1 00:00:11,657 --> 00:00:14,937 Speaker 1: You're listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure 2 00:00:14,937 --> 00:00:17,977 Speaker 1: you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or 3 00:00:17,977 --> 00:00:21,377 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everybody, welcome to another 4 00:00:21,457 --> 00:00:25,817 Speaker 1: fabulous episode of The Buck Sexton Show. Very special guest 5 00:00:26,217 --> 00:00:29,377 Speaker 1: in this episode, Matthew Marsden is with us. Now. He 6 00:00:29,577 --> 00:00:32,577 Speaker 1: is a British actor. Now, some of you will recognize 7 00:00:32,617 --> 00:00:35,017 Speaker 1: his voice, those of you who are watching us on YouTube, 8 00:00:35,057 --> 00:00:38,057 Speaker 1: which you should subscribe to or rumble rubbin dot com, 9 00:00:38,097 --> 00:00:41,137 Speaker 1: slashbuck Sexton YouTube dot com slashbuck Sex and check him out. 10 00:00:42,017 --> 00:00:43,697 Speaker 1: You'll see his face. You'd be like, wait a second, 11 00:00:43,737 --> 00:00:46,297 Speaker 1: I know that guy because you've seen him in Ridley 12 00:00:46,337 --> 00:00:52,057 Speaker 1: Scott's Blackhawk Down, Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen, Rambo, Just 13 00:00:52,337 --> 00:00:53,857 Speaker 1: Rambo because it was one of the ones. It was 14 00:00:53,857 --> 00:00:58,137 Speaker 1: the one that came after the Roman Numeral Ones, Resident Evil, Extinction, 15 00:00:58,737 --> 00:01:04,177 Speaker 1: Bounty Killer, and the film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged. Matthew, 16 00:01:04,417 --> 00:01:07,497 Speaker 1: great to have you on, sir, Thanks for joining, Thank 17 00:01:07,497 --> 00:01:10,257 Speaker 1: you for having me. All right, I saw I want 18 00:01:10,257 --> 00:01:11,777 Speaker 1: to start with some of the Hollywood stuff. We're also 19 00:01:11,777 --> 00:01:14,617 Speaker 1: going to talk about life as a as a text 20 00:01:14,697 --> 00:01:17,657 Speaker 1: in now for you British born but now texting through 21 00:01:17,697 --> 00:01:21,417 Speaker 1: and Through, you went through getting canceled back in twenty ten, 22 00:01:21,417 --> 00:01:23,777 Speaker 1: you tell us about that, and then America today. So 23 00:01:23,897 --> 00:01:25,057 Speaker 1: we got a lot of ground to cover. But I 24 00:01:25,097 --> 00:01:28,617 Speaker 1: gotta start with this. Of the movies that you were in, 25 00:01:28,897 --> 00:01:31,697 Speaker 1: and you've got some great ones here, which one was 26 00:01:31,737 --> 00:01:35,377 Speaker 1: the most fun to actually be a part of? I mean, 27 00:01:35,417 --> 00:01:38,857 Speaker 1: I think, look, blackhawk Down is for a lot of 28 00:01:38,857 --> 00:01:43,097 Speaker 1: my friends from the special operations community, the best military 29 00:01:43,737 --> 00:01:46,377 Speaker 1: special operations movie ever made. A lot of them would 30 00:01:46,377 --> 00:01:49,057 Speaker 1: say it's the most realistic and the best. So I 31 00:01:49,097 --> 00:01:50,777 Speaker 1: think we can just sort up in Blackhakdown is an 32 00:01:50,777 --> 00:01:52,657 Speaker 1: amazing movie a lot. I might even put it in 33 00:01:52,737 --> 00:01:56,377 Speaker 1: my top ten. But in terms of fun movies to do, 34 00:01:56,977 --> 00:01:59,377 Speaker 1: was it Blackhawkdown or was it you know, the resident 35 00:01:59,497 --> 00:02:04,577 Speaker 1: evil stuff was fun? Yeah? I mean, I think it's 36 00:02:04,617 --> 00:02:06,897 Speaker 1: really difficult to say, like which one was the most 37 00:02:06,977 --> 00:02:09,577 Speaker 1: fun because they all have that things, right. So, like 38 00:02:09,617 --> 00:02:13,257 Speaker 1: Black walk Down my first introduction to you know, it 39 00:02:13,337 --> 00:02:17,657 Speaker 1: was my first movie in Hollywood working with a special 40 00:02:17,697 --> 00:02:21,057 Speaker 1: operations community, which was obviously an amazing it was for 41 00:02:21,137 --> 00:02:22,977 Speaker 1: me it was a really great fit, right, I was like, 42 00:02:23,017 --> 00:02:25,777 Speaker 1: these are my people, So I enjoyed that you know, 43 00:02:26,217 --> 00:02:29,537 Speaker 1: flying around in helicopters, you know, my first experience with 44 00:02:29,617 --> 00:02:32,817 Speaker 1: a weapon, which was awesome. So that and you know, 45 00:02:32,857 --> 00:02:35,057 Speaker 1: I'm working Ridley Scott. You know, every day I was 46 00:02:35,097 --> 00:02:37,617 Speaker 1: on set and I was like, good grief, I'm working 47 00:02:37,617 --> 00:02:39,817 Speaker 1: with Ridley Scott. It was it was so amazing and 48 00:02:39,897 --> 00:02:42,417 Speaker 1: all those different actors. So that was a lot of fun. 49 00:02:43,297 --> 00:02:46,377 Speaker 1: Rambo was a lot of fun, you know because most 50 00:02:46,417 --> 00:02:49,457 Speaker 1: of us, you know, Generation Axes, grew up loving Stallone. 51 00:02:49,537 --> 00:02:52,017 Speaker 1: You know, so when you're there opposite him and he's 52 00:02:52,017 --> 00:02:55,377 Speaker 1: directing you then and that was really really quite So 53 00:02:55,657 --> 00:02:57,897 Speaker 1: what's what's he like? I mean, you know when he's 54 00:02:58,057 --> 00:02:59,737 Speaker 1: he's doing it, do you just get the sense that 55 00:03:00,257 --> 00:03:03,017 Speaker 1: he loves he loves making movies even this day? Or 56 00:03:03,057 --> 00:03:05,417 Speaker 1: what is he is he super focused and intense? Is 57 00:03:05,417 --> 00:03:10,417 Speaker 1: he pretty laid back? At what's his vibe? So? Um, 58 00:03:11,777 --> 00:03:14,857 Speaker 1: he directed me, which was which is kind of strange 59 00:03:14,977 --> 00:03:17,537 Speaker 1: because most people would have him as a as a 60 00:03:17,537 --> 00:03:20,857 Speaker 1: co star and whatever or you know, act opposite him. 61 00:03:20,857 --> 00:03:24,977 Speaker 1: So but he was he was very well attuned to 62 00:03:25,097 --> 00:03:28,977 Speaker 1: what an actor needs. So like when I got on 63 00:03:29,097 --> 00:03:31,297 Speaker 1: my gear and so so I'll tell you a little 64 00:03:31,337 --> 00:03:34,337 Speaker 1: bit of a story about about how this movie came about. Right, 65 00:03:34,977 --> 00:03:37,257 Speaker 1: So I get a call from my agent, and my 66 00:03:37,297 --> 00:03:44,137 Speaker 1: agents like, hey, they do it another Rambo like it's real, 67 00:03:44,297 --> 00:03:46,817 Speaker 1: like it smissive And I was like, they don't know 68 00:03:46,857 --> 00:03:52,697 Speaker 1: what they do Rambo, You're serious and he was like yeah, 69 00:03:52,817 --> 00:03:54,177 Speaker 1: I said do you want to do you want to 70 00:03:54,217 --> 00:03:57,537 Speaker 1: meet on it? I was like, of course, And actually 71 00:03:57,537 --> 00:04:01,897 Speaker 1: I read flour it originally the character of Lewis, which 72 00:04:01,937 --> 00:04:03,497 Speaker 1: was an SAS guy, and I know a lot of 73 00:04:03,497 --> 00:04:06,257 Speaker 1: those SAS guys and there actually nothing like that character, 74 00:04:06,777 --> 00:04:09,057 Speaker 1: so I played him the way. In the addition, the 75 00:04:09,337 --> 00:04:11,137 Speaker 1: guy was he the in the Rambo movie who was 76 00:04:11,177 --> 00:04:14,137 Speaker 1: the douche. Basically he was a jerk. Yeah yeah, yeah, 77 00:04:14,217 --> 00:04:17,417 Speaker 1: yeah sure, and he's actually the sweetest guy in real life. 78 00:04:17,417 --> 00:04:21,857 Speaker 1: He's an absolute sweetheart. But sorry for that wrong. I 79 00:04:21,937 --> 00:04:23,857 Speaker 1: played it exactly like the guys I know, you know, 80 00:04:23,937 --> 00:04:29,017 Speaker 1: the Gray Men, very laid back, very you know, understated. 81 00:04:29,337 --> 00:04:31,977 Speaker 1: And I'll get a call and they're like, hey, listen, 82 00:04:32,537 --> 00:04:35,177 Speaker 1: Stallone wants to meet you and he wants you to 83 00:04:35,257 --> 00:04:39,657 Speaker 1: read for Schoolboy. And Schoolboy was actually a team's guy 84 00:04:39,657 --> 00:04:43,377 Speaker 1: who was a Navy seal and so anyway, up, I'll 85 00:04:43,377 --> 00:04:45,217 Speaker 1: go and meet with Sly. It's a really it's a 86 00:04:45,217 --> 00:04:47,377 Speaker 1: really funny thing actually going to his office and I'm like, 87 00:04:47,417 --> 00:04:49,377 Speaker 1: you know, I mean, look, I'm a fan like everybody else, 88 00:04:49,417 --> 00:04:51,177 Speaker 1: and I'll go into the office trying to be called, 89 00:04:51,737 --> 00:04:54,817 Speaker 1: you know, trying not to get like geeked down. And 90 00:04:54,937 --> 00:04:57,057 Speaker 1: you know, he comes along and we go and sit 91 00:04:57,097 --> 00:05:01,937 Speaker 1: in his office and we talk for some time about weapons. 