Congressman Eric Burleson joins the show about the latest CR news, and then Neil McDonough joins us from Angel Studios, Angelcom, to talk about his values and the new movie, Homestead. Check it out right now!
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00:00:01.000Congressman Eric Burleson joins the show about the latest CR news, and then Neil McDonough joins us from Angel Studios, Angel.com, very famous actor, talk about his values and the new movie Homestead.
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00:01:38.000What is a CR? What is in this bill, and why are you against it?
00:01:42.000Yeah, a CR is a continuing resolution.
00:01:45.000In fact, Charlie, we basically have been doing this since whenever we took the majority.
00:01:51.000We've only been kicking the can down the road.
00:01:54.000We're continuing the budget that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have passed.
00:01:59.000We cannot seem to muster the willpower to make the kind of cuts that are necessary.
00:02:05.000And so what happens is we get to the end of the year when our fiscal year ends on September 30th.
00:02:11.000And in order to avoid a government shutdown, they will pass a continuing resolution.
00:02:15.000Usually they'll do it until Christmas so that we get to this moment where we all want to go home for Christmas.
00:02:22.000And then they jam us with an omnibus bill that has a bunch of pork and a bunch of bad things in it.
00:02:27.000And that's exactly what we have going on right now.
00:02:31.0001500 page, you know, pork barrel piece of garbage.
00:02:36.000That everybody who votes for it should be ashamed of themselves.
00:02:40.000So what do you have to say to the counter that we want a clean slate for President Trump, a belief that I hold, that we do not want any of the legislative poison for Trump to inherit, right?
00:02:56.000We want Trump to have a clean slate, and that the only way to get President Trump a clean slate was by passing the CR. No, I think that you could do a clean CR and that would accomplish the goal, but that's not what they're trying to do.
00:03:09.000They're trying to just throw in a bunch of items in this to get Democrats to vote for it.
00:04:23.000Instead, the speaker holds all the cards and holds all the power.
00:04:27.000And what the speaker did is over the weekend, we were hearing rumors that this was gonna be an omnibus bill and it's gonna include all of these provisions.
00:04:37.000And that's the information I got was through rumors.
00:04:43.000So I texted the speaker, tried to reach out to him.
00:04:47.000But we didn't know about what was in the bill.
00:04:50.000Nobody, other than the speaker's office, knew what was in the bill until he came in and kind of gave us a little bit of framework on Tuesday morning.
00:05:02.000We're probably gonna vote on it today.
00:05:03.000They dropped the text of the bill last night at six o'clock at night.
00:05:08.000You cannot tell me people have had Enough time to read a 1,500-page bill between last night and tonight.
00:05:15.000And so, if we didn't have time to read it, and I know that this is a difficult topic, and I say this as someone who wants a clean slate for President Trump, who is to blame for this, Congressman?
00:05:28.000You know, sadly, I think that Mike Johnson could do better.
00:05:32.000And I have a lot of high hopes for him as an individual, and he's an amazing human being.
00:05:40.000And I don't think that, I think just objectively, this is not something, this is not the way we should be doing things.
00:05:46.000And I think ultimately it falls on him to step forward and do better.
00:05:52.000So let's play some piece of tape here.
00:05:55.000Let's go to cut 53 of Speaker Johnson, of which, look, I'm not going to comment on that because I think the Speaker wants to have a clean slate, but why not work through Christmas?
00:06:07.000Let's play cut 53. Well, I was communicating with Elon last night.
00:06:11.000Elon and Vivek and I are on a text chain together, and I was explaining to them the background of this.
00:06:22.000We've got to get this done because here's the key.
00:06:24.000By doing this, we are clearing the decks and we are setting up for Trump to come in roaring back with the America First agenda.
00:06:31.000And all of our fiscal conservative friends, I'm one of them, will be able to finally do the things that we've been wanting to do for the last couple years.
00:06:38.000Right now, Democrats still control the pens.
00:06:42.000So we've got to get this thing done so we don't have the shutdown, so we get the short-term funding measure, and we get to March where we can put our fingerprints on the spending.
00:06:52.000That's when the big changes start, and we can't wait to get there.
00:06:56.000Congressman, of course, respectfully, I'm not asking you to bash a colleague or someone who is in leadership, but can you at least show where you disagree with what the speaker said there?
00:07:10.000Again, we always hear the rhetoric that we're going to do the hard things in the future, but we gotta do this right now.
00:07:19.000I've heard that every time we come up to a decision or a vote, but I will say he didn't have to do this.
00:07:29.000He did not have to do an omnibus bill.
00:07:32.000He could have done a clean CR. There's no way the Democrats would have turned down a clean CR Without having to add all this other pork into it.
00:07:41.000So that's why I think that, respectfully, I disagree that this was the only way to get this done.
00:09:54.000And on behalf of my friends at Hillsdale College, have a Merry Christmas.
00:10:00.000Matt Gaetz is speaking out against the continuing resolution.
00:10:04.000He says, and by the way, there's also an ethics report that has been released on Matt Gaetz.
00:10:09.000So Matt responds on Twitter by saying, The Biden-Garland DOJ spent years reviewing allegations that I committed various crimes.
