The Charlie Kirk Show - Who Was Ronald Reagan? ft. Dennis Quaid

Dennis Quaid talks about the new Reagan movie and why he chose to impersonate the late President Ronald Reagan in the new film "Regan" starring Dennis Quaid. The film is being released on August 21st, 2019. If you haven't seen the movie yet, go check it out on Amazon Prime and Vimeo. The trailer is out now and it's a must see! This episode is sponsored by Noble Gold Investments, the official gold sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investing, where I buy all of my gold. Go to NobleGoldInvestments.com/TheCharlieKirkShow and become a Member at Memberscharliekirk.com. It's where I Buy All of My Gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.co/thekirkshow and get 20% off your first month with discount code CHALLENGE at checkout. That's right, 20% OFF YOUR FIRST MONTH! You're a Son of a Bitch, You're A Son of A Bitch! Charlie Kirk, you're a BITCH! Let's open this gate, Mr. Kirk, here we go! CHEERS! Charlie Kirk Charlie CHILLYKIRK - The Charlie KIRK Show - Charlie Kirk - Mr.Kirk Show - Charlie's Day Off - Charlie, you re a son of a bitch? Check out the new movie, Regan! - Cut 114, Ronald Reagan - Ronald Reagan's life story Cut 114 - Ronald Regan: The Movie Ronald Reagan, the movie and his life story, and how he was the greatest president of all-around American icon, and what made him tick, and why you should go see it? - the new Regan? and why it's uniquely American one? Let s go watch it on Aug. 21st! Check it out! and go to go to the movie! Get your tickets to the premiere of the Regan Movie! on August 20th, August 21, 2019! Thank you for listening to this amazing movie, Ron Quaid, Ronald Ralden, the man who made it so much better than the original Regan film! Thanks, Charlie!

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00:00:01.000 Dennis Quaid talks about the new Reagan movie.

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00:01:14.000 Joining us now is Dennis Quaid, who is the star of the upcoming Regan film.

00:01:20.000 Dennis, welcome to the program.

00:01:22.000 Honored to have you here, and amazing movie.

00:01:24.000 Congratulations.

00:01:25.000 Oh, thanks.

00:01:26.000 Thanks for having me, Charlie, and thanks for the review.

00:01:29.000 Thank you very much.

00:01:30.000 Thank you.

00:01:30.000 I'm a huge fan of yours, have been for many years, and honored to have you here on the program.

00:01:34.000 So, why did you decide to be part of Regan?

00:01:37.000 What about Regan's story captured your imagination and wanted you to be part of this great work?

00:01:41.000 He was my favorite president, number one.

00:01:44.000 And I voted for him back in 1980.

00:01:48.000 I voted for him, went home.

00:01:50.000 I had a roommate at the time.

00:01:51.000 I said, who'd you vote for?

00:01:53.000 I said, Reagan.

00:01:54.000 He said, you are kicked out of the hippies.

00:01:58.000 So I turned in my card.

00:02:00.000 That was it.

00:02:01.000 I was offered the role, 2018.

00:02:05.000 And at the time, I didn't say yes, but I didn't say no.

00:02:11.000 Because a shiver of fear would up my spine.

00:02:14.000 Reagan is one of those figures in history, like Muhammad Ali, everybody in the world seems to know what he looks like, sounds like, walks like, and has an opinion.

00:02:24.000 And I didn't want to do an impersonation of him, you know, and I really wanted to get down to Uh, finding out what, really what made him tick.

00:02:39.000 I mean, that's, that's what acting is really all about.

00:02:42.000 It's the things that make us human.

00:02:46.000 And, uh, when I went up to the Reagan Ranch, I was invited up there, which is not open to the public.

00:02:52.000 It's, it's, uh, friends bought it after his passing.

00:02:57.000 And they even, uh, he and Nancy, it was the Western White House back then.

00:03:01.000 And their clothes are in the closet.

00:03:03.000 It's like they're going to come back any second.

00:03:05.000 They didn't change a thing.

00:03:08.000 And driving up the five miles of the worst road in California to get to the top of the mountain and coming out into that pasture, I could feel Reagan there.

00:03:21.000 It was a humble band.

00:03:23.000 And the house was 1100 square feet.

00:03:26.000 They had a king size bed.

00:03:29.000 It was two single beds that were zip tied together.

00:03:32.000 This is the Western White House that he had, but I could feel him there in that place.

00:03:37.000 And that's what I said.

00:03:38.000 Yes.

00:03:40.000 It's and his story is uniquely American one.

00:03:43.000 I want to play just a little bit from the movie here, which I encourage everyone to go to go watch and to go to the film to go check it out on August 21st.

00:03:51.000 Let's go to here.

00:03:53.000 This is cut 114 the famous tear down this wall speech play cut 114.

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00:05:52.000 Now, Dennis, based on my amateur understanding of history, there was a debate of whether he should say that or not and it wasn't in the speech.

00:06:00.000 Is that correct?

00:06:01.000 Yeah, and to put it in context, it's a nice swelling of a moment in a movie, but if you live through those times, and it's...

