Stay Free - Russel Brand - January 14, 2025


BREAK BREAD EP. 10 - DALLAS JENKINS


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14 minutes

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131.56541

Word count

1,877

Sentence count

145

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

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Hate speech

2

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In this episode, Russell Brown sits down with the creator of The Chosen, Dallas Jenkins, to talk about how his show has become a global phenomenon. The Chosen is a Christian comedy-drama series that premiered on Comedy Central in 2014 and has since gone on to become one of the most watched shows on the network.

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00:00:00.000 . . .
00:00:06.000 Thank you.
00:01:35.000 break bread with Russell Brown's You may be watching this on Locals.
00:01:39.000 You may be watching this on Rumble Premium.
00:01:42.000 For the first ten minutes, we'll be on Rumble Premium with mostly Amanda Jenkins. 0.97
00:01:49.000 Amanda Jenkins is the wife of Dallas Jenkins.
00:01:52.000 Dallas Jenkins is the creator of The Chosen.
00:01:57.000 I'm very, very excited to be breaking bread today with Dallas Jenkins.
00:02:02.000 Dallas, hello!
00:02:03.000 I'm so happy to see you.
00:02:05.000 I'm so glad to talk to you, like, at the same time.
00:02:09.000 We're not exchanging videos.
00:02:11.000 We're actually, like, you are saying something and then I'm responding immediately.
00:02:15.000 Isn't that fun human interaction?
00:02:18.000 We're in the same tabernacle.
00:02:20.000 We are occupying the same space.
00:02:22.000 Instead of me in one tabernacle throwing some information into the abyss, you in your tabernacle receiving it in voice note form or video form.
00:02:32.000 I've really enjoyed our video exchange, by the way, Dallas.
00:02:36.000 Yes, yes.
00:02:37.000 No, it's been great to talk to you and get to know you.
00:02:39.000 I'm really excited to be doing this.
00:02:42.000 Dallas, there's no doubt that there is a Christian revival taking place across the world.
00:02:48.000 People are talking about Christianity in a way that...
00:02:52.000 I mean, I know people that have been Christian for a long time.
00:02:54.000 I've not been Christian very long, so I can only get my diagnosis from people that know more about it than me, and there's people in this room that know more about it than me, and obviously now I'm in a conversation with you.
00:03:05.000 It's, in a sense, no way that we can extract...
00:03:08.000 This renewed global interest in Christianity from your show, The Chosen. 0.72
00:03:15.000 That must feel good.
00:03:19.000 Couldn't it conversely make you feel...
00:03:24.000 I'm important.
00:03:25.000 I'm doing an important thing.
00:03:26.000 How are you managing your tremendous success, impact and influence with a crowdfunded show that could have, like most crowdfunded projects, disappear into some form of irrelevance but has become a global phenomenon?
00:03:38.000 How are you marshalling your leadership and the power that it has granted you?
00:03:44.000 How are you handling that, Dallas Jenkins?
00:03:49.000 Well, thank you.
00:03:50.000 That's very kind.
00:03:51.000 I would say...
00:03:52.000 The opposite has happened.
00:03:54.000 The opposite of feeling any kind of responsibility or feeling any sense of pride.
00:04:01.000 I used to chase this kind of thing all the time.
00:04:04.000 Ten years ago, the notion of having a show that had reached this level of success would have been the dream.
00:04:12.000 The meetings that I'm having with people in Hollywood, I would have killed to meet with the people who were working for the people that I'm meeting with.
00:04:22.000 And God took all that away from me.
00:04:24.000 I mean, you've had this recent conversion towards Christ, and I think you would probably agree that the thing that preceded it was a brokenness, some sort of surrender.
00:04:34.000 Now, I've been a believer as long as I can remember, but I still needed to break.
00:04:38.000 I still needed to surrender, and I didn't do that until my 40s.
00:04:42.000 When my feature film that I was all excited about completely failed at the box office and I was faced with, I might never do this again.
