Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 318： Connecting A Studio On Faith

00:00:00.000 This is what you're fighting for.

00:00:15.320 I mean, every day you're out there.

00:00:18.000 What they're doing is blowing people off.

00:00:21.440 If you continue to look the other way and shut up,

00:00:24.120 then the oppressors, the authoritarians,

00:00:26.700 get total control and total power.

00:00:28.340 Because this is just like in Arizona.

00:00:31.300 This is just like in Georgia.

00:00:32.480 It's another element that backs them into a quarter

00:00:35.320 and shows their lies and misrepresentations.

00:00:37.560 This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged.

00:00:39.860 As we've told you, this is the fight.

00:00:41.760 All this nonsense, all this spin,

00:00:43.980 they can't handle the truth.

00:00:45.640 War Room, Battleground.

00:00:47.480 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:00:51.920 How'd that make you feel?

00:00:56.520 Giving a child is freedom.

00:00:58.340 It felt good.

00:01:02.920 You have been at this for 12 years.

00:01:11.800 Why are you doing it?

00:01:18.560 Because God's children are not for sale.

00:01:20.700 It is the fastest-growing international crime network

00:01:27.620 that the world has ever seen.

00:01:30.180 For Homeland Security, you know we can't go off

00:01:32.700 rescuing Honduran kids in Colombia.

00:01:35.860 This job tears you to pieces.

00:01:41.440 And this is my one chance to put those pieces back together.

00:01:44.740 And yet, somehow, you have failed to bring me one real-world lead.

00:01:55.120 It's over, Tim.

00:01:57.040 Close up and come back home.

00:01:58.800 So, you quit your job,

00:02:03.240 and you go and rescue those kids.

00:02:04.980 The South of that three room.

00:02:16.860 It's all rebel territory.

00:02:18.600 No one goes in.

00:02:21.240 What if this was your daughter?

00:02:28.420 So,

00:02:28.980 She's gone.

00:02:42.440 Hear that?

00:02:47.360 That's the sound of freedom.

00:02:48.960 Sound of freedom is one of those films

00:03:02.100 that can legitimately change this world.

00:03:04.460 So, we want to ignite a fire in audiences

00:03:06.660 and open their eyes to the dark reality

00:03:08.940 of millions of children that need our help.

00:03:12.620 Let's make this film a historic event

00:03:14.920 and a start, the end of child trafficking.

00:03:17.600 Theaters across this country

00:03:20.080 are already selling out.

00:03:22.260 Pre-order your tickets today,

00:03:24.560 and you can send the message

00:03:26.080 that God's children are no longer for sale.

00:03:39.640 It's Wednesday, 21 June, Year of Our Lord, 2023.

00:03:43.640 Thank you.

00:03:44.320 You're here for the second hour

00:03:45.380 of the evening edition of The War Room.

00:03:47.240 I want to thank you.

00:03:47.900 I'm here with Jordan,

00:03:49.460 who is the co-founder,

00:03:50.860 Jordan Harmon,

00:03:51.500 one of the Harmon brothers.

00:03:52.840 One of the many.

00:03:53.460 There's like 35 of us.

00:03:55.560 One of the co-founders of Angel Studio.

00:03:58.540 This, as we've gotten involved with this film,

00:04:01.960 it has gotten a tremendous response.

00:04:04.100 Huge premiere last night.

00:04:05.940 You're going to Miami for one there.

00:04:07.560 A response here today, I know,

00:04:11.100 on Capitol Hill.

00:04:12.580 Talk to us.

00:04:13.200 I met with these guys two or three years ago,

00:04:15.880 and they were finished,

00:04:17.760 the principal photography,

00:04:19.160 they're starting to edit.

00:04:22.780 And I said,

00:04:23.540 when I just saw Rush's and saw Daly,

00:04:25.180 I said,

00:04:25.400 this thing is so,

00:04:26.480 you know,

00:04:26.720 the sound of freedom,

00:04:27.780 the story of Tim Ballard

00:04:28.940 is so powerful,

00:04:30.760 you know,

00:04:31.060 I'm sure you guys will find a distributor.

00:04:33.400 Yet this thing was suppressed for years.

00:04:36.440 It took Angel Studios to step in here

00:04:38.420 and really take the ball.

00:04:39.280 You're the distributor of the film.

00:04:40.740 You're marketing the film.

00:04:42.660 Walk through,

00:04:43.340 why is this more,

00:04:44.640 and I got this last night at the premiere,

00:04:46.100 and then today,

00:04:46.720 the buzz on Capitol Hill.

00:04:47.940 Why is this more than just a movie?

00:04:49.980 Yeah,

00:04:50.300 so I mean,

00:04:50.840 honestly for us,

00:04:51.800 we look at this film,

00:04:53.340 and,

00:04:53.780 you know,

00:04:54.100 Alejandro says it,

00:04:55.020 the director says it really well.

00:04:56.120 He says,

00:04:56.900 this for us,

00:04:58.220 is the start of a movement,

00:04:59.880 right?

00:05:00.380 We want this to be a movement

00:05:01.680 that can bring awareness

00:05:03.220 to this incredibly disturbing topic

00:05:05.640 of child trafficking,

00:05:07.380 and so,

00:05:08.300 Child sex trafficking.

00:05:08.980 Child sex trafficking,

00:05:09.640 This is not for labor.

00:05:10.800 I mean,

00:05:11.160 some of that may happen,

00:05:12.280 but this is,

00:05:13.120 either child sex,

00:05:14.040 or even as,

00:05:14.700 as Jim brought up,

00:05:17.080 maybe even parts.

00:05:18.240 There's horrendous things

00:05:18.960 that are happening.

00:05:19.520 Very dark.

00:05:20.400 And so,

00:05:20.900 when we look at this film,

00:05:22.640 we already,

00:05:23.080 we had actually known about the film for years,

00:05:24.920 but,

00:05:25.080 you know,

00:05:25.280 Fox had originally had the rights,

00:05:26.900 and then,

00:05:27.560 you know,

00:05:27.780 Disney acquired Fox,

00:05:28.660 and for whatever reason,

00:05:29.360 they decided not to,

00:05:30.120 distribute it,

00:05:31.100 and,

00:05:31.380 you know,

00:05:31.720 it took Eduardo a year

00:05:32.600 to get the rights back,

00:05:33.840 and then,

00:05:35.260 there was this miraculous moment

00:05:37.320 about three months ago,

00:05:39.100 where Tim Ballard,

00:05:40.180 we've been friends with him

00:05:40.880 for a long time,

00:05:41.720 and he reached out to us,

00:05:42.500 and he said,

00:05:42.820 guys,

00:05:43.520 you're building something special,

00:05:45.140 you've launched a theatrical division,

00:05:47.060 why don't you take on Sound of Freedom?

00:05:48.380 And he said,

00:05:48.740 we'd love to explore that

00:05:50.180 and see what that looks like,

00:05:51.140 but,

00:05:51.640 you know,

00:05:52.120 how likely is that even possible?

00:05:53.380 He says,

00:05:53.540 well,

00:05:53.620 let me connect you to the producer,

00:05:54.680 Eduardo.

00:05:55.580 And within five days,

00:05:57.860 we had pulled together

00:05:58.640 Eduardo,

00:05:59.560 Jim,

00:06:00.300 us,

00:06:00.840 all the principals,

00:06:01.460 You made the deal,

00:06:02.140 you made the deal,

00:06:02.940 but it's unheard of,

00:06:04.060 it's never happened,

00:06:04.740 and then,

00:06:04.920 and then even crazier,

00:06:06.680 was we had this,

00:06:09.240 and I don't want to get into the details,

00:06:10.360 there was this inspiration

00:06:11.300 throughout the company

00:06:11.960 that we felt that this movie

00:06:13.160 needed to come out on July 4th,

00:06:14.620 which for those who understand that,

00:06:16.860 July is the blockbuster month,

00:06:19.700 you've got Mission Impossible,

00:06:20.980 you've got Niana Jones the week before,

00:06:22.920 you've got all these massive blockbusters.

00:06:23.880 Well,

00:06:23.980 it's always a big summer movie weekend,

00:06:25.900 but this weekend,

00:06:27.840 you've got the Tom Cruise,

00:06:29.060 and you've got two franchises,

00:06:30.560 right?

00:06:30.660 Massive franchises,

00:06:31.740 and so everybody in Hollywood was saying,

00:06:33.660 anybody who consulted us was like,

00:06:35.020 you guys are crazy,

00:06:36.160 you don't go,

00:06:37.260 like,

00:06:37.640 well,

00:06:37.900 they first said we were crazy,

00:06:38.800 because when we did his only son,

00:06:39.960 and at Easter,

00:06:40.600 Easter is the third biggest time,

00:06:42.160 it's really,

00:06:42.940 you know,

00:06:43.300 it's summer,

00:06:44.340 Christmas,

00:06:44.840 and then Easter,

00:06:45.740 and we picked Easter,

00:06:47.060 and they're like,

00:06:47.340 you guys,

00:06:47.780 and then his only son ended up

00:06:49.540 in the top three of the box office,

00:06:50.660 and then people were like,

00:06:51.240 how'd you do that?

00:06:52.100 Well,

00:06:52.960 there's this element where,

00:06:54.260 Angel is a very unique process,

00:06:56.920 in that,

00:06:57.680 even if I love a movie,

00:06:59.140 with all my heart,

00:07:00.080 as executives and founders,

00:07:01.320 we cannot green light a movie

00:07:03.420 without the permission

00:07:04.980 of the Angel Guild,

00:07:06.980 that's the 100,000 investors,

00:07:08.700 explain the guild,

00:07:09.260 Yeah,

00:07:09.580 that's the investors

00:07:11.260 in The Chosen,

00:07:12.260 you know,

00:07:12.420 the people who helped make that

00:07:13.380 come about,

00:07:13.980 the investors in Drybar,

00:07:15.060 the investors in Teletwins,

00:07:16.580 a kid's series about freedom

00:07:17.560 and economics,

00:07:18.300 all of these investors,

00:07:19.660 and all of Angel Original projects,

00:07:21.400 are now the gatekeepers,

00:07:23.800 for what is an Angel Original,

00:07:25.280 or an Angel project,

00:07:26.060 and so when we look at Hollywood,

00:07:28.760 Hollywood has become

00:07:29.860 the best storytellers in the world,

00:07:32.120 there's no,

00:07:32.400 there's no one as good at storytelling

00:07:33.500 as Hollywood,

00:07:33.980 and the problem is not so much

00:07:36.580 the storytellers,

00:07:37.820 as it is the gatekeepers

00:07:39.120 who dictate what stories are told,

00:07:41.800 and so what,

00:07:42.520 And the gatekeepers being the studios

00:07:44.380 and the distribution people,

00:07:45.500 That's right.

00:07:45.840 how are you going to get it out

00:07:47.240 to a broad audience

00:07:47.940 and monetize it?

