Dead Men Walking Podcast with Marcus Pittman, Nathaniel Talbott, & Jason Farley from Loor.tv

Christian Movies Shouldn't Suck: Introducing Loor.tv

Episode of dead men walking on your host Greg Moore. We also have Jason Hamlin. How are you Jason? Welcome. Welcome. Welcome everybody. We're live from fight laugh feast. Oh, yeah, yeah. Rapid City, South Dakota with our best friend our best.

He's a repeat offender on the Podcast. Yep. We talked to him about six months ago. We got a quick meet like this. Yeah. He's rally.

We did meet at the fight I feature. Oh, that's hilarious, but you know, there's a lot going on.

Markers is gonna talk a little bit about lore. I'm not gonna Spoil step on his toes, but lots been going on just in the six months that we talked and chatted a little bit.

What's going on and it's been fun to watch because I think the when we were at the fight laugh feast conference in In Nashville. Mm-hmm. We we just kind of started it like it was just at a point where like it's like, okay We're gonna do Actually at the fight laugh feast conference in Nashville that we got our first Verbal handshake commitment from our first investor beautiful.

And so that got us was like, okay We're moving to Moscow, Idaho now, so we packed up and we've been doing it full-time since we we have a brand we have Sort of a voice we know we know what our market is and what we're doing now.

Yeah, and then we have we hired a great Chief technical officer and a COO Named Nathaniel Talbot. We have our CEO Maceo Jordan and We got about six projects that are coming up. That'll be on launch and then you know, we're just You're doing so yeah, it's good.

It's what you know, hey, you don't want to rush it. Everybody's like Everybody's rushing. Yeah. Streaming service out like like did we're doing this too and they dropped one movie, right? Yeah. You know with nudity.

Yeah, you know, so it's just like okay That's cool. Yeah, you know That's the daily wire streaming service, yeah one movie so for everybody out there listening, which by the way We're probably only gonna have one movie when we launch.

Okay, I'm just saying but you have six building it up So Let me just back up so it's totally fine. So you so you guys are a lot like pure flicks. We're gonna have one actor To play the same role. Yeah, one actor will play the same role in every movie I'm gonna be great the same writer for every movie, right?

Yeah, this is this.

Documentary Horror and Reformed Exorcism in West Virginia

Yeah, but but for everyone out there this is a a streaming TV or is it just movies. Is this.

It's movies. TVs were though. One of the doing is a documentary series called dark holler. Okay, and it's a reformed take of demon possession. Wow. So we like to say it's a reformed ghost. Yes. He must be reformed.

Yes. So yeah, so the guy who made it. Well, not the guy who made it but the guy who the the pastor who's part of the the series. They he's in this small coal mining town in West Virginia. Abandoned coal mining town and.

People are bored. They're doing drugs. You know, there's not a lot of work to do or anything like that. It's poor community. Okay, and you know, so, you know. The kids are going into the minefields and doing Ouija boards and just really getting into like that dark sort of.

People I find, you know, like yeah, how do you find Wes?

Yeah from West. Well, so so a for actually a friend of mine is is actually the one that Messaged me and he said hey, I'm gonna go to the city I heard about and like the guys talking to the pastor and I'm gonna go and I'm gonna film this thing.

And I thought it was gonna be like a document. Yeah, yeah, and then the more he was talking to me about it. He's like, I think it's like six to eight episodes now because it's a crazy and and so yeah.

But I mean you you have this pastor. He's a reformed pastor or whatever and he goes. Yeah, they didn't teach me how to do exorcisms in seminary. Yeah, right I don't know like I've had to do them and I don't know like like what was I doing it, right?

I don't know like so he didn't grow up here. Yeah. No, he's not charismatic at all. And like he's still not charismatic. Yeah, but he's like, you know the there are Dark things so it's like, you know, right just think like I don't know if you guys saw the best analogy I have for it is I don't know if you saw What's what's that that there's a documentary on Netflix about this hotel where the lady's like in the elevator and she's like doing this thing I don't know what it is.

Okay, that's it's fine. But yeah, it's it's it's like that. It's like a horror documentary series. It's like what is going on? Yeah, you know so really really excited about. Because we're trying to make content.

That that Pureflex would never put on. Yeah, and like we want content that when you wait like what's a good thing like Christian films could be that right, you know, so that's sort of like your tagline the t-shirt you're selling a Christian movie shouldn't suck.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, so, you know if people are like you probably you really shouldn't you probably really shouldn't say it. Well, like everybody believes it though. Nobody's come up to us and said that's not true.

