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July 16, 2024 • 8 mins
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All right, kids, you neverknow who you're going to bump into.
At the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, and guess who I'm sitting next to.
I'm sitting next to Dean Kane.Well I came and sat on your
lap. So that's what happened.And then we were like, I'm married,
and you were like, oh,just cheh. That's fine, that's
fine, Dean. You are oneof the rare, I'm going to say
rare Hollywood people though you don't livein Hollywood anymore, who are unabashedly right

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wing. And I have a goodfriend or named Sebah Flora. She was
in Hollywood for a long time andshe said, it's like there's this it's
like you should have a secret handshakekind of thing. But she said,
they are actually some very strong conservativesin California and Hollywood if you know where
to look. Yes, we hideunder the rocks. We have secret meetings.
That actually happened. We had secretmeetings for a long time. And

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there was a group of us thatmet all the time, and John Boyd
brought me into that group. AndJohn's a great friend. I did a
film with him that with my dadcalled September dawn, and we started talking
politics and he was like you,He's like, you should come and see
so with my friends here. Therewas a whole underground group that actually under
the Obama administration we had a lotof tax issues. I RS came after
this group and so on and soforth. But there's a whole bunch of

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people in Hollywood that are conservative.It's just that it's been so poo pooed
and so frowned upon that people fearsaying anything for fear of ostrasation and being
blacklisted. And that's real. Wetalk a lot about sort of the the
woke hive mind that has taken overso many Hollywood movies. If I mentioned,
like, you know, certain thingsshows for a rod, he gets

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very upset, Lesbian Space, whichis at a new Star Wars show being
one of them. You know,it's how's that doing? By the way,
because we're going to talk about yournew movie, and those movies are
bombing, and you know better thanI do, Hollywood is a money game,
right, So is there any possibilitythat movies like your new movie God's
Not Dead are going to start toget more mainstream treatment because people go to

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see these movies. They are allthese people who want movies that they can
take their kid and their parents towrite Time. So is there a chance
that movies like yours and we're gonnatalk about what the movies about, are
finally going to get a chance inthe system. I sure hope. So
you go back and look at Time, You go back and look at Frank
Kapper's movies. You know, It'sa Wonderful Life and things like that,

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and there is an element of Godin there, and there's a family.
And one of my favorite movies ofall time is It's a Wonderful Life.
And you know, mister Smith goesto Washington. This has kind of got
a little this this film has alittle bit of mister Smith's and mister Smith
goes to Washington in it, youknow, And I think that the pendulum
swings hoping it swings back. BecauseAndrew Breitbart, way back in the day

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before he was Andrew Breitbart of Breitbart, I was coaching his kid and my
kid in sports and running around.He's like, he had written this book
making fun of Hollywood, and he'slike, maybe we started chatting. He
didn't know anything about my politics,and he'said, you look at this thing.
I said, that's funny. He'slike, really, you'd read that,
and I'm like yeah. And thenso we became really good friends and
he's like, he is my lifegoal is to make you get into politics

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because you have the right views.And I was like, I don't want
to get in there, but hecalled he said politics are downstream from culture,
right, So when Hollywood's out thererunning culture and you're getting the space
lesbians and that whole situation thing,and but then it starts to fail.
It takes Hollywood a long time tochange the word the direction of the of

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the aircraft carrier, if you will, and but eventually it's a bottom line
deal and they're going to have tomake those decisions. It's changing, Like
I think it's changing pretty rapidly,But isn't there are there more opportunities now
because there's so many different outlets,So you've got streaming outlets, you've got
to you can go straight to consumerif you want to go straight to consumer.
So it's almost like you now havean opportunity to make the movies you

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want to make and you don't haveto worry about getting them sold in distributed.
You can do that yourself. Isthat kind of what you've done here?
That is very much what's what's goingon here. I mean, this
has got good distribution and it's certainlygot a build an audience. Because it's
the fifth one in the in thefranchise, and the first one broke all
kinds of records. Everybody wanted tobe that next one to jump in that
faith and family space. This isthe fifth one. I did the first

