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A follow-up to our episode [349 - The Righteous Falwells (9/12/19)], we look at a new in-depth profile of Jerry Fallwell Jr., perhaps one of the most singularly emblematic individuals of our era.

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JD

PIGGIES LOVE THEIR SLOP WARM

Parisa Ashraf

the moonies bailed out falwell sr. in the 90s

Rose

maaa waaaaife

Nicholas Kiersey

Oooh, a Chapo St Patrick’s Day Eve, in Austin!

Jeff Martin

You'll have to call it the Chapo Pardcast. I am an art collector

Jeff Martin

If OJ Simpson was a US Civil War General it wouldn't be called Sherman's March it would be called Juices' Looses

David Browm

That’s so weird. I DID give birth and put my child up for adoption in ATL in 1983…there’s no way…

JP

Guess we’ll never know what’s to come of Wulf Will or The Mad King Job.

Jon Vecellio

I loved Trailer Park Boys as a show, but I love it even more for helping facilitate the downfall of a charlatan like Falwell.

DopeTipped's Raid:Shadow Lessons

Ahh snap Will, Adoptoids in the house baby! Ogden, UT Oct 81 right here... (in fact if there is anyone out there who happened to have a kid in In Ogden, Utah back in 1981, feel free to DM me at your convenience as I'm sure we've got a lot to talk about... Unless you are actually a Mormon, or any breed of Christian, or god forbid a conservative because holy shee-IT are you gonna be disappointed

THEKILLERWHALE

How they let Will get away with giving 'foyer' the hard French pronunciation is beyond me.

NukaDirtbag

You legit ruled out like the entire population of Ogden

Shiv

I have questions about how to pronounce Loudon Wainwright

Scott S.

Glad you boys are coming to Austin.

THEKILLERWHALE

I'd rahhhhhhhhhhhhther you didn't ask.

Dani

Mr Chapo please come to nonce island

drewb

evangelical christians are amoral psychopaths

Marisa

Please recap the RHOSLC reunion

Rusty Shackleford

I know right? And he's been saying he's Irish this whole time, now we see he's probably Scots-Irish.

William

Dude, they've probably banked those for when they're traveling on tour and can't/don't want to record

T

Chris said on Twitter that they're going to release the last 2 episodes of the unblooded series during the southern tour.

Ozzie

Looks like the ghost of Rush Limbaugh driving that car

beats_on_repeat

Man, really hoping they get back around to the Mormonism series soon

Null_null

Probably the most cynical deployment of psychobabble buzzwords yet. Bravo to the Failwells and Giancarlo.

orc

oh man that rape part is kinda harrowing, very Last Duel

Jason Stephens

the “man in black face” referred to in the article & this episode (17:40) is gov. Ralph Northam

Jennifer Ann

FYI: The point of the blackface/KKK mask was the photo was of Falwell's rival Virginia Governor Ralph Northam who's also racist.

Jake Zydek

C'mon man, Nashville? And you cant even make it to FL?

cowlicks

The Austin tickets are sold out already??? :'(

burrito bronson

The Felix mall comment about dallas was too true

Dyyyyylan

Doing a ton of reading series lately

Nobody

I couldn't fathom dealing with those insane rules at Liberty or those Mormon colleges.

A White 1993 Camry

No worries! Just spend over a grand on a sxsw badge and you'll get right on in!

plainwrap

I love how this article shows this family of evangelical aristocrats are absolutely blind to the fact that wealth is literally the only thing that makes them interesting. Like they think some Miami pool boy is spending 7 years pursuing a torrid romance with a frumpy housewife who watches Regis and Kathy Lee because she's some suburban Helen of Troy and not because she's married to a Jesus tycoon... himself just a boring tubby shithead.

Toby

I just listened to the Gangster Capitalism season about Jerry Falwell and Liberty University so this was good timing. It’s super sick how the Falwells casually accuse Granda of rape while Liberty is a well greased rape factory. If he wasn’t such a pussy, Biden could send a stake through the heart of the Christian Right unleashing the FBI to investigate Lynchburg PD and politicizing the fuck out of it. Who are Americans going to support, Brandon or the pickled turbo cuck?

schleepy

Damn, Austin tix sold out way too fast :(

john mccainus

that louvin brothers classic "i like floss latinx plowing my wife"

Titivilis

Yeah, I don't know how to do the counterfactual, exactly. You are born a Falwell. What's your next move?

etienne

#349 is top 5 best chapo so p. hype for this followup

Collin Kovac

Next episode better be a full breakdown of biden’s epic stupid son of a bitch iconic moment

Mark Schneider

Of course. Fascist fundie solidarity. It's real, the American "Left" barely exists and doesn't get solidarity.

