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I mean, truly moving and inspirational and such a great way to approach life. Because obviously that's all true. I think that the part of it that is really painful to think about is that he says, you identify as a husband and a father, and then that gets stripped away too. And that's true. It's true. That's a hard realization because we all build our identities around our relationships with family and around our relationship with friends. But in the end, it's you and God. What an amazing message there from James Vanderby. Okay, also on our list, Kevin. James. So Kevin is a very faithful Catholic. I'm friendly with Kevin. I think he's fantastic. He's unbelievably talented. I'm not sure there's ever been a more likable person on screen. You just watch every movie with him, and he's just a likable human on the screen. Every TV show, he's likable. Here he was talking about fasting for his sick daughter.

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How many days have you fasted in a row? You don't. You don't want to know how many days? 41 and a half. What? 41 and a half. You went 41 days with no food, water, and. And a little salt in the water, like a little electrolytes, and I lost.

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Wow.

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Yeah. See, when I lock on, I can do something. Oh, I know that. But that's a crazy lock on 41 days. Well, that was. How much did you lose fasting for? It was mental. It was like I. I felt so bad for my daughter. I said, I'm gonna do this for you. It's something that I could and apply it to. And it was, like, so emotionally tied into me. And I started fasting and I go, I didn't say, I'm going to do 40 days. I just said, I'm going to do whatever I can. I'm going to start fasting right now. And I was praying for it. Like, I mean, I was worried and I did like four or five days, and I was getting through it, but I was like, I was wanting to get off it. Then I was like, well, I got to start to eat because I'm really hungry. And I went. And I talked to my daughter. I go, how are you feeling? She goes, I've been feeling good. She goes, have you been fasting for me? And I go, yeah. And she goes, thank you so much. And I literally went, okay, I gotta keep going. I Couldn't stop then. So I just kept going, day, a day at a time. You know, just do it.

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Kevin is very religious. He's extremely thoroughgoing in his religiosity and fabulous person perspective in Judaism on fasting is actually really interesting. You can voluntarily fast. That is a real thing that happens in Judaism. There are obviously a bunch of fast days for the destruction of the temple. The biggest fast day, of course, is Yom Kippur, when you fast for God's forgiveness, essentially. But the basic idea of fasting is that you're depriving yourself of something that your body wants and desires in order, so you think more about your spirituality. And the goal of fasting, presumably, is to change you. Not because God is changing his mind or something. It's not like a gumball machine. But the idea that you have such a relationship with God that you want to show him that you're willing to sacrifice something that means something to you. Another favorite from people who particularly have religious orientation is Chris Pratt, who's always been a class act in public. I mean, truly somebody who moved toward religion a little bit later. I believe in his life. Here's Chris Pratt talking about that.

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Listen up. This is what I call nine Rules from Chris Pratt, Generation Award winner. Number one, breathe. If you don't, you'll suffocate. Number two, you have a soul. Be careful with it. Number three, don't be a turd. If you're strong, be a protector. And if you're smart, be a humble influencer. Strength and intelligence can be weapons, and do not wield them against the weak. That makes you a bully. Be bigger than that. Doesn't matter what it is.

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Earn it.

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A good deed. Reach out to someone in pain. Be of service. It feels good, and it's good for your soul. Number six, God is real. God loves you. God wants the best for you. Believe that? I do.

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I mean, to say that at the MTV Movie Awards is pretty spectacular. He, of course, is huge on the Hallow app.

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You want to join us on Hallow this year?

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I was hoping you'd.

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I was hoping you'd ask. Yes. Stay prayed up. I'll stay prayed up.

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You said it. And recently on Bill Maher, he was asked about politics, and he said, listen, we should be able to celebrate as a country when the President of the United States, if his name is Trump, actually does really, really well.

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Thank you very much.

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It's a balance. I don't want to jam it down anybody's throat, but I do not deny my faith. That's an even bigger sin. You know, it's not popular in my industry. But, you know, I cannot deny my faith. It's important for me to share that with people. But I have friends from all walks of life and all different types of faiths and religions. So, you know, it's important to respect and honor them as well. Yeah. What does it mean to you, your faith? Oh, it's everything. It really has. It's afforded me so many things. Obviously, you know, God didn't come to save the saints. He came to save the sinners. We've all had things and issues in our lives and we want to be better versions of ourselves. And through focusing my faith, it's allowed me to do that.

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I mean, again, great stuff here from Mark Wahlberg. Zach Levi, best known for playing Chuck on Chuck. And then of course, he was the voice of Flynn Rider in Disney's Tangled. He's In Shazam. Shazam. He's been a bunch of major vehicles. Obviously, he's openly conservative. He's regularly appeared on Fox News. I know Zach. He's a super nice person. Really, really great guy. Here he is talking about his faith.

