WEBVTT - KURT WARNER: "American Underdog" 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:09.959 One has been a phenomenal podcast season, a weird year, 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:15.520 phenomenal podcast season for us. I have had some sensational 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.320 guest I have learned so much and I've been inspired 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:24.040 by stories by life experiences. Do you remember how we 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:28.200 kicked this year off with a dynamic representative from the 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:35.080 American Heart Association reminding imploring us, especially US women, to 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:41.480 live fiercely, to take our heart health seriously. From there, 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:46.040 I had the great privilege of speaking with superstar recording 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:52.680 artists from pop, country, Christian and theatrical genres, an Oscar 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:57.440 nominated movie director, and one from a multi season television 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:01.840 drama about the life of Jesus Christ. Several book authors 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.240 joined me to share how to have more fun and 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:08.160 to remind us that being kind to others and compassionate 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:12.160 with ourselves is the most important work we can ever do. 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:17.679 Leaders of charitable foundations doing amazing things in the world 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:22.120 came aboard and infused our podcast with their passion for 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:26.920 giving help where it's needed. And CEOs of innovative businesses 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.600 shared their drive for their industry and of course for 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:35.160 giving back to their communities. And now now we have 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:40.800 come to the last episode of the twenty one season. 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:45.080 We're going to wrap up things with an astonishing story 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:50.760 of hard work, faith, and perseverance. It's the story of 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:55.960 an American underdog and how he came not just from behind, 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.880 but from out of nowhere to knock the socks off 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:03.160 the National Football League, and it's millions and millions of 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:08.200 cheering fans. Kurt Warner went from stocking shelves at a 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:12.200 supermarket to become a two time n f L m 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.800 v P, a Super Bowl champion, and a Hall of 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.519 Fame quarterback. His story has now been made into a 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:26.840 major motion picture, American Underdog, which hit theaters on Christmas Day. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.800 Right now, though, I'm going to sing the praises of 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.079 a sponsor that helps me be able to have these 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:35.000 great conversations and to be able to share them with you. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.240 If you have been listening to my voice on the 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.880 radio four years, then you know that I have been 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:46.320 around on the radio four years. Off the radio, I'm 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.000 taking care of my kids, taking care of my dogs, 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.240 riding my horses, growing plants in my gardens. And you 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:58.040 know what it hurts. It does. My hands hurt, my 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:02.440 back hurts, my knees hurt. But when I started taking 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:08.360 Omega x L. I noticed a difference within the first month. 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.960 Omega x L, when taken every day, gives me relief 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:17.200 in my hands and my joints like nothing else. If 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:22.640 you suffer from pain associated with inflammation, I urge you 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:27.359 to try Omega x L. When you try Omega x L, 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:31.560 you will see a difference in the quality of your life. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.440 You'll see a difference in your joints. I even see 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.360 a difference in the way my skin feels and the 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.760 way my hair grows. I kid you not. My hair 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:45.520 grows more rapidly when I take my Omega x L 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.800 every day. In fact, if I forget to take my 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.920 Omega x L for a few weeks, oh boy, do 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:56.360 I notice a difference. Omega x L dot com forward 0:03:56.440 --> 0:04:00.880 slash love to place your order and to discover all 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:06.600 the wonderful goodness of Omega Excel. Hi, Kurt, Welcome to 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:12.120 Love Someone with Delilah. This, Kurt Warner, is our final 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:17.400 podcast for the one season, and how exciting that I 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.760 get to talk to you for our final podcast. Thank 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.120 you for agreeing to be with this that it's the 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.000 last one of the year. I think it's gonna finish 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.160 up the year strong. We're going to finish up the 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.240 year strong, and I am so excited to talk to you. 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.279 And I have I do a special on my radio 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:37.479 show called Confession Session where people call in and you know, 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.919 confession is good for the soul, and it's not quite 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.880 you know, like with a priest or a pastor, but 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.880 they you know, they share something and then I either 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.279 call them dog of the Day or whatever. But my 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:55.479 Confession session is the only football games I have ever 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.800 been to in my life are once my kids played 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.000 in and every time they would call you Pop Warner 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.600 in the movie, you know, my head would snap because 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:07.680 that's the league that my kids played in, and and 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.559 it just took me back to all those of those 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.039 times go out to the games and my kids. And 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.680 then I went to one professional game two years ago 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.680 Tampa Bay. And then the next year they cleaned up 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.600 at the Super Bowl. So I say the same thing. