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0:00[Music]
0:15hey it's Andrew Clen with this week's
0:16interview with both Kevin Sorbo and Rick
0:19schroer sometimes called Ricky Schroeder
0:21two terrific actors who are doing
0:23excellent work fighting back against the
0:27incredibly decayed uh culture of
0:29Hollywood I got a phone call about a
0:31week ago from a friend of mine a
0:33successful uh Hollywood worker I don't
0:35want to identify him too much but he is
0:37a guy in the movie business who does
0:38very well and he told me an interesting
0:40story he said you know when you talk in
0:42public when people talk in public about
0:43the films that came out this year they
0:45all talk about Barbie and Oppenheimer
0:47but behind closed doors the only movie
0:50they talk about is sound of Freedom the
0:52Jim cavel Thriller with a real Christian
0:55bent and he said they all just want to
0:58know how do they reach that audience how
1:00do they uh do do the kinds of things
1:02that that film did because that film
1:03made over hundred million dollars and
1:05circumvented the Hollywood distribution
1:07monopo with the help of Angel Studios
1:10this is as you will know if you've been
1:12listening to my show this is an amazing
1:14moment Hollywood is hurting the woke
1:18storytelling the leftist propaganda is
1:21only really word for it and The
1:23Blacklist against anybody who disagrees
1:25with wokeness or leftism uh has really
1:28hurt their bottom line and has left an
1:30opening for storytellers who are willing
1:32to go off the grid and do stuff that's
1:35original and different and these are two
1:37actors that I wanted to talk to
1:38specifically because they're doing it
1:40you all know Kevin Sorbo I'm sure he was
1:42Hercules back in the day uh also was in
1:45the
1:46incredibly uh popular Christian film
1:49God's not dead and and by the way I
1:51think films like God's Not Dead have
1:52created the audience helped create the
1:54audience that has made films like um
1:57sound of Freedom possible and has made
1:58this created this Market maret basically
2:00and Rick rer of course won the Golden
2:02Globe Award he's the youngest recipient
2:04I think of the Golden Globe Award for
2:06the champ he was in one of my favorite
2:07TV shows NYPD Blue but he's also
2:10produced uh and actually directed films
2:13like black cloud the Anthology film
2:15locker 13 which I also enjoyed very much
2:17guys it is great to see you it's great
2:19to have you here thanks for coming on
2:20Pleasure good to be here so let let's
2:22just start by talking I'll start with
2:24you Kevin because you've been in in the
2:26sort of Christian uh film making field
2:31do have you suffered basically for for
2:33who you are for what you believe in
2:35Hollywood or I mean it looks like look
2:37you know God's Not Dead films like are
2:39so successful I don't want to talk about
2:41you suffering like you know like
2:43terrible suffering but really have you
2:44paid a price for that in Hollywood oh no
2:47no question no question Hollywood loves
2:49me
2:50um I think I think I'm the original
2:52cancell culture victim with when my
2:54agents of many many decades and my
2:56manager called me into their office says
2:58about 10 11 years years ago and said we
3:00can't work you any longer it was like an
3:02intervention of shorts and I had to
3:03laugh at it cuz I said you know you guys
3:05are the ones you're the industry that
3:06always screams for tolerance and freedom
3:08of speech but we all know it's they're
3:10Hypocrites it's all a one-way street
3:11with them so um I form Soros studios.com
3:14to do my own independent movies I love
3:15the industry just like Ricky does we
3:17love what we do we love the creation I
3:19love the creative process on both sides
3:21of the camera I actually started
3:22directing back in my Hercules here so
3:24that's always been a big part of my life
3:26so um my first really unapologetically
3:29fake f based movie is actually called
3:31what if and it's from the same writers
3:32that did God's Not Dead I've shot over
3:3480 movies what if in my book is a much
3:36better movie than God's not dead but it
3:38also shows you when independent movies
3:40as Rick knows we don't have a $100
3:42million advertising budget for a 300 for
3:44a $3 million movie so how do you get it
3:46out there you need strong word of mouth
3:47well God's Not Dead benefited from that
3:49what if written by the same guys Chuck
3:51and Cary they recently came out with
3:53nefarious they had unplanned a few years
3:55ago as well great writers it was
3:57directed by Dallas Jenkins who's now
3:59doing the chosen which is like massive
