WEBVTT - ZACHARY LEVI: "The Unbreakable Boy" 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:10.879 We are already several episodes into season seven. Season seven 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.560 of Love Someone with Delilah. Who has been your favorite 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.439 guests so far? I couldn't begin to pick one. They're 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:22.600 all so different, so talented, so remarkable. Today, as we 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:26.560 wrap up the month of February and hopefully all the 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.600 nasty winter weather that it is dished out, from ice 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:36.120 storms to flooding, I've got another fantastic guest setting down 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:40.080 with me. He's starring in a just released movie called 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:45.080 The Unbreakable Boy. It's from Kingdom Story Company, the team 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:50.920 behind Jesus Revolution and the Best Christmas Pageant Ever, and Lionsgate, 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.000 the studio behind Wonder, So you know it's going to 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:59.640 be good. It is full of positive messages, It's full 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.960 of love. The film is about an amazingly upbeat, resilient 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:08.400 young boy, Austin Lorette, who has every reason not to 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:13.240 be any of those things positive or resilient. When his parents, 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.160 Scott and Teresa, learned that Austin is both autistic and 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:22.920 has brittle bone disease, they initially worry for their son's future, 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:28.440 but with Scott's growing faith in Austin's incredible spirit, they 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:34.200 become unbreakable, finding joy, finding gratitude, and courage even in 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:38.559 the most trying of times. It is an extraordinary true 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.520 story about a father and a son learning together that 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:47.320 every day can be the best day of your life. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:51.920 Zachary Levi portrays Scott Lorette, a complex man with many 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.200 issues of his own to overcome, who might not seem 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.240 cut out to be the father to a special needs son, 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:04.320 but Scott rises to the occasion, and Zachary's portrayal of 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:08.919 him is splendid. Zachary is a Tony nominated actor as 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.560 well as an accomplished singer and dancer. He starred in 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.359 Harold in the Purple Crayon, based on the wildly popular 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:20.320 children's book, and recently wrapped up production on Sarah's Oil 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:25.280 and the real life survivor thriller Not Without Hope. Zach 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:29.040 is also set to star in the upcoming movie Hotel Tehran, 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:34.360 a thriller, and free Fall, a rock climbing action adventure. 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:39.440 You might recognize him from his roles as Shazam, or 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.880 his portrayal of iconic NFL MVP and Hall of Fame 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:48.320 quarterback Kurt Warner in An American Underdog, or if you 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:52.280 are a the marvelous miss Maslfan. You'll applaud his SAG 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.880 Award for season two and three of that Emmy Award 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:56.760 winning series. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.480 Oh gosh, I could go on and on and on. 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.679 This guy that talented and that in demand. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:07.240 Okay, one more, how about his fan favorite performance as 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:13.600 Chuck Bartowski in the NBC series Chuck. But today, zach 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.560 is here with us to talk about his role as 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:20.000 Scott Lorette in The Unbreakable Boy and to share some 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:24.280 behind the scenes info on the making of this beautiful 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.920 new film. Before we greet Zachary, let me give you 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.000 some behind the scenes info on one of our fabulous 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:35.880 podcast sponsors. Have you been looking for a milk replacement 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:41.000 because you have dairy allergies or sensitivities. Well, I found 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:47.360 one that's absolutely amazing. It's Sherry's hazel Cream, made from 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:52.160 Oregon hazelnuts. This plant based milk stands out from the 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:57.360 competitors because it's designed for cooking and baking. 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It comes out February twenty. 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:36.960 First, oh, brilliant, beautiful movie. 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:37.600 Thank you. 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:39.200 We had a family movie night. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:43.240 We got to watch a preview of Unbreakable Boy, which 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.200 I can't wait to get on a DVD and watch 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:51.200 it again and again and again. What an inspiring movie. 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:52.800 And you were brilliant. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:53.800 Thank you. 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.720 I gotta say it was kind of hard looking at 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.320 you as the dad in the movie, as just a dude, 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:08.720 like just a guy. Why because you're so cute and 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:10.880 like all your other roles I've ever seen you in 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.720 You're the handsome monk, you. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.880 Know, you're the was I wasn't handsome in them, you 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.360 were you were okay. 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.280 But a guy who's just. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:23.440 Being a guy, you know, hitting on a girl at 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:28.560 the jeans store and then a dad, Well. 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.640 There's a lot of those to represent, you know what 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.640 I mean, there's a lot of those guys that you're not. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:39.039 Not who look like you. 