God's Not Dead: In God We Trust w/Scott Baio & David A.R. White

[00:00:00] and the more we outlaws, he said, go tell me, through the full walks of life since, and then,

[00:00:08] becoming our voice.

[00:00:12] If you are a fan of the Gods Not Dead movies, I've got awesome news for you.

[00:00:17] One is about to be released, the brand, how many do you think they're worth?

[00:00:21] One, you know, you see them, you go to them, two, think they're two?

[00:00:26] Not the Walking Dead, there's tons of those episodes, this is the Gods Not Dead movies.

[00:00:30] There's now five.

[00:00:32] The newest installment is Gods Not Dead in God We Trust, and if you've watched them,

[00:00:37] you'd recognize the main characters always a pastor, Reverend David Hill that's played by

[00:00:42] David A.R. White, and he's also been the lead and dozens probably more than that of other films,

[00:00:48] and you may not realize he's kind of a big shooter.

[00:00:50] He's a co-founder of the streaming service, Pure Flix, as well as Pinnacle, Peak Pictures.

[00:00:56] You have to see that slow.

[00:00:57] Who creates faith-based films?

[00:00:58] In the late Scots Not Dead, Scott Beo plays a dominant part.

[00:01:03] Who doesn't love when Scott Beo pops into a TV show or a movie?

[00:01:08] He plays this great person who you'd love to hate and it's, and

[00:01:12] Scott doesn't need much of an introduction, and he became a household name early on as

[00:01:16] Chachi and Happy Days, Charles and Charles is acting and directing credits, you know, for a long.

[00:01:22] Both Scott and David are here to chat about their new movies.

[00:01:26] Welcome, fellas.

[00:01:28] Well, thank you.

[00:01:31] That was quite an entrance.

[00:01:34] You know, he probably had more thorough and better but

[00:01:38] come on, people know who like the, got's not dead guy, as they know who Scott Beo is, so

[00:01:44] you know, cut to the chase.

[00:01:46] I agree with the chase.

[00:01:49] We're a big deal. We're a big deal here.

[00:01:52] You are, yeah, I called you a big shooter, that's right.

[00:01:54] You are a big shooter.

[00:01:56] You know, here's what I did.

[00:01:59] You know, of course I watched this latest one but I thought you know, I'm going to start over because

[00:02:02] Scott, God's not dead. That's been quite a while now, but over a decade or something.

[00:02:06] Oh, today, this years are 10 year anniversary.

[00:02:09] Wow. Yeah, I thought, you know, refresh myself. So I watched it.

[00:02:13] Then I went into this, you know, I went to a binge. I literally spent all night. I watched all five

[00:02:18] and a row. How long?

[00:02:19] I did. I'm thoroughly convinced that God's not dead now. So, so good work there.

[00:02:25] Was that last night you did this?

[00:02:27] No, I didn't do it last night. I did about a couple of weeks ago, actually.

[00:02:31] Yeah. Was it a Friday or Saturday or Tuesday or like what day was this?

[00:02:36] No, it was a week night. Yeah, I didn't mean to. You know, I just started, you know, it was like a 930

[00:02:41] and I ended up, well, you had like nine or 10 hours to that and that's when I finished.

[00:02:46] I'm slow. Wow.

[00:02:48] Did you do that? I didn't know. Like, Johnny loves Chachi.

[00:02:51] Yeah. So, Brad, shy.

[00:02:54] You know, I told my, I told my sister as going to talk to you and Scott and her fate.

[00:02:59] What a favorite show still is, Johnny loves Chachi.

[00:03:03] See Scott, still. That says a lot about your sister. Not good.

[00:03:12] Hey, speaking of those days.

[00:03:16] So David, you're being the son of a minister and a men and night minister.

[00:03:21] Did you grow up? Were you able to watch like Chachi or, you know, that kind of thing happy days?

[00:03:28] Yeah, it was a weird thing. I mean, I saw one moving at the end of the first 18 years in my life, right?

[00:03:32] So we couldn't go to movies. What was the movie?

