The John-Henry Westen Show - 'Soap star who went from atheism to Christianity risks career calling out anti-life, pro-vax Hollywood

00:00:00.120 Hello and welcome to this episode of the John Henry Weston Show, which we're very pleased

00:00:04.800 to bring you because we have with us an actor, a rather famous actor, whose name is Austin

00:00:09.900 Peck.

00:00:10.540 Austin Peck, many of you know from Days of Our Lives, from As the World Turns, just recently

00:00:15.500 on Law and Order.

00:00:17.400 Yes, a big Hollywood star.

00:00:19.200 So what are we doing with Austin Peck on the John Henry Weston Show?

00:00:22.300 Well, we've just learned that Austin Peck is a traditional Catholic, and he's very much

00:00:27.260 able, ready, and willing to talk about his faith.

00:00:30.220 You're going to want to stay tuned for this one.

00:00:50.380 Austin, welcome to the program.

00:00:52.040 It's great to be with you.

00:00:53.480 Let's begin, as we always do, with the Son of the Cross.

00:00:56.320 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

00:01:00.740 Amen.

00:01:03.040 So, Austin, you are very well known.

00:01:06.480 You're, I think, particularly known for all of your roles in different soap operas, where,

00:01:11.260 you know, you had this huge, adoring fans of ladies for forever and ever.

00:01:15.580 Tell us a little bit about your walk from their fame and that kind of thing to becoming a

00:01:22.720 Catholic.

00:01:23.060 That, that seems just an incredible journey.

00:01:25.480 Once I became a Catholic, I kind of looked back and I realized, you know, what was my

00:01:28.120 belief?

00:01:28.760 Like, what did I really believe before I started to believe in Christ, the faith?

00:01:33.280 I realized I was a hedonist.

00:01:36.480 You know, that's what I, that's what I was.

00:01:38.700 I lived for pleasure.

00:01:40.840 And that permeated when I, and then that permeated when I, I guess when I was, when I was in the

00:01:46.700 fashion industry, and that's how I started when I was 16.

00:01:49.880 And it was one of those stereotypical stories that you hear about someone getting approached

00:01:54.460 on the street.

00:01:55.860 Now, I'm from LA.

00:01:56.540 So it's not uncommon to run into talent search.

00:02:00.160 So it was like one thing led to another.

00:02:01.560 And I started working and I come from an entertainment background with my, my mother.

00:02:06.020 So, and my stepfather was, was an agent at the time, but it was something that totally

00:02:12.160 separate from them.

00:02:13.000 So fast forward to working, doing commercials, you know, and working in the fashion industry,

00:02:19.880 traveling the world.

00:02:20.940 By the time I was 21, I'd already traveled most of Europe and many other places.

00:02:25.600 So it was, it was a bizarre kind of reality.

00:02:28.500 I started, I live in New York and I started to ask, I guess you could say cosmic questions.

00:02:34.160 Like, what's it all about?

00:02:35.360 The meaning of life, very stereotypical.

00:02:39.020 And that just started me down a journey.

00:02:41.940 And my sister became a person of faith.

00:02:44.920 She became a Protestant and started to, you know, really ream me, my only sibling. 0.99

00:02:50.740 And it, it was very contentious.

00:02:53.440 But what I did is I learned the stories and I became curious about this man named Jesus.

00:03:00.500 And, you know, his claim was, I came to the crossroad of, he said, he's the truth, the

00:03:06.480 life, and the way.

00:03:07.380 Well, what does that mean?

00:03:08.780 And then I found myself really desiring truth.

00:03:11.240 And I, I believe that God was knowable because I believe, okay, if there was a God, then he

00:03:16.980 must be knowable or it must be knowable.

00:03:18.800 And then I got, I was, you know, just curious.

00:03:22.240 And then I got Days of Our Lives and I found myself back in LA and couldn't get Christ out

00:03:29.380 of my head.

00:03:30.580 And finally, I made that commitment.

00:03:32.480 And then once I did, it was just, I dove into that world, into the evangelical.

00:03:38.820 I mean, I didn't, to be honest, I didn't even know what the word theology meant.

00:03:41.420 And I just started going to the first Bible-believing church.

00:03:47.200 And I, as I was going along, I found out, you know, you read the Bible, there became tremendous

00:03:54.360 discrepancies of what I read and what I heard and saw.

00:04:00.920 And, and I found the most disconcerting words were from Jesus himself.

00:04:07.060 In fact, he's actually the scariest words in the Bible.

00:04:09.240 You're on the set of like a soap opera and you're going through this.

00:04:13.240 Are you like concealing this from people?

00:04:15.360 I'm going through this while I'm working on a soap opera and, you know, it was, you know,

00:04:20.760 there was providence.

00:04:21.780 There was people putting my life, you know, and I started going to this church on Sunday

00:04:27.320 and it was this one church called West Angeles.

00:04:31.140 It's a big, you know, mainly black congregation.

