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Our world has seen some great
and amazing travelers like Marco
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Polo, Christopher Columbus,
James Cook, Ferdinand Magellan,
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Vasco de Gama and Ibn Battuta.
These trailblazers journeyed to
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the ends of the earth. They were
brave, determined and resilient.
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These courageous pioneers
stepped out into the unknown and
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staged epic journeys across land
and sea to explore and open up
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our world. By ship, camel or on
foot, they traveled hundreds of
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thousands of kilometers.
But surely our age has seen the
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greatest travelers of all time.
They don't travel by camel, ship
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or on foot, but by airships,
airplanes and the greatest of
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these modern travelers are the
pilots who fly these jet planes.
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They cover more kilometers and
travel to more destinations in
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less time than anyone else in
history. Today's it's Paris and
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London, tomorrow New York
and Washington, then Moscow,
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Shanghai, Tokyo, Sidney and
Auckland. The world is their
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destination. Pilots really do
enjoy a jet setters life style.
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One of glamour, style and
entertainment as they journey to
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the ends of the earth. They are
the ultimate globe trotters of
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the 21st century. Well today you
are going to meet one of these
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real life jet pilots. He's one
of those people who sit right
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pointy end of planes who have
our lives in their hands and who
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we hear through the intercom but
rarely, if ever, actually see.
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This pilot has made one of the
greatest journeys. His amazing
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story will surprise and inspire
you and may even change your
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life. So join us for
the jet pilot's journey.
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Have you got 18 hours and 45
minutes. That's the length of a
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new flight between Singapore and
New York. It's a new record for
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the longest noncommercial flight
in the world, a distance of
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15,348 km or 9537 miles. Fifty
years ago the so called Kangaroo
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Run from Australia to London
took four days and seven stops.
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Today it's a direct flight and
takes a mere fifth of the time.
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Ever since the Wright brothers'
first flight in 1903 lasting
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just 59 seconds and covering
a distance of 260 meters, the
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airline industry has been
setting new records. Qantas
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Airline proudly holds one of
most enviable of these records,
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the world's safest airline
due to its fatality free record
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the jet era. This is an
incredible safety record for an
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airline that currently carries
nearly 50 million passengers per
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year. Not only has Qantas had a
flawless record for more than 65
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years but it's also the reigning
world's safest airline for the
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fourth year running. Now there
are many factors that contribute
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to this immaculate safety record
but one of the main reasons is
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the trusty and well trained
pilots at the controls of these
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planes. These pilots are trained
to the highest standards and can
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draw up almost 100 years of
aviation experience. And, yes,
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they're among the world's
greatest travelers. Today we're
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going to meet one of these
pilots. Captain Graham Hood
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has flown 35,000 hours, has
carried 5 million passengers and
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has flown over 20 million
kilometers. Now that's like
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flying to the moon and back
25 times. It's further than the
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distance traveled by all of the
great early explorers combined.
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They say that airline pilots
have the best office in the
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world. So let's go and have
a look and hear about Captain
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Hood's longest journey and the
greatest challenge of his life.
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It'll surprise and inspire you.
Captain Graham Hood, thank you
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for inviting us
into your office.
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Thanks for coming Gary, Welcome
aboard. Let's go in and have a
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chat.
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Wow! Graham tell us
about the plane we're in.
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We're in a Qantas 9737-800. It's
one of about ten thousand that
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have been built in the
history of the Boeing 737.
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What's it like working in here?
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It's a familiar office to me.
I've been in the airplane since
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1986 and it's a very familiar
place but it's a place that we
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need to be on top of all the
time. It's fairly confined but
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it needs to be confined so we
can reach all the instruments,
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dials and switches that we need
to without getting out of our
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seats. Um, we spend a lot of
time in here. We can spend up
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to 12 hours a day here and
we might do three, four or five
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flights a day.
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But Graham, you've been on
an even longer journey than your
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pilot's responsibilities. Tell
us about your longest and most
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challenging journey.
