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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - The Richest Caveman (Part 1) | July 31, 2025
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- Announcer: coming to you from new york city, at the
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- Historic manhattan center with your host doug batchelor.
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- Join this exciting journey of discovery as we learn the truth
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- About bible prophecy, explore the timeless wisdom of god's
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- Word, and see how it relates to our lives today.
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- Stay tuned, your "amazing facts" adventure begins now.
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- Doug batchelor: welcome, friends, to a special aspect
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- Presentation in the "prophecy odyssey" series.
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- And i'm so glad to see each of you here.
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- We just put this program together in two days.
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- We didn't know if anybody would come, and so bless your hearts
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- That you came early for this special program.
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- And i hope you'll pray for me as i do share with you, because,
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- You know, there's always a risk when you take so much time, and
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- You talk about yourself, that instead of glorifying god, you
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- Could glorify yourself.
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- And i certainly don't want to glorify sin.
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- And there's a risk that you can sometimes, like a fisherman, the
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- Fish keeps getting bigger every time you tell the story.
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- It's like, you know, the girl in eighth grade.
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- She had to do a book report on abraham lincoln, and she wanted
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- To make a big impression, so when she stood before her class,
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- She said, "abraham lincoln was born at a very early age in a
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- Log cabin that he built with his own hands."
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- So, we don't want it to be bigger than life.
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- And i always like to start with the word of god, because that's
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- What it's all about.
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- And so, i want to direct you to a story in the bible.
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- You actually find it in the gospels of matthew, mark,
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- And luke.
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- It's a story i titled, "broken chains."
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- And if you look in mark chapter 5, i'll read this to you, and
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- Then i'm going to jump to luke quickly.
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- Jesus has just calmed the sea during a storm on galilee.
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- The next morning he directs the boat, and the disciples row over
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- Towards the southeastern shore of galilee.
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- "and they came to the other side of the sea to the country of
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- The gadarenes.
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- And when he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him,
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- Out of the tombs, a man with an unclean spirit, who had his
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- Dwelling among the tombs;
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- And no one could bind him, no, not even with chains,
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- Because he had often been bound with shackles and chains.
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- And the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles
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- Broken in pieces; and neither could anyone tame him.
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- And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the
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- Tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.
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- But when he saw jesus from afar, he ran and worshiped him."
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- Now, go to luke, dr. luke adds a few little aspects to the story
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- That mark doesn't mention.
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- "then they sailed to the country of the gadarenes that is
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- Opposite galilee.
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- And when he stepped out on land, there met
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- Him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time.
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- And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house, but in
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- The tombs.
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- And when he saw jesus, he cried out, and he fell down
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- Before him.
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- And with a loud voice he said, 'what have i to do with you,
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- Jesus, son of the most high god?
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- I beg you, do not torment me!'
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- For he, jesus, had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of
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- The man.
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- For it had often seized him, and he was kept under guard, bound
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- With chains and shackles; and he broke the bonds and was driven
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- By the demon into the wilderness.
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- And jesus asked him, saying, 'what is your name?'
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- And he said, 'legion,' because many demons had entered him.
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- And they begged him that he would not command them to go out
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- Into the abyss."
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- Now, i share this story because i, in some ways, i feel like i
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- Can relate to this man.
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- You know, everybody is looking for happiness.
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- And many people in the world, they think that happiness comes
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- From fame and fortune.
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- And in reality, if we are not serving the lord, we are bound
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- By the devil.
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- This man that we just read about is the most lost person in
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- The bible.
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- You cannot find an example of anyone in the bible whose
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- Condition is more hopeless than this man.
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- Just look at this.
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- He's running around in the mountains, naked, living with
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- The dead.
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- You read on, it says. "surrounded by pigs."
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- He's got a cutting problem.
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- Have you heard of that before?
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- Cutting himself with stones, always crying, dragging broken
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- Manacles and pieces of chains around his wrists and his ankles
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- And his neck, scarred, blood.
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- By the way, if you're a jew and you read this story, pigs are
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- Unclean, blood is unclean, tombs and death are unclean.
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- This story is saying to any jewish reader, "unclean,
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- Unclean, unclean.
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- Filled with not just a devil, a legion of demons."