4:01around the world so I've been very
4:03blessed to kind of keep down that road
4:05and do movies that Hollywood used to do
4:07they don't have to be faith-based but
4:09Hollywood used to the movies that had
4:10hope had love had Redemption had
4:12laughter in them the good guy wins they
4:14don't do that anymore uh I think the 60s
4:17changed all that uh they started
4:18celebrating the the evil they started
4:20celebrating the anti-hero but it's just
4:22gotten worse each decade and it's just
4:24crazy I'm going to keep doing these
4:25movies and uh I didn't need Hollywood
4:27it's fine I they owe me nothing and I'm
4:29going to keep doing what I'm doing it's
4:31it is amazing it's it it goes beneath
4:33the radar because nobody covers it
4:35nefarious was a really good film I mean
4:37it was really creative and just takes
4:39place basically in one room with two
4:41characters and yet was was riveting it's
4:43terrific uh Rick you you actually are
4:47more openly conservative I mean you're
4:49both conservatives but you've kind of
4:51been you haven't been centered in a
4:53Christian film making you've been
4:54talking about uh your conservative ideas
4:57and you also during the co shutdowns
5:01were very outspoken and I remember
5:03people saying this was controversial is
5:05the word they always use when they
5:06disagree with you and I was thinking I
5:08don't say was controversial about being
5:10against these shutdowns but do you feel
5:12that you have had to move uphill move
5:15against the wind because of your
5:17opinions or or
5:19not yes absolutely um never quite fit in
5:23in Hollywood you know I I never really
5:25kind of felt like an actor there
5:27actually I felt always like an asset
5:29there
5:30um I never quite was invited to all the
5:33the clubs and the the cool parties and
5:36so um you know that's why I started real
5:38American Heroes I started this nonprofit
5:40because the diversity equity and
5:42inclusion guidelines at the Academy I
5:45became an academy member when I was I
5:47think eight years old and a few years
5:50ago they changed the guidelines so that
5:52you um you couldn't be eligible for the
5:55best picture category for the Oscar if
5:57you didn't have lgbtq Q Plus Characters
6:01themes of your story uh your crew had to
6:04be wait is that right is that right you
6:06cannot be eligible for the best best
6:09picture I did not know yeah and so they
6:12they totally you know art is free it's
6:14always supposed to be free um it's never
6:16supposed to be controlled you're
6:17supposed to be able to say what you want
6:19um hire who you want work with who you
6:21want um you don't have to hire um who
6:24they say you have to hire but that's
6:26what the Academy's done um these Dei
6:29requirement and it really offended me
6:31and I decided Hollywood had fallen at
6:33that point and uh I needed to still I
6:36still want to tell stories and still
6:37work and do stuff so I had a vision to
6:39create Patriot PBS is what we want to
6:42create we want to create an a PBS
6:45alternative where we become an
6:47aggregator for everybody else's stories
6:50and we start putting out proper
6:52programming because everybody's getting
6:54programmed out there by what they listen
6:56to what they watch what they hear and so
6:59we need to sort of Turn Around the
7:00programming and you know as Kevin
7:02mentioned earlier you know back in the
7:04old the old days black and white film
7:05era I love watching Black and Whites
7:07today the characters always did the
7:09right things they had morals they had
7:11standards they had values and then the
7:13anti-hero like Kevin mentioned came into
7:16existence and you started having all
7:18these very flawed characters um you know
7:21I was watching Titanic the other day
7:23with my girlfriend and you think about
7:26the characters involved you know they're
7:28not honorable people they're they're
7:30betraying each other they're lying
7:32behind each other's backs they're uh
7:34trying to seduce each other when one's
7:36engaged it's it's like
7:38this you know it's it's we celebrate
7:42that kind of you know moral decline you
7:45know Idols in the Bible I was reading
7:47the Bible today and Idols it says stay
7:49away from Idols we don't want Idols well
7:53you think about American Idol now the
7:55show and you think about Survivor the
7:57reality show that's that changed
8:00television the goal is to get the idol
8:03you know to win the idol to so you know
8:06they they use our words against us they
8:08go into the Bible and they try to
8:10confuse people but um so when you want
8:13to build the big thing people people
8:16don't know this if they're not in the
