July 19, 2023 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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EPISODE 520: LIVE FROM BEDMINSTER - THE SOUND OF FREEDOM
On today’s episode of Human Events, Jack Posobiec is joined by his wife Tanya Tay, LIVE from Trump Bedminster for an important conversation about the film that has swept the nation: Sound of Freedom. Get her first hand response to seeing the film and why it is the most important movie of 2023. Jack and Tanya Tay are joined by Tim Ballard and the trio dissect the media’s anti-campaign against the film, trying to label it at Q-Anon adjacent. They are also joined by Eduardo Verastegui, actor and...
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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
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That was Jack Smith with no words and a simple $5 sub in his hand saying, I'm here, I'm not going anywhere.
He was spotted today by CNN going to Subway for lunch, picking up a sandwich, leaving and not saying a word.
So no comment from the special counsel's office.
They're in a rush because they want to interfere.
It's interference with the election.
It's election interference.
Never been done like this.
The DOJ has become a weapon for the Democrats.
An absolute weapon.
The Biden administration is lawless.
Let's talk about who the real criminals are.
It's the Biden family.
I don't know.
Ron DeSantis.
You know, who would want to hang out with him?
Puberty is hard.
What if you're going through the wrong puberty?
We're talking about wildfire smoke, extreme heat, so we know climate change has an effect.
Michigan's Attorney General announcing charges against more than a dozen people over their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
That's right.
Dana Nessel announcing a series of charges against 16 electors for allegedly signing certificates falsely claiming President Donald Trump won the state of Michigan in the 2020 election.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events with Jack Posobiec and Tanya Tay Posobiec.
What's up, sweetheart?
Wow, dear.
Thank you for the invite.
All right.
Today is July 19th, 2023.
Anno Domini.
And as you can see, we are honored.
Aren't we honored?
We're honored to be here broadcasting live from Bedminster, New Jersey.
This is Trump National Golf Course, where in just a few hours, We will be taking part in the historic presidential screening of the film A Sound of Freedom.
We're going to be talking about that for a lot of the show today, but we also have to get to today's news.
And there was something that was mentioned in the cold open right now that I need to say, and I'm going to say these names out completely.
Kathy Burden, 70.
William Chote, 72.
Amy Fecinello, 55.
Clifford Frost, 75.
Stanley Grott, 71.
John Haggard, 82.
Mary Ann Henry, 65.
Timothy King, 56.
Clifford Frost, 75. Stanley Grott, 71. John Haggard, 82. Marianne Henry, 65. Timothy King, 56. Michelle Lundgren, 73. Michonne Maddock,
55. James Renner, 76. Maya Rodriguez, 55. James Renner, 76. Maya Rodriguez, 64. Rose Rook, 81. Marianne Sheridan, 69. Ken Thompson, 68. Kent Vanderwood, 69.
These are the Trump supporters. members.
Nearly every single one of them a senior citizen who have just been charged with election fraud, forgery, conspiracy to commit uttering, conspiracy to commit election forgery, five-year felonies, 14-year felonies for the alleged crime of submitting alternate ballots, alternate electors in 2020.
This is a legal strategy that has been used by multiple campaigns in the past.
It was actually used in the 1960 election.
Democrats have used this.
Democrats like John Podesta and the Election Integrity Project have discussed doing this, but the Michigan Attorney General has just announced these charges against seniors.
Now, I'm not going to ask you specifics, but we all know that you were born in the Soviet Union.
Going after somebody in their 60s, in their 80s!
Does this sound like something you would hear in the United States of America?
When I first got here, I would never imagine that certain crimes of this level would be attributed to senior citizens.
When I look at the list, I see American patriots, I see somebody's grandfather, I see somebody's grandmother, mom, sister.
To see those people being put through this Turmoil at the sunset of their lives, if I may say so, is very heartbreaking.
What kind of a country do we have where if you are preparing to support a legal challenge, if you have questions about an election, if you're being asked, hey, look, we say America is great because of America's democracy, America's freedom.
Where's democracy for these people?
Where's freedom for these people?
They wanted to take part in an electoral challenge, a constitutional challenge, a legal challenge, and they're being criminalized for that challenge.
You don't have a right to ask questions.
You don't have a right to say you disagree.
You don't have a right.
To redress your government with grievances.
We've got a huge show today, folks.
We are here live from Trump Bedman, so we're gonna have some special guests joining us very soon.
But the most special guest is already here, so stay tuned.
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All right, we are back.
Jack Posobiec here, the beautiful and lovely and talented Tanya Tay, joining us live from Bedminster National Golf Course.
The Sound of Freedom screening, the presidential historic screening, will take place in just a few hours after the show, but we wanted to come in and explain to everybody what's going on.
And by the way, So there's something that, you know, a lot of people have seen the show at this point.
A lot of people are now sharing the show with their friends.
The word of mouth on this is extremely strong.