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The journey of life has been my
longest and most challenging and
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I'm happy to talk to you about
that but let's go somewhere
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quiet. I'll change into
something more appropriate and
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we can have a
good chat about that.
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Well this is more comfortable
isn't it. Gary, you asked me
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about my longest and most
challenging journey. My story
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began in a very dysfunctional
marriage when I was you know
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in my early childhood that I was
aware that my parents' marriage
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was dysfunctional. They were two
great people who lived through
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incredible odds. They grew up as
children of the early depression
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My brother left home when I
was five. He was 17. He couldn't
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stand the dysfunction anymore.
And I remember feeling really
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insecure in their marriage. Even
as young as five I can remember
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feeling that insecurity.
And I grew up in the red light
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district of Sydney. As a kid
I used to ride billy carts and
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line ways between brothels and
places of ill repute in the city
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this part of Sydney.
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And then we moved out
into the bush and we lived
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in a 15 foot caravan, just the
three of us, my mom and dad and
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I. And it was very, very intense
There was no way to escape from
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each other. And I lived through
their dysfunction and more.
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And just as I was about to start
high school at the age of 12 I
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contracted rheumatic fever and
I was confined to bed in this
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caravan on my own every night
as they went to work for about
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six months. And in my boredom
I just went exploring the
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caravan and I found a box of
girlie magazines. That started a
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dreadful cycle in my life. I
always wanted to be a hero like
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all young boys do. They want
to be policemen or firemen or
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soldiers or pilots. And I found
these magazines and it awakened
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something in me that I couldn't
quell. It overtook me in a dark
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sense. I remember feeling abject
disgust with myself at watching
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this. I couldn't stop watching.
I became addicted very quickly.
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I went on with my flying career.
I did it the hard way, I had to
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go and make a living and pay for
flying lessons and I left school
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when I was 13 because of the
dysfunction of my addiction. At
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that early age I couldn't be at
school. I was very much alone.
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And I developed my career. That
went along well. I thought if I
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got married my addiction would
go away because I'd be with a
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lady and all these desires would
disappear which was a falsehood.
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So we got married for the wrong
reasons and we were two good
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people who brought a couple of
beautiful kids into the world.
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But we lived in this dysfunction
for 30 plus years and eventually
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the marriage dissolved. My
pornography addiction got worse
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in the dysfunction of the
marriage. For me the worst
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part of my addiction was
one evening when my 12-year-old
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daughter's reflection appeared
in the screen that I was
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watching after I turned my
computer off. And to her I was
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a hero. And I'll never forget
the look. And I thought that
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would end it for me. I thought
I would stop then and there,
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that was it. And I promised
myself I would. But with no
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foundation for that promise I
found myself two days later back
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into it again. And as you can
see that's a pretty emotional
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memory for me. But eventually my
30-year-old marriage ended and I
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met someone else and this lady
is somebody who's really helped
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me to understand my addiction.
She's a psychologist as well and
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together we formed an
organization called Mission
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Serenity and we devoted our
lives to helping people deal
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with these issues.
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Graham tell us about how
pervasive and addictive porn is.
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Back in my day when I
first started my involvement in
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pornography it was very hard
to get. You'd get it in subtle
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forms like there was always a
page three girl in a newspaper.
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The girlie magazines I talked
about that my dad had. I think
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my dad had them under the bed
in a box. So back then it was
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difficult to get the kind
of pornography that we get now
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but now it's just open slanted.
But it's in everything we use
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for communication. Our
social media is filled with it.
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Advertising,
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television, reality TV programs
are filled with subtle hints of
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sexuality and nudity and there
are a lot of children who watch
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pornography who are terrified
that they'll never be able to
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perform as the porn stars on
the mobile devices. And there
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are young girls who think that
the only way to get a boy is to
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behave like a porn star. It's
destructive. Children are seeing
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this stuff. That's how they're
getting their sex education.