8:18business it's it's it's one thing to
8:20make a movie it's one thing to make a
8:21show the thing is to get it seen I mean
8:24that is an incredibly hard thing to do
8:26and the distribution paths the paths to
8:28distributed people are are blocked I
8:32mean they're very uh they're very much
8:34dominated by the left and by the
8:36Hollywood mainstream so I want to know
8:39I'll go back to you Kevin first but like
8:41when you say you're making these films
8:43how do you get them out there how do you
8:45get them from the place where you are in
8:47an editing room you know cutting up the
8:49picture until it works and then you've
8:52got a picture where do you go well
8:54there's a couple of distribution Outlets
8:55that I like to use they don't have the
8:57Creative Accounting that most of
8:58Hollywood does
9:00um where they'll cheat you out of
9:01anything I used to joke with my old
9:02manager I said you know I don't know why
9:04they call it a backend deal because now
9:06I figured out you basically take it in
9:07the back end I mean
9:10that's absolutely crazy and I I I
9:13remember one time I said you know
9:15Hercules was largely successful in fact
9:17by our third year we were the most
9:18watched show in the world in 176
9:20countries they did that show for seven
9:22years you can talk to any television
9:23producer if you're going into your third
9:25and fourth year in TV series you're
9:26making money there's a lot more money in
9:28TV than there is in movies and um I just
9:31said why do I have to sue for my back
9:33end why why didn't I just tell the truth
9:35he goes well it's just part of doing
9:36business in Hollywood I went what so
9:39they're it they're like they're all
9:40locked into this thing where it's okay
9:41to lie cheat and deceive each other um I
9:44remember going to some of these Premier
9:46movies with all these a-listers around I
9:47remember turning to my wife Sam I said I
9:50said do you feel the desperation in this
9:51room because you can feel it and I agree
9:53with I've never I never felt like a
9:55Hollywood guy that's why I lived in
9:57Thousand Oaks I want to be near but far
9:59enough away from it all you know and
10:01it's the the biggest thing with getting
10:02movies made number one is just get them
10:04funded I mean my movies are in the 3
10:06million range that sounds like a lot of
10:07money that's catering budget in Pirates
10:09of the Caribbean those are massive
10:11movies and then how do we get it out
10:13there because we don't have that big
10:14budget movie we got to do what we can we
10:16got to reach out to anybody and
10:18everybody there's 80 million homes in
10:20America that want the kind of product I
10:21do look I did a movie called let there
10:23be light that Sean Hannity funded did
10:25very well uh $2.3 million budget movie
10:29open number two per screen average
10:31against Thor Ragnarok a $300 million
10:33movie I get a call from Netflix on
10:35Monday after opening weekend I said hey
10:37you have a foot in this inspirational
10:39world we want to open an inspiration
10:40division here at Netflix I had three
10:43four meetings with him over the next
10:44like seven eight weeks ultimately they
10:47did nothing it was all just lip service
10:49their idiology is so filled with hate
10:51and anger towards someone like me and in
10:53in in I mean being a Christian and a
10:56conservative is like being a double
10:57leper in Hollywood but you know I just
10:59I'm doing what I can to get it out there
11:01I had two movies in theaters last year
11:02but you know they weren't out there very
11:04long because they didn't have a big
11:05following but uh we don't have the big
11:08advertising budget I mean but they're
11:09wonderful movies wonderful stories and
11:11it's it's it's unfortunate and now
11:13through my through Sorbo studios.com I
11:16get people going hey I just saw your
11:17movie um you know Left Behind rise of
11:20the Antichrist it's awesome you know I
11:21go well spread the word because we need
11:23word you know Rick I was thinking when
11:26you said you wanted to make a a
11:27patriotic PBS I mean that's the kind of
11:31thing like I might wake up at 3:00 in
11:33the morning and think that was a good
11:34idea but the next thought would be like
11:36how where do you even start how do you
11:38start to do that I mean PBS is obviously
11:40partly Government funding it's got all
11:42these channels how where do you
11:44begin well you know how eat an elephant
11:47right one spoonful at a
11:50time you just gota you just got to put
11:53one step in front of the other you got
11:55to create some content that's that's
11:57people want to see number one and so
