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Doug Batchelor - The Richest Caveman (Part 2)

August 3, 2025 | 28:30

Doug Batchelor - The Richest Caveman (Part 2)
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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - The Richest Caveman (Part 2) | August 3, 2025
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  • Male 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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  • Your "amazing facts" adventure begins now.
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  • Doug: of all the drugs i've used, and i've used just about
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  • Everything, more of my friends died from alcohol than anything.
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  • I say that because i meet some christians who think a little
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  • Alcohol is okay.
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  • One out of seven people that drinks becomes an alcoholic.
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  • Would you keep a dog that bit one out of seven people that
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  • Came to your house?
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  • Christians shouldn't drink.
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  • If nothing else, it's because it's a bad witness for
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  • Other people.
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  • So, i would drink, and the thing was that we had a butler and a
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  • Maid at the house, and so i'd drink during the day when dad
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  • Was at work with my friends.
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  • The butler would be out working in the yard, and the butler
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  • Would come in and say, "oh, it looks like mr. batchelor's stock
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  • Is down."
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  • He'd restock it.
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  • My father never knew it was missing, so we drank a lot.
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  • And when i was with mom, i knew where she kept her pot.
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  • She kept it in the spice rack.
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  • And so not only did i smoke with her, but i used to take
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  • Some extra.
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  • And so, i started using drugs, i started breaking into homes
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  • And stealing.
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  • And when i was living with my father on the sunset islands, my
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  • Friends, you ever heard of firestone tires?
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  • I used to date amy firestone.
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  • You ever heard of hoover vacuum cleaners?
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  • Sandy hoover, we used to play with him.
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  • He lived on the island.
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  • And i could start naming these different
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  • People, multi-millionaires.
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  • And they were our friends, and we all got in trouble together.
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  • We would get bored.
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  • All these rich spoiled kids and what do you want to do?
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  • And if it wasn't drugs, lsd, or drinking or something, we'd say,
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  • "let's break into a home," just for the excitement.
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  • And we started breaking into the homes of the other millionaires.
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  • They'd dare me to do something, i'd do anything just
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  • For attention.
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  • And the sad thing was, there was a raft of burglaries on the
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  • Island, and so the millionaires were calling
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  • The police.
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  • And they figured that these thieves were coming by boat.
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  • And we used to see the police boats circling the island
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  • Looking to catch the thieves.
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  • It was the kids of the millionaires on the island
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  • Stealing from each other.
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  • And during this time, no satisfaction, no happiness.
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  • I just began to get into more and more trouble.
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  • My mother said, "george, doug needs more freedom.
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  • Military school has been too restrictive.
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  • He needs to express himself."
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  • My mother was an artist, you know.
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  • She found a school in maine where there was no rules.
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  • It was called a free school.
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  • This is one of the only pictures i've got.
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  • I'm the one at the bottom with his legs crossed and long hair.
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  • I know it's a muddy picture, but that's all i could get offline.
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  • It was called pinehenge.
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  • It was an experimental school.
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  • It lasted five years; the experiment failed.
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  • The idea was, "don't make the children do anything.
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  • Let them be free."
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  • You don't have to go to class if you don't want to.
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  • You don't have to go to meals if you don't want to.
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  • The school really only had three rules: there's no fighting, no
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  • Drugs, no sex.
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  • Do you think the kids listened to the three rules?
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  • There were coed dorms.
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  • For all ages, we had kids from 8 to 18.
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  • It was crazy.
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  • I'm surprised it was legal, but i went to this free school.
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  • You can look it up online if you think i'm kidding, friends.
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  • So, talk about mixed up.
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  • I went from the strictest school in north america, new york
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  • Military academy, a rule for everything.
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  • And i praise god i went to that school because, man, you can ask
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  • Karen, i fold my underwear still.
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  • Well, she folds it too, but i make the bed in the hotel room.
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  • We check out of the hotel room, i make the bed.
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  • And then i went to a school, no rules, and a lot of kids
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  • Attempted suicide.
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  • I learned you have to have discipline in your life or you
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  • Cannot have happiness.
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  • If you don't have self control, you will not succeed.
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  • So, i got into a lot of trouble.
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  • By the time, first time i ran away from home, i was 13 years
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  • Of age.
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  • I stole from my mother, took a bus to upstate new york, got in
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  • The tent.
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  • And i'm by myself, i'm going, "okay, now what do i do?"
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  • I got lonely.
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  • I eventually came home.
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  • Ran away again when i was 14 years of age with a friend.
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  • By the way, i met this friend years later.
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  • He became a colonel in the army.
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  • It was really interesting.
