The Charlie Kirk Show - Beating Hollywood's War on Christians

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, it's on the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:01.000 Congressman Eric Burleson joins the show about the latest CR news, and then Neil McDonough joins us from Angel Studios, Angel.com, very famous actor, talk about his values and the new movie Homestead.

00:00:12.000 Check it out right now, Homestead.

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00:00:24.000 Here we go.

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00:01:24.000 Joining us now is Congressman Eric Burleson.

00:01:27.000 Congressman has called the CR a total dumpster fire.

00:01:30.000 Congressman, welcome to the program.

00:01:32.000 We have about seven minutes here, and we appreciate you calling in.

00:01:35.000 I know you just came right off the floor.

00:01:37.000 Take some time and educate us.

00:01:38.000 What is a CR? What is in this bill, and why are you against it?

00:01:42.000 Yeah, a CR is a continuing resolution.

00:01:45.000 In fact, Charlie, we basically have been doing this since whenever we took the majority.

00:01:51.000 We've only been kicking the can down the road.

00:01:54.000 We're continuing the budget that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have passed.

00:01:59.000 We cannot seem to muster the willpower to make the kind of cuts that are necessary.

00:02:05.000 And so what happens is we get to the end of the year when our fiscal year ends on September 30th.

00:02:11.000 And in order to avoid a government shutdown, they will pass a continuing resolution.

00:02:15.000 Usually they'll do it until Christmas so that we get to this moment where we all want to go home for Christmas.

00:02:22.000 And then they jam us with an omnibus bill that has a bunch of pork and a bunch of bad things in it.

00:02:27.000 And that's exactly what we have going on right now. 0.99

00:02:31.000 1500 page, you know, pork barrel piece of garbage. 0.99

00:02:36.000 That everybody who votes for it should be ashamed of themselves. 0.98

00:02:40.000 So what do you have to say to the counter that we want a clean slate for President Trump, a belief that I hold, that we do not want any of the legislative poison for Trump to inherit, right?

00:02:56.000 We want Trump to have a clean slate, and that the only way to get President Trump a clean slate was by passing the CR. No, I think that you could do a clean CR and that would accomplish the goal, but that's not what they're trying to do.

00:03:09.000 They're trying to just throw in a bunch of items in this to get Democrats to vote for it. 0.74

00:03:18.000 So this is a Democrat heavy bill.

00:03:21.000 We're gonna fund the new Francis Scott Key Bridge.

00:03:27.000 There's a RFK Stadium project in here.

00:03:29.000 There's a huge boom doggle for The pharmaceutical companies for Big Pharma in this.

00:03:35.000 And so I'm honestly, Big Pharma stands to benefit $50 billion out of this bill.

00:03:41.000 The bill might as well say it's being brought to you by Pfizer.

00:03:45.000 Yeah, so walk through the process here if we can.

00:03:49.000 Was there an appropriations process?

00:03:51.000 Did this come out of committee?

00:03:53.000 Did you guys get a chance to debate all of these details?

00:03:56.000 Were you guys given weeks of informed consent here?

00:04:01.000 Walk us through the process here.

00:04:02.000 No.

00:04:03.000 No, all of that sounds great and that's the way it's supposed to work, but that's not what happened.

00:04:08.000 The process is supposed to, these bills are supposed to be 12 separate bills or funding bills.

00:04:13.000 And they go through the subcommittees of appropriations.

00:04:17.000 And then they are debated and they come to the floor for a vote individually.

00:04:21.000 That does not happen.

00:04:23.000 Instead, the speaker holds all the cards and holds all the power.

00:04:27.000 And what the speaker did is over the weekend, we were hearing rumors that this was gonna be an omnibus bill and it's gonna include all of these provisions.

00:04:37.000 And that's the information I got was through rumors.

00:04:43.000 So I texted the speaker, tried to reach out to him.

00:04:46.000 Others did as well.

00:04:47.000 But we didn't know about what was in the bill.

00:04:50.000 Nobody, other than the speaker's office, knew what was in the bill until he came in and kind of gave us a little bit of framework on Tuesday morning.