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- Can you find anybody in the bible whose condition looks
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- More hopeless?
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- But this man came to jesus, and it changed everything.
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- You know, i sometimes feel like i can relate to that story
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- Because i was running around, naked in the mountains, living
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- Like an animal.
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- And it didn't start that way, but it grew into that.
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- You know, little by little, the devil can come into our lives as
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- We give him permission, until we feel like our whole lives are
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- Controlled by the enemy, and you wonder, "is there any way out?"
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- Now, let's get back to basics.
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- Everybody wants happiness.
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- Jesus wants you to have an abundant life.
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- But the problem is, most people in the world think happiness
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- Comes from the wrong things.
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- They think, "if i had more money, i'd be happy."
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- And a lot of us think a little more would help, right?
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- Or, "if i was better looking, or more popular, or more talented,
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- Then i'd be happy."
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- And i want to tell you, that's not true.
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- I had some very unusual parents.
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- I didn't realize it until i kind of got out in the world how
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- Unusual it was, but that's a picture of my mother and my
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- Father, george and ruth batchelor.
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- They were not married very long, six years.
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- During that time, they had two sons, my brother and i.
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- My brother, his name is falcon.
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- My name is douglas.
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- My father was in the aviation business, and he was
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- Very successful.
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- He was a pilot during world war ii.
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- He flew during d-day.
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- He was a pilot before the war, so he was an officer when he
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- Entered the air corps, and he was decorated.
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- After the war, he began to buy and sell--you know, there's just
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- A great surplus of aircraft after the war--he started buying
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- And selling airplanes until he owned controlling interest in
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- Two airlines.
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- He was friends, i should really say competitors, with howard
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- Hughes and some of the other millionaires.
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- He was very wealthy, very successful, had a lot of money.
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- He was a workaholic.
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- Here's just a few of many clippings i could show.
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- "george batchelor, international air leases."
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- He not only owned batch air, they repaired airlines, aero
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- Airways, capital airlines, controlling interest.
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- Anyone remember western airlines?
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- Some of these were merged and bought out again.
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- And lived on an island in miami beach.
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- Here's the new miami, "george batchelor: miami's 'mr.
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- Aviation."'
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- He had all the toys of millionaires.
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- That's his yacht.
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- That's not just a picture of a yacht, that's his yacht.
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- By the way, it was called "the batchelor party."
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- [congregation laughs]
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- This is the inside, and i've been on it many times.
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- One day, the plug broke.
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- They walked out in the harbor and the yacht had sunk.
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- Can you imagine that?
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- A multi-million dollar investment went down.
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- But my father was, he was a thrill junkie, in a sense.
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- He was not afraid--you know, a pilot, and he used to water ski.
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- We had three boats in the backyard when i grew up.
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- My dad had a large fishing boat.
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- We had a ski boat.
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- I had a sailboat that was in the backyard in miami beach.
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- He lived on an exclusive island.
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- My father raced cars.
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- That's my dad and one of his race cars.
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- And he just, he loved adventure, had all the toys that you think
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- Would bring happiness.
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- In our garage, at one point or another, jaguar, lamborghini,
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- Mercedes-benz, ferrari, rolls-royce.
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- Surely, we must have been happy.
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- No.
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- This is my dad with wife number three out of five.
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- She was a very nice lady.
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- She was miss kentucky.
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- And when she divorced him, you've probably heard of someone
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- Named donald trump.
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- When donald trump's wife, was it ivana, divorced him, she got a
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- Minimal settlement of like $14 million because she had signed a
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- Prenuptial agreement.
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- When betty divorced dad, it was the largest divorce settlement
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- In florida history.
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- So, my father had a lot of money.
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- Here's a "miami herald business," this is 1992.
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- You can't read it, so i'll read it to you.
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- I can see it from here.
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- "at 71, aviation pioneer george batchelor is not ready
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- To descend.
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- He runs one of miami's most successful businesses, pilots
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- Jets, races cars, water skis, and is soon to take a bride
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- Aged 29."
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- He was 71.
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- My new mother-in-law was younger than my wife.
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- [congregation laughs]
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- But it gets better than that.
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- Now, i know this is--the ladies are going to go, "now, how did
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- That work?"
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- My father's mother-in-law was younger than me.
