Jose Hernandez
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
NASA Flight Engineer José Hernández is the Inspiration for "A Million Miles Away". Filmmaker Jeff Celentano of "The Hill"
Inspired by the real-life story of NASA flight engineer José Hernández, A Million Miles Away follows him and his devoted family of proud migrant farm worker on a decades-long journey, from a rural village in Michoacán, Mexico, to the fields of the San Joaquin Valley, to more than 200 miles above the Earth in the International Space Station. On Amazon Prime today.
The remarkable true-life story of Rickey Hill's improbable journey to play Major League Baseball starring Dennis Quaid is directed by Jeff Celentano.
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| 0:25.5 | Did you ever see the movie The Blobs starring Steve McQueen? |
| 0:29.2 | The blood-curdling prep of The Blob. |
| 0:31.9 | Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, |
| 0:35.1 | but they had to cut his scene because the blob was supposed to eat him. |
| 0:38.6 | But he kept spitting him out. |
| 0:40.3 | Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. |
| 0:42.8 | Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest. |
| 0:47.1 | Eric the Texas! |
| 0:51.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:52.2 | Welcome back. |
| 0:52.8 | In case you didn't know, there's a film. It's called The Hill, and it's starring Dennis Quaid. I don't know what more you need to know. It's starring Dennis Quaid. It's in 1,500 screens across the country. That's a lot. We have the director of this film, of The Hill, with us, Jeff Chalendano. Did I pronounce it close? |
| 1:15.6 | Celentano. Celentano. Hey, Chalendano. You grew up in New Jersey, correct? I did. Okay. So that's why I got a name like Chalendano. You know, that's just an Italian name. |
| 1:28.3 | But you... |
| 1:29.1 | I want to ask you, this is a film about... |
| 1:34.4 | You grew up in a small town in a small rural town in New Jersey. |
| 1:38.4 | A lot of people don't know that those exist, but they certainly do, if you know, the state of New Jersey. |
| 1:42.7 | But this is a film about someone who grew up |
| 1:45.7 | in a rural town, small town in Texas, and his name is Ricky Hill. That's why the film is called |
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