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:40.640 I got to try and represent him. 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:41.640 You did. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.800 You did a great job, but there were there was 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:49.520 a few parts that weren't really believable, Like what like 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.920 just you're so good looking and you walk into a 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.160 jean store with corny lines like I. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.480 Mean, welcome to my world. I don't know what to do. 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:03.040 Just a guy, according is who happened to hit some 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.279 kind of a genetic lottery enough to have wonderful people 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:09.560 like yourself call me handsome. But you know, also all 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.520 of us. You have no idea how much spackle in 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:15.800 Scotch tape goes into disk right here, look at mirrors, spolks, 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:16.800 just smoking mers. 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.360 You you played the character of a guy with a 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:24.239 good heart who just could not engage to save his life. 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:29.040 Really well, yeah, I mean, you know, certainly, even drawing 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.520 from past experience in my own life, you know, I 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.600 think that for the most part, I've I've been very 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.840 engaged in life, but there's been a lot of times 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.040 and I think this applies to all of us where 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.320 we're struggling in our life. We're struggling accepting our life, 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.840 where we're at in our life, who around us is 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:50.880 in our life, surrendering to all of that. That's what Scott, 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.320 Because this is a real family, as I'm sure you know, 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.000 this is a true story about a real family, and 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.200 Scott wrote Scott Lorette wrote a book, The Unbreakable Boy, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.640 that the movie is based, and Scott was very vulnerable 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:06.120 in sharing that journey because he's not He's not you know, 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.120 a great dad or a great husband throughout a lot 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:13.800 of their relationships. Because he was fighting and wrestling so 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:15.800 hard with God that like, how can this be my life? 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.720 How can I have all of these things happened to me, 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.240 all these curveballs, particularly having a child that's struggling through 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:27.480 osteogenesis and perfecta and autism, and how we fight in 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.720 all of that and wrestle in all of that, and 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:31.920 he has to go to hell and back in order 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.640 to recognize what he'd been missing all of that time, 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.600 and loving himself for the first time. And let me 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.720 tell you I have. At thirty seven, I had an 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.760 absolute mental breakdown, didn't want to live anymore, didn't know why, 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:47.880 And thank God I had the ability to go to 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.240 this life saving therapy that taught me how to love 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.080 myself for the first time in my life. And so 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.079 I was digging very deeply into all of that stuff 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.240 as I was bringing Scott to life. And hopefully, you know, 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.640 as we all portrayed these real life characters, you're and 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.040 they're still alive, right, You're you know, it's one thing 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.720 to portray somebody, a real person who but is no 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.959 longer alive. Nobody's holding a comparison, can't hold a comparison, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.720 but to play a real person still alive, and people 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.680 can look at the you know, are you Are you 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:21.920 emulating that correctly and fairly and authentically? And uh, and 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.400 I think we did. I'm really really proud of this movie. 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.880 You should be proud of the movie because it is 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:32.960 subtly life changing. I think, I don't I don't know how, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.760 you know. I can only watch it from my perspective, obviously, 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:42.240 but raising so many neuro divergent children and so many 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:48.520 children who are medically fragile. Uh, nobody knows until you've 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.000 walked that path. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.960 And even if you've walked that path, it's it's a little. 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:58.400 Different for everybody in the case, every situation is a 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:04.440 little different. And watching that movie and watching especially, I mean, 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:11.360 I obviously relate to mom completely, But your character with 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:16.680 such a good heart. Scott had obviously such a good heart, 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:21.360 and he so wanted to do the right thing. But 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.000 it seems like that was his motivation, was doing the 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.760 right thing instead of doing what God was calling him 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:33.640 to do and living the fullness of his purpose and 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:37.880 his life. It's like it was almost like he was 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.280 an outsider, you know what I mean, trying to. 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.600 Well, yeah, and I would say though that and perhaps 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.960 this is semantics, and forgive me if it is, but 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:54.120 I do think just to clarify, like, and I wonder 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.480 if it's not even so much like he was. He 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.600 is trying to do the right thing, but it's like, 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.400 but it's not the actual correct thing. He's doing what 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.559 he thinks is the way you're supposed to do. 