Speaker 1: Hello, my friend. Welcome to love someone with Delilah. The
Speaker 1: rain has been coming down ooh at my farm. I've
Speaker 1: got a skylight in my hallway upstairs, and when it rains,
Speaker 1: it sounds like music on the skylight. I go stand
Speaker 1: under it just to listen to it. And I've started
Speaker 1: flipping lights on in the house when we get up
Speaker 1: on school mornings because it's still a little dark outside.
Speaker 1: Sure signs that summer's gone her merry way and beautiful
Speaker 1: autumn has taken her place. We know too that this
Speaker 1: visit will only be too brief, as old man Winner
Speaker 1: will want his turn soon. What is the weather like
Speaker 1: in your little corner of the world. Some areas still
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Speaker 1: Have you been affected by any of the hurricanes and
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Speaker 1: My bushels of mums on the front porch are bright
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Speaker 1: What a fun trend that is? Did that on social media?
Speaker 1: So many things to look forward to in the coming months.
Speaker 1: And on this episode of Love Someone, my guests are
Speaker 1: going to tell us about something coming soon for the
Speaker 1: holiday season that is really exciting. Adam Anders is a
Speaker 1: four time Grammy nominee, two time People's Choice Award winner.
Speaker 1: For many years, he served as the executive music producer
Speaker 1: of Glee. He sold over one hundred million records and
Speaker 1: worked with artist ranging from the Jonas Brothers and Miley
Speaker 1: Cyrus to Andy Grammer and c low Green. His music
Speaker 1: has been heard in film productions like High School Musical,
Speaker 1: The Wedding Planner, Captain Underpants, and Rock of Ages. Look
Speaker 1: up this name again. His name is Adam Anders, and
Speaker 1: you'll see his writing and directing credits just goes on
Speaker 1: and on and on and on. Movies, music projects, TV.
Speaker 1: He is joined today by award winning recording artist and
Speaker 1: songwriter Nicky Anders, who can also brag about her production
Speaker 1: skills as well as being a record in mute Uzig
Speaker 1: Publishing company owner. Nicky has written, performed, or produced for
Speaker 1: many major motion pictures and television shows including Glee, Hannah,
Speaker 1: Montana High School Musical Three, The Jonas Brothers films, Camp
Speaker 1: Rock and Camp Rock two, along with a lot of
Speaker 1: other hits too many to list. Her songs have sold
Speaker 1: over twenty five million records for Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers,
Speaker 1: Demmy Lovado, Backstreet Boys, Clay Aiken, Chryl Crowe, just to
Speaker 1: name a few. Most recently, her time has been dedicated
Speaker 1: to Golden Globe winning TV series Glee, where her voice
Speaker 1: is the secret weapon for music producer and husband Adam
Speaker 1: Anders when recreating each song and as a mentor and
Speaker 1: vocal producer on the Glee project. They are here with
Speaker 1: us today to share the news of an upcoming Christmas movie.
Speaker 1: Adam and Nicky both co wrote and Adam directed, produced,
Speaker 1: and created music for the greatest story ever told, that
Speaker 1: of the Birth of Jesus of Nazareth in the Journey
Speaker 1: to Bethlehem. It'll be in theaters beginning November tenth. I
Speaker 1: got a sneak peek, a sneak preview of this movie.
Speaker 1: My kids and I watched it. I was so thrilled
Speaker 1: with it. It's the first musical it is. It would
Speaker 1: be so beautiful on stage. I hope they turn it
Speaker 1: into a musical recounting Mary and Joseph's journey, and our
Speaker 1: entire family was mesmeriz from start to finish. It has
Speaker 1: some really incredible talent Fiona Palomo, Milo Mannheim, Joel Smallbone
Speaker 1: from one of our favorite musical groups for King, and
Speaker 1: country singer rapper Lacree, and Academy Award nominee Antonio Banderas
Speaker 1: portraying the evil King herod Ooh, he was brilliant. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to dive into this conversation with Adam and
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Speaker 1: So with me today is Nicki Anders and her husband
Speaker 1: Adam Anders. And you guys have had your hands on.
Speaker 2: Everything anything where there's music.
