Apocalypse 3: Tribulation (GAM070)

## Hosts

Noah Lugeons

Heath Enwright

Eli Bosnick

***Apocalypse 3: Tribulation*** (also known simply as ***Tribulation***) is part three in the very polite Canadian endtime series written by Peter and Paul Leland of Ontario, and this one picks up the post-rapture story of Satan trying to take everyone's eternal soul inside of VR simulation so nobody gets too scared and it's good for safety.

### **Opening Phrase**

Where each week we sample another selection from Christian cinema, because otherwise I'd be coming up with this new intro every week for nothing.

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

Well, if you love going "Oh my God, that's that guy from… oh fuck, what it called? What's it called? Uh… but he's been in a million things.", but you hate human beings who can run, you will *love* this movie.

### **Best Worst**

* Heat: …use of bad guys with telekinetic spoons. [Uri Gellar as Antichrist.]
* Eli: …running. [Gary Busey jog schlumping.]
* Noah: …fake newspapers. [One headline and just lorem ipsum.]

### **Notes**

* Margo Kidder on making *Tribulation*: "I was broke, and I said to my agent, 'Get me a job.' When I read the script, I thought it was this strange thriller. It really wasn't until I was on the set that I realised these guys were serious. You can't imagine my horror. You know, this is an acting trick, but when I play a baddie in a movie I usually wear a cross. That's what I think of organised religion. And now, since being in this movie, I keep getting fan letters from Christians saying, ' We're glad you saw the light. Would you like to come speak at our church?' Before this, my fan base was mostly prisoners." –Spencer, Scot (10 September 2001) "Lights! Camera! Rapture!", *The New Yorker*, pp. 105–109
* Margo Kidder on fundamentalists: "And I still get stopped by those freaky fundamentalists going 'Oh, I’m so glad you did *Tribulation*.' And I wanna go, 'Don’t count me into your group, honeybuns. I’m not one of you'." —Rabin, Nathan (3 March 2009) "Random Roles: Margo Kidder", *The A.V. Club*
* Gary Busey on making *Tribulation*: "It’s not really a revelation, it’s an answer to a prayer. I rededicated my life to Christ five years ago at the Promise Keepers event in Los Angeles. I am now speak­ing for the Promise Keepers, and I have a ministry where I speak testimony-wise all over the country. And, for several months I’ve been seeing what the film industry does with special effects, gratuitous sex, heads coming off, guts being splattered, dysfunctional this, and dysfunctional that. But, as St. Paul said, darkness cannot walk with light." –Baehr, Ted (12 August 2000), "Behind the Scenes: On the Set of *Tribulation*", *The John Ankerberg Show*

### **Jokes**

* [Eli: Gary Busey… blows on him. [laughter] [Heath: To cool him off.] [Noah: Well, he tries to touch his chest, and it's hot.] [Eli: It's hot, so he goes \*blowing noise\*.] [Noah: He does. "He's like soup, right? He's like soup?"] [Eli: Again, like, that's the brilliant—there's nothing more brilliant than Gary Busey. Right? Cause like, you can't direct every action, and Gary was just like [blowing noise]. He kept Doing it. \*blowing noise, blowing noise\*. And they must just have been like, "That's it. We're running out of reel."] **-Patreon Intro**
* [Noah: So, but the asian guy's suspicious, so he pulls out an anti-aircraft missile.] [Heath: It's a Civil War cannon in his hand, yeah. Like, he might as well—the guy might as well, at the store, duck behind the counter and then just like, hover back up inside a Harrier jet, like *True Lies*. And then he slaps the jet away and runs out. It's *so* absurd.] [Eli: And Gary's reaction might as well have been to grab the gun and put his finger on the other side, like he had a trigger, and be like, "Now I have *you* at gunpoint."] [laughter] **-Standard Intro**

### **Interstitials**

* Foot Chase Scenes with Gary Busey (7:15)
* Is He Going to Go Kill the Ambulance Driver? (1:29:34)
* Heath Has a Low Bar for Taking the Mark (1:31:22)
* Eli's Gary Busey Breaks Heath - Outtakes () [Post Credits]

### **Tropes**

* And Then the Apocalypse/Rapture Happens
* Awkward Kiss
* Disappointing Christian Celebrity

### **Breakfast Club Close**

* Heath: Tituba went on to become the Reverend Al Sharpton in part four.
* Noah: After three days, Helen Hanna apparently rose again, because they realized they needed her die for the next movie.
* Eli: Gary Busey realized that he was in a movie on the last day of filming, and chewed his way to freedom.

### **Links**

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