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We are also currently star power coming in here. A question of faith guys. We'll talk about it. A major motion picture now in theaters.
Now you may ask, why are we telling you about a movie? Well, it's because it's something to do about donation and buying many lives together. Wow, yeah, and the star. One of the stars of this movie is going to join us on the gifted life podcast to talk about his role.
Yes, you may have seen him on a football field in commercials or in other movies. We should probably ask him what he doesn't do because he does so much, but he'll be right here guys on the gifted life, which is pretty exciting. Also coming up Lopez Troll Run for life. That's right.
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Let's do it. Here on the gifted life, we are all smiles. We have some star power coming to our podcast today. Actor TC Stallings joins us now by phone.
Hey, sir. How you doing? We appreciate you joining us. I said actor, but really you're a jack of all trades.
It would be probably easier for you to tell us what you don't do, right? Your former athlete, actor, war room, courageous. You're an author, like a lot of things going on for you. I like to sum it up just by saying I try to use all my different talents to bring God glory.
And that's pretty much it. We love that using your talents. We always talk here on the podcast about one person making a difference. And that really sounds like something that you're doing and living every day.
So we appreciate that. We have you on because this new movie out in theaters, a question of faith, you're a star in that movie. Can you give us a little bit about what that movie is about, sum it up for us? Sure.
And forgiveness and focuses on what I like to call the upper side of the interquition. And when I say the other side of that top side, that gives a perfect tuition. The side that deals with pain and it's a different than a Christian. The relationship with you, the piece that comes from which is awesome.
Top time too. And precision to be prepared. Not only don't get broken by him, but on that side, deal with the top time and being a Christian. That's where you get the title from.
A question of faith. I'll just do that. That's three different families. And they don't know that they know each other.
Yeah. So we know that donation plays a part. We want to talk about that. But what attracted you to this story, to this character which you play so well, like you had me rooting for you.
I'm a coach, I'm a coach, wherever I get a fifth of that guy. I just had to laugh a little bit when he's on the screen. It's a hard film. I knew it's a love in the film.
You talked about that lightheartedness and of course with the drama and the tough part. That's a part that we see regularly here in the donation aspect. We see the families in tragedy and the difficulties that they go through. Was there anything that you guys did differently to prepare for this type of role?
For me, it's a character and it's like how you are. I was really able to be myself with people. All the things that you have are the accountability for other people. I just try to be a solid and these things.
It was more of the thing. I just think the only thing I had to prepare myself during the filming is to not be so attractive. Because some of the things I want to actually grab me being a dad myself, I have to feel. So I'm around when they're doing the scenes where people are having to deal with their kids in hospitals and get hit by stuff.
And those kinds of things, you've got to like, okay, give up on the guy. I got to shoot myself together. So from that point, this is what we're doing with those kinds of tragedies. I mean, you have to be ready for that.
But the people are all pretending to be on myself that I've done it twice on time. So I have a question for you. When you were working on this project, did it change or strengthen your personal views on donation? Or were you already pretty well aware of what donation means for families and others?
Obviously, well, for me, I have a sense that the Bible says you do what you do it. If the Bible says you don't know anything, not mentioned in there, people probably call that a gray area. Well, if you wanted the right thing, you have to pray. And he will lead us to the right answer.
I don't see any way to assist with this. I don't see any way to assist with this. Don't do it. I would take you situation and I would pray.
I'll be helped by you by Donate Norton. I also say, no, don't do this. You'll help us out, right? Don't do this.
I don't do this at this moment. And so I do what the Lord tells you to do. And you have to be willing to help. Any issue that is valuable, clearly, you have to say about both of them.
And then all day, you know what the Lord tells you to do. And so I had that belief on in. I had that belief coming out. The Lord told me to don't name my own because they don't name it.
The Lord tells don't name it. And I think that conductively clearly is expressed by him to pray. But if you don't want to pray, you don't do what you want to do. And what do we want to do?
And that's not the right way to go. Now we know this movie is out in theaters now, so we don't want to give out too much of the storyline. So I think T.C., if I may call you T.C., is now on first name basis. Absolutely.
Absolutely. So I think you did a great job of promoting it. So me sitting in the theater as you were right, like I had to pull those tissues out. And then I laughed and it made me think about my own connection.
So you're right. It's a great film. I want people to go out and watch it. But this is a star-studded movie.
So T.C. Stalings. That's you. Richard T.
Jones. Kimfield. See Thomas Hall. He's a fan of a lot of the movies.
And he said, he's a fan of who he is. He's a fan of who he is. And he's an alibi. What he was saying.
And he was saying, the Broadway actors are incredible, and he's coaching through, right? And you're quite an alibi. He's another straightaway actor. It sparked all these conversations, what you were talking to Sally about.
What did you think about Donation Paolo? What you have done. And I guess that's what you hoped with any work of art that you put forth? You want people to get involved, emotionally involved?
Talk about it? Right? Are you surprised by what you're hearing and learning about this movie? No.
I've been there particularly Greg Allen's line. I won't give it a way, but I don't give it. everybody, and they said, you know, when he did this, that made me think of this that happened in my life. And here's how I overcame it.
So it was just a lot of positive conversations coming out. And of course, we're in the donation world. Louisiana, Oregon procurement agency are low bus. So we were listening for folks with ties to donations.
So the donor side, those who were waiting, the recipient side, I mean, they were crying. They were laughing. And they loved this, this movie that you guys put together. The producer came up, started talking about how this came to be.