Stronger than any movie that I've ever seen, probably since The Passion of the Christ.
So it's been 20 years, I guess 19 years, since that movie came out.
But one thing that we haven't done is, look, I've talked about how watching that film, and I saw it at the Museum of the Bible with you.
And I've since that night, I've wanted to actually have you on to talk about look at people have heard my take on it.
What about you?
How did you view that movie, watching it as a mother, but then also just watching it as someone who's concerned with what's going on in our country and in our world?
I believe this is the most important movie of 2023.
If you haven't seen it yet, you must.
As a mother, this touched me on such deep levels that at some point it's even hard to explain.
Because at one point in the movie, I was all in tears.
At another point of the movie, I was full of anger.
Then I had the glimpses of hope and I think the emotion that I would like to speak the most of would be the hope.
Because looking at this movie and sitting through it to the very end and seeing that there are people who can make a difference for the kids who have been As important as that is and it's amazing and we've gotten to know Tim a little bit.
gets going the hope that somebody can step up and do something about it as as important as that is and it's amazing and we've gotten to know tim a little bit it's in the process of all this let me take you back though to that scene that first scene where they take the kids and it's a it's a fashion shoot right That's the that's the cover that it's a fashion shoot.
Oh, leave your kids here and we'll be taking care of them.
And you go, you go.
You don't you don't need to stay here.
We'll take care of the kids.
The father then returns to pick them up.
And what happens?
What does he find?
His kids, his boy and a girl, were gone.
Disappeared.
This is the worst nightmare of any parent.
Leaving your kid and then coming back and not seeing them.
The absolute terror that I believe he experienced is something that I never want to experience in my life.
I can speak for all the parents.
Doesn't matter if they're on the left or on the right.
I know every parent would want nothing else but to see his kids where he left them on sheep.
There's been a few times where I can even just remember, you know, we were just down at the Turning Point event in Florida, and even, you know, even if the kids run around a corner, I know that you will be like, you have to go around that corner because you don't know what's around that corner.
So you want to see where the kids are.
So the idea that the kids could be gone, and then as it shows in the movie, that everything is gone.
There's nobody there, there's no card, there's no location.
It's as if this fashion shoot had never happened.
Then, the next thing they show in the film, and I don't want to give away too much, but I think people at this point understand what the content is.
They actually show, so on one level they show, it's a two-level movie, right?
So, the A-plot is the plot of Tim Ballard's character, played by Jim Caviezel, and Tim and Jim and Eduardo Verasti will be here today, as well as Kerry Lake and a few other special guests that will be arriving as we go throughout the night, but
The other side of the plot shows the kids as they're being trafficked and what happens to them along that trafficking pipeline where they're picked up by a recruiter and then they're sold and then they're sold again.
What was it like watching those scenes?
Because I know for me it was rough.
But what was it like sitting there, specifically with that little boy, when they put him in the room and then an adult comes in and you know what happens next?
The Saudi Afriya movie doesn't have any graphic scenes, just a little disclaimer, but you as an adult can almost picture what's going on.
And when you see those little kids helpless, you see their frightened eyes, you see the conditions they were in, it rips your soul apart.
It rips your heart out and you You just want that insanity to stop.
You want to be there to protect them.
You know, as an adult, it's your job to protect the weaker, the innocent.
And understanding the Understanding the true reality that those little kids are being handed over as goods.
They're shipped in terrible conditions.
The stuff that they endure at that young age is just beyond heartbreaking.
I remember in that scene you thought I was talking and you leaned over to me and you thought I was saying something to you but then I wasn't actually talking.
What was I doing?
You were actually praying the rosary.
I had it in my pocket here and I was just I've never seen a horror movie scarier than that.
I've never seen a movie more... even when I was a kid and you'd go to a horror movie or you'd go to a monster movie or something and you want to close your eyes because you know something's going to jump out at you.
But I never saw something like this where Even when they're not showing what happens, you want to run out of the room.
You want to scream.
You want it to stop.
And by the end of the film, you just, I just, and I'm just going to say it, at the end of the film, you get, and maybe this is the dad side of it,
Um, you just want Jim Caviezel to run into that room where all those traffickers are and pull out the AK-47 and just start going full Rambo on the whole place because that's how mad you are when you see this thing and you want to actually be able to go to the next level and if there's anything it's there's there's some fight scenes and there's great action but you I mean you want him going Just you want you want them annihilated you want them completely?
annihilated so We do have a clip though because so we've seen the film We've gone through the emotions, and it is an experience, but there's now a campaign Usually, people say, when you have a movie come out, you have a marketing campaign to get people to see the movie.
Well, in the case of Sound of Freedom, there's now a campaign to get people to not watch the movie.
And we've got a little clip.
Anti-campaign.
An anti-campaign, anti-marketing campaign.
So, let's play that clip right now of the Sound of Freedom's anti-marketing campaign.
