Speaker 1: January has come to a close. We are here in
Speaker 1: the month of Valentinees in February, and I am a
Speaker 1: bit dumbfounded. How did that happen so quickly? Weren't we
Speaker 1: just stressing out over the holidays. Winter weather has finally
Speaker 1: arrived at my farm too. We've had wind, We've had rain,
Speaker 1: We've had more wind, lots of wind, power outages, snow,
Speaker 1: a little ice, enough inclement crud to make me giddy
Speaker 1: thinking of the coming spring and my gardens. But that
Speaker 1: right now is a long way off. What are we
Speaker 1: going to do with ourselves for the rest of this
Speaker 1: winter season. Maybe you'd like to go take in a movie.
Speaker 1: I have a recommendation. Ordinary Angels is out in theaters
Speaker 1: February twenty third, and it is phenomenal. It's based on
Speaker 1: a remark true story in Stars Academy Award winner Hillary
Speaker 1: Swank and Alan Ritson of the Reacher series. Alan continues
Speaker 1: to make an undeniable mark as an actor, writer, producer, director.
Speaker 1: He's currently in production on the third season of Reacher,
Speaker 1: a massive success. Three days after its premiere, it was
Speaker 1: number one. It surpassed its entire season one audience by
Speaker 1: fifty percent. Within that time, maintaining its title as one
Speaker 1: of Prime Video's most binged original series ever. He's got
Speaker 1: a first look film deal and a separate three picture
Speaker 1: deal for acting with Amazon MGM Studios. Alan recently wrapped
Speaker 1: production on his leading role in the Guy Ritchie World
Speaker 1: War II film for Lionsgate called The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,
Speaker 1: and is also set to rep prize his role as
Speaker 1: Aims in the untitled eleventh installment of the Fast and
Speaker 1: Furious blockbuster franchise from Universal Pictures. But today, today, today,
Speaker 1: Alan Ritson, the handsome, talented Alan Ritson, is here here
Speaker 1: to give us all the details on the Lionsgate drama
Speaker 1: Ordinary Angels that's set to open February twenty third. I
Speaker 1: am so excited for this conversation. But since Ordinary Angels
Speaker 1: is actually a sponsor of this podcast this very one,
Speaker 1: can I just spend a little minute more telling you
Speaker 1: a little bit more about this film. Winter weather is
Speaker 1: perfect weather for family movie night, and I have a
Speaker 1: recommendation for you. Boy, do I have a recommendation for you.
Speaker 1: It's called Ordinary Angels. It's based on a remarkable true story.
Speaker 1: That's the I love this so much. I mean it's
Speaker 1: a great movie, but the fact that it happened and
Speaker 1: it's a true story is really what will blow your mind.
Speaker 1: It centers on Sharon. Sharon is played by Hillary Swank
Speaker 1: as a fierce but struggling hairdresser in small town Kentucky
Speaker 1: who discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets Ed,
Speaker 1: played by Alan Richson. Ed is a widower working hard
Speaker 1: to make ends meet for his two daughters, and his
Speaker 1: youngest daughter is gravely ill she needs a liver transplant. Sharon,
Speaker 1: the hairdresser, sets her mind to helping this family and
Speaker 1: will move mountains to do it. What unfolds is the
Speaker 1: inspiring tale of faith, everyday miracles, and ordinary angels. Swank
Speaker 1: was quote drawn to this beautiful true story because it's
Speaker 1: such a powerful reminder that angels reside everywhere among us.
Speaker 1: Ritson says he quote believed that sometimes we just need
Speaker 1: to be reminded of the power of what we can
Speaker 1: do together. It's in theaters now, so while the weather
Speaker 1: isn't good for much else, it's perfect for watching Ordinary Angels.
Speaker 1: A sure winner with family and friends. Visit Ordinary Angels
Speaker 1: dot movie for more information. So with Me today, I
Speaker 1: love someone as someone I absolutely love. I love your acting,
Speaker 1: I love your instatchurch post, I love you, oh, thank
Speaker 1: you pictures of your kids, your boys, and your wife.
Speaker 1: And I really love the new movie Ordinary Angels. Ellen Ritchson,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Delilah Show.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. I'm glad you
Speaker 2: enjoyed the film.
