Inside Scoop On Hollywood With Kevin Sorbo

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Hello everyone and welcome to Supernatural Junkies. This is Super Alex.

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We are here with a very special... Why are you looking at me like that?

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He's looking at me like I'm doing something weird.

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I get to be close to her today. Usually we have to be at the other end of the

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table. They separate us. Just so you know. I don't know if you have that.

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So we have Kevin Sorbo here today. Hey, we have Hercules here with us today. That's right.

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And... We have the doctors as well. Dr. Dennis, Dr. Dozier. Dr.

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Kevin. Yeah, and myself.

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I played a doctor in movies before, but I'm not one of them.

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Well and we know you do you do

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stuff with your wife all the time and i've seen you guys do

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ministry stuff together and and so you

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understand what it's like with your wife it's awesome and then trying at the

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times depends on the day and i wasn't i wasn't running this is my normal interview

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gear i i reminded oh my goodness i'm a patriot so there i got a very funny story

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in this I've got to sweat.

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This company is going to be at my convention. I'd like to talk about the Rise Up Con later.

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But I'm walking through the airport in Dallas, and this stewardess,

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flight attendants, walking at me.

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She sees Patriots. Oh, you're a Patriot fan. I said, you better believe them, period. Go America.

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And she frowned. She goes, I thought you were a New England Patriot fan.

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I said, sweetheart, where do you think they got the name from?

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Oh, my goodness.

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So Patriot means not a Patriot for the New England Patriots?

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I mean, it's just, it's just, you know, this is the wacky world we're living in.

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And she frowned at me and I said, maybe you should go to live in North Korea.

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I think maybe that's your perfect utopia. Oh my goodness.

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Well, I'm sure, you know, when you're traveling all around, do you see a lot

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of differences when you go to different areas of the country?

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Oh, yeah. No question. Going to L.A. and 20 percent of the people still wear masks.

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Then you go to other places, maybe one out of every 200, you know.

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So it is kind of it is kind of interesting to see L.A. is still kind of holding

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on to the fear factor that government likes to rule us by.

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Well, you you moved from California. Is that right? You were.

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Well, we like to say we escaped five and a half years ago.

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Probably better. Yeah. We went from the worst governor in the country for the best governor.

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We're in the free state of florida i love it love it it's funny we're building

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a house in tennessee and that was totally we were almost in north carolina and

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then we were like oh my goodness,

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2020 hit and we were like yeah we're not going there it's it's such a difference

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you know depending on where you're at so yeah especially if you homeschool you

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know that's us we do yeah we do too so yeah north carolina just seemed like

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a great decision for that reason so tennessee Tennessee, baby. Yeah.

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Tennessee or Florida? Tennessee is good. Well, you got Texas,

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Tennessee, and Florida. All of us are about 1,000 people a day moving,

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and there's a reason for that. Yeah.

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You look at 8 million people have left the state of California in the last 10

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years, 8 million taxpaying people.

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And so initially, you got to go, maybe they wake up eventually,

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but then you realize, no, they're doing it on purpose for whatever reasons.

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I'd still like to know why, but they're doing it on purpose.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So did you find moving from Los Angeles, where you're a hub

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of the entertainment industry, and then going to Florida, how do you find that

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with getting jobs still in the industry?

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Because you still act and produce and do all that stuff, right?

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Well, let me put it this way. 12 years ago, my manager and agent,

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my agent of a long time, ICM, they called me in and said they can't work with

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me anymore because I'm a Christian and a conservative. And I laughed at them. I said, you know what?

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This business up until the 60s was It was pretty conservative,

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and it was pretty Christian.

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Hollywood used to do family movies and faith movies. The 60s kind of changed everything, I think.

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It was a crazy decade with the Vietnam War, with the racial issues,

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with Martin Luther King, and the Kennedy brothers dying, and rock and roll becoming

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very political and just expanding and growing at that time.

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And Hollywood started doing movies that celebrated the antihero.

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But I still love the industry, so my wife and I formed SorboStudios.com.

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It's an independent movie production house, and we've been doing our own movies

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for the last, you know, for the last 10, 12 years.

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And a lot of other independents come at me now. So I've been averaging since

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I left Hollywood, I've shot well over, well over 50 movies.

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And I was, most of the movies I was filming, even before the whole Hollywood

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cancel culture, I'm the first cancel culture person before I think it became a term.

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And everything I shot was in Texas or further East. Nothing shoots in California,

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pretty much just sitcoms in the studios.

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I mean, everything's in Georgia. Georgia's number one in the country for filming.

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Toronto is huge. Vancouver is huge because the tax credits and everything.

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And Alabama is getting bigger. Texas is getting bigger.

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Nashville's got a new tax credit coming in. So nothing shoots that much.

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So for me, it didn't matter.

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I've not missed a beat. Am I not getting invited anymore to do big television

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series or big movies? Yeah, of course. But that's okay.

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I don't care. Hollywood doesn't owe me anything. I love the industry.

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I'm still making a career.

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But I'm doing movies I want to do that have love and hope, redemption,

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faith, laughter, things that Hollywood used to do. I'm trying to battle the

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horrible culture that Hollywood is winning because they got the big money and

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the big money to promote them through advertising.

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Well, I love what you're saying because you remember, it sounds like that's

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why you got into it. How did you get into it to begin with, acting?

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Well, it's a silly story. I grew up in a little town about 25 miles west of Minneapolis.

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It's on beautiful Lake Minnetonka, my little town of 7,000 people.

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We were home to Tonka Toys, Lake Minnetonka Tonka Toys, get it?

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And so I was a jock, football, basketball, baseball, it was my whole life.

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You know, I'm the fourth of five kids, four boys in the family, very competitive.

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When I was 11 years old, our school took a trip to the Guthrie Theater.

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People that know theater know the Guthrie Theater. It's a very famous theater.

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A lot of Broadway plays start there. A lot of Broadway actors come out to perform.

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And the play was The Merchant of Venice. It was Shakespeare.

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And I was 11. I don't know what the heck they were saying because I was 11 and

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it was Shakespeare. But I was completely mesmerized by the actors on stage.

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And I told my mom on the way home. She was one of the chaperones.

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I said, I'm going to be an actor, Mom. And she said, that's nice,

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dear. A little pat on the leg, you know.

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But the seed was set. You know, and I kind of, you know, played around doing

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theater, little plays in school.

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And when I went to college, I had a double business major, but I had a minor

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in drama because I knew what I wanted to do.

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And Minneapolis-St. Paul is home to a lot of big corporations.

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Headquartered, you got Best Buy, Target, 3M, Pillsbury, General Mills.

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I mean, there's so many companies. So I got an agent and I did a lot of commercials

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during my college years. So I got that. They were all unions.

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So I got that all-important Screen Actors Guild card. And so I had no problem moving to L.A.

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And getting an agent right away. That was easy because I already had a great

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tape and I had the SAG card.

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The harder thing was kind of breaking into the, the movie and TV world,

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but I got an agent and within, within about a year after down there and I started

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getting, you know, a lot of auditions, but obviously my big break came with

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Hercules and seven years in New Zealand and being part,

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I know it's the pride of, it's a sin of pride, but it became the most watched

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show in the world by season three.

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And we held that title for five years in 176 countries. It was crazy.

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It was definitely New Zealand, Kevin. No, I'm kidding.

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New Zealand's beautiful. It was. That set was amazing. It really was.

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You can now remember it. Well, Peter Jackson would come on the set a lot because

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he was writing the trilogy for Lord of the Rings around that time.

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And he wanted to see how the crew was developing because they'd never had anything

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remotely like that in their country to build up, you know, whatever.

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It's other actors, camera operators, sound guys.

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So we kind of, and we had two spinoff shows. And so we employed a lot of people,

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like over 700 people, I think it was.

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So what I was wondering, when you think about, you know, Hercules,

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when did you, when you think about, when did you first start to get a bad taste

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in your mouth about what was going on in Hollywood?

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Well, you know, Hercules, I was pretty much isolated. And I got to tell you,

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through the fan mail coming and everything, I had nothing to do with the writing.

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I mean, I would always do little rewrites and things like that.

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And I always wanted to put in more humor into the show because I think it was

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certainly a type of show that people could laugh at instead of laugh with.

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We want to make sure they laugh with us. and they put a lot of moral messages

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in there for a mythological show.

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And you got it through all the kids that would write in and talk about that.

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You know, I don't want to be a bully anymore.

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I don't have to fight anymore because what you're showing me and every movie

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I've been doing since then, I get one, two, three people coming up and say,

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your show got me to work out.

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I became a stunt guy because you, I became an actor because you,

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because you know, Walt Disney back in the fifties said movies and television

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can influence our youth. And he was certainly right.

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And you You know, it can be for good or bad, just like the internet.

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I think the internet's the wild west. Unfortunately, there's a lot of crap on

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the internet. There's a lot of good things about it as well.

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But it was really what they were doing with that, I think, was a positive thing.

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And I was, you know, I was in New Zealand for seven years, 10 months,

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a year. So I didn't really, I was, I wasn't in Hollywood.

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I was getting invited to a lot of movie premieres, but I couldn't go to anything.

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But for me, it was, it was sort of isolation being that country so far away.

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And then I got another series right after that, even before Hercules finished

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its seventh I moved up to Vancouver, Canada for five years, filming Gene Roddenberry's

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Andromeda, which was the first show he created after Star Trek. He wrote it back in 1969.

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So my captain, Dylan Hunt, was the first captain after Captain Kirk.

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And that was cool for me because as a kid, I grew up watching all the reruns

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of original Star Trek series.

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Yeah, I spent a lot of time in Vancouver myself, and that's a beautiful place. Beautiful place, yeah.

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It really is. And the Chinese food is crazy, but you've seen what's happened

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to it since then, you know, with just.

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Well, they call it, they call it Hong Coover. Yeah.

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And they have almost like a tent city there now, you know, it's just taken over the town.

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So it's been a lot of negative things since I was there. Well,

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we just got 30,000 more Chinese that just came across the border into San Diego. Explain that one to me.

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So a lot, and all men, all fighting age men. I mean, it's crazy what we're doing

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in the country, but that's a whole nother thing. We can talk about the border another time.

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Yeah. Well, that's, that's definitely what's on everybody's mind. Absolutely. Of course.

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You know, most of us know, and especially us Christians, we know that,

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you know, unfortunately, you know, with everything that's happened in your career,

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you end up getting kind of blacklisted.

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Devastated you know by hollywood how would you say

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that some of that happened well i just

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i kind of just explained it i mean they got tired of what i was writing on the

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internet i wasn't writing anything angry i was i was i was writing

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i was writing things that were that were you know they hate the truth in hollywood

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just like dc they don't like the truth that's kryptonite to them i mean i got

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banned from facebook i had over three million followers on facebook three years

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ago because i was posting a lot of stuff that other doctors were saying about

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wearing masks and about about the shots and about everything.

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And I got taken out for misinformation and conspiracy theories.

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Of course, everything now is coming out that everything I was saying was true.

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So on Twitter, I posted, or I should say X, I posted, I need more conspiracy

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theories because all of mine keep coming true.

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Seriously? And there's a recourse for that either. No, it's pathetic.

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Fauci should be in jail and so should Gates. And what they did to the world is unbelievable.

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I mean, Costco was essential. Target was essential. about all these corner stores

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that have been around 60 years for people to get coffee or groceries.