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  • And he and i ran away, got arrested in pennsylvania on the
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  • Train, brought, flew us back to new york.
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  • We escaped again, moved up to the mountains, got
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  • Arrested again.
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  • My mother said to my dad, "i can't handle him anymore."
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  • She sent me to live with my dad.
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  • And i got in trouble with my stepmother, said, "he's
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  • Impossible, he can't stay at home."
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  • My dad also owned a hotel.
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  • He moved me into his hotel.
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  • I was so mixed up.
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  • I got arrested.
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  • I've been arrested seven times.
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  • I was in jail at one point for a week before i told them my
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  • Real name.
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  • I thought i'd rather be in juvenile hall than back home in
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  • The mansion.
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  • Isn't that crazy?
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  • That's how unhappy i was, just totally out of control.
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  • Finally, my dad said, "i don't know what to do with you."
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  • Everybody thought, "doug, don't you want to work for
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  • Your father?
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  • Get an education, take over the business, look at all the money
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  • You'll have, look at all the things you'll have."
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  • I said, "yeah, and i'll drink myself to sleep every night
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  • Like him."
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  • What profit is it?
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  • They're not happy.
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  • So i said, "dad, i don't know what to," he said, "i don't know
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  • What to do."
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  • I just walked out of my dad's office, i got on the highway,
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  • Interstate 95, i started to hitchhike.
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  • I'm 16 years old.
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  • I went up to boston.
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  • I had faked my driver's license.
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  • It said, in case you're curious, i'm born in 1957.
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  • My mother's an artist.
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  • I took the 7 and i made it a 2, and i used that to get a phony
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  • Id, a real one, that said i was much older than i was.
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  • So i was able to get a driver's license, and i was able to get a
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  • Job as a security guard.
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  • I was in boston, and i was breaking into homes and
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  • Stealing, stealing televisions, stealing cars, and working as a
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  • Security guard at night.
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  • Worked for a company called business intelligence.
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  • Now, i never stole from the place i guarded because, you
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  • Know, they paid me.
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  • And i did my stealing during the day, because if you walk out of
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  • A house during the day with a television, they think
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  • You're moving.
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  • So, i had a friend named jerry.
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  • He was a security guard.
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  • He found out about my day job, stealing.
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  • I said, "you're going to turn me in?"
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  • He said--he was very spiritual.
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  • He's into these eastern religions, says, "no, man.
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  • I don't got to turn you in, your karma's going to get you."
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  • I said, "what do you mean, 'karma?'"
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  • He said, "whatever you do comes back."
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  • I said, "oh, there's no god."
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  • I said, "i stole that tv set and i got rid of it.
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  • Nothing happened, nothing will happen."
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  • He said, "you'll see."
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  • And a few days after we had that conversation, i woke up in my
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  • Apartment in boston, my door was open, and i looked and my tv was
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  • Gone, and my radio.
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  • And i was mad, you know what i did?
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  • I called the police, and i said, "what is this city coming to?"
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  • I said, "you guys got to get out there and find them."
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  • And i started watching, and everything i did seemed
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  • To backfire.
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  • I would go and steal something, and my friends were thieves,
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  • They'd then steal it from me.
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  • Or i'd steal something while i was drinking or high, and i'd
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  • Hide it, and i'd wake up, and say, "no, i know i hid
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  • The money.
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  • Where'd i hide it?"
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  • I remember with my friend, jay samuels, i was in
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  • Brooklyn stealing.
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  • And the police found out, and we were chased by the police and
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  • Shot at.
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  • And i mean, i can tell you all these different stories, but
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  • Everything was going wrong.
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  • I stole a car in boston, drove down to new york city, got a
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  • Flat tire.
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  • Couldn't get in the trunk, could steal the car, but i couldn't
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  • Get in the trunk to change the tire, had to hitchhike from new
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  • York city back to boston in the rain, miserable.
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  • And i started thinking, "maybe there's a god."
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  • But you know what convinced me?
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  • It 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, because i said, "you know, this karma
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  • Thing, there may be something to it."
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  • I'd like steal a stereo, and i'd get back to my house huffing and
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  • Puffing, and plug it in, it's broken, a broken stereo.
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  • So i went to someone's house, and i stole a box of krusteaz
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  • Instant pancake mix, a brand new box.
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  • I did it because i was very health conscious back then.
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  • I was a hippie, you know?
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  • I just want whole wheat pancake mix.
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  • I'm drinking, smoking, using drugs, but just whole wheat
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  • Pancake mix because i'm going to take care of myself.
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  • So, i stole this box of pancake mix.
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  • On the top of the box, this is before they had the barcode, it
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  • Was stamped $1.19.
