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Dean Cain, Actor, Producer, & Patriot |EP565 · The Big Mig Show

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  All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
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  Creator with certain unalienable Rights, by liberty.
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  If liberty means anything at all, it means right to tell
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  people what they do not want to hear.
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  Welcome back to the big show. Of course I'm your host Lance
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  Miliacho with my Co host George Ballantine.
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  Fastest growing show on Rumble. Of course, it's always tip of
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  the spear. If you're looking for lies or
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  narratives that aren't true, you're in the wrong place.
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  You better head over to CNN or MSNBC or one of the other
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  mainstream media sources because this is always tip of the spear
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  on this show. Edge of the knife.
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  Because if liberty means anything at all, it means the
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  right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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  And you know, that's the plan to educate and unify the country
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  one episode at a time. George B What's going on, man?
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  Running a gun. And we got a big we got a big
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  day today. I.
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  Do I'm I'm excited for this interview because we got TV
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  Superman gets to meet the real life Superman.
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  You know what? I'm saying, you know, we went
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  backstage. Got a bigger smile than me right
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  now. That is yet to be proven, but
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  before we kick off, I have some. People saying about.
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  Today too, it's always hard. Scheduling is always the hardest
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  part about getting interviews. You know, You get lots of
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  opportunities. But the great part today, of
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  course, you guys know backstage we have Dean Cain, actor,
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  producer, patriot, advocate, and I think a real icon, 200 plus
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  movies under his belt. And I had no idea an NFL career
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  that got got, you know, obviously run short by an
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  injury. And I didn't know about that
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  when I started researching this. One of the things that sometimes
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  you don't know about a celebrity or somebody that you've watched
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  for years on the big screen that you've always enjoyed their
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  work, but you didn't know the path that got them there.
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  He's got a really interesting story behind it.
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  Before we kick it off, I've got to thank those people.
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  But George, do we want to bring Dean in so that I can he can
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  join us for the Genesis Gold Group?
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  Absolutely sponsoring. He's got his prepper bar handy
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  so I think we should. Die.
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  Welcome to the big, big show, Dean Kane.
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  How you doing, Sir? We're doing great, we're
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  fantastic. You know I love the fact that
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  you got your prepper bar. Of course we're holding up the
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  62.2g prepper bar. Perforated, easily broken down,
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  your choice of three different denominations.
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  It fits a multitude of needs. You go.
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  You know that George, myself and now Dean Kane were stackers.
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  You got to have some gold and silver on hand.
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  I don't care whether it's for asset protection from inflation,
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  economic turmoil, or it's unique utility for barter and trade.
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  The prepper bar is unique as you can snap off a small piece if
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  your credit cards aren't worrying if your cash is
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  inaccessible or maybe it's under attack.
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  We know BRICS nations want to undermine the US dollar.
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  This makes a perfect gift and a great way to diversify your
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  assets. Precious metal lovers love
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  these. They've got them available in
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  gold and silver. They're in stock right now.
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  They're exclusively mined and minted in the US.
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  They're selling out fast. And yes, they do come with an
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  assay report. And you ask yourself why that's
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  important Because there's lots of counterfeit gold coming out
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  of India and China right now. They fit right in your wallet.
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  They're very slim. This one's in a plastic case.
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  So don't let that fool you. Head over to the bigmigbar.com.
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  That's right, thebigmigbar.com. Use all caps prepper for 10% off
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  on the silver, 5% off on the gold.
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  Thebigmigbar.com. Dragged me off a piece of that
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  prepper bar. Yeah, I knew that was coming.
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  Thankfully, we don't have George doing the Jingle.
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  I think we were suppressing sales.
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  And don't forget that QR code is there.
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  Take a snapshot. You can use it later, but don't
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  leave now because you don't want to miss even one minute of this
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  interview. Yeah, George, I did take a low
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  blow kind of cheap shot. That's what the kids from.
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  The Bronx, me off a piece of that prepper bar.
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  Dean, that was not an audition for a singing part of your new
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  movies. I he well, he can get it for a
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  for a, for a bad singing part. I can get that too.
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  I'll give. I'll tell you what, George, I'm
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  I'm even worse. I'll take it.
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  Yeah, I Can't Sing either. My dad sung.
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  My dad was actually on. He was a big deal in in the
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  Broadway. He was in a bunch of the Rodgers
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  and Hammerstein stuff. He actually played Curly in
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  Oklahoma, which was one of their big ones years ago.
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  He was also the Chesterfield man and he and he sang opera.
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  He had a great voice. He did not pass any of that
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  through through to me though. Didn't get it all.
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  Well, listen, I noticed on your feet and I, even though this
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  isn't Memorial Day, of course, where a couple days later Tom
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  McDonald did a song. We have this thing we do, Dean,
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  on the show called Set the Mood. Let's kick it off, George.
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  I just thought we played Tom McDonald's song that he kind of
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  did a shout out for veterans and their families for Memorial Day.
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  And I saw Dean had posted this on his social media, as had I.
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  So let's run it there. We go.
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  It's a time to remember the ones who we lost, the fathers and
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  sons, the mothers and daughters who went overseas and bought so
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  we could be free. Believe it or not, they dying
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  for peace, they dying for speech.
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  They died in the streets of the Middle East.
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  They left the family at home and picked up a gun and stormed the
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  beach. I see a problem.
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  We've forgotten the fallen. Nobody works on Mondays.
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  We celebrate and pop bottles while there's soldiers in the
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  dirt and they all got families who were hurt and the cost of
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  freedom is a person. They died, so we ain't speaking
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  German. So eat your burgers and drink
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  your beers, relax, enjoy your day.
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  There were funerals and a million tears so we could live
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  our lives this way. There were widowed wives and the
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  children's eyes who won't see their dads again.
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  It's a holiday for the fallen. Don't say happy Memorial Day.
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  Great song. Yeah, it was a great song.
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  You know, I I really like the music he's produced.
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  It's one thing that's great about people in movies and, you
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  know, singers and artists, they get an opportunity to say things
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  where we get suppressed. We're still suspended over on
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  YouTube for putting out CDCS and VARES information.
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  You guys get to convey a message.
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  But I want to run through your bio real quick, Dean, and then
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  we'll get started. You know, you're an actor,
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  producer, writer. You're a former professional
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  athlete, which I did not know, best known for your iconic role
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  as Superman in the hit 1990s television series.
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  But you have done an incredible amount of work.
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  You're also in the new adventure of Superman.
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  You got your education at Princeton University, which I
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  did not know that about you. You graduated All American
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  Football star. You signed with the Buffalo
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  Bills and then a knee injury comes into play which ended your
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  professional career. Over the past three decades, you
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  appeared in over and This is Wrong.
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  This said, 100 films, it's over 200 films and many of them which
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  I love about you. They're strong, faith-based,
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  patriotic and family oriented themes.
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  And beyond acting, you became a powerful voice for the speech,
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  traditional values, and American ideals.
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  Your ex account. I love the way you post and the
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  way you chime in. There's quite a few actors
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  online that I follow. You're one of them.
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  And it's because I actually believe in the message that
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  you're relaying. You're devoted to raising your
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  son and using your platform to advocate for truth, integrity,
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  and personal responsibility. You're an outspoken figure in
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  today's cultural landscape. I think you're really an icon
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  and you're really, you've become such a strong leader in social
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  media, which I can't say the same for many actors and
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  actresses. And first of all, thanks for
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  joining us today. And and I got to say, you know,
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  you went from athlete to actor and you told me an interesting
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  story a few minutes ago that you shared backstage.
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  Maybe just share some of that in your version for the audience,
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  because I'd love to hear how kind of the sudden end of your
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  NFL dreams, which of course had been your your main identity
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  besides being highly educated. And then all of a sudden, boom,
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  you're an actor. Yeah, well, I grew up the son of
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  a director. So my father, Christopher Kane,
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  producer, directed Young Guns. You know, I was a huge hit.
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  And it was all the kids that I grew up with.
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  You know, I grew up with Sean Penn, Chris Penn, Rob Lowe,
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  Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Holly Robinson.
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  We all grew up together. And those guys started getting
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  into film when I went off to college to be an athlete.
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  And I had a wonderful career at Princeton.
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  You know, it was, it was tough academically at 1st and it was a
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  big adjustment coming from Malibu, CA, but it turned out
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  great. My closest friends are still all
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  those guys that I strapped on the helmets with and everything.
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  And you really bond together and Princeton is a great does a
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  great job of keeping their network together.
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  Those are some of the closest friends of my life.
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  Anytime any of them needs anything.
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  I'd be on a plane tomorrow. So it's a wonderful thing to
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  get. But I figured, OK, I get a shot
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  at the NFLI. Was very happy to get to Buffalo
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  was a great situation for me, but I got injured and that was
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  it. So within about two months of
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  graduating college, three months of graduating college, the two
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  things that I did really well, we're done school and athletics.
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  We're just finished. You're not going to make a a
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  living playing football. It's not going to happen that
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  you're you're my career ending injury.
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  I made sure that was over. So I had to start over again.
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  Very humbling after achieving so much at that, you know, ripe age
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  of 22. And I decided that I was going
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  to go into film. I decided that a while prior,
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  but didn't know exactly sure, you know, wasn't exactly sure
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  what I was going to do. I started as a writer.
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  My dad pushed my writing and then I started to make some
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  money as an actor, you know, doing commercials, doing things
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  of that nature. And I was like, well, I'll make
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  some money here and do this, but I pushed everything until I
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  finally got my break on Lois and Clark.
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  And that was incredible. You know when you play Superman
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  and you're always called Superman for the rest of There's
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  a reason that Superman has a dog, Crypto.