92 00:05:01,977 --> 00:05:06,297 Speaker 1: Super smart, like super well read. And I said to him, well, look, 93 00:05:06,377 --> 00:05:08,737 Speaker 1: he said, I want you to play the character British 94 00:05:08,777 --> 00:05:11,617 Speaker 1: and I said, okay, well, I think it'd be cool 95 00:05:11,657 --> 00:05:14,737 Speaker 1: if he's an SPS guy, you know, a special Boat 96 00:05:14,737 --> 00:05:18,777 Speaker 1: Squadron guy, because they're the Raw Marines, you know, the 97 00:05:18,337 --> 00:05:21,137 Speaker 1: they're all from the Raw Marines and the Rawal Marines 98 00:05:21,137 --> 00:05:24,457 Speaker 1: of the Green Brace. Right. So and actually my characters 99 00:05:24,537 --> 00:05:29,177 Speaker 1: meant to take over the franchise from Stillon, so m 100 00:05:29,697 --> 00:05:32,417 Speaker 1: so he takes it all in. It's just like a sponge. 101 00:05:32,417 --> 00:05:34,817 Speaker 1: He takes it all in. And then he walks over 102 00:05:34,897 --> 00:05:37,417 Speaker 1: to the DVD player and he puts in this DVD 103 00:05:37,737 --> 00:05:40,537 Speaker 1: and sits down and press his play and it's like 104 00:05:43,017 --> 00:05:47,297 Speaker 1: and I'm like, holy crap, I'm watching Rocky. The trailer 105 00:05:47,337 --> 00:05:51,937 Speaker 1: for Rocky with Rocky Alboa hadn't come out then it 106 00:05:52,257 --> 00:05:57,457 Speaker 1: was just a very surreal experience for me. And and 107 00:05:57,497 --> 00:06:00,097 Speaker 1: then when we got over to we got over to 108 00:06:00,177 --> 00:06:03,737 Speaker 1: Thailand to do the filming. He'd written all that in, 109 00:06:03,937 --> 00:06:07,257 Speaker 1: but I'm an SPS guy, you know, done all the research, 110 00:06:07,377 --> 00:06:10,377 Speaker 1: put it all in. He wasn't afraid, like of taken 111 00:06:10,417 --> 00:06:13,697 Speaker 1: a good idea that he thought fitted the script and 112 00:06:13,817 --> 00:06:17,577 Speaker 1: he just plugged it in. So there it was. So 113 00:06:17,657 --> 00:06:21,337 Speaker 1: that was that was pretty amazing. Man, that was pretty amazing. Yeah. 114 00:06:21,377 --> 00:06:24,377 Speaker 1: And then were you in a Resident Evil movie with 115 00:06:24,697 --> 00:06:26,697 Speaker 1: I assume, although I don't. There's so many at this 116 00:06:26,737 --> 00:06:28,937 Speaker 1: point that I can't keep it all straight. I did 117 00:06:28,977 --> 00:06:32,737 Speaker 1: play the video game as a kid, the original OGE 118 00:06:33,617 --> 00:06:35,857 Speaker 1: Resident Evil, so I have something reli early with it. 119 00:06:37,017 --> 00:06:43,417 Speaker 1: But it was Milla, Mila Jovovic in it. Yeah, I 120 00:06:43,497 --> 00:06:47,137 Speaker 1: know Mila and Paul really well, actually Paul Anderson, who's 121 00:06:47,137 --> 00:06:51,577 Speaker 1: a brit Um and she's um. She's a real sweetheart 122 00:06:51,617 --> 00:06:56,217 Speaker 1: in real life. She's a real sweetheart, intense, she's a badass, 123 00:06:56,497 --> 00:06:59,897 Speaker 1: you know. She she trained really really hard for all 124 00:06:59,897 --> 00:07:04,177 Speaker 1: those films. So yeah, it's it's that one there. So yeah, 125 00:07:04,217 --> 00:07:07,737 Speaker 1: it was like it's called Resident Evil Extinction. I figured 126 00:07:07,737 --> 00:07:09,977 Speaker 1: that everyone's going to die in this film, and of course, 127 00:07:10,377 --> 00:07:11,897 Speaker 1: you know, they make a lot of money, and so 128 00:07:12,017 --> 00:07:13,977 Speaker 1: they come back and do another one. And a bit 129 00:07:14,017 --> 00:07:16,497 Speaker 1: of a trivia about that film. That was directed by 130 00:07:16,537 --> 00:07:21,377 Speaker 1: a guy called Roussa Malcahy who directed Highlander, and so 131 00:07:21,417 --> 00:07:23,417 Speaker 1: I was just like, I want to work with this guy. 132 00:07:23,457 --> 00:07:24,937 Speaker 1: I don't care what it is, I want to work 133 00:07:24,937 --> 00:07:27,257 Speaker 1: with him. So so that was awesome. And he did 134 00:07:28,017 --> 00:07:31,617 Speaker 1: the Queen videos back in the day and the Duran 135 00:07:31,737 --> 00:07:37,017 Speaker 1: Durand videos, so that was a great experience working with him. Now, 136 00:07:37,537 --> 00:07:41,217 Speaker 1: you also were an Atlas Shrug, which to our mostly conservative, 137 00:07:41,217 --> 00:07:43,737 Speaker 1: although we got people of all kinds of political persuasions 138 00:07:43,737 --> 00:07:47,377 Speaker 1: who who listen, but mostly conservatives. I know my people, 139 00:07:48,137 --> 00:07:52,577 Speaker 1: they all know Atlas Shrug. How was that Well, that 140 00:07:52,657 --> 00:07:55,617 Speaker 1: was a really interesting thing because you know, I tend 141 00:07:55,657 --> 00:07:59,937 Speaker 1: to get I've played a lot of heroes, but I've 142 00:07:59,977 --> 00:08:03,337 Speaker 1: also played a lot of villains, and so you know, 143 00:08:03,377 --> 00:08:07,177 Speaker 1: they cast me as James Taggett, and really I would 144 00:08:07,177 --> 00:08:11,497 Speaker 1: have loved to played Hank Ridden, but so I got 145 00:08:11,537 --> 00:08:13,817 Speaker 1: cast in it is James Taggett, and I'm like, okay, 146 00:08:13,857 --> 00:08:16,777 Speaker 1: So who will I base the character. And I really 147 00:08:16,817 --> 00:08:21,457 Speaker 1: wanted to take someone and base the character on that individual. 148 00:08:21,537 --> 00:08:24,217 Speaker 1: And I just thought that John Edwards was a really 149 00:08:24,257 --> 00:08:28,617 Speaker 1: good fit or for James Taggett. So that's what I 150 00:08:28,697 --> 00:08:34,457 Speaker 1: based the character. The slimy South Carolina politician who was 151 00:08:34,537 --> 00:08:37,537 Speaker 1: almost the Democrat nominee for president and who was still 152 00:08:37,537 --> 00:08:39,537 Speaker 1: to this day is the only person I've ever heard 153 00:08:40,057 --> 00:08:44,577 Speaker 1: on television when caught cheating on his cancer stricken wife. 154 00:08:45,217 --> 00:08:47,417 Speaker 1: Do you remember this, he said in the end of 155 00:08:48,617 --> 00:08:52,497 Speaker 1: well she was in remission when I cheated on her. No, No, 156 00:08:52,697 --> 00:08:55,417 Speaker 1: that was a real that was a real ambulance chaser 157 00:08:55,497 --> 00:08:59,217 Speaker 1: moment for that guy. Well, every now and then you 158 00:08:59,257 --> 00:09:01,857 Speaker 1: get the veil slips right and you get the real person. 159 00:09:02,137 --> 00:09:05,617 Speaker 1: And apart from with Trump, who's the real person all 160 00:09:05,617 --> 00:09:09,297 Speaker 1: the time. But yeah, I wanted to base on that. 161 00:09:09,337 --> 00:09:11,977 Speaker 1: And you know, I've not heard of I'm rand, so 162 00:09:12,177 --> 00:09:14,337 Speaker 1: I do. I went read or read the Fantine ed 163 00:09:14,537 --> 00:09:17,017 Speaker 1: and I'll go into Outlas shrugs of course. And when 164 00:09:17,057 --> 00:09:19,057 Speaker 1: you get to the end, it's like that, you know 165 00:09:19,137 --> 00:09:21,177 Speaker 1: that meme that you see, It's like we the bad 166 00:09:21,337 --> 00:09:22,937 Speaker 1: is I'm like, I don't want to play I didn't 167 00:09:22,937 --> 00:09:26,497 Speaker 1: really I wanted to play Hank reading. 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Like people have have rage tweeted 207 00:11:25,137 --> 00:11:29,137 Speaker 1: it me before because I share the same last name 208 00:11:29,737 --> 00:11:34,137 Speaker 1: as some like extreme leftist writer and they're like, this 209 00:11:34,177 --> 00:11:36,377 Speaker 1: guy you're cousin. You got to tell him to shut up, 210 00:11:36,457 --> 00:11:39,497 Speaker 1: you know, like I have no idea who this idiot is, Like, 211 00:11:39,537 --> 00:11:41,697 Speaker 1: this has nothing to do with me. Have you and 212 00:11:41,817 --> 00:11:45,057 Speaker 1: have you? And and cyclops um you know, James Mars did? 213 00:11:45,097 --> 00:11:47,337 Speaker 1: Have you? Have you guys ever? Like just talk to 214 00:11:47,377 --> 00:11:51,017 Speaker 1: each other a little bit, like, hey, other Mars did? No, 215 00:11:51,217 --> 00:11:53,657 Speaker 1: I haven't. I'm sure he's probably getting it worse than me, 216 00:11:53,817 --> 00:11:56,377 Speaker 1: trust me. I mean so I kind of get like 217 00:11:56,977 --> 00:12:00,857 Speaker 1: I get the trolls saying, oh I love doing the 218 00:12:01,097 --> 00:12:04,617 Speaker 1: X men. I'm like, that's so funny. You are so funny. 