Speaker 1: One has been a phenomenal podcast season, a weird year,
Speaker 1: phenomenal podcast season for us. I have had some sensational
Speaker 1: guest I have learned so much and I've been inspired
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Speaker 1: Leaders of charitable foundations doing amazing things in the world
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Speaker 1: come to the last episode of the twenty one season.
Speaker 1: We're going to wrap up things with an astonishing story
Speaker 1: of hard work, faith, and perseverance. It's the story of
Speaker 1: an American underdog and how he came not just from behind,
Speaker 1: but from out of nowhere to knock the socks off
Speaker 1: the National Football League, and it's millions and millions of
Speaker 1: cheering fans. Kurt Warner went from stocking shelves at a
Speaker 1: supermarket to become a two time n f L m
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Speaker 1: Love Someone with Delilah. This, Kurt Warner, is our final
Speaker 1: podcast for the one season, and how exciting that I
Speaker 1: get to talk to you for our final podcast. Thank
Speaker 1: you for agreeing to be with this that it's the
Speaker 1: last one of the year. I think it's gonna finish
Speaker 1: up the year strong. We're going to finish up the
Speaker 1: year strong, and I am so excited to talk to you.
Speaker 1: And I have I do a special on my radio
Speaker 1: show called Confession Session where people call in and you know,
Speaker 1: confession is good for the soul, and it's not quite
Speaker 1: you know, like with a priest or a pastor, but
Speaker 1: they you know, they share something and then I either
Speaker 1: call them dog of the Day or whatever. But my
Speaker 1: Confession session is the only football games I have ever
Speaker 1: been to in my life are once my kids played
Speaker 1: in and every time they would call you Pop Warner
Speaker 1: in the movie, you know, my head would snap because
Speaker 1: that's the league that my kids played in, and and
Speaker 1: it just took me back to all those of those
Speaker 1: times go out to the games and my kids. And
Speaker 1: then I went to one professional game two years ago
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. And then the next year they cleaned up
Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl. So I say the same thing.
Speaker 1: The first professional game that I ever went to, I
Speaker 1: was a part of. So I was really as yes, oh,
Speaker 1: how cool is that the first time you were in
Speaker 1: the stadium at a professional football game. You were in
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah. Well I actually didn't get in the game,
Speaker 1: but I was on the sideline in my uniform with
Speaker 1: the team, so it was a preseason game. But yes, dude,
Speaker 1: that is very very cool. So with me, I love
Speaker 1: someone today is Kurt Warner, and I was not prepared
Speaker 1: to be sitting on the edge of my seat cheering
Speaker 1: for you in the movie like I did. Well, that
Speaker 1: is awesome to hear. Uh you. That's the hard part
Speaker 1: of this process is that you're excited about being able
Speaker 1: to share your story and having on the big screen
Speaker 1: and all of those different things. But as it gets
Speaker 1: closer and closer to release or people starting to see it,
Speaker 1: you get a little anxious because you're like, Okay, did
Speaker 1: we do the story justice, do we do it in
Speaker 1: such a way that people are cheering on the edge
Speaker 1: of their seats and their impact. Then they leave the
Speaker 1: theater and they're still talking about the movie. So that's
Speaker 1: great that you say that. And as we've talked to
Speaker 1: people that have seen the movie, there's been so many
Speaker 1: different responses like that on how the movie gripped them
Speaker 1: in different ways than they expected it too when they
Speaker 1: went into the theater. Uh. And for me, that's that's
Speaker 1: what makes a great movie, as you go in expecting
Speaker 1: something and hopefully you get what you expect, but hopefully
Speaker 1: you get so much more, and I think this movie
Speaker 1: has the possibilities of doing that. Well. I I didn't
Speaker 1: know what I was going to expect because, like I said,
Speaker 1: I don't really follow professional football, and part of that
Speaker 1: is because I worked nights and my weekends are you know,
Speaker 1: completely devoted to my kids. And part of that is
Speaker 1: many many, many many moons ago. I was married to
Speaker 1: a man, my first husband, who was a sports director
Speaker 1: and a news director at a TV station, and his
Speaker 1: weekends were his biggest work times. And there were a
Speaker 1: lot of problems in our very brief marriage. But but
Speaker 1: football was one of those problems. Um you know, he
Speaker 1: would he would either be at the game or have
Speaker 1: three or four TVs stacked up, these little TVs that
Speaker 1: he had that were like, you know, thirteen inches stacked
Speaker 1: up watching multiple games at the same time. So everybody
Speaker 1: knows of your story, but I didn't really know your story.