00:04:33.800 And I was like the speck of salt and they had an altar call every time.

00:04:38.960 I'm like, what are they doing?

00:04:40.260 But every time I wanted to get up and go down and didn't even know why are they taking them

00:04:45.220 off to the side?

00:04:46.600 It was just, I guess God was speaking to me and, but I made the commitment into God.

00:04:53.740 And I, it was followed up by, because I'm a very passionate person and it's a, it's a gift,

00:05:05.020 mainly a curse.

00:05:06.220 So it was, it was one of those experiences where it was confirmed emotionally, not just, it was,

00:05:16.860 it was intellectual, it was, it just made sense, right?

00:05:22.700 That Jesus was who he said he was.

00:05:25.580 At this point, you've now come out publicly to your colleagues in the soap opera.

00:05:30.100 And so, yeah, amazing.

00:05:32.720 Did you, do you experience pushback at the time?

00:05:35.740 Yeah, first of all, I just have to preface this.

00:05:38.020 I'm not the best communicator.

00:05:40.340 I wish I was.

00:05:41.700 I, the way my mind works very, is very tangent.

00:05:44.680 Like I just, it's just like, it splinters.

00:05:47.940 That's, but that's why I like being an actor is because when I'm given the script, I could

00:05:51.820 just follow it.

00:05:52.660 There was a lot of people that were very respectful and very like wondering like what's, what's

00:05:58.620 going on.

00:05:59.740 But for the most part, it was more like, I kind of just lost my mind.

00:06:04.200 I was like one of those people and they just tolerated me.

00:06:08.200 But because of my energy and passion and my willingness to battle, you know what I mean?

00:06:17.680 Like, you know, it, it was, it's truth that led me to Christ.

00:06:22.880 It's truth that led me to the Catholic church.

00:06:25.060 It's truth that led me to the traditional form.

00:06:27.200 When you're armed with the truth, and I mean, I'm, I, you know, I'm into martial arts, but

00:06:32.620 boxing, I like that.

00:06:34.100 So you, you, it's combat.

00:06:35.980 I want to fight, you know, I just want to go, that's a lie.

00:06:40.760 This is the truth.

00:06:42.100 And so when you have somebody, you know, I'm six foot two, 210 pounds.

00:06:46.840 When you ask somebody who's, I think has the level of passion that I do and willingness

00:06:54.240 to engage and like not let go, I think people just kind of avoid, they don't really want

00:07:02.500 to get into it because they see that like, I'll be up with you till seven o'clock in the

00:07:08.460 morning talking about, and, and, and when I say this, it's not, it's not something that

00:07:16.400 is, it's like a, like a badge.

00:07:19.060 It can sound like that.

00:07:20.620 It can sound prideful because I'm reading a book just in case.

00:07:24.240 If you haven't read Humility of Heart, I highly recommend it.

00:07:28.340 I'm on my third reading.

00:07:29.520 I'll be reading it for the rest of my life.

00:07:31.100 You know, I won't let go.

00:07:32.580 Like I will keep coming and keep coming and keep coming and keep thinking.

00:07:37.180 And there's a lot of pride in that.

00:07:39.020 And it lacks a lot of prudence, but in some ways, what it does is that it makes people steer

00:07:45.540 away from you.

00:07:46.260 They don't attack you.

00:07:47.540 They attack you in maybe other ways, but not that you can see.

00:07:51.240 So it's not so obvious.

00:07:53.260 And that's what I experienced was a lot of behind the scenes stuff, not things that were

00:07:58.400 seen and gossip, you know, things that were gossip and said, scoffing, making fun of ridicule,

00:08:05.680 but never to me.

00:08:07.820 And because I, because to me, it's like, oh, that's it.

00:08:11.700 Oh, oh, you're making it known.

00:08:13.700 Oh, awesome.

00:08:15.900 Let's do this.

00:08:18.100 I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, my personality is very tough.

00:08:24.060 It's very tough.

00:08:25.320 It's, and it's, I find myself in confession for it more times than I necessarily would like.

00:08:31.920 What was your journey like moving from an evangelical Protestant to, to a Catholic?

00:08:36.620 And, and did, did traditional Catholicism come right with it?

00:08:38.960 Or was that a separate journey again?

00:08:40.680 When I became a believer back in like 1996 in Christ, that crossroad that I accepted,

00:08:47.400 okay, Jesus, you're at, the Bible is the, is the infallible word of God.

00:08:51.920 So I just started going to churches and I dove myself into this really interesting church

00:08:57.940 community in Los Angeles.

00:08:59.540 And it's, at least at the time, it was quite large.

00:09:02.660 So I go to my main church in different churches.

00:09:05.320 I didn't know, like I said, what the word theology was, but then I started to become aware of a

00:09:10.400 gospel called the prosperity gospel.

00:09:12.240 And this, the disconnect between what I read and just law, you know, just what was logical

00:09:19.940 and, you know, things like fear and trembling, you know, walk out with faith, fear and trembling,

00:09:26.180 you know, carry your cross, you know, dying to self didn't really fit in what I was hearing.

