The Legendary Journeys of Kevin Sorbo | A Bee Interview
Kevin Sorbo finally stopped by The Babylon Bee's new studio and talked about leaving California, getting canceled before cancel culture was a thing, and the insanity of having drag shows for kids in churches. You won't be disappointed if you check out this interview! In the subscriber-only full-length interview, Kevin also answers the Second Set Of Ten Questions! Keep up to date with Kevin Sorbo's latest work at Sorbo Studios, such as Miracle in East Texas, Reagan and Left Behind: Rise of the AntiChrist. You can also see Kevin in Kevin Sorbo Presents The Babylon Bee's 10 Best Christians in Hollywood.
I did it two years ago, and it's a whole new thing.
We changed the studio, we changed the hosts.
You were here with Kyle and I.
I don't think that we were not not No, you weren't.
You weren't.
You were on the Babylon B before either of us were.
So where'd they go?
Well, we fired on and Kyle is on a flight to.
All right.
There you go.
No, we did not fire.
But we have water for you this time.
I appreciate it.
Because last time I came, you guys had no water.
And I said, I realized we're in California and this is like gold.
Yes.
Yeah.
So, you know, it's very valuable.
I actually just, I came a little bit earlier before I came to you guys because there's a guy that I've been talking to on the internet and he wants to fund one of my movies.
So he said, I know you're a golfer.
Come on, we'll talk on the golf course.
So on the golf course, where, you know, you have the ball washers, there was no water.
Oh, really?
So they don't want to put water anywhere right now.
And the golf course was just burnt.
So I don't believe in the drought.
I think it's not happening.
That's just my opinion.
You don't believe in the drought?
Yeah, that's one of the concerns.
I come back.
I live in Florida now.
I got the heck out of here four years ago.
I left California in the rearview mirror.
We're green all the time.
I love it.
That's so nice.
We're green all, you know, 24 hours, 365 days a year.
When did you leave California for Florida?
Four years ago.
Four years.
So that was pre-pandemic.
You were already in town now.
Well, you know what precipitated that was, if you remember four years ago, we had the shooting on Thousand Oaks, that crazy event.
At the bar, at the bar.
The next day, the fires came.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Remember that?
Yes, I do.
So I left that morning to fly to Indianapolis to speak at a prayer breakfast with Steve Green from Hobby Lobby.
Oh, yeah.
Not the musician, Steve Green.
Not the musician, no.
Okay.
And so my wife wakes me up at 3 in the morning the next day, because I got in late.
It's like, well, they're in East Time, so it's three hours later to get there.
And she says, we got to get out of the house.
And I go, what?
The fire is just like, we can see it over the hill.
And I freaked out.
There's nothing I could do about it.
I come back.
I went around the smoke.
It was the next day.
Fire everywhere.
I go into my driveway.
Wait, hold on.
I got to back up.
So they told the crowd that I saw three houses because they did a helicopter thing on KTLA 5, right?
And I could see my house and the house next to me was totally engulfed in flames.
Oh, wow.
And the wind's blowing that way.
I said, my house can be gone.
I get up in front of 2,100 people at this prayer breakfast.
They all stood up and prayed for my house.
I lost it on stage.
I said, how am I supposed to talk now?
Oh, my goodness.
I get back.
I drive up.
I see my house.
I stop.
There's my house standing.
And right away, police officer followed me up.
He goes, you can't be, oh my gosh, Kevin Sorbo.
I'm a big fan.
And I said, listen, I just got back in.
I just flew in from the East Coast.
My wife never had a chance to go to the safe.
I got to get stuff out of my safe.
And he goes, you can't stay there.
I said, don't worry.
I'll just grab it and go.
Of course, I stayed.
And I just made sure the fire is around the house.
We're out.
Fire came within three feet of my house.
I went around it.
Wow.
Jumped Canaan, burnt a bunch of homes down that way, jumped 101 and burnt all the way 13 more miles all the way down to Malibu.
Wow.
And my house survived.
Wow, your house survived.
So then the for-sale sign was there.
So a guy pulls up a couple of days later.
He says, I see your for-sale sign.
I lost my house.
It's gone.
Can we rent it for the next two years while we rebuild?
My insurance company will pay triple your mortgage.
I looked at my wife, Sam, I said, we're going to Florida because we've been talking about it for years.
We both got family there.
So we both talked about it.
And then within a year, they bought the house.
Nice.
So we didn't have to come back because we kept praying, just buy the house.
On a hill, it's a beautiful view of the mountains.
Just buy it.
And they just bought it.
They fell in love with it and bought it.
And now you're in Florida where you don't have to worry about natural disasters.
No, just nothing happening there.
We were on the other side of the state.
Yeah.
Everything's going so well.
Well, you know, but you got fires here.
You got land, light slides, you got earthquakes, you got Newsome, you got high taxes.
Newsome's the worst part of it.
Traffic.
Yeah, I left the worst governor in the country for the best government.
