Sneak peek? Guests? New merch? (Big Livestream!)

all right we're live i hope we're live are we live we've got our team here i'm in the uh the house that i'm staying in here in provo utah a few of us are staying here actually during this time of shooting and uh behind me we have a few of our upcoming special guests they are sitting there waiting patiently we've also got a good buddy and associate producer justin overlander behind me who is taking your questions live he's going to be feeding me some questions when we've got special guests he's going to be giving us some questions he's kind of keeping track of all that's going on i've got my partner daryl is off out of camera camera range right now where he prefers actually uh he is running the camera and the audio and all the uh effects that we're doing and then colin our head of bts and uh also our general overall kind of tech guru is making sure that i sound okay and that you can see and near me so first of all in the comments make sure you're letting us know where you're from we want to hear from you now we're a community and we want to know where you're at where you're at so in the youtube comments which as you probably are noticing already are flying by at warp speed but if you can just let us know where you're at we'd love to hear from you and on facebook same thing just let us know we oftentimes on these live streams you are joining literally thousands of people around the world it's not just the united states and canada but we're always hearing from people in australia and india and philippines everywhere you can think of we are oftentimes getting people coming in saying we're here and we love the chosen and sometimes we even get messages in different languages which is always so cool uh what you're doing and how you're supporting this show even just by being here is getting this show and our channel out to the world so as we speak as i speak to you right now and as you comment and as you hit the like button and as you hit the subscribe button and the notification bell on youtube especially uh and the same thing on on facebook as you comment facebook and youtube go whoa right now people are really liking this thing let's get it out to more people so if you want us out to more people if you want the show and our channel to get out to more people you can contribute by simply commenting and of course there are other ways you contribute which i will be discussing later in this live stream as i think you hopefully can see i am wearing a new sweatshirt have you seen the sweatshirt before the answer my friend is no and uh right now as i'm wearing it you can be wearing it not at this very moment but you can be ordering it at thechosenmerch.com www.thechosenmerch.com i will give you the jingle in just a moment and in fact when i bring on some of my special guests later i may even ask them to sing the jingle you never know i can't i can't promise or deny anything but uh this is where our new trouble sweatshirt will be the chosen merch.com you remember this at the end of episode one sorry at the end of season one this is the silhouette of those of jesus and his current band of disciples walking in slow motion set to a really cool song called trouble at the end of episode at the end of season one one of my favorite moments in the entire series is now on a sweatshirt it's on a t-shirt in fact i'll show you this we're in the t-shirt underneath the sweatshirt how cool is that and you can have it too but we'll talk more about that in just a minute so here's the bad news about tonight you will be hearing a lot about this you will be hearing a lot about merch uh i don't i'm not always that comfortable even though it may sound like i am i'm not always that comfortable talking about our merch and saying hey you can buy it and for just pennies a day you can have it in your home and all of these things i don't i don't love that role um and i know sometimes when you're watching you're maybe thinking i don't like all the salesmanship and i'm with you i don't really like it either the fact is though because we are giving the show away for free and because our channels are free and all of our bts videos are free and everything that you ever want to watch with our show is totally free somehow someway we have to be able to uh pay our bills and uh so i sometimes even though i'm not exactly enamored with the idea have to say to you look if you want this to keep going um we're gonna need your help we're gonna need your contribution now the good news is we've got a lot of really cool things for you tonight we got a lot of really cool things including our merchandise but uh here's what you're gonna see tonight uh and i've got some of my notes in front of me so forgive me if i occasionally look away from you and into my uh my you know messy piece of paper here but we've got special guests so among the people you are going to see tonight my wife amanda who is here with updates about all of the things that she's been working on that i cannot wait for you to see um we've got like three different books and items that are going to be coming out in the next few months and i wanted to get her here to give you an update she's here for the weekend visiting me and has made me much a much happier director over these last couple days just by being here but she's going to give you some updates i know you're always excited to hear her heart on what's going on and yes as we've been telling you mandissa joel smallbone two significant recording artists who are big fans of the show you will be hearing from them they are not in this house right now so i will be honest up front we recorded their uh my conversations with them on the set and i will tell you why in a few minutes they were on the set of the chosen because we have a huge i'm not going to say huge it's like it's like between big and huge announcement about uh something that they're gonna be involved in among several others a really cool project that we've got coming up before the end of the year and then i'm gonna turn around here liz and noah can you give a wave liz and noah are here and look what they're wearing what a coincidence it's like it's like you knew it's like it's like we talked about it beforehand yes they're wearing the sweatshirt the hoodie as well uh they are here listen no are going to be here taking your questions in fact we've already assembled a few questions that you have been asking over the last few days knowing that they were here and they're going to be answering some of your questions giving an update on how the shooting has been going we just finished week five of filming we have just a few days left here in utah which is currently snowing like crazy so tomorrow our filming day may look a little different than we were hoping and so we may not even actually be able to shoot all of what we wanted to shoot tomorrow because it's snowing and i don't think it was snowing too often in israel during the time of our show so we may have to not shoot a little bit tomorrow but uh we are here in utah just about done then we're gonna go on hiatus uh in the end of november and december and then we'll be picking up filming in january and february in texas so again taking your questions got a big announcement i'm going to be making here in a little bit and yes we do have a sneak preview of season two uh i don't normally ever do this i mean showing you a rough cut of a scene it's like showing you the like the all when we when i've been cleaning the house uh and and the way that i've been cleaning the house is by shoving a bunch of stuff into the into the closet uh because uh i can't i can't clean very well and if i open the closet and let you see what's in there that's what showing a rough cut of the scene is like but i wanted you to get a glimpse uh you've been so supportive so faithful you've been praying so hard you've been asking so many questions about when season two is coming out and we feel it we really do feel it and we do appreciate it so i thought all right let's give them a scene a rough cut of a scene from season two and that will be coming up later in our live stream so i i know you can look forward to that so one of the things that i'm doing on this live stream as i said is we're offering you our new merch so we've got the trouble sweatshirt the trouble t-shirt all of that is live now at thechosenmerch.com www.thechosenmerch.com you're welcome more to come later with that but um we're also getting rid of one of our items i know that sounds harsh but uh and it served us very well but uh for now we are going to be um taking down our get used to different gear and there is only a limited amount left brett parker who handles all of our merchandise in texas has informed me that we've got i think at this point a few hundred uh get used to different items left and we are getting rid of all of them so we're gonna be selling them tonight tonight's the last night you can get them and so if you want to do that you can do tonight's the night uh before i get used to different stuff is gone for a little while but i wanted to tell you before we get into the live stream and before i get uh start mentioning all of the merch items that we're offering is why do i talk about merch uh why do i sometimes do these live streams where i am pushing a merchandise and i want you to know that when you buy a sweatshirt or uh you know one of these beanies or whatever it is it's not just because we're wanting you to you know get some stuff and promote the show um that is actually one one of the lowest priorities of it what we really want is um there's like three or four things that we really hope to get out of this that we hope that you get out of it as well when i am on these things uh telling you all about our merchandise number one is the merchandise really starts conversations i can't tell you how many times we've heard on our fan club how many times we've heard on um through comments through emails through text all of that people saying i wore the chosen um merch i was wearing a t-shirt and i was in line at the grocery store and someone asked me what it meant you know why you know get used to different or binge jesus or whatever it was and i was able to tell them about the show i was able to talk about the meaning behind the fish you know how the fish the circle of fish that we've got here you know uh you got all these gray fish going in one direction and then 13 fish which represents jesus and the disciples going in the opposite direction and the color of teal the color of life um and how sometimes we need to go against the current and sometimes we need to not necessarily follow the crowd all of those things help start conversations and so that's one of the things we really love about the the items that we are offering it's not just the chosen and we just want you to promote it we actually want conversations to be started uh number two quite frankly it helps pay the bills um in fact it's the primary reason that we're able to offer all our behind the scenes videos um the fact that um you know all of the money that comes in from paying it forward and from buying dvds and books over at the app and over at the store all of that goes towards production um now production isn't the only thing we do as you know so when we're filming season two um all of that money from paying it forward goes to that production but we also have other things going on we have the marketing we have all the bts videos we need people we need a team to run this company and as crass as that as that sounds it's true and so we're not taking any money from the production and just putting it towards an office and putting it towards all of the things we have to get done for you that comes from merchandise and so we don't have a big studio or a big tv network writing a check that says all right for the next three years you can have a show and all of your needs are going to be taken care of because the show is making so much money for us that's not how this works uh this is all you and so we rely on you and i'm not i'm not ashamed to say that that we need you and we need your help and whenever i get a chance to meet you or i get a chance to communicate with you on social media i try to say that as often as possible we literally couldn't do it without you and this is one of the main ways that it happens is these um these items so we give away the show for free we give away all the bts stuff for free and we hope that in exchange for that um that you're able to keep contributing because we know that you want this show to continue to be free for people around the world you want that youtube channel and the facebook channel to be getting uh get be given away for free and this is how we're able to do it and honestly it's