12:00once you have some content they want to
12:02see you know there's it it'll find its
12:05way look look like you said um that one
12:08film just the one you mentioned earlier
12:11um sound the children um being
12:14trafficked look how they did it I mean
12:16they did it one step at a time they were
12:18able they shot that five years ago it
12:21took that long to get it going yeah so
12:24you can't you can't worry about what's
12:25down the road you just got to do what's
12:27in front of you and take it one bite at
12:28a time and so we're just starting right
12:30now producing a documentary series
12:32called erotic erosion that's going to
12:34look at the decline of the standards and
12:36values of our society since the rise of
12:39Internet pornography if you really think
12:41about it the camera before the camera
12:43was invented the only way you can engage
12:46in perversion was to engage it a see
12:49experience perversion was to engage in
12:52at yourself or to witness it once the
12:54camera was invented 150 years ago you
12:57could now distribute it and so we sort
13:00of are looking at sort of since the
13:02Genesis of the camera how perversion has
13:04been disseminated into everybody's homes
13:07and their minds through this you know
13:09device and so um erotic erosion is a
13:13documentary series looking at the
13:14decline of of our society after 45 years
13:18of internet porn are you aware that when
13:20internet porn first came out it was in
13:23the XXX URL and so it was easily to
13:26block at your house because you could
13:28put a URL blocker well then a lot of the
13:32church leaders of the day were offended
13:34that there was such thing as axxx URL so
13:37they had it shut down and all that
13:40pornography went to the.com world where
13:43you could no longer block it so we you
13:45know we have five goals at the Council
13:47on pornography reform which is one of
13:49our our missions and one of them is to
13:51put all adult content back into the tri
13:54XX
13:55URL and then another thing we want is we
13:57want an off switch
13:59Americans love choice right freedom of
14:01choice they say freedom of choice well
14:04we want the choice to have adult content
14:06turned off to our devices and to our
14:09homes um you know if you pay the bill to
14:12AT&T or Verizon there's absolutely no
14:14reason you have to have this push to
14:16your your your family and to your house
14:19um and so you know that's easily doable
14:22for them there's no such thing as
14:23Internet pornography in many countries
14:25around the world and so they can
14:27actually shut it down
14:29so with atic corrosion our documentary
14:31series we'll be talking to experts about
14:33the First Amendment for
14:34example and how the first amendment was
14:37uh written to protect freedom of speech
14:40against um political opposition you
14:42could say what you wanted against the
14:44government and not be afraid right
14:45that's why but then they changed uh
14:48freedom of speech they defined it as
14:50freedom of
14:51expression doesn't say that in the
14:53Constitution it says freedom of speech
14:56but freedom of expression then included
14:58pictures because that's a form of
15:00expression the Supreme Court ruled and
15:02now pornography was covered under the
15:05First Amendment so you know just because
15:08we've been duped by by this this world
15:11doesn't mean we have to stay duped by by
15:13this world's you know these politicians
15:16and so we have some goals at CPR Council
15:18on pornography reform that we're going
15:20to be focused on in the erotic erosion
15:22series to try to push uh these ideas
15:25because we want Americans to come
15:26together all of us as as far as on this
15:29issue um protecting our kids and doing
15:32age verification and you know Ai and if
15:35we get a win for We the People Andrew
15:38and we can get energy behind this kind
15:39of Reform and show that our government
15:41can work for our families then maybe
15:44this a government worth
15:45saving and and it's a government then
15:48that we can we can unite all those
15:50people in that energy and move into the
15:51next issue which is like balanced budget
15:54amendment we're all getting poorer in
15:56this country so you're fa focusing on
16:00issues and and do you think you have a a
16:02lane to
16:05distribute well yeah I mean we have our
16:07own platform to put it up it's it's we
16:09can distribute the the question is can
16:11you get it seen can you promote it sure
16:13yeah because we can get it out there but
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17:44in you know Kevin when you mentioned
17:47Netflix I I was thinking the other day I