We're getting refunds for the Sound of Freedom because apparently the water pressure in the bathrooms aren't working here.
So, no one can walk.
This horrible smell.
It smells almost like an electrical fire.
So, my fiancé and I just watched the movie Sound of Freedom.
It was hot as heck.
I literally brought a sweatshirt and I was like sweating.
But they didn't turn the lights on.
They literally had the lights on.
They kept the lights on the entire movie.
Who does that?
So, I just tried to watch the Sound of Freedom.
They're saying that there was technical difficulty.
So what's up with that?
So people are saying they have trouble seeing it.
Do you have any issues seeing it?
We did not have any issues, but then again, we were at the Museum of Bible, so there must have been God watching over us to prevent us from all the disasters.
Exactly, we had God watching over us.
So, you know, something with this, though, the fact that there's been so many media out there talking about, calling it a conspiracy theory, saying, oh, this doesn't happen in real life, this could never happen, it's all made up, it's all fake.
Did you get anything out of this movie?
Did you see anything in there that you would say, okay, that seems too outlandish, that seems ridiculous?
Or do you think that they played it pretty true to what actually goes on?
If anything, I could say that this movie is a lot of things, but it is apolitical.
This movie is something that can unite us as Americans, as parents.
It could unite the left and the right, because what better of an agenda we can have as citizens than protect the God's children?
It's it's almost like a fight of evil against the good.
And how could you not take the side of the good in this case?
Well, and here's the best part of it, because, you know, we've got and this is breaking news.
This is not from, you know, this is from industry sources, okay?
Box office receipts.
Sound of Freedom is currently expected to cross the $100 million mark in gross receipts in just two weeks since it's been out.
Just two weeks, $100 million.
$100 million.
And they can't lie about it anymore.
They can't smear it.
They can't stop this film.
Sound of, and this is from the Washington Examiner, Sound of Freedom continues to beat Sony Pictures, Insidious the Red Door overall, overall.
So let me pull that up.
Let's see, we only have a minute here, but I'm just gonna try to do this.
And then it's beating Indiana Jones in day to day.
So Insidious, what is this, like Insidious Five or something?
I know there's been a lot of those.
And it's beating it overall, I believe, domestic.
And... where'd he go?
Box office, box office.
Only 61 million.
So, Insidious the Red Door only has 61 million domestic.
That's US and Canada.
And Sound of Freedom, which has only been released domestically, has now already crossed 85 million on track to reach 100 million domestically.
Folks, That's a real film.
This is an absolute historic milestone for a movie like this that didn't have a Hollywood studio, didn't have the distribution behind it, the marketing push, everything else associated with a normal Hollywood release.
This was word of mouth, and it was the hand of God that brought this movie and has put it now at the $100 million mark.
Look, and we'll talk about this more in the next segment, but When we saw it in D.C.
for the first time, I knew it was special.
And I knew it was important.
But I didn't know it was going to be this big.
Did you have any idea it would be this big?
I was sure hoping for that, because I think that's the message that all of us need to hear.
All right, stay tuned.
Be right back.
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Jack Posobiec, we are back live here from Bedminster, New Jersey.
We are working on getting some of our very special guests.
I think some people are starting to show up.
Is that what I'm hearing?
Is that what we're being told?
You're hearing right.
All right.
We can't reveal just yet exactly who's going to be joining us for the time being.
But it's incredible to be here at this.
Let me ask you this question.
As a mom, as someone who's seen the movie, as someone who You have it's kind of it's kind of funny I'm in this position or if like I'm interviewing my own wife right so but you have two little boys right who are also my two little boys obviously but from a perspective is this as your perspective you're also someone who's gone through That immigration process.
You've lived in that world of how hard it is to go through immigration.
You've also come from Eastern Europe and you've seen people potentially deal with, maybe not child issues in terms of trafficking, but I'm sure there have been times that you've heard of people, or have you, I guess I'll just ask you openly, heard of any stories where people got into, you know, went out for an opportunity And it didn't turn out to be what they thought it was, if you know what I'm saying.
You hear those stories left and right, and there's way too many stories that you'd like to share, you'd like to, you know, announce.
One story is way too many, and unfortunately the amount of those stories with the open borders, now specifically in the southern border of America, are becoming more common.
Growing up back in the Soviet Union, those stories are not as common.
Because I felt like the borders were existing.
We had some sort of protection.
But of course there were some, and specifically young girls, who would come, go overseas to look for better opportunities in life.
And what they thought were better times.
And so, were there stories, I don't want you to give any names, but were there times that you heard of people who maybe ended up in a situation that's not what they thought it was going to be?
I've heard of people, yes.
And what did it turn out to be?
It turned out to be some sort of sexual abuse.
And things of that nature.
So they think they're going out for a job, but it turns out being... They're going to dance in a club when it turns out to be something else.
Leaving dancing in a club is already a little risqué there, but I think we may have somebody who could join us that knows a little bit about these very types of situations, possibly a little more.