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one, now I'm doing the fifthone. Hopefully it has the great the
same kind of success. But Ithink that that because there are all these
different outlets and you don't have toput, you know, twenty million dollars
in print advertising afterwards to get itout and make a deal with paramonntor who
eels to be. You can getit out because of the way you can
have things streaming and you can bea way to deliver these films without having
to spend those incredible numbers of dollarson distribution. I love that that's the

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new paradigm. It's just going totake a little while, I think,
before you know, culture catches up. Talk to me about God, is
God's not dead? What did Isorry about that? God's not dead.
I was gonna correct you. Iwas gonna get Yeah, God's not dead.
So tell me about the movie.So the movie is about a pastor
who come who jumps into the racefor a congressional seat because someone falls out.
And then you get into you know, him talking about God and how

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that informs his morals and his values, and the separation of church and state
and how it should be we youknow, we keep going out of politics,
et cetera, et cetera. Butif you look the way the country
was founded, and like, I'mnot going to push my religion on anybody
or what I believe, but religioninforms your morals and your values, and
then therefore the types of laws you'llmake. And we get into that in
the in the film, and it'sit's a really I think it's a really

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lovely story, and it's I thinkit's very timely. Yeah right now.
And you know, if you're inHollywood and someone's like, well, I
believe in God and and then Ifeel God would be like they're oh,
pooh, pooh you and this isawful. Like you know, speaker Johnson,
you know, he speaks about Godall the time. Half of Hollywood
just turns it off when I whenhe does that. So I'm hoping that

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this film, and with what's justhappened with President Trump and then the possible
divine intervention there, that people willpay more attention to this. I think.
I think, and my prediction isbecause of what happened to President Trump,
he is, he looks different.That's what we were talking about earlier,
humbled and and and I think he'sgoing to give a speech that is

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going to be talking about unity andhumbleness and when you come a millimeter away
from meeting your maker, Yeah,I think that does. I mean,
did you see I'm sure you sawyesterday when he came out during the lead
greenwas song and everything was wonderful.It was wonderful, but the moment that
his demeanor was unbelievable. Yeah.But then watching Don Junior watch his father,

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I'll cry right now as a fatherwatching that because you saw everything.
Yeah, everything that people forget.These guys are human. One last question
for you before I let you go, and that is when you do this
as a person of faith, whenyou make a movie about God and unabashably
about God, how much of itis you're an actor? And this is
your job, and how much ofit is Maybe this movie is going to

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bring someone to have a relationship withGod that they don't have. Well,
that's why I make so many ofthese faith based films, is I'm an
actor, so I got to domy job. Sometimes I'm the good guy,
sometimes I'm the bad guy. Badguys are easier to play, by
the way they really You just dowhatever you want to do to achieve the
end and you don't care. Yeah, you can do some of the most
outlandish stuff ever. Good guys aremuch more complicated and much more difficult to

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play. But it does change people'syou know, if it's so cliche,
if it changes one person's opinion,But it does. And I hear these
stories from people all the time overthis some some random little film. They're
like, I'll be honest, thatfilm touched me in a way that I
can't explain it. It's changed myentire life. And I'm like, you're

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the good person we made this for. Then, yeah, and that's it.
And I hear it constant. Iget a lot of Superman, which
is great. I get a lotof Ripley's Believe It or Not, which
is wonderful, and it's great,and I enjoyed those so much. I
get a lot of Hallmark people wholike this that, but I get a
huge number of people who thank mefor the faith based films and say I
can watch with my family and thistouches me here. My mother suffered from

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this or had this happened here,and that's what you guys dealt with in
the film, and I just wantto say thank you, and you go,
wow, Okay, it makes adifference. Got to be super gratifying
on that. And it's tumbling.Where can people see the movie? God's
notched. It's gonna be on theatersnationwide September twelfth, so it's everywhere,
So you can buy your tickets aheadas I'm on and ago as I always
do because I always forget Dan.Thank you so much for stopping by.
Thanks for good to see you.We will be back.

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