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Originally appeared in APeX Attack #3 (January 1999)
How Jabba the Hut Changed My Life
By Brad Farmer
With the new Star Wars movie coming out this summer, and being
a long-time Star Wars fan myself, I wanted to get in on the hype...
so sit back and listen to my tale... Back in the day (not long
ago or in a galaxy far away, but rather in the year of our Lord
1,995, in the beautiful state of Wyoming...), when there was
but a small flicker of the concept of doing something like Apex,
I was helping out with a Wyoming Catholic Youth Spring Festival
in Laramie, WY when it happend. I was one of the Magnificent
Seven (the infamous JC’s Posse) doing a few comedy bits
with some hilarious friends to fill some spaces in the schedule.
I was given the wonderful opportunity to spend some time with
that year’s keynote speaker, and those few moments may have
altered my course and set things in motion for Apex to occur
as it has. He was none other than the Christian comedian Michael
Pritchard, voice of Jabba the Hut and the Ewoks in The Return
of the Jedi, and close personal friend of Robin Williams. He’d
seen some of our silliness, and Mr. Pritchard encouraged me to
chase my dream of becoming a Christian entertainer. He told me
that he believed I had the ability to do well, and he shared
with me how he himself had gotten started. Now who can argue
with Jabba the Hut? That encouragement played an important role
in my deciding to stop just dreaming and actually go for it.
In the year and a half that followed, I gained even more support
and encouragement from a newfound friend, Doug Brummell, Gene
talked me into working together, I moved to Washington, DC, Doug
Brummell and David Kauffman helped us even more in getting started,
and our ministry (uh... the international conglomeration, that
is...) was shoved out from the warm, cozy womb of our minds and
forced into this world! (In other words, it was born.) (sniff...
sniff... I just love a happy ending!) God sure can work in crazy
ways! I love Him for it! |