HAROLD CRONK | Christian Filmmaking and The Beard Ballad (Ep. 292)

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

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Harold Cronk to the show. He’s a writer, director, and film producer. He has directed several films to include God’s Not Dead, God’s Not Dead 2, and Unbroken: Path to Redemption. He also recently released a children’s book for young boys titled The Beard Ballad (foreword by Phil Robertson). In this interview, we discuss how he got into filmmaking, why Christian films have such a bad reputation, if he has experienced being “black listed” for being a Christian in the film industry, the one film he would leave for humanity, why he decided to write a children’s book, the state of modern masculinity, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE 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, I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:22.8	Let's get into it.
0:23.8	Hi guys, today I've got a special guest on the podcast.
0:25.6	His name is Harold Krunk.
0:27.1	So Harold is a writer, director and film producer.
0:30.2	So he's been the director of films that you're probably heard of.
0:33.1	God's not dead.
0:34.1	God's not dead.
0:35.1	Part two and unbroken path to redemption amongst others.
0:37.4	And then he also recently released a children's book that I'm holding in front of the camera
0:40.8	right now.
0:41.8	And it's a children's book for young boys specifically titled The Beard Ballad and the
0:45.2	four word was written by the one and only Phil Robertson.
0:48.2	Guys, I really enjoyed this interview because, you know, we actually recorded this a little
0:52.0	bit yesterday, but there was a bunch of crazy stuff that happened with the technology
0:54.8	we ended up having to scrap the entire interview and just redo it.
0:57.9	And I feel like the second one was even better.
0:59.4	We got to get in some different things because I asked him about what it was like being
1:02.2	in Christian filmmaking, what it was like being a Christian that does films.
1:05.3	What it was like being in Hollywood, can you be an outspoken Christian and work in Hollywood?
1:09.4	You know, his favorite director, we got into all that, but then we got into some of his
1:12.2	films and we got into, you know, why critics kind of rip Christian movies and what we
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