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Austin Kelly Exposes Hollywood's Anti-Christian Agenda | The Truth About the Crusades · Adrian Milag Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: I work with Protestants and in editing the show, and it's funny because my my Protestant editor um he was scared.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um we were editing the show and he he's he says hey man, I've been doing this for five years.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've never had glitches like I've this project.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um Yeah, I mean uh yeah we were we were cutting um we have a a theatrical version of the show, like a theatrical, you know, to put it in theaters and stuff, and we were just doing downloads like getting this off the ground and he experienced glitches and he was like, hey, you know, he's a Protestant guy, but he was saying, hey, I think this show is something because you know who does the water.
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  SPEAKER_00: The crusades were good.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a simple answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: The crustaceans were justified and good.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the vague attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: It goes back to the the attack on our faith and the attack on the church, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, that's the that's the first thing they say.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, oh, Christians are so bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, well, whoa, bump the brake for a second, the crusades were existing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the reason why they were existing is because we were conquered by Muslims for 400 years in Spain, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's as if like uh you know you know France was conquered by Muslims for 400 years, and the French people just had enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said enough enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they were justified, it wasn't their land, it's Christian theory, a Christian uh, you know, Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, when the Christian faith spread, it went to North Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Augustine's from North Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I don't I don't understand the uh the controversy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know it's funny, when we first started the show, we got a really bad pushback from college professors in local universities in Southern California.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm not gonna say one, but it was a big one, and this this gal was the leading Muslim professor.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: And she had every right to be upset because anything to do with crusades in Hollywood is misinformation, they're lies, right?
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: So when we were developing the show, you know, we developed the script, these were all true accounts from Muslims.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: So we took historical accounts from Muslims and from Christians, mostly Muslims, and we made a really accurate show.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I really think um we had Muslims on our movie set.
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  SPEAKER_00: These were Muslim actors portraying Muslims, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: They loved it.
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  SPEAKER_00: They loved it because it was the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: We portrayed the truth of both the Muslim side and the Christian side.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you watch the show, you know that there's a lot of spiritual elements.
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  SPEAKER_02: Why is that important?
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  SPEAKER_02: So let's pray, Brother Austin.
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  SPEAKER_02: So in the name of the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit, Amen.
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  SPEAKER_02: Protection of technology prayer.
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  SPEAKER_02: Lord Jesus Christ, sovereign king and throne in heaven, in your love and mercy.
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  SPEAKER_02: We ask that you establish a perimeter of protection with your precious blood around our communication devices and all technology we use and own.
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  SPEAKER_02: Our phones and cell phones, computers, tablets, and other devices.
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  SPEAKER_02: The cameras or webcams, microphones, speakers, displays, any and all software.
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  SPEAKER_02: Wi-Fi connection in the air, both my router and the router of the people we are communicating with.
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  SPEAKER_02: The optic cables involved in the transmission of data and the light waves being used to transfer data.
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  SPEAKER_02: Cleanse them with your precious blood and drive them and drive from them any satanic influence.
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  SPEAKER_02: I ask that you establish around them a sanctuary of your mercy where Satan and any other evil spirit or human agency cannot interfere.
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  SPEAKER_02: I ask, Father, that you will block, bind, rebuke, and render impotent any assault of the evil one from them in any way.
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  SPEAKER_02: Father, so long as this instrument is utilized, we ask you to allow them to enjoy the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Carlo Achotis, Saint Michael the Archangel, and all the holy angels.
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  SPEAKER_02: We ask this in your most holy name, the name before which every niche shall bow in heaven, on the earth, and under the earth, that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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  SPEAKER_02: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_02: Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us, in the name of our Son, the Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_02: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome, brother Austin Kelly, a Catholic influencer, a filmmaker, and the founder of the Christian channel.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, brother, for uh this opportunity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Adrian.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm excited to be here and I'm happy to be uh on your show.
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  SPEAKER_02: Could you share some uh background about yourself?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh so my name is Austin Kelly.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm the founder and CEO of the Christian channel, Christianchannel.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we started out as a uh Christian streaming service, so you know, streaming beautiful movies like we still have the Bells of St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mary's, and we ended up developing great original content about the lives of the saints, like St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Francis, uh, the miracle of Hiroshima.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we had this great opportunity to uh work on this new flagship show called Knights of the Cross, which is about a true story about the Crusades.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a cinematic TV miniseries, and it was all with the help of our fans, all the fans of myself and also our other uh Catholic influencer, Jay Steven Roberts at the Real Crusades History, is a very popular YouTube channel.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like pushing up 400,000 subscribers.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we did a little crowdfund.
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  SPEAKER_00: We raised funds to produce episode one, and right now we're at the tail end of episode two.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, I'm I'm super thrilled to share this new project with you and your audience.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm curious about uh your Catholic faith, uh brother.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh are you a convert?
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, uh I grew up here in Los Angeles, so like everyone else my age, uh in their mid-30s, you know, we kind of all grew up Catholic, but like most of us, we we kind of fell away from the faith in our, you know, right after college, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So um I you know I didn't know my faith too well, and my history, my background is in marketing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here in Los Angeles, I'm kind of I'm known for working with celebrities.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been working with celebrities and big brands for over a decade, but um can you share uh what brand if it is okay?
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, no one worries.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so if you in the states, we have big retail stores like Walmart and Target, and sometimes those retail stores have celebrity brands.
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  SPEAKER_00: So one of my I mean, if you still go to Target and Walmart and you see a celebrity with a big poster, and she has you know, she has her cookware or kitchenware or homeware.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm usually the guy that works on those projects and you know builds the websites.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know, back in the day, yeah, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And back in the day in 2017-16, influencer marketing wasn't even a word.
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  SPEAKER_00: We didn't call it that back then.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we were really the pioneers of influencer marketing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So God really used um my talent uh to shit shift my talent into pointing, doing Catholic media.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: Because to be honest with you, I had no intention to get into Catholic media.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, my Catholic faith was, you know, I was your typical Sunday Catholic, you know, sinning seven days a week and receiving communion.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I just didn't know my faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but you know, as you know, uh right around 2020, the world started to change.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know, here in Los Angeles, it certainly did.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so here in Los Angeles, yeah, um, I started noticing, well, global attacks, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I started noticing the Notre Dame Basilica being burnt down in France.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I said, wow, that that will never happen in Los Angeles.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will never experience that's that's France's problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, in the in America, we kind of have this um uh understanding like you know, overseas wars, like it doesn't affect me, right?
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: The moment, the moment we started having riots in Los Angeles, they started boarding up businesses and this is the Black Lives Matter, right?
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh and they there's more, there's there's still organized um organized events like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one thing that really caught my attention that was the beginning of my turning point was when they started tearing down statues of Yunippa Serra.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: And when those statues were getting exactly so when you look at the people that were tearing down the statues, you know, I grew up in Los Angeles, these were permanent per primarily Latino people tearing down their own history, and that really wasn't a turning point for me.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: The turning point for me was when the San Gabriel mission, one of the most established missions in California, started to uh was was burnt down by a crazy arson.
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  SPEAKER_00: I said to myself, God, use use me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I know that media has the power to convert hearts and to inform how the public.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've been in this media, Catholic media world for over five years now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's, you know, it's still very hard.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but you know, it's all it's all to help catechise and educate millions of people to understand their faith.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: Because I truly believe if everyone knew the true history of our Catholic faith, there wouldn't be any need to tear down statues of Venepera Sarah.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: There wouldn't be any need to tear down the cathedral because, you know, with the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe, you know, most of these uh, you know, what our lady is trying to tell us, and why this goes back to our TV show, what she's trying to tell us is she loves us, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, back 500 years ago in 1531, uh, you know, she the indigenous people were pagans, they were murdering little babies, but she came to us and she says, I love you, I am I am the mother of the true God, Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, anyways, this that's a long-winded answer of saying we have a lot of work to do in Catholic media, but I believe with the work we're doing with our documentary series, the Christian channel, and making cinematic content, we could touch the lives and hearts of thousands and millions of people um just by telling true stories of our faith.
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  SPEAKER_02: You mentioned earlier that uh the word marketing.
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  SPEAKER_02: So, have you encountered attraction marketing during that time or magnetic marketing?