00:05:01.000 Well, here we are Wednesday.

00:05:02.000 We're probably gonna vote on it today.

00:05:03.000 They dropped the text of the bill last night at six o'clock at night.

00:05:08.000 You cannot tell me people have had Enough time to read a 1,500-page bill between last night and tonight.

00:05:15.000 And so, if we didn't have time to read it, and I know that this is a difficult topic, and I say this as someone who wants a clean slate for President Trump, who is to blame for this, Congressman?

00:05:28.000 You know, sadly, I think that Mike Johnson could do better.

00:05:32.000 And I have a lot of high hopes for him as an individual, and he's an amazing human being.

00:05:38.000 But this is a complete failure.

00:05:40.000 And I don't think that, I think just objectively, this is not something, this is not the way we should be doing things.

00:05:46.000 And I think ultimately it falls on him to step forward and do better.

00:05:52.000 So let's play some piece of tape here.

00:05:55.000 Let's go to cut 53 of Speaker Johnson, of which, look, I'm not going to comment on that because I think the Speaker wants to have a clean slate, but why not work through Christmas?

00:06:07.000 Let's play cut 53. Well, I was communicating with Elon last night.

00:06:11.000 Elon and Vivek and I are on a text chain together, and I was explaining to them the background of this.

00:06:16.000 They understand the situation.

00:06:17.000 They said, it's not directed to you, Mr. Speaker, but we don't like the spending.

00:06:20.000 I said, guess what, fellas?

00:06:21.000 I don't either.

00:06:22.000 We've got to get this done because here's the key.

00:06:24.000 By doing this, we are clearing the decks and we are setting up for Trump to come in roaring back with the America First agenda.

00:06:31.000 And all of our fiscal conservative friends, I'm one of them, will be able to finally do the things that we've been wanting to do for the last couple years.

00:06:38.000 Right now, Democrats still control the pens. 0.91

00:06:41.000 And that's the problem.

00:06:42.000 So we've got to get this thing done so we don't have the shutdown, so we get the short-term funding measure, and we get to March where we can put our fingerprints on the spending.

00:06:52.000 That's when the big changes start, and we can't wait to get there.

00:06:55.000 Right.

00:06:56.000 Congressman, of course, respectfully, I'm not asking you to bash a colleague or someone who is in leadership, but can you at least show where you disagree with what the speaker said there?

00:07:05.000 Yeah, I think that what's not...

00:07:10.000 Again, we always hear the rhetoric that we're going to do the hard things in the future, but we gotta do this right now.

00:07:19.000 I've heard that every time we come up to a decision or a vote, but I will say he didn't have to do this.

00:07:29.000 He did not have to do an omnibus bill.

00:07:32.000 He could have done a clean CR. There's no way the Democrats would have turned down a clean CR Without having to add all this other pork into it.

00:07:41.000 So that's why I think that, respectfully, I disagree that this was the only way to get this done.

00:07:49.000 Where do we go from here?

00:07:50.000 What are the chances?

00:07:51.000 Has it already passed the House?

00:07:53.000 Has there been a roll call?

00:07:54.000 Walk us through the schedule and the agenda as we conclude here.

00:07:57.000 So they have not told us when the vote is.

00:08:00.000 The rumors are that it's going to be tonight.

00:08:03.000 But other than that, I don't have the game plan.

00:08:06.000 So there's not been a vote yet?

00:08:08.000 Is that right?

00:08:09.000 There has not been a vote yet.

00:08:11.000 But the longer this sits, the more the American people are reading it and the more the American people are contacting us.

00:08:16.000 And I think they're losing votes as we speak.

00:08:19.000 So if that's the case, then will there be a government shutdown?

00:08:23.000 I think that there's time.

00:08:25.000 If this doesn't pass, Congress needs to stick around.

00:08:28.000 Do our job.

00:08:30.000 And, you know, if we have to pass a clean CR... Congressman, thank you for your time.

00:08:55.000 Thank you.

00:08:55.000 I appreciate it.