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- He had a brother-in-law that was 11 years old.
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- Complicated family.
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- Friends, we could have had a reality show in the batchelor
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- Family during this time.
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- Here's a continuation of that same magazine.
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- "at 71, batchelor 'going on 16,'" and it's got one of his
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- Planes from aero airlines behind him.
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- But you know, everybody has trouble.
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- My father's first wife and son, his name was patrick, died in a
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- Plane crash, and it was one of his planes, a pilot flew into
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- A mountain.
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- And some of you remember in gander, newfoundland, new year's
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- Eve, a plane full of marines was flying home.
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- It took off, and it blew up, a dc-8, and everyone wondered if
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- It was frost on the wings.
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- Years later, they closed their investigation.
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- It was blown up, but you never heard much about it.
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- They put a bomb on the plane in egypt, it finally exploded just
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- On takeoff, a lot of tragedy in the life.
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- My brother, falcon, had cystic fibrosis, born with a terminal
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- Lung disease.
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- And so, you think, "well, if i had money, i wouldn't
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- Have problems."
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- Everybody's got problems.
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- And my father only had two sons, blood sons--i had a
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- Stepbrother--that survived, and it was me and my brother.
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- Falcon has since passed away.
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- It--you know, falcon and i, it was so different because we're
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- The same height, same weight.
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- He had brown eyes.
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- I have blue eyes.
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- He had freckles. i didn't.
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- He had flaming red hair.
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- I had no hair.
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- We were named after airplanes.
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- He was named falcon.
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- He got teased a lot, because you have the name falcon batchelor.
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- I was at least named after the dc craft, douglas mcdonnell, so
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- You know, it's--you can find that on a keychain at walmart.
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- It's not that bad.
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- This is my father with wife number four, who was younger
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- Than my wife.
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- And karen took this picture that way, my brother, his
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- Wife, sandy.
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- Here's my dad with pope john paul ii.
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- And you think, "oh, how do you meet the pope?"
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- If you donate $2 million, anyone can meet the pope.
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- It's not that hard.
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- I don't know if you remember, back in 2000, the pope had a
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- Jubilee and my father donated $2 million worth of jets to fly
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- Everybody around, and you got to meet the pope.
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- And that's, again, wife number four, who was italian and
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- Spoke italian.
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- But you know what, all that money, my father had to drink
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- Himself to sleep every night, slept with a gun under his
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- Pillow because he had so many enemies.
- 00:13:53.250 --> 00:13:55.852
- Karen, my wife karen, is a physical therapist.
- 00:13:55.852 --> 00:13:58.088
- I don't know if i mentioned that.
- 00:13:58.088 --> 00:13:59.689
- He had so much stress.
- 00:13:59.689 --> 00:14:01.491
- She was trying to work the knots out in his neck.
- 00:14:01.491 --> 00:14:04.294
- You know what jesus said?
- 00:14:04.294 --> 00:14:05.896
- "what profit is it to a man if you gain the whole world and you
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- Lose your soul?"
- 00:14:10.433 --> 00:14:13.136
- Or, "what is a man advantaged if you have all of these things?"
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- A man's life does not consist in the abundance of things he
- 00:14:17.941 --> 00:14:21.544
- Possesses, because the bible says, "thieves break through and
- 00:14:21.544 --> 00:14:27.384
- Steal, moth and rust does corrupt."
- 00:14:27.384 --> 00:14:31.955
- If you're going to have treasure, where do you want to
- 00:14:31.955 --> 00:14:33.590
- Store your treasure?
- 00:14:33.590 --> 00:14:35.392
- In heaven, friends, that's the only thing that lasts.
- 00:14:35.392 --> 00:14:37.861
- So i saw growing up, a lot of my friends, they had a lot
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- Of money.
- 00:14:42.232 --> 00:14:43.600
- A lot of my friends and their families had a lot of money, but
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- There wasn't happiness.
- 00:14:47.637 --> 00:14:50.407
- Now, on the other side, my mother, my father had been
- 00:14:50.407 --> 00:14:53.443
- Raised a baptist, but by the time of world war ii, he saw so
- 00:14:53.443 --> 00:14:57.013
- Much death and destruction.