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  • I got back to my place that same day, some people came to my
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  • Place uninvited.
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  • I had a brand new jar of tang instant breakfast drink.
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  • They took the jar, opened it up, they drank every bit of it.
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  • And there by the empty jar was a lid, and it said $1.19.
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  • And i looked at the pancake mix, and i said, "crime doesn't pay.
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  • There must be a god," but i wasn't interested
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  • In christianity.
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  • I'd spent too much time looking at christians, and i said,
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  • "they're all hypocrites."
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  • You know, i'd been to enough religious services and went to
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  • Catholic school.
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  • And i remember the priest standing up there doing
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  • Communion while he's smoking and drinking, i'm going, "what's
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  • With this?"
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  • And i just, i'd turn on the news and see the catholics and
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  • Protestants are killing each other in ireland.
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  • I said, "they both claim to be christians.
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  • I thought jesus said 'love your enemies,' they're blowing each
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  • Other up.
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  • They're all hypocrites."
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  • I made the mistake many people make.
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  • When i wanted to know what a christian was, i looked
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  • At christians.
  • 00:10:53.335 --> 00:10:55.471
  • If you want to be a christian, don't look at christians.
  • 00:10:55.471 --> 00:10:58.407
  • A christian is not a follower of christians, a christian is a
  • 00:10:58.407 --> 00:11:02.044
  • Follower of christ.
  • 00:11:02.044 --> 00:11:03.412
  • People will let you down, jesus will not let you down.
  • 00:11:03.412 --> 00:11:06.515
  • Keep your eyes on christ.
  • 00:11:06.515 --> 00:11:08.350
  • If you're going to look at people, the devil will get
  • 00:11:08.350 --> 00:11:10.486
  • Someone for you to look at that will disappoint you.
  • 00:11:10.486 --> 00:11:13.889
  • Jesus will not disappoint you.
  • 00:11:13.889 --> 00:11:16.425
  • So, i said, "they're all hypocrites."
  • 00:11:16.425 --> 00:11:17.793
  • So i was, you know, this is during the beatles era, and so i
  • 00:11:17.793 --> 00:11:21.297
  • Began to get into the eastern religions.
  • 00:11:21.297 --> 00:11:23.065
  • And i got into meditation and buddhism, and i got into
  • 00:11:23.065 --> 00:11:29.271
  • Transcendental meditation and yoga.
  • 00:11:29.271 --> 00:11:33.008
  • That's where you look for god by standing on your head.
  • 00:11:33.008 --> 00:11:35.811
  • And all i found was my hair fell out when i did that.
  • 00:11:35.811 --> 00:11:40.416
  • Then, you know, i was a little bit into hinduism, and i knew
  • 00:11:40.416 --> 00:11:43.719
  • Something about the judaism, and i got a little bit into the
  • 00:11:43.719 --> 00:11:46.922
  • Kabbalah and some of the mystic sciences.
  • 00:11:46.922 --> 00:11:49.592
  • And i'd kind of made a hodgepodge of all these
  • 00:11:49.592 --> 00:11:52.128
  • Different religions.
  • 00:11:52.128 --> 00:11:53.462
  • I was looking for the truth.
  • 00:11:53.462 --> 00:11:55.397
  • I even went to southern california.
  • 00:11:55.397 --> 00:11:56.832
  • I was hitchhiking around the country.
  • 00:11:56.832 --> 00:11:58.234
  • I hitchhiked from florida to california and back.
  • 00:11:58.234 --> 00:12:00.669
  • I went all over.
  • 00:12:00.669 --> 00:12:02.505
  • I went to a hare krishna temple in santa monica, california
  • 00:12:02.505 --> 00:12:07.209
  • Because they promised a free meal if you went to
  • 00:12:07.209 --> 00:12:09.812
  • Their service.
  • 00:12:09.812 --> 00:12:11.313
  • You know, i went to the christian mission.
  • 00:12:11.313 --> 00:12:14.016
  • We were living on the streets back then.
  • 00:12:14.016 --> 00:12:15.551
  • I was too proud to ask my dad for help.
  • 00:12:15.551 --> 00:12:18.721
  • And the christian mission said, "if you come in," they'd close
  • 00:12:18.721 --> 00:12:21.924
  • The doors, and all these drunks and derelicts would come in, and
  • 00:12:21.924 --> 00:12:26.262
  • Addicts, and they said, "we'll give you a free meal, but you
  • 00:12:26.262 --> 00:12:28.631
  • Have to listen to the preaching, then we feed you."
  • 00:12:28.631 --> 00:12:31.367
  • Fair enough.