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because that that was popular during that early 20s, something like that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because I also uh searched uh study marketing, online marketing, absolutely online marketing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh wow, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, that those terms have never never never came across across my desk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh that those that's news to me, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh no, but we we we were pretty pretty much the pioneers of influencer marketing with the celebrities because celebrities um they did bring in a crowd, but it's the ecosystem that we developed.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: So typically our sales, I don't want to say the number, but it was in the eight, seven to eight figures with these celebrities.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, yeah, uh collaborating with the big box stores.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's that's kind of what I wanted to do was influencers had a powerful way.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: We there was a way where we could get influencers to join behind a mission, just like Angel Studios.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like when Angel Studios financed the chosen, the chosen, yeah, exactly.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, it I believe independent cinema, independent Catholic media is the future of Hollywood, is the future because we I mean depends, you know, you know people by their fruits.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: Depends on the project that you're backing, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So with Knights of the Cross, which we're talking about today, we're on the tail end of that crowdfund.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the cool thing is we're adding really cool perks like having your name featured on the ending credits.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: So it's you we want to get fans involved and we want it, we want to make sure that thousands and millions of people watch the show.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but have you also worked in Hollywood?
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um uh just making commercials, yeah.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know, um my background in filmmaking, it's it's primarily just developing and building commercials for the brands.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: This is the first time we've actually tackled a big cinema project like Knights of the Cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the documentary series um has it's been pretty fruitful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think we have nearly 20,000, I mean no, sorry, 20 million views on YouTube.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's you know, all that is because you know, we just tell this true stories of the saints.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um the whole, you know, the most joy, Adrian, that I get out of making those short documentaries is the comment section and saying thank you for making a documentary about Saint Francis of Assisi.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's my you know patron saint.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm in OCIA.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh those thank yous mean mean the world to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: They mean more money, they mean more to me than like the actual revenue that we make from the company because it means people want and desire to learn about the saints.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: And how working with the historian shape your passion for telling authentic crusader stories?
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  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't, we wouldn't, we wouldn't, I'm not a historian, so I wouldn't be able to.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: I I need Jay Stephen Roberts, our our our uh collaborator on this project, to help guide us because I I'm not a historian, and Jay Stephen Roberts, who worked with us on the Knights of the Cross, he is the leading historian.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he's he's pretty famous, um, he's really humble about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you know, when History Channel is doing a medieval TV series or medieval uh talk about the crusades, they call Jay Stephen, who's a writer on our show.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm extremely thrilled to um, you know, I'm excited to be working with such a talented individual.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: And Adrian, as you know, the how we make great cinema and great art and great Catholic media art is you have to hire very talented people.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the amount of people that worked on our TV show, it wasn't just myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I directed episode two, uh, but there was literally almost nearly a hundred people behind the scenes uh working on this project.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and we have some behind-the-scenes clips on our YouTube channel.
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  SPEAKER_00: It it is it's a legit show, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not just us, you know, in my garage, you know, filming a podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this these are guys dressed in crusader gear, there's scripts, there are production, you know, there's a uh production shot list, and there's lights, and there's there's you know battle scenes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's a really exciting show.
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  SPEAKER_02: What was the spark that led you to create to create Knights of the Cross and why you choose one of the most controversial eras in Christian history?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the crusades were good.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a simple answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: The crusades were justified and good, and that's the biggest attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: It goes back to the the attack on our faith and the attack on the church, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, that's the that's the first thing they say.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, oh, Christians are so bad.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, well, whoa, whoa.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_00: Bump the brakes for a second.
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  SPEAKER_00: The crusades were a good thing, and the reason why they were a good thing is because we were conquered by Muslims for 400 years in Spain, you know, so it's as if like um, you know, you know, France was conquered by Muslims for 400 years, and the French people just had enough.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: They said enough's enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they were justified, it wasn't their lands.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was Christian Syria, Christian uh, you know, Egypt.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: You know, when the Christian faith spread, it went to North Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, Saint Augustine's from North Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I don't I don't understand the um the controversy.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, it's funny, when we first started the show, we got a really bad pushback from college professors in local universities in Southern California.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm not gonna say one, but it was a big one.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this this gal was the leading Muslim professor, and she had every right to be upset because anything to do with crusades in Hollywood is misinformation, they're lies, right?
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: So when we were developing the show, you know, we developed the script.
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  SPEAKER_00: These were all true accounts from Muslims.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we took historical accounts from Muslims and from Christians, mostly Muslims, and we made a really accurate show.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I really think um we had Muslims on our movie set, they was were Muslim actors portraying Muslims, right?
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: They loved it, they loved it because it was the truth.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: We portrayed the truth of both the Muslim side and the Christian side.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: But if you watch the show, you know that there's a lot of spiritual elements.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why is that important?
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: Why is there the spiritual element?
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: Because why would you die for they didn't go on crusade to you know get a lot of gold?
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: They went on crusade, they went bankrupt, they sold everything to protect the pilgrims that were going to the holy land.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I um the short long-winded answer is saying the crusades were good because it it it it really protected these were conquests, and it really we need to protect our Christian faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need to protect our history because right now, right now, as we are speaking, there's a full-on attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: It it's been an attack on marriage and the family and the and our faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that if we don't defend those two things, we're gonna lose our Christian, we're gonna lose our Christian faith eventually, not in this generation, but probably my children's generation.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: So it is a war, it's a war of misinformation.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_02: And uh because you mentioned uh a lot of misinformation about the crusades, so what's the biggest myth you want to correct through this series?
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: That these were very spiritual men, and in Hollywood, we have a hard time, we have a really challenging time to portray the spirituality of uh saints.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna bully any movies, but there there are a lot of movies about saints.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, some you know, some of these people are Hollywood actors and they make these movies about the saints, but they neglect the spiritual aspect of it.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: And with Knights of the Cross, the core message of the whole series.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about the title for a second.
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  SPEAKER_00: Knights of the Cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: It means as Catholics, we don't ask Jesus to say, Jesus Christ, please remove the cross that I have.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, we're not weak, we're a very strong faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus, give me the strength to carry my cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the point of the show.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give me strength because I am weak.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: I cannot do this without you.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: Number two is the Eucharist.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you watch episode one, there's a lot, there's a and we also showed purgatory.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: So the the whole point of episode one is we do not have life.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: You will not have the strength to move forward without Christ, imitating Christ, and to have Christ in you.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: That's number one.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, episode two that we're releasing on December 28th, is is really about disappointment.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people that watch episode one and episode two, they compare our TV show to Star Wars because in the very end of the Crusades, it wasn't a happy ending, but it was an ending that needed to um, it was more or less a settlement, saying I will not conquer the, you know, there will be a truce, a temporary truce.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so it it is a kind of a disappointing ending, but the point of the ending of the show is to show is to share that our faith isn't about lands and you know conquests.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's really about holding the faith and staying true to the faith.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: That's the whole moral of the show, is to imitate Christ, carry your cross, and the only way you could get there and to forward boldly is is to be in the state of grace and receive communion.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's all that matters.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: And that you know, and it's uh it's a message that I want Catholics that have fallen away from the faith, like myself, to really look and visually see um the spiritual aspect of the Eucharist, the spiritual aspects of purgatory, and then we have the bonus scene of Our Lady at Mount Carmel with the apparition of Our Lady Mount Carmel, because in many ways it this shows a very Marian show.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: If you've noticed episode one, episode two, the Virgin Mary's in two out two scenes.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: She's um, you know, with this controversy that we have recently with the uh co-redentrics of our dentrics.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's like I said before, it's in a media right now, the bad people in media, they their agenda is very clear to just disturb and the the there's two agendas in Hollywood right now destroy marriage and the family, which they're doing very well.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: Every show that you see, which is kind of why we started Christian Channel, every show that you see is about Lucifer, it's about witches, the degeneration of the youth, right?
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: So when we launched Christian Channel, another reason why I launched it is because why isn't there a Christian channel where you could binge the Bible, watch the lives of the saints, and know your Christian history?
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: That was the whole point.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: That was the whole point, and it still is the point.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: The second evil agenda that they're trying to do is to discredit our lady.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: That is a problem.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: And that and I think it's it's it's an agenda to confuse Christians about the Eucharist and confuse Christians about our lady.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: So media has a way of reminding the audience visually, not through talking heads, not through you know talking points from this priest, this bishop, this cardinal, and this you know, celebrity, late-night show host.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: That's misinformation.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: What the core message is pick up your Bible, go to a reverent mass, and find a good priest, and understand your faith and grow richer.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: I think as Christians, everyone listening to this conversation right now, live your faith.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: Imitate Christ daily, pray for the Pope, pray for the bishops, because the agenda that Hollywood has, they're not hiding it, they're just trying to confuse us and to divide us.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: We're not a divided religion religion, we're a universal religion, we're a Catholic faith, which means universal.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: I attend the Latin Mass, Adrian, and can I share with you something here in Los Angeles?
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, when I go to Latin Mass, you know how many diverse people I see?
