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# 251: DAVID A.R. WHITE brings to light how God still has a place in our nation in the latest "God's Not Dead" movie franchise

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God's timing is always perfect and that couldn't be more true for the latest installment of the "God's Not Dead" franchise. David A.R. White is starring in "God's Not Dead: In God We Trust" that is set to hit theaters on September 12th. David sits down with nine-time Emmy winner David Sams to talk about how the movie centers on contemporary issues related to faith and politics. David answers the crucial question: Does God still have a place in politics? Here the answer for yourself and be encouraged to make your voice heard this election season.

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So it's just mind-boggling to me. How 40 million Christians in America don't even bother to vote. I mean, can you believe that? Well, the latest "God's Not Dead" movie is all about exercising your right to make your voice heard. With the "God's Not Dead" movies, obviously, right? This is our fifth installment, hard to believe. But again, getting back to it is not, we didn't do it because it's number five. It's because we felt like, you know what, there's a wholeness move. There's a place in our culture right now that needs something to speak to it. And the "God's Not Dead" movies have a unique way in presenting a message of what's going on that's culturally relevant. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - I'm David Sams and this is CIA, Contagious Influencers of America. Today I've got David, A.R. White with me, right in the Homestead Studio, of course, he's an actor, producer, author, and filmmaker. He's one of the most visible actors in all of inspirational films. And of course, most notably, "Stars and the God's Not Dead" movies. Now, his newest film is "God's Not Dead" and "God We Trust" and it's set to be in theaters on September the 12th. And it has a great cast. So let me see, we have Isaiah Washington from Grey's Anatomy, Dean Cain from Lewis and Clark, then we have Scott Beow from Happy Days and Charles and Charge and Diagnosis Murder. And this movie is all about the importance of exercising your voice, your vote. And keeping, I'm not gonna give it away. All I'm gonna say is there's something like 40 million Americans, 40 million Christians in America, 40 million Christians that don't even bother to vote. And once you see this movie, my friends, you're gonna, you're gonna go vote. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you take others to vote, maybe you can't get there, and you're gonna wanna probably early vote. This movie is that powerful, it's that impactful. And it's something you've absolutely gotta see. And I applaud David, I applaud the folks from the "God's Not Dead" franchise. What is this, number five or something? I have to admit, the first one was my favorite. I mean, it came out of nowhere, and that'll always be my, but I think this is number two. I think this is right up there. You know, as a matter of fact, I don't talk into a day we wouldn't share about the Rocky movies, you know? It's like, which one's your favorite? You know, there's nothing like the original, but I'll tell you, there were some great ones to follow, you know, but I would have David A.R. White here in just a second, but first let's take a look at "God's Not Dead" and "God We Trust." - This September in theaters only, "God's Not Dead" in "God We Trust." - We must maintain separation between church and state. - People are looking for moral leadership in Washington. ♪ In God We Trust ♪ - Inspiring movie of faith, courage, and hope. - Reverend Hill, your beliefs are a textbook example of Christian nationalism. - I won't stop until your moral high ground crumbles beneath your feet. - You have the power to change things. - Tell them you're not ready to give that power up. - "God's Not Dead," in "God We Trust," only in theaters September 12th. (upbeat music) - Hey, well, David, welcome to the homestead. - Hey, appreciate it. Love it. - Okay, I saw a movie last night. I watched it outside as I was having a cigar on the front porch. Beautiful night last night, by the way. And I'm sitting there going, oh, first of all-- - What movie? - Your movie. - Oh, "God's Not Dead" in "God We Trust." I just checked it and just went-- - There's been so many of them. - I didn't even know which movie you're talking about. I was funny because you're having a cigar and watching some movie here. - Hey, I gave up my nightly watching Vikings for you last night, so-- - Okay, all right. That's hilarious. - I'm just waiting for you to spear somebody. - It's to spear somebody. Could you flee your source? - To get your source, somebody. That's a different movie, but yeah. - But I was watching, number one, I thought, it was a lot better than I expected to do the truth. - Oh, come on. - No, I'm serious because you know why-- - Or was good. - I love the franchise and all that, but first of all, you start thinking and you think that there's a motive behind it and there's a, you know, we're in an election season, et cetera, and I'm like, here we go. But you know what? It was Dagon Good, and you did a phenomenal job and it was so obviously timely. And the acting, I just thought you did a superb job. Everybody. - Thank you. - But there was a