378: Jeff Harmon & Neal Harmon—Surviving Disney

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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The serial entrepreneurs and founders of Angel Studios talk about growing up poor in a family of eleven, how they went from selling potatoes door to door to being the ad agency of record for Poo-Pourri, Squatty Potty, and Orabrush, how they survived a $62 million lawsuit from four of the biggest studios in Hollywood, and how their Angel Guild is cracking the code to finding the next big film.

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0:00.0	It's the way I heard at episode number 378, I believe, Chuck.
0:08.0	Is that right, 378?
0:09.2	That's correct.
0:10.3	Not that anyone cares, but you'll care about this.
0:13.8	It's called Surviving Disney with the Harmon Brothers.
0:17.5	Yes.
0:19.2	Oh, man, what a great conversation this is with a couple of guys.
0:23.0	They are the most unlikely studio heads I've ever met, and I've met a couple
0:28.0	studio heads, Chuck.
0:29.3	But these two, a couple of nice Mormon kids from Utah, potato salesman.
0:35.4	Yeah.
0:36.2	Homeschooled, aspiring entrepreneurs. Oh, but they were like born entrepreneurs. They-hmm. Potato salesman. Yeah. Homeschooled, aspiring entrepreneurs.
0:38.9	Oh, but they were like born entrepreneurs.
0:40.8	They were entrepreneurial when they were kids.
0:42.9	They were entrepreneurial before they could pronounce or spell entrepreneurial.
0:46.9	They just didn't know it.
0:48.3	What they've done with Angel Studios is amazing.
0:50.8	If you've been under a rock for the last few years, you may have missed the chosen,
0:55.1	which has completely changed the notion of crowdfunding and Hollywood production and what's
1:02.9	possible with tech, frankly. But it's also all fueled and funded by a level of storytelling.
1:12.9	You're just not going to find it in the traditional studios, not just chosen. This is the sound of freedom and shift and say some other
1:19.8	movies. Cabrini, which is out right now. Yeah. They're making movies that their audience
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