The Glenn Beck Program - February 24, 2025


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Episode Stats

Length

43 minutes

Words per Minute

160.67577

Word Count

6,927

Sentence Count

471

Misogynist Sentences

17

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

On today's show, we have a rapid fire recap of the top stories from the past weekend, including the new FBI Director, a new children's book, and a new Hollywood venture. Plus, Uncle Glenn talks about his new children s story for the folks and the Governor of Wisconsin, John Irwin of the Irwin Brothers joins us to talk about a new venture with Amazon.


Transcript

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00:02:33.620 All right, let me just give you the news as I see it,
00:02:44.080 what happened over the weekend of February 15th and 16th.
00:02:47.760 What happened this weekend, I think, is liberty, justice, and the truth breaking free.
00:02:52.200 So let's dive in here.
00:02:53.140 Cash Patel is taking the FBI helm.
00:02:56.940 His first full official day is today.
00:02:59.700 He was sworn in as FBI director with the hand on the Gita of a pledge to uphold his constitution.
00:03:10.480 It's not a bureaucratic shuffle.
00:03:14.200 It is a shot across the bow of the weaponized deep state.
00:03:17.320 This one makes all the difference in the world.
00:03:21.160 Cash is making people in Washington sweat, and he should.
00:03:25.720 Patel has vowed to root out corruption left, right, or center,
00:03:29.740 and the whispers of the Epstein client list that he told me over the summer was in a safe behind the desk of the director of the FBI.
00:03:41.420 I know that Cash Patel must have been in the office of the FBI on Friday because Pam Bondi said,
00:03:49.860 the client list is now sitting on my desk.
00:03:54.240 I'm reviewing it.
00:03:56.300 I have a feeling Cash took it out from behind that desk safe and brought it over to Pam Bondi.
00:04:03.480 She looked at it, and I'm hoping, as today is his first full day in office, it will be released today.
00:04:11.000 But transparency one way or another is coming, and justice isn't going to care who you voted for.
00:04:16.980 I'm going to tell you more about this coming up in just a minute.
00:04:19.940 Also, Trump has locked in his cabinet now.
00:04:22.220 He has finalized his cabinet this weekend.
00:04:24.900 Patel, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, the folks who have bucked the system, not bowed to it, are all in.
00:04:31.760 The Senate's buzzing.
00:04:33.600 But this crew is built to shrink government and not meddle abroad unless America is directly threatened.
00:04:41.160 No more endless wars.
00:04:42.900 No more nanny state.
00:04:44.860 Just constitutional governance.
00:04:46.620 That's what they're promising, and so far, that's what they're delivering.
00:04:50.100 The elites absolutely hate it, which makes me love it.
00:04:58.160 By the way, I don't understand.
00:05:00.280 Democrats, you've been preaching against the Pentagon forever now.
00:05:05.740 Wait.
00:05:07.460 Donald Trump says cut 8% of the defense budget in the next four years,
00:05:12.800 and you're somehow or another against that now?
00:05:17.060 Wow.
00:05:18.940 Hello, Democrat Lindsey Grahams of the world.
00:05:23.740 Midwest storms all through the states, but FEMA wasn't there.
00:05:28.860 Oh, no.
00:05:29.860 If you read the stories about this this weekend, you heard that it was chaos because FEMA had been cut.
00:05:36.780 Really?
00:05:38.000 Is that what caused the chaos?
00:05:40.480 Brule storm buried the Midwest.
00:05:42.240 Snow piled high.
00:05:43.140 Power was out.
00:05:44.420 Lives disrupted.
00:05:45.360 The media is whining about FEMA and the FEMA cuts, but hang on, because I think everyone saw this storm coming.
00:05:55.960 This wasn't like, oh, my gosh, it was a tornado that came out of nowhere.
00:06:00.640 The storm had to travel halfway across the country to get to your state, Illinois, Michigan.
00:06:08.480 You didn't have warnings?
00:06:13.080 Were you in Ghana?
00:06:15.900 How come you didn't prepare?
00:06:19.360 You see, it's weird.
00:06:20.400 When we know a hurricane is coming, Florida seems to be able to pull their head out of their rectum and actually prepare.
00:06:30.820 So when it hits, they can turn the lights back on.
00:06:34.180 But, gee, Illinois, Michigan, you just couldn't get it done.
00:06:38.960 What does Illinois and Michigan have in common?
00:06:43.120 Where are the governors?
00:06:45.000 Florida shrugs off hurricanes without federal babysitters.
00:06:48.200 Why can't Michigan and Illinois?
00:06:52.060 FEMA is nothing but a bloated crutch.
00:06:54.880 States need to step up or ask for help.
00:06:57.260 Oh, my gosh.
00:06:57.900 Wouldn't it have been crazy if when you knew there was this storm coming, you as a governor could have been in the same room with the president at the White House last week?
00:07:10.620 Maybe you got to pull them aside and said, hey, we got a big emergency coming.
00:07:14.620 Can you help us?
00:07:16.580 Seems other states did that.
00:07:19.540 Why weren't you ready?
00:07:20.940 People, you need to start relying on your states and demanding that your governors pull their heads out of their rectum.
00:07:32.000 Next story that I saw, the homelessness crisis.
00:07:36.340 Oh, my gosh.
00:07:37.440 It's a crisis.
00:07:38.600 Ha.
00:07:40.400 Ha.
00:07:41.920 That's the first time I've seen that one.
00:07:44.720 There's a homelessness crisis in our country?
00:07:49.060 What?
00:07:51.260 Yes.
00:07:52.340 Tent cities grew this weekend.
00:07:55.400 Yeah.
00:07:56.060 You know why?
00:07:57.160 According to the mainstream media, the HUD staff cuts by the Doge team.
00:08:04.800 Hang on just a second.
00:08:07.040 It's been a week for those cuts.
00:08:10.340 So, you cut the staff at the top of HUD a week ago, and all of a sudden, homelessness is out of control.
00:08:22.540 Eh.
00:08:23.420 Show me the cut that tanked housing overnight.
00:08:26.120 Could you do that for me?
00:08:28.380 I think this might predate Donald Trump.
00:08:32.440 I don't know.
00:08:32.980 Well, I've never seen any pictures of homeless camps all around the country before this last weekend.
00:08:39.560 This is decades of blue state failures, not a seven-day staffing trim.
00:08:46.640 Governors and mayors, you all own this now, not Uncle Sam.