Yeah. Yeah, the only people that have come up there. They've been they said Well, we know it's not good. Yeah, but you probably shouldn't say that because they're trying the best they can. Right. It's like well if they have good hearts, well, yeah.

Well, you wouldn't eat food where people are trying the best they can you know, right, you know, like you'd like yeah. That's I'm not gonna eat it. Yeah. Imagine if Chick-fil-a was like Christian movies.

Yeah, you just go. Well, you got to eat there because they're closed on Sundays guys.

They're trying so where are you at right now, I mean you guys are Accepting. Look, you know accepting and looking for content investors. Like are you because I look went to the website and you kind of have a list there of everything.

You're like, hey, do you want to sign up and be ready to go and be a viewer? Are you someone who's a creator? Yeah, yeah, so if you're looking at investing you're doing doing it already. So.

So we're looking for streamers creators and Investors, okay. Those are the three main things right now. Yeah so if you're interested in the platform and you want to get updates as it kind of what we're doing and how it's building and how things are coming along you can sign up as a Streamer and then if you have skills if you've made films if you have so if you work in the industry.

If you're you know in Hollywood and you're like, I think my days are numbered. I don't know what to do. You can sign up as a creator. We've actually spoken to and we've spoken to like Emmy winners. Yeah, and they're like We need to go.

They're like, what are you doing? It's not pure flicks, right? Okay, you don't like pure flicks. Okay, cuz they're not gonna go to pure flicks, right? They're not like they're just they're like I might just they don't like Christian Hallmark movies.

No, they don't right. It's so they're not gonna go there. So it's like well, we're like, where do we where do we go? And then the other thing too, by the way, I don't know if a lot of people know this but pure flicks was just bought by Sony oh geez and Sony's the same company, you know, that makes like Last of Us 2.

Yeah, like a tranny video games, right? It's like it's like well. So so they're gonna take the profits from the Christian movies and throw it in and they're gonna throw it into these like gay films. That make no money and nobody watches.

Yeah, and so so, you know, that's like really like that's not like that's not a conspiracy theory. Like that's literally that's how they know that's fine with the SEC it's like okay. Well, here's a profitable industry.

Yeah, and like how do we cover our losses with like that's how every business does, right? They're gonna cover their losses with the profits from Christian films. And and so I mean, that's that's nuts.

Yeah, no, it absolutely is and so so, you know creator Christian creators aren't gonna want to go there. So so I think the fact that we're coming out and saying yeah. You guys can actually do what you want.

We're not too we don't just don't just no boobs. Yeah. You know just like do what you want. No boobs and like just make good stuff. And right I think like, you know, all the creators don't get that especially, you know people that work for Disney.

Yeah, they don't make any decisions. Yeah. Directors of the films make decisions. The studio heads come in and say oh you got to add a tranny in there. A gay person in there, you know, whatever, but inclusion.

Notes. Yeah, a funny story though. I was actually talking to and you should probably get an interview with him. Our founder Jason Farley who's a screenwriter? Okay, and he was talking to a guy about the movie brave.

Do you see the movie braves? It's just how a great insight into how the Hollywood industry works specifically Disney. So brave you have the whole movie where the moms like you have to do this. You have to do these three things and then at the end of the movie she goes No, I'm not gonna do it and then she becomes a hero.

Yeah, right. Oh, yeah. Well, apparently The movie was written. So she realized I need to listen to my parents. That's how the movie was written. Yeah, and Disney said no it has to be follow your heart.

It can't be falling parents. So they fired the director the writer the writer and the writer director at that point and then they brought in another writer director. To finish it off. That's why you watch the movie.

It's like wait a minute the mom the mom is saying Yeah, do these things and she does those things and she does really well and then at the end it's like all of us listen to. But uh, but that's that's sort of like the stuff people have to deal with in Hollywood and we're trying to tell creators.

No, just make whatever you want. Yeah, like we're not gonna give you input onto your movie. It's like right, you know, but the market will yeah, you know. Let's just let the market decide if it's a good movie or not.

And you know, and if you raise money for the movie and people like the movie then it's great. If if you don't then, you know get better. Yeah, I think I heard you say less. Maybe it was last night.

I mean, it's Friday. I don't even know I don't even know what day is when you're here at these conferences for 18 hours every day doing multiple interviews. I don't even know what day it is anymore. Yeah, you kind of said we're the sandbox to allow people to create.

Decentralizing Christian Filmmaking and the Three-Party Marketplace

Yeah, yeah, I think that's sort of that's sort of right. Yeah. So it's like, you know, the Internet is giving us technologies that. Decentralized industries, right? So so like, you know Taxicab drivers had a monopoly for years.

