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Cody and Paperwork with James Art Ville | Ep 249

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Cody and Paperwork with James Art Ville | Ep 249

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Speaker 1:

I'm in Target in Mount Pleasant. Here it goes, hello James. Hi James, this is Jeremiah and my mom calling from the hospital. Okay, the doctor wanted me to call you At my mom's request.

Speaker 2:

I wanted to apologize and my mom for everything. I'm sorry I had music playing in the background. Can you start from the very beginning? Who is this?

Speaker 1:

Sure.

Speaker 2:

You really don't recognize me.

Speaker 1:

I can't say that I do. Hmm, I can't say that I do. Hmm, my mom cancer gone through hell and back.

Speaker 2:

Ring a bell my roommate has cancer. Yeah, maybe for 10 years this is James Artville, right?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, maybe for 10 years. Yeah, all right, how are you doing? Oh, I'm sorry to hear that my mom is not. Well Been scary. I'm glad to hear that I called because I wanted to be the Christian here and you and I are both Christians and, quite honestly, I wanted to talk as Christians and put aside everything else for a minute, because that's, honestly, the right thing to do.

Speaker 2:

Sure I can run a few churches. That's definitely been helpful to me when I've struggled Right.

Speaker 1:

Well, parkway is a pretty good community to me. I wanted to talk to you personally. I've had a lot of anger for a long time about what happened, so I'm here to come clean. I had a question for you through all of it and I'm hoping you can answer it. You kept your wife anyway kept calling me Cody and I never understood why. Until now. I'm not him and when I came back, that really haunted me for a long time and it created hell more than you can ever imagine. I apologize for the loss of Cody. I do, but I'm not him, but I'm not him. I get that. Things happened, things escalated and I never meant to hurt anyone.

Speaker 2:

But it was also wrong what happened, and I can't deny that.

Speaker 1:

Okay, I was curious where it came from, and then I met with the family, so now I know. Well, that would be my ex-wife.

Speaker 2:

She's the one who assessed over that, so I can't really tell you anything, because it was all her.

Speaker 1:

You mean Shiloh?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, we're not married anymore. Oh my yeah, she left us a few years ago. Yeah, we're not married anymore, oh my yeah, she left us a few years ago.

Speaker 1:

I'm so sorry, but the whole the whole.

Speaker 2:

Those were her stories. I can't do a death note.

Speaker 1:

I don't know why that came about. Yeah, I'm still trying to figure that out. I don't think I ever will.

Speaker 2:

I won't be able to do it because the answer's me Harry.

Speaker 1:

Well, there's another answer. Do you have any anger towards me or my mom or what? I've been told different things by different people about you, so I'm coming to you as a source. I don't know if you know what Shiloh did to one of my friends, but it was uncalled for and inappropriate and I'm sorry you guys aren't married anymore, but it kind of was a little low to do that.

Speaker 2:

I don't know the details, nor do I need to know.

Speaker 1:

No, yeah sure.

Speaker 2:

I have heart feelings. I have regrets about what happened, but mostly those issues are between me and Shia. Okay, those are the heart feelings that I have.

Speaker 1:

Now, what about feelings towards me as a Christian? I'm very sick and I wanted to make things right before you know, things kind of get out of hand, so to speak.

Speaker 2:

Well, I did my best to move forward. I carried a lot of pain from my divorce, so everything between me and Shiloh and included what happened between us behind me. I've made my mistakes as well. I try to make amends, and so I don't want to be stuck in the past.

Speaker 1:

And I don't harbor any heart feelings. I admire you for that. I admire you for that. I ran into you a while ago. You probably didn't recognize me. I look a little different now, but I've been doing art in Grants Pass and you and I shared a booth at a little con. I don't think you realized it Congratulations. Grants Pass doesn't have a new Comic Con, Not in Grants Pass no.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1:

It was some sort of oh like a thing in Medford. I forget what it was. A lot of my uh, artist friends were there. So I grew up in the area and I know pretty much any comic artists in Medford period. So I was. It was good to see your work out there, and on the sidewalk that was kind of cool. It was good to see your work out there. Okay, thank you, and on the sidewalk that was kind of cool. Congratulations.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I haven't done that in a while.