00:08:52.700 Accountability is about to go local.
00:08:56.360 Hmm.
00:08:57.500 Closer to the people.
00:08:58.900 Well, maybe we can make changes.
00:09:03.400 Also, Trump and Zelensky, we're back at it.
00:09:06.620 Zelensky says he's not going to give the United States anything unless, I mean, he'll retire if, if Ukraine's allowed to join NATO.
00:09:19.660 Isn't this where we started this whole thing in the first place?
00:09:24.600 Germany's election, if we have time today, I want to talk about that.
00:09:27.660 They had a snap election, a campaign that went on the far-right AFD is on the rise.
00:09:36.100 That's because Vance was stirring the pot, you know, in Munich.
00:09:39.200 That's what happened.
00:09:40.660 Vance was meddling.
00:09:41.700 Now, you know, what we did is we cut all those USAID programs that were actually meddling in everybody's elections around the world.
00:09:52.020 We decided, nah, we shouldn't do that.
00:09:54.400 We should let the people of those countries decide themselves.
00:09:58.300 Yeah, you want to talk about a danger to democracy?
00:10:02.380 Stop meddling in people's elections.
00:10:05.000 Right?
00:10:05.720 Am I right?
00:10:08.180 Their vote was held yesterday.
00:10:10.840 And the fallout is Germany's to handle.
00:10:13.460 We'll watch.
00:10:14.040 We'll not wait in, hopefully.
00:10:17.720 I mean, unless it starts to hit our shores.
00:10:19.800 It's not our business.
00:10:21.560 Stateside, we have bigger fish to fry.
00:10:24.240 But there are some things that, if I have time, we need to talk about on that.
00:10:27.620 And Elon Musk is pushing for AI innovation.
00:10:34.900 The Doge crew cheered California's AI safety veto this weekend.
00:10:39.580 Less red tape, more breakthroughs.
00:10:41.560 At the same time, he just came out and said, we are at the event horizon of the singularity.
00:10:51.660 Oh, big deal.
00:10:52.940 What are the price of eggs?
00:10:54.900 Um, I don't know.
00:10:57.240 But we might have robot chickens that eat us soon if you don't pay attention to the singularity.
00:11:01.920 We'll talk about that coming up next hour.
00:11:04.400 And the FCC has called out CBS, their bias.
00:11:09.040 The FCC zeroed in on CBS this weekend, probes into news distortion, hinting at real consequences.
00:11:17.120 Fascist!
00:11:18.180 This is not censorship.
00:11:19.860 This is about accountability.
00:11:21.100 Now, hear me out on this.
00:11:25.040 Should stations be able to lie?
00:11:28.120 Well, no.
00:11:30.960 But notice I said stations, not outlets.
00:11:35.520 When you have a license from the United States government, you're in bed with the United States government.
00:11:46.380 I know I've done this my whole life.
00:11:50.540 I had to get an FCC third phone.
00:11:52.940 I'm a third phone license holder, I'll tell you that.
00:11:57.820 I don't even know what that means, but I've got one.
00:12:02.240 I had to take a test for it.
00:12:04.180 Yeah, 13 years old.
00:12:05.840 I'm at the FCC taking a test for my third phone license.
00:12:10.060 I promptly lost that license.
00:12:14.580 I mean, I still have it.
00:12:15.820 I didn't, I mean, I lost it, kind of like I lose my driver's license all the time.
00:12:20.740 But if you want to lose a license, what you have to do as a local broadcaster is to break FCC rules.
00:12:30.060 You see, local CBS stations have to have a license through the FCC.
00:12:38.520 They serve the local community.
00:12:41.480 Now, perhaps in New York and San Francisco, those people believe in their local community
00:12:46.640 that lying to the American people and changing interviews to be able to make one politician look better than the other in a newscast is a public service.
00:12:58.840 I mean, we can't have people knowing what they really believe and what they're really like.
00:13:04.680 We need them to win as a public service.
00:13:08.640 But I can't imagine all the red states and red cities feel that that was a public service from CBS News.
00:13:15.240 My question is, have you written a letter to your local CBS affiliate?
00:13:20.980 You see, any complaint letters where somebody writes in from the local community and says,
00:13:28.060 I think this was wrong, and I hope the FCC investigates you, and I've cc'd the FCC.
00:13:37.060 Too many c's for me to even follow.
00:13:40.940 I've cc'd the FCC, and so the FCC is going to know about it ASAP.
00:13:45.840 I'll tell you that right now, and hopefully they're going to kick your ASS.
00:13:49.340 Anyway, have you written your local affiliate yet?
00:13:55.680 And manufacturers warn of trouble.
00:14:00.020 Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
00:14:01.720 New York Times says the New York Fed's latest is pegged manufacturing at peak pessimism this last weekend.
00:14:08.980 A slowdown is looming.
00:14:10.340 We can't wait to blame Trump.
00:14:14.260 No, they didn't actually say that.
00:14:16.240 But you know they were thinking.
00:14:19.080 This is from years of over-regulation, globalism.
00:14:22.680 It's all biting back.
00:14:23.900 States can lead the fix, cut taxes, ditch the green tape.
00:14:28.240 Washington shouldn't be the only savior here.
00:14:30.740 Every state should take it on.
00:14:34.140 And finally, one last story, and it's a sad one.
00:14:40.720 It seems another major chain might be ready to bite the dust.
00:14:45.320 Bloomberg has reported that Hooters, the country's most famous breastaurant,
00:14:51.940 is in talks with the law firm Ropes & Gray to prepare bankruptcy.
00:14:57.080 It is always sad to see people struggle.
00:15:03.540 But even more sad when a great institution, an American institution like this, goes tits up.
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00:16:33.920 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:16:38.620 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:16:40.540 We're glad that you're here.
00:16:41.400 Stu, I don't know if you saw the Democratic Wisconsin governor, Tony Evers.
00:16:51.000 He's not exactly on the Trump train.
00:16:53.720 Really?
00:16:54.300 Yeah.
00:16:54.540 That's a shocking development.
00:16:55.600 It's a shocking...
00:16:56.020 Yeah, it is.
00:16:56.560 It is.
00:16:56.940 It is.
00:16:57.200 You know, it kind of amazes me that...
00:17:00.880 I mean, I get it when you're against, you know, going in and cutting the spending of any of these crazy things.