00:09:34.840 And so the theology became important.

00:09:37.840 And then I went to a more conservative church, left that, and Presbyterian, I didn't even

00:09:42.740 know what Calvinism was until I became a Catholic.

00:09:45.840 What it does, it was the desire for truth.

00:09:48.600 And my sister was very, very instrumental because she called me up one day and she goes,

00:09:53.100 I'm a Catholic.

00:09:54.160 And my first thought was, and this was 17 to 16, 17 to 18 years ago, my first thought

00:10:01.700 was, oh, now I have to become a Catholic.

00:10:03.520 And, but what happened was, she, as she was learning, she was giving me Catholic truth.

00:10:14.800 And the Catholic truth was filling in all these theological holes that Protestants couldn't 0.86

00:10:22.800 answer.

00:10:23.580 They, it's not like they didn't try to answer, but if you ask 10 pastors, you know, certain,

00:10:28.780 certain things in the Bible, you'll get, you know, you'll get different answers.

00:10:33.900 I became aware that it was because, because of that inconsistency with what I read in the

00:10:40.000 Bible.

00:10:40.700 And I would say really what happened was it was the Old Testament and how God defines his

00:10:47.320 character and nature.

00:10:48.740 He fulfills it in Christ on the cross, his resurrection, his love for us in fulfillment of prophecy,

00:10:56.140 fulfillment of, of his love for us, his demonstration, his giving to us, leaving everything, giving

00:11:02.700 everything.

00:11:03.600 But he defines himself very clearly.

00:11:05.940 And he's so specific.

00:11:07.660 He defines the Leviticus law.

00:11:09.960 You know, he makes it, he creates it.

00:11:12.060 I mean, if you want to put yourself to sleep at night, read Leviticus.

00:11:14.760 It's just, I mean, it's just like, okay.

00:11:17.120 And, but, you know, the tent of meeting and, and the, the, you know, the, you know, make

00:11:22.640 Noah, make the boat like this.

00:11:24.920 Here's the dimensions.

00:11:25.840 And Moses do this and do that.

00:11:28.020 When they carried the mark in an improper way, they died despite their intentions.

00:11:33.820 So that's really describes God as being very specific.

00:11:38.380 And then according to what I was experiencing in modern day Protestantism, it was like, everybody

00:11:44.700 was just kind of going, man, it's built by the spirit, man.

00:11:48.640 You just kick back.

00:11:49.660 I mean, church for me, it's just like out in the woods and, you know, it's me and the

00:11:54.520 Bible and Jesus.

00:11:55.660 And I'm like, that is not consistent with, with God that says I'm the same yesterday,

00:12:01.560 today, and tomorrow.

00:12:02.260 Why would he go to the end lengths of establishing the Levites priestly order and the law?

00:12:09.820 And then he, and then he comes and he goes, okay, that was all just an experiment.

00:12:15.380 You know, what he did is he established a new order, you know, the new right.

00:12:19.600 And then when I went to, when I came into the church, I came into a really good Orthodox

00:12:26.080 novus order church.

00:12:27.320 And I met a gentleman there that was, you know, very artistic and on fire.

00:12:33.580 And he was a catechist, he was teaching and an encyclopedia.

00:12:37.940 And so he became a good friend of mine and he went to Latin mass and say, you got to come.

00:12:43.140 And when I went there, the Bible blew up and I went, here's the torn curtain.

00:12:50.180 Here is the new covenant consistent with the old.

00:12:54.040 Here's where Christ is the sacrificial lamb and the curtain, the reverence, the holiness.

00:13:02.620 Because when you're in, when you're, when you go into mass before, it was like, I'm standing

00:13:06.540 behind some young 20 something with a tank top and mini skirt and flip flops and receiving

00:13:12.660 it in the hand.

00:13:13.880 I'm like, so, and then we wonder why 70% of Catholics don't believe in it.

00:13:19.060 But, you know, if I treated my wife with just complete contempt and disrespect, how do you

00:13:24.240 think my children are going to treat her?

00:13:26.280 I just want to know in, in your various moves, there, there's sometimes fraught with difficulty.

00:13:31.480 The move from atheist to, to, to evangelical, you explained, but the move from an evangelical

00:13:37.480 church to the Catholic church from, even from a Novus Ordo Catholic church to a traditional

00:13:42.280 church, those moves sometimes come with disruption of friendships and the like.

00:13:46.440 Like, did you experience that?

00:13:47.980 And if you did, how did you deal with it?

00:13:49.780 I've lost a lot of my friends, lost a lot of my Protestant friends, but I can't, I can't 1.00

00:13:55.000 really blame them because again, there's that bull in a China shop.

00:14:00.360 It could have been more prudent.

00:14:02.520 I could have been more gentle.

00:14:04.340 And it's, it really, it's, it's about trying to remind myself that it's the job of the Holy

00:14:09.560 Spirit to convert people.