better if when doing that you actually enjoy it you're not just writing a check and sending it off but you're actually getting some really cool stuff this is honestly some of the most comfortable stuff that i own i wear it all the time not because i'm just a you know a promo hog i'm actually like really super comfortable in it so we really worked hard to make sure that you would enjoy the process of working with us on supporting the show and then our goal honestly long term is at the rate that we're going if you continue to join us in in wearing the merch and wearing wearing the chosen around and supporting it like even with things like the calendar which i'm looking at right now it's really cool um the calendar that we've got where you've got all of these great uh pictures in it and uh prayer focus like each month there's a different disciple a different character from the show an actor that we ask you to to just keep in mind and to pray for and and along with all these beautiful pictures um all that stuff um hopefully long term we would actually start uh financing future seasons with it not just keeping the lights on in our business but actually financing future episodes and seasons and not relying on all and so many other different methods methods but also being able to rely on the sales of our merchandise so hopefully that gives you some some idea of why we do this and why uh sometimes i come on these live streams and and push some of this stuff but i don't want it to be all about that tonight um i just want to mention again the new trouble stuff and then listen to this before before we get into um uh a big announcement i want to tell you about a big very big announcement in just like 60 seconds uh on the set we're wearing we have to wear our masks uh all the crew does because uh we are essentially in a bubble we have about we've had probably between 500 600 at least people coming on to our set over the last month and we can't risk anyone getting sick because then we could potentially have to shut down and so as of right now our set is probably one of the safest places to be in all of utah so not only are we following protocols and rules but we're also happily doing it because we don't want anyone to of course get sick and that's how we're able to stay getting you know stay filming for this entire time and i know you're thrilled with that that we actually get to film but we've been wearing but i guess i just got this yesterday and this is by far i'm not exaggerating the best uh mask or gator that we've had so this just came in the other day it's now on thechosenmerch.com this is so comfortable i swear to you i hate wearing masks i hate it because they bunch up my nose sometimes i can't breathe as well they get uncomfortable i'm always trying to pull it down i honestly forget that i'm wearing this sometimes it's so it's like the material is so nice and soft i actually sometimes enjoy it it's like a it's like a comfy little mouth blanket uh a mouth sheet i should say um and but literally because it has the ear holes i don't it doesn't like fall down when i talk and so if i do need to lower it to eat or whatever i just you know like this and it's still on i don't take it all the way off so i just i was really excited about that when this finally came in i love the design we've got a limited number of them um so anyway check that out uh it's now on the store it's really awesome super comfortable you forget you're wearing it i promise it will make this uncomfortable awkward weird season a little bit easier for you okay i want to tell you about our big announcement so season two isn't coming out until the spring probably not until easter and even then it probably won't be all eight episodes so we are filming all eight episodes all at once right now we've we're about to be halfway through we've got another half coming soon but we're not gonna be able to we're not gonna be able to release uh the episodes until easter we don't want you to have to wait that long for some good chosen stuff so over the last month and a half or so we have been talking we are partnering with of course our distribution partners at that angel and uh one of the one of the guys over there brad has been really spearheading this effort and some of our friends who we know are in the music industry who are huge fans of the chosen have been reaching out to us we've been reaching out to them we said let's do a christmas special so we're going to be doing a christmas special december 13th so you can put that in your calendar now if you want but we'll be having plenty more to say about it near the future but i just wanted to give you the good news now december 13th we're gonna be doing a simulcast a massive christmas special with get this chris tomlin for king and country mandissa zack williams phil wickham uh who else am i who who else the piano guys um gosh there's there's more i can't even think of muffled up in my head but like like a veritable cornucopia of musical delights is coming your way all centered around christmas and most of the artists are literally if they haven't already are coming to the set to film their music videos and their performances some of them have written christmas songs just for this special others are doing some of their classics um just for this special recording them on the set just for the special because they're fans of the chosen because they're fans of christmas and we thought 2020 has been such a crazy year and why not like get together in some form of unity and actually celebrate christmas on the set of the chosen and uh so there's gonna be a two-hour special where we're gonna be having all of those artists performing and we're also gonna be showing the shepherd yes the short film that i filmed on my friend's farm in illinois the thing that started it all we'll have a very special presentation um amanda and i are going to be sharing a couple of insider thoughts that we've never actually shared before about where the shepherd actually started why what was the song that actually inspired it there was actually a song that actually inspired the shepherd that i wouldn't have done otherwise if i hadn't had been singing that song in church service once and that song is going to be performed on the special so a lot of insider insights insider insights that's a little weird uh on that christmas special that you're not gonna be able to get anywhere else but i just wanted to tell you about this now we're so excited about it i honestly can't believe that it's come together it's also gonna be on a few cable networks um that we'll be announcing uh down the road but it is gonna be on multiple networks um multiple social media channels in december chosen christmas special and on that special we will be showing somewhere between four and five minutes of season two footage we will be assembling kind of a highlight reel of some of our coolest footage from season two on that special so anyway you i'm i'm super excited about i can't believe all those artists came together they're big chosen fans so what i want to do now in you know to kind of give you a taste of what we're going to be doing we haven't i i talked to joel small small bone from fort king and country on the set of the chosen while they were filming their music video that's going to be played on that special so little drummer boy is one of their biggest hits and they actually filmed a christmas uh music video uh some part of it was filmed elsewhere and then the other when they came to the chosen set to film the rest of the music video there i had a chance to talk with joel about uh the music video about the christmas special and about the chosen so check this out this is joel and me on the set of the chosen hey i'm dallas jenkins i'm creator of the chosen and i'm with my new friend joel smallbone country why are we here on this set you just finished something that i got a chance to watch what were you doing here in goshen well first things first you're the reason we're here and and uh and thanks to the great believers here in salt lake city utah as well for making this whole thing happen but we just wrapped up this portion the culmination of little drummer boy uh the music video kind of our rendition of it and so this set uh is gonna be the home to well your second season well the second season of the chosen but this is like first century jerusalem basically yeah like so what do you think when you walked onto the set here oh it's mind-blowing i'm so thrilled to see how it comes to life uh in the second season of the chosen and i'm so excited for you to see um how it came to life in uh the little drama boy because the idea was to take basically a journey back through time from 2020 as we've talked about it being such a disruptive year to another disruptive time the first century when when christ came and so walking back and it culminating in just behind us here the the birthplace of jesus yeah yeah i got a chance to watch you guys film this music video tonight and it was really inspiring for me to see what you guys are making it look like i mean it looks like first century and i remember first time i saw a little drummer boy my son sat me down he's like you've got to see this video for king and country and i had seen you guys before but i hadn't seen anything like that so two years later i gotta say now i get a chance to watch it well thank you to your son but also speaking of like sitting some someone down my in-laws lit this was a couple months ago now literally like hey you have to come over right now i'm not joking sat my wife and i down and said you have to watch this television show about the life of jesus and so that's what we did we sat down and we watched it and it was one of those times when in-laws are doing the right thing they're doing the right thing mother-in-law is giving you good advice yeah no she's just they're they're great people but it was uh i'm so i'm so proud of you i'm proud to be here yeah proud to be able to um collaborate and uh really excited to see season two i have i did put it out to dallas so you can hold me accountable here because it's documented about having some kind of cameo in the next couple of seasons so yeah you can't you you're a little too uh roman looking to be a jewish disciple i can be roman but you can be a roman a roman soldier so we'll make you into a like one of the nice roman soldiers but uh but yeah make sure you're checking out little drummer boy because that music music video is going to be absolutely unbelievable and i'm really thrilled that we were able to finally come together on something and shoot on this great absolutely and vice versa if you haven't checked out the chosen yet make sure you give it a great watch because i i just think it brings to life the life of jesus in a way you've never seen before and so this is a good night absolutely 2 30 in the morning yes here we are absolutely signing off god bless all right i think we're back live we're good and uh justin give me the name that i should say real quick you know what this means you know why i'm saying your name i'm gonna hold you too okay i'm not gonna tell anyone else why i just said your name but i'm gonna hold you to your promise all right so we can actually see when things are purchased on the chosenmerch.com thank you to you to those of you who have purchased already it's really making a huge difference it's helping us finance future episodes and seasons and all allows us to be able to do this stuff right now so thank you so much for those of you who've already been purchasing it's great and now paris is about to as well all right so my wife amanda who oh look at us oh twinsies isn't that fun so uh amanda's here and uh not only is amanda my amazing wife who has literally um is responsible for casting probably a third of our cast by pushing for certain actors knowing letting me know right away she has an extraordinary sixth sense about actors so if you love for example paris patel is matthew that was her some of some of the upcoming cast in season two that you're going to love that was amanda great people yeah yes uh so we're gonna be talking a little bit about that a little bit later uh when we bring out liz and noah we're gonna be talking a little bit about some of our new cast so i can't wait to talk to you about that but one of her primary responsibilities is she in she and her partner writing partner kristen are kind of the driving force behind nearly all of our extra content so as i've talked about before the chosen is not just a show it is also a means to an end we've got other um material that takes you even deeper into the gospels deeper into the stories and a deeper into the scenes from the show than what you can just get from the show so for example in our upcoming special