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America was you. joel osteen. it s like the osmonds were reborn. you were in this huge church with this amazing audience going crazy. there you were like this shiny perfect guy. saying these extraordinary things. all from memory. from inspiring. so i was sort of hooked on the joel osteen bug straightaway. i ve watched you on and off ever since. you have that effect. you are a kind of a rock star, aren t you? i never think of it that way, piers. 12 years ago i never spoke in public before. so this is all relatively new to me. so, you know, it s amazed me. the blessings and the favor. i never dreamed people would watch me. first thing we d-my dad had a television program, we cancelled that. i said nobody will watch me on television. that s the truth. she talked me into it. ....
Aren t you? i never think of it that way, piers. 12 years ago i never spoke in public before. so this is all relatively new to me. so, you know, it s amazed me. the blessings and the favor. i never dreamed people would watch me. first thing we d-my dad had a television program, we cancelled that. i said nobody will watch me on television. that s the truth. she talked me into it. the ministry took off. this is your emporium. it s not a service. what do you call. we call at it service. it meets where the houston rockets used to play basketball. when i was young i went to church it was no one, two, three inning like this. it was very quiet, very serious. there were about 100 people and the priest was normally pretty old. couldn t hear us. and it was very, very uncharismatic. ....