00:17:08.460 I get it.
00:17:09.200 Because you're probably on the take.
00:17:11.000 You know what I mean?
00:17:11.940 You're probably part of that system that somehow or another benefits you.
00:17:16.080 I don't know exactly how, but I can get it.
00:17:19.480 I mean, it just tells me who you are.
00:17:21.600 But when you are still on the bandwagon of, you know what?
00:17:27.400 Boys are girls, and they're going to compete in sports.
00:17:31.180 I don't get it.
00:17:32.500 I really don't get it.
00:17:34.100 Because nobody really thinks that way, really, anymore.
00:17:38.320 I mean, is that true?
00:17:41.720 I mean, they lost, right?
00:17:43.480 They lost with that approach, which is something they should note if they care about winning in the future.
00:17:49.100 Correct.
00:17:49.400 That being said, you know, they...
00:17:52.080 Does nobody think about that?
00:17:53.100 No.
00:17:53.500 No, you're right.
00:17:54.260 Nobody.
00:17:54.740 Not nobody.
00:17:55.700 It's not even close to nobody, right?
00:17:57.080 Like, they still got millions and millions.
00:17:59.040 I mean, they got, what, 40-something percent of the vote.
00:18:01.420 I'm not sure that that 40%, though, was...
00:18:05.160 They're not on that bandwagon, for sure.
00:18:07.400 I'm against cisgenderism.
00:18:09.360 That's not what they were voting on.
00:18:11.680 I agree.
00:18:12.880 That's not what they were voting on.
00:18:15.200 But there is a large...
00:18:16.460 There's still a good chunk.
00:18:17.600 I don't know.
00:18:18.100 What is it?
00:18:18.500 A quarter?
00:18:19.400 40% of Democrats?
00:18:21.220 30% of Democrats?
00:18:22.400 Somewhere in there, maybe, that really still do believe in this, you know, woke sort of line?
00:18:29.180 So, do the math for me.
00:18:30.820 How many Democrats are there now?
00:18:32.720 30% of the population?
00:18:34.820 Yeah.
00:18:35.440 Yeah.
00:18:35.880 Okay.
00:18:36.240 But, I mean, obviously...
00:18:36.880 And only 30% of that population?
00:18:39.000 That's like 9%, 10%.
00:18:40.860 So, you got 10%.
00:18:42.040 10% is always nuts.
00:18:44.280 Yeah, that's true.
00:18:45.240 That's true.
00:18:45.640 I mean, obviously, you could also say some...
00:18:49.360 I was going to say Democratic voters, 30% of Democratic voters, but still, it's only 15%, 20%.
00:18:54.160 Yeah.
00:18:54.500 So, it's not that big.
00:18:57.320 But it is, I think, still a significant...
00:18:59.240 You're talking about tens of millions of people.
00:19:01.700 Sure.
00:19:02.260 Sure.
00:19:02.940 And we...
00:19:04.020 Look, you know the reason why we all...
00:19:05.940 You know, we look at these people who are online, and we think, good heavens, they're crazy, right?
00:19:13.560 I wouldn't want to live next to that guy.
00:19:15.180 We've all lived next to that guy, right?
00:19:17.500 Our whole lives, we looked...
00:19:18.800 We just didn't talk to that guy.
00:19:20.620 We told our kids, don't talk to that guy.
00:19:22.580 Something wrong with that guy.
00:19:23.660 You know the old lady down on the street with all the cats?
00:19:25.860 Don't talk to her kids.
00:19:27.880 You know, we all had those crazy people.
00:19:31.140 Nobody listened to them, and they were kind of isolated in our neighborhoods.
00:19:34.440 Well, now, they all have the internet, and now they're all getting together, and like,
00:19:38.580 oh, yeah, well, I can outdo that.
00:19:40.520 I'm even crazier than you are.
00:19:42.960 But it's the same number of crazies, right?
00:19:46.560 It's just that they're now in a group, and you're like, oh, wow, it seems like there's
00:19:51.820 a lot of them.
00:19:52.400 No, they've just all been hanging out in our neighborhoods.
00:19:54.500 We just didn't see all of them around the world together in one place.
00:19:59.520 I think that's true.
00:20:00.480 I think it's a healthy thing to have some separation in your life from all of this,
00:20:04.760 you know, and realize that, you know, some people, like, if you're believing crazy things,
00:20:09.300 you might be fine.
00:20:11.100 Good job.
00:20:12.220 Like, everyone had that crazy person around the town.
00:20:14.180 You're right.
00:20:14.600 And most of them were harmless.
00:20:16.420 Most of them, yes.
00:20:16.840 But when they get together, it's a problem.
00:20:19.560 It's one thing.
00:20:20.420 Again, I always think about this with so many of these issues.
00:20:23.300 It's one thing for you to have an opinion that's, in my view, crazy.
00:20:28.160 It's another thing for you to ask me to participate in your delusions.
00:20:33.860 Yes.
00:20:34.340 And, like, I don't, you know, that's...
00:20:36.640 Right.
00:20:37.080 We used to, the guy would be out getting the mail, and you'd be driving by, and you're
00:20:40.600 on a small street, and you'd be like, oh, crap.
00:20:42.720 Oh, crap.
00:20:43.160 He's going to just look at me.
00:20:44.460 I should stop and say hi.
00:20:45.820 And so, you know, he'd look at you like, you're not driving past me without saying hello.
00:20:49.000 And so you'd stop, and you'd kind of roll down the window.
00:20:50.740 Hey, you, I love you.
00:20:53.960 Well, it's happening.
00:20:54.840 And then he would tell you some crazy things, and you'd be like, oh, man, crazy times, man.
00:20:58.700 Crazy times.
00:20:59.260 Crazy times.
00:20:59.620 Sorry, I'll see you.
00:21:00.400 Yeah, and you roll up the window, and you go away.
00:21:02.420 Yeah, and everything's fine.
00:21:03.120 But now he's like, you're not going anywhere until you absolutely agree and wear this badge
00:21:08.060 and put it online right now.
00:21:09.720 Say the word Hamas!
00:21:11.280 You're like, well, no.
00:21:12.860 Yeah, no.
00:21:13.380 Okay, that's the difference.
00:21:15.300 So Tony Evers apparently is that crazy guy who lives on the street, you know.
00:21:20.740 But we're just hearing about him because a lot of people got together and went, he should
00:21:24.420 be our governor.
00:21:25.380 Okay, well, you know, whatever.
00:21:26.940 So he introduced a budget that, you know, he announced, and he was very excited.
00:21:32.020 Of course, he didn't mention the language thing, you know, the language part of the budget.
00:21:36.520 In there, they changed the word mother to inseminated person, which I think has a lot of respect.
00:21:45.260 Don't you?
00:21:46.020 Oh, it's lovely.