[00:03:37] Well, the movie was Greece.

[00:03:41] Yeah. I was with a friend. I went to a friend's house and then their parents were like,

[00:03:47] we're going on the movies. The next thing you know, I'm in the movie theater. And I was like,

[00:03:49] oh my gosh, I love this, right? It was like 10 or something like that.

[00:03:53] And then, and then the next thing I know, I remember seeing a living new in John wearing black

[00:03:57] tights thinking, for sure, I am going to help.

[00:04:01] I never saw another movie for another 18 years. Yeah.

[00:04:05] But what we did have is we did have a TV and we did, um, and I did grow up watching happy days.

[00:04:13] And I didn't watch too much of, of Johnny loves Chachi. It was to, you know, that was

[00:04:19] not what it did for me. We did. I did. My sister did it was on.

[00:04:25] But I'm a big stuff. They're a fan. That's what he did. He was a guy. He was a guy.

[00:04:28] He was a guy. He was a guy after he got his dad in God. We trust him.

[00:04:31] And even a bigger Scott, they don't fan. Well, thank you Dave. Appreciate that.

[00:04:36] You know, Scott Chachi is like a cool character. But to me, I don't know you at all.

[00:04:42] But listening to you talk or just seeing you in the media, I know your way different than what

[00:04:47] were you like, funds these cousin or something. But with the accent, it really kind of sounds

[00:04:52] like you. I mean, you seem like a grown up Chachi kind of.

[00:04:58] Basically, I'm the at-well, my New York accent. I guess I've never really lost it.

[00:05:07] That was maybe 40 years ago when now. Yeah.

[00:05:11] This is me more than 40 years ago. Where are you at now? So we'll talk about this specifically,

[00:05:16] the film. But so I've, what, you know, let's talk about the shoot.

[00:05:22] So I, um, I've listened to both your podcast and they're both very good. Scott Bayos take on life.

[00:05:29] I love that. Thank you. It's so. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Did you listen to Scott Bayo on the White House

[00:05:37] pod dare to dream? On my mind? I did, I did listen to that one. The Scott Bayo have his own pod. You have

[00:05:43] your own pod, Cass Scott. Yes. I didn't notice. It's Scott Bayos take on life. It's like, can I tell you

[00:05:50] you could tell them, can it's fine? It's, it's, it's me and two bodies of mine. I would just talk

[00:05:56] and we just talk about. It's important things stuff in life going on going to the airport or

[00:06:03] either getting a restaurant and the things should you tell the plumber if his pants need to be pulled up.

[00:06:07] Important things are my, are my earlobes too big and how you body changes this weird stuff. Just

[00:06:13] stuff that people just talk about all the time and they're free to anyway. That's my pocket.

[00:06:17] I love that. Yeah, it's pretty funny. They're like 15 or 20 minutes later. I just want to

[00:06:21] spot a fight in download your podcast and instead it's like the Scott Bayo album. That's even better.

[00:06:28] That's even better than the podcast. It's out tonight. Let's go. I love this. Man, I have to do more.

[00:06:34] I can do more research on me. So a little more profound is Scott Bayos real take on life. I mean,

[00:06:47] the person now, I don't know if it's how you viewed Hollywood then or how you view it now

[00:06:51] or your perspective on life or how does faith play into that? What's your world view these days and

[00:06:58] has it morphed over time? What's important to you now? And then how did you get there?

[00:07:05] I think as you, I think as you age, you're personally a priorities change. I mean,

[00:07:09] I was a young, younger band. My priorities will work work work and that's really what drives you.

[00:07:19] And then as you get old and you have a child with drives you is your child. And my job is to

[00:07:29] provide my daughter with the tools she needs to do what she wants to do in life.

[00:07:32] And that's pretty much it. And my world view on, I was raised a Catholic and when I about a

[00:07:41] year or two ago I became Christian, it was baptized again. And so that's where

[00:07:50] I'm still the same guy but I just decided to go down a little bit of a different path and

[00:07:59] that's what my world view is very, very simplistic. Yeah. I think the proper world view is not

[00:08:07] complicated. It's got some straight forward path. Oh, I can complicated but I try to

[00:08:14] I can't. I think that's why we have women, right? Yeah, exactly.