The best one.
Everybody's no question.
He's a rockstar.
He's a DeSantis as a rock star, man.
That's what's such a shame about California.
I moved out here.
I've been here 13 years, and it's such a beautiful state at so many levels.
It's just run so terribly at the state level and all the big cities.
Pennsylvania originally.
My wife's from Pennsylvania.
Oh, yeah.
Pittsburgh.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I'm from the eastern half of the state.
But I feel the same way.
I mean, I moved out here in the late 80s after college and everything, and I loved it.
I lived in Santa Monica.
It was great.
Now Santa Monica and Venice are just, you know, what they've done to the beach area and the homeless and the drugs and the feces everywhere.
It's amazing to me.
It's mostly the feces.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's when that brings, it's like people used to come here for the waters.
Now they come for the variety of things.
But it's sad.
It's a beautiful state.
Yeah.
And they have these policies that make it worse.
You would think they would look at 5 million people have left the state in the last 10 years and like 2 million in the last three years.
Doesn't that send a signal of some kind that maybe we're not doing something right?
But the only thing I can come up with is they're doing it on purpose.
They want to destroy the country.
They want to destroy the state.
And I don't get it.
I don't get it.
It's weird to me.
It's not benefiting anyone.
No.
And the public edge.
I mean, I have the number one after-school program in the state here for 25 years now.
Of course, I can't be part of it because I live in Florida now, but we started in 1997.
It's called The World Fit for Kids.
Go to WorldFitForKids.org.
LA Unified is horrible.
It's one of the worst in the country.
The worst is Baltimore, but LA Unified has averaged a 54% dropout rate the last 25 years.
Terrible.
We work with 12,000 inner city kids in these inner city schools.
We average a 98% graduation rate and a 67% higher GPA.
What are we doing for those three hours after school that school system can't do?
They're dumbing down our kids on purpose.
It's incredible.
It is incredible.
Sad.
It's very sad.
And you guys are very passionate about school and homeschooling.
We are.
My wife's.
Yeah, we talked to your wife about school choice last year.
That's right.
That's right.
She's in D.C. right now speaking again.
And she's got a number of books out there.
My favorite is the first one she wrote called They're Your Kids.
And a friendly reminder.
But I think we said something earlier.
I think one of the blessings of COVID is that now 2 million more kids are being homeschooled.
After people saw, really, they woke up to the fact that, wow, the public school system really shouldn't be used as a babysitting service.
It kind of sucks.
No, my wife's running.
Yeah, go ahead.
No, I was just, and it's getting more and more politicized.
It's just public schools.
It's crazy.
Like, I always think when I was a kid, I didn't know whether my teachers were Democrat or Republican.
It was like you just learned the topics.
Now it's so agenda-driven.
It's just crazy.
That's right.
Whether they were married or gay or straight up.
I didn't know who they were.
I didn't even know their names.
It was mom and dad.
I couldn't remember them.
Yeah, I actually know.
The only one we knew was gay was the gym teacher, but that's because she was the gym teacher.
I was pretty sure my gym teacher and junior high had something going on.
I don't know what he was doing.
Anyway, but now it's crazy.
My wife runs a large homeschool program in the area.
Yeah.
And it's just an insane, an insane influx of people in the last year.
So we've had to really work on infrastructure and stuff to try to have a net for people.
Well, and they woke up with the school boards, too.
They're running by these woke nut jobs that want to put in the stupidest things and teach kids the gender and the woke and the critical race theory.
And we just had in Florida, 12 of the 15 top school districts have been flipped and Christian conservatives running the school boards on.
They got rid of these people.
And thank God, I don't understand why people are doing this.
I don't quite get it.
What this agenda-driven hate world we're living in.
Well, divide the kids based on their race.
Make these kids feel lower than these kids.
What about drag shows for kids?
Is that an idea?
I don't get it.
And churches are doing it.
Oh, I know.
Churches are doing it now.
I don't know if I'd call them churches.
Those are like surprising to see that happening.
I don't know.
I honestly don't care.
People, I mean, I honestly don't care that people are transgender or gay.
I've been in a business for so long.
I've worked with so many gay people in my life.
I've never had a problem with them.
They've never a problem with me.
And there won't be one that ever come out and say, oh, he's horrible to me.
But they still, like, as we mentioned earlier, they love their labels.
They love you're transphobic, you're homophobic, you're racist.
I love that.
And I go, how am I that way?
How am I racist?
Give me examples of my racism.
They can't.
It's just a way to shut you down when you disagree.
Yeah.
That's right.
Yeah, that's true.
It's a difficult place to be in.
So no drag shows for kids is what you're saying.
I say it doesn't make any sense to me.
It doesn't.
I think that, you know, let them grow up, let them discover that down the road through whatever reasons, but to sit there in fourth and fifth, you know, graders and younger.
It's just weird to me.
It's just weird that they go out and because they're all very sexual, too.