00:21:46.820 I mean, I think that shows the love that most of us were created in, you know.
00:21:52.800 Well, hey, inseminated person, inseminated person, I'm on the phone.
00:21:59.880 You know, I mean, that's good.
00:22:01.380 That's good.
00:22:01.860 Shows a lot of love and respect.
00:22:04.020 Also, besides mother, inseminated person, also paternity has been changed to parentage.
00:22:12.180 I don't know what the parentage?
00:22:15.140 I don't even understand how that even makes it more woke.
00:22:17.120 Yeah, I don't have any idea.
00:22:19.080 References to wife or husband are now spouse.
00:22:23.300 The word father is changed to parent.
00:22:25.840 Mother is swapped out for person who gave birth to the child or inseminated person.
00:22:31.840 So wait, father is an inseminator?
00:22:34.480 It should be.
00:22:35.220 It should be.
00:22:35.660 Right?
00:22:36.000 Inseminator.
00:22:36.460 It's going to be consistent.
00:22:37.080 It's just parent?
00:22:38.020 That sounds like it.
00:22:38.760 Because you could use parent for mom.
00:22:39.760 Doesn't that sound like a superhero, though?
00:22:41.280 I'm the inseminator.
00:22:42.260 I'm the inseminator.
00:22:45.240 Inseminator here to inseminate.
00:22:46.840 There's no need to fear.
00:22:48.840 An inseminator is here.
00:22:51.060 Yeah, I like that.
00:22:52.140 That's good.
00:22:53.720 That's good.
00:22:54.380 In fact, I've got to use that as a new pickup line at the bars.
00:22:56.900 Hey!
00:22:57.800 Let's open up the door.
00:22:58.520 I'm the inseminator!
00:23:01.140 Okay, good, good, good.
00:23:02.960 I like that.
00:23:03.680 Okay, so anyway, he's done that.
00:23:06.160 And I thought, you know what?
00:23:07.580 Let's just get on the bandwagon.
00:23:09.100 Let's just get on the bandwagon.
00:23:10.200 Oh, really?
00:23:10.640 Yeah, so I want to start something.
00:23:13.040 Just a little children's story today.
00:23:16.000 I think you're going to like it.
00:23:17.800 It's time for Uncle Glenn's non-inseminator story time.
00:23:22.900 Because I didn't inseminate anybody that created you.
00:23:26.880 But I want to read a story to you.
00:23:29.420 So it's a little story.
00:23:31.140 It starts out with, well, it's in a bat-crap crazy town of Genderland.
00:23:36.500 And little Timmy is there.
00:23:37.700 And he's scratching his head and he's screaming,
00:23:39.140 Which Pat is my dad?
00:23:41.520 Which Pat is my mom?
00:23:43.000 If any of you are, you colonizer enablers.
00:23:47.500 It starts out the way every great story starts out, doesn't it?
00:23:51.580 So Pat 1, Pat 2, and Pat 3, three gender-neutral anti-racist warriors,
00:23:56.460 snorted over their intersexual oat milk lattes,
00:23:59.900 wearing spouse spectrum sashes and the parentage puzzle pins
00:24:04.260 and the decolonized family armbands.
00:24:06.860 And the first one said,
00:24:09.020 I'm the inseminated person of color who birthed you,
00:24:12.300 dismantling white supremacy.
00:24:14.660 That was Pat 1, rejecting mom or mother for maximum wokeness.
00:24:20.220 Then Pat 2 grinned and said,
00:24:22.240 I handled parentage duties, centering bioptic joy.
00:24:26.840 And no cisgender father is here.
00:24:30.300 Oh, little Timmy just smiled as Pat number three,
00:24:33.360 twirling a secret splice cape with a land back patch,
00:24:38.400 cackled,
00:24:39.060 My indigenous genes got spliced into your cells at conception.
00:24:43.620 Smash the patriarchy, kiddo.
00:24:46.500 Well, Timmy just looked at those three people,
00:24:49.400 said, no, I mean, male, female, which one's my mom?
00:24:53.540 All of them looked at little Timmy, male, female,
00:24:56.560 and then Timmy realized once more,
00:24:59.220 none of these freaks knew any longer how to even describe a woman.
00:25:04.760 Okay, okay.
00:25:06.020 Which one of you chest fed me?
00:25:08.580 Timmy asked.
00:25:09.600 Pat 1 waved to pump me,
00:25:11.680 non-binarily, in solidarity with trans folks,
00:25:14.980 which we spell with an X.
00:25:16.920 Pat number 2 brandished a buddy system bottle,
00:25:19.960 me, amplifying queer joy.
00:25:22.480 Pat number 3 giggled,
00:25:24.520 I chest fed via eco-friendly proxy.
00:25:27.900 Climate justice, baby.
00:25:30.060 Then all three in the parentage patrol began chanting,
00:25:33.940 spouse, parent, inseminate, smash the white fragility.
00:25:37.560 It didn't really rhyme, but none of them do nowadays.
00:25:41.000 Just then, Timmy's friend, Sammy,
00:25:43.480 another gender-neutral name,
00:25:45.780 burst in, shrieking,
00:25:46.760 and my inseminated person says,
00:25:49.620 I'm a non-binary climate refugee.
00:25:53.500 Help!
00:25:54.080 I don't even know what that means, Timmy,
00:25:56.020 and I don't think the people who came up with that
00:25:57.960 know what it means either.
00:25:59.900 Well, Timmy and gender-neutral,
00:26:02.220 named Sammy, double I, double E,
00:26:04.600 then hatched a plan.
00:26:06.480 Later that day,
00:26:07.840 at the gender-neutral, anti-racist jamboree,
00:26:11.580 Timmy grabbed a mic, yelling,
00:26:12.860 I identify as a Reelsville revolutionary,
00:26:17.220 and I outwoke you all.
00:26:19.460 By genderland law,
00:26:21.080 my specialized splice genes
00:26:23.520 make me the supreme,
00:26:25.500 intersectional,
00:26:27.680 ruler of all.
00:26:29.900 You three are my subordinate spouses.
00:26:32.900 Time out in the parentage penalty box
00:26:35.160 without any trigger warnings
00:26:36.620 and without any oat milk.
00:26:39.540 Well, the crowd gasped
00:26:40.780 as the Pats tripped over their pronouns,
00:26:43.120 drenched in their non-binary glitter.
00:26:45.760 Timmy then hijacked the Progress Wagon,
00:26:49.220 blaring old Louis C.K. monologues,
00:26:51.640 zooming to Reelsville,
00:26:52.920 where Mom and Dads still liked normalcy.
00:26:56.620 The Pats chased him, yelling,
00:26:58.500 But we're for dismantling the systems!
00:27:01.580 Timmy mooned them, shouting,
00:27:04.400 See you later, crazies!
00:27:07.040 Just then,
00:27:08.380 the wagon crashed into a barbecue joint.
00:27:11.240 Timmy escaped with a rib,
00:27:12.840 giggling,
00:27:13.480 Sanity and meat!
00:27:16.560 Perfect.
00:27:18.120 So, here's your little story.
00:27:20.120 Story time from Uncle Glenn today.
00:27:22.140 I think they probably really will enjoy that,
00:27:25.120 you know, in Wisconsin,
00:27:28.400 where it's always sane.