Sure. And then and then uber and lyft came along and completely destroyed that industry. The same thing is true with like I mean credit card process. We were talking about this because we got like we got those like square chip reader.

Yeah. And we're like man you used to have to pay like five hundred dollars for like a POS system. And then like 84 and then I can go to Walmart and grab a square reader and set me up a way to take credit card payments in.

Like five minutes. Yeah, like that's that's pretty incredible man. So like there's all these industries that come and disrupt these. These industries and so but but Hollywood has. So Netflix, I mean disrupted the industry sure, but they became a part of it.

Yeah, so it's like they they they're they're they're just a monolith studio now just like everybody else. So so we're actually trying to say well what happens if we are like the uber and lyft of the film industry?

Yeah, we just make it so anybody can make movies and make a lot of money on movies. Sure, and uh, there's a market for yeah and not have you know, these sort of executives making decisions for the people, right?

No, so would you guys ever release something at like an AMC or you know a movie theater?

Well, yeah, there's discussions about that. Like I think the theaters are still great. Yeah. But I'd like the stock I'm sure. Pump the stock. Yeah. Yeah the stock to the moon. Always pump the stock of them.

That's for sure. But uh, I think GME III think We're gonna see is we're gonna see a lot more. Come. Smaller community driven movie theater. Movie theater experiences.

And are you guys gonna have a range of content to to where. Maybe you have something that's feature film length and produce that way.

Yeah, so we have a little more indie. Yeah, we actually underground. Yeah kind of like that, too. We have we have a feature-length film that that that we're gonna get. We're gonna have a documentary series.

We're gonna have an adult animated cartoon. We're gonna have Some kids cartoons and then a Bunch of a bunch of other things in the cartoon sections. I'm feeling animations really I'm feeling a animated cartoon for two podcast.

We're actually doing one with Laura. Laura Laura Clawson. Are you guys familiar with Laura Clawson? No, no, she runs a anti-abortion ministry in Canada called choice for two. Okay, and she released this animated cartoon that she worked on with some like ex-Disney animators.

About child sacrifice and it was like really dark, but it looked like, you know, like, you know, Cuella DeVille, right? Like it was just like oh, wow. That's a real Disney villain. Yeah, but it was like maybe like maybe five minutes long I think and it was about like, you know.

The history of like people sacrificing their children. It was really good. It got tons of views. So she's actually gonna do a project with us too, but it'll be like six short Document like short animated cartoons abortion.

So I like to talk about like really dark cartoons not for children. Yeah, so but but yeah, so so that's gonna be one of our projects and she's already making podcast rounds talking about excited about that.

How Creators, Streamers, and Investors Can Join Loor.tv

Awesome, man, so if anyone's interested in either being a streamer a Here or an investor, where do they go? Go to Lord?

Dot TV and then you can sign up. You can sign up there.

And we saw you down there both days already. Man, you're hustling you're talking you're doing your thing. But have you got to sit in on any of the sessions? And if you did, what was your favorite part?

What was actually having a way?

I'm trying to hustle the t-shirts. Don't want somebody to come and like want a t-shirt. But I am gonna go to the Joe boot session. I'm going to that one. Yeah, that's it. That's gonna be interesting happens.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, cool Marcus. Thanks so much for coming on Jay. Did you have anything? Love it. All right guys looking forward to lore. Oh, thanks for listening and it always god bless. Yeah, I'm going to wait hold on.

Who are these people. What we gonna talk to him about. I Thought you knew. So we're. We're the go-go dancers for this evening show. Nice and We're talking about a Christian view of go-go dancing. Oh boy, beautiful men.

What it is about the high boots. Are we ready? Yeah. Between two ferns. Yes. We are and I am shaped like Zach Galifianakis. Yes, and I have been mistaken for him before. You're not nearly pear-shaped.

All right, I'm hungry. Let's go. Ready? Speaking of pears. Oh, all right. Here we go.

Fight, Laugh, Feast, the Second Interview, and Homeschooled Kids

We'll go back to another awesome walking walk through our picture. We're gonna keep it going. He walked through the frame.

Yeah, you're gonna be dead. Come on man go ahead. It's all yours it's all yours. Run. We are live from fight laugh and feast again. Oh Rapid City, South Dakota. What's going on? Jason. Not much man. We are having a blast out here in South Dakota.

Didn't know it could be so much fun. Yeah, we're on day three already. Yes. We are just finishing Resurrection Day, baby. That's action. Who's that voice? Who is that that we just heard there in a microphone juice yourselves.

I Am Jason Farley. I work for lore TV. I am the creative one. Yeah. Right, so I'm a screenwriter. I mean. Compared to nothing. Yes. You're not creative. We've got that much.