[00:08:23] So David with his new movie. My first thought when I saw the title, right? Even before I

[00:08:29] watched it was wow what what timing? Is that purposeful or did just kind of happen to play out

[00:08:35] in a political season? So lay out just obviously at the point of this podcast, nobody has seen it yet.

[00:08:41] What's the snobs of the movie? And you know, and it fits any time not just a political season.

[00:08:48] Was that kind of purposeful? If not, it seems providential to me. Yeah, I have to actually say

[00:08:55] it was a bit providential. You know, the script started about three years ago and

[00:09:03] it kind of followed suit and when you've been jett all of them. So you know, it kind of

[00:09:08] come to me the people it makes sense, you know. But that that Reverend Dave would be after

[00:09:15] you know, it leads into that. But did we know that so much would be going on in the world of politics

[00:09:23] at the time? No, I don't think anybody could have imagined, you know, what this year has been

[00:09:30] in the political presidential race even so sort of speak. But also in so many different ways, you know,

[00:09:40] there's a stat about 40 million American Christians don't vote in presidential elections. We didn't

[00:09:44] know that at the time. But in the process of discovery, but you start to realize, wow, that's actually

[00:09:51] true and that's a problem. And you know, and the movie takes shape in different ways to answer

[00:10:00] some of these things that need to be talked about in our culture. And here we are, you know, it's like

[00:10:08] every single God's on dead movie is kind of done this in its own way for when that when it comes

[00:10:14] out, you know, it kind of resonates with where the country was at the time what's going out of

[00:10:19] culture and where the Christians fit into that. And here we are again, you know, it's election season.

[00:10:24] This is an election movie. Error, it's a backdrop of an election movie. And I'm run for politics,

[00:10:31] you know, for Congress and as Christians, you know, so often they don't want people faith,

[00:10:37] you don't want to be involved in politics because it's a dirty business. But if we don't do it,

[00:10:41] who's going to do it. Yeah. And Scott, when I was asking about your worldview, what do you say

[00:10:49] that you mentioned your daughter that even just having kids and David, you could speak on this too,

[00:10:56] but whether it's the political environment, environment or the media, just the social environment

[00:11:00] or the schools that you go to and listen to that. But that even if it's a Christian worldview,

[00:11:07] it begins to get pinpointed. I think what I'm trying to say, I think it become more serious,

[00:11:11] bolder and you stand up more for the sake of your kids. It's easier to be quiet because you're kind

[00:11:17] of quieting down on the couch as an older person. I'm speaking for myself. But when you have

[00:11:21] kids involved launching into that world, for me that that makes you kind of want to rise and do

[00:11:27] something that you can about it just to help pave a path for them. Is that ring true to you?

[00:11:37] Well, absolutely. You go through life. You're young, young man, you're pretty selfish.

[00:11:44] You take care of what you need to take care of. And then a child or children come along and

[00:11:50] you have a different role. You have a different purpose. So, you absolutely, it's your responsibility.

[00:11:59] It's my responsibility and my wife. Nobody else's, it's our responsibility to raise our child.

[00:12:09] So everything else goes on the back burner or everything else sort of becomes less of a priority.

[00:12:19] And that's I think most people that's what happens. Some people are not very good parents

[00:12:25] and that's the way life is. But you know, you, your priorities change completely. Yeah.

[00:12:32] And David for you, just being in the film industry, you've been in it so long. And I'm sure

[00:12:37] it's easy to say. You started to super young and it, it's your thoughts of your purpose has changed

[00:12:43] over time. But has it really kicked in? Have you went from like just trying to make it in Hollywood

[00:12:50] and have a career to, do you ever foresee where you're at now? It's a pretty major influence

[00:12:56] in a segment of ministry that was untouched before. Yeah. I mean, I don't think anybody can

[00:13:06] foresee where they're going or obviously where they're going to be and what culture and

[00:13:13] country kind of looks like as the last 10, 15 years has been crazy to see where we're going.