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Graham what are
the problems with porn?
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Pornography destroys intimacy.
There are people who say that
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watching porn enhances their
marriage. Watching porn brings
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other people into your bed
through you mind or through a
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screen. It destroys intimacy.
It destroys marriage. It gives
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people a false sense of how they
need to perform in the marriage.
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So how widespread is
porn and it's problems?
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The world wide web was
established initially as a
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military tool and it's first
commercial purpose was in the
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providing of pornography. A lot
of the commercial systems that
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we use in online banking and
purchasing of goods, et cetera
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and services came about by
systems that were set in place
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so people could pay remotely for
pornography that they could view
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on their computer. But I can
remember pornography going back
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to French post cards in
the first world war that were
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circulated amongst the trenches
and it's pretty clear that
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pornography was designed mainly
for men and to attract men and
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draw them as an audience to
it. But you know females were
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attracted to pornography through
novels for a man, novels, et
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cetera. The covers of books
were scantily clad people in an
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embrace and then there was this
romantic fantasy that they leaf
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through.
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And that was a subtle
form of pornography as well.
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Is there any hope for porn
addicts? Is there a way out?
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There is hope. I spent decades
seeking a way out and couldn't
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find it. I tried all this,
self help groups, counseling,
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psychology, seminars. All these
things seemed to work for a
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little while but they all failed
in the end and I realized that
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I was trying to do this on my
own power and I recognized that
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my own power was miniscule.
I couldn't control this. I've
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never been able to. Who
was I kidding? And one day my
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youngest daughter, the one whose
reflection was in the screen,
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asked me a very pertinent
question. We were talking about
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faith and she says to me you
know dad I'm about to make some
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decisions about faith. And I
said, Oh okay that's interesting
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I've never really thought about
it. And she said well that's why
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I want to ask you. Where do you
stand on faith? And all through
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my life I though well I'm either
an agnostic or an atheist and it
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was a very big question she
asked me and I wanted some time
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to think about that. And I came
back to her with an answer that
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was I honestly think there must
be a God because I thought about
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it. Most of us don't really
think about it to that depth.
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Then all of a sudden I
had an identity for the
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higher power that
could lead me out of this.
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I needed someone
who had a greater
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power then the power of the
addiction that was driving me.
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That I could package my
addiction up in a parcel and
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give it to them and Gary for
me that was Jesus. I had a light
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bulb moment. So then I
started to explore the option of
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Christian faith and I started to
think about Jesus. I mean I've
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seen the movies you know
and we've celebrated Easter and
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Christmas and all those things
in ways that we tend to do. Now
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it's a time when you get
together and have a party.
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But who was Jesus Christ? And in
several months of thinking about
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that I came to a conclusion.
A man I'd never met ever 2000
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years ago died the worst
possible death on the cross so
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a filthy porn addict like
me could have a second chance.
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That's the power, that's
the answer. And daily I have to
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commit to that power. I have to
commit to what that can do for
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me in my life. And I talk
to many Christian men who are
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addicted to pornography and
that knowledge of Jesus doesn't
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come through to them. But I
say stick with it. Learn more.
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Understand who He is because He
has the power to take this away
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and for me that was the most
profound revelation and that's
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where my hope is, Gary. That's
why I'm so emotional about it.
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Years of searching. It was there
all the time and I didn't know
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it. That power is amazing. That
power is there 24/7. It never
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turns off, it never fades away.
It's always there whenever I
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need it it's there. I don't have
to pay for it, I don't have to
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make a phone call. I don't have
to make an appointment. It's
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there always. That's the hope
and that's the hope that gets me
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So how can friends and
family help a porn addict?
