and the gold from new brunswick, fred phillips! [ applause ] take it all the way. all the way. reporter: all the way means the finals at the naacp competition in kansas city. you re doing it! reporter: where $2,000 is at take. . i like it out here. reporter: but he is prepare and ready. i actually wanted to experience the character. so some days i didn t eat just to feel hungrier. some days i ain t get any sleep so that way i could feel that tiredness.
life. bow our heads and lift our hearts. reporter: doug and mary jeffreys achieved their better life. but they re afraid it s going to slip out of their grasp. one day i broke down and said pastor, i ain t doing so well today. and carl fields is a devout christian, but he is being tested by the toughest economy in years. has your faith diminished at all? did you think uh-oh? hallelujah, thank you lord god. i know lord god that this day and here s where the diet stuff happens. like the other stuff, diet snapple has healthy stuff.
for a better life. reporter: doug and mary jefferies achieved their better life. but they re afraid it s going to slip out of their grasp. one day, i broke down crying, saying pastor i ain t doing so well today. the sufferings of this present time reporter: carl fields is a devout christian but being tested by the toughest economy in years. reporter: has your faith diminished at all? think uh-oh. hallelujah. thank you, lord god, i know lord god, to this day work, work all week long
i say pastor, i ain t doing so well today. what is going on? that s when i just had to tell him what the deal was. reporter: was it embarrassing? oh, yeah, quite. quite. reporter: how hard is it going to be if you have to give this up? well, you know what, soledad? it could be worse. it s not going to be so bad. it really isn t. i m all right. reporter: really? but i don t think i ll have to give it up. reporter: okay. as fred tries to figure out his college finances, he hits an unexpected bump. after careful consideration of your application to kean university reporter: and carl fields job search is getting desperate. not all of those are in my career discipline. it doesn t really matter. i ve been under the picky mode for quite some time. wrench? wrench.
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