00:06:14.000 It was monumental to really say that the Berlin Wall, I mean, I was there myself when they were taking it down.

00:06:22.000 I got a couple of chips from it, went over there and got to take a sledgehammer to it.

00:06:28.000 Wow.

00:06:28.000 But we, my generation, we grew up, you know, with drills out of the blue at school to get under our desk, you know, that, you know, an atomic attack drill.

00:06:41.000 You know, and lived in fear.

00:06:44.000 And it was very real that there was going to be a nuclear confrontation between the USSR and the United States.

00:06:54.000 And Reagan not only ended the Cold War, he won the Cold War.

00:06:59.000 And He also, as a nation, gave us confidence.

00:07:06.000 We were a nation in decline back in the late seventies, so they said, and Reagan said, no, we're going that way.

00:07:13.000 And that's what great leaders are all about.

00:07:16.000 The courage that he had to give that speech, and it was really a defining moment of the West versus communist totalitarianism, still echoes in today's time.

00:07:28.000 The story of Reagan, though, is one where he always was up against some sort of odds.

00:07:35.000 They called him a cowboy that couldn't win his presidential elections.

00:07:39.000 You know, he wasn't always successful.

00:07:41.000 He ran multiple times.

00:07:43.000 We have a clip here from his speech in 1964.

00:07:46.000 But before I play this, though, talk about your parents and the backstory of this 1964 speech.

00:07:54.000 I was in my dad's truck.

00:07:57.000 We were going from Houston to Galveston.

00:07:59.000 I'm from Houston.

00:08:01.000 And Reagan was giving what they call the speech, Rendezvous with Destiny.

00:08:06.000 That's what we're about to hear at the time.

00:08:09.000 My dad was like pounding the dash like, you go, Ronnie.

00:08:13.000 And for me, you know, at the time, that was the first time I was aware of Reagan as a political figure.

00:08:20.000 Before that, you know, he sold borax soap on Death Valley Day.

00:08:26.000 Bedtime for Bonzo.

00:08:27.000 Yeah, bedtime.

00:08:29.000 And so that was the beginning of my awareness of Reagan.

00:08:35.000 And the speech was He was outstomping for Goldwater.

00:08:39.000 Everybody knew that Goldwater wasn't going to win, but it was his entrance into national politics and he made quite an impression.

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00:09:52.000 The context of what we're living through is remarkable and some of the similarities

00:09:59.000 I'm not sure, do you touch on this in the movie, because I'm working my way through it, of Reagan getting shot, and any... Yes.

00:10:06.000 Okay, so obviously that is kind of in play, given recent events, unfortunately.

00:10:11.000 Yeah, very relevant.

00:10:14.000 The movie opens with that, you know, the assassination attempt on him, which really changed him.

00:10:21.000 As well, you know, he said, my life is no longer mine.

00:10:25.000 It's, you know, it's working for the man upstairs because he was saved by that.

00:10:32.000 But Reagan was, besides getting assassinated, what made Reagan great is that he governed and lived his life by principles.

00:10:43.000 And those are not, the principles don't have anything to do with political party.

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00:11:19.000 This movie is a way, you know, you mentioned at the top about your amateur story, and I'm sure you know a lot about history, but if you're under 35, if you were born Uh after 1985 this will be a uh this movie is a great way to see what this country used to be like and feel what this country used to be like really and what it still can be if it's about us uniting as people not under a political party but just uniting as people what we can do

00:11:53.000 And if you're born before 1985, it's a reminder, really.

00:12:00.000 And a great look back, because the movie's, besides being about Reagan, it's about all of us.

00:12:06.000 And I'd like to get all of us baby boomers to go back to the movies again for this.

00:12:13.000 Yes, that's right.

00:12:14.000 This is one that I think everybody will enjoy.

00:12:19.000 Movies are meant to entertain.

00:12:21.000 And, you know, Reagan was called a warmonger as well.

00:12:24.000 And he was, you know, a cowboy.

00:12:26.000 He was going to get us into problems.

00:12:28.000 And, you know, it was an actor who wasn't smart enough to, you know, handle the economy and all that.

00:12:35.000 And, you know, he got us through.

00:12:41.000 So, Dennis, you kind of mentioned this.

00:12:43.000 We have a primarily younger audience that doesn't know the story of Reagan.

00:12:49.000 You mentioned this, but I'm sure because you are one of the best in your craft and just looking at, you know, watching parts of the movie and seeing it and working my way through it, you did an amazing job of embodying him and really portraying him as he was, not as how you wished he was.

00:13:05.000 Can you talk about the research and the study that you did in preparation For effectively doing the first Reagan movie ever.

00:13:13.000 I mean, there were other small ones, but this is the... This is the big one.

00:13:18.000 Yeah, it is.

00:13:20.000 You know, it had the blessing of some of his family, let's put it that way, and the cooperation.

00:13:30.000 We shot it at the Reagan Ranch, for instance, which was incredibly cool.

00:13:34.000 We were doing these scenes that happened, you know, in history, and you're standing right there, and the Reagan Library, he was in Air Force One, But it's, you know, I did not want to do like a love letter about him.