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  Not not a cat. See a cat?
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  They don't see the cat, but I'll put it back.
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  Bella. Bella, the accidental cat
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  decided to join. And she's got this thing lately
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  where she wants to walk across my computer.
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  She's here in the studio with us.
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  And sometimes she's got in this way where she comes in.
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  Yeah, that can be kind of disruptive.
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  If she hits the wrong key and just shuts, everything shuts.
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  Everything down. Yeah.
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  So yeah. You hold a school record for
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  most interceptions in in the season, right?
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  I hold school, but I still hold 2 NCAA records, George.
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  Now they're asterisks, if you will, because it's per game
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  average. So in division, well, what they
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  call now the Football Championship Subdivision, which
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  used to be Division One AA. In a career, I had 22 episode, I
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  had 22 interceptions in games, and then I had 12 interceptions
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  in 1010 games my senior year. So each of those career
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  averages, unless somebody broke it this last year, they still
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  hold because we, we didn't get a lot of games.
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  We, we couldn't play in the post season because we're in the Ivy
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  League. We couldn't play as freshmen
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  when I first got there in the on the varsity.
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  So one whole year of my eligibility was gone.
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  But you know, you don't go to Princeton to, to necessarily as
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  a portal to the NFL. It worked out for a few of us,
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  but it doesn't work out for that many.
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  Yeah, but what a great education.
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  Now you got your degree in history, Eastern philosophy and
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  current events. I mean, that's that's not a very
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  typical intellectual path. Not that I'm critiquing actors
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  in general, but that's really interesting.
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  And it seems like that kind of probably gave you a really big
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  worldview. Did that kind of influence what
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  kind of roles or the direction? You know, when you got done and
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  said, OK, I've got a reset, no NFL and now I'm going to go down
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  a different path. Was that part of the kind of
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  like this is the way I want to go because people tried to push
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  you in One Direction? Yeah, not at the beginning.
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  At the beginning I just wanted to pay my rent.
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  I just wanted to get off my dad's dole and be like, all
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  right, I'm going to I'm going to take take up for myself.
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  Dad, I had some of the NFL money.
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  So I the NFL money back then in 1988 is not what the NFL money
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  is now. So it wasn't much.
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  I had a $9 million signing bonus or anything like that.
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  I was an undrafted free agent out of Princeton.
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  I had basically the league minimum, which wasn't a whole
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  lot, but I was super excited to be there and that was great.
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  So I didn't think that this, you know, you don't start your whole
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  plan off. At least I didn't, I was just
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  trying to go day by day figure it out.
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  I'd write, I'd try to get acting jobs as a, as a, in commercials
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  or whatever I could get. And I'll just, you know, I'll,
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  I'll pay my dues. And that's what my thought
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  process was as I did, you know, better and better and was able
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  to, to make more, more projects and, and be able to produce
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  projects and things. That's really where my history
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  degree came in and my, my, I took my comprehensive exams in
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  war and diplomacy. Love that stuff.
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  Wish I had. There's a few roles I didn't
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  take for various reasons because my son was born in 2000 and I
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  ended up in a custody dispute and I couldn't leave.
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  I couldn't do things. One of them that broke my heart
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  was Band of brothers. I would have been in that and it
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  would have, it's just, and that was a great movie, great the
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  whole series. And I just, it just breaks my
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  heart that I couldn't do that. But I, I became a father when my
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  son, you know, in 2000 and that changed my entire life outside
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  of everything. Then I became the priority 100%
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  and and still is. Yeah, I was primarily, you know,
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  my daughter was extremely young when I split up with my ex.
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  We weren't married. It was my girlfriend at the
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  time. She was only six months old.
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  So it became a top priority for me.
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  So that impacted a lot of the things I was doing, you know, so
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  of course you make decisions. And I think it was the right
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  decision, you know, to, to, to raise her.
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  My mom gave me a lot of help, but being a single dad is always
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  more complicated. But it brings with a lot of
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  trials and tribulations. So my ex and I were OK.
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  I can't see. We were fantastic, but it was
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  reasonable. It wasn't like some other people
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  had gone through. What was your let me ask you
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  this, What was your first role? What was the first one you
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  actually got that? I'm sure that was the one you
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  got. Hey, I got a part.
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  What was the first one? Was it commercial?
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  What was it? Well, I got a couple roles
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  through having known some people, I guess because my dad
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  was in the business. So I can't really count.
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  I'm not going to count those, but I remember getting sort of
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  my first commercial. And the The funny thing is, so
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  you spend this time, I got a Princeton, I've been all
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  American football player. I play for the Buffalo Bills.
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  I got all this cachet right way to go.
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  And now they like you and George and Lance, you guys stand up
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  here, take off your shirts, eat some Doritos and pretend you're
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  at a party. And that's the audition.
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  Like, man, I did all this for that.
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  But you know, there was rumors. I don't know if it's true or
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  not. Brad Pitt was the, you know,
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  Chick-fil-A chicken and who knows?
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  Whatever the you know, whatever it.
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  Is, you know, I, I don't have any kind of career with yours.
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  I had a lot of crappy acting. I did.
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  My first role I ever got was in a Coors commercial and I
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  remember them telling me I had to trace a trade a case of Coors
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  beer for a a very very high end stereo system and I remember I
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  thought I didn't get the role to be honest with you.
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  Can I understand the cashing agent?
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  I'm going to trade this 10 or $15 case of Coors or $8 whatever
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  the hell it is for a obviously a multi $1000 stereo system.
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  That's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard of.
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  And I thought for sure I'd burn the interview, but they gave it
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  to me for whatever reason, maybe because they agreed with me.
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  But I remember doing it and thinking this is the dumbest
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  commercial I've ever heard that anybody would want to do it.
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  And I ended up getting it. But it was kind of like you
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  said, you run around. I was in pretty good shape at
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  the time, you know, and they wanted to be, you know, wear
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  wear a tight T-shirt. I was supposed to be this
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  college guy that was partying and I wanted to trade this case
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  of beer. And you know, anyway, one of
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  those things that was a national.
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  Those nationals paid pretty well.
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  You go to the mailbox and those checks just kept coming in.
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  Four years of that, my friend, That's what I made.
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  That's how I made a living for four years until I got.
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  Well, man, and that's big. That really skyrocketed you.
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  You. There isn't anybody that didn't
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  watch you as Superman. You know, I watched it in the
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  90s. I loved it.
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  And that really made you a household name.
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  But you know, I have to ask you, of course, with that, there had
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  to be a lot of pressure and responsibility.
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  You're paying this really what I would consider a top level
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  Marvel character. Everybody, you know, everybody
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  knew Superman. You know, did you find yourself
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  constantly getting well, he's not good enough as Superman or
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  he's was there this constant critique?
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  Oh, I don't know. He's not buffed enough.
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  Maybe he needs to be bigger. Well, there's was there a lot of
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  that crap going on? I was always.
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  Curious about that? Well, fortunately it was DC.
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  DC Comics, not Marvel. DC.
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  That's right. I'm sorry, DC.
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  Does the Marvel guys get mad, that sort of thing?
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  Yeah. No, there wasn't a whole lot.
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  So the Internet hadn't really done its thing yet.
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  So there was no real big social media world.
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  There wasn't this, this, this, the attacks that you get now
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  that it was in its infancy in 93 when the show came out.
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  But I do remember, because I'm Japanese.
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  I'm a quarter Japanese. My given name is Tanaka.
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  My mom remarried when I was four.
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  Yeah, my brother was 6, and we became Kane.
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  And I remember people saying with the funniest comment that
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  I, my brother brought to my attention, he said that this
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  person posted online again in its infancy, wrote we wanted
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  Superman, not sushi man. We.
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  We. Laughed to this day.
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  That's crazy. But it's like that, right?
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  I mean, yeah, yeah. Can eat you.
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  Exactly. But I think, you know, at the
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  end of the day, you did an amazing job.
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  You know, people loved you. You know, I saw the great
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  reviews even back then. And of course you got it.
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  It just went on and on and on. So it was really, it was really
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  a ground breaking, you know, piece of work.
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  And I think a lot of people loved you for what you did in
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  that. But you know what, I want I said
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  to you backstage, and I want to say it to the audience, you
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  know, for anybody that doesn't know Hollywood, it's pretty.
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  There's definitely on everyone one of those sets.
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  There's a lot of creepiness and darkness going on.
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  And you know, you have done an amazing job where you really
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  consistently have taken roles. You've never, you know, strayed
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  from your faith. You've always been pro America.
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  You all your, you know, all the films you've directed are value
• 18:24
  driven, you know, and you distance yourself from so much.
• 18:27
  And we're seeing, you know, I think I think for the first time
• 18:30
  the audience may be getting it because of the Diddy stuff.
• 18:32
  You know, George, you and I have talked about Diddy and how many
• 18:35
  people are involved. Truth is, there's just as many
• 18:37
  people involved in the Epstein scenario and Hollywood's like
• 18:41
  that. I remember being on Father
• 18:43
  Dowling and I remember being on there with, with Perry Mason on
• 18:48
  those sets. And Perry Mason, I, I didn't
• 18:51
  know that the, the lead actor, I didn't know he was gay.
• 18:54
  And I remember he was coming out between takes and he had this
• 18:56
  little skinny blonde twink that I guess was his boyfriend that
• 18:59
  would come out and sit on his lap.
• 19:01
  And I was kind of creeped out by the whole process.
