Speaker 1: During this month of January, much of America found itself
Speaker 1: in a deep freeze, a cold snap that reached much
Speaker 1: further and wider than normal, making many of us very
Speaker 1: grateful for temperate climates and warmer seasons. Thankfully, we know
Speaker 1: that the frigid weather won't last forever. Spring will come
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Speaker 1: first time. With our central heating and air conditioning systems,
Speaker 1: it can be easy to feel disconnected from the seasons,
Speaker 1: unless an extreme weather event comes round to remind us
Speaker 1: that Mother Nature is still firmly in charge. Not so
Speaker 1: for America's farmers. Farmers are still connected to the earth,
Speaker 1: to the dirt, to the land in a way that
Speaker 1: most no longer understand. The slightest upset can really recavoc
Speaker 1: especially on a small family farm, which brings me to
Speaker 1: today's episode of love Someone. Fathom Entertainment is bringing an
Speaker 1: inspirational new film to theaters nationwide on January thirty first,
Speaker 1: through Fathom Events, Green and Gold, starring Craig T. Nelson
Speaker 1: and I'm bringing Craig T. Nelson to you. You are
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Speaker 1: roles such as Hayden Fox in the sitcom Coach, and
Speaker 1: from films like Stir Crazy, Poltergeist, All the Right Moves, Action,
Speaker 1: Jackson and Turner, and Hooch. He's also the voice of
Speaker 1: Mister Incredible in The Incredibles and its sequel. He also
Speaker 1: starred as Zeke Braveman in the TV drama series Parenthood,
Speaker 1: and most recently was Dale Ballard, Mima's love interest in
Speaker 1: Young Sheldon. And that's just naming a few of the
Speaker 1: many many shows and movies he's done. In Green and Gold,
Speaker 1: Craig T. Nelson portrays Buck Buck is a Wisconsin dairy
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Speaker 1: Nelson about this new role as soon as I've cultivated
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Speaker 2: Craig T.
Speaker 1: Nelson, Welcome to love someone with Delilah.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 1: I only have one regret, one regret about seeing green
Speaker 1: and gold. This past weekend, and that is that I
Speaker 1: had to watch it on my computer because I wish
Speaker 1: that I had seen it on the biggest screen ever made.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta go see it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to.
Speaker 1: I'm going to. It's when the night it opens. I
Speaker 1: promise I'm going to be there because I have not
Speaker 1: seen that level of cinematography in a hell of a
Speaker 1: long time.
Speaker 4: It's beautiful and it's really really gorgeous. It's like another
Speaker 4: character in the movie because.
Speaker 1: It's the setting, the beauty, the cinematography truly is a
Speaker 1: lead character in the movie Green and Gold.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it gives you a sense of why they
Speaker 4: love it so much, why it's so meaningful.
Speaker 1: I haven't i haven't ugly cried at a movie. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think the last time I ugly cried at
Speaker 1: a movie.
Speaker 2: It's it's you know, like.
Speaker 1: Some women cry really pretty and the tears just kind
Speaker 1: of goes down their face, just one or two little tears.
Speaker 1: My nose gets like twice its size and red and snotty.
Speaker 1: And by the end of Green and Gold, your new movie,
Speaker 1: I was and I have an eight year old son.
Speaker 1: He was sitting on the floor at my feet and
Speaker 1: I was playing with his hair the whole movie, and
Speaker 1: he turned around and he's like, Mom, are you okay?
Speaker 3: Oh that's wonderful.
Speaker 1: I was so blessed. And there's so much I want
Speaker 1: to dig into here. This is about four generations of
Speaker 1: family that that are the backbone of our nation, that
Speaker 1: feed us every day, that that never get a day off,
Speaker 1: that never get a freaking break, and characters that are
Speaker 1: deeply flawed but deeply beautiful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a that's really nice. Well put, I mean
Speaker 4: that's how I felt about the same way. I think
Speaker 4: the faith part of it also was interesting to me
Speaker 4: because it's wandering. You know, the lead character, or one
Speaker 4: of the lead characters, is wandering. He doesn't he doesn't
Speaker 4: really have a connection. He doesn't have a relationship. His
Speaker 4: relationships to the land and to to a memory perhaps
Speaker 4: of his daughter that is uh is hurtful. It has
Speaker 4: kept him from He's so invulnerable, and yet he's so
Speaker 4: on the edge of not being able to explain even
Speaker 4: what his feelings are. He just knows that this is
Speaker 4: something that means something to it.
Speaker 1: It means everything. It means The monologue that the character
Speaker 1: played by that played your granddaughter Jenny at.
Speaker 2: The end.
Speaker 1: When she's talking about her faith and the land and.
