- [Announcer] This
presentation is brought to you
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by the friends of the
Amazing Facts Ministry.
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- After losing his godly mother,
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when he was
just seven years old,
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John began to hang
out with the wrong crowd.
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Disturbed by his delinquency,
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his father, a sea captain,
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began taking him
along on ocean voyages,
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but John's life soon spiraled
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into increasingly bad behavior.
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After being pressed
into the British Royal Navy,
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John gave up on God entirely.
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He adopted atheism and he
loved tormenting Christians
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with his blasphemy.
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Consumed with anger and hate,
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the rebel's life overflowed
with misery and despair.
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Eventually he signed on as
a crew member on a slave ship,
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but through a
strange turn of Providence,
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John became a slave himself.
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When finally rescued,
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John continued in
his reckless lifestyle
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of cursing,
fighting and drinking,
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but all of this
dramatically changed
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during a terrifying storm at sea
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when John Newton, the
author of the best loved hymn,
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"Amazing Grace," finally
acknowledged his need of Christ.
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John Newton's
dramatic and famous conversion
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certainly isn't unique.
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I personally know of
thousands of remarkable accounts
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of people from all ages
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who've experienced
total transformation
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through the incredible power,
love, and grace of Christ,
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myself included.
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I invite you now to join me
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as I share my own
personal testimony,
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and I pray that
you'll be blessed.
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Everybody in life
wants to be happy.
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And many people in the
world think that happiness
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comes from either
physical pleasure,
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or, "If I could
be wealthy enough,"
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or, "If I could be more
beautiful or more popular
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than I'd have real happiness."
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And so many
people go through life
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dissatisfied
with what they do have
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wanting something else,
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and I've learned that happiness
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does not come from those things.
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Now I'll start by
giving you a little background,
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tell you about
my parents briefly.
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Mother and father were as
opposite as you could get.
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My mother grew up
Jewish background,
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but she wasn't practicing.
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My father grew up
with a Baptist background,
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but he pretty much became
an atheist after World War II.
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He was a pilot,
captain in the air force
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and flew in Europe
during World War II,
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but he became very successful.
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He started buying
army surplus planes
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and built it into an
airline delivering cargo,
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then delivering passengers,
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and at one time he
owned two airlines.
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He knew a lot of very
wealthy, powerful people
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like Howard Hughes and
others in that business,
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and he grew into
a multi-millionaire.
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Started in LA, moved
the business to Miami,
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had a company called Batch Air.
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Now, here he is,
this is wife number four,
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meeting Pope John Paul II.
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If you got
enough money, you can...
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He met presidents and
he knew a lot of people.
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He was a philanthropist,
gave a lot of money away,
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but that's not where
happiness comes from.
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My dad used to drink
himself to sleep every night.
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He was so stressed.
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Jesus said, "A man's
life does not consist
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in the abundance of
things he possesses."
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The Lord tells
us, "Do not lay up
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treasures on
earth for yourself."
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In our garage,
we had Rolls-Royce.
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This is not my dad's Rolls.
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I just grabbed one online.
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He had a white
Rolls-Royce, a Maserati,
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stepmother had a
Jaguar, Ferraris,
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I mean, they had all the toys.
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Had fighting, coldness,
unhappiness in the family,
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and I thought,
"What's the purpose of life?
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Nobody seems to be happy."
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"Thieves break
through and steal.
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Rust and moth
corrupt," the Bible tells us.
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So that's dad's side.
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Mom, I don't know how
they ever got married.
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He was a
Republican. She was a Democrat.
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He was a redneck from Oklahoma.
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She was a hippie
from New York City.
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That's maybe why they divorced
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when I was three years of age.
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It didn't last that long.
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But mom was very talented.
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She did not have much formal
education, but she could sing,
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she could write.
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She was an attractive lady.
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And she started
writing songs for Elvis Presley
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when she was still a teenager,
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and recorded two
or three with Elvis.
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But she had songs that were
in movies like "Stagecoach,"
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and she knew
people like Frank Sinatra,
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and Andy Williams
recorded her songs,
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and she wrote some standards.
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She was an actress.
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If you've ever seen the
movie, "The Ten Commandments,"
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mom had a really
little part in that movie.
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And I'd tell the kids, I
said, "There goes grandma."