  • 00:12:31.367 --> 00:12:32.701
  • So, we'd sit there, and i felt bad because all of my friends,
  • 00:12:32.701 --> 00:12:34.970
  • We were all so obnoxious, and these christians were so nice.
  • 00:12:34.970 --> 00:12:38.307
  • They'd be sharing testimonies, and they'd preached a little
  • 00:12:38.307 --> 00:12:40.276
  • Sermon, and they'd bring out really nice food with apple pie,
  • 00:12:40.276 --> 00:12:42.945
  • And i mean, it was great.
  • 00:12:42.945 --> 00:12:44.413
  • We'd say, "oh, we'll see you next week."
  • 00:12:44.413 --> 00:12:47.216
  • Hare krishna said, "we'll offer you free food if you come to
  • 00:12:47.216 --> 00:12:49.652
  • Our service."
  • 00:12:49.652 --> 00:12:51.220
  • So, okay, so i went with my friend jay, and the service
  • 00:12:51.220 --> 00:12:55.691
  • Involved jumping up and down--i'm not trying to be
  • 00:12:55.691 --> 00:12:58.828
  • Disrespectful, i'm just telling you what happened--jumping up
  • 00:12:58.828 --> 00:13:01.797
  • And down and saying, "hare krishna, hare krishna, krishna
  • 00:13:01.797 --> 00:13:06.669
  • Krishna, hare hare, hare rama, hare rama, rama rama,
  • 00:13:06.669 --> 00:13:10.873
  • Hare hare."
  • 00:13:10.873 --> 00:13:12.208
  • I never forgot that because they did it for two hours, over
  • 00:13:12.208 --> 00:13:17.046
  • And over.
  • 00:13:17.046 --> 00:13:18.414
  • And i'd spent enough time in hollywood with friends that were
  • 00:13:18.414 --> 00:13:21.483
  • Into, you know, hypnosis and stuff.
  • 00:13:21.483 --> 00:13:23.052
  • I thought, "this is just hypnosis.
  • 00:13:23.052 --> 00:13:24.987
  • This repetition puts you in a state of hypnosis."
  • 00:13:24.987 --> 00:13:27.756
  • And i told my friend jay, i said, "i'm going to
  • 00:13:27.756 --> 00:13:30.025
  • The bathroom."
  • 00:13:30.025 --> 00:13:31.360
  • I said, "tell me when the food comes out."
  • 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:32.695
  • As i'm, i stepped out, and i'm in the bathroom, and they got
  • 00:13:32.695 --> 00:13:36.065
  • The drums going, and the bass, and they're all, "hare
  • 00:13:36.065 --> 00:13:38.200
  • Krishna, hare."
  • 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:41.704
  • I go in there and check on my friend jay, and he's getting
  • 00:13:41.704 --> 00:13:44.707
  • Into it.
  • 00:13:44.707 --> 00:13:48.477
  • They gave us yogurt and raisins for all of that.
  • 00:13:48.477 --> 00:13:53.415
  • So, but i was searching for god.
  • 00:13:53.415 --> 00:13:56.218
  • You know, i was trying everything.
  • 00:13:56.218 --> 00:13:57.753
  • I thought there must be a god.
  • 00:13:57.753 --> 00:14:00.222
  • Well, i went back to boston, and my father flew from florida up
  • 00:14:00.222 --> 00:14:04.627
  • To see me.
  • 00:14:04.627 --> 00:14:06.495
  • And he begged me, he said, "doug, you got to go back
  • 00:14:06.495 --> 00:14:08.297
  • To school."
  • 00:14:08.297 --> 00:14:10.065
  • He said, you know, "falcon is sick.
  • 00:14:10.065 --> 00:14:12.568
  • He's barely making it through college because the people are
  • 00:14:12.568 --> 00:14:15.004
  • Smoking and he's struggling."
  • 00:14:15.004 --> 00:14:18.107
  • He had to keep going to the hospital and having therapy.
  • 00:14:18.107 --> 00:14:21.810
  • And he said, "you're healthy."
  • 00:14:21.810 --> 00:14:24.146
  • He says, "you need to get an education.
  • 00:14:24.146 --> 00:14:26.415
  • Don't waste your life."
  • 00:14:26.415 --> 00:14:28.851
  • He said, "i found a school."
  • 00:14:28.851 --> 00:14:31.086
  • I said, "i'm not going back to military school, there's
  • 00:14:31.086 --> 00:14:33.155
  • No girls."
  • 00:14:33.155 --> 00:14:36.058
  • And he said, "no, no, there's girls."