edition dvd uh amanda did a bunch of tidbits like so that while you're watching the show you can be seeing all these like biblical uh historical tidbits behind the scenes info that if you you know if you if you click that option you can be getting that while you're watching the show and she's also literally in the middle of how many different projects three so you've got the children children's book the bible study and the devotional the devotional so real quick this is not available yet but i wanted to show it to you because we just got it this is book two so this is the chosen 40 days with jesus book two just got a couple of sample copies of it the other day it's gonna be coming out at the end of the month we're gonna be doing a big live stream at the end of the month we're not gonna be talking about any march we're just gonna be talking about the books and the dvds and the pay it forwards and all that stuff but uh and then also we got um the season uh the first devotional book in spanish um which is really really cool i haven't even seen that yet i didn't know we had that yet how do i pronounce it yeah daryl speaks and thankfully we have a great team that translates because i did not write the spanish version half of our partners at vid angel and on my actual team at on the chosen speak spanish so uh so all of our spanish and portuguese is so give them an update on let's start with the children's book yeah so um kristen is our amazing illustrator she's an artist she went to school to be an artist she happens to also be a great writer so dallas asked me to pull some of my favorites um has to be the cover just because you have to see the cover so jesus loves the little children based on episode this isn't actually the book this is these are our printouts this is how fresh this is the book isn't even available yet but i had my proof sent so we thought we'd share that so um jesus loves the little children based on episode three yes so that's the cover and then i this is just the cutest it's the cutest kristin came up with these little end pages look at the children do you see they're following jesus and then they're growing and oh they're telling other people and they're growing so so cute when they read the book do they get your voice saying all those things i know look they're growing we haven't done the audio version yet this is your first page which for those of you who know episode three just read it you will recognize abigail and joshua i'm reading it apparently i'm reading it joshua and abigail were friends joshua was shy which meant he didn't talk too much especially to new people abigail talked a lot a lot so so cute right and then abigail meets jesus or sees jesus and then drags reluctant joshua which is just too cute do i keep saying that cute it's cute it's cute i need a synonym um and then i'm gonna jump to the end he asked me to pull my favorite pages uh for those of you who know episode three might recognize that jesus at night is making something um specifically for abigail so i love that there's just this sweet night shot so yeah i think it's going to be great and that's that's going to be available around thanksgiving right like near the end of the month really soon i mean i think i don't want to jump ahead of merch but i mean i'm pretty sure it's supposed to ship november 13th to us which means you all need to get it up and available is what that means yeah near the near the end of november that will be available and then um we've got amanda has been working tirelessly with our new testament consultant dr doug huffman who you may know from our bible rounds round tables who also uh has been off camera a consultant for us so all of our scripts get read by our bible consultants and dr huffman as a is a prominent new testament scholar and a close friend uh to help make sure that we're staying on the right path and that when we are straying a little bit uh then he lets us know and if we stray a tiny bit and maybe we keep it in the show we bring him on to tell the viewers well they didn't actually go to samaria he knows let me tell you that i've been working with him and he knows when you stray a tiny bit i'm aware and by the way some background information on on dr doug huffman who doesn't even like to be called a doctor because he's so humble um was our bible professor in college that's how we know him so i had there was a moment when you and i were dating and struggling a bit and i actually went and stayed with the husbands and they gave gave me advice and kind of helped me through it and they almost advised me to just yeah not he's not always my favorite consultant i'll tell you that much they were like stick to the bible dr huffman be aware of what you're getting into and that's not fiction so anyway it worked out fine it worked out well and he was very supportive it came to our wedding but also he's an amazing bible consultant and working with him on the bible study is incredible because he is this i mean ocean ocean of information so you can be assured that if you do our bible study it's correct it's a 10-week study it's coming out it's not it's an eight-week study sorry eight weeks yes and so coming here coming out in january so again i know you would love to get it now but i just wanted to give you the update because she just finished the edits last night i mean the final is like it's shipping off on tuesday so so we're done pretty much so are you showing daryl any any images of it yeah because we can't see but yeah you can see some of the images of how it's going to look um but it's really really great and it really takes you much deeper than even the show can go it's deep and and compared to the devotionals it takes you even deeper than the devotionals the devotionals are great for a daily thing to keep you you know meditating on god's word and and gives you a kind of a thought for the day but the bible study is it takes you deeper for those of um for those people who are interested in that so well yeah and it's it's it's less devotional than it is even there's even just tons of great information like maps and timelines and i know that when we're doing the show sometimes we want you to say we want you to know all right we condensed this timeline because for the sake of the show but here's what actually happened in terms of timeline in the locations uh because actually that's just really interesting so um and uh we got one more week of filming and then we take a hiatus how are the kids doing by the way they're good i have four children who i've seen they've come out to the set for a week or earlier but now i'm really missing yeah dad's been gone it will be three months and it's hard that's i mean that's just the truth it's just hard and the kids miss their dad so i think it's helpful that they're at an age where they actually really understand um the value of what their dad does and they're very proud of him and they're praying for him and they're behind him but they're ready also to have him yes um yeah so thank you for your support and prayers on that so anything else that we needed that we that we didn't cover i don't think so i don't think so other than this tremendous do you like the do you like i love your shirt this is this one of your favorites yes what's your favorite okay my favorite would be the black get used to different oh which you're retiring yeah you should go get that because that is my favorite and my other favorite which you stole for this shoot is this so i haven't had it and i'm not even going to put it on because it's so dusty from the set but this is also my favorite favorite favorite product that is really cool yeah the colors look cool yeah the binge jesus hat do you want to sing the merch the jingle nope got the chosen boundaries she's way better singer than i am but uh but i have boundaries yeah okay good all right we down here yeah you're done thank you on that note yeah you are allowed to go thank you amanda jenkins everybody my wife working uh working extraordinarily hard not only doing all not i mean here's the cool thing she's not only doing those all the products that we just discussed but she's doing them while uh essentially being a single mom while i've been gone for most of this shoot so she's a tremendous hero so pray for her even more than you pray for me all right i got a really cool thing i want to tell you about um before we get into i think after after i tell you about this we're gonna you're gonna hear from mandissa which is really darn cool so um and then we're gonna bring out liz and noah so but real quick real real quickly um we have our youtube channel we have our facebook page we have twitter we have tiktok and all those social media channels where we're giving you updates and videos and pictures all the time and we're on instagram of course and we're thrilled to do that there's one more thing that we're going to be doing well there's a few more things but one of them that we're doing now that is going to be exclusive is texting so we have we have a text opportunity that's called community and this gives you the ability if you text a particular number that i'm about to give you and it may come up along the screen here in just a second it's there now you text that number and you will join our text community and i will be sending you texts on a semi-regular basis now of course it's not from my personal phone i'm going to be quite i'm going to be upfront right off the bat obviously i'm not going to just be texting you for my personal phone i won't be able to respond to all of your responses even though i wish that i could i won't be able to but we've already got a few people signed up because of uh our chosen army page on if you go to facebook you look up the chosen global army uh it's kind of a facebook page that just you know there's a few thousand people it's kind of like our hardcore fans who have really wanted to get exclusive updates but the text opportunity is uh totally free i mean when i say sign up you don't even you have to fill a bunch of things out or anything it's totally free it just means that you're going to get texts from me one or two times a week that you're not with information pictures little video greetings everything you're not going to get anywhere else um you're not going to get this on any of our social media channels it's all these little tidbits so for example already i've been on the set and like on my morning routine for example like i always sprint out into the field get some sprints out to warm up because it's cold in utah in the mornings and then i do some prayer time and so i just took a little video while i was out there and just said you know here's here's what i do in my morning routine um we give out exclusive discounts so every now and then you'll just get a text from me randomly that says for the next 24 hours because you are on this text thread you are going to get an exclusive discount so the number is jingle for 214-239-1527-214-239-1527 two one four two three nine one five two seven it doesn't quite work as well did i could i leave out a number no i didn't two one four two three nine one five two seven yeah it just doesn't just doesn't roll off the tongue like the other jingles do so yeah and not in that voice justin says yeah nothing rolls off the tongue in that voice so two one four two three nine fifteen twenty seven and i will uh just do that right now you can just literally text that number right now and uh starting very soon i will start you'll start getting some text from me with exclusive updates and whatnot so for example yesterday i texted everyone who has already signed up and i let them know that we were getting that we were losing all the get used to different gear tonight and i said look we've only got a limited number left but i'm going to give you kind of advanced notice before everyone else so that you can get some of this get used to different gear before it's gone so it's things like that um uh you know happy birthday greetings that kind of stuff like it's just gonna be little things updates sometimes you know while i'm writing a script uh i'll you 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but she was there and we got a chance to meet for the first time she's been so supportive on social media from long before it was cool and so she came out to perform her song on the set of the chosen as part of this big special that we're going to be doing in december if you're just joining us i'll remind you real quick about this big christmas special we're doing december 13th two hours filled with art music artists who came to the set of the chosen to perform christmas songs including uh joel's uh four king and country mandisa chris tomlin phil wickham hillsong united i remember i didn't mention them last time