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00:10:00.000 Matt Gaetz is speaking out against the continuing resolution.

00:10:04.000 He says, and by the way, there's also an ethics report that has been released on Matt Gaetz.

00:10:09.000 So Matt responds on Twitter by saying, The Biden-Garland DOJ spent years reviewing allegations that I committed various crimes.

00:10:17.000 I was charged with nothing and fully exonerated, not even a campaign finance violation.

00:10:22.000 And the people investigating me hated me.

00:10:24.000 Then the very witnesses DOJ deemed credible, deemed not credible, were assembled by the House ethics to repeat their claims absent any cross-examination or challenge from me or my attorneys.

00:10:34.000 I've had no chance to ever confront any accusers.

00:10:37.000 I've never been charged and I've never been sued.

00:10:39.000 Instead, House Ethics will reportedly post a report online that I have no opportunity to debate or rebut as a former member of the body.

00:10:49.000 In my single days, I often sent funds to women I dated, even some I never dated but who asked.

00:10:54.000 I dated several of these women for years. 0.94

00:10:56.000 I never had any sexual contact with someone under 18. Any claim that I have would be destroyed in court, which is why no such claim was ever made in court." My 30s were an era of working very hard and playing very hard too.

00:11:08.000 It's embarrassing, though not criminal, that I partied, womanized, drank, and smoked more than I ever should have in my life.

00:11:16.000 I live a different life now, but at least I didn't vote for a CR that messes over the country.

00:11:23.000 I'm going to use a different word.

00:11:24.000 That flips over the country.

00:11:25.000 How about that?

00:11:26.000 In a lot of ways, we're going to miss Matt Gaetz in the house, but hopefully it just lets him be an even louder MAGA voice on the outside.

00:11:34.000 I know that Matt Gaetz is going to be at AmericaFest, and the biggest speakers will be there.

00:11:40.000 Something has to dramatically change.

00:11:42.000 The way of doing business, the mode of operating right now, is unsustainable.

00:11:49.000 It is unsustainable to allow Congress to continue to spend trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars that we do not have and act as if this is fine.

00:12:02.000 The American people gave us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

00:12:07.000 Now, we haven't yet sworn in that Congress.

00:12:09.000 We haven't yet started that deal.

00:12:11.000 But we have a mandate that is incredibly serious and the future of the country hangs in the balance in more ways than one.

00:12:20.000 We have to ask ourselves the question, are we serious about actually fulfilling that mandate, giving Trump his cabinet, or are we just going to kind of do minor corporate tax reform and hope things get better?

00:12:32.000 I do sympathize with the argument to give Trump a clean slate.

00:12:37.000 I think that's wise.

00:12:40.000 Because you don't want Trump on day one to use all of his political capital given by the American people to solve the Biden dysfunction of Congress.

00:12:48.000 So I think that's perfectly fair.

00:12:51.000 However, this is still its own Congress with its own mandate.

00:12:57.000 This was the 2022 mandate that we are still living under.

00:13:01.000 This is the 2022 mandate that the people gave the House of Representatives to Republican hands.

00:13:08.000 So, why are we not fighting at all?

00:13:13.000 And I get it, you don't want to shut down the government to lead to Trump's presidency.

00:13:16.000 Okay, okay, time out.

00:13:17.000 How about you just work another week?

00:13:20.000 Show us that you care.

00:13:22.000 Work one more week.

00:13:24.000 Say that we are going to do a one-week CR, and we're going to work through Christmas, and we're going to work through New Year's, and we're going to find something that is not as...

00:13:33.000 How disappointing is this?

00:13:35.000 Which has like bio-weapon funding, censorship industrial complex.

00:13:39.000 Get a few more concessions.

00:13:41.000 Get some things.

00:13:43.000 How about this?

00:13:44.000 Trim NPR's budget by like $30 million.

00:13:48.000 Just get a couple little things.

00:13:51.000 And that might require you having to sweat it out over Christmas.

00:13:55.000 What did we say during the last negotiation?

00:13:57.000 They want to go home for Christmas more than anything else.