I think we'll We're going to produce on the fly because, ladies and gentlemen, we have Mr. Tim Ballard himself joining us right here.
Tim, what's going on, man?
How are you?
Tim, I don't know if you've met Tanya before.
Hi, so great to meet you.
I think we briefly met at the DC premiere, but didn't really get a chance to talk.
So, Tanya, born in the Soviet Union, then it became territory of Belarus, immigrated to the United States, and I know you've been talking about, specifically, Ukraine a lot when it comes to trafficking, because the film focuses, obviously, on Latin America, South America, but, you know, obviously, with the war in Ukraine, we've seen an uptick in that part of the world.
Absolutely.
Yeah, just last year when the war broke out, my wife came to me late February and said, hey, you got to go find these seven kids that we were processing for adoption out of our foundation.
And I said, Catherine, there's Russian missiles dropping.
Like, I don't think I can do anything about these seven kids.
A few hours later, Mel Gibson calls me and says the same thing, but he has, like, more kids.
Orphans, you know, he's worried about in Ukraine.
So we ended up partnering with a group, with my good friends at Aerial Recovery, and ended up running extraction operations.
6,000 women and children we relocated, a lot of orphans in there.
But the scary thing was once we were there, you know, if human trafficking is $150 billion a year business, people often ask, well how do you get that many children into that kind of a market?
And the answer is, it's what they call harvest time.
Harvest time for traffickers is in the wake of a serious catastrophe, like an earthquake or a hurricane, or in this case, a war.
Or a war.
Because you have how many hundreds of Ukrainian children crying over the dead bodies of their family, no one to take care of them, and a nice van shows up with blankets and food, they're going to get in.
And so we tapped into an organization, a criminal organization, while we were in Ukraine.
And this was a pedophile group that had been, they were all fugitives out of Holland.
They had set up a political party there.
It's called the PNVD, basically it's the party of, translates into the party of love and freedom, you know, they use some term to hide behind.
No, we're familiar with the party actually.
Right, okay.
Well then they ended up fleeing justice because they were arrested and charged.
They reared their ugly heads during the Ukraine war because they're trying to get kids.
Now they're hiding in Mexico.
They're hiding in Latin America.
So anyway, we end up filming the entire thing.
Basically, just real quick on that, you've got rat lines basically that are sourcing in Ukraine, but then they're actually running the operation down in Mexico.
Correct.
Mexico, Caribbean, Ecuador.
Anyway, so we filmed this whole thing.
It's a four-part series.
It ends and we dismantle a child sex hotel in a little village in Ecuador called the Canoa, all being run by these Dutch pedophiles who we discovered when they reared their ugly heads around the Ukrainian wars.
So it's so transnational, this whole thing.
I mean, in four months between February and June, July, we went through six countries, three continents, took down an entire trafficking organization, and I mean, and that was just, and rescued hundreds, maybe thousands of preventative rescues.
But it only happens if you can have a transnational solution, which is what we do.
We bring that.
As a private organization, we can move rapidly, connecting government partners as needed, and that's the transnational... When I walked in, I heard you talking about this.
Child trafficking or adult trafficking, any kind of trafficking, knows no borders and boundaries.
Unfortunately, bureaucracies do.
So if we don't start working together, and the private-public model that we put forth is that solution, Well, I appreciate that because, you know, coming from my own background in in the intelligence community that you would see issues.
No, I wasn't on the trafficking side, but you know, definitely we looked at counterterrorism.
I was at Guantanamo for a year, working those operations with detainees.
We were looking at different networks that, you know, those guys knew or those guys worked with ISIS stuff, and then also focused on East Asia, particularly focused on some counterterror, but also a little bit of the narcotics because in East Asia, that's Kind of it's the same network, right?
You know, because they're in and you see this in the Middle East, as well, that the narcotics goes to fuel the terrorism or back and forth.
And so in a lot of the time, they're also just using for traffickers, it's you have that ability to transport something from one point A to point B, whether that's people, whether that's weapons, whether that's munitions, etc, etc.
That's the point.
But I always kept running into this fact that we're not using these international organizations for anything like this.
NATO isn't used like this.
Interpol does good work, but we don't, I would love to see a world where, and I've, we didn't plan to talk about this, but you know, I'd love to see a world where NATO and some of these other groups could actually be turned against these networks, instead of getting involved in some of this crazy stuff that you do get involved with.
We're going to launch a war here, we're going to put a base there.
No, it's let's go after the child traffickers, let's go after terrorists, let's go after international drug networks, because that's how they're operating, so we need to operate the same way.
That's right.
It would be great to use all these amazing resources for things that have no moral ambiguity.
Yes.
There's only a few of those things left.
Child trafficking is one of them.
Right.
And I don't care, you know, and if it's like, I don't care if it's like, okay, the Ukraine government has some information, the Chinese government has information, the Russian government, whatever, I need the information, right?