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They took them down because that was an essential. People lost everything.

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And it's incredible. In fact, I golf a lot. And my new effort on the golf course

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is Fauci because it's got an F, it's got a U, and it's got a C in it, so it's close enough.

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We're going to start using that. We feel exactly the same way about it.

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What are you talking about? The right Fauci, my favorite three math.

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Don't just wait a while to get a three. what well Dr. Dennis is an avid golfer by the way so.

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Well, we'll have to set up on golf. I love golf. Yeah, definitely. Great.

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We were asking you a number of questions. I know we're asking a number of questions

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about Hollywood, but you brought up something that interests me.

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Sure. That was 30,000. I believe earlier it was about 42,000,

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if I'm not mistaken, young Chinese fighting age men coming here.

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And I've asked people questions like, do you really think that men would just

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be able to leave China if they decided they wanted to leave?

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And surprisingly, some people would say, well, that was their choice.

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And so what I'll do is I'll go to North Korea. I'll go to North Korea.

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And then I'll ask what type of government do they have?

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Some people are afraid to be wrong, so they'll think. And they'll just think,

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think, think. Really, they're afraid to be wrong.

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And so they come out, communists. Okay. I'll say, what type of government does

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Cuba have? I'll say, okay, communists. And they just leave those countries. The answer is no.

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As a matter of fact, in North Korea, you'll most likely get shot.

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I was in Europe. I was in Berlin when they had the wall.

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And if you've ever been there with the wall, you had guards up there,

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you had minefields there, you had glass on the wall, and you died.

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And it wasn't the people that were on the west side that were trying to get

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to the east, but the people at the east trying to get to the west.

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So communism, they hold their people. So I'll go on to ask the question,

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well, OK, what type of government does China have?

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Do you know what CCP means?

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Surprisingly, a lot of Americans will say no. And then so I go in and I don't really get all into it.

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But I'll say, well, simply put, I'll say that that is a communist country and

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they're not just going to release their manpower.

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So if if if they're going to get here, it is either going to have to be because

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they are intentionally sending them here with the purpose.

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OK, or they're getting rid of criminals or whatever.

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But when you look at so many young men coming from a communist nation to a country

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that's supposed to be a constitutional republic, you them coming to a country like that.

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You need to know that there is a problem and it's within their government.

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And if it's within their government and it's happening, then we have to ask

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ourselves the question.

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Where's our government on this? I'm saying that to lay us out and ask you,

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what is your take on that?

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Well, I agree 100%. I got a buddy I golf with. He's from Toronto,

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but he lives down here pretty much full time in Florida.

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He's got a furniture business. He does a lot of business over in China.

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And just the other day, he said exactly what he just said. He goes,

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when you're traveling just within China, the amount of like from province to

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province, whatever, the amount of paperwork you have to get in papers,

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So tens of thousands of these fighting age Chinese come through our border.

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They were sent over here by the government. I tell people all the time,

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I said, you got to know how, how ignorant can you be of what communism and socialism is all about?

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Those two things killed, you know, a hundred million people in the last century.

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And for these people coming across the border like that, nobody's saying anything.

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It's, it's, it's scary to me. And I said, you got to understand,

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they rule with the iron hand of communism over their people.

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But the government of China is very capitalistic. Let's face it.

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They love bringing in money.

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I think most of our debt is probably owned to China. They just bought up 450,000 acres of farmland.

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They're using that farmland, but they bring food back to their own people.

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They don't have to hear it benefit us.

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And I think one of the biggest problems in America is its own greed.

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And then I think apathy is a big killer with the normal person out there,

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because we have You have so many sheep out there that let government rule them.

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And people got it. I mean, I'm here to wake up the lions. We got to fight back

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because it's unbelievable what we're doing in this country. It's amazing.

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And to have, you know, Trump's four years in office, 1.4 million people came across the border.

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We're well over 10 million people coming across this border.

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10 million in three years.

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And you've got to be kidding me that people are sitting around.

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I've had people get in my face and argue, who should have opened borders?

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And I go, wait a minute, wait, let me ask you one question.

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When you go to bed at night, do you guys lock your house up?

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And they go, well, of course we do. I go, oh, that's, that's interesting.

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Why are you locking up your house?

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Well, then they start thinking about it. Well, you know, you don't want people

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breaking in. I go, well, America is a house and we got 10 million people coming across here.

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There is a woman that said, said, I looked at her.

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She was a fan until I said, we need to close the border. And she turned 180 on me.

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And I, she goes, we should have open borders. I said, I said,

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tell you what, what if you went home right now and there were five illegal aliens

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in your living room? She said, I'd let them stay.

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I just started laughing. And I said, fine, give me your address.

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Because in Santa Monica alone, I see them in every corner looking for a job.

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And they would love to stay with you. I said, it cracks me up that you guys

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want to come across as the people that care so much more.

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Meanwhile, your relatives came over Christmas. After three days,

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you're ready for them to go home.

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So don't give me this crap that you'd let these people stay in your house.

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I mean, they project this thing that they care so much more,

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that they're the party with the heart. when really they're the party of violence, anger, and hate.

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Absolutely. And thank God our governor signed a bill yesterday about the squatting.

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Did you see that? I heard about that. Yeah. So he signed a bill so they can't

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do squatting in their houses in Florida.

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Well, it's insane that you can do it anyway. It's crazy. It's crazy.

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They got the same problem in New Zealand. If somebody has a cabin out in the

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bush somewhere and they show up there because they haven't been there in four

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months and people are in there, they can't move them out. And I said,

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that makes no sense to me.

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Who came up with that law to begin with?

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It is insane. saying and then no there was the one sheriff i

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think i don't know if it's polk county and one of the counties that said that we

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we prefer that you shoot them taxpayers some

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money that sounds like grady i was like

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wow okay well to me

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it's it's tragic when you think that 9-11 the

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big banner was we would never forget and the

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banner above that was that we united we were standing so

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26 people supposedly did that to us

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what can 10 million people do kevin oh yeah

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oh i i there's no question they've

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already admitting that there's at least 160 000 unaccounted for that's not across

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the border and then they think another 500 000 of that 10 million are more than

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likely terrorists and evil for the country so i think we're gonna have a massive

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9-11 on our hand where they're gonna hit 30 of the biggest cities all at the

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same time on the same date and people will scratch Grasher has, how did this happen?

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And it's just, it's just incredible that we're that stupid and that ignorant

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to let this happen to our country.

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But we're living in pretty dangerous times right now.

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Yeah, we, we totally agree. There's a Trojan horse in every city of America at this point.

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And they're really just waiting to open the doors.

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Sure. And the electrical system alone really sets us up for that.

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So when you start, you know, after what happened to your, after Andromeda,

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how, what happened in that period of time?

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Well, I was busy all the time. I was working like crazy within the Hollywood

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system. I mean, I was, things were fun because that series ended in 2005.

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So from 1993, 2005, I had 12 years of nonstop work within the,

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my two series, but I still was averaging three, four movies a year,

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staying busy, shooting four weeks here, six weeks there, wherever it was.

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It was 2012 when my agent and I parted ways and I formed Sorbo Studios.

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So we've just been doing it on our own since then. And that's been fine by me. And the move was great.

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We talked about moving out here for years because we both had family out in

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Florida. We've been out here many times.

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And I just got to a point hating the traffic in L.A., hating the taxes.

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I said, why am I dropping 13.5 cents of every dollar when I shoot everything out of the state anyway?

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And I think we would have came earlier. It just had to get to a point,

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I think, when both my wife and

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I had just reached a boiling point and said enough is enough. So we left.

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We had a great house. I loved where I lived. I was an hour and a half north

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of LA, an hour and a half south of Santa Barbara.

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Great areas. It was at least 50% conservative in that area.

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Loved our church. Had a great church there. Pastor Rob McCoy,

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the Calvary Church there. He does a lot of work actually with,

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he's coming to the event, I think.

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Yeah. That was my old pastor.

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Wow. You probably didn't know that.

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No, you said it was a small world. Yeah.

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No, because he does a lot of work

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at Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA as well, as does my son, Brayden.

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He's 22. too, which Charlie took him under his wing.

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Charlie and I both spoke at Liberty university about four years ago.

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No, it's five years ago already now. And they, they both just hit it off.

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So he gets invited all the turning point events and he's got a booth.

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He's got a great book as you know, as Braden Sorbo. So his initials are BS.

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So we wrote a book, the BS guide to politics for young people.

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That's all I'm wondering. Homeschooling rocks. I love it.

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So we recently did an episode about Satanism in Hollywood and in the music industry.

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So we're, because now since sound of freedom, right, there's been conversations like this happening.

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People are openly acknowledging that this stuff exists, even in Hollywood.

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Were you ever offered or approached to participate in any satanic ritual or

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anything that no, I knew it existed out there, but no. know,

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people pretty much knew.

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I mean, it's like when I walk in a room with a bunch of gay people,

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they pretty much know I'm straight right away.

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So it's, it's, you know, it's, it is not something I would ever get involved

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in that thing, any curiosity about.

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I've been a Christian my whole life. So, you know, and I've been vocal about it on the internet.

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So to me, it's not something I, you know, hide away from, but I knew,

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I knew all about the sex trafficking. I didn't, I didn't know names or rumors of names.

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And I think Hollywood is still protecting itself pretty, pretty hardcore.

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Core look the harvey weinstein thing that stuff goes on all

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the time and this hashtag me too thing so

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where were these people 30 years ago why didn't they come out 30 years ago why

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are they what you know 30 years later he flirted with me and going oh my

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gosh i mean it's just insane what we're doing right now with this stuff but

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you know all hollywood knew it and that he's not the only guy that was doing

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it and you know they just did you see the raid on pd's home yeah he took off

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on his private plane i heard he's down in antiquar thing i don't know i don't

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know you can hide down there But obviously,

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that's, you know, Mel Gibson has mentioned a number of times he's going to break

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out a lot of news about a lot of people.

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But, you know, it's like these people that say, you know, if I die,

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I didn't commit suicide.

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And, you know, how many people around the Clintons committed suicide, apparently?

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It was like 57 is the number or whatever. But one of the things I tweeted during

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COVID, I said, if you want to get rid of COVID, tell the Clintons that COVID's got something on them.

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That's funny. That's good. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely.

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Well, you know, we see this stuff in Hollywood and you're kind of positioned

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now, like you said, to do movies the way they should be done,

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you know, something positive.

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So tell us how you got motivated to do that. Well, I think my really first faith-based

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movie, an apologetically faith-based movie, is called What If?

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And it's the same writers that years later I did God's Not Dead.

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God's Not Dead became a huge hit. I mean, with a $2 million budget, it made $140 million.

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So, you know, it shows you, you need word of mouth, though, in independent movies,

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because Hollywood does $300 million movies.

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These Avatar and Avengers and Spider-Man, and then they have $100 million to

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promote it. You know, but those movies need to make 700, 800 million to break

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even, but they keep making 2 billion worldwide. So they're going to keep making those movies.

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$2 million budget. I don't have a hundred million dollars to promote it. So we need word of mouth.

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And what if was like, I love this movie and it's actually directed by Dallas Jenkins.

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Who's doing the chosen now. His father, Jerry Jenkins, who wrote the left behind

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books was a guy who funded it.

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I've done over 80 movies. What If is in my top three. I think it's a much better

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movie than God's Not Dead.

