How Babylon Bee’s Jarret LeMaster Navigates Children’s Media Usage

Published: June 26, 2026

By Shawn Smith

Despite his occasional appearance as Satan in The Babylon Bee’s skits, Jarret LeMaster and his wife, not wanting the Devil to have any influence over his children, made intentional decisions regarding their family’s media consumption.

“[W]e have kept them off phones, and they never have time alone with the internet, they have never,” the father of four boys told Movieguide®. “If they’re on a computer, which they have to be, they’re in the communal area.”

As far as TV and movies, it is a similar set up with the television in the great room so he and wife can better monitor what the children watch.

“We…have these hard lines, you know…they’ll watch MAX THE MEAT GUY, because they’re all into barbecue, so like that’s awesome,” he revealed. “[S]o they’re learning things. They like YouTube, they like DUDE PERFECT and stuff…but that’s basically what they consume, and they do it together.”

The LeMaster family limits video game usage to a minimum of once a week for about an hour to hour and a half on the weekends so their boys don’t become addicted.

When it comes to family movie night, what website do they check to decide if a movie is appropriate or not? Movieguide®, of course.

“If we do [decide to watch the movie], then we all talk about it, and we’re like, okay, ‘Who were the bad guys? Who were the good guys?’” the 47-year old said. “‘What was the story? What do you think the director was trying to say?’”

“And so then we’ll talk about that. So we don’t actually just watch things, we actually process things,” LeMaster continued.

These are the questions that Movieguide® encourages parents to ask when watching a movie or show together; not only to discern content such as nudity or violence but the worldview that is presented.

In addition to his work in Christian satire with the Babylon Bee, he has delved into the world of dramatic faith-based movies such as NEFARIOUS and UNPLANNED.

His latest project is the role of Rick Baumgartner in the post-apocalyptic series HOMESTEAD.

In it, he plays a family man caught in the aftermath when a nuclear bomb hits Los Angeles is forced to take refuge in the compound central to the movie and the following first season of the series.

“I love playing Rick because he’s the guy who didn’t plan for this, but he’ll do whatever it takes to protect his family,” he posted on Instagram. “He represents so many of us-leveraging whatever skills and resources he has with one goal: survival.”

In an interview with 511 Media Group, he shared his gratitude to be working with Angel, which is behind HOMESTEAD, where he doesn’t have to compromise his values or the quality, where he admits sometimes Christians overlook if the message is biblical.

“Christians forgive a lot of bad content because we like the message…” the Massachusetts native said. “This is where Angel Studios is, it’s where the director, Ben Smallbone, and the showrunner, Ben Kasica, those guys are trying to make something that really does glorify God, but it also is not cheesy at all.”

Part of Movieguide®’s review of the first season called HOMESTEAD a brilliant “faith-based” spin on the “post-apocalypse” genre,” with “top notch performances, writing, editing and cinematography.”

Season 2 of HOMESTEAD is set for release on Angel late 2026.

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