Speaker 1: I loved the film. I said this earlier and I
Speaker 1: will repeat it. I was surprised when I heard that
Speaker 1: you and Hillary Swank were the two ours, because I
Speaker 1: had read a little synopsis of what the movie is about.
Speaker 1: And the movie is about a family, a tragedy, A
Speaker 1: young husband loses his wife, and at the same time
Speaker 1: he's losing his wife, he's losing his daughter to a
Speaker 1: terrible disease and she needs a transplant. And it's a
Speaker 1: story of an ordinary angels, of common everyday people living
Speaker 1: life with all of its heartache and problems. And I
Speaker 1: could not picture Reacher. I could not picture you be
Speaker 1: in there to shoot your.
Speaker 2: Way out of this. You can't shoot your way out
Speaker 2: of this premise.
Speaker 1: Exactly, or jump in a black Hawk, and you know,
Speaker 1: hang by your fingernails and and and swing over a
Speaker 1: great divide. But Alan, I got to say you nailed it, dude.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much, thank you. Yeah, it was uh,
Speaker 2: you know, I I had to I had to fight
Speaker 2: for the part a little bit, you know. Read Sure.
Speaker 2: Season one had just come out and it's as if
Speaker 2: the entire town was waiting to see what the results
Speaker 2: would be. And within forty eight hours it was like
Speaker 2: one of the most watched shows ever ever.
Speaker 1: Right, I was a part of that phenomenon, Thank you
Speaker 1: very much. And it's funny because I usually don't watch
Speaker 1: like violent shows. That's my husband, he's the shoot him
Speaker 1: up you know, he was a copy So what.
Speaker 2: Is it that you so you're so what do you
Speaker 2: watch for you? Okay, all the silent moments between the fights?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's so so by Monday, you know, it
Speaker 2: came out on a late Thursday or Friday, and by Monday,
Speaker 2: my inbox was had exploded with offers from some of
Speaker 2: the most legendary producers and studios in town, and a
Speaker 2: lot of it like action stuff, just like what we've
Speaker 2: been doing. And then there was this little script called
Speaker 2: Ordinary Angels that I read and of all of this,
Speaker 2: I mean, I have fifty offers and I said, this
Speaker 2: is what we have to do. It's this to be
Speaker 2: able to do Reacher and then tell a true story
Speaker 2: that is so heartbreaking and so uplifting and inspiring. This
Speaker 2: is I think this is the direction that we go,
Speaker 2: and Lionsgate was supportive of it, but they wanted me
Speaker 2: to sit down with John Gunn, the writer director, who's brilliant.
Speaker 2: He's a brilliant guy and he's very honest, and so
Speaker 2: when we sit down, he was like, I gotta be
Speaker 2: honest with you, man, You're not who I pictured at
Speaker 2: all for this. And I was like, I also am
Speaker 2: not who I picture when I read this, but I
Speaker 2: know I can do this. And I think there's something
Speaker 2: interesting about the fact that you have somebody who's fully
Speaker 2: capable physically of moving mountains in a way, and yet
Speaker 2: nature doesn't allow it, and life is so difficult that
Speaker 2: it's crippling even somebody who seems like they would be
Speaker 2: you have it all figured out. I think there's something
Speaker 2: even more tragic about the juxtaposition of that, and I
Speaker 2: think maybe we can use that a little bit, you know,
Speaker 2: and after you know, a little more convincing and cajoling,
Speaker 2: you know, he came around and we decided to do it,
Speaker 2: and he took a real risk bringing me into do it,
Speaker 2: and so did Hillary. You know, when we got Hillary
Speaker 2: on again, I'm still a relative unknown to a lot
Speaker 2: of people. Reacher was kind of a breakout thing for me,
Speaker 2: you know. So she took a risk, you know, working
Speaker 2: alongside somebody like myself as well, and I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 1: Well, I was as surprised that they chose Hillary, I
Speaker 1: think as I was that they chose you, because I
Speaker 1: couldn't picture her playings a hot mess like that so beautifully.
Speaker 2: Oh oh oh, she's so versatile. Yeah, I think it
Speaker 2: was that was that seemed like the easy casting choice
Speaker 2: to me. But but yeah, she did a phenomenal job.