00:13:48.000 And I'd lived through all these times.

00:13:50.000 And there were times when I was mad at Reagan, you know, when it came to negotiations or talks with the Russians, especially at Reykjavik, when he said no and got up and walked out of Gorbachev.

00:14:06.000 And, but, you know, I, I thought, well, he's turned into an old conjurer.

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00:14:12.000 But, but that was really the impetus, which, which really did, uh, where the Soviets collapsed and ended the Cold War.

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00:15:22.000 The applicability to today's time is remarkable, and I want to just encourage the audience here, you guys, tickets are available now at reagan.movie, and this is not a political thing, this is a historical, just, accomplishment.

00:15:38.000 Alright, Dennis, tell us about Ronald Reagan's whistle-stop tour with General Electric.

00:15:43.000 Well, this was before he was even in politics.

00:15:47.000 He had a job as a spokesman for GE, General Electric.

00:15:54.000 And he took, in doing that, he went around the country to all the factories, and not into just the business offices of the higher-ups, but he went out on the floor and he talked to the men and women who worked for GE on that.

00:16:15.000 And that really was the beginnings of his political base.

00:16:19.000 And, you know, Reagan was a Republican.

00:16:22.000 He used to be a Democrat, by the way, and he switched over in 64.

00:16:26.000 But he was, had that, he had that common touch.

00:16:30.000 Regular people, you know, at all classes really communicated with him,

00:16:37.000 the great communicator.

00:16:39.000 And that was part of the beginnings of his political base.

00:16:43.000 What in this process of the study that you did with Reagan, what is one or two

00:16:47.000 things you learned about him that you want the audience to know about when they

00:16:51.000 see the film and they dive deeper into the life of Ronald Reagan?

00:16:55.000 Number one, he was not a perfect man.

00:16:56.000 He was a human, like all of us, with, you know, flaws, maybe not so obvious as some of the flaws that we see in other politicians these days or whatever, or ourselves.

00:17:09.000 But he was, there was also, Reagan was called a great communicator, yet everyone I talked to in my research about him said there was a place in him that was Impenetrable that you could get so far and then you it was tough to get any further a very private place in the end which I think was for one thing with so many people around you and and having that place of privacy in there where and I think that place is also where he

00:17:47.000 Communicated with God which is the only prayer minute in meditation, and I'm not trying to set it up that you know he was like having a telephone call with God, but he was you know as part of it is the bedrock of of him as a person and It's that was what was very That's what I wanted to get to where he came from and also There was insecurities.

00:18:17.000 I'm an actor myself, and I know that Reagan Did not get to the place where he wanted to get to as an actor.

00:18:28.000 You know, I think he had feelings of less than actually with that insecurity.

00:18:35.000 He was married to Jane Wyman towards the end of his career when his was going down and Jane's was coming up and she won an Academy Award, in fact, which in relief to that.

00:18:46.000 That's when he became vice president and then president of the Screen Actors Guild.

00:18:51.000 That's not a job that any actor wants to have.

00:18:54.000 That's what you have when acting is not really working out, you know?

00:18:59.000 Or you're kind of at the end of your career, which was, in a way, I think, him finding God's purpose for himself.

00:19:10.000 You know, we're all in a search for that.

00:19:16.000 It's not so obvious to us all the time, and it's very surprising how God's purpose for us comes into our lives.

00:19:27.000 I know with myself, I say, you know, I've got to be careful about what I ask God for, because He just might give it to me.

00:19:34.000 That's right.

00:19:36.000 He's going to give it to me in a way that I'm going to go, wait, wait a minute, that's not what I meant at all.

00:19:43.000 And it's how we respond to that, which is a test in our lives.

00:19:51.000 And I think that's what you see in Reagan.

00:19:55.000 Dennis, thank you for doing this and spending time with us.

00:19:58.000 I think this is one of the most important films to come out in the last decade.

00:20:01.000 I've been wondering, when is the Reagan, you know, story going to be told?

00:20:04.000 I grew up just loving Reagan, still do, and admiring him.

00:20:07.000 People can check it out at reagan.movie, and we need to... You know, I'd like to say, too, if you don't mind, this is not like going to a classroom, because I hate movies like that.

00:20:17.000 You know, this is a story of a person That it's inspiring, I think, and the relationship that he and Nancy had in a person's life, but it's also about the American people, about all of us.

00:20:33.000 Yes.

00:20:33.000 Where we are today and yesterday.

00:20:36.000 I love it.

00:20:36.000 Dennis, thank you so much.

00:20:38.000 I want our entire audience available exclusively in theaters August 30th.

00:20:44.000 General public, groups of 50 or more can see it August 21st, Reagan.movie.

00:20:47.000 Dennis, thanks so much.

00:20:49.000 Thank you.

00:20:49.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:20:50.000 Thanks for having me.

00:20:51.000 God bless you.

00:20:52.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:20:53.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:20:55.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - August 08, 2024

Who Was Ronald Reagan? ft. Dennis Quaid

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