Speaker 1: And I looked you up, you know, I googled you,
Speaker 1: I what, read the Wikipedia and everything. But the movie
Speaker 1: was so well done. I feel like I know you. Well,
Speaker 1: that's that's what we want, and we want those that
Speaker 1: think they know as going in Unlike you, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be plenty of people that think, oh, I know the
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner story. Like you said, I was alive when
Speaker 1: it happened. I remember the first game or the Super whatever. Um.
Speaker 1: But I think when it's all said and done, they're
Speaker 1: gonna go, oh. But I didn't know Kurt and Brenda
Speaker 1: like I know them now, and I didn't know the
Speaker 1: rest of the story, or or really, I should say,
Speaker 1: the heart of the story. And that's what we were
Speaker 1: trying to portray in this movie. Give them the football,
Speaker 1: because I know they want the football, but them I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't go for the football. I I went for
Speaker 1: the relationship. And I I thought the two actors that
Speaker 1: played you and your wife, I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: truly your love story or if it was changed for
Speaker 1: the movie, but I was a believer. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you watch movie, You're like, I'm watching an actor pretending
Speaker 1: to be in love. And and even sweeter than the
Speaker 1: relationship that was portrayed between you and your wife was
Speaker 1: the relationship between you and your son. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: you know. We've been working on this movie for a
Speaker 1: long time and a lot of people that you know,
Speaker 1: came into the process and wrote the early scripts. They
Speaker 1: got the football part right, but I always told them,
Speaker 1: I'm like, the heart of this story is not just
Speaker 1: the love story between Brendan myself and how we shaped
Speaker 1: each other, but as my son's act. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you see a lot of movies or sports movies, and
Speaker 1: the natural theme is, you know, if it's a if
Speaker 1: it's a guy trying to chase his dream, it's like,
Speaker 1: I want to make my dad proud, right, I want
Speaker 1: to do this so I can show my that whatever.
Speaker 1: And so that's the part of a lot of movies,
Speaker 1: and for me, I wanted it to be the flip
Speaker 1: of that. I wanted people to know that it was
Speaker 1: this young man that was four or five years old,
Speaker 1: that had dealt with his own struggles and his own
Speaker 1: challenges on a daily basis that inspired me, that pushed
Speaker 1: me on. I wanted to make it and part of
Speaker 1: the reason was I wanted to make him proud of
Speaker 1: me that, hey, I saw you and you inspired me
Speaker 1: to continue to push when everybody else said stop. And
Speaker 1: when you look at the love story between Brendan myself,
Speaker 1: Zach was the one, uh, meaning my son's act, not Zach, relieve,
Speaker 1: but my son's act was the one that broke down
Speaker 1: a lot of those barriers, and I believe really allowed
Speaker 1: us to come together because Brenda, as a single mom
Speaker 1: of two one with special needs, uh, she had her
Speaker 1: guard up, she had her walls up, like, you know,
Speaker 1: you better be ready to handle all this because I've
Speaker 1: been through stuff and the person that you know comes
Speaker 1: into my life has got to be able to treat
Speaker 1: me and maybe more importantly, my kids in the right way.
Speaker 1: So early relationship between Zach and I, I think broke
Speaker 1: down some of those walls. And for me, Delila, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you've heard it a million times. You know, you
Speaker 1: meet someone a single mom with two kids, and you
Speaker 1: know they throw around the term, oh, do you really
Speaker 1: want to get into relationship? Has that baggage or has
Speaker 1: all that stuff that comes with it? And for me
Speaker 1: to be able to meet Zach with no context, um,
Speaker 1: as you saw in the movie, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: Is he grabbed my hand, he pulled me into the
Speaker 1: house and said you were going to the bathroom and
Speaker 1: I want to show you my radio. And so we
Speaker 1: had this unsolicited moment where I got to see who
Speaker 1: Zack was and start a relationship there without Brenda telling
Speaker 1: me anything about him, and that broke down some of
Speaker 1: those walls that automatically came up when she told me
Speaker 1: I'm a single mom with two So he was such
Speaker 1: an integral part of this entire journey and so many
Speaker 1: parts of the journey. So I love that you were
Speaker 1: impacted by that part of it, because to me, this
Speaker 1: movie was not going to be made unless Zach was
Speaker 1: a central theme in the I cried more than once
Speaker 1: during the movie. But you and Zach on the floor.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that scene really happened in your
Speaker 1: life or not, but you and Zach on the floor
Speaker 1: in the bathroom, I was crying and I looked over
Speaker 1: at my daughter and she had a tear in her eye,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you as big of as sap as
Speaker 1: I am. And you write a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of movies, especially sports movies, have a love story in them,
Speaker 1: but your love story and your love story with the
Speaker 1: two kids really sets it a part in this precious well,
Speaker 1: thank you, that's exactly what we were trying to do.