00:14:11.340 And it's like trying to be, you know, faith, hope, and charity.

00:14:16.260 A lot of times I act, I've acted what I've, in my heart, I'm acting charitable, but that's

00:14:23.140 not how they see it, you know?

00:14:25.520 And, and I understand that.

00:14:28.440 And I, I've, I've had to make amends.

00:14:30.380 There's some friends I've, close friends that I haven't, haven't talked to in over a year.

00:14:34.740 With today's world, and given the milieu that you're in, the, the Catholic Church,

00:14:41.120 and particularly tradition in the Church, is fraught with all kinds of things.

00:14:46.240 And this is what's really incredible.

00:14:47.920 How are you dealing with, because as being part of the Church, particularly the, the

00:14:53.580 traditional Church, you believe in all of the truths that the Church teaches.

00:14:58.540 Yet in today's culture, that's the most difficult thing in the world, because it flies in the

00:15:02.220 face of everything that we're taught as gospel from the secularist world.

00:15:08.920 The pro-life beliefs, the pro-family beliefs, the, the beliefs in the truth about God and

00:15:15.680 salvation, and the need to avoid hell, and the existence of hell.

00:15:20.380 How in the world do you deal with that, given where you're at?

00:15:23.520 Well, you know, to me, I really, you know, when you ask me how do I get from here to there,

00:15:28.400 I mean, there's so many different avenues that I can walk down.

00:15:32.380 And one of them was, is I did research as into why is the Church the way it is.

00:15:37.700 I read Dr. Taylor Marshall's book, Infiltration.

00:15:41.200 But I was already on that journey.

00:15:44.200 And, you know, as far as looking at the world from a different perspective from 2008 crisis,

00:15:50.100 because like, why didn't anyone go to jail?

00:15:51.960 You know, I was like, this is a pretty big thing. 0.98

00:15:56.360 People shit there, you know, I was like, something's going wrong. 0.96

00:15:59.680 And then when that, that, that awakening of more on the naturalist, it wasn't like the 0.99

00:16:05.420 spiritual wasn't part of it, but it was more like there's an aristocracy that is around

00:16:09.800 that we don't even, we're not even aware of.

00:16:11.600 I was already looking into it.

00:16:13.980 And then when I discovered, you know, like Freemasonry, you know, and really, you know,

00:16:21.820 it's what is, and, you know, Karl Marx was a Mason, you know, he is moral, you know, communism.

00:16:27.940 So when I started in the infiltration of the Church, you know, it's like, it's a disease of thought.

00:16:35.580 It's a disease of theology, false theology.

00:16:37.920 It's a disease of, it's, it's about, it's about me, you know, and it's a moral relativism.

00:16:44.500 And it goes, you know, looking at history from a totally different perspective, like the French 1.00

00:16:48.820 Revolution, you know, America, I think is the greatest Freemasonry experiment ever, you know, 1.00

00:16:56.440 Protestantism.

00:16:57.640 I mean, it's really like, oh, you get to define it for yourself.

00:17:01.060 That's what we are.

00:17:02.140 And then that, that ideology is so incredibly pervasive.

00:17:07.920 In our, in our world more than ever before.

00:17:11.720 And if you like the mass, it's like, okay, well, let's turn away from the altar, face the people.

00:17:17.200 Let's put it more into the hands of the lady. 1.00

00:17:19.680 Let's, you know, be more engaging.

00:17:21.820 Well, what are you doing?

00:17:22.820 You're making it more about people.

00:17:25.140 Well, when I tell my daughters, I said, we're here for God.

00:17:29.380 You know, it's not about you.

00:17:31.680 He makes it about you because look at that crucifix.

00:17:35.440 Like, look at it.

00:17:37.360 That's what he did for you.

00:17:39.580 You know, if you ever question his love for you, look at that.

00:17:43.380 How do you defend, let's say the controversial teachings on life, especially in Hollywood speak,

00:17:49.060 it would be a totally natural conclusion.

00:17:52.080 A woman's right to choose is the only thing that exists. 1.00

00:17:55.880 And well, everything else.

00:17:58.420 You're a hater of women.

00:17:59.840 You must have been confronted by that already.

00:18:02.280 But how do you respond to these?

00:18:04.860 There's that and the LGBT thing, which is so pervasive. 1.00

00:18:09.580 Because when I was in the fashion industry, you're surrounded by the, I mean, drag queens 1.00

00:18:19.240 and transvestites are normal to me. 0.96

00:18:23.960 I mean, I used to club every single night.

00:18:26.460 I was like, hey, what's up, Paris?

00:18:28.080 Paris, you look hot.

00:18:29.080 Look at you.

00:18:29.740 You know what I mean?

00:18:30.460 That's, it was just a normal thing.

00:18:32.960 Like, if you were at a great club and you saw like seven foot, eight foot tall drag queens 1.00

00:18:36.760 because they're platforms, you'd be like, we're at a good party, you know?

