In Jesus Name (GAM408)

Noah Lugeons

Heath Enwright

***In Jesus Name*** is the story of a Christian couple who's kid, I'm pretty sure, walked in when they had a camera on a tripod, and dad was wearing an evil mask and using the voice modulator from a kidnapping, and they were like "We—" And they made this entire movie to cover the lie that they came up in that moment, which was "We're making a movie… it's Christian."

### **Opening Phrase**

Where each week we sample another selection from Christian cinema, because we knew it would kill Pat Robertson eventually.

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

Well, if you loved *Orphan Black*, but you wish it was made with no script on a hundred dollar budget, you will *love* this movie.

### **Best Worst**

* Heath: …showing us every single moment of like, *walking* from a car to a building and from a building to a—hallways of buildings. [The Wrights may lack object permanence.]
* Noah: …stone skipping. [The hardest fail of any Christian actor at anything other than acting.]
* Cara: …make it up as we go along. [Worse than Cara's middle school projects.]

### **Notes**

* Check out Cara's new book (co-edited with Dr. Stephen Hupp) *Pseudoscience in Therapy: A Skeptical Field Guide*, available via Eli's helpful link, CaraDid911.com. Also check out her website, Twitter, *Talk Nerdy*, *The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe*, *Fixed That for You*, and (again thanks to Eli) iLoveSkinBooks.com.
* This editor can't read the name of this film without thinking of the "traceurs" in *Leap* saying "In Jesus name!" in Heath's communist accent. Also, it's maddening that (as Heath points out) they don't use a possessive apostrophe in the title—seems to be a disturbingly common Christian thing.

### **Jokes**

* [Noah: He's a park ranger, and we know that because when we first see him he's looking at his computer desktop and it's got the word "PARK RANGER" tiled all over it as wallpaper.] [Heath: I mean, I'm looking at my screen now. It just says "PODCASTER PODCASTER PODCASTER", just to make sure I don't forget what's happening.] [Noah: Right, no, obviously!] [Cara: Do you know how we know that he is the bad guy?] [Noah: How's that Cara? \*laughing\*] [Cara: Because in the subtitles, it literally says "Bad Guy:" and then it says his line.] [Noah: Yes!] [\*laughter\*]

### **Interstitials**

* First Ever Writer's Meeting… at a Wendy's (6:18)
* Human Trafficking Plans (42:43)
* Big Hollywood Studio Doodly-Doo (1:12:46)
* Outtakes (1:46:39) [Post Credits]

### **Tropes**

* Bad Sportsing/Sportsing
* Bible Reading ~~Montage~~
* Nothing Happens

### **Breakfast Club Close**

* Heath: As part of God's plan, the human trafficking cartel is still going strong, in Jesus name.
* Noah: Ashley Wright would go on to direct twelve more features, three shorts, and an eight-episode TV series… in 2020.
* Cara: Scout and Cadence Wright had plenty of evidence at their emancipation trial.

### **Links**

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

### **Ad Reads**

* Aura Frames: Verbatim Text Conversations with Noah's Dad (1:50:25)
* Mint Mobile: Heath is Too a Millennial! (1:52:30)