Yeah, it's the sexualization of kids.
Yeah.
Well, that's what they wanted.
That's what they're all about.
And don't tell your parents.
Don't tell your parents we're going to sexualize you.
Yeah.
Show you all this weird stuff.
Yeah.
We saw that really just actually.
Adam and I saw that this week where there was a guy, a mom, dressed like the drag queen that had come.
Oh, yeah.
I saw that.
Did you guys see that?
I saw that.
You saw that?
She's trying to prove a point.
Well, and they're like, oh, it's so inappropriate.
Yes.
Yes, the point.
In the meantime, that's good.
What about the Second Amendment?
Are you a gun guest?
We are fully loaded at the Sorbo household.
Yes.
We have more than enough weapons to protect ourselves if anybody ever wants to come visit.
And we are set.
My two boys are really good shots.
Oh, good.
The only ones really not taking lessons yet, but once again, it was my 17-year-old daughter.
But my two boys, my wife's into it.
We're set for war.
That's great to do.
You come to our house.
We're going to go down fighting.
So if something happens, people know to go to the Sorbo house.
Exactly.
When the grid goes down.
Because we have plenty more guns spread around.
You also have sex.
And they're all legal, by the way.
Oh, that's there.
While in Florida, a lot's legal.
It's legal here.
This is true.
Yeah, I actually got my carry license here in California, believe it or not.
Oh, yeah, that's cool.
It's easier in Ventura County where I live.
Oh, okay.
Sheriff's Department, there were fans and they kind of helped, but it still took a long time.
Florida was sort of like Texas.
I think I walked in and I had to have a drink of water and they said, there you go.
You can now carry.
Here it is.
You never had to tell them who you were.
No.
You just go on in and just do it.
Do you know who I am?
Yeah.
I want one of these.
You know how I used to be.
Crying out loud.
But yeah, no.
Do you still have swords available also at home?
I do.
In fact, when I do my interviews, I have the big sword I got for my last day on Hercules when the crew, my props department made this amazing, amazing sword.
And they inscribed it, you know, the seven years of the series on there that we shot it back in the 90s and said the journey may be over, but the legend lives on.
Which I thought was pretty cool.
And it's a big old sword, like a five.
It is a big old sword.
Oh, it would hurt if you actually.
I don't know if we have any of the swords.
Oh, we got the one.
You got one there?
I love it.
You guys have my photo back.
Yes.
Yep.
I grew up watching it.
I tell you, it was Hercules.
It was Christian and conservative culture all over the room.
Well, it's mythological.
Yes.
Were you Samson?
No, that's biblical.
I had the long hair.
But it was what I liked about the writers, they put a lot of good messages in Hercules.
They really did.
And the fight scenes were all, for the most part, were done in a very humorous way.
I wasn't killing people.
You're throwing people around, landing cow pies 100 meters away.
And it was just fun.
And, you know, pardon this sin of pride, but we did become the most watched show in the world by season three.
You know, we're in 176 countries, and it was really cool.
That is amazing.
Yeah.
It was good fun.
Do you travel internationally and get recognized in other countries regularly?
Oh, yeah.
Do you have any fun stories about getting recognized?
Yeah, you know, I was shooting a movie in Malta.
Uh-huh.
And we had Easter weekend off.
So three of the actors, myself, we decided, you know, it's just a little puddle jumper to get into Rome.
Because I've always wanted, as a bucket, let's see the Pope.
Easter Sunday.
Came out.
That'd be cool.
100,000 people out there.
Which Pope was this?
I can't remember it now.
There's the one that's there now.
It's the one that's there now.
Pope Francis.
The really liberal one.
But anyway, he came out, and all of a sudden, while he's preaching, there's a group of these college, Italian college kids, and they see me.
And they're, Hercules, you know, doing crazy.
I'm like, shh, everybody turned to look.
And of course, then I ended up doing photos.
They recognized you for the ancient statues.
They were like, yes, I went over and posed.
I posed.
When I was walking through the museums, the Hercules ones, I was posing next to it.
Oh, that's awesome.
You know, there was a new statue that was just discovered, a 2,000-year-old statue of Hercules.
Right.
I read about that.
Is that right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's interesting.
Why doesn't it look like you?
I don't know.
Oh, yeah.
That's him, right?
That's him right there.
There it is.
Yeah.
Kind of looks more like Adam, actually, if you shit.
Does it?
I don't have the curly hair.
I rarely see anybody with that sculpture curly hair.
it almost looks like the prometheus movie you know oh they're really big-headed you know i love that searching for the yeah it was interesting It was an interesting way to look at, did they create us?
Did they see us?
Did they seed us?
Yeah.
Yeah, it doesn't solve the problem.
No.
And it is the forefather of all the alien movies as well.
Which I love.
I love those movies.
Good.
Second one.
The first one was really great.
The second one was awesome that James Cameron.
I agree.
What's amazing, I came out in 1986.