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: I have Russians, Ukrainians, Mexicans from Mexico.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: They all don't speak any, they don't speak English, but we all go to the Latin Mass and we're we participate in the Mass.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: We receive the Eucharist through our mouth.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's because I I I personally think right now, media and what we're doing right now is to remind people of their faith, you know, our our our history.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't think we're a divided faith.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: I think people who divide the Catholic Church that say bad things about Pope Francis, say bad things about the cardinals, yeah, they make mistakes, but there's a I believe a conspiracy to divide us.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I think we need more un unity, universal Christendom, Christendom to come together.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: And so I I'm very skeptical when I come across influencers that make a career out of um perverting the faith or misinforming the faith.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: So the battle isn't over.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: I think the battle just started.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: And um we're gonna continue to fight this battle.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: And so long-winded answer of saying, yes, the crusades were good, the show is needed because we need to fight for our faith.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_02: So how do you portray the tension between faith, violence, and moral struggle in a way that remained Catholic yet historically authentic?
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: You just gotta go back to the history books.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: That's the only way.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: I I can't we can't make up history.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: History's history.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and that's the only way we we could we could seriously portray the the virtues of the saints.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I and maybe I failed to say that in in earlier in this interview.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: We did feature St.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: Simon Stock, and I think as Christians, we get we get um attacked for saying, oh, the crusades were bad.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know what?
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: We've had saints that live through the crusades.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, Fernando III, uh Saint, you know, uh Louis IX, these were crusader saints.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they fought, you know, Joan of Art was a fighter.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: So and the art, yes, so exactly.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: So don't don't feel that we're a weak faith.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_00: We are a strong faith.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not like we do things out of like, you know, um, I gotta kill my neighbor.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: No, it has nothing to do with that.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's about protecting and defense.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: We're always on the defense.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I what I love about this show, it portrays the virtues of the saints.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I think as people who are who have fallen away from the faith or don't know their faith very well, they need to watch this show to kind of get strength of of who we are.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we're a fighting, we're a fighting faith.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: Do you mean here?
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: Give me a second.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: I have something for you.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: This is one of your weapons.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: One of your weapons is the rosary.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you yeah, exactly, brother.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_00: So we we have to not be weak Christians, we have to be strong Christians and pray for our enemies.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: And that that that is a hard thing to do.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: But um the long wooden answer of saying, you know, fight for your faith, pray the rosary every day, pray before meals, pray, pray, pray as much as you can, because our lady and and and our Lord will and the saints will intercede for us, and miracles will happen.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_02: And many modern depictions paint that the church as oppressive.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_02: So, how does Knight of the Prostric claim the true uh Catholic perspective?
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: Great question.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, when we were writing, developing the show, uh, like I said, we wanted to uh make it as authentic as possible.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: So if you watch episode one, we've actually uh hired a Latin mass priest to participate in in the script development of episode one.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um it was Father, uh actually, it was Father Gray.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um so Father Gray is a Latin mass priest in Utah.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: He thinks he's an amazing guy.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: I think he was with Pope Leo a few days ago.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um in the Vatican.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: So the it what I love about Father Gray is I I didn't have to bend his arm to join our project.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: He's actually a film, a film nut.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: So he loves movies and cinema.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: So it was really a joy to to film with him.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_00: And it's funny too, because when we were filming on the movie set and the purgatory scene, there was at least, I want to say 20 to 30.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh if anyone knows what purgatory looks like at your prayer card, most of these men and women are like half naked.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: So I was really embarrassed to father.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, Father, father, I'm I apologize.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: There's like 25, 30 naked people in the movie studio, and they're supposed to be burning in purgatory.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: And uh he pulls out his purgatory card and he looks at the card and he looks at the the people in real life.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_00: He says, No, Austin, that's about accurate.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, they weren't completely naked, but they were like, you know, little tiny, you know, threads of clothing.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, it was uh, you know, the guidance that we've got to make this a spiritual show um was really from um we were just blessed to to have participants, you know, Latin mass priest, uh join the movie set.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: And when we filmed the show, Adrian, I have a little miracle stories for you.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, we pre this was during 2020, uh during COVID, and we couldn't really film in Los Angeles.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: So we actually filmed in Utah.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: And as you know, Utah is kind of famous for having Mormons.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: And so a good chunk of our staff and actors were Mormons.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I this is where I think the show is gonna do really well.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the Mormons were like, what is the Eucharist?
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: And then we explained to them, no, this is God, this is what we believe in, this is the what Jesus Christ founded, our Catholic faith.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: And um, they were just in love.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't want to say who, but there has been a uh, you could tell, a conversion, uh, uh, a reverence for for our faith.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I really think shows like Knights of the Cross have a powerful way to bring even other denominations to understand the roots of their Christian faith.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe, who knows, maybe they'll become Catholic and go to RCIA.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_02: And do you think what's the biggest challenges in producing Catholic content today?
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: Financing.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: Thousand percent.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: Financing.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's financing because um, like I said before, the the uh quote air quotes agenda is is to promote content.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: I can't say who on air, but I know individuals that literally make gay content.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: There they they literally produce and finance.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know, if I want Adrian, if I wanted to be a multi-millionaire and live off the coast of Newport Beach with a yacht, I would have done it already.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: I would have sold out years ago.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: But there's no Catholic financing, and there's a lot of excuses from investors saying, you know, look at Cabrini, you know,$40 million only made$7 million at the box office.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: So these, I mean, believe it or not, they're making us, you know, I think I don't want to blame Cabrini for all of our problems, but the reality is the industry is changing, Hollywood's dying, and we need how do we get make millions of dollars for our investors?
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we need to make true content.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_00: We right, like Mel Gibson, as we speak, is filming the resurrection as we speak.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: So it's no secret, the guy's gonna be a billionaire, but nobody wants to finance this, like it's too risky.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's the problem.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_00: The enemies of our Catholic faith are heavily financed, and nobody in Catholic media, it really depends on your audience.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I've been on many podcasts before.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: If we had 3,000, 3,000 paid subscribers to Christianchannel.com, we would set the world on fire.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_00: We would, we would be in every big streaming platform making great Catholic documentaries.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: If I had 3,000 men and women laymen, the future of Catholic media is the lay people.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care what people tell you, because there isn't gonna be a Calvary.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: There is not gonna be a mega investor from Pepsi Cola or any of these big conglomerates saying, here, Austin, here's a$15 million check, make a movie about Our Lady Guadalupe.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_00: That's not gonna happen.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_00: You have to manage expectations.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: So what's going on is if we want to make great Catholic cinema and to set the world on fire, we have to go to war with what little resources we have.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's in my sense, media guerrilla warfare.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: What you're doing with your podcast is phenomenal.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: But thank you.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not I'm not optimistic.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it really the enemies of our faith, when I say enemies, anybody who's anti-Christian, um, they just want to promote uh the agenda of the Antichrist, which is basically destroying marriage in the family, the the message of Our Lady of Fatima.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: And to um honestly, it's it's not popular to say, but you know, when you destroy marriage in the family, what happens to society?
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you don't have yeah, it's a full breakdown.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have any babies, uh, it's easy to control a population, you know.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: The economy will also collapse, yeah.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's and then you have mass uh immigration.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's exactly it's a full-on collapse.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: We need unfortunately.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: Do I think movies have a way of changing the world?
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_00: I think the answer to that question is how much impact has Passion of the Christ done to the world?
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it brought a lot of people back to the faith, right?
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: I think still number one, right?
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's still number one.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, in the in in in gross gross, yeah.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the movie cost$30 million to make, it grossed over$600,000.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you were just a little investor in that project, you would have, oh my goodness, I think$15 to 25 extra money.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, listen, we need we need a Catholic media fund to make these movies happen.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: So the biggest hurdle that we're seeing right now is financing.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I'm on your show.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm I'm trying to crowdfund the last card of this series so I could update some VFX, but um, yeah, that's the biggest struggle we're having in Hollywood with Catholic media.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_02: And you've said you wanted a Christian film that isn't cheesy, so that does it mean uh yeah, great question.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if if you watch our show Knights of the Cross, there isn't uh it's it's truth.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's just truth.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_00: And so when I say cheesy, it's really easy.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_00: When I say cheesy, it just means bad movie.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_00: Anyone can make a bad movie, right?