219 00:12:04,737 --> 00:12:06,817 Speaker 1: But you know what's wed? Like? So in England it's 220 00:12:06,857 --> 00:12:09,257 Speaker 1: kind of a traditional English name. I mean it goes 221 00:12:09,257 --> 00:12:12,297 Speaker 1: back to the Doomsday book, right, So when I come 222 00:12:12,337 --> 00:12:14,297 Speaker 1: over here, it's really funny. You know, when you go 223 00:12:14,377 --> 00:12:17,817 Speaker 1: through the check out at the grocery store. Yeah, it's 224 00:12:17,857 --> 00:12:20,817 Speaker 1: always like this sounds they'll go, thank you, mister, mister. 225 00:12:23,857 --> 00:12:27,097 Speaker 1: It's okay, it's okay, I just take the RECEI and go. 226 00:12:27,417 --> 00:12:30,217 Speaker 1: They can't say it's it's very strange. It's for an 227 00:12:30,217 --> 00:12:34,577 Speaker 1: Englishman as well, now an American, but someone from England. 228 00:12:34,617 --> 00:12:37,377 Speaker 1: It's very strange because it's it's a very old name. 229 00:12:38,417 --> 00:12:42,817 Speaker 1: Do you have to adjust your accent based on the 230 00:12:42,857 --> 00:12:46,377 Speaker 1: expectations of the character you're playing as in? I always 231 00:12:46,377 --> 00:12:49,057 Speaker 1: find this fascinate. Do you know Leilani doubting by the way, 232 00:12:49,137 --> 00:12:51,897 Speaker 1: she's uh? I do? I do? Yes, She's She's awesome. 233 00:12:52,137 --> 00:12:54,177 Speaker 1: She's awesome, a lot of fun. We had her on 234 00:12:54,217 --> 00:12:56,137 Speaker 1: the show and I talked to her about this and 235 00:12:56,457 --> 00:12:59,297 Speaker 1: how you know, she has a push accent edie order 236 00:12:59,337 --> 00:13:01,097 Speaker 1: to do this whole thing. But I think it's funny 237 00:13:01,137 --> 00:13:06,017 Speaker 1: because in theater and film, the English accent is whatever, 238 00:13:06,057 --> 00:13:09,417 Speaker 1: it's a historical piece, even if it's said an ancient Rome, 239 00:13:09,817 --> 00:13:12,457 Speaker 1: they have British accents, right, because that makes sense to 240 00:13:12,537 --> 00:13:16,057 Speaker 1: people for some reason. And then the fancy people sound 241 00:13:16,097 --> 00:13:20,017 Speaker 1: like fancy Englishman and the you know, the the sort 242 00:13:20,017 --> 00:13:25,737 Speaker 1: of the Stonemasons and the you know, the guys, the Proles, whatever, 243 00:13:26,377 --> 00:13:28,497 Speaker 1: they all have like a Cockney accent. So do you 244 00:13:28,537 --> 00:13:32,617 Speaker 1: have to switch in and out, depending, yeah, you do. 245 00:13:32,977 --> 00:13:35,577 Speaker 1: It is funny. I had a conversation with a producer 246 00:13:35,657 --> 00:13:38,617 Speaker 1: about that once when I was he offered me a 247 00:13:38,697 --> 00:13:41,497 Speaker 1: job and I was in his and he got this 248 00:13:41,617 --> 00:13:46,017 Speaker 1: amazing room in the studios in Warner Brothers and he 249 00:13:46,097 --> 00:13:49,937 Speaker 1: was watching Troy. Do you remember Troy? Oh yeah, yeah. 250 00:13:50,137 --> 00:13:53,937 Speaker 1: So so the trailer came on and he was like, oh, everybody, 251 00:13:54,337 --> 00:13:56,537 Speaker 1: why is he doing an American accent? Like everyone to 252 00:13:56,737 --> 00:14:00,217 Speaker 1: do a British and British accent and historical epon, you know. 253 00:14:00,297 --> 00:14:04,177 Speaker 1: I was like that, I'm okay with that. It keeps 254 00:14:04,257 --> 00:14:07,497 Speaker 1: me fad and water You're not by doing the British accent. 255 00:14:07,617 --> 00:14:11,737 Speaker 1: But I think it's one of those things where distant 256 00:14:11,977 --> 00:14:16,257 Speaker 1: so it allows the audience to kind of separate from 257 00:14:16,297 --> 00:14:18,777 Speaker 1: the character. So therefore mentally kind of gives them that 258 00:14:18,857 --> 00:14:21,697 Speaker 1: kind of space, you know, to say it's like old 259 00:14:22,417 --> 00:14:24,657 Speaker 1: but but yeah, I mean, I've had the funny thing 260 00:14:24,697 --> 00:14:29,257 Speaker 1: about being a British actor is that agents especially think 261 00:14:29,257 --> 00:14:33,577 Speaker 1: you can do everything, like just everything. I got called 262 00:14:33,617 --> 00:14:35,937 Speaker 1: one day and they were like, hey, Matt, we have 263 00:14:35,977 --> 00:14:38,337 Speaker 1: an audition for you tomorrow. And I was like okay, 264 00:14:38,657 --> 00:14:42,297 Speaker 1: and they were like it's seventeen pages in a Louisiana accent. 265 00:14:43,897 --> 00:14:46,577 Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. So I'll tell you 266 00:14:46,617 --> 00:14:51,017 Speaker 1: something that I'll tell you something. I find that when 267 00:14:51,017 --> 00:14:57,857 Speaker 1: British actors do variations on the American accent, they're much 268 00:14:58,017 --> 00:15:00,977 Speaker 1: better than when they're just like trying to sound like 269 00:15:01,177 --> 00:15:05,137 Speaker 1: an American. You know, they which I can sniff you 270 00:15:05,177 --> 00:15:08,977 Speaker 1: guys out, usually with your American standard American accent. But 271 00:15:09,017 --> 00:15:11,497 Speaker 1: if they do a Southern act said, if they do, 272 00:15:11,617 --> 00:15:13,977 Speaker 1: you know, if they really lean into something that has 273 00:15:14,177 --> 00:15:19,017 Speaker 1: a particular localized flavor to it, it's uh, they're they're 274 00:15:19,057 --> 00:15:22,617 Speaker 1: generally it's more passable, it sounds more authentic, maybe just 275 00:15:22,657 --> 00:15:25,457 Speaker 1: because that's not what I'm always used to hearing. Well, 276 00:15:25,497 --> 00:15:27,697 Speaker 1: there's a reason for that. And you know, I mean 277 00:15:27,777 --> 00:15:29,617 Speaker 1: I can hear it as well. I mean I can 278 00:15:29,697 --> 00:15:32,777 Speaker 1: really hear Americans doing British. They're not very good at it. 279 00:15:33,497 --> 00:15:36,577 Speaker 1: The women are the women are passable. But for the 280 00:15:36,577 --> 00:15:40,617 Speaker 1: most part, you know, everyone speaks like this. But so 281 00:15:40,737 --> 00:15:42,897 Speaker 1: here's a little bit of a thing to do the accents. 282 00:15:42,977 --> 00:15:45,617 Speaker 1: So the first thing with Americans is, and this is 283 00:15:45,697 --> 00:15:50,737 Speaker 1: a common misconception. Americans tend to say, like if I 284 00:15:50,857 --> 00:15:53,137 Speaker 1: said that I was going to go to the store. Right, 285 00:15:53,257 --> 00:15:57,377 Speaker 1: I'd say I'm going to go to the store. Americans 286 00:15:57,377 --> 00:16:02,017 Speaker 1: would say, I am going to the store. I'm going 287 00:16:02,057 --> 00:16:06,377 Speaker 1: to the store right. So people see the inflection on 288 00:16:06,497 --> 00:16:09,417 Speaker 1: the on the eye right like them mad. So then 289 00:16:09,497 --> 00:16:11,777 Speaker 1: that that will give a lot of people. That's why 290 00:16:12,337 --> 00:16:15,937 Speaker 1: you know, Americans in Europe or it's a Brits, they'll go, oh, 291 00:16:16,017 --> 00:16:18,377 Speaker 1: you know, they're full of themselves or they're all about me, 292 00:16:18,617 --> 00:16:21,417 Speaker 1: and it's not. It's just the inflection that on that 293 00:16:21,497 --> 00:16:26,777 Speaker 1: particular you know what me I. And then the other 294 00:16:26,817 --> 00:16:30,257 Speaker 1: thing to do is the reason why Brits do Southern 295 00:16:30,257 --> 00:16:33,737 Speaker 1: accents so well is because it's more sing song right, 296 00:16:33,777 --> 00:16:36,097 Speaker 1: it goes up and down, whereas if you want to 297 00:16:36,097 --> 00:16:39,337 Speaker 1: do an American accent, like what you first do is 298 00:16:39,337 --> 00:16:42,057 Speaker 1: you close your mouth so you don't really move your 299 00:16:42,057 --> 00:16:44,937 Speaker 1: mouth much, okay, so and then you make it like 300 00:16:44,977 --> 00:16:48,457 Speaker 1: a letter box. That's what you push the sound back 301 00:16:48,497 --> 00:16:51,777 Speaker 1: to here and then you know, you go down on 302 00:16:51,817 --> 00:16:55,617 Speaker 1: the second dip thong mostly so really you don't go 303 00:16:55,817 --> 00:16:59,697 Speaker 1: up and down. So there you go. So that's the 304 00:16:59,737 --> 00:17:02,297 Speaker 1: way you do it. Yeah, yeah, so much as if 305 00:17:02,297 --> 00:17:04,217 Speaker 1: I should be an actor, yeah, I was gonna say, 306 00:17:04,297 --> 00:17:08,137 Speaker 1: it's been and some good stuff in Hollywood speaking, which 307 00:17:08,297 --> 00:17:09,857 Speaker 1: I want. I want you to tell everybody how you 308 00:17:10,137 --> 00:17:12,257 Speaker 1: broke in, because I always think that's such an interesting, 309 00:17:13,097 --> 00:17:15,777 Speaker 1: interesting discussion. And I'll come back to you with that 310 00:17:15,897 --> 00:17:18,017 Speaker 1: in one second. But do you have a my pillow 311 00:17:18,097 --> 00:17:20,217 Speaker 1: by the way, real question. We got to hook you up? 312 00:17:20,257 --> 00:17:23,297 Speaker 1: Do you? Oh? You do? I actually do? Well? Well? 313 00:17:23,337 --> 00:17:26,897 Speaker 1: I do? All I did? I did have one? 