That still plays today.
Yeah.
I mean, that special effects back then still works amazing.
Well, the 80s were all about actual practical special effects, right?
And so some of them actually have lasted and transcended, right?
Well, that's the only thing, you know, Hercules hasn't dated except special effects.
I would say about 70% of the special effects look a little corny now.
Because, you know, with the budget that we had, they still did a good job.
But those guys, the Weta group, went on to do, you know, everybody worked on Lord of the Rings when I finished filming.
Peter Jackson used to come on the set and see how things were developing.
And he was writing the trilogy of Lord of the Rings during the 90s.
And we were like, we were the biggest thing New Zealand ever had at that time.
And you mentioned last time, right, that a lot of those guys that worked with you on Hercules then won Academy Awards for the work they did.
They all did.
I mean, the Special Effects guys, Nyla Dixon in their wardrobe.
She went on to win.
She was actually, she was nominated for two things the same year, Lord of the Rings, and she also did The Last Samurai, the Tom Cruise.
Oh, yeah.
That was a good movie, too.
It was.
That's good.
It was.
No, that's interesting.
So did you ever audition for The Lord of the Rings or anything like that?
You know, here's the funny thing.
I got invited to the final Lord of the Rings.
They won Academy Awards, all three of them, but the third one, they knew it was a final.
It's like the political part of Hollywood.
That's when they really gave him all the awards.
We got the third one, so trust me, we'll take care of you then.
So at the after party, Peter Jackson came up and said, you know, it was really your show that got things going in New Zealand.
And it's true because we had two spin-off shows.
We had Xena, Warrior Princess, Season 3.
That's right.
Season 5, we spun up Young Hercules with an unknown 20-year-old actor by the name of Ryan Gosling.
Oh, really?
I remember that.
I don't remember.
I remember Xeno.
That only lasted two seasons.
So a lot of people don't remember it.
I do remember that, actually.
Did he go on and do other stuff?
He did a couple things.
And, you know, Ryan, if you're listening, how come you haven't put me in one of your movies?
Yeah, come on.
Come on, dude.
Give me a break.
Come on, man.
But Peter said, you know, your show really got things going.
And I looked at him.
I said, Peter, that's a really nice compliment.
But why didn't you put me in one of your Lord of the Rings movies?
You had more than one character.
My ego's not that big.
I don't have to have a lead in it.
I would have liked to have Eagle Mortens' role in it, but that's okay.
Everyone else did, too.
But, you know, he goes, yeah, I guess I should have done that, you know, but it is what it is.
It would have been nice.
It would have been a nice gesture.
That would have been.
probably quite different politically, so I'm sure he's not going to want to put me in anything now.
I imagine you're different than most people in Hollywood.
I know there's an undercurrent.
Oh, there's no question.
There's no conservatives, but there's not a lot of vocal people like you.
I get like, especially the last three or four years, when I'm on a set working, I always get at least one actor coming up and say, hey, man, thanks for being a voice for us.
I say, why don't you be a voice for yourself?
What are you afraid of?
Because I got blacklisted from Hollywood.
There's no question.
But thank God for independent movies because I work pretty much without agents and manager.
They're doing pretty much my own thing through my own Sorbo Productions.
And SorboStudios.com, please sign up, SorboStudios.com.
Sorbostudios.com.
But it was, you know, it's interesting that they're the ones that scream for tolerance and freedom of speech.
But as we know, it's a one-way street.
Yeah.
Which is too bad.
Tolerance for them.
I mean, do you guys, I don't harbor that kind of anger towards people.
I've never understood.
I really don't.
It feels like there's a sort of psychological projection there where they genuinely hate the people they disagree with.
So they think that if we disagree with them, we must hate them.
But I don't.
I worked in Hollywood around left-leaning people.
I was open about being conservative, but I never hated them.
I didn't, like, I don't have animosity towards them.
No.
And it feels so weird and foreign when they project that onto you and say, oh, you're hateful because you disagree.
And you're going, how, how am I, you know, and they're the ones who are actually hateful.
Conservophobes.
When Biden did his little, he had the, you know, the Count Dracula thing he did with the black people.
Oh, yeah.
You know, the crime floor, I was waiting for the empire, Russia, or whatever he was trying to be.
And he said that we're the party of hate and violence.
I'm going, what?
Yeah.
What?
Antifa BLM and the burning of cop cars and destroying people's businesses and attacking people with tire irons and baseball bats?
That wasn't conservatives.
No.
You know?
And I love how they keep harp.
January 6th, we've had years of violence from the left.
And you're going, well, January 6th, there's already been proven there were Antifa guys in there and BLM people in there.
And if there was really a takeover, why wouldn't that not go in there with guns?
Nobody had guns.
Yeah, wouldn't it?
That's a weird takeover of a country.
A hundred idiots and a guy dressed like a buffalo.
No.
They've certainly just used that as their way boutism for years and hundreds of violence.