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Now Gary, I met my current
wife Michelle 12 years ago
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talk to her about all my issues
in my life and she with me. And
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I was able to give up
pornography cold turkey at that
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time. It was also at the same
time that I found faith in Jesus
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So I was able to give it up cold
turkey and doing really well and
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for about six years there was no
temptation or anything and one
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day I found myself in a position
where I stumbled and I had to
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confess it to Michelle. And I
confessed it to her with great
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trepidation. There was a voice
in this ear saying, Ah what does
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it matter. It doesn't matter you
know. Just keep it to yourself.
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She doesn't need to know. You
know what'll happen if you tell
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her. It'll be the end of your
marriage. And there's another
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voice in here, a quiet little
voice that says, You know what
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you have to do. So I sat
her down one day and I said,
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Sweetheart, I have something
to tell you that may destroy our
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relationship. And she said,
what is it? I said three or four
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weeks ago in Adelaide I stumbled
I don't know why I stumbled
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and I went
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back and I watched porn for a
couple of hours. And I held my
00:17:01.95\00:17:04.59
breath and I started to cry, and
she looked me with this warmth
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and she said to me, Honey are
you okay? Not the response I was
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expecting. And I said, No I
couldn't feel any worse. And
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then she said to me. Was
it anything I did? And I said,
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Sweetheart and I want to say
this to everybody who's watching
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especially the wives of men who
are affected. This is a problem
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I've had since I was 12
years old, darling. This has got
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nothing to do with you in my
life at the moment. So, please
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don't take that on. And the next
question was the clincher. She
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looked at me with a smile and
she said what can I do to help
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you? And at the moment she did
that, I saw the face of Jesus,
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because that's what he does.
He doesn't condemn and isolate.
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And she doesn't condemn and
isolate. I've had a couple of
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stumbles and I've always been
able to talk to her with it and
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she takes on the attitude of
what can we do now Sweetheart?
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What's the next step for us
as a couple, because we are one
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flesh. What I do affects her,
what she does affects me and
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she's made that clear. It
doesn't condone me stumbling
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back into pornography but
it doesn't mean that I've got a
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line drawn through me, that I'm
completely isolated and lost to
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my wife and my marriage and
my family and my community. And
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that's the way we have to
approach it. We will never stamp
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out pornography, I believe that
to my core, but it's the way we
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deal with it. The last thing you
want to do is take a good man
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and isolate him because
an addiction he's had that he
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developed when he was only a
child. That's just not fair Gary
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We have to adopt a different way
and isolation doesn't work. If
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Jesus can forgive me, why can't
you? And we have to work as a
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team together.
00:18:49.19\00:18:50.53
Graham, it's been a pleasure
to have you on our program today
00:18:50.56\00:18:53.33
and thank you so much for
sharing your story with us.
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Thank you for flying
with me Gary. Cheers.
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It's a sensitive topic isn't
it? Pornography is the global
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elephant in the room. We
all know it exists but generally
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it's much easier to leave as the
great unspeakable, an issue best
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left alone in the hope that
it'll go away. But porn isn't
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going away. Rather, it's getting
bigger and the latest stats are
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truly disturbing. Every second
over 30,000 people view porn.
