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Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

BEN SMALLBONE | Creating Homestead (Ep. 691)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Ben Smallbone to the show. He is a film director, producer, and editor. He directed the 2022 documentary about the faith of Johnny Cash called “Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon” and is the Director of a new film and series with Angel Studios called “Homestead”, which releases in theaters on December 20th, 2024. In this interview, we discuss how he got involved with the Johnny Cash project, why they spent so much time exploring the Christian faith of Cash, his new film Homestead, why Homestead is being launched as a movie and then continues on as a series, why the series explores our reliance on and worship of technology, the line between being prepared and being paranoid, why Christians should support entertainment projects that focus on darker themes, why the series does not shy away from questions of faith, and much more. Let’s get into it…  Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Undaunted Life a Man's Podcast.

0:23.9

I'm your host Kyle Thompson.

0:25.6

Let's get into it.

0:27.1

All right, guys, we've got a special guest on the podcast today.

0:28.9

His name is Ben Smallbone.

0:30.2

So Ben is a film director, producer, and editor.

0:32.8

He actually directed a 2022 documentary about the faith of Johnny Cash.

0:36.7

Again, yes, if you've listened to my show for any length of time, you know how important Johnny Cash is to me. And the faith of Johnny Cash. Again, yes, if you've listened to my show

0:37.8

for any length of time, you know how important Johnny Cash is to me. And that is called

0:41.1

Johnny Cash, the redemption of an American icon. And also, he is the director of a new film and

0:46.1

series with Angel Studios called Homestead, which, guys, if you were listening to this on time,

0:50.4

it is coming out in theaters this weekend. So December the 20th, 2024, that is this weekend,

0:55.2

folks. You can go out there and get your tickets for this. But in this particular interview,

0:58.6

we just get right into the Johnny Cash question. Why is he interested in Johnny Cash?

1:02.6

Why did he get, or how did he become part of this project? Why were they exploring the faith

1:07.2

and the redemptive element, you know, specifically as it pertains to the Christian faith of

1:11.2

Johnny Cash. So anytime I get to talk about Johnny Cash, I get to have a good time with that.

1:14.5

So we did that. But also, we move on to Homestead. So perhaps you've seen some advertisements for

1:19.3

this series, but this is a film. It's a two going to be is it's basically an end of the world

1:28.2

scenario. And you have this group of people that have actually prepared for this scenario. And then

1:32.7

there's the haves and the have-nots. And you know, you have all these different types of characters

1:36.9

or super intense characters that don't have compassion, but then also the compassionate characters

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