• 19:04
  How did you do? I mean, clearly it's because of
• 19:07
  your integrity, but how are you able to not get, you know,
• 19:10
  sucked into that vortex? Because it's it's powerful out
• 19:13
  there. It is I, I think maybe because I
• 19:16
  didn't, maybe because I was an athlete.
• 19:18
  You know, I even go back and when I was a kid, you know,
• 19:20
  there were drugs around. People were smoking marijuana,
• 19:23
  taking Quaaludes like they did back in the day or this or that
• 19:25
  or the other thing. Nobody did it around me because
• 19:28
  I didn't do it and they feel like that.
• 19:30
  He doesn't, he's not part of that.
• 19:32
  Just don't even don't even bring it up to Dean.
• 19:34
  Just leave it alone. Whatever.
• 19:35
  I never saw it. I it was there, I guess, but I
• 19:37
  never saw it the same thing there.
• 19:39
  It's like someone's not going to come up to me and be like, you
• 19:41
  know, I mean, I'm pretty, I wear my heart on my sleeve.
• 19:43
  It's pretty clear how I feel, you know, about things and I'm
• 19:47
  willing to tell people and I'm not going to judge others.
• 19:49
  That's just not what I do and that's OK.
• 19:51
  They wouldn't bring the the little twink to sit on my lap or
• 19:54
  anything like that. Plus I had Teri Hatcher sitting
• 19:57
  on my lap which is pretty good. Yeah, that was actually really
• 19:59
  good. They just like, you know, that
• 20:02
  kind of thing wasn't, it didn't interest me.
• 20:04
  It wasn't something that I was interested in at all.
• 20:06
  And I think they sort of gauge it.
• 20:07
  They like, you know, maybe I can get this guy.
• 20:09
  I can get this guy. But having grown up in the
• 20:11
  business, having known so many people, seen the mistakes that
• 20:15
  Sean Penn made, see the mistakes that Chris Penn made, see the
• 20:17
  mistakes that Rob Lowe made, I was like getting Charlie Sheen.
• 20:20
  I'm like, I'm not making those mistakes.
• 20:22
  I'm not doing that stuff. It's not part of who I am.
• 20:25
  All all still good friends of mine, all of them, but not, not
• 20:29
  the stuff that I would do. And I but I didn't do it even
• 20:31
  back then. I just, it's maybe it's because
• 20:34
  my father came in my life and was a very, really, my dad's a
• 20:37
  farm boy from South Dakota and he, you know, I, I caught the
• 20:41
  belt a few times. I deserve the belt.
• 20:43
  You too, huh? Yeah.
• 20:45
  Yeah, I deserved it. There was no question I would
• 20:47
  think. It was the IT was the wood
• 20:48
  spoon, the dog leash and the fly swatter in my house.
• 20:51
  I had many a wood spoon broken on me back then.
• 20:53
  But, you know, I think that Bill character.
• 20:55
  I think. The way they handle these kids
• 20:57
  now with some of the stuff that's going on in TikTok, it
• 20:59
  just isn't there. And that's, you know, I got to
• 21:01
  ask you this, is there any particular one life event off
• 21:04
  camera otherwise that kind of changed your perspective
• 21:07
  forever? That kind of helped you involve
• 21:09
  into the guy that you are now, the guy that we see on social
• 21:12
  media, the guy that we see through the kind of movies
• 21:14
  you're involved in. Is there anything particular
• 21:16
  that really kind of forged you? You know, I had these values and
• 21:20
  these morals and these ideals from the very beginning.
• 21:23
  I remember a kid in high school who wrote who drew this picture
• 21:26
  of a guy struggling, a fit guy struggling with a backpack on
• 21:29
  and weights and holding the American flag and struggling to
• 21:32
  stand up because it was. And it said, like #1 on it, like
• 21:36
  struggling for that, that ideal that is America to me.
• 21:41
  I remember thinking that even in high school, junior high school,
• 21:44
  I was like, yes, that's me. That's what I believe in.
• 21:47
  That's what I want. But what really changed things
• 21:49
  for me about speaking out and doing things was when my son was
• 21:52
  born in 2000, that it changed my whole world, my life, faith.
• 21:56
  Everything changed with that child.
• 21:59
  But I also had to fight a custody case for my son when he
• 22:02
  was 18 months old. I sued for joint custody because
• 22:04
  his mother wasn't letting me see him.
• 22:06
  All sorts of other issues. We've since gotten through that,
• 22:09
  but it took me 14 months and over almost $2,000,000 in cash
• 22:14
  to win joint custody and to see how ridiculous that process was
• 22:19
  when the attorneys knew how much money I had that I could burn
• 22:23
  through. They limited what I could do,
• 22:25
  what jobs I could take. They used my job and my work
• 22:28
  against me because I wouldn't be there for the child if I have to
• 22:31
  go make a movie. It's why I turned down Band of
• 22:34
  Brothers and other things. So it's, it's, it's that sort of
• 22:37
  thing really ticked me off when I saw how poor father's rights
• 22:42
  were. But I also was the beneficiary
• 22:45
  of a father in my life who stepped in and adopted me.
• 22:48
  And I know how much his guidance meant to me.
• 22:52
  And there was no way that I wasn't going to be a father to
• 22:55
  my son. So that that made me start
• 22:58
  talking about the politics of it, saying this is unfair for
• 23:00
  fathers and looking at other things and voicing what I
• 23:03
  thought were valid opinions on things.
• 23:06
  And, and again, I don't judge other people, you know, leave
• 23:10
  the kids alone. I don't care if you're 35 years
• 23:11
  old and you wanted to wear a dress, go ahead.
• 23:13
  But don't. Don't indoctrinate the kids.
• 23:16
  Don't put that them. I, I think everybody should
• 23:20
  deserve to make their own choices, but it's the way
• 23:21
  they're doing the grooming. It's becoming extremely
• 23:24
  sophisticated. We see it on a lot of the
• 23:26
  networks. You know, I, my wife and I, when
• 23:28
  we're watching TV sometimes like up here comes the transgender or
• 23:32
  here comes up, here comes the bisexual couple.
• 23:34
  We knew that was coming. At the end of the day, you you
• 23:37
  tune in and you don't expect that you're just tuning in for
• 23:39
  some normal watching because I'll have stuff running in the
• 23:41
  background, whether it's documentaries and other
• 23:43
  information as I'm working on our different shows, but it's
• 23:46
  really kind of telling. Me the question for him, yeah.
• 23:48
  So you were, you were adopted and you're from my and you lived
• 23:51
  in Idaho in the beginning. Yeah, I was adopted.
• 23:55
  I lived in California. My mom, I have my biological
• 23:58
  mother. My dad stepped into my life in
• 24:00
  Hollywood when I was four years old, three years old.
• 24:04
  He was from Idaho. But Idaho, No, he was from South
• 24:06
  Dakota. I'm a reserve police officer in
• 24:09
  Idaho and my father's, my biological father's side of the
• 24:13
  family was interred at Minidoka in the Japanese internment camp
• 24:18
  in World War 2, which is about 45 minutes from where I serve as
• 24:21
  an officer. I still never made it over
• 24:22
  there. Somebody sent me that
• 24:24
  information. So I'm dying to go over there
• 24:25
  one day and and that's. Crazy.
• 24:27
  That was a dark page in our history here in the United
• 24:30
  States. The internment camps.
• 24:31
  George, go ahead. You had a question I don't want.
• 24:33
  To no no because I heard adoption in Idaho's father and
• 24:35
  it almost like he was made for Superman in the movie because
• 24:38
  you know he was adopted in a in a.
• 24:40
  In Kansas, but Kansas. But it's true though, George,
• 24:44
  your point is 100% valid because my dad is a South Dakota farm
• 24:47
  boy and he imbued those values upon me.
• 24:51
  Which is why when I say truth, justice in the American way, I
• 24:54
  believe it 100% because the American way to me is those
• 24:59
  small Midwestern values. The ideas of the individual, the
• 25:04
  idea of the ability to compete fairly without the government
• 25:07
  putting their finger too hard on the scale.
• 25:09
  The idea that you can work your pass off, achieve and achieve a
• 25:13
  level of success that you want to be able to pass down to your
• 25:16
  family and be wealthy, bless you for that.
• 25:18
  That's the American dream. That's what people come here
• 25:20
  for, the blind justice. And when I, when DC let truth
• 25:25
  justice the American way, they let that go.
• 25:28
  They lost their trademark on that.
• 25:31
  I'm happy to pick up that mantle any and every time.
• 25:34
  Vitto. You know, I just have to ask
• 25:37
  this because, you know, we've been attacked.
• 25:38
  When George and I decided to do this show, we were already on
• 25:40
  social media and I, you know, I recognize what was going on in
• 25:44
  the country. I'd worked for the government
• 25:46
  years ago and I kind of knew that there was plenty of
• 25:48
  corruption. I'd worked as a government
• 25:49
  contractor and Halliburton, Blackwater United Defense, Sabre
• 25:54
  G4 SI, worked around the globe in a lot of different locations,
• 25:57
  training people in CQB tactics, hand to hand techniques, that
• 26:01
  sort of thing. And I'd seen a lot of corruption
• 26:03
  internally, you know, but we've been one of the things I told
• 26:06
  George and we both agreed to is we would never sell our
• 26:08
  integrity or morality. There are some deals out there.
• 26:12
  They've they've been offered to us to try to shut us up.
• 26:15
  We were offered out of an agency out of Chicago, some pretty
• 26:17
  significant money about a year and a half ago.
• 26:19
  We turned it down because I felt like they wanted to control the
• 26:22
  narrative, you know, knowing that you're both a director and
• 26:25
  an actor. How much direct backlash have
• 26:27
  you faced from the industry? Because let's face it, people
• 26:31
  like Weinstein and others, they're very judge mental.