First of all, I have to say I think it's illegal to have two Jason's on the same show.

So I will be officially going by the handsome one. Okay.

Yes, my name is Nathaniel Talbot, and I'm the CEO and CTO at lore so Jason and I are working on turning.

Filmmaking upside down. Yes. Yes, and they do it with passion and. And guns what? I lower cancel Hollywood cancel Hollywood lore. Oh, you can take a Christian movies shouldn't suck Lord love God and make what you want.

They've had nice. So give us a little background. I know we have the handsome one in the creative one. So you're creative and what was your what was your background? I'm the skinny one. You got my name wrong.

Oh, yeah. Skinny is is it in your mind? Being right exactly. You were a screenwriter author that kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I pastored for a about a decade or so and And Became a writer and a teacher published poet wrote a novel children's book and then landed in screenwriting a few years ago, and I've been working in screenwriting mostly writing comedy and Then connected with the folks at lore and jumped on as the as running the the artists Artists communication run run in the okay.

Did you get some of your funniness from your cousin Chris? Well, we shared a van down by the river for a while. Not a funny joke doesn't wait his or mine. No, of course me no, we're both Jason you're not the creative one.

No, right. Yeah, so the skinny ones joke was funny. I'm not very skinny. You've seen me or not. Oh, man, and then Nathaniel's background cuz it's actually impressive you want his.

Live. Jason's like I don't matter at all. Go over here. Yeah. Yeah, so my background is I love writing software and I love building companies and I put those two things together created a startup called Spreedly that Still does payment processing exited that from from that a few years ago and got a call from Maceo are the CEO of lore and he was like somebody recommended you we should.

And I came on as the CTO and COO at lore. So I'm wearing two hats, right?

To hand one of them off three three hats if you count that you're my spirit animal. Bunch of hippies. Hippies we started. Lord's other tagline a bunch of hippies right and Toby started such a high point.

Jason found some beer somewhere. I found a microphone. Much more effective. Get on right now, I mean you got some stuff in the works or I mean anything you can talk about. Yeah, well, I mean what we're working on is getting a distribution and funding platform.

Completed and up and running to all the things. So technically we're a tech company and. Technically we yeah, we are actually a tech company. Not just technically we're a tech company. So we're working on building the technology that is necessary.

To be able to free artists from the Hollywood Mafia. So that Christians can get the get the shackles off and find the freedom to make their make their dream projects. And not be shackled by Hollywood or shackled by the church ladies that have their way of right getting in.

Being their way to the top. Yeah. Marcus described it as pure flicks. Is that a Jason it's awesome. I said a lot of really cool projects coming out. Yeah. Yeah, we do. Yeah, he talked about six different ones.

Which ones of those are you guys involved in all those right now as well? Are those like being worked on outside of lore and then they're bringing them into you.

Like how's that? How's that work? So I mean some of both so, okay. What we're trying to do is the when? Lore is like hard mode entrepreneurship because it's a multi-party. Mark, it's a three-party marketplace.

Okay, so when you're doing a sort of a two-party transaction, it's really easy. You make a good product you go out and you find to buy it you sell it to them. They give you money you're done. Yeah lore what we're trying to build is a three-party marketplace.

The consumer so the streamer the subscriber the person that wants to fund things we have Lore, we're the platform. We're gonna facilitate the whole thing, but then you have the creatives and so you've got three.

You know, you're you're trying to hurt three cats not just two and so what we're trying to do is we're trying to seed out The content so that we've got good launch content because at the end of the day the people are going to be paying us money.

Are not the ones who are going to be creating the content that we're going to be selling. So we've got to juice where we're basically trying to prime the pump. And so we're funding like we've optioned some stuff.

We're fun. Um, Jason's writing some stuff to make sure that we have really compelling set of launch content. Yeah, but more and more stuff is popping up all the time, too. So it like even some things that we were looking at as potential for launch.

Back when we first started around November. Now we're like, okay that doesn't make the launch cut of the launch cut anymore because Better and better stuff is coming to us the more and that's something you learn when you're building a company is the more you work On it the the more you're consistent at it the more opportunities pop up, right?

Yeah, and it always helps when you're building something for God to like, yeah. Yeah, he gets involved. Seriously. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, he makes the connections that you couldn't imagine ever making right on your behalf. So what was your guys's favorite part of fight left feast? Would you like the best this interview? I think yeah, absolutely.

The yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so you are such a suck. Officially my favorite part Week can we can we make a little bit of a contribution to Laura? Could we have our own our own little spot on it? Hey, you know, I've lowered.