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00:14:55.000 Go to Okay, joining us now is Neil McDonough, who is starring in a very good film, Angel.com, you can check it out, called Homestead.

00:15:13.000 Neil, an honor to have you here today.

00:15:16.000 Neil, tell us about this new film.

00:15:18.000 Well, first of all, just to work again with Angel Studios.

00:15:20.000 Well, before that...

00:15:22.000 What a big fan I am of yours, Charlie, what you stand for, your way you talk, the way that your pride in the United States of America is something that doesn't go unnoticed.

00:15:31.000 So thank you so much for that, first and foremost.

00:15:33.000 Thank you.

00:15:34.000 But, you know, Reve and I, my wife Reve and I, we partnered up with Angel Studios a couple of years back, and we couldn't be happier.

00:15:41.000 To be part of a film company that puts out films that the whole family can go to the movie theater, And then go see a film together and not have to worry about seeing certain things in a film.

00:15:51.000 And then have a conversation after.

00:15:52.000 Those are the great old days.

00:15:55.000 When I was a kid, we used to go to see films where the whole family can go and see it.

00:15:58.000 Those days have just kind of been lost.

00:16:00.000 There's a lot of messages that have been put into films from Hollywood that I don't generally agree with.

00:16:05.000 I'm guilty of being part of some of them.

00:16:07.000 That's for sure.

00:16:08.000 I have to make a living too as an actor.

00:16:10.000 But ever since we started working with Angel, we kind of changed things up and we want to give glory to God in everything that we do for our films.

00:16:18.000 And Reveille and I are just about to start our 10th project together.

00:16:22.000 So, once we made that decision of not making about ourselves and making it about doing great entertainment for people to watch and to learn from, everything started to change.

00:16:32.000 And films like Homestead are exactly that.

00:16:35.000 It's a film that talks about a horrible thing happens, as horrible things will always happen.

00:16:40.000 That's part of life.

00:16:41.000 But how will you deal with it as a dad?

00:16:43.000 How will you deal with it as a landowner?

00:16:45.000 How will you deal with that as As a husband and in my character, who I kind of make it as a Richard Branson type of character, very well-to-do guy, prepared everything, knowing that something like this was going to happen at some point.

00:16:57.000 Well, it happened.

00:16:58.000 Atomic bomb goes off and the world is thrown upside down.

00:17:02.000 But I have prepared for it and I have militia guarding my homestead.

00:17:07.000 Well, when I have relatives and friends pounding at the gate to come in and looking for food, what am I prepared to do as a self-proclaimed Christian?

00:17:15.000 And it makes my character really think about what life is truly about.

00:17:20.000 And I love doing characters like this because it makes me realize what life is truly about.

00:17:23.000 And that's about, you know, it's about love.

00:17:26.000 It's about loving each other and enjoying each other and the gifts that God is giving us.

00:17:30.000 And instead of making everything about ourselves, how can we serve our fellow brothers better?

00:17:35.000 And that's what the film's about.

00:17:37.000 And that's what I love about Angel Studios, that they allow us to make great films like this.

00:17:41.000 I love it.

00:17:41.000 Let's look at the trailer.

00:17:43.000 It's beautifully shot, like all things at Angel.com and Angel Studios.

00:17:47.000 This is Cut 61, the trailer for Homestead.

00:17:54.000 Everyone wondered how the world broke.

00:17:56.000 We're under attack.

00:17:58.000 Deep down, before society collapsed, we were already falling.

00:18:07.000 I'm over the door!

00:18:08.000 It was only a matter of time before it all crumbled.

00:18:11.000 Try to hold your breath.

00:18:16.000 Hold your breath.

00:18:18.000 I saw this.

00:18:19.000 So what?

00:18:20.000 Are you scared?

00:18:25.000 America's just been attacked.

00:18:26.000 Get to the homestead.

00:18:28.000 Is this an ark?

00:18:30.000 Or is this a fortress?

00:18:32.000 It would take a miracle for this to work.

00:18:39.000 But I believe in miracles.

