we are called up.
Sam has had a big impact on my life, I always make sure I live where the food is. RIP.
Amen, bro!
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Love that one.... RIP Sam..
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@@petersmithyy4556 it's a joke Sam used to tell lol you'll have to look it up.
Bill, I don't know if you will ever see this, but I'm so glad that you have the peace of knowing where Sam is. Cancer killed my only brother in 2019. I'm thankful that he became a born again Christian just a few months before the diagnosis. Then this past March, I lost my precious little Momma. I still have my Dad, he's 92. I'm 65 and saved thank God. Some days it's difficult because I miss my brother and Momma so much. I was going to say I don't know WHY this video came up on my feed. But it's obvious that God wanted me to have it, and I'm glad. God bless you Bill, and I hope everyone who needs to see this video, watches it. Thank you.
A powerful testimony sir!
Reminds me of a story I heard of a HS student who was terminally ill in the hospital. Some of his friends went to visit him at the hospital. While in the room talking with his friends, he turns towards the window and says, "Look at them, aren't they beautiful"? "I have to go now". And with that he closed his eyes and died right there in the presence of his friends. It sure sounds like Sam was welcomed into the eternal Kingdom. God is mercy.
A story "you heard" huh? Ok
"He loves me too much to hurt me". What a great affirmation and truth.
But we have serial killers that "do their thing" like the Zodiak. THAT is truth and NOT AT ALL affirming of human existence.
I posit that Earth is simply a predatory Planet where there is no deity and all is acceptable. This is my greatest fear. Human laws are powerless when it comes to the lawlessness of natural law.
Love can hurt, also, as can truth.
God hates the workers of iniquity.
God loves us all. We have the choice to love Him or reject him. He gave us that choice.
We love Him by obedience and sacrifice.
If we disobey, we have chosen to be apart from Him.
God doesn’t hurt us. We choose.
@@jimmy5634 So you think God loved the people of sodom and Gomorrah the day he sent them all to Hell?
The Scripture is clear and in context when it says He hates the workers of iniqutiy
Sam brought us a lot of joy and laughter. Find peace in knowing he is beloved by millions to this day.
In 1998 I hit a high voltage power line and was electrocuted by 28,000 volts and severely burned. I had a near death experience where I reached out to my younger brother Mark who died a year and a half before to come get me. He appeared to me and told me “It’s not your time, learn from this” and just like that he was gone and thus started a whole new life of growth and understanding.
God Bless you, Bill, and your family, whom you will see again and never part!
As a school bus driver, substitute teacher I had every Sam Kinison and George Carlin etc. I could buy and cranked it up in my Jeep after school! God blessed Sam.
Beautiful Faith Bill Kinison ❤️
*Sam Kinison
I can't believe how much you sound like your brother. Thankyou for sharing your story.
I agree; you can bet this is what Sam would sound like today. Huge loss for comedy.
One in the same??
Bill...I know this was posted a year ago, but I just found this. I don't know if you remember me, but my dad, your dad, and all of us kids use to play together. Sam always cracking all of us up...when he was a young boy, he'd get on his knee and reenacted "you killed my brother"...lol, so it didn't suprise me when he didn't follow "both our dads" footsteps on the pulpit, but rather a comedian. My dads name was Billy Ely. My maiden name is Donna Ely. So good to see you Bill. I certainly hope you see this. It reminded me of all the good times we all had together. ❤❤❤ I was super shocked when I heard about Sam.
Lots of love to all the Kinisons.
Wow.
Hi Donna, I forwarded your message to Bill ❤
@@RememberThiswithDeniseBoland // I really appreciate that. ♥️
@@AndrewGrey22wow is what I was going to say. So glad to see this sort of thing, very heartwarming and emotional even for me. I'm beyond floored. Played together as kids and dads were there as well, it's too much. One of my best friends loved Sam's stand up comedy. He died five years ago from a heart attack, he was 49yo; anyway, he would have loved to know about this reunion. Sam welcomed my friend home, I like to think. See ya around sometime maybe.....
I visited Sam's grave a few years ago on my way through Tulsa but now I live just an hour away from it. I still visit him from time to time. I was 13 when he died so I never got my chance to see him live or meet him. His comedy spoke to me even at the age of 10 and it speaks to me even more now. I have teared up at the thought that I couldn't say "hello" or "thank you" to him. He's brought me and so many people laughter in this life.
"God loves me too much to hurt me, too wise to make a mistake and too powerful to fail." Great words.