hillsong united they're performing a christmas song for this special uh the piano guys um several others uh just phenomenal artists who are going to be doing this big christmas chosen special and mendys is one of them and she was here yesterday i got a chance to talk to her so check that out right now all right i am here with like i i've referred to you sometimes it's like chosen super fast i am you were in on it before it was cool mandisa has been in on the chosen like for a long time and i one of the coolest things about it was we didn't go to you and say hey would you mind endorsing the chosen like i came across like you on instagram talking about it i posted a lot on instagram i first want to say thank you for that because you have been so kind about it but we are here on the set of season two of the chosen and why is mendiza here on the set so i'm gonna i'm gonna ask you kind of a two-part question one why are you here but two why is the why is this sweatshirt so powerful while you're here so you can share well first of all i'm freaking out because i'm on the set of my favorite television show um so i had when i saw this and that scene i hope you've watched it already episode seven yes where um matthew gets called by jesus and peter says but this is different when the moment when he said get used to different like that is such a message and especially in this season that we're living in come on it's a little different it's a lot different than anything we've ever faced and so i had the idea of a song get used to different that i was planning to write anyway but then when you reached out about this special situation that we're here for i was like okay we got it right here right now and so that's what we've been doing here singing get used to different yeah so just now she finished recording the music video for the song get used to different and it's a christmas song because of this big christmas special that we're doing and you were i think you were the first person that we asked to be on the christmas tree because you've been so supportive of the show and you're so awesome so yeah so she just finished shooting the music video so coming we don't know i don't know the exact date yet so we're going to give you all that eventually but there's going to be this christmas special with mandissa chris tomlin hillsong united uh phil wickham who was here last night who i love matt mayer i mean it's like four king and country they were here on the set a few weeks ago oh my buddy yeah i know it's awesome so great uh all gonna be part zach williams actually it's gonna be there i love zach so uh are all either have already been or will be filming on this set or somewhere but uh all with a christmas theme um and the chosen is was actually birthed from a christmas short so it's all coming together beautifully the shepherd which if you've not seen you've got to watch it so but no not coming together more beautifully than get used to different and i honestly like we didn't plan this i was gonna wear this today for the shoot that i remembered oh my gosh she's got the songs so it's so great so make sure i want to ask also what do you got going on right now like going into november and december i want to make sure that chosen fans are as supportive of you as you have been i'm just releasing new songs here and there i've got one coming out um november 20th um that i'm very excited about it's it's kind of a similar theme like what we're walking through right now there's something beautiful about knowing that god brings beauty from ashes and i think you see that the best in the chosen so that's coming out really soon it's with rita swinger and jasmine murray and i've got some songs here and there and hopefully a full album coming out soon what's the name of the song it's coming on the 20th it's not over okay it's not over see sweet that's that's perfect for right now it all works again so i got a gift for you i got a gift for you this is the one that we're debuting right now on the live stream that you're watching and uh trouble you know at the end of season one yes and i know you've i've been so supportive and uh you know i don't think you mind stirring up some trouble every now and then you've experienced kind of known for it i know you've experienced trouble in your life and you like to give a little trouble with the good kind of trouble that's right i thought you'd love that i love it i'm going to be rocking this in the airport a little bit later all right sweet so uh check out all of what mendes is doing she has been so supportive from a long time ago like a lot of people started getting on to it this year when the pandemic hits but you were on it before i heard you recommending it to people so please be as supportive and kind to her as she has been to us so we will talk to you more soon thank you all right we are live we're live we're back and uh look who i have two of your favorites liz and noah you're liz you're noah just in case people weren't sure um i want to make a quick note about the texting so if you text me at that number i gave earlier 214-239-1527 it's u.s and canada only sorry i know we've got several of you watching from around the world but just for now it's just u.s and canada only we'll work on getting that to you and that's the sad thing about our international partners but i promise you that long term we are working on getting our merch and our dvds and all that overseas as well i promise you it won't be far so i was just showing noah and liz before we get into some questions that we've gotten from some of you uh this calendar uh we actually have only a limited number of of these calendars left you are on the cover we through but he is in the cover this is really cool and look at look at how this matches i just noticed that this is the silhouette you can tell my head because it's the very round one yeah um so this is funny so this picture is here on the back but i didn't see it in the calendar itself so maybe i'm missing something so look here's uh is this like the iconic it's this is the iconic picture this is this is february liz is in that one and um look at liz oh wow through photos and then let's see let's see where uh we've got you're uh he's blocking me okay sahara's blocking you so noah's behind shahar but my but my energy's being felt there you can really feel back there um you're in you're you're in the wedding picture you're over here okay yeah off off camera and um you know let's see here no you were you were in these scenes okay so then we got the wedding photo yeah and uh i already got out that's when i left that's when you left to go get them yeah yeah so uh so yeah hey great calendar though enjoy yes yeah i'm not single i'm not singing the merch song now okay um so listen noah so first of all before we take some questions how has it been here in utah um the one the bad news has been covered of course uh not easy having to like in in the mornings when you're having to do all the hair and makeup it's like this like that's got to be the most sanitized place in the whole set because of all the touching and whatnot and the fact is they're the the ones on the set who are maskless and you know not social distancing the most so we have to kind of keep you guys in an even tighter bubble than the rest of the show so has that been awkward or have you kind of gotten yeah it's kind of been a relief just like we're we're constantly tested so we we know we're always negative before if we're on set so there's like the the anxiety of kovid that we've been living with this year is actually feels it's gone for me yeah it's been months where we can't really hang out with a whole bunch of people and now we all get together and we all love each other and we're all tested and so then it feels like we can you know be around people again yeah that's the cool thing is when you're negative uh like if like when i'm home with my family and we're all negative then you don't have to worry about anything right so yeah that's it's interesting in some ways it's been freeing now what about the set itself like being here in utah on that set has that been how has it been it's the most beautiful set i've ever been on i've ever seen um it transports you to a whole a whole world um it's been a little surreal too just like i can't believe we're here yeah not only just the like town right the set where all the different areas of it but then when you walk out and you see the mountains of utah and that we were there i think on friday as the sun was coming up i was like pulling into the set and it's just you can't overstate how gorgeous it is in the area really does that make your job easier as actors like when do you feel like you're i mean not to over there's something about romanticizing driving up to that set in the morning oh yeah where you're like i feel like i've arrived you know it's this sort of dreamy you know majestic scene it's humbling but it also just kind of engages your heart in a different way because you you just show up and there's grandeur all around a lot of that too is just like being so grateful that that there aren't a lot of productions in work right now and so it's like if we we get to do this and we get to do this here with this set with these people it's just constant constantly amazing yeah that is cool so let's get right to questions justin what do you got for us uh justin overlander behind the camera now yeah what questions do you have for us this is a really important uh one of jesus so yeah this is wardrobe wardrobe you specifically mentioned i think it might be who wears the best outfit you said yeah no oh those are different yeah she's just wearing sweatpants but uh what about uh who do you like i remember you mentioned uh one of the new actors we're not going to mention his character name austin uh plays one of the the new disciples and you loved his work every single time i see a photo of him or him on set i'm like this is just the most beautiful color it's got like a navy like mustard colors and textures really beautiful yeah paris though obviously has some great yeah that's matthew yeah golden rose oh you don't like the potato sacks the potato sack is a little different yeah some of us have potatoes or potatoes yeah yeah yeah i have a little kind of potato sack jacket now too yeah moving on yeah it's not it's not the most gorgeously a tired group of people in movie and tv history um all right so what else uh what else we got colin you i got a question okay uh from harmony uh was wondering if we're gonna see matthew's dog again well that's that's for me not for them they don't they they don't know those questions but are we though but we want to know too i sure hope not but uh yeah i think we we actually will see matthew's dog again um colin what else you got for me um these are questions that were already submitted uh daryl from among the disciples who's the most funny and who is the serious one okay so yeah behind the scenes who who gets the biggest lies serious i don't know that that's true but we all kind of are funny oh well no one's you're a bit of the kind of the pied piper of the group would you say like the one who's the most vicarious guys yeah maybe i'm just loud it's also oh yeah george who plays john is for sure one of the um shahar onsen is pretty he's very focused um i feel like everyone we all end up getting the giggles all the time though yeah like everyone's really funny but also like we definitely need to make sure when we're doing scenes and there are like 12 of us in a scene and it's really like jesus is seen yeah we don't want to take away we don't want to be like messing around too much because jonathan has a lot to do and so in between uh in between takes yeah i often have to give the disciples speech of like all right everyone i'm gonna say this in advance it's a very intense scene and uh some of our actors need to be able to focus even in between takes so if you could keep the tomfoolery as they say to a minimum but yeah i would say probably noah and george are the two most agreed active and uh and then shahar is probably the most serious comedically active yes yes and you're like you're not super serious but you're you're kind of like the the big sister who's who's uh constantly rolling her eyes exactly at the sounds and the smells that come from the from the band of for the from the banana brothers what about you and yasmine and uh and vanessa that's mary mother and uh rama and you do you guys kind of have your own thing going too sometimes yeah we all we all also end up getting the giggles we're always in the back so like we can like no one knows so what else what else we got uh colin or justin uh do you have any rituals that you do before starting a scene and who asked who asked that question uh this