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the plot's not great, the story isn't great.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: I think the solution to our answer is just make stories about the saints.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_00: Make movies about the saints.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like if we made a movie, we're coming to the 500-year anniversary of Our Lady Guadalupe, and I've been trying to I'll tell your audience the truth.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: I've been sitting, I literally was sitting with a movie, oh, not a movie, a media president at a big, big company.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_00: You and I were talking off air about it, about, and I didn't tell you this, but I was trying to get Our Lady Guadalupe financed.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: I said, hey, give me over a million dollars, I'll raise over a million dollars in private funding, and let's go make this movie happen.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_00: And this isn't a little studio, this is like the largest studio.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: And it's it's it's totally doable.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_00: And it's um, like I said, you just need to make a little noise out there and say, hey, we want to make Our Lady of Guadalupe, we want to make Saint movies.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the only way we're gonna we're gonna make an impact in Catholic media.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: If you really want to stop riots and you really want to get Mexicans really excited about their faith, because right now we're losing a lot of Mexican, you know, the problem in Southern California where I'm at is like you have immigrant families, right?
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_00: There's nothing wrong with immigrant Mexican families, the hardest working people, right?
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_00: But their kids get fat, get lazy, they fall away from the faith, they get a little bit of money, and they lose their religion.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: What if there was a movie, Our Lady Guadalupe, that cinematically showed the story of the apparition and got Mexican Catholics on fire back to their faith?
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's really it's really about bringing back the faith to those who have lost it, who are ignorant.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's okay to be ignorant because right now we live in a society that's really lazy.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_00: Well, don't, I don't want to read my Bible.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna, I don't want to read my Bible.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, people, good people like Father Mike Schmitz, use media like Catholic Podcasting, Bible in Year, and they transform lives.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_00: You have to understand, as Christians, we're becoming lazier and lazier and lazier, and we're spoiled children.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: When I was a spoiled child, but being Catholic and being Christian, it's really hard.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_00: You have to pick up your cross.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: And you can't be weak.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_00: You have to say, God, these struggles are happening.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I have health decline, I have financial decline, I need your help.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like, God, He's trying to build us up to be strong saints.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't think there's such a thing as a weak saint.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't care how you cut it, we're all called to be saints, but we all have different talents.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, you mentioned about your pitching the movie our lead of Guadalupe.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_02: I uh I hope it will pull true, and uh that will be big.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: Adrian, 3,000 people.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_00: If I had 3,000 people donate 500 to 1,000, you have a feature film, feature film globally.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, it doesn't take a million people to make this happen.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_00: It only takes 3,000.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_00: So it's really important to build a fan base and to guess.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's marketing.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely, it's absolutely marketing.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_00: It does not take a uh it it 3,000 devout Catholic, usually women, between the ages of 55 to 65, could change the world.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_00: I kid you not, is a fact.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: It is a fact.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_00: Because we are uh all billion Catholics all all over the world.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's just a dust, uh tiny, tiny number.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: A tiny number, and it's not a lot of money.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: $500 to$1,000.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_00: Really, how movies work, Adrian?
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's really simple.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: Half your budget goes to marketing, half of it goes to production.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_00: If I had a three million three million dollar budget,$1.5 million is going to production, paying actors, paying production, paying crews, paying logistics, relocation, and other half of it's marketing, paying influencers, uh, getting Catholic priests involved.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's a whole strategy of distribution um to recoup your money.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't I'm not optimistic with investors.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: I think this the ship is sailed, you know, pun intended, with with that, with that road.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_00: I think the reality of Catholic media is is grassroots uh crowdfunding.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_02: So, how do you balance cinematic excellence with theological fidelity?
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta have talented people.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, you know, I'm not a historian, I'm a I'm a filmmaker.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so we had a hire uh a historian to help us out and consult.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_00: And then with the Latin, that the spiritual aspect, we hired a Latin mass priest to really guide us to the right direction because, you know, like we said, how we make bad movies is misinformation, just not having enough information about the plot, about the history, and hiring a really bad, bad crew.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the great news is we hired a very cinematic crew, these are vetted people.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I don't like to you know brag about uh, you know, but these are guys that work with some of them have worked with Martin Scorsese that worked on our project.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_00: So it's our DP did.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_00: So you know, these are very talented people.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I want to I want to clear the air here.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_00: Not all Hollywood actors are bad people, by the way.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: I get I get big we with Knights of the Cross has gotten a lot of attention from some big Hollywood actors in the sphere of like the circles of Leonardo DiCaprio.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: So it's not like we're uh nobody in Hollywood, people know who we are, but the biggest hurdles we're finding right now is the financing of these films because big Hollywood actors do want to work with us and they want to make great movies.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_00: So they're artists in the very end of the day.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_02: But they're uh I mean their professional fees so high.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, Hollywood actors are you'd be surprised how affordable some could be.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, when you go up down the product, yeah.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_00: So, like let's say I had Antonio Banderas in Our Lady of Guadalupe, you know, when you run your production sets, it's big, huh?
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's a big and I'm sure he would join.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_00: He's a good Catholic.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, from what I know, he's a good Catholic guy.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, if you had him in the project, um, you know, his fees would be probably less.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_00: Depends.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_00: His agent and I would go back and forth, but it wouldn't be an arm and a leg uh to make to get that to make that happen.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_02: And uh what advice would you give young Catholic filmmakers who want to enter this mission, brother?
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um read the book of Proverbs.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_00: Read Proverbs.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um the whole one, the whole book.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta read the whole book.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, you anyone who's listening, if you're in business, entrepreneur, Catholic filmmaker, journalist, read Proverbs because it's gonna save you a lot of time with in in sniffing out who are who are evil, who are malicious people and who have an evil agenda.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_00: You know, human beings are human beings.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_00: We haven't changed in like 4,000 years.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, the greed, lust, pride, you know, and be honest with yourself.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_00: Why are you doing this?
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like, why are you making Catholic media?
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_00: Is it to evangelize and point people at God?
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_00: Is it about your narcissism?
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_00: Is it about your pride?
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_00: You have to remember, we're in Hollywood, right?
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_00: Most of our egos, you know, don't even fit through the door.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_00: So I think I think we have to be honest with ourselves.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_00: Are we doing this for the right reasons?
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_00: Are we doing it to point people to Christ?
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_00: I think I meet a lot of filmmakers in the Catholic world and in you too, influencers.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_00: Are we doing it for the mission or are we doing it for our pro our ego?
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I think if people if you meet people that do it for their pride, um, don't run, walk.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, don't walk, run away from them because they're nothing but trouble.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_00: And they'll not they'll they'll they'll consume a lot of your energy.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_00: You know, God doesn't want that.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_00: God wants you to do what his will is, not what your will is.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh just like what uh Joseph Joseph did, he ran away.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, uh, I I keep on thinking about St.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_00: Maximilian Colby, right?
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_00: You know, his famous quote, God, God, you know, let my will, you know, let your will and my will.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I can't pronounce it, but if it's God's will and your will, you know, you're on the path to becoming a great saint.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: So um as long as you pray and stay in adoration and and doing things for the right reasons, Catholic media is is phenomenal.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: And really, it's if you want to make great products, you have to work with a great talented team.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_02: Amen.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_02: Um I I I'm curious if you're thinking to create a film about the Battle of Le Panto.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_00: The bat the Le Panto, it would be a great one.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_00: I would need around$15 million to pull that off.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_00: So uh there is uh there is a guy, I'm sure.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh have you heard of the Lord of the Rings series?
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, Bob Bob Shea is the pretty much the owner of the whole series.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_00: Bob Shea is uh is the CEO of New Line Cinema.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he started out, he's a good I don't know Bob very well, but he's kind of like if I was to ask$15 million for the Battle of La Ponta, I'd go to Bob Shea, and he'd probably why, why why?
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um Bob Bob loves his I mean Bob loves he banks on real projects.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_00: So if Bob's behind it, I'm I'm I'm I and he financed it.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_00: I I I think it'd be a blockbuster.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_00: But you have like I said, Adrian, you have to get the right people to join the crew.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know, when you go on these crusades to make movies, you have to have the right equipment, you have to have the right team to to to to change the world.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_00: So um you just have to pick the right people to join the projects.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_02: And have you experienced spiritual war warfare while producing Knights of the Cross?
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um so before we repress record, we said a little prayer, right, Adrian?
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you have to email that to me because we have, you know, I work with Protestants and in editing the show, and it's funny because my my Protestant editor, um, he was scared.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we were editing the show, and he he's he says, Hey man, I've been doing this for five years.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_00: I've never had glitches like I've worked with this thing, this project.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um so yeah, I mean it's uh can you can you share uh what specific uh what yeah we were we were cutting um we have a a theatrical version of the show, like a theatrical, you know, to put it in theaters and stuff.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_00: And we were just doing downloads, like getting this off the ground, and he experienced glitches and he was like, Hey, you know, he's a Protestant guy, but he was saying, Hey, I think this show is something because you know who doesn't want it out.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know what I mean?