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And he's 342 00:18:50,097 --> 00:18:52,377 Speaker 1: just telling he's talking about what it's actually like. And 343 00:18:52,377 --> 00:18:54,257 Speaker 1: it's funny because it reminds me a little bit of 344 00:18:54,897 --> 00:18:57,817 Speaker 1: trying to get into a political or news media too. 345 00:18:58,257 --> 00:19:00,297 Speaker 1: There's people that see it when you've been doing I've 346 00:19:00,297 --> 00:19:03,057 Speaker 1: been doing this now. This is my thirteenth year, I guess, 347 00:19:03,577 --> 00:19:06,777 Speaker 1: and that was after what five years in the CIA. 348 00:19:07,337 --> 00:19:08,737 Speaker 1: People see this and like, oh, I want to do that. 349 00:19:08,777 --> 00:19:10,737 Speaker 1: I'm like, well, if you want to do this, understand 350 00:19:10,737 --> 00:19:13,057 Speaker 1: that it means you're gonna do a lot of things 351 00:19:13,137 --> 00:19:17,017 Speaker 1: for free, over a long period of time, for very 352 00:19:17,057 --> 00:19:20,337 Speaker 1: small audiences, for very little appreciation. People are gonna tell 353 00:19:20,417 --> 00:19:22,057 Speaker 1: you you're not that good at it. People going to 354 00:19:22,177 --> 00:19:23,937 Speaker 1: tell you that you should find other things to do. 355 00:19:24,057 --> 00:19:27,017 Speaker 1: You know. So that's the news media short version of it. 356 00:19:27,057 --> 00:19:28,657 Speaker 1: I mean, I can give sort of more details one 357 00:19:28,737 --> 00:19:32,377 Speaker 1: day if people care. But on the Gosling thing, he says, 358 00:19:32,417 --> 00:19:35,177 Speaker 1: it's like, you show up the audition, all these other 359 00:19:35,217 --> 00:19:38,417 Speaker 1: guys are handsome and ready to go. You find out 360 00:19:38,457 --> 00:19:41,497 Speaker 1: that somebody already basically has the part, so then you're 361 00:19:41,497 --> 00:19:43,377 Speaker 1: just doing it as an exercise. And then you go 362 00:19:43,457 --> 00:19:45,297 Speaker 1: out and you have a parking ticket waiting for you 363 00:19:45,297 --> 00:19:48,057 Speaker 1: on your car, which you didn't see that it was 364 00:19:48,097 --> 00:19:50,057 Speaker 1: in a zone where you couldn't park because that's where 365 00:19:50,057 --> 00:19:53,017 Speaker 1: the audition sign was set up in Anyways, Like, what 366 00:19:53,177 --> 00:19:57,617 Speaker 1: was it like breaking in? Well, you know, that's absolutely 367 00:19:57,737 --> 00:19:59,937 Speaker 1: what it's like. In Los Angeles. I've got to tell 368 00:19:59,977 --> 00:20:04,137 Speaker 1: you that is exactly right. So I think the difference 369 00:20:04,537 --> 00:20:08,857 Speaker 1: is between coming from England and doing it is that 370 00:20:08,937 --> 00:20:12,137 Speaker 1: you never really think the great thing about America is 371 00:20:12,137 --> 00:20:14,057 Speaker 1: that you can walk off the street and become an 372 00:20:14,097 --> 00:20:16,457 Speaker 1: act and become a star and waiting make millions of dollars. 373 00:20:17,297 --> 00:20:20,217 Speaker 1: The bad thing about America is that you can walk 374 00:20:20,257 --> 00:20:22,217 Speaker 1: off the street become a star and making as adults 375 00:20:22,337 --> 00:20:24,937 Speaker 1: right as you've seen by a lot of the comments 376 00:20:24,937 --> 00:20:28,857 Speaker 1: of the people that are in that industry, and I 377 00:20:28,897 --> 00:20:31,817 Speaker 1: believe you know, one of my one of my thoughts 378 00:20:31,817 --> 00:20:34,617 Speaker 1: on that is they have a guilt because it's something 379 00:20:34,657 --> 00:20:39,257 Speaker 1: that they haven't really earned. But that's a conversation for 380 00:20:39,297 --> 00:20:42,817 Speaker 1: another time maybe. But so, but for me, I grew 381 00:20:42,857 --> 00:20:44,857 Speaker 1: up in a very I actually went to the same 382 00:20:44,897 --> 00:20:48,737 Speaker 1: school as Tolkien, which is pretty cool, and I had 383 00:20:48,777 --> 00:20:51,857 Speaker 1: a dream of being an act. It was either like 384 00:20:54,657 --> 00:20:56,737 Speaker 1: going to go and be a late I come from 385 00:20:56,737 --> 00:21:00,057 Speaker 1: a very like poor background, right with a single parent, 386 00:21:00,817 --> 00:21:04,457 Speaker 1: and so I always dreamed of I loved American movie is, 387 00:21:04,457 --> 00:21:07,977 Speaker 1: always dreamed about going to America, always dreamed about American films, 388 00:21:08,777 --> 00:21:10,697 Speaker 1: but that was never going to happen. You know. But 389 00:21:10,777 --> 00:21:14,177 Speaker 1: as it turned out, I was really good at learning 390 00:21:15,217 --> 00:21:19,297 Speaker 1: lines and good on stage. So there's a filter process 391 00:21:19,337 --> 00:21:21,577 Speaker 1: in the UK, right, So you have to be good 392 00:21:22,337 --> 00:21:24,937 Speaker 1: at theater first, So you've got to get in a theater. 393 00:21:25,257 --> 00:21:28,017 Speaker 1: And I got in to something called the National Youth Theater, 394 00:21:28,097 --> 00:21:34,257 Speaker 1: which is like the premier kind of young actors go there. 395 00:21:35,177 --> 00:21:39,737 Speaker 1: Everyone you can think of, Helen Mirrorn, Derry Jacoby, Daniel Craig, 396 00:21:39,937 --> 00:21:43,297 Speaker 1: you know, all those guys all went through the National 397 00:21:43,337 --> 00:21:46,017 Speaker 1: Youth Theater and so that's that was kind of a 398 00:21:46,057 --> 00:21:48,657 Speaker 1: calling card for me, Like people take it really seriously 399 00:21:48,697 --> 00:21:51,217 Speaker 1: if you've managed to get that. If I didn't have that, 400 00:21:51,457 --> 00:21:53,897 Speaker 1: I would have had a real uphill struggle because it's 401 00:21:54,017 --> 00:21:56,457 Speaker 1: very much an old boys network. Are you know, you're 402 00:21:56,497 --> 00:22:03,017 Speaker 1: your your sharing terms, I'm okay, come on in, um somebody. 403 00:22:03,417 --> 00:22:05,497 Speaker 1: But what happened with me was I got that and 404 00:22:05,537 --> 00:22:09,177 Speaker 1: then pretty much I'm a first audition, I got a 405 00:22:09,217 --> 00:22:11,817 Speaker 1: shell called Emada, which is at the time was the 406 00:22:11,897 --> 00:22:15,737 Speaker 1: third biggest show in the country and that was crazy. 407 00:22:15,817 --> 00:22:18,937 Speaker 1: I did that for like three months, and then my 408 00:22:19,017 --> 00:22:22,097 Speaker 1: second audition, I got the biggest show in the UK 409 00:22:22,257 --> 00:22:24,737 Speaker 1: called Coronation Street and this is it's a soap, but 410 00:22:24,857 --> 00:22:28,777 Speaker 1: it's like it's a national institution. Now The Queen used 411 00:22:28,777 --> 00:22:31,177 Speaker 1: to sit down with the Queen mom to watch it, 412 00:22:32,337 --> 00:22:35,057 Speaker 1: so it was a big deal. Like I McKellen's being 413 00:22:35,097 --> 00:22:39,417 Speaker 1: in it, John Whalley kilm has been in it. Everyone 414 00:22:39,457 --> 00:22:41,097 Speaker 1: wants to be in that show because it's kind of 415 00:22:41,137 --> 00:22:45,657 Speaker 1: like a real cult classic. It's a British institution. And 416 00:22:45,737 --> 00:22:47,937 Speaker 1: I was in that for I think four months. I 417 00:22:47,977 --> 00:22:50,777 Speaker 1: won the Best Newcomer Award at the National Television Awards. 