was laurie wright laurie wright asks do you have any pre-scene rituals so when you have a more serious or intense scene like you're one of the actors i think of all of them who seems to turn it off and turn it on the quickest like you don't seem to you don't say i need a moment to kind of get into character but i know like but but that's interesting that you say that because i i don't necessarily feel that way like i know when i have a serious scene coming up like i i know if it's going to take 10 minutes to set up cameras or anything like i walk away i go away and i kind of am but honestly with the set with what we have um a lot of it is just being in the space and kind of just uh getting in touch with even i mean i i don't want to say too much about like what is even outside of the city where we are but there are you know some some images there there's pretty serious stuff outside of the uh the set do you know what i'm i don't want to spoil anything but there are like some oh i see what you see you know what i mean like you walk outside and there are mini sets and other other items that light crosses yeah there are like crosses right outside of the thing and so you walk out and then you know i will say there's you know roman guards on horses and so when you're like i'm not a fan of the romans and you walk out and you look at them and you feel you know that that helps uh get me in touch that what about you i don't know i i think it really depends on the scene because like the group scenes i i don't think too much about like preparing um and i always see well i'm gonna ask in episode one of season one that was when you had by far of anybody the most difficult like you were getting beat up you were yelling you were screaming you were crying all of it it's like you packed all of season one's you know stuff into one episode yeah and aft since then it's actually been somewhat really chill chill now this week you've got a scene yeah that's intense yeah season two uh mary magdalene has a couple of really really super intense moments so we're trust me mary magdalene isn't just like sweet mary the whole rest of the time and you know precious who's always smiling it gets it gets it gets brutal again but um what's the in episode one of season one for example in those scenes what did you do to prepare or kind of any rituals before the scene i don't know about rituals i think it was just a matter of focusing in on the internal space and trying to block out the fact that this is a film and there are there's equipment everywhere and people everywhere and um kind of relying on like the the the work that i did preparing for it um and a lot of that comes from just like getting in the moment getting out of my head getting out of my personality um but even on uh this time around uh just being in some of the scenes where i'm like a bystander and watching i've been surprised by some reactions because you're standing there and the thing goes long enough where you kind of start feeling like you're really in it and jesus is saying something and it and it really hits you and so it's always a surprise on this set um even if i'm not active in it it still is effective you know real quickly before we go on a couple more questions uh i was just they were just letting me know a couple so many of you have been ordering merch and it and and i i don't want to again sound like a tele you know what are what i call those uh infomercials telethons but uh but every time you do it it actually means a lot to us into the show and helps keep this going but shirley h from orem which is right down the road i got just got some merch peggy m from colorado got a bunch of different stuff so what did she get again she got like been jesus she got the the new trouble stuff i think she got the calendar um and then william i from minnesota got a troubled t-shirt and i think uh one of the against the current sweatshirts so thank you guys i really appreciate that and keep that keep that coming it means a lot and it helps us keep going all right um what else we got on the note of merge actually dale's really quickly where can we get the devotional because it isn't at the chosen march.com yeah the first devotional book uh which is the one that's currently available you can get that at the chosen dot tv store or on the app you have a gift factory in the app or at or on amazon so that's the first one the second one hasn't come out yet the spanish version hasn't come out yet but the first one has been a big best seller for the last few months it's been really cool so yeah um i saw that question come a couple of times on instagram and then another one for the actors do you guys get to add liv ad lib well you know sometimes some of you do it regardless of whether you get to or not yes uh not you usually not you but we have we have a couple yeah there's there's some like yeah there's see there's two types of ad libbing one is in the moment in the scene someone says something that's just extra or whatever usually if that happens it comes at the very end um we don't we don't do a whole lot of it during we talk about it beforehand so in rehearsal yeah um i really value the actors and their contributions they know the characters uh oftentimes as well or better than i do and now that they've been doing them and so i really tried when we start rehearsing and even in the first take to not say much and sometimes you guys will come up and say um now you two are bad examples because you don't normally do this too often like you you tend to be pretty um i don't know what the writing buy the book i read the book but like yeah like um but but occasionally it's like i don't feel like this line feels a little bit awkward what does it mean and and i'll go okay if you don't get it then that means it's not written well what's in a better alternative so that's the other kind of ad libbing which is as we're as we're preparing lines get changed just because things flow better when they get tweaked or whatever so that happens fairly occasionally problem solving yeah that happens really occasionally i remember on my first day like i didn't get one of the lines exactly right and you were like you know that that's like in scripture so you kind of gotta say that one correctly and so i think from that moment i was like ah okay sometimes we can't tweet so say my lines the way they are yeah yeah yeah say well yeah say my lines close yeah say scriptures lines exactly yeah yeah and sometimes say my lines exactly right because you're really proud of it yeah that one i thought was awesome so don't don't tweak that one but yeah there's there's there's a little bit of editing that comes for sure um all right what else what else we got uh from instagram kk 1056 how do actors stay warm so kk 1056 from instagram how do actors stay warm uh this week is going to be brutal it's going to be in the teens for some of the scenes uh we have looked like we're going to move the big walk and talk scene which which i was actually concerned about because it was so cold uh it looks like we're probably moving that to texas but what do you normally do to stay warm let's let's go through it we don't no we drive we it's just everyone else takes care of us yeah they give us a little warm trailer you get another trailer it's freezing we have these big boats we have these big coats for you yes slippers some of us get like long johns and if they get wardrobe covers some of us who have some of the potato sack crew we really like don't because it's also open so we can't our long johns are cut to like just normal on it's basically like just normal and then a little tank top sort of and then the potato sack but then we've got the coats and then our wardrobe team is like wonderful and so as soon as we're done as soon as cut is yelled the coat kind of comes on and if we can walk away we'll walk to like a little warming area we have a tent yeah like an industrial grade heater that just yeah yeah but but sometimes it's it's brutal i mean i i've i i've been out there and uh and you guys are wearing a quarter of what we're wearing uh sometimes i try to suffer with you and take my jackets off and stuff but for the most part that's like man they it's it's brutal sometimes like with the sandals too you lose the feeling in your toes really quickly and then you're waddling instead of walking is yeah right i remember when we were doing the big scene from season one so cold you and jonathan with the the recall's your name at the end it was freezing i don't even remember it i was so cold i was just like stay alive it almost it almost helped a little bit like it made the scene even more intense there's a little focus that comes with the cold i think yeah so just just a couple more questions here uh what else we got colin uh carol nunn carol nunn how do you stay mentally focused a good question how do you how do you stay focused and in character when you have to do multiple takes of the same scene um yeah especially an emotional scene or an intense scene where you've got to bring the same level of intensity each time we do it so we'll do two or three takes and one angle then we turn the camera on do two or three takes in the other angle and we also think it's really important i think our cast honors this really well is that when it's the camera's on the other person the actor off camera sometimes in other productions just barely like just reads it doesn't even bring uh intensity and in some shows and movies if it's a big star they just leave and like a production assistant will read the lines off camera and we don't do that everyone is like uh totally the same intensity even when they're off camera um so how do you how do you do that i mean besides the fact that it's your job and it's what we pay for but not to bring that up i i on really difficult scenes i'll usually like warn the crew and cast that i might be a little weird today um and so if i'm quiet or if i don't make eye contact or if i seem really sort of focused it's i i'm not trying to offend anyone or i'm not trying to like be rude but it helps to just be like when when it's cut just to like almost look down and stay in the space and not think about hair makeup or chatting with with a co-star or whatever like it i just end up going sort of inward yeah and that helps and we we i do what i can as much as possible to to see that coming and then i'll say so a lot of times you'll say um you know all right roll sound lock it up um you know camera speed action and sometimes we'll say all the roll sound camera speeding stuff and then i'll just say uh when when you're ready whenever you're ready that helps yeah and that's like instead of going action yeah yeah like dancing yeah yeah exactly paint by your numbers right now so it's uh it's like whenever you're ready take your time and we tell the casting crew the other casting you're like we're going to take our time in this so that that should hopefully make a difference as well but that that allows you to give get that ramp up but sometimes it's impossible right i mean you do a take and we all cut and then there's a hair and makeup person coming that has to fix something and the wardrobe has to fix something but you can always use like for me it's really like whatever's going on in the moment you can use it and help you like if if you're feeling vulnerable and you yell cut and then hair and makeup comes up and they're fixing you up like that's nice it feels nice you're like oh like someone's trying to take care of you anything that's going on you know the potato sack is like not warm enough and anything that's going on can help you uh be where you need to be and then i don't know some people are really good about just like they can joke and laugh and then be right back in but but i think we all try to take care of each other as much as possible and just just know like again like okay i'm going to be anti-social today like i just need to be like oh but i'm not going to talk to anybody yeah and we everyone has been super gracious with their energy and just just being like what what do you need here and then also when you're not on camera sometimes uh really it's just about the person whose coverage it is like getting them to have the best take they can so you're just like i'm gonna be here for you i don't need to like do myself it's like let me help you with whatever's you know going on in the scene so we have managed to in our casting find i can't think of an actor who isn't like that who isn't generous and working to help you when they're off camera trying to get in the right spot so you can see them and react accordingly even when uh the camera angle means you can't be quite as natural as normal uh but yeah we've gotta we've had incredible people to help with that uh what else we