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, media, uh, we those are that those are the small attacks we've been getting, just digital glitches and you know, uh hiccups like that.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_00: But um, you know, I think the fruits of this show is it's really gonna catechize Catholics and non-Catholics, so actually seeing what purgatory looks like.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_00: We're I as far as I know, I think we're the only production in Hollywood that's ever actually made a cinematic version of Purgatory.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_00: So I just think um I and then we had the apparition of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_00: I just think we uh we have to, you know, um please pray for us that the show gets released real you know soon for sure and and and finance.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_00: So that that's all I asked for.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, I think we're gonna be okay.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh, you mentioned purgatory.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_02: So what's do you think what's the big biggest misconception about purgatory?
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_00: It's not real.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's the people, that's the first thing people say.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_00: It's fake, it's not in the Bible.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, no, it's it's a hundred, I believe it's a hundred percent real.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_00: I think there's a purgatory museum somewhere out there.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh uh, and you know, Adrian, I'm sure you and I both know a few stories of you know, Padre Pio, you know, seeing a colleague, you know, another priest, like, hey, we have to be here for a day.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_00: It hurts, it really hurts.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know, I I I don't aspire to go to purgatory.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to do our best to uh go straight to heaven.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_00: I think the only you know, with the advice of Carlo Kutis, uh Saint Carlo Kutis is you know, Eucharist.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Saint, you know, receive the Eucharist and grace every day, live like Christ.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know, people, you know, people are always gonna betray you, they're gonna just disappoint you.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, learning to forgive them.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's what the message of Christ is, you know, forgive, forgive your enemies and be merciful and just move on.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I think life is um so much more pleasant and joyful when you have merciful to people that really harmed you.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_00: In Hollywood, unfortunately, there's a lot of abuse, a lot of uh verbal abuse uh uh from film directors, a lot of physical abuse, a lot of sexual abuse.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I think uh, you know, this whole town, I was with Abby Johnson, who's a pro-life uh advocate, and she I was in a room with her and she said something to me that, or to the audience that I very stuck out to me, and I want the world to know this is hurt people, hurt people.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_00: And it's a cycle, it's a cycle of abuse.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_00: So if as long as I, you know, if we don't fall victim to that and we forgive those who have hurt us, physically, verbally, um, you know, and and be merciful and just move on.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_00: Because I think the enemy, you know who, um, wants us to hurt other people, and he uses us like Pinocchio.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_00: You know who Pinocchio is, right?
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like and the devil, the devil is the puppet master.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, Oh, you're prideful, boom, oh you're lustful, boom.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you you know, you want to sleep with this A-less actress?
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_00: Come on, come on, Austin.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_00: Don't you want to do that?
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_00: So it's just like you have to understand that this Luciferian satanic attacks, they do weird stuff, weirder stuff has happened, but I'm just saying.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know, if you ground yourself in Christ, go to practice in your faith, I think you're gonna be okay.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_00: But um then forgive those.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_00: Forgive, forgive this is the best weapon, and um, and then you God wants you to forgive, not forget, but to forgive and say, Hey, pray for you.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I I hate to say like Donald Trump kind of has this very funny line.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_00: He says, Oh, I wish I wish them well.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_00: You know how many people have betrayed Donald Trump?
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of like uh water on a duck's back.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the guy, he's funny, man.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care what people say, he's a funny guy.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_02: You mentioned that you will you work with Jay Stephen Roberts.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_02: I would love also to collaborate with him in the future.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_02: And so, what was the most eye-opening historical insight you learned from him about the Frusaders?
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_00: Uh well, I guess this is in line, but when we were filming the show, um, we first started the filming the show, a lot of the weapons, you know, it's very dangerous to make a Crusader show.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_00: Very dangerous.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_00: You could literally die on a movie set, whether you're dead, you're on a horse, we filmed with horses, we filmed with weapons.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but one of the eye-opening things that probably the audience doesn't pick up, when we were filming the first episode, some of the or the promos, the pla the weapons were plastic.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you knew that.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_00: And Adrian, do you know you want me to tell you what the weapons look like on camera?
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_00: What they look like plastic, they look fake.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh uh.
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_00: They look so bad.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_00: So one of the insights, the one of the insights that I realized was um that I didn't realize when we first started the show with Jay Jay Steven was the weapons, we ended up getting real weapons, how heavy the weapons were.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_00: The chain mail is literally like a hundred pounds.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_00: So the biggest insight that I got working with Jay Steven was um the authenticity of the weaponry is heavy and the equipment's heavy.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_00: So I I underestimated the reality of the crusades and the weaponry that went behind it.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I guess the historic working with Jay, the the one the one thing that really stood out to me was um how heavy the equipment was when we were filming with the horses and with the weapons.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_00: So it was not a very easy project to make, it was very difficult.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so the fact the one virtues that Jay has is that when you literally have a difficult thing, he was not hard on us.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_00: He was very merciful.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_00: He's probably one of the greatest easygoing filmmakers I've ever worked with because if you were um a weak person, um, you would you would collapse of of of of how hard it was to make this show.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_00: And he was just so easygoing and such a virtuous man.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_00: A lot, he doesn't talk about his faith.
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_00: He's a really good Catholic guy, and I will always work on projects with Jay.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_00: So the you know them by their fruits.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_00: Jay is um a very virtuous man, a very merciful man, and that's the kind of guy I would go to battle with, literally, um because of of his virtues.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_00: So um I learned a lot from him, and I, you know, and unfortunately in this town in Hollywood, there's not a lot of virtuous people.
• 46:59
  SPEAKER_00: So um I'll he's a I call him a good friend, and um, I love doing I love doing business with him, I love making movies with him.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_00: So maybe the you know, I can't say what we're gonna work on next, but we've taken a few meetings and some of the studios, some of the big guys, they they said, Hey, we love Knights of the Cross, but we want a movie.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_00: So I think uh unfortunately we have to pivot and start making movies.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_00: So maybe we'll do something like that in the future.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_02: What responsibility do Catholic creators have when portraying heroes of the faith to a modern audience that often misunderstand them?
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's kind of what I've been saying, as long as you're true to the history, right?
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_00: And and remember, it's about the virtues of the saints and the virtues of the faith.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_00: If we portray the virtues, like there was a movie called Cabrini.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I think we just celebrated the feast feast day of uh uh Sister Xavier Cabrini.
• 47:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, she was a very devout woman, and that's something that I think uh Angel Studios kind of missed the mark.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that movie could have been the next Passion of the Christ.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_00: It was very cinematic, it was very um, it was a very well-made movie, and I knew about that movie a long time ago.
• 48:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I I've got word from the movie set it was going to be a very great movie, and it did come out to be a great movie.
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_00: The problem that we have in Hollywood, Adrian, that nobody talks about is that these other movie studios are not Catholic and they will and they market these films to a modern audience that just don't care.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_00: And as long as we stick to the truth and we talk about the faith about Miss Cabrini, about St.
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_00: Cabrini, and other virtuous saints, we're gonna make lots of money because they're true.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_00: When stories are not true, you're gonna lose a ton of money.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_00: And they I'm not saying negative things, I don't think it was the filmmaker's fault.
• 48:41
  SPEAKER_00: I really blame the movie studio, Angel Studios, for cutting all those virtuous scenes out.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, the spiritual side of Cabrini.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_02: What's that?
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I mean the spiritual side of Cabrini, who who who who she is associated exactly, it's a lie, it's lying.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_00: You're lying to the audience, saying, Hey, uh, we have a Saint movie, go watch it, go support it.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_00: Come on, you're Catholic, you gotta go watch it.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_00: But when we watch it, the word is out hey, this movie's a dud.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_00: This movie is not virtuous, this is not Catholic, this is just some lady boss uh bossing people around.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_00: She is the opposite, she is a virtuous woman, dude.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_00: She was a little Italian sister who who had the strength from God from the Eucharist.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like, how do you you guys are so blind, you can't you in?
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure the filmmakers knew that, but the problem is there isn't a Catholic distribution company.
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they're usually run by Protestants or other denominations, and they just don't know the Catholic faith.
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_00: And that's why, like, let's point it back to Mel Gibson.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, that project is gonna make a billion dollars.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_00: It just is.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_00: Why?
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_00: Because it's truth.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_00: So you need this, you know, the the people in Catholic leadership need to support artists like Mel Gibson, need to support artists like the Christian channel and like you know, at what we do here, and then you have Cameron O'Hearn with, you know, there's only a few of us out there.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_00: There's not a million Catholic filmmakers.
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe there's five good ones, five or ten good ones, but man, we really need help.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we really need the help of the Catholic Church.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like the Vatican needs to be financing movies.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_00: That's the problem.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_00: That's the biggest problem.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you finance Michelangelo, you can't finance Mel Gibson, you can't finance David Henry, you can't finance Kevin James.