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That was it. (audience laughing)
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But she did some acting in a
couple of movies in Hollywood.
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At that time she
started having kids,
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and so she gave that up
and she became a film critic.
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And I'm condensing her
whole life very quickly,
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but she was the
president of the Film Critics
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in Hollywood and Beverly Hills.
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And in that position,
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it's a very powerful position
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because she knew
everybody in Hollywood.
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If a movie came out,
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and they spend millions
of dollars on these movies,
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if the film
critic gave a bad review,
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then their income went down,
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and so they were always
afraid of the power of her.
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She was a film critic
on "Good Morning America,"
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and replaced Rona Barrett.
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And I just threw
in a few pictures.
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I could just sit here all day
and show you pictures of mom.
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But like here's
mom with Muhammad Ali,
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with Sir Paul McCartney,
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Sylvester
Stallone, Natalie Wood.
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Some people think she looked
a little bit like Natalie Wood.
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Roger Moore, he was
one of the James Bonds,
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Sally Field, who's still alive.
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There's mom with Clint
Eastwood, and Paul Newman,
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and Benji the Dog.
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I dunno if
anyone remembers that.
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So I just show you
these to let you know
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that when I was with mom...
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Now dad, I was born
in Burbank, California.
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Dad and mom split.
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He ended up moving his
business to Miami Beach.
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Mom moved to New York City.
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My brother and I moved around
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through these different places.
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When she died,
she was all alone.
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And we saw growing up these
people that had lots of money
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and they had lots
of influence and fame,
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and we knew some of
them, that good looking,
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wealthy, healthy,
miserable, killed themselves.
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And I used to think, "Why?
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Does life have any purpose?"
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And so that was the
thing that struck me.
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Then I decided I'm just gonna,
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I'm gonna try and
have all the fun I can.
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I saw this
commercial where it said,
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"You only go
around once in life.
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get all the gusto you can."
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I thought, "All right,
well, I'm gonna die having fun.
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I'm gonna just have
as much fun as I can
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and just go out
enjoying myself."
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And I started to
live a very reckless life.
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I began using drugs.
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I started smoking when I was 13,
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'cause mom and dad both smoked
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and I'd just
take their cigarettes.
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Then mom used to smoke pot.
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And one night she
said, "Now well Doug,
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I know that you're gonna end up
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being exposed to
this out on the streets."
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And she said, "I'd just as
soon you did it here at home."
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So she started
to smoke pot with me
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two or three times
a week, or hashish,
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and we'd eat ice
cream and watch TV.
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But you know, and
so when I was with mom,
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I began to use drugs at home,
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and then when I was
with dad in Florida...
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This is actually
a Google Earth photo
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of the island that dad lived on.
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It's still there today,
Sunset Island Number One,
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and he had that house
on the top of the picture,
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right on the
water with the dock,
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and had security
guards that kept you
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from going on the island.
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Had a butler, a maid.
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Dad had a bar in the
house bigger than some bars
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you might find in a city.
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So whenever I
wanted to go drink,
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my friends and I would
go drink all we wanted.
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And so I learned
how to drink with dad.
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And he never
realized it was missing
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because the
butler kept replacing it
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thinking dad was
just drinking more.
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And so my friends and I
would often party during the day
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and I started drinking.
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And by the way,
all drugs are bad,
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but more of my friends have
died from alcohol than anything.
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And I just mention that
because I encounter Christians
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every now and then that think
drinking a little bit is okay.
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I'll tell you friends,
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one outta seven people that
drinks becomes an alcoholic,
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and it's just caused all
kinds of misery in our society.
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Christians shouldn't
drink anything, any alcohol.
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But then I started getting
into more and more trouble.
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I ran away from home the
first time when I was 13.
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Went up to the hills.
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I always felt
drawn to the hills.
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Ran away the last
time when I was 15.
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Dad said, "I don't
know what to do with you."
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I was just getting into trouble
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with the police and drugs,
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and I'm condensing the story.
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I left home.
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This is actually a picture
from when I was 16 years old,
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a passport picture, and
just started hitchhiking.
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I went from Florida to Maine.
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I had lied on my
driver's license,
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I'm born in 57.
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I turned the seven into a
two on my learner's permit.