Speaker 1: And young people, music, young people and visuals. And we're
Speaker 1: going to talk today about yeah, pop culture. And since
Speaker 1: I'm a child of the sixties and seventies, my pop
Speaker 1: culture was Bobby Sherman. Okay, I stopped pop culture When
Speaker 1: a really handsome actor left er. Ooh, yeah, which one
Speaker 1: was that? Who was there? That was George Clooney. When
Speaker 1: George Clune and he broke up with this so far
Speaker 1: off and left er. That was it for me. That
Speaker 1: was my last well that didn't see Yeah, my last
Speaker 1: pop crushes. But since I have twelve daughters, I have
Speaker 1: gone through a lot, a lot of pulp pop culture.
Speaker 3: Hyper Do you actually have twelve.
Speaker 1: Daughters I have. I have eight daughters and my husband
Speaker 1: has four daughters.
Speaker 3: Oh my, we only have two boys.
Speaker 1: Get to work. What are you guys doing work?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're like our core audience.
Speaker 1: Then you can fill my whole family. And we do,
Speaker 1: and we do. We used to have a theater that
Speaker 1: was like a mile from my house, and anytime something
Speaker 1: amazing was coming out, like the movie we're about to
Speaker 1: talk about, they would rent the theater to do a
Speaker 1: preview for me, which was very sweet, and the film
Speaker 1: company would buy me popcorn and I would say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to bring a few people, and their popcorn
Speaker 1: bill would be like, you know, thousands of dollars. They're like,
Speaker 1: what the heck I said? I told you I was
Speaker 1: bringing my family They're like, how many how many are
Speaker 1: in your family? I said, well, I have fifteen kids
Speaker 1: and my husband has five. So you do the math. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you the.
Speaker 3: Difference between going number one or number two, Like, if
Speaker 3: your family goes then it's.
Speaker 1: Number one exactly exactly. But this movie is going to
Speaker 1: be number one anyway. We're talking about a new movie
Speaker 1: that is coming out next month, Journey to Bethlehem, And
Speaker 1: I got a sneak preview. The movie theater is closed,
Speaker 1: and so I I did. We watched it here in
Speaker 1: the basement of my house on a drop down screen,
Speaker 1: and I wish that we were in the movie theater
Speaker 1: because if we had been in the movie theater, all
Speaker 1: of my kids would have been up dancing to the songs. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there are something that happens.
Speaker 2: We hope that up.
Speaker 1: There are some fun songs in Journey to Bethlham.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: So what made this project something? You guys said, yes,
Speaker 1: this is this is where our passions are going to be.
Speaker 1: How first off, when did you start filming?
Speaker 3: We started filming in February first, I think was the
Speaker 3: first day of shooting this year. But it's been in
Speaker 3: the works for a very long time. I had the
Speaker 3: idea originally, I don'tant to date myself. Like years ago
Speaker 3: six Nicky's from Iowa. We were home visiting for Christmas
Speaker 3: and I couldn't find anything to watch, and I don't
Speaker 3: know why. It hit me that I thought, Wow, nobody's
Speaker 3: done a musical of Nativity. That'd be cool. And I
Speaker 3: sat down that Christmas and wrote the first eleven page treatment,
Speaker 3: which had a lot of the song ideas and everything
Speaker 3: in it. And then, you know, life got in the way,
Speaker 3: and there's been ups and downs and trying to make
Speaker 3: it sold. It didn't get made back, you know, just
Speaker 3: been crazy. And then during COVID kind of got new
Speaker 3: clarity and wrote a new version of the script and
Speaker 3: decided to direct it. And then it's just like boom,
Speaker 3: off we went and next thing I knew, I moved
Speaker 3: to Spain and we started shooting this thing.
Speaker 1: So this is a baby that took seventeen years too,
Speaker 1: this is our oldest child.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been really painful birth, really painful.
Speaker 1: So Nikki, it sounds like you've been there for every
Speaker 1: step of the way. When did you say, I gotta
Speaker 1: do this too, I gotta I gotta lend my voice.
Speaker 1: I gotta lend my words. I gotta, we gotta do
Speaker 1: this as a team, as a family, because it's a
Speaker 1: family movie.