Speaker 1: She was amazed. The whole movie was amazing. I want
Speaker 1: to encourage people, especially I watched it with my family,
Speaker 1: you know, they gave me a preview here at my house,
Speaker 1: so I watched it with four or five of my kids,
Speaker 1: and even my youngest, who seven, was crying. We were
Speaker 1: all all sobbing crying. There not once. But there are
Speaker 1: so many places, pivotal moments in the movie. And because
Speaker 1: I have spent the last you know, thirty plus years,
Speaker 1: forty years of my life working with people who struggle
Speaker 1: with addictions, and because I am no stranger to the
Speaker 1: twelve step program, seeing that element, you know, and what
Speaker 1: a big part of the storyline it was without being overbearing,
Speaker 1: you know, seeing how the character that Hillary played faced
Speaker 1: her demons and finally got honest with herself, right, I
Speaker 1: was bawling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it takes a lot. It takes a lot to
Speaker 2: reach the point where you can be honest with yourself,
Speaker 2: to ask for help, to really confront the problem and
Speaker 2: start saying no. And you know, I think when it
Speaker 2: comes to alcohol, especially, my wife decided to do a
Speaker 2: sober October five years ago, and I kind of just
Speaker 2: by happenstance, I was like, I guess, I guess we're
Speaker 2: not drinking for October because that's who's what's the fun
Speaker 2: in that, you know, And that grew into this real
Speaker 2: journey for her where she, you know, learned that this
Speaker 2: industry wants you to believe that the only people who
Speaker 2: stop drinking are those who have hit rock bottom, and
Speaker 2: that is a lie that I think we're starting to
Speaker 2: see the benefits of going against that that you don't
Speaker 2: have to have like a rock bottom problem to say
Speaker 2: like I actually I don't need that in my life.
Speaker 2: I want to wake up with clarity. I want to
Speaker 2: know that, you know, I'm not creating an anxiety you
Speaker 2: know cycle in my life at like five pm every
Speaker 2: day where my body's used to getting this depressant and
Speaker 2: so it creates more cortisol and I I am feeling
Speaker 2: anxious and like I need it, you know, but I'm
Speaker 2: doing it to myself. And maybe if I did away
Speaker 2: with that, I could just feel even throughout the day.
Speaker 2: And you know, there's like a lot of positivity that
Speaker 2: comes along with saying no before you hit rock bottom.
Speaker 2: And it takes a lot of courage to do that.
Speaker 2: You know, the amount of people that are like, you
Speaker 2: know when she's like, I don't drink, and they're like,
Speaker 2: you're so strong, you know, it's so brave of you
Speaker 2: to admit that you had a problem, and she like
Speaker 2: didn't really have it, just just she just wanted to
Speaker 2: have a different journey. So we're not all you know,
Speaker 2: like we're not all Hillary's character. Not all of us
Speaker 2: have to hit rock bottom before they start to make
Speaker 2: those changes. And I think this opens up a pathway
Speaker 2: to a conversation that maybe people that aren't quite that
Speaker 2: far along can also make changes that are positive in
Speaker 2: their own life.
Speaker 1: And has she stuck to sober October through November, December, January,
Speaker 1: February for the last podcasts.
Speaker 2: Even though Yeah, even though I was like by Thanksgiving,
Speaker 2: I was like, no, We're definitely going to have wine
Speaker 2: on Thanksgiving, right, was like, actually, I think I'm gonna
Speaker 2: I'm feeling pretty good. And then Christmas rolls around. I'm like,
Speaker 2: how can we not have Christmas? And then New Year's
Speaker 2: how can we not have a champagne toast? And She's like,
Speaker 2: do we really need champagne to celebrate the coming of
Speaker 2: this new year and our goals and our resolutions? And
Speaker 2: I was like no, it's like okay, And then she
Speaker 2: like hits that ninety day play. There's something called the
Speaker 2: pink cloud. You know, ninety days, your body has cleansed
Speaker 2: itself of the toxins that it stores up, and so
Speaker 2: there's this moment of almost like ecstasy, like clarity, and
Speaker 2: she goes, I really want to experience that, and she
Speaker 2: eventually did around like ninety or one hundred days, and
Speaker 2: that was it. That was like, She's never going back,
Speaker 2: and I, you know, I had been along the ride
Speaker 2: with her, so I guess I was like, I guess
Speaker 2: I'm with you too. For me, you know, for me
Speaker 2: not to make this whole thing about alcohol, but you know,
Speaker 2: for me, one of the things that really really transformed
Speaker 2: my thinking was that that idea of balance and the
Speaker 2: imbalances that we create. You know, we understand. Everybody knows
Speaker 2: what it's like when you miss your coffee in the
Speaker 2: morning and you're like, I haven't had my coffee yet.