Speaker 2: What is truly holy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, to me, Buck, the character you played and his
Speaker 1: relationship with the owl that he rescued and the disabled
Speaker 1: boy that he fixed his fireplace, and the jerk banker
Speaker 1: that he pulled out of the snow, that to me
Speaker 1: is such a beautiful example of holy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's really, that's so true.
Speaker 4: The sovereignty of God is so wonderfully mysterious, and you
Speaker 4: never know where it's going to appear, in whom it's
Speaker 4: going to show it. So and we go through this
Speaker 4: journey of life and we ascribe certain judgments to it,
Speaker 4: and we assign certain people a back seat or whatever.
Speaker 4: There however, we manifest our own prejudice and you realize
Speaker 4: that we're all children of God and we have our
Speaker 4: journeys and we find them and hopefully and he finds
Speaker 4: his Buck, the character in the film, he finds his
Speaker 4: throuugh an adversity but a reliance and finally realizing how
Speaker 4: powerless he is. And I really identify with that.
Speaker 1: That was going to be my next question, how aligned
Speaker 1: how much of you of Craig T.
Speaker 2: Nelson is is? Buck?
Speaker 4: I would there's obviously some. I mean it's more in memory.
Speaker 4: I think it was for me. The reason one of
Speaker 4: the reasons I did the movie was because of the
Speaker 4: way he felt the journey he was going through, which
Speaker 4: is one I feel that I've I have passed through,
Speaker 4: have yet to go on other journeys. But I wanted
Speaker 4: to be able to tell that story because I find
Speaker 4: that it revealed in me my own reticence to understand
Speaker 4: that other people have their own walk and I need
Speaker 4: to be open to that. And also the fact that
Speaker 4: I come from generational farmers and the fact that they're
Speaker 4: being it's almost being lost, it's almost it's such a
Speaker 4: beautiful tradition.
Speaker 3: Well, there's well, I must.
Speaker 4: Say that I would have said in the same way,
Speaker 4: except when I went to Wisconsin and we're doing the
Speaker 4: film and then you meet these people and you meet
Speaker 4: not only the people, but you meet who they are,
Speaker 4: and there it was such a for me, such a
Speaker 4: revelation that will wait a minute, here there's still people here,
Speaker 4: They're still doing this, there's still there is a community
Speaker 4: of them, and they need supporting.
Speaker 3: And you know.
Speaker 4: What I had done is kind of put them on
Speaker 4: a back burner and said well, we're losing them or
Speaker 4: we've lost them, and I don't think that's true. I
Speaker 4: think that there's still hope there. And I that was
Speaker 4: another beautiful part of being a part of the movie
Speaker 4: was that.
Speaker 1: Revelation, so so many beautiful parts. The development of the
Speaker 1: relationship between Buck and his granddaughter, who were the two
Speaker 1: main characters. And the beautiful woman that played your wife,
Speaker 1: Holy Annabelle Amore a gorgeous and she played it so
Speaker 1: such a great, little smart, eleichy, beautiful, loving.
Speaker 2: Strong Midwest woman.
Speaker 1: I just ah, I loved everything about this movie, but
Speaker 1: that relationship between the granddaughter who had her own dreams
Speaker 1: and aspirations and her grandpa.
Speaker 2: Who, because of the heart of.
Speaker 1: Losing her mama, his daughter just couldn't even give an inch, like,
Speaker 1: could not could not validate to save his life, her
Speaker 1: talent or her gift or her passions. And the way
Speaker 1: that in the end that came together, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: It was so well done. It was so beautiful.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: I just want I want everyone who's who's got a dream,
Speaker 1: I want everyone who's got a stubborn, crusty old man
Speaker 1: that they don't understand. I want everyone to go see
Speaker 1: Green and Gold, and we didn't even mention the football team.
Speaker 1: I'm not a sports fan, so when I heard it
Speaker 1: was about the Packers, I'm like, okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's not about the Packers.
Speaker 1: It's about devotion and it's about community and it's about
Speaker 1: you know, having a common, joyful bond that propels you
Speaker 1: and gives you, gives you hope, gives you joy. And
Speaker 1: for people who do have a team, they're gonna love
Speaker 1: it even more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was so interesting in so many ways to
Speaker 4: find you know, the Green Bay Packers being publicly owned and.
Speaker 3: Community owned.