17:50saw on Apple TV I saw a Mark Wahlberg
17:53comedy action film with Bridget Monahan
17:56and and it was It was kind of cute you
17:58know made me laugh and and it was had
18:00very good family values I know Wahlberg
18:02is a good you know strong Family Guy and
18:04and Christian guy and I and I've seen
18:06other things on Apple Tom Hanks uh
18:09submarine movie where he played this
18:12actual Bible reading praying uh you know
18:16leader commander of a submarine I was
18:18sitting there with my eyes my eyes were
18:19like saucers I I couldn't believe I was
18:21actually watching it but Apple TV seems
18:23to have opened up a little bit of a lane
18:25for that kind of content they they're
18:28also have a uh a film that looks a
18:30little bit like um Band of Brothers
18:33about the fly Boys in World War II which
18:35I'm that that to me is like heroin I'm
18:37like going to watch every minute of that
18:39probably twice so I I guess what I'm
18:42wondering is when they see a film like
18:44sound of Freedom make a100 millionar you
18:47know when when when Gibson made Passion
18:49of the Christ and he basically took
18:51money out of his pocket and and made you
18:54know so much money they did start all
18:56these faith-based little
18:59uh enclaves within the big studios but
19:02they seem to be unable to turn out
19:04things that people who actually had
19:06Faith wanted to watch so they would make
19:08a film about Moses and then come out and
19:09say Moses was a terrorist or they you
19:11know they make they'd make all these
19:13films that kind of insulted the people
19:14who were supposed to see them is there a
19:16lane or do we have to reinvent Hollywood
19:18do we have to make something completely
19:21different well Hollywood I think needs
19:23to wake up I don't know what it takes to
19:25wake up I mean look at Disney wal Disney
19:27said back in the 19 1950s that movies
19:29and television will influence our youth
19:31well hello um I think he's flipping his
19:33Brave right now what Disney has done to
19:35his name uh because he's not the type
19:37movies he wants to put out I I I'm sure
19:39it's more money than this I heard a$ 1.4
19:42billion doll loss for them last year so
19:43I'm many how many more years they want
19:45to keep doing that I don't know I mean I
19:47I heard they're going to redo It's a
19:49Wonderful Life and they want to have a
19:51diverse cast in that they're redoing
19:53what's the other one they're looking at
19:54I mean wizard of O wizard wizard of O
19:57that's right so I'm looking going are
19:58you kidding me you guys are doing this
20:00it's it's it's it it's it's just strange
20:03what they're doing and why they're doing
20:05it and I I don't know if they're going
20:06to wake up to the fact look look what
20:08they did to the movie Noah with Russell
20:09Crow I got invited to Paramount release
20:11of that they it was it was on the lot of
20:13Paramount and God's on dead had just
20:15come out and was doing amazingly well I
20:18mean that $2 million movie made $140
20:19million it's crazy and so we're sitting
20:22there watching this my wife looks over
20:24at me halfway through the screening this
20:25cuz number one they made Noah like a
20:27schizophrenic alcoholic hellbent and
20:29killing his family at the end of the
20:30journey and then my wife says this isn't
20:32the story of Noah it's Water World means
20:34Transformers is what it is and that's
20:36what they did with it and at the end of
20:38the movie the guy the only probably the
20:41only faith-based producer on the set
20:43came out and he said because people were
20:45going crazy in this movie what are you
20:46doing in this movie he said well number
20:48one they hired an
20:50atheist in the land that's run by quite
20:53a few of the people from that in they're
20:55Jewish why would they hire an atheist
20:57person to do an Old Testament you know
21:00story that's as popular as no it makes
21:02no sense to me and then somebody asked
21:04them not knowing I was there I was back
21:06in the middle like 40 rows back guy says
21:08well why doesn't Hollywood do more
21:10independent movies like God's Not Dead
21:11look at the success of that movie and he
21:13says well we'll leave the independent
21:15movies to the independent people out
21:17there we're going to keep doing the big
21:18Blockbusters so he didn't really answer
21:20the question but um I don't know when
21:22they're going to wake up I mean it's
21:23weird that you have to keep H them over
21:25the head with a successive sound of
21:26freedom and they helped that by the way
21:29when Hollywood came out and basically