• 26:34
  They want to be able to control the actors and actresses in
• 26:36
  their envelope. And you know, of course the
• 26:40
  sponsors that are involved, the investors are involved.
• 26:43
  Have you faced a lot of that or have you been able to basically
• 26:45
  stay outside of that because you you're, you're basically a
• 26:48
  really well-rounded guy that has the ability to produce movies
• 26:51
  and otherwise? Well, I did.
• 26:53
  I have that ability and that has helped me a lot.
• 26:55
  But Hollywood is full of cowards.
• 26:57
  Nobody will tell you right up front that this is what it's
• 27:00
  about. They won't say that.
• 27:01
  Listen, I don't like your political views, so you're out.
• 27:04
  You're I'm a sworn deputy sheriff.
• 27:06
  They'll be like, I don't like that, that you're actually a
• 27:08
  real officer. I don't like that.
• 27:11
  So you know, they don't have that.
• 27:12
  They don't have the nuts to say that and they won't say that.
• 27:15
  You know, they don't like my faith-based films.
• 27:17
  They won't say that. It'll be something like, you
• 27:19
  know, I'll have them come look at my film little angels.
• 27:21
  It's coming out and they'll they'll come in and they'll say,
• 27:24
  hey, we love it. It's great, wonderful.
• 27:26
  We'll we'll make an offer on it tomorrow.
• 27:28
  And this happened to me to this particular company and I was
• 27:30
  like, great, here we go. And it was a company I wanted to
• 27:33
  work with. And then the next day I called
• 27:35
  to make the deal and they said it's over.
• 27:38
  And so that sort of quiet blacklisting, that kind of quiet
• 27:43
  turning the back on you exists completely.
• 27:46
  And anybody who is come out and spoken, you know, into the to
• 27:52
  the affirmative in the conservative sort of world or
• 27:54
  make faith-based movies gets turned into outcasts.
• 27:57
  And that happens all the time. But they don't say it that way.
• 28:00
  However, when people watch movies, like if people go watch
• 28:03
  little angels and say, well, this is like Mighty Ducks, we
• 28:06
  love it and family start going, then, then I'm even less I'm I'm
• 28:11
  even more immune to to that that stuff coming out of the the
• 28:15
  studios and from people like a Harvey Weinstein who never hired
• 28:19
  me by the way, which is the whole point he.
• 28:21
  Wouldn't hire. Yeah.
• 28:22
  And while we're talking about Little Angels, let's just jump
• 28:25
  into it really quickly. It's your most recent film.
• 28:27
  I know it's going to be available June 6.
• 28:31
  George, I don't know if you want to grab that short trailer clip,
• 28:34
  but basically this is it's it's about you, a hotshot college
• 28:38
  football coach. You're suspended and sentenced
• 28:40
  to community service. You're forced to coach a ragtag
• 28:43
  girls soccer team, learning humility, teamwork and personal
• 28:47
  growth along the way. Let let's.
• 28:50
  George, let's play the clip. I think we've got it there at
• 28:52
  the bottom. I can throw that up.
• 28:53
  Yeah. And the poster.
• 28:54
  Yeah. So.
• 28:55
  And then I want you to comment on this because, again, since
• 28:57
  we're on it, we want to talk about it.
• 28:58
  Where is it going to be available in movie theaters
• 29:01
  nationwide? Theaters on June 6.
• 29:03
  You can go to Little Angels movie.com and it'll and check
• 29:07
  for theaters in your area. All right, it's great.
• 29:09
  Let's play the clip, George. And that's the reason the United
• 29:12
  States is a constitutional Federal Republic and not a pure
• 29:15
  democracy, because pure democracy is just mob rule.
• 29:18
  It's like 2 wolves and a lamb deciding what's for dinner.
• 29:20
  It's always going to be the lamb, yeah.
• 29:21
  Nice burritos, Diablo, Sal listo all.
• 29:24
  Right. Hey, coach, what is for dinner?
• 29:25
  Carne asada con frijoles tiaros OK.
• 29:33
  Come on. So I get the reject in time out,
• 29:37
  time out. There's no time outs in soccer.
• 29:42
  Get off the field. Coach Yeah, we got the website
• 29:46
  up right here so everybody can see it too.
• 29:47
  Little Angels, movie.com. Yeah.
• 29:49
  It looks great, looks funny. You know, at the end of the day,
• 29:51
  I love the impromptu constitutional education.
• 29:55
  Most people, you know, we were showing.
• 29:57
  The film. I wrote the film, so you know, I
• 29:59
  put that in there. Yeah, and I love it.
• 30:01
  I love that it's got a message. We talk about.
• 30:03
  I don't know if you've ever seen.
• 30:04
  We had a gentleman that writes books.
• 30:05
  He's been highly successful. It's the What's Britfield
• 30:09
  series. And he kind of ties in the
• 30:11
  reality of what's true, what isn't true.
• 30:14
  It's an educational series. He's done hot really well.
• 30:16
  He's going to, he's going, he's actually in development on
• 30:18
  movies right now to bring the series out.
• 30:20
  But it's interesting when you talk about what the truth is
• 30:24
  about how our founders and framers created this country,
• 30:27
  how many people are confused about calling it a democracy
• 30:31
  when it's really a sovereign republican.
• 30:33
  Of course it's, you know, it was created in such a way that it
• 30:35
  wasn't supposed to end up like a monarchy.
• 30:38
  But we got a uniparty in DC. That's very clear at this point
• 30:41
  that it's all David Copperfield when it comes to the smoke and
• 30:44
  mirrors. It's a sleight of hand.
• 30:46
  You know, one group actively destroying us, the other group
• 30:48
  saying they're going to fix it and we're going to have another
• 30:51
  hearing or another committee. We're going to subpoena people
• 30:54
  and then nothing happens. George, let's go on here.
• 30:58
  So let's talk about the injury. You know a lot of up.
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• 37:21
  not. Hopefully we're going to have
• 37:22
  him on on Friday. Because he like, he, he misses,
• 37:25
  he loves the banter we give him, you know, because.
• 37:27
  Yeah, we're joke around a lot. Yeah, besides the fact that
• 37:29
  everybody. From England, gets that
• 37:30
  California. You know, everybody, when you
• 37:33
  put anybody on from England on this show, they immediately
• 37:36
  assume that they all went to Cambridge or Oxford and they're
• 37:38
  just geniuses. Because, you know, that accent
• 37:40
  makes you sound like you're the smartest guy on the planet here.
• 37:44
  A couple of kids from New York or the Bronx, they're like,
• 37:46
  okay, well this is dumb ass. Maybe he can tell me how to cook
• 37:49
  eggplant. I think that's about it.
• 37:52
  I spent like 3 weeks in California for like a school or
• 37:55
  class and the people out there just they don't have no sense of
• 37:58
  humor. Just a long time ago, they
• 37:59
  didn't know what to do with me, they thought.
• 38:01
  I was offending them, I explained.
• 38:02
  Them No, I'm just just being sarcastic.
• 38:05
  Like what's I, I. Left.
• 38:06
  I left California and went right to Jersey for college.
• 38:08
  So I've known a a couple of folks like you, George.
• 38:11
  I've got that sense of humor and I appreciate it, and they're my
• 38:14
  closest friends in the world. Yeah, You know, sarcasm is a
• 38:18
  second language. Of course.
• 38:19
  It really toughens you as a kid, you know, because we're all
• 38:21
  chopping on each other all day. That's all you did as a kid in
• 38:24
  New York. I grew up in Fordham Rd. in the
• 38:26
  Bronx. So it was just natural for us to
• 38:28
  just cut on each other. But the problem is, George is
• 38:31
  right. Even here, I'm in Colorado, the
• 38:32
  socialist state of Colorado, I'm afraid to say.
• 38:35
  And I've got to tell you, it's difficult because people
• 38:37
  sometimes, you know, I'm saying something and they the sarcasm,
• 38:40
  I get these looks and I'm like, all right, listen, we won't
• 38:42
  shave any puppies bellies today. We'll just move on from here.
• 38:47
  Just they, they look at me like I'm out of my mind.
• 38:49
  It's not easy. Some guys get me a lot of them.
• 38:52
  Don't you know, man, I want to go in.
• 38:54
  George, let's jump in. I'm going to let you go.
• 38:56
  Take the lead here. This is, you know, everybody.
• 38:58
  A lot of people always have a life changing moment.
• 39:00
  They deal with strategy. I mean, death, injury, whatever
• 39:04
  it may be. So you had a career ending
• 39:06
  injury. You know, you spent your, your
• 39:08
  career spanning sports, entertainment and activism, but
• 39:12
  you got hurt in your first, I'm going to say it's your first
• 39:15
  love playing football, right? And making it to the NFL.
• 39:18
  That's why everybody, a lot of kids that play in college, they
• 39:20
  want to make it there. And you were there.
• 39:21
  You got injured at what? Like what drove you, what gave
• 39:25
  you the the energy to like to bounce back from that and just
• 39:30
  strive? What would you injure?
• 39:33
  Your knee? My knee, my right knee, I lost
• 39:35
  my lateral meniscus and I blew off all the cartilage on the
• 39:38
  femoral head and I had bone on bone.
• 39:40
  And it was worse than we thought when it happened.
• 39:42
  But I'll tell you what it was. You know, my dad said it early
• 39:45
  on to me. He said because I ran hurdles
• 39:46
  and stuff. I ran track, I played baseball,
• 39:49
  I played volleyball, I played everything.
• 39:50
  My dad said your greatest asset is the your unwavering optimism.