428
00:26:14,270 --> 00:26:18,550
And it's just an amazing movie. And I keep telling Dallas, get out in theaters.

429
00:26:18,650 --> 00:26:20,710
You got so much money coming in from the Chosen now.

430
00:26:20,990 --> 00:26:25,030
Put $2 million into it. You can get to 1,500 movie screens and let people see

431
00:26:25,030 --> 00:26:27,930
this movie. Because even though it's 14 years old now, it doesn't age.

432
00:26:28,250 --> 00:26:31,510
I've aged, but the movie itself doesn't look like, oh, that's an old movie.

433
00:26:31,610 --> 00:26:36,570
It fits Common Day right now. But it's a wonderful movie. John Ratzenberger's in it. He's awesome.

434
00:26:36,790 --> 00:26:39,970
Second Reverse, it's a wonderful life. John Ratzenberger plays an angel.

435
00:26:40,130 --> 00:26:43,970
It's come to show me that I need a better road to walk on, but I like the road

436
00:26:43,970 --> 00:26:47,290
I'm on. So I go to this altar universe, kicking and screaming.

437
00:26:47,510 --> 00:26:51,770
But Christy Swanson's in it. It's just a fantastic movie. And that made me want to do more movies.

438
00:26:52,130 --> 00:26:55,510
And then I did Soul Surfer, the Bethany Hamilton story with Dennis Quaid and

439
00:26:55,510 --> 00:26:57,810
Helen Hunt. And I did God's Not Dead.

440
00:26:57,990 --> 00:27:00,170
And then I did a movie my wife wrote called Let There Be Light,

441
00:27:00,290 --> 00:27:01,590
which was funded by Sean Hannity.

442
00:27:01,650 --> 00:27:05,150
And everything we've done in Sorbo Studios, movies that I've directed.

443
00:27:05,150 --> 00:27:08,490
Last year, we had Left Behind, Rise of the Antichrist I directed.

444
00:27:08,630 --> 00:27:10,330
We had Miracle in East Texas that I directed.

445
00:27:10,610 --> 00:27:15,150
All those things got funded every time it was a God thing. Because it's shocking

446
00:27:15,150 --> 00:27:19,630
to me how hard it is to raise $3 million for good movies when Hollywood throws

447
00:27:19,630 --> 00:27:21,850
hundreds of millions of dollars to other movies.

448
00:27:22,070 --> 00:27:26,290
And I golf with very strong conservative Christian guys that are very wealthy.

449
00:27:26,530 --> 00:27:31,510
And $3 million to them would be like $300 to me. And yet I can't get them to invest.

450
00:27:31,730 --> 00:27:35,290
Well, it's just not what I do. And I go, yeah, but you put $9 million under

451
00:27:35,290 --> 00:27:38,370
Rick Santorum's failed presidency. What did you get back from that?

452
00:27:39,370 --> 00:27:42,750
Here I can guarantee you, you'll get your $3 million back. You may not make

453
00:27:42,750 --> 00:27:45,250
$100 million on it, but you'll get your money back.

454
00:27:45,350 --> 00:27:48,030
And then there'll be a movie out there forever that has a positive message.

455
00:27:48,230 --> 00:27:52,050
So that is the toughest thing for independent producers like myself is to raise

456
00:27:52,050 --> 00:27:53,630
that money for these movies.

457
00:27:53,850 --> 00:27:56,030
I've got the scripts. Now it's just a matter of finding the money.

458
00:27:56,410 --> 00:28:00,930
Do you find that changing, though, with The Sound of Freedom having gotten such

459
00:28:00,930 --> 00:28:03,310
a large audience? Do you see at all that attitude?

460
00:28:03,570 --> 00:28:07,410
Well, it shouldn't change with God's not dead. Then wait a 70 times return on some money.

461
00:28:07,850 --> 00:28:10,550
Sound of freedom had a, at a four times return on some money.

462
00:28:10,590 --> 00:28:12,970
Sound of freedom needed to get 65 million to break even.

463
00:28:13,570 --> 00:28:16,430
Wow. Whole different. That was a whole different ballgame with that movie.

464
00:28:16,490 --> 00:28:18,590
And for five and a half years, they couldn't find a distributor.

465
00:28:18,810 --> 00:28:20,610
They, they shot that five and a half years ago.

466
00:28:21,314 --> 00:28:24,294
Jim could be, I've known Jim forever. We had the same manager for a very long

467
00:28:24,294 --> 00:28:28,374
time. We were neighbors in Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, California for 10 years.

468
00:28:28,894 --> 00:28:30,914
They shot that movie. They couldn't get it out there.

469
00:28:31,514 --> 00:28:36,074
Angel has the power right now with this whole chosen thing. They finally got

470
00:28:36,074 --> 00:28:37,714
the movie and they said, okay, we'll do it.

471
00:28:37,774 --> 00:28:40,214
And they went out to their followers, which they have millions of.

472
00:28:40,274 --> 00:28:43,494
And they said, put five bucks into this so we can get in theaters and then go

473
00:28:43,494 --> 00:28:45,634
make sure you go to theaters. Well, that's what happened.

474
00:28:45,814 --> 00:28:49,274
And why it got a second kick, what helped it the most is that Hollywood came

475
00:28:49,274 --> 00:28:53,334
out against the movie. They were basically saying, wait a minute,

476
00:28:53,414 --> 00:28:55,514
we like having sex with seven-year-old kids.

477
00:28:55,674 --> 00:28:59,314
I mean, that's really what they're saying. And you got the majority of people

478
00:28:59,314 --> 00:29:01,794
in the world, I don't care where you are politically, religiously, whatever.

479
00:29:01,934 --> 00:29:05,514
Most people in the world do not agree to having sex with little children.

480
00:29:05,774 --> 00:29:09,334
So that made people on both sides of the aisle go support this movie.

481
00:29:09,454 --> 00:29:13,354
So it was a brilliant endorsement from Hollywood, even though they didn't realize

482
00:29:13,354 --> 00:29:14,554
they were giving an endorsement.

483
00:29:15,194 --> 00:29:18,454
But it's not changing. It's still the same thing. It's tough.

484
00:29:18,454 --> 00:29:21,874
Tough. There's only a handful of people out there able to raise their Irwin brothers.

485
00:29:22,094 --> 00:29:25,034
You know, I can only imagine things like that. They're about to start a miniseries

486
00:29:25,034 --> 00:29:28,174
on the life of David and they're going to be shooting that. I believe they're

487
00:29:28,174 --> 00:29:28,894
shooting that in Greece.

488
00:29:29,614 --> 00:29:31,834
When is this movie, The Firing Squad?

489
00:29:32,834 --> 00:29:37,834
August 9th is what I've heard so far. And that's my most recent one that we've

490
00:29:37,834 --> 00:29:41,334
been doing screenings on across the country. True story set in Indonesia.

491
00:29:42,634 --> 00:29:47,054
My character was a guy that killed killed somebody when he was in his mid-20s

492
00:29:47,054 --> 00:29:49,774
on the beaches of Indonesia, and he gets arrested. He puts him in prison.

493
00:29:49,814 --> 00:29:50,734
He gets the firing squad.

494
00:29:51,114 --> 00:29:55,014
He's there for decades, and during that time, he found God and became a pastor,

495
00:29:55,174 --> 00:29:59,734
preaching to the inmates, preaching to the prisoners, and he was assassinated

496
00:29:59,734 --> 00:30:03,874
in 2015, or a firing squad in 2015, so it's pretty recent.

497
00:30:04,994 --> 00:30:08,394
So I hope people will check that out. It's a good movie.

498
00:30:08,454 --> 00:30:13,174
I got a documentary with him as well, And it was done with Epic Times,

499
00:30:13,374 --> 00:30:16,314
which is, I think, the fourth largest internet paper right now,

500
00:30:16,334 --> 00:30:17,194
an independent news agency.

501
00:30:17,634 --> 00:30:21,454
And I did two things with them. I got a documentary that is out right now.

502
00:30:21,534 --> 00:30:25,154
They go to Epic TV, and it's called Hollywood Takeover.

503
00:30:25,194 --> 00:30:28,914
So they go to hollywoodtakeover.com. Speaking of China, it's about the Chinese

504
00:30:28,914 --> 00:30:30,974
control over Hollywood, which

505
00:30:30,974 --> 00:30:34,194
they have a huge control over Hollywood and what they can put out there.

506
00:30:34,234 --> 00:30:38,354
They will not bring movies. They will not let any movies coming into China that

507
00:30:38,354 --> 00:30:41,594
depicts communism in a bad way and certainly China in a bad way.

508
00:30:41,954 --> 00:30:46,414
So Hollywood is bent over backwards to do whatever China tells them to do.

509
00:30:46,534 --> 00:30:49,274
And they're trying to make China look like this great place to go live.

510
00:30:49,414 --> 00:30:51,394
And that's what they're doing through the movies, very subliminally,

511
00:30:51,494 --> 00:30:53,994
but they're doing it. And it's interesting.

512
00:30:54,554 --> 00:30:59,694
Ricky Gervais used to be the, he was the host, I think, five years in a row on the Golden Globes.

513
00:30:59,794 --> 00:31:02,574
And he laughed about it. He said, I don't know why you guys keep bringing me

514
00:31:02,574 --> 00:31:07,414
back. Cause he's not afraid to go after the A-list actors, directors, suits in Hollywood.

515
00:31:07,754 --> 00:31:10,914
And his last time he did it, he called him a bunch of whores.

516
00:31:10,954 --> 00:31:14,794
He said, you, and it right there on live TV, he said, if ISIS had a film fund,

517
00:31:14,874 --> 00:31:16,854
you'd be the first to line up, get the money.

518
00:31:17,194 --> 00:31:19,614
So, and it's a lot of truth of that as well.

519
00:31:20,477 --> 00:31:24,117
So was it pretty natural for you to transition from being an actor to,

520
00:31:24,137 --> 00:31:28,597
you know, then a director and then a producer? Did that all pretty natural for you or?

521
00:31:29,017 --> 00:31:31,957
Well, yeah, because I'm on the set all the time, you know, so you learn everything.

522
00:31:32,157 --> 00:31:36,237
I'm on Hercules by season three. I asked Universal Studios, can I start directing

523
00:31:36,237 --> 00:31:37,997
on the series? And they said, yeah, go for it.

524
00:31:38,497 --> 00:31:41,477
And, you know, I knew my crew. I knew everybody, you know, to me,

525
00:31:41,477 --> 00:31:43,637
it's like, I know what I want visually.

526
00:31:43,737 --> 00:31:46,797
I can look at this stuff and say what I want. Then I go to the experts behind

527
00:31:46,797 --> 00:31:50,177
the camera and say, I want this or I want that, or I I want this time of day

528
00:31:50,177 --> 00:31:52,397
to have, and they would sit there and, well, we can't do it at two,

529
00:31:52,497 --> 00:31:54,997
but we can do it at five, you know, and it was great.

530
00:31:55,057 --> 00:31:58,737
It was on hand learning and very comfortable for me.

531
00:31:58,877 --> 00:32:02,797
So it was easy thing to do. I love doing, I love directing.

532
00:32:03,217 --> 00:32:05,717
You're going to say, I got to do one or the other. I'll take acting still.

533
00:32:05,777 --> 00:32:08,237
That's still a passion for me. I still love doing what I'm doing.