21:30said wait a minute we're for child sex
21:35trafficking that just made more people
21:37don't want to see the movie on both
21:39sides of the political AIS because I
21:41most I think most people left or right
21:44is against having sex with 5-year-olds
21:46it's just that uh you know it it hurt
21:48them but it helped the movie quite a bit
21:50you know I went and saw a screening of
21:52it at the Museum of the Bible in
21:53Washington DC and I looked around and I
21:56thought why is everybody here Christian
21:59doesn't every isn't everybody against
22:00this but apparently not and certainly
22:02not in Hollywood uh where they famously
22:04are are uh you know are doing things
22:07like this I I guess I'm really
22:09interested in in systems to be honest
22:11with you like I I mean this this idea
22:13you know Rick you you talked about
22:16putting material up and I I think this
22:18porn subject is huge I think it's a an
22:20absolutely destructive force and as you
22:23say you know it's one thing if there was
22:25a magazine behind a counter where you
22:27have to go up and sh name yourself to
22:28buy a magazine but when all you have to
22:30do is press a button on your phone it's
22:31a it's a much much different force in
22:33our Andrew and Andrew I remember when I
22:36was a kid 7-Eleven got girly magazines
22:39and I was like maybe 10 years old and I
22:41couldn't believe they were behind you
22:44know they were behind the cast register
22:46and then a couple years later they moved
22:48to the aisle like now you can actually
22:51access them and then internet porn came
22:54out and uh I saw my first pornography
22:57image at
22:59wow wow and that was prior to the
23:01internet well did you have problem you
23:03know I don't want to I don't want to get
23:04too personal but I mean you were a child
23:06star and one of the famous things that
23:08they talk about child stars are always
23:10in danger did you feel that you were in
23:13danger yes really I didn't I mean I
23:15didn't I I knew I couldn't
23:18trust uh a lot of people around me yeah
23:21from a a young age you know so yeah I I
23:24I was around some pretty unsavory
23:26characters for sure yeah because because
23:29Hollywood really is a I mean it's funny
23:31I me there plenty of nice people in
23:33Hollywood and it's not a monolithic uh
23:35structure but this is one of the things
23:37about it that is absolutely you know you
23:40know I I I wrote a fantasy novel with
23:42that and at the core of it there was
23:44some child trafficking in Hollywood and
23:45I sent it to my agent it was very
23:47popular because I put it out as a
23:48podcast here at the daily wire and it
23:50did really well and I sent it to my
23:52agent and he said this is not what
23:54Hollywood is like I like yes it is I
23:56mean everybody knows everybody knows
23:58what it is but I want to know I want to
24:00know how you guys are thinking about the
24:03systems
24:05because it's like I said it's one thing
24:07to make content and if you're making
24:09documentary content you can fund that
24:10and if you have $3 million you can make
24:12a movie if you can raise that but but
24:14how do you get to that next stage where
24:17people can see it where people know it
24:18exists I mean like I I read about you
24:21guys and I'm I'm always following this
24:23because I think that this is the moment
24:25this is the moment when you can actually
24:27do something like this and and make it
24:29work because people are so sick of what
24:31they're saying
24:33so so are there people that you go to do
24:36I mean do you have people you know let
24:38me start with you Rick is there are
24:40there is there a network of people that
24:41you can go to that say we're going to
24:42help you we're going to fund this or do
24:45you just set out on down Hollywood
24:47Boulevard with a tin tin cop you know no
24:51I don't have a network right now it's
24:53all self-funded wow it's all
24:55self-created self-generated self
24:57distributed self I mean pretty much
25:00promoted yeah so no I don't have a and I
25:04and intentionally I don't need sort of a
25:07network right now I can do certain
25:09things on my own as I need other assets
25:12to come on board I will reach out but
25:15you know sometimes the people that you
25:17bring into your network can influence
25:19things uh I I don't have a lot of trust
25:22for a lot of folks and so it's better
25:24just sort of to do things myself when I
25:26can and then and then but I do need to
25:29learn to find Partners to work with yeah
25:32because you can't really make movies
25:33alone
25:34right no I mean you find crew for sure
25:37you hire people but I'm talking about