• 39:56
  He said, you know, when I was running hurdles, Ronaldo
• 39:58
  Nehemiah was the world champion. And I love Ronaldo like Edwin
• 40:01
  Moses, I loved him too. And they were just amazing.
• 40:04
  But my dad said if you lined up with Ronaldo Nehemiah for the
• 40:07
  110 highs, you honestly believe you might have a shot.
• 40:12
  And I'm like, well, he might get a bad start.
• 40:14
  He could hit a couple hurdles. I don't know.
• 40:16
  He's like, but that's The thing is that you believe you might
• 40:19
  get there. And something about that is, is
• 40:23
  is wonderful. He said keep it.
• 40:25
  Keep it, keep it, keep it. And coaches and players and
• 40:29
  people always try to tear you down.
• 40:31
  It's the same thing in my business as an actor.
• 40:33
  They're always trying to tear you down.
• 40:35
  They're always coming after you. Just you got to have that thick
• 40:37
  skin and move on. I think it also helps that I was
• 40:40
  wasn't that smart. So I thought, you know what, I'm
• 40:43
  not done. I'm going to come back.
• 40:45
  I just believed that I would make it back.
• 40:47
  I was probably in the third year of Lois and Clark, you know, 29
• 40:52
  years old before I realized for real.
• 40:55
  I'm not going to go back to the NFL.
• 40:56
  That's over. Wow, but it's but it's, but
• 41:00
  it's, but it's crazy, right That that you know, that
• 41:03
  perseverance. You just like, like you said a
• 41:05
  minute ago, George and I get attacked a lot.
• 41:07
  Of course, when you're over the target and, and whenever you're
• 41:09
  doing alternative, I call investigative journalism or
• 41:12
  whatever you want to define what we do.
• 41:14
  You know, we get death threats in our emails.
• 41:16
  We come out with a story and some people are very angry.
• 41:19
  It's how you respond to that as a kid from New York and George,
• 41:22
  of course, also being from New York and New Jersey, you know,
• 41:25
  it takes, you can't get under ours.
• 41:26
  You know, you can talk a lot of shit.
• 41:28
  So even when I was trying out for parts, if I got some
• 41:30
  critique afterwards through my agent or what, otherwise I was
• 41:32
  like, God, whatever, like I'll get the next one.
• 41:36
  You know, the, the truth is a lot of that stuff really does
• 41:39
  help you because of course your upbringing and of course it
• 41:43
  sounds like your father's influence and, and being in
• 41:45
  sports, you just recognize you can't harbor that stuff.
• 41:49
  You have to move on quickly if you want to be successful.
• 41:52
  Also faith, because God gives his toughest battles to his
• 41:55
  strongest soldiers. Yeah, no doubt.
• 41:58
  And about faith, The funny thing is, you know, there's times, and
• 42:00
  I say this to people often, it's like you sit there and you're
• 42:03
  like, man, I need strength. God, please give me strength for
• 42:07
  this. And God doesn't just necessarily
• 42:09
  give you strength. He gives you the ability to show
• 42:12
  your strength and earn your strength.
• 42:14
  And that's just it. He's not going to solve your
• 42:16
  problem for you, but He'll give you that obstacle to overcome.
• 42:20
  You know, if it's faith, if it's money, whatever it is that
• 42:24
  you're struggling with, God isn't necessarily going to just
• 42:26
  solve it for you, but he'll give you that opportunity where you
• 42:29
  have to say, OK, I get it. I'm getting you.
• 42:32
  I want strength and you're giving me the opportunity to be
• 42:34
  strong. I will be strong now.
• 42:36
  Yeah. And I think it's how you hone
• 42:38
  those tools you're given, right? You're given these gifts.
• 42:41
  It depends on how you perfect them.
• 42:43
  That knowledge base or that really resilience, it comes from
• 42:46
  those battles. You know, you have often said
• 42:49
  that being a father is your most important role.
• 42:53
  Custody battles are never easy. You became a, you know, a full
• 42:57
  time single dad, which I know what that's like.
• 42:59
  I had my mom to help me. I don't know how your family
• 43:02
  helped with what you were doing, but of course, you passed on
• 43:04
  some roles. Well, what I love, I was
• 43:07
  scraping your social media. Like I said, I was scrolling
• 43:09
  through in preparation for today's interview, just trying
• 43:12
  to get a feel. I watch your stuff all the time,
• 43:14
  so I see what you're posting regularly.
• 43:16
  There's quite There's a handful actors.
• 43:18
  I watch what they do simply because I enjoy.
• 43:20
  Like Neil McDonough. He was another one I enjoy.
• 43:22
  Yeah. I like what he has to say.
• 43:24
  I'm live. I also like the integrity of
• 43:26
  what he's what he's done in Hollywood, the same thing.
• 43:30
  And there's others, of course, I like Mel Gibson.
• 43:32
  He's always stood up for, you know, the right thing.
• 43:35
  He's never really folded. But you, you, we, I, I grabbed
• 43:39
  this photo and this is a picture of you praying at the exact spot
• 43:43
  where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and probably one of
• 43:48
  the one of the holiest sites on the planet, I think.
• 43:52
  How was that you did that with your son?
• 43:54
  I don't know. Tell me about the trip and maybe
• 43:56
  give us a little bit of details, a little insight.
• 43:58
  So that was one of the for me, one of the most amazing moments
• 44:02
  in my life, and it's why I have it as my pinned post on my ex
• 44:07
  bio is there is my my son was at a Christian high school, just
• 44:11
  graduated. We were, we were on a long trip
• 44:14
  going through a lot of, I do documentaries and I was doing
• 44:17
  some documentaries about at the time I'd done one about the
• 44:20
  Armenian Genocide. And then we were, we were in
• 44:23
  Armenia before this. Then we popped over to Jordan
• 44:26
  and then we went over to Israel and did a thing on anti-Semitism
• 44:30
  and we were going through all these historical sites and
• 44:32
  talking about things. But this is one of those
• 44:34
  advantages of going to Princeton.
• 44:36
  Ghazi bin Muhammad, Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan is, you
• 44:40
  know, his uncle is, is King Abdullah.
• 44:44
  I told Gazia we were coming in. We talked with him and worked
• 44:46
  out where we could come in and do some things.
• 44:48
  He is in charge of all cultural and religious affairs in Jordan.
• 44:52
  So he had discovered this baptism site.
• 44:57
  It's called baptismsite.com, I believe, and you can check it
• 44:59
  out, 'cause people have attacked me for it.
• 45:01
  That's that's where he was baptized.
• 45:03
  Where's the river? You know, it's been couple
• 45:06
  thousand years and the rivers been diverted and so on and so
• 45:09
  forth. So they went through all their
• 45:11
  archaeological stuff. The whole place was mined before
• 45:13
  they cleared it out and they figured out that this is where
• 45:17
  they believe that the baptism took place and The Cave for John
• 45:22
  the Baptist, all these places. So Prince Ghazi allowed us to go
• 45:26
  down there. He doesn't normally, they don't
• 45:28
  normally let people go down. But he said, and it's, and this
• 45:30
  is a guy who's been a friend of mine for 30 plus years.
• 45:33
  He's one of the foremost Muslim scholars in the world, Islam.
• 45:37
  He knows everything. And he's again the head of all
• 45:39
  cultural and religious affairs in Jordan, which is 80 percent,
• 45:42
  85% Palestinian. And he, he allowed us to go down
• 45:47
  there and he said, you know, if you and your son want to go down
• 45:49
  there for a second and take a moment, you know, go ahead.
• 45:51
  I was like, wow. So we went down there, my son
• 45:54
  and I and we, we went down there and said a nice, a nice prayer
• 45:58
  together. And it's one of those places
• 46:00
  that feels like the, the air is thin between heaven and earth.
• 46:06
  And it was just a truly amazing thing.
• 46:08
  And that's my favorite human being on the planet.
• 46:11
  And my boy there, and he still lives with me now, he graduated
• 46:15
  college and moved back in with me, which I'm very happy, happy
• 46:17
  about. And he's my best friend.
• 46:20
  And that was just one of the greatest moments ever to be able
• 46:22
  to share that with your children.
• 46:23
  Man, that's great it. Was unbelievable.
• 46:25
  Unbelievable. Really blessed that, but just
• 46:28
  question is, does he work with you?
• 46:29
  Is he in the industry? You know, what does he do?
• 46:32
  Does he's a he's, you know, like all the kids these days wants to
• 46:35
  be a YouTube or streamer, those things.
• 46:37
  But he he studied video game design in college at High Point
• 46:41
  University, which by the way, High Point University, a God
• 46:44
  family country school. Amazing.
• 46:48
  They do a heck of a job. You know, Georges shirt would
• 46:51
  not get get him shunned there people be like nice shirt, bro.
• 46:54
  That's the IT is a nice shirt. I got to be honest, you know, I
• 46:57
  wear my stuff, my Patriot stuff on planes, anywhere I go.
• 46:59
  Nobody says anything to me. It wouldn't, it wouldn't.
• 47:02
  It wouldn't be work in your favour anyway, so.
• 47:06
  Yeah, exactly. And I wear the same kind of
• 47:08
  stuff. Yeah, they're selective.
• 47:10
  They're selective about who they attack.
• 47:12
  Usually because of my size. I'm about, I don't know, I'm
• 47:15
  probably 240-5250 something 61. They usually don't have any
• 47:20
  comment on it. Usually they kind of give me an
• 47:23
  extra berth. But George is really vocal.
• 47:25
  He gets lots of swag. Of course, all the companies
• 47:27
  want to get the shirt on, but I, I think this is a great story.