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's guys, get with the program.
• 50:28
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna make a ton of money doing it too.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_00: So I I don't understand.
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_00: I think um there's a lot of balls in the air, but we need to support and make movies that tell the truth of our faith, and then you're gonna set the world on fire.
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_00: As long as the bishops and you know, um U.S.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_00: bishops and you know, people in the Vatican understand that.
• 50:47
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, there could be a Vatican uh film festival, there could be a Vatican uh movie collection, a streaming service.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_00: There's so many avenues that we could, as Catholics, participate, but that doesn't exist.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, I'm like I'm at the I feel like St.
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_00: Francis, Adrian.
• 51:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm literally at the mercy of your audience to to contribute and to donate.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_00: I know I'm knocking on everyone's door to come on their podcast, and I get a lot of no's.
• 51:13
  SPEAKER_00: I get more no's than yes, but I'm so blessed to be here to talk to you about these things.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_02: Actually, I'm much more honored to have you, brother Austin, for trusting my platform to share your your uh passion in doing this uh Catholic uh film.
• 51:28
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, thank you for that.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_02: What do you hope Knights of the Cross awaken in the hearts of uh today's Christian?
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_00: I just hope people who fell away from the faith come back.
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I that's all I could ask for.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_00: Just to, you know, uh I have a I have an aunt who is uh was who fell away from the faith, and I showed her a screening of episode one, and um, you know, she didn't know what purgatory looked like, you know, because she sees it in prayer cries.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_00: It looks like imaginary, it looks fake.
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but when we showed her the film, um, she really quite started to question her faith.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_00: So my goal is for the millions of people, the thousands of people that watch the show, whether they're Catholic or non-Catholic, they they look at these cinematic scenes and say, wow, purgatory is scary.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like it, you know, Adrian, if I had a bigger budget, and let's just say um a CEO, a billionaire came to me and said, Hey, I'm financing you$50 million.
• 52:24
  SPEAKER_00: What movies are you gonna make?
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_00: The first thing I'm gonna say, I want to make Our Lady Guadalupe, but the other movie that I would love to do is Dante's Inferno.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_00: We have to scare people back into coming back to the Catholic faith because hell is real and we pretend that Satan doesn't exist.
• 52:40
  SPEAKER_00: We pretend that hell doesn't exist.
• 52:42
  SPEAKER_00: It is it is 100% real.
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I think the enemies, the real enemies, not people, not people spiritual.
• 52:48
  SPEAKER_00: I think the real enemy of say the real satanic people, the the spirits of the Sat the evil of the world, they don't just want to drag you to hell.
• 52:57
  SPEAKER_00: They don't want you just commit, they want to obliterate your life.
• 53:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I it this isn't just me saying this.
• 53:02
  SPEAKER_00: I I have a uh deacon friend who shared this with me.
• 53:06
  SPEAKER_00: Satan doesn't just want to drag you to hell.
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_00: He wants to obliterate your life, he wants to ruin you, your marriage, your family.
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, if you look at the ver any not the if you look at the folks that submit to that agenda, uh the the satanic agenda, their life is in ruin.
• 53:22
  SPEAKER_00: I can I don't want to say any actors or any you know celebrities, but man, you it if you follow the lifestyle, that Luciferian lifestyle, your your life's gonna be obliterated.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I think you know, we're made in the divine image of God.
• 53:34
  SPEAKER_00: We're really like walking Jesuses on the on this planet and the walking saint.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_00: We could be walking saints, but the evil one wants to distract us and he wants to obliterate our life.
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter what ethnicity you are, what skin color you are, what color, you know, what disabilities you have, you are made in the image of God.
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_00: And I think media has done such a good job of lying to us and telling us that God doesn't exist, Satan doesn't exist, live your life, follow your passions.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna tell you one thing filmmakers who follow their passion.
• 54:05
  SPEAKER_00: This is a very passionate industry, by the way.
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_00: You know, what happens is they fall into their passions and they get in trouble and they go to jail.
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we there's a very famous media mogul in Hollywood, you know, Harvey Weinstein, who, you know, you know, uh did abuses to a lot of women.
• 54:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that's an individual that followed his passions to an extreme.
• 54:24
  SPEAKER_00: He was passionate about filmmaking, he was passionate about you know doing a you know bad things.
• 54:29
  SPEAKER_00: I think that I think there is a redemptive, if you're alive and you're listening to this and you, you know, and you want to transform your life, become Catholic, pray the rosary every day, and um, you know, act do actual reparations fast and and do good things, you know.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um movies, I feel like the Christian channel has become just a mission to point people to Christ.
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_00: And it to be honest, Adrian, it's it's been a cross since starting.
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_00: I would have been a very rich man if I didn't do this project.
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 54:59
  SPEAKER_00: I would have or you know, I would I would have been very successful in Hollywood, working with celebrities, continuing that venture.
• 55:05
  SPEAKER_00: But is it the fruits of the Christian channel and Knights of the Cross is really trying to get people to go back to church and to and to really understand their faith.
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_00: That's the goal.
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_02: Amen.
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_02: And are you planning to create a film about exorcism in the future?
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we we got a script.
• 55:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, really?
• 55:28
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we there is a story in development.
• 55:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, not about it's it's I don't want to I don't want to give the spoiler.
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's a metaphor.
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't want to, I don't want to talk, but there is a there is a horror film we've been approached, we've been approached to uh to make a horror film.
• 55:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um no, but right now, like we were talking about prior, like I I I have a few projects that are that are in development um with a studio.
• 55:50
  SPEAKER_00: So uh we'll see what happens.
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_00: By the grace of God, that's that honestly that the Hollywood's very humbling if if you understand that every gift, every donation, I'm so grateful for every little opportunity I get.
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, sometimes you could say, oh, that's you're only working on a little project, but it's like, hey, but it's with the big studio.
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just so honored that to participate in in any way to point people back to Christ.
• 56:14
  SPEAKER_00: So um my big dream, obviously, it's spoiler, Our Lady of Guadalupe.
• 56:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'd love to make that movie, I'd like to get that finance.
• 56:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh number two, um, I I wanna the I want to focus on more pro-life projects because you know, I think the black and brown community um have been lied to.
• 56:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I grew up in Los Angeles, you know, a lot of Mexicans, a lot of black, a lot of African Americans that live here, you know, they've just been lied to.
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_00: And it goes back to the messages of Our Lady of Fatima, you know, you know, uh the evil one wants to destroy marriage.
• 56:46
  SPEAKER_00: That's the final battle, marriage and the family.
• 56:49
  SPEAKER_00: And um it's it's really uh if we could solve this abortion crisis in our country, um, you know, if you look at Our Lady of Guadalupe and you look at the Tilma, underneath her feet is the moon, right?
• 57:01
  SPEAKER_00: And then there's a little baby.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the baby's wings is red, white, and blue.
• 57:05
  SPEAKER_00: So America, that has to be a metaphor for America.
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there has to be a way where we as Americans, we need to end abortion in our country.
• 57:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's the greatest travesty, the greatest child sacrifice in a whole nother level.
• 57:19
  SPEAKER_00: Mel Gibson was on Joe Rogan just a few months ago, and he was talking about sacrifices, pagan sacrifices.
• 57:26
  SPEAKER_00: And Joe was asking him, well, we don't do that today.
• 57:29
  SPEAKER_00: And and Mel Gibson was saying, Yeah, we do.
• 57:32
  SPEAKER_00: It just you don't, you know, we just do it in a more modern way, which is talking about abortion, you know, and then you have witches going paying for abortions, doing rituals, and these poor black and brown women that go get the abortions.
• 57:45
  SPEAKER_00: I if you pray the rosary outside of an abortion clinic clinic, it's really it's more busy than you think.
• 57:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of like um like kind of like a when cows go get slaughtered.
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's there's a lot, it's not a little, and the color of the skin of these people are black, brown, and white.
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_00: Those are the people that go in, and it's a rotation.
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I know a lot of good priests that pray the rosary.
• 58:07
  SPEAKER_00: I pray the rosary outside of an abortion clinic.
• 58:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Bishop Robert Byron just did it.
• 58:11
  SPEAKER_00: I I saw it.
• 58:13
  SPEAKER_02: Robert Byron.
• 58:13
  SPEAKER_00: We need more, we need more bishops doing it.
• 58:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I don't like uh uh there are Catholic priests that do it, um, but they don't like the attention, which is a good thing.
• 58:23
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, we as Catholics, we have this responsibility um to live our faith.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_00: And if we have time, if you're you know, if you have the time, pray the rosary because it is a weapon.
