David Vs. Goliath Goes Big

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

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🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Giants don’t only live on battlefields. They show up in our homes, our timelines, and our headlines—and that’s why this new animated musical about David is landing like a thunderclap for families. We sit down with Brian Stivale, the voice of Samuel, to explore how a film can be both wildly entertaining and spiritually grounding without pretending to be a verse-by-verse commentary. We share why the orchestration soars, the animation feels “classic,” and the storytelling bridges 1 and 2 Samuel...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Walbillers Show. Thanks for joining us today. Walbillers.
0:10.1	Dot Show for our radio site and wallbillers.com for everything else.
0:14.5	Wallbillers, Rick Green here with David and Tim Barton. Guys, we got Brian Stavali coming on after the break.
0:18.9	He's the voice of Samuel in the new movie, David, which I'm jealous. You guys have already seen it. I'm going to get to see it the next couple of days, but this is going to be a treat. So fun. It was such a great film. We went, my parents, siblings, nieces, nephews. I took my oldest six-year-old, and it's PG. So, you know, just
0:39.0	kind of a heads up for parents out there. There are some intense moments. It is, it is nothing
0:44.5	you need to worry about. Like, there's not a David and Bathsheba moment. In fact,
0:48.8	there is no girls to speak of. There's not Saul's daughter. There's not Abigail. There's not Bathsheba. So there's no
0:57.4	romantic connection. There is the mom, which is very important in it. But it's, man, it was so good.
1:04.4	Dad. I know we talked afterwards. I think the family and we said, man, we could we could just about
1:10.1	come back and see this again tomorrow. It's now been several days since we've seen it. I'm ready to see it again. I have the soundtrack. We've been singing along to it. It was such a good movie. Yeah, it was so good at so many levels. The orchestration was phenomenal that went with it. There was nothing dinky about this movie.
1:28.5	This was like an old throwback to some of the really good classics out of Hollywood,
1:33.2	whether you had great cast, you had great acting, even though it was animation.
1:37.4	The animation was great.
1:38.6	It was not cheap stuff.
1:39.9	It didn't look like, you know, they skipped frames on it.
1:43.1	It was just so good.
1:44.3	But the story was absolutely so compelling.
1:47.3	And they put so much in and worked together so smoothly.
1:50.6	It was just phenomenal from start to finish.
1:53.1	And the animation was like Disney level and not like the bad Disney, right?
1:57.9	Like when Disney was doing really good animation and really people have made
2:01.5	connections to the Prince of Egypt, because it is kind of that feel, really good animation,
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