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I used that permit to get one
that said I was born in 1952,
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which made me old enough to
buy alcohol and to get a job.
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So I moved to Boston with
some very undesirable friends
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and we began to break
into homes and to steal,
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steal cars, steal televisions,
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and it was getting a
little more heavy duty.
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And I had a part-time
job as a security guard
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during that time.
(audience chuckling)
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I know, it's really bizarre.
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And I never stole from
the people I was guarding,
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'cause I thought,
"Well, they're paying me.
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They trust me.
That wouldn't be right."
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But I had a friend
who was a security guard
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and he knew about my day job.
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See, I'd guard places at night,
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I'd steal during the day
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'cause if you walk
out of someone's apartment
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with a TV during the day,
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they think you're moving.
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You do it at night,
you look suspicious.
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My friend, he found out
about what my day job was
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and he said, "Doug,
your karma's gonna get you."
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I said, "You gonna turn me in?"
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He said, "No, no, your
karma's gonna get you."
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I said, "What's karma?"
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He said, "Whatever
you do, it comes back."
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I said, "Ah, there's no God.
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There's no such thing."
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He said, "You'll see."
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And I started watching.
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You know, that principle
is actually in the Bible
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where it says, "Do unto others
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as you would
have them do unto you.
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And with what measure you mete,
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it'll be measured back to you."
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You call it on the street,
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"What goes
around, comes around."
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I said, "Nah, there's no God."
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He said, "You'll find out."
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I dunno if he was praying
for me or what was happening,
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but not too long after that,
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I woke up in my
apartment in Boston
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and my door was
open and my TV was gone,
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and my radio, and
you should have seen,
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I was so indignant, I
called the police and said,
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"You gotta track
down these thieves.
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What's happening
to our neighborhood?"
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(audience laughing)
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And I started watching,
and everything I did backfired.
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I would steal something,
and my friends were all thieves,
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they'd steal it from me.
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Or I'd steal something
while I was drinking or high,
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and then I'd
forget where I hid it
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and I'd wake up
and I couldn't find it.
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Or I'd risk my
life to steal something,
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and it was broken.
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I'd steal a
stereo and plug it in,
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it didn't even work.
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And you know what finally
convinced me was a small thing.
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I didn't just quit
stealing cold turkey.
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I tried to taper off,
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'cause I noticed that
I went to someone's house
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and I stole a box of
Krusteaz Instant Pancake Mix.
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And I did it because I
was very health conscious.
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I'm drinking and
using drugs and smoking,
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but I only wanted
whole wheat pancake mix
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because I was
very health conscious.
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(audience laughing)
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And so I stole this
person's pancake mix,
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and it cost $1.19.
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The blue stamp of the
price was on the top of the box.
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That very same day,
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some friends
went through my place
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and they took my jar of
Tang Instant Breakfast Drink.
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Anyone remember that?
- [Audience Member] Yeah.
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- And I had a brand new jar,
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and there on top of the
jar it was stamped $1.19.
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and I looked at the pancake mix,
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my friends had
drunk my whole jar.
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It was gone, and there
was an empty jar with a lid
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and I thought,
"Crime doesn't pay.
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There must be a God."
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Once I realized there was a God,
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I thought, "Wow, I
better start searching."
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Don't go anywhere, friends.
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In just a moment we'll return
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I wasn't
interested in Christianity
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because I said, "Aw,
they're all hypocrites."
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I was looking at Christians.
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Friends, if you wanna
find out what a Christian is,
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don't look at
Christians, look at Christ.
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- [Audience] Amen. -
People will let you down.
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Jesus will never let you down.
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- [Audience] Amen.
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- And I said, "Oh,
the Protestants in Ireland
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are blowing up the Catholics,
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and the Catholics are
killing the Protestants,
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and they all
say they love Jesus.
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He says, 'Love your enemies,'
00:14:01.10\00:14:02.20
and they're trying
to kill each other.
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They're all hypocrites."
00:14:02.87\00:14:04.91
And this is back
during the Beatles era.
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So I started getting
into Eastern religions.
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I was just searching
through the whole gamut.
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I got into Hinduism, and
Buddhism, and I was meditating,
00:14:11.41\00:14:16.48
got into the spiritual
science of DNA, chakti,
00:14:18.69\00:14:21.92
transcendental meditation.