534
00:32:08,637 --> 00:32:13,857
But the directing part, I think, I think if you got, you look at some of the

535
00:32:13,857 --> 00:32:17,277
best movie makers out there and I think they're actors or former actors.

536
00:32:17,277 --> 00:32:21,457
Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, I mean, just Hacksaw Ridge, you know,

537
00:32:21,457 --> 00:32:23,657
all the movies that he's been part of and done.

538
00:32:23,937 --> 00:32:27,577
I'm talking to Mel right now about the insurrection. I hope that I get a role

539
00:32:27,577 --> 00:32:30,397
in it. I told him, I said, we talked about an hour about the screenplay.

540
00:32:30,637 --> 00:32:33,037
He and his brother have been writing it for five years now.

541
00:32:33,597 --> 00:32:37,237
And I said, well, Jim Caviezel's in his 50s now. He's not the same age as Jesus

542
00:32:37,237 --> 00:32:38,217
was when he did it last time.

543
00:32:38,237 --> 00:32:41,277
He goes, well, you can't believe what we can do in visual effects now.

544
00:32:41,357 --> 00:32:43,377
So they're going to make Jim look like he's 32 again.

545
00:32:45,777 --> 00:32:51,917
See dennis there's hope for me and you brother yeah with a virtual wig on us yes,

546
00:32:53,617 --> 00:32:57,617
good deal so of course we're having you at the save our children conference

547
00:32:57,617 --> 00:33:02,037
and how have you seen hollywood and i know with your movies you're trying to

548
00:33:02,037 --> 00:33:06,057
have these these better examples but what have you seen happening to our children

549
00:33:06,057 --> 00:33:07,457
with respect to hollywood.

550
00:33:08,243 --> 00:33:11,663
Well, what do they do? I mean, take sitcoms, for instance. Over the last 50

551
00:33:11,663 --> 00:33:15,723
years, they've been degrading the family, bombing the family,

552
00:33:15,783 --> 00:33:16,903
saying the family's not important.

553
00:33:17,123 --> 00:33:19,743
I mean, you look at most sitcoms, the dad's kind of chunky and out of shape.

554
00:33:19,843 --> 00:33:23,163
The mom's a babe. The teenage kids use dad as a pincushion and make fun of him.

555
00:33:23,463 --> 00:33:27,503
So we're sitting there slowly telling these kids over these last two generations

556
00:33:27,503 --> 00:33:29,963
that the father's not important in the family.

557
00:33:30,623 --> 00:33:32,723
And, you know, look what we did to the black community. I mean,

558
00:33:32,743 --> 00:33:38,343
the, the, the welfare reform act back in 64 didn't do the black population any, any favors.

559
00:33:38,603 --> 00:33:42,003
I mean, the black population was far better to stay together,

560
00:33:42,063 --> 00:33:44,063
husband and wife than the whites were.

561
00:33:44,143 --> 00:33:48,763
But now it's like 80, 85% of the black kids are being raised without a father.

562
00:33:48,843 --> 00:33:50,283
And you see the repercussions of that.

563
00:33:50,783 --> 00:33:53,883
And, you know, Dr. Dozier, I know that, you know, this, you know,

564
00:33:53,923 --> 00:33:57,523
what's going on in these families and they, it's a cycle and it's tough to break.

565
00:33:57,803 --> 00:34:00,663
And it's proof of fact, it's very important to have families together.

566
00:34:00,663 --> 00:34:03,483
Other but you know the white the white families other families aren't

567
00:34:03,483 --> 00:34:06,763
doing the same and doing the same thing either there's more and more breakups there's

568
00:34:06,763 --> 00:34:10,023
more and more later marriages more and more later not having kids and

569
00:34:10,023 --> 00:34:12,783
it's a whole different thing out there blm came out their

570
00:34:12,783 --> 00:34:16,183
aunt their their their manifest on blm which i still have they took it down

571
00:34:16,183 --> 00:34:21,583
was number one get rid of god get rid of the family unit yeah the marxism and

572
00:34:21,583 --> 00:34:24,943
socialism they wanted to get rid of they wanted they they did they said they

573
00:34:24,943 --> 00:34:31,103
said pregnancy uh is slavery for women and i said okay Okay, so 100 years from now,

574
00:34:31,123 --> 00:34:33,283
if nobody has babies starting right now, there'll be no lives,

575
00:34:33,403 --> 00:34:34,703
humans left on this planet.

576
00:34:34,963 --> 00:34:38,303
So it's just amazing to me. And what did they do? What are those?

577
00:34:38,463 --> 00:34:42,423
They were transgenders. They were like, I think, two of the three people leading the BLM march.

578
00:34:42,583 --> 00:34:45,463
And what did they do for Black communities? Nothing. They went and bought more

579
00:34:45,463 --> 00:34:46,963
homes and took a bunch of vacations.

580
00:34:47,691 --> 00:34:50,751
I mean, it's just, it's incredible to me and the violence that goes on.

581
00:34:50,931 --> 00:34:55,511
I got followed for the first time on, on X from Elon Musk because he retweeted

582
00:34:55,511 --> 00:34:58,971
one of my posts because it showed BLM at an event.

583
00:34:59,011 --> 00:35:01,491
I can't remember what city that maybe is Minneapolis or something.

584
00:35:01,691 --> 00:35:04,611
And there were, they were attacking people coming out of this meeting.

585
00:35:04,691 --> 00:35:06,051
I think it was her pro-life or something.

586
00:35:06,271 --> 00:35:09,991
And I said, there they are, the left showing how tolerant they are once again.

587
00:35:10,151 --> 00:35:13,551
And Elon Musk did a repost of it, which is pretty cool. Nice.

588
00:35:14,671 --> 00:35:20,691
So you were saying that you have a lot of things coming up in regards to doing a tour and talking.

589
00:35:21,251 --> 00:35:23,311
Why are you so passionate about these issues?

590
00:35:24,331 --> 00:35:27,651
Because, I don't know, I think a lot of it was instilled in my parents, from my parents.

591
00:35:27,811 --> 00:35:30,631
My parents were always about hard work. I grew up with a lot of money.

592
00:35:30,671 --> 00:35:32,831
My dad was a public school teacher with five kids.

593
00:35:33,151 --> 00:35:37,011
You know, my mom was a stay-at-home mom. I mean, it was, in my memory,

594
00:35:37,051 --> 00:35:40,671
my father, at the end of every month, is anguishing over the last three bucks

595
00:35:40,671 --> 00:35:42,651
he had in his checking account until he got paid on the first.

596
00:35:42,791 --> 00:35:45,951
And he'd yell at the four boys of us, can you stop drinking so much milk?

597
00:35:46,031 --> 00:35:47,071
Drink more water or something.

598
00:35:49,111 --> 00:35:54,611
But still, I never felt without. We had a small house. I was in a room with

599
00:35:54,611 --> 00:35:56,691
my two other brothers, bunk beds were crammed in there.

600
00:35:56,911 --> 00:36:01,971
But we had loving parents. They were churchgoers, had a great community of support

601
00:36:01,971 --> 00:36:05,471
within the school system with the athletic system.

602
00:36:06,211 --> 00:36:10,011
I was very fortunate to have the area that I grew up in. My best friends to

603
00:36:10,011 --> 00:36:14,011
this day are buddies I've had since kindergarten. Guys I've known my whole life.

604
00:36:14,351 --> 00:36:18,531
So I think that was hugely instrumental to me. My dad always was about hard

605
00:36:18,531 --> 00:36:21,951
work. Don't expect handouts. You know, he had to work another job. He started summers.

606
00:36:22,071 --> 00:36:24,431
He worked at a golf course to keep some kind of income coming.

607
00:36:24,531 --> 00:36:26,611
And that's how we all got hooked on golfing because he said,

608
00:36:26,631 --> 00:36:29,571
take advantage of this because we could never afford public school,

609
00:36:29,611 --> 00:36:30,831
I mean, public golf courses.

610
00:36:31,191 --> 00:36:34,211
And so all five kids ended up working out there for at least three,

611
00:36:34,271 --> 00:36:37,331
four summers each, you know, behind the counter, mowing the fairways, mowing green.

612
00:36:37,611 --> 00:36:41,431
So that's my love affair with that, with, with, with golf happened because of

613
00:36:41,431 --> 00:36:47,311
my dad. But it was, you know, it just, I, I've always been a guy that says,

614
00:36:47,471 --> 00:36:50,311
you know, why can't we have both sides of the issue? I'm for free speech.

615
00:36:50,471 --> 00:36:54,291
I don't have an anger towards somebody that's, has a liberal point of view or

616
00:36:54,291 --> 00:36:56,731
that's, is an atheist. Let's have a talk.

617
00:36:57,091 --> 00:36:59,831
Just, if you want to yell at me, that doesn't make you right.

618
00:36:59,991 --> 00:37:03,571
Can we have a civil conversation about this instead of getting all crazy in

619
00:37:03,571 --> 00:37:07,551
each other's face? But that side, I mean, that, that, the party of the left

620
00:37:07,551 --> 00:37:08,651
has just changed so much.

621
00:37:08,731 --> 00:37:10,851
I mean, Dennis Miller's a good friend. John Voight's a good friend.

622
00:37:11,091 --> 00:37:12,971
They said the party left me.

623
00:37:13,271 --> 00:37:17,111
I didn't leave it. I tell people all the time, look at JFK's inauguration speech

624
00:37:17,111 --> 00:37:21,251
in 1960 and ask if there's one Democrat who talks that way today,

625
00:37:21,391 --> 00:37:23,091
or even half the Republicans don't.

626
00:37:23,331 --> 00:37:25,571
Everything is shifting more and more and more to the left.

627
00:37:26,511 --> 00:37:30,371
And JFK, what's, what's on his gravestone? Ask not what your country can do

628
00:37:30,371 --> 00:37:33,571
for you, but what you can do for your country. There's no Democrat talking that way.

629
00:37:34,191 --> 00:37:38,471
I honestly believe our government today is worse than the British monarchy that

630
00:37:38,471 --> 00:37:40,491
we started a revolution with.

631
00:37:40,811 --> 00:37:44,411
Far more things. With the 2% tax we were fighting about? I mean,

632
00:37:44,431 --> 00:37:46,491
it is horrible what they've done to us now.

633
00:37:47,296 --> 00:37:51,436
I mean, the tax situation alone, they're saying, you work seven months for us.

634
00:37:51,516 --> 00:37:53,476
We'll let you keep the money from the other five months.

635
00:37:53,616 --> 00:37:57,396
Okay. And have a good time. But I mean, this is crazy what we're doing and people

636
00:37:57,396 --> 00:38:00,636
just let them do it because they keep taking an inch all the time.

637
00:38:00,696 --> 00:38:03,996
And now it's, they, it's miles, you know, it's like Scrooge.

638
00:38:04,036 --> 00:38:06,476
How many more links are you going to put onto your chain behind you?

639
00:38:07,876 --> 00:38:14,456
I want to know when you became a Christian. My whole life. There was no, I just grew up with it.

640
00:38:14,576 --> 00:38:17,276
I, it's always been, there was all, I grew up in a Lutheran church.

641
00:38:17,296 --> 00:38:20,176
Typical Norwegian, Scandinavian kid. I mean, that was our church.

