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Afternoon's on the Drive. Kevin Sorbo and his wife Sam Hath been married for
twenty five years. They met on the set of Hercules coincidentally, and have
produced a great new film. It's called Miracle in Texas, starring Kevin and
Sam Sorbo, along with John Ratzenberger of Cheers, Fame and Toy Story,
Lou Gasset Junior, an officer and a gentleman. And they're joining us now.
Welcome guys, good to have you a long well, thank you so
much. Yeah, the Miracle in East Texas opened this Sunday and Monday only,
so people need to get their tickets and get their families to the theaters.
It's a family friendly comedy. And I love how you say coincidentally we've
met on this sat Of course, we don't believe in coincidence. Well,
Kevin, the story is to me. When I read the synopsis of the
story, it sounds a little like that mel Brooks the producers, you know,
where they're trying to sell a certain thing as a scam, but it
turns out it's a hit. Yeah, but this is the true story and
it happened way before. The Producers isn't even written. So I think you
borrowed from us. Oh, there you go, there you go. There's
no question it does have that. So, I mean, these guys would
go to Oaklham and Texas and they would con women out of their money and
sake oil. Well, sell five percent of the shares, so five times
above its value. They strike oil and killgart Texas, completed by an accident,
ends up being the largest oil plane in the world at that time,
right in the hearts of the American Depression in nineteen thirty. And that's not
only the first miracle, there's miracles that happened after it as well. If
that's where the title came from. It's an amazing story about two men finding
hope and redemptions in their lives after being pretty much loser, not losers,
but they were very crappy, witty scoundrels of what they were. Yeah,
and Sam, what brought this story to you? Well, we know the
writer Dan Gordon, and as an OSCAR nominated writer, he wrote The Hurricane
for Denzel Washington Wyatt for Kevin Crossery, also did sixty episodes of Highway to
Heaven with Michael Landon, and he's been sitting on this script. He originally
wrote it for Paul Newman and Robert Redford, but they could never get their
schedules coordinated enough to do to shoot the movie, and so it's you know,
he held out until he saw an opportunity with us and brought us the
script and we just fell along with it. We love to tell true stories.
We want people to leave the theaters feeling uplifted and encouraged in their own
lives. And when you tell stories about superheroes, well, everybody knows that
they're not going to be able to fly or you know, do the things
that Wonder Woman does. But when they see true stories about real heroes,
that gives them hope in there. That's that's what we intend to do with
this. And we made it family friendly because we want families to get back
to the theater. We want the family to have that experience and this is
a great way to enjoy something with your family. By the way, if
your homeschoolers, or actually even if you're not, we created homeschool Curriculum,
just a short curriculum to encourage you and to show you if you've never thought
that homeschool and could be an option for you, This curriculum will encourage you
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I should say. And so this is just a fun curriculum to do to
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the free downloads. There's also a group discussion guide if you have a book
club and you want to go out with your book club, watch the movie
and then have a nice discussion afterwards, maybe go grab visa or something.
There's also that over at storbostudios dot com entirely for free. And Kevin,
you and Sam would probably be enthused to know that we just passed some measures
in Oklahoma that are allowing for the vouchers even if you do choose to homeschool
your children, vouchers that will give you a big tax break on your state
income tax at the end of the year. That's fantastic. We had every
state to do them. By the way, I was just in Oklahoma City
about three weeks ago showing the movie to about two hundred oiled people, and
they absolutely love this movie because not only the pro oil is pro America,
pro freedom, pro capitalism. That's what's all about. And people need to
be a little more educated what oil does for us. All these people in
are against oil and wanted to get you know, windmills instead. They need
to then they need to walk the walk. So number one, get ready
your iPhone, get ready computer, your hair brush, stop driving your car.
Let's give your clothing. They need to understand a lot how many hundreds
of products come out of oil. Miracle in East Texas inspired by a true
story. It stars Kevin and Sam Sorbo. This is a unique part of
the country and they've got a unique accent. And either of you have a
problem getting the ear for the accent. Apparently not, because we've both been
complemented numerous times on our accents. So I guess, I guess we nailed
it. It was a lot of fun. It's always fun to do an
accent, and it's always challenging, and so you you cross your fingers that
you didn't goof up too badly during the filming. And when people come up
to you afterwards and say, hey, that was the act of an accent,
then you know you did the right thing. And Kevin, I imagine
you have an ear for it as well, because you've done a lot of
films all over the country. I have been pretty fortunate. I actually lived
in Dallas for about a year and a half after college as well, so
I heard. I heard the Texas accent was kind of vary from city to
city. It was pretty interesting. It wasn't all exactly the same. But
I tell people, look, if you traveled from Maine and with every single
state along the eastern seaboard there, you would hear so many different access as
you work your way down the Florida It's amazing. Yeah, I've lived had
I've been fortunate enough to live in a lot of different parts of the country,
even deep South Louisiana where Matt you better pick up a year for accent
or you're not going to communicate. You won't understand the thing. A miracle
in East Texas and inspired by a true story, starring Kevin and Sam Sorbo
along with John Ratzenberger. You remember from Cheers Lou gassa junior from an officer
and a gentleman. And it's out this weekend, a family film about a
historically accurate time that it also hits home here in Oklahoma because we had our
own versions of this, Yeah, we sure did. But this story is
really compelling to me because if you fast forward over a decade later, this
is the oil that helped us win World War two against the Nazis, and
this is the reason. This oil is the specific reason why the German tanks
ran out of gas before our tanks did. So it's such a compelling story
of America and it's a great I just love the way that we tell it
as a family friendly comedy so that you get that history, but it's not
a drag. It's just a lot of fun. Yeah. That is one
of the things that's kind of glazed over in American history when you study World
War two and why Hitler was not only trying to attack Russia, but he
had particular zeal going after the oil fields in Odessa. Well, yeah,
and by the way, he had U boats in the Gulf of Mexico seventy
tankers that were coming from the East Texas oil field. So that's why they
say that the out floated to victory on the Sea of East Texas oil because
there was so much oils built in the gulf before we built a pipeline to
get the oil overseas to the European theater Miracle in East Texas. Kevin Sorbo,
his wife Sam Sorbo. It's out this weekend. I plan on seeing
it. Hope you do too. After all, the weather's going to be
kind of nasty, You're going to want to climb into a nice cozy theater
and watch a movie. And we thank you for joining us and look forward
to the film. Thank you so much for joining it. Find thanks thanks
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