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Tried to mix it a
little with the Jewish Kabbalah
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and some of the
Rosicrucian teachings.
00:14:28.50\00:14:31.07
And I just made
this big old potluck stew
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of all these different
religions trying to find God.
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Had gone to Catholic school,
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but I was so confused.
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And it was during this time
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my father flew up to Boston.
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He said, "Doug, you've
gotta go back to school."
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He said, "Your brother's sick."
00:14:49.12\00:14:50.25
He said, "I've
got these companies."
00:14:50.25\00:14:51.35
He said, "You're just
throwing your life away.
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You must get an education."
00:14:52.75\00:14:55.02
And he said, "I found a school
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I think will make you happy."
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I said, "I'm not going
back to military school."
00:14:57.39\00:14:59.09
Back then they had no girls.
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Since then they
actually have girls
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at New York
Military Academy now.
00:15:01.86\00:15:03.37
They had none back then.
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I said, "I'm not going
back to an all boy school."
00:15:04.87\00:15:06.57
And he said, "I found a school.
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It's actually two boats
that sail around the world.
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It's called
'Flint School Abroad.'"
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He says, "There's
girls on the boat."
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And he said,
"You'll go water skiing.
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You'll see all the
world. You'll have adventures."
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I thought, "Well, all right."
00:15:21.55\00:15:22.92
So right from there he
flew me to Genoa, Italy.
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And I'm at the
school, they were in Naples,
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and put me on this boat,
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and I found out I'd
been tricked a little bit.
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This is actually from
the website, a picture of the
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school, the two
ships that we sailed on.
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It was a school for the children
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of wealthy
politicians and millionaires
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that had gotten
involved in drugs or some cult
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to get them out
of their environment
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and to try and straighten
them out through isolation.
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Very expensive,
very sophisticated.
00:15:54.22\00:15:56.35
And they teach atheism.
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They
indoctrinate you with atheism.
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They show you films of Darwin.
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You're always
reading Ayn Rand books.
00:16:02.56\00:16:04.46
I mean it was...
00:16:04.46\00:16:05.69
And now I'm very religious.
00:16:05.69\00:16:07.66
Now I'm meditating
trying to find God in my DNA.
00:16:07.66\00:16:10.50
I was playing my
flute down in my cabin.
00:16:11.57\00:16:14.00
And I sort of rebelled.
00:16:14.00\00:16:15.00
I got into a lot of trouble.
00:16:15.00\00:16:16.54
One thing I learned though
00:16:16.54\00:16:17.67
that I thought
was very interesting,
00:16:17.67\00:16:18.81
is even though
now everyone on board
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claimed to be an atheist,
00:16:20.98\00:16:22.38
we were sailing
from Northern Africa
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over to Spain
just before Christmas,
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and we
encountered a terrible storm.
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And I know on a map the
Mediterranean doesn't look very
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big, but if you get out in
the middle of it in a storm,
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it looks very big.
00:16:36.59\00:16:38.53
And the waves got
to be 25, 30 feet.
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And the bow of the ship
was going through the waves,
00:16:41.66\00:16:44.37
and parts of the wave
would roll across the boat
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and things were
washing overboard.
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The wind picked up.
00:16:48.57\00:16:49.64
It was like a
hurricane and the sail ripped
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and the boat's
rocking back and forth.
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So you go below deck
and everybody's bunks
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and books and things
were all tossed helter-skelter
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in the bottom of the ship.
00:16:59.71\00:17:00.58
And everybody was seasick.
00:17:00.58\00:17:02.68
And the captain was seasick.
00:17:03.99\00:17:06.52
And the water was very cold,
00:17:07.52\00:17:08.96
and the captain said,
00:17:08.96\00:17:10.06
"Look, if you
get blown overboard,
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we need to let you know,
00:17:11.89\00:17:12.69
you have to be very careful
00:17:12.69\00:17:13.80
because we can't
turn around and get you.
00:17:13.80\00:17:16.10
We will mark the spot.
00:17:16.10\00:17:17.43
But in this storm, if we
turn around we'll capsize."
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I mean, it was that scary.
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What do you think
atheists do in a storm
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when they think
they're gonna die?
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Nobody needed any lessons.
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And everybody knew what to say.