That's what it comes down to.
Right.
So you'd think it would be something where you could actually find some of these groups and just say, all right, you know, we disagree on, you know, 80% of the things, but on this 20%, yeah, we're good.
Let's go.
Yep.
And the only way that happens, I think, is mass awareness.
Mass awareness.
When the people are clamoring, the people are pissed, the people are screaming, why aren't we using resources this way?
And so I feel like Sound of Freedom, based on the success we're having, I mean, we just crossed 95 million, I think, today, in just a few weeks, and we haven't even gone!
So we just did the numbers right before you walked in.
Am I close on that?
Yeah, you're about to cross 95, and it's looking at 100.
Unbelievable.
It's looking at 100.
And that's in two weeks.
We haven't even gone international yet.
No.
And when we go international, guess what?
I mean, that's where... I'm excited because I'm thinking, well, that's where we do so many rescues.
In the countries where this film... I'm getting chills right now thinking about this.
Because that's where they need change too.
The guys in Colombia are saying, bring it here because it'll wake up our government.
Bring it to Europe, it'll wake up our government there.
It'll wake up the governments of the world when this movie hits.
And that's when we'll start seeing a resource switch.
Like right now, there's roughly about Five anti-drug US agents for every one anti-child trafficking agent.
Let's watch that.
Well, and we've seen stories as well that the Biden DOJ, and I don't know if you can corroborate this, but we've seen stories and we hear the whistleblowers coming out right now on some of the other stuff, but that they were actually moving agents away from child trafficking under the DOJ and under the FBI.
And they were putting them on these political... Yeah, like tracking school boards.
Yeah, you saw some of that testimony from Special Agent Friend and others who said, I was working child crimes, and they said, no, you're going to sit in a parking lot and write down license plates of parents who are going to school board meetings.
You have very important stuff.
Keep the nation safe.
That's what you joined for.
Oh my gosh.
So luckily that never happened to me.
I always got to work the child crimes and I love working with Homeland Security investigations and I still do.
But no change happens without someone getting loud.
And Sound of Freedom is the sharpest tool we've ever had in our hands to make the public You know, be outraged as they should be.
Did you, and just asking you from a video standpoint, I mean, I understand it's been about a decade of just on the film to get this from the original inception to where it is now.
Did you ever expect it would be this big?
Oh my gosh, no.
Like, I didn't even think it was a good idea at first when they approached me and said, let's do a movie about this.
Wow.
Because I was like, I can't get people to talk about this.
It's hard to get media to talk about it.
Not exactly a touchy-feely subject.
It doesn't make you feel wonderful.
You wouldn't like me to bring this up at the dinner table, right?
Not really, no.
It's all in God's timing.
When this film was supposed to come out in 2020, we weren't dealing with some of the problems with kids.
Until 2023.
I mean, right now it's like the apex of danger for children.
The southern border, the sexualization of kids in our schools, you know, trying to normalize child sex by changing the word pedophile to minor attractive persons.
There's a whole movement right now targeting children.
It's a perfect storm and You know, they say God's timing is always perfect and you hear that phrase and you say, OK, OK, you know, but but I really look at something like this.
I think if this film, as you say, hadn't come out now, that it wouldn't have been this big because it hit at a time when people were looking for new content.
They were also looking for a story to get behind.
They were sick of the the wokeness and sexualization of children's being pushed into our movies, into our schools everywhere.
And at the same time, it's just A topic that it's time has come.
The time has come to stop being silent.
We're going to go to a quick break, but we'll be back here from Trump Edmonster with the great Tim Ballard and the lovely Tanya Tay.
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All right, we are back here live from Historic Trump National in Bedminster.
You've got the shot right there, the delightful greens.
You can see some of the work that's being done out there, but there's work that's being done inside as well, because tonight we will have Historic, a first presidential screening of Sound of Freedom.
We're joined by Tim Ballard, the subject of the film.
Tonya Tay is also joining us.
I wanted to play, though, for you, Tim, and I know you've addressed this a couple of times, but it just it drives me nuts that we were saying before that, you know, most films have what they call, you know, a marketing campaign.
Right.
But I feel like there's for Sound of Freedom, it's the first time I've ever seen this.
There's an anti-marketing campaign going on as well.
But I'm wondering if it's actually having something a little bit of a Streisand effect.
But let's let's play a little bit.
We've got a clip of that anti-marketing campaign.
These films are created out of moral panics.
They're created out of bogus statistics.
They're created out of fear, and with something like Sound of Freedom, it specifically is looking at QAnon concepts of these child trafficking rings that are run by the high-level elites, and only people like Tim Ballard, and only people like Jim Caviezel, and by extension, only people like the ticket buyer, can help bring these trafficking rings down.
So there's a very participatory element.
You're not just going to see a movie, you're just killing two hours on a hot day, you are helping bring down these pedophile rings and save children.