Speaker 2: You're not getting your cortisol because your body knows you're
Speaker 2: going to give it caffeine, and so your body's excellent
Speaker 2: keeping a homeostasis. So if it knows it's getting coffee
Speaker 2: every day, it's not going to give you what you
Speaker 2: normally get to wake up. But the same thing is
Speaker 2: true for the depressant. So if you get if you
Speaker 2: have alcohol on a kind of a regular basis, you're
Speaker 2: not going to be You're you're going to be creating
Speaker 2: cortisol because the depressant's coming, and so you create anxiety
Speaker 2: for yourself at the end of the day or whenever
Speaker 2: that happens. And when I realized that as somebody with
Speaker 2: bipolar that I was creating these great swings at the
Speaker 2: beginning and the end of my day. And once I
Speaker 2: had removed the alcohol, I like didn't need as much caffeine,
Speaker 2: and then I started to go maybe I peel that
Speaker 2: back to it brought a lot of just a lot
Speaker 2: of balance and energy to the to the fullness of
Speaker 2: the day. You know. So I've been with her on
Speaker 2: the journey too. I've learned a lot and I've benefited
Speaker 2: by drafting off her good, good decisions.
Speaker 1: So talk about this woman you've been on your journey
Speaker 1: with for just a minute, Alan, because I googled you,
Speaker 1: I looked up pictures of you and Kat and your boys,
Speaker 1: and it seems like she's the real deal.
Speaker 2: Oh she's She's as good as they come.
Speaker 1: And you met her for real at a ballet class?
Speaker 1: Is that for real?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yes, we met So we were near a fine
Speaker 2: arts college.
Speaker 1: How tall are you? How tall are you?
Speaker 2: Six three sixty three?
Speaker 1: And Reacher is actually six ' five I pay attention
Speaker 1: to the script, But six ' three and you were
Speaker 1: you were in ballet?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, well so my pass in high school, I
Speaker 2: felt like my path was going to be a music
Speaker 2: theater degree, so ballet was a prerequisite. You know for
Speaker 2: that program, and I was up for whatever I needed
Speaker 2: to learn. I knew, you know, I'm not like I'm
Speaker 2: I'm a good mover. I'm not like the best dancer
Speaker 2: in the world, but I can. I can. I can
Speaker 2: move through it, you know, just enough. It's it's a
Speaker 2: serviceable dance. So, you know, I was just willing to
Speaker 2: go through what I had to do, and there was
Speaker 2: so I started taking those college classes in high school
Speaker 2: because I wanted to. I wanted to get it over with.
Speaker 2: She was doing the same thing, but I thought she
Speaker 2: was a college I just assumed like everybody was a
Speaker 2: college student there. So she came in to teach the
Speaker 2: second half of a semester because the teacher was like, so,
Speaker 2: Catherine's going to come in and teach you. She's a student,
Speaker 2: but better at this dance than I am, so she'll
Speaker 2: spend the rest of the semester teaching. And she walks
Speaker 2: in and I was like, oh my gosh, I'm in
Speaker 2: love and didn't speak to her for the entire semester
Speaker 2: because I was afraid to talk to a college girl.
Speaker 2: And then I find out she's she's a little younger
Speaker 2: than me, and you know, when we finally spoke, and
Speaker 2: we weren't exclusive forever, but we dated for a summer,
Speaker 2: and then we were friends for years and years, and
Speaker 2: we eventually on each other again in our early twenties.
Speaker 2: And I had kind of been around the world modeling
Speaker 2: at the time and started to see a lot of
Speaker 2: different people in a lot of different cultures, and I
Speaker 2: just when we hung out again, it was like, what
Speaker 2: am I waiting for? She's perfect?