00:17:29.38\00:17:31.05
So, and I was praying too.
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And they're all making promises.
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People know what to confess
when they're about to die.
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They don't need any...
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They know what's wrong.
00:17:38.42\00:17:40.26
Well, about this time,
00:17:40.26\00:17:42.69
when they gave us
Christmas break, I took off.
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I said, "I'm never going
back to this school again."
00:17:48.26\00:17:50.60
I went home.
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I sold everything
I had to my brother,
00:17:51.70\00:17:52.83
and I took off and
I started hitch hiking
00:17:52.83\00:17:55.40
from Miami,
Florida to California.
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My grandparents lived
in Desert Hot Springs.
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And I had found a cave
when I was 15 years old
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hitchhiking around the country.
00:18:02.74\00:18:04.25
Found a cave and I thought,
00:18:04.25\00:18:05.31
"I'm gonna go move
back up in that cave.
00:18:05.31\00:18:07.42
I'm gonna now
find God in nature."
00:18:07.42\00:18:09.62
And so I did that.
00:18:10.59\00:18:11.92
On my way across, I got
stuck hitchhiking in Oklahoma.
00:18:13.22\00:18:17.13
Now this is Christmas
time and it was freezing cold.
00:18:17.13\00:18:21.66
And I had come from
Florida and I wasn't thinking,
00:18:21.66\00:18:23.83
and I've got this
thin windbreaker jacket
00:18:23.83\00:18:27.27
and no warm clothes,
00:18:27.27\00:18:28.90
and the weather
is below freezing
00:18:28.90\00:18:30.51
and I'm out on the
interstate begging for a ride.
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And I thought I was
gonna die out there.
00:18:33.58\00:18:34.98
And I spent hours out there
and nobody would pick me up.
00:18:34.98\00:18:38.91
I was hungover from
drinking and playing pool.
00:18:38.91\00:18:42.48
The day before,
00:18:42.48\00:18:43.62
I'd lost all my
money in making silly bets.
00:18:43.62\00:18:47.56
And I became very desperate.
00:18:47.56\00:18:48.79
I was a pretty rotten person.
00:18:48.79\00:18:51.96
I said, "Lord," I prayed.
00:18:51.96\00:18:55.20
I said, "Will
you please help me?"
00:18:55.20\00:18:56.00
I didn't even know how to pray,
00:18:56.00\00:18:57.27
I prayed the simple prayer.
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I asked God for four things.
00:18:58.40\00:19:00.50
I said, "Will you
please help me get a ride
00:19:00.50\00:19:03.20
to where I'm going?"
00:19:03.20\00:19:04.31
I still had like
1500 miles to go.
00:19:04.31\00:19:06.14
"Will you please help me
get some food, I'm hungry."
00:19:07.48\00:19:11.31
I said, "Please help me
get some money. I'm broke."
00:19:11.31\00:19:14.28
And I said, "Please give me
a ride with someone normal."
00:19:14.28\00:19:17.12
Because
hitchhiking, I kept getting
00:19:17.12\00:19:18.82
picked up by crazy people,
or they had ulterior motives,
00:19:18.82\00:19:22.22
or they were drunk and
nearly scared me half to death.
00:19:22.22\00:19:24.99
As soon as I finished praying,
00:19:25.89\00:19:27.23
the next vehicle
stopped and picked me up,
00:19:27.23\00:19:30.07
took me 1500 miles to
the door of Palm Springs
00:19:30.07\00:19:33.90
of where I was going.
00:19:33.90\00:19:35.54
Fed me all the way
out. I didn't ask him to.
00:19:35.54\00:19:39.04
He gave me $40 when he dropped
me off that I didn't ask for.
00:19:39.04\00:19:42.88
I also did not ask
for him to preach to me
00:19:42.88\00:19:44.98
all the way from
Oklahoma (audience laughing)
00:19:44.98\00:19:46.78
to Palm Springs, California.
00:19:46.78\00:19:49.18
This guy was a
born again Christian.
00:19:49.18\00:19:50.59
So when I prayed
for a ride, God said,
00:19:50.59\00:19:52.02
"I'm waiting for
the right ride, Doug."
00:19:52.02\00:19:54.72
This guy picked me up
and he's just very nice.