00:07:48.620 A hundred percent,

00:07:49.320 and so what we want to do

00:07:50.600 with Angel,

00:07:51.300 and what we're dedicating

00:07:52.100 our life to,

00:07:53.400 is we want to create something

00:07:55.360 that will allow for the stories

00:07:58.200 that reflect light,

00:08:00.040 that's our mission,

00:08:00.740 is to tell stories

00:08:01.680 that amplify light,

00:08:02.880 that those stories,

00:08:03.780 long after we're gone,

00:08:05.640 that this company can continue

00:08:07.020 on that trajectory,

00:08:07.900 because we don't want to just create,

00:08:09.060 you know,

00:08:10.040 Disney 2.0,

00:08:11.060 or whatever you want to call it,

00:08:11.840 right,

00:08:12.040 and so in our mind,

00:08:13.220 You're saying there are other people

00:08:14.020 out there who can do that,

00:08:14.940 you want to do something

00:08:15.680 that's very special.

00:08:15.920 We want to do something

00:08:16.720 that's very,

00:08:17.420 very unique,

00:08:18.000 and that our studio

00:08:19.640 will always be telling stories

00:08:21.380 that amplify light,

00:08:22.820 and so that's why

00:08:24.720 Sound of Freedom is so unique

00:08:26.060 and so special,

00:08:27.380 because it is a story

00:08:29.680 that amplifies light

00:08:31.980 in the most magnificent way.

00:08:33.300 We define light

00:08:33.960 as whatever is lovely,

00:08:35.080 true,

00:08:35.480 honest,

00:08:35.920 noble,

00:08:36.660 just,

00:08:37.080 authentic,

00:08:37.660 excellent.

00:08:38.280 Those principles

00:08:38.940 have to be followed,

00:08:42.080 and Alejandro Monteverde,

00:08:43.120 the director,

00:08:43.680 I remember him telling us,

00:08:45.080 he said,

00:08:45.460 I intentionally,

00:08:46.260 in every frame

00:08:48.080 of this movie,

00:08:49.500 no matter how dark the scene,

00:08:51.560 had a sliver of light coming in.

00:08:54.420 Every frame,

00:08:55.240 because I wanted people

00:08:55.900 to understand that this is,

00:08:56.920 this is about hope,

00:08:57.860 this is about the light

00:08:58.640 at the end of those dark tunnels,

00:09:00.260 and so we are so grateful

00:09:01.940 to be able to get this movie

00:09:03.400 out in the world,

00:09:03.920 to bring awareness,

00:09:04.980 and to give a voice

00:09:06.200 to these children

00:09:06.860 who have been voiceless

00:09:07.580 for so long.

00:09:08.220 Go to angel.com

00:09:09.900 slash warm right now

00:09:11.120 to get your tickets,

00:09:12.340 and you should buy

00:09:13.420 a grunch on them.

00:09:14.200 Here's why.

00:09:14.680 Take people.

00:09:15.360 We're trying to send a message.

00:09:16.380 First off,

00:09:16.880 this film and seeing it

00:09:18.400 will change your life,

00:09:19.380 as it did mine,

00:09:20.100 because as I've told people,

00:09:21.100 this is not my line of country,

00:09:22.440 but this is a scourge

00:09:24.780 that has to be,

00:09:26.460 it has to be stopped,

00:09:29.220 and particularly to know

00:09:30.080 that in the United States of America,

00:09:31.580 the greatest republic

00:09:32.520 in the history of mankind,

00:09:33.640 that we're the drivers of this

00:09:35.140 because of the demand

00:09:36.160 for child sex trafficking.

00:09:37.880 It's just horrific,

00:09:38.820 so that's why this film,

00:09:40.100 Sound of Freedom,

00:09:41.000 is a must-see,

00:09:41.740 and take your friends,

00:09:42.460 take your colleagues.

00:09:43.800 And it's important

00:09:44.360 that you guys buy tickets today.

00:09:46.040 Yes, because we're trying

00:09:47.520 to show the theaters

00:09:48.320 that, hey,

00:09:49.020 they're going to fill them up.

00:09:49.940 This is the exhibitors,

00:09:51.160 plus add more screens.

00:09:52.500 Yes.

00:09:52.700 Remember,

00:09:53.240 you've got Indiana Jones,

00:09:54.620 and you've got the Tom Cruise,

00:09:55.800 Mission Impossible,

00:09:56.700 the week before

00:09:57.280 and the week after.

00:09:58.220 You guys are crazy.

00:09:59.820 Because the theaters

00:10:00.580 all book all those screens,

00:10:01.660 so when you go

00:10:02.200 to these multiplexes,

00:10:03.860 the way you get the message

00:10:04.960 out there is you have

00:10:05.880 the big screens,

00:10:06.960 and then you have

00:10:07.540 some of these smaller screens,

00:10:08.860 and that's where

00:10:09.260 you need to book out.

00:10:09.640 That's exactly right.

00:10:10.460 You guys,

00:10:10.800 your target is 4,000 screens.

00:10:12.260 We are going for

00:10:13.260 3,000 to 4,000 screens,

00:10:14.260 and we believe

00:10:15.080 that the doors will be opened.

00:10:17.880 We keep saying,

00:10:18.680 you know,

00:10:19.460 something I've been saying

00:10:20.620 to some people

00:10:21.100 who are in the offices,

00:10:22.040 it's requiring

00:10:22.680 astonishing work,

00:10:23.820 but we're receiving

00:10:24.480 miraculous outcomes.

00:10:25.900 It's miracles.

00:10:27.000 And the doors

00:10:27.700 are being opened,

00:10:28.600 and the reason I think

00:10:29.660 the doors are being opened

00:10:30.420 is because

00:10:30.960 Steve Jobs once said

00:10:33.280 that the most powerful

00:10:35.000 person on earth

00:10:35.840 is the storyteller.

00:10:37.820 And the stories

00:10:39.300 that are being told today

00:10:40.740 is what our culture

00:10:42.180 and our world

00:10:43.260 will look like

00:10:43.720 in 20,

00:10:44.240 30 years.

00:10:45.240 And so

00:10:45.600 the reason Sound of Freedom

00:10:48.160 is so important

00:10:48.800 is because

00:10:49.280 in 20,

00:10:49.880 30 years,

00:10:51.560 child sex trafficking

00:10:53.520 cannot be in our culture.

00:10:55.480 It has to die.

00:10:58.000 And you're saying

00:10:58.360 this is the railhead

00:10:59.660 of how you make it die

00:11:00.600 because you're going

00:11:01.020 to make this a mass movement.

00:11:02.200 You're going to make it

00:11:02.840 a mass movement

00:11:04.200 and give a voice

00:11:05.380 to these children

00:11:05.980 in such an incredible way.

00:11:07.120 Again,

00:11:07.320 it is,

00:11:08.440 a lot of people go,

00:11:09.320 man,

00:11:09.520 it's probably going to be

00:11:10.520 such a difficult movie

00:11:11.400 to watch.

00:11:11.840 And my wife,

00:11:12.380 she's very sensitive

00:11:13.220 about what content

00:11:14.460 and media comes into her home.

00:11:15.680 And we watched it together

00:11:16.680 and she said,

00:11:17.160 man,

00:11:17.600 that was difficult to watch,

00:11:19.400 but it's even more difficult

00:11:21.740 if I had not watched it

00:11:23.980 and not felt that movement

00:11:25.420 in my own heart

00:11:26.400 to drive something.

00:11:27.340 And it might be as simple

00:11:28.500 as you watch the film

00:11:29.440 and your sphere of influence

00:11:31.180 is your family

00:11:31.880 and you take better care

00:11:32.940 of your family and your kids.

00:11:33.940 Or it might be

00:11:34.460 that someone sees the film

00:11:35.740 that has the ability

00:11:37.400 to impact on a broader scale.

00:11:39.040 But the only way that happens

00:11:40.180 is if we can get

00:11:41.160 two million people there

00:11:42.160 opening week

00:11:42.840 for the two million kids

00:11:44.240 that are trafficked every year.

00:11:45.920 Here's one of the things

00:11:46.400 about the film,

00:11:47.020 and this is why you could tell

00:11:47.880 that people didn't want this

00:11:48.880 to come out.

00:11:49.480 The quality of the film

00:11:50.200 is like missing or taken

00:11:51.760 or films like this.

00:11:53.240 The quality of the film

00:11:54.180 is as good or even better

00:11:56.940 than the best

00:11:58.080 of the Hollywood product.

00:11:59.040 That's why I think

00:11:59.500 the director is a genius.

00:12:02.320 And to know the quality of that,

00:12:04.560 it is about a dark topic,

00:12:05.860 but you'll sit there

00:12:06.500 like last night,

00:12:07.220 people were mesmerized

00:12:08.040 just about the story.

00:12:09.040 Ballard's story is incredible.

00:12:10.420 People have to understand

00:12:11.380 that Tim Ballard

00:12:12.280 was an agent of DHS.

00:12:14.260 I mean, this was his job,

00:12:15.200 and they talk about

00:12:15.780 this balance of

00:12:16.600 you have five agents

00:12:18.260 on drug trafficking

00:12:19.100 and every one agent

00:12:20.000 on human trafficking.

00:12:21.380 And Ballard,

00:12:21.900 one of the key parts of the story

00:12:22.940 is how DHS wanted

00:12:23.820 to get off the mission

00:12:24.740 and really Caviezel

00:12:26.080 playing Ballard.

00:12:27.540 You see that he's mission-oriented,

00:12:30.060 and that's the power

00:12:30.760 of this movie.

00:12:31.440 But clearly,

00:12:33.200 for a host of reasons,

00:12:34.340 people did not want this film.

00:12:35.380 Until you guys got involved,

00:12:36.460 people did not want

00:12:37.140 this film in theaters.

00:12:38.820 Yeah, and I think that,

00:12:40.340 you know,

00:12:41.040 for us,

00:12:42.640 we are looking at this

00:12:43.800 and we are saying,

00:12:45.220 you know,

00:12:46.480 to your point,

00:12:47.660 the storytelling of this

00:12:48.880 is on par with any other,

00:12:50.020 you know,

00:12:50.540 film in the world.

00:12:51.620 Matter of fact,

00:12:52.560 it's powerful enough

00:12:54.060 that if the awards

00:12:55.520 were probably,

00:12:57.120 you know,

00:12:58.240 accurate to 100%,

00:13:00.580 like,

00:13:00.940 there would be Oscars

00:13:01.640 given to this film.

00:13:03.320 It's just an incredible

00:13:04.480 masterpiece.

00:13:06.360 Talk to me about

00:13:07.700 the 35 Harmon brothers.

00:13:09.760 How did you?

00:13:11.140 How did you?

00:13:12.080 Jordan is one of the

00:13:13.740 co-founders,

00:13:14.640 of course,

00:13:14.780 there's 34 others.

00:13:16.060 Yeah, yeah.

00:13:16.780 Talk to me about

00:13:17.620 Angel and particularly

00:13:18.800 how you guys got started

00:13:19.960 in Chosen.

00:13:21.700 Yeah.

00:13:22.100 Because that has been

00:13:23.360 such a cultural.

00:13:24.360 Yeah.

00:13:24.920 And I think it's a huge

00:13:25.760 benefit to this film.