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.640 Life right, right, right right. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.120 And so he's got all these expectations, as we all do. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.240 We all have these expectations. We come into this life 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.880 and we get these expectations from our parents. So the 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:18.720 rest of our family, community, society, whatever your various faiths, 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.160 all have these expectations on who you are supposed to 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.720 be there. And also if you check these boxes off, 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.400 then that's the life that I'll get to go and 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.240 live in the expectation that comes along with that. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.880 And it never ever, ever ever works out that way. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.679 No, never, we make plans and God laughs, I mean right, 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.199 that's I think very true in a lot of ways. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.240 Not laughing at us, but laughing with us, oh. 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.640 Sometimes laughing in my case, very much laughing at me 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:51.040 because I'm such a hardhead, you know, And God's like, Okay, 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:51.959 that's the. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.560 That's the flesh and the spirit. This is the thing 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.800 that we're trying to balance and juggle all the time. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:57.240 You know. 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.920 I literally have these conversations with God. Least, they're becoming 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.760 less frequent now, it's more like once a month, you know, 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.560 a couple of times a year. But we have this 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.760 conversation where He's like, Okay, let's just say I'm going 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.000 to let you have your way for a minute. Do 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.320 you really want to see how that's going to work out? 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.360 Do you really, like, have we not gone down that 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:23.120 path enough times? Delilah like, do I really have to 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:27.640 let go and let you have your way here? Okay, Okay, 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.640 let's just see how this is going to work out. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.640 I'm like, no, no, no, I was only kidding about that. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:40.040 I remember this pain. I really I kind of need 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:40.679 you right now. 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:47.840 Yeah. There's almost no truer story in our relationship to God, 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.880 to the universe, in this journey that we're on as 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:55.800 human beings, which is that of where are you putting 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.920 your trust and if you're putting your trust in yourself 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.840 as if somehow you are going to control this destiny 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.480 of yours, you're going to constantly be stubbing your toe 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.319 and running into the running your shins into the corner 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.880 of the bed, and tripping over and stumbling and sometimes 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:15.320 really hardcore failing. And which is not to say you 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.040 still don't stub your toe and hit your shin and 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.360 all that stuff when you're trusting God, because we're not 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:23.079 perfect even at doing that kind of stuff either, But guaranteed, 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.040 when we do have that kind of trust on a 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:31.320 daily level, the amount of overwhelming peace that comes from 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.839 that to recognize that, you know what, you just got 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.360 to wake up, you got to show up, you got 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:39.400 to do your best. You got to have grace, mercy, patience, kindness, 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.920 softness with yourself while still holding yourself accountable for all 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:46.480 of your actions, because we are accountable and responsible, but 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.520 having grace with ourselves through all of that. And then 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.319 the better we get better, the better we get at 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.520 that with ourselves, the far better we get at that 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.560 with everybody else around us. But it still all comes 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.640 back to, are you trusting that there is something bigger 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.720 than us that's pulling us in a singular direction, which 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.719 I believe is to love. And if we can, if 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:10.120 we can really trust that and really get just oled 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:14.800 by God, like let's go, let's go to destination love, 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.160 not love island. That's a whole other thing. We don't 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.640 want to go to love. We want to go to 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.000 the source of all that is and all that is love. 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:26.240 And and yeah, we can't. You don't. We don't have 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.120 the capacity to get there ourselves. It's only in trusting 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.520 in that process and how we get refined and grow 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.920 and mature and evolve as human beings. It's all a 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:35.360 part of it. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.520 And then there is so much of that I was 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.400 going to say in the movie. We saw that in 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.880 the movie. We saw Scott trying to do it his way, 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:48.640 trying to do as you said, maybe not the right thing, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:53.400 but the thing that he thought would would be acceptable, 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:59.600 and then hitting the rock wall and realizing I'm an alcoholic, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:05.040 i am an absent parent, I have not even showed 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.520 up for myself, let alone my wife and my kids. 