Filmmaker Andrew Callaghan investigates about the life of Kelly Johnson, a participant at a 2021 White Lives Matter rall | dG1fNk5iN05OVWxzSE0
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00:00This is Andrew Callahan speaking, and I make movies, sometimes.
00:09My directorial debut was called This Place Rules on HBO.
00:12The FBI, they don't give a fuck about your foreskin.
00:16We were kind of like storm chasers, if the storm was angry groups of people with low
00:21media literacy.
00:22Fuck Antifa.
00:23Are you a Jew?
00:24Mudholes!
00:25It was fun, but I was still disappointed, because I didn't feel like I'd gotten any
00:28closer to answering the why question that I was actually curious about.
00:35Which is, why did the framework created by QAnon and Trump propaganda cause an innumerable
00:40amount of people to jump headfirst down the rabbit hole, endangering their safety, lives,
00:44and freedom?
00:45I thought I had it figured out.
00:46I pointed fingers at the fear-mongering 24-hour news cycle, and at radio hosts who sell supplements
00:53and t-shirts to paranoid libertarians.
00:55But deep down, I didn't really know.
00:57That was, until I met a man named Kelly J. Patriot at a White Lives Matter rally in Huntington
01:02Beach, California, and asked him one question.
01:05What's the most painful piece of truth that's hurt you?
01:08A guy stealing my home.
01:09His name's Bill Joyner.
01:10Financially.
01:11He wanted to destroy me.
01:12He destroyed my 25-year business, separated and devastated my family, so that answers
01:16your question.
01:17This dude sounds like he sucks.
01:19I don't think he's a good guy, in my opinion.
01:20He's a bad guy, and he's hurt a lot of people, but then again, look what the Democrats are
01:23doing to others.
01:24Kobe Bryant was assassinated by the Clintons.
01:27I hope you fucking die, homie, straight up.
01:29In Kelly's answer, the why that I talked about, which I tried and failed to answer for the
01:33HBO project, seemed to sort of present itself on a silver platter.
01:37Save the babies!
01:38Save the kids!
01:39Save my house!
01:40For Bill Joyner!
01:42In the way that he so casually connected a tragic, personal situation in his life to
01:47a grander spiritual war between good and evil in the country.
01:50I've heard that Hunter Biden and Bill Joyner are tight.
01:53And I was struck with the desire to go beyond the role of a journalist, and to actually
01:56help Kelly move on from his resentments to Bill.
01:59Bill Joyner stole my home, it's all right here, but nobody cares.
02:04And most importantly, become a caring father again, and reunite with his semi-estranged
02:08family.
02:09Kyle's here!
02:10Kyle's here!
02:11So I enlisted the help of his son, Kyle.
02:13He thinks he's my dad.
02:14Yeah, this is my son.
02:15Kyle, there was just a fight in your backyard!
02:17No way!
02:18Was it sick?
02:19It was sick.
02:20I'll fuck with my nigga Kyle!
02:21His daughter, Kaylee.
02:23This is my necklace.
02:24It basically means sapphic, WLW, so it means woman loving woman, because I'm gay.
02:29A professional interventionist named Heather.
02:32How many times do you think you've done this before?
02:33Oh, I've done probably 3,000.
02:36And the local rapper named Uncle Pill.
02:37Now you don't know about the real Chico Blood on my mama's, this ain't shit!
02:41All to see if Kelly was ready to change, and put family before politics.
02:45I went through a lot, we all went through a lot.
02:47I've seen what's impacted me, I've been through a lot of pain, suffering.
02:51And my thought is, unless I can do things to help that situation, after our house was
02:57taken, if our country's taken, it's all over for everybody.
03:00Because if we don't have a country to live in, then we, it's over.
03:12So did Bill Joyner steal his home?
03:14He's cherry picking the facts to support his narrative.