• 58:33
  SPEAKER_00: And when people see you pray the rosary, um, they get reminded that they are children of God.
• 58:39
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care how people spin it.
• 58:41
  SPEAKER_00: It, you know, the rosary is very powerful, and with the Holy Spirit could could guide young women and men to change their mind.
• 58:49
  SPEAKER_00: I I will tell you one pro-life story, and I know we're going over our time, but I I No, no, no, no worries, no worries.
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_00: One pro-life story.
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_00: I was praying the rosary outside of an abortion clinic, and this um big guy, big uh uh uh African-American guy was was really running towards me.
• 59:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I looked to God, I said, God, and I was praying the rosary.
• 59:08
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, God, this is the day I get punched in the face really hard.
• 59:13
  SPEAKER_00: And he comes to me, he walks to me, and he shakes his hand.
• 59:17
  SPEAKER_00: He says, I just want to shake your hand.
• 59:19
  SPEAKER_00: I want to thank you for all the hard work you're doing.
• 59:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, my my mom came here, she's from Haiti, and she came here on a banana boat to Miami or to Florida.
• 59:28
  SPEAKER_00: And um, I'm so grateful for all you're doing.
• 59:31
  SPEAKER_00: And so I'm just saying, God, don't be afraid.
• 59:34
  SPEAKER_00: God, God is with you.
• 59:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I think, like, if if you're a father, you know how hard it is to have children.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_00: And um, I think every child's a blessing.
• 59:43
  SPEAKER_00: Even if your child has disabilities and is only going to live for a few minutes.
• 59:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like I have a friend of mine, an acquaintance of mine, whose child, you know, he's a Catholic influencer, um, had just passed away.
• 59:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he only had a few, you know, hours to live.
• 59:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know, cherish those moments because life isn't guaranteed.
• 1:00:01
  SPEAKER_00: Every breath we take, talking to you, being on this podcast, it's for God, right?
• 1:00:05
  SPEAKER_00: And God, God spares our lives every day.
• 1:00:07
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we could just wake up tomorrow and not wake up at all.
• 1:00:10
  SPEAKER_00: We could be dead.
• 1:00:11
  SPEAKER_00: I just think the whole point of our Catholic faith is to live it.
• 1:00:14
  SPEAKER_00: And if more Catholics, like 100% of them, live the Catholic faith, man, the world would be on fire.
• 1:00:19
  SPEAKER_00: We don't need really governments.
• 1:00:20
  SPEAKER_00: We just need more virtuous men and women.
• 1:00:23
  SPEAKER_00: You know, if the families, let's go back to a crisis in our country.
• 1:00:27
  SPEAKER_00: Abortion is a crisis, homelessness is a crisis.
• 1:00:30
  SPEAKER_00: The solution is family.
• 1:00:31
  SPEAKER_00: If we had more compassionate family members to take in our broken family members, and we're, we were, we we wouldn't see homelessness in the world.
• 1:00:40
  SPEAKER_00: They wouldn't exist because we would be taking, you know, these people are mentally ill and broken.
• 1:00:45
  SPEAKER_00: And listen, we need we need to heal as a country, and we need to be reminded that we are children of God and that we we are a pro-family, pro-life country.
• 1:00:53
  SPEAKER_00: So long-winded way of saying probably the next movie I'm gonna be doing is a pro-life movie, and it will get me canceled, and people are gonna say that Austin Kelly and that Christian channel is too radical, he's too radical of a Catholic.
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know what?
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus was radical.
• 1:01:08
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Jesus died for our faith, so um died, died for us, so for our sins.
• 1:01:12
  SPEAKER_00: So I just think um we are called to be saints, and not all of us are called to be in media, but uh, we're all called in different ways, whether you're the saint of janitorial services or plumbing or whatever, a dentistry, you know, we should strive to be saints.
• 1:01:27
  SPEAKER_00: And the people that are doing evil today, pray for them because they're the modern-day St.
• 1:01:31
  SPEAKER_00: Paul's, and they they could they they could change the world too.
• 1:01:35
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're a human being, I I'm optimistic.
• 1:01:38
  SPEAKER_00: But if you're doing evil, pray for those people that are doing evil to you.
• 1:01:41
  SPEAKER_02: If you could ask a crusader knight one question, what would it be and why?
• 1:01:47
  SPEAKER_00: I was just thinking about Fernando the Third.
• 1:01:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what what I already know the you know, I don't know, I don't know that answer.
• 1:01:55
  SPEAKER_00: I would, I would, I honestly I wouldn't ask him a question.
• 1:01:58
  SPEAKER_00: I just have a beer with him.
• 1:02:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'd probably have a beer with uh Fernando the Third or uh you know uh Louis the Ninth, you know, the king of France.
• 1:02:07
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I think they would just tell me what I'm saying now, but I would just probably uh what gives you strength?
• 1:02:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I think their answer would be the Eucharist.
• 1:02:14
  SPEAKER_00: And brother uh Austin, why you love being Catholic?
• 1:02:19
  SPEAKER_00: Well, because I get to be with Jesus, and that's why I love being Catholic.
• 1:02:23
  SPEAKER_00: I get to be with him every day.
• 1:02:24
  SPEAKER_00: And um we take him for granted.
• 1:02:27
  SPEAKER_00: He's with us every day, he's at he's in adoration every day, waiting for us.
• 1:02:31
  SPEAKER_00: So um, you know, the evil one really hates adoration, man.
• 1:02:35
  SPEAKER_00: He really hates it.
• 1:02:36
  SPEAKER_00: I've I've um yeah, I think the source of our faith is the Eucharist, and I think Christ's Christ's heart is beating for us, and he wants us to be with him because we're human beings.
• 1:02:46
  SPEAKER_00: We fail.
• 1:02:47
  SPEAKER_00: I fail all the time, but I get strength from him and I get guidance from him, I get mentorship from him.
• 1:02:53
  SPEAKER_00: And um, it goes back to our earlier conversation.
• 1:02:56
  SPEAKER_00: If you're gonna get into this business world, you're gonna get into fighting for Christ and business and media, you know, the modern day crusade, which is the media crusade, the movie crusade that we're on right now, um, the strength comes from the Eucharist, it comes from the truth.
• 1:03:10
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe you do, we maybe we do make Our Lady of Guadalupe, but maybe it, you know, we break even in the box office.
• 1:03:16
  SPEAKER_00: That's not the point.
• 1:03:17
  SPEAKER_00: The point, the point is to touch the hearts of millions of people and to bring them back to the faith.
• 1:03:23
  SPEAKER_00: Because if we have a more Christian world, there'd be less problems in this world, right?
• 1:03:27
  SPEAKER_00: When we break away from God's commandments, like there's only destruction.
• 1:03:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, imagine a world where everyone was Catholic, man, we wouldn't, I could only imagine the beauty of our faith, you know, and the innovations of our of our technology going beyond the stars.
• 1:03:44
  SPEAKER_00: I think if we were truly humanitarian and truly Catholic, man, we'd be conquering galaxies in the name of God.
• 1:03:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:03:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know, kind of like the conquistadors of uh of Spain going to the New World.
• 1:03:56
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we would be on Mars, we'd be on the moon, having adoration and giving reverence to God and maybe finding an alien civilization and and catechizing them and saying, hey, you know, bleep block, you know, our Lord and Savior Jesus.
• 1:04:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I don't know.
• 1:04:09
  SPEAKER_00: We live in a Star Trek world, but no, we live in a world where a small group of men want to control us and um and uh honestly uh put us in a in an obliterate our life.
• 1:04:21
  SPEAKER_00: That's the agenda of the evil one, dog.
• 1:04:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the the truth is we need we need to live our faith, and we're gonna get persecuted on the way.
• 1:04:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but be you know, to forgive those people and pray for those people.
• 1:04:33
  SPEAKER_00: Look at all the martyrs we've had in our faith.
• 1:04:35
  SPEAKER_00: Blessed Miguel Agustin Pro, for example, the Mexican saint, uh, or blessed who who died for Mexico and because of his martyrdom transformed uh Mexico.
• 1:04:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know, what I'm saying is I hope people just live their faith in the small ways and in the big ways.
• 1:04:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, as a Catholic media maker, I of movie make filmmaker, I look at these virtues of the saints and the crusaders and I say, wow, we really need to put that on TV and we really need to put that in front of people's eyes because they need to know the truth.
• 1:05:06
  SPEAKER_00: So to conclude our conversation, the crusades were a good thing um because we were, you know, there were uh we had 400 years of conquest in in the Middle East.
• 1:05:17
  SPEAKER_00: So um it was a response to that.
