From Dealer to Preacher | Snake Salvation

rady baby in nearby Middlesboro Kentucky
snake handler Cody coots is caring for
his church’s few remaining snakes some
people’s got their pet dogs pet spiders
I have pet snakes
some people believe y’all snakes to go
to church some sex I think I like to
make more like a pet project that snake
that’s eaten has never been back to
church we’ve had it for about three
years and we have put over five or six
her dollars for the food into that snake
for little Cody keeping snakes started
as a religious obligation then grew into
an obsession but without a job or a
source of income keeping the cages full
and the snakes fed is a constant burden
you had a Canebrake died about two weeks
ago and now we got three eating that
limits us to carry it only we got three
snakes to carry the church so we’re
going with the go today to catch more
snakes research water good work despite
his father’s position in the church Cody
wasn’t always a believer in snake
handling when I was out of church I just
hope people when I grow up I’m gonna be
a cocaine dealer I ain’t preaching in
your church finally one day you know I
just begin to sit and think about it I
knew if I died I was going to hell and
it was just pure torment so finally I
felt God and I went from cocaine dealer
to snake handling preacher since he’s
gotten in church me and Cody are very
close not only dad and son were like
best friends