Zach Pierce

If y’all had any testosterone you’d have a show n ASHEVILLE NC

Zach Pierce

It’s a tour of the SOUTH, not Lower Ohio!

J P 3

Liberty U students receive close to $800 million in federally backed funding per year (e.g. through federally guaranteed loans, Pell Grants, etc). That's a big part of the not-so secret financial sauce of the university. De-regulation of the federal student loan program during the Clinton years almost certainly helped to goose funding for schools like Liberty .

Mark Schneider

& continued with Obama's love for "faith-based initiatives" by government!! Gotta keep the proles stupid and subservient, & organized religion is the oldest known trick in the book.

Julie Baxter

The Falwells don't Fall Well.

John Swan

Brandon wouldn’t dare; he’s got the albatross of the Catholic Church around his neck.

Julie Baxter

There's some weird Faulkner shit going on.

J P 3

In material terms they have fallen exceptionally well.

etienne

old timey mating rituals slap so hard lmao. If you see a girl you like, you can just defeat her fiancé in a cartoon duel then she *has* to marry you instead. Now a days if you try this she might go to the police to complain about a "violent lunatic" who's doing "sexual harrassement". It just isn't fair

T

Over there in Barrytown, they do things very strange.

T

Jerry Falwell Sr. said that Tinky Winky was gay for being purple, but he never said a goddamned thing about Barney. I wonder why. Either Felix is defending Barney out of naïveté, or he's been compromised too.

Flesh Colored Subaru

Love that Will uses the long A on every word except "slavish"

SoldierBlue

They just end up sounding kind of normal. Also, you can’t be groomed after twenty is a hot take.

etienne

if only there was a word to describe the concept of consensually and in clear conscience accepting monetary or material remuneration in exchange for performing sex with someone

Michael

It is too bad Christopher Hitchens isn't alive to write this profile of Jerry Jr.

TangiePower

Love to see a 59-year-old man be like “nah that shit ain’t me, I’m still finding myself.”

SoldierBlue

Because rent boys is never exploitation

etienne

so there's this whole framework we're established where at some point you're old enough where getting exploited is something you're exposed to as a result of the negotiated social contract, right? as opposed to someone who doesn't yet have the age, maturity, and knowledge to know better. So yes, there are definitely aspects of this relationship between a couple who's worth close to a bil on paper, and just *some dude*, that are fucked up, but I think it's ill-advised to define the issue in there using a framework meant to protect high schoolers.

Blake Patraw

i always forget that big dick willy is adopted ! unless he only recently mentioned it for the first time or maybe even just found out himself ?? anyway im digging the lore expansion

Baron

Excellent run of eps lately!

T

There's nothing like "grooming" that you can do to an adult, unless the adult is the guy from Flowers for Algernon and his brain gets a huge upgrade after you've started grooming him. If you tried "grooming" an adult, it would be like a guy being friends with a woman while secretly waiting for his opportunity to smash, which isn't grooming or even a crime. "Grooming" doesn't just mean tricking someone into having sex with you.

T

He was planted into the Menaker family as an experiment to create a gastrointestinally perfect Jewish man.

etienne

it's quite unfortunate for that pool boy that there's no crime in the book outlawing "lowkey being a sex pest ngl"

Blake Patraw

wait i thought he wasn't jewish ? idk honestly tho lmao

T

Not Jewish, but his dad (who adopted him) was Jewish.

Dave-O

Y'all gonna hate Buckhead

RubbishBinMan

would love to hear you guys dive into the new gemstones season, maybe after it's finished. so good so far

Edgar

Damn Austin is already sold out?!

Dillo

Fart at 49:23

Jessica S

Jesus: “You do you.”

Bob K Ross

27 year old huffenpuff, can confirm!

Jeremy

What the fuck is a ducing chamber?