  • 00:14:36.058 --> 00:14:37.426
  • He said, "i found a school.
  • 00:14:37.426 --> 00:14:38.761
  • It's on a boat.
  • 00:14:38.761 --> 00:14:40.896
  • It's actually two boats together.
  • 00:14:40.896 --> 00:14:42.932
  • They sail around the world.
  • 00:14:42.932 --> 00:14:45.434
  • And they have girls, you can scuba dive, you can water ski,
  • 00:14:45.434 --> 00:14:48.504
  • You can go spear fishing, you can have some adventures, see
  • 00:14:48.504 --> 00:14:51.173
  • The world," and he's begging me.
  • 00:14:51.173 --> 00:14:54.977
  • He said, "you know, i've got a briefcase here.
  • 00:14:54.977 --> 00:14:56.578
  • It's got a million dollars in it.
  • 00:14:56.578 --> 00:14:57.947
  • I'm getting ready to make a million dollar deal."
  • 00:14:57.947 --> 00:15:00.816
  • And he said, "you can have this business.
  • 00:15:00.816 --> 00:15:03.552
  • You could work with me.
  • 00:15:03.552 --> 00:15:04.887
  • Get an education."
  • 00:15:04.887 --> 00:15:07.222
  • I said, "all right."
  • 00:15:07.222 --> 00:15:08.557
  • My father got me, i went to--i don't know how he got
  • 00:15:08.557 --> 00:15:11.760
  • A passport.
  • 00:15:11.760 --> 00:15:13.128
  • You know, if you have enough money you can get a passport in
  • 00:15:13.128 --> 00:15:14.863
  • One day.
  • 00:15:14.863 --> 00:15:16.365
  • In fact, i think i showed you a picture a minute ago.
  • 00:15:16.365 --> 00:15:18.400
  • It was my passport picture from i was 16 years old.
  • 00:15:18.400 --> 00:15:20.536
  • My dad got that.
  • 00:15:20.536 --> 00:15:22.204
  • He flew me to milan, italy to join up on the boat.
  • 00:15:22.204 --> 00:15:24.940
  • School was already in session, i joined late, and it was called
  • 00:15:24.940 --> 00:15:29.144
  • The flint school abroad.
  • 00:15:29.144 --> 00:15:30.679
  • If you want to look it up, friends, some people doubt
  • 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:32.648
  • The story.
  • 00:15:32.648 --> 00:15:34.016
  • And this is actually a picture of the school, two
  • 00:15:34.016 --> 00:15:36.318
  • Boats, sailboats.
  • 00:15:36.318 --> 00:15:37.686
  • They sailed together.
  • 00:15:37.686 --> 00:15:39.021
  • They went around the world.
  • 00:15:39.021 --> 00:15:40.356
  • School is on the boat.
  • 00:15:40.356 --> 00:15:42.358
  • And my father handed them my passport.
  • 00:15:42.358 --> 00:15:44.693
  • He said, "i'll see you later."
  • 00:15:44.693 --> 00:15:47.396
  • And then i found out i'd kind of been tricked.
  • 00:15:47.396 --> 00:15:50.666
  • It was a special school for the children of politicians and
  • 00:15:50.666 --> 00:15:54.203
  • Millionaires that had gotten mixed up on drugs or with cults
  • 00:15:54.203 --> 00:15:58.507
  • To get them out of that influence, and then they
  • 00:15:58.507 --> 00:16:01.577
  • Taught atheism.
  • 00:16:01.577 --> 00:16:04.313
  • They showed films on darwin.
  • 00:16:04.313 --> 00:16:05.981
  • They said, there is no god.
  • 00:16:05.981 --> 00:16:07.349
  • You got to make your own life.
  • 00:16:07.349 --> 00:16:08.684
  • This is your only life.
  • 00:16:08.684 --> 00:16:10.052
  • You got to be success, and now i'm meditating.
  • 00:16:10.052 --> 00:16:12.421
  • Now i'm into "shakti: the spiritual science of dna."
  • 00:16:12.421 --> 00:16:15.758
  • I was into--and i'm in my room meditating.
  • 00:16:15.758 --> 00:16:19.428
  • I learned an interesting experience.
  • 00:16:19.428 --> 00:16:21.163
  • We sailed around the mediterranean, and you know, i
  • 00:16:21.163 --> 00:16:23.665
  • Had some experiences, and you have to read the book.
  • 00:16:23.665 --> 00:16:25.968
  • There's just not time to tell it all.
  • 00:16:25.968 --> 00:16:29.004
  • But i noticed one time, we were going from northern africa,
  • 00:16:29.004 --> 00:16:32.541
  • Tunis, africa, over to port of mahon, spain.