00:18:41.000 Everyone wants to know how the world ended.

00:18:49.000 This is the story of how it began again.

00:18:53.000 This is the story of how it began.

00:19:04.000 So the premise is the world ends, you guys go back, and then the moral dilemmas then ensue.

00:19:11.000 Yeah, kind of perfectly put, Charlie.

00:19:13.000 Yeah, it's what will you do?

00:19:15.000 When something like this, some tragedy happens, when an atomic bomb goes off and the whole world is just thrown upside down, what are you prepared to do if you're someone who has everything?

00:19:25.000 Also, what are you prepared to do if you have nothing?

00:19:28.000 And what are you going to do for your family to get food, to get anything, to get shelter?

00:19:32.000 These are discussions that aren't taken lightly, and we don't take it lightly in the film Homestead.

00:19:38.000 We really talk about it.

00:19:40.000 And what will you do?

00:19:41.000 And I love being part of films like this because, again, it's something that you can be six years old, you can be 90 years old, you can all be in the theater together and seeing something that will make you think.

00:19:50.000 What am I prepared to do as a Christian?

00:19:52.000 What am I prepared to do as a Jew or Muslim or agnostic or Buddhist?

00:19:56.000 It doesn't matter what you are.

00:19:57.000 What are you prepared to do to help humanity?

00:19:59.000 And that's what we're all here for.

00:20:00.000 At least that's what I firmly believe.

00:20:01.000 We're here to love our neighbors and be kinder to each other and help each other and make the world a better place through love.

00:20:07.000 And Angel Studios allows us to make a film like this, which is pretty fantastic.

00:20:12.000 And I'm so proud to be part of this.

00:20:13.000 So, and I want people to see the movie, but it is a serious moral conundrum, which is, do you help the whole world?

00:20:24.000 Do you let everybody into your quote-unquote homestead in a situation like this?

00:20:28.000 Does the film view this through a Christian ethic?

00:20:31.000 Yeah, for sure.

00:20:32.000 I mean, anything through Angel Studios...

00:20:34.000 And again, I don't want to say it's just a Christian ethic, although it is, for sure. 0.71

00:20:38.000 It's a worldly ethic of, since we are all children of God, shouldn't we root for each other more?

00:20:44.000 And I keep on saying this all the time, and hopefully it'll hammer home to people at some point, and not think that your race or creed or religion is that much superior to others, because that's what we all fight about, isn't it?

00:20:53.000 We're all his kids, so let's figure out how to root for each other more instead of tear each other down.

00:20:58.000 And if you like films like this, if you would like to go to a film and you can bring the whole family and talk about worldly issues, Christian issues, whatever you want to call it, then you have to support this film.

00:21:09.000 Buy tickets.

00:21:10.000 Do these things.

00:21:10.000 Go to the theater.

00:21:11.000 Buy tickets for other people paying it forward through the Angel website.

00:21:15.000 And if you do that, you're telling Hollywood, you know, we're tired of the stuff that you usually put out.

00:21:19.000 We want to talk about or see films that the whole family can enjoy together and have a good conversation about.

00:21:25.000 And that's what Angel does.

00:21:27.000 So if that's a film you want, It speaks loudly to them when they're turning profits on films like this.

00:21:34.000 So please, I implore you, if this is what you want to see out there, support the film.

00:21:37.000 Support Angel Studios and allows us to keep on making great films.

00:21:41.000 When you buy tickets early, you enter to win an entire homestead full of equipment and Bitcoin.

00:21:47.000 And a Bitcoin.

00:21:48.000 So that's quite a giveaway.

00:21:50.000 Let's play cut 76. This clip went viral.

00:21:52.000 Bitcoin's up over $100,000 now, so I'll take a Bitcoin.

00:21:55.000 I'm glad to take one of those.

00:21:56.000 Exactly.

00:21:57.000 Worth a lot more.

00:21:58.000 For the jeans or the other stuff, the goat bags and everything else.

00:22:01.000 They've prepared a lot of great stuff for people.

00:22:03.000 Absolutely.