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.560 The first professional game that I ever went to, I 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:30.360 was a part of. So I was really as yes, oh, 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.279 how cool is that the first time you were in 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.800 the stadium at a professional football game. You were in 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.840 the game. Yeah. Well I actually didn't get in the game, 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.960 but I was on the sideline in my uniform with 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:43.000 the team, so it was a preseason game. But yes, dude, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.240 that is very very cool. So with me, I love 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:50.719 someone today is Kurt Warner, and I was not prepared 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.279 to be sitting on the edge of my seat cheering 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.159 for you in the movie like I did. Well, that 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.600 is awesome to hear. Uh you. That's the hard part 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.279 of this process is that you're excited about being able 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.279 to share your story and having on the big screen 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.400 and all of those different things. But as it gets 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.359 closer and closer to release or people starting to see it, 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.520 you get a little anxious because you're like, Okay, did 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.960 we do the story justice, do we do it in 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.200 such a way that people are cheering on the edge 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.200 of their seats and their impact. Then they leave the 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.719 theater and they're still talking about the movie. So that's 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.960 great that you say that. And as we've talked to 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.200 people that have seen the movie, there's been so many 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.480 different responses like that on how the movie gripped them 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.760 in different ways than they expected it too when they 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.680 went into the theater. Uh. And for me, that's that's 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.480 what makes a great movie, as you go in expecting 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.880 something and hopefully you get what you expect, but hopefully 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:49.560 you get so much more, and I think this movie 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.719 has the possibilities of doing that. Well. I I didn't 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.040 know what I was going to expect because, like I said, 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:59.600 I don't really follow professional football, and part of that 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:04.479 is because I worked nights and my weekends are you know, 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.960 completely devoted to my kids. And part of that is 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.600 many many, many many moons ago. I was married to 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.400 a man, my first husband, who was a sports director 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:18.320 and a news director at a TV station, and his 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:23.320 weekends were his biggest work times. And there were a 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:27.280 lot of problems in our very brief marriage. But but 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:32.120 football was one of those problems. Um you know, he 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.200 would he would either be at the game or have 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.560 three or four TVs stacked up, these little TVs that 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.360 he had that were like, you know, thirteen inches stacked 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:44.680 up watching multiple games at the same time. So everybody 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:50.560 knows of your story, but I didn't really know your story. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.040 And I looked you up, you know, I googled you, 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.040 I what, read the Wikipedia and everything. But the movie 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:01.040 was so well done. I feel like I know you. Well, 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.800 that's that's what we want, and we want those that 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.200 think they know as going in Unlike you, there's gonna 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.440 be plenty of people that think, oh, I know the 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.000 Kurt Warner story. Like you said, I was alive when 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:16.040 it happened. I remember the first game or the Super whatever. Um. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:17.840 But I think when it's all said and done, they're 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.000 gonna go, oh. But I didn't know Kurt and Brenda 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.120 like I know them now, and I didn't know the 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.480 rest of the story, or or really, I should say, 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.280 the heart of the story. And that's what we were 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.120 trying to portray in this movie. Give them the football, 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.800 because I know they want the football, but them I didn't. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.360 I didn't go for the football. I I went for 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.120 the relationship. And I I thought the two actors that 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.800 played you and your wife, I don't know if that's 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.400 truly your love story or if it was changed for 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.559 the movie, but I was a believer. You know, sometimes 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.880 you watch movie, You're like, I'm watching an actor pretending 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.600 to be in love. And and even sweeter than the 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.560 relationship that was portrayed between you and your wife was 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:04.240 the relationship between you and your son. Yeah, that was 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.560 you know. We've been working on this movie for a 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.200 long time and a lot of people that you know, 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.400 came into the process and wrote the early scripts. They 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.920 got the football part right, but I always told them, 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.840 I'm like, the heart of this story is not just 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.400 the love story between Brendan myself and how we shaped 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.320 each other, but as my son's act. And uh, you know, 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.800 you see a lot of movies or sports movies, and 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.679 the natural theme is, you know, if it's a if 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.920 it's a guy trying to chase his dream, it's like, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.400 I want to make my dad proud, right, I want 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.560 to do this so I can show my that whatever. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.640 And so that's the part of a lot of movies, 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.240 and for me, I wanted it to be the flip 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.480 of that. I wanted people to know that it was 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.880 this young man that was four or five years old, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.440 that had dealt with his own struggles and his own 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.480 challenges on a daily basis that inspired me, that pushed 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.160 me on. I wanted to make it and part of 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.520 the reason was I wanted to make him proud of 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.320 me that, hey, I saw you and you inspired me 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.760 to continue to push when everybody else said stop. And 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.840 when you look at the love story between Brendan myself, 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.720 Zach was the one, uh, meaning my son's act, not Zach, relieve, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.640 but my son's act was the one that broke down 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.160 a lot of those barriers, and I believe really allowed 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.920 us to come together because Brenda, as a single mom 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:30.480 of two one with special needs, uh, she had her 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.440 guard up, she had her walls up, like, you know, 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.600 you better be ready to handle all this because I've 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.560 been through stuff and the person that you know comes 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.959 into my life has got to be able to treat 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.959 me and maybe more importantly, my kids in the right way. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.120 So early relationship between Zach and I, I think broke 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:52.080 down some of those walls. And for me, Delila, I'm 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:53.760 sure you've heard it a million times. You know, you 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.440 meet someone a single mom with two kids, and you 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.760 know they throw around the term, oh, do you really 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.880 want to get into relationship? Has that baggage or has 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.360 all that stuff that comes with it? And for me 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:10.040 to be able to meet Zach with no context, um, 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.199 as you saw in the movie, that's exactly what happened. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.200 Is he grabbed my hand, he pulled me into the 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.439 house and said you were going to the bathroom and 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.360 I want to show you my radio. And so we 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:22.000 had this unsolicited moment where I got to see who 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.880 Zack was and start a relationship there without Brenda telling 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.080 me anything about him, and that broke down some of 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.600 those walls that automatically came up when she told me 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.880 I'm a single mom with two So he was such 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.400 an integral part of this entire journey and so many 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.440 parts of the journey. So I love that you were 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.320 impacted by that part of it, because to me, this 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.400 movie was not going to be made unless Zach was 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.280 a central theme in the I cried more than once 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.959 during the movie. But you and Zach on the floor. 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:52.880 I don't know if that scene really happened in your 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.680 life or not, but you and Zach on the floor 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.199 in the bathroom, I was crying and I looked over 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:00.959 at my daughter and she had a tear in her eye, 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:02.439 And I'm like, you as big of as sap as 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.960 I am. And you write a lot of a lot 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:12.599 of movies, especially sports movies, have a love story in them, 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.560 but your love story and your love story with the 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:22.000 two kids really sets it a part in this precious well, 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.360 thank you, that's exactly what we were trying to do. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.800 And the hope, because again, there's lots of themes throughout 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.120 this movie. Um that no matter where you come from 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.880 or where you're at a particular time in life, I 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.839 believe you can go to this movie and connect with 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.760 different storylines that are in it. And that was again 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.839 something that was important to me, is that I didn't 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.400 want to just make a movie for sports fans or 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.320 you know, people that were necessarily dreamers. And in the 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.319 terms of the way that I was a dreamer, we 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.880 wanted to make a story that you could bring your daughter, 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.280 I could bring my seven kids, and everybody would walk 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.040 out of the theater going, oh, I liked that movie. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.320 And here's why I liked it. Might not be the 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.520 same reason you know that one of my other kids 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.560 liked it, but they will all be connected to a 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.320 part of the story in a unique way. And I 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.000 really think this movie has a chance to do just that. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.800 I think it does. And I love the title, uh 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.280 the underdog theme. Tell me it talked to me about 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:23.600 the coaches that there were two actors that played coaches 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.400 that at the end of the movie you actually saw 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.200 the video from the real football game with the real coaches, 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.439 and Dennis Quaid, who is such a phenomenal actor, was 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.560 was the character that he played really that much in 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:40.160 your corner in real life? Uh, he was you know 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.200 so much of life. We we all have, you know, 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.040 those moments of struggle, um, that we go through. And 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:48.880 you know, one of the themes in the movie was 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.520 doing it together, right we we we always need people 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.640 to come alongside and go, Okay, I'm gonna give you 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.400 a chance. I'm gonna come along with you and give 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.640 you an opportunity. And dig Romio from a football standpoint, 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.680 was one of those guys for me, and I thought 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.440 it was just a really great moment and how they 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.280 captured it in in the movie where Dick saw a 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.840 lot of himself in me that he had been through 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:17.120 some of those similar things and um, and sometimes that's 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.880 how it has to work, right. Sometimes we're the person 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.000 that needs someone to give us an opportunity. And then 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.240 other times we've gotten that opportunity and we get to 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:29.320 be the person that gives someone else that same chance 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.560 that we got. And so that to me was a 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.840 really key moment in the movie, is that I needed somebody. 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.400 I knew, you know, in my mind, I can do this. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.120 I just need somebody else to believe in me. And 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.520 from a football standpoint. That was dick for me when 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:45.240 you know there's a there's a great story. It's not 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.160 depicted in the movie, but you know when they were 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.920 making the final cuts for the Rams team that first 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.240 year that I made the team, is he went around 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.480 the room because there was myself in another quarterback that 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.440 they were trying to decide between how old were you? 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.720 Because it never comes up in the movie like he would. 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.200 People would ask you when you graduated or when you finished, 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.960 and the character that plays Dix says, fourteen years you've 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.880 been You've been out of this game fourteen years, dude. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.200 So I'm doing the math in my head, going okay, well, 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.240 if you were twenty four three when you graduated, how 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.640 old were you when that conversation went on in real life? No, 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.480 he was out of the game. So he had coached 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.560 somewhere and then he got out of the game for 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.560 fourteen years before he came back as a coach again. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.680 For me, it wasn't that long. I was twenty seven 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.520 when I got my opportunity in the NFL, so it 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.080 was five years basically removed from when I left college. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.000 And I love that he called it your time in 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.640 the desert. Yes, yeah, and so you know, how long 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.640 was your time? And you know his was fourteen years, 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.360 mine was five, which is equivalent to that when you're 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.680 talking about an athlete who only has a finite time 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.680 to play. But as the story goes, he went around 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.720 the room with all of his coaches and said, okay, 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.800 which of these two guys should we keep? Which these 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.640 two guys should we keep? And at the end of 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.400 the time, the numbers were split right down the middle. 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.840 There was half for me and half for this other guy. 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.960 And so ultimately he was trying to get a you know, 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.440 somebody else to kind of make the decision for him, 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.840 and ultimately came right back to Dick and he had 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.800 to go and wrestle with whether he was gonna keep 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.640 me or the other guy. And it was Dick that said, 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.200 you know what, as again as you see in the movie, 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:25.040 there's something special about you. I recognize something different about you, 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.120 and I just can't, you know, not keep you around 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.240 to see you know what? That is true life story. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.680 That's how it played out, and um, you know he 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.000 was that guy that you know, without Dick for meal, 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.560 you're probably not cocking to Kurt Warner right now. When 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.400 he said, the character said, you know how long in 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.200 the desert? To me that said he was a man 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.760 of faith. Was he a man of faith in real life? No? Well, 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.960 I mean I would say he was a man that 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.840 was open to all those possibilities. I don't know where 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.600 he stood, you know, and if you talk about a 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:00.560 Christian journey or the faith overall, but I know he 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:05.200 recognized faith and he understood it, um and specifically in 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.679 my journey that you know, I was a man of 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.240 faith and was very outspoken early on about my faith, 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.760 and we would have conversations about it, and just like 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.080 you said, there would be moments where we would have 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.200 conversations and the things that he said made you think, 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.000 are you seeing this the way I'm seeing this or 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.320 is this just a big picture understanding of of what 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.560 that is. But he was very very conscious of my 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.280 faith and faith in general, um and that resignated with 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.440 his character the entire I mean, I'm still very close 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.960 