642
00:38:20,396 --> 00:38:24,396
I went non-denominational for a long time as well. And then I went to Calvary

643
00:38:24,396 --> 00:38:28,236
the last 15 years. But surprisingly, it's the same God.

644
00:38:30,556 --> 00:38:35,016
Thank goodness, right? But it's always been there for me.

645
00:38:35,156 --> 00:38:38,896
I think if there was a turning point, there were two things that happened when I was 13 years old.

646
00:38:39,236 --> 00:38:41,696
We had a youth pastor come in when I was 13.

647
00:38:42,076 --> 00:38:47,256
So for 13 to the 18-year-olds, 7th through 12th grade, Wednesday at our church

648
00:38:47,256 --> 00:38:50,976
was a place called The Room. And it was all for teenagers, boys and girls.

649
00:38:51,176 --> 00:38:54,676
And Pastor Lee was this guy in his mid-20s, and he was like this cool guy.

650
00:38:55,036 --> 00:38:58,096
Because my pastor was a much older guy when I was, you know,

651
00:38:58,176 --> 00:39:02,536
Pastor Sanders scared the hell out of me. And this guy was like breathing as a scent.

652
00:39:02,696 --> 00:39:05,956
But Pastor Lee came along, and he was a guy that you could easily talk to.

653
00:39:06,136 --> 00:39:10,856
And he brought the Bible into our world, into the modern modern world we're

654
00:39:10,856 --> 00:39:12,536
living in and showed us how it related.

655
00:39:12,996 --> 00:39:16,356
And then also that same year, we went to see the Reverend Billy Graham speak

656
00:39:16,356 --> 00:39:20,656
at the St. Paul Fairgrounds. And it was a hot August night. There was a full moon out.

657
00:39:21,476 --> 00:39:25,716
And it was 300,000 people. It was amazing to be in this. And we took like seven

658
00:39:25,716 --> 00:39:27,356
buses from our church to go.

659
00:39:28,036 --> 00:39:31,156
And at the end, he said, I got a lot of volunteers up if you want to come up

660
00:39:31,156 --> 00:39:32,936
and talk and pray, whatever, please come up.

661
00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:36,660
13, I never would have done this. I mean, I was an A and B student,

662
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,160
but I was the last guy to raise my hand. I was like, if they called to me,

663
00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:41,300
I just told myself to be ready in class.

664
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,080
But I went up. I remember one of my buddies said, where are you going?

665
00:39:44,140 --> 00:39:45,760
I don't know, guy, gotta go up there.

666
00:39:45,980 --> 00:39:49,120
And I'm sitting on the grass and I'm talking to this guy. He was like maybe 30.

667
00:39:49,420 --> 00:39:52,240
I was 13. So he's like this really old guy, 30, right?

668
00:39:53,140 --> 00:39:56,300
And all of a sudden, all of a sudden a hand went on my head and I turned around

669
00:39:56,300 --> 00:39:57,380
and it was the Reverend Billy Grant.

670
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,540
And he had his bodyguards with him. I get it. You know, he's a man that there

671
00:40:01,540 --> 00:40:03,880
are a lot of people hated believing in God. Right.

672
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:09,260
And, and we started talking and, but I'm, his head was perfectly behind the

673
00:40:09,260 --> 00:40:12,520
moon. So it was like these, Oh, he's raised out of his head.

674
00:40:13,220 --> 00:40:17,440
And I told that story in the Larry King show years ago and back,

675
00:40:17,540 --> 00:40:19,740
I don't know, it was 2007 or eight or wherever it was.

676
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,720
And I get a call from the chicken soup for the soul.

677
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,940
And I think they're bad. I think the headquarters are in New Jersey, if I remember right.

678
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:29,720
And they said, look, we, we saw this story. And Larry Ross, who did,

679
00:40:29,780 --> 00:40:34,480
he lives in Dallas and has been years, been running the Billy Graham publicity campaign.

680
00:40:34,860 --> 00:40:39,660
And he said, we saw the story that Reverend Graham saw you talking on Larry King and he loved it.

681
00:40:39,900 --> 00:40:43,040
Would you write a story? We're doing a hardcover book. The only time they've

682
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,640
ever done a hardcover book for a chicken soup of the soul.

683
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,920
So I'm in the one, I'm writing a story about 13 years old. I was 13.

684
00:40:50,100 --> 00:40:53,920
So I'm in that hardcover book with Mother Teresa and all these other people,

685
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,220
you know, that were touched by Billy Graham. Graham.

686
00:40:56,540 --> 00:40:59,360
And then they called me up and they said, you know, he's a big fan of everything

687
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,600
you stand for. He's in his nineties. He can't travel.

688
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,740
He was wondering if we'll fly you around. We'll take care of everything would

689
00:41:05,740 --> 00:41:08,720
be the publicity on the book. So that was pretty cool.

690
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,120
That was pretty cool to be part of that. And I've been, I've been very good

691
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,160
friends with Franklin Graham, his son for many years now.

692
00:41:15,599 --> 00:41:18,799
Well, you know, we have the pleasure of having your wife on here tomorrow.

693
00:41:19,219 --> 00:41:22,639
And so, you know, we're going to ask these questions. But so my wife and I,

694
00:41:22,779 --> 00:41:26,159
we were like, anytime we see couples like yourself, like here you are,

695
00:41:26,179 --> 00:41:30,039
you're flying around, you've got movies you're producing, all this speed.

696
00:41:30,099 --> 00:41:31,839
How do you make this marriage work?

697
00:41:32,519 --> 00:41:36,099
Well, Sorbo Studios, we work together. Her office is right next to mine.

698
00:41:36,679 --> 00:41:40,199
No, she would need another building. It's how far apart?

699
00:41:41,059 --> 00:41:45,039
Well, her office is much bigger, but you know. No, but no, but you know,

700
00:41:45,179 --> 00:41:49,759
it's, we, on the sets where we produce together, do we butt heads?

701
00:41:49,859 --> 00:41:50,679
You better believe we do.

702
00:41:51,019 --> 00:41:54,539
But you know, there, there's a great movie called Shenandoah starring Jimmy Stewart.

703
00:41:54,639 --> 00:41:58,479
And there's a great scene in there where this gentleman, this guy from the Confederate

704
00:41:58,479 --> 00:42:00,939
army comes up the steps and wants to marry his daughter.

705
00:42:00,939 --> 00:42:03,699
Daughter and he says why do you want to marry my daughter he says

706
00:42:03,699 --> 00:42:06,519
well because I love her he goes yeah that's nice but do you like her

707
00:42:06,519 --> 00:42:09,299
and I think that's more than anything I think love

708
00:42:09,299 --> 00:42:12,179
can be very liquid emotion but you got to be able to like each other and there's

709
00:42:12,179 --> 00:42:15,759
got to be you know so I and I like her a whole lot and she's a great mother

710
00:42:15,759 --> 00:42:20,139
she's smart as hell she's the business side of Sorbo Studios I'm more the creative

711
00:42:20,139 --> 00:42:23,839
side even though she's a very talented actress in her own right but it's we

712
00:42:23,839 --> 00:42:28,939
we we can butt heads but we get along pretty fine 26 years married now 28 years years together.

713
00:42:29,179 --> 00:42:33,039
And every anniversary, she says, I'm going to give you one more year. I said, okay, thank you.

714
00:42:35,359 --> 00:42:39,279
That's success, baby. That's success. How did you guys meet, Kevin?

715
00:42:40,979 --> 00:42:43,599
Well, she hates when I say this, but there's a lot of truth to her.

716
00:42:43,999 --> 00:42:47,319
Every episode of Hercules, they sent on a very pretty girl to work with me.

717
00:42:47,339 --> 00:42:49,159
And they'd be down there for about two and a half weeks.

718
00:42:49,399 --> 00:42:52,379
So it was a great dating service for me. And that's how I met my wife.

719
00:42:52,619 --> 00:42:55,719
She came down at the end of season four and

720
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,579
that was it for me and really i mean honestly that was

721
00:42:58,579 --> 00:43:01,459
it and it took me a week to talk into going out

722
00:43:01,459 --> 00:43:04,139
with me down there in new zealand and i said come on we'll go see a

723
00:43:04,139 --> 00:43:07,499
movie and stuff and so i go pick her up and she gets in the car and had country

724
00:43:07,499 --> 00:43:11,079
music on she goes country music i said yeah you know i like everything except

725
00:43:11,079 --> 00:43:13,999
rapping i'm not a big rap guy but she was no no i like country music you can

726
00:43:13,999 --> 00:43:17,639
keep it on and then we're talking and talking some more and then she looked

727
00:43:17,639 --> 00:43:21,059
at me and she said are you conservative because i'm i don't hide that And I

728
00:43:21,059 --> 00:43:23,219
said, oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm definitely conservative.

729
00:43:24,059 --> 00:43:26,519
And she said, well, so am I. And then I said something and she said,

730
00:43:26,539 --> 00:43:28,999
wait a minute, you're a Christian? I go, yeah, I'm very much a Christian.

731
00:43:29,059 --> 00:43:29,739
Been one of them all my life.

732
00:43:29,939 --> 00:43:33,079
She said, hold on, Kevin. I realize it's that first date, but country music,

733
00:43:33,299 --> 00:43:37,419
Christian, conservative, the three C's. I think I'm in love with you.

734
00:43:37,959 --> 00:43:40,219
That's how it started. That was that first date.

735
00:43:41,579 --> 00:43:46,579
It's awesome. Amazing. Notice she didn't say ridiculously good looking, right?

736
00:43:47,619 --> 00:43:51,679
Nothing at all. She didn't say anything at all. It was just that.

737
00:43:51,779 --> 00:43:55,519
And then she was on a series called Chicago Hope at the time.

738
00:43:55,579 --> 00:43:58,079
Yeah. The ER came out around the same year.

739
00:43:58,659 --> 00:44:03,579
And she had like a week off. And I had taken off for Bratislava,

740
00:44:03,579 --> 00:44:06,219
Slovakia, and Croatia to shoot a movie for three months.

741
00:44:06,459 --> 00:44:09,519
And it was the only time Universal gave me an extra month to film this movie

742
00:44:09,519 --> 00:44:11,939
with Rafaela De Laurentiis. It's called Kaldekar.

743
00:44:12,039 --> 00:44:14,919
Kaldekar was the father of Conan in the books. And-

744
00:44:15,519 --> 00:44:19,699
So I invited her over and I said, look, my dad's flying in the same time you are.

745
00:44:19,779 --> 00:44:22,139
My dad will be here the whole time. You'll be safe, you know,

746
00:44:22,139 --> 00:44:26,039
because we only really knew each other those two and a half weeks on the set, but we just hit it off.

747
00:44:26,279 --> 00:44:30,899
So she came over and something my dad, I'd never seen him do before.

748
00:44:31,599 --> 00:44:34,499
And a first time introduction, certainly. I introduced, I said,

749
00:44:34,539 --> 00:44:36,999
this is my dad. Dad, this is Sam.

750
00:44:37,339 --> 00:44:41,039
And he hugged her. And I went, and that kind of took me back as well.

751
00:44:41,459 --> 00:44:45,279
And after that week and a half together, because we had like a four-day weekend.

752
00:44:45,419 --> 00:44:49,399
So from Bratislava, it was like an hour straight west, you get into Vienna.

753
00:44:49,899 --> 00:44:53,159
And I lived in Vienna for a while. I spent three and a half years living in Europe, by the way.