- 00:14:57.013 --> 00:14:58.548
- He thought, "if there's a loving god, then why would
- 00:14:58.548 --> 00:15:00.517
- This happen?"
- 00:15:00.517 --> 00:15:01.851
- And he pretty much became agnostic or atheist.
- 00:15:01.851 --> 00:15:05.255
- Though he did steal a gideon bible once, he told me, during a
- 00:15:05.255 --> 00:15:08.258
- Crisis, and he was trying to find some answers.
- 00:15:08.258 --> 00:15:11.261
- Can you imagine that?
- 00:15:11.261 --> 00:15:12.629
- Multi-millionaire, he steals a bible out of a hotel room.
- 00:15:12.629 --> 00:15:16.333
- My mother, she was jewish, ruth batchelor, and that's my brother
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- And i.
- 00:15:22.872 --> 00:15:24.207
- And she--she wrote songs for elvis presley.
- 00:15:24.207 --> 00:15:28.778
- She was a film critic.
- 00:15:28.778 --> 00:15:30.413
- She was an actress.
- 00:15:30.413 --> 00:15:31.781
- My mother was very talented.
- 00:15:31.781 --> 00:15:33.116
- She dropped out of high school, but she had a gift for music and
- 00:15:33.116 --> 00:15:36.653
- She kind of taught herself to write songs and to play
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- The guitar.
- 00:15:39.823 --> 00:15:41.157
- And she knew the right people, and she was a beautiful woman,
- 00:15:41.157 --> 00:15:43.126
- And she grew up in new york city.
- 00:15:43.126 --> 00:15:46.596
- My family, grandfather, they all lived in new york city.
- 00:15:46.596 --> 00:15:49.699
- And she moved to california where she met my dad, who
- 00:15:49.699 --> 00:15:52.102
- Started his business in burbank.
- 00:15:52.102 --> 00:15:54.971
- And she was making her way in show business as a film critic.
- 00:15:54.971 --> 00:16:00.210
- My mother was a leader in the women's lib movement in new
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- York city.
- 00:16:03.113 --> 00:16:04.447
- That's her marching, and she actually wrote a series of songs
- 00:16:04.447 --> 00:16:07.550
- On women's lib.
- 00:16:07.550 --> 00:16:08.885
- She wrote songs on astrology.
- 00:16:08.885 --> 00:16:10.754
- All of her friends in hollywood were into the occult
- 00:16:10.754 --> 00:16:13.123
- And witchcraft.
- 00:16:13.123 --> 00:16:14.457
- And does anyone remember the tv program called "dark shadows"?
- 00:16:14.457 --> 00:16:19.162
- Yeah, those people were all friends of our family.
- 00:16:19.162 --> 00:16:21.464
- They were at our house, and we lived on 81st street.
- 00:16:21.464 --> 00:16:26.469
- Some of you remember lloyd bridges, who had the
- 00:16:26.469 --> 00:16:28.471
- Diving show.
- 00:16:28.471 --> 00:16:29.839
- He lived upstairs from us.
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- His sons, beau bridges, jeff bridges, we used to see them
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- As--when we were kids.
- 00:16:33.476 --> 00:16:35.311
- And red buttons, academy award winner, good friends of our
- 00:16:35.311 --> 00:16:37.881
- Family, lived on the corner.
- 00:16:37.881 --> 00:16:39.616
- And his wife, alicia, and his daughter, amy, we knew.
- 00:16:39.616 --> 00:16:42.485
- I mean, so we grew up knowing a lot of these people that were in
- 00:16:42.485 --> 00:16:46.189
- Show business because my mother was not only a songwriter, an
- 00:16:46.189 --> 00:16:50.026
- Actress, a film critic, but she was a playwright, had some
- 00:16:50.026 --> 00:16:56.866
- Programs off broadway.
- 00:16:56.866 --> 00:16:59.002
- She founded the la film critics, a very powerful position.
- 00:16:59.002 --> 00:17:04.107
- Because, you know, when a film critic--producers put millions
- 00:17:04.107 --> 00:17:06.776
- Into a movie.
- 00:17:06.776 --> 00:17:08.678
- Those first reviews can make the difference in millions
- 00:17:08.678 --> 00:17:12.549
- Of dollars.