Speaker 4: Was also something that was you know, being part of
Speaker 4: that environment is is radical and it's so interesting the
Speaker 4: fandom and the devotion that they have, and I think
Speaker 4: that kind of commitment it is so you know, we
Speaker 4: get lost in the vagaries of all of the extensions
Speaker 4: that we're given and I should say distractions, and as
Speaker 4: a result, we lose focus, We lose the perception of
Speaker 4: the oneness of us, all that the individuality, and I
Speaker 4: think the beauty of it is that the revelation in
Speaker 4: the movie for me is that in recognizing that someone
Speaker 4: does have talent and needs to go out and experience
Speaker 4: the world, to be able to share the gift of saying,
Speaker 4: I know what that world's like, and I need you
Speaker 4: to keep in mind what you're leaving behind, because at
Speaker 4: some point you may get out there forget what is
Speaker 4: that you're leaving behind or had left behind, and then
Speaker 4: when you need it, you can't make your way back
Speaker 4: because you can't remember it.
Speaker 1: You can't find your way back home. Another thing that
Speaker 1: was woven throughout the movie that other people might miss,
Speaker 1: but because I've been in radio for fifty years now,
Speaker 1: was the subtle way that the radio show was woven
Speaker 1: in from the very beginning the opening scene of the movie.
Speaker 1: And then in every home there's a radio sitting on
Speaker 1: the you know, on the table where you would get
Speaker 1: your weather forecast. And in every truck they're listening to
Speaker 1: the local DJ. And local radio back in the day
Speaker 1: was lifeline. It was their lifeline.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And now you.
Speaker 1: Know everything is owned by the same two or three corporations.
Speaker 1: But in small towns, in small communities, there are still fabulous,
Speaker 1: really wonderful yeah radio stations.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's wonderful.
Speaker 4: And you know, you only had to push like two
Speaker 4: or three buttons, and you know, and then maybe you
Speaker 4: get some FM, but for sure you get the farm
Speaker 4: report and an update on pork bellies.
Speaker 1: Pork bellies six am every morning. I had to do
Speaker 1: the pork belly, the farm report. Yeah, but again, it
Speaker 1: was about all about community and everything in the story
Speaker 1: was about you know, we have this catchphrase, these catchphrases
Speaker 1: now intentionality and being present and building community. But when
Speaker 1: we have opportunities to do that, to be present at
Speaker 1: the birth of a calf that's stuck, to be intentional
Speaker 1: in having a family dinner and talking like you know
Speaker 1: Buck's family did the movie, and to build community like
Speaker 1: the church had, and like pulling somebody out of the
Speaker 1: snow who's done you wrong and loving them anyway.
Speaker 4: And those were two great draft horses too. They were
Speaker 4: just so huge. It was like amazing to me how
Speaker 4: big those horses were and how strong they are. But
Speaker 4: you mentioned the church, and I loved sitting there in
Speaker 4: the pew and listening to that choir. It was just
Speaker 4: so genuine and so beautifully done, and it was so
Speaker 4: rich and so tiny.
Speaker 1: Was that an actual church building that you guys found
Speaker 1: and filmed in.
Speaker 4: That wasn't It was the beautiful little church like you
Speaker 4: would imagine and the choir with the Luteran choir, and
Speaker 4: they were who they were, and by golly, they were
Speaker 4: going to get up there and they sang and it
Speaker 4: was it just took me back.
Speaker 3: So it was so real it was and so beautiful.
Speaker 3: It was so.
Speaker 1: BEAUTIFU you know, from from doing your calisthenics in your
Speaker 1: in your chonies and your tidy whities to spitting.
Speaker 2: I mean, you nailed the character. And I kept going,
Speaker 2: how much of this is.
Speaker 1: Craig ten Milson really like, do you do you do
Speaker 1: calisthenics in the morning?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you know, you work out, but you don't
Speaker 4: do it in the tidy whities and you're not doing
Speaker 4: it with the apparatus that he had, which was basically
Speaker 4: nothing and the regimen I think that he wanted to
Speaker 4: employ how he wanted to look or feel. It was
Speaker 4: really off of the farmer that we spent a lot
Speaker 4: of time with and how he not only behaved, but
Speaker 4: what the animals. The animals in the movie were extraordinary
Speaker 4: because it was like, I don't know, if you've been
Speaker 4: around a lot of dairy cattle, they are not only huge,
Speaker 4: they don't really care.
Speaker 1: Craig, do you see the background of my studio. Do
Speaker 1: you see my walls? This isn't like an image that
Speaker 1: I put behind me. I'm broadcasting from a barn. I
Speaker 1: live on a five hundred acre cattle ranch.
Speaker 3: Oh well then you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm the one that has to pull the calf
Speaker 1: out when it gets stuck.
Speaker 3: Oh well, there you go.
Speaker 4: So, I mean the cats that this particular farm had
Speaker 4: were so extraordinary, and they wanted to show up on
Speaker 4: every scene that you did because we used the interiors
Speaker 4: of the farmhouse that they had.
Speaker 2: I like that. What was the billy's comment? I like her.
Speaker 2: It wasn't decorps motif. I like the motiva. Good writing.
Speaker 2: Whoever wrote that line? Good writing?