real, let's talk about the purpose of this movie. - Yeah, and I was blown away, especially at the end when you said there are 40 million Christians who don't even bother to vote. - Yeah, in presidential elections. - And I think then you said 15 million don't even register, something like that? - Yeah. - That's ridiculous. - Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, this is, okay, this is the 10 year anniversary for the first God's not dead. So 2014 was the first one that came out, you know, and I think when it came out, it certainly revolutionized Christian, you know, Christian films in the theater. - Sure did, yeah. - There was nothing like it at the time. And so, you know, for each God's not dead movie, it's not like we set out to do five of these, right? This is the fifth installment. But we always feel like there's a purpose for something comes up there, you know, there's a lot of prayer that goes into what is this supposed to be about? And the kernel of it concept comes, and it always seems to be culturally relevant for such a time as that. Like the first one, second one, and third, you know, even like every single one of them are, they drop in, right when culture is going through what it's going through. And so this one is the same. It's not like we set out to do, you know, the fifth installment, which is God's not dead in God we trust. But it is a political, there's no doubt about it. It's an election movie, it's an election year. But this movie has been 18 months, we were trying to push this movie before, and we kept getting blocked, blocked, blocked, blocked. But now we understand it, right? Because, you know, that stat that you said the 40 million Christian American Christians who don't vote in a presidential election, and here we are in a presidential election. Well, doesn't it make sense for this movie to come out and talk about should Christians even be involved in politics, you know? So yeah, I mean, it is, it's an interesting timing issue. - So, should Christians be involved in politics? - Well, you have to see the movie for that. I can't, I can't just say the answers here. Yeah, I mean, you know, for so long it's like, well, okay, the separation between church and state, right? We had, we've dealt with that. And then in this movie, my past, I played the same returning pastor, Reverend Dave, and the incumbent passes away. And the, there's only four weeks before the election, and they're saying, hey, we want you to run for the seat that nobody else wants to run for. It's a, you know, very pivotal seat. Whereas your opponent is trying to remove God from every aspect of our country. And of course, I think like most believers, we kind of feel like politics is a dirty business. We don't wanna get involved in that. And yet he's faced with this decision. Is he gonna do it, or is he not? Is he gonna take, except the call that he believes God put on him, or is he gonna run from it? Well, and I think the real issue is if Christians don't get involved, we're gonna continue to lose more and more of our rights to worship and to express our faith and to really engage and to share. I mean, you know, by the way of, you know, what's happened in Europe, they've kind of led the way of all that. So tell me why, first of all, let's go back to the beginning. What inspired the entire idea of God's not dead, the franchise that you've created all these years? Yeah, well, there was a book called "God's Not Dead" by Rice Brooks that was coming out. There was a song obviously by the newsboys that had already hit the marketplace. And this, one of our investors, Troy Duhan, actually approached us and said, "Hey, I don't know exactly what this is." Other than, "I feel like this is supposed to go now." That's all I know. And, you know, he was pitching me at a baby on his lap, and so we took the idea of that, and we had always been wanting to do a movie that dealt with, you know, apologetics in the classroom. We didn't exactly know where that was, or the fact of all the things that were going on in the colleges at the time. I mean, that's a tremendous amount of lawsuits and everything about, you know, and indoctrination from those instructors to our kids. And so, again, it kind of came out, and if you'd even look at the end of "God's Not Dead," there's like 50 lawsuits that were happening at the same time from the universities. And it's only gotten worse. - Yeah, yeah, it's-- - We thought it was bad 10 years ago. - Yeah, there's that line, you know, in the movie that talks about, like, you thought it was bad when they removed prayer in school. Like, imagine what it's gonna be when they remove God from our country, you know, because that's what they're trying to do, more and more. I mean, even like in COVID. You remember how that was? Like, the churches were like the last thing that they could open up. We could go everywhere else, the bars, everywhere else, you know, and people could mingle, but not the churches. Whoa, let's just leave them closed, especially in Los Angeles. That was a weird time. And so, you know, we're seeing more and more of that. But I also wanna be clear that this movie isn't just about politics, you know, because not everybody wants to see a political movie. It's really at the core of all, I feel like all the "God's Not Dead" movies are, it's about hope, it's about life, it's about perseverance, and it's about where does God fit in the