I'd love to hear your pitch. I'm gonna need to see the pitch. What's up? My people call your people. Yeah. Yeah, there's two guys. They're traveling across the country because they have this lost briefcase and they get to Colorado.

They're trying to find this girl in Aspen. What you just said. That sounds dumb yeah and dumber. I Think that what I have enjoyed the most is the fellowship you yeah at a place like this you meet people from all over the country and You know just the way that the work of the Spirit in your own life Immediately connects you with people whose lives are being worked in by the Spirit as well.

I think is it's such a Taste of the of the Resurrection to come that every time I get in a situation like this I think man. This is it's so good to just meet people that are my brothers and sisters that I didn't know I had you know.

And yeah, you get to meet the crazy uncles that you didn't know you had to and I love that too. I'm making. You have a yeah, you're getting characters. Yeah. Right. I was like man, I got three new ones just today.

The table.

So I think I think my favorite part is I grew up. I was homeschooled all the way through and we were involved in Christian homeschooling organization. They had big conferences every year and. And smaller ones too, and I grew up.

Teen years going to conferences now, there was some weird things about that organization. Well, it was David Koresh wasn't it? But but I still those were formative for me. I met a lot of people there.

I had a lot of opportunities come out of that. I I learned a lot of doctrine and now I have a place that I'm bringing my eight kids all of them baptized. And I'm bringing my kids out and they're getting ten times better.

Wow, that's so good. I mean. Yeah, it's amazing like they're getting exposed to way better things and I'm able to support that and it you know. When you're trying to raise Christian children, I mean we have our church, which is amazing.

But the more other Christians you can give them to mom on. To CEO, they're weird, too. Yeah, and it's okay to be odd like Jason.

Dead men walking now. What a great podcast. Greg was one of those weirdos, too. You are one pathetic loser. We're going I can say it cuz I was homeschooled to. Yeah, let's keep it weird baby. Yeah, that's we turned out just fine.

Yeah. Usually homeschool kids are the geniuses.

So, you know. Okay, and Russia. Yeah, Moscow has the the really big on. Their the classical education and the classical school. Well, I mean, especially at the college level. University level the NSA graduates.

Most of them graduate and they go to work for one particular company. You know what that company is what homeschooled? MC M's Emory MC. Oh.

That story would have been better if you had known what it was called. I can't remember. It's cuz you were homeschooled.

MZ MZ. So MZ is there and it's run by a homeschooler. Who I believe didn't even go to college once homeschooled always. Yeah.

Definitely that's awesome. Thanks boss. Look at 87 of homeschoolers outperform public charter and private school. Oh, yeah. So I got a wrist off stand stand out there for you. Which is why I've decided to not homeschool my children because I want them to have to work for things.

Starting at a deficit children. Yeah. Yeah. Welcome to reality. I feel I feel a homeschool show coming on. Yeah, right. I mean get out of it. All right now Jason. Yeah, actually, I've got a really good idea.

I came up with it on the plane here about some bank robbers robbers that get trapped in a cabin in the woods by an avalanche with a family of nine homeschooled children. Nice, wait, there's no Nine homeschooled children.

Yeah, the parents died in the avalanche, which is what makes it a comedy. Oh my gosh. That's horrible. You pitched it low and outside I couldn't. That's ultimately my fault. This is why I need a team they reel me back in.

I don't know I was gonna say that goes into the Quentin Tarantino, right? That's like a yeah. The what is it? The Magnificent Seven? What's the one where they're all trapped? I don't know. Hateful eight.

Yeah, I don't know. Were you homeschooled? Yeah. No, I didn't homeschool. Yeah, that's why I'm not very smart. Yeah, I Was ready to homeschool, which is why I have no morals. If this podcast right now is going to help lore I thought you were going to say going to hell.

So Yeah, we've got all types working on lore. We've really got all types clearly.

But all glory to God. Amen. Absolutely here. Let's we at least have to end on that. Yes. So guys, why don't you throw out where people can? Find lore and and you know, if they're interested in either investing or creating content or subscribing.

Yeah, go for it Lord our TV. Yep. You go to Lord our TV. There's an invest button. There's a Stream button and there's a create button. It's pretty complicated, but we find most people can figure it out even the non-homes.

Okay. All right, guys, we're gonna wrap it up here. We appreciate you guys coming on. Thanks so much for having us. Guys, we get any stay in contact and we'll make sure we link up everything when this goes out to the listeners guys.

Thanks for listening. And as always god bless. Amen, man. Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram at dead men walking podcast for full video podcast episodes and clips or email us at dead men walking podcast at gmail .com.