And he said, we weren't really shooting for a major motion picture when we first started. Like it was like it was meant to be. So tell us from your perspective. And then on top of that, you know, when you look at the issues that are ready for this film being made over a year ago, why did we just really feel like we're really, you know, with the film, with this method?
And I was glad to be part of the great cast. And you know, not just anybody can play people games that they chose me to do it. And I wasn't watching somebody else do it. You know, I did the cast.
I was a part of it. Yeah, you were good though. Yeah, you brought that character to life as I was like, come on, he has to. Come on before the story ends.
I have to know what happens. That was what I was talking about. That's right. That's right.
One of the other things I learned from the producer was Kim Fields said she thought that this part was written for her. Like this was a project that she had to do. And it kind of sounds like that's what you're saying. Like this was next for you.
Like you had to bring these issues to the forefront so that we could have this conversation. Yeah, I remember when I spoke with the other one, we were talking about everything that we were trying to accomplish. And again, I looked at her cast list and then you get, you probably meet the people that will be acting with them. And we were back there talking and everybody was kind of running their line.
I know that, you know, everybody who was selected to play their role, that if anybody was out of place or anybody, it felt like it didn't. It looked like everybody was going like that. Yeah, but we appreciate you taking on a project that talked about donation as our passion here at LOPA. We work to make life happen.
We work with donor families recipients those waiting and so to put that on that scale with your star power is pretty powerful for all those families who are here in Louisiana across the country across the world. So thank you for taking on that project. I'll let you and invite everybody to help you a lot of players. I just, you can't just inform about your opinion and then walk away from it.
You know, say nobody, nobody to piece about it. You don't have to laugh. It's the movie out in theaters now. We get a simple Google search and we're able to see your sweet face on there doing your thing and that movie trailer and you can do that too.
But if you want to leave our audience with one thing about the movie, TC, a question of faith, what would that be? I would say, listen, when tough times come, a lot of people in this world, you know, you know, watching this wide eye wide or wide me. And I think when we don't have that answer, we look for it in places like, you know, get depressed, you know, pain, give up and all those. I hope this movie helps people know what it is going to ask for the wide eye wide me.
And it is because the Lord had the purpose. He had the plan and we need to be the best to get through. And you don't have to look to any other source of understand, you know, even the tragedy in life, you know, the Holy Spirit and God is just purpose and the reason to be the same is that we can bring God glory and He can just glory out of the truth. I can just glory out of some of the, you ever more breathing things that we do.
But I know that people know where to find that and don't let tragedy and pain and things like that can go in itself with it in my eye. Perfect. A question of faith is the movie. A question of faith.
We hope that you see it. We hope it serves those healthy conversations about all these topics in the donation world. We hope that it inspires folks to learn the facts so they can make an educated decision about organ eye and tissue donation. T.C.
Stalings. Thanks for the time. Thanks for what you do. Magad, thank you guys.
Appreciate you. At this point in the gifted life podcast, the Honor Hero as we do in every podcast today's hero is Bill Martinez. And we're going to about Bill from his camp. Bill Martinez was an extraordinary man who knew how to truly love those around him.
He was humble, wise, kind, compassionate and a loyal friend, husband, father and grandfather. How we miss his hearty laugh and insight. While not wealthy by earthly standards, he was rich in his love for Christ and knew what really mattered in life. The lives of those who have been touched by him have been greatly enriched and he has deeply missed.
Through the gift of corneal donation, Bill gave to others, even in his death. And now we pause and say thank you to Bill for the gift of life. And our question and answer segment today. We have a question that came in through info at lopa.org.
I agree donation is wonderful, but so many people who donate can't afford health insurance. Why would we ask that a donation be made if this is not for everyone, even those without health insurance? That's the question that came in. That's a great question.
And I'm going to answer kind of from both sides from a donation perspective. There is no cost to the donor or donor family for the donation. It is a gift from that donor to the recipients. And from the transplant side, the vast majority as we've spoken before of the patients on the waiting list need kidneys, life saving kidney.
And Medicare and Medicaid picks up when you are on dialysis and of course, thus needing a kidney. So that patient's private insurance doesn't pay for the transplant. That's where the Medicare and Medicaid money comes in. So even if you don't have private insurance, you can still receive a life saving organ.
And also, like I mentioned, on the donation side, there's no cost to the donor family. Great question. We're always learning here on the gift of life. Maybe you have a question?
info at lopa.org. We'd love to hear from you. Losing up another episode of the gift of life, good one, huh? Yes, it was.
We want to first thank TC Stallings, the Jack of all trades. He was first an athlete and an author, an actor, and his great movie that's just out now in theaters, Question of Faith. And along with that, Joey, the movie talks about and shows us about donation and what it means to possibly be an organ or tissue or eye donor. Yeah, so if you go out and watch it, we hope that it spurs those healthy conversations about organ eye tissue donation.
And if you listen to the podcast, you heard TC talk about religion. So we wanted to tell you about organ donor dot gov. organ donor dot gov under the learn tab at the top of the page. There's a section and it has views from different religions in case you want to go and check that out and learn more.
But we do want you to know in the donation world, all major religions support donation. Maybe you've been inspired to sign up to be an organ eye and tissue donor from our conversations today. Register me dot org is a good way to go. It's quick.
It's simple and you can make your decision known. But above all else, we hope that you go out and do something today that you don't normally do to help us make life happen. We appreciate it.