Speaker 2: It is a family movie.
Speaker 1: It's a family story about the greatest family got ever
Speaker 1: wove together, created by a family.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: It's really crazy. You know.
Speaker 4: We actually have worked together for almost our entire release.
Speaker 3: Our first date was writing a song together. That gives
Speaker 3: you any idea?
Speaker 1: Wait, wait, which song? Which song? Do we know it?
Speaker 3: It was probably terrible. We fought the whole time, I think,
Speaker 3: but I don't know if that.
Speaker 4: It was probably on my soul ever came out.
Speaker 3: I think it was Adore You from the wedding planner.
Speaker 1: I think it was you wrote a Nanai adore You
Speaker 1: song on your first date.
Speaker 3: I thought that's a.
Speaker 1: Really good point on your first date.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, because it's all fresh and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 3: you're cute and you run a door you song.
Speaker 2: I'm not ready for love yet, but you're ready for adoration.
Speaker 1: Adoration. Yeah, that's a good thing. I met my husband
Speaker 1: at the gym, and he never saw me with my
Speaker 1: hair combed or makeup on for the first six months
Speaker 1: of our friendship, like he saw me a relationship at
Speaker 1: my absolute least attractive, But it was good because we
Speaker 1: got to know each other.
Speaker 2: I believe in that.
Speaker 4: I believe in putting your worst out there first because
Speaker 4: that's what you can get through the worst, then you're
Speaker 4: definitely gonna enjoy best.
Speaker 3: Well. I think that's a good way to get to
Speaker 3: know each other. But also writing a song is a
Speaker 3: pretty good way to figure out.
Speaker 1: So now you've written a song, you've written a movie,
Speaker 1: you've produced a movie, and what was something this film
Speaker 1: taught you? Like something you didn't know either about the
Speaker 1: story the greatest story ever told, or about your connection
Speaker 1: to it when you started this seventeen years ago.
Speaker 3: I think it taught me that making movies is really hard.
Speaker 3: It's not for the faint of heart. But I think
Speaker 3: it also for me personally. I just I fell in
Speaker 3: love with directing and making movies. So it was a
Speaker 3: really personal journey for me and just kind of changing careers.
Speaker 3: But I think for both of us, you know, we
Speaker 3: we relate to Mary and Joseph, you know, as a couple,
Speaker 3: and it's kind of fun writing a musical about a
Speaker 3: couple when you're a couple, and it makes it very
Speaker 3: personal and human, and it was an interesting thing for
Speaker 3: us to explore. You know, everybody knows Mary and Joseph
Speaker 3: ended up together in the story in the Bible, but
Speaker 3: why was it for love or for duty? And we
Speaker 3: wanted to explore that through this musical and kind tell
Speaker 3: the original Rome and Juliet if you will. So that
Speaker 3: was really appealing and fun for me as.
Speaker 2: The female perspective here.
Speaker 4: I feel like, you know, you had I had to
Speaker 4: really think and deeply about what Mary was going through
Speaker 4: at that because she was a human being, well at least,
Speaker 4: and she had feelings, and.
Speaker 2: She had family, and she living in a time at.
Speaker 4: Which it was not an easy thing to show up
Speaker 4: pregnant to your fiance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the stakes were high.
Speaker 1: The stakes were high, and yet uh, I loved this
Speaker 1: was probably my favorite aspect of the movie. You didn't
Speaker 1: waiver from that truth that she knew that she knew
Speaker 1: that she knew that this was divine, that she was
Speaker 1: carrying Messiah.
Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, I love that you say that. I
Speaker 3: think a big thing for us was married to us
Speaker 3: would have been strong. She would have been the strongest
Speaker 3: girl God could find for this task. She wouldn't have
Speaker 3: been a dormat. She would have had a POV and
Speaker 3: that probably wasn't very popular then, but I think that's
Speaker 3: what made her stand out and made her right for
Speaker 3: the job, if you will. So that was fun for
Speaker 3: us too because it's a very modern, you know, very
Speaker 3: modern story. There's so many truths in this story that
Speaker 3: you can relate to today. So in that being that
Speaker 3: she was, I mean, you imagine how alone she must
Speaker 3: have felt in that time. So it's very emotional too,
Speaker 3: And we.