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:13.960 And he had that epiphany and the breakthrough and came 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:18.240 to understand that God didn't send him the special kid 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.720 for him to figure him out, and fix him, but 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:27.600 to enrich his life in your life. How how did 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.000 you come to your faith? How did you come to 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.760 this point that you're at now that you can look 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.760 at me and say, we all have to surrender. We 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.240 all have to surrender and let God pull us towards 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:45.000 that ultimate thing, which is love, which is God, which 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:46.480 is in the beginning, was the. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:53.720 Word ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, I mean the long 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:54.880 and the short of it is. I mean, when I 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.760 was like four years old and my awareness came online 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.240 for the first time, I think all of us, it's 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.440 kind of around three or four. Prior to that, we're 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.240 bouncing in the walls and people laugh and we don't 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.040 know what's going on. We're alive, but we're not aware. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.320 We're not like really awaken. Around three or four, all 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.800 of our minds starting to kind of like click on 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.280 and the movie really starts and memories start to begin, 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.680 and you're starting to kind of like put pieces together, 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:23.120 almost like awakening certain things in your knowing that you 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.760 that you've known before your soul even came down and 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.280 inhabited your body. And one of those things was I 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.080 knew that there was a God that loved me. I 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.440 knew it. I remember having a very distinct moment. I 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.240 was like at Sunday school or something. I'm like three 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.520 or four years old, and this adult is trying to 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.120 explain God, and I'm like, I got it, I got it. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.600 I know exactly what you're doing. You go tell that 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.880 kid like I know exactly what we're talking about. And 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:48.880 that's carried with me. My faith has been with me 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.680 my entire life, and it's been an incredible journey as 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:56.000 any journey of faith is right, you know, it's it 0:16:56.040 --> 0:17:02.080 evolves and changes and strengthens and you learn and you're 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.439 humbled humbled. Oh my gosh, the amount of like, you know, 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.080 me being so convinced and fired up in my faith 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.240 in any given moment of my life and thinking, you know, yeah, 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.000 I got it, like we got it. And then it's 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.639 like then you you stumble and you fall and you 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.679 get humbled because God, almost more than anything else, is like, 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:23.679 what are you doing, I'm God, be humble like you 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.520 don't know anything, Like I think it was Aristotle or 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.240 something is like the beginning of knowledge is to know 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.920 that you know nothing, and that is such a massive 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.120 part I think in a spiritual journey, you really have 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.200 to stop letting go of this, like I got to 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.000 figure it out, Like you don't have anything. We have ideas. 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.480 We have certain guideposts that have put us, thank God 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.679 enough in contact with our creator to be able to 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:51.439 begin to understand the infiniteness that is the creator of 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:55.000 the universe, the creation of the universe, Like it's so massive, 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.040 it's so massive, so over my life. I'm now forty four, 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.960 so forty years of being aware and walking in this 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:06.919 journey has led me back to the only destination that 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.640 I really think God genuinely is trying to lead every 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.800 single person, which is back to love, which is back 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:17.520 to love. We are conduits of God's love. We are 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.040 examples of God's love. We are loved by God. We 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:22.639 are children of God, and I believe every single one 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.480 of us are. And I think that the more we fight, 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:30.600 that the more that we fight each other in this 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.040 endless game of who's right and who's wrong, instead of 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.879 just sitting and holding literally, could you imagine, I have 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.560 the whole world actually just it's the most komba you 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:41.760 ridiculous thing ever. But if we all just sat and 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.320 held space for each other for a second and just 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.879 been like, listen, I don't like you, but I know that. 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:50.760 I know that you were abused. You were this, you 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:52.639 were that like that. The people that we don't like 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.720 the most are often the people that have been most 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.240 abused in this life. We've got to be able to 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.920 hold space for that whole people accountable but them, see 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.040 the gem inside of them. 