Speaker 1: And the hope, because again, there's lots of themes throughout
Speaker 1: this movie. Um that no matter where you come from
Speaker 1: or where you're at a particular time in life, I
Speaker 1: believe you can go to this movie and connect with
Speaker 1: different storylines that are in it. And that was again
Speaker 1: something that was important to me, is that I didn't
Speaker 1: want to just make a movie for sports fans or
Speaker 1: you know, people that were necessarily dreamers. And in the
Speaker 1: terms of the way that I was a dreamer, we
Speaker 1: wanted to make a story that you could bring your daughter,
Speaker 1: I could bring my seven kids, and everybody would walk
Speaker 1: out of the theater going, oh, I liked that movie.
Speaker 1: And here's why I liked it. Might not be the
Speaker 1: same reason you know that one of my other kids
Speaker 1: liked it, but they will all be connected to a
Speaker 1: part of the story in a unique way. And I
Speaker 1: really think this movie has a chance to do just that.
Speaker 1: I think it does. And I love the title, uh
Speaker 1: the underdog theme. Tell me it talked to me about
Speaker 1: the coaches that there were two actors that played coaches
Speaker 1: that at the end of the movie you actually saw
Speaker 1: the video from the real football game with the real coaches,
Speaker 1: and Dennis Quaid, who is such a phenomenal actor, was
Speaker 1: was the character that he played really that much in
Speaker 1: your corner in real life? Uh, he was you know
Speaker 1: so much of life. We we all have, you know,
Speaker 1: those moments of struggle, um, that we go through. And
Speaker 1: you know, one of the themes in the movie was
Speaker 1: doing it together, right we we we always need people
Speaker 1: to come alongside and go, Okay, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: a chance. I'm gonna come along with you and give
Speaker 1: you an opportunity. And dig Romio from a football standpoint,
Speaker 1: was one of those guys for me, and I thought
Speaker 1: it was just a really great moment and how they
Speaker 1: captured it in in the movie where Dick saw a
Speaker 1: lot of himself in me that he had been through
Speaker 1: some of those similar things and um, and sometimes that's
Speaker 1: how it has to work, right. Sometimes we're the person
Speaker 1: that needs someone to give us an opportunity. And then
Speaker 1: other times we've gotten that opportunity and we get to
Speaker 1: be the person that gives someone else that same chance
Speaker 1: that we got. And so that to me was a
Speaker 1: really key moment in the movie, is that I needed somebody.
Speaker 1: I knew, you know, in my mind, I can do this.
Speaker 1: I just need somebody else to believe in me. And
Speaker 1: from a football standpoint. That was dick for me when
Speaker 1: you know there's a there's a great story. It's not
Speaker 1: depicted in the movie, but you know when they were
Speaker 1: making the final cuts for the Rams team that first
Speaker 1: year that I made the team, is he went around
Speaker 1: the room because there was myself in another quarterback that
Speaker 1: they were trying to decide between how old were you?
Speaker 1: Because it never comes up in the movie like he would.
Speaker 1: People would ask you when you graduated or when you finished,
Speaker 1: and the character that plays Dix says, fourteen years you've
Speaker 1: been You've been out of this game fourteen years, dude.
Speaker 1: So I'm doing the math in my head, going okay, well,
Speaker 1: if you were twenty four three when you graduated, how
Speaker 1: old were you when that conversation went on in real life? No,
Speaker 1: he was out of the game. So he had coached
Speaker 1: somewhere and then he got out of the game for
Speaker 1: fourteen years before he came back as a coach again.
Speaker 1: For me, it wasn't that long. I was twenty seven
Speaker 1: when I got my opportunity in the NFL, so it
Speaker 1: was five years basically removed from when I left college.