Speaker 4: Also try to stay very true to the scripture as well.
Speaker 4: I mean it's much I don't think there's not a
Speaker 4: lot written from Mary's point of view in the Bible,
Speaker 4: but what we could get we stayed one hundred percent
Speaker 4: true to. But there's you know a lot of things
Speaker 4: in her mind that would never be able to be known.
Speaker 4: So that's where our deep dive would take place.
Speaker 3: In the creative License, it's in the in betweens as
Speaker 3: we call it. You have the scripture verses, Well, what
Speaker 3: happened in between?
Speaker 2: What would I think?
Speaker 4: I mean, if my family's legacy and their reputation was
Speaker 4: on the line and it was all on my shoulders
Speaker 4: as a human being, what would I I'd be crying
Speaker 4: out to God, just like I need God because that's
Speaker 4: the only person that I have. It's the only thing
Speaker 4: that I have that can sustain me. So her personal
Speaker 4: journey is pretty powerful, I think.
Speaker 3: And then Joseph, who you know should have stoned her
Speaker 3: like you said, and definitely should have ended the marriage. Instead,
Speaker 3: he ended up standing by her side and taking, if
Speaker 3: you will, her stain upon him and saying, this is
Speaker 3: my child that we had out of wedlock. You know,
Speaker 3: it's a pretty amazing love story.
Speaker 1: Well, and I love the fact that you show him
Speaker 1: being kind of ambivalent. Mary never was. But you know,
Speaker 1: the angel came to her first. Your angel, by the way,
Speaker 1: he is hysterical. My kids were, look, Cray was cracking
Speaker 1: my kids up so much. Oh that was that was
Speaker 1: very well written and very well acted. And the song
Speaker 1: everything was so sweet, so glorious and yet tongue in
Speaker 1: cheek and fun at the same time. But but the
Speaker 1: angel didn't appear to Joseph right away. He had a
Speaker 1: little time to try to digest this, and you showed
Speaker 1: his ambivalence and his being torn, so torn until you know,
Speaker 1: God's like, no, dude, She's not kidding, dude, She's not kidding.
Speaker 1: She's not making this up.
Speaker 3: There was something interesting about the idea that he wanted
Speaker 3: to believe her for something in him said, you need
Speaker 3: to believe her even though everything in the world is
Speaker 3: saying walk away. And I think we can relate to that.
Speaker 3: I think we've all had probably relationships where your family,
Speaker 3: everybodys saying this is not the right person for you,
Speaker 3: you need somebody else, or whatever. But you know there's
Speaker 3: something about this person, You're meant for, this person, you
Speaker 3: should be with that person.
Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, did anybody come against you two when
Speaker 1: you when you were writing songs together?
Speaker 3: Confession session happens when you write a script, your own
Speaker 3: life ends up being poured into the pages. We definitely had.
Speaker 3: We fell in love and were planning our wedding within
Speaker 3: two weeks, and that took almost four years to get
Speaker 3: married because life got in the way. But you know,
Speaker 3: and people talking and people talking, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course,
Speaker 3: for sure. I think we've probably all experienced it on
Speaker 3: some level.
Speaker 1: And I love that you had Mary grabbing him and saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're marrying me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'll probably get some crap for that, but
Speaker 3: I just saw it's so cute.
Speaker 1: It was very cut.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and yeah, it's it's it's really fun when she
Speaker 3: does that.
Speaker 4: But I love that that little thing where you know,
Speaker 4: they chose to trust God instead of trusting what the
Speaker 4: world was saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they took a step of faith. You know,
Speaker 3: I think we all need to do that in our lives. Now.
Speaker 1: That wasn't a step of faith. That was stepping off
Speaker 1: the Grand Canyon kind of step of faith. Okay, Antonio
Speaker 1: Banderas and what was that like working with him?
Speaker 3: He is brilliant. You know. I had him in my
Speaker 3: sights for a long time and it was funny how
Speaker 3: it all came together. He was very busy directing a play,
Speaker 3: actually a son time play, and he didn't even want
Speaker 3: to be bothered with this because he was so focused.