Well, I would say the theory I have is that they're continuing to try to make us respond.
So they're doing things to try to force us to do something.
That's all they got.
And then they will use that as an opportunity to shut us down.
It's all projection to everything they blame the right on, they're already guilty of.
Oh, yeah.
It's all just deflected the other way.
If you remember the media, in the months after the January 6th riot, they ran this whole story in this narrative that Trump supporters were planning riots in all 50 state capitals.
Do you remember that?
They ran this for weeks that this was going to happen.
Yeah, yeah.
And then nothing happened because they were not planning that.
But it's like they want to instigate that and put it out there.
Don't take debate.
Haven't we noticed that the most violent cities and violent states are all run by Democrats?
That's right.
And it's only getting worse.
And it's only getting worse.
I mean, my home state of Minnesota, I'm sure, is turning into California with its politics.
But you looked at Minneapolis, LA, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, all these people going on back with the BLM thing and the Antifa thing.
And they just let it go on.
And CNN's sitting there with cop cars blowing up behind them in buildings saying, see, that's peaceful.
Protests.
Mostly peaceful.
Are people that stupid now in America?
They watch TV and go, yeah, that's peaceful.
I think they are.
But it's weird that they believe who they believe.
And so when somebody's standing on a fire going, things are perfectly fine, they'll actually, they're more prone to believe them because they have confirmation bias.
They know those people agree with them police.
To fund the police, really?
To fund the police?
And you see the crime going on in New York and Philadelphia and Chicago?
How does that mayor stay in power?
Oh, I don't know.
What does she say in power?
And the Democrats are all trying now to pivot and somehow act like they were pro-police and just ignore that they were the ones chanting defund the police for over a year.
There was somebody on the Democrat Party saying there was a Republican saying right, yeah.
I saw that.
I flipped on that recently.
That's like textbook Orwellianism.
It's like just rewriting history and saying, no, that's not what happened.
Well, if you go to the Reagan Library.
They are good at that.
Have you been there?
Which is awesome.
Yeah, I've met the Reagan library.
I used to live in that.
Well, we lived seven miles from this.
We had a year.
We take the kids every three months.
So cool.
And if you look at when he was Mondale from my home state of Minnesota, that's the only state he won is Minnesota.
Reagan took 49 states in that reelection campaign.
And Mondale only won by four percentage points.
And if you look at it, it's all blue.
So I went and checked it out.
The Democrats used to be the red states.
The Republicans used to be the blue.
A Democrat switched it.
And my reasoning, what I think he switched it for, red has always been the color of the Soviet Union and communism.
And they wanted to switch colors.
That's just my two cents.
But it's weird to me.
I never knew that they switched the colors like that.
If you check it out, it's this.
I wish I could remember the guy's name, but I know I read it.
It was a Democrat senator that changed the colors for some reason.
Everybody said, fine, whatever.
And it's interesting.
Because they didn't want to be associated with communism.
Yeah.
And they were going that direction.
They were that way.
They didn't want to telegraph what they were doing.
My first year, my first year, my second series, Andromeda, was up in Canada.
So it was the year 2000.
And they were having their own presidential debate going on.
And our prime minister, because they have Trudeau, who's awesome.
He's related to somebody in Cuba.
But anyway.
Yeah, he's so great.
We all love him.
There was a woman, there was like five people doing the debate, and she was from the Green Party.
And she was going on and on about it's unfair that anybody makes more money than somebody else.
So if you're a brain surgeon and you're a guy that's a bouncer at a club, you should get paid the same amount of money.
And even the other four basic socialists of Canada looked down at her like she was a nutshop.
And my wife looks at me and she goes, no, it's shit.
I know it's the Green Party.
It's really the watermelon party.
It's green on the outside, but it's red on the inside.
And it's true.
That was a Sam Sorbo quote.
It was a Sam Sorbo quote.
I'm sure other people have done it, but it's the first time I heard it was.
I don't know.
It sounds like, guys, I've only met her a couple of times, but she sounds pretty quotable.
She's quotable.
She's quotable.
That's so cool.
Man, so have you always been, by the way, you've always been conservative?
As far as I know, yeah.
I mean, I don't know exactly.
Well, I mean, I just, because I grew up in that household that my parents were Democrats in Minnesota, but I never really became political until I turned 18.
I said, wow, I get a vote.
I'm going to pay attention now because it was sort of fascinating for me.
And then when I saw Reagan, or some the way he spoke and all that kind of stuff, and I saw Jimmy Carter, and I went, okay, I think Reagan is like 100 times better than this guy.
And I was right.
Now, did you rebel from your parents?
Is that your biggest reason?
No, I think they were just, it's funny because as my parents got older, I would sit there and go, dad, let's talk about these 10 issues.
Let's talk about them.
I tick it off with each one.
I said, okay, seven of these 10 things that you just said to me makes you conservative.
But he grew up as a kid in the FDR world on a farm in Iowa.