00:13:26.680 When they called me up

00:13:27.860 and they said,

00:13:28.360 we have a distributor.

00:13:29.440 I go,

00:13:29.560 who's that?

00:13:29.960 It goes to the guys

00:13:30.520 that distributed

00:13:31.720 and we're involved

00:13:32.620 in Chosen.

00:13:33.140 I go,

00:13:33.400 yeah,

00:13:33.540 I think it's pretty good.

00:13:35.060 I think you're

00:13:35.740 in good hands.

00:13:36.620 So there's nine

00:13:37.740 of us siblings.

00:13:38.700 There's six boys,

00:13:39.540 three girls.

00:13:39.940 So not quite 35,

00:13:40.960 but we're up there.

00:13:42.120 It just seems like it.

00:13:42.980 It just seems like it.

00:13:43.960 Nine brothers.

00:13:45.360 There's six boys,

00:13:46.560 three girls.

00:13:47.680 Yeah.

00:13:47.880 So if you think

00:13:48.220 the brothers are impressive,

00:13:49.060 wait till you meet the sisters.

00:13:49.980 Right, right, right.

00:13:50.480 But the,

00:13:51.420 we,

00:13:51.820 it was about 2013.

00:13:54.340 I was living with my wife

00:13:56.320 in the basement

00:13:57.080 and my brother,

00:13:58.880 Neil,

00:13:59.120 who's also a co-founder

00:13:59.980 who you've met,

00:14:00.540 was living upstairs

00:14:01.360 with his family

00:14:02.960 and we had just been

00:14:05.360 looking at the media landscape

00:14:06.600 and we realized

00:14:07.980 that it was spiraling

00:14:09.400 very quickly

00:14:10.060 and we didn't like

00:14:11.500 what we were seeing

00:14:12.060 and so,

00:14:12.940 you know,

00:14:13.140 we decided that we,

00:14:14.020 The content itself.

00:14:14.700 The content itself.

00:14:15.620 The media and the content

00:14:16.640 was not reflecting

00:14:17.900 what we wanted

00:14:18.620 for our children

00:14:19.180 and our families

00:14:19.820 and we all have kids.

00:14:20.880 I have five kids.

00:14:21.600 He has 10 kids

00:14:22.280 and so when we looked

00:14:24.300 at that,

00:14:24.620 we said,

00:14:24.940 well,

00:14:25.700 you know,

00:14:26.020 let's figure out

00:14:27.960 a way to do

00:14:29.620 something about this

00:14:30.500 and so we started

00:14:31.620 with this idea

00:14:32.380 that what if we could

00:14:33.080 build an audience

00:14:34.900 around skipping

00:14:36.780 and muting content

00:14:37.560 because we knew

00:14:37.920 parents would want

00:14:38.960 the ability to skip

00:14:39.820 and mute content

00:14:40.400 that they found

00:14:40.840 objectionable in their home

00:14:41.940 and so we started

00:14:43.100 with that concept

00:14:43.860 of building an audience

00:14:44.680 around that

00:14:45.100 and then we'd launch

00:14:45.720 in a studio.

00:14:46.500 You mean you wanted

00:14:47.040 a technological,

00:14:48.820 you were going to have

00:14:49.420 a technology tech

00:14:50.200 that people would

00:14:50.680 subscribe to

00:14:51.360 and we'd build

00:14:52.080 an audience around that.

00:14:52.800 So the family

00:14:53.280 could sit there

00:14:53.760 and that was called

00:14:54.420 VidAngel.

00:14:54.720 It might be the Disney

00:14:56.540 content but they had

00:14:57.380 the ability to take it.

00:14:58.200 Yeah,

00:14:58.440 you know,

00:14:58.820 I don't want to hear

00:14:59.840 the F word

00:15:00.780 or I don't want to hear

00:15:01.600 I don't want to see

00:15:02.300 this violent scene

00:15:03.080 or this sex scene

00:15:03.700 or whatever it is

00:15:04.200 and so we launched

00:15:05.340 that and it really

00:15:05.900 started to blow up

00:15:06.560 around 2015

00:15:07.280 and then Disney

00:15:09.240 sued us in 2016.

00:15:10.580 Disney,

00:15:10.980 Warner Brothers,

00:15:11.480 20th Century Fox

00:15:12.120 and Lucas Films

00:15:12.640 and that was devastating

00:15:14.120 and a blow to the heart.

00:15:15.240 Upon further review,

00:15:16.400 they didn't think

00:15:16.800 that was such a great idea.

00:15:18.000 They didn't love

00:15:18.820 our business plan.

00:15:20.680 Mute this, dude.

00:15:22.900 But when it ended up

00:15:24.240 happening...

00:15:24.900 You knew you had

00:15:25.320 struck a chord.

00:15:26.180 Yeah,

00:15:26.660 and what ended up

00:15:27.860 happening was

00:15:28.620 we had to launch

00:15:29.160 our studio a lot earlier

00:15:29.960 than we were expecting to

00:15:30.900 but what also ended up

00:15:32.220 happening is our audience

00:15:33.060 came to us and they said

00:15:34.040 we love what you guys

00:15:35.460 are doing,

00:15:35.920 what you stand for.

00:15:36.580 We want this to exist

00:15:38.020 and so they started

00:15:39.440 donating hundreds of thousands

00:15:41.220 that we had over

00:15:41.720 I think $300,000

00:15:42.620 in five months

00:15:43.500 which sounds like a lot

00:15:44.820 but in a Disney lawsuit

00:15:45.660 that's about three weeks

00:15:46.800 of legal fees,

00:15:47.780 right?

00:15:47.940 And so we decided

00:15:49.820 right about that time

00:15:50.940 that the Jobs Act

00:15:52.220 had come out

00:15:52.800 which allowed for small

00:15:53.780 companies to do

00:15:54.460 what's called

00:15:54.780 equity crowdfunding

00:15:55.660 and so we said

00:15:56.720 to our audience

00:15:57.140 you know what?

00:15:58.080 You're asking us

00:15:58.660 to fight this.

00:15:59.280 We're willing to fight

00:15:59.940 it to the Supreme Court.

00:16:01.020 We want to stand

00:16:01.660 for what we believe in.

00:16:03.580 We don't have the resources

00:16:04.800 to do it.

00:16:06.000 If you want to support us

00:16:07.460 and you want to invest

00:16:08.640 in VidAngel at the time

00:16:09.860 now Angel Studios

00:16:10.480 then you can invest

00:16:12.480 but you're probably

00:16:13.160 going to lose your money.

