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(00:04):
This is Later with Lee Matthews theLee Matthews Podcast More what You Hear Weekday
Afternoon's on the Drive. Kevin Sorboand his wife Sam Hath been married for
twenty five years. They met onthe set of Hercules coincidentally, and have
produced a great new film. It'scalled Miracle in Texas, starring Kevin and
Sam Sorbo, along with John Ratzenbergerof Cheers, Fame and Toy Story,
(00:26):
Lou Gasset Junior, an officer anda gentleman. And they're joining us now.
Welcome guys, good to have youa long well, thank you so
much. Yeah, the Miracle inEast Texas opened this Sunday and Monday only,
so people need to get their ticketsand get their families to the theaters.
It's a family friendly comedy. AndI love how you say coincidentally we've
met on this sat Of course,we don't believe in coincidence. Well,
(00:51):
Kevin, the story is to me. When I read the synopsis of the
story, it sounds a little likethat mel Brooks the producers, you know,
where they're trying to sell a certainthing as a scam, but it
turns out it's a hit. Yeah, but this is the true story and
it happened way before. The Producersisn't even written. So I think you
borrowed from us. Oh, thereyou go, there you go. There's
(01:15):
no question it does have that.So, I mean, these guys would
go to Oaklham and Texas and theywould con women out of their money and
sake oil. Well, sell fivepercent of the shares, so five times
above its value. They strike oiland killgart Texas, completed by an accident,
ends up being the largest oil planein the world at that time,
right in the hearts of the AmericanDepression in nineteen thirty. And that's not
(01:36):
only the first miracle, there's miraclesthat happened after it as well. If
that's where the title came from.It's an amazing story about two men finding
hope and redemptions in their lives afterbeing pretty much loser, not losers,
but they were very crappy, wittyscoundrels of what they were. Yeah,
and Sam, what brought this storyto you? Well, we know the
(01:59):
writer Dan Gordon, and as anOSCAR nominated writer, he wrote The Hurricane
for Denzel Washington Wyatt for Kevin Crossery, also did sixty episodes of Highway to
Heaven with Michael Landon, and he'sbeen sitting on this script. He originally
wrote it for Paul Newman and RobertRedford, but they could never get their
schedules coordinated enough to do to shootthe movie, and so it's you know,
(02:19):
he held out until he saw anopportunity with us and brought us the
script and we just fell along withit. We love to tell true stories.
We want people to leave the theatersfeeling uplifted and encouraged in their own
lives. And when you tell storiesabout superheroes, well, everybody knows that
they're not going to be able tofly or you know, do the things
that Wonder Woman does. But whenthey see true stories about real heroes,
(02:42):
that gives them hope in there.That's that's what we intend to do with
this. And we made it familyfriendly because we want families to get back
to the theater. We want thefamily to have that experience and this is
a great way to enjoy something withyour family. By the way, if
your homeschoolers, or actually even ifyou're not, we created homeschool Curriculum,
just a short curriculum to encourage youand to show you if you've never thought
(03:06):
that homeschool and could be an optionfor you, This curriculum will encourage you
to see that you have great valueas the parent of the child. You
have great value to pour into yourchild's life, into your children's lives,
I should say. And so thisis just a fun curriculum to do to
do with the family. It's basicallya discussion guide to have with your kids
and show you that educating your kidsis really not rocket science, is not
(03:29):
as difficult as the quote educators wantus to be. And you have a
lot to offer to your kids.So you can go to Storreboo Studios for
the free downloads. There's also agroup discussion guide if you have a book
club and you want to go outwith your book club, watch the movie
and then have a nice discussion afterwards, maybe go grab visa or something.
There's also that over at storbostudios dotcom entirely for free. And Kevin,
(03:53):
you and Sam would probably be enthusedto know that we just passed some measures
in Oklahoma that are allowing for thevouchers even if you do choose to homeschool
your children, vouchers that will giveyou a big tax break on your state
income tax at the end of theyear. That's fantastic. We had every
state to do them. By theway, I was just in Oklahoma City
(04:15):
about three weeks ago showing the movieto about two hundred oiled people, and
they absolutely love this movie because notonly the pro oil is pro America,
pro freedom, pro capitalism. That'swhat's all about. And people need to
be a little more educated what oildoes for us. All these people in
are against oil and wanted to getyou know, windmills instead. They need
to then they need to walk thewalk. So number one, get ready
(04:36):
your iPhone, get ready computer,your hair brush, stop driving your car.