00:10:17.000I was charged with nothing and fully exonerated, not even a campaign finance violation.
00:10:22.000And the people investigating me hated me.
00:10:24.000Then the very witnesses DOJ deemed credible, deemed not credible, were assembled by the House ethics to repeat their claims absent any cross-examination or challenge from me or my attorneys.
00:10:34.000I've had no chance to ever confront any accusers.
00:10:37.000I've never been charged and I've never been sued.
00:10:39.000Instead, House Ethics will reportedly post a report online that I have no opportunity to debate or rebut as a former member of the body.
00:10:49.000In my single days, I often sent funds to women I dated, even some I never dated but who asked.
00:10:54.000I dated several of these women for years.
00:10:56.000I never had any sexual contact with someone under 18. Any claim that I have would be destroyed in court, which is why no such claim was ever made in court." My 30s were an era of working very hard and playing very hard too.
00:11:08.000It's embarrassing, though not criminal, that I partied, womanized, drank, and smoked more than I ever should have in my life.
00:11:16.000I live a different life now, but at least I didn't vote for a CR that messes over the country.
00:11:42.000The way of doing business, the mode of operating right now, is unsustainable.
00:11:49.000It is unsustainable to allow Congress to continue to spend trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars that we do not have and act as if this is fine.
00:12:02.000The American people gave us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
00:12:07.000Now, we haven't yet sworn in that Congress.
00:12:11.000But we have a mandate that is incredibly serious and the future of the country hangs in the balance in more ways than one.
00:12:20.000We have to ask ourselves the question, are we serious about actually fulfilling that mandate, giving Trump his cabinet, or are we just going to kind of do minor corporate tax reform and hope things get better?
00:12:32.000I do sympathize with the argument to give Trump a clean slate.
00:12:40.000Because you don't want Trump on day one to use all of his political capital given by the American people to solve the Biden dysfunction of Congress.
00:13:24.000Say that we are going to do a one-week CR, and we're going to work through Christmas, and we're going to work through New Year's, and we're going to find something that is not as...
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00:15:22.000What a big fan I am of yours, Charlie, what you stand for, your way you talk, the way that your pride in the United States of America is something that doesn't go unnoticed.
00:15:31.000So thank you so much for that, first and foremost.
00:15:34.000But, you know, Reve and I, my wife Reve and I, we partnered up with Angel Studios a couple of years back, and we couldn't be happier.
00:15:41.000To be part of a film company that puts out films that the whole family can go to the movie theater, And then go see a film together and not have to worry about seeing certain things in a film.
00:16:08.000I have to make a living too as an actor.
00:16:10.000But ever since we started working with Angel, we kind of changed things up and we want to give glory to God in everything that we do for our films.
00:16:18.000And Reveille and I are just about to start our 10th project together.
00:16:22.000So, once we made that decision of not making about ourselves and making it about doing great entertainment for people to watch and to learn from, everything started to change.
00:16:32.000And films like Homestead are exactly that.
00:16:35.000It's a film that talks about a horrible thing happens, as horrible things will always happen.
00:16:41.000But how will you deal with it as a dad?
00:16:43.000How will you deal with it as a landowner?
00:16:45.000How will you deal with that as As a husband and in my character, who I kind of make it as a Richard Branson type of character, very well-to-do guy, prepared everything, knowing that something like this was going to happen at some point.
00:16:58.000Atomic bomb goes off and the world is thrown upside down.
00:17:02.000But I have prepared for it and I have militia guarding my homestead.
00:17:07.000Well, when I have relatives and friends pounding at the gate to come in and looking for food, what am I prepared to do as a self-proclaimed Christian?
00:17:15.000And it makes my character really think about what life is truly about.
00:17:20.000And I love doing characters like this because it makes me realize what life is truly about.
00:17:23.000And that's about, you know, it's about love.
00:17:26.000It's about loving each other and enjoying each other and the gifts that God is giving us.
00:17:30.000And instead of making everything about ourselves, how can we serve our fellow brothers better?
00:19:15.000When something like this, some tragedy happens, when an atomic bomb goes off and the whole world is just thrown upside down, what are you prepared to do if you're someone who has everything?
00:19:25.000Also, what are you prepared to do if you have nothing?
00:19:28.000And what are you going to do for your family to get food, to get anything, to get shelter?
00:19:32.000These are discussions that aren't taken lightly, and we don't take it lightly in the film Homestead.
00:19:41.000And I love being part of films like this because, again, it's something that you can be six years old, you can be 90 years old, you can all be in the theater together and seeing something that will make you think.
00:19:50.000What am I prepared to do as a Christian?
00:19:52.000What am I prepared to do as a Jew or Muslim or agnostic or Buddhist?
00:20:32.000I mean, anything through Angel Studios...
00:20:34.000And again, I don't want to say it's just a Christian ethic, although it is, for sure.
00:20:38.000It's a worldly ethic of, since we are all children of God, shouldn't we root for each other more?
00:20:44.000And I keep on saying this all the time, and hopefully it'll hammer home to people at some point, and not think that your race or creed or religion is that much superior to others, because that's what we all fight about, isn't it?