Speaker 3: But I just knew I need somebody who can sing,
Speaker 3: first of all, because his Herod's song you heard it
Speaker 3: is really difficult.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Herod's song for me, that was of all the
Speaker 1: music that was that was the highlight. It was so good.
Speaker 3: So he's so amazing.
Speaker 1: He's so amazing.
Speaker 3: Say, everyone's singing every note in this movie, and I
Speaker 3: wanted it that way. And Antonio's song is the most challenging,
Speaker 3: and even he thought, I can't sing this, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I know you can sing it. I've seen him fan
Speaker 3: of the opera and everything else, so I had it
Speaker 3: took some convincing, so I'd go to his play in
Speaker 3: Madrid and kind of keep showing up until he talked
Speaker 3: to me. And then he loved the script and then
Speaker 3: he liked the song, and then I convinced him that
Speaker 3: he could sing it, and man, did he sing it,
Speaker 3: and he just committed. He's a very religious man, very
Speaker 3: strong Catholic, and he has loved the story and he
Speaker 3: just embodied this character like I couldn't believe. I mean,
Speaker 3: he made a page.
Speaker 1: Come alive, boy, didn't he though? Herod's never looked so
Speaker 1: deviously wonderful.
Speaker 3: And he switches on a dime from evil to just
Speaker 3: like childish and he's really brilliant.
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, that for me. And I think that
Speaker 1: you know, when you go to Christmas productions, when you
Speaker 1: see the Nativity story, that is is absent. I've never
Speaker 1: seen it. I mean I've gone to the Roquettes for
Speaker 1: years and years and years and seen the living Nativity.
Speaker 1: They never mentioned that here it is, you know, out
Speaker 1: to to make sure his throne is not disrupted.
Speaker 3: He was very insecure and history shows it. You know,
Speaker 3: he killed everybody that he thought might be a threat
Speaker 3: to his throne, including his family. He was a very
Speaker 3: evil man. And I thought it was just this story
Speaker 3: just had everything built in. You know, you have your
Speaker 3: love story, you have your villain, and then you have
Speaker 3: your comic relief from me with the Wiseman. They gave
Speaker 3: me that device, which is super fun to play with
Speaker 3: as well, because you need comedy.
Speaker 1: It's a merror What is murder?
Speaker 3: The way like in Sunday School? Like, what is mrr? Like?
Speaker 3: I don't know what this is?
Speaker 1: You can't say mrr though, you got to say it now.
Speaker 1: For the rest of my life, say mror.
Speaker 3: He knows what we're talking about. You will soon en.
Speaker 1: Yeah, once you go see Journey to Bethlehem, everybody in
Speaker 1: America will be saying what is murr? It was fun
Speaker 1: and it was something that I loved sharing with my family.
Speaker 3: Oh that's what we wanted.
Speaker 1: We had like I.
Speaker 2: Think they were six. Five boys have loved it too.
Speaker 1: How old are they?
Speaker 2: So we've got an eleven year old and a fourteen
Speaker 2: year old?
Speaker 1: Oh and eleven year olds and fourteen year olds don't
Speaker 1: love really anything.
Speaker 3: They hate everything.
Speaker 1: They hate everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, it was really awesome having them
Speaker 3: though along the way because we've been able to make
Speaker 3: a musical that boys love too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's a very it's very targeted, I think towards I mean,
Speaker 1: it's got the love story for the girls, and you're
Speaker 1: Mary is gorgeous and sweet and sassy and confident. I've
Speaker 1: also never seen Mary portrayed as somebody the way you
Speaker 1: did in the beginning, as an intellectual who wanted to
Speaker 1: reject the whole notion of an arranged marriage.
Speaker 3: And the way we handle the massacre of the incident.
Speaker 3: You know, we we allude to it, but we don't
Speaker 3: show that we know the whole we both did this
Speaker 3: was for our family to enjoy, for your family enjoy.
Speaker 3: We want grandparents and grandkids and everyone in between to
Speaker 3: be able to sit down every Christmas and watch this
Speaker 3: and and you know, and know what Christmas is about.