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The global porn industry rakes
in over five billion dollars
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annually. Porn sites comprise
around 12 percent of the
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internet. Two-thirds of
Australian men admit to viewing
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pornography. One-third of
all porn users are women and 60
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percent of Australian children
learn about sex from pornography
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And here's why it's a real
problem. In our hypersexualized
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culture porn is increasingly
seen as normal and even, perhaps
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good. But in reality it's
far from being helpful. Porn
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provides a false intimacy
and destroys the fabric of human
00:20:17.85\00:20:21.78
relationships. Porn literally
rewires our brains and changes
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us. The appeal and grip of porn
becomes stronger and stronger
00:20:28.62\00:20:33.56
and as a person gets caught up
in it, they crave increasingly
00:20:33.60\00:20:37.70
explicit sexual images. A
seriously addicted person can
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spend hours and hours at a time
viewing image after image, often
00:20:42.64\00:20:47.54
late into the night, ever
searching for the one experience
00:20:47.58\00:20:52.21
that will truly satisfy
their longing. But that elusive
00:20:52.25\00:20:56.42
satisfaction never comes and so
the process is repeated and the
00:20:56.45\00:21:01.22
addiction becomes stronger
and stronger. Porn is inherently
00:21:01.26\00:21:07.30
destructive. It
destroys marriages by driving a
00:21:07.33\00:21:10.87
relational wedge between spouses
as one begins to prefer the porn
00:21:10.90\00:21:15.64
actual intimacy and the other
feels that they cannot compete
00:21:15.67\00:21:20.51
with the computer screen. And
it destroys singles when they
00:21:20.54\00:21:25.28
become trapped in the cycle of
pornography inhibiting them from
00:21:25.31\00:21:29.48
healthy relationships with the
opposite sex and forcing them to
00:21:29.52\00:21:33.56
deal with the guilt and
shame of leading a double life.
00:21:33.59\00:21:37.16
Pornography objectifies the
women and men who act in porn
00:21:37.19\00:21:42.43
films and supports an industry
rife with corruption, sexual
00:21:42.46\00:21:47.77
abuse, drug abuse, sex
trafficking and suicide. And
00:21:47.80\00:21:52.31
most seriously it destroys
relationships with God through
00:21:52.34\00:21:57.18
an infatuation, worship of a
twisted counterfeit of the good
00:21:57.21\00:22:03.08
gift of sex instead of the
gracious giver, God himself. It
00:22:03.12\00:22:08.59
brings guilt and shame
and separates us from God. But
00:22:08.62\00:22:13.53
here's the good news. There
is hope. God loves us and wants
00:22:13.56\00:22:18.63
only the best for us and so
when we accept Jesus and commit
00:22:18.67\00:22:23.27
our lives to him, he sets
us free. We don't need to live
00:22:23.30\00:22:27.84
enslaved to porn anymore. We can
experience true freedom. Jesus
00:22:27.88\00:22:33.58
paid the penalty for all of our
sins and mistakes on the cross
00:22:33.62\00:22:37.39
including pornography. Here's
what the Bible says in Isaiah
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chapter 1 and verse 18:
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And that's the theme that runs
right through the Bible. That's
00:22:58.11\00:23:01.88
what Jesus is all about,
forgiveness, freedom. His love
00:23:01.91\00:23:07.25
and forgiveness are
unconditional. Notice what it
00:23:07.28\00:23:10.29
says in 1 John
chapter 1 and verse 9:
00:23:10.32\00:23:14.89
Jesus offers us a friendship,
a relationship with him that
00:23:25.67\00:23:29.54
transforms our entire life
including our sex life. Jesus
00:23:29.57\00:23:34.71
gives us a new identity and a
new way to live. Please notice
00:23:34.74\00:23:39.15
what it says in 2 Corinthians
chapter 5 and verse 17:
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The old ways, the old life
are gone and you live a new life
00:23:57.17\00:24:02.77
with Jesus, a life of happiness
and fulfillment. If you'd like
00:24:02.80\00:24:08.04
to experience that freedom, that
happiness, why not ask for it
00:24:08.08\00:24:12.51
right now as we pray.
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Dear Heavenly Father, thank you
for your love and goodness to
00:24:15.32\00:24:21.42
us. Thank you for the promise
to provide what is good and best
00:24:21.46\00:24:25.83
for us. Thank you for helping us
to deal with the hurts, habits
00:24:25.86\00:24:30.23
and hang ups of life. Lord we
want to experience happiness and
00:24:30.27\00:24:35.80
life to the full. Please bless
us now as we reach out to you
00:24:35.84\00:24:41.14
and move forward in our life as
you intended us to do. Bless us
00:24:41.18\00:24:46.38
and please give us hope
and fulfillment. We ask this in
00:24:46.41\00:24:50.85
Jesus' name, Amen.
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