00:19:54.72\00:19:56.79
Whenever we
stopped to eat, he said,
00:19:56.79\00:19:57.99
"Let me buy your food."
00:19:57.99\00:19:59.19
I had to listen to him
or jump out of the car.
00:20:00.30\00:20:02.46
And so, you know,
I pick up hitchhikers
00:20:03.60\00:20:04.87
and I witness to 'em now.
00:20:04.87\00:20:05.90
I still do that.
00:20:05.90\00:20:07.44
And I find it helps if you wait
until you're doing about 65,
00:20:07.44\00:20:10.21
and then you make
your gospel presentation.
00:20:10.21\00:20:12.11
(audience laughing)
00:20:12.11\00:20:13.21
And then you
turn and look at them
00:20:13.21\00:20:14.41
and then you accelerate and say,
00:20:14.41\00:20:15.51
"Would you like
to accept Jesus?"
00:20:15.51\00:20:17.01
(audience laughing)
00:20:17.01\00:20:19.48
No, I do, I still
pick up hitchhikers.
00:20:19.48\00:20:20.75
I don't do that, though.
00:20:20.75\00:20:22.02
So this time now I was
gonna find God through nature.
00:20:24.82\00:20:27.06
And this is some
pictures that my brother
00:20:27.06\00:20:28.79
actually took of when I was...
00:20:28.79\00:20:30.39
I'm 17 years old at this point.
00:20:30.39\00:20:32.69
And I went up to the cave and...
00:20:32.69\00:20:36.03
I found a cave that was,
00:20:37.93\00:20:39.07
it was several thousand
feet above Palm Springs.
00:20:39.07\00:20:43.37
And then you go
back down in this valley
00:20:43.37\00:20:45.14
and right by the
cave there was water.
00:20:45.14\00:20:48.18
The mountain was 11,000
feet. It's Mount San Jacinto.
00:20:48.18\00:20:50.95
There's
actually a picture of it.
00:20:50.95\00:20:52.68
I think it's the
next picture there.
00:20:52.68\00:20:54.28
So water always
came down by the cave.
00:20:54.28\00:20:57.92
And it's a very isolated spot
00:20:57.92\00:20:59.72
even though you're
in Southern California.
00:20:59.72\00:21:01.16
And I lived in the cave,
I never wore any clothes.
00:21:01.16\00:21:04.43
It was warm.
00:21:04.43\00:21:05.73
And I thought, "I'm
gonna find God in nature."
00:21:05.73\00:21:07.66
And I even had a Bible argument,
"Adam and Eve were naked.
00:21:07.66\00:21:10.07
This is God's plan."
00:21:10.07\00:21:11.77
Now I went to
town, I put clothes on,
00:21:11.77\00:21:13.20
'cause you don't last very long
00:21:13.20\00:21:14.27
walking around
like that in town.
00:21:14.27\00:21:15.84
But one time I did
go to town and I forgot,
00:21:15.84\00:21:17.91
but that's another story.
00:21:17.91\00:21:19.17
(audience laughing)
00:21:19.17\00:21:20.78
So I would
panhandle, I'd play the flute,
00:21:20.78\00:21:23.11
and I'd dig
around in the dumpster.
00:21:23.11\00:21:25.31
Now think about this.
00:21:26.41\00:21:27.68
When my grandparents found
out and they told my father,
00:21:29.05\00:21:32.05
they said, "Doug
is getting his food
00:21:32.05\00:21:34.02
out of the garbage
behind the market."
00:21:34.02\00:21:36.62
My father worked so hard
so that we would not be poor
00:21:36.62\00:21:39.39
like he was
during the Depression.
00:21:39.39\00:21:41.16
His father died
when he was seven,
00:21:42.36\00:21:43.93
and he and his
brothers had to work so hard
00:21:43.93\00:21:45.83
to fight off
poverty, and he thought,
00:21:45.83\00:21:48.10
"I never want my
kids to do that."
00:21:48.10\00:21:50.04
They said, "Doug
is getting his food
00:21:50.04\00:21:50.87
outta the garbage can."
00:21:50.87\00:21:52.74
How do you think
that made him feel?
00:21:52.74\00:21:55.31
That just broke him.
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How do you think
your Heavenly Father feels
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when he gives his
Son to save you from sin,
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and we go to the
devil's dumpster for happiness?