got dallas really really quickly just tell the instagram users who the livestream is gonna end with them in 15 seconds tell them okay now if you're on instagram you've been watching on instagram it's ending in 15 seconds so go to the chosen on facebook or youtube just look up the chosen you were easy to find and the first video you'll see will be the live stream and uh and so join us there thank you do you have a favorite scene favorite scene yeah that's happened i have a scene i'm really excited about shooting in texas we have season two is we have a lot of great yes i mean like great scenes coming up there's a little episode that i feel like is one scene that i love yes i love all of it like we were all texas is going to be a lot for for most of us yeah for most of the disciple where we're on like every day for weeks and there's some stuff in there that's just gonna be uh really pretty magical i feel like there's there's a scene we can that's not a huge spoiler where andrew gets really upset andrew is like in his lowest point uh so far you've been so optimistic and so supportive of jesus and then jesus starts making a few decisions spurred on by or in reaction to mary magdalene simon a few others that really start to upset you and so is that one of the scenes yeah i'm very once i saw that i was like ooh okay yeah you know because i just love the con contention because because i think there there might be a uh a thought like oh they're all they get along they love but anyone who's gone on a big trip with a lot of people like you know there's going to be some some butting up heads and yeah and uh yeah definitely there's some some stuff i'm excited to too you and simon kind of switch places yeah you're frantic and you're getting emotional and he's he is my mike uh got a problem okay how are we doing now okay um so yeah where you and someone kind of switch places and he's actually saying dude calm down and you're like oh you're telling me to calm down you're the you're the least last person um and you're i'm guessing what some of your favorite scenes from season two that are coming up we can't talk about but i love them yes uh but um what was your favorite scene from season one because you had sometimes people say the really intense dark scenes are their favorites but yeah i always go back to the shabbat dinner i love that scene i think it's simple and sweet and i i love this like little gathering of outcasts um and that's where jesus shows up i thought that was well written and the actors in the whole thing everyone was so lovely cool yeah um so uh one more question from uh from our list sure uh this is from instagram eliza m river08 what do the axe actors do outside the set to have fun all right so this is from uh sagan the name river liza m river on instagram so for these last five weeks i hope the answer is not a whole lot because we can't go out we're able to go to restaurants um because uh you know the rules are you wear your mask into the restaurant than you eat um and because again we all test negative several times a week you guys gather in the lobby of the hotel i see sometimes uh just last night um or the other night we walked in and there was like 15 of the actors kind of hanging out but uh but whether it's from previous seasons or or from this season um are you guys you guys get along uh and last night you guys kind of get together yes we did it's okay yeah okay everyone yeah we had both but it was a cat party it was essentially a cast part it's really fun where this like amazing coffee shop was just like here are the keys like and then we obviously get the floor of it yeah it was so much fun we brought instruments playing music we had a few guitars i had my ukulele we yes we played a game kind of like celebrity our team won liz's team lost we're also very competitive we we play a lot a lot of games a lot of games yeah and uh at this house that we're staying in it actually has a home theater downstairs and you may not know this but noah is a bit of a gamer in fact has been nationally ranked in smash brothers oh i didn't know it was this was a lot it was you know that's overstating but i was very good at a certain point even though i'm just okay just before i brought him upstairs he was playing smash bros on the big huge theater room and uh liz was playing some ping pong so uh yeah i mean but then you guys were playing basketball and then my my skill level yeah that was the game was that directly in proportion however you would say inversely proportionate but i made one basket you did make a basket yes yes as soon as you shot your first step i was like oh you're you're a gamer aren't you yeah uh uh let's do one more do we have one more before we before i let them go irene irene um from instagram how was it for you to return to set yeah so that's a good question yeah irene from instagram asks how was it coming back to season two after it's been you know half a year no it's been almost a year yeah no over no over a year since we were last in so i know from my perspective on day one the first scene we filmed was between jesus and jonath and and john which is george and uh and jonathan and uh within seconds it felt like we were we like picked up where we left off um like did you guys have like kind of dialect touch-ups with the dialect coach just to kind of get reminded of the accent and like but was it was it weird was it challenging to kind of get back into that i'm beautiful and exciting i i mean al most of this year it's like well i don't know nobody knows what's about to happen or there's going to be some some issue with you know so many other productions have shut down so i was i had low expectations of coming back this soon yeah i was super nervous i mean like i you know when when i got to utah and then i'm like waiting on test results yeah and then yeah but once you get because it's just it's just very hard to to shoot anything right now but then once we actually got to set and we're working it's also because yes it was a year ago but then you see the episodes come out you know what i mean we feel definitely a part of a group and so so it doesn't take long at all for us to be uh back in the swing of things and working well good well you guys have been uh doing a great job i cannot wait for you to see some of what they've already been doing and uh and we got more to come uh to film in season two but i wouldn't do it with anyone else you guys have been so great thank you and so uh it's been such a blessing i remember when you we've told this story many times but there's we have so many new fans now they don't know it but uh noah auditioned for the shepherd uh several years ago uh the short film the christmas short film and a year later uh at least a year later when we started casting for the chosen i was like that guy who auditioned for the shepherd i didn't cast him but he was so good i want him to come back and uh and i told you when you first walked in you're gonna be in the show i just don't know exactly where yet and uh and that's one of the best decisions that i've made and liz who plays uh mary magdalene of course uh we were trying to cast that role for months and because it's such a difficult role just could not find the right person and we were probably what three weeks before filming and uh and got uh liz's tape in for mary magdalene and it was like oh thank you so much i think and amanda approved because she's kind of the final say like you didn't just approve you were like so i said i said if you don't we have issues i don't cast liz we have marital issues and uh yeah and uh and so what a blessing you guys have been so thank you thank you any one last quick thing you want to say to the thousands of people watching right now just thank you for the support we really really feel it and we appreciate it and uh thanks for being a part of it yeah they we literally couldn't do it at all yeah like as in literally yeah literally like not just like oh we feel your sports like oh thank you for paying our salaries yeah so all right so you guys may leave goodbye got a couple more things for you don't go yet because uh you know just coming up in just about 90 seconds or so i am showing a sneak peek of season two kind of the rough cut scene so uh before i do that just real quickly um i wanted to remind you of what i was talking about earlier of the reasons why i talk about uh some of these items on these live streams um i talked about at the beginning i don't love doing it i don't love sounding like i'm pitching you something i don't love like i'm a salesman i don't want to sound like that but as i just said you literally allow us to do this show the show is free the bts all the behind the scenes videos are free all of the stuff that we anything that we show you visually all of our videos all of our episodes are totally free and we originally didn't think we were going to be able to do that we thought we would have to charge in some way and the more free we made it the more you stepped up um and i remember when kova hit and we decided to make the show totally free in every country in the world we thought we'll do it for three weeks just because of covid just as kind of a as a bit of good will and uh we thought well yes we'll lose money for a few weeks but that's okay and uh the moment we did it um you guys stepped up so big and now we've been able to keep doing it and we're gonna hopefully keep doing it for years it's just being able to allow to do this show for free and everyone who's in this room um the people you can't see right now justin and colin and daryl who are running the cameras and all this equipment it's because literally uh we're able to do this because you guys uh purchase this stuff um this you know the the the chosen against the current hoodie the get used to different hoodies which and t-shirts and all that which are going away by the way they get used to different short sleeve t-shirts because it's winter we just decided 15 off so get used to different the t-shirts the short sleeve t-shirts are 15 off if you go to thechosenmerch.com www.thechosenmerch.com i do that a couple times per live stream you got the binge jesus uh gear you got the calendar um which i was showing you earlier this is really truly beautiful and i and the reason that i don't mind talking about this in this way is because we really put a lot of time into it this is not just some sort of crass commercialization where it's like please buy our stuff it's going to support the chosen um we really work hard to make it high quality we take that very very seriously and so when when you get this calendar for example you get like this you know beautiful pictures like this each month and it gives you the scripture where this scene came from and then um it says like for the month of may prayer focus so each uh each month you'll be praying for a specific person so it reminds you to pray for for example the month of may is giovanni cairo who plays thaddeus the month of april prayer focus liz tabish who you just spoke to mary magdalene and you'll see this this image image from episode three um and so this whole calendar is just something that's really really cool it's a great reminder not just of the show but of of who to pray for and uh and so the fact that you guys have been supportive you know the the chosen be uh for example the new trouble sweatshirt all of this stuff um uh not only allows you to start conversations um you know with with people who see you in this gear it also allows us to be able to do what we're doing and um and our goal is ultimately to be able to finance future seasons with with some of this and so if if if we're gonna offer you this these products you might as well enjoy you might as well enjoy supporting the show you might as well be comfortable supporting the show so wearing this stuff is a good way to do that all right sneak peek uh i don't normally do this in fact i can't think of a time i've done this uh this is actually something that's pretty vulnerable because in a rough cut like for example i haven't even done my work on the scene i'm about to show you so what happens is we shoot the footage we send it to our editor john in los angeles and john's are fantastic i don't know his name is john quinn and he does what's called an assembly so he's not even trying to make the scene smooth and perfect yet he's just assembling it so that when we watch the whole episode at once we can go does this work how's the flow going and then we start tightening it making it better but we don't make any audio edits there's no music the coloring like all that stuff comes later so it actually feels quite awkward and they always say that um you know the movie is never as bad as its first uh cut um but it's never as good as the dailies it's kind of