00:27:30.080 It's always truly sane.
00:27:32.480 You're streaming the best of the Glenn Beck program,
00:27:35.320 and you can find full episodes
00:27:36.680 wherever you download podcasts.
00:27:38.820 So, do you remember what it used to be like
00:27:41.400 when you would go to a movie,
00:27:44.420 and it was a Christian movie,
00:27:45.440 and you'd be like,
00:27:46.040 Oh, jeez.
00:27:46.860 And it was just embarrassingly bad.
00:27:50.060 And, you know,
00:27:51.460 it just was.
00:27:52.240 It just was.
00:27:52.880 Very few times.
00:27:54.340 You know,
00:27:54.860 gone were the filmmakers
00:27:56.680 like Cecil B. DeMille
00:27:58.040 that actually understood
00:27:59.800 the scriptures,
00:28:01.860 understood what he was doing,
00:28:03.600 didn't want to mock that,
00:28:05.140 and actually liked people
00:28:06.900 who were, you know,
00:28:08.360 following the God of Abraham,
00:28:09.480 Isaac, and Jacob,
00:28:10.260 and tried to make something
00:28:11.320 that was true.
00:28:12.040 Those guys had been long gone and dead
00:28:14.220 and run out of Hollywood.
00:28:16.980 But then came the Irwin brothers.
00:28:19.840 Then came Dallas Jenkins,
00:28:22.000 you know,
00:28:22.340 from The Chosen,
00:28:23.300 John Gunn.
00:28:24.820 And they formed
00:28:26.240 kind of a fellowship of the ring,
00:28:28.520 if you will,
00:28:29.160 storming the gates of Mordor,
00:28:30.700 otherwise known as Hollywood.
00:28:32.960 And the Irwin brothers,
00:28:34.920 they are responsible
00:28:36.080 for the Jesus Revolution,
00:28:37.820 which is a fantastic movie.
00:28:39.960 The Unbreakable Boy,
00:28:41.320 I just had Zachary Levi on,
00:28:44.100 and he is,
00:28:45.500 this movie,
00:28:46.360 I told him,
00:28:46.960 is just one of the best movies
00:28:48.720 I've seen in a long time.
00:28:51.220 It's just such a good movie,
00:28:53.760 and on top of it,
00:28:55.120 it just makes you feel good,
00:28:56.900 and you can just learn so much.
00:28:59.020 I mean,
00:28:59.380 at least I did.
00:29:00.180 I watched it the whole time going,
00:29:01.420 I don't think I'm that guy.
00:29:03.060 I don't think I'm that guy,
00:29:04.840 unfortunately.
00:29:06.580 But just great movie.
00:29:08.700 It doesn't feel like
00:29:09.760 a Christian movie
00:29:11.520 used to feel.
00:29:12.960 The Irwin brothers
00:29:13.860 have really kind of mastered this
00:29:15.720 as they,
00:29:17.180 you know,
00:29:17.540 as they made their films,
00:29:18.980 they came out
00:29:19.700 and started
00:29:20.420 The Wonder Project,
00:29:22.140 which is something
00:29:23.360 that's going to produce film
00:29:24.360 and television,
00:29:25.160 and now has a seat
00:29:26.660 at the Hollywood table,
00:29:28.240 you know,
00:29:28.940 but we've sanitized it
00:29:29.980 for their protection,
00:29:30.740 and it's a seat
00:29:33.080 that I think
00:29:34.080 they're going to keep,
00:29:35.480 and they're working
00:29:36.320 in the system,
00:29:39.220 but not,
00:29:40.100 they're not of the system
00:29:41.520 that has long neglected
00:29:44.480 the Christian audience,
00:29:45.380 and they're coming out
00:29:46.160 with something brand new
00:29:48.060 this week on Netflix,
00:29:50.320 and John Irwin
00:29:51.860 is with us now.
00:29:53.720 Hey, John,
00:29:54.160 how are you?
00:29:55.180 Glenn,
00:29:55.680 how you doing, man?
00:29:56.480 It's good to,
00:29:58.120 as always, man,
00:29:59.000 she's been a wonderful friend
00:29:59.800 for a very long time,
00:30:01.240 and yeah,
00:30:02.600 it is an exciting time
00:30:04.140 in our industry,
00:30:06.000 for sure.
00:30:07.240 It's sort of
00:30:07.640 an unprecedented moment,
00:30:09.080 and I think that's just
00:30:10.420 because the voice
00:30:11.140 of the audience
00:30:11.780 has been so clearly heard,
00:30:13.440 you know,
00:30:13.980 that it's given us
00:30:15.000 the ability
00:30:15.520 to maintain control,
00:30:18.480 creative control,
00:30:19.300 but also really harness
00:30:21.640 the relationships
00:30:23.160 with some of these
00:30:23.860 studios and streamers.
00:30:25.360 And I feel like,
00:30:26.260 I may have made a mistake.
00:30:27.460 Is it Netflix
00:30:28.140 or is it Amazon Prime?
00:30:29.900 It's Amazon Prime.
00:30:30.740 Amazon Prime, okay, good.
00:30:32.460 Sorry about that.
00:30:33.260 Thank you.
00:30:33.840 It's House of David.
00:30:35.520 It comes out this Thursday.
00:30:36.560 It's the project
00:30:37.160 that I've,
00:30:38.140 I remember when I was
00:30:39.040 16 years old,
00:30:39.980 my dad bought me
00:30:41.040 a camera with money
00:30:43.140 he didn't have,
00:30:43.860 and I didn't know
00:30:44.340 how to use it,
00:30:44.920 and we went straight
00:30:45.520 to Israel
00:30:46.060 and filmed a little
00:30:47.720 walk and talk documentary,
00:30:49.080 and there's something
00:30:50.120 just that the Bible
00:30:51.260 came to life
00:30:52.140 in a whole new way,
00:30:54.060 and I went to
00:30:54.720 King David's Tomb,
00:30:55.840 and right there
00:30:56.920 I started dreaming
00:30:58.540 about eventually
00:31:00.080 getting to do
00:31:00.660 the story of David,
00:31:01.460 and so a lot of the films
00:31:02.440 that I've made,
00:31:04.180 many that you mentioned,
00:31:05.760 I'm grateful for that,
00:31:06.500 are kind of working up
00:31:07.780 the courage
00:31:08.280 and the skill
00:31:08.980 to try to helm
00:31:10.420 David's story,
00:31:12.360 and there's this wonderful
00:31:13.000 group of filmmakers,
00:31:13.860 you're exactly right,
00:31:14.680 that we're willing
00:31:15.780 each other on to success
00:31:16.820 and talking all the time,
00:31:18.160 and I do feel like
00:31:20.840 I'm in Dallas Jenkins' wake,
00:31:22.200 and he's a wonderful
00:31:22.940 friend and collaborator,
00:31:25.180 and so it's amazing
00:31:26.660 to finally get to tell
00:31:27.640 biblical stories,
00:31:28.460 it's been a dream of mine
00:31:29.640 for quite a long time.
00:31:31.080 You guys have,
00:31:31.820 I mean,
00:31:32.260 I love all of you,
00:31:33.240 you're just cut
00:31:34.680 from the same cloth
00:31:35.560 and just not willing
00:31:36.760 to give up,
00:31:37.540 and you get better
00:31:38.260 and better with every movie
00:31:39.320 that comes out.
00:31:40.800 So you made
00:31:41.660 the first one,
00:31:43.380 the first episode
00:31:44.220 of King David
