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Uncut with Jay Cutler

Dog the Bounty Hunter explains how he went from prison to bounty hunting, how he got his nickname and his new message of faith on Uncut with Jay Cutler

Uncut with Jay Cutler

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Society & Culture, Sports, Talk Radio

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Duane Chapman, Dog the Bounty Hunter, sits down with Jay to talk about his new mission of faith and how he started a ministry after leaving Hawaii. He also tells the Jay the WILD story about how he found his calling for bounty hunting after running down a friend who was trying to escape from prison, and how that life led him out of prison and biker gangs. Dog also talks about how early in his bounty hunting career he was catching up to six bounties a day to keep his children fed. Dog also explains to Jay about how his rough life early on led him to faith and church, and how his nickname DOG came from the president of his biker gang who said his name should be GOD backwards because he always talked about God. Dog also breaks down how his iconic A&E show got started, how he grew it and where it has led him over the years.  Uncut with Jay Cutler is presented by Rocket Money. Start cancelling your unused subscriptions and save money at www.rocketmoney.com/UNCUT  Also presented by Progressive Insurance. Quote your car insurance at www.progressive.com to join the over 27 million drivers who trust Progressive.

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0:00.0

All right, we're doing Chapman dog the bounty hunter known to most. How are you?

0:23.8

Good boy. How are you? Good. Thanks for joining me. Are you in Florida? Colorado, where you at?

0:28.4

We're in Astorock, Colorado at the moment. Okay. We are in Florida also. Yes. I, uh, when I lived in Denver, I lived in Parker.

0:42.5

That's right. I remember that. Yeah. Right down, right down, right down the road from you. Casarock's nice.

0:48.8

Oh, thank you. So's Parker, yeah. Yeah. That town's blown up a lot since I left.

0:53.9

Oh, yeah, Douglas County's rated one of the top counties in Colorado. So I agree.

1:00.6

Yeah, it's, uh, I love, I always loved the weather there. Um, even the snow. I mean, it could snow two feet and then it's 60 the next day.

1:08.9

Yeah, that's one thing I can't stand as the cold. So how long were you in Hawaii? You were in Hawaii for a long, for a while with the show, were you?

1:19.2

I was in Hawaii 24 years. Wow. So Florida is kind of, uh, it's a lot, I think a lot nicer than Hawaii. So it's more

1:32.2

more of a time, a lot of different things that Florida has got that I, uh, really loved. So Florida, it's really nice there. So yeah.

1:41.2

Oh, I love Florida. Love Florida. So you, you're doing a ministry now called Light Up the Darkness. Yes.

1:48.4

My wife owns the, is co-owner of that company, correct? And I work for her. Uh-oh. How's that going? What?

2:02.4

What, uh, so what are you guys doing with that? You guys, I mean, I've read about you, you're kind of torn around and giving speeches and stuff, correct?

2:11.4

We, we're, yeah, we have a message. So we go to different churches with the message. Then my sister in the Lord is Katie Sousa, who owns half of faith television.

2:25.4

Okay. So we, we're for prisons in Missouri. You know, we go and speak to the inmates and then we've done some stuff with Kenneth Copeland in Texas.

2:37.4

And while we're doing it, I have a show called Dog in the Essentials and the Essentials are retired. The FBI retires you in your early 50s mandatory. Really?

2:49.4

So there's a whole, yeah, the eye also. So there's a whole guys out there in their 50s that, you know, one of those told me, if I catch another fish, I'm going to kill myself.

3:01.4

And so we hooked up with these guys accidentally on the Brian Laundry case. Yeah. And I am totally amazed at their knowledge and they, you know, they were, they're like me, they will not stop until the purpose caught.

3:14.4

So, yeah, hooked up with them. So as we're going after different, we're going after only high profile killers and this and that because they're letting everybody else out of jail for free.

3:26.4

Yeah. So they're not killers yet. So as we go there, we find a church or somewhere to speak at, as we're doing our hunts. So we kind of combined speaking with the bounty and Indian.

3:40.4

Still, it's worked out really good.

3:42.4

That's awesome. That's awesome.

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