Amen
and so it's not about just me, but everyone.
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Doesn't god light his creations on fire?
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I’m still mourning his death 32 years later😢
Same. I was a huge fan.
@@ProudKansan08 same here
Get over it! Geez!
@@goochI034 you sully the name of the person that's on your profile picture you dipshit. Shut the fuck up.
😂wth ever
Bless you Bill. We all miss Sam.
When my grandson was around 10 years old, he told me something that it sounded so nonsense but at the same time so real, we were just driving, and he told me Grandpa did you know this world only exists because you're here right now?? If you're were not here, nothing you see would exist, not the stores, the people, the car, nothing, even after you're gone, this thing would exist for others who are still here but not to you anymore, your would would be wherever you're going to be.
Thank you for this, I still miss Sam after all of these years.....My favorite comedian of all time.
😅😅😂 Comedian???
Sam was one of the best. Helped more people than most comedians do in today's world. He seemed to be passionate about mentoring up and coming Comedians.
I got to talk with him on the phone on a call in radio show. I asked him about being a preacher. He admitted he was. The DJ was being arrogant,telling me to get a life, laughing at Sam’s honest answers, though it didn’t seem he meant them to be funny. I asked him about the Persian Gulf War and whether or not he thought these were the end times. He told me the war was nothing compared to his divorce. Later in life, I learned how brilliant that answer was.
Excellent interview, wise thoughts and thank you Sam for all you did. Had me in tears laughing the first time I heard him. A friend lent me a tape of "Have You Seen Me Lately". Five minutes in I was literally on the floor in stitches. RIP.
When I first heard Bill’s testimony about Sam, some time ago, it stuck with me. I thought about what Sam said many times and I think ultimately it’s why when I came to my lowest point in life, that I asked God to help me, and knowing him and Knowing Jesus has changed my life forever. Someday I hope I can talk with Sam about everything that has happened.
I played music in Wichita for a Revival for Bill. He preached the week. Ron McFaddin was my pastor. God bless you Bill from Wichita.
I saw Sam in LAX a little after Sturgis where I saw him perform ( the 50th Anniversary). I asked him, hey Sam are you going to Sturgis next year? He yells "no! I said why? He yells because I won't be there" weird, RIP
Loved Sam. When my father died he visited me in a dream and spoke to me.
Rip Sam ✝️ may his soul and the souls of the faithfully departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. God bless you Bill 🙏❤️
I was a teenager when I saw Sam’s first HBO comedy special. I don’t know if I have ever laughed so hard and with so much hilarity in my heart since that day. The next day in high school everybody was talking about that show. From then on he was a legend to me.
He’s not even in the top 20 comedians. Legend, come on now you’re reaching.
I'll never forget Sam Kinison's performance in Back to School. Pure hilarity.
I loved that performance. What a great comedy Back to School was.
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@@TheApacheTrail Cool.
I thought that Sam was looking up towards the sky and repeatedly asking “why God why” before finally saying ok then passing away.
The whole story of Sam Kinison has one significant detail in which he was a sweet kid until he was hit by a car and I’m guessing he experienced a brain injury, which is called a TBI. A TBI can give a person a hair trigger temper. His family noticed that Sams personality drastically changed after the accident.
I suffered a tbi in the second grade, it's true. My behavior changed a lot
@@earlwright9715Sorry that you experienced that. I hope your life hasn't been too difficult.
Just chanced on this interview. Feel like it wiped me out. So much to absorb. Thanks.
I remember hearing this story years ago. VERY strange and thought provoking.
Loved Sam's humor thank you for your wise words
Sam was an amazing man, gone too soon. Rest in peace brother Sam. 🙏
Didn't he blaspheme God in his comedy shows? Be not deceived, for God is not mocked; for whatever one sows, that he shall also reap!!!
My Dad knew in the same way. Auto accident. Same thing. He told my mother that he knew he wasn't coming home from the vacation alive. Someone came to him and "negotiated" with him, same way as described here. I believe that when it's our time, someone we know who has gone before, will come to us and say: "it's time to go."
My wife did the same thing...She was in hospice and about 10 minutes before she passed she was looking toward the corner of the room and "talking to someone" and asking questions about one of her uncles and her dad, both of whom had already passed away. I didn't understand what was going on, so I said, "What do you need, hon?" She looked over at me, smiled, and said, "I'm not talking to you, dear" and went back to her conversation.