middle of this kind of a situation. - No, that's what I got, I was very entertained. You know, obviously there was some education involved, but I don't go to a movies to get educated, I go to be entertained. - I want to do that. - And I was, I get enough education, watching cable moves, it may not be the right. But I was really, when I say I was quite surprised, I was quite surprised because I had read the, you know, I'd read the highlights of the film, and I thought, oh, you know, this is interesting at this time in history, and you're going a couple months into the election, I can see the purpose behind it. But I think you guys did a phenomenal job of entertaining me for two hours, and I really would suggest that people go see it because they're gonna be entertained, they're gonna be encouraged. There's gonna be hope that comes across, and you did a phenomenal job in your role. I love your speech at the end, that was great. - Oh, thanks, yeah, for some reason people keep writing these speeches. Like, I don't know if you saw, you know, God's not dead in, or we the people, which was the fourth installment, the last one. But yeah, I don't know, it's not like I sent out, my dad was a pastor, right? My dad was, you know, he always wanted me to become an evangelist, I never knew why. And I also didn't want to become an evangelist, and here I am playing a path. Also, it was like running from the ministry, I didn't want to be involved in the ministry. - Hey, if you make another, you know, 15 of these, you can just string together all the speeches together, and then you'll have another movie. (laughing) Or have a teaching session, apparently. - I have curriculum and the whole work. - People have said, "Why don't you go out "like on a speaking tour and, you know, "take pieces of your God's not dead in his peaches, "and you can just talk about each one of them." And I was like, "Yeah, I mean, you know, "we do that in movies, I don't know that we need to do it. "I don't know that we need to bring it beyond that." But I also want to talk about the cast in this movie. - Yeah. - Cast is pretty remarkable. - It really is. - I mean, from, you know, all these returning, cool figures from now, it's almost like the God's not dead universe, you know? We're not, we're not fast and furious yet, right? We haven't done 10 of them, but we're on our way. - Yeah. (laughing) - But, you know, so Dean Kane comes back, which is cool, Isaiah Washington comes back, Paul Quo as Martin comes back. Like, we have all these different, you know, from the different things. And then of course, Ray Wise from, if you remember from "God's Not Dead 2", boy was he a nasty guy in that movie. And here he is. - He plays great nasty guy. - Yeah, he's really, really good as the adversary. This one too. Samir Armstrong is wonderful as my love interest and just like, there's so many, so many great people in this movie. - Yeah. - Scott Baio, let's talk about Scott Baio. How cool is that? - Yeah, when I was interviewing Scott, the first thing I said to him is, "Man, you play a great scumbag." (laughing) I just had, he's like, "Who are you? "Who are you?" (laughing) "Is this the Got Your Moment?" (laughing) - I just literally wrapped a movie in Miami and I have him as a hitman in that movie. And I said, "If he comes in and he bows in, "with his silencer and kills all these people in his club." And I'm like, I was like, "Scott, you actually did that really, really well." You know, 'cause he's good at firing, you know, firing blanks, of course. But, I mean, but I was like, and he's like, "Yeah, this is like the first time "I've ever fired a gun in a movie." I was like, "What?" And my career, I was like, "Well, it didn't look like it 'cause, you know, "he's very good at it and being a scumbag." (laughing) But we love Scott Baio. - For the record. - He's awesome. (laughing) I met Scott like in church maybe four or five years ago and I would always see him walking in a little bit late, you know? And he would always go to the same spot and I'm always at the same spot up top in Westlake Village and-- - We all went to the same church. - Yeah. - I don't cover, yeah. - Yeah. - I was a good friend now. - Did you always see Scott coming in? - Well, I just go there now when I visit, but I was there for many years through, I was there when Larry DeWitt was there, Sean, of course, forever. And it's a great church, great church. - Well, that's how I met Scott originally. I kept looking down and going, "That's Scott Baio. "That's Scott Baio." Someday I'm gonna meet Scott Baio and then, you know, it's been cool. This is like our fourth film together, I think. - Oh, that's good, that's good. - So let's rewind a little bit and talk about, you're one of the founders of PureFlicks. - Yeah. - And now you have what, Pinnacle Pictures? - Pinnacle Peak. - Pinnacle Peak, okay. And PureFlicks, of course, produce some great content over the years and now it's evolved into-- - Pinnacle Peak Productions. - Pinnacle Peak Productions, okay. - Well, PureFlicks got taken over by Sony. - Right. - Great American, yeah. Great American PureFlicks is what it's called. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're involved in this? - They are, yeah, yep. There goes the streaming platform. I mean, they're like, PureFlicks is the only place that you can get all the gods that dead streaming right now. - Gotcha. Okay. - It's, you know, that's what PureFlicks was supposed to be. It was supposed to be the faith and family platform. - Right. - And it's the only one of its kind. And, you know, if you're out there and you wanna make another platform, go for it, we could use more. But it's definitely hard. - So, what inspired you years ago to start PureFlicks? - Years and years ago, I sat on a curb with Kevin Downs, of all things-- - That's a good letting. - Yeah, yeah. - And I noticed he has a cameo in the movie. - He does. - I mean, yeah. - For three seconds. - Well, it was in a few more scenes where they got cut out of our redo, 'cause we re-shot like probably 25% of the movie, 30% of the movie, yeah. So, which is how it happens. Like, I think we took like four swings at this movie to get it right. You know, you always wanna make sure that it's not just, like you had thought that it would be, it's just another, well, okay, here we go again, you know? No, each movie really needs to be, needs to be a standalone movie by itself and also needs to be special. And it's own right, you know? We put a lot of care on this movie, put a lot of time into it. But-- - By the way, when I say that, I don't mean that in a derogatory way. - No, I don't, I didn't take it away. - There's nothing like the original Rocky. - I wanna agree. - When you get to Rocky 17, it's like-- - It was on the airplane last night and the person in front of me was watching Rocky too. - Really? - It was the opening and I was like, you know, this is, we have been, we've been at the airport for eight hours, right? So, so, so, we were a little bit, you know, I think I landed here in Nashville at 2 a.m. So, I was a little loopy anyway on this plane and I'm looking in between the seats and I'm like, is that Rocky? - Right. - No, it's Rocky too. Oh, I was like, you know, watching. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Speaking up. - Yeah. - So, so getting back to the story. - Oh yeah, sorry, the question, yeah. I'm just going off on all these-- - No, I told you there, so. - Yes, Pure Flix, the original thought of it was, Kevin and I were like, you know, we had a dream early on that someday the, every studio would have a faith-based label. Wasn't the case, the only people making Christian movies at the time was the worldwide pictures with the Billy Graham organization and they would make it every two, three years. So, there was like this massive audience, you know, the faith-based audience that was underserved and not, no one was making movies for them. And Kevin and I had this early, early dream that we believe that God put inside of us to build out this place. And of course, the Kendrick's had it too and, you know, different people along the way have had, you know, God obviously doesn't just say, oh, it's all up to you, David. - Yeah, yeah. - Thank God or Kevin. But certainly, you know, we were the early pioneers for this industry and we're grateful to be part of that. And so, Pure Flix came out of that as, as at the time we were making these movies and the studios weren't picking them up. So then we're like, okay, well, then we need a production distribution studio. And that's where Pure Flix came out of. - And it's amazing what has happened and over the last 10, 15 years or so, I guess the last 10 years, right? Was God's not did your first, it wasn't the first picture, was it? - It was our first quote-unquote theatrical. - First theatrical, okay. - We had done quite a few movies. In fact, you know, at Pure Flix, I think I produced like 70 movies at this point and probably maybe about 15, 20 TV shows for the platform primarily. But before that, you know, we had a whole run of home entertainment movies. Movies like Sarah's Choice, Blink of an Eye, Hidden Secrets, you know, my favorite, "Holy Man Undercover" if you haven't seen it. Have you not seen "Holy Man Undercover"? - No. - All right, so you and your darling wife have to sit down in this theater maybe and watch that movie. It's like a dumb and dumber. And I mean, it was totally blackballed from the Christian industry, which makes it even more interesting. Like, why? Like, CBA would not, they had all these other movies. We had a whole Pure Flix section and they were like, we will not take "Holy Man Undercover." It was the funniest thing. So it's on Pure Flix now, PureLix.gov, but you could also get it whatever on Amazon or whatever, but it is a funny watch. I play two characters and it's kind of my life story and I just expanded. - Oh, okay, okay. So you're the son of a pastor? - Yeah. - Right? - And so-- - Mennonite passed. - Mennonite, so when you decided to get into film business, what did they think? - Yeah, well, I went to, all my family had gone to Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. And so they had all met their significant others. My mom met her, yep, my dad there, my brother met his wife, their sister met her husband there, and they all graduated from there and became, you know, went into the ministry and then here I was and went one year. And then, and I said, you know, dad, mom, I'm gonna leave Bible school to go to Hollywood to be an actor. (laughs) And it's this log, pause of the phone and they're like, okay. As long as you serve the Lord in whatever you do, we support you. So that was that. And then I moved to LA when I was 19. - And what'd you do at that point? - I was on, I was there six months and then I got on the hit television show Evening Shade with Burnt Reynolds. - Oh yeah, sure. - So I was on there for about three and a half years until I got fired from there. And then, of course, everybody just moved to Hollywood. Everybody moves to Hollywood and gets a gig in six months on network TV. - Yeah, it was truly, truly a blessing for the Lord. 