Off the Bench with Kevin Sorbo
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Join me today for an awesome conversation with outspoken actor and film maker Kevin Sorbo! We’re talking about the possibility of more mandates (and what Kevin would do), the prognosis for a failing entertainment industry and why his new movie is worthy of bringing your family to the theater.
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| 0:00.0 | In 1993, actor Kevin Sorbo became an international TV star when he was cast as the lead role in Hercules, |
| 0:08.2 | a series of TV films that would eventually lay the groundwork for the immensely popular series |
| 0:13.6 | Hercules, the legendary journeys. In 1998, Kevin married actress Sam Jenkins, |
| 0:19.6 | whom he met during her guest appearance on Hercules, and today they have three children. |
| 0:24.4 | The Sorbo's are continuing to tell stories through movies and television shows |
| 0:29.0 | that are both impressive and inspiring, but his personal story of faith is even more impactful. |
| 0:35.2 | Kevin Sorbo is known for making audiences laugh and giving them hope in a very dark world, |
| 0:40.2 | and he joins me today to talk about his newest movie, Miracle in East Texas. |
| 0:44.5 | Stick around, I think you're going to be encouraged. |
| 0:56.0 | Kevin, welcome to the show. |
| 0:57.7 | Good to be here. Good to see you. Glad we worked this out. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, you know, we've been like kind of like two ships in the night lately, |
| 1:03.5 | so it's fine. That's what busy people do. That's right. |
| 1:07.2 | So I've been talking about this movie for a while. |
| 1:10.0 | Sam was on the show talking about it. You've got a lot of irons in the fire right now, |
| 1:14.6 | and one of the big things that's going on in the country is we're watching the entertainment |
| 1:19.2 | industry absolutely circling the drain. And you guys are providing an alternative to the garbage |
| 1:27.5 | really entertainment that Hollywood's been cranking out now for decades. I got so many questions |
| 1:31.7 | for you. I'm going to start at the very beginning. I love my audience now a little bit about Kevin |
| 1:37.2 | and how you came to know the Lord and sort of your passion. What's driving the Sorbo family really |
| 1:44.3 | to push out good movies for families? That's a lot of good answer there. I'm going back to the |
| 1:50.2 | beginning. I grew up a little town in Minnesota called Mount Minnesota. It's about 25 miles west |
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