Now it's not true, but it's a very comforting and it's a very warm feeling to have.
So Timmy says it's not true.
It's not true!
Oh, you know, what does it feel like to just boldface a lie to a camera?
I mean, because this guy says they specifically looking at QAnon issues.
Okay, let me say something first.
This film was produced, written, and completed before anyone ever heard the word QAnon.
I still don't even know what that is.
I actually went and found the timeline of like, and I put them side by side and said, Here's when they started working on the film, here's when they shot the film, and like, then this thing, okay, then it posts here, but they were already working on it, and then it wasn't even big until like, here, it doesn't even match at all.
And you just need to watch the film, which that guy clearly has not, because there's nothing in it even political, QAnon is conspiratorial, the high elites, there's no high elites, these are real bad guys, they're in jail, like, these are real kids, and by the way, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, CNN, they all did stories On the actual operation in October 2014 when we did this operation.
That's right.
They all did stories.
They reported.
Their story didn't change.
They did.
Something happened to their souls.
Whatever.
And now they're pretending it didn't happen.
Or somehow now it's something different.
But we're going to have the kids from the... They're young adults now.
The kids rescued.
That you see rescued in the film.
The actual kids.
The actual kids are dying.
There were a lot of them in Columbia.
They work with us still.
They're going to come up, and I've invited The Guardian, I've invited CNN, I invite that strange-looking fellow who says that we're all QAnon.
Come!
Come and tell those kids to their faces who were rescued from a life of rape, you come and tell them that they're part of some QAnon conspiracy and their lives and their story is not real.
What an awkward and beautiful conversation.
So they're going to come forward?
Oh, they're not going to.
I've invited them, but no one's taken me up on the invitation yet.
No, but I mean the kids.
Oh, the kids?
Yeah.
They want to talk to the Guardian.
They want to talk to... Oh, they say, hey, tell us... Tell me how I'm part of a conspiracy.
Oh, wow.
This is my life.
Oh, wow.
My life was almost destroyed.
These guys came in and rescued me, but you go ahead and tell me how I'm part of a conspiracy and this is not real.
This is fake.
No one's responded yet, but I invite them all again.
Come on down, guys.
We'll give you the dates and you can interview the kids and you can... They're adults now, okay?
Right, right, right.
But you can tell them that their lives are a conspiracy.
The opening line in a movie is based on real life story.
And here we are sitting with the agent who actually was in the field rescuing those children, yet they claim that somehow it was not real to them.
You know when you first walked in I thought, is that Jim?
You guys look so alike.
I was like, is that Jim?
Wait, no, but Jim's got the beard, so that's what it is.
The other thing is, we filmed it.
At the end of the film, you see real footage from that operation, and that real footage is part of a larger body of material that's called Triple Take.
It's a docu-series, or documentary.
Angel Studios has it.
They're gonna put it out.
It's so embarrassing for these idiots in the media who are saying these things.
It's like, this is a real story.
All the kids are real kids.
All the bad guys, all the good guys.
They do play with some of the narrative, mostly to hide identities of certain kids, but it's just... I don't think anyone expects it's ever going to be one-to-one from reality to screen.
There's always going to be a little bit.
Right, but the overall thing is it's based on a true story.
In that story you have inspiration, you have hope, you have solutions to this problem.
That anyone would, wittingly or unwittingly, run interference for child traffickers to make some political point or push some agenda is embarrassing and frankly grotesque.
Do you think, and this is something that I noticed, that just in, we're talking about timelines.
Because I noticed that this smear campaign, and it's been the exact same smears from every outlet against you guys, every single one, QAnon, QAnon, QAnon, QAdjacent, QAdjacent, QAdjacent.
I don't even know.
What's QAdjacent?
R?
Is R QAdjacent?
Right?
So is, that's a dad joke.
Very much a dad joke.
So none of that happened All the way during the lead up to the movie, we didn't see the smears.
We didn't see the attacks.
And I was confused.
I said, why are they not attacking this thing?
Because usually, and I've done this for a while, the narratives come out, the attacks come out, the smears come out.
Nobody said anything.
July 3rd, people start going to see it.
Free screens.
Nobody sees it.
July 4th, everybody goes to see it.
Everyone's having a great time.
We're just posting our reviews.
We said we saw it.
We had a great time.
We were actually experiencing it.
But then, all of a sudden, it beats Indiana Jones on the 4th of July.
And this is kind of what I think happened and this is this is just my contention because all of a sudden on July 5th that's when the floodgates open and it's CNN and we should actually pull if actually producer Angelo can you get the date of that take uh because I'd love to know how I'd guarantee you that clip was not before July 4th I guarantee because I know for a fact That none of this would happen until afterwards.
So, and even the pre-reviews weren't like this.
It's like Disney gets up on the phone and Bob Iger's going like, shut this thing down!
You gotta do something about this!
But July 10th, we just got there, July 10th.
Angela just said it, July 10th, right?