00:16:14.300 I mean this is a long shot

00:16:15.560 but we're willing

00:16:16.000 to fight it

00:16:16.480 and in five days

00:16:17.940 we raised over $10 million

00:16:18.820 and we took $5 million

00:16:21.220 and that's how we started

00:16:22.040 Dry Bar and The Chosen

00:16:23.320 and then the other $5 million

00:16:25.380 we used for legal fees

00:16:26.820 and so you know

00:16:27.700 obviously Dry Bar Comedy

00:16:28.640 now gets over a billion views

00:16:29.920 a year

00:16:30.300 and is the largest library

00:16:32.240 of clean stand-up comedy

00:16:33.760 and then The Chosen

00:16:34.940 you know

00:16:35.240 we had the honor

00:16:36.160 of meeting Dallas Jenkins

00:16:37.600 and his incredible vision

00:16:39.680 around what he called

00:16:41.300 the shepherd at the time

00:16:42.200 and so that we launched

00:16:45.120 an equity crowdfund

00:16:46.120 helped them launch

00:16:47.140 an equity crowdfund

00:16:47.940 that funded season one

00:16:49.440 and then the rest is history

00:16:50.700 you know The Chosen

00:16:51.300 turned into this massive

00:16:52.460 over 130 million viewers

00:16:53.920 that we've gotten it to worldwide

00:16:55.180 and it's been

00:16:56.480 you know

00:16:56.800 it's on obviously

00:16:57.520 the Angel app

00:16:58.180 and The Chosen app

00:16:58.900 and it's on many

00:17:00.640 streaming platforms

00:17:01.360 but the point of all this

00:17:02.960 is going back

00:17:04.800 to the core of our mission

00:17:05.720 which was

00:17:06.520 we actually didn't really

00:17:07.240 want to take on

00:17:08.060 a show about Jesus first

00:17:10.560 because we didn't want

00:17:11.480 people to look at us

00:17:12.220 and say

00:17:12.480 you're a Christian studio

00:17:13.500 you know

00:17:14.280 we obviously want

00:17:15.180 to be faith friendly

00:17:16.400 we want to be

00:17:17.020 and any stories of faith

00:17:18.080 can live in our environment

00:17:18.880 but we want to tell stories

00:17:20.140 that impact the culture

00:17:21.600 and are of the quality

00:17:22.980 of anything else out there

00:17:23.920 and so when we

00:17:25.620 Jesus had other ideas

00:17:27.700 Jesus had other ideas

00:17:28.940 He had another idea

00:17:29.720 so he

00:17:30.080 so that's

00:17:31.420 and so The Chosen

00:17:33.600 has been such a blessing

00:17:34.880 Dallas and his team

00:17:36.460 have done such an incredible job

00:17:37.940 I want to make sure

00:17:38.340 people understand this

00:17:39.080 given the structure

00:17:39.880 of the industry

00:17:40.480 The Chosen

00:17:42.100 is

00:17:42.800 it's miraculous

00:17:44.500 but it's miraculous

00:17:45.480 through human agency

00:17:46.440 the ability to pull together

00:17:48.240 the quality of film

00:17:49.080 because that's as good

00:17:49.840 as anything you're ever going to see

00:17:50.840 to see the quality

00:17:51.960 of the acting

00:17:52.520 the quality

00:17:53.100 of the filmmaking

00:17:54.440 right

00:17:55.260 and the way you guys

00:17:56.480 distributed it

00:17:57.140 and got it out to an audience

00:17:57.940 that is like

00:17:59.040 you took the best in Hollywood

00:18:00.780 and from a standing start

00:18:02.740 presented

00:18:03.480 I think it gave

00:18:04.240 a lot of faith

00:18:05.800 to a lot of

00:18:06.580 or confidence

00:18:07.720 to a lot of filmmakers

00:18:09.100 that haven't had a chance

00:18:10.180 to get their product

00:18:10.860 to market

00:18:11.280 yeah

00:18:11.660 yeah for sure

00:18:12.480 and our skill sets

00:18:14.040 have been in business

00:18:15.300 and marketing

00:18:15.920 even more than they were

00:18:16.840 you didn't come

00:18:17.160 from a film background

00:18:17.780 we didn't have a film

00:18:18.500 to be honest

00:18:19.180 we didn't even come

00:18:19.600 from a business

00:18:20.040 and marketing background

00:18:20.780 we're Idaho farm boys

00:18:22.060 you know

00:18:22.440 we grew up on a potato farm

00:18:23.840 and dairy farm

00:18:24.500 and we worked for farmers

00:18:26.380 and we learned to work

00:18:28.080 and we learned

00:18:28.440 we didn't want to be farmers

00:18:29.200 but yeah

00:18:30.020 that's just a hard job

00:18:31.440 I mean it is

00:18:31.960 it's such a hard job

00:18:34.080 but that being said

00:18:35.380 as tough as Hollywood is

00:18:36.560 it's easier

00:18:37.420 farmers lives are hard

00:18:39.620 but that being said

00:18:40.800 we love stories

00:18:43.460 we loved hearing the stories

00:18:45.060 from our mother

00:18:45.680 of Roy and Walt Disney

00:18:46.740 and what they did

00:18:47.420 as entrepreneurs

00:18:47.980 and the stories they told

00:18:49.280 and the impact

00:18:50.160 they wanted to have

00:18:51.080 and so the Chosen

00:18:53.580 has given

00:18:53.980 and Drybar

00:18:54.540 have given us

00:18:55.000 the mechanism

00:18:55.580 to build this incredible

00:18:56.700 network of tens of millions

00:18:57.840 and now hundred plus

00:18:58.680 million people

00:18:59.320 who are rallying around

00:19:00.980 stories that amplify light

00:19:02.360 and every story

00:19:03.980 that comes into that network

00:19:05.100 our goal is that

00:19:07.240 in 20, 30, 40 years

00:19:08.720 when we're gone

00:19:09.980 that our children

00:19:11.280 and our grandchildren

00:19:12.400 will have the stories

00:19:14.020 that will not only amplify light

00:19:16.980 but will help heal the culture

00:19:19.480 that we live in today

00:19:20.880 when the Chosen

00:19:22.580 started to become a thing

00:19:24.280 right

00:19:24.620 when it started to get hot

00:19:25.360 what was the lesson

00:19:26.420 you guys took for there

00:19:27.340 because obviously

00:19:27.940 the odds were so long

00:19:29.200 against this

00:19:29.800 from the beginning

00:19:30.920 once it became

00:19:32.200 not just a great work of art

00:19:34.880 but a kind of

00:19:36.180 a cultural phenomenon

00:19:37.220 right

00:19:37.920 that Hollywood

00:19:39.300 and all the powers that be

00:19:40.780 were dismissive

00:19:41.680 this will never happen

00:19:42.440 in that moment

00:19:43.320 when you realized

00:19:44.280 it was not that you guys

00:19:46.040 saw something early on

00:19:47.120 and said this could be special

00:19:48.040 but when it actually became

00:19:49.340 special

00:19:50.100 out in the world

00:19:51.440 what was that moment like

00:19:52.740 that's a really

00:19:53.660 really awesome question

00:19:55.160 because there was

00:19:55.880 multiple moments

00:19:56.520 that led up to it

00:19:57.260 but I remember

00:19:58.540 my brother Jeff

00:19:59.180 telling me

00:19:59.620 one of the most important moments

00:20:00.980 was that

00:20:02.260 he's one of the other

00:20:03.140 co-founders

00:20:03.640 so he had had this moment

00:20:05.840 where the first seven months

00:20:07.220 of The Chosen

00:20:07.860 the first four episodes

00:20:08.740 we launched

00:20:09.320 weren't actually doing that well

00:20:11.100 now they were

00:20:11.960 everybody loved them

00:20:13.580 but it was like pulling teeth

00:20:14.880 to get anybody to watch them

00:20:15.960 and I remember

00:20:17.760 the brother Jeff

00:20:18.340 would invite people over to dinner

00:20:19.800 and then right after dinner

00:20:21.100 he'd be like

00:20:21.360 okay now we're going to watch

00:20:22.000 three episodes of The Chosen

00:20:22.940 and they'd be like

00:20:23.760 what

00:20:23.920 and he's like

00:20:24.220 I've got a captive audience

00:20:25.300 you are sitting here

00:20:26.040 I poured my life into this

00:20:27.120 you are watching this series

00:20:28.540 you got a different dinner

00:20:29.580 now you're going to watch

00:20:30.380 seriously

00:20:30.980 yes seriously

00:20:32.460 because we couldn't

00:20:33.240 get people to watch it

00:20:33.880 but what we kept seeing

00:20:34.660 is people on social media

00:20:36.000 commenting and saying

00:20:36.880 I would love to watch this

00:20:38.400 but I don't know

00:20:38.700 who you guys are

00:20:39.520 and I don't want to pay

00:20:40.080 a subscription

00:20:40.760 I don't want to do XYZ

00:20:41.800 and then the people

00:20:42.680 would reply and say

00:20:43.540 hey DM me

00:20:44.080 I'll send you the DVDs

00:20:44.920 it's amazing

00:20:45.520 and so

00:20:46.620 there was this crazy idea

00:20:48.500 what if we can connect

00:20:50.000 the people

00:20:50.460 who want to watch this

00:20:52.260 to the people

00:20:53.120 who want to share it

00:20:54.060 without them ever meeting

00:20:55.260 and so we decided

00:20:57.000 to bet our entire company

00:20:58.120 and to be clear

00:20:58.760 we literally were betting

00:20:59.540 our entire company on this

00:21:00.480 because during this time

00:21:02.300 we're in a Disney lawsuit

00:21:03.160 we are in chapter 11

00:21:05.400 people should know

00:21:06.200 Disney are the absolute killer

00:21:07.880 in Hollywood

00:21:08.640 when they come at you

00:21:10.100 they are killers

00:21:11.640 they are killers

00:21:12.340 but that being said

00:21:13.580 we are in a Disney lawsuit

00:21:14.580 and we had filed

00:21:15.720 and we had learned

00:21:16.600 and we were getting

00:21:17.180 throttled in California

00:21:18.360 I mean in that district

00:21:19.740 it was not doing us

00:21:21.160 any favors

00:21:21.540 I think that's called

00:21:22.840 an away game

00:21:23.640 it's an away game

00:21:25.640 we're not playing home court

00:21:26.960 that's their home court

00:21:28.080 we had this person

00:21:29.460 who reached out to us

00:21:30.340 and he said

00:21:30.900 you guys should file

00:21:31.740 for chapter 11 bankruptcy

00:21:32.960 and everybody's like

00:21:34.100 what?

