548: Restoring Grace

548: Restoring Grace

Author: Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC March 17, 2026 Duration: 2:07:09
This week, Cara Santa Maria joins us for an atheist review of Restoring Grace. It's Cara's second foray into the Wright family filmography and a terrifying new window into that family's kinks.
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559: The 7th Commandment [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:42:51
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558: The Apple [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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557: Average Joe [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:56:35
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556: Sins of Jezebel [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:32
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555: The Carpenter [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:42:02
This week, we team up for an atheist review of The Carpenter, the story of Jesus as told through an MMA fight club in Nazareth, complete with anachronisms that would seem like a bit much to Fred Flintstone.
554: The Keys of the Kingdom [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:00:58
This week, Vin from the Black Nerd Culture podcast joins us to break down a movie that is almost unbelievably bad. It's called "The Keys of the Kingdom," and if you read that and assume that I mistyped "The Keys to the K…
553: Beauty and the Atheist [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:28:58
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552: House of Numbers [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:52:25
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551: Melania - Live from San Francisco! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:09:52
This week, Cara Santa Maria joins us as we double the viewership of Amazon's Melania documentary, live from the City by the Bay.
550: The Girl Who Believes in Miracles [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:56:58
This week, Jay Novella of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe joins us to review a movie so generically dumb we couldn't tell for sure if we'd already watched it.