Speaker 3: But in a very digestible, approachable way. I think that
Speaker 3: everyone will love.
Speaker 1: And everybody will want to get some mur.
Speaker 4: Mercillrocket, yes, skyrocketed.
Speaker 3: Plush toys.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, there's so many cute, cute and funny
Speaker 1: and laughable and emotional scenes, the song between Mary and
Speaker 1: Joseph when they fall and love and they're the well,
Speaker 1: and just so many beautiful moments. I commend you, I
Speaker 1: applaud you, I thank you.
Speaker 3: That means the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, because.
Speaker 1: I am a lot of love, lot of hard work,
Speaker 1: so sick of holiday movies that are nothing but girls
Speaker 1: goes back to small town, meets boy, stand against all
Speaker 1: odds and they end up happily ever after. You know,
Speaker 1: that's ninety nine percent of the Christmas movies that are
Speaker 1: available that I'm like, no.
Speaker 3: That's why we made this.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And there's something powerful about music that you know, pulls
Speaker 4: down your defenses too. I think it engages people on
Speaker 4: a deeper emotional level. I think telling the story with
Speaker 4: music too is something that I think we've been encouraged
Speaker 4: to see. The reaction so far.
Speaker 3: So fun sitting in theaters for me and the screen,
Speaker 3: I kind of hide out when we do these screens
Speaker 3: and they're supposed to be super nerve wracking, but the
Speaker 3: reaction is so great from that they're crying, they're laughing,
Speaker 3: I mean, everything you'd hope for and loving the music,
Speaker 3: so it's been really rewarding.
Speaker 1: Did we mention the dancing, Oh, the dancing.
Speaker 3: Fine, No musical is complete without some dancing.
Speaker 1: We're catching up with the co writers of the new
Speaker 1: musical Journey to Bethlehem, Adam and Nicki Anders. Adam is
Speaker 1: also responsible for the music and direction of the film.
Speaker 1: We got a little time left with them, but I'm
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Speaker 3: Well, faith is a big part of my life and
Speaker 3: my wife's life. I grew up in church, my parents
Speaker 3: or ministers, so I grew up with these stories or
Speaker 3: my tradition. I love these stories. In this one particular,
Speaker 3: I thought, what an amazing musical it could be. Right,
Speaker 3: there's not many stories in the I will let that
Speaker 3: are so joyful and bring so much hope. So to
Speaker 3: be able to frame that in a way that kids
Speaker 3: can lean in and everybody can lean in this story
Speaker 3: and enjoy it together as a family at Christmas just
Speaker 3: became a passion that I couldn't couldn't like go for
Speaker 3: seventeen years.
Speaker 2: And I know it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And my poor kids they've heard about it their
Speaker 3: entire lives. Literally, I've been trying for seventeen years to
Speaker 3: make this and my oldest is fourteen, So poor kids.
Speaker 1: So it really is your first child, it really is.
Speaker 3: Spain, my fourteen year old just looked at me, Dad,
Speaker 3: don't make a bad movie or it's all a waste.
Speaker 3: I'm like, great, thanks, well.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for that inspiring thought.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's very personal story, you know, it's a
Speaker 3: part of who we are, and I just, yeah, I
Speaker 3: just wanted to share it with the world in a
Speaker 3: new way.
Speaker 1: So you said something very important to me, and that
Speaker 1: is it's such a hopeful story. It is the hope
Speaker 1: of the world. Without that story, without that little teenage
Speaker 1: girl saying yes, I truly, none of us I don't
Speaker 1: think would be here. But if I did happen here
Speaker 1: upon earth and I didn't know that to be true,
Speaker 1: I certainly would not have survived the last ten years.
Speaker 3: Me too, I think because millions of us feel the same.
Speaker 1: Way, right, Yeah, that's the hope of the world, and
Speaker 1: you've shared it in a beautiful way.
Speaker 3: I think that's why it's so emotional, even this movie.
Speaker 3: I think that surprised me how emotional I get every
Speaker 3: single time I watch it. And I've seen it.
Speaker 1: And you wrote it and I wrote it.