- 00:17:12.549 --> 00:17:13.917
- And if the critics say, "i wouldn't waste my money," they
- 00:17:13.917 --> 00:17:16.553
- Lose millions, so they were always sending her gifts, and
- 00:17:16.553 --> 00:17:19.456
- Rewards, and free cruises, and restaurant tickets, and it's a
- 00:17:19.456 --> 00:17:22.725
- Very powerful position as president of the la
- 00:17:22.725 --> 00:17:25.328
- Film critics.
- 00:17:25.328 --> 00:17:26.663
- She replaced rona barrett, if you ever remember that name, on
- 00:17:26.663 --> 00:17:29.499
- "good morning america."
- 00:17:29.499 --> 00:17:30.867
- She would do the "hollywood reports."
- 00:17:30.867 --> 00:17:32.202
- It was called "ruth batchelor's hollywood."
- 00:17:32.202 --> 00:17:34.604
- And she was an actress, but usually they were small parts in
- 00:17:34.604 --> 00:17:38.108
- Big movies.
- 00:17:38.108 --> 00:17:39.476
- She was in the "ten commandments," and she was in
- 00:17:39.476 --> 00:17:41.311
- Another movie, "the buccaneer," with yul brynner and charlton
- 00:17:41.311 --> 00:17:44.881
- Heston, but her real success was as a film critic.
- 00:17:44.881 --> 00:17:48.885
- Now, some people think, "you tell these stories, you're just
- 00:17:48.885 --> 00:17:50.720
- Making things up," so i'm just going to show you a few pictures
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- Of my mom with some of the people that she knew.
- 00:17:54.224 --> 00:17:57.193
- Anyone know paul mccartney, sir paul mccartney?
- 00:17:57.193 --> 00:18:01.364
- Sylvester stallone?
- 00:18:01.364 --> 00:18:02.699
- I've got a lot of other pictures, but they're dead and
- 00:18:02.699 --> 00:18:04.367
- You might not know.
- 00:18:04.367 --> 00:18:05.702
- So, i do these youth programs, and the kids have no idea who
- 00:18:05.702 --> 00:18:08.104
- Frank sinatra is, so i show the ones that are still alive.
- 00:18:08.104 --> 00:18:13.443
- This is natalie wood.
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- She's passed away since.
- 00:18:14.777 --> 00:18:16.146
- Roger moore was one of the james bond.
- 00:18:16.146 --> 00:18:17.614
- That's mom with each one of these people.
- 00:18:17.614 --> 00:18:19.682
- Sally field, clint eastwood, dustin hoffman, paul newman,
- 00:18:19.682 --> 00:18:26.256
- Muhammad ali.
- 00:18:26.256 --> 00:18:28.024
- So, people in hollywood knew my mother.
- 00:18:28.024 --> 00:18:32.495
- And we knew a lot of these people.
- 00:18:32.495 --> 00:18:35.198
- Sometimes karen and i will be seeing something on television,
- 00:18:35.198 --> 00:18:37.400
- I'll say, "oh yeah, i know them," and i'll start--she'll
- 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:39.435
- Say, "you'll ruin it for me.
- 00:18:39.435 --> 00:18:40.770
- Don't talk about it."
- 00:18:40.770 --> 00:18:43.339
- But you know what?
- 00:18:43.339 --> 00:18:44.807
- We had friends that were rich, and famous, and healthy, and
- 00:18:44.807 --> 00:18:50.647
- Handsome, and they killed themselves.
- 00:18:50.647 --> 00:18:54.417
- I had a friend that was a famous child actor.
- 00:18:54.417 --> 00:18:57.453
- He locked himself in the garage in west hampton, turned on the
- 00:18:57.453 --> 00:19:00.823
- Car, and killed himself.
- 00:19:00.823 --> 00:19:03.893
- Had money, talent, good looks; empty, saw no purpose in life.
- 00:19:03.893 --> 00:19:10.400
- And so, i saw money doesn't-- or happiness doesn't come
- 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:14.470
- From fame.
- 00:19:14.470 --> 00:19:16.039
- So many of these people, they just weren't happy.
- 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:18.942
- A lot of drugs in hollywood, if you didn't know that.
- 00:19:18.942 --> 00:19:22.845
- You wonder why so many of them, they get married and divorced,
- 00:19:22.845 --> 00:19:25.048
- Some of them--they're unhappy.