00:04:50.000 I might not get another chance to do this again.
00:04:51.000 And could I be okay with that?
00:04:53.000 And when God just met me there, more than I'd probably ever experienced God before, the brokenness and the humility are what prepared me for this.
00:05:04.000 They're what tilled the soil for handling...
00:05:08.000 And now, by the time I didn't care about it anymore, it's when it came.
00:05:12.000 And so COVID in 2020 is what I think started that convergence between people's interest in Christ and the availability of a show like this to meet that interest and then ultimately lead to more Bible reading, more desire to know Christ.
00:05:31.000 But it's always preceded by brokenness.
00:05:34.000 Yes, it's been preceded by brokenness in my case as well, as you correctly diagnosed.
00:05:40.000 How fascinating that the pandemic, which I might say now as a follower of Jesus Christ was intended for bad, was intended for bad, has ended up being used for good, as so many things are.
00:05:57.000 And I'm interested to hear on the personal level that your own material success, but spiritual success, given the nature of the material that you're using.
00:06:07.000 I've got so many questions about that because, you know, the word is translated, of course, into numerous languages.
00:06:20.000 I wonder at what point it might be regarded as interpretive if I had to describe it to someone now.
00:06:28.000 If I had to interpret pieces of scripture or scripture in its entirety, though that would be quite a task, to somebody, would my interpretation in time to them become regarded as sacred?
00:06:41.000 I wonder how people in the future may look back at the chosen as a document, even though, of course, it has other considerations, entertainment, the humanizing of the members of the ensemble.
00:06:53.000 But before I get to that, this is called Break Bread with Russell Brand, and I would love...
00:06:58.000 I'd love to break bread with you, Dallas Jenkins.
00:07:01.000 And I'd love to invite Amanda, your wife, to join us.
00:07:05.000 I was going to invite my wife, but she's gone off to speak to a psychiatrist for reasons that would be obvious to anyone. 0.98
00:07:12.000 And he's a very...
00:07:13.000 He's a very holy man.
00:07:18.000 Yeah, come on. 0.77
00:07:20.000 Amanda! 0.60
00:07:22.000 Oh my gosh!
00:07:23.000 Hello!
00:07:24.000 How lovely to meet you formally.
00:07:28.000 Your husband, Dallas, mentioned that you would be open to joining us in a voice message, otherwise I never would have been so impertinent to request your company.
00:07:38.000 But now that I have you, so lovely to meet you and see you.
00:07:41.000 I'm Russell.
00:07:41.000 Hello.
00:07:43.000 Hi Russell, I'm Amanda.
00:07:45.000 Amanda, one of the things, Dallas has been telling, you've got bread and we've got juice.
00:07:51.000 Dallas, and Amanda, what bit of scripture would you suggest that I use or that we use to undertake our communion?
00:08:01.000 You know, some people like to do that bit from Corinthians, some in John, some in Matthew.
00:08:06.000 Someone the other day used something from right in the Old Testament.
00:08:12.000 Someone used something the other day.
00:08:13.000 I guess it was Passover stuff.
00:08:15.000 Have you got any thoughts on what you'd like to use?
00:08:21.000 Well, we just filmed season five where they have the Last Supper and there's that beautiful prayer from Jesus that's in the book of John.
00:08:34.000 And then that's when he actually says, let's do this together.
00:08:38.000 I think that was the first time Jesus did that specific thing with his disciples.
00:08:43.000 And so we're here at the set where, not this room, but we're at the stages where this took place.
00:08:49.000 And so that seems apropos.
00:08:51.000 Do you have the book of John in your Bible there with you?
00:08:54.000 Yes, I do.
00:08:56.000 No, no, I exercise no editorial control over this.
00:09:01.000 I said, just give me a standard Bible with all of the books in it.
00:09:05.000 Don't remove a single word.
00:09:07.000 I wouldn't feel confident or qualified to adjust this.
00:09:10.000 So, John, right, let me get there, let me get there.
00:09:14.000 John 6, dispute over testimony, unbelief, Jesus heals man.
00:09:19.000 All of this, I've seen all of this in the shows.
00:09:21.000 Jesus comes to Jerusalem as king.