00:18:41.460 So that's a normal thing.

00:18:42.920 But I see the truth of it.

00:18:45.420 And it coincides with abortion, which coincides with contraception, right? 0.79

00:18:51.980 Because you take away the act from its purpose.

00:18:55.860 It just makes sense.

00:18:56.980 See, I don't think it's controversial.

00:18:58.660 I don't think it's controversial at all.

00:19:00.440 I think it's very simple.

00:19:01.840 I said, that's a life.

00:19:02.900 Life begins at conception.

00:19:04.140 It's just the way it is.

00:19:04.960 In fact, the reason why the debate doesn't happen anymore is because science actually

00:19:09.620 backs up life at a genetic level.

00:19:13.040 So even if I were to have the conversation just scientifically, right, scientifically,

00:19:20.940 they would lose.

00:19:22.620 And that's why the conversation never happens.

00:19:24.980 Because we have morally, we have socially, we have scientifically.

00:19:31.160 It's just there's so many ways.

00:19:32.460 The only thing they have is name calling.

00:19:35.120 But I, you know, I've been to go and pray at the Planned Parenthood.

00:19:39.900 I mean, I couldn't believe it was down in Philadelphia.

00:19:41.900 I was praying.

00:19:43.440 It's a 100% kill zone.

00:19:45.420 And they had a BLM sign. 0.99

00:19:47.860 And all the people that I saw working there were black. 0.67

00:19:51.080 I mean, white, excuse me. 0.96

00:19:52.620 But all the people I saw coming in that were being escorted were black.

00:19:56.200 And they had a Black Lives Matter sign. 1.00

00:19:58.720 And I kept saying to them, I said, you're being led into a place to kill your baby by 1.00

00:20:05.720 a bunch of white people that have a Black Lives Matter sign. 0.98

00:20:09.020 How do you defend, let's say, the controversial teachings on life, especially in Hollywood

00:20:15.220 speak, it would be a totally natural conclusion.

00:20:18.880 A woman's right to choose is the only thing that exists. 1.00

00:20:22.720 And, well, everything else.

00:20:25.300 You're a hater of women.

00:20:26.960 You must have been confronted by that already.

00:20:29.180 But how do you respond to these?

00:20:31.440 When you see something that's so obvious and people, you show people that something that's

00:20:36.200 so obvious and they just refuse to see it, it has to be blinders.

00:20:43.880 You know, it has to be something like that.

00:20:45.820 It has to be.

00:20:47.200 And years ago, years ago, I was going to a church, you know, it's an Assemblies of God

00:20:54.760 church.

00:20:56.300 And I found out how Assemblies of God started.

00:20:59.280 Like, so much people got together, went to Hastings of God, returned, so they focused

00:21:03.020 on missions.

00:21:04.800 Like, what about individual holiness?

00:21:06.840 Oh, it's up to the Holy Spirit.

00:21:08.260 I said, yeah, but how are people going to know if they're doing wrong unless you say it?

00:21:12.780 Like, why don't you talk about abortion?

00:21:15.300 And what became clear to me is, like, what is abortion but modern-day sacrifice to, like,

00:21:21.200 Molech or Baal?

00:21:22.340 I mean, those demons still exist.

00:21:24.020 And that was the issue that happened in the land of Canaan.

00:21:26.900 And one of the reasons why God needed to clean it out.

00:21:30.120 And the reason why abortion is so important and sacrifice so important is portioned to

00:21:34.240 demonic entities is because they're the ape of God.

00:21:37.980 So they understand because God instituted the sacrificial system.

00:21:41.620 So because of that, there's spiritual power.

00:21:44.780 And what it does is when you have a society, culture that does that, they surrender themselves

00:21:51.480 spiritually, emotionally, mentally, physically over to this entity fully because they're

00:21:57.240 exercising a spiritual law, right?

00:22:00.280 It's a law that God instituted.

00:22:02.260 And with the greatest sacrifice, what does it do?

00:22:05.140 It redeemed mankind.

00:22:06.800 So it's like those demons are so important.

00:22:10.560 That's why you have all these groups.

00:22:12.100 Like, what do two women have worried about getting an unwanted pregnancy? 1.00

00:22:16.000 Why do they support abortion?

00:22:18.860 Why do two men that are together support abortion so vehemently?

00:22:25.180 Why?

00:22:26.040 You don't know, you know, why?

00:22:28.220 Well, there's a spiritual component there.

00:22:33.060 And, you know, you speak on this level, you know, it's really hard for people to comprehend

00:22:42.160 because I might as well be just wearing like an enormous tinfoil hat or just you're a flat

00:22:47.760 earth or, you know, or I mean, something like that's so crazy.

00:22:51.320 One of the last things that I wanted to ask you was about the times we're living in right

00:22:57.820 now, at least for a year and a half or so, because we're in a situation where the whole

00:23:03.460 world has gone completely upside down.

00:23:05.480 We're in one of the most stupendous things we've ever seen before.