A few minutes later she closed her eyes and she was gone...
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Bill used to own Kinison's bar in upland. I spent so very many nights there with our local crew of Greasers, rockabilly's and punks. It was our nightly home for Karaoke, friends and escape. I loved that place Loved that time. Thank you Bill.
Very sad. I remembered this and emailed Bill. So sorry about this again Bill!!! 👍🤙😎💯
Sam Kinison’s up there, still closing with the band. RIP, Brother.
But he would mock Jesus on stage. Do you think he was truly a believer??
@@Titus2_13doesn’t matter. Shits fiction anyways.
The way he did it was not mocking god but more like what if jesus had a wife or thing like that ge did not mock the action of god like some comics do today@@Titus2_13
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@@Titus2_13 Not only that, he turned away from being a preacher. Hopefully God has a sense of humor.
Bill Kinison is a wise man.
He was just starting to become the biggest thing in comedy, it is hard to even describe how much of a phenomenon he was. No one since then has even come close.
Biggest thing in comedy hardly
I’m not a fan of stand up comedy but he was funny. I mean the yelling was a shtick but his material was phenomenal
I won’t lie, I don’t have Sam’s voice but sometimes yelling at the end of a story just feels right
Sam Kinison lives on. A true legend forever. He was blessed to have Bill for his brother.
We have a merciful, Lord, more merciful than people understand. And I am a retired. Fireman have learned and saw a lot of unusual situations. I’m certain he was talking to angels, angels often take believers to heaven, well known fact. I have no doubt he is there. Sam was a believer a preacher, and then went into sin. Christ said, if you believe in me with all your heart, you will go to heaven. Sam was a preacher. He knew the Lord. Jesus and his father do not lie.
Do you think he was a real believer if he was consistently mocking Jesus in stage for years??? Scripture also says Satan disguises himself as an angel of light
Maybe. You can Walk away from the Lord. I hope Sam came back to him.
@@Titus2_13 Truth
@@chrisbera7952 me too
Have you read Leviticus yet?
great interview. all the best Bill, Sam was once in a generation talent.
Sam was as real as real gets. I'm so glad you were there with him...and explained. You are a blessing sir. Tell this story to the mountains. ❤
Guy has a rock steady faith in the Lord. Amen.
Saw Sam here in Alaska back in the late 80's, had all his albums as well, funny man! RIP
I want to thank you for sharing. I am still a fan of Sam.
I always picture Sam arriving like his episode of Married with Children. "Okay Heaven I'm back. Whad'ya mean where's my badge? It's in my luggage. THEY FORGOT MY LUGGAGE?! OOOOOOOH-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
Well no badge is needed to enter heaven. The only way any of us can enter there is if we are born again. Jesus said so.
To be born again (born of the Holy Spirit of God) one needs to repent and believe in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ as The Son of God who paid for their sins at the cross. There is absolutely no other way.
Maybe Carl remembers shifting Sam out of the car as holding him.. time slows down. It's not accurate to say Sam was talking to no one in particular. He was talking to someone very in particular- Probably Jesus. :)
Of course why else would he say ok, ok, ok. He knows the Lord and the Bible very well if you every heard his sermons you would know he could quote any scripture and decifer exactly what God was speaking.
@@thethriftingloungehe was a very funny comedian, not a bible scholar so be honest... spell d-e-c-i-p-h-e-r
Dont interject your views into someones personal experience as if you were there. Its accurate if he says and believes it. Period
@@johnhitz1185He was a preacher before he was a comedian. Of course he understood gods word.
@@thethriftinglounge..because he felt his system failing, ..he knew he was dying
I wish I still had the emails and phone calls I made with Bill back in the late 2000's. I spoke with Bill about once a week for over a year and asked if I could record our phone calls while I listened to him speak about my all-time favorite comedian. A couple of times we made each other cry talking about Sam and when I talked about my older brother. Sadly, I lost the recordings when I moved in with my now ex-wife. We thought we had moved the boxes from the house I was living in to the moving truck then into the apartment. But sadly I know we left it in the moving truck. By the time we had realized it, the company had already thrown it away.
I'd like to thank Bill kinison for doing this video because I really needed to hear the last couple minutes of it...
I'm not dying or anything I'm only 42 which doesn't really mean anything in the big scheme of things but I really put my mind at ease hearing him say what he said...
Thank you again sir and God bless...