• 47:30
  What a great moment. And fortunately, you had a
• 47:32
  photographer in the perfect position to take that shot
• 47:34
  because that is just an iconic image in itself.
• 47:38
  Did you? Did.
• 47:39
  You travel anywhere else besides there in Jordan when you were.
• 47:42
  Over here, all over in Jordan, we were in, we were, you know, I
• 47:45
  mean specifically in Jordan or outside or.
• 47:47
  Outside, because I mean, I've been to Israel.
• 47:49
  I was at, we were everywhere. The Carmelite Monastery, Church
• 47:53
  of Mount Carmel. I've been to a bunch of places.
• 47:55
  Nazareth. Yes, we didn't go to Nazareth.
• 47:58
  We didn't go to Bethlehem. We didn't go to Nazareth, but we
• 48:00
  were at, you know, we were at, we were at Petra, we were at the
• 48:03
  Wadi Rum desert. We, we camped outside in the,
• 48:06
  you know, with the Bedouins. We I was pretty.
• 48:09
  How was Petra like? I never been to Jordan over
• 48:11
  there, How is Petra? Petra is amazing.
• 48:13
  It's incredible to see. It's kind of just in the middle
• 48:15
  of freaking nowhere. I mean, you're driving along,
• 48:18
  you're like, man, wow. But and then if you go stay at
• 48:21
  one of the Bedouin camps, we stayed at the Wadi Rum, I can't
• 48:25
  remember the name of it, but it was amazing.
• 48:27
  We loved it. But it's where my son would tell
• 48:29
  you to this day, he had the best rice he's ever had.
• 48:32
  They were making a big old thing and it was just phenomenal in
• 48:34
  the way they were making the bread and it was just
• 48:36
  incredible. So Wadi, I mean, so, so going
• 48:39
  out to Petra is amazing. But I would say go to Wadi Rum
• 48:41
  as well. If we went all over Israel, we
• 48:43
  were, you know, we were up in Masada.
• 48:46
  We were, we were, you know, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
• 48:49
  We were all these different. We got to see incredible stuff.
• 48:53
  That was the greatest trip. If you ask my son that we've
• 48:56
  been all over the world. I've been to 5658 countries.
• 48:59
  My son's been to most of them with me.
• 49:01
  We've seen some crazy stuff all over, you know, whether it's
• 49:04
  Africa or Asia or wherever. We've been to most of these
• 49:07
  places. That trip to Jordan was his
• 49:10
  favorite trip ever. You know by that with Israel.
• 49:15
  I think that's. Incredible international travel.
• 49:18
  Just let me comment this international travel from all of
• 49:20
  us. I think it's such an eye opener.
• 49:22
  I think I've been to 71 countries now and I think it's
• 49:24
  important is just, there's just something to embrace in every
• 49:29
  one of these countries or something to be learned.
• 49:32
  And I think it really changes your perspective when you look
• 49:34
  at it as a political narrative. You start looking at the world
• 49:38
  in a different way. And I always hope that the
• 49:40
  unification of what happens around the globe, if we can stop
• 49:43
  these kinetic events, part of it is because people like us have
• 49:46
  travelled and you see the things from a different perspective.
• 49:48
  When you're on the ground, it's different than what you see in
• 49:51
  the media. So take it.
• 49:52
  From there George so yeah, when so when we're travelling through
• 49:54
  Israel, we actually went travelled to Lat where it's
• 49:57
  right on the border of Egypt it's like a vacation spot stay
• 50:00
  there then we drove into Egypt and we stayed a few nights there
• 50:03
  I mean first of all the sand is so hot you can't walk barefoot I
• 50:06
  don't know how it was by you but sleeping at night in these
• 50:08
  cement like huts it was so hot you like you can't breathe you
• 50:13
  just they. Sleep up.
• 50:15
  They sleep up on top. Yeah, it's in the roost.
• 50:18
  Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty Las Vegas.
• 50:21
  It gets hot out here, but I have this wonderful invention called
• 50:24
  air conditioning and I love it. Yeah, no kidding.
• 50:26
  You got to have that in your trailer.
• 50:28
  It doesn't matter where you're at.
• 50:29
  Literally when you order to beat like in Egypt, you walk in the
• 50:31
  sand. You can't walk barefoot.
• 50:33
  It's so hot it burns your feet of.
• 50:34
  Course, that's why if you. Look at a lot of people that
• 50:36
  live there, like especially like all those people, their feet
• 50:39
  just like so hard and it's just like they're so beat up from
• 50:42
  they're able to walk on it. You know, wearing a sandal.
• 50:46
  I love the food. My problem is I love the food
• 50:48
  maybe too much. That's the difficulty.
• 50:49
  You get into these different cultures and I like eating
• 50:52
  what's there. And I'm not very uneasy.
• 50:54
  I'm not one of those guys says, oh, only steak and potatoes.
• 50:56
  I'll try anything at least once, you know, and that and that when
• 51:00
  you go to these different places, it's interesting to
• 51:02
  really get entrenched in that. So but.
• 51:04
  You know, like people get the wrong perception about over
• 51:07
  there because from Israel to even down at the end of Egypt,
• 51:10
  I've been to Bahrain. The people are so welcoming.
• 51:14
  Like Bahrain. You have your like, you know,
• 51:16
  your City Park. But then if you go into town, we
• 51:19
  have just so like your, you know, they have the regular like
• 51:22
  simple stores. People make pottery and stuff.
• 51:24
  It's you have authentic food and it's just like the people they
• 51:28
  invite you, they're so welcoming.
• 51:30
  Don't invite your house and bring you coffee.
• 51:32
  I mean, I've got a place where they had bowls of cigarettes for
• 51:34
  people that just smoke cigarettes.
• 51:36
  They offer you cigarettes. It's crazy how they are you're.
• 51:37
  Like, here's a bowl of cigarettes for you.
• 51:39
  Yeah. They're so welcoming and so
• 51:41
  wonderful. It's true.
• 51:42
  And they don't hate Americans. No, I find most people love
• 51:45
  Americans. And they just, they they're
• 51:47
  curious about what it's like over in America, and they always
• 51:50
  aspire to go to America. That's my that's my 56 country
• 51:54
  experience. Yeah, no matter where I went to,
• 51:55
  I know. You know, but that's part of it,
• 51:57
  right? We, we know that the narratives
• 51:59
  are controlled. We see it with mainstream media.
• 52:01
  We covered that today, yesterday on our show, we were talking
• 52:05
  about how dangerous fake news is.
• 52:07
  And of course, we know that it's controlled because even when it
• 52:09
  comes to kinetic events, we never really hear the truth
• 52:11
  unless you're on the ground. And, you know, and it's
• 52:15
  interesting, I don't know if you ever saw that compilation.
• 52:17
  We played it on the show yesterday about it's a threat to
• 52:20
  our democracy. And you see all these, you know,
• 52:23
  clips from all these news agencies all put together where
• 52:25
  you can see that they were given the script.
• 52:27
  And they just did it recently with the Trump ambushing the
• 52:30
  South African president. It's an ambush.
• 52:32
  It's an ambush at the end of the day.
• 52:36
  You know, it's, you have, you really have expressed a lot of
• 52:39
  stuff about your traditional values, you know, religious
• 52:42
  freedoms, moral clarity. You know, you, you must see a
• 52:46
  ton of scripts. I'm sure everybody's trying to
• 52:47
  pitch you a script at one point or another.
• 52:49
  Do you find that that's helped you to really get to the scripts
• 52:54
  that are going to make a difference, whether they're
• 52:55
  going to, you know, whether they end up on Hallmark or maybe
• 52:57
  somewhere else? Do you feel like your values
• 53:00
  have enabled you to see clarity in the scripts that you say?
• 53:02
  This is an important script because I love the message.
• 53:06
  To some degree, yes, but and other ones.
• 53:09
  Some you make because it's a great action bit and it's
• 53:11
  entertaining. Or it's this or that or you play
• 53:13
  the bad guy. Like God's not dead.
• 53:15
  Playing the bad guy, the one completely irredeemable guy and
• 53:19
  gets no redemption whatsoever was great fun.
• 53:22
  But but you know, you got to choose, pick and choose.
• 53:24
  So I think a lot of those films and projects come to me now
• 53:28
  because because of my openness to it, because of my desire to
• 53:33
  want to make. I make this one company I work
• 53:35
  with called JC Films that makes a lot of lower budget, smaller
• 53:38
  faith-based movies because he he's trying to get people,
• 53:42
  Christian, young Christian film makers involved with the
• 53:44
  not-for-profit thing. I do eight of those a year
• 53:47
  probably for him. And and that's a wonderful thing
• 53:50
  to do to try to change the culture because Andrew
• 53:52
  Breitbart, who was a good friend of mine, I coached his kid back
• 53:56
  in the day when I was coaching my son in, in basketball and
• 53:59
  baseball and things of that nature.
• 54:01
  He says, you know, politics are downstream from culture before
• 54:04
  he passed. And he's right.
• 54:05
  And so if you were having these things, we were, we were
• 54:08
  playing, you know, these movies and doing these things.
• 54:10
  I can't tell you when I travel how many people stop me and
• 54:14
  thank me for making the kind and movies that I make, for speaking
• 54:18
  out about the positive things about America, for speaking out
• 54:22
  against, you know, women competing in men's sports and
• 54:25
  things of that nature are men. I'm sorry, men competing in
• 54:27
  women's sports. Women can go ahead and come and
• 54:29
  compete in men's sports, go ahead, but but having men
• 54:32
  compete in women's sports just wrong and stuff like that.
