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Two comedians talk about faith-based movies and other religiously-related content.

#75 - 7th Street Theater 05/12/2025

#75 - 7th Street Theater Dan and Ryan discuss what is quite possibly one of the strangest, most incoherent TV shows ever produced. It's all about a Christian theater that is almost certainly a money laundering front for Mr. Wheeler, a man who probably wears a cowboy hat and probably has some shady dealings with "the cartel." None of that is in the show, but if Mr. Wheeler continues down his dark path, the fine folks at 7th Street Theater could be caught in the crossfire. Or is that just Gates' snakes?? /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/36529445

#74 - Psalty the Singing Songbook 05/07/2025

#74 - Psalty the Singing Songbook Dan and Ryan enter the nightmarish world of Psalty, a sentient book of Christian songs who may or may not be keeping horrible genetically-altered creatures enslaved in his home. It's okay, the kids seem to love it! /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/36434010

#73 - The Mosquito Coast 05/05/2025

#73 - The Mosquito Coast This week it's a good movie! Never mind what Roger Ebert says. Dan and Ryan discuss the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, and River Phoenix. They also talk about various issues related to church mission trips. At the end they battle a horde of giant mosquitos, and one of them dies! I'm almost certain that's how the episode ends. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/36433975

#72.5 - Mike Huckabee's Jukebox of Misery 05/01/2025

#72.5 - Mike Huckabee's Jukebox of Misery Dan and Ryan discuss the awful comedic stylings of former presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee while dissecting a "funny" news segment from his late night talk show on TBN. Then Dan shares four memes based on Huckabee tweets that got him banned from the r/standupshots subreddit. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/36384300

#72 - Six: The Mark Unleashed 04/28/2025

#72 - Six: The Mark Unleashed Dan and Ryan discuss a movie about the end times that pretends to star Stephen Baldwin and Eric Roberts. There's car chases with speeds as high as ten. And a former sex-worker who speaks like a robot and then dies like she's pretending to take a lil nap. There's redundancies, quantum computers, summer camps pretending to be cities, and, um, Lewis. This one is weird, folks. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/36334460

#71.5 - TektonTV: Storage Wars Jerusalem 04/23/2025

#71.5 - TektonTV: Storage Wars Jerusalem How a short animated video on YouTube destroyed our brains. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/36240030

#71 - Iron Man Gets Crucified 04/21/2025

#71 - Iron Man Gets Crucified Dan and Ryan revisit the fever dream that is the Church of the Rock in Canada. They watch a combined total of three Easter plays and come away with more questions than they started with. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/36239095

#70.5 - Harry Potter and the School of Prayer and Miracles ch. 4 04/16/2025

#70.5 - Harry Potter and the School of Prayer and Miracles ch. 4 In which Ryan destroys his vocal cords as he warns us about the political career of a congressman whose name shall not be spoken. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/36110990

#70 - The Girl Who Believes in Miracles 04/14/2025

#70 - The Girl Who Believes in Miracles Miracles - anyone can do them! Or can they? In this movie, a little girl who may or may not be a teenager can do them, but she also says that she can't. But later she says that anyone can. If you need more information about this, talk to Sam Donovan on Crestline. We don't know who he is but apparently he changes lives. But the movie's not about him, it's about God and dead birds and an angry doctor, and it has a very special appearance by a sinister wolf. Be sure to check out our new where you can easily search for episodes. We also set up some fun episode collections which include a few cool extras! /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/36110800

#69.5 - Carman: "Mission 3:16" 04/09/2025

#69.5 - Carman: "Mission 3:16" Dan and Ryan watch a short action film starring Carman which is ostensibly a music video. Be sure to check out our new where you can easily search for episodes. We also set up some fun episode collections which include a few cool extras! /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/36046895

#69 - Bibleman 3 04/07/2025

#69 - Bibleman 3 Dan and Ryan return with another look at the Bibleman franchise, this time with a deeper dive into the life story of the man who played the title role. Be sure to check out our new where you can easily search for episodes. We also set up some fun episode collections which include a few cool extras! /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/36031840

#68 - Michael 02/19/2024

#68 - Michael John Travolta is an angel who swears and smokes cigarettes and eats a lot of sugar and is the desire of every woman on the planet except for Andie MacDowell, who is too busy hiding her shameful secret about how she babysits dogs. This is a super weird, super goofy movie from the 90s that was much, much easier to watch than any movie Ryan has ever picked for us. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/30007903

#67 - The Late Great Planet Earth 01/22/2024

#67 - The Late Great Planet Earth In a sense, this is the Citizen Kane of bad Christian movies. Also the world is going to end about forty years ago. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/29587473

#66 - Pickleball Princess 01/02/2024

#66 - Pickleball Princess What better way to start the new year off than with the latest and greatest from Donald James Parker? This week we watched Pickleball Princess, which turned out not to be a religious movie, except in the sense that pickkeball seems to be Donald's new religion. Pickleball is basically the Messiah in this movie. It can cure racism and build bridges, but it also has a deadly side. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/29299628