418 00:22:50,937 --> 00:22:55,897 Speaker 1: I didn't expect that at all, and then from there 419 00:22:56,057 --> 00:22:57,537 Speaker 1: I decided I was only going to be in it 420 00:22:57,577 --> 00:23:00,457 Speaker 1: for a year. And most people, especially with that kind 421 00:23:00,497 --> 00:23:03,777 Speaker 1: of success, staying it forever, but they never lived there's 422 00:23:03,897 --> 00:23:06,657 Speaker 1: you know, they're forty years, have a good living. But 423 00:23:06,737 --> 00:23:09,337 Speaker 1: I always saw myself as I wanted to challenge myself 424 00:23:09,377 --> 00:23:13,257 Speaker 1: on it to be better CEO, a better actor, not 425 00:23:13,337 --> 00:23:16,017 Speaker 1: better than the show. I just wanted to challenge myself 426 00:23:16,697 --> 00:23:19,657 Speaker 1: and so I actually left there and I got a 427 00:23:19,697 --> 00:23:23,257 Speaker 1: recording contract with Columbia Records, which was which was cool. 428 00:23:23,617 --> 00:23:26,457 Speaker 1: So I did that for a year or so and 429 00:23:27,977 --> 00:23:30,857 Speaker 1: rock rock music, what were you doing? No, it was 430 00:23:30,937 --> 00:23:32,777 Speaker 1: more like R and B I actually did a single 431 00:23:32,817 --> 00:23:36,057 Speaker 1: with Destinies Child, which was with Beyonce, which was which 432 00:23:36,137 --> 00:23:39,657 Speaker 1: was kind of interesting. Uh, you were an R and 433 00:23:39,737 --> 00:23:43,777 Speaker 1: B singer. I mean, we're going We're going into the 434 00:23:43,777 --> 00:23:47,817 Speaker 1: reality here. I had no idea. Yeah, yeah, well, you know, 435 00:23:47,937 --> 00:23:50,697 Speaker 1: people discover this about I don't tell many people, you know, 436 00:23:50,817 --> 00:23:54,297 Speaker 1: because I don't know. I mean I don't I don't 437 00:23:54,297 --> 00:23:57,577 Speaker 1: really talk about it much. But yeah, that was pretty cool. 438 00:23:57,817 --> 00:24:02,817 Speaker 1: I went around Europe singing here's the thing in the UK. 439 00:24:03,137 --> 00:24:05,497 Speaker 1: Like for me, it was a survival thing, right. I 440 00:24:05,537 --> 00:24:08,817 Speaker 1: was like, Okay, I'm probably not going to get into movies, 441 00:24:08,897 --> 00:24:11,337 Speaker 1: but I'll probably get into and if I get into theater, 442 00:24:11,537 --> 00:24:13,777 Speaker 1: I need to do more than just theater. I need 443 00:24:13,777 --> 00:24:16,217 Speaker 1: to do a musical theater as well. So I learned 444 00:24:16,257 --> 00:24:18,417 Speaker 1: how to sing, so I've got a singing classes, so 445 00:24:18,457 --> 00:24:22,217 Speaker 1: I could just open up my possibilities of work. It 446 00:24:22,337 --> 00:24:27,657 Speaker 1: was just survival really, So I always had that flavor, 447 00:24:27,737 --> 00:24:31,537 Speaker 1: you know, because I wasn't like massively classically trained, so 448 00:24:31,617 --> 00:24:33,657 Speaker 1: I always had a little bit of a bit of 449 00:24:33,657 --> 00:24:38,417 Speaker 1: the soul. So I did that. Then I found out 450 00:24:38,457 --> 00:24:40,577 Speaker 1: that there was a movie being made called China with 451 00:24:40,617 --> 00:24:43,977 Speaker 1: Michael Caine and so I took a year off and 452 00:24:44,017 --> 00:24:47,217 Speaker 1: I trained with a go It was the WBC Super 453 00:24:47,257 --> 00:24:50,177 Speaker 1: Middleweight Champion of the World. It was a boxing film. 454 00:24:50,457 --> 00:24:52,537 Speaker 1: So I trained with him for a year in a 455 00:24:53,217 --> 00:24:56,697 Speaker 1: kind of cool in a power station in Telford. It 456 00:24:56,777 --> 00:25:00,577 Speaker 1: was like this huge, like industrial power station. So I 457 00:25:00,737 --> 00:25:02,937 Speaker 1: trained with him for a year and then I auditioned 458 00:25:02,937 --> 00:25:06,297 Speaker 1: for the role. And when they asked me, you know, 459 00:25:06,457 --> 00:25:09,177 Speaker 1: could I fight put a box? I said, I'll fight 460 00:25:09,417 --> 00:25:11,857 Speaker 1: anyone for this role. She can put me in the 461 00:25:11,937 --> 00:25:15,737 Speaker 1: ring with anybody, I'll fight for it. And I got 462 00:25:15,777 --> 00:25:20,737 Speaker 1: that role. And because Michael was nominated for cider House 463 00:25:20,817 --> 00:25:24,097 Speaker 1: Rules at that time, everyone there was a lot of 464 00:25:24,137 --> 00:25:27,977 Speaker 1: focus on this film and who's this kid? You know, 465 00:25:28,017 --> 00:25:30,417 Speaker 1: it's a kid. I was twenty twenty seven. You know, 466 00:25:30,697 --> 00:25:33,417 Speaker 1: who's this kid who's in this movie with Michael Caine 467 00:25:33,457 --> 00:25:36,897 Speaker 1: and who's holding his own opposite him? And Star Wars. 468 00:25:37,057 --> 00:25:39,337 Speaker 1: I was auditioning for Star Wars at that time. I 469 00:25:39,417 --> 00:25:43,097 Speaker 1: was I was getting whittled down. So my name was 470 00:25:43,137 --> 00:25:45,537 Speaker 1: going around Hollywood. And the thing about Hollywood is they 471 00:25:45,577 --> 00:25:49,177 Speaker 1: want to get on whoever's new thing. So you know, 472 00:25:49,897 --> 00:25:52,417 Speaker 1: we have a reputation as British actors as being kind 473 00:25:52,417 --> 00:25:57,017 Speaker 1: of serious actors and um, and this is pre mcu R. 474 00:25:57,057 --> 00:25:59,417 Speaker 1: It's pre before all the big roles went to British 475 00:25:59,417 --> 00:26:05,177 Speaker 1: actors and uh. And I had a manager, and I 476 00:26:05,177 --> 00:26:07,577 Speaker 1: had a few managers come over and agents come over 477 00:26:07,577 --> 00:26:09,657 Speaker 1: and asked me fight to London and asked me to 478 00:26:09,697 --> 00:26:13,177 Speaker 1: come to America. And so I said to one of them, 479 00:26:13,177 --> 00:26:16,217 Speaker 1: already vibe too, I said, Okay, I'll see you on Friday. 480 00:26:17,217 --> 00:26:19,057 Speaker 1: Nobody ever does that, but it's always say they never 481 00:26:19,097 --> 00:26:21,417 Speaker 1: do that. So I bought a plane ticket, came over 482 00:26:21,697 --> 00:26:25,457 Speaker 1: and I got black Hawk Down. Wow. So you came 483 00:26:25,497 --> 00:26:29,737 Speaker 1: to America and you you hit black Hawk down on 484 00:26:29,817 --> 00:26:34,017 Speaker 1: your first shot in America, which, as you well know, 485 00:26:34,217 --> 00:26:36,377 Speaker 1: I mean one of the I think one of the 486 00:26:36,417 --> 00:26:39,497 Speaker 1: greatest war certainly the greatest modern war movies of all time. 487 00:26:40,777 --> 00:26:43,097 Speaker 1: And Ridley Scott. I mean, if I could pick somebody 488 00:26:43,137 --> 00:26:47,017 Speaker 1: to do a historical epic or a war movie, Ridley 489 00:26:47,017 --> 00:26:48,817 Speaker 1: Scott would be my first choice. Right if I got 490 00:26:48,817 --> 00:26:51,097 Speaker 1: to like write my dream script, I think Ridley Scott 491 00:26:51,097 --> 00:26:54,417 Speaker 1: would be the director that I would want. So obviously Gladiator, 492 00:26:54,457 --> 00:26:57,777 Speaker 1: if those watching Gladiators, a Ridley Scott movie, absolutely phenomenal 493 00:26:57,817 --> 00:27:00,617 Speaker 1: there's so many of them. So that's really cool. Is 494 00:27:00,617 --> 00:27:03,617 Speaker 1: that how you got linked in with the special operations 495 00:27:03,617 --> 00:27:05,417 Speaker 1: community and the military side of things. I know you're 496 00:27:05,417 --> 00:27:09,697 Speaker 1: a big military supporter. Yeah. So I didn't know what 497 00:27:09,737 --> 00:27:12,377 Speaker 1: a RAN was. I had no idea. I thought rangers 498 00:27:12,377 --> 00:27:15,617 Speaker 1: were like Texas Rangers, you know, I had no idea. 499 00:27:15,737 --> 00:27:19,417 Speaker 1: So we came over and we did We did a 500 00:27:19,417 --> 00:27:22,897 Speaker 1: week of training, like intense training. That was kind of 501 00:27:22,897 --> 00:27:24,857 Speaker 1: the thing back then. You know, they did it with 502 00:27:26,137 --> 00:27:28,417 Speaker 1: they did it with Pearl Harbor. I think they did 503 00:27:28,457 --> 00:27:30,857 Speaker 1: it with Private Ryan as well, saving Private Ryan. Yeah, 504 00:27:31,777 --> 00:27:34,017 Speaker 1: but so we came Marver, we went to Fort Benning 505 00:27:34,137 --> 00:27:37,537 Speaker 1: and it was really useful. You know. We we they said, 506 00:27:37,577 --> 00:27:40,297 Speaker 1: this is range orientation. It is not RIP. You know, 507 00:27:40,377 --> 00:27:43,017 Speaker 1: you are not going through ranger scorebacks, not what it is. 508 00:27:44,097 --> 00:27:46,777 Speaker 1: And so we were right. We were like okay, And 509 00:27:46,817 --> 00:27:49,697 Speaker 1: they taught us a lot of stuff there. And one 510 00:27:49,777 --> 00:27:55,417 Speaker 1: day we're outside the CQB area where they we're teaching 511 00:27:55,497 --> 00:27:58,017 Speaker 1: us to go in and clear houses, and there was 512 00:27:58,017 --> 00:28:00,057 Speaker 1: a guy sitting under the under the tree. It was 513 00:28:00,097 --> 00:28:02,137 Speaker 1: like a hot day and it was could have been 514 00:28:02,257 --> 00:28:05,577 Speaker 1: any older than twenty two, twenty three years old, and 515 00:28:05,657 --> 00:28:09,697 Speaker 1: I said, you know, doing the actor thing. So why 516 00:28:09,737 --> 00:28:12,217 Speaker 1: did you join? You know, because for me, my buddies 517 00:28:12,217 --> 00:28:14,057 Speaker 1: that joined the military were like, you're either going to 518 00:28:14,097 --> 00:28:17,017 Speaker 1: get to jail or you're going to go on the military, right, 519 00:28:17,057 --> 00:28:19,177 Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't like they didn't do it for 520 00:28:19,257 --> 00:28:23,297 Speaker 1: any kind of like love of country, to be honest. 