  • 00:16:32.541 --> 00:16:35.778
  • And the mediterranean looks small on a map, but you get out
  • 00:16:35.778 --> 00:16:38.947
  • There in the middle and it's a big ocean.
  • 00:16:38.947 --> 00:16:41.083
  • You don't see land for days.
  • 00:16:41.083 --> 00:16:43.252
  • And we got into a winter storm.
  • 00:16:43.252 --> 00:16:44.987
  • It was during christmas.
  • 00:16:44.987 --> 00:16:47.056
  • And water began to come over the edge of the boat, and everything
  • 00:16:47.056 --> 00:16:51.627
  • Underneath the boat looked like it had been shaken apart.
  • 00:16:51.627 --> 00:16:54.730
  • And the wind was blowing like a hurricane, so the sail was
  • 00:16:54.730 --> 00:16:57.733
  • Cracking so loud that it sounded like thunder clapping.
  • 00:16:57.733 --> 00:17:01.737
  • And you could yell at a person ten feet away and they couldn't
  • 00:17:01.737 --> 00:17:04.440
  • Hear you.
  • 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:05.774
  • And the nose of the boat was going through waves, and things
  • 00:17:05.774 --> 00:17:08.377
  • Were washing overboard, and the water was cold.
  • 00:17:08.377 --> 00:17:11.547
  • And the captain told us, "if you fall overboard, we cannot turn
  • 00:17:11.547 --> 00:17:15.451
  • Around in the storm or we will capsize.
  • 00:17:15.451 --> 00:17:17.953
  • We will mark the place where we lost you."
  • 00:17:17.953 --> 00:17:21.623
  • That'll settle your nerves.
  • 00:17:21.623 --> 00:17:23.258
  • And everybody was seasick, and the captain was seasick, and the
  • 00:17:23.258 --> 00:17:29.665
  • Main sail ripped.
  • 00:17:29.665 --> 00:17:32.568
  • What do you think atheists do when they think they're going
  • 00:17:32.568 --> 00:17:34.703
  • To die?
  • 00:17:34.703 --> 00:17:37.306
  • Nobody was going, "hare krishna, hare krishna."
  • 00:17:37.306 --> 00:17:41.143
  • People were praying, they're talking to god, they're
  • 00:17:41.143 --> 00:17:43.345
  • Confessing their sins.
  • 00:17:43.345 --> 00:17:44.680
  • They know what they've done wrong, because they're promising
  • 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:47.649
  • God they'll never do it again if he gives them another chance.
  • 00:17:47.649 --> 00:17:51.453
  • And i was praying and making promises.
  • 00:17:51.453 --> 00:17:54.356
  • Now, is that the right reason to serve god?
  • 00:17:54.356 --> 00:17:57.192
  • You know, it might be a good starting point.
  • 00:17:57.192 --> 00:17:59.027
  • Some people turn to god out of fear.
  • 00:17:59.027 --> 00:18:00.996
  • It's not the best reason.
  • 00:18:00.996 --> 00:18:02.631
  • The reason to serve god is if you love him.
  • 00:18:02.631 --> 00:18:05.300
  • If the only reason you're serving god is because you're
  • 00:18:05.300 --> 00:18:08.070
  • Afraid he's going to punish you, then you won't want to serve him
  • 00:18:08.070 --> 00:18:11.006
  • In heaven.
  • 00:18:11.006 --> 00:18:12.541
  • You want to serve him because you love him now, you really
  • 00:18:12.541 --> 00:18:14.910
  • Love him.
  • 00:18:14.910 --> 00:18:16.245
  • Jesus said, "if you love me, keep my commandments."
  • 00:18:16.245 --> 00:18:19.781
  • Well, we survived the storm, and i convinced the captain to let
  • 00:18:19.781 --> 00:18:25.854
  • Me go home.
  • 00:18:25.854 --> 00:18:28.023
  • I was being a real troublemaker, but he said, "doug, what do we
  • 00:18:28.023 --> 00:18:30.859
  • Need to do to get you to cooperate?"
  • 00:18:30.859 --> 00:18:32.327
  • I said, "you let me go home for christmas break, and i'll obey
  • 00:18:32.327 --> 00:18:34.963
  • The rules."
  • 00:18:34.963 --> 00:18:36.331
  • I wasn't going to class, i wasn't doing my stuff on deck.
  • 00:18:36.331 --> 00:18:40.269
  • Like, in military school, you misbehave, they beat you.
  • 00:18:40.269 --> 00:18:43.372
  • They couldn't do that on this school.