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That breaks his heart.
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It's not gonna satisfy you.
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Well, the miracle that
I didn't share with you...
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Oh, by the way,
here's a picture.
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I'm in my cave
with my cat, Stranger.
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I found one picture
where I had my clothes on.
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Thought I'd share that with you.
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(audience laughing)
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The miracle is in my cave,
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somebody had left
a Bible in the cave.
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When I moved into the cave,
other people had camped there.
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There was soot on the ceiling,
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and there was
some old sleeping bags,
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and pots and pans, and a Bible.
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Well, I didn't pay
much attention to it,
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but after about six months,
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I thought, "I'm
gonna read the Bible
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so I can argue with Christians."
00:22:36.35\00:22:38.82
'Cause I kept
meeting these Christians,
00:22:38.82\00:22:39.95
and I thought
they were so ignorant.
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I said, "No, you're just...
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I believe in reincarnation."
00:22:43.02\00:22:44.46
And they were just...
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I said, "Bible's been changed.
00:22:46.23\00:22:47.36
You can't believe the Bible.
00:22:47.36\00:22:48.13
It's fables and fairy tales."
00:22:48.13\00:22:50.27
So I said, "I'm
gonna read the Bible
00:22:52.73\00:22:54.07
so I can argue with them,"
00:22:54.07\00:22:55.57
'cause I felt ignorant.
00:22:55.57\00:22:56.60
They'd say,
"Are you born again?"
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I thought, "What do they mean?"
00:22:58.41\00:22:59.21
"Are you washed in the blood?"
00:22:59.21\00:23:00.08
And I thought, "That was gory.
00:23:00.08\00:23:01.51
What are they talking about?"
00:23:01.51\00:23:03.21
So I began to read the Bible,
00:23:03.21\00:23:05.51
and I got bogged
down in the Old Testament.
00:23:05.51\00:23:08.48
Someone said, "Doug, you need
to go to the New Testament."
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So I went to the New Testament,
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and I read Matthew, Mark.
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I read about Jesus,
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Every day I'd make banana bread
00:23:17.26\00:23:18.69
from the day-old
bananas I got from the market,
00:23:18.69\00:23:21.63
and I'd eat banana
bread and I'd read the Bible.
00:23:21.63\00:23:24.10
And I kept saying,
"This can't be true.
00:23:25.20\00:23:27.14
No, this can't be true."
00:23:27.14\00:23:28.64
But a voice kept
telling me, "This is the truth.
00:23:28.64\00:23:30.54
And just the
teachings of Jesus."
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I finally came to the
same conclusion as C.S. Lewis.
00:23:32.87\00:23:35.88
He says, "You really,
when you encounter Jesus,
00:23:35.88\00:23:38.05
you've only got three options.
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He's either a liar, he's
a lunatic, or he's Lord."
00:23:39.41\00:23:44.55
- [Audience Member] Amen.
00:23:45.35\00:23:46.42
- And I said,
"Well, he's not crazy,
00:23:46.42\00:23:47.52
'cause he said the
most profound things
00:23:47.52\00:23:48.89
I've ever heard.
00:23:48.89\00:23:50.59
He's not a liar because he
could've lied to save his life."
00:23:50.59\00:23:53.86
Everything he said
resonated with truth.
00:23:53.86\00:23:56.53
"My only option is this
man was telling the truth
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that God became a man
to save us from our sins."
00:24:00.04\00:24:04.01
And then I knew what that meant
00:24:04.01\00:24:05.14
is that I needed
to ask him to save me.
00:24:05.14\00:24:08.58
And while I was only 17,
00:24:09.41\00:24:11.31
I had a pretty
good record of sin.
00:24:11.31\00:24:13.08
And so up there in
the cave I got on my knees
00:24:14.22\00:24:15.85
and I said, "Lord, I'm a mess.
00:24:15.85\00:24:18.12
But if you would forgive me
00:24:18.12\00:24:20.06
and give me some
purpose for living."
00:24:20.06\00:24:21.86
I was a number
one first class zero.
00:24:21.86\00:24:24.93
I was running
around in the mountains,
00:24:24.93\00:24:26.83
eating out of garbage cans,
00:24:26.83\00:24:27.96
using drugs, drinking, stealing,
00:24:27.96\00:24:29.90
thought I was spiritual,
00:24:29.90\00:24:31.67
long hair and a beard.