00:09:24.000 Jesus predicts his portrayal.
00:09:26.000 Denial.
00:09:26.000 Predicts Peter's denial.
00:09:28.000 So we're around here.
00:09:30.000 Comforts Jesus the way to the Father.
00:09:34.000 It's so beautiful, isn't it?
00:09:35.000 So powerful.
00:09:37.000 Excuse me, Jake, will you help to point out here where in John I'll find the appropriate passage and prayer, please?
00:09:46.000 Because John covers the Last Supper in quite a lot of detail.
00:09:52.000 It should be John 13. 13. Let's see.
00:09:58.000 He washes the disciples' feet. 0.55
00:10:01.000 My man Jake's saying this a bit later.
00:10:09.000 Is it after this Jesus looks towards heaven and prayed?
00:10:12.000 Is it John 17?
00:10:15.000 Yeah, let me...
00:10:17.000 If you're watching this on Rumble, after a while we'll be just on Rumble Premium.
00:10:23.000 Rumble Premium is like $9 a month.
00:10:25.000 You get all of our content there, plus all of Crowder's and Bongino's and Glenn Greenwald's content.
00:10:31.000 And if you're on locals like Trish McLeod, I see you, and Blessed Old Bird and Lily Farm Girl, hello all of you.
00:10:36.000 I've missed you all so much.
00:10:37.000 you will continue to get all of our content on break bread we have the opportunity to talk about christ and christianity with well in i say in the case of dallas jenkins but even more so amanda jenkins people that are participating in the revival and reawakening of interest in christianity and how that might impact influence and direct power jesus said to them uh thank you We've got, in John, very true...
00:11:07.000 What about this?
00:11:08.000 This is John 6, 53. Jesus said to them, Thanks, Jake.
00:11:27.000 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them, just as the living Father sent me.
00:11:34.000 And I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
00:11:38.000 This is the bread that came down from heaven.
00:11:41.000 Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.
00:11:45.000 He said this while teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.
00:11:51.000 Hey, so should we break bread together now?
00:11:56.000 Yes.
00:11:57.000 Would you like to say some words for us, Amanda?
00:12:02.000 Go ahead, Amanda.
00:12:07.000 Well, Lord, what an honor.
00:12:11.000 To be right in the middle of where you're moving and to know new believers and to experience their zeal.
00:12:23.000 We're so thankful for Russell.
00:12:26.000 We're so thankful for his platform.
00:12:29.000 We're so thankful for Jesus, though.
00:12:31.000 We're so thankful for what we get to do, what we get to be a part of, what we get to spread to the world.
00:12:36.000 And we're so thankful for your sacrifice.
00:12:40.000 We're humbled to participate.
00:12:43.000 Thank you, Lord.
00:12:44.000 In Jesus' name.
00:12:46.000 In Jesus' name.
00:12:47.000 Amen.
00:12:48.000 Thank you, Lord, for your broken body.
00:12:50.000 Thank you that your body was broken on the cross.
00:12:52.000 Thank you that you endured the scourge and the humiliation, Lord, and the bitterness.
00:12:58.000 Thank you, Lord, that you endured all this from me.
00:13:01.000 Thank you that in your body I participate in eternal life.
00:13:05.000 Thank you that I'm redeemed by your suffering.
00:13:07.000 Heavenly Father, Thank you, Lord, for your blood and for the covenant of your blood that covers us all.
00:13:13.000 Thank you, Lord, for bringing Dallas and Amanda to us today, that we can participate in your wisdom through them.
00:13:20.000 Thank you, Lord, for the gift that you granted to Dallas, allowing him to create this incredible artifact that has brought so much interest, that has reawakened and illustrated so much interest in your works, humanized, made relevant, pertinent and germane.
00:13:39.000 To new audiences, your honor and your greatness and your glory.
00:13:43.000 Thank you, Jesus Christ, for your blood.
00:13:44.000 Thank you that you died for me.
00:13:46.000 Thank you that we're healed by your sacrifice and that we may know eternal life in you.
00:13:49.000 Amen.
00:13:52.000 Amen.
00:13:55.000 The drink.
00:13:57.000 Good Christians, we don't drink the actual alcohol.
00:14:08.000 Yeah, I mean, for my own reasons, I've had to let go of that as well.
00:14:13.000 Why did you two think that I was going to become Christian then?