Speaker 1: And now together you have three boys? How old are
Speaker 1: the boys?
Speaker 2: We've been married for seventeen years. We have an eleven,
Speaker 2: nine and an eight.
Speaker 1: Year old, three boys, yet talk about how? Because when
Speaker 1: I couldn't picture you as a dad in ordinary angels,
Speaker 1: that's when I googled you, and then I saw all
Speaker 1: these pictures of you as a dad, just a dad.
Speaker 2: I'm an actual dad, just.
Speaker 1: A dad, not a dad trying to be impressive. Although
Speaker 1: the cake, the chocolate cake you baked was probably the
Speaker 1: worst cooking show I've ever seen in my life, but
Speaker 1: just being a dad, And I went, that's probably why
Speaker 1: they chose you. Not because you're so dang good looking,
Speaker 1: not because you're reach it, not because you can jump
Speaker 1: out of airplanes, but because in real life. You're a
Speaker 1: real dad, like you're there.
Speaker 2: You know, being a father is the greatest gift in
Speaker 2: the world. I think a lot of times. My wife
Speaker 2: helps remind me of this. She's she's full of wisdom.
Speaker 2: But I'm very ambitious. And it feels l like, you know,
Speaker 2: God has given me a set of of skills and
Speaker 2: talents and and and a and a drive for this
Speaker 2: career that we're looking at right and abs and also
Speaker 2: and he gave me a more than two absy he
Speaker 2: did and uh and with those abs we have created
Speaker 2: a pretty big business. You know that that helps feed
Speaker 2: a lot of people. And you know, there's like, you know,
Speaker 2: there's there's a lot that we're doing and a lot
Speaker 2: that's coming out. And it's easy to tell yourself this
Speaker 2: is the most important thing that I attend to, that
Speaker 2: that this deserves my attention more than anything else in life.
Speaker 2: And when I look at those kids and I think
Speaker 2: about the issues that they face and the guidance that
Speaker 2: they need and the time that they deserve with their father,
Speaker 2: is suddenly that becomes far less important. And so I
Speaker 2: walk a tightrope where I somehow try to find a
Speaker 2: balance between servicing this big business that we've created. You know.
Speaker 2: Now I have a both a three picture deal and
Speaker 2: a first look deal with Amazon. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: content that we're creating, and I want to create a
Speaker 2: lot of film and TV that is excellent and full
Speaker 2: of high adventure and original And that takes a lot
Speaker 2: of work, you know, And there's a lot of partnerships
Speaker 2: involved in that, and that's all time consuming. And I
Speaker 2: fight every day to find a way to elevate those
Speaker 2: boys and make them feel more important and more seen
Speaker 2: than that business. And so I spend a lot of
Speaker 2: time at home. There's very little that I do outside
Speaker 2: the home when I'm not at work.
Speaker 1: So are you still doing the living in bed and
Speaker 1: breakfast and those sorts of things? I heard you sold
Speaker 1: your home so the boys could be with you every day,
Speaker 1: which I love, love that. Have you found a box
Speaker 1: to live in with where you can put your toothbrush?
Speaker 1: Or are you still doing the vagabond thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well we are. We are very much on the road.
Speaker 2: Even if we had three homes, we would never be
Speaker 2: in them. That's the reason we sold our place in Florida.
Speaker 2: We just I was there maybe a week out of
Speaker 2: like a year year and a half because we have
Speaker 2: been threading the needle between these jobs. It's like one
Speaker 2: film into another film into a show and with like
Speaker 2: like I wrap on a Saturday morning and come Monday morning,
Speaker 2: I'm in London filming another thing. I mean, there's no
Speaker 2: time in between. I could if they if we set
Speaker 2: them up in a community, at a school, a normal life,
Speaker 2: I would never see them. So there are schooled. We've
Speaker 2: decided it's best for us and it's definitely best for
Speaker 2: me and my mental health. If I have my family
Speaker 2: there and I need them. I want to be a
Speaker 2: part of their lives. It feels, you know, it feels
Speaker 2: purposeless without them. If I'm just working and I never
Speaker 2: see them, I start to wonder what it's for. And
Speaker 2: so we travel together and that means a lot of
Speaker 2: Airbnbs and a lot of hotels, and it means no
Speaker 2: community for them. It means they have no friends. And
Speaker 2: so there's a lot of struggle involved with us in
Speaker 2: figuring out how to kind of quickly generate some foundation.
