Link to the show: Young Adult Movie Ministry Vol. 2, Ep. 2 on Substack
Release date: August 26, 2021
Movie of the Week
The Prodigal (1955), directed by Richard Thorpe
[Digital rental on Amazon | YouTube]
Who the Hosts Are This Week
Sam is Prada Guy, editor-for-hire, and editor of Forever Wars. Alissa is Vox’s film critic and High Priestess of this podcast.
Special Guest
Lyz Lenz is author of God Land and Belabored, the only person we want to hear talk about awkward Bible sex, and thus YAMMPOD’s first return guest!
Other Mentions
- Sam thinks every movie is like Midsommar. (Not just the ones w/ human sacrifice…)
- The Shema Yisrael
- The two most important movies to this podcast: The Exorcist and Hail, Caesar!
- People by Peter Spier (Sam’s kid’s mandatory bedtime reading)
- Cedar Rapids' 2020 inland hurricane
- Lyz’s newsletter Men Yell At Me
- Glee (completely inappropriate for a 10-year-old!)
- Schmigadoon! (musical TV, more appropriate than Glee)
What should we learn from this movie?
Lyz: “Girls, hold out.”
Alissa: “He who loves his fellow man is of the true seed of Abraham.”, also: “A man cannot be too clean for his betrothal.”, also: “if you ever get thrown into a pit of skeletons, don’t despair. You may still get out.”
Sam: “If you’re going to go on Rumspringa before your betrothal, you have to burn all the evidence.”