- 00:19:25.048 --> 00:19:27.116
- When mom died, even though everybody knew her, only
- 00:19:27.116 --> 00:19:30.687
- Ones there?
- 00:19:30.687 --> 00:19:32.055
- Karen and i, my grandparents.
- 00:19:32.055 --> 00:19:36.893
- A man's life does not come from the abundance of things
- 00:19:36.893 --> 00:19:39.696
- He possesses.
- 00:19:39.696 --> 00:19:41.030
- If you are going to be famous, be famous before god.
- 00:19:41.030 --> 00:19:44.901
- It's not what people think of you, it's what god thinks of you
- 00:19:44.901 --> 00:19:48.338
- That makes the difference.
- 00:19:48.338 --> 00:19:50.006
- Well, as i mentioned, i grew up in new york city.
- 00:19:50.006 --> 00:19:51.908
- Here's an old shot where the world trade center was
- 00:19:51.908 --> 00:19:54.077
- Still there.
- 00:19:54.077 --> 00:19:55.578
- And i was born in burbank, california.
- 00:19:55.578 --> 00:19:59.215
- I hope you'll forgive me, though i did grow up in new york city.
- 00:19:59.215 --> 00:20:04.087
- My mom and dad divorced when i was three years old.
- 00:20:04.087 --> 00:20:07.757
- And mom was married four times, dad was married five times, had
- 00:20:07.757 --> 00:20:14.163
- A lot of intrigue in the family.
- 00:20:14.163 --> 00:20:18.601
- Mom had an affair for 20 years with a married man, and i had to
- 00:20:18.601 --> 00:20:22.238
- Act like i didn't know who he was when i saw his wife.
- 00:20:22.238 --> 00:20:26.976
- I tell you, friends, you have no idea.
- 00:20:26.976 --> 00:20:30.546
- But when my brother and i learned way too much, because
- 00:20:30.546 --> 00:20:33.182
- When we were kids in new york city, mom would say, "go play on
- 00:20:33.182 --> 00:20:37.920
- The streets."
- 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:39.555
- And my brother and i, seven, eight, nine years old, we all
- 00:20:39.555 --> 00:20:42.091
- Rode the subway.
- 00:20:42.091 --> 00:20:43.760
- Back then, the kids all--we rode the bus.
- 00:20:43.760 --> 00:20:45.528
- Sometimes we'd pay, we'd get on the bus, sometimes we'd hop on
- 00:20:45.528 --> 00:20:47.764
- The back.
- 00:20:47.764 --> 00:20:49.098
- Any of you remember that?
- 00:20:49.098 --> 00:20:50.466
- Hop on the back and grab the edge of the window and hope you
- 00:20:50.466 --> 00:20:52.335
- Didn't fall off.
- 00:20:52.335 --> 00:20:53.670
- How many of you know what i'm talking about?
- 00:20:53.670 --> 00:20:56.372
- And there were gangs on the streets, and we would go play at
- 00:20:56.372 --> 00:21:01.844
- 42nd and broadway, and it was pretty seedy back then.
- 00:21:01.844 --> 00:21:05.515
- Any of you remember the penny arcades?
- 00:21:05.515 --> 00:21:08.017
- You go in and play skee-ball and--
- 00:21:08.017 --> 00:21:10.353
- And so, my mother just sent us out on the streets, and we
- 00:21:10.353 --> 00:21:12.655
- Learned way too much, way too young.
- 00:21:12.655 --> 00:21:17.293
- But my parents had money, not mom so much as dad, but i,
- 00:21:17.293 --> 00:21:24.634
- Because they moved, and for a while dad had custody, then mom
- 00:21:24.634 --> 00:21:28.271
- Had custody, and then they sent us to live with our
- 00:21:28.271 --> 00:21:30.440
- Grandparents, then they sent us to boarding school.
- 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:33.343
- I went to 14 different schools by ninth grade.
- 00:21:33.343 --> 00:21:39.015
- First military school, black-foxe military academy, i
- 00:21:39.015 --> 00:21:41.918
- Was five years old.
