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This is Later with Lee Matthews the
Lee Matthews Podcast More what You Hear Weekday

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Afternoon's on the Drive. Kevin Sorbo
and his wife Sam Hath been married for

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twenty five years. They met on
the set of Hercules coincidentally, and have

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produced a great new film. It's
called Miracle in Texas, starring Kevin and

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Sam Sorbo, along with John Ratzenberger
of Cheers, Fame and Toy Story,

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Lou Gasset Junior, an officer and
a gentleman. And they're joining us now.

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Welcome guys, good to have you
a long well, thank you so

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much. Yeah, the Miracle in
East Texas opened this Sunday and Monday only,

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so people need to get their tickets
and get their families to the theaters.

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It's a family friendly comedy. And
I love how you say coincidentally we've

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met on this sat Of course,
we don't believe in coincidence. Well,

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Kevin, the story is to me. When I read the synopsis of the

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story, it sounds a little like
that mel Brooks the producers, you know,

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where they're trying to sell a certain
thing as a scam, but it

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turns out it's a hit. Yeah, but this is the true story and

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it happened way before. The Producers
isn't even written. So I think you

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borrowed from us. Oh, there
you go, there you go. There's

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no question it does have that.
So, I mean, these guys would

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go to Oaklham and Texas and they
would con women out of their money and

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sake oil. Well, sell five
percent of the shares, so five times

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above its value. They strike oil
and killgart Texas, completed by an accident,

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ends up being the largest oil plane
in the world at that time,

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right in the hearts of the American
Depression in nineteen thirty. And that's not

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only the first miracle, there's miracles
that happened after it as well. If

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that's where the title came from.
It's an amazing story about two men finding

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hope and redemptions in their lives after
being pretty much loser, not losers,

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but they were very crappy, witty
scoundrels of what they were. Yeah,

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and Sam, what brought this story
to you? Well, we know the

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writer Dan Gordon, and as an
OSCAR nominated writer, he wrote The Hurricane

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for Denzel Washington Wyatt for Kevin Crossery, also did sixty episodes of Highway to

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Heaven with Michael Landon, and he's
been sitting on this script. He originally

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wrote it for Paul Newman and Robert
Redford, but they could never get their

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schedules coordinated enough to do to shoot
the movie, and so it's you know,

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he held out until he saw an
opportunity with us and brought us the

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script and we just fell along with
it. We love to tell true stories.

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We want people to leave the theaters
feeling uplifted and encouraged in their own

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lives. And when you tell stories
about superheroes, well, everybody knows that

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they're not going to be able to
fly or you know, do the things

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that Wonder Woman does. But when
they see true stories about real heroes,

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that gives them hope in there.
That's that's what we intend to do with

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this. And we made it family
friendly because we want families to get back

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to the theater. We want the
family to have that experience and this is

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a great way to enjoy something with
your family. By the way, if

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your homeschoolers, or actually even if
you're not, we created homeschool Curriculum,

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just a short curriculum to encourage you
and to show you if you've never thought

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that homeschool and could be an option
for you, This curriculum will encourage you

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to see that you have great value
as the parent of the child. You

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have great value to pour into your
child's life, into your children's lives,

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I should say. And so this
is just a fun curriculum to do to

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do with the family. It's basically
a discussion guide to have with your kids

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and show you that educating your kids
is really not rocket science, is not

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as difficult as the quote educators want
us to be. And you have a

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lot to offer to your kids.
So you can go to Storreboo Studios for

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the free downloads. There's also a
group discussion guide if you have a book

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club and you want to go out
with your book club, watch the movie

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and then have a nice discussion afterwards, maybe go grab visa or something.

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There's also that over at storbostudios dot
com entirely for free. And Kevin,

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you and Sam would probably be enthused
to know that we just passed some measures

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in Oklahoma that are allowing for the
vouchers even if you do choose to homeschool

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your children, vouchers that will give
you a big tax break on your state

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income tax at the end of the
year. That's fantastic. We had every

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state to do them. By the
way, I was just in Oklahoma City

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about three weeks ago showing the movie
to about two hundred oiled people, and

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they absolutely love this movie because not
only the pro oil is pro America,

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pro freedom, pro capitalism. That's
what's all about. And people need to

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be a little more educated what oil
does for us. All these people in

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are against oil and wanted to get
you know, windmills instead. They need

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to then they need to walk the
walk. So number one, get ready

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your iPhone, get ready computer,
your hair brush, stop driving your car.

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Let's give your clothing. They need
to understand a lot how many hundreds

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of products come out of oil.
Miracle in East Texas inspired by a true

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story. It stars Kevin and Sam
Sorbo. This is a unique part of

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the country and they've got a unique
accent. And either of you have a

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problem getting the ear for the accent. Apparently not, because we've both been

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complemented numerous times on our accents.
So I guess, I guess we nailed

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it. It was a lot of
fun. It's always fun to do an

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accent, and it's always challenging,
and so you you cross your fingers that

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you didn't goof up too badly during
the filming. And when people come up

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to you afterwards and say, hey, that was the act of an accent,

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then you know you did the right
thing. And Kevin, I imagine

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you have an ear for it as
well, because you've done a lot of

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films all over the country. I
have been pretty fortunate. I actually lived

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in Dallas for about a year and
a half after college as well, so

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I heard. I heard the Texas
accent was kind of vary from city to

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city. It was pretty interesting.
It wasn't all exactly the same. But

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I tell people, look, if
you traveled from Maine and with every single

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state along the eastern seaboard there,
you would hear so many different access as

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you work your way down the Florida
It's amazing. Yeah, I've lived had

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I've been fortunate enough to live in
a lot of different parts of the country,

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even deep South Louisiana where Matt you
better pick up a year for accent

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or you're not going to communicate.
You won't understand the thing. A miracle

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in East Texas and inspired by a
true story, starring Kevin and Sam Sorbo

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along with John Ratzenberger. You remember
from Cheers Lou gassa junior from an officer

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and a gentleman. And it's out
this weekend, a family film about a

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historically accurate time that it also hits
home here in Oklahoma because we had our

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own versions of this, Yeah,
we sure did. But this story is

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really compelling to me because if you
fast forward over a decade later, this

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is the oil that helped us win
World War two against the Nazis, and

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this is the reason. This oil
is the specific reason why the German tanks

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ran out of gas before our tanks
did. So it's such a compelling story

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of America and it's a great I
just love the way that we tell it

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as a family friendly comedy so that
you get that history, but it's not

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a drag. It's just a lot
of fun. Yeah. That is one

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of the things that's kind of glazed
over in American history when you study World

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War two and why Hitler was not
only trying to attack Russia, but he

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had particular zeal going after the oil
fields in Odessa. Well, yeah,

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and by the way, he had
U boats in the Gulf of Mexico seventy

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tankers that were coming from the East
Texas oil field. So that's why they

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say that the out floated to victory
on the Sea of East Texas oil because

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there was so much oils built in
the gulf before we built a pipeline to

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get the oil overseas to the European
theater Miracle in East Texas. Kevin Sorbo,

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his wife Sam Sorbo. It's out
this weekend. I plan on seeing

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it. Hope you do too.
After all, the weather's going to be

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kind of nasty, You're going to
want to climb into a nice cozy theater

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and watch a movie. And we
thank you for joining us and look forward

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to the film. Thank you so
much for joining it. Find thanks thanks

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