[00:13:22] But you know, one of our goals in early vision or not vision early dreams were to have a faith based

[00:13:32] genre that didn't really exist. You know, 150 million people go to church once a month. That was a

[00:13:38] stat. A couple years back. I'm not sure if that's still the same after COVID because I think we saw

[00:13:44] tremendous amount of hit, you know, on the faith that people going out in that way. But

[00:13:52] certainly there's a half-the-country identifies as being, you know, people of faith. And yet

[00:14:00] there's hardly any movies ever made or there weren't hardly any movies ever made for people in this

[00:14:08] arena. And so that was one of our goals is an early age when we, you know, years and years ago,

[00:14:15] 2005 is when we started a peerflicks to be one of the first faith based production and

[00:14:21] distribution studios that would release this content and make it on an ongoing basis. And so

[00:14:26] I've been amazed to see how the different studios have all kind of come in, you know, with different

[00:14:31] faith based labels and more and more Christians are putting these out. But we don't so,

[00:14:38] just love to see it continue to grow, you know, you just never know where it's going to go. And

[00:14:42] and the guys that had franchises been around, you know, this is our 10-year anniversary. And so it's

[00:14:47] you know, these movies seem to be relevant for such a time as this specifically whatever is going

[00:14:54] on in culture at the time. And this one too, guys not dead in God, we trust. Certainly,

[00:14:59] you know, it's a, it's a time the movie I think resonates with right where we're at right now.

[00:15:09] Yeah, I think what's great about the, I think one of the weaknesses, sometimes of part ones and

[00:15:15] twos and threes that they just go after was financially successful. So they're going to ride the franchise

[00:15:20] until it's not, the God's not dead movies have, it's not just stretching a continual story

[00:15:27] to the point of ridiculousness. It's perfect because it's just a progression of different topics

[00:15:33] going on in the culture that either a teenager or a college student run to or a home-schooling

[00:15:40] parents or the struggles of a pastor's life and the politics that play into that. So there's such

[00:15:47] a myriad, it just seems like they could keep going without stretching the topic, just because

[00:15:55] so many avenues or chapters that could go that are true to where people are at.

[00:16:01] Yeah, exactly and that's you know, we're not trying to be the fast and the furious,

[00:16:07] you know, although they have ten so we have quite a long ways to go. But but I wouldn't have

[00:16:15] ten years ago said that we'd even have, you know, this would be the fifth installment.

[00:16:19] And the irony hopefully is that, you know, more and more people say this is, again,

[00:16:26] everybody has their own opinions but a lot of people in the screenings have even said this is

[00:16:30] their favorite one out of all of them. So hopefully we're getting each movie is getting progressively

[00:16:36] better but the goal is not that we make a better movie, the goal is just that that it's

[00:16:43] entertaining, it inspires people to hope and to encourage them in their in their faith walk.

[00:16:52] But also that it lands right in the middle of where our country is and our culture is and where

[00:17:00] this God fit in that. And this one specifically is like Christians, you know, separation of

[00:17:05] church estate now you get Christians and politics. We're to our Christians even supposed to be involved

[00:17:10] or we supposed to be in our people of faith, supposed to be involved in politics or should we just step back?

[00:17:15] Yeah, there's a lot of relevant questions.

[00:17:19] Yeah, I'd say the answer is yes you just got to really be ready for it. Thanks again. Scott

[00:17:23] Bayels got thick skin, you know, Hollywood guy and Scott principles speaking of Scott,

[00:17:31] what's your career? What do you look at when you're doing, what do you look for in

[00:17:36] work? Do you kind of pick and choose what you want to do? Do you do things that just interest you or

[00:17:45] howl some kind of quite honestly I was canceled from about 2017 maybe

[00:17:57] on because of my, my campaign for President Trump and I knew I would be.