this uh you know when you first see the raw footage you're just like oh this is so amazing and then you see it start getting cut together and you're like oh my goodness i'm never gonna work in this town again so what i'm about to show you is at the stage where typically i go i'm never going to work in this town again but i just really wanted to do this for you because you've been so supportive and because even tonight you're already stepping up to the plate and getting this gear which really helps out a lot so as a gift to you i'm giving you something that i don't normally do and i'm a little embarrassed too but the scene you're about to see comes from episode one of season one and i'm not giving anyway spoilers so if you're concerned about spoilers don't worry too much um in episode five of season one i'm gonna sit season one i'm sorry so this is a scene from season two but in episode five of season one we meet thomas and rhema and thomas and rhema were the caterer and wine vintner um for the wedding at cana and uh jesus uh invites thomas and rhema to follow him so at the end of the episode you hear thomas say he wants us to join him in samaria in 12 days and she says why samaria i mean it's you know because jews don't go to samaria and uh he says you know he essentially says we'll find out and so episode 1 thomas and rhema show up but rhema of course has a father and back then women didn't travel away from their families unless there was permission given and so rama's father is joining them on this journey to come meet uh jesus and tom rhema's father of course before he allows his daughter to travel with this group of people he of course has some questions because normally he wouldn't do that but because of the fact that jesus had done this incredible miracle he's a little bit more open-minded to to it but when when we first meet him he's not happy about the idea so here's a scene from season two this is episode one uh where it begins is thomas rhema and her father kaufani are waiting in the lobby of this inn that the disciples and jesus are staying in and the scene begins with jesus and a few of the disciples returning from jesus having delivered a sermon to a group of sumerians samaritans and so they're all excited about that and then they see thomas rhema and koffny so again i ask for forgiveness in advance please please i beg of you do not be concerned about the fact that the audio and the visuals and the lack of music make the scene feel awkward this is just how it works and i hope that you'll trust that eventually the scene will look like the chosen usually looks so here you go scene from season two did you see the woman in the little girl though i know simon did yeah i always get emotional you think he won't shalom hey you came through you made it of course he did thomas it's good to see you you remember rhema how could i forget so you'll be joining us also uh well rabbi this is my father kathy oh yes the owner of the vineyard that produced such fine wine for my friends shalom very kind of you to say i imagine you want to speak with me yes if you have some time i would like to ask you some questions you wouldn't be a good father if you didn't here's what i'd like to propose if you approve we've both had very long days yes this establishment has rooms available for you so why don't we get some rest and tomorrow morning we talk about everything sound good i i i suppose we could it's a plan thank you we are delighted that you are with us now if you'll all excuse me for a moment i must go speak with a couple of men who performed a truly remarkable act of service today this escort you rabbi if you like we've arrived what happened i was just telling everybody the work that you boys did today how remarkable it was it must be famished yes we were hungry eat restore your strength and when you're done please describe the work to the others i hope everyone takes note of what john and big james did here good night friends all right we're back i don't know how i feel about that just showing you that scene i hope you enjoyed it i of course i didn't want to give you a scene that gives spoilers away or give you some big emotional scene i wanted you to give a scene that just gives a little bit of a taste of it uh i think it looks pretty i mean even though we haven't done any color correction to it that's what we always do in post-production is uh you you even out all the colors and all the all the lighting and so that it looks uniform and also you make it look more beautiful so that was a rough assembly of a scene so forgive me for that but i hope it gave you a little bit of a taste of what's happening and hopefully it was good to see our people back uh and and so that's gonna be in the first episode of season two i wanted to read you something um before i give you a few more updates and answer a few more of your questions so justin if you've got some of those questions that were for me that was that first page uh oh yeah you're gonna be on here yeah i'll give that i'll give this back to you in a minute because i'll answer a few more questions before we let you go um we got this note just a couple weeks ago um i'm getting all right let's see great that really meant a lot to me and i wanted you to hear it because you have so much to do with this when you buy this merchandise when you pay it forward when you contribute to the show when you pray for the show support us in any way it has an impact so this show only goes as far as the fact that the impact that it has and the people who are able to watch it the people and the fact that we're able to give this show away for free is what allows us to get these kinds of reactions so uh this is from bree and she says i cannot even begin to explain how much the show has changed not only mine but my whole family's lives watching this beautiful story and feeling god's love through this presentation my boyfriend and myself have completely changed our ways this show ignited a fire to read and learn more about the word my boyfriend who is not confident in reading and has a lower reading level has felt empowered to read god's word we're also we've already have a four-year-old son so it sounded a little silly to maybe wait until to live together until marriage but but this show made us want to do that i'm not sure that that's really cool um my sister has watched this show many times and also has ignited a fire to get closer to god we now have many bible studies with her sons my nephews because they are too they're they too are so eager to learn i come from a family who is broken drugs have overtaken our parents and the children are left we children are left to pick up the pieces and be the ones to learn god's way and to be different to not be what we were taught i see god moving in their lives because we have put him first i see change and i couldn't be any more grateful for this show thank you the chosen for introducing my family to his love so i hope you recognize i hope you feel um grateful for that and feel even a bit responsible for that we also got this note from jessica the other day jessica g on facebook thank you to dallas the writers the cast and the crew for such an amazing show i've been watching with my daughter and then after at bedtime we find the story in the bible that we just watched to read after just a few nights of this new routine my little girl just looked at me and said mommy i didn't realize how much jesus loves us till now so thank you to the chosen for helping me show my daughter just who jesus is and why her mommy loves him so much so every time we get notes like that i want you to hear i mean we get thousands of these every week um but uh i especially want you to hear them and i hope that it reinstates your confidence in what we're doing and how hard we're working for you and for those who get to watch this show and i appreciate that you're contributing your loaves and fish so that we can contribute ours and together we can watch god feed the 5000 through this show so i'm going to take a couple more questions before i go uh justin you've been assembling a few of them and our team has been assembling a few then what do you got for me uh this is i don't know if it's from twitter or instagram but a username miss sarah sarahs asks and this is piggybacking on what you were just talking about how can we pray for you all other than the usual safety security and health yeah safety security and health uh yes those are all in the same neighborhood well uh as i've said before my wife and kids for sure um and like justin is another one who's out with us here colin who's behind the camera uh the three of us have been away from our families for the majority of this time and uh our wives have young children i i have teenagers columns wife as a young child and a couple three right three young children yes uh and uh it's it's tough um doing this show as much as we love it and as grateful as we are to do it it is a sacrifice and oftentimes it's even more of a sacrifice for our families and so i pray for that and um you know just for focus like you know you just you heard from liz and and noah earlier and all of our actors who um have a lot to focus on uh have a lot of lines to memorize and i know that all of us come the cast and crew come from different backgrounds different belief systems different belief levels different faith levels not all of us share the same but um but we all appreciate the prayers they all appreciate the support and anything that you can do in that regard means a lot and uh just for their focus and for the ability to withstand some of the out some of the distractions and then of course during this time being away from home during a pandemic where yes we may not be scared to death of it you know i don't think any of us are are walking around you know living in abject fear but during this time of six weeks when we're all together having to do this show we can't afford to have a day where we just miss a day where if you know a couple people have gotten sick even if we don't know how how serious it is we would have to shut down and uh so we obviously don't want that to happen you don't want that to happen so so far in the five weeks we've been doing this well over 600 to 700 people have come on to our set and we're you know a lot of us are staying in hotels and having to eat and all that and yet we've only had two minor cases uh none of which spread uh neither of which had serious symptoms at all it's truly been extraordinary and so our production team has been incredible led by chris june who's been kind of leading overseeing the coveted efforts um and the rest of our production team just keeping the production going with all of their responsibilities it's been it's been extraordinary um and so because of that uh i think because of because of your prayers and support i think we've been able to do that so uh what else justin let's just do like two or three more questions tonight this is a great one actually and you mentioned chris june so this is appropriate here moki asks will season two require any cgi special effects this time around yeah moki asks about cgi and special effects uh visual effects uh actually chris june uh not only is uh heading up our cove efforts but also is the visual effects excuse me visual effects producer and yes there will be now we don't do elaborate visual effects um all the time you know we've i mean i guess chris would probably argue with that some of them are elaborate like the miracle of the fish in episode four of season one um but yeah we've got a couple of things coming up um there's a healing uh i don't mind giving away that spoiler we do the healing of the withered hand in uh in season two uh that's a key moment in uh one of the episodes and uh that's gonna require some visual effects because we don't have actors walking around too often with withered hands that then can magically get healed uh right while we're filming so that requires some visual effects similar to the leper scene in episode six of season one but a lot of the things that we do are when we're doing scenes that are out in fields um so a lot of times their work is involves painting out um you know the power lines um or adding what we call extensions so you've got part of the set but then they extend it in visual effects so we're doing a lot of that got some blue screen work where the actors are walking in front of a blue screen so that we can change the background so yeah we've got some stuff i don't think it's as much as season one this year um but there will for sure be uh plenty and then we've got some coming up in a upcoming season so you can look forward to that what else we got justin ah i know you're gonna answer this one accurately mrs lauren bell says which disciples do we get to