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“We learned something very early on. If you make them pay, they laugh better. So at first we did it for free. And then we realized, no, if they're paying, they actually laugh. If you give a free ticket, they're like folding their arms, like, make me laugh. Show me. And then as soon as we got it big enough to where we actually got paid people in both early and late show, they equaled out.”

“It is easier to take a comedian cuz the ad agency and the stand-up comedy were happening together. So, it's easier to turn a comedian into a marketer. That takes about 6 months of work than turning a marketer into a comedian, which takes a lifetime because they haven't been through enough trauma in their life to actually be funny. You know, comedians have always been through something. Like, whatever really, really bad, bad experiences make great stories and great comedians.”

“And we noticed that on our Facebook fan page people would get on and they would say I really want to watch this, but I can't afford to pay for it. And 100% of the time when they said that, somebody would chime in underneath and say, I love the series. Send me your email. I will buy it for you and send it to you. What if we just make that the model? You get to watch for free and then pay it forward to somebody who wants it right now, today, but can't watch it unless you pay it for them. And we call it pay it forward.”

“The studios don't own the hardware. This is what Google realized with the Android phone, they needed to own the hardware. And I realized they don't own the whole stack. Anybody who's going to disrupt the law needs to own the stack. Eventually, they're going to put pressure on you where they can put pressure on you if you don't own the whole stack. So, we've got an entire engineering team. We built all our own TV apps.”

“One of the stats in Hollywood that's really interesting is almost all of the movie like 75% of all the money in Hollywood is made off of PG and PG-13 movies, but 70 plus percent of the movies are R-rated. That's interesting. So they're just they're not connecting. They're not serving the audience. And I think they live in a bubble. Everyone around them is divorced, so why would you push on marriage?”

“Sound of Freedom is wild. It'd been stuck on the shelf for eight movies. Tons of movies are stuck on the shelf. Because it had originally been produced by Fox, and then Fox got bought by Disney, and then Disney shelved the movie. He asked if he could buy it, they wouldn't sell it to him until he went to them and said, Because of my connections in the anti-sex trafficking world, I have some dirt on some people that you don't. Like, it's not a good thing for you to hide this movie.”

“And the Angel Guild is made up of 2 million people, just regular everyday people that are voting on to decide which movies will come into Angel Studios and nothing can go into Angel Studios unless they vote first. And this community is paying a monthly fee as a member that funds the filmmakers. So it's the largest filmmaking crowdfunding project in the history of film.”

“VidAngel was a streaming platform? It wasn't a streaming platform. It was a automatic remote control platform. Parental controls. Disney is the one who came after us initially. They said that we were infringing on copyright. Had a big long battle. We went to our audience and said, Our promise to you, our brand promise was that we were going to protect the home through this automatic remote control. Would you be interested in us shifting to do original content like The Chosen and Dry Bar? And the vast majority of the audience said we prefer just go after the original content.”

“Every piece of great art that stood the test of time when you go back through history and you look at the ones that we have the history of the artist those artists have gone through tremendous pain and suffering to get to a point where they were able to take their life experience and all the pain and suffering that they have transcended and then put it into that piece of art or that film to the point that that film transcends space and time. They all have pain and suffering behind them and then AI is only a derivative of that output. Unless AI can get to the point where it can feel pain and suffering it will not be able to make art that stands the test of time.”

“Everybody praises somebody who burns the boats and goes after their business idea. Like, that's a big deal. We praise it cuz they're changing the world, they're making a business. But she's like, Children change the world. And she said, It's time to start praising parents who burn the ships to have kids. We should go out of our way to hero these mothers who go and have a child before they have enough money because they're burning the boats to change the world.”