Speaker 3: It was. Yeah, it's really funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a lot of so much good ride.
Speaker 1: It's such a good movie. It is such a good movie.
Speaker 1: Thank you for doing it. Thank you for sharing this
Speaker 1: beautiful story. What a great conversation we're having with Craig T.
Speaker 1: Nelson talking about the movie Green and Gold. We'll have
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Speaker 1: How can people if they say, you know what, I
Speaker 1: want to care about farmers, I want to know more.
Speaker 1: How can I support them? How can I drive by
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Speaker 2: You know? How can people do?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 2: Is their way?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean you go to farm Aid and you can
Speaker 4: go to any website that has to do with the
Speaker 4: Wisconsin farmers for instance, Wisconsin, any farm that's located, you know,
Speaker 4: and they're still out there. It's very easy to do
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Speaker 1: Well, it touched my heart. It made me laugh, and
Speaker 1: it made me ugly cry, and it made me proud
Speaker 1: to be in radio, and it made me proud to
Speaker 1: love dirt. And it made me proud to be married
Speaker 1: to a man who is so much like the lead character.
Speaker 2: It scared him. He watched it.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you you nailed that character because I'm
Speaker 1: married to him.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's Yeah, it's a place that a lot of people.
Speaker 4: Have gone, and thank god I've had the opportunity to
Speaker 4: meet some of them and talk to them and get
Speaker 4: to know them.
Speaker 3: We share a very common bond in that regard.
Speaker 2: Well, God bless you, Craig T. Nelson.
Speaker 1: The movie is Green and Gold and which is about
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, but it's not. It's about love
Speaker 1: and life and family and farming and cows and horses
Speaker 1: and cats that were in every scene.
Speaker 2: I love the little gray kitten. Oh yeah, that was
Speaker 2: my favorite.
Speaker 1: I love the owl, I love the.
Speaker 4: Luna, the owl. Yeah, I remember when we shot that.
Speaker 4: I said to the guys on the set, I said,
Speaker 4: can you please get a picture of the owl as
Speaker 4: it's released for me so I can remember this moment.
Speaker 4: And when that owl came out of the netting and
Speaker 4: raised up, it was just such a signature moment and
Speaker 4: so meaningful. And they got a picture of it and
Speaker 4: they sent it to me, and it's like one of
Speaker 4: my favorite favorite photos I've gone.
Speaker 1: That was one of my favorite images. That and the
Speaker 1: deer that we're bounding across the farm and through the cornfield.
Speaker 1: Just so many beauty, so much high quality cinematography that
Speaker 1: if for nothing else, you just watch it for the
Speaker 1: beauty of the great lakes and the geese that are
Speaker 1: flying overhead, and the owl and the deer and the
Speaker 1: mist in the morning. It just visually, it's like a
Speaker 1: gorgeous painting that you get to enjoy for a couple
Speaker 1: of hours.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like you said, I mean, it's just beautiful for
Speaker 4: me too.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for being with us.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: God bless you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, God bless you too.
Speaker 1: In Green and Gold, a fourth generation dairy farmer and
Speaker 1: his grand daughter fight to preserve their way of life
Speaker 1: as small family farms disappear across America. Facing foreclosure, they
Speaker 1: wager everything on their beloved Green Bay Packers in a
Speaker 1: hail merry effort to save their little chunk of dirt.
Speaker 1: Green and Gold is presented in collaboration with the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers, the nation's only community owned professional football team
Speaker 1: with over five hundred thousand shareholders and culvers. Yes, the
Speaker 1: beloved family restaurant known for their butter burgers, and creators
Speaker 1: of that Thank You Farmers Project, which has donated more
Speaker 1: than six point five million dollars to ensure a sustainable
Speaker 1: food supply for our future. The story you'll see in
Speaker 1: Green and Gold is of hardworking farmers caring for their animals,
Speaker 1: growing crops, and engaging in climate smart sustainability effort to
Speaker 1: protect our land while producing food that feeds our families.
Speaker 1: Brothers Anders and Davin Lyndwall, who directed and produced, are
Speaker 1: behind the film, inspired by their grandfather, a dairy farmer,
Speaker 1: and the challenges farmers face into today's economy. This is
Speaker 1: a heartfelt tribute to rural America, celebrating the strength, perseverance,
Speaker 1: and traditions of farming communities in theaters nationwide on January
Speaker 1: thirty first, twenty twenty five, through Fathom Events. It is
Speaker 1: a wonderful film that combines America's themes of family, farming,
Speaker 1: and football that will get you in all the fields.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, I was ugly crying. I was sobbing.
Speaker 1: I love this movie. Take the whole family and enjoy.
Speaker 1: Stay warm, my friends, and love someone by supporting your
Speaker 1: local farmers