521 00:28:23,857 --> 00:28:29,097 Speaker 1: And so this guy said, I joined for freedom, to 522 00:28:29,177 --> 00:28:32,857 Speaker 1: fight for freedom. And I was just a shocking thing 523 00:28:32,897 --> 00:28:36,057 Speaker 1: for someone to say to me, you know, because that's 524 00:28:36,137 --> 00:28:41,497 Speaker 1: mocked in Europe, you know, like freedom fries, Americans man freedom. 525 00:28:41,537 --> 00:28:43,297 Speaker 1: Not that I ever felt that way, but you know, 526 00:28:43,417 --> 00:28:45,537 Speaker 1: you hear that all the time. And to have a 527 00:28:45,577 --> 00:28:48,977 Speaker 1: guy sitting in front of me, who who was going 528 00:28:49,057 --> 00:28:52,857 Speaker 1: to put his life on the line for freedom and 529 00:28:52,977 --> 00:28:55,577 Speaker 1: not just like America. I did it for the United States, 530 00:28:55,577 --> 00:28:59,017 Speaker 1: like the freedom. And I said to him, you'd die 531 00:28:59,057 --> 00:29:03,737 Speaker 1: for me, wouldn't you? And he said yes, sir, And 532 00:29:03,817 --> 00:29:07,177 Speaker 1: I just thought, this is just the greatest thing I've 533 00:29:07,217 --> 00:29:09,417 Speaker 1: ever heard in my life. I want to know who 534 00:29:09,417 --> 00:29:12,817 Speaker 1: these men are. I want to know why they're willing 535 00:29:12,817 --> 00:29:15,217 Speaker 1: to do this. I want to know more about this country, 536 00:29:15,977 --> 00:29:18,857 Speaker 1: because you know, you in your young head, right all 537 00:29:18,897 --> 00:29:20,497 Speaker 1: I'm thinking about is I'm going to go and get 538 00:29:20,537 --> 00:29:22,657 Speaker 1: another movie. I'm going to get another movie, blah blah, 539 00:29:22,657 --> 00:29:25,217 Speaker 1: blah blah blah. I'm not really thinking about, you know, 540 00:29:25,657 --> 00:29:28,777 Speaker 1: the fabric of this country and why it's so great, 541 00:29:29,817 --> 00:29:35,257 Speaker 1: And that really like spun me off on a voidge 542 00:29:35,257 --> 00:29:38,097 Speaker 1: of discovery to see, like why is America so great? 543 00:29:38,177 --> 00:29:41,657 Speaker 1: Why are these guys so willing to promote freedom? What freedom? 544 00:29:41,817 --> 00:29:44,097 Speaker 1: Isn't it always there? Like you know that because you 545 00:29:44,137 --> 00:29:46,137 Speaker 1: grow up under that kind of ignorance, I guess. I 546 00:29:46,177 --> 00:29:49,417 Speaker 1: mean as Brits we were very close, right, but there 547 00:29:49,457 --> 00:29:52,257 Speaker 1: was a little bit the channels was the only thing 548 00:29:52,297 --> 00:29:56,777 Speaker 1: for a while that was stopping us getting invaded. But 549 00:29:58,297 --> 00:30:03,857 Speaker 1: the concept of freedom and liberty is not explained like 550 00:30:04,017 --> 00:30:07,377 Speaker 1: it is here or used to be. I don't know 551 00:30:07,377 --> 00:30:10,337 Speaker 1: if it is so much anymore. So, you know, I 552 00:30:10,377 --> 00:30:14,697 Speaker 1: started on that journey of looking into why is Americas 553 00:30:14,737 --> 00:30:18,737 Speaker 1: are great? Oh there's this thing called the you know Revolution. 554 00:30:19,617 --> 00:30:21,577 Speaker 1: I wonder why I was never taught it at school 555 00:30:22,177 --> 00:30:23,937 Speaker 1: and I read it and I'm like, hang on a minute. 556 00:30:24,497 --> 00:30:28,097 Speaker 1: I'd be on the side of the colonials, right, I'd 557 00:30:28,137 --> 00:30:29,777 Speaker 1: be on their side. I wouldn't be on the side 558 00:30:29,777 --> 00:30:31,697 Speaker 1: of the British, I'd want to fight against them. And 559 00:30:32,297 --> 00:30:35,497 Speaker 1: then you find out by George Washington and just an 560 00:30:35,537 --> 00:30:39,057 Speaker 1: incredible person, and then all those people coming together to 561 00:30:39,177 --> 00:30:42,657 Speaker 1: create you know, the Declaration of Independence in the Constitution, 562 00:30:42,697 --> 00:30:44,817 Speaker 1: the Bill of Rights, and you're just like, this is 563 00:30:44,817 --> 00:30:48,377 Speaker 1: the greatest thing. This is just the greatest thing ever. 564 00:30:49,137 --> 00:30:53,337 Speaker 1: And then of course you want to that extrapolates out 565 00:30:53,417 --> 00:30:56,337 Speaker 1: right two different things like why why you know the 566 00:30:56,377 --> 00:30:59,497 Speaker 1: States like this? Finding out the history, and then it's 567 00:30:59,617 --> 00:31:03,177 Speaker 1: very difficult not to get involved, right, It's very difficult, 568 00:31:03,217 --> 00:31:06,417 Speaker 1: but to get involved because you realize that it's a 569 00:31:06,497 --> 00:31:11,137 Speaker 1: very precious thing that should be fought for. Ask about 570 00:31:11,337 --> 00:31:17,337 Speaker 1: your situation of cancelation in Hollywood, which you've mentioned to me, 571 00:31:18,657 --> 00:31:20,537 Speaker 1: and I want you to dive into that for us 572 00:31:20,977 --> 00:31:22,697 Speaker 1: in just a second. 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You're in all these cool movies. 598 00:32:36,737 --> 00:32:38,977 Speaker 1: You know you get to you get to hang out 599 00:32:39,057 --> 00:32:42,417 Speaker 1: with Mila Djoviovic, who when I was like a teenager, 600 00:32:42,497 --> 00:32:46,177 Speaker 1: I thought, was like amazing. And you get to hang 601 00:32:46,177 --> 00:32:51,017 Speaker 1: out with Suvestor Stallone, Who's I mean, you know, Schwartzenegger Stallone, 602 00:32:51,057 --> 00:32:53,377 Speaker 1: people go back and forth. One of the greatest action 603 00:32:53,417 --> 00:32:55,697 Speaker 1: heroes of all time, number one or number two, I think, 604 00:32:55,737 --> 00:32:58,857 Speaker 1: in any reasonable world. But then you hit some issues. 605 00:32:58,897 --> 00:33:04,337 Speaker 1: What happened? Well, I mean I think, really it's kind 606 00:33:04,377 --> 00:33:08,097 Speaker 1: of weird. It kind of all comes together with what 607 00:33:08,137 --> 00:33:11,737 Speaker 1: I was saying about before I started life becoming more 608 00:33:11,777 --> 00:33:17,297 Speaker 1: aware of things like I got married, I got more 609 00:33:17,337 --> 00:33:21,977 Speaker 1: into my faith, right, So so that straightaway is like, 610 00:33:22,257 --> 00:33:24,177 Speaker 1: you know, I'm not doing that job. I'm not doing 611 00:33:24,217 --> 00:33:26,137 Speaker 1: that job. I'm not doing that job because you know 612 00:33:26,377 --> 00:33:29,977 Speaker 1: there's a conflict. But that still didn't matter because I 613 00:33:30,017 --> 00:33:32,697 Speaker 1: was still getting enough working. And then I went to 614 00:33:33,697 --> 00:33:36,857 Speaker 1: a couple of friends of mine said, hey, listen, we 615 00:33:36,897 --> 00:33:38,897 Speaker 1: want to do a pitch to a group of investors 616 00:33:38,937 --> 00:33:41,097 Speaker 1: so we can just do family friendly movies. That was 617 00:33:41,137 --> 00:33:42,897 Speaker 1: it. It It was just like, you know, give you movies. 618 00:33:43,697 --> 00:33:45,857 Speaker 1: How will you come out with me and do that. 619 00:33:45,897 --> 00:33:48,417 Speaker 1: I was like yeah, So I went out with them 620 00:33:48,457 --> 00:33:54,017 Speaker 1: and it was a group of Republicans, and I wasn't 621 00:33:54,097 --> 00:33:58,937 Speaker 1: like nor here nor there on politics at that point. 622 00:33:58,937 --> 00:34:01,297 Speaker 1: I mean, I was asking a lot of questions. I 623 00:34:01,297 --> 00:34:03,937 Speaker 1: asked a lot of questions because I thought that the 624 00:34:04,017 --> 00:34:07,857 Speaker 1: stuff with Obama when people just you know, when they 625 00:34:07,857 --> 00:34:11,897 Speaker 1: were talking about Reverend right, that kind of I had 626 00:34:11,937 --> 00:34:14,577 Speaker 1: a few issues with that, right because I was saying, well, 627 00:34:14,577 --> 00:34:17,057 Speaker 1: either you know, you have been in that pew for 628 00:34:17,737 --> 00:34:20,057 Speaker 1: twenty seven years or however long it was, and you 629 00:34:20,137 --> 00:34:23,577 Speaker 1: actually listened to him and you believe him, which is 630 00:34:23,617 --> 00:34:26,017 Speaker 1: a problem, or you've been in that pe for twenty 631 00:34:26,097 --> 00:34:29,017 Speaker 1: seven years and you haven't listened to him, which is 632 00:34:29,057 --> 00:34:31,017 Speaker 1: then a problem because what are you doing going there? 633 00:34:31,057 --> 00:34:33,497 Speaker 1: So you know, and I was just asking these questions. 