I have had a near-near-death experience, no visuals or meetings with loved ones, etc., but I was definitely communicating with "people" I had some kind of understanding with. I was negotiating the opposite direction. I was in physical pain and trying to get away from it, and "they" wouldn't let me come to them. It was definitely a number of individuals and I definitely knew who they were/are.
The only thing I worry about now is, _how_ I get from here to there. I'm fine with going home. Whenever. As soon as I get done with what I'm here for.
Beautiful Eulogy & Testimony God Bless Amen .Heartfelt!
He pleaded to God he did not want to die. Then he realized he was about to die.
I TOTALLY relate to Bills spiritual experience through life I have had the same experience though under different circumstance yet the experience and understanding of God is the same for me too.
7:20 Excellent question. Excellent answer. thank you all.
Sam was the prodigal son. He started the race well, still loved the Lord but he got way off track into the world and the Lord just took him.
It probably happens a lot.
What a powerful story. Thank you for sharing.
The days before my NDE that ledt in a coma for 7 days I felt like something or someone else was making choices for me. Its one of the strangest feelings ive ever experienced. I remember feeling my grandfathers presence with me like riding tmin the car with me the day before i got home. Its like Sam knew it was going to happen but just didnt want to say it. Or maybe he was in a blur like i was. It feels alot like being drunk or high where your not really sure if its reality or not.
So sorry for your loss...Sam was so fun a real blessing to have experienced his comedy...i miss his unique style..
God bless you Bill... you were there for Sam when he needed you.
He was a man of God. God bless.
I have to comment on this. Sam was speaking to his holy guardian Angel. Basically it was those few minutes but an incredible amount of time actually elapsed.
Sammy was in his own movie and the movie was his life story.
He was also shown the future and given the type of comedian he was, he would’ve have been canceled.
His time was over and it was a new chapter for him.
Your time is when you have finished what you were supposed to accomplish in this lifetime.
And you do come back in one way or another. Reincarnation exists and it is the only thing that makes sense.
Great interview and much love to Bill.
@jackb348 Are you certain of what you wrote ? That sounds REALLY great. What do you know of Reincarnation ? I am REALLY interested in this & have often wondered about it. I've read books on it, of course, but I prefer to hear something, rather than to read about it, in this instance. I'm sure I'm not the only feeling this way. Can you give us examples, Something some of us, who may not be in good health, but need something to hope for, please !! Thank you !!
We do only what we are meant to
@@gritsNgravy-fn5icyour blood reincarnates. Not your soul.
BS... you really need to learn about reincarnation. @@tiedyehobo
@@gritsNgravy-fn5ic Experiences of deja-vu come to my mind. Like, you're in someplace you know you've never physically been before (in you current life), yet you have the very strong intuitive sense that you WERE there sometime in the past, but you can't put your finger on it, precisely.
Bill your a good man , I know you loved him. From Tulsa 🙏
Never knew Sam had a brother. I can hear a little of Sam in his brother. Never thought I'd ever hear that voice again.
Thank you for sharing this story? I have always wondered what the truth was. Now I know 🙏🏼
Bill's voice is very similar to Sam's.
If someone born again drifts so far into sin (and Sam's lifestyle did), God may bring them home early (1John 5:16). I've heard anecdotes that Sam was not happy. God had something else for Sam. The most important thing of all is it appears Sam was saved. He was a preacher and knew the Gospel of salvation.
Tragic loss, sad even now.
One of the last concious things my Dad said before he passed away a few months ago was "Death is beautiful!".
Thank you Bill for your story
It's so awful to lose a brother. I've lost two. I can't imagine being in Bill's situation having to see his brother die. My heart goes out to him.
Im glad you were there with him..❤🎉
Saw the flame of the Holy Spirit for ten minutes in 1982. That's not all I've seen either. Sam was talking to God.
Nobody has ever made me laugh harder than Sam Kinison. His career and time were short, but to this day I think he was the best comedian there ever was.
He sounds so much like Sam!
thank you for this!
So sorry for your loss 😢
Great interview Poor Sam..
Thanks for sharing. It's appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment.
Mr. Kinison, your brother was legend. I will always remember him as the history professor in Back-to-School grilling Rodney Dangerfield on Vietnam in the classroom scene. Funny comedy scene in movie history.
I was heartbroken the day this terrible news broke.
Loved Sam.