'Cause I, 'cause on this show, you know, everybody had one on Oscar and Emmy or Tony. Everybody from Hal Holbrook, Aussie Davis, Ruby Dee, Elizabeth Ashley, Charles Durning, I mean. - What a cast. - People that I had never heard of. - Yeah, amazing. (laughs) - Then we had Kenny Rogers, John Ritter, Don Deloise, Terry Groggett, you know, come on as guest stars. Again, never heard of any of them. Didn't know who any of these people were at the time other than Burnt Reynolds and that was it. - Yeah. - And then slowly I started looking at their careers going, "Oh my goodness." You know, as they would all kind of take an interest in me in different ways, Hal Holbrook, like Elizabeth Ashley, was so sweet and kind to me. 'Cause I was a 19 year old kid from a farm, you know, who had a dream. I was a very strong believer at the time and so, but they all just, yeah. It was an amazing learning experience for me. - You know, is that streaming? - I'm not sure where Evening Shade is. I mean, it went, yeah, it's syndicated sometimes. It just depends on where it is. - Do you get residual checks? - I still do, yeah. - Really? - Yeah, I mean, they're not much at this point. (laughing) 30 years ago. - Yeah, yeah, good I was. - So what are the ingredients that you look for in a film that you are gonna put a year or two of your life into or three years? - Yeah. Well, first of all, it has to be a God's not dead movie. (laughing) Yeah, I mean, you know, that's an interesting, I mean, it's like with the God's not dead movies, obviously, right? This is our fifth installment, hard to believe. But again, getting back to it is not, we didn't do it because it's number five. It's because we felt like, you know what? There's a wholeness, there's a place in our culture right now that needs something to speak to it. And the God's not dead movies have a unique way in presenting a message of what's going on that's culturally relevant. For whatever reason, that franchise, I feel like really fills that well. And people depend on that when they go to see it. That's part of the whole thing. Which is no matter where I go, it's so amazing. Like yesterday I was stuck in an airport on and off for eight hours, right? The amount of different people, different conversations I had yesterday in that airport. You just even as I'm walking by or I'm leaving the airport or I'm in an Uber or of people whose lives have been transformed by that franchise. Most of the time, they obviously, more out of the times than not, people have seen the first one, right? But sometimes two, three, four, whatever one strikes a nerve in them that causes them to, hopefully that it reconnects people to have conversations about what's going on and it opens up conversations in a lot of ways. With their family members that maybe, or friends that they wouldn't have had normally. And so we hope and every single time if we're gonna do it, Lord, make it, make it that it's above you and not of us. We don't wanna just do another one. - Now, the question I've been wanting to ask you for some time. - Oh boy. - I can't sleep at night. - That's a big question. - The AR thing in your name, is that to make you stand out so you're not David White? - I mean, you know what I did? I was at the speaking engagement in San Diego like two days ago and Pastor David White comes up to me and he says, "I'm David White." And I said, "I'm sorry, what?" And he was a reverend. He goes, "Yeah, I'm a reverend. "You have no idea how many calls I get. "Think that people think I'm you." And it's finally nice to meet you in person for the first time, right? - And I said, "Well, what's your, "I mean, I'm David A.R. White." So what's your, he goes, "Well, I'm David R. White." - Oh no. - And so, you know, people call me like, could they just think A.R. is together? So then a lot of times they're like, "David R. White." They don't, you know, put the periods in there. And so it's just the A.R. - So what is the A and the R? - Oh well, so I was the last kid of all our, my parents' children. So I got four names 'cause it felt like they needed a jam in there. So it's David Andrew Roy White. So when I joined SAG, David White was taken because that was Larry Tate on "Be Witched." - Oh, really? Wow. - Yeah. And so they were like, "Well, you can't be David White. "There's already David White." And then I tried David Andrew White. - Was he alive? - Larry had just passed, actually. In fact, my first audition ever, I went in and the lady literally started tearing up the casting director. And I was like. - You were that bad? (laughing) - That's what I thought. I was like, "Wow." That was either incredibly moving what I did or incredibly painful. She goes, "David White just passed." And I was like, "Huh, who's David White?" (laughing) And I was like, "Oh yeah." Well, I'd see it, it grew up, you know, "Be Witched." So then David Andrew White was taken, David Roy White was taken. So it's like all these things. So I just was like, "Well, Michael J. Fox was huge "at the time with the initials." I was like, "Well, how about if I just initial it? "Can I do