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Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

Telling The Right Stories About Masculinity

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

Politics, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, News

4.9591 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The number one movie of 2023 was the Barbie movie. In this movie, Ken is portrayed as a weak man. This is a common theme throughout Hollywood right now. Mike Slater catches up with Kevin Sorbo, who played Hercules back in the day, for his thoughts on masculinity in entertainment. The two discuss the importance of telling the right stories about masculinity. Plus, some insight into one of the seven deadly sins: sloth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to the podcast Politics by Faith, brought to you by Patriot Goal Group and the Public Square app.

0:05.6

So we did a TV special on the attack of masculinity.

0:10.0

We put up the first episode already where we did our monologue and then we talked to Brian

0:14.7

Sauvay, who is just fantastic, just wonderful.

0:18.7

In this episode, we're talking to Kevin Sorboe, who played Hercules, of course.

0:25.5

And he was blacklisted from Hollywood for being a Christian, and he's done a lot of other great things since.

0:30.2

And he has a new book out, which we'll talk all about.

0:32.3

But it's so important that we tell the right stories to our kids about what it means to be a man and what a man

0:37.7

does. And I love this story. I can't wait to read it in full, but just his description of it.

0:42.8

I can't wait to teach my boy. This is what men do. Would you do this? We need to tell better stories

0:51.0

for all of us, adults, and in particular kids, if we want to get this back on track.

0:56.5

Enjoy.

1:03.8

Hey, welcome back to our special, The Attack on Masculinity.

1:07.8

And so much of the attack on masculinity has come from a lot of different fronts.

1:11.7

But one of them is Hollywood, which is pop culture for decades now. I mean, just a million

1:17.2

examples. But look how Ken in the Barbie movie, a billion dollar movie. Look how Ken was portrayed

1:23.8

as a representative of men. Compare Ken to Hercules. Kevin Sorbo is here,

1:30.5

actor, producer, director, author of the new book, The Test of Lionhood. Mr. Sorbo, how are you,

1:36.7

sir? I'm great. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. But yeah, we do got a little battle

1:41.2

on our hand. This book is a good example of where the road of any kid needs to go.

1:48.1

Yeah.

1:48.4

Well, let's talk about that.

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