Speaker 1: And I love that he called it your time in
Speaker 1: the desert. Yes, yeah, and so you know, how long
Speaker 1: was your time? And you know his was fourteen years,
Speaker 1: mine was five, which is equivalent to that when you're
Speaker 1: talking about an athlete who only has a finite time
Speaker 1: to play. But as the story goes, he went around
Speaker 1: the room with all of his coaches and said, okay,
Speaker 1: which of these two guys should we keep? Which these
Speaker 1: two guys should we keep? And at the end of
Speaker 1: the time, the numbers were split right down the middle.
Speaker 1: There was half for me and half for this other guy.
Speaker 1: And so ultimately he was trying to get a you know,
Speaker 1: somebody else to kind of make the decision for him,
Speaker 1: and ultimately came right back to Dick and he had
Speaker 1: to go and wrestle with whether he was gonna keep
Speaker 1: me or the other guy. And it was Dick that said,
Speaker 1: you know what, as again as you see in the movie,
Speaker 1: there's something special about you. I recognize something different about you,
Speaker 1: and I just can't, you know, not keep you around
Speaker 1: to see you know what? That is true life story.
Speaker 1: That's how it played out, and um, you know he
Speaker 1: was that guy that you know, without Dick for meal,
Speaker 1: you're probably not cocking to Kurt Warner right now. When
Speaker 1: he said, the character said, you know how long in
Speaker 1: the desert? To me that said he was a man
Speaker 1: of faith. Was he a man of faith in real life? No? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I would say he was a man that
Speaker 1: was open to all those possibilities. I don't know where
Speaker 1: he stood, you know, and if you talk about a
Speaker 1: Christian journey or the faith overall, but I know he
Speaker 1: recognized faith and he understood it, um and specifically in
Speaker 1: my journey that you know, I was a man of
Speaker 1: faith and was very outspoken early on about my faith,
Speaker 1: and we would have conversations about it, and just like
Speaker 1: you said, there would be moments where we would have
Speaker 1: conversations and the things that he said made you think,
Speaker 1: are you seeing this the way I'm seeing this or
Speaker 1: is this just a big picture understanding of of what
Speaker 1: that is. But he was very very conscious of my
Speaker 1: faith and faith in general, um and that resignated with
Speaker 1: his character the entire I mean, I'm still very close
Speaker 1: to him, but ever since the first day I met him, Nice,
Speaker 1: I was very blessed in my life to have two
Speaker 1: men Jerome and Steve Connegie, that believed in me when
Speaker 1: I was a kid and and open doors for me
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and that I have had
Speaker 1: opportunities to do that for other young people is one
Speaker 1: of my greatest blessings and what an honor exactly. I
Speaker 1: couldn't agree more. So, have you got to coach Pop
Speaker 1: Warner or anything like that? Have you got to be
Speaker 1: that guy? Yes? I mean I do coach. Um. I
Speaker 1: have two boys that play, one that plays in college
Speaker 1: and one that's senior in high school. Now, so I
Speaker 1: started coaching when my son started high school football. So
Speaker 1: I've been fortunate to be able to coach for about
Speaker 1: ten years now, uh, and be able to give back
Speaker 1: not only to my boys and help them kind of
Speaker 1: chase their dream but also be able to share those
Speaker 1: those gifts and that knowledge and expertise with these other
Speaker 1: kids that are that are dreamers like I was. So
Speaker 1: it has been fun when you when you have a
Speaker 1: gift and you're good at something, to be able to
Speaker 1: take that and try to impart it on on other
Speaker 1: people when they have the you know, the same type
Speaker 1: of goals and dreams that you had the movie folks,
Speaker 1: and you know a bunch of information, a packet of
Speaker 1: information and football stats and all that, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to see the stats. I want to
Speaker 1: see the wife. And there's a picture I don't know
Speaker 1: how recent it is of your wife in real life,
Speaker 1: not the actress who did a fabulous job, by the way,
Speaker 1: but your wife in real life and you and all
Speaker 1: seven of your children, and dude, you did good. She
Speaker 1: is gorgeous, very much. So I'm married out, no doubt.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at her going. She's had seven kids, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. I mean she is. She is a
Speaker 1: rock star in so many different ways, and so it is.
