This is Later with Lee Matthews The Lee Matthews Podcast more what you hear weekday
afternoons on the Drive. You know Dwayne Tapman as Dog the Bowty Hunter and
all of his adventures on television, But now he has taken his experiences and
written them up in a memoir, Nine Lives in Counting, a bounty Hunter's
Journey to faith, hope and redemption. Dog the Bowty Hunter. Welcome,
Thank you brother Aloha. How are you good to have you along? I
know you were in the Oklahoma area not long ago. But let's start at
the beginning. What little kids, what little kid says, I want to
be a bounty hunter when I grow up. What little kid does, Yeah,
well they shouldn't be a police officer, be the FBI or a sheriff
for something. Please don't try to be a bouley hunter. And well,
how did you get into the business. Well, I was in prison in
the seventies in a state right next to you called Texas, and one of
an inmate tried to escape one day. One of my friends and I tackled
him on a road outside the prison, and a lieutenant threw down handcuffs and
said hook him up. Bounty hunter, and I was like, whoa,
you know, maybe I can do this, Maybe this is for me.
So right when I got out of prison in seventy nine, I went to
a police supply store to buy my first badge. They thought I was an
undercover cop, and the guy said, what's your badge number? And I
had, you know, you've got to answer to a cop questions quick so
they know you're not lying. So I didn't want to use my social security
So he said what's your badge number, sir? And I said twenty seven
one ninety seven. That was my prison number. And that number is still
on my badge today. It's luckily had enough digits to fill the to fill
the format. Right, Yes, it was perfect. Yes, Doug the
Bounty Hunter. The book is nine Lives in Counting, a bounty Hunter's Journey
to faith, hope, and redemption. Was it because of what you learned
in prison that you decided, Okay, I'm going to make sure that I
keep as many people off the streets as possible. Well, I didn't learn
that in prison. I learned that I don't want to go back there.
You know, guys that do go back don't like girls. So that's what
I learned. But uh, I just you know, I was convicted of
a crime that I did not commit, first degree murder, and I thought,
I'll not be able to get a job. You know, a girlfriend
ran an apartment and you know sometimes they said you ever convicted of felony,
I would right will discuss And I thought, oh man, this is perfect
that I can. You know, I in the beginning, I want wanted
to die in a blaze of glory, and I wanted to be redeemed by
my death. And then the more and more people I captured. Again,
God told me in the beginning that you know, everyone that you capture,
I have led them to you and led you to them. So every single
one, I want you to mention my son's name Jesus. So that's what
I started doing that, And I had no idea I was going to be
as successful as I am. And Dwayne the Dog Chapman is here. He's
talking about his book Nine Lives in Counting, a bounty Hunter's journey to faith,
hope, and redemption. Where did your faith come from? When initially
did you turn to God? Well, I was raised a Christian and the
assemblies of God by my mother. She was the fourth generation of prophets on
the women's side of her family. So, you know, I knew at
three and four years old right from wrong and the power of God, and
you know, the miracles and things that I knew better, and I should
have not turned left instead of right. Dog the bounty hunter with us.
And in your story nine Lives in Counting, a bounty Hunter's journey to faith,
hope and redemption, you talk about what you learned as a vacuum salesman.
Oh, you guys all bring that up. I was a number one
Kirby salesman in the nation, and I was trained by an incredible salesman.
So and it was a woman's product, and it was made in America,
and it worked better than any vacuum that there was. So because of all
those things, I was very positive and very successful in selling it, same
as I am in you know, selling the name of Jesus. I've learned
it's very positive. Jesus has stepped in my life and you would not believe
the things he has done. I tried to put a lot of them here.
That's why it's called and counting. It's just incredible. So when I
had faith in something like Jesus and then the Kirby. You know, I
could roll with it. I could get it out there. Oh I remember
Kirby being the name in vacuums for decades. Yes, yeah, and Jesus
is the name in religion forever. One of the things I talked about on
this program, Dog the Bounty Hunters with us the one thing that Christ offers
that other faiths do not offer. That is a clear and present road to
redemption. Sometimes that redemption may not be what you want to do, but
it is there absolutely. You know, he gives us all a chance.
God didn't make al for us. You know, God the Bible says I
stand at the door and knock, and any man or woman that hears my
voice, I will open that door that he could come in and eat with
me. So this is just incredible that what God has done. And I
tried to put it in writing in Nine Lives and Counting, and it's uh,
we'll see how it goes. I mean, it comes out tomorrow.
So here we go. Dwayne the Dog Chapman is with us nine Lives in
County. You can hear the emotion in his voice. You know he believes
in this very passionately. Getting back to your days as a bounty hunter.
Is there any one experience that you've had that stands out in your mind as
a I hope I don't get in that situation again. Well. The most
dangerous is, of course, is when a fugitive has a gun, whether
it's a man or a woman. And I've been shot once in the top
of the head. Skim the top of the head, I need stitches.
Shot I try to do it, Bruce Lee. Once kick the pistol out
of guy's and he shot me in the leg. See dog, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to do that. When you go in against a firearm,
I've went in against machetes, knives, bull whips, numbchucks, everything.
But the most dangerous part is when you go in there. And of
course the Bible says by their fruits you shall know them, and in my
world that meant by their rap sheet. So when you go after a guy
that has got guns and violence in his record, you better be right with
Jesus. And one time I went after a guy for a felony DUI,
the fourth felony in the state of Texas, and he shot at me when
I jumped him in the car. So you never know. When someone's got
a gun, you better be prepared. You know. We say prayers in
the beginning of every hunt with me and my family because I want the kids
protected, I want me protected, because you never know. When you know,
you kick that door in and you're going to be held in the arms
of Jesus. Nine lives when counting the Bounty Hunter story of journey to faith,
hope and redemption. Ang the Bounty Hunter with us. Thanks for joining
us and for writing it all down for us. Hello HAA, thank you,
Lead Brother. Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee
Matthews Podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive Live weekday afternoons from five
to seven and iHeartMedia Presentation