that?" And they're like, "Yeah, that's not taken." So there it is. Clever. It wasn't clever. It was just a matter of, you know, that doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. All right, I guess I'll just take David A. Period, our period white. (laughing) So what's the project, what's the film that you wanna do that you just hope somebody's gonna step up and say, "I've got an open checkbook. "Let's go make it happen." Oh, good question. God's not dead, the next installment. (laughing) We know you have the money and the account for that one, okay? But what's the one big thing that you let begin? No, I don't have a specific one that I'm like dying to do. I've been wanting to move more into the action thriller, what we would call red state action, so to speak. And I just finished one called "A Line of Fire" and it was about corruption in the FBI and there's just some stories like that. Oh, we know that doesn't happen. I agree exactly, it's just a movie. But life imitates art for some reason that we, so I'm pretty happy moving into that realm. And so just, yeah, we're gonna see. And then of course, we'll see where God's not dead. This movie lands and people, by the way, this movie also gotta get back to God's not dead. God in God we trust in theaters September 12th. Please don't miss that. And first of all, every single time somebody goes out and they buy a ticket to these movies, they are casting a vote to say we want more of this, these films in our theaters and we need more of these things. So don't just support our movie, please go some more all Christian filmmakers. And the second thing is that there's this movie also, highlights like we had talked about, that statistic that 40 million American Christians do not vote in presidential elections. Yes, this is election movie. But yes, it's a movie about hope, it's about where in a world do Christians fit into this political climate, should we, should we not? And at the end of this movie is a QR code to help people to get out and register to vote, to stop that, because if we don't step up, then where there's that line or that Isaiah says in this movie about people don't wanna be involved, people don't like to take out the trash, right? People don't wanna be involved in politics, people don't really wanna take out the trash either. But if you don't take it out, it begins to stink. And more and more what we've seen with our culture is it going sideways, more and more, which is crazy. And never thought in a million years that America would be looking like it is now. - Well, David, A.R. White. - A.R. White. - Thank you so much for the time we've spent and thanks for stopping by the homestead, the God's not dead, the-- - In God we trust, it's theaters on September 12th. - Newsboys are back, by the way too. - Oh, you know what? We actually had them here last week. - You did? - Yeah, they did the takeover for this. - Okay. - That's gonna air, I think, the week before. - Good. - So yeah, I was in a room but Denise did it for her, so she did a great job. - Wow. - Yeah, it's fantastic. - That's why you look so nice and tan. - It's just the white hair. No, but they're great. I mean, they're a big part of this franchise. - They really are, you know, and it's an interesting thing of how they weren't in the, we the people, the number four, and it was funny because they called and they said, you know, somehow we missed that one but we don't want to miss this one. And so I was talking to Tate, this is a funny story real quick 'cause I was talking to Tate and we were shooting in South Carolina and we didn't know exactly what it was gonna be called. I mean, obviously God's not dead and we were tooling around with a fight for the soul of the nation, which ironically has been now thrust front and center into a lot of headlines. We didn't know that at the time, this is like a year ago. And in God, we trust. And we were leaning toward, we felt like it was more, you know, this movie, we don't want to, again, it's a political movie, it's an election movie but we don't want to, it's not just that, right? It's still at the core, it's more about God and where do we fit in his plan? And so I'm on the phone with him and I'm sitting behind a license plate and Tate's like, you know, I just wrote this song about called "In God We Trust." And I said, that's ironic. I mean, we were literally, we're leaning towards, that's probably the title of the movie. And in front, in the license plan in South Carolina, I guess it says, "In God We Trust." I was like, and I'm sitting there right there and I'm like, wow, I think that's probably the, I think that's the name of the movie. - Fantastic. - I love it. - Yeah, that's great. Well, thanks for stopping by and we wish you much success and can't wait for the next interview with the God's not dead six. - But first, go see September 12th in "God and We Trust," God's not dead. (upbeat music) - Thanks again, David, always great to have you right here at the Olmsted and God's not dead. The movie is heading to theaters exclusively on September the 12th. And you can check out more at godsnotdead.com and also you can get your tickets in advance here. So please do that. And thank you so much, David, for stopping by and just keep up the good work. We're so proud of being proud of the films that you're making, so kudos to you and the team. 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