754
00:44:53,399 --> 00:44:57,719
And so we just had a great time taking my dad to all these places that I'd been

755
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,799
to. And she knew it very well. She speaks five languages fluently, by the way.

756
00:45:01,219 --> 00:45:06,699
So she was speaking German for us. And so we were able to get the kind of food we wanted to get.

757
00:45:07,159 --> 00:45:11,459
And it was interesting. when he left, my dad hugged me and he said, she's a keeper, Kev.

758
00:45:11,739 --> 00:45:15,639
My dad's never said that about anyone. Cause I, I had long, I'd like a five-year

759
00:45:15,639 --> 00:45:18,519
relationship and two, three relationships with wonderful women.

760
00:45:18,619 --> 00:45:21,059
And I broke their hearts. I gotta be honest with you. I just,

761
00:45:21,119 --> 00:45:25,799
for whatever reasons I said, I wasn't ready to get married and they, it wasn't right.

762
00:45:25,939 --> 00:45:30,099
As great as these people were just wasn't right. So I guess I had to wait for the right person.

763
00:45:30,819 --> 00:45:34,339
Wow. So how many, we're just curious family life for you. If you don't mind

764
00:45:34,339 --> 00:45:36,779
talking about how many kids do you have and what's What's going on with them?

765
00:45:36,979 --> 00:45:38,379
We got three. Brayden's 22.

766
00:45:38,639 --> 00:45:41,559
My son Shane is modeling in Italy right now. He's in Milan.

767
00:45:41,679 --> 00:45:44,059
He flies back this weekend. He's been there for about three months,

768
00:45:44,159 --> 00:45:48,319
I think. And he's almost 20. He turns 20 on Sunday.

769
00:45:48,739 --> 00:45:52,319
And then my daughter is 18. She's in her last year of homeschool.

770
00:45:52,439 --> 00:45:54,979
And we homeschooled them all. And they're just, they're great kids.

771
00:45:55,119 --> 00:45:57,819
Brayden is a social media genius.

772
00:45:58,099 --> 00:46:00,899
In fact, I'm not going to name all the people he's doing their social media

773
00:46:00,899 --> 00:46:05,359
for, but he's got one client, which is Dinesh D'Souza. And I think you probably know who Dinesh is.

774
00:46:06,319 --> 00:46:09,299
Wow. He runs his social media. Oh, this kid's good.

775
00:46:10,519 --> 00:46:15,759
I'm 6'3", and both my kids are taller than me. They're 6'5", and 6'4". And Brayden.

776
00:46:16,879 --> 00:46:20,819
Brayden. I don't want to say that. How do you spell that? My son is Brayden.

777
00:46:20,819 --> 00:46:24,919
We went old Irish Gaelic, so it's B-R-A-E-D-E-N.

778
00:46:25,399 --> 00:46:29,119
Oh, we got A-Y-D-E-N. Yeah. A-Y is probably the most common one I've seen.

779
00:46:29,299 --> 00:46:33,099
And then we got Shane, which I've always loved that name. And one of my best

780
00:46:33,099 --> 00:46:35,679
stunt guys, one of my best friends from New Zealand's name was Shane.

781
00:46:36,179 --> 00:46:39,879
So I always loved that chain. So when I was scaling both of them and Sam got

782
00:46:39,879 --> 00:46:44,139
the name, our daughter and Octavia and Sam's, you know, she was a biochemical

783
00:46:44,139 --> 00:46:45,699
engineering major at Duke university.

784
00:46:45,939 --> 00:46:49,099
I went to college to meet girls and play sports. We went to college for a completely

785
00:46:49,099 --> 00:46:52,679
different reason, but the way your brain works when it came up,

786
00:46:52,739 --> 00:46:56,059
Octavia was, well, she's a big fan of King Lear. She's a big fan of Shakespeare.

787
00:46:56,219 --> 00:47:01,019
So Octavia is in that Octavia is the female instead of Octavio,

788
00:47:01,079 --> 00:47:06,179
which is male. and she's born in October and she's the eighth child,

789
00:47:06,439 --> 00:47:08,099
eighth grandchild of my parents.

790
00:47:09,139 --> 00:47:12,239
Her brain works like a mump with Octavian. Wow. Dang.

791
00:47:13,142 --> 00:47:17,422
Yeah, she could be hired right away. She's got that organizational skills, you know?

792
00:47:18,722 --> 00:47:21,962
Yeah, but I take care of all the travel stuff. If she had to book her own travel

793
00:47:21,962 --> 00:47:24,162
stuff, she'd be late for the plane every time.

794
00:47:25,202 --> 00:47:28,422
That's my job to take care of all that stuff. But she takes care of all the

795
00:47:28,422 --> 00:47:29,442
business. There's no question.

796
00:47:29,902 --> 00:47:33,682
But Kevin, I have to ask you about the sword you have over your right shoulder

797
00:47:33,682 --> 00:47:36,902
there. I noticed you've got quite an interesting backdrop there.

798
00:47:37,222 --> 00:47:43,002
Yeah, that was the very, very last day of seven years of filming on Hercules.

799
00:47:43,822 --> 00:47:46,622
Wow description says you know it's got my name on there

800
00:47:46,622 --> 00:47:49,722
and the seven years the years that we shot down there and it

801
00:47:49,722 --> 00:47:52,462
says you know the journey may be over but

802
00:47:52,462 --> 00:47:55,382
the legend lives on that's a that's a description on

803
00:47:55,382 --> 00:47:58,282
there so that's that's all i'm always that's

804
00:47:58,282 --> 00:48:01,962
that's that was a huge chapter in my life because without that series i wouldn't

805
00:48:01,962 --> 00:48:05,102
have anything else that's happened since then within the industry and it was

806
00:48:05,102 --> 00:48:09,582
it was an honor being on show i worked with wonderful people most of my crew

807
00:48:09,582 --> 00:48:12,442
went on to work on lord of the rings and went there won academy awards from

808
00:48:12,442 --> 00:48:17,102
the wardrobe department and the props department and the visual effects guys,

809
00:48:17,222 --> 00:48:19,162
the wetter group that did all of our creatures.

810
00:48:19,702 --> 00:48:24,522
So it was pretty amazing. And I don't know if you can't quite see in that corner.

811
00:48:24,682 --> 00:48:27,762
It's me and Muhammad Ali right there. Oh, wow.

812
00:48:28,122 --> 00:48:32,542
And I got my mom and dad behind me right there. This is What If.

813
00:48:32,982 --> 00:48:36,742
We're at the Movie Guide Awards. Movie Guide Awards are family and faith movies.

814
00:48:36,982 --> 00:48:41,162
I won Best Actor in What If, and we won Best Movie of the Year for that that

815
00:48:41,162 --> 00:48:44,902
year when that movie came out and my dad my dad passed about a year and a half

816
00:48:44,902 --> 00:48:49,262
after that so uh my dad was my buddy he was my best man at my wedding that's

817
00:48:49,262 --> 00:48:54,802
awesome so i want to know because hercules really made you a household name i mean that's huge.

818
00:48:56,254 --> 00:49:00,014
I don't think you could talk to anyone and say Hercules and you'd be the person

819
00:49:00,014 --> 00:49:03,634
that came to mind, even though there's been movies and other actors,

820
00:49:03,714 --> 00:49:05,074
you are Hercules to everyone.

821
00:49:05,174 --> 00:49:07,054
What was that like? How old were you? And what was that like?

822
00:49:07,134 --> 00:49:09,494
Because that had to be pretty amazing.

823
00:49:09,774 --> 00:49:13,054
Well, I was all in my thirties. I mean, I initially, when my agent called me,

824
00:49:13,074 --> 00:49:15,674
but I was in, I mean, I was six, three, I was 225.

825
00:49:15,734 --> 00:49:19,274
I was ripped up. I was working out because, you know, there's so much rejection of Hollywood.

826
00:49:19,374 --> 00:49:23,034
You got to find an outlet somewhere. Mine was Gold's Gym and biking all the

827
00:49:23,034 --> 00:49:26,414
way down to Manhattan Beach and back every time back to Santa Monica where I first lived.

828
00:49:27,474 --> 00:49:30,374
My agent told me, they said, they're looking for, they're not looking for a

829
00:49:30,374 --> 00:49:34,474
bodybuilder guy. They're looking for a decathlon type guy, a guy that's athletic.

830
00:49:34,714 --> 00:49:37,934
They don't want a no-neck, 280-pound steroid dude.

831
00:49:38,054 --> 00:49:42,314
So they put me through seven auditions. They auditioned 2,800 actors in North

832
00:49:42,314 --> 00:49:47,294
America, between Montreal and everything in Canada, New York, Chicago, whatever.

833
00:49:47,514 --> 00:49:51,634
And I had seven callbacks. I was down the last three guys. And when I got the

834
00:49:51,634 --> 00:49:52,854
role, I was actually filming.

835
00:49:53,354 --> 00:49:57,934
I did the last, I did the last audition scene at a universal lot in front of

836
00:49:57,934 --> 00:50:00,014
about 50 television people there at universal.

837
00:50:00,074 --> 00:50:03,174
And I flew out the next day to Vancouver to do an episode of the,

838
00:50:03,194 --> 00:50:08,334
I guess, on the commish Michael Chiklis's series, uh, which was a Stephen canal show back in the day.

839
00:50:08,394 --> 00:50:12,294
And they call me then, but I got that role and I walked up to Mike on set and

840
00:50:12,294 --> 00:50:15,154
I said, I said, I want any more crap from you, dude. I'm half God now.

841
00:50:15,394 --> 00:50:20,154
So, but it was, it was, it was fun. And that opened up the door,

842
00:50:20,234 --> 00:50:24,054
obviously, for so many things. Initially, it was just going to be five two-hour movies.

843
00:50:24,394 --> 00:50:27,334
And halfway through the third movie, Universal called and said,

844
00:50:27,454 --> 00:50:32,194
there's nothing like it on TV. We're going to have you stay there and make a series out of it.

845
00:50:32,574 --> 00:50:36,674
And that first year was amazing for me. I know there's a lot of young people

846
00:50:36,674 --> 00:50:37,934
that wouldn't know who this person was.

847
00:50:38,094 --> 00:50:41,174
But I got a whole year working with Anthony Quinn, who played Zeus.

848
00:50:41,414 --> 00:50:44,674
And here's a guy that had six nominations for Oscars, won twice.

849
00:50:44,674 --> 00:50:47,534
Twice and and by season three like i

850
00:50:47,534 --> 00:50:50,254
said earlier we became the most watched tv show in the world which was

851
00:50:50,254 --> 00:50:52,894
pretty cool and we had two spin-offs we had

852
00:50:52,894 --> 00:50:56,134
xena warrior princess and we had young hercules a lot of people don't remember

853
00:50:56,134 --> 00:50:59,954
young hercules because that got canceled after two years but the young unknown

854
00:50:59,954 --> 00:51:03,954
actor they booked to play me as a teenager was a 20 year old actor by the name

855
00:51:03,954 --> 00:51:08,574
of ryan gosling wow was it really that's how we got us that's how we got to

856
00:51:08,574 --> 00:51:11,174
start wow that's insane same.

857
00:51:11,854 --> 00:51:15,714
So I was going to ask, you know, I'm sure sometimes you think about,

858
00:51:15,774 --> 00:51:18,034
well, what else would I do if I wasn't doing this?

