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You have read a lot about Mike Rowe here with Your Survival Guy. Rowe is a champion of the hardworking American spirit that made this country great. He also occasionally points out where things are going wrong in America and gives his advice on how to fix them. Now, Rowe has made a movie called Something to Stand For. He discussed the film on Fox News Digital recently. Maureen Mackey and Brittany Kasko report:
A popular host, storyteller, producer and author has a new project coming out — and “it lines up, not coincidentally,” with the Fourth of July, he told Fox News Digital in an on-camera interview.
Speaking in a video interview from his home studio in Northern California, Mike Rowe, host and narrator of “How America Works,” “Dirty Jobs” and “Returning the Favor,” among other endeavors, told Fox News Digital all about “Something to Stand For,” his new film hitting theaters across the nation starting June 27, 2024.
“It’s not like any other film I’ve seen,” he said. “Frankly, I’m not sure what to call it. It’s not a documentary, although there’s a lot of historical information in it, and it’s not a classic narrative. There are probably 300 actors in it, but they don’t really talk to each other. They’re all there to help bring nine individual stories to life.” (See the video at the top of this article.)
He pulled these nine stories, he said, from his podcast, “The Way I Heard It” — opening a window into the world of those who helped bring us the nation we call home.
“It was a chance to learn something you didn’t know about somebody,” said Rowe. “Sort of a little mystery with some biography shot through, with some history.”
“Anyway,” he added, “I wrote a few hundred of those things. They turned into a book, and then they turned into a TV show, and then somebody said, ‘Hey, what if, for an occasion, you took half a dozen or a dozen of these stories and put them into a movie?’”
At first, he and his team talked about doing a Christmas movie, he said — but he very deliberately chose a July 4th connection and theme instead.
“The movie consists of nine of these short mysteries stitched together by me, with a trip to Washington, D.C. I visit various monuments and memorials and have some unplanned encounters with some veterans.
“And it all comes together in a way that is — and I don’t want to overstate it — but you know, it’s pretty good. Positively delightful, I’ve been told,” he added with the self-deprecating smile and good humor his audiences have come to enjoy and appreciate.
Rowe reaches nearly 9 million people on his social media channels alone. He shared much more about “Something to Stand For” with Fox News Digital.
He and his team shot the historical recreations for the new film in Oklahoma “with Oklahoma actors and an Oklahoma crew.”
Said Rowe, “Some of the recreations are really ambitious. The casting is great. I didn’t want to shoot in L.A. or New York,” he added. “This is not a Hollywood production. This is a message from the heart, and we shot it in the heartland. I’m really proud of that.”
Action Line: I know you’ve worked hard in your life because you’ve told me the stories of what got you to your well deserved retirement. It wasn’t always easy, and you gave things up along the way. You saved til it hurt, and worked hard to put your family first. That’s the spirit of America, and as Rowe says, something to stand for. I want to hear your stories, when you’re ready to tell them, I’m here. In the meantime, please click here to subscribe to my free monthly Survive & Thrive letter.
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