Speaker 1:

Wow. So listen, I just you know it hurt me A lot of anger toward both sides and I wanted to make sure nobody hated each other or anything. There's a lot of rumors that are spreading about what happened and I wanted to come to the source, because everybody's taking things out of proportions, both my fans and probably other people around. So I uh, I don't know if you know what I've been up to, but I have a total of 91,000 fans. If you ever want to stop by and see the art, it's pretty fun. Oh, congratulations. Trying to make a difference, mm-hmm. And I read your graphic novel, finally, your Dragons in Our Mids thing.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I didn't write it, I just drew it.

Speaker 1:

Oh wow, are you going to do it again, or no?

Speaker 2:

I don't know it's still up in the air.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you did a good job. You did a good job. I'm just sorry. I'm sorry about you know Seattle. Well, you weren't there in Seattle so you kind of don't know a little bit. But I'm sorry about what happened in Medford and at Quinn's and Sarah Rose, and I was really confused actually, actually, who Sarah Rose actually ever was. To this day I don't know whose relative is what.

Speaker 1:

But yeah, it traumatized me too for a lot of years and I don't hold that against you. I mainly hold it more against Shiloh because, uh, when it was all over and said and done, she called churches and told them I was cody and my life. Everybody called me cody, a person I didn't even know, and it got so traumatic that people would not serve me at restaurants or traumatic that people would not serve me at restaurants or even allow me to go to church without me admitting I was Cody. And people got real aggressive after that and I lost a lot of friends. I don't blame that on you, but I'm going to say Cody and Shiloh must have been damn close. That's all I'm going to say.

Speaker 1:

I don't know, but I just wanted to make amends and make sure you don't hate me and I don't hate you, hate me and I don't hate you, and if I get sick and pass away in a few days that I uh I did everything I could to make amends to the things that I've uh done in my life, and also you, yeah, well, um, yeah, nice, calling that's definitely a good thing. If you have anything to say, you can say it or we can call it that, but I really am sorry. No, I think I appreciate you reaching out. Yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to the future.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, there's one other thing too that I don't know if Shiloh has or what. Some paperwork when you guys took me has emerged and I think if you can get a hold of Shiloh or somebody that has it and get it back into the proper hands, that would be appreciated, because we're missing a few things. You know I'm in the hospital and sick and everybody's needing some of that, needing some of that. So you could pass it on that. If you have any other paperwork, that would be great. Off the top of my head.

Speaker 2:

I can't say that I know where anything exists Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

That's okay. I gave Shiloh pretty much everything you know, every share between us, that's okay, I'm shocked because you guys were in love like Wow, I'm surprised I. What happened to the kids? What happened? Oh well, we had joint custody. Oh wow, the usual that's going to be hard.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, we'll manage it. It's become a new normal now.

Speaker 1:

I wish you well in your life and I'm sorry for everything that's happened. Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 2:

Perhaps you can try to get in contact with her. Maybe she needs to, I don't know.

Speaker 1:

I was going to ask you because it would mean a lot to. It's really traumatized me, know everybody, the whole Cody thing and I, everybody involved, including the chemo doctor here, and I just want to make amends. If she thinks I'm Cody, I want to, I want to, for once and for all, submit it in her mind that no, I'm not. Here's proof. Please stop, please stop going to my friends and saying where are you? And you know, going to other people in the writing world, believe it or not, and trying to figure out. You know who I was. I just it didn't need to be, it was inappropriate. I want to address that before I that is my wish, before I go from this world to the next. I would like to address that mistake. Is there any way to get a hold of her, or no?

Speaker 2:

She's on Facebook as far as I know. I'm not on her friend list or anything, so I've kind of seen contact with her for the most part.

Speaker 1:

Um, she is on Facebook, huh yeah, not under Shiloh Artville. I'm taking it Under what? She's not Shiloh Artville, no, no, she's not. Oh wow, so no, she's not, oh wow. So what would I look under?

Speaker 2:

Um, I'm not sure what number she's going by now.

Speaker 1:

Okay, probably Okay.

Speaker 2:

Probably you might be looking at the message history. I mean, I know you guys had a conversation with that.

Speaker 1:

Oh, the message history. Yeah yeah, I don't use that Facebook anymore. I kind of I became someone else in the industry. Kind of put away all that. I have a Shiloh Severa. Does that sound right?

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

I appreciate it All right. Thank you, james, you as well. Stay well, okay, all right, bye.

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