Let's give your clothing. They needto understand a lot how many hundreds
of products come out of oil.Miracle in East Texas inspired by a true
story. It stars Kevin and SamSorbo. This is a unique part of
the country and they've got a uniqueaccent. And either of you have a
(04:56):
problem getting the ear for the accent. Apparently not, because we've both been
complemented numerous times on our accents.So I guess, I guess we nailed
it. It was a lot offun. It's always fun to do an
accent, and it's always challenging,and so you you cross your fingers that
you didn't goof up too badly duringthe filming. And when people come up
to you afterwards and say, hey, that was the act of an accent,
(05:18):
then you know you did the rightthing. And Kevin, I imagine
you have an ear for it aswell, because you've done a lot of
films all over the country. Ihave been pretty fortunate. I actually lived
in Dallas for about a year anda half after college as well, so
I heard. I heard the Texasaccent was kind of vary from city to
city. It was pretty interesting.It wasn't all exactly the same. But
(05:40):
I tell people, look, ifyou traveled from Maine and with every single
state along the eastern seaboard there,you would hear so many different access as
you work your way down the FloridaIt's amazing. Yeah, I've lived had
I've been fortunate enough to live ina lot of different parts of the country,
even deep South Louisiana where Matt youbetter pick up a year for accent
(06:00):
or you're not going to communicate.You won't understand the thing. A miracle
in East Texas and inspired by atrue story, starring Kevin and Sam Sorbo
along with John Ratzenberger. You rememberfrom Cheers Lou gassa junior from an officer
and a gentleman. And it's outthis weekend, a family film about a
historically accurate time that it also hitshome here in Oklahoma because we had our
(06:24):
own versions of this, Yeah,we sure did. But this story is
really compelling to me because if youfast forward over a decade later, this
is the oil that helped us winWorld War two against the Nazis, and
this is the reason. This oilis the specific reason why the German tanks
(06:45):
ran out of gas before our tanksdid. So it's such a compelling story
of America and it's a great Ijust love the way that we tell it
as a family friendly comedy so thatyou get that history, but it's not
a drag. It's just a lotof fun. Yeah. That is one
of the things that's kind of glazedover in American history when you study World
(07:05):
War two and why Hitler was notonly trying to attack Russia, but he
had particular zeal going after the oilfields in Odessa. Well, yeah,
and by the way, he hadU boats in the Gulf of Mexico seventy
tankers that were coming from the EastTexas oil field. So that's why they
(07:30):
say that the out floated to victoryon the Sea of East Texas oil because
there was so much oils built inthe gulf before we built a pipeline to
get the oil overseas to the Europeantheater Miracle in East Texas. Kevin Sorbo,
his wife Sam Sorbo. It's outthis weekend. I plan on seeing
it. Hope you do too.After all, the weather's going to be
kind of nasty, You're going towant to climb into a nice cozy theater
(07:53):
and watch a movie. And wethank you for joining us and look forward
to the film. Thank you somuch for joining it. Find thanks thanks
for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast, and remember
to listen to The Drive Live weekdayafternoons from five to seven and iHeartMedia Presentation
This is Later with Lee Matthews theLee Matthews Podcast More what You Hear Weekday
Afternoon's on the Drive. Kevin Sorboand his wife Sam Hath been married for
twenty five years. They met onthe set of Hercules coincidentally, and have
produced a great new film. It'scalled Miracle in Texas, starring Kevin and
Sam Sorbo, along with John Ratzenbergerof Cheers, Fame and Toy Story,
(00:26):
Lou Gasset Junior, an officer anda gentleman. And they're joining us now.
Welcome guys, good to have youa long well, thank you so
much. Yeah, the Miracle inEast Texas opened this Sunday and Monday only,
so people need to get their ticketsand get their families to the theaters.
It's a family friendly comedy. AndI love how you say coincidentally we've
met on this sat Of course,we don't believe in coincidence. Well,
(00:51):
Kevin, the story is to me. When I read the synopsis of the
story, it sounds a little likethat mel Brooks the producers, you know,
where they're trying to sell a certainthing as a scam, but it
turns out it's a hit. Yeah, but this is the true story and
it happened way before. The Producersisn't even written. So I think you
borrowed from us. Oh, thereyou go, there you go. There's
(01:15):
no question it does have that.So, I mean, these guys would
go to Oaklham and Texas and theywould con women out of their money and
sake oil. Well, sell fivepercent of the shares, so five times
above its value. They strike oiland killgart Texas, completed by an accident,
ends up being the largest oil planein the world at that time,
right in the hearts of the AmericanDepression in nineteen thirty. And that's not
(01:36):
only the first miracle, there's miraclesthat happened after it as well. If
that's where the title came from.It's an amazing story about two men finding
hope and redemptions in their lives afterbeing pretty much loser, not losers,
but they were very crappy, wittyscoundrels of what they were. Yeah,
and Sam, what brought this storyto you? Well, we know the
(01:59):
writer Dan Gordon, and as anOSCAR nominated writer, he wrote The Hurricane
for Denzel Washington Wyatt for Kevin Crossery, also did sixty episodes of Highway to
Heaven with Michael Landon, and he'sbeen sitting on this script. He originally
wrote it for Paul Newman and RobertRedford, but they could never get their
schedules coordinated enough to do to shootthe movie, and so it's you know,
(02:19):
he held out until he saw anopportunity with us and brought us the
script and we just fell along withit. We love to tell true stories.