Speaker 2: When we go somewhere, we always hope that there's co
Speaker 2: stars or somebody that has kids our age. You know.
Speaker 2: One of my stun double Ryan Tarren, who's been a
Speaker 2: real gift. He's been with me on the last several projects.
Speaker 2: He goes with me everywhere. We've got kids the same age,
Speaker 2: so that really helps.
Speaker 1: Alan Ritson is spending some time with us today sharing
Speaker 1: some insight into his latest projects and what's to come.
Speaker 1: We're having a real conversation about life, about love, about kids,
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Speaker 1: Did they get to come and see you on the
Speaker 1: set when you were filming Ordinary Angels? Were the boys
Speaker 1: a part of that?
Speaker 2: No, No, I was alone. It was it was Winnipeg
Speaker 2: and the harshest part of the winter, so it was
Speaker 2: that was one of the last times that we did
Speaker 2: it that way where I would sort of bolt off
Speaker 2: and do one real quick. That project actually was one
Speaker 2: of the last times we were like, you know, I
Speaker 2: don't think it works anymore with me leaving and you know,
Speaker 2: you guys having your lives completely separate.
Speaker 1: And I need you now, so before we go, I
Speaker 1: read that there is a charity associated with Ordinary Angels
Speaker 1: helping people with immense medical bills. Can you talk about that?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, ri ip medical.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's amazing, truly, I look like so, you know,
Speaker 3: for context, this film is based on a true story.
Speaker 2: It was about somebody fighting for the life of their
Speaker 2: wife and sadly she passed away and the daughter came
Speaker 2: down with a rare medical condition as well, and he
Speaker 2: was fighting to keep his daughter alive. And can you
Speaker 2: imagine the medical debt that was piling up for this
Speaker 2: man who was a blue collar roofer. I mean, there
Speaker 2: was just no tea stood no chance against that taking
Speaker 2: that mountain of debt down. And you know, part of
Speaker 2: the journey is he had the you know, the ordinary
Speaker 2: angel in his life. You know, she came along and
Speaker 2: helped eliminate a lot of that debt and gave him
Speaker 2: a real fighting at helping to continue to move the
Speaker 2: needle forward for his daughter. And so I think that's
Speaker 2: something that I love that this film will inspire conversations
Speaker 2: about this because it's ridiculous that we have. You know,
Speaker 2: our pharmaceutical industry is set up the way that it
Speaker 2: is to leverage itself fully against people who are in
Speaker 2: deep need. You know, I work in Canada all the
Speaker 2: time and there's a lot of criticisms on both sides
Speaker 2: of the aisle for the way things are set up.
Speaker 2: But I got to be honest, when I'm there, I
Speaker 2: envy the fact that everybody has these health cards and
Speaker 2: nobody pays a dime out of pocket for anything that
Speaker 2: they have to do.
Speaker 1: And if you have a child that's dying, that child
Speaker 1: will get life saving treatment. Yeah, Mike in the movie
Speaker 1: where you're going to be denied a transplant based on economics?
Speaker 2: Right? Truly? So I think we can do better. And
Speaker 2: until we figure that out, the best thing that we
Speaker 2: can do is to support companies like Rip Medical that
Speaker 2: who are good at eliminating much more debt than the
Speaker 2: money that they bring in. So for every dollar they raise,
Speaker 2: they can eliminate one hundred dollars in medical debt for somebody,
Speaker 2: And that adds up really fast.
Speaker 1: Say that allan one more time for the people in
Speaker 1: the back, because that is mind boggling.
Speaker 2: For every dollar that you give to Rip Medical Debt,
Speaker 2: they can eliminate one hundred dollars in medical debt for somebody.
Speaker 2: So that can snowball really quickly. And it's something they're
Speaker 2: good at and something that we need. And the breath
Speaker 2: of fresh air that somebody can find at the end
Speaker 2: of that relief is just it's really truly life changing.
Speaker 2: And I'm so happy that they've joined us and that
Speaker 2: we can help make a difference in people's lives.