Unbelievable.
So none of this was before, it all came after it beat Indiana Jones.
How did you beat Indiana Jones, by the way?
How did that happen?
It feels like a miracle, like the parting of the Red Sea to me.
It really does, because Angel Studios says, hey Tim, if we really do a good job, we could maybe make $30 million out of this, like in total.
And we're like, oh that's cool!
That was like the whoa goal, right?
And so two weeks later, they'd be looking at $100 million.
What I think is happening though, back to the timeliness of God and the people being ready, people are tired.
People are tired of being lied to.
People are tired of kids being exposed in every way.
I mean, you can't put your kids in public schools these days.
I mean, they're indoctrinated in our kids.
Kids are getting hurt at the border.
And I think the people in this land know it, and they feel it.
And this film Not only shines a light on all that's happening bad to children, but it's also, it's a dividing line.
Like, if you are against this movie, I'm not calling you a pedophile, but you're certainly, again, I'll throw in maybe unwittingly, or wittingly, running interference for people who want to abuse children.
And so, people are being identified.
It's like, the line's even drawn clearer than ever before, good and bad, over this issue.
So, there's so many benefits to knowing who's on which side, and what the solutions are to end this.
And you were saying before earlier, and I wanted to, but Tim wasn't here yet, when you said the main thing wasn't that, because I view this movie, and I'm just focused on just what I want to do to these guys, but you said that you had a different mess take away from it.
I, at the end of the movie, I had a feeling of hope in me.
Seeing the guys, like you Tim, giving it all.
You know, going into the craziest situations not knowing what to expect there, but you had one goal and one child for you was worth it.
And that would give me so much hope.
And I think this movie in a sense is a call to action.
I know I'm not gonna run, you know, saving the kids, but I know what I could do is spread the message.
And that feels to me like that one action that I could do as a mother.
And I feel like many parents in that sense united, and they say, you know what?
This is something that we could do.
And this is something that's realistic and it's possible.
And with the help of social media nowadays, we can make that happen.
And look at the numbers.
I feel this is really happening.
That's awesome.
Is that what you're hearing?
You're hearing a lot of that?
Oh yeah, absolutely.
I mean this is, this is ground, this is a grassroots, this is millions, this is resonating with hearts.
Like, I've always been waiting as the woke have gotten crazier and more, and I've watched kids get threatened.
I've always said to my wife, there's got to be a silent majority out there.
Where are they?
Why aren't they louder?
I think they're coming.
They're emerging, the silent majority.
The silent majority is absolutely coming true.
And another person that's going to be joining us in just a minute.
We have another special guest because there's another chair right there.
And after this break, You're gonna see another special guest, and we're really gonna drive home the story of Sound of Freedom ahead of this historic Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump National Golf Course, the presidential screening of A Sound of Freedom.
We're here with the origin story, the story that it's based on, as well as some of the people that are behind the film.
In fact, maybe, should we get maybe one of the actors from the film?
Should we get one of the actors?
Sounds like a good idea!
We'll stay tuned, folks.
Human Events continues.
We will see.
When I grew up in the hood, I rolled with Bloods, and them boys had a saying.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are back from Bedminster, New Jersey.
Jack Posobiec, Tanya Tay, Tim Ballard, and we are joined by Eduardo Verastegui himself, the producer of Sound of Freedom and an actor in the film.
Eduardo, thank you so much for joining us.
Tell me, When you first got involved with this film, did you ever think not only that you would be crossing the $100 million mark, which is a huge number in the industry, but that tonight you would be showing it for a President of the United States?
Never imagined.
I mean, I'm a big dreamer, brother, but even in my... I mean, I dream big, but this is beyond my dreams.
This is the American dream and the Mexican dream together.
I never dreamed to... First of all, you have to understand there is two Mexican filmmakers, Alejandro Monteverde and Eduardo Berastegui.
One is the director, The other one is the producer.
What we wanted to do is to save lives.
What happened when two Mexican filmmakers meet with two American heroes, Tim Butler and Gene Caviezel, when they shake hands and work together?
Sound of freedom.
What happened when the bad guys from Mexico meet with the bad guys from America, when they shake hands and they work together?
Child trafficking.
So I'm living the American dream and the Mexican dream because I moved to America almost 21 years ago.
I didn't speak English.
Alejandro didn't speak English.
We merged in the culture.
I didn't allow myself to speak Spanish with anybody for a year so I can force myself to start thinking in English because when you're 28, at that time I was 28, A few years ago.
Just a couple years ago.
A couple years ago.
It's very difficult, right?
But I never imagined that 20 years later, after Alejandro and I would open this production company with one mission, to produce films that will have the potential not only to entertain, but hopefully to make a difference in people's lives.
After you made what I would say, honestly, is the best pro-life movie of all time, Bella.
That was my first production.
That was Alejandro's first Time directing, and then after Bella, then Little Boy came, then the third one, Sound of Freedom.