00:21:34.620 like chapter 11

00:21:35.200 and he said

00:21:35.520 no no no

00:21:35.860 hear me out

00:21:36.500 that's going to allow you

00:21:38.500 to pull jurisdiction

00:21:40.580 out of California

00:21:41.480 and into your home court

00:21:42.660 and so we filed

00:21:44.020 for chapter 11

00:21:44.720 and gave us a year

00:21:45.380 of protection

00:21:45.860 during that year

00:21:46.780 we had a trustee

00:21:47.780 who was running the company

00:21:48.700 he was deciding

00:21:49.560 if Angel Studios

00:21:50.700 are going to liquidate

00:21:51.380 and die

00:21:51.840 chapter 7

00:21:53.680 or if we were going

00:21:54.520 to continue

00:21:54.940 and he came to us

00:21:55.800 and he said

00:21:56.220 I'm going to study this out

00:21:58.020 I'm going to interview

00:21:58.700 all you guys

00:21:59.260 I'm going to interview

00:21:59.720 Disney

00:22:00.020 I'm going to figure out

00:22:00.560 who the bad actor is

00:22:01.260 and I'm going to

00:22:01.560 shove it down their throat

00:22:02.300 this is an atheist

00:22:03.440 he doesn't really

00:22:04.120 you know

00:22:04.400 he's not really

00:22:05.120 thinking about it

00:22:05.820 he just wants to

00:22:06.580 do what's right

00:22:07.040 he was an honorable man

00:22:08.040 he comes back

00:22:09.100 to our company

00:22:10.860 after you know

00:22:11.940 doing his investigations

00:22:13.320 and he says

00:22:13.920 Disney's the bad actor

00:22:15.000 I'm going to shove

00:22:15.740 it down their throat

00:22:16.240 after his due diligence

00:22:17.280 he came back

00:22:18.020 and he says

00:22:18.660 this is not about

00:22:19.560 this is not about

00:22:20.140 what they're saying

00:22:20.560 it's about

00:22:20.960 this is about

00:22:21.580 crushing competition

00:22:23.680 he comes to us

00:22:24.520 and he turns around

00:22:25.380 and he says

00:22:26.860 but in order for me

00:22:27.560 to do this

00:22:28.120 I need you

00:22:29.080 to generate

00:22:30.080 with the chosen

00:22:30.980 and your other content

00:22:32.340 at least

00:22:33.200 this is about October

00:22:34.560 at least 1.5 million dollars

00:22:36.520 from November

00:22:37.560 to December

00:22:38.460 now to put that

00:22:39.060 in perspective

00:22:39.520 we had generated

00:22:40.440 thanks buddy

00:22:41.540 he's like

00:22:41.960 if you don't

00:22:42.540 I have to

00:22:43.100 I have to liquid everything

00:22:43.960 because

00:22:44.260 you're not going to

00:22:46.100 it's not going to work

00:22:47.160 and so he just said

00:22:47.900 but to put that

00:22:49.520 into perspective

00:22:50.060 from January

00:22:50.800 to October

00:22:52.180 we had generated

00:22:52.980 700 grand

00:22:53.720 on the chosen

00:22:54.140 so this is

00:22:55.280 it seems like

00:22:55.760 an impossible feat

00:22:56.660 in 60 days

00:22:57.940 to do what you

00:22:58.500 haven't done

00:22:58.820 in the other 10 months

00:22:59.360 that's right

00:22:59.740 and we launched

00:23:01.160 out of a miracle

00:23:03.320 this new free model

00:23:05.120 where we gave

00:23:05.600 our content away free

00:23:06.640 and we let people

00:23:07.660 pay it forward

00:23:08.500 for others

00:23:09.960 to watch it for free

00:23:11.140 and it exploded

00:23:12.520 and we did

00:23:13.640 almost to the dollar

00:23:15.460 over 1.5 million dollars

00:23:17.160 what a story

00:23:18.180 and so the trustee

00:23:19.640 comes and he says

00:23:20.540 to the judge

00:23:21.700 he says

00:23:22.060 not only can

00:23:23.100 Angel Studios

00:23:23.880 repay the judgment

00:23:25.320 that the juries

00:23:25.940 gave them

00:23:26.700 they'll repay it

00:23:28.060 over a 14 year schedule

00:23:29.900 and Disney goes

00:23:30.800 no no no

00:23:31.260 we want them

00:23:32.080 to liquidate everything

00:23:32.860 we want them

00:23:33.400 to bankrupt them

00:23:33.940 and everybody's like

00:23:35.380 wait a minute

00:23:35.700 that doesn't sound like

00:23:36.840 you're actually trying

00:23:37.800 to recoup anything

00:23:38.560 that sounds very

00:23:39.320 predatorial

00:23:39.960 and so that shifted

00:23:41.140 like you don't like

00:23:41.260 the competition

00:23:41.680 yeah yeah

00:23:42.320 and so it shifted

00:23:44.000 it shifted drastically

00:23:45.040 and then COVID hit

00:23:46.080 they started losing

00:23:46.820 50 million plus dollars a day

00:23:48.200 we were growing

00:23:49.260 like a skyrocket

00:23:50.140 we ended up doing

00:23:51.280 well over 47 million dollars

00:23:52.440 in revenue that year

00:23:53.220 and in September

00:23:54.520 or October

00:23:55.180 go back

00:23:55.540 so the next year

00:23:57.060 the next year

00:23:57.700 you did 47 million

00:23:59.240 you did 700,000

00:24:00.060 in the first 10 months

00:24:00.920 1.5 million

00:24:01.780 so you did 2.2 million

00:24:03.340 the next year

00:24:04.660 you did 47 million

00:24:05.580 yes

00:24:05.880 and so

00:24:06.560 walk people through

00:24:07.480 how you

00:24:07.900 this is a great business

00:24:09.180 now that Chosen

00:24:09.800 has grown

00:24:10.540 and all of our projects

00:24:11.900 have grown to

00:24:12.380 well over 300 million dollars

00:24:13.600 and so

00:24:13.920 what ended up happening

00:24:15.220 was you had this

00:24:15.860 beautiful show

00:24:17.220 that took off

00:24:18.640 Dry Bar saved our company

00:24:19.660 when we were in

00:24:20.200 desperate need

00:24:20.880 and then the Chosen

00:24:21.480 saved our company

00:24:22.180 when in desperate need

00:24:22.860 it hit just right

00:24:23.740 and now

00:24:25.040 we are grateful

00:24:26.640 that those two projects

00:24:27.900 have built us the network

00:24:28.900 where we can get stories

00:24:29.920 like Sound of Freedom

00:24:30.640 out to the world

00:24:31.400 and in 2020

00:24:32.560 we ended up settling

00:24:33.820 with Disney

00:24:34.220 because they were

00:24:34.800 draining money

00:24:35.440 and they said

00:24:36.020 you know what

00:24:36.440 we don't want any lawsuits

00:24:37.600 let's just get rid of it

00:24:38.520 be done with it

00:24:39.220 and we ended up settling

00:24:40.160 for a little over

00:24:40.800 7 million dollars

00:24:41.420 go back to

00:24:42.040 The Chosen

00:24:42.600 when you first started

00:24:43.340 The Chosen

00:24:43.880 the production

00:24:45.240 how did you fund

00:24:45.980 the production cost

00:24:46.680 to even get to the

00:24:47.380 four episodes

00:24:48.020 because you must have

00:24:48.920 been looking into

00:24:49.480 the abyss

00:24:50.040 yeah yeah

00:24:50.600 so we ended up

00:24:51.340 doing exactly

00:24:51.960 what we did

00:24:52.260 with our company

00:24:52.800 where we went

00:24:53.220 to the crowd

00:24:53.600 and we said

00:24:53.860 do you want this

00:24:54.400 to exist

00:24:54.900 and if you do

00:24:55.860 just on a script

00:24:56.760 well we had that

00:24:57.920 short film

00:24:58.600 that short film

00:24:59.480 of 30 minutes

00:25:00.360 that Dallas

00:25:00.760 had put together

00:25:01.280 on the Nativity

00:25:01.860 and we raised

00:25:02.780 over 10 million dollars

00:25:03.980 for season one

00:25:04.800 on a short film

00:25:05.480 and we've actually

00:25:07.120 done crowdfunding

00:25:07.940 for every one

00:25:08.640 of our original projects

00:25:09.460 so like for example

00:25:10.360 Sound of Freedom

00:25:11.120 it had already been done

00:25:13.080 but we decided

00:25:14.160 to take the same

00:25:15.440 crowdfunding principles

00:25:16.340 that allow us

00:25:16.860 to build a community

00:25:17.800 and get that

00:25:18.860 grassroots effort going

00:25:20.260 we opened what was

00:25:21.260 called a P&A crowdfund

00:25:22.420 where the crowd

00:25:23.080 could come in

00:25:23.780 and they could invest

00:25:24.720 in the actual P&A

00:25:25.920 so they could get

00:25:26.560 a return

00:25:27.080 P&A is what's

00:25:27.960 the prints and advertising

00:25:29.160 that's the industry term

00:25:30.000 really for the marketing

00:25:30.800 that's exactly right

00:25:31.700 and they raised

00:25:32.520 over 5 million

00:25:33.460 they raised 5 million dollars

00:25:34.720 in less than 14 days

00:25:36.000 for Sound of Freedom

00:25:36.640 incredible

00:25:37.200 we're going to take

00:25:38.260 a short commercial break here

00:25:39.340 we're going to return

00:25:40.020 we got Jordan Harmon

00:25:40.860 he's on a tight schedule

00:25:42.460 they premiered

00:25:43.780 the film last night

00:25:44.700 in D.C.

00:25:45.280 and I will tell you

00:25:46.140 it moved people

00:25:47.920 it was at the

00:25:48.380 magnificent

00:25:49.360 Bible Museums

00:25:51.480 theater

00:25:51.940 which is breathtaking

00:25:53.260 you're going to play

00:25:54.100 in bigger theaters

00:25:54.860 here in D.C.

00:25:55.980 we can't announce that yet

00:25:56.980 they'll be in a couple of weeks

00:25:57.960 but I will say

00:25:59.640 that this film

00:26:01.200 took the town

00:26:02.560 by storm

00:26:03.100 and people were

00:26:04.360 very moved by it

00:26:05.140 it's got real momentum

00:26:05.900 tremendous meetings

00:26:06.620 the team had today

00:26:07.540 up on Capitol Hill

00:26:08.760 we're going to take

00:26:09.160 a short break

00:26:09.900 we'll be back

00:26:11.020 to fit Jordan's schedule

00:26:12.540 we'll be back

00:26:13.120 in a moment

00:26:14.360 with Jordan Harmon

00:26:15.500 the co-founder

00:26:16.180 one of the co-founders

00:26:17.240 of Angel Studios

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00:31:44.020 War Room Battleground