  • 00:18:43.372 --> 00:18:46.041
  • And so, i said, "you let me go home christmas."
  • 00:18:46.041 --> 00:18:50.145
  • He got on the phone right there, and he called my dad, woke him
  • 00:18:50.145 --> 00:18:52.915
  • Up because of the time change.
  • 00:18:52.915 --> 00:18:54.716
  • "so, mr. batchelor, sorry to bother you.
  • 00:18:54.716 --> 00:18:56.251
  • We've got good news.
  • 00:18:56.251 --> 00:18:57.586
  • Doug has shown remarkable progress.
  • 00:18:57.586 --> 00:18:59.721
  • We're going to--we think he's ready to go home christmas?"
  • 00:18:59.721 --> 00:19:03.425
  • Oh, my dad was thrilled.
  • 00:19:03.425 --> 00:19:05.527
  • Soon as i got on the plane in madrid, spain, i said, "i'll
  • 00:19:05.527 --> 00:19:08.530
  • Take a beer.
  • 00:19:08.530 --> 00:19:09.898
  • I want a pack of cigarettes."
  • 00:19:09.898 --> 00:19:11.233
  • You could smoke on the plane back then.
  • 00:19:11.233 --> 00:19:13.202
  • My friends said, "oh, you're in trouble."
  • 00:19:13.202 --> 00:19:15.737
  • I said, "you guys are never going to see me again," and they
  • 00:19:15.737 --> 00:19:19.208
  • Never did.
  • 00:19:19.208 --> 00:19:21.343
  • Soon as i got to florida, i took off hitchhiking.
  • 00:19:21.343 --> 00:19:24.246
  • I went on vacation first with the family snow skiing up in
  • 00:19:24.246 --> 00:19:27.716
  • Canada, and then i came back.
  • 00:19:27.716 --> 00:19:29.051
  • And when it came time to go back to school, i got on the freeway,
  • 00:19:29.051 --> 00:19:31.987
  • I sold all my stuff to my brother.
  • 00:19:31.987 --> 00:19:35.524
  • He didn't know i was going to run away.
  • 00:19:35.524 --> 00:19:37.025
  • I just thought, "i need some spare change."
  • 00:19:37.025 --> 00:19:39.228
  • I got on the road, i started hitchhiking from florida
  • 00:19:39.228 --> 00:19:41.997
  • To california.
  • 00:19:41.997 --> 00:19:43.332
  • I wanted to go live in the mountains and find god through
  • 00:19:43.332 --> 00:19:45.367
  • The american indian religions.
  • 00:19:45.367 --> 00:19:49.571
  • And halfway out, i got stuck.
  • 00:19:49.571 --> 00:19:52.307
  • It's winter time in oklahoma, and i was freezing.
  • 00:19:52.307 --> 00:19:56.378
  • I'm by myself.
  • 00:19:56.378 --> 00:19:57.746
  • I had been drinking the day before at a bar.
  • 00:19:57.746 --> 00:19:59.715
  • I lost all my money at a pool hall, playing pool, making dumb
  • 00:19:59.715 --> 00:20:04.253
  • Bets, drunk.
  • 00:20:04.253 --> 00:20:06.288
  • I'm broke, i'm sick, i'm hungry, and then i'm standing on the
  • 00:20:06.288 --> 00:20:11.793
  • Road, and i've got florida clothing on.
  • 00:20:11.793 --> 00:20:15.030
  • And it is below 0, and i'm freezing to death, too stubborn
  • 00:20:15.030 --> 00:20:19.368
  • And proud to ask for help.
  • 00:20:19.368 --> 00:20:22.104
  • And every time a truck went by, three seconds later, i'd turn
  • 00:20:22.104 --> 00:20:25.107
  • Around because the wind from the truck would hit you.
  • 00:20:25.107 --> 00:20:28.110
  • And after hours, i became desperate and i prayed.
  • 00:20:28.110 --> 00:20:32.781
  • I said, "god, i know there's a god."
  • 00:20:32.781 --> 00:20:34.883
  • I was convinced now there was a god because of karma.
  • 00:20:34.883 --> 00:20:37.619
  • You know, jesus teaches karma, he says, "do unto others as you
  • 00:20:37.619 --> 00:20:40.155
  • Would have them do unto you."
  • 00:20:40.155 --> 00:20:42.324
  • What goes around comes around, friend.
  • 00:20:42.324 --> 00:20:43.959
  • I can tell you.
  • 00:20:43.959 --> 00:20:46.295
  • "blessed are the merciful, they will obtain mercy."
  • 00:20:46.295 --> 00:20:50.565
  • I said, "i believe there's a god."