They were poor as poor could be.
Same as my mom, another farm in Iowa.
That's how they met at some roller skating party when they were kids.
That's how people used to meet before.
That's how they used to meet.
Ice cream social.
Yes, it's true.
And so it was like that's where they just, and that's a lot of people vote that way today.
They see that D by the name, I'm going to vote for the D.
And they don't look at what that person actually believes in because we're lazy.
People don't have the patience anymore to really watch things.
And that's why everything's in sound bites right now because people just, you know, we're just dumbing down people.
Well, one of my best friends is he would consider himself a Democrat.
He grew up around Democrats, and he's always identified that way.
Becoming friends with me was actually a challenge for him, I think, because we have such differing opinions.
But every time we talk about the issues, he and I agree on everything.
And so I'm just like, you are considered.
I don't want to say this because he hates the label.
Because he grew up hating the label.
He thought that it was like a bad word.
Well, it's brainwashed that way, too.
But they're rational.
They're rational.
They just have this weird kind of like, I can't really bring myself to vote for a conservative part.
So it's kind of sad.
And were you always an athlete and stuff?
Like big.
My hometown, about 7,000 people.
We're about 35 miles, 30 miles west of Minneapolis.
But you know, it's like when you're a small school like that, we had about 250 people each graduating class.
Sports was all consuming.
Our football games, 5,000 people would show up at our games out of the 7,000 people.
I mean, they really supported the sports there.
So I was a hoopster as well.
Loved hoops.
Played hoops in college as well, Division II.
You did?
Yeah.
So you're always a basketball player.
Loved hoops.
Loved hoops.
But it's interesting.
Is hoops basketball?
Yes.
Okay.
You know, I get there.
He wrote Division II.
When you get there, I remember calling my dad and saying, you know, I was a pretty good athlete in my high school years.
I said, I'm here.
And everybody at Division II school is as good or better than me.
So it really opened my eyes up to the reality of I won't be playing hoops the rest of my life.
But I played in three city leagues here in California before I got Hercules.
Oh, wow.
So for five years, I played three times a week, Pasadena League, Northridge, and Beverly Hills League.
And just always loved the game.
And then when I booked Hercules, obviously I took me down to New Zealand.
But, you know, it's not a big sport down there.
Australia is.
Australia loves basketball, but their big sports are cricket and rugby.
The All Blacks are like amazing.
Did you play rugby when you were down there?
You know what?
I didn't.
But as a kid growing up, we played a game in my front yard called Razzle Dazzle with a football.
That the only way to go forward, you had to throw the football backwards and had no idea.
I didn't know what rugby was as a kid.
So we were playing rugby and not even realizing it.
Yeah.
We had a blast doing it.
That's so funny.
Who made that game up?
Like, do you think they knew about rugby and just stole the idea and were like, hey, I made this game up?
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's a tough sport.
It's a great sport and a lot of action.
It's sort of like football and soccer combined in a way.
It's just non-stop action.
I was thinking, don't they have less injuries in rugby than American football?
They have a lot of injuries.
But, you know, they always say, oh, you Americans, you got to wear those helmets and stuff.
Come on, rugby's a man's sport.
And I'm going, you know what?
If you guys hit as hard as we hit American football, you'd have 10 people die every game.
That's right.
Because in rugby, you can only hit the guy with the ball.
In football, you can take out anybody anytime.
You can come and just clock somebody from the side.
And so it's a whole, they don't get it.
But I think it's this whole thing about, you know, oh, you're America.
You guys think you're so great.
You think of the center of the world night.
Well, we kind of are.
You've never heard of it.
I'm in New Zealand.
You have all our movies.
You have all our television shows.
You have Kentucky Fried Chicken and Wendy's over here.
It's always weird hearing a New Zealand guy, a Kiwi, telling you you're a pansy, you know?
It's like in the Kiwi accent.
I had a guy come up to me at the gym.
He was a real pansy, man.
And he came up and he goes, huh, hey, so you're the hook of this guy, eh?
And I said, well, I'm an actor playing Hercules.
Yeah, he goes, yeah.
So you're a Yank.
And I go, well, I'm from America.
Yeah.
He goes, yeah, I've been to America.
I hated it.
And I said, I had a good comeback.
I said, well, don't go back there.
We have enough people there already.
And I walked away.
I thought a dumbbell is going to be in the back of the head, but I was proud of my comeback in the moment.
Because it's true.
We have enough jerks in this country.
We don't mean anymore.
I mean, gone, me?
Yeah, you're that guy.
Hey.
You're the Ichelis gone.
These guys are so funny.
They talk on the upswing, especially the women.
I went to the beach and they have these guys.
And I was talking to them.
He was asking me a question.
That's right.
What's coming up?
But it's interesting.
But it's interesting.
It was a great country.
People are great.
It's beautiful down there.
It's just stunning.
But you're pretty active on Twitter, right?