00:20:53.000We're all his kids, so let's figure out how to root for each other more instead of tear each other down.
00:20:58.000And if you like films like this, if you would like to go to a film and you can bring the whole family and talk about worldly issues, Christian issues, whatever you want to call it, then you have to support this film.
00:23:26.000That is some incredibly powerful stuff.
00:23:30.000Contextualize that for the audience, please.
00:23:34.000Be careful what you profess to be, because you'll be called on it at some point.
00:23:41.000You know, that was one of those, I look back at that, you know, I call it kind of the crucifixion for me, of how hard it was going through all of that at that time, and it was brutal.
00:23:53.000But I look back at it now with such pride and thankfulness because now I get to do what I've always wanted to do.
00:24:02.000And I needed to step up and stand my ground a little bit harder.
00:24:05.000And I stood my ground that day and it hurt.
00:24:07.000But there was a plan that I didn't know about that God had for us, that he has a plan for all of us.
00:24:13.000Every single one of us, everyone of you who are watching right now and listening right now, he has a plan for all of us.
00:24:18.000You may not want to listen to that plan, but he has a plan.
00:24:21.000And his plan for myself and Revae and the McDonough Company is to make films that give glory to him.
00:24:28.000And if I hadn't been kicked to the curb like that, I'm not sure if I ever would have gotten to this place where I'm talking about amazing films like Homestead or The Shift or The Last Rodeo we have coming out in May, which is just a stupendous film that the incredible John Avnett directed for us that I wrote.
00:24:43.000And Talking about kissing, the first time I kiss a woman on screen in a feature film is going to be in The Last Rodeo, which comes out again in May.
00:24:50.000And I wrote it, so I wrote into it that my wife, Revae, has to play my wife in the film of flashbacks.
00:24:57.000She has three small scenes, but one of them is the two of us making out with each other, of course, while she's dying.
00:25:12.000So just to fill in more on that clip, though, just because we only have two minutes remaining in this segment, I'm assuming, I'm inferring based on that clip, you were asked to do some sort of a kissing or sexual scene, and you refused, and therefore a sequence of cancellations occurred.
00:26:16.000And films like Homestead kind of prove that, that I've gotten to this point where I get to make films that I'm really proud of, that give great messages about Him and for Him.
00:26:24.000And how we can make the world a better place through film.
00:26:26.000And here I am on the Charlie Kirk Show talking about this career that I've built with my wife and how blessed am I. Praise the Lord.
00:26:34.000And what a great role model you are for other people that are getting into the arts.
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00:27:43.000allfamilypharma.com promo code KIRK. So, Neil, I'm sure that you are not the only person in Hollywood that shares these values, but you are one of the few that decided to stand up and actually pay the cost.
00:29:17.000And I can't even tell you how fortunate I am, you know, 10 years ago where I was and how hard it was and how brutal things were at that point, thinking I was never going to get out of this.
00:29:29.000That I got out of it through my faith in him and, you know, through my wife's faith in me, that I got through those horrible, dark times to create something so beautiful as the films that we've been making lately.
00:29:41.000And it's just everything that I do, you know, from my health, what I eat, what I do with my body.
00:29:47.000And, you know, but a year ago, I had to get really this great shape for The last rodeo.
00:29:55.000And I bought into this company, flipped my life.
00:29:58.000And we started, you know, selling all these different great things to help people just feel better about life.
00:30:04.000So it's not just about my acting that I'm trying to make the world a better place.
00:30:07.000I'm trying to make the world a better place through the products that I am part of, things that I endorse, things that I wear, things that I eat, things that I say, everything.
00:30:15.000I try to make sure that it has importance to everything that I do.
00:30:19.000And my wife, Revae, feels exactly the same way.
00:30:21.000So the two of us together are on this kind of mission to make the world a better place through everything that we do.
00:30:26.000And isn't that what we're all supposed to do?
00:31:15.000Make sure that I was surrounded by people who knew what I wanted to do and we build together.
00:31:20.000So we keep on hiring the same crews, you know, a lot of the same actors in our pieces because they understand what we want to do and what we're trying to build.
00:31:30.000And for those who are new to it, Look, you've got iPhones now.
00:31:33.000We didn't have iPhones when I first started.
00:31:35.000You had to go get tape or you had to do shows or theater or whatever the case is.
00:31:55.000That's the way we do it because we want to give back And help and build for the future in this industry and to make films that give glory to Him.
00:32:06.000So if you're young and you're just starting out, or if you've been doing it for a while and you're kind of stuck, well, if that's the kind of film that you want to be part of, it's pretty easy.
00:32:17.000Go to the movie theaters and keep buying tickets to films like Homestead or The Shift or The Last Rodeo or any of these films that the people that I just mentioned are making.
00:32:27.000Then there'll be a lot more films like this.
00:32:28.000And with more films comes more production.
00:32:31.000With more crew comes more jobs to people who need to work.
00:32:34.000And hopefully in California, they'll figure out a way to get more filming back here in the great state of California because, you know, it's hard always leaving.
00:32:42.000It's hard going to Vancouver for years or going to Atlanta or going to wherever.