Dan L

Critical support for Sir John Falstaff

No

(caught doing something fucked up, stupid or hypocritical) Protestants: Sola fide bro

Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep

l dunno, "Sola Fide" sounds like Whore-of-Babylon-Speak. Proper Proddies quote the Bible in the original English

Jay

I'm in T, can confirm, himbofied me and made me racist

etienne

deucing chamber. deucing is slang for when two men have sex with one woman at the same time

T

I was thinking No-IBS, but this may be a problem for philosophers to handle.

Will

Why?

ceifeiro

I’d fave this for its lucid analysis, but it makes me too sad.

kee

Caught doing something fucked up, stupid, or hypocritical Mis-Be-Havin'

Shake zula

fuck righteous gemstones is so fucking good and I haven't even finished the first season or seen Eric Andre

T

After seeing the poster for the southern tour, I'm predicting Poppy Part 3 dropping in Dallas.

Sophie Fisher

So like are you guys gonna finish the d&d campaign? 🥺

Dave-O

It's a vibes thing. Megan McArdle's kitchen guide was written for Buckhead moms. Not tryna sound pretentious. But it's not walkable, no interesting character types for Felix to taxonomize, just generally not gonna be fun. Buckhead theatre is fine though (not sure about the vaping situation)

Nolan

Man this show doesn’t miss, legitimately one of the only times I can remember is known New York cunt Will Menaker pretending that people from Boston equated the marathon bombing to 9/11. What a total a total New York delusion to have.

Nolan

You can’t be right 100% of the time or so the “rubes” say.

Proboscis Man

The outro songs are always thematically appropriate, but got damn does this evangelical music suck shit. Couldn’t be a better fit for American Protestantism, A+ as always, Chris.

Blake Patraw

"was born in lynchburg on fathers day..." does the author realize that father's day isn't a set date lmao

Nolan

A guy who is usually right on the vast majority of his takes because they’re well researched and reviewed was wrong when he stated on an episode of Chapo Trap House that people from Boston pretended like the marathon bombing was on the same scale as 9/11. This never happened and only served the purpose of scoring literary points with his new yoeks

Nolan

Mentally challenged New York audience*

Nolan

I live in Mass and literally the last time anybody brought up the marathon intelligence opp.

Nolan

Operation* the last time anyone mentioned it was literally the same night the guy got caught in the boat , but Will has this fantasy behavior he applies to people from the state that hosts the baseball team he doesn’t like. It’s one of the only times the pod has been willfully disingenuous. That’s all.

justdave

Will, this your father, there was no mother, just one day I was pregnant with you so obviously I chickened out, anyway we should get together and compare peniss sometime. love and kisses -your dad

etienne

but 9/11 was NYC's Boston Bombing. we all know that.

Nolan

“9/11 wasn’t nearly as traumatizing as the marathon bombing” ~ Every guy from the Brighton, Alston, Fenway area.

etienne

chapo keeps bringing up those sex slangs that I honestly don't know if they're in somewhat wide circulation or completely made up like "getting dome" or "laying pipe"

magnano

mass man gets mad because joke is about him

magnano

yes please

etienne

my god I went back to listen to ep 349 and the next premium 351 is the Eyes Wide Shut review with Nick Mullen. Cab we bring this kind of fire eps back?

justdave

Your 'real' father seemed a whole lot cooler than my biological one

WillyGetSilly

How the fuck is austin sold out already :(

Rojojojo

They told everyone in Cedar Park it was Pod Save America.

Shanti

Got stuck on a place called “Lynchburg”

Evan Scott

there are ten places called lynchburg in the US, including one in California

etienne

there really are 5 types of place names in america: - native indian loan word - name of an english guy - place where a french guy went and said a weird word and it stuck ("detroit", "la grange", "des moines", etc) - name of a european city, possibly with "new" in front - Lynchburg, Racismtown, Whitesville, Freesboro

Jonathan McCarver

See you in Nashville and New Orleans. Maybe if I'm lucky i can throw up on bourbon street with the boys.

Dan

Imagining Falwell Jr. crying in front of Daniel Plainview in his bowling alley.

Matt Lavallee

this is the second episode this year to wind up with the Louvin Brothers (excellent choice)

Isaac Jones

Gospel music actually slaps, ice cold take here. This song sucked but there are some bangers

bruce

Falwell bludgeoning the pool boy to death with a pin

kallampero

I've got a Charlotte ticket to sell. Inquire within.