We want people to leave the theatersfeeling uplifted and encouraged in their own
lives. And when you tell storiesabout superheroes, well, everybody knows that
they're not going to be able tofly or you know, do the things
that Wonder Woman does. But whenthey see true stories about real heroes,
(02:42):
that gives them hope in there.That's that's what we intend to do with
this. And we made it familyfriendly because we want families to get back
to the theater. We want thefamily to have that experience and this is
a great way to enjoy something withyour family. By the way, if
your homeschoolers, or actually even ifyou're not, we created homeschool Curriculum,
just a short curriculum to encourage youand to show you if you've never thought
(03:06):
that homeschool and could be an optionfor you, This curriculum will encourage you
to see that you have great valueas the parent of the child. You
have great value to pour into yourchild's life, into your children's lives,
I should say. And so thisis just a fun curriculum to do to
do with the family. It's basicallya discussion guide to have with your kids
and show you that educating your kidsis really not rocket science, is not
(03:29):
as difficult as the quote educators wantus to be. And you have a
lot to offer to your kids.So you can go to Storreboo Studios for
the free downloads. There's also agroup discussion guide if you have a book
club and you want to go outwith your book club, watch the movie
and then have a nice discussion afterwards, maybe go grab visa or something.
There's also that over at storbostudios dotcom entirely for free. And Kevin,
(03:53):
you and Sam would probably be enthusedto know that we just passed some measures
in Oklahoma that are allowing for thevouchers even if you do choose to homeschool
your children, vouchers that will giveyou a big tax break on your state
income tax at the end of theyear. That's fantastic. We had every
state to do them. By theway, I was just in Oklahoma City
(04:15):
about three weeks ago showing the movieto about two hundred oiled people, and
they absolutely love this movie because notonly the pro oil is pro America,
pro freedom, pro capitalism. That'swhat's all about. And people need to
be a little more educated what oildoes for us. All these people in
are against oil and wanted to getyou know, windmills instead. They need
to then they need to walk thewalk. So number one, get ready
(04:36):
your iPhone, get ready computer,your hair brush, stop driving your car.
Let's give your clothing. They needto understand a lot how many hundreds
of products come out of oil.Miracle in East Texas inspired by a true
story. It stars Kevin and SamSorbo. This is a unique part of
the country and they've got a uniqueaccent. And either of you have a
(04:56):
problem getting the ear for the accent. Apparently not, because we've both been
complemented numerous times on our accents.So I guess, I guess we nailed
it. It was a lot offun. It's always fun to do an
accent, and it's always challenging,and so you you cross your fingers that
you didn't goof up too badly duringthe filming. And when people come up
to you afterwards and say, hey, that was the act of an accent,
(05:18):
then you know you did the rightthing. And Kevin, I imagine
you have an ear for it aswell, because you've done a lot of
films all over the country. Ihave been pretty fortunate. I actually lived
in Dallas for about a year anda half after college as well, so
I heard. I heard the Texasaccent was kind of vary from city to
city. It was pretty interesting.It wasn't all exactly the same. But
(05:40):
I tell people, look, ifyou traveled from Maine and with every single
state along the eastern seaboard there,you would hear so many different access as
you work your way down the FloridaIt's amazing. Yeah, I've lived had
I've been fortunate enough to live ina lot of different parts of the country,
even deep South Louisiana where Matt youbetter pick up a year for accent
(06:00):
or you're not going to communicate.You won't understand the thing. A miracle
in East Texas and inspired by atrue story, starring Kevin and Sam Sorbo
along with John Ratzenberger. You rememberfrom Cheers Lou gassa junior from an officer
and a gentleman. And it's outthis weekend, a family film about a
historically accurate time that it also hitshome here in Oklahoma because we had our
(06:24):
own versions of this, Yeah,we sure did. But this story is
really compelling to me because if youfast forward over a decade later, this
is the oil that helped us winWorld War two against the Nazis, and
this is the reason. This oilis the specific reason why the German tanks
(06:45):
ran out of gas before our tanksdid. So it's such a compelling story
of America and it's a great Ijust love the way that we tell it
as a family friendly comedy so thatyou get that history, but it's not
a drag. It's just a lotof fun. Yeah. That is one
of the things that's kind of glazedover in American history when you study World
(07:05):
War two and why Hitler was notonly trying to attack Russia, but he
had particular zeal going after the oilfields in Odessa. Well, yeah,
and by the way, he hadU boats in the Gulf of Mexico seventy
tankers that were coming from the EastTexas oil field. So that's why they
(07:30):
say that the out floated to victoryon the Sea of East Texas oil because
there was so much oils built inthe gulf before we built a pipeline to
get the oil overseas to the Europeantheater Miracle in East Texas. Kevin Sorbo,
his wife Sam Sorbo. It's outthis weekend. I plan on seeing
it. Hope you do too.After all, the weather's going to be
kind of nasty, You're going towant to climb into a nice cozy theater
(07:53):
and watch a movie. And wethank you for joining us and look forward
to the film. Thank you somuch for joining it. Find thanks thanks
for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast, and remember
to listen to The Drive Live weekdayafternoons from five to seven and iHeartMedia Presentation
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