Ben Davies, Kevin Sorbo, and Cameron Arnett return to the show to discuss their new movie, The American Miracle, directed by James Gray and starring Ben Davies. The movie stars three of the stars of the hit TV show Three Caballeros and tells the story of how they became friends with President John F. Kennedy.
00:01:38.520In fact, I'm going to be there, I think, June 4th.
00:01:41.360They're going to show a screen for it at the Kennedy Center, which I said, don't you have to be a liberal to get into the Kennedy Center?
00:01:46.700So I think we're breaking down the door so you'll be able to be part of something in D.C. that's just sacred to the liberals.
00:01:52.440You know, I was at the inauguration, I was having a drink and a cigar with a senior member who's going to go into the admin.
00:02:00.500And he said, Michael, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I've got to leave your party right now so that I can go to the Kennedy Center and hang out with a Kennedy and I'm happy about it.
00:02:11.140I said, you know, that's how you know that Trump's administration is just completely upended.
00:02:14.980The fact that you want to go to the Kennedy Center, that you're permitted in now, totally crazy.
00:02:25.720What are people going to take away from it, not just artistically, but culturally, politically?
00:02:32.600Well, I think, you know, the atmosphere shows us that there's such a need right now for us to understand exactly what this country is all about, what we're all about, especially as Christians and what people that believe in the teachings of Christ.
00:02:45.900And so for me, you know, particularly, I deal with the fact that, you know, Jesus says, you know, when you take a look at Luke 18, he says, come join my party.
00:02:54.600So basically, you're dealing with the kingdom of God and, you know, he ends up being crucified, not because of his religious beliefs, but because he's actually a king.
00:03:04.320And so right now we're dealing with the fact that we need to understand what really Christianity is all about and the founding fathers and understanding exactly what the basis of this country is because the atmosphere shows that there's such a need.
00:03:17.020Yeah, I like the idea that, you know, if you're Christian, you have a very symbolic understanding of the world.
00:03:25.720You know, if you're a Christian, there is no such thing as mere coincidence in America, in Timbuktu, anywhere.
00:03:33.340You know, if you're a Christian, you recognize that there is a logic to the world and there is a God who has created the world and who sustains the world at every single moment.
00:03:41.260Not this kind of deistic God is practically the same thing as atheism, which says, yeah, God created the world and then he just doesn't care anymore and whatever.
00:03:52.660So we see meaning in the American story.
00:03:56.020We see meaning in the story of other countries as well.
00:03:58.820And you can't, well, as a line from my priest, Father George Rutler, he says, it's a wicked generation that seeks a sign and a wonder.
00:04:07.100And he's not the first to say it, but it's a stupid generation that ignores a sign and a wonder.
00:04:11.780Mr. Davies, why did these guys let you in their movie?
00:04:16.960Yeah, first, I'm really thankful to be here with such talented Christian men and also Michael Knowles.
00:04:23.780And to be a part of this movie especially was awesome.
00:04:26.840Actually, it's a great point that one of the creme de la creme, which they usually do, made a great point about, oh, the weather, this miraculous thing.
00:04:32.260Why don't we just sacrifice a virgin to the devil, basically, to fix the weather?
00:04:36.640And when these miraculous things do happen, a lot of times people don't look at, like, how and the moment that it happened.
00:07:51.040And then just coincidentally, two of the only guys in the continent who speak English walk out of the woods.
00:07:58.120Even though the Pilgrims were blown so far off course, one of them, Squanto, could talk to them about his journeyings in Spain, in England.
00:08:09.380They could talk about the same places in England.
00:08:42.340I like the fact that it wants to bring your golden age back to Hollywood as well.
00:08:45.220I mean, look at the stuff we're going to fight with them.
00:08:47.220I mean, the movies that we all do in this panel, we do movies that have hope and love and laughter and faith and redemption, things that Hollywood used to do.
00:08:53.540We sort of picked up that mantle and do it instead of them because you see the movies they want to keep making.
00:08:59.080I want to talk real quick about what this movie is going to do.
00:09:02.640Tim Mahoney, I worked with him before.
00:09:04.040I narrated a thing called Exodus Proof of Evidence.
00:09:07.120We spent like a decade in Egypt through archaeological digs to prove that the Exodus actually happened.
00:09:13.360And I did that probably about nine or ten years ago with him.
00:09:16.000We kept in contact all these years and a couple of other things together.
00:09:18.660They don't teach civics in school anymore.
00:09:21.020Of course, they don't want kids to grow up learning as we the people.
00:09:24.040So I think something like this hopefully can get into schools of all levels to kind of remind kids and college students who are kids nowadays as they wear their mask and complain about Palestine and stuff.
00:09:35.200So I think that we need to have them watch something like this to give them a dose of the reality of how we became a country in the fortunate way we became a country because so many people take it all for granted.
00:09:46.600And this hopefully this movie gets out and has a bigger opening weekend.
00:09:50.160We need people to fill the theaters to get more days on this thing.
00:09:52.840That's the tough battle independent movies have.
00:09:55.400So please, tell your pastors, tell your religious leaders, tell everybody, flood the theaters when this comes out in June.
00:10:02.060It's a great point that history really, you know, involves stories and it involves narrative.
00:10:07.000And there's been a concerted effort on the left in recent years to change the narrative by which we understand American history.
00:10:13.900The 1619 Project is probably the best example of it.
00:10:16.400So we need to make sure that we have the proper story, a story that is more patriotic, that is more conducive to the flourishing of America.
00:10:23.360And I think more grounded in truth than the story that the libs are trying to say.
00:10:29.660So I know the movie's coming out in June.
00:10:31.740Everyone needs to get ready and get your tickets and get totally ready to see it.
00:10:35.840I really don't want to hear from Mr. Davies anymore.
00:10:38.480So Cameron, I want to give you the last word.
00:10:40.640How can people go out and support the film?
00:10:43.000Well, first of all, you have to deal with the fact that, you know, we're trying to tell a story that, you know, is foundationed in the perspective of a Christian understanding of who we are.
00:10:52.940And why we need to get back and maintain that kind of atmosphere.
00:10:57.440That's just we need to make sure that we are the ones that are sticking to the scriptures the way that we should.
00:11:03.560And I think that everybody should ferret out no matter what, where you are, find a theater, find a place, whether it's streaming, whether it's a DVD, whatever it may be, and see the American miracle.
00:11:14.280Because the bottom line is that if we're going to have these miracles in order to continue to be the nation that we're supposed to be, we're going to have to stick to Christ.
00:11:22.980And we're going to have to understand exactly how that works and how it began to begin with.