#65 - The Encounter: Paradise Lost 11/27/2023

#65 - The Encounter: Paradise Lost Jesus' diner has closed for business, so now he's vacationing in Thailand and making new friends. You know what that means - it's the hit sequel to The Encounter, only this time, Jesus is taken hostage. David A. R. White is here too, as the world's worst policeman, but he's tied to a chair for most of the movie. Thankfully, Jesus can break the tension by revealing everyone's deepest darkest secrets without their permission. He's also going to explain why tsunamis happen. There's a few gunfights in this movie, but Jesus doesn't participate in those. It's not like he can stop bullets... OR CAN HE? Maybe, but either way he won't. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/28797673

#64 - Divine Influencer 11/20/2023

#64 - Divine Influencer Kids these days, they're 29 and have major social media followings, am I right? Thankfully some parents out there still know how to raise their kids right, by waiting until their birthday, leaving the country, cutting them off, and forcing them into a life of poverty and homelessness until they can learn how to put God first. Dan, Alexa, and Ryan learn that what really matters in life is not money or fame, but networking. Featuring a special guest appearance by Stanley the Snake. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/28715818

#63.5 - Harry Potter and the School of Prayer and Miracles - ch. 3 11/15/2023

#63.5 - Harry Potter and the School of Prayer and Miracles - ch. 3 In which Ryan continues the saga of Harry Potter, very continuingly. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/28614078

#63 - C Me Dance 11/13/2023

#63 - C Me Dance It's all very simple: Satan drives a semi-trailer truck, which he uses to kill a lady so that her infant daughter Sheri can someday grow up and be diagnosed with a terminal illness that leads her to become a Pentecostal superhero. With her newfound powers, Sheri stops middle-aged high school bullies, hypnotizes TV executives, and shuts down whole movie productions. And Satan hates it! So he sniffs her and her dad a lot, and watches her dance. Then, in a climactic showdown, Sheri tells a church not to watch scary movies. Satan just sort of disappears after that, we're not really sure why. But then, in a major plot twist, the real villain turns out to be God all along. Folks, it's the Christian classic C Me Dance. The C is for "chaos." /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/28610373

#62 - The Ravine 11/10/2023

#62 - The Ravine A faith-based movie with F bombs! And murder! And angels that seem to be slacking off on their job of stopping terrible things from happening. This week, Dan, Alexa, and Ryan watch their first R-rated faith-based film, which comes with an important lesson about forgiveness. Or something. There's also a murder mystery that goes nowhere, a detective who does nothing, and a woman who knows everything that happens in heaven but still can't clearly explain anything. Don't worry though: behind this inspirational message about faith and grief, there's an underlying message about how to get rich. Because you were born rich, and you have the power within to unlock your sales potential and form better client relationships. Even Jesus couldn't have seen that coming. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/28579638

#61 - The Story Keepers 11/06/2023

#61 - The Story Keepers Imagine an episode of Pinky and the Brain where Brain feeds Pinky to a cat, and you have a basic idea of what this Christian cartoon is like. Nero is killing all the Christians in Rome, and that means it's time for some hilarious antics where four probably-orphans have to run for their lives to avoid being sold into slavery. And it's all very wacky and zany! This was a listener request! If there's any faith-based media that you'd like us to watch, please let us know, we'd love to share your trauma! /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/28525163

#60 - The Encounter 10/16/2023

#60 - The Encounter Ever wondered what it would be like if Jesus made you a cheeseburger? What if it was the most delicious cheeseburger you'd ever had? And what if Jesus ruined it by saying weird things about genocide? There's all this and more in this week's movie, The Encounter, in which Jesus fulfills his lifelong dream of becoming a small business owner. Unfortunately, the local law enforcement is giving him trouble, while a successful Republican doesn't want to listen to anything he has to say. Dan, Alexa, and Ryan dive into yet another David A. R. White joint and try in vain to make sense of it all. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/28323221

#59 - Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed 09/20/2023

#59 - Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed How did life begin? It's a question no scientist has ever thought about. What are scientists hiding? And do they have what it takes to win $5000 of Ben Stein's money? I might be mixing some things up. In any case, this week we watched Stein's 2008 propaganda-fest, which boldly defends the right of scientists everywhere to advocate for a vaguely defined theory without even bothering to tell us what it actually consists of. That's right, it's the Intelligent Design movement, baby! It's not religion, but also it represents religion's last stand against communism, or Nazis. Those are basically the same thing I guess. Intelligent Design tells us that God created life, but it's not really about God, but it is about fighting against atheism, but you should have the freedom to believe whatever you want. Watch as Ben asks the tough questions, gets the answers, ignores the answers, then bravely asks the tough questions AGAIN. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/28090466