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.439 Could you imagine if we could do that, if we 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:13.120 could stop with the angry, hateful, destructive. 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:14.880 Me versus you. 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.480 I am right, you are wrong, I am left, you 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.520 are right. I am black, you are white, I am straight, 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:21.880 I am gay. 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:22.600 Whatever. 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:31.679 The division that's been fomented, created and amplified with like 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:37.320 these massive speakers screaming at us that we should hate 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:42.480 this person, or hate this establishment, or hate this whatever, 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:44.880 and we buy into it. 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:46.159 Yeah. 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.080 Could you imagine if we could just stop for an hour, 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:53.040 stop for a day, and do like you just said, 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:54.359 just love one another. 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:59.800 Yeah, I mean, listen, I it's my dream. It's my 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.080 and I believe that it's God's dream. I believe that 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.760 it is the dream of all of this. It's that 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.679 it's supposed to like it's the end screen on a 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:10.960 video game of like if you were to go actually 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.639 win the game, the only way to get there is 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.439 by raising the vibrational energy of this place to that 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:21.240 point where it just that light takes over. The problem 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:23.960 is that we are flesh and spirit. We're being pulled 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.320 one way or the other constantly, and the ego, the 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:31.760 flesh is not satisfied by love. 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.080 No, it's satisfied by dopamin. 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:38.440 It is healed by love, but it's satisfied, it's stroked 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:44.080 by dopamine. The dopamine, but the feeling of winning, the 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:47.479 feeling of superiority, right like, the ego is there to survive, 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:50.160 where we're given this gift so that we can literally 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.639 survive this crazy world that we're in. But when it 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:56.280 starts to affect your ability to see and think and 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:59.760 feel and empathize because you're looking at people because you're 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:02.720 being they're less then and you're like, yeah, because by 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.480 somebody being less than you, now you were more, which 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:09.040 then hits that that I'm surviving better. And so the 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:12.919 egos gets gets stroked by that. It's like, yeah, you 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.120 are superior than them in this way or that way 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.840 or and that creates the division and people want to 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:21.439 keep that going because it's giving them this the self 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.720 worth of some kind, but it's a hollow one. It's 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:25.360 a hollow one. 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:41.720 We're here to talk about Unbreakable Boy. Beautiful, subtle but 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:43.359 powerful movie. 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:46.159 Yeah, I think so. I think both of that is applicable. 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:48.480 Yeah. I mean, it'll move, it, it'll rock. 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:52.000 Yet, there's so many good aspects in the movie Unbreakable Boy, 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:56.359 beyond the magical story of an unbreakable boy. 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:57.919 His spirit was not going to be broken. 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:00.840 Yeah, I think, and particularly from my character, the father, 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:04.919 Scott Lorette. But I think it's kind of, you know, 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:09.720 strewn throughout just thematically in the film. But like you're saying, 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:15.439 it's it's it's it's so much about radically accepting and 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:18.080 surrendering to the life that God has given you, and 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:20.000 we fight it. We fight it, we fight it, we 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:21.639 fight it, we fight it because there's all these things 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:24.240 that we we have, these ideas of what our life 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:26.880 is supposed to be, and then all of a sudden, 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.199 these expectations aren't being met and we're like, well, no, no, no, no, no, 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:33.200 I wasn't supposed to. You know, with Scott and Teresa, 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:35.199 right out of the gate, they get pregnant on their 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:38.640 third date that they weren't expecting that, They didn't want that. 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:40.320 That's a curve ball coming at him at one hundred 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:41.960 miles an hour, and like, all right, well, here we go. 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:44.120 We're gonna we're gonna dive in, we're gonna figure out 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:46.639 our relationship, we're gonna have this kid, We're to do 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:48.840 our best. We're going to figure it out. And then 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:51.640 the next thing they find out he's got osteogenesis imperfect 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:55.440 a britlebones disease. That's a massive curveball. Okay, now we're 0:22:55.440 --> 0:22:57.359 whiffing at that one. And now all of a sudden, 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:00.119 there he's neurodivergent. They test him and he's and he's 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:04.719 autistic on the spectrum. Big curveball, no idea. All of 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:07.840 these just shattered expectations of certainly what Scott thought his 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:09.720 life was going to be, what it was supposed to be, 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:16.960