00:31:45.020 starts with him
00:31:47.000 with the slingshot,
00:31:48.360 right?
00:31:49.020 And Goliath?
00:31:50.660 Yeah,
00:31:51.200 it really is
00:31:51.920 the classic
00:31:52.600 hero's journey.
00:31:53.620 Season one
00:31:54.200 of Pass of David
00:31:55.000 is the story
00:31:58.760 of the rise
00:32:00.140 of this young
00:32:01.540 outcast shepherd boy
00:32:02.860 chosen to be king
00:32:04.880 in a nation
00:32:05.460 that already had one
00:32:06.480 slaying a giant,
00:32:07.640 and it really is
00:32:08.600 that classic storytelling,
00:32:10.900 and I think
00:32:11.880 in many ways
00:32:12.700 David is the
00:32:14.140 origin of many
00:32:15.060 of those other
00:32:15.680 origin stories.
00:32:16.780 I mean,
00:32:16.940 this is the original
00:32:17.700 hero's journey,
00:32:18.740 and so if you like
00:32:19.400 those classic stories
00:32:21.280 like Lord of the Rings
00:32:22.780 or Star Wars
00:32:24.540 or Harry Potter,
00:32:25.340 I think a lot
00:32:25.900 of those stories
00:32:27.160 have their roots
00:32:28.540 in many ways
00:32:29.300 in David,
00:32:30.100 and this is the first,
00:32:31.700 the original
00:32:32.640 hero's journey
00:32:35.640 kind of,
00:32:36.200 or one of them,
00:32:36.740 and so it's going
00:32:39.200 to feel very familiar
00:32:39.940 even if you're not
00:32:40.780 familiar with the material.
00:32:42.080 Ari,
00:32:42.300 do you,
00:32:43.800 I've always thought
00:32:45.300 when I read that story
00:32:46.180 that everybody was like,
00:32:47.980 David,
00:32:48.380 shut your mouth,
00:32:49.140 what are you doing?
00:32:49.920 This kid doesn't have a chance,
00:32:51.320 this kid doesn't have a chance,
00:32:52.520 what are you doing?
00:32:53.780 How did you explain
00:32:55.580 or deal with the,
00:32:57.800 here's this kid
00:32:58.880 that nobody thinks
00:33:00.820 has a chance
00:33:01.560 stepping up?
00:33:03.300 How did you deal
00:33:04.000 with the rest
00:33:04.800 of the army
00:33:05.340 that was there?
00:33:06.000 Well,
00:33:07.380 it's,
00:33:07.960 it's,
00:33:08.880 that's the fun thing,
00:33:10.280 you know,
00:33:10.560 Ken Burns,
00:33:11.160 I think,
00:33:11.480 calls it
00:33:11.980 emotional archaeology
00:33:13.640 is the idea of,
00:33:14.820 you know,
00:33:15.040 when you study history
00:33:16.120 and then you,
00:33:17.640 you really make it
00:33:18.740 real and emotional,
00:33:19.600 and that was one
00:33:20.240 of the questions
00:33:21.000 that I had
00:33:21.820 was,
00:33:23.060 how in the world
00:33:24.460 did King Saul
00:33:25.560 let this kid
00:33:26.760 go out
00:33:27.340 and fight
00:33:28.040 this giant?
00:33:29.440 And we,
00:33:29.820 we really spend
00:33:30.680 a lot of time
00:33:31.780 answering that question,
00:33:33.180 and I think the reason
00:33:34.020 is that,
00:33:34.540 that,
00:33:35.440 that Saul
00:33:36.340 sensed,
00:33:37.600 you know,
00:33:38.080 David was also
00:33:38.920 anointed king
00:33:39.620 and he sensed
00:33:40.180 that courage
00:33:40.780 and conviction
00:33:41.480 and when no one
00:33:43.180 else was willing
00:33:44.100 to,
00:33:44.640 to challenge
00:33:45.580 Goliath,
00:33:47.360 you know,
00:33:48.280 David was so
00:33:49.140 passionate about it
00:33:50.060 that somehow
00:33:50.660 that,
00:33:51.840 that convinced
00:33:52.620 a king
00:33:54.180 to say yes
00:33:55.000 and that was
00:33:55.460 a pretty cool
00:33:56.520 thing to dramatize
00:33:58.940 and really try
00:33:59.640 to get right.
00:34:00.180 I had not seen
00:34:00.840 anything in film
00:34:01.680 and television
00:34:02.160 that really was
00:34:03.220 like,
00:34:03.480 you know,
00:34:03.680 I feel like
00:34:04.440 that,
00:34:04.800 that feels real
00:34:05.500 to me
00:34:05.900 and,
00:34:06.360 and so we,
00:34:07.880 it's a pretty
00:34:08.420 spectacular
00:34:09.080 episode of the series
00:34:11.580 and the series
00:34:12.220 really is,
00:34:13.040 I've never had
00:34:13.940 resources to put
00:34:14.800 things on an epic
00:34:15.580 stage like this
00:34:16.660 and,
00:34:17.540 and,
00:34:18.700 and it really
00:34:19.600 is an epic TV show
00:34:20.680 and I,
00:34:21.300 I love it
00:34:22.260 and I really hope
00:34:22.960 the,
00:34:23.200 the audience
00:34:24.240 loves it as well
00:34:24.920 and I hope
00:34:25.320 it draws attention
00:34:26.000 to,
00:34:26.760 I remember,
00:34:27.460 you know,
00:34:27.800 when some Amazon
00:34:28.680 executives first read
00:34:30.100 the scripts,
00:34:30.700 they're like,
00:34:31.000 we really like
00:34:31.640 these scripts
00:34:32.100 I'm like,
00:34:32.440 you know,
00:34:32.680 it's based off
00:34:33.260 a bestseller,
00:34:33.920 you should check
00:34:34.380 it out,
00:34:34.820 it'll change
00:34:35.260 your life,
00:34:36.200 you know,
00:34:36.960 five billion copies
00:34:38.680 can't be wrong,
00:34:39.720 right,
00:34:40.000 if I'm in there
00:34:40.420 that's good,
00:34:41.280 so that's what,
00:34:41.820 that's my hope,
00:34:42.220 I hope people
00:34:42.620 will,
00:34:42.940 will,
00:34:43.300 will read the
00:34:44.180 Psalms of David
00:34:44.800 in a whole new way.
00:34:45.480 How did you deal
00:34:48.720 with Goliath?
00:34:49.940 You know,
00:34:50.140 he's described
00:34:50.660 as a giant,
00:34:51.540 blah,
00:34:51.720 blah,
00:34:51.860 blah,
00:34:52.000 and I think
00:34:52.580 you have him
00:34:54.800 portrayed as
00:34:55.460 something like
00:34:55.940 14 feet tall.
00:34:57.780 Why do we believe
00:34:59.200 he was,
00:34:59.880 I mean,
00:35:00.060 other than the
00:35:00.740 scriptures tell us
00:35:01.360 he was a giant,
00:35:02.420 what do we think
00:35:03.960 was happening there
00:35:04.840 with this guy?
00:35:06.760 Well,
00:35:07.040 you know,
00:35:07.240 what's interesting
00:35:07.720 about that is
00:35:08.320 we really go
00:35:09.000 into a lot of
00:35:09.560 the sort of,
00:35:10.480 I would call it
00:35:11.300 the mythology
00:35:11.940 of at least
00:35:14.420 what,
00:35:15.040 you know,
00:35:16.260 Israelites at that time
00:35:17.460 would have thought
00:35:18.200 Goliath was
00:35:19.500 and this whole
00:35:20.300 backstory of
00:35:21.660 the Nephilim
00:35:23.360 and of sort of
00:35:24.340 fallen angels
00:35:25.240 and that there was
00:35:25.800 sort of at least
00:35:26.940 a myth in that day
00:35:28.100 or,
00:35:28.940 or,
00:35:29.260 or true,