00:22:04.000 This clip went viral of a speech that you gave.

00:22:06.000 I'd love to dive into it.

00:22:07.000 Play cut 76, please.

00:22:09.000 They said, you have to do it or we're going to fire you.

00:22:11.000 I'm like, well, I'm not going to do it.

00:22:12.000 So they fired me.

00:22:15.000 I was blackballed for two years.

00:22:18.000 I couldn't get a job.

00:22:20.000 And because of that, I lost my big, beautiful house in Los Angeles, my shiny Mercedes, all my stuff, and my swagger.

00:22:29.000 And as you can imagine, at the time, I was really crushed.

00:22:32.000 They thought that I was some religious zealot, but to me, it was just that I didn't think it was the right thing to do.

00:22:38.000 And also, I really love my wife.

00:22:42.000 And as I've said, and I'll say it a million times, these lips are meant for one woman. 0.94

00:22:46.000 And I'm not sure if she's here in the room yet with our five kids, but if you see her, you'll understand why.

00:22:59.000 Okay.

00:23:00.000 But after that, my confidence was gone.

00:23:03.000 I lost it all.

00:23:05.000 And I started wallowing in self-pity.

00:23:08.000 I started drinking my problems away.

00:23:11.000 It hurt.

00:23:12.000 Almost two years went by, and it was the lowest point I could get to.

00:23:16.000 And I remember this day like it was yesterday.

00:23:19.000 I was so angry.

00:23:21.000 And to God, I said, why have you forgotten about me?

00:23:24.000 Why are you doing this to me?

00:23:26.000 That is some incredibly powerful stuff.

00:23:30.000 Contextualize that for the audience, please.

00:23:34.000 Be careful what you profess to be, because you'll be called on it at some point.

00:23:41.000 You know, that was one of those, I look back at that, you know, I call it kind of the crucifixion for me, of how hard it was going through all of that at that time, and it was brutal.

00:23:50.000 It was really, it was hard.

00:23:53.000 But I look back at it now with such pride and thankfulness because now I get to do what I've always wanted to do.

00:24:02.000 And I needed to step up and stand my ground a little bit harder.

00:24:05.000 And I stood my ground that day and it hurt.

00:24:07.000 But there was a plan that I didn't know about that God had for us, that he has a plan for all of us.

00:24:13.000 Every single one of us, everyone of you who are watching right now and listening right now, he has a plan for all of us.

00:24:18.000 You may not want to listen to that plan, but he has a plan.

00:24:21.000 And his plan for myself and Revae and the McDonough Company is to make films that give glory to him.

00:24:28.000 And if I hadn't been kicked to the curb like that, I'm not sure if I ever would have gotten to this place where I'm talking about amazing films like Homestead or The Shift or The Last Rodeo we have coming out in May, which is just a stupendous film that the incredible John Avnett directed for us that I wrote.

00:24:43.000 And Talking about kissing, the first time I kiss a woman on screen in a feature film is going to be in The Last Rodeo, which comes out again in May.

00:24:50.000 And I wrote it, so I wrote into it that my wife, Revae, has to play my wife in the film of flashbacks.

00:24:57.000 She has three small scenes, but one of them is the two of us making out with each other, of course, while she's dying.

00:25:02.000 And it's just, it's a beautiful...

00:25:05.000 It was one of my favorite days I've ever had as an actor.

00:25:07.000 I finally got to kiss a woman on screen, and it's my woman.

00:25:10.000 And what a powerful feeling that was.

00:25:12.000 So just to fill in more on that clip, though, just because we only have two minutes remaining in this segment, I'm assuming, I'm inferring based on that clip, you were asked to do some sort of a kissing or sexual scene, and you refused, and therefore a sequence of cancellations occurred.

00:25:27.000 Am I inferring correctly?

00:25:29.000 You inferred perfectly.

00:25:30.000 Yeah, they wanted me to do a kissing scene and I wouldn't do it.

00:25:32.000 And they said, we'll fire you.

00:25:33.000 I'm like, okay, well, then I guess you're gonna fire me.