Did you like Twitter when it started?
Like, did you get into that?
Yeah, I did.
I mean, I wasn't as active as I have been over the last two years.
And probably because Facebook took me down a couple of years ago.
Because, you know, that wussy Zuckerberg and his little troll minions.
Title this.
He's a total wussie.
He is a big wuss.
I'll tell you right now.
Well, he is.
I mean, come on, give me a break.
I mean, we're supposed to have freedom of speech in this country.
And I wasn't saying anything evil about anybody.
I was questioning COVID.
I was questioning what's six feet apart.
I talked to doctors.
I've got a book out there dealing with what I went through.
And I started doing speaking events in front of nothing but doctors and asking questions.
They all admit behind closed doors, masks are pretty useless.
Pretty freaking useless.
But you can't say that.
And why can't you say that?
What's the big deal here?
We've got to listen to Lord Fauci and Prince Gates, and these guys should be in prison for the stuff that they've done.
Lord Fauci.
It's crazy.
Like, well, why can't we ask a question about and question what they're doing?
But we are turning into a complete communist country right now.
And it's starting to happen.
And fear is the government's favorite weapon of every level.
Fear is what they want to use, fear and control.
Stay six feet apart.
Ask a doctor with nobody around, they'll say, that's ridiculous.
If you really didn't want to catch anything, a cold, the flu, 20 feet at least.
But let's face it, the vast majority of people that died from it were people that were elderly and pre-existing conditions.
That's a fact.
But you can't even say that without people going crazy.
But you know what?
It was funny on airplanes because in Florida, I never wore a mask.
Barely.
Barely.
Doctors, dentists' offices, they make you walk in with it or something.
Grocery stores, I just didn't do it.
And they come out, could you please put a mask on?
Yeah, no.
And I was just, you know, but you guys here were just nuts about it.
I mean, it was insane.
You're arresting people surfing by themselves.
Oh, my gosh.
That was one of the best things I've ever seen with that video.
It's the stupidest new thing in the world.
The dumbest thing I've ever seen.
You look at this closing on the parks.
If anything, people should be out there running around.
And I hear that they still wear masks in schools here.
Some of them do, at least.
That's just stupid.
I think they have the strongest immune systems around.
Why are we just not.
And then there's a great interview, and I've got it.
I'll post it again with Fauci back on 60 Minutes.
This is in 2014, 2015.
The guy interviewing one of the six-man guys, so my wife had the flu for the last two weeks.
She's been laid up, but she's great.
Now she feels better.
She goes get the flu shot now.
He goes, She had the flu?
And the guy says, Yeah.
He goes, Oh, she doesn't need a shot.
That's the best way.
That natural immunity.
Then all of a sudden, natural immunity became a bad word to say.
It's all about control.
Nonsense.
Look at the people.
Have you seen the footage of European soccer guys just falling dead on the field after taking both jabs?
Nobody's talking about it.
Which, at the very least, should be being eight-year-old talk about.
Great.
There's been art, musical artists and stuff that have been falling over dead.
And it's like, you know, even if you want to say, well, don't jump to the conclusion that it was a vaccine, we should at least be talking about this happening and investigating what happened.
I'm curious.
It's happening a lot.
No, no, you're right.
I mean, it's crazy.
There's a bunch of young folks, though.
We're talking people 18 to 20 and athletes.
400% higher deaths in people 25 and younger than ever before.
400%.
That's crazy.
And we're not talking about it.
Well, in the last week, there were like three or four of them in the news, and I was just like, this is still happening.
Still happening.
Of course it is.
YouTube's going to put the warning label across the street.
I know, actually, it's probably right down here, right?
I think you guys posted.
You look down.
Facebook has a little thing.
Australia now says, if you die because of the shots, we'll pay for your funeral.
Yeah, Michael.
If you die because of a shots, we'll pay for it.
We'll pie for the funeral.
That's a funeral.
That doesn't mean.
Well, that's when you know you're going to die in the terminal talk about it.
Now they have to pay for it.
That's a good idea.
That's a good idea.
Hey, so do you want to do this thing?
Who said it?
We have some tweets here.
These are, are these from Twitter?
These are tweets.
Okay.
And this is who said it, the B or Kevin Sorbo?
Okay.
I post some of yours.
You do post some of yours.
When I say Babylon B. Do you always put Babylon B?
Because we've seen a few where we get jealous because you put our quotes and then it's like, oh, Kevin Sorbo did exist, but it gets hundreds of like retweets.
And then it's like, oh, man, that was our joke.
I try to always put you guys in.
Okay, cool.
But we have some here.
Do we have the answers to these or how do we know the answers to these up here?
Well, I think it's at the bottom.
There's like a little.
Okay, cool.
So are we all playing this game?
I guess.
I guess I'll you read one, then I'll read one.
All right, cool.
Number one, unvaccinated man feeling left out as all his vaccinated friends have COVID.
That's you guys.