00:31:52.740 with Stephen K. Bannon

00:31:54.080 Jordan Harmon is with me

00:31:59.180 one of the co-founders

00:32:00.040 of Angel Studios

00:32:00.700 given that incredible story

00:32:02.160 two things

00:32:02.780 number one

00:32:03.380 when you saw this film

00:32:04.800 I want to know

00:32:06.320 your first impressions

00:32:07.080 because when I saw

00:32:07.960 the clips they had

00:32:09.880 or the segments they had

00:32:10.720 almost three years ago

00:32:11.760 I said the filmmaking

00:32:13.020 here is extraordinary

00:32:13.900 but the topic

00:32:15.460 is a tough topic

00:32:16.700 and I didn't tell them

00:32:18.380 hey Hollywood's not

00:32:19.200 going to be

00:32:19.620 because at that time

00:32:20.360 I think they were still

00:32:21.020 at Fox

00:32:21.480 and I said how did

00:32:22.600 they prove the script

00:32:23.380 the first time

00:32:24.320 you and your brother

00:32:24.900 saw it

00:32:25.380 give me your impressions

00:32:26.680 of what went through

00:32:27.520 your mind the first time

00:32:28.480 so the first time

00:32:31.440 I watched this

00:32:32.020 I watched it

00:32:32.560 on a laptop

00:32:33.180 with my wife

00:32:33.880 and

00:32:34.680 and then there was

00:32:37.200 we had to pause

00:32:37.840 a few moments

00:32:38.440 you know

00:32:39.160 during that film

00:32:39.880 because

00:32:40.400 the

00:32:41.500 when you have

00:32:49.120 children yourself

00:32:49.900 it is very difficult

00:32:52.240 to

00:32:53.140 there's a line

00:32:55.320 in the film

00:32:55.700 where he says

00:32:56.000 what if this is

00:32:56.600 your daughter

00:32:57.060 and I remember

00:32:58.880 pausing and just

00:32:59.800 you know

00:33:00.540 tears

00:33:02.260 and emotions

00:33:03.580 going through

00:33:04.100 and so

00:33:04.520 I immediately knew

00:33:06.560 that

00:33:07.660 if God wanted us

00:33:10.060 to that

00:33:10.380 we'd be

00:33:10.820 we

00:33:11.240 we wanted

00:33:12.540 to get this out

00:33:13.360 now obviously

00:33:13.940 it had to get

00:33:14.420 through the angel guild

00:33:15.160 but the angel guild

00:33:16.740 those hundred thousand

00:33:17.760 investors of the chosen

00:33:18.740 and all of our other

00:33:19.380 TV shows

00:33:19.840 they gave it

00:33:20.700 one of the top scores

00:33:21.520 we've ever seen

00:33:22.120 tell me about that

00:33:23.120 so you

00:33:23.600 you put it out

00:33:24.380 to the guild

00:33:24.960 and the guild

00:33:25.640 are just like studio heads

00:33:27.140 they all watch it

00:33:28.080 and then tell me

00:33:28.800 what their response

00:33:29.320 yeah so anybody

00:33:29.980 who's an investor

00:33:30.640 in any of our projects

00:33:31.640 or a subscriber

00:33:32.340 to the guild

00:33:32.880 you can download

00:33:33.460 the angel app

00:33:34.160 and inside

00:33:34.720 there's a guild tab

00:33:35.500 and it allows people

00:33:36.920 to come see the projects

00:33:38.040 that are in angels pipeline

00:33:39.120 and it could be

00:33:40.200 concept pieces

00:33:41.000 it could be finished films

00:33:42.040 it could be pilot episodes

00:33:43.100 and those people

00:33:44.620 are asked two questions

00:33:45.500 does the story

00:33:46.540 amplify light

00:33:47.320 and again

00:33:48.780 we define that

00:33:49.380 as whatever is lovely

00:33:50.380 true

00:33:51.040 honest

00:33:51.700 noble

00:33:52.320 excellent

00:33:53.280 those principles

00:33:54.000 and the second question

00:33:55.520 we ask is actually

00:33:56.180 called the Sean Ellis test

00:33:57.200 so Sean Ellis

00:33:58.100 if anybody's aware

00:33:59.480 of the software

00:34:00.000 Slack

00:34:00.400 is this business software

00:34:02.580 where people use

00:34:03.280 to communicate

00:34:03.740 with people

00:34:04.120 inside their company

00:34:05.160 well in the early days

00:34:06.120 of Slack

00:34:06.580 investors are experiencing

00:34:07.940 some major fatigue

00:34:08.920 as to like

00:34:09.560 I don't know

00:34:10.080 what the business model

00:34:10.700 is here

00:34:11.080 and so Sean says

00:34:12.500 hey you know what

00:34:13.120 let me go

00:34:13.580 let me go survey

00:34:14.380 the customer base

00:34:15.040 and see what we have here

00:34:15.840 and he asks him

00:34:16.280 a very unique question

00:34:17.200 he says

00:34:17.480 if Slack didn't exist

00:34:18.700 tomorrow

00:34:19.300 how would you feel

00:34:20.840 and he only gave him

00:34:21.920 three options

00:34:22.480 very disappointed

00:34:23.420 somewhat disappointed

00:34:24.580 or not disappointed

00:34:25.560 he didn't actually care

00:34:27.220 about what people

00:34:28.060 when people said

00:34:28.680 somewhat disappointed

00:34:29.420 or not disappointed

00:34:30.140 because those aren't

00:34:30.740 passionate people

00:34:31.480 he wanted to know

00:34:32.000 how many people

00:34:32.580 would be very disappointed

00:34:33.780 if Slack didn't exist

00:34:35.400 tomorrow

00:34:35.760 and 54% of people

00:34:37.280 came back and said

00:34:38.060 we'd be very disappointed

00:34:39.140 so he goes to the investors

00:34:40.000 and he says

00:34:40.420 we got to double down on this

00:34:41.460 we've got something special here

00:34:42.760 well lo and behold

00:34:43.420 a decade later

00:34:44.120 Slack sells for $27 billion

00:34:45.500 and so

00:34:46.980 we've

00:34:48.360 we've used that

00:34:49.340 similar question

00:34:50.320 where we say

00:34:50.840 if this was never made

00:34:51.800 into an Angel Studios

00:34:52.480 original or an Angel Studios

00:34:53.700 production or a film

00:34:55.080 how would you feel

00:34:56.960 very disappointed

00:34:58.220 somewhat disappointed

00:34:58.900 or not disappointed

00:34:59.440 and you have to get

00:35:00.200 well over 40% of people

00:35:01.940 to say they'd be

00:35:02.600 very disappointed

00:35:03.460 just to be considered

00:35:04.500 and then if you want

00:35:05.900 to go theaters

00:35:06.520 hold on hold on

00:35:07.040 walk me through that again

00:35:07.940 you have a cut off

00:35:09.300 it has to be 40%

00:35:10.320 40% of people

00:35:11.180 have to say

00:35:11.580 they'd be very disappointed

00:35:13.080 it means 40%

00:35:14.080 of this massive group

00:35:15.560 has to be very disappointed

00:35:17.160 if this doesn't exist

00:35:18.140 and that's just to be considered

00:35:19.120 you want the guild

00:35:20.000 to be passionate

00:35:21.440 passionate about

00:35:22.140 just even to get it

00:35:23.080 into the process

00:35:23.680 that's right

00:35:24.020 you're so time consuming

00:35:25.040 that's exactly right

00:35:25.980 people are saying

00:35:26.120 the film business

00:35:26.740 just as a time sucker

00:35:27.940 100%

00:35:28.520 and that's just to be considered

00:35:29.700 now to go to theaters

00:35:30.720 it's 60%

00:35:32.140 wow

00:35:32.600 you're saying

00:35:33.760 you've got to raise it up

00:35:34.540 yeah

00:35:34.860 because the effort

00:35:36.120 is in streaming

00:35:36.980 and the Sound of Freedom

00:35:39.460 got well over 70%

00:35:41.680 of people saying

00:35:42.360 we'd be very disappointed

00:35:43.520 if this didn't exist

00:35:44.440 of the guild

00:35:45.780 of the guild

00:35:46.320 that want to see it

00:35:47.280 in theaters

00:35:47.760 that's right

00:35:48.280 and so there's this

00:35:49.460 massive built up demand

00:35:51.200 where we already

00:35:52.620 wanted to do this

00:35:53.720 we saw the film

00:35:55.260 we could feel it

00:35:56.060 and we could sense

00:35:57.620 that there was something

00:35:58.420 incredibly special here

00:35:59.560 Eduardo and Alejandro

00:36:01.500 and their team

00:36:02.340 they are brilliant

00:36:03.440 Jim's acting as this

00:36:04.740 is the best of his career

00:36:05.960 best

00:36:06.420 and so

00:36:07.380 when the guild came in

00:36:09.400 and said that

00:36:09.860 we said

00:36:10.240 we're going to dedicate

00:36:11.640 every resource we have

00:36:12.980 to get this out there

00:36:14.400 and then it was about

00:36:15.960 just picking a date

00:36:16.900 and so we decided

00:36:17.760 to do the dumb of the day

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00:36:26.960 this film is

00:36:28.500 in and of itself

00:36:29.580 as a thing itself

00:36:30.420 is very important

00:36:31.220 it's going to

00:36:31.600 really have a movement

00:36:32.340 but also what angel is doing

00:36:33.920 is also a movement

00:36:34.960 themselves

00:36:35.340 and I want to go to the next

00:36:36.900 I don't want to call it

00:36:37.760 a kamikaze mission

00:36:38.700 but normally

00:36:40.360 when studios

00:36:41.100 have a slate of pictures

00:36:42.880 and people say

00:36:43.520 well why do studios

00:36:44.740 traditionally put out

00:36:45.440 12 to 18 pictures

00:36:46.400 one of the reasons

00:36:47.260 is so the exhibitors

00:36:48.200 got to pay them

00:36:49.000 right

00:36:49.700 because they got

00:36:50.340 another picture

00:36:50.820 they're going to deliver

00:36:51.440 so the whole system

00:36:52.280 is very locked in

00:36:53.760 from the 1920s

00:36:54.880 when motion pictures

00:36:55.800 really started

00:36:56.420 and that's why

00:36:57.280 you're seeing

00:36:57.780 there really haven't

00:36:58.380 been many new studios

00:36:59.840 not a lot of innovation

00:37:00.460 there

00:37:00.740 and not a lot of new

00:37:01.520 studios since then

00:37:02.360 people have tried it

00:37:03.200 but over time

00:37:04.080 it gets to be very tough

00:37:05.020 you guys are trying

00:37:05.760 something radically different

00:37:06.860 normally

00:37:07.720 I could go to any other studio

00:37:09.620 and they would talk to me

00:37:10.820 about a year out

00:37:12.040 particularly their summer

00:37:13.380 which is

00:37:13.880 the theater owners

00:37:15.360 is the highest time of year

00:37:17.400 we're going to sell

00:37:17.820 the most popcorn

00:37:18.600 even more than Christmas

00:37:19.700 or Easter

00:37:20.420 we're going to sell

00:37:21.200 the most popcorn

00:37:22.000 and have people come

00:37:23.000 from multiple times

00:37:23.820 and be bigger crowds

00:37:25.200 the studios are looking

00:37:26.680 nine months out

00:37:27.860 you've done this in

00:37:29.520 less than three months

00:37:30.780 less than three months

00:37:31.660 that I would say

00:37:33.000 knowing the business

00:37:33.820 and being in the business

00:37:34.780 for 20 years

00:37:35.380 that is impossible

00:37:36.560 how did you convince

00:37:38.220 the theater

00:37:38.720 because the exhibitors

00:37:39.880 the studio is different

00:37:40.840 than the exhibitors

00:37:41.320 the exhibitors

00:37:42.000 already booked

00:37:42.500 their things out

00:37:43.260 and you're not just

00:37:44.820 Mission Impossible

00:37:45.620 has been on that date

00:37:46.360 for a year

00:37:46.760 a year

00:37:47.180 and so is the Raiders

00:37:48.300 the Indiana Jones

00:37:50.040 the last week of September

00:37:52.200 maybe when kids

00:37:52.880 got to go back to school

00:37:53.720 or August

00:37:54.720 not the 4th of July weekend

00:37:56.760 so how did you make

00:37:57.860 a decision

00:37:58.380 get all the mechanics

00:38:00.260 you need to release

00:38:01.020 the film theatrically

00:38:02.220 and then go in

00:38:03.120 and convince the theater

00:38:03.980 owners that

00:38:04.840 oh by the way

00:38:05.520 in your busiest time

00:38:06.460 of the year

00:38:06.700 most profitable

00:38:07.220 can I have like

00:38:08.460 3,000 screens

00:38:09.540 so first of all

00:38:11.940 a lot of faith

00:38:12.800 because it was

00:38:14.320 there were some

00:38:14.880 inspirational moments

00:38:15.800 within the company