  • 00:20:50.565 --> 00:20:53.001
  • I said, "lord," i asked him for four things.
  • 00:20:53.001 --> 00:20:54.603
  • I said, "will you please help me get a ride to where i'm going?"
  • 00:20:54.603 --> 00:20:59.908
  • As i'm freezing, i said, "lord, will you forgive me?
  • 00:20:59.908 --> 00:21:03.211
  • I've been a rotten person, i know."
  • 00:21:03.211 --> 00:21:05.314
  • I mean, i really was a pretty bad person.
  • 00:21:05.314 --> 00:21:09.051
  • And i said, "lord, help me get some money."
  • 00:21:09.051 --> 00:21:11.286
  • I was broke.
  • 00:21:11.286 --> 00:21:12.688
  • Help me get food.
  • 00:21:12.688 --> 00:21:14.890
  • And i guess the fifth thing i prayed for is a ride with
  • 00:21:14.890 --> 00:21:17.125
  • Someone normal, because i kept getting picked up by
  • 00:21:17.125 --> 00:21:20.562
  • Crazy people.
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  • I got picked up by people that were, they were drinking, and
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  • They're on a windy road.
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  • They said, "watch this, i can drive with the lights off," and
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  • They'd turn off their lights.
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  • I got picked up by two college students that were smoking so
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  • Much pot the car was filled with smoke.
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  • They ran across the median into oncoming traffic.
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  • I said, "oh, this is my stop.
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  • Let me out."
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  • So, i said, "lord, give me a ride with someone normal."
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  • I've been there for hours.
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  • As soon as i finished praying, i didn't know how to pray.
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  • I didn't say, "in jesus's name."
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  • I said, "lord, please help me."
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  • A vehicle stopped, white van, pick me up.
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  • This man took me from oklahoma to my destination in palm
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  • Springs, california.
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  • He gave me $40 when he dropped me off.
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  • He fed me all the way out.
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  • I was hungry.
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  • Every time he fed me, i said, "i got no money."
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  • "no problem, i'll pay for it."
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  • And the thing i didn't pray for is he preached to me all the way
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  • From oklahoma to california.
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  • He was a born again christian, and he was preaching to
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  • Everybody along the way.
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  • And i had to kinda like listen to him or jump out of the car.
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  • And i thought, "bible's a fairy tale.
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  • Christians are hypocrites."
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  • So he let me off, and i went up into the mountains.
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  • This is actually a picture my brother took years later.
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  • I wanted to now find god through nature.
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  • I moved up in the mountains, and i moved into a cave.
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  • And i lived up in these deserted mountains way back up in the
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  • Desert mountains.
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  • Karen's been up there a couple of times with me, way up above
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  • Palm springs.
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  • You go back down the other side, there's an oasis and almost no
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  • One knows about it.
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  • During covid, i went back up with my 25-year-old son at the
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  • Time and barely made it.
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  • It's hard to get to, 11,000 foot mountain.
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  • There, it's called mount san jacinto.
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  • And i lived in a cave for a year and a half.
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  • I took off all my clothes, because now i'm going to find
  • 00:23:19.614 --> 00:23:22.250
  • God through nature.
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  • Friends, this was the '70s, flower children, it was crazy.
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  • I know, it doesn't make any sense.
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  • Somebody had left a bible in the cave.
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  • I started reading the bible.
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  • I got bogged down there in exodus, and i jumped, and i read
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  • Matthew, mark, luke, john.
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  • And somewhere along the way, something happened.
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  • And finally i said, well, i've only got one of three choices.
  • 00:23:43.338 --> 00:23:47.843
  • I said, "either he was a liar, or he was a lunatic,
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  • Or he's the lord."
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  • Doug: you know, jesus came into our world for three reasons.
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  • First of all, he came as our example to live a life that we
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  • Might follow his steps.
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  • He came to show us the father.
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  • He said, if you've seen me, you've seen the father.
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  • And then he came as our sacrifice.
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  • He died on the cross as a substitute for all our sins, but
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  • We must come to him.
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  • We repent of our sins, we confess, he'll receive us with
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  • Loving arms.
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  • Why don't you ask him now?
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  • [dog barking]
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  • [fire alarm beeping]
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  • Female: [gasps]
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  • Mommy, daddy, help me!
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  • Male: no, i don't think so.
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  • You didn't do very well on your report card
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  • This last quarter, so no.
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  • Female: you haven't been pulling your weight around here lately.
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  • You want help?
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  • Well, i wanted help with the dishes last night.
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  • Help yourself.
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  • Female: huh?
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  • Male: honey, did you bring the marshmellows?
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  • Female: [coughing]
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