That one I know is.
That one was us?
Yeah.
Okay.
I won't know the answer to a lot of these.
So Jesse Smollett will be forced to share a jail cell with his attacker.
That's you guys.
That was ours.
That was ours.
Okay.
Three.
To save time, Glene Maxwell just lists the Hollywood celebs and politicians who didn't visit Epstein Island.
I think that was one of ours.
I think that was you guys again.
Was it?
Yeah.
Are these all ours?
Do you have any of my stuff?
Oh, these are all.
It's like at the bottom.
Are these all ours?
I know I did some jokes about that.
I know that it sounds similar.
So these at the bottom, this is why this is this group.
I didn't realize this.
This is our producer.
It says, these are the Babylon B headlines that you tweeted out with no attribution.
So this is the list of the ones.
Shame on me.
I didn't realize.
I usually always do this.
And if I use the list of things.
If I forget, my son always double checks and he said, no, that's Babylon.
You got to put Babylon B.
Now, do we have permission?
Since those are, there's 14 there.
Can we select 14 of your tweets that we really like?
And just if Elon puts us back on Twitter, we'll see.
Yeah, I know.
We're going to know in a week.
But I would be honored if you guys did.
That'd be amazing.
Are you optimistic about the Elon thing going through?
I hope so.
Yeah.
I really need to restore free speech on these platforms.
Well, it's absolutely crazy.
I know.
It is crazy.
I just don't, like I said, I don't get it.
They are the party of hate and anger.
And it's like, guys, let's have differing opinions.
That's what free speech is supposed to be about.
But we've been taking free speech away from us for the last 50, 60 years, just in increments.
But now it's just accelerated.
I'm angry at you.
And, you know, you talk to these people.
What are you mad about?
Well, what do you got?
You know, if you're just looking for any reason to be angry right now, I would love to do a documentary on Antifa separately.
Blur out their faces because they're all wearing masks anyway.
And I bet there's a common denominator in how they were raised and how they grew up.
I really do.
Well, don't they say that most of them are trained Marxists too?
Yeah.
Like they studied Marxists.
Well, that's what Patrice Coolers, who was like one of the founders of BLM, the organization, she's like in a podcast saying we're trained Marxists.
They were open.
They were openly at BLM.
They wanted to get rid of God.
They believe in communism.
They wanted to break up the nuclear family.
That was originally on their platform on their website.
Pregnancy is slavery.
Yeah.
Really?
Okay.
So all women stop having babies now.
And then 100 years from now, there'll be no life left on the planet that are humans.
That's right.
But men can have babies now, I think.
We can only have babies now.
Of course, of course, of course.
You can't deny that.
Yeah, I can.
We can deny it.
Well, it is pretty impressive, though, to see a guy like you who's done so much acting, so much Hollywood stuff, be able to be open about who you are and talk very clearly and openly about who you are.
Is there a point at which you decided, hey, I'm a Christian.
Have you always been a Christian, by the way?
Yeah.
And so I've always been a Christian and you decided, look, dude, I'm going to live out loud.
I'm tired of trying to be on the show.
It was about 12 years ago, I think.
It was more of a, I was always open about it, but I mean, it really became a social media.
My wife told me, she said, you know, they're going to take you down.
I said, well, that's just ridiculous.
So I think I was one of the first canceled culture before it became a term, I think.
But I just said, yeah, I'm tired of the hypocrisy.
I just got tired of it.
And I started fighting back.
And sure enough, my manager, I said to my agent, said, we can't work here anymore.
And then I kept my career going.
I've shot over 70 movies.
You know, there's a dozen that suck.
But I didn't know that going into it.
No, you know, I go back.
I keep telling people there's an interview I saw years ago with Sir Michael Caine, which I thought was brilliant.
And the guy, the interviewer said, you're Sir Michael Caine.
You've won all of your award in acting and theater and stage, wherever.
Why would you do Jaws 3D?
I mean, did you even see the movie?
And he said, no, but I saw the house that built me in Spain.
Sometimes the money's good.
You know, you got mortgages to pay.
But I've been very fortunate to stay very busy.
I've got three movies done in the can coming out early next year, January, February.
Two of them I directed.
One's called Miracle Nees Texas, Wonderful True Story, set in 1930.
I directed it with Lou Gassett Jr. and Tyler Mayne and John Ratzenberger.
The Reagan movies coming out.
I was just the actor in the playing the pastor to Ronald Reagan, played by Dennis Quaid.
Very cool.
And then The Left Behind, so people know the Left Behind books.
Left Behind, Rise of the Antichrist.
I directed this one as well.
We got Neil McDonald's in there.
We got Bailey Chase.
And when does that one come out?
January 27th to 28th.
Oh, okay.
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I mean, I'm already getting canceled culture all the time.
Comic-Cons that I used to get invited to, they won't invite me anymore.
And the guys that booked me for them, they won't, well, they don't like your posts.
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