859
00:51:18,494 --> 00:51:21,154
What, what could your next stage of your life look like?

860
00:51:22,014 --> 00:51:26,374
Well, I mean, if I, if I never pursued acting, I knew, I know what I wanted

861
00:51:26,374 --> 00:51:30,514
to do, what I would have done, but I, I was determined that I don't want anything

862
00:51:30,514 --> 00:51:32,194
to fall back on. I was going to be an actor.

863
00:51:32,654 --> 00:51:36,834
I had a double business major, but I think if I did anything that they say,

864
00:51:36,874 --> 00:51:40,254
you can never going to business, you can never be an actor or whatever.

865
00:51:40,454 --> 00:51:43,234
I probably would have followed my dad's footsteps and taught the high school

866
00:51:43,234 --> 00:51:46,114
level because I would have wanted to coach football and basketball at the high school level.

867
00:51:47,216 --> 00:51:51,016
That's cool. Well, you can see the movies you're making are still trying to

868
00:51:51,016 --> 00:51:55,036
reach, you know, those, you know, that community, you know, that family.

869
00:51:55,316 --> 00:51:59,556
And and that's a powerful connection that you, you know, tend to want to be in.

870
00:52:00,316 --> 00:52:06,576
So I just ask because we've seen several of your movies and in quite a few of

871
00:52:06,576 --> 00:52:08,696
them, you kind of play the mean guy.

872
00:52:09,336 --> 00:52:12,476
Right. Maybe the skeptic a bit. Right.

873
00:52:12,516 --> 00:52:15,456
And some of the 87 movies I played, three mean guy roles. Well,

874
00:52:15,536 --> 00:52:19,336
I'm just, you know, we all, we only like the mean guys, right?

875
00:52:19,556 --> 00:52:23,216
Because it seems like such a departure from anything we've seen you.

876
00:52:23,296 --> 00:52:26,296
And that's what sticks out, right? What do you like playing better?

877
00:52:26,736 --> 00:52:30,296
The nice guy or the guy? I want to, well, every mean guy I've played,

878
00:52:30,316 --> 00:52:33,796
by the way, there was redemption for them. Totally. Yes. Agree.

879
00:52:34,356 --> 00:52:38,256
So as long as there's redemption and then I don't want to play some mean guy

880
00:52:38,256 --> 00:52:40,376
the whole way through. I think that would be no fun.

881
00:52:40,476 --> 00:52:43,576
I want to see that. I want to give, I want to let people know that there's always hope.

882
00:52:43,576 --> 00:52:46,696
Hope that there's always a chance to change the road you're on no matter how

883
00:52:46,696 --> 00:52:50,356
bad you think your life is and the world is there is always hope and i think

884
00:52:50,356 --> 00:52:51,776
that's what drew me to those characters.

885
00:52:52,856 --> 00:52:55,876
But yeah i mean there was only one role

886
00:52:55,876 --> 00:53:01,676
that i ever did that that it was interesting i played a serial killer in a movie

887
00:53:01,676 --> 00:53:06,976
called julia x and it won if it won back in 20 i don't know what year it was

888
00:53:06,976 --> 00:53:11,756
10 in 2011 or something it won the austin film festival and but it was more

889
00:53:11,756 --> 00:53:15,016
like an un very very unusual love story because it had a lot of,

890
00:53:15,016 --> 00:53:18,496
a lot of humor in it. And it wasn't like a slasher thing.

891
00:53:18,836 --> 00:53:23,656
It was a, it was a twist of fate of, or twist of fate, twist of.

892
00:53:24,756 --> 00:53:27,836
I, I get picked my victims through the internet dating service.

893
00:53:27,916 --> 00:53:31,676
And as one woman I picked, she escapes, but she turns around and captures me.

894
00:53:31,956 --> 00:53:35,156
Ends up being that her and her sister are serial killers.

895
00:53:36,316 --> 00:53:42,016
So I, as a serial kick, I picked a serial killer and it ends up being a lot

896
00:53:42,016 --> 00:53:45,156
of of dark humor and it was, it was interesting to play that role.

897
00:53:45,356 --> 00:53:49,536
But other than that, I think most of the roles I played, I like roles that have a lot of humor in them.

898
00:53:50,296 --> 00:53:54,636
I don't want, there's enough dark and anger and violence and hate and over-sexualization

899
00:53:54,636 --> 00:53:55,836
and movies and TV out there.

900
00:53:56,196 --> 00:53:59,496
So that's kind of what I like to pick right now, but I've got,

901
00:53:59,516 --> 00:54:02,396
you know, I've got four movies in the can. I got three documentaries coming out.

902
00:54:03,709 --> 00:54:07,489
That I'm looking forward to. I've got three more movies to line up this year I'm filming.

903
00:54:07,609 --> 00:54:12,049
I'm going to be filming in Slovakia again later this year. I'm going to be filming

904
00:54:12,049 --> 00:54:15,349
in Minnesota, my home state, on a car racing movie. It's called Speed Shift.

905
00:54:15,789 --> 00:54:19,009
And then I got a Christmas movie I'll be shooting as well. But I got another

906
00:54:19,009 --> 00:54:22,849
Christmas movie I already shot. It will be out November of this year.

907
00:54:23,309 --> 00:54:27,469
And then I've got two documentaries I'm very excited about.

908
00:54:27,889 --> 00:54:32,029
I spent three weeks in Israel. I'm going back in May for one more week in Israel.

909
00:54:32,029 --> 00:54:35,189
And it deals with through archaeological digs we

910
00:54:35,189 --> 00:54:37,929
trace the flow of the ark of the covenant and it's called the

911
00:54:37,929 --> 00:54:40,969
quest for the throne of god and it's it's i love

912
00:54:40,969 --> 00:54:44,169
documentaries it's fascinating and then the other one it's not

913
00:54:44,169 --> 00:54:47,149
really a follow-up one because i did it with the same company brent miller's company

914
00:54:47,149 --> 00:54:51,029
called ingenuity film so i highly recommend before the wrath and before the

915
00:54:51,029 --> 00:54:55,389
wrath deals with the second coming and i narrate it throughout but we have a

916
00:54:55,389 --> 00:54:59,649
lot of we have a lot of like chosen type actors we have scenes of that then

917
00:54:59,649 --> 00:55:04,489
we cut to current day scholars or whatever they may be, pastors, priests, whatever,

918
00:55:04,689 --> 00:55:06,989
talking about the second coming.

919
00:55:07,449 --> 00:55:11,329
And it's fascinating. Well, we just did a follow-up to it and it deals with

920
00:55:11,329 --> 00:55:13,829
the last supper and it's called eating with the enemy.

921
00:55:14,449 --> 00:55:18,369
And I love the title on this. And I was hoping it came up this week in Easter,

922
00:55:18,489 --> 00:55:20,369
but we still have two more interviews to do.

923
00:55:20,529 --> 00:55:23,689
And we still have a little bit of a voiceover left for me to do.

924
00:55:23,769 --> 00:55:30,209
So that'll come out later in the year. Well our theme at the Supernatural Junkies is to talk about.

925
00:55:31,183 --> 00:55:35,503
What the church isn't talking about. So what would you say was maybe my final

926
00:55:35,503 --> 00:55:36,923
question, unless Dennis and Dr.

927
00:55:37,083 --> 00:55:42,043
Dozier jump in, what would you say is the thing the church and Christians are

928
00:55:42,043 --> 00:55:43,463
not talking about today?

929
00:55:44,123 --> 00:55:47,083
Voting. More than 50% of Christians don't vote. Get out and vote.

930
00:55:47,223 --> 00:55:50,743
I mean, I realize with mail-in voting, there's always going to be cheating,

931
00:55:50,823 --> 00:55:55,103
which is unbelievable to me that three years later, we still haven't solved this easy issue.

932
00:55:55,283 --> 00:55:58,403
There's nothing racist about showing an ID to vote either. It's crazy.

933
00:55:58,583 --> 00:56:01,783
And the trouble is when I speak, a lot of these These churches I go to,

934
00:56:01,863 --> 00:56:06,283
I say, you know, you guys have to remember you as pastors that you work for God, not government.

935
00:56:06,443 --> 00:56:10,023
Because there's a lot of crazy, woke churches out there right now, too.

936
00:56:10,503 --> 00:56:13,583
And I said, people need to wake up. We need to wake up the sheep.

937
00:56:13,663 --> 00:56:15,263
The sheep are just insane right

938
00:56:15,263 --> 00:56:18,203
now. And they just follow anything and everything everybody tells them.

939
00:56:18,503 --> 00:56:21,223
They've totally given in to government letting control their lives.

940
00:56:21,343 --> 00:56:23,563
So to me, it's like, stop being afraid.

941
00:56:23,663 --> 00:56:27,043
Stop letting people set your limitations, especially yourself. self.

942
00:56:28,023 --> 00:56:31,343
So, Kevin, I didn't see Dr. Dozier. Go ahead, Dennis.

943
00:56:31,643 --> 00:56:37,183
I'd say a follow-up on that. I think COVID instilled more fear into the church.

944
00:56:37,383 --> 00:56:42,963
And to see that the church is closed, not all of them, but I think that fear

945
00:56:42,963 --> 00:56:45,063
that was instilled is still there.

946
00:56:45,843 --> 00:56:49,583
Well, look, they closed the churches on purpose, didn't they? That was essential.

947
00:56:50,063 --> 00:56:53,383
The liquor store was essential. The strip clubs were We're essential.

948
00:56:53,603 --> 00:56:57,623
I mean, it is blatantly obvious what they're doing. And people still just kind

949
00:56:57,623 --> 00:56:59,743
of go, yes, whatever you say, we'll close the church down.

950
00:56:59,963 --> 00:57:04,303
My pastor, Rob McCoy, he'll probably talk about it when we have the event coming up.

951
00:57:04,683 --> 00:57:08,643
He came back online. He said, I'll give you your 15 days, but then we're back having the church.

952
00:57:08,783 --> 00:57:11,383
And they sat there and were fining him every week. Pretty soon,

953
00:57:11,423 --> 00:57:14,083
hundreds of people were showing up outside in the parking lot.

954
00:57:14,143 --> 00:57:16,903
They couldn't fit anybody in the church. They put speakers out there.

955
00:57:17,363 --> 00:57:21,323
And he ended up winning the court case. They didn't have to pay any of those fines. Good.

956
00:57:22,190 --> 00:57:27,850
So, Kevin, thanks so much for coming on. Thank you. The last question is, how can we pray for you?

957
00:57:27,930 --> 00:57:32,450
You've got so many irons in the fire, and we're thankful for what you're doing,

958
00:57:32,490 --> 00:57:34,330
for what you're doing with your

959
00:57:34,330 --> 00:57:39,350
faith and bringing that to the world with movies and also with actions.

960
00:57:39,610 --> 00:57:43,030
And so how can we pray for you, Kevin? Well, you know, it really comes down

961
00:57:43,030 --> 00:57:47,350
to, you know, help me find the funding that we need to make these movies.

962
00:57:47,550 --> 00:57:50,790
Because I get pastors stop me all the time and say, what you're doing is great.

963
00:57:50,790 --> 00:57:54,230
You reach a much bigger audience than I do. And I said, I still need your audience, Pastor.

964
00:57:54,350 --> 00:57:56,470
I don't care if you have 80 people in your congregation.