00:35:30.000 who knows,
00:35:30.480 you know,
00:35:30.840 that,
00:35:31.380 that,
00:35:31.800 that,
00:35:33.240 that would have
00:35:33.720 struck fear
00:35:34.580 into,
00:35:35.200 into,
00:35:35.700 into Israel
00:35:36.340 that really explains
00:35:37.420 why he would have
00:35:39.240 taunted them
00:35:39.760 for 40 days
00:35:40.700 and so we needed
00:35:41.780 an enormous guy,
00:35:43.100 not only tall
00:35:43.780 but also broad,
00:35:44.780 you know,
00:35:44.980 Thanos and Avengers
00:35:45.900 was always sort of
00:35:46.660 my,
00:35:47.080 my sort of benchmark
00:35:48.580 for the character
00:35:49.400 and Martin Ford
00:35:50.220 who's just wonderful
00:35:51.220 and in the Mortal Kombat
00:35:53.240 movies and just a great guy
00:35:55.140 played the role
00:35:56.720 and,
00:35:57.220 and you,
00:35:57.460 you get to know
00:35:57.940 the character as well.
00:35:58.880 I think,
00:35:59.300 you know,
00:35:59.760 that's what television
00:36:00.480 gives you the opportunity
00:36:01.260 to do is,
00:36:02.800 and he,
00:36:03.580 and we went big.
00:36:04.600 I mean,
00:36:04.820 he is,
00:36:05.260 he's,
00:36:05.740 he's as tall,
00:36:07.120 he's as big as,
00:36:07.940 as could be historically
00:36:08.900 justified
00:36:09.440 but I also think
00:36:10.720 it's justified
00:36:11.200 by the material.
00:36:12.120 I mean,
00:36:12.220 he really did
00:36:12.760 strike terror
00:36:13.500 into,
00:36:14.680 you know,
00:36:16.280 into the army
00:36:17.280 and that's why
00:36:18.860 they,
00:36:19.300 there was this
00:36:19.740 40 day standstill
00:36:20.860 and when you see
00:36:21.780 Martin Ford,
00:36:22.920 when I saw him
00:36:23.700 in person,
00:36:24.180 one of the questions
00:36:24.740 people asked
00:36:25.280 from the trailers
00:36:25.820 was David afraid
00:36:26.840 and I can assure you
00:36:30.460 he would have been afraid
00:36:31.360 and I think
00:36:31.920 anytime you try
00:36:32.960 something great
00:36:33.620 or something
00:36:34.240 that you feel
00:36:34.700 you're destined
00:36:35.400 or called to do,
00:36:36.240 you're going
00:36:37.040 to have to
00:36:37.660 step beyond
00:36:38.500 your fear
00:36:39.020 and so,
00:36:41.540 and so Martin
00:36:42.540 is just,
00:36:43.100 is just terrifying
00:36:44.160 when he's in costume
00:36:45.060 and then when you
00:36:45.560 use visual effects
00:36:46.660 to blow him up,
00:36:47.800 so did you,
00:36:48.200 it's,
00:36:48.700 it's,
00:36:49.700 it's,
00:36:49.900 it's even more scary.
00:36:50.860 Did you have him
00:36:51.620 like eat snacks
00:36:52.640 or anything
00:36:53.100 because he's,
00:36:54.100 I mean,
00:36:54.260 he's really ripped
00:36:55.160 but I was just
00:36:56.400 watching a cowboy movie,
00:36:58.000 I had a cowboy movie
00:36:58.700 I was painting
00:36:59.440 this weekend
00:36:59.980 and,
00:37:00.280 and I don't remember
00:37:01.940 who it was,
00:37:02.440 John Wayne or somebody
00:37:03.220 and they took
00:37:03.880 their shirt off
00:37:04.620 and I was like,
00:37:05.820 ooh,
00:37:05.960 that's not a good look,
00:37:06.840 John,
00:37:07.500 because back then
00:37:08.880 you weren't cut,
00:37:10.420 you know,
00:37:10.740 now you take
00:37:11.940 your shirt off
00:37:12.740 and you better be cut
00:37:13.860 but especially back then
00:37:16.400 he just would have
00:37:17.680 been enormous
00:37:18.440 and not,
00:37:19.420 you know,
00:37:19.620 exactly,
00:37:20.140 right?
00:37:20.760 Yeah,
00:37:21.000 yeah,
00:37:21.180 I'm glad you mentioned
00:37:21.880 that because he was
00:37:22.600 coming off the,
00:37:23.600 the Roland Emmerich
00:37:24.620 TV show,
00:37:25.660 Bill's About to Die
00:37:27.140 on Peacock
00:37:28.060 and he was very sort of,
00:37:28.900 he played a gladiator
00:37:29.720 and he was very sort of cut
00:37:30.780 and I did say that,
00:37:32.320 you know,
00:37:33.140 these people
00:37:34.320 would have had to
00:37:34.980 survive on the land
00:37:37.380 and,
00:37:37.880 and with really
00:37:38.920 formidable circumstances
00:37:40.140 he just would have been big,
00:37:41.580 he would have been like
00:37:42.300 a gigantic grizzly bear,
00:37:44.300 you know,
00:37:44.740 and,
00:37:45.580 and so that's what we went for
00:37:47.440 and he started,
00:37:48.400 whatever bodybuilders say,
00:37:51.160 carving,
00:37:51.560 I don't know,
00:37:52.180 but he did whatever
00:37:52.880 he needed to do
00:37:53.600 to just get big
00:37:54.960 and,
00:37:55.620 and he does,
00:37:56.300 he looks like,
00:37:57.440 okay,
00:37:57.740 I,
00:37:58.000 I buy that this character
00:37:59.400 would have just been
00:38:00.140 a formidable beast
00:38:01.880 you know,
00:38:03.160 of a human
00:38:03.740 but not,
00:38:05.040 not necessarily
00:38:05.640 a bodybuilder
00:38:07.180 and,
00:38:07.640 and I credit Martin
00:38:08.560 for doing that,
00:38:09.180 I mean,
00:38:09.300 he's just very,
00:38:09.920 very,
00:38:10.260 very dedicated
00:38:11.040 as an actor
00:38:11.800 and,
00:38:12.320 and he did the work
00:38:13.880 and,
00:38:14.180 and,
00:38:14.580 well,
00:38:15.260 if you ever,
00:38:15.660 he really looks great
00:38:16.180 and I'm very proud of,
00:38:17.080 if you ever need somebody
00:38:18.160 that just looks big and fat
00:38:19.500 and doesn't have like
00:38:20.560 a bodybuilding shape,
00:38:21.940 you know,
00:38:22.720 to them,
00:38:23.060 you can call me,
00:38:23.840 I'm,
00:38:24.100 I'm willing to eat
00:38:24.960 as much as you want,
00:38:26.140 you know.
00:38:26.660 You'd be like the spectators
00:38:30.260 like,
00:38:30.640 I'm not going to go out there.
00:38:32.500 I am,
00:38:33.180 I am often,
00:38:33.940 I remind myself
00:38:34.760 how glad I am
00:38:35.620 to be on the dark side
00:38:36.880 of the camera
00:38:37.480 and I love working
00:38:39.040 with a great actor
00:38:40.380 but,
00:38:41.240 but it's nice to be on,
00:38:42.840 it's nice to be on the camera,
00:38:44.860 on the side of the camera
00:38:45.680 where no one recognizes you
00:38:47.060 and you can eat Taco Bell
00:38:48.280 whenever you want.
00:38:49.580 So,
00:38:49.940 the Wonder Project
00:38:50.800 is,
00:38:51.200 is the company
00:38:52.000 that you started.
00:38:52.620 You're also doing
00:38:53.300 the Wright Brothers?
00:38:55.840 Yeah,
00:38:56.060 we're developing
00:38:56.600 quite a bit.
00:38:57.660 Jeremy Latcham
00:38:58.360 that produced