00:25:35.000 And they did.

00:25:37.000 And I was blackballed.

00:25:39.000 You know, I was canceled.

00:25:41.000 I guess that's the term you call it.

00:25:42.000 But it was brutal.

00:25:44.000 It was hard losing everything.

00:25:47.000 And we had lots of stuff.

00:25:49.000 But then I realized life wasn't about stuff.

00:25:51.000 Life is about love and life is about doing the right thing and trying to always be the best version of you possible.

00:25:57.000 I learned a lot of great things from those times where I was really hurting.

00:26:01.000 And I had two great things to get me through it.

00:26:04.000 My wife, Revae, as I've said, I can go through life with one hand behind my back as long as the other one's being led by Revae.

00:26:09.000 And the other one, of course, is my relationship with God, that I want to do the right thing by Him.

00:26:14.000 And that's what we're doing now.

00:26:16.000 And films like Homestead kind of prove that, that I've gotten to this point where I get to make films that I'm really proud of, that give great messages about Him and for Him.

00:26:24.000 And how we can make the world a better place through film.

00:26:26.000 And here I am on the Charlie Kirk Show talking about this career that I've built with my wife and how blessed am I. Praise the Lord.

00:26:34.000 And what a great role model you are for other people that are getting into the arts.

00:26:40.000 Okay, everybody, you've heard a lot of misinformation around ivermectin.

00:26:44.000 That's right, ivermectin.

00:26:45.000 And the media has villainized people like you and me to take it.

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00:27:43.000 allfamilypharma.com promo code KIRK. So, Neil, I'm sure that you are not the only person in Hollywood that shares these values, but you are one of the few that decided to stand up and actually pay the cost.

00:27:59.000 Can you speak to that?

00:28:00.000 Because the way Hollywood has been configured is to try and force one into submission and to make you act against your values.

00:28:09.000 Neil.

00:28:11.000 Yeah, yes, for sure.

00:28:13.000 If you're an actor, they want you to be an actor.

00:28:14.000 If you're a writer, they want you to be a writer.

00:28:15.000 If you're a producer, they don't want you to jump to different things and be some kind of a hyphenate, I guess.

00:28:21.000 I kind of threw out the rule book years ago where I don't really care about any of that.

00:28:27.000 All I care about is being the best actor that I can be.

00:28:30.000 My dad said, if you go to Hollywood, if they give you a dollar, give them two dollars worth of effort.

00:28:34.000 And my dad, right off the boat from Ireland, he knew what a dollar meant.

00:28:38.000 And I work really hard to make sure that all the choices I make are really entertaining.

00:28:43.000 That's my job security, to be the best actor that I can be and Always be striving to be my very best in everything that I do.

00:28:52.000 Is it harder as a Christian or as a Catholic or as a person of faith?

00:28:58.000 I don't even like to think about it.

00:29:00.000 Look, I get to do film.

00:29:02.000 I get to do TV. I get to do documentaries.

00:29:03.000 I get to do stage.

00:29:04.000 I get to play good guys.

00:29:05.000 I get to play bad guys.

00:29:06.000 I get to do everything.

00:29:07.000 I've been very...

00:29:09.000 Blessed to have this career that I've had.

00:29:11.000 And now I get to do it with my wife, producing our films through Angel Studios.

00:29:16.000 And that's our home.

00:29:17.000 And I can't even tell you how fortunate I am, you know, 10 years ago where I was and how hard it was and how brutal things were at that point, thinking I was never going to get out of this.

00:29:29.000 That I got out of it through my faith in him and, you know, through my wife's faith in me, that I got through those horrible, dark times to create something so beautiful as the films that we've been making lately.

00:29:41.000 And it's just everything that I do, you know, from my health, what I eat, what I do with my body.

00:29:47.000 And, you know, but a year ago, I had to get really this great shape for The last rodeo.

00:29:53.000 And I got shredded.

00:29:54.000 I got really ripped.

00:29:55.000 And I bought into this company, flipped my life.

00:29:58.000 And we started, you know, selling all these different great things to help people just feel better about life.