965
00:57:56,810 --> 00:57:58,870
We need them to be part of this movement.

966
00:57:59,290 --> 00:58:02,750
Took a drop of ocean to start the ocean. So we need people to not be afraid

967
00:58:02,750 --> 00:58:03,770
and come out and do these things.

968
00:58:04,250 --> 00:58:08,610
So for me, more than anything else, just help us find the avenues.

969
00:58:09,030 --> 00:58:13,330
Look, trust me, I'm not making anywhere near the money I made on Hercules and

970
00:58:13,330 --> 00:58:15,870
Andromeda these last dozen years.

971
00:58:16,550 --> 00:58:20,270
I'm still Screen Actors Guild, and I'm Directors Guild. so under

972
00:58:20,270 --> 00:58:23,150
the union i take i take the these the

973
00:58:23,150 --> 00:58:26,410
minimum and both those things i want to put out movies that have positive message

974
00:58:26,410 --> 00:58:29,590
and i'm going to keep doing that and by the way i got to give a quick plug for

975
00:58:29,590 --> 00:58:34,170
this these comic cons i still get invited to and sign autographs with hercules

976
00:58:34,170 --> 00:58:37,890
andromeda or it's you know guest starring on supergirl whatever it may be most

977
00:58:37,890 --> 00:58:41,090
people come to my table now they want eight by tens from god's not dead soul

978
00:58:41,090 --> 00:58:42,610
sipper what if that's what they want

979
00:58:43,050 --> 00:58:46,750
so i'm doing the first ever faith and family con i'm working with a guy that

980
00:58:46,750 --> 00:58:49,990
does a lot of comic but he's a Christian conservative based in Knoxville.

981
00:58:50,330 --> 00:58:56,030
We're going to be, check this out right there. It's called RiseUpCon, RiseUpCon.com.

982
00:58:56,530 --> 00:58:59,770
And I hope people will show up and be part of this thing. It's going to be in

983
00:58:59,770 --> 00:59:03,270
Sevierville, Tennessee, just South of Knoxville.

984
00:59:03,450 --> 00:59:06,750
It's right next to Dollywood. So you can make a long weekend with your family

985
00:59:06,750 --> 00:59:09,630
out of it. And May 30th, we're doing a golf tournament.

986
00:59:09,690 --> 00:59:12,070
Here's May 30th. We're doing a golf tournament.

987
00:59:12,170 --> 00:59:16,170
We're raising money for a pro pro-life organization and money for a foster care

988
00:59:16,170 --> 00:59:19,970
organization that places kids in a foster Christian foster homes around the country.

989
00:59:20,290 --> 00:59:24,430
So go to riseupcon.com. We already got a bunch of celebrities coming to this golf tournament.

990
00:59:24,570 --> 00:59:28,910
We're filling up fast and a rise up con has, we got wonderful actors are going

991
00:59:28,910 --> 00:59:31,090
to be there that do faith and family.

992
00:59:31,270 --> 00:59:34,470
They've done secular stuff too, but they do a lot of faith and family adventures

993
00:59:34,470 --> 00:59:38,630
that I hope people want to show up. We still got about 20 spaces left on the golf tournament.

994
00:59:39,050 --> 00:59:41,950
We're expecting close to 5,000 people to be there. We got a number,

995
00:59:41,950 --> 00:59:44,570
We've got like 70, 75 vendors sign up already.

996
00:59:44,970 --> 00:59:48,350
We've got some great speakers, some great musical acts. We're going to have

997
00:59:48,350 --> 00:59:50,690
two movies and two documentaries as well.

998
00:59:50,830 --> 00:59:53,830
So I hope people show up and support it. We're doing it next year.

999
00:59:53,950 --> 00:59:57,550
I got a call from Steve Green from Hobby Lobby. We're doing it next year at

1000
00:59:57,550 --> 01:00:00,010
his Bible Museum in Washington, D.C.

1001
01:00:00,630 --> 01:00:04,290
Awesome. Wow, that is awesome. Well, thanks so much, Kevin. Dr.

1002
01:00:04,410 --> 01:00:07,170
Dozier, can we pray for this young man?

1003
01:00:08,190 --> 01:00:10,770
We can. I would like to say to you this.

1004
01:00:11,802 --> 01:00:16,902
When God's Not Dead came out and our ministry, we partnered with another ministry

1005
01:00:16,902 --> 01:00:18,622
and we did rent out a movie studio.

1006
01:00:18,742 --> 01:00:23,542
We paid out a movie studio and we were there to watch your movie.

1007
01:00:24,102 --> 01:00:26,842
Thank you. I appreciate that. We support you in any way.

1008
01:00:27,262 --> 01:00:31,242
Thank you. All right. Father, we thank you. We bless you. We honor you for your

1009
01:00:31,242 --> 01:00:33,582
goodness and your mercy, for your love and kindness and peace.

1010
01:00:33,702 --> 01:00:37,282
And I thank you, Lord, for our brother who shared with us us today,

1011
01:00:37,482 --> 01:00:41,322
Lord God, his humility, the humility that he's shown, Lord, is just awesome.

1012
01:00:41,722 --> 01:00:44,782
And I pray, God, that you would just open doors, you would give favor,

1013
01:00:44,902 --> 01:00:49,082
even as he has poured his life out, Lord, your word says, given as you'll be

1014
01:00:49,082 --> 01:00:52,002
given to you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over.

1015
01:00:52,262 --> 01:00:55,162
Lord, I pray that you will cause men to give into his sack, Lord,

1016
01:00:55,262 --> 01:00:58,782
to sow into him in the things that he is doing for your glory.

1017
01:00:58,902 --> 01:01:00,262
And we thank you for him, Lord.

1018
01:01:00,462 --> 01:01:03,382
We even pray, Lord, in the name of Jesus for his protection,

1019
01:01:03,562 --> 01:01:06,282
Lord, because even as he steps further in these perilous times,

1020
01:01:06,502 --> 01:01:08,982
we don't know what to expect in these days.

1021
01:01:09,162 --> 01:01:12,222
But we do know, Lord God, that you'll never leave us nor forsake us.

1022
01:01:12,382 --> 01:01:16,422
So be with him, guide him and protect him, bless his wife, keep her as well,

1023
01:01:16,442 --> 01:01:20,222
Lord, and his sons and his children, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen.

1024
01:01:20,902 --> 01:01:23,922
Amen. That will be done. Thank you very much. God bless you,

1025
01:01:23,962 --> 01:01:28,282
Kevin. Take care, guys. See you soon. See you soon. Sounds good. Bye.

1026
01:01:29,722 --> 01:01:33,582
Hello, this is Dr. Kevin Cruz, and I'm the president of the board for Serving

1027
01:01:33,582 --> 01:01:34,762
Others in Love in Honduras.

1028
01:01:35,142 --> 01:01:37,462
What led me to get involved? It's

1029
01:01:37,462 --> 01:01:41,482
when I felt Jesus asked me the same question as Peter, do you love me?

1030
01:01:41,622 --> 01:01:46,082
And each time I had to answer the question why I wasn't feeding his sheep.

1031
01:01:46,282 --> 01:01:50,382
Of course, there are needy people in America, but once I went overseas,

1032
01:01:50,522 --> 01:01:54,742
it became obvious to me that these were the least Jesus was talking about.

1033
01:01:55,062 --> 01:01:58,902
Then I met Dan Isabel, the international president of Soil Ministries.

1034
01:01:59,182 --> 01:02:03,022
Dan shared with me how Honduras is the second poorest in our Hemisphere.

1035
01:02:03,262 --> 01:02:07,562
Here's Dan Isabel to explain why he and his family have been ministering in

1036
01:02:07,562 --> 01:02:09,742
Honduras for over 60 years.

1037
01:02:10,102 --> 01:02:15,122
In 1964, my mother took her three children and started this ministry,

1038
01:02:15,262 --> 01:02:21,102
with only $75 a month and a burning desire to serve widows and orphans and to

1039
01:02:21,102 --> 01:02:22,242
show them the love of Jesus.

1040
01:02:23,118 --> 01:02:27,818
Before she was finished, she had pioneered 76 churches and a bilingual school.

1041
01:02:28,418 --> 01:02:34,938
Now, we have over 170 churches that provide water, food, and evangelism to thousands

1042
01:02:34,938 --> 01:02:36,358
of children and to widows.

1043
01:02:36,698 --> 01:02:40,298
Children are also loved through our deaf school, emergency medical fund,

1044
01:02:40,498 --> 01:02:43,378
medical missions trips, and child evangelism.

1045
01:02:43,538 --> 01:02:47,798
But there is still so much more to do. We have churches that need roofs and

1046
01:02:47,798 --> 01:02:51,158
available land that can be used to build schools, clinics, and churches.

1047
01:02:51,158 --> 01:02:54,378
Some of our locations don't even have enough food for themselves.

1048
01:02:54,698 --> 01:02:57,618
Some of our transportation is broken beyond repair.

1049
01:02:58,038 --> 01:03:02,498
But let me introduce you to one of my partners, Dr. Tony Ponseti, to tell you more.

1050
01:03:02,978 --> 01:03:08,358
Serving others in love in Honduras is my passion because we're equipping pastors

1051
01:03:08,358 --> 01:03:13,338
and leaders with seminary-approved degrees and marriage seminars that can keep

1052
01:03:13,338 --> 01:03:14,738
them from being shut down.

1053
01:03:15,058 --> 01:03:19,478
Did you notice how the true story of sound of freedom started in Honduras?

1054
01:03:19,478 --> 01:03:25,078
Nothing could make me prouder than to know that our shalom home of trafficked

1055
01:03:25,078 --> 01:03:28,238
girls is fighting this unspeakable evil today.

1056
01:03:28,698 --> 01:03:34,698
Now, let me introduce Dr. Thomas Dozier so he can tell you how you can get involved.

1057
01:03:35,458 --> 01:03:43,018
500 people giving $17 per month provide over $100,000 of support to the children of Honduras.

1058
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You can be a part of making a difference in the lives of the children of Honduras.

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Fortunately, some of us can help build a school or put a roof on a church.

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But more than just money, we want to invite you and your church to go to Honduras on a mission trip.

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There are many possibilities, and we would love to talk about how God can allow

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you to reach His children.

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Please visit our website at SoilMinistries.org and click on Donate. Thank you.

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Hey, folks, this is Dr. Kevin Cruz giving you another pump because guess what?

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The Supernatural Junkies are on Rumble.

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All you have to do is go to Rumble, go to search, and when you search for channels,

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you look for Supernatural Junkies, and all of our stuff is going to start popping up.

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It's great because you're going to be able to see the links.

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You'll get to see exactly why we are saying what we're saying.

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But most importantly, this is a great way to share with your family and your

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friends exactly why we are living in prophetic times and why we cannot give up access to our bodies.

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Hey folks, it's Dr. Dennis from Supernatural Junkies. I just want to talk to

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you today about protandum.

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I've been taking protandum for a few years and you know what? I feel a difference.

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I am younger than my age. At least I think I am.

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Anyway, protandum is a strong antioxidant producer in your body because what

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it does, it causes your body to increase its glutathione production.

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And glutathione, folks, is the strongest antioxidant your body has.

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So if you want to keep strong antioxidants in your body and be a healthier you,

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I suggest you use ProTandem.

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Music.