Great interview! I get the Therapeutic sometimes. Yes. I'll ask my wife sometimes on weekends what she thinks my brothers doing in heaven. He passed away 1.5 yrs ago at age 50 from A.L.S. I was the last person he spoke to
The Lord greeted him on that crossing over.. RIP Sam
Why would he? People really have a false interpretation of the Kingdom. So sad what people think. Most of the nonsense you hear isn't even biblical, but opposite of what scripture says. Have a newsflash for you......Your loved ones aren't partying in heaven, looking down on us, or my least favorite....they talk to us. Open your bibles ASAP
I don’t really know why, but I always ~cared~ about Sam, even though I never met him.
I think it is because he put his true self out there for all to be a part of, to experience. Honesty, sincerity, his reality.
When the story broke on the news I immediately prayed to God for him.
I don’t believe in praying for those who have passed (I’m not Catholic) BUT - I know that God is outside of time, not subject to time.
So any prayer I say in my NOW is known to God eons in the past or future. IE- our prayers to God transcend time, through God!
So I fervently prayed that God had a conversation with Sam as he was dying.
And I feel strongly (just my personal feeling) that Sam ‘got right’ with his Father in those few moments.
I hope to see a joy-filled Sam again one day soon.
Jesus died for all of us, if we would just accept his great gift. Pray now and ask God to show it to you personally. NOW is the time, because Jesus is coming soon!
There will never be another Sam Kinison !! RIP
I grew up in the Bible belt basically I grew up in North Carolina in the Foothills and I never knew that he used to be a preacher until today actually and that is really wild to know but it's funny how God call each one of us to do our job in this world and yet he started out thinking that his job was to preach the word and truly his job was to make people forget about their worries. But with that being said I was only 6 years old when he passed away in 1992 but growing up I used to love watching him in movies and stand up he was such a creative person and a character in itself. But I've always said that we know not the hour and not the time of our last day in our last words but we can't control that and yes I know God knows when our time is he knows everything and with that in mind I always tell people it's not your last moments on this Earth that's going to really matter and it's not really how you leave this world that's going to really matter it's what you leave behind and this man left a lot of people that loved him for who he was ride along with all these other great comedians that was during his time and even after his time there's spirits were so bright that even when they leave and go to God that their Spirit was so bright here on Earth in front of all of us that it was shine on for decades to come and that's the type of person this man was even though I never met him like I said I was 6 years old when he died adjust the videos I've seen of him and him in movies that will last a lifetime even more than a lifetime but I often wondered how this man passed away and I never knew how he passed away but I'm leaving this comment I will say this that out of just about everybody I've lost in my family and I have lost just about everyone that was close to me I really just have my dad my wife am I two daughters play God bless me with and everyone else on my side are all about going besides some aunts and uncles button saying all this my dad how to brush with death and it happened August 8th a day after my birthday August 7th he had a brain aneurysm and out of all the people that I have lost since all this started with me I can say I never got lucky to see anything spiritual eyes up until my dad had this incident and I was coming back home to tell my wife what was going on and to get ready to go to another hospital it was another county to where they could do the surgery and on my way home to get to get her I hear a voice in my head and it was not my voice and it said for me not to worry that everything was going to be all right no my family and my wife included every one of them kept telling me all of your dad you know he might wake up and he might have to learn how to talk again he might have to learn to write he might have to learn to walk and I kept saying no he's going to wake up and he's going to be fine because God or an angel that God lets speak to me but I still think it was God who spoke to me told me that he was going to be okay no I've never heard this voice in my life up until that day and even when the doctors was telling me that these things could be taking place when he wakes up I kept saying no he's going to be fine and when he woke up there was two things that really happened but when he woke up he was fine like I said and secondly I had prayed that God allowed my grandmother his mother to come and comfort him and let him know that he's going to be okay and the day that I got down there that he woke up the first day he woke up my wife is on the left side of his bed I was on the left side of his bed and I watch team look down at his hand he looked over at my wife and he said are you holding my hand I'll never forget that and he'll tell you this day that when he looked back at his hand he saw my grandmother's hand his mother and that's something I will always cherish with me to know that God heard my prayer and not just heard my prayer but he answered me not just with my father coming out of all this being okay but he answered me directly and that's something that I was not expecting and it didn't scare me at the time it kind of shook me a little bit but it didn't scare me it was kind of a surreal moment I was out of pieces and I was crying cuz I was upset about my dad but at the end of it all to hear that voice in the car as you're driving it was just like a sturdy man's voice is the best way I can explain it to anyone you know you hear people say oh it sounds like a roaring River and all this just sound like a man's voice that cares in the voice that I heard was Stern but so comforting that after I heard it I didn't need nothing else I didn't need to know anything this was before they got him out of one hospital moved him a 45-minute drive to another hospital and then prepped him for surgery and had the surgery and had it done I was already saying that he was going to be fine so I'll leave you all with this God is good God is greatand always remember the ones that leave us it's not free eternity it's only for just a little while for one day we'll all be together again amen
Ive always believed in God , this is just more confirmation
Th devil believes in God too.......