Speaker 1: It is amazing when you look at it and you're like, dang,
Speaker 1: seven kids, All these kids came out of you. I
Speaker 1: was convinced that because I have fifteen kids, but you know,
Speaker 1: God brought them to me in other ways. And when
Speaker 1: I saw your kids, I'm like, they kind of all
Speaker 1: looked very similar. And then I did the research and
Speaker 1: I'm like, dang, she did give birth to all those,
Speaker 1: including twins, that she looked that good. Okay, back to
Speaker 1: the stair stepper. So did you really fall in love
Speaker 1: with her that quickly? Probably not as quickly as the
Speaker 1: movie shows, you know, because we would always and we
Speaker 1: always talk about how I really fell in love with
Speaker 1: the kids first, with some of the walls that Brenda
Speaker 1: had put up. Now, you know, I was attracted to
Speaker 1: her right away and the relationship started very very quickly.
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, with the way I was
Speaker 1: kind of chasing my dream with some of the walls
Speaker 1: that she had put up. Um, it took some time
Speaker 1: to fall in love and to convince her to let
Speaker 1: down those walls and let me see all of her.
Speaker 1: But it was very easy and very quickly I fell
Speaker 1: in love with the kids. And when I fell in
Speaker 1: love with the kids, uh, that really broke down some
Speaker 1: of those barriers for her and allowed her to open
Speaker 1: up to to let me see the entire package. And
Speaker 1: once once that happened, it was it was easy when
Speaker 1: you see the depth and you see the character, and
Speaker 1: you see the strength of that woman, the resolve that
Speaker 1: and you know, in a big part, I thought Anna
Speaker 1: did a great job in the movie of of playing
Speaker 1: Brenda was being a to fight that balance that. My
Speaker 1: wife is very strong. She was a former marine, and
Speaker 1: she likes to portray herself as strong that you can't
Speaker 1: you know, you can't get in here, you can't mess
Speaker 1: with me. But there is a vulnerability to my wife
Speaker 1: as well, and not a lot of people on the
Speaker 1: outside have gotten to see that because she does have
Speaker 1: those walls up. I thought Anna in the movie and
Speaker 1: the script and the movie did a great job of
Speaker 1: showing both sides, showing your strength, uh, and how she
Speaker 1: was going to stand up for what she believed in,
Speaker 1: but also letting down those walls a little bit to
Speaker 1: let people peer into you know why I fell in
Speaker 1: love with her and and what the other side of
Speaker 1: my wife is all about. So if you're a football fan,
Speaker 1: you're gonna love the movie American Underdog. If you are
Speaker 1: a romance fan, you're gonna love the movie. If you're
Speaker 1: someone like myself that loves stories my whole life, you know,
Speaker 1: the whole radio thing I've done in the podcast I've done,
Speaker 1: and everything I've done has been weaving stories together and
Speaker 1: seeing how God weaves families together or teams together. And
Speaker 1: that was touched on a tiny bit in the movie,
Speaker 1: but very sweetly. We see and the scene where where
Speaker 1: you're just struggling and cry out to God and and
Speaker 1: your son wraps his arms around you. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that really happened, but what a
Speaker 1: beautiful way to portray the love of the father through
Speaker 1: the son in that scene. That well done, sir, well,
Speaker 1: but thank you. I'm very much the same way is that,
Speaker 1: you know, when you get to this point and you
Speaker 1: start to make a movie, you know, one of the
Speaker 1: first questions everybody asks you who's gonna play you? Who
Speaker 1: do you want to play you in the movie, And
Speaker 1: through this whole process, I've always just said, I don't
Speaker 1: care who plays me. What I care about is do
Speaker 1: we get the story right? Because when I go to movies,
Speaker 1: that's what I look at. I don't care you know,
Speaker 1: what the scenes look like. I don't care what the
Speaker 1: special effects are. I don't care who's acting in the movie.
Speaker 1: I want you to grip me with the story of
Speaker 1: the movie, something that I can leave the theater with
Speaker 1: and go, man, that that's hanging with me. You know,
Speaker 1: entertainment is great, love to be entertained like everybody else.
