Greetings friends, it's Chappo Monday April 25th and we're back again. Today we're returning to a

topic, a thread that runs throughout the course of our show. That's right, we're back at the

movies but we're talking about religion, God at the movies. And today we are considering a film

that asks the important questions about man, faith, his relationship to God and why does the Almighty

give his most brutal car accidents and incurable diseases to his strongest soldiers? That's right.

Hello, Mata, hello, Fata, Stu. We're talking about Mark, Mark Wahlberg masterpiece, Father, Stu.

Hello, Mata, hello, Fata. Here I am at Camp Torca Mata. The Catholic Church is at the movies folks

and I'll say just right off the bat say what you will about the Catholic Church, they make better

movies than evangelicals. Joining us for the, no, it's going to be, I'm not going to have to do this

completely there. Joining us for this discussion into faith and the cinema is of course Matt and Felix

as always, but joining us today, the part about List Boys, how's it going, gang? Hi. It's good. I'm

feeling, I'm feeling full of belief. I'm ready. This movie taught me, you know, what happens when

you risk it all for a thick Latina? Yeah, I have a lot of, I have a lot of comments on this movie,

but first I'm going to take issue with the idea that Catholics make better movies than evangelicals.

Evangelicals are always trying to make one of two movies. They're either trying to make

Armageddon or they're trying to make you've got Mal. Like they're trying to make a

cute romantic comedy about two people avoiding hell or they're trying to save the world. Catholics

have some like artsy bullshit thing in them where they're trying to make like you can count on me

or some other early 2000s indie boom film, starring Mark Ruffalo. This, the last quarter of this

movie was excruciating. It was, essentially, it was essentially a whisper core indie film about

a man with Catholic ALS who the longest last five years of his life ever. I've never seen a

worse advertisement for Catholicism for Mark Wahlberg. Mark Wahlberg and his thick Latina co-star,

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