00:23:10.340 In fact, so we've had abortion with us.

00:23:13.060 The whole LGBT ideology for a long time now, we had sort of like an underground of killing 1.00

00:23:19.060 children.

00:23:19.500 We have, as you said, sacrificed to Moloch.

00:23:22.160 And, but it's all done with white lab coats.

00:23:24.760 So it's like, oh no, we're not being like the Nazis at all.

00:23:28.220 No, no.

00:23:28.900 We're doing something that is not evil because it's all clean and good.

00:23:32.940 It's clinical.

00:23:33.680 Everything's wonderful.

00:23:34.660 It's a woman's right to choose. 1.00

00:23:36.360 It's excused under every euphemism that they can use.

00:23:39.780 But we have a new insanity that we're dealing with now in terms of COVID mandates, in terms

00:23:46.000 of vaccine mandates.

00:23:48.160 And so I'd just like to get your take on that because you've seen the same thing.

00:23:53.180 You've seen the world shut down.

00:23:54.720 The churches shut down.

00:23:56.440 God forbid.

00:23:57.460 And, and yet this is where we're at.

00:23:59.960 And because I know you are a man who follows the truth wherever it leads you.

00:24:05.320 What have been your thoughts on the whole COVID situation with COVID mandates, the shutting

00:24:10.400 down of churches and things like that?

00:24:12.260 One of the rules in improv for actors is always yes.

00:24:16.680 And, you know, you get information, you don't deny it.

00:24:19.820 You just go yes.

00:24:20.680 And so this is like a yes.

00:24:22.820 And it's like, of course, you know, the information is out there to point to what is really going

00:24:28.420 on.

00:24:29.040 Like when I try to talk to some people about what I see going on with these vaccines and

00:24:35.080 what they're doing and like, just here's an example.

00:24:39.120 I went into after mass 6.30 PM.

00:24:43.600 We went to a pizza shop.

00:24:45.900 We wanted a bottle of wine.

00:24:47.500 So I said, oh, you could buy one down the street, walk down the street, thought it was

00:24:51.120 this one place.

00:24:51.740 It was a bar.

00:24:53.140 Mass mandates were in place.

00:24:54.720 So I didn't have one because I really don't like being told what to do.

00:24:58.700 Like that's another thing about the fact that I'm a traditional Catholic.

00:25:01.680 Like I really don't like being told what to do and I can't think of anything more being

00:25:05.480 told what to do than being a traditional Catholic.

00:25:07.940 And only because Christ is worth all of everything I have to give.

00:25:13.280 Everything he says is true.

00:25:14.560 So, hey, you're the general and you're, you're going to win.

00:25:18.500 So I'm with you anyway.

00:25:19.880 So I walked in.

00:25:20.600 I said, well, I looked in, there was four people sitting at the bar without wearing face

00:25:25.080 masks.

00:25:25.880 It was five feet from the front door to the bar.

00:25:29.080 All right.

00:25:29.980 So I didn't have a face mask.

00:25:31.080 So I walked in.

00:25:32.180 I'm standing right next to these people on stools, two men, two women.

00:25:37.700 Bartender comes up.

00:25:38.400 Where's your face mask?

00:25:39.120 I'm like, I don't have one.

00:25:39.820 He said, it's the law.

00:25:40.700 I said, no, it's not.

00:25:41.480 It's a mandate.

00:25:42.800 He goes, you need your face mask.

00:25:43.920 And I went, I looked at the people.

00:25:47.200 It's like, I mean, you know, and it was just like a little bit, I'm like, what?

00:25:52.940 They're not wearing, I'm like, I'm right next to them.

00:25:55.220 Next thing you know, the four people are yelling at me who are not wearing face masks to wear

00:25:59.800 a face mask.

00:26:01.480 And then one of them goes so far as to put his gator up to tell me to get out of here,

00:26:07.120 you know?

00:26:07.480 And I handled it okay, but it was kind of hard because it was kind of, well, why don't

00:26:14.220 you make me?

00:26:15.080 You know, this is kind of, you know, it was like that, that ego rises up.

00:26:19.020 And I just peacefully walked out.

00:26:22.580 You know, I got threatened and I walked away from it.

00:26:25.720 Fortunately, I didn't allow myself to get more engaged.

00:26:29.080 But if that little story in and of itself doesn't tell you the mindset between the division

00:26:38.700 of how it's happened, between how people think, like you walk into a restaurant, you

00:26:43.580 must wear a face mask, but if you sit down, you can take it off.

00:26:46.740 It's like COVID went, I almost had you, but you're supposed to social distance, but your

00:26:51.280 waiter comes right up to you when you're at the whole table's not wearing face masks.

00:26:54.640 You know, you have, you have all these politicians who are living their life, however they want

00:27:01.020 to do it.

00:27:01.500 And they they're doing the show and it is clearly being caught.