• 54:34
  I mean people tell thanking me constantly and I almost never.
• 54:39
  You get the opposite where someone says you know, hey I
• 54:41
  want to, I want to argue with you, go ahead please.
• 54:43
  If you have a better argument maybe you'll change my mind.
• 54:46
  I'll be honest. By country you I would thank you
• 54:48
  for the films you've done because I think they they all
• 54:51
  have merit. I think at the end of the day, I
• 54:53
  see a lot of stuff that's out there that in my opinion, it
• 54:55
  doesn't matter whether it's a big budget or otherwise.
• 54:57
  It's total garbage. I don't like the messages, I
• 55:00
  don't like the narratives, I don't like the lies.
• 55:03
  You see the messages, right? You're like sitting there
• 55:05
  watching and you're like, here they go.
• 55:07
  Here they go. Here it comes life.
• 55:09
  And I do that all the time. Oh, here it comes.
• 55:11
  Here's the weird, here's the weird twist.
• 55:15
  You know, recently, man, you, you, you got a Tesla.
• 55:17
  I congratulated you on that. How, how is that Tesla?
• 55:20
  And of course, you seem to be a tech guy, You know, you're, you
• 55:22
  seem to be all about AI and EVs. Kind of tell me, how's the new
• 55:26
  Tesla, man? How is it?
• 55:27
  First of all, it's my Dang kid because he's a tech head.
• 55:31
  So he was like, you know, dad, you know, we got to check this
• 55:33
  out. But I when Elon was getting all
• 55:35
  that heat, I, you know, I don't like, don't tell me I have to
• 55:38
  get an electric vehicle. Let me make that decision, make
• 55:41
  good ones and do whatever. Don't mandate it like California
• 55:44
  did. That ticked me off.
• 55:45
  So it made me anti this and anti that, but I don't want to be
• 55:48
  told what to do. I got my big Ford Raptor.
• 55:51
  I love it. It's great.
• 55:52
  Well, you know, and I got my Aston Martin, which is a hot
• 55:55
  rod, and I love that. And I was thinking, you know,
• 55:58
  they're going after Elon so much.
• 55:59
  And I was just like, this seems wrong.
• 56:01
  And I've been sort of threw it out there jokingly, which, which
• 56:03
  model Tesla should I get? And the responses were
• 56:06
  overwhelming. And then finally I got in touch
• 56:08
  with some Tesla people and I said let me check them out.
• 56:12
  I had once to me the next day, and that sucker was amazing.
• 56:16
  I listen, I love my Aston Martin.
• 56:18
  It's incredible. James Bond drives the Dang car
• 56:21
  and it's fast and whatever. Yeah, my Tesla Model S Plaid is
• 56:26
  the fastest vehicle. I have never been in my life.
• 56:30
  It feels to me. And I have the yoke steering
• 56:33
  wheel. Yeah, it looks to me like I can
• 56:36
  take off. You hit that thing and now
• 56:38
  you're gone. I was like, what is this?
• 56:40
  Plus, everything about it is so intuitive.
• 56:43
  I was trying to figure out like, I was like, where do I change
• 56:45
  the mirrors? My son was like, well, and it's
• 56:49
  all on the screen and the things.
• 56:50
  And then of course, it makes total sense to the kids who grew
• 56:52
  up that way. My son got a Tesla as well.
• 56:55
  So, so we, we, we embrace the Tesla's, the incredible
• 56:58
  technology, the car updates itself with software.
• 57:02
  I mean, it's unbelievable that my, my iPhone charges while it's
• 57:05
  sitting there and things are, I mean, it's, I love the vehicle.
• 57:09
  I love it to death, but don't tell me I have to get one.
• 57:13
  Even Trump want one. I saw his.
• 57:16
  I posted a picture. I was at the White House not
• 57:19
  that long ago and. I think he might have just made
• 57:20
  the the next Tesla commercial. I think we're going to short
• 57:23
  form this. We'll put an Elon in it.
• 57:25
  You. I think you're going to be in
• 57:26
  the next commercial because I don't know if it is next.
• 57:28
  Listen, the resounding the resounding reviews on that car
• 57:31
  are always off the chain. They're always positive.
• 57:33
  Do you have the self driving? That's always made me a little
• 57:35
  weird. I don't know if I'm comfortable
• 57:36
  enough to do the self driving. That's what I said hands on guy.
• 57:39
  I don't know if I can do it, Dean.
• 57:40
  I think I'm too OCD. I said, no way.
• 57:45
  My son puts me in my car and he goes, Dad, we know let's, you
• 57:48
  know, pick where we're going whenever I put it in, blah.
• 57:51
  Because it's so easy to do the navigation, This is where we're
• 57:53
  going. He goes, OK, just start driving.
• 57:55
  I was driving. He goes, now press this button.
• 57:58
  I press the button, he goes, take your hands away.
• 57:59
  And I was like, so I sat there like this for the first, you
• 58:04
  know. Were you clenching?
• 58:06
  Were you clenching? That's all I want to know
• 58:07
  because I would probably clench. I was.
• 58:08
  Passing diamonds. I mean, I was so clenched and
• 58:12
  then it just drove brilliantly. And the thing about it that's
• 58:15
  sneaky is you get used to it. I mean, I thought, no way.
• 58:20
  I got used to it so fast that the car was like, yo, pay
• 58:24
  attention, pay attention. You're not.
• 58:26
  Because I was just like starting to be like.
• 58:27
  Yeah, you're making a sandwich. You're over here, you're
• 58:31
  texting. Wait, you're on social media?
• 58:33
  What'd you say? The car said.
• 58:34
  The car didn't say pay attention.
• 58:36
  You're just saying. That the car said.
• 58:37
  Pay attention. It gives you warnings.
• 58:39
  For what if it's self driving? My hands weren't on the wheel at
• 58:41
  all. And I think, I think what it is,
• 58:44
  I think I picked up my phone for a second and it's like, hey,
• 58:47
  hey, you know. Self driving mode.
• 58:51
  It did that. In self driving mode, it still
• 58:53
  wants me to be alert. I mean, you can't take a nap, is
• 58:55
  that it? He said.
• 58:56
  He goes, he goes. Look, you have two eyes, right?
• 58:59
  And you're looking, Your two eyes are looking for things.
• 59:01
  There's nine cameras going all the time.
• 59:03
  Yeah, it's better than your eyes and I.
• 59:06
  Think they need an upgrade though.
• 59:07
  I want to see it with different voices.
• 59:09
  I'd like to have it like a New York.
• 59:11
  Like maybe an Italian mom's voice.
• 59:14
  Hey, maybe a Bronx. Wise guy voice where it goes.
• 59:16
  Hey, stop fucking around, you got to pay attention to the
• 59:18
  road. The beauty is.
• 59:20
  The K's at each you got to fix it.
• 59:22
  One software update, it's done. Yeah, yeah.
• 59:26
  I'm thinking we need that, yeah. I thought you could take a nap
• 59:29
  if you put in. Self driving.
• 59:31
  The self driving, I'm telling you it's incredible, but I
• 59:33
  thought you could take a nap. You're going on the highway just
• 59:35
  like. Just.
• 59:36
  Could well they take a nap. There's videos of people doing
• 59:38
  that, but yeah, that's. Frightening to me.
• 59:41
  Can you keep saying put your hands on the steering wheel?
• 59:45
  No, it did on mine. It doesn't do it on my son's.
• 59:46
  I don't know what I was. I was doing something wrong,
• 59:49
  George. I was doing.
• 59:50
  I would think I was. I think I was, you know,
• 59:51
  flexing. It was being a bad boy window.
• 59:54
  Tesla knows you're being a bad boy.
• 59:55
  I got straightened out a little bit, but then then I had a
• 59:58
  little medical procedure the other day and I was in the car
• 1:00:01
  my son drove me to and from and they were stopping to pick
• 1:00:03
  something up. He and his girlfriend go inside
• 1:00:05
  and I was like, I'm gonna sit in the car.
• 1:00:06
  And he goes, OK, we'll put it in dog mode.
• 1:00:08
  I'm like what? They put it and hit a button, it
• 1:00:11
  goes dog mode and it says on this big screen it says I forget
• 1:00:16
  the exact thing was like I've not forgotten in here.
• 1:00:19
  The temperature is at 68°. My owners will be right back and
• 1:00:22
  it's got a dog on the thing. So I sat in there and dog mode
• 1:00:25
  I. Had no idea that it even had a
• 1:00:27
  dog that. Was pretty cool.
• 1:00:29
  I mean, which is great, though at the end of the day it's great
• 1:00:31
  because you think about people that leave their dogs and their
• 1:00:33
  cars, their pets, they get overheated.
• 1:00:35
  I've always hated that. I had no idea it had a dog mode,
• 1:00:38
  but that's more the more genius of Elon Musk and his staff over
• 1:00:42
  there. This guy's just brilliant.
• 1:00:43
  Have you noticed you don't hear a lot of slack on Doge lately
• 1:00:46
  since he's like, he's pretty much says he's leaving.
• 1:00:49
  I don't. Think he's truly leaving?
• 1:00:51
  He was the target, of course. But Doge is still continuing.
• 1:00:55
  It's just allegedly. He's not going to be there
• 1:00:58
  allegedly, but you know you can remote.
• 1:01:00
  Work though. Hell yeah.
• 1:01:02
  So like, he's not paying attention.
• 1:01:04
  Well, you know, he bought that penthouse right across from Mar
• 1:01:07
  A Lago. I don't know if you knew that he
• 1:01:08
  took 3 units. He bought them anonymously and
• 1:01:12
  combined them into one massive penthouse.
