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This is Later with Lee Matthews The
Lee Matthews Podcast more what you hear weekday

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afternoons on the Drive. You know
Dwayne Tapman as Dog the Bowty Hunter and

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all of his adventures on television,
But now he has taken his experiences and

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written them up in a memoir,
Nine Lives in Counting, a bounty Hunter's

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Journey to faith, hope and redemption. Dog the Bowty Hunter. Welcome,

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Thank you brother Aloha. How are
you good to have you along? I

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know you were in the Oklahoma area
not long ago. But let's start at

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the beginning. What little kids,
what little kid says, I want to

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be a bounty hunter when I grow
up. What little kid does, Yeah,

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well they shouldn't be a police officer, be the FBI or a sheriff

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for something. Please don't try to
be a bouley hunter. And well,

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how did you get into the business. Well, I was in prison in

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the seventies in a state right next
to you called Texas, and one of

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an inmate tried to escape one day. One of my friends and I tackled

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him on a road outside the prison, and a lieutenant threw down handcuffs and

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said hook him up. Bounty hunter, and I was like, whoa,

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you know, maybe I can do
this, Maybe this is for me.

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So right when I got out of
prison in seventy nine, I went to

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a police supply store to buy my
first badge. They thought I was an

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undercover cop, and the guy said, what's your badge number? And I

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had, you know, you've got
to answer to a cop questions quick so

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they know you're not lying. So
I didn't want to use my social security

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So he said what's your badge number, sir? And I said twenty seven

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one ninety seven. That was my
prison number. And that number is still

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on my badge today. It's luckily
had enough digits to fill the to fill

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the format. Right, Yes,
it was perfect. Yes, Doug the

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Bounty Hunter. The book is nine
Lives in Counting, a bounty Hunter's Journey

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to faith, hope, and redemption. Was it because of what you learned

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in prison that you decided, Okay, I'm going to make sure that I

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keep as many people off the streets
as possible. Well, I didn't learn

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that in prison. I learned that
I don't want to go back there.

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You know, guys that do go
back don't like girls. So that's what

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I learned. But uh, I
just you know, I was convicted of

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a crime that I did not commit, first degree murder, and I thought,

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I'll not be able to get a
job. You know, a girlfriend

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ran an apartment and you know sometimes
they said you ever convicted of felony,

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I would right will discuss And I
thought, oh man, this is perfect

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that I can. You know,
I in the beginning, I want wanted

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to die in a blaze of glory, and I wanted to be redeemed by

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my death. And then the more
and more people I captured. Again,

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God told me in the beginning that
you know, everyone that you capture,

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I have led them to you and
led you to them. So every single

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one, I want you to mention
my son's name Jesus. So that's what

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I started doing that, And I
had no idea I was going to be

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as successful as I am. And
Dwayne the Dog Chapman is here. He's

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talking about his book Nine Lives in
Counting, a bounty Hunter's journey to faith,

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hope, and redemption. Where did
your faith come from? When initially

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did you turn to God? Well, I was raised a Christian and the

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assemblies of God by my mother.
She was the fourth generation of prophets on

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the women's side of her family.
So, you know, I knew at

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three and four years old right from
wrong and the power of God, and

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you know, the miracles and things
that I knew better, and I should

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have not turned left instead of right. Dog the bounty hunter with us.

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And in your story nine Lives in
Counting, a bounty Hunter's journey to faith,

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hope and redemption, you talk about
what you learned as a vacuum salesman.

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Oh, you guys all bring that
up. I was a number one

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Kirby salesman in the nation, and
I was trained by an incredible salesman.

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So and it was a woman's product, and it was made in America,

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and it worked better than any vacuum
that there was. So because of all

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those things, I was very positive
and very successful in selling it, same

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as I am in you know,
selling the name of Jesus. I've learned

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it's very positive. Jesus has stepped
in my life and you would not believe

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the things he has done. I
tried to put a lot of them here.

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That's why it's called and counting.
It's just incredible. So when I

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had faith in something like Jesus and
then the Kirby. You know, I

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could roll with it. I could
get it out there. Oh I remember

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Kirby being the name in vacuums for
decades. Yes, yeah, and Jesus

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is the name in religion forever.
One of the things I talked about on

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this program, Dog the Bounty Hunters
with us the one thing that Christ offers

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that other faiths do not offer.
That is a clear and present road to

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redemption. Sometimes that redemption may not
be what you want to do, but

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it is there absolutely. You know, he gives us all a chance.

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God didn't make al for us.
You know, God the Bible says I

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stand at the door and knock,
and any man or woman that hears my

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voice, I will open that door
that he could come in and eat with

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me. So this is just incredible
that what God has done. And I

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tried to put it in writing in
Nine Lives and Counting, and it's uh,

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we'll see how it goes. I
mean, it comes out tomorrow.

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So here we go. Dwayne the
Dog Chapman is with us nine Lives in

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County. You can hear the emotion
in his voice. You know he believes

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in this very passionately. Getting back
to your days as a bounty hunter.

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Is there any one experience that you've
had that stands out in your mind as

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a I hope I don't get in
that situation again. Well. The most

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dangerous is, of course, is
when a fugitive has a gun, whether

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it's a man or a woman.
And I've been shot once in the top

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of the head. Skim the top
of the head, I need stitches.

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Shot I try to do it,
Bruce Lee. Once kick the pistol out

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of guy's and he shot me in
the leg. See dog, I'm sorry.

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I didn't mean to do that.
When you go in against a firearm,

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I've went in against machetes, knives, bull whips, numbchucks, everything.

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But the most dangerous part is when
you go in there. And of

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course the Bible says by their fruits
you shall know them, and in my

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world that meant by their rap sheet. So when you go after a guy

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that has got guns and violence in
his record, you better be right with

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Jesus. And one time I went
after a guy for a felony DUI,

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the fourth felony in the state of
Texas, and he shot at me when

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I jumped him in the car.
So you never know. When someone's got

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a gun, you better be prepared. You know. We say prayers in

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the beginning of every hunt with me
and my family because I want the kids

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protected, I want me protected,
because you never know. When you know,

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you kick that door in and you're
going to be held in the arms

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of Jesus. Nine lives when counting
the Bounty Hunter story of journey to faith,

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hope and redemption. Ang the Bounty
Hunter with us. Thanks for joining

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us and for writing it all down
for us. Hello HAA, thank you,

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Lead Brother. Thanks for listening to
Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee

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