Speaker 1: But to me, great movies are the ones that have
Speaker 1: great stories and things that go with it. So I
Speaker 1: love that you say that because I feel exactly the
Speaker 1: same way. Whenever I go to do anything, I want
Speaker 1: to get touched by the story that is being told
Speaker 1: to me and those are my favorite movies, and so
Speaker 1: that was a big part of this movie. Is, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we want to get all the other stuff right. We
Speaker 1: want people to see football and enjoy that and be entertained. Well,
Speaker 1: we gotta get the story right, and we got to
Speaker 1: connect to people through the story. And I do think
Speaker 1: we uh, I think we have a chance to do
Speaker 1: that because the story is really really the story is beautiful,
Speaker 1: and as the mom of some kids who have very
Speaker 1: special needs, I think it will empower and encourage people
Speaker 1: in so many ways on so many levels. But mostly
Speaker 1: you know, what I do on my show is I
Speaker 1: try to share the the love of God with a
Speaker 1: multitude of people in a way that they'll receive. And
Speaker 1: I think I think that that movie definitely shares a
Speaker 1: whole lot of love in the layers of ways. So
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. Yeah, I think you're right, And
Speaker 1: that was important to us as well, being a man
Speaker 1: of faith and being outspoken with my faith. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: making a movie, it's like, okay, how do we make
Speaker 1: this movie the right way where we do justice to
Speaker 1: who we are and the heart of who we are,
Speaker 1: but we also do justice to the faith. Journey is
Speaker 1: that not everybody is in the same place as you
Speaker 1: and I, And as you saw in the movie, I
Speaker 1: was not in the same place as Brenda when we
Speaker 1: got together. I was in a completely different place from
Speaker 1: a faith perspective than where she was. And so we
Speaker 1: tried to make this movie where we were true too
Speaker 1: who we are in The underlying theme was always about
Speaker 1: faith in that part of things. But we want people
Speaker 1: to go see the movie and be able to be
Speaker 1: engaged to the faith journey based on where they're at
Speaker 1: at that particular time in their life, and you know,
Speaker 1: not be turned off by it, um, but you know,
Speaker 1: kind of seek after it or wonder what all that's about,
Speaker 1: because that's what I saw in Brenda. I saw her
Speaker 1: on this faith journey and she was very devout in
Speaker 1: in what she believed. And I'm sitting kind of on
Speaker 1: the outside, going, Okay, I understand it, but I'm not
Speaker 1: where she is. You know, what do I do with that?
Speaker 1: And she did a great job of kind of bringing
Speaker 1: me along and challenged me with it and showing it
Speaker 1: to me in different ways. So I was able to
Speaker 1: come to my own faith through it. And you know, Delilah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what it's all about. You've got you say,
Speaker 1: fifteen kids, and I've got seven kids, and it's easy
Speaker 1: to go, Okay, you're gonna go to church with me,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna read the Bible and I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you these and think that you're gonna come to my faith.
Speaker 1: That's not what it's all about. It's about you coming
Speaker 1: to your own faith. And so that was a pivotal
Speaker 1: part of the movie, is trying to figure out that
Speaker 1: balance of being able to do justice to both sides
Speaker 1: of it, and I do believe we were able to
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Speaker 1: Mercy Ships dot Org. So when you met Brenda, you
Speaker 1: said she was solid in her walk, but you weren't
Speaker 1: quite there in yours yet. How much of the fact
Speaker 1: that she is gorgeous swayed you? I'd say that because
Speaker 1: I have an older brother he's in heaven now. And
Speaker 1: we weren't my family, We weren't raised in a particular
Speaker 1: church or denomination or religion even and my brother started college.
Speaker 1: In his first week at college, he met a girl
Speaker 1: named Ann and that was it for him. That was it.
Speaker 1: He was all in from like a month or two
Speaker 1: into knowing her. And she had a very strong faith.
Speaker 1: And we made I made a lot of fun of him,
Speaker 1: you know, mocking him and teasing him, good naturedly, sometimes
Speaker 1: not so good naturedly. Yeah, But it was his love
Speaker 1: for her that opened his heart to the bigger picture. Well,
Speaker 1: and I often and field that's how people truly come
Speaker 1: to faith is that they're opened up to it in
Speaker 1: some way, some door is open to them, whatever that
Speaker 1: may be. You know, a friend taking him uh to church,
Speaker 1: somebody that they fall in love with. It opens their
Speaker 1: eyes to it. Um. You know, the way somebody carries
Speaker 1: themselves to say Oh, if that person is a Christian
Speaker 1: and that's what he's like or that's what she's like,
Speaker 1: and that's how they live and that's how they love,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to, you know, kind of walk through that
Speaker 1: door to see it. And so yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: was attracted to Brenda. There's no doubt about it. That
Speaker 1: came true very well in the movie. Exactly if I
Speaker 1: did a very good job. Did he study you? Did
Speaker 1: he like sit with you and talk to you to
Speaker 1: get your mannerisms because seeing you now in this podcast
Speaker 1: and having just watched the movie a lot of the
Speaker 1: mannerisms he had in the movie are you. He did
Speaker 1: a very good job. He did a great job. He
Speaker 1: came and spent a few days with us early in
Speaker 1: the process, Uh, to kind of see, like you said,
Speaker 1: who I was, my mannerisms, how I did different things,
Speaker 1: throwing a football, all of that stuff. But also to
Speaker 1: understand the dynamic between Brenda and myself as well, because
Speaker 1: that was something that was important to him, is that
Speaker 1: knowing relationship was going to be a big part of
Speaker 1: this movie. I want to understand how you guys do
Speaker 1: this relationship thing, and you know how and and I
Speaker 1: can pull this off in the movie and and connect
Speaker 1: with it. And so you know, even in the movie,
Speaker 1: you'll you'll hear a little bit of an accent, which
Speaker 1: I don't ever think I have an accent, like we
Speaker 1: never do. Um, but everybody's like, oh, yeah, you got
Speaker 1: a little one. And so him trying to get those
Speaker 1: little subtleties right in the movie that really separated Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember in the movie, there
Speaker 1: was a scene when we were in the blizzard and
Speaker 1: we run. I didn't have any money to to get gas.