#58 - Unidentified 09/11/2023

#58 - Unidentified One's a skeptic, the other's a lapsed Christian. Now they have to work together to get to the bottom of a mystery about UFOs. Sounds like a recipe for hijinks! But we'll never know, because the movie skips all that. Instead we have to spend endless hours in their magazine's office listening to people drone on about apple juice and the rapture. Why do we ever let Ryan pick the movie for the week? Why is Rebecca St James in this? When will death finally come? /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/27995526

#57 - God's Not Dead: We the People 09/05/2023

#57 - God's Not Dead: We the People God's Not Dead is back, and this time, he's out for vengeance. Reverend Dave has to face his deadliest foe yet: Common Core. It's all very simple: The government wants you to think that its founding documents were written by rich old white slaveowning men, so that you'll be disgusted with them, reject our founding documents, and agree to let the government take away your freedom. But the truth, according to those Christians who care to know it, is that our founding documents were written by literal children, and therefore, it is wrong to hold homeschooling families to any sort of educational standards. It's... it's a weird movie. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/27942702

#56 - The Case for Christ 08/28/2023

#56 - The Case for Christ What happens when a tough-minded skeptic sets out to disprove Christianity? And what if that story is told by evangelicals who don't seem to know how tough-minded skeptics actually think? And what if it's based on a true story? That's right, it's the personal account of author Lee Strobel's journey from atheism to Christianity, although calling the character in this film "tough-minded" seems a bit generous. Marvel as he travels far and wide to seek out experts on various topics related to Jesus' resurrection, asking a handful of superficially interesting questions, and then quickly moving on to other things. Will Christianity stand up to scrutiny? Let's put it this way: 60% of the time, the skeptic converts every time. Also: Dan, Ryan, and Alexa consider the case for Christ, but then they make their own case for remaking this movie with the Muppets and Tim Curry. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/27864771

#55 - The Mark 08/14/2023

#55 - The Mark Die Hard on a plane, but with the rapture! If there's one thing we can't get enough of, it's movies about the rapture that are set mostly on an airplane where the central premise of the film is treated as a surprise plot twist near the end. Sadly, this movie does not feature Nicolas Cage, but it does have Eric Roberts, who is almost as good! Basically, some guy named Chad gets the mark of the beast injected into him. It's less of a "mark" than it is a "poorly explained plot device." All Chad needs to do is take an airplane ride, but it turns out to be more complicated than he realizes. Will he ever make it to Berlin? Will he be able to save the plane? Will the plane be able to land? Will he be able to disarm the bomb? Will he be able to stop the bad guys from setting off the other bomb? Will he be able to escape the fury of Eric Roberts? Will he be able to get into the plane's cockpit? Will he put his faith in Jesus? Will his brother be able to hail a cab without dying the most embarrassing death possible? The movie will answer some of these questions. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/27741549

#54 - Time Changer 08/07/2023

#54 - Time Changer This week we're going back to the year 1890, when podcasts were more godly, and all people cared about was their unpublished manuscripts. Dr. Russell Carlisle wants to teach people to follow Jesus' morals without mentioning Jesus' name every two seconds, but his baldest colleague is so outraged at this idea that he sends Dr. Carlisle over a hundred years into the future, to the dystopian hellscape known as 2002. That'll teach Carlisle to have his own opinions about things! Now trapped in the future, Carlisle must do his best to survive by using his wits and screaming at children, storeowners, and movie theater cashiers. Meanwhile Dan, Ryan, and Alexa learn an important lesson, which is that the Devil loves when people do good things, and that's why he's so evil. It's... admittedly confusing. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/27676800

#53 - The Homeschool Awakening 08/01/2023

#53 - The Homeschool Awakening Try as we might, we just can't seem to escape the Kirk Cameron vortex. Why do we do this to ourselves? Do we enjoy the suffering? Is there something wrong with our brains? Perhaps if the three of us had received an education directly from our parents, this never would have happened. We'd all be outside, tearing up the countryside in our four-wheelers, flying gliders, running businesses, and sharing a single mattress in the back of an RV. Were we socialized poorly? Did we not learn how to relate to people five decades older than us? Are we just suckers for reactionary Christian propaganda? (Definitely the last one.) /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/27619002

#52 - Fireproof 07/25/2023

#52 - Fireproof He's already saved Christmas. Now he has to save his own marriage. No, we're not talking about Ernest P. Worrell, we're talking about someone with far less dignity than him. That's right, we're back with another Kirk Cameron movie. This week we watched the 2008 Christian film Fireproof, about a fireman whose marriage is failing due to the fact that he is sort of a horrible person to live with. Fireproof tells a dramatic, somewhat unsettling story with weird moments of screwball comedy scattered throughout. Dan, Alexa, and Ryan learn a lot about the evils of divorce and the importance of remaining faithful and committed to your fellow firefighters. Parents, please be advised that this film contains many gratuitous images of boats. /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/27545235

#51 - Gramps Goes to College (Part 2) 07/20/2023

#51 - Gramps Goes to College (Part 2) Gramps is still at college! And now people are dying! /episode/index/show/4b4be84d-bd04-4150-9430-94eb48a3a9d7/id/27516549

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