00:27:05.540 So there's all this evidence that people are seeing that goes to show you there's, there's

00:27:10.380 the people in charge, you know, that are implementing these rules that are found to be, you know, with

00:27:16.560 their own questionable behavior, the things that they say and how they counter it, you know,

00:27:22.040 like, stop buying face masks, they don't protect you.

00:27:25.140 And the next thing you know, the same person is telling you, oh, yeah, we need a double

00:27:28.920 face mask.

00:27:30.320 I'm like, it's like, again, it goes back to how it led me to Christ, which is truth.

00:27:35.180 There's nothing true about this.

00:27:37.220 Because if this was a real pandemic, the way pandemics are, I would know, I've known a lot

00:27:44.840 of people who have had it.

00:27:46.220 I haven't known anybody who has died from it.

00:27:50.880 Okay, if this was a real pandemic, I would not only know a lot of people that would have

00:27:58.660 had it, I would have known a lot of people that would have died from it.

00:28:03.600 So that in and of itself says, well, look what they're doing.

00:28:09.080 With what it is, from the very beginning, it's been 98 to 99 point, point, whatever,

00:28:15.660 survivable between certain age ranges.

00:28:19.100 So it's like the first time in history that we're making our kids protect us.

00:28:24.480 I don't send my kids to public school.

00:28:27.300 You know, I don't have my kids face masks every day.

00:28:29.740 That's abusive.

00:28:31.420 You know, I'm sorry for any parent that may see this.

00:28:34.080 It's abusive, because it's psychological, it's physical, it's stifling, it's, you don't

00:28:42.280 want your kids to get used to something like that.

00:28:44.520 And the fact that they're doing this to our children.

00:28:47.520 So there's so many things that do not add up.

00:28:50.600 The fact is, and also, when you come into this thing that they're putting out that they

00:28:54.740 want us to put in our body, money cannot buy time.

00:29:01.220 Right?

00:29:04.460 Can't.

00:29:05.140 Can't buy time.

00:29:06.520 I've heard, well, they've done this, and they've spent so much money, and blah, blah, blah.

00:29:09.400 I said, where's the time?

00:29:11.980 Because only time, and there's enough evidence that is out there scientifically to say this is

00:29:20.500 something that may be very, very harmful in the future.

00:29:27.220 That which should give us all tremendous pause, not be so adamant, because fear is such a great

00:29:36.140 tool.

00:29:36.640 And what they did is they created this boogeyman.

00:29:39.640 They created the boogeyman.

00:29:41.620 It's like when your kid is afraid of the boogeyman, you're an adult.

00:29:45.280 You know there's no boogeyman underneath the bed.

00:29:49.060 But they're convinced of it.

00:29:50.720 So their fear is real, no matter how illogical it is.

00:29:56.440 And it's like, if you know, you have your kid who's in a moment where they're just freaked

00:30:01.340 out because their mind is going.

00:30:04.280 There's like, you could show them under the bed.

00:30:06.600 You can go into the closet.

00:30:08.560 You could, you know, everything.

00:30:10.000 You could do everything.

00:30:11.280 And still, they're convinced.

00:30:15.060 That, to me, is probably one of the most enraging things that I personally have to deal with on

00:30:24.760 a daily basis.

00:30:26.500 To be surrounded by people that are completely unreachable, no matter what you show them.

00:30:35.560 Even if they, you're lucky to get them to look or read what you show them.

00:30:41.280 Because they're so convinced.

00:30:44.520 You know, it's like the face masks are like a security blanket.

00:30:48.080 It's like, it's a symbol.

00:30:50.940 That's what that bar scene really showed me.

00:30:53.680 I was like, it has nothing to do with what it's for.

00:30:56.660 It has everything to do with adherence.

00:30:59.400 You know, it had everything to do with a symbol of adherence to an ideology.

00:31:03.940 Austin, you are a fighter.

00:31:06.240 You have a lot of background, I understand it, also in martial arts and so on.

00:31:09.560 But you've said you're a fighter and you like taking things on.

00:31:14.500 I would think that after this interview, you might be able to flex those muscles in terms

00:31:18.780 of people taking you up, intellectually and otherwise.

00:31:22.280 But I also think that you've encouraged a lot of people.

00:31:26.820 Because a lot of people are very intimidated today to be able to express the truths.

00:31:32.740 I know a lot of kids in school, especially in high school, they're pro-life.

00:31:37.500 They believe in what the church teaches on the family and so on.

00:31:41.220 And yet they're intimidated from saying these things because they think they'll be rejected

00:31:45.860 and outcast.

00:31:46.800 They'll think they're all alone.

00:31:48.520 So I really do.

00:31:51.240 I want to thank you for doing that.

00:31:53.080 But also, what might you have as closing words for the many, many people who will view

00:32:00.700 this and who really are grateful to you right now?

00:32:05.300 The reason why evil is able to prevail in many ways is because good people don't do anything

00:32:10.620 about it.

00:32:11.200 But it's really hard to do something about it when you feel like you're all alone.