00:38:16.480 from multiple people

00:38:17.420 who felt like

00:38:19.000 Sound of Freedom

00:38:20.180 needed to be

00:38:20.820 a July 4th release

00:38:21.800 and so we had to go

00:38:23.440 now we had to back

00:38:24.140 it up with logic

00:38:24.860 and say how do we

00:38:25.500 pull this off

00:38:26.340 is faith can only

00:38:27.020 get you so far

00:38:27.640 because you're saying

00:38:28.300 this is a film

00:38:29.100 about freedom

00:38:30.080 we had to inventize

00:38:30.980 that it had

00:38:31.460 it's about freedom

00:38:32.420 it's about freedom

00:38:33.100 for these children

00:38:33.640 and so once we

00:38:35.120 decided on the date

00:38:36.660 one of the big reasons

00:38:38.500 that we actually

00:38:39.100 went with that is

00:38:39.880 so there's a story

00:38:41.060 back in

00:38:42.780 and I'm trying to

00:38:43.940 remember the studio's

00:38:44.500 name

00:38:44.700 focus it's feature

00:38:46.460 films for families

00:38:47.120 I believe

00:38:47.460 so they were

00:38:48.700 getting their start

00:38:49.540 I believe it was them

00:38:50.880 and they were having

00:38:52.300 some successes

00:38:52.980 and then they kind of

00:38:54.060 bet their entire company

00:38:55.020 on a single film

00:38:56.100 called The Swan Princess

00:38:56.960 and they announced

00:38:59.580 that they're going

00:39:00.000 to the theaters

00:39:00.480 with The Swan Princess

00:39:01.160 they're trying to go

00:39:01.720 head to head

00:39:02.100 with Disney

00:39:02.580 I haven't heard of it

00:39:03.480 so I think that's

00:39:04.080 a bad news

00:39:04.640 for the studio

00:39:05.260 it is bad news

00:39:06.360 for the studio

00:39:06.820 and what ended up

00:39:08.960 happening was

00:39:09.560 Disney had Lion King

00:39:11.320 I believe

00:39:12.940 on a different slate

00:39:14.220 before The Swan Princess

00:39:15.180 and then they went

00:39:15.940 and extended it

00:39:17.080 to take all the screens

00:39:18.900 so that

00:39:19.860 ends up Swan Princess

00:39:21.540 in that studio

00:39:21.980 and they ended up

00:39:22.340 going bankrupt

00:39:22.760 on that film

00:39:23.240 people should know

00:39:23.820 I'm saying

00:39:24.180 because the theater owners

00:39:24.940 said they got

00:39:25.520 Disney with Lion King

00:39:26.940 I don't think

00:39:27.460 I'm taking Swan Princess

00:39:28.160 they're going to be

00:39:29.020 in like the tiny screen

00:39:30.300 that's exactly right

00:39:31.100 of the 20 multiplies

00:39:32.520 or almost no screens

00:39:33.540 and so for us

00:39:34.920 we are a nimble

00:39:36.900 startup company

00:39:37.700 and we had this feeling

00:39:39.480 that if we can move

00:39:40.460 very quickly

00:39:41.440 and swiftly

00:39:42.720 that the opposition

00:39:44.280 won't have time

00:39:45.260 to adapt

00:39:46.360 and so we picked

00:39:47.640 a date

00:39:48.120 that no one had

00:39:49.180 and we had

00:39:50.640 Sound of Freedom

00:39:51.700 is a little bit

00:39:52.160 of counter programming

00:39:52.840 that it's not exactly

00:39:53.760 like Mission Impossible

00:39:54.540 and it's not exactly

00:39:55.240 like Indiana Jones

00:39:56.020 one of your points

00:39:56.940 is a lot of other

00:39:57.660 your competitors

00:39:58.280 in the independent film

00:39:59.240 business or whatever

00:39:59.680 are not going to go

00:40:00.480 up against

00:40:01.060 that's right

00:40:01.220 so you're not going

00:40:02.320 to see a lot

00:40:02.720 of new releases

00:40:03.420 100%

00:40:04.080 and so we went

00:40:04.940 in there

00:40:05.500 and we basically

00:40:06.780 went into the theaters

00:40:07.720 and we said

00:40:08.220 listen

00:40:08.540 here's why

00:40:10.120 and based off

00:40:11.140 of our success

00:40:11.720 with his only son

00:40:12.440 and the Easter release

00:40:13.180 because they were

00:40:13.540 thrilled to death

00:40:14.120 with that

00:40:14.420 it got number

00:40:14.840 three in the box office

00:40:15.680 with like

00:40:16.160 John Wick

00:40:17.060 and

00:40:17.640 you know

00:40:19.040 Mario Brothers

00:40:19.660 it was lined up

00:40:20.700 against a ton

00:40:21.180 of blockbusters

00:40:21.740 and it did really

00:40:22.320 really well

00:40:22.680 we had built

00:40:24.020 enough relationship

00:40:24.720 with them

00:40:25.060 and they're rooting

00:40:25.580 for us

00:40:25.980 they really are

00:40:27.220 the exhibitors

00:40:28.460 the theaters

00:40:28.820 are really

00:40:29.300 they want another

00:40:30.900 great

00:40:31.380 for family oriented

00:40:33.440 content

00:40:33.840 and so they're

00:40:34.460 rooting for us

00:40:35.040 and they turned around

00:40:35.800 and they said

00:40:36.200 you know what

00:40:36.620 we want to give you

00:40:37.780 a chance to do this

00:40:38.640 and our model

00:40:40.140 is that we need

00:40:41.000 people to show up

00:40:41.700 to pre-sales

00:40:42.360 to earn our way

00:40:43.680 to more and more

00:40:44.200 screens

00:40:44.620 to earn away

00:40:45.300 more and more

00:40:45.820 beers

00:40:46.080 two main tickets

00:40:47.320 two main relates

00:40:48.120 to the kids

00:40:48.580 that have been

00:40:49.060 trafficked every year

00:40:50.580 trafficked every year

00:40:51.480 so go to

00:40:52.400 go to

00:40:53.460 angel.com

00:40:54.260 right now

00:40:54.680 slash war room

00:40:55.320 to get your tickets

00:40:56.160 and to buy

00:40:56.920 a grunch of them

00:40:57.740 to take family

00:40:58.720 and friends

00:40:59.200 when the theater

00:41:00.080 owners

00:41:00.340 the exhibitors

00:41:00.900 who are fairly

00:41:02.420 steely eyed guys

00:41:04.000 right

00:41:04.480 it's a tough business

00:41:05.860 when they

00:41:06.640 when you showed

00:41:07.520 them the film

00:41:08.440 what was their response

00:41:10.520 because these guys

00:41:11.140 and they may have

00:41:11.760 a feeling

00:41:12.000 this is something

00:41:12.540 that people see

00:41:13.080 but they really

00:41:13.640 are they're hardcore

00:41:14.840 are people going

00:41:16.240 to come see

00:41:16.640 this movie

00:41:16.980 100%

00:41:17.500 and we were

00:41:18.960 blown away

00:41:19.600 when we looked

00:41:20.300 at Cinemark

00:41:21.120 and Regal

00:41:21.840 and AMC

00:41:22.980 and all these

00:41:23.320 major theaters

00:41:23.920 and showed it

00:41:24.400 to them

00:41:24.740 that every one

00:41:26.020 of them was like

00:41:26.560 you have our

00:41:27.240 support

00:41:27.640 it's great

00:41:28.460 and so we

00:41:29.240 need to give

00:41:29.780 them the

00:41:30.420 we need to

00:41:31.060 give them the

00:41:31.460 courage

00:41:31.880 to give us

00:41:32.620 more and more

00:41:33.300 theater screens

00:41:33.920 and to give

00:41:34.360 the smaller

00:41:35.080 players

00:41:35.480 the regionals

00:41:36.200 and the local

00:41:36.720 theaters

00:41:37.100 to give us

00:41:37.880 screens

00:41:38.260 and so you

00:41:39.200 know like you

00:41:39.640 said if you

00:41:40.160 had angel.com

00:41:40.720 slash war room

00:41:41.320 that is the

00:41:41.840 critical

00:41:42.320 call to action

00:41:43.940 is that in the

00:41:44.820 next 14 days

00:41:45.800 we've got to

00:41:46.240 make a stronger

00:41:46.780 statement than ever

00:41:47.520 because you're

00:41:48.400 going to impress

00:41:48.960 the theater owners

00:41:50.020 so it's going to

00:41:50.600 be easier to get

00:41:51.500 a family oriented

00:41:52.800 product of light

00:41:53.960 in next time

00:41:54.780 you're going to

00:41:55.740 you're going to

00:41:56.480 put the all

00:41:57.480 the agencies

00:41:58.200 and the marketing

00:41:59.480 companies

00:41:59.960 everybody deals

00:42:00.580 with the actors

00:42:01.180 are all going to

00:42:01.700 say hey these

00:42:02.220 guys are players

00:42:02.900 these guys can

00:42:03.840 get a tough

00:42:04.280 picture out

00:42:04.920 within 90 days

00:42:06.140 I've never heard

00:42:07.660 of it

00:42:07.900 especially not

00:42:10.180 for a summer

00:42:10.540 release

00:42:10.900 in the late 80s

00:42:12.080 at Goldman

00:42:12.480 and in my own

00:42:13.060 firm

00:42:13.420 you know we're

00:42:14.020 one of the

00:42:14.380 financiers in this

00:42:15.100 business

00:42:15.400 I've never heard

00:42:16.960 of a company

00:42:17.960 taking a project

00:42:18.840 on 90 days

00:42:20.300 later having

00:42:20.860 on 2500 screens

00:42:22.120 I mean it just

00:42:23.320 shows you the

00:42:23.940 determination

00:42:24.460 you guys won't

00:42:25.320 take no for an

00:42:25.840 answer

00:42:26.100 that's well

00:42:27.160 you know it's

00:42:27.740 there's we were

00:42:28.580 meeting with someone

00:42:29.180 in the capital

00:42:29.740 today and he said

00:42:30.320 a really powerful

00:42:30.880 statement he said

00:42:31.600 the key to

00:42:34.100 success is

00:42:35.580 persistence

00:42:36.020 it's not about

00:42:37.660 being exceptionally

00:42:39.220 smarter it's not

00:42:40.140 about being you

00:42:41.260 know the sharpest

00:42:42.620 tool in the box

00:42:43.140 it's about being

00:42:43.760 persistent and

00:42:44.780 never giving up

00:42:45.780 and so for us we

00:42:46.860 looked at it we

00:42:47.340 just said you know

00:42:47.900 what we we know

00:42:49.900 the marketing space

00:42:51.160 really really well

00:42:51.980 you know part of

00:42:52.580 our background like

00:42:53.260 I said is in

00:42:53.680 marketing if you've

00:42:54.400 ever seen like the

00:42:55.240 Harmon Brothers

00:42:55.680 agency if you've

00:42:56.440 ever seen like the

00:42:56.980 poopery ads or the

00:42:57.900 squatty potty ads

00:42:58.780 or the purple

00:42:59.120 mattress that have

00:43:00.100 have hundreds of

00:43:00.720 millions of views

00:43:01.340 really billions of

00:43:02.220 views now that's

00:43:03.340 where our background

00:43:03.880 came from that

00:43:04.480 agency to really

00:43:06.080 propel what we do

00:43:07.100 and so we're

00:43:08.000 leveraging this this

00:43:09.180 type of marketing

00:43:10.240 kind of guerrilla

00:43:11.160 marketing into the

00:43:12.560 theater space in a

00:43:13.700 massive way

00:43:14.360 tell me about last

00:43:16.420 night the premiere

00:43:17.060 and first of all the

00:43:18.880 Bible Museum perfect

00:43:20.200 place

00:43:20.520 it's a magnificent

00:43:22.940 facility the crowd

00:43:25.420 was incredible

00:43:26.080 because during the

00:43:26.880 week here particularly

00:43:27.580 people were back

00:43:28.360 voting late at night

00:43:29.260 they're arguing about

00:43:30.060 these impeachment bills

00:43:31.240 all this an incredible

00:43:32.760 crowd but then you're

00:43:33.660 at Capitol Hill today

00:43:34.540 and all the furor that's

00:43:35.880 going on but people

00:43:36.900 are making time

00:43:37.860 because they've

00:43:39.200 heard about the

00:43:39.700 movie they're going

00:43:40.460 to see the movie

00:43:41.020 some have seen

00:43:41.520 snippets of it but

00:43:42.900 these guys are smart

00:43:43.920 about knowing when

00:43:45.140 something's hot so

00:43:46.040 tell me about Capitol

00:43:46.860 Hill today yeah so I

00:43:48.120 think the coolest part

00:43:49.100 about Capitol Hill

00:43:49.820 today is these guys

00:43:51.200 they're so busy you

00:43:53.200 know we're you're

00:43:54.080 busy we're all busy

00:43:54.840 like the fact that

00:43:55.460 you've taken so much

00:43:56.180 time to help us with

00:43:56.920 this film is just

00:43:57.480 remarkable and so

00:43:58.200 we're all busy but

00:43:59.740 you know everybody has

00:44:00.840 you know their chief of

00:44:01.620 staff or their