• 1:01:14
  He's right. I was at Mar a Lago about, I
• 1:01:17
  don't know, 40-5 days ago or so. I went to an event there and I
• 1:01:20
  and I was being told about this by somebody that knew he has
• 1:01:23
  line of sight. I have a feeling that was
• 1:01:25
  because he wanted to have this communication network where he
• 1:01:28
  could talk to Trump without a bunch of people being involved.
• 1:01:31
  At least it looks like that. I'd be remiss not to ask this.
• 1:01:34
  Yeah. You know, you're really
• 1:01:36
  passionate. You, you know, you're
• 1:01:38
  articulate. You're well experienced.
• 1:01:41
  Any political aspirations? I mean, I look, I know you
• 1:01:43
  already got your own thing, but California's effed up.
• 1:01:46
  I mean, we need to get Newsome out of there.
• 1:01:49
  I could see somebody like you easily winning out in California
• 1:01:53
  because you're you're popular. I think you're well liked.
• 1:01:57
  Any thoughts about this or is this is this, you know, forget
• 1:02:00
  it, Lance. It's, it's a dark cesspool.
• 1:02:01
  I can't step into it. It is a dark cesspool.
• 1:02:04
  I will say that for sure. You know, I don't know.
• 1:02:06
  It's not something I aspire to, which is one of the reasons when
• 1:02:09
  I said this, when I say that people are like, well, maybe
• 1:02:11
  that's the reason you might want to consider it because I don't
• 1:02:14
  look, I'm not trying to be Nancy Pelosi going in making $210,000
• 1:02:17
  a year and be worth, you know, $210 million 75 years later.
• 1:02:22
  She's been in forever. I mean, it's clear what these
• 1:02:24
  people are doing when they're coming in, you know, and they're
• 1:02:27
  making all this money based on being a politician.
• 1:02:29
  They want to do it forever. I don't.
• 1:02:31
  We weren't set up that way. We were set up to be regular
• 1:02:34
  business people who would come in and a part time politicians.
• 1:02:37
  So I don't like it. I in fact left California.
• 1:02:40
  I left California two years ago. I live in Las Vegas, NV now I am
• 1:02:44
  out of California because they drove me out.
• 1:02:47
  Horrible. Regularly.
• 1:02:49
  Horrible tax policies. Well, they could use you in Las
• 1:02:52
  Vegas, that's for sure. Of course, that's a different
• 1:02:54
  environment because of the gaming.
• 1:02:56
  The gaming makes it different, but there's no state income tax.
• 1:02:59
  You know, you have a, it's a castle doctrine state.
• 1:03:02
  It is a stand your ground state. It is open carry state.
• 1:03:07
  There's so many things I love about data and, and it's great.
• 1:03:10
  And we have just absolutely thrived out here.
• 1:03:13
  But, you know, California is so broken, you know?
• 1:03:16
  Did you ever see American Psycho?
• 1:03:19
  Patrick Bate? Yeah, that is Gavin Newsom.
• 1:03:22
  Whenever I want to post something about Gavin Newsom, I
• 1:03:24
  just grab a picture of Patrick. I agree with you, but you know.
• 1:03:26
  Up there, he's psycho. He's just he's, he's, he's a
• 1:03:30
  sociopath. I think really.
• 1:03:32
  Look at his behavior and the way he models himself and the
• 1:03:34
  mirroring he does and the dialoguing.
• 1:03:37
  It's the hand gestures and the duplication of thinking.
• 1:03:40
  This is going to work, but there's something overly
• 1:03:42
  detailed, nothing creepy about him, and he doesn't realize that
• 1:03:45
  it really comes through. You can tell he's not really
• 1:03:48
  being himself. You can tell he's a much worse
• 1:03:50
  person than what he portrays publicly.
• 1:03:52
  He's thinking Patrick Bateman, man.
• 1:03:54
  Yeah, yeah, I think you've nailed it.
• 1:03:57
  You know, I want to make sure we give you some time.
• 1:03:59
  You know, first of all, I want to thank you for all the time
• 1:04:01
  you gave us. Amazing.
• 1:04:02
  Real quick. Yeah.
• 1:04:03
  Oh, please, George. Vegas.
• 1:04:04
  You ever go to a restaurant in Marrakech?
• 1:04:07
  I've not been to Marrakech but I'd love to.
• 1:04:08
  It sounds like it's Moroccan and lovely.
• 1:04:10
  Yeah, next time you go there, just tell.
• 1:04:13
  Tell the owner you know me. Done.
• 1:04:15
  Write it down. Yeah, amazing place.
• 1:04:17
  The food is amazing there. In George's place.
• 1:04:19
  There's George. What's the relationship there?
• 1:04:21
  Is he your uncle? What is he?
• 1:04:22
  Your that guy. Cousin.
• 1:04:24
  He's your cousin, yeah. He's originally from Jersey.
• 1:04:26
  Have to do in Las Vegas. More restaurants to go to, more
• 1:04:29
  shows to see UFC fights. I mean, it's got yeah plus.
• 1:04:34
  Wait, we got even a better thing for you?
• 1:04:35
  Lance and I are good friends with Signal Chatter, the Nevada
• 1:04:39
  US attorney. Yeah, that Trump appointment
• 1:04:43
  should be great. You, bro.
• 1:04:45
  Yeah. It's always good to have some
• 1:04:47
  coverage of. Pictures always good to have
• 1:04:48
  you. Yeah, with a weaponized legal
• 1:04:50
  system, you never know where it's coming from.
• 1:04:53
  I want to do this, Dean, to make sure.
• 1:04:54
  Let's plug the movie again. Let's plug your social media,
• 1:04:58
  tell people where to find you. Anything else you want to jump
• 1:05:00
  in here? I call this the shameless plug,
• 1:05:02
  period. But I want to give you full
• 1:05:03
  advantage of it. We want our audience to support
• 1:05:05
  you. We want them to see the new
• 1:05:06
  movie and we want them to follow you.
• 1:05:08
  Well, you can go to littleangelsmovie.com to get all
• 1:05:12
  the information about the theaters where the movie's gonna
• 1:05:14
  play. We're gonna we're locking those
• 1:05:16
  up this week because it was a big Memorial Day weekend.
• 1:05:19
  So we're locking those theaters up this this week.
• 1:05:22
  We'll know exactly where it is. It'll be on a website there.
• 1:05:25
  So you can also see, you know what the the film is about on
• 1:05:28
  littleangelsmovie.com. If you want to check out what
• 1:05:31
  I'm doing, check out on X at Real Dean Kane on Instagram at
• 1:05:37
  Deuces spelled out Deuces DEUC ES1966 the year of my birth.
• 1:05:43
  And I just created a Facebook account because it's all within
• 1:05:47
  Meta and my son helped me do that.
• 1:05:49
  I said I would never do it, but you know, never say never.
• 1:05:52
  I guess I got it on there. It's good for promoting things
• 1:05:55
  and doing things of that. I'm on there.
• 1:05:57
  Yeah, I'm on there now. I'm on there now.
• 1:06:00
  So those are the places you can find.
• 1:06:01
  I just followed you on Instagram.
• 1:06:02
  I didn't know you were there. Yes, yeah, You know, you should
• 1:06:05
  set up an account over on Rumble and then you can put your movie
• 1:06:08
  trailers up or anything else you want.
• 1:06:10
  If you do a documentary or any short form content, it's a great
• 1:06:13
  way to drive and we can get you connected with the people over
• 1:06:16
  there to get you verified and all that stuff quickly if you
• 1:06:18
  want to do it. It's a great place to promote
• 1:06:21
  stuff and you know, I think it's a great opportunity and I think
• 1:06:24
  your fans are over there. I think a lot of people love you
• 1:06:26
  over there. I think it's a great opportunity
• 1:06:28
  for you. So if you want that hook up,
• 1:06:30
  we'll hook you up with that. Please do man.
• 1:06:32
  First of all, I wanted to say to the audience, if you guys like
• 1:06:34
  take the show, take the short form, the long form, you know
• 1:06:36
  George is going to do short form content, put it far and wide.
• 1:06:39
  We're never going to come after you.
• 1:06:40
  Help us promote the show. Big League show is the fastest,
• 1:06:43
  one of the fastest growing shows on Rumble right now.
• 1:06:45
  We've been told by the Rumble staff, so that's exciting for
• 1:06:48
  us. Now don't forget later today
• 1:06:50
  you're going to have on Friday. Don't forget we still have the
• 1:06:53
  Crypto Power Hour on Friday. We have it today, 3:00 PM.
• 1:06:56
  Actually today, that's right, I forgot today.
• 1:06:58
  So Wednesdays and Fridays, 3:00 PM Crypto Power Hour and of
• 1:07:02
  course, our global finance show on Fridays, the number one
• 1:07:05
  finance show on Rumble. So check it out.
• 1:07:07
  It's the financial roundup show. Great time to check in and get
• 1:07:10
  get an overview of everything that happened in the week in
• 1:07:12
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• 1:07:15
  So again, listen, I want to thank you, Dean for coming to
• 1:07:17
  the show. Hang around for a minute.
• 1:07:18
  I want to talk to you backstage for just a minute.
• 1:07:20
  And of course, to our audience, it's God, country, family.
• 1:07:23
  Always stay focused. Do what we do, George.
• 1:07:25
  Last words, brother. Shake it up it.
• 1:07:27
  Was a pleasure having you on the show, Dean.
• 1:07:30
  Thank you for coming here. Hopefully we get you on again.
• 1:07:32
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• 1:07:35
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• 1:07:37
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• 1:07:39
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