E246: Parents Are Done with Hollywood—Here’s the Alternative w/Jeff Harmon | Lila Rose Show
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
What happens when a small startup takes on Hollywood and actually wins?
Angel Studios is rewriting the rules of entertainment. In this episode, founder Jeff Harmon reveals how their audience-powered model turned shows like The Chosen and Sound of Freedom into cultural phenomena. Instead of Hollywood executives deciding what makes it to theaters, Angel puts the power in the hands of viewers, creating a movement for faith-filled, family-friendly storytelling.
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| 0:00.0 | I think some of the greatest stories that will ever be told will be from this system. |
| 0:04.3 | And I'm very excited for Zero AD. |
| 0:06.0 | Zero AD is Mary conceives. |
| 0:08.0 | Yes. |
| 0:08.5 | The angel visits her, she conceives. |
| 0:10.5 | So you want to be bigger than Netflix? |
| 0:12.2 | In order to build a competitor to Netflix or to Disney, it takes a lot of capital. |
| 0:16.7 | There's 1.5 million guild members today. |
| 0:20.5 | And they're actually funding huge amounts of TV shows that align with our values and are really good movies. |
| 0:26.6 | Thank you, Jeff, for what you're doing. |
| 0:28.5 | I mean, truly, I think it's a gift to humanity. |
| 0:33.3 | Family values, faith-based films, and basically good films are more in vogue now than they've ever |
| 0:39.9 | been in the last few decades. |
| 0:42.2 | And Hollywood and some of the weird and crazy stuff is now seen as not as interesting. |
| 0:47.8 | Too many audiences today. |
| 0:49.5 | The market is growing for family-friendly content and not just any content but excellent content. Today on the |
| 0:54.9 | Lailor Show, I sit down with a man who used to be a poor potato farmer growing up in Idaho, who is now |
| 1:01.1 | a co-founder of Angel Studios, which has brought you some of your favorite entertainment over the last |
| 1:06.3 | few years, including the Chosen, Cabrini, Sound of Freedom, and many more. Today we talk about how ordinary moms |
| 1:13.1 | and dads are completely changing the name of the game when it comes to entertainment, how because |
| 1:18.5 | of the rapid changes in both media and technology and culture, there is an opportunity like never before |
| 1:24.3 | to create what is good, true, and beautiful in the arts. We also discuss what is coming up in the Angel Studios world and some of the films that I am most excited about. |
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