- 00:21:41.918 --> 00:21:44.287
- And because my parents were so driven, they would send us to
- 00:21:44.287 --> 00:21:48.624
- Summer camp, just whatever they could do to get us out of
- 00:21:48.624 --> 00:21:50.960
- The way.
- 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:52.328
- And so, we got sent off.
- 00:21:52.328 --> 00:21:53.663
- And here's my brother and i at summer camp.
- 00:21:53.663 --> 00:21:55.465
- And there i'm at new york military academy, some of you
- 00:21:55.465 --> 00:21:58.134
- Have heard of that.
- 00:21:58.134 --> 00:21:59.469
- By the way, that's where donald trump went.
- 00:21:59.469 --> 00:22:00.837
- That was not a political statement.
- 00:22:00.837 --> 00:22:02.171
- Karen says, "don't say that," just a fact.
- 00:22:02.171 --> 00:22:04.107
- And that's a friend of mine named bobby boyer there.
- 00:22:04.107 --> 00:22:08.211
- I reconnected with him after 50 years.
- 00:22:08.211 --> 00:22:10.213
- He saw my tv programs.
- 00:22:10.213 --> 00:22:12.982
- And you know, he called up our amazing facts office, he says,
- 00:22:12.982 --> 00:22:16.552
- "is doug there?
- 00:22:16.552 --> 00:22:17.887
- Tell him bobby is calling." [laughs]
- 00:22:17.887 --> 00:22:20.923
- And i not only went to military schools, then i got into trouble
- 00:22:22.925 --> 00:22:26.195
- In the summers.
- 00:22:26.195 --> 00:22:27.897
- Now, let me tell you kind of how that happened.
- 00:22:27.897 --> 00:22:30.767
- One day, my mother--mom and dad both smoked and drank, and mom
- 00:22:30.767 --> 00:22:35.338
- Used other things.
- 00:22:35.338 --> 00:22:36.706
- A lot of people in hollywood used drugs.
- 00:22:36.706 --> 00:22:39.242
- And one day, she said, she rolled a joint and she said,
- 00:22:39.242 --> 00:22:44.981
- "doug, i know you're going to run into this out there on the
- 00:22:44.981 --> 00:22:47.517
- Street," of course i already had.
- 00:22:47.517 --> 00:22:49.218
- She said, "i just assumed you did it at home," so she started
- 00:22:49.218 --> 00:22:52.188
- Smoking pot with me.
- 00:22:52.188 --> 00:22:54.891
- And it became a regular thing that, you know, two or three
- 00:22:54.891 --> 00:22:58.094
- Times a week, at night, she wouldn't let me do it before
- 00:22:58.094 --> 00:23:01.564
- School, we'd smoke pot and eat ice cream.
- 00:23:01.564 --> 00:23:04.567
- It was our bonding time.
- 00:23:04.567 --> 00:23:06.602
- Well, at this point, my brother had been sent to live with my
- 00:23:06.602 --> 00:23:09.071
- Father because of his lung disease.
- 00:23:09.071 --> 00:23:11.207
- The new york climate was not good for cystic fibrosis.
- 00:23:11.207 --> 00:23:14.510
- And then falcon would come to visit, and he'd see mom and i
- 00:23:14.510 --> 00:23:17.313
- Smoking pot, and he said, "that's not fair.
- 00:23:17.313 --> 00:23:18.915
- I can't smoke pot."
- 00:23:18.915 --> 00:23:21.017
- And she said, "i'm going to make you some hashish cookies."
- 00:23:21.017 --> 00:23:24.620
- So, my mother would make marijuana hashish cookies for
- 00:23:24.620 --> 00:23:27.190
- My brother.
- 00:23:27.190 --> 00:23:29.058
- And we took some to school one day and gave them to the
- 00:23:29.058 --> 00:23:31.427
- Teachers and said, "you're going to like this.
- 00:23:31.427 --> 00:23:34.564
- My mom's got a special recipe.
- 00:23:34.564 --> 00:23:36.933
- They're really good"--to get the teachers to loosen up a
- 00:23:36.933 --> 00:23:39.569
- Little bit.
- 00:23:39.569 --> 00:23:41.704
- So, i was a real troublemaker.
- 00:23:41.704 --> 00:23:43.206
- I got into a lot of trouble.