[00:18:06] I didn't care. So now I'm just sort of coming back and I was fortunate enough to hook

[00:18:16] up a David on a movie that we did a couple of years ago during COVID called Cording Mom and Dad.

[00:18:21] Great movie by the way, haven't seen it. It was fun. Yeah, I got to David came up to me and he says

[00:18:27] what do this movie? Would you do it or want to be play your daughter? And I went all of course she

[00:18:32] would. So we did that and then and then he asked me to do this and I honestly can I'm

[00:18:42] I don't have the luxury of picking and choosing. Yeah, but some stuff happens to choose me

[00:18:52] and I'm in a place right now where I'm lucky enough to work for David and it's and it's a good

[00:18:58] place to be. Yeah, well you know if really if any of us are truly accepted by everyone around us

[00:19:08] in the culture when we're probably not in the right place where we should be so I respect you

[00:19:13] in your grit and David for you and all the work you do. How can people, where do you want people

[00:19:19] to see this film? Hopefully in the theater, September 12th it opens all over the US but

[00:19:28] but it's important for people to know you know it's like if you don't go out that opening

[00:19:35] weekend for example, that sends the biggest message to Hollywood that says hey these films are

[00:19:43] viable and there's a hunger for them and ultimately it also sends a message to that theater is

[00:19:52] then let leave it in the theater longer but if people don't for example like that stat that says

[00:19:59] 40 million American Christians don't vote. If you don't go out and vote even for a movie

[00:20:05] for hey I want to see more of these movies then things go away and it's the same thing as in the

[00:20:12] movie too is if you don't get out and actually vote then more and more as we're seeing

[00:20:23] our countries not going to look like it. Yeah for sure well I'm sure it'll do great it's a good

[00:20:29] movie I saw Scott you did a great job in it absolutely despised you which means you did awesome

[00:20:35] all right I appreciate you both thanks a lot for coming on. Thanks so much we ever forget

[00:20:43] that we're one nation under God then we will be a nation going under now more than ever

[00:20:50] Christians must realize that we're being called to deliver hope to a country that's feeling hopeless

[00:20:55] faith begins where your comfort zone ends we need to step out into that faith

[00:21:01] with six weeks out from election day and a lot of us have lost hope in the future of our country

[00:21:07] we must maintain a wall of separation between church and state. Religion has no place in the

[00:21:12] public square once they bankrupt our country they will have complete

[00:21:22] we don't belong to our

[00:21:24] we need someone who can light a fire in the voters. The preacher he helped others education

[00:21:28] here I've been hired to manage the campaign for Congress. I'm not a politician. You don't take on this

[00:21:33] fight we can lose everything. They found someone to run a guest room. We worried about a preacher.

[00:21:40] My next guest is a candidate of a Congress you're going to get a lot of questions about your

[00:21:44] faith well maybe people are looking for more spiritual and moral leadership in Washington.

[00:21:48] You're making God an easy target for them pastor. God's not the target

[00:21:52] our country is. God's just standing in their way. I will not be made a fool of

[00:21:58] I won't stop until you're moral high ground it crumbles beneath your feet.

[00:22:04] You don't wait unless you play by their rules. You feel like I have two options

[00:22:08] I can either do the things my faith asked me not to or I lose this race

[00:22:13] It's like God keeps putting these impossible bones in front of they perhaps got put those mountains

[00:22:19] in front of you to show that they can be moved. We pray for David guys.

[00:22:27] This contest is about shaping the future of our nation. Keep your point in mind. It's like his

[00:22:33] God I can give it and I can take it away. How do you know it's God?

[00:22:41] Reverend Hill your beliefs are a textbook example of Christian nationalism. Whenever anyone

[00:22:45] a faith promotes a policy that you don't like you label them. A Christian nationalist

[00:22:53] we need to stand up send the message to Washington. Tell them you're not ready to give that

[00:22:59] power up. You have the power to change things. Not me, not him, you.

[00:23:08] And without God democracy will not and cannot long endure.

[00:23:18] We look for all walks of life since and then we're coming out of life.