00:32:16.020 The reality is, I love acting.

00:32:20.580 I really do.

00:32:21.840 I've been in the business since I was 16.

00:32:25.300 I'm 50.

00:32:27.260 And I've worked consistently, you know, since then.

00:32:34.820 And from the fashion industry, I mean, to, you know, television, I've done movies, but

00:32:41.960 no one's ever seen them, but I've done them.

00:32:44.360 I've done theater, plenty of commercials, fashion print.

00:32:49.820 So there's almost everything outside of the big budget film and starring in my own prime

00:32:54.500 time series that I've done, right?

00:32:59.060 I may never work again.

00:33:01.100 I may never, and since I told my agent, I said, I'm not getting a vaccine, right?

00:33:09.200 I told him.

00:33:10.840 He's a great guy.

00:33:12.840 You know, he owns the agency.

00:33:15.120 And I had a conversation with him.

00:33:17.560 And I said, I brought up, I brought up all the topics.

00:33:23.300 I brought up abortion.

00:33:25.060 I brought up everything.

00:33:27.120 I said, I'm not getting the vaccine.

00:33:29.160 And I'm not kissing the dude.

00:33:31.540 Ain't happening, right?

00:33:33.800 And that's the way it is.

00:33:35.380 And I feel like they've ruined storytelling.

00:33:37.560 I can't watch like a Victorian piece without them having this diverse cast that would never 1.00

00:33:41.820 exist in Victorian England.

00:33:43.660 And they're ever in an aristocratic environment.

00:33:46.580 I was like, they've ruined it.

00:33:48.020 It's like watching a play, watching somebody drop something or do something.

00:33:52.840 They don't, none of the actors recognize.

00:33:54.440 And I'm like, I don't even listen to any of you.

00:33:56.240 I, I, I, all I can see is the fact that you're, you didn't pick that up.

00:34:00.960 You know, Jim Caviezel said something that I thought was so powerful.

00:34:07.400 He said, everyone's afraid of dying.

00:34:11.920 You know, he's like, but we're all going to die.

00:34:14.780 It's how you live.

00:34:16.440 But it's coming for everybody.

00:34:17.900 Today could be our last day.

00:34:19.340 And we all watch movies about heroes.

00:34:23.140 We all watch movies about these characters that stand up against the machine or some sort

00:34:30.960 of organization that's doing evil.

00:34:33.600 They're by themselves.

00:34:34.940 And we all want to be them.

00:34:37.740 We all want to be that person.

00:34:40.940 Male, female. 0.89

00:34:41.900 You know, we, we don't, we don't watch movies of the people that have it all together.

00:34:47.580 We don't watch movies about the popular crowd and going, I'm one of those.

00:34:52.800 We all feel separate.

00:34:55.860 You know, we all feel disconnected in many ways.

00:34:59.540 But then in our own lives, we find ourselves being the bad guy.

00:35:05.520 The bullies only are able to bully because there's enough people that are afraid to do anything.

00:35:11.900 You know, that's really what, how bullies, they, they work on fear.

00:35:16.400 You know, that's, they just work on fear.

00:35:19.080 And I like really don't like being threatened.

00:35:22.980 I've been bullied in my life and I don't like being threatened. 0.89

00:35:26.120 And when I do, I get very angry and I want, I want to destroy the bully.

00:35:32.900 And this whole thing that's going on right now is, it's such a lie. 1.00

00:35:38.600 It's a bully. 1.00

00:35:39.260 And like, we have to punch it in the nose. 1.00

00:35:43.260 We have to punch it in the nose because it's taking all of our lunch money. 0.99

00:35:48.740 Austin Peck. 0.95

00:35:49.360 That is awesome.

00:35:50.980 You know, you are right now being one of those superheroes that we watch in the movies.

00:35:56.520 And this is what we're all called to do.

00:35:59.820 What we're all called to do is to live our lives for Christ.

00:36:02.080 We're all called to offer up the strugglings, the sufferings, to be able to go out there

00:36:07.400 and assert the truth.

00:36:10.140 Everything, of course, in union with this holy sacrifice.

00:36:13.080 But I want to thank you for doing this.

00:36:14.820 And thank you for doing what you're doing and being a witness to the faith.

00:36:19.260 It's incredible to see.

00:36:20.460 And we will be praying for you.

00:36:22.420 I have to say thank you for you because if you didn't have me on your show, I could talk about it.

00:36:29.180 You know what I mean?

00:36:31.280 So it's like I can pray in my living room, but you know, it goes right back at you.

00:36:40.300 And I know there will be a lot of people praying for you.

00:36:43.980 And I know that there will be a lot of people going after you for this.

00:36:48.660 So God bless you, Austin.

00:36:50.860 And God bless all of you.

00:36:52.860 And we'll see you next time on The John Henry Weston Show.

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The John-Henry Westen Show - October 11, 2021

'Soap star who went from atheism to Christianity risks career calling out anti-life, pro-vax Hollywood

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