meet this season mrs lauren bell asked which disciples do we get to meet this season and uh yeah i'm not going to get too specific about that this is one of the things i would love to be remain spoiler free we do have some new disciples at the end of season one i think we had seven uh there's five more uh it's not a spoiler to say that thomas joins us because you just saw that scene so thomas makes eight and there are four more to come and um they may or may not be coming this season um some may some may not um you'll have to you'll have to see so i'm sure between now and the time that the show releases you'll see a few you'll kind of pick up on who some of them are but yeah we do have some new disciples coming we're very excited about it the cast is extraordinary and uh i mean really i i'm not just saying that some of our new people just fit right in it's so fast and so great we not only have new disciples we have some new characters who are going to be um some antagonists you know not just this season but in future seasons so uh the cast of the chosen increases as the story increases as jesus fame is growing uh he brings in more friends and more enemies so that's what season two is about justin what's next let's do like let's let's do two more and then i'll and then i'll wrap up with a couple other updates um yeah so this is a tricky one hillard hillard summer asks how long does it take to shoot each episode hillard asks how long does it take to shoot each episode yeah that's that there's not a hard and fast rule because some episodes are more complicated than others but i would say it averages out to about seven to eight days per episode so you know we're doing 60 62 days in season two um you know so divided by eight that's about seven you know seven and a half days filming per episode so some some episodes are a little shorter some are a little longer but it averages out to about seven or eight most shows most productions have you know nine to ten days to shoot each episode um and they have also millions and millions more dollars than we do so uh that's one of the reasons why we do live streams like this is because we need to be able to afford to do uh the show but yeah we don't have quite as much time as we would like but uh it seems like just enough to be able to get by hopefully that will improve what we get you know as as the show grows we'll be able to get a little bit more time so we're not so stressed while we're doing it what else you got for me just really more now this is a this is an important one yeah let's do your best here how many pens do you chew on a daily basis how many pens do i chew on a daily basis ask carly well i will say this it has been fewer this season than last season because of the masks so i have and this is a good opportunity to bring this out so this new gator that we are that we are debuting tonight is extraordinary um and i just got it the other day and here's why it's so great besides the fact that it's super comfortable i actually forget that i'm wearing it believe it or not i don't know i normally hate wearing masks uh i wouldn't do it if i if unless i unless it was really important at various times but this mask i actually forget that i'm wearing it it's so comfortable the material is so soft and it has the ear holes so that when i lower it i can just do that it's still on and i don't have to like take the whole thing off anyway because i am wearing a mask a lot of the time and i'm holding my pen i can't exactly chew it like that and this is kind of awkward so i still find a way to choose some pens for sure i've gone through plenty of pens this year in fact daryl my partner gave me how many were they daryl for my birthday 500 yeah something like that pens that have the chosen logo on them i don't think you'll be able to see it on the camera were you able to see that colin has the logo and then you can see here we play right yep it says here we play which is my signa you know they call it my signature phrase i say here we play about you know 15 times a day on the set um very chewable just it's got perfect it's got kind of the perfect level of plastic softness it's got different um you know different pieces to it that i can remove and chew individually it's really a cornucopia of delights uh provides a great snack but i haven't done as many this year as i normally do i'm sorry to say kind of sad but hopefully in future seasons that will change we have one more justin well if you want to touch on this we've got a couple similar questions asking if we are going to cover the life of paul yes anything beyond the chosen book of acts life of paul we get that question a lot let's just focus on season two for now i'm gonna i'm gonna kindly ask uh my brain is on overload just trying to get season two done and uh we're already riding season three the first episode of season three the first draft of the script is done because we are actually gonna shoot most of episode one of season three with season two and gotta get a head start on season three and so i'm really excited about that so right now um it would be a miracle if we were able to do the chosen itself just the seven seasons we wanna do of the chosen now i believe it's gonna happen the way that you guys have been so supportive even tonight um you know how how much you've stepped to the plate tonight uh gives a great indication that we're well on our way to doing this show and getting to do seven seasons but it's a miracle getting a show done is a miracle and especially when you don't have a studio or tv network writing a big check and we're relying solely on you financially to get us there it's a miracle to get that done so let's get that done and then when the chosen is done and my wife and i collapse in a pool of tears and sleep for about three weeks then we'll take another half of a year um to think and pray about it and then we will start thinking about the possibility of considering doing another show so uh but that's not really up to us uh this whole show has not been up to us it's up it's been up to uh you know who it's been up to uh god who's been uh uh directing our steps and so uh if he has something to say like he has had uh with the chosen so far about the book of acts and the other and and the the exploits of the disciples after jesus was on earth then uh then i won't get in the way of him saying it that's for sure so um all right with that i want to uh just give a couple quick updates on what we're up to like i said earlier we've got one more week of shooting um probably three or four days just as just today on on our day off we were frantically talking about this week because it's snowing right now and so we're going to have to change our plans for tomorrow so and we're going to probably end up moving some of the scenes that we're going to shoot this week to texas so please be you know following our updates on that and praying for that um but yeah we've got just a few more days and then i'm going to spend the rest of november and december editing what we've filmed so far so that when we go back into filming in january and february that we're not too far behind because what do i want more than anything i want to get you season two as soon as possible so the way we can do that is if we are editing at the same time that we're filming and we're getting head start on all that so that's one of the things that's really going on right now and then uh just before i go i want to make sure that you are reminded of what we've got so this is the new the new design this is the silhouette of the disciples and jesus at the end of season one as they were walking away towards samaria taking their message out jesus has finally let it out that he is the messiah and fotina the woman at the well is now spreading the word and they head off to samaria to spend a few days sharing the word and while they are walking towards the camera in slow motion the song trouble is playing an amazing song written by our composers dan hasseltine and matt matt nelson we'll be here tomorrow by the way visiting the set and uh it's just such a unique song and the words uh trouble is going to find you here and it's all about how they're going to stir up some trouble trouble's going to come to them of course it's a good good kind of trouble but i look forward to the not only because i love this sweatshirt so you're going to get some looks and some comments but when you're able to explain what the shirt is about and what show it's from and what it means and how it's the best kind of trouble i'm really excited about that so that's on the merch now the merch site now www.thechosenmerch.com and then all this other stuff is still there you know our binge jesus gear some of my favorite stuff we've got as we get head into um winter we've got the chosen beanie which is super comfortable we made sure that that was comfortable we've got the chosen calendar look at all this all these beautiful images for each month chosen calendar uh along with some inside facts uh and some notes and a prayer focus for each month and uh get used to different this is the last night it's available so we've only got a limited number of inventory left and this uh get used to different gear will be gone uh and the t-shirts of the get used to different are 15 off of course my personal favorite design is the against the current design against the current hoodie the shirts all of that i just love it and i hope you'll check it out and then of course this uh this new gaiter i love so much i actually this is like one of those things that i'm actually like looking forward to wearing tomorrow even though i hate wearing masks this is actually like feels good so check all that out i can't thank you enough um i really mean this uh for what you've done tonight what you do each day for the show um it allows us to keep giving this show for free um and as i've said it before on this live stream i don't love doing this i mean i love talking to you i love giving you updates i love talking to liz and noah i love talking to my wife uh for you guys i love all the amazing opportunities we get from doing the show but i don't love pitching stuff i don't love being a salesman but i do know that because of these live streams and because of what you do we're able to keep giving the show away from for free so um so i appreciate that and um and and i appreciate you and if you aren't able to do that for example if you live outside the united states or if you just don't have the means i mean this has been an extraordinarily difficult year um then please don't don't buy a shirt don't buy a hoodie don't pay it forward don't buy a dvd just enjoy the free show that the fact that others do this and purchase this stuff is so that you can enjoy the show for free so enjoy it and and and and all what you can do is by liking and subscribing and hitting the notification bell on our youtube page that helps praying for us is a significant of course the most significant thing you can do for us spreading the word sharing our videos all of that stuff is a huge contribution to the show and a reminder coming up in december december 13th huge chosen christmas special showing the shepherd the original uh pilot episode and all of our extraordinary uh musical guests who are coming together just for the chosen christmas special coming to the set filming music videos for the chosen christmas special mandisa for king and country chris tomlin phil wickham the piano guys hillsong united i'm overwhelmed by it zach williams uh and several others that i keep uh forgetting to mention so i apologize but it's true matt mare is another guy who i absolutely adore who's a fan of the show and is contributing to that christmas special so just right now go to your calendar and like remember december 13th big chosen christmas special and uh and then remember of course one one last thing uh if you want to get texts if you want to get texts from me with exclusive content exclusive discount stuff that you are not going to get anywhere else on any of our channels except for these texts um it's going to be 214-239-1527-214-239-1527 unfortunately us and canada only and i will start giving you just like little tidbits sneak peeks behind the scenes totally free we're not asking anything from you it's just as a thank you so that uh for those of you who really want to get more updates and info so thank you so much i really am overwhelmed with gratitude by how much you have done and what you've allowed us to do it's been extraordinary and and i hope that this live stream has blessed you like it's blessed us and remember it is not your job to feed the 5000 it is only your job to provide the loaves and fish god bless you

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Published: Sun Nov 08 2020