to him, but ever since the first day I met him, Nice, 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.160 I was very blessed in my life to have two 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:45.840 men Jerome and Steve Connegie, that believed in me when 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:49.760 I was a kid and and open doors for me 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.280 when I was a kid, and that I have had 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.879 opportunities to do that for other young people is one 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.720 of my greatest blessings and what an honor exactly. I 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.720 couldn't agree more. So, have you got to coach Pop 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.600 Warner or anything like that? Have you got to be 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:10.119 that guy? Yes? I mean I do coach. Um. I 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.480 have two boys that play, one that plays in college 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.720 and one that's senior in high school. Now, so I 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:19.399 started coaching when my son started high school football. So 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.399 I've been fortunate to be able to coach for about 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.600 ten years now, uh, and be able to give back 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.520 not only to my boys and help them kind of 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.840 chase their dream but also be able to share those 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.439 those gifts and that knowledge and expertise with these other 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.080 kids that are that are dreamers like I was. So 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.720 it has been fun when you when you have a 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.159 gift and you're good at something, to be able to 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.720 take that and try to impart it on on other 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.200 people when they have the you know, the same type 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.359 of goals and dreams that you had the movie folks, 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.520 and you know a bunch of information, a packet of 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.520 information and football stats and all that, and I'm like, yeah, 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:55.800 I don't want to see the stats. I want to 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.760 see the wife. And there's a picture I don't know 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.119 how recent it is of your wife in real life, 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.560 not the actress who did a fabulous job, by the way, 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.080 but your wife in real life and you and all 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:12.000 seven of your children, and dude, you did good. She 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:17.160 is gorgeous, very much. So I'm married out, no doubt. 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:21.800 I'm looking at her going. She's had seven kids, no 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.639 doubt about it. I mean she is. She is a 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:28.000 rock star in so many different ways, and so it is. 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.159 It is amazing when you look at it and you're like, dang, 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:32.960 seven kids, All these kids came out of you. I 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:37.320 was convinced that because I have fifteen kids, but you know, 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.920 God brought them to me in other ways. And when 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.080 I saw your kids, I'm like, they kind of all 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.000 looked very similar. And then I did the research and 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.680 I'm like, dang, she did give birth to all those, 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.760 including twins, that she looked that good. Okay, back to 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.520 the stair stepper. So did you really fall in love 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.720 with her that quickly? Probably not as quickly as the 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:02.119 movie shows, you know, because we would always and we 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:04.600 always talk about how I really fell in love with 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.320 the kids first, with some of the walls that Brenda 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.000 had put up. Now, you know, I was attracted to 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:13.719 her right away and the relationship started very very quickly. 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.359 But I think, you know, with the way I was 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:20.359 kind of chasing my dream with some of the walls 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.240 that she had put up. Um, it took some time 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.360 to fall in love and to convince her to let 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.040 down those walls and let me see all of her. 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.040 But it was very easy and very quickly I fell 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.399 in love with the kids. And when I fell in 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.479 love with the kids, uh, that really broke down some 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:41.520 of those barriers for her and allowed her to open 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.480 up to to let me see the entire package. And 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.600 once once that happened, it was it was easy when 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:50.639 you see the depth and you see the character, and 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:54.159 you see the strength of that woman, the resolve that 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:56.760 and you know, in a big part, I thought Anna 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:58.680 did a great job in the movie of of playing 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.159 Brenda was being a to fight that balance that. My 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:04.160 wife is very strong. She was a former marine, and 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.119 she likes to portray herself as strong that you can't 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.320 you know, you can't get in here, you can't mess 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.600 with me. But there is a vulnerability to my wife 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:14.560 as well, and not a lot of people on the 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:18.239 outside have gotten to see that because she does have 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.240 those walls up. I thought Anna in the movie and 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:22.240 the script and the movie did a great job of 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:26.240 showing both sides, showing your strength, uh, and how she 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:28.000 was going to stand up for what she believed in, 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:31.320 but also letting down those walls a little bit to 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:34.159 let people peer into you know why I fell in 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:37.280 love with her and and what the other side of 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:40.280 my wife is all about. So if you're a football fan, 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:44.000