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Speaker 1: you go get a cup of coffee through a drive
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the mocha frappuccinos, So you know that's
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars worth of debt that can be eliminated
Speaker 1: for a child who needs a kidney transplant, for a
Speaker 1: father who needs a foot amputated. Whatever. Yes, yes, how
Speaker 1: can somebody connect with them?
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Speaker 2: they can connect with rip medical debt and help relieve
Speaker 2: something that hurts a lot of American families.
Speaker 1: We say that one more time. It is Ordinary Angels
Speaker 1: Dot movie Forward slash Rip. What a beautiful thing, and
Speaker 1: what a beautiful movie And the fact that you play
Speaker 1: an ordinary dad and play it so well. I'm so
Speaker 1: proud of you. And I was so blessed to get
Speaker 1: to to watch the movie and they get to talk
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 2: It was. It was such a gift to be able
Speaker 2: to bring this real man in his story to life,
Speaker 2: and I just I hope it inspires people to remember
Speaker 2: that we're all broken in some way and it doesn't
Speaker 2: mean that we can't inspire great, tremendous change in people's lives.
Speaker 1: We are all broken in some way, and when we
Speaker 1: can look at each other and our humanity, yeah, we
Speaker 1: can move mountains. And that's what that whole movie is about.
Speaker 1: That somebody raised their hand and said, I'm going to
Speaker 1: take this on. I'm willing to move this mountain. I
Speaker 1: am willing to move heaven and earth to save this
Speaker 1: little girl.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Think about if we all, if everybody who watches the
Speaker 1: movie made that pledge, I am going to do something
Speaker 1: to change the world, for one person, for one heart
Speaker 1: at a time. Think of how much better the.
Speaker 2: World will be here. I can imagine it.
Speaker 1: Alan Ritson, thank you for being with us. I love someone.
Speaker 1: It has been a delight and I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1: God bless you. God bless you, God bless cat, God
Speaker 1: bless your boys, and God bless whatever he brings to you.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. It's grace with you.
Speaker 1: Bye Bye. Ordinary Angels is anything but an ordinary story,
Speaker 1: yet it is a beautiful demonstration of how ordinary people,
Speaker 1: flawed people, broken people can do extraordinary things when their
Speaker 1: hearts are full and their determination is undeterred. The main
Speaker 1: characters are brilliantly portrayed by Hillary Swank and Alan Richson,
Speaker 1: and there are many supporting characters you will fall in
Speaker 1: love with.
Speaker 2: Also.
Speaker 1: It opens in theaters on February twenty third and is
Speaker 1: a wonderful, inspirational, feel good film to watch with your
Speaker 1: family and friends. You can learn more about it at
Speaker 1: Ordinary Angels dot movie, and you can follow the film
Speaker 1: on social media at Kingdom Story Company. Our guest today,
Speaker 1: Alan Ritson is involved in so many projects and as
Speaker 1: an unashamed fangirl, I am such a fangirl. I want
Speaker 1: to see them all. You can catch up with Alan
Speaker 1: at Alandashrichson dot com, Alan Dash Richson, r itcchs win
Speaker 1: dot com. But be sure to have a glass of
Speaker 1: water or be near an open window, because woo, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get a little flashed. As our friend Leanne Morgan
Speaker 1: would say, he is just so yummy. Oh my darling,
Speaker 1: he is yummy. Experts say that keeping active is the
Speaker 1: key to positive physical and mental health. It's tough this
Speaker 1: time of year, though, isn't it. I find that if
Speaker 1: I can just sneak out between the rain breaks or
Speaker 1: take a short walk, breathe in some fresh air, look
Speaker 1: and listen closely to what surrounds me, to be present,
Speaker 1: it is a real moodlifter. Arts and crafts projects get
Speaker 1: me out of my head and into the physical world too.
Speaker 1: What do you do to occupy yourself on dreary days?
Speaker 1: Besides taking in ordinary angels? Go to the theater February
Speaker 1: twenty third, and of course tuning into my radio program
Speaker 1: each and every night. Perhaps just taking each day as
Speaker 1: it comes and remembering to slow down and love someone
Speaker 1: will bring the sunshine to your heart.