Speaker 3: But every time, the Nativity scene just gets me every
Speaker 3: time because it's personal, you know, it's part of who
Speaker 3: we are. And it is, like you said, the hope
Speaker 3: for the world, and we need it. Life is hard
Speaker 3: and it's a dark time, and I think we need
Speaker 3: more hopeful things and light. You know, my company is
Speaker 3: called night Light, and we named it that because we
Speaker 3: you know, light needs darkness to shine. So we just
Speaker 3: want to make movies and shows that bring some joy
Speaker 3: and light to the world.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for not hiding your light under a basket.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's easier sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is, especially in your industry.
Speaker 3: Yep, that is not a lie. You know what. They've
Speaker 3: embraced us. They've embraced this film and we're very excited
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: I love you guys. You guys are great. Thank you
Speaker 1: for a journey to Bethlehem. Thank you for spending time
Speaker 1: with us. And I pray you have the best holiday
Speaker 1: season ever and that that miracle that Mary refused to
Speaker 1: deny is a reality for everyone this holiday season.
Speaker 3: I think it's a great reminder to go see what
Speaker 3: Christmas is about. November tenth, theaters nationwide worldwide.
Speaker 1: Journey to Bethlehem.
Speaker 3: Yes, Jerny Bethlehem and wait dot com you can actually
Speaker 3: tickets are on sale already. Bethlamovie dot com.
Speaker 1: You can go back Journey to bethlehemmovie dot com or
Speaker 1: look up Anders Media. Nikki and Adam, thank you for
Speaker 1: this time, and thank you for this wonderful movie, and
Speaker 1: thank you for getting to Antonio benderis good luck, and
Speaker 1: again thank you. A young woman carrying an unimaginable responsibility,
Speaker 1: a young man torn between love and honor, A jealous
Speaker 1: king who will stop at nothing to keep his crown.
Speaker 1: Journey to Bethlehem is a live action Christmas musical adventure
Speaker 1: for the entire family that weaves classic Christmas melodies with humor, faith,
Speaker 1: and new pop songs in a retelling of the greatest
Speaker 1: story ever told, that of Mary Joseph and the Birth
Speaker 1: of Baby Jesus. A unique new entry into the collection
Speaker 1: of holiday classic movies, this epic Christmas musical is unlike
Speaker 1: any before it. You'll be able to see it in
Speaker 1: theaters next month, just as the days grow dark and
Speaker 1: dreary and we all need a little extra dose of
Speaker 1: inspiration and an uplifting reminder of the reason for this
Speaker 1: season we're headed into. November tenth is the big day
Speaker 1: it'll be in theaters. Go to Journey to Bethlehemmovie dot com.
Speaker 1: Journey to bethlehemmovie dot com to watch the trailer and
Speaker 1: get more information. There are also Facebook and Instagram pages
Speaker 1: for the movie so you can follow along there too.
Speaker 1: Are you as jaw dropping impressed with our guests today
Speaker 1: as I am? Look them up at Andersmedia dot com
Speaker 1: producers to learn more about this dynamic duo and keep
Speaker 1: up to date with all their latest projects. You know,
Speaker 1: whatever they're involved with, it's gonna be great, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be fabulous, it's gonna be something you want to sing
Speaker 1: along with. Find someone to visit a pumpkin patch with
Speaker 1: this month. If there are no little ones in your family,
Speaker 1: tag along with someone. Sip some cider, put out a
Speaker 1: bright fall wreath, or a few pots of mums to
Speaker 1: greet your visitors, some pumpkins, some gourds, or just brighten
Speaker 1: your own spirits as you come and go. Set yourself
Speaker 1: up with some healthy routines, some good nutrition, a regular
Speaker 1: sleep schedule, and get your steps in. We know these
Speaker 1: things to be the very best stressed reducers during a
Speaker 1: time of year that's difficult for many. I'll be working
Speaker 1: on taking my own advice, trying to get my steps
Speaker 1: in and I sure appreciate you being here for me
Speaker 1: night after night on the radio and here on our podcast.
Speaker 1: Let's keep each other company and remember to slow down
Speaker 1: and love someone. Do