- 00:23:43.206 --> 00:23:45.575
- And you know, i used to think about suicide.
- 00:23:45.575 --> 00:23:50.480
- Because, going to all these schools, even though i went to
- 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:52.748
- Jewish schools, i went to-- when i was here, mom sent me to
- 00:23:52.748 --> 00:23:55.651
- Jewish schools to make my father mad, and then i'd go live with
- 00:23:55.651 --> 00:23:57.920
- Dad, he sent me to catholic schools.
- 00:23:57.920 --> 00:23:59.956
- And he wasn't catholic, but i never really knew about god.
- 00:23:59.956 --> 00:24:04.427
- I was--i thought, "you die, you turn into fertilizer."
- 00:24:04.427 --> 00:24:08.231
- And i used to think about suicide all the time.
- 00:24:08.231 --> 00:24:10.299
- I thought money doesn't bring happiness, most people
- 00:24:10.299 --> 00:24:12.635
- Are unhappy.
- 00:24:12.635 --> 00:24:14.737
- I had friends that had committed suicide.
- 00:24:14.737 --> 00:24:16.439
- Now, "why not just end it all?"
- 00:24:16.439 --> 00:24:18.241
- I felt like my parents didn't really love me because they kept
- 00:24:18.241 --> 00:24:20.610
- Sending me away.
- 00:24:20.610 --> 00:24:22.945
- And so, i was always fantasizing what would be the best way to
- 00:24:22.945 --> 00:24:26.482
- Kill yourself.
- 00:24:26.482 --> 00:24:27.817
- And living here in new york, you know, there's some
- 00:24:27.817 --> 00:24:29.685
- Tall buildings.
- 00:24:29.685 --> 00:24:31.053
- I'd climb up on the roof--they'd leave the roof open--i'd climb
- 00:24:31.053 --> 00:24:34.123
- Up on the roof, and i'd put my toes over the edge, and i'd see
- 00:24:34.123 --> 00:24:36.826
- How far out i could lean until i felt my center of gravity.
- 00:24:36.826 --> 00:24:41.130
- And the reason i didn't jump is because i remember reading one
- 00:24:41.130 --> 00:24:44.767
- Time about a man who jumped 9 stories, but he hit some trees,
- 00:24:44.767 --> 00:24:47.837
- And landed on some cars, and he lived, but he was paralyzed.
- 00:24:47.837 --> 00:24:52.008
- I thought, "well, that's even worse."
- 00:24:52.008 --> 00:24:55.077
- I thought, "i could jump and what if i don't die?"
- 00:24:55.077 --> 00:24:58.514
- And so i was afraid it wouldn't work.
- 00:24:58.514 --> 00:25:01.884
- Doug: friends, i hope you've been blessed by
- 00:25:01.951 --> 00:25:03.352
- Today's presentation.
- 00:25:03.352 --> 00:25:04.820
- But the most important thing is not the information and the
- 00:25:04.820 --> 00:25:07.790
- Details, it's the relationship.
- 00:25:07.790 --> 00:25:10.293
- Do you have a personal relationship with jesus?
- 00:25:10.293 --> 00:25:13.129
- You're watching because he's planned that, and he wants to
- 00:25:13.129 --> 00:25:15.932
- Come into your heart and change your life.
- 00:25:15.932 --> 00:25:17.900
- He wants to forgive you of all of your sins.
- 00:25:17.900 --> 00:25:20.369
- He died for your sins, but you need to ask him.
- 00:25:20.369 --> 00:25:23.139
- He won't force his way in.
- 00:25:23.139 --> 00:25:24.840
- You can ask him now.
- 00:25:24.840 --> 00:25:26.309
- He loves you, he'll accept you.
- 00:25:26.309 --> 00:25:28.544
- Do it right now.
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- Doug: hi, friends, i trust you're being blessed by what
- 00:25:30.479 --> 00:25:32.615
- You're watching.
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- If you want to be doubly blessed, then you're going to
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- Doug: friend, perhaps you need a little hope and direction in
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- Your life as badly as i did.
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- Doug: what you've seen just now is only part one in
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- This presentation.
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- Make sure and join us for part two in our next broadcast for
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- Some of the most important points on this topic, and to
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- Complete the corresponding study guides.
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- Until then, god bless.
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