25:38you're talking about like distribution
25:40Partners yeah um I I I don't have them
25:43yet but I will search for them when I
25:46when I need to find them or I'll call
25:47Kevin say
25:49Kevin distribu Hey Kevin does stream
25:53does streaming change anything well I
25:55think it's it's here to stay obviously
25:57so another Avenue you talking about
25:59funders out there look I'm always
26:00looking for funders I I'm got a golf hat
26:04on I'm a big golfer I do a lot I get
26:05invited that whole celebrity thing I
26:07invited a lot of charity events and I
26:08golf with these very wealthy people then
26:11you find out they're like-minded like me
26:13they're like oh W the downfall of
26:14America the you know we're chrisan we're
26:16conservatives and then you sit there and
26:18talk to them about the movies I do and
26:20we're talking some of you guys are
26:22billionaires and I like I say three
26:24million bucks to rent a m they're making
26:26that much every day on a couple billion
26:28dollars out they're worth but they ah
26:30it's not something I do well we have a
26:31culture battle going on right now
26:33Hollywood is kicking our butt they
26:34really are they're controlling a lot of
26:36things I know there's a Tipping Point in
26:37there I know people that out there like
26:40you know what what Rick is doing what
26:41I'm doing what the Irwin Brothers are
26:43doing there people out there making good
26:44movies and good product and we just got
26:46to keep doing that and keep fighting
26:47that fight I get stopped all the time
26:49through airports hotel lobbies and
26:51people say hey keep making the movies
26:53you're making and I go well then keep
26:54supporting it any way you can yeah
26:56because we need that we need that help I
26:58don't have a I don't have a faucet I can
27:00turn on and make these movies I've got
27:01great scripts but it's hard to sit there
27:03and raise the money for them um I
27:06certain know people I can go to for
27:07distribution but I think for me the
27:09first important thing to me is just get
27:11money to make these scripts wow that
27:13that's that is really interesting I mean
27:15because I know look here at the daily
27:17wire this was our mission from the
27:19beginning but we had to build it up by
27:21doing political commentary because that
27:24you know unfortunately I think that
27:26that's a it's just a lot easier it's
27:27cheaper to do but it's also there's this
27:29audience kind of that eats it up but but
27:32it is it's just fascinating to me just
27:35if you take Fox News Fox News comes out
27:37and it takes over half the country
27:39basically it becomes this major major
27:41threat to this monolithic news industry
27:44and yet nobody imitates it it it takes
27:47it takes years decades before anybody
27:49says oh let's make an oan let's make a
27:50even a daily wi let's make all these
27:52different things where the audience was
27:54obviously there I sometimes wonder I
27:56mean is there a streaming service for
27:58Christian films there is and I wish
28:00there was an app for that as well to
28:02reach out to people because I mean you
28:04know I look I got a couple million
28:06people on Twitter alone can't I why
28:07can't I get a dollar from each one of
28:09them I don't know it' be great you know
28:11because right there well there's some
28:13money to get get two million bucks gets
28:15me into, 1500 screens on a you know on a
28:17weekend so um it's it's it's weird to
28:20try to fight it and get it out there but
28:22I'm going to keep battling because I
28:23love like I said I love what I do and
28:25I'm not going to give up the fight so
28:27they will come is kind of my attitude
28:29you got to build something worth and
28:31then they'll come yep that's I I've kind
28:34of lived by that too I mean I just make
28:36the stuff and I've I've been really
28:37fortunate finding audiences for it but
28:39it's it has gotten it has gotten Wicked
28:42out there I mean this stuff with the Dei
28:44and the equity and and the well it's
28:46racism let's call it what it is I mean
28:48yeah that that stuff is just really um
28:51it's it's ill it's a sickness obviously
28:54well listen I'm I'm really glad to talk
28:56to you it kind of gives me a hope hope
28:57to talk to you it's it's a it's a it's
28:59an interesting moment let me I've only
29:01got a couple of minutes let me ask each
29:02one of you is is this a good time or am
29:06I kidding myself I I see like a break in
29:09the culture I see the the kind of
29:10Rainbow Coalition on its back feet am I
29:13wrong about that Rick do you think that
29:15there's an opening here I do think
29:17there's an opening I do think we're