@@woodyhayes7402Meaning?
@@jeffreypaulross9767 - An important difference between believing and worshipping.
@@woodyhayes7402 Okay, but I still don’t get your point?
@@woodyhayes7402 Are you referring to James 2:19?
That was my old coworkers' good friend from high school. He wasn't drunk but on the way to a spring break thing, never served jail time but has been permanently messed up from the experience from what I'm told. I will not share a name. Apparently they had stacks of cases of beer in the bed and when they hit, the cases of beer kept going and blew up over the truck. Very sad. RIP Sam
Driver’s name was, still is, Troy Pierson. He lives in Las Vegas Nevada. It’s all public record.
@jameshepburn4631 there's a forum that has his Facebook profile even. He was more worried about his truck and even signed autographs after killing kinison
Sam was like a blazing comet. He lit up the sky for a while then went away. One of a kind
This story has always struck me as prove, there’s some type of afterlife. Iam not religious, I never have been, but Sam has confirmed in my mind, that we all move on after this life. What that existence is, nobody knows, but one day, we’re all going to find out.
Plenty of people who have had near death experiences know. You should check out their stories. They're all over UA-cam.
@@DA-bp8lf I understand your thoughts. I’m a solid believer in Christ after reading so much about the Old Testament and New Testament for me. There’s no doubt there is a God and Christ after much reading. I believe there is a hell that would be a separation from God. not sure how bad it is, but I don’t want to take that chance. It’s easy to believe, you ask God has Jesus to come into your life and you pray three times a day maybe maybe two. It’s not a bad thing. Think about that 10 Commandments. That’s what they had in the Old Testament long long ago they took those 10 Commandments out of the schools. And the 60s. They’re 10 rules to live by. They are good rules. Nothing wrong with that, just my thoughts brother take care retired fireman.
I never enjoyed Sam's entertainment, but not his fault, just the loud male voice triggered my trauma. But it is very comforting him confirming the other side, and free will. I'd love to know the argument for him to go was. He said OK, it must have been good. Thank you all for replaying his story.
I’m sorry you went through that. These things are so hard. Wrecks are just such nightmares. Wow. I’m 70 and my husband wrecked and I was in the truck. It was an accident, however I would’ve stopped before he did, because there was a racket and he kept going. The driveline broke and catapulted us end over. I broke my neck, and he broke his leg and wrist. Anyway, that started some rough times. I never asked God why either. When my husband died, I knew he was with Jesus. I know Sam is with Jesus too.
Good words Mr. Kinison things that happen here are small inflictions compared to the rewards of Heaven
I drove to near the spot where it happened. It's a lonely and creepy place in the desert. There are so many odd and unusual things that happened. It's almost as if he was fated to die then and there and it seems he knew it without even really knowing it. I am so sorry you lost your brother and had to witness it.
I was lucky to see his live performance. So damn funny! May God rest his soul.
1 Corinthians 5:5-“Hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord”
My wife used to go to a comedy club in Houston where she lived in the 70s. Her BF was a manager there. Many new comedians worked out their material there, including Sam, who got kicked out for rowdy behavior. The next night during the show the audience members were distracted from the performances on stage by the sight of Sam, who in plain view had himself 'crucified' on a telephone pole across the street.
R.W.G Sam Kinison. A Great Comedian GONE to soon
One year of probation and 300 hours of community service for the kid who killed him? Seems lenient. RIP.
Great video ❤
Heartbreaking.. he was definitely 1 of the greats of that time period
Now this is for the those who have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior. If we turn our back on God and mock his Son by putting words in Jesus mouth that Jesus never said we can begin to lose Gods protection. Not lose our Salvation. Once saved always saved. But we can lose Gods protection. I believe with all my heart that Sam is in Heaven. People keep saying God Bless America Again. God did bless this country but we have turned our back on him. We are completely out of alignment with the word. It will get worse till Jesus return and we are called up.
"So poignant" and calming....