634 00:34:33,537 --> 00:34:35,417 Speaker 1: I was understanding that that was my first kind of 635 00:34:35,457 --> 00:34:42,017 Speaker 1: experience of people not answering the question right, because it 636 00:34:42,057 --> 00:34:47,617 Speaker 1: was uncomfortable. So anyway, I went to this thing, which 637 00:34:47,697 --> 00:34:49,857 Speaker 1: was a bunch of Republicans, and as I'm coming out, 638 00:34:50,697 --> 00:34:53,497 Speaker 1: there was a reporter there said, hey, Matt, what are 639 00:34:53,497 --> 00:34:55,297 Speaker 1: you doing here? Because I just don't ram about then. 640 00:34:55,297 --> 00:34:58,937 Speaker 1: I just don't Transformers and I've spent six months on Transformers. 641 00:34:58,977 --> 00:35:04,337 Speaker 1: So it was a long film which they managed to 642 00:35:04,337 --> 00:35:05,977 Speaker 1: mess up my credit at the end of that, like 643 00:35:06,097 --> 00:35:08,217 Speaker 1: to the delight of all the trolls. But it was 644 00:35:08,537 --> 00:35:11,777 Speaker 1: But anyway, I come out and this reporter says that, 645 00:35:11,817 --> 00:35:15,497 Speaker 1: and I said, you know, I'm just here for family 646 00:35:15,497 --> 00:35:19,697 Speaker 1: friendly movies, to raise money for family friendly movies. And 647 00:35:19,737 --> 00:35:22,097 Speaker 1: then a few days later, the Huffington Post did an 648 00:35:22,177 --> 00:35:24,577 Speaker 1: article out there. It was one of their contributors, and 649 00:35:24,577 --> 00:35:26,937 Speaker 1: it was basically saying that what was I doing here 650 00:35:26,937 --> 00:35:33,577 Speaker 1: with all these conservatives and the farm stop bringing that? 651 00:35:33,697 --> 00:35:37,257 Speaker 1: Was it? Like, you know, because you're going through meetings 652 00:35:37,257 --> 00:35:39,057 Speaker 1: with people and they'll love you, and then all of 653 00:35:39,137 --> 00:35:43,337 Speaker 1: a sudden it just goes away. And that article was 654 00:35:43,377 --> 00:35:46,497 Speaker 1: really damaging because there weren't many people back then that 655 00:35:46,577 --> 00:35:50,617 Speaker 1: were speaking out about politics. And what it did was 656 00:35:50,737 --> 00:35:52,897 Speaker 1: the first movie after that, I was hired by a 657 00:35:52,937 --> 00:35:55,737 Speaker 1: bunch of libertarians to do out the Shrug. So I 658 00:35:55,777 --> 00:36:00,057 Speaker 1: didn't work for a year and then everything, you know, 659 00:36:00,617 --> 00:36:03,177 Speaker 1: if you if you're not working, then what is your 660 00:36:03,177 --> 00:36:05,417 Speaker 1: worth in the industry? Like what is your worth to 661 00:36:05,417 --> 00:36:10,097 Speaker 1: your agents, to your managers? And that's it just so 662 00:36:10,817 --> 00:36:14,977 Speaker 1: I had to kind of go, Okay, that happened, so 663 00:36:15,097 --> 00:36:19,097 Speaker 1: I need to pivot and because I'm a survivor, you know, 664 00:36:19,217 --> 00:36:22,337 Speaker 1: I started looking into you know, doing writing, producing, doing 665 00:36:22,337 --> 00:36:25,137 Speaker 1: other things. I'd still get the odd job now and then, 666 00:36:26,217 --> 00:36:28,617 Speaker 1: and then again that kind of went really out the 667 00:36:28,617 --> 00:36:31,657 Speaker 1: window when I out my gob about the vaccine and 668 00:36:31,737 --> 00:36:34,497 Speaker 1: about mandates, because I just thought this is it. I 669 00:36:34,617 --> 00:36:37,057 Speaker 1: just this is something. And by the way, I never 670 00:36:37,097 --> 00:36:40,857 Speaker 1: said anything political. I was not political at all, never 671 00:36:40,897 --> 00:36:44,257 Speaker 1: said a word. There was no reason for them to 672 00:36:44,297 --> 00:36:48,417 Speaker 1: think that I was being political. But it my cancelation. 673 00:36:49,137 --> 00:36:51,977 Speaker 1: Even though many people wouldn't know it, I was on 674 00:36:52,017 --> 00:36:54,897 Speaker 1: the up right. So they were like, Okay, we've got 675 00:36:54,897 --> 00:36:57,177 Speaker 1: to shut that guy up. And there was there was 676 00:36:57,217 --> 00:37:01,417 Speaker 1: a lot of There was ripples throughout the acting industry, 677 00:37:01,537 --> 00:37:05,537 Speaker 1: and people were like, hey, listen, you know, but not 678 00:37:05,577 --> 00:37:07,617 Speaker 1: say anything, because that's what's going to happen. What's going 679 00:37:07,657 --> 00:37:10,617 Speaker 1: to happen to him, will happen to you? Yeah, I've 680 00:37:10,657 --> 00:37:16,257 Speaker 1: I've had conversations before with friends in the uh let 681 00:37:16,257 --> 00:37:20,337 Speaker 1: me let me think friends from the arts um including mute, 682 00:37:20,417 --> 00:37:24,257 Speaker 1: like the theater, like Broadway, friends from even the fitness 683 00:37:24,257 --> 00:37:29,457 Speaker 1: influencer world, friends who have done stuff that's really pure 684 00:37:29,697 --> 00:37:32,457 Speaker 1: history or entered who are saying, hey, I think I 685 00:37:32,537 --> 00:37:34,617 Speaker 1: want to I think I want to start speaking my 686 00:37:34,617 --> 00:37:37,137 Speaker 1: mind to be conservative. And I always say, look, that's 687 00:37:37,137 --> 00:37:39,777 Speaker 1: what I do. I love it. It's amazing. I love 688 00:37:39,817 --> 00:37:41,497 Speaker 1: my job, I love my audience. I love what I 689 00:37:41,497 --> 00:37:44,857 Speaker 1: get to do. You just need to understand the following 690 00:37:44,897 --> 00:37:48,417 Speaker 1: things that it's once once you once you pull that lever, 691 00:37:48,457 --> 00:37:51,257 Speaker 1: there's no there's no unpulling it. Right. Once you ring 692 00:37:51,257 --> 00:37:54,417 Speaker 1: that bell, you can unring it, and it comes with stuff, 693 00:37:54,737 --> 00:37:59,057 Speaker 1: and you know you're seeing even just wanting to learn, 694 00:38:00,177 --> 00:38:05,577 Speaker 1: just speak, being curious, being willing to ask the important questions, 695 00:38:05,697 --> 00:38:10,417 Speaker 1: and not accepting bullcrap answers that actually alone is enough 696 00:38:10,417 --> 00:38:12,897 Speaker 1: to get you canceled in a lot of in academia, 697 00:38:12,977 --> 00:38:15,257 Speaker 1: in Hollywood, certainly in the news media, if you're not 698 00:38:15,377 --> 00:38:18,937 Speaker 1: an out of the closet conservative. So that is the 699 00:38:18,977 --> 00:38:22,377 Speaker 1: reality that people end up seeing and facing. By the way, 700 00:38:22,417 --> 00:38:24,057 Speaker 1: even in the CIA when I was I was a 701 00:38:24,057 --> 00:38:30,697 Speaker 1: CIA officer and the people that were always I felt 702 00:38:31,697 --> 00:38:35,817 Speaker 1: engaged in kind of partisan sniping where it was always 703 00:38:35,817 --> 00:38:39,137 Speaker 1: the libs, always the big libs. Note the people that 704 00:38:39,177 --> 00:38:41,977 Speaker 1: would complain about something called a Hatch Act violation, which 705 00:38:42,017 --> 00:38:43,857 Speaker 1: somebody actually complained about me for when I was there, 706 00:38:43,897 --> 00:38:46,977 Speaker 1: which is like talking about you know, republic, like literally 707 00:38:47,017 --> 00:38:52,017 Speaker 1: talking about politics in a pro conservative way in the office. 708 00:38:52,017 --> 00:38:53,977 Speaker 1: Some people would report you like, you know, like you're 709 00:38:54,017 --> 00:38:56,897 Speaker 1: supposed to be arrested by the Stasi or something. Anyway, 710 00:38:56,937 --> 00:38:58,977 Speaker 1: that's the reality of it. Unfortunately, because the left is 711 00:38:59,017 --> 00:39:03,057 Speaker 1: insane onto happy things. What are you doing now? I 712 00:39:03,097 --> 00:39:05,857 Speaker 1: mean I know that you know, you're active on Twitter 713 00:39:05,937 --> 00:39:08,697 Speaker 1: and you've got you've got a following that loves that. 714 00:39:09,177 --> 00:39:11,417 Speaker 1: We have an actor with some awesome credits to his 715 00:39:11,577 --> 00:39:14,137 Speaker 1: name who still loves freedom in America, a brit who 716 00:39:14,137 --> 00:39:17,497 Speaker 1: has become an American, a Texan, which is some would 717 00:39:17,537 --> 00:39:20,457 Speaker 1: argue the first or second best kind of American after 718 00:39:20,497 --> 00:39:24,577 Speaker 1: a Floridian, but anyway close to be sure. So so 719 00:39:24,697 --> 00:39:29,137 Speaker 1: what's up? What's up for you now? What's on the agenda? Well, um, 720 00:39:29,697 --> 00:39:31,497 Speaker 1: I mean, first of yeah, I'd like to say that 721 00:39:31,577 --> 00:39:35,617 Speaker 1: the reason why I started speaking out was because, you know, 722 00:39:35,737 --> 00:39:41,497 Speaker 1: my relationship with the veterans of America and you know, 723 00:39:41,617 --> 00:39:46,377 Speaker 1: being so privileged to become an American. I think that 724 00:39:46,377 --> 00:39:50,977 Speaker 1: that combination really made it so that I couldn't see 725 00:39:51,057 --> 00:39:53,977 Speaker 1: that that tyranny that I was seeing, and what I 726 00:39:54,017 --> 00:39:57,617 Speaker 1: was seeing in California like keep going on without saying anything, 727 00:39:58,137 --> 00:40:00,537 Speaker 1: because I just felt like that would be very cowardly, 728 00:40:01,097 --> 00:40:04,377 Speaker 1: especially when you have a bunch of guys that you know, 729 00:40:04,457 --> 00:40:08,497 Speaker 1: lose their lives, they lose their limbs for my freedom. So, 730 00:40:08,617 --> 00:40:12,017 Speaker 1: you know, when when the COVID thing came around, I 731 00:40:12,137 --> 00:40:14,457 Speaker 1: was just like, I'm not doing this, Like, you're not 732 00:40:14,497 --> 00:40:15,897 Speaker 1: going to do this. I'm not going to come to 733 00:40:15,937 --> 00:40:18,497 Speaker 1: America being American and you're going to force this on. 734 00:40:18,697 --> 00:40:21,017 Speaker 1: It's not going to happen, especially if you look at 735 00:40:21,017 --> 00:40:24,577 Speaker 1: all the all the information was actually there, if you 736 00:40:24,937 --> 00:40:28,097 Speaker 1: took five minutes to sift through it, you know, it 737 00:40:28,217 --> 00:40:30,897 Speaker 1: was very clear that none of it made any sense. 738 00:40:31,217 --> 00:40:33,057 Speaker 1: And so I was like, you know what, you guys 739 00:40:33,177 --> 00:40:35,257 Speaker 1: like canceled me before. So here we go. I'm just 740 00:40:35,297 --> 00:40:37,537 Speaker 1: going to out in my mouth and that is it. 741 00:40:37,657 --> 00:40:41,377 Speaker 1: And I think buck that what we should be doing, 742 00:40:41,537 --> 00:40:46,217 Speaker 1: and conservatives are really bad at this is sticking together, right. 743 00:40:46,337 --> 00:40:49,097 Speaker 1: We don't look after the people that are in these 744 00:40:49,377 --> 00:40:52,497 Speaker 1: these difficult situations. And I was seeing people getting really 745 00:40:52,537 --> 00:40:56,297 Speaker 1: stressed out, panicking. I'd see them on Twitter because I 746 00:40:56,377 --> 00:40:58,777 Speaker 1: didn't I didn't want to say anything, but I saw 747 00:40:58,817 --> 00:41:00,057 Speaker 1: them on Twitter and the like, what am I going 748 00:41:00,137 --> 00:41:02,937 Speaker 1: to do? What I'm you know, I feel isolated, So 749 00:41:03,017 --> 00:41:05,257 Speaker 1: I'm like, well, here we go. This is my opportunity 750 00:41:05,297 --> 00:41:07,577 Speaker 1: to reach out to people and perhaps even in my 751 00:41:07,657 --> 00:41:11,417 Speaker 1: own little way, help them. So anyway, that was that. 752 00:41:11,577 --> 00:41:14,697 Speaker 1: But what am I doing now? I you know, as 753 00:41:14,697 --> 00:41:18,937 Speaker 1: it turns out, I'm pretty good writer. I've my first 754 00:41:18,977 --> 00:41:21,457 Speaker 1: script that I wrote, I sold, my second script I 755 00:41:21,537 --> 00:41:24,377 Speaker 1: made into a film that I directed. The third one 756 00:41:24,577 --> 00:41:29,617 Speaker 1: was was Although I'm not purchased. Was went up the 757 00:41:29,657 --> 00:41:33,137 Speaker 1: flagpole at one of the one of the biggest companies 758 00:41:33,657 --> 00:41:36,217 Speaker 1: in the United States, and they want to work with me. 759 00:41:36,337 --> 00:41:38,897 Speaker 1: So I'm writing right now even though I'm just like 760 00:41:38,937 --> 00:41:41,937 Speaker 1: the world's worst writer. They were like, they were like, listen, um, 761 00:41:42,257 --> 00:41:47,337 Speaker 1: let's work together. I'm like, and I'll just write it 762 00:41:47,337 --> 00:41:49,097 Speaker 1: on my own time, you know what I mean. Because 763 00:41:49,097 --> 00:41:52,897 Speaker 1: I don't like the pressure of doing something. And also 764 00:41:53,337 --> 00:41:56,017 Speaker 1: there are so many people that think they can do 765 00:41:56,137 --> 00:41:58,057 Speaker 1: something like you say, you know, oh I can act, 766 00:41:58,057 --> 00:42:00,697 Speaker 1: Oh I can do what you do? You actually, you know, 767 00:42:00,777 --> 00:42:04,017 Speaker 1: that's really hard. So for me to be spoken to 768 00:42:05,097 --> 00:42:07,777 Speaker 1: as a writer is really hard. It's a it's a 769 00:42:07,817 --> 00:42:10,777 Speaker 1: real difficult change of mentality, so I'd rather just like 770 00:42:10,897 --> 00:42:13,897 Speaker 1: do it and see where it goes. I was meant 771 00:42:13,937 --> 00:42:17,137 Speaker 1: to direct a film this year that's been put on hold, 772 00:42:17,137 --> 00:42:21,217 Speaker 1: and acting a movie actually that they've both been postponed, 773 00:42:21,297 --> 00:42:24,417 Speaker 1: which happens all the time for the next you know, 774 00:42:25,017 --> 00:42:26,737 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks at least, and then we'll figure 775 00:42:26,777 --> 00:42:28,777 Speaker 1: out what we're doing with it. But but you know, 776 00:42:28,817 --> 00:42:31,377 Speaker 1: I've just been I've been super busy doing that. I've 777 00:42:31,417 --> 00:42:34,217 Speaker 1: got baby, another baby on the way. Which have three 778 00:42:34,297 --> 00:42:43,097 Speaker 1: hundred children, so yeah, this is baby. It's my ninth child. Yeah, 779 00:42:43,137 --> 00:42:49,057 Speaker 1: I'm dead serious. Yeah, I have nine kids. That is amazing. 780 00:42:50,297 --> 00:42:54,977 Speaker 1: It's hard to hide, you know that, you you you're 781 00:42:55,017 --> 00:42:57,097 Speaker 1: open to life when you have that many kids, Like, 782 00:42:57,177 --> 00:43:00,817 Speaker 1: there's no there's no hiding. So yeah, now I'm doing that. 783 00:43:00,857 --> 00:43:03,777 Speaker 1: Oh I've got a movie I just did, I did 784 00:43:03,857 --> 00:43:06,217 Speaker 1: in November that will be coming out pretty soon. It's 785 00:43:06,217 --> 00:43:10,457 Speaker 1: going to be very controversial. It's going to be super controversial. Great, 786 00:43:11,217 --> 00:43:14,377 Speaker 1: but yeah, now, but it's it's it's going to be great. 787 00:43:14,537 --> 00:43:17,217 Speaker 1: I know a guy. I know a guy who co 788 00:43:17,377 --> 00:43:20,697 Speaker 1: hosts the biggest radio show in the country that has 789 00:43:20,817 --> 00:43:24,497 Speaker 1: millions of people every day listening. You should tell him 790 00:43:24,497 --> 00:43:26,617 Speaker 1: when these projects come out and you can come on 791 00:43:26,697 --> 00:43:29,817 Speaker 1: the very large radio show and talk to him and 792 00:43:30,017 --> 00:43:35,657 Speaker 1: his best buddy Clay about what you're doing. Right on. Oh, well, 793 00:43:35,697 --> 00:43:38,377 Speaker 1: i'd love that. If I'm welcome that you are more 794 00:43:38,377 --> 00:43:40,657 Speaker 1: than welcome. Do you have a website or anywhere where 795 00:43:40,657 --> 00:43:43,937 Speaker 1: people can go to check out what you're up to? Well, 796 00:43:43,977 --> 00:43:45,697 Speaker 1: I just have my If they want to see who 797 00:43:45,737 --> 00:43:48,377 Speaker 1: I am and look me up, it's Matthew Marsden dot 798 00:43:48,377 --> 00:43:52,017 Speaker 1: com and Matthew D. Marsden is at my handle and Twitter. 799 00:43:52,577 --> 00:43:54,977 Speaker 1: I'm really bad, Like I'm really I really suck at that. 800 00:43:55,097 --> 00:43:57,337 Speaker 1: Like I'm kind of the old school guy that really 801 00:43:57,417 --> 00:43:59,377 Speaker 1: what I would like to do is go into my work, 802 00:44:00,057 --> 00:44:02,737 Speaker 1: disappear into the background, and nobody know anything about me. 803 00:44:03,377 --> 00:44:05,977 Speaker 1: But but things have changed, don't they. I Mean, things 804 00:44:06,057 --> 00:44:09,097 Speaker 1: aren't like that anymore. Everybody's a marketing brand. It's just 805 00:44:09,097 --> 00:44:12,097 Speaker 1: a question of how much they're doing it and what 806 00:44:12,217 --> 00:44:15,337 Speaker 1: they're marketing. So Matthew Morris and everybody, hey man, it 807 00:44:15,337 --> 00:44:16,697 Speaker 1: has been an honor. I hope you'll come back and 808 00:44:16,737 --> 00:44:18,497 Speaker 1: hang with us in a few months. As we roll 809 00:44:18,537 --> 00:44:20,737 Speaker 1: along here, we'll follow up on some of this stuff 810 00:44:20,857 --> 00:44:23,697 Speaker 1: and thanks for thanks for the chat. It was good 811 00:44:23,697 --> 00:44:26,697 Speaker 1: to meet you. Thank you. Nice to meet you too,