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I have a lot of, you know, journey as a Christian in my life, and my faith is still very much tied to a lot of the bedrock of Christ and his words and I think so many of the things that he stood for. But I would never, ever be able to tell you with any surdi at all that I know who and what the entirety of God is. Anyone who's selling you that, I think really needs to take a hard look at their own hubris, right? I think it is ridiculous as human beings that within one sentence, within one breath, we can both say there is a God. And I know everything about them, right? If there's a God, you know nothing. God is everything and everywhere. We can't possibly know all that. So I think everybody needs to check themselves on that level a little bit. You know, let's. Let's still dive into our spiritualities and go find as much of God as we can. And I think it's evidenced all over, you know, the Torah, the. The New and Old Testaments, the. Even the Quran. You can find really, truly evidenced places where there is, I think, recognition of this incredible entity. Buddhists, Hindu, there's all a recognition of, guys, we're not doing this alone. There is something that is way bigger than all of us, and we need to be humble to it. You can be a miracle and connect that to some spirituality. You're also just a scientific miracle. The odds of you existing, the odds of this planet doing what it's doing, and that all of us, all of our individual spirits and energies, whether that's an energy that's connected to each other or a bigger thing, or it's an energy that's just exclusively within you. You have actual energy, glucose and all that shit flying through your body. The coffee that we're drinking, the sunshine that we're feeling, that's all real energy. That's all real science, and that's all miracle. This is a miracle place.

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So, again, his general perspective on God there is totally correct. Obviously, he's being ecumenical in his approach to God.

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Mm, yep, for sure.

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He is a religious Christian, Zach. And, you know, the fact that you have celebrities speaking openly about God and his presence in the world is a great thing. David Henry, Wizards of Waverly Place. Another person with whom I'm friendly. He's Terrific. He talks openly about his religion.

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I had nothing to stand on. I was steeped in relativism, and I was steeped in just this world, especially in la, where it's like everyone is so scared to state an opinion or say anything that it just. It puts you in this, like, relativistic bubble. And what I loved about the Catholic thought on. On life is, is it gives you an end goal and it gives you all the means to get there. And all these great helpers along the way, all these sacramentals. And it's the best answering on suffering I've ever heard, or the difficulties of life. Yeah, it's so redemptive and so meritorious. And that just rang true because everything I've ever gotten in life, I've had to work so hard for. And so. So those things really spoke to me and just made sense. My experience with reality really reflected the.

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The.

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The teachings of the church.

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So, again, he is. He is open about his religiosity, faithful Catholic, very thoughtful in his approach to religion. These are all people who, you know, your kids might know, or certainly you might know, and they're all people who are demonstrating what is best about their faith on the public stage, which is an amazing thing. Carrie Underwood is famously religious on American Idol in April 2025. She was getting slammed at the time because she had performed God Forbid at Trump's inauguration.

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I want to tell you I know how difficult it is to come into the entertainment industry and bring your faith with you. It is a brave thing to do, because there are a lot of. A lot of outside forces that are going to tell you not to do that. I want to tell you that I'm

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proud of you guys. Good for her. You know, conveying that message to younger people for being religious is a great thing. Denzel Washington has been, I think, one of the world's most pleasant surprises in terms of his open embrace of values and religion. I don't think Denzel is particularly Republican in any sense. He's remained pretty solidly apolitical.

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Who you wound up supporting in the election, presidential election, none of your business.

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But whenever he talks about God and his values, it's great stuff.

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I wasn't put on this earth to act. I was put on this earth to share and to be an example of the power and wisdom and grace and mercy of God. In my life, I've been blessed. I've been disciplined. I've been checked, I've been protected, I've been directed. And I appreciate every day that I wake up and I will give thanks to the Lord every day for the rest of my days.

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And that's beautiful. That's beautiful. And again, he has an enormous footprint. So the fact that he speaks like that is a pretty amazing thing. Tim Allen, another very famous figure who is religious.

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This has been a year, almost a little over a year. I read the, the Aramaic, French, Latin and Greek versions of the Old Testament page by page. I put it down if I drift and I got all the way through the Old Testament. I'm four pages into the New Testament as of this morning. Reading it as a scientist is what one of two guys told me, a priest and a rabbi. Exe let the words come to you. Do not look for meaning. It will come to you. And all of that has been, it's been life changing. I mean, I can't believe it's not what I thought it was. The Bible is not what I thought it was. It's very little preachy stuff. It's stories you'll derive, you know, it's mostly the Torah is about law, you know, consequence. Yeah, law and consequence and all this. And the book of Job is the one that affected me most.

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Well, and again, he is right. And engaging with the actual words of the Bible is an amazing way to change your life. When people ask me the most impactful book on me, the answer obviously is the Torah, which I've now read just by going through it every year. We go through it every year, I don't know, 30 odd times and then in my personal study, probably another 50 or 60 odd times. So there's always something to find there for sure. Well, those are some of these celebrities who are worthy of emulation. They're not all bad, they're not all in Wuthering Heights. There are a lot of people out there who are good and doing good work.

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