00:44:02.080 assistants that are

00:44:03.140 supposed to come in

00:44:03.760 and let them know hey

00:44:04.420 it's time to come

00:44:04.940 out and and time

00:44:06.600 and time and time

00:44:07.240 again today at the

00:44:08.140 Capitol Hill we'd be

00:44:09.740 meeting with someone

00:44:10.280 and someone be like

00:44:10.740 hey we got to come

00:44:11.360 out for a vote and

00:44:11.920 they're like give me

00:44:12.460 a minute you know

00:44:13.580 they wanted to hear

00:44:15.000 and understand and we

00:44:16.220 showed them obviously

00:44:16.860 the new trailer that

00:44:17.560 you showed your

00:44:18.060 audience today that

00:44:18.780 you released and so

00:44:19.920 it's this this truly

00:44:21.780 is resonating across

00:44:24.560 across the the board

00:44:26.380 and it should we should

00:44:28.260 all be united on our

00:44:31.440 children and and how

00:44:33.320 much they mean because

00:44:34.140 we always say the

00:44:35.220 children of the future

00:44:35.980 right well we've got

00:44:37.960 to unite around this

00:44:38.820 because if we can't

00:44:40.020 unite around this I

00:44:40.780 don't know what we

00:44:41.340 can unite around

00:44:41.880 well the shocking

00:44:42.620 thing about the first

00:44:43.780 off I think in people

00:44:44.740 and I don't want to

00:44:45.440 give too much of the

00:44:46.160 film away because it's

00:44:47.100 like I said it's made

00:44:48.240 as a Hollywood thriller

00:44:49.400 right and the things

00:44:50.420 are revealed as you go

00:44:51.260 on and I think that's

00:44:52.200 one of the reasons the

00:44:53.020 theater owners said hey

00:44:54.240 this movie is as good

00:44:55.580 as anything Liam

00:44:56.280 Neeson's been making

00:44:57.080 or better much better

00:44:58.120 it's the shocking

00:45:00.440 factor number one that

00:45:02.160 that Tim is actually

00:45:03.920 a government agent

00:45:04.840 that's kind of pulled

00:45:05.580 off the case and

00:45:06.320 you're sitting there

00:45:06.840 going whoa the second

00:45:08.720 is that and what still

00:45:10.480 gets me is that the

00:45:11.700 United States is the

00:45:13.600 driver of demand here

00:45:14.760 that this is a number

00:45:16.340 one consumer number

00:45:17.100 one consumer of this

00:45:18.140 and that is shocking

00:45:19.740 and I think if we can

00:45:20.920 unite around that and

00:45:22.820 Ed Water was here

00:45:23.520 today talk about how

00:45:24.320 we work together

00:45:24.840 that Mexico shut down

00:45:25.880 the supply side but to

00:45:27.860 shut down the supply

00:45:28.640 side you've got to get

00:45:29.580 to the demand side

00:45:30.400 so tell me when you

00:45:31.760 say this you want this

00:45:33.040 to be part the release

00:45:34.920 of this film to get the

00:45:36.540 muzzle velocity out there

00:45:37.980 to start a movement

00:45:39.120 what does that mean to

00:45:40.480 you so the the beauty

00:45:41.980 of of storytelling is

00:45:44.700 that I can't remember

00:45:46.440 who said it but the

00:45:48.720 they said if if I want

00:45:50.220 to influence a society

00:45:52.420 and I have to choose

00:45:55.180 between politics and art

00:45:56.460 I'm going to choose

00:45:57.220 art it was Plato

00:45:58.100 it was Plato that yep

00:45:59.480 yeah okay yes thank

00:46:00.820 you I'm glad you

00:46:01.560 remembered and

00:46:02.360 you're in the war room

00:46:02.740 baby yeah that's right

00:46:03.700 although Ed Water

00:46:05.060 did Ed Water

00:46:05.920 dropped that on me

00:46:06.620 today so he's good

00:46:07.540 too based on all

00:46:08.880 these books in here

00:46:10.380 you've got some

00:46:11.060 reading you've done

00:46:12.200 but the point is is

00:46:13.320 that but it's important

00:46:14.260 players have had to

00:46:14.960 choose art or politics

00:46:16.080 to control society

00:46:17.180 I'm going to choose

00:46:17.660 art and and so when

00:46:18.740 we look at where

00:46:19.500 society is and and

00:46:21.300 and really the illness

00:46:22.400 that's in certain

00:46:23.400 parts of society and

00:46:25.000 it's there are a

00:46:26.340 massive amount of

00:46:27.120 the the unheard and

00:46:29.620 the neglected part of

00:46:30.880 the United States in

00:46:31.760 the world and we

00:46:33.460 need to fill that gap

00:46:34.820 with meaningful stories

00:46:36.100 that are going to

00:46:36.860 amplify light into the

00:46:37.720 darkest places of the

00:46:38.540 world and so with

00:46:39.180 Sound of Freedom it's

00:46:40.680 going to it's a movie

00:46:42.640 that causes you when

00:46:43.580 you get done to say

00:46:45.100 what can I do how can

00:46:47.480 I help and what I

00:46:48.860 would encourage people

00:46:49.600 to do is every one of

00:46:51.880 you it's probably going

00:46:53.120 to be individual and

00:46:54.540 unique right it might

00:46:56.640 be something as simple

00:46:57.740 as just sharing your

00:46:58.860 word of mouth or

00:46:59.560 paying it forward so

00:47:00.260 someone else can watch

00:47:01.080 the movie for free or

00:47:02.480 you know maybe you have

00:47:03.460 more resources to help

00:47:04.300 an organization that's

00:47:05.260 tackling these problems

00:47:06.180 and so as the

00:47:07.500 awareness lifts or

00:47:09.120 talk about it at the

00:47:10.200 barbecue the next night

00:47:11.380 that's exactly right

00:47:12.180 just if it moves you

00:47:13.800 um first off most

00:47:16.340 one of the first

00:47:17.620 reactions you're going

00:47:18.260 to have is you're

00:47:19.680 going to sit there and

00:47:20.220 go how did I not know

00:47:22.000 what this was going on

00:47:22.920 how how am I not

00:47:24.220 aware of this on a

00:47:25.160 problem that is a

00:47:26.360 Jim said today globally

00:47:27.500 I think it's 155

00:47:28.640 billion dollars it's

00:47:29.460 35 billion dollars in

00:47:30.400 the United States how

00:47:31.000 how is this thing so

00:47:32.380 big and happens and you

00:47:33.940 have these agents and

00:47:35.460 on these complex

00:47:36.560 assignments and it's

00:47:37.820 clearly some sort of

00:47:38.820 industrial structure on

00:47:40.380 the supply side how

00:47:41.780 could this go on and

00:47:42.480 not know anything about

00:47:43.140 it yeah and and

00:47:44.380 that's that's where I

00:47:45.540 think this film comes

00:47:46.620 in and fills that void

00:47:47.640 worldwide I think this

00:47:49.440 film has the potential

00:47:50.340 to to truly bring that

00:47:54.020 awareness and there's

00:47:54.840 the saying that says

00:47:55.480 all ships rise with the

00:47:56.380 rising tide as sound of

00:47:57.980 freedom rises and the

00:47:58.920 awareness lifts the globe

00:48:01.280 is going to hear that and

00:48:03.280 they're going to help the

00:48:04.380 organizations and they're

00:48:05.440 going to rise with it in

00:48:06.420 terms of resources and

00:48:07.340 abilities and so that's our

00:48:09.440 goal our goal is to bring

00:48:10.880 awareness to mold the

00:48:12.500 culture and to help us wake

00:48:13.960 up to this atrocity okay

00:48:15.900 time for action use your

00:48:17.240 agency that you have people

00:48:18.960 that will take action to

00:48:20.320 do things the guys at

00:48:21.200 angel have just done an

00:48:22.560 incredible job so make

00:48:23.460 sure you go to angel.com

00:48:24.560 right now slash war room

00:48:26.000 get your tickets take

00:48:28.320 people with you become a

00:48:30.020 force multiplier because

00:48:30.920 that's the only way this

00:48:31.560 thing's going to get there

00:48:32.200 real quickly how do people

00:48:33.260 get if they want to become

00:48:34.640 part of your other

00:48:35.680 aspects yeah the guilt

00:48:36.840 where do they go how do

00:48:38.180 they see future product how

00:48:39.340 they see all of yeah so

00:48:40.280 just go to you can either

00:48:41.420 go to angel.com where you

00:48:42.720 can download the angel app on

00:48:43.960 any of your major devices

00:48:45.000 and inside the angel mobile app

00:48:47.160 you can actually sign up and

00:48:48.260 subscribe to the angel guild

00:48:49.420 to help influence what are

00:48:51.480 the stories that will be

00:48:52.520 told into the future inside

00:48:53.740 of angels ecosystem that is

00:48:55.780 such a powerful way for your

00:48:57.880 voice and your values to be

00:49:00.000 heard because again no matter

00:49:01.940 how much I as a founder and

00:49:03.860 my brothers and as

00:49:05.280 executives that we want

00:49:06.940 something to come through

00:49:07.960 into our ecosystem the angel

00:49:09.880 guild has to give us the

00:49:11.000 thumbs up first and so that's

00:49:12.800 a critical thing you can do

00:49:13.860 again angel.com also download

00:49:15.660 the angel app and we are so

00:49:17.780 grateful for obviously Steve

00:49:20.620 and and the voice that he's

00:49:22.120 giving to the voiceless and

00:49:23.760 and we're grateful for your

00:49:25.280 audience and that they are

00:49:26.560 showing up in droves to buy

00:49:28.540 tickets and to help support

00:49:29.540 when Caviezel and Eduardo got

00:49:31.960 back to me and said hey the

00:49:33.280 film's gonna come out

00:49:33.960 theatrically in the summer on

00:49:36.080 you know over 2,000 screens I

00:49:38.040 go come on guys they go no we're

00:49:40.040 working with the angel guys I

00:49:41.260 said the guys did the chosen I

00:49:42.420 go I'm in amazing you guys are

00:49:46.640 fantastic thank you tell the

00:49:47.980 other five brothers I can't

00:49:49.480 wait to meet the sisters they're

00:49:50.560 the killers right they are

00:49:51.680 they are angel.com slash war

00:49:53.480 room we're gonna end with the

00:49:54.880 trailer and then I will be back

00:49:56.480 here live 10 o'clock tomorrow

00:49:57.560 morning a lot going on see

00:49:58.880 that that was awesome

00:50:02.240 how'd that make you feel

00:50:05.240 giving a child is freedom

00:50:10.220 feel good

00:50:13.940 you have been at this for 12

00:50:17.060 years

00:50:17.780 why are you doing it

00:50:25.560 cause god's children are not

00:50:32.380 for sale

00:50:32.840 it is the fastest growing

00:50:38.260 international crime network that

00:50:39.940 the world has ever seen

00:50:40.980 we're homeland security you know

00:50:44.100 we can't go off rescuing

00:50:45.240 honduran kids in colombia

00:50:46.800 this job tears you to pieces

00:50:49.580 and this is my one chance to put

00:50:55.520 those pieces back together

00:50:56.900 and yet somehow you have failed

00:51:02.660 to bring me one real world lead

00:51:04.780 it's over Tim

00:51:08.180 close up and come back home

00:51:10.940 so you quit your job

00:51:14.660 and you go and rescue those kids

00:51:17.120 the south of that river

00:51:28.800 it's all rebel territory

00:51:30.280 no one goes in

00:51:31.360 but if this was your daughter

00:51:35.000 so she's gone

00:51:42.360 hear that

00:51:55.780 that's the sound of freedom

00:52:01.120 sound of freedom is one of those films

00:52:14.220 that can legitimately change this world

00:52:16.240 so we want to ignite a fire in audiences

00:52:18.780 and open their eyes to the dark reality

00:52:21.060 of millions of children that need our help

00:52:24.120 let's make this film a historic event

00:52:27.040 and the start the end of child trafficking

00:52:29.740 theaters across this country

00:52:32.180 are already selling out

00:52:33.860 pre-order your tickets today

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Bannon's War Room - June 21, 2023

WarRoom Battleground EP 318： Connecting A Studio On Faith

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