00:30:04.000 So it's not just about my acting that I'm trying to make the world a better place.

00:30:07.000 I'm trying to make the world a better place through the products that I am part of, things that I endorse, things that I wear, things that I eat, things that I say, everything.

00:30:15.000 I try to make sure that it has importance to everything that I do.

00:30:19.000 And my wife, Revae, feels exactly the same way.

00:30:21.000 So the two of us together are on this kind of mission to make the world a better place through everything that we do.

00:30:26.000 And isn't that what we're all supposed to do?

00:30:29.000 One would think.

00:30:30.000 What is your advice?

00:30:32.000 Last question here, Neil.

00:30:33.000 We get this question a lot.

00:30:36.000 Of young people that want to get into the arts.

00:30:38.000 Not just movies, but graphic design or in cinematography.

00:30:44.000 And there's more people that have your worldview than I think people realize.

00:30:48.000 I'm talking about specifically your advice to people that have a worldview that is not, let's just say, the main orthodoxy of Hollywood.

00:30:57.000 What would your advice be having the battle scars that you have?

00:31:02.000 Well, you know, if you have talent, you'll go so far.

00:31:05.000 If you have confidence, you'll go so far.

00:31:07.000 If you have both, great things are going to happen.

00:31:09.000 But to have confidence, you have to know who you are and what you really want to do.

00:31:12.000 And for me, it was I wanted to...

00:31:15.000 Make sure that I was surrounded by people who knew what I wanted to do and we build together.

00:31:20.000 So we keep on hiring the same crews, you know, a lot of the same actors in our pieces because they understand what we want to do and what we're trying to build.

00:31:30.000 And for those who are new to it, Look, you've got iPhones now.

00:31:33.000 We didn't have iPhones when I first started.

00:31:35.000 You had to go get tape or you had to do shows or theater or whatever the case is.

00:31:39.000 You have an iPhone.

00:31:40.000 You can make your own movie and send it off to Angel Studios.

00:31:44.000 Send it to the Irwin Brothers.

00:31:45.000 Send it to the Kendricks. 0.98

00:31:46.000 Send it to Dallas Jenkins.

00:31:48.000 Send it to any of these people.

00:31:49.000 If you want to be in the kind of films that we're making, send it to the McDonough Company.

00:31:53.000 We have an email.

00:31:54.000 We answer every email that comes in.

00:31:55.000 That's the way we do it because we want to give back And help and build for the future in this industry and to make films that give glory to Him.

00:32:03.000 And that's what we're doing.

00:32:04.000 And we're so blessed to do it.

00:32:06.000 So if you're young and you're just starting out, or if you've been doing it for a while and you're kind of stuck, well, if that's the kind of film that you want to be part of, it's pretty easy.

00:32:14.000 Reach out to these companies.

00:32:15.000 Support these movies.

00:32:17.000 Go to the movie theaters and keep buying tickets to films like Homestead or The Shift or The Last Rodeo or any of these films that the people that I just mentioned are making.

00:32:27.000 Then there'll be a lot more films like this.

00:32:28.000 And with more films comes more production.

00:32:30.000 With more production comes more crew.

00:32:31.000 With more crew comes more jobs to people who need to work.

00:32:34.000 And hopefully in California, they'll figure out a way to get more filming back here in the great state of California because, you know, it's hard always leaving.

00:32:42.000 It's hard going to Vancouver for years or going to Atlanta or going to wherever.

00:32:45.000 I love doing what I do.

00:32:47.000 I sure would love it a lot more if I got to do it at home and sleep in my bed at night.

00:32:50.000 And that's our next goal, you know, to talk to the government to try to make it happen here.

00:32:54.000 Neil, excellent work.

00:32:55.000 Thank you so much.

00:32:55.000 Hope to meet you in person.

00:32:57.000 Thank you for your courage and testimony.

00:32:58.000 Check out angel.com and watch Homestead right now.

00:33:01.000 Thank you.

00:33:01.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:03.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - December 19, 2024

Beating Hollywood's War on Christians

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