But this 20 years, we do like these boutique films, like artisanal, like, you know, take us like always three, four, five years, because we are, you know, we're not in the system, we're outsiders, right?
But then, 20 years later, after we made that promise to God that we only want to work in projects that are designed to make this world a better place, Never thought that a small distribution company, perhaps the smallest one in the country, Angel Studios, competing with the biggest company in the world, Disney, Sound of Freedom against Indiana Jones, July 4th.
Are you kidding me?
No chance.
Humanly speaking, we have no chance.
And we became the number one movie in America on July 4th.
All glory to God.
And so many people are praying for this film, for Angel Studios, for the sacrifice that Tim Bader did, Gene Caviezel, Alejandro Monteverde, and so many people working on this project.
But especially the five, now I believe six million people showing up in theaters.
God bless you guys.
This is amazing.
God is amazing.
We're so grateful.
And this is just the beginning.
This movement is growing and growing and growing.
It's too late.
They want to stop it.
Too late.
They can take me.
They can take Tim.
This movement, millions of people, they cannot take millions of people.
God's children are not for sale.
I'm so happy.
God bless America.
This nation has been such an amazing blessing in my life.
Opened the doors to my dreams.
And I'm living the dream, brother.
Amen.
Tim, you know, I've seen a bunch of the interviews that you guys have done over the past couple of weeks, and you've done just a million interviews.
But one question that I don't think I've seen answered yet.
Tim, what made you trust these guys with your story?
What made you say, look at this guy over here and those guys and say they come around, hey, you know, we could do a movie for you.
We'll do a good job.
It's not you.
I'm so glad you asked because it actually has an interesting I haven't heard anybody ask that question yet.
So after we did that operation and all the media that are now attacking us were applauding us, and Eduardo got a hold and others got a hold of this story.
And we got hit up by several, I won't name any names, but big studios.
And I went to my wife, and I said, can you believe, like, Hollywood's, like, wanting to do a movie?
That was never in our imagination.
And I said, I don't trust Hollywood.
I think it can make or break you, right?
So I said, you need to come with me, and she doesn't leave.
We have, you know, we have nine kids, and she doesn't like to leave very often.
And I said, I need you to come with me to every meeting with every producer, and you make the decision, not me, because she's purer than me.
That's exactly how I am with my wife.
That's exactly how I am with Tanya.
Women have that intuition.
Absolutely.
And they could see the good.
Right.
And a movie is existential, bad or good.
It's like an existential threat potential.
And so she came.
I remember walking off one of the biggest lots.
And I was mesmerized.
I'm like, wow!
All the studios.
And she's like, the answer's no.
Before we left the lot, she's like, the answer's no.
I'm like, I'm embarrassed about it but she's like no I'm like I said no she said she has veto not me and then like six months pass and I get a call from Eduardo hey will you come down and watch a movie that's all he said just come watch a movie I remember Eva Longoria was hosting the movie the movie called Little Boy and Wow.
And then Catherine came with me because I thought, is he gonna ask?
So she came with me, we watched the film.
I look over at the end of the movie and my wife is just sobbing, but in a good way.
Just like, that was one of the best movies I've ever seen.
And then she turns over and she says, if they ask you, the answer is yes.
So he took us to dinner.
Alejandro was there that night.
And he said, we want our next project to be your story.
And I said, well, good news.
You're pre-approved.
You're pre-approved!
God bless your wife, brother.
Because you know what?
Now, did you know that he wasn't actually the decision maker?
Because when you go into a negotiation, you got to know who the key decision maker is.
And I would assume that it's the guy who wrote the story.
No, no.
It's the woman sitting next to him!
We all know how this works!
If you call me later, you know what, you have to give the credit to my wife, and we will of course, we will, because it's very difficult to make a movie about someone that is alive.
You know, when you make a movie about a hero who died 40 years ago, it's easier, right?
You have the guy who's doing what you see in the film, he keeps doing that every two weeks, right?
Around the world.
So he's right there, his wife, his family.
Imagine the responsibility, brother.
Not only to make a good movie, but then what?
What do you do after you make a movie when you're an independent filmmaker and you don't have access to the big studios?
So now that the film was finished, Tim was calling me, so what's the strategy?
What's next?
What's next?
Man, it was three years of crying, tears of blood, suffering.
because wow, this guy trusting Alejandro and myself. - We are coming up on the end of our block here.
We'll be back in a little bit as the stream continues.
Natalie Winters will be here.
But just real quick, where's the one website people should go to follow this and get more information? - Angel.com/freedom, angel.com/freedom.
Go and buy tickets for you and for your family. - Yeah, and also go to thesparefund.org if you want to learn how you can actually put resources into rescuing children immediately.
God bless you guys.
Thank you so much for being here.
Stay tuned.
Real America's Voice will be broadcasting here throughout the evening leading up to the historic presidential screening.