29:18making progress I do think we're talking
29:20about the Lord again and you know people
29:22aren't afraid to talk about the Lord and
29:25so I think that makes a difference I
29:27think we're sick of what we see so many
29:29Americans we're just tired of of it of
29:32it and them pushing their perversion
29:34upon us and into us so we we want to uh
29:38we want to make some change and we want
29:39to use our documentaries and our stories
29:41to help drive that change because
29:43politics is
29:44Downstream of of what we do yeah and
29:48they're just kind of they follow a lot
29:50and and you know Hollywood is sort of
29:52like the seems to me the the brain of of
29:56of of of their perversion it's like the
29:58center of of Satan's messaging tools
30:01yeah no question about it yeah so many
30:04ways Kevin you hopeful I I am you know I
30:07I every set I've been on you know I
30:09still I've been managing thank God
30:10through other independent people coming
30:12to me to say hey you want to be in my
30:13movie and I read the script and the roll
30:15or whatever I like the message yeah then
30:17I'm in so I've been shooting four movies
30:19a year on average the last seven eight
30:20years and every movie I do now I get at
30:23least one person sometimes more whether
30:25it's a camera guy another actor whatever
30:27pull me along you know over the side of
30:29the studio like we're doing a drug deal
30:30and say hey man thanks for being a voice
30:33for us and I'm go D be a voice for
30:34yourself and that's what we need we need
30:36people to stop being cheap we're here to
30:38wake up the Lions and I said look it
30:40hurt my career in Hollywood but then
30:41again didn't hurt my career I'm still
30:43making movies I'm not making the big
30:45bucks I made back in the day but I don't
30:46care I'm doing stuff that it's changing
30:48people's lives because I get through my
30:51through Sorbo Studios site I get people
30:53every day saying I became a Christian
30:54because your movies or you know I love
30:57what you're doing I'm going to support
30:58you blah blah blah and it's wonderful so
31:00I know there's a turning point here and
31:02we're it's it's a slow ship but it is
31:05turning in the right direction Kevin
31:06Sorbo Rick schroer both incredibly
31:09talented actors really nice to talk to
31:10you really interesting to hear it's it's
31:12in the trenches yeah one more plug one
31:15more plug I'm doing I used I I used to
31:18all these autograph shows comiccons
31:19because Hercules and Andromeda but I do
31:21I I I'm I'm doing the first Faith and
31:23family con I want to talk to Ricky about
31:25this I'll get your information later but
31:27go to riseup con.com outside of
31:29Knoxville the end of May last weekend in
31:31May riseup con.com you can see the
31:34people that already involved It's a
31:36Wonderful it's actors that you'll know
31:38and recognize like John Schneider and
31:40Dean K guys that have done movies that
31:42are Faith and family a movies so it's
31:44it's bring your kids bring your family
31:46it's not going to be the secular World
31:47in there it's going to be movies with
31:49good good good messages and Corbin
31:51burson's going to be there as well so
31:53rise UPC con.com check it out all right
31:55last thing I got Andrew and we got one
31:57more thing yeah um this Valentine's Day
32:00we're asking America to make a pledge to
32:01be porn free uh and you can go you can
32:04go to Council on porn reform.org and you
32:07can download the pledge and print it and
32:09you and your partner can sign it and we
32:12can try to start building bonds between
32:14couples again and women can get rid of
32:16their vibrators and guys can get rid of
32:18their porn and we can come
32:21together because that's what we need all
32:23right I'm for it thank you guys thanks
32:24so much for coming on I really
32:25appreciate it pleasure thank you thanks
32:28Ry good see you again you know that's
32:30Kevin Sorbo and Rick Schroeder uh you
32:32know this stuff is happening all over
32:34it's happening a lot people trying to
32:36break through obviously the daily wire a
32:39big big part of it and everything and
32:41and what I'm doing in my publishing life
32:43a big part of it all of these things are
32:45real they're happening and if uh you
32:47support them and if you enjoy them and
32:50like them they'll grow that's the way it
32:53works and uh if that will also be true
32:56if you come to the Andrew claven show on
32:58Friday I too will grow even more
33:00enormous than I am right at this moment
33:02so I'll see you
33:02[Music]
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