Speaker 1: I thought I could get where we were going. Twelve
Speaker 1: year old daughter was going the whole time, no no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: please Mom No. Yeah, Well I knew better. I just
Speaker 1: didn't know how to do better. I didn't have any options.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean so in that scene, Um, as
Speaker 1: we're starting to run out of gas, you hear Anna
Speaker 1: say Curtis. So in the whole movie, I'm you know,
Speaker 1: and everybody calls me Kurt. But obviously in our relationships
Speaker 1: with Mom or whatever or um. You know, when you're
Speaker 1: in a relationship, there comes times in critical moments we
Speaker 1: use somebody's full name, right, we become Curtis because of
Speaker 1: you know, the depth of that moment and what that meant.
Speaker 1: And so it was stuff like that where she goes
Speaker 1: Curtis and you know, if you didn't pay attention or
Speaker 1: you may have easily missed that. But it's those kind
Speaker 1: of subtleties that are in the movie that add an
Speaker 1: extra layer of depth if you're able to pick up
Speaker 1: on those things. But my point being is that Zack
Speaker 1: and Anna that was important to them that they spent
Speaker 1: time with us to kind of see how that worked,
Speaker 1: so they could let that come out on the big
Speaker 1: screen and really do justice to what are relationship was. Well,
Speaker 1: your relationship is beautiful, your love story is beautiful. The
Speaker 1: movie American Underdog. I know many many many people Kurt
Speaker 1: Warner are going to be blessed. Well, thank you, appreciate
Speaker 1: appreciate having some time with you, and appreciate your faith
Speaker 1: in what you do. Lord, bless you. Sometimes this world
Speaker 1: can feel a little dark, and we can feel a
Speaker 1: little defeated, but never ever ever give up hope. When
Speaker 1: we learn to adjust our focus, we find there is light,
Speaker 1: there is love, there is hope, there is triumph surrounding
Speaker 1: us at all times. Kurt Warner's beautiful story is a
Speaker 1: representation of that truth. A wonderful way to wrap up
Speaker 1: this podcast season. American Underdog, a lions Gate film open
Speaker 1: in theaters on Christmas Day, starring Zachary Levi, Anna pa Queen,
Speaker 1: Dennis Quaid, and Chance Kelly, rated PG. It's brilliantly dure,
Speaker 1: directed by brothers John and Andrew Irwin and produced along
Speaker 1: with their Kingdom Story Company partner Kevin Downs. You will
Speaker 1: immediately be drawn into the complex, emotionally charged story of
Speaker 1: Kurt's life both on and off the football field, sharing
Speaker 1: the highs and the lows of his devastating setbacks and
Speaker 1: his triumphant victories. It is a story filled with hope
Speaker 1: and the knowledge that with really, really, really hard work, perseverance,
Speaker 1: faith and family, our dreams, no matter how far fetched,
Speaker 1: are never out of reach. If you haven't already been,
Speaker 1: get yourself to the movie soon, take the family, get
Speaker 1: a big old bucket of popcorn, and get in the game.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being with me on this season of
Speaker 1: Love Someone. We will kick off and just a few
Speaker 1: days and I cannot wait to share all the inspiration
Speaker 1: from upcoming guests that have to share goodness with you.
Speaker 1: Take care, my friends, God bless you,