00:38:59.300 Iron Man
00:39:00.220 and many other movies
00:39:00.800 at Marvel.
00:39:01.620 You know,
00:39:01.760 there's just this movement
00:39:02.560 and,
00:39:03.160 you know,
00:39:04.160 the things that I'm
00:39:04.760 really passionate about
00:39:06.000 are,
00:39:06.620 are,
00:39:07.180 you know,
00:39:07.580 the Bible
00:39:08.020 and then also
00:39:08.580 the American story.
00:39:10.280 You're doing
00:39:11.020 George Washington still?
00:39:13.240 I'm doing,
00:39:13.960 yeah,
00:39:14.060 my next movie
00:39:14.760 as soon as I wrap,
00:39:16.100 I guess it's okay
00:39:16.660 to say this,
00:39:17.300 it's live,
00:39:17.820 who knows?
00:39:18.640 It's,
00:39:19.580 my next film
00:39:21.360 that I go immediately
00:39:22.000 into pre-production on
00:39:23.020 is the young life
00:39:24.080 of George Washington.
00:39:25.020 I know we share
00:39:25.540 that passion
00:39:26.080 for just the great figure
00:39:28.060 in American history
00:39:29.300 and his formation.
00:39:30.860 We're developing
00:39:31.560 the Wright Brothers
00:39:32.340 and,
00:39:32.880 and there's just
00:39:34.360 quite a bit
00:39:34.860 of stories.
00:39:35.500 I just,
00:39:36.020 I love America's story
00:39:37.740 and what it represents.
00:39:39.020 And,
00:39:39.160 you know,
00:39:39.500 hang on just a second.
00:39:41.360 Hang on,
00:39:41.600 what are you,
00:39:41.900 when you're doing
00:39:42.880 the young George Washington,
00:39:44.320 are you,
00:39:45.040 are you making his mother
00:39:46.680 a giant pain in the ass
00:39:48.160 because she was?
00:39:50.140 You know,
00:39:50.820 there's been,
00:39:51.520 in the three revisions
00:39:52.640 of the script,
00:39:53.440 it's trying to figure out
00:39:55.040 on a dial
00:39:56.440 of like two to nine
00:39:58.320 how much of a pain
00:39:59.740 she could do.
00:40:00.480 I mean,
00:40:00.980 not many people realize,
00:40:02.400 I think you pointed this out,
00:40:03.660 I remember that,
00:40:04.220 that she wrote a letter
00:40:05.860 like in criticism
00:40:07.140 of him not,
00:40:07.980 he shouldn't like
00:40:08.840 run to be president
00:40:09.740 for a second term
00:40:10.960 because of his
00:40:11.580 ice cream habit.
00:40:13.200 And she got him
00:40:13.920 when he was,
00:40:14.560 when he was young,
00:40:15.820 he went up the gang plane,
00:40:17.140 he was going to join
00:40:17.880 the British Navy
00:40:19.240 and he was,
00:40:20.280 I don't know,
00:40:20.720 15 and she was like,
00:40:22.040 no George,
00:40:22.800 you can't leave me.
00:40:23.820 No George,
00:40:24.240 yeah,
00:40:24.740 that's one of the real
00:40:25.660 elements of the story
00:40:26.880 and it brings comic relief
00:40:29.680 but also you see
00:40:30.380 the pressure he was under
00:40:31.380 and he really had
00:40:32.300 to become a man
00:40:33.040 long before his time
00:40:34.620 because of the death
00:40:35.260 of his father
00:40:35.820 and his half-brother.
00:40:36.800 And it also,
00:40:37.620 it also is important
00:40:39.200 to show that,
00:40:40.240 I mean,
00:40:40.840 when he came back down
00:40:42.040 off that gangplank
00:40:42.920 and brought his stuff back
00:40:44.640 and said,
00:40:45.140 mom,
00:40:45.620 if you need me
00:40:47.360 by your side,
00:40:48.160 by your side,
00:40:48.780 I will remain.
00:40:49.660 It shows that he sacrificed
00:40:51.660 everything he wanted to do
00:40:53.280 his whole life,
00:40:54.360 his whole life,
00:40:55.380 he sacrificed for others.
00:40:57.140 He did that over
00:40:58.220 and over again.
00:40:58.880 Yeah,
00:40:59.120 that is a common thread
00:41:00.360 of his relationship
00:41:02.160 to what he felt
00:41:03.040 was his duty
00:41:04.480 and purpose
00:41:06.380 was so strong
00:41:07.140 and long before
00:41:07.760 there was an American anthem
00:41:09.060 or an American flag,
00:41:10.240 you know,
00:41:10.360 there was one man
00:41:11.500 that galvanized
00:41:13.340 this idea
00:41:14.140 for a long period of time
00:41:16.020 and so I love
00:41:16.920 to study the formation
00:41:18.140 of leaders like that
00:41:19.780 and that's also a story
00:41:21.120 I've been wanting to tell
00:41:22.000 for a long time
00:41:22.680 and I do want to just say
00:41:23.760 it is the voice
00:41:25.260 of the audience
00:41:26.000 that allows us
00:41:26.880 to do these projects.
00:41:28.700 When we started negotiating
00:41:29.740 with Amazon Prime,
00:41:31.660 creative control
00:41:32.400 was an essential
00:41:33.580 non-negotiable
00:41:34.480 item
00:41:34.940 and they were glad
00:41:36.680 to give it to us
00:41:37.520 because of the success
00:41:38.660 of the work
00:41:39.800 and so there's a relationship
00:41:41.660 between a small group
00:41:42.500 of filmmakers
00:41:43.080 that I'm so grateful
00:41:44.680 to be a part of
00:41:45.380 but there's also
00:41:46.400 a relationship
00:41:46.920 with all of us
00:41:47.860 as an audience
00:41:48.580 and when we support
00:41:49.440 these things
00:41:50.100 it gives us leverage
00:41:51.600 to get more things made
00:41:53.200 and if you watch
00:41:54.260 the trailer
00:41:54.580 to House of David
00:41:55.180 you know,
00:41:55.460 I've never been able
00:41:56.080 to put anything
00:41:56.780 on this sort of
00:41:58.780 epic scope
00:42:00.020 and scale
00:42:00.740 and it really is
00:42:02.260 because of our
00:42:03.000 unified voice
00:42:04.080 that these things
00:42:05.140 are happening
00:42:05.700 and I'm telling you
00:42:06.800 there is a revolution
00:42:08.000 of values
00:42:09.380 and belief
00:42:10.520 going on
00:42:11.820 in Hollywood
00:42:12.600 right now.
00:42:13.460 Yeah.
00:42:13.860 John,
00:42:14.400 great to talk to you.
00:42:15.400 I hope to see you
00:42:16.160 later this week.
00:42:16.840 Thank you.
00:42:17.280 God bless you.
00:42:18.500 Yeah,
00:42:18.780 God bless.
00:42:19.400 Good to talk to you.
00:42:20.100 John Irwin,
00:42:21.200 House of David.
00:42:22.540 He's the executive
00:42:23.300 producer,
00:42:23.800 co-director
00:42:24.380 and it airs
00:42:26.760 beginning,
00:42:27.440 I believe he said
00:42:28.000 on Thursday
00:42:28.720 on Amazon Prime.
00:42:31.280 It is called
00:42:31.700 House of David.
00:42:32.680 It is a new series
00:42:33.600 that begins
00:42:34.220 that is really good.
00:42:37.840 Toronto.
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