00:24:33.00\00:24:34.50
I mean I was just a big zero.
00:24:34.50\00:24:36.44
I said, "Lord, if you give
me some purpose for living,"
00:24:36.44\00:24:39.91
and he came into my heart
and began to transform me,
00:24:39.91\00:24:44.21
and I felt so happy,
I felt a peace and a joy
00:24:44.21\00:24:46.88
that now every time
someone came by my cave hiking,
00:24:46.88\00:24:49.68
I started giving Bible studies.
00:24:49.68\00:24:51.52
First Bible
studies, I had no clothes on.
00:24:51.52\00:24:53.96
(audience chuckling)
00:24:53.96\00:24:55.49
But they didn't have
any clothes on either.
00:24:55.49\00:24:57.16
So you know, the Lord
meets us where we're at.
00:24:57.16\00:24:59.46
I think, God, he's very patient.
00:25:00.43\00:25:03.03
I was absolutely sincere,
00:25:03.03\00:25:04.50
and I was giving
Bible studies to people.
00:25:04.50\00:25:06.50
And then I said,
"Lord, maybe you don't want me
00:25:06.50\00:25:07.94
to live in a cave forever."
00:25:07.94\00:25:09.40
I said, "I wanna
tell people about you,
00:25:09.40\00:25:11.01
but I don't know how
that's gonna happen."
00:25:11.01\00:25:12.41
I said, "I'm in a cave, but
I feel this desire to tell."
00:25:12.41\00:25:14.71
I said, "Lord, if you want me
00:25:14.71\00:25:15.88
to tell other people about you,
00:25:15.88\00:25:17.41
you've gotta work this out."
00:25:17.41\00:25:18.98
So a quick story.
00:25:18.98\00:25:20.08
After I prayed
that prayer and I said,
00:25:20.08\00:25:21.42
"Lord, if you want me to
tell other people about you,
00:25:21.42\00:25:23.85
I dunno how I'm
gonna do it, I'm a hermit."
00:25:23.85\00:25:26.39
I go down to town and
I call my mother collect.
00:25:26.39\00:25:28.86
I used to check
in and she'd say,
00:25:28.86\00:25:30.26
"Just tell me you're
alive once every couple weeks."
00:25:30.26\00:25:33.09
So I called mom.
00:25:33.09\00:25:33.90
She said, "I'm glad you called."
00:25:33.90\00:25:35.20
She said, "Are you gonna
be at your cave next week?"
00:25:35.20\00:25:37.63
I said, "Yeah."
00:25:37.63\00:25:39.10
She said, "I'm
gonna come visit you."
00:25:39.10\00:25:41.30
I said, "What?" I said,
"You can't get up there."
00:25:41.30\00:25:42.37
She said, "No, no.
00:25:42.37\00:25:43.44
I'm bringing a film
crew with a helicopter.
00:25:43.44\00:25:45.27
They want to interview you.
00:25:46.51\00:25:47.81
They think it's interesting
that a millionaire son
00:25:47.81\00:25:49.91
is living in a cave."
00:25:49.91\00:25:52.05
And ABC, I'm sorry,
NBC rented a helicopter
00:25:53.11\00:25:57.32
and a film crew.
00:25:57.32\00:25:58.29
They flew me up to the cave.
00:25:58.29\00:26:00.19
This was actually that
day in front of the cave.
00:26:00.19\00:26:02.12
They flew mom in
with a helicopter.
00:26:02.12\00:26:04.09
This is Bill Applegate.
00:26:04.09\00:26:05.63
It was on national
television three times.
00:26:05.63\00:26:07.76
And they said, "Why
are you doing this?"
00:26:07.76\00:26:09.20
I was able to
share a quick testimony.
00:26:09.20\00:26:11.27
Right after I said, "Lord,
if you want me to tell anyone,
00:26:12.63\00:26:14.44
I don't know how
I'm gonna tell anyone.
00:26:14.44\00:26:15.60
I live ina cave,"
00:26:15.60\00:26:16.40
he sends a film crew to my cave.
00:26:16.40\00:26:19.44
(audience laughing)
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That's when I started thinking,
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