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Link to the show: Young Adult Movie Ministry Episode 37 on Substack
Release date: April 12, 2021

Movie of the Week

Left Behind: The Movie (2000), directed by Vic Sarin
[Streaming for free on IMDB.tv]

Who the Hosts Are This Week

Sam is father of 3 large adult sons, Rayford, Buck, and Dirk. Alissa is a pile of clothes that you find on the airplane seat next to you. (Special guest Natasha is Hattie’s pantsuit.)

Special Guest

Natasha Oladokun is a poet and writer and incredibly overqualified to watch this horrible movie.

Other Mentions

• T. D. Jakes (preacher who shows up as a video in the middle of the movie… which video was marketed separately at Alissa’s Christian book store in 2000)
• Rebecca St. James (Christian recording artist who also appears in this movie)
• Left Behind: The Kids series (40 books!)
• Left Behind (the Nic Cage movie!)
• Happiness (movie by Todd Solondz which is one of Sam’s favorite movies and also, he declares, almost impossible to watch)
• World War Z (a shockingly pro-Israeli, anti-Palestinian movie, per Sam)
• The Omega Code (a movie drawing from similar themes which Sam and Alissa reference constantly in this episode; reviewed on YAMMPOD Episode 15)
• The Leftovers (a much better series, which starts with largely the same premise and goes someplace completely different)
• The Last Disciple book series by Hank Hanegraaff and Sigmund Brouwer
• The Scofield Reference Bible (where a lot of this dispensational nonsense started)
• David Mitchell (novelist whose books Sam loves)
• Scarlet and Purple, The Mark of the Beast, In the Twinkling of An Eye (novel series from the early 20th century by Sydney Watson)
• James Baldwin conversation with Nikki Giovanni (published as A Dialogue [PDF link])
• Michael New (US soldier who was discharged after refusing to wear the United Nations insignia on his uniform during a peacekeeping mission)
• Terry Lakin (US Army officer who refused deployment based on his concerns about Barack Obama’s eligibility to be President and was court-martialed)
• The Tuskegee Experiment
• The X Files: Fight the Future
• Thunder Force (new Melissa McCarthy movie that triggers a reminder of “Tribulation Force” in Alissa’s mind)
• The Council for National Policy (founded by Tim LaHaye)
• Affabel (audio drama by John Bevere)
• Fringe (I adore the idea of a Left Behind / Omega Code crossover multiverse…)
• The Prayer of Jabez (because Sam dropped a quick reference right at the end…)