• 1:05:20
  SPEAKER_02: And brother, before we ask you for a closing prayer, maybe you can uh promote your mission about the Christian channel, Knight of the Cross, and your upcoming projects.
• 1:05:31
  SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
• 1:05:31
  SPEAKER_02: And where people can follow and support your work.
• 1:05:34
  SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
• 1:05:34
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Adrian.
• 1:05:35
  SPEAKER_00: So you could support us, go to Christianchannel.com, uh, become a paid subscriber.
• 1:05:41
  SPEAKER_00: The Knights of the Cross TV miniseries comes out December 28th, just in time for Christmas.
• 1:05:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, our subscription is uh about four dollars and nine cents a month, and that goes does go and support our mission.
• 1:05:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, if we have three thousand paid subscribers, um, we will be able to produce more documentary.
• 1:06:01
  SPEAKER_00: We do have films featured on bigger streaming platforms.
• 1:06:05
  SPEAKER_00: So we do work with the major streamers.
• 1:06:07
  SPEAKER_00: So it's not just the YouTube views that we get.
• 1:06:10
  SPEAKER_00: We also are on Roku.
• 1:06:12
  SPEAKER_00: We have projects on Tubi and other big streaming platforms.
• 1:06:15
  SPEAKER_00: So we when you subscribe, you help us finance and produce more content.
• 1:06:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like we just came out with the Stratoterin documentary.
• 1:06:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's pretty interesting.
• 1:06:24
  SPEAKER_00: It just came out.
• 1:06:24
  SPEAKER_00: So these are all these information that we want to continue to evangelize in the small ways with documentaries.
• 1:06:33
  SPEAKER_00: But long term, um, we're going to go back to making movies because we've been taking so many meetings in Hollywood, and all the guy, all the big movie, the distributors, they want us to make films.
• 1:06:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um so we're gonna pivot from making TV shows to making movies because um the studios need to make money too.
• 1:06:50
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the great thing about Hollywood is the movie studios, you would think, oh, they hate us as Christians.
• 1:06:55
  SPEAKER_00: They actually don't.
• 1:06:56
  SPEAKER_00: They, you know, Hollywood's uh they want to revive uh a golden era of movies again.
• 1:07:01
  SPEAKER_00: So how they can support us is go to Christianchannel.com, become a paid subscriber, and support the mission.
• 1:07:07
  SPEAKER_00: 3,000.
• 1:07:08
  SPEAKER_00: If we could do 3,000, we're we're really we're gonna be in really good shape.
• 1:07:12
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, that's awesome.
• 1:07:14
  SPEAKER_00: And uh thank you, Adrian.
• 1:07:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so glad to be here.
• 1:07:17
  SPEAKER_00: And uh uh everyone that's watching us, go watch Knights of the Cross on Christianchannel.com, and that's the best way you could support us to become a paid subscriber.
• 1:07:27
  SPEAKER_00: God bless you, and thank everybody.
• 1:07:30
  SPEAKER_02: I mean the YouTube channel also the oh you also have YouTube channel, right?
• 1:07:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um we also have a uh a free YouTube channel.
• 1:07:37
  SPEAKER_00: I think it has like 160,000 subscribers.
• 1:07:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um you could become a free subscriber to that too.
• 1:07:43
  SPEAKER_00: Go to uh at Christian channel on YouTube.
• 1:07:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um we're the you know, there's multiple Christian channels, but we're the real Christian channel.
• 1:07:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and we we're the guys that have free movies, free documentaries, and the podcast where we interview celebrities like Rob Schneider, just like your podcast.
• 1:08:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Rob's a good guy.
• 1:08:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so yeah, just um Is he the comedian?
• 1:08:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh right?
• 1:08:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he's uh I think a Jewish Filipino comedian.
• 1:08:10
  SPEAKER_00: He's he's really funny.
• 1:08:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh oh, he's a Filipino.
• 1:08:13
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know though.
• 1:08:14
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, his mom's Filipino.
• 1:08:15
  SPEAKER_00: Uh his dad's Jewish, mom's Filipino.
• 1:08:17
  SPEAKER_00: He just became Catholic, I want to say about a year and a half ago.
• 1:08:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, he has you talk about Hollywood, he has a great script.
• 1:08:24
  SPEAKER_00: He has the the Shrata Turin movie script on his desk.
• 1:08:27
  SPEAKER_00: He wants you see, this goes back to financing.
• 1:08:30
  SPEAKER_00: He there's a lot of great pee people that have great Catholic movies.
• 1:08:33
  SPEAKER_00: Joe Montene has the Padre Pia movie, Rob Schneider has the um Strata Turin film.
• 1:08:39
  SPEAKER_00: So there's people in Hollywood that want to make Catholic movies.
• 1:08:42
  SPEAKER_00: The problem is we have a tough time with the financing.
• 1:08:45
  SPEAKER_00: So as long as we get the financing right and the investors lined up, I mean, we're gonna set the world on fire.
• 1:08:50
  SPEAKER_00: So how your audience could help the Christian channel is just to become a paid subscriber and um we get to make great content.
• 1:08:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:08:57
  SPEAKER_02: Also, would you mind you you connect me to Rob Schneider so we can also Yeah, well, he's a busy guy.
• 1:09:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh he's on the lot, but no worries, no worries.
• 1:09:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'll reach out, I'll I'll I'll talk to some people.
• 1:09:10
  SPEAKER_00: So that'd be really fun to have Rob Schneider on the show.
• 1:09:13
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you so much, brother Austin Kelly.
• 1:09:16
  SPEAKER_02: And would you mind close us with a prayer?
• 1:09:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, let's do it.
• 1:09:21
  SPEAKER_00: In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.
• 1:09:23
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 1:09:23
  SPEAKER_00: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom comes, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
• 1:09:29
  SPEAKER_00: Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
• 1:09:37
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 1:09:37
  SPEAKER_00: One more prayer.
• 1:09:38
  SPEAKER_00: Saint Michael, the archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
• 1:09:43
  SPEAKER_00: May God rebuke and we humbly pray and do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Host.
• 1:09:46
  SPEAKER_00: By the power of God, cast into hell Satan, all the evil spirits crowd about the world, seeking ruin of souls.
• 1:09:50
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 1:09:51
  SPEAKER_02: Amen.
• 1:09:52
  SPEAKER_00: In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit.
• 1:09:54
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 1:09:55
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_00: So thank you, Brother Austin Kelly, and please give a prayer for us and give a prayer to Adrian.
• 1:10:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we need we need all of God's help.
• 1:10:06
  SPEAKER_00: So uh every every little prayer, say a rosary for us, everyone.
• 1:10:10
  SPEAKER_02: Amen.
• 1:10:10
  SPEAKER_02: Amen.
• 1:10:12
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, brother.
• 1:10:12
  SPEAKER_02: Have a nice day, and this let's keep in touch.
• 1:10:15
  SPEAKER_03: Bye-bye.
• 1:10:27
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• 1:10:29
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• 1:10:36
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• 1:10:46
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• 1:10:50
  SPEAKER_02: I still have a lot of backlog because I'm a one-man team.
• 1:10:54
  SPEAKER_02: So most of the time I'm really the one editing.
• 1:10:58
  SPEAKER_02: In fact, I edit all the interviews and vlogs on this channel.
• 1:11:02
  SPEAKER_02: As much as I want to upload them right after the interview, I can't do that because we need to edit and enhance the interview by adding slides and information that are very relevant and will be more helpful to you.
• 1:11:17
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• 1:11:20
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• 1:11:25
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• 1:11:27
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• 1:11:35
  SPEAKER_02: You know what we are doing is not free.
• 1:11:38
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• 1:11:45
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• 1:11:50
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• 1:11:54
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• 1:12:05
  SPEAKER_02: Not only will you get early access, but you will also help me in our online evangelization.
• 1:12:11
  SPEAKER_02: In a way, you will be my partner in doing this.
• 1:12:14
  SPEAKER_02: If you don't have the gifts in what I do, in speaking, interviewing, but you have the capacity to help me in this mission, it will definitely improve.
• 1:12:24
  SPEAKER_02: Let's partner.
• 1:12:26
  SPEAKER_02: I will do the inviting, the interviewing, but at the same time, the Lord knows that you help me and you've been partnering with me in this mission.
• 1:12:37
  SPEAKER_02: So, my fellow believers, to join our Patreon group, I will put the link where you can access this Patreon group.
• 1:12:45
  SPEAKER_02: It has a cost, a small fee, you just need to pay, but the spiritual benefit for you will be overwhelmingly abundant.
• 1:12:52
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you so much.
• 1:12:54
  SPEAKER_02: Bless.