Life Changes Everything: Discover Zac Ryan (GAM398)

Noah Lugeons

Eli Bosnick

***Life Changes Everything: Discover Zac Ryan*** is the story of why you shouldn't get an abortion because the imaginary baby might grow up to be personally useful to you one day.

### **Opening Phrase**

Where each week we sample another selection from Christian cinema, because AI isn't quite there yet.

### **How Bad Was It?**

Well, if you love the *signs* at March for Life, but you hate follow-up questions, you will *love* this movie.

### **Best Worst**

* Anna: …random horses. [Practically eating at a diner.]
* Noah: …show don't tell, then tell. [Holding grandma's hand.]
* Eli: …science. [Cancer cure.]

### **Notes**

* Check out Anna's website and her album *The Ring* on CD Baby, Google Play, iTunes and the various streaming platforms. Also, follow Margaery Tyrell Bosnick on Instagram at @madgethepug.
* As is common with Christian movies, *Discover Zac Ryan* was filmed years before its full release, with primary filming from 28 February to 26 March 2013. It had a local premiere back in 2014, though it had a [teaser trailer https://vimeo.com/24017556 ] (the parent's discussion in the car) as early as 2011. The film was originally called *Discover Matt Ryan*, and had a small ($3,225 USD) 2011 IndieGogo campaign, followed by a larger ($29,535 USD) campaign in 2013 during which the name was changed "because of the popularity of Atlanta Falcons quarterback."
* They don't explain it adequately in the movie, but the antibody inexplicably mentioned at the beginning of the movie is presumably intended to target cancer cells with an attached metal complex and thus make them susceptible to radio wave heating.

### **Jokes**

* [Noah: Shit, so—and, and then—but then (this is so amazing), she goes–] [Anna: As though it couldn't get worse.] [Noah: Yeah! Right. She goes "No, I get it. Obviously you're a big shot doctor, which is why you're buying into the Big Pharma lie that you can't cure cancer with herbs and bullshit and vaginal lasers or whatever."] [Anna: Screeeeeed.] [Eli: Mmmhmm.] [Anna. Screed. "Zach have you considered that medical science is *all* bullshit?"]

### **Interstitials**

* First Writers' Room Meeting (6:43)
* Tony D's House of Grumpy Adults Who are Suddenly Forced to Raise a Child (36:21)
* Cure Cancer by Monday… or You Turn in Your Badge and Your Gun! (57:38)
* Outakes (1:37:09) [Post Credits]

### **Tropes**

* Bible Reading Montage
* Cancer Dad
* Bible Reading Montage
* Christians Don't Know How the World Works
* Heath is Away This Week
* Neglectful/Abusive Parent
* This is YOUR Movie!

### **Breakfast Club Close**

* Anna: None of the unaborted babies since 1978 ever went on to cure Cancer, but, the stem cells recovered from a certain abortion *would* end up coming in very handy.
* Noah: Clayton never saw butterflies at any point in this stupid fucking movie. Why bring it up?
* Eli: Josh Zac Ryan *actually* would have been "Super-Hitler." See movie? We can both do the stupid thing.

### **Links**

* Episode on Audioboom
* Episode on YouTube
* Episode on Patreon
* Film on YouTube
* IMDb

### **Ad Reads**

* Sparkle Donkey Tequila: Hot Fresh Raccoon Urine (1:37:56)
* Raycon: The Secret of a Happy Marriage (1:39:29)