Jerry Falwell Jr. Tells All | Chapo Trap House

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Clip from Episode 597 - Wife Life (1/27/22)
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[@iannordin5250]

I love it when rich assholes try to give out light-hearted stories about their interactions with the public and it almost always turns out to be them antagonizing other people or generally being a menace. Like "my dad wasn't just a hate-filled man with a chip on his shoulder, he really knew how to laugh, like when he would drive his truck through people and deafen students with his fog horn"

[@justcommenting4981]

Or throw dead animals that he probably killed into their vehicle! He just loved to laugh.

[@viromia4068]

"You dont have to do anything you just have to believe in Christ." is possibly the most accurate summation Godless Protestantism

[@DropTheForkNow]

I have met trad Caths that believe the same thing. Matt's thesis of American Catholics being crypto Prodies is 100% correct.

[@marcuswalters8093]

Pffft so many of these people clearly don't even do that.

[@walzybby]

@@DropTheForkNow😊

[@walzybby]

😊😊😊

[@FionaOfMountLawley]

Public schools in Lynchburg didn't fully desegregate until 1970. Falwell Senior was a leader in the rearguard action which delayed desegregation for a decade and half. When federal enforcement was imminent the Massive Resistance campaign was launched. Among other things this resulted in public schools in half of Virginia shutting down for a full school year. The legacy of this has been a rate of illiteracy 1.2% higher among students from those school districts born between 1942 and 1952 compared to those in school districts which weren't closed for the 1959 year. It has been referred to as the Lost Class of '59

[@justcommenting4981]

I felt like I got all I needed to know from the name "Lynchburg." Great medical school surprisingly, pioneering work in phrenology and sterilization. Also a robust gorilla art community known for their work with fire. Culture!

[@thomasgiles2876]

I love how at their college they're like "we don't have sex, drugs or alcohol, but we have jazz concerts"

[@justcommenting4981]

Ok fine but for sure no Black people.

[@plantain.1739]

It all probably sounds like that "Jazz" scientology likes making.

[@dasdiesel3000]

Brutal to hear a reference to self-immolation in this episode when I was just trying to listen to some classic Chapo while cleaning. I don't even mean to be funny. RIP Aaron Bushnell,❤️✊

[@Gum_Cuzzler]

Hearing Chapo talk about TPB warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart.

[@craigtrautmanjr9393]

I feel that if trump won, Falwell could have been rehabilitated in the evangelical movements eyes. Trump's whole era was about doing whatever you want and failing upwards to these people, being among God's elect. Then Biden comes and solidifies that the good times are over, accept this death gracefully. Falwell going "well I was never really an evangelical anyway" sounds like he's on board with accepting the coming of the next world. Another w for brandon.

[@freakyzed8467]

Read a piece by a Christian columnist that basically said Falwell Jr was trash but it's OK because he was never a TRUE Christian, by his own words. Tried to hand wave it all away by saying he was never one of them, so his misdeeds don't reflect on the evangelical community at all.

[@bethmoore7722]

So he was no true Scotsman, after all.

[@justcommenting4981]

Religion of peace

[@billyscenic5610]

The KKK , Nazis… Protestants sure get fooled by these fake Christian’s a lot🤔

[@allforthenukie]

I really love it when the fellas do a whole episode dedicated to one topic - I think that's when Chapo is at its strongest

[@chazblank2717]

The Falwell’s are essentially that family from season 1 of True Detective…

[@bustymaiden]

When I first moved out at 19 I drank a whole bottle of cough syrup because I couldn't get booze. Tried to go to the store and halfway there I threw up and had to hands and knees crawl back to my apartment because I lost the ability to walk

[@justcommenting4981]

U good bro?

[@burningsky23]

Falwell using Jebus to justify his nihilism is wonderful. Miracles DO happen!

[@banjo304]

"I wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crackers" HOLY SHIT that is a deep cut, my Louisiana grandmother used to say that about Sam Elliot

[@DefendYoungstown]

I heard that exact phrase from several women of a certain age (including my late mother) about exactly your example. Makes me wonder if that phrase was born from some housewife about Sam Elliott specifically, and it just caught on.

[@matthewhearn9910]

The wild thing about the Dune reference about halfway through is that in all of Frank Herbert's Dune books there's only one religion we encounter that's just straight up a modern-day religion, rather than some mix of Abrahamic and Dharmic traditions. And that's Judaism. Judaism is the Dune equivalent of the Earth King's Normal Bear in Avatar.

[@PR0MAN01]

That pool boy may be acting ashamed to massage his public image. But behind the scenes he was probably revelling in this shit.

[@justcommenting4981]

Nooooooo?

[@plantain.1739]

I really don't understand what his angle even was. Like, no one was going to actually judge him for this. Unless that rape allegation goes somewhere, he's basically a non-entity here.

[@JK-420]

Congrats 100k Chris!

[@RedEmberRecords]

🎶runnin' thru the house with the trainer on the couch 🤣

[@calebharris292]

Uuuhm akshually slevidge denim just means it's run on a shuttle loom and has a self-edge so it's a better end seam. Felix is referring to raw denim which means it wasn't pre-washed at the factory and there's some weird washing stuff you have to do with it (ie freezing the bacteria or hand washing in a bathtub). I have determined felix's swag check null and void

[@patrickholt2270]

This is really a peak case of the kind of erosion of Christianity that capitalism, especially capitalism plus American Exceptionalism and white supremacy produces. A faith that's completely nominal, completely superficial, "miles wide and inches deep" as the old accusation from the 1980s goes. A faith that has to be completely cossetted and flattered by the so-called prosperity gospel and the most high tech and professional musicians and sound systems that mega-churches can afford to retain their attention, and that only manages to summon up any passion or enthusiasm when railing at real "old-timey" churches that haven't fallen into complete self-indulgent anti-nomianism like the Amish and Mennonites. Obviously there are still real Christians out there, noticably on the left including anti-capitalists who see the Mammonolatry, but they're fighting the tide, the coastal erosion by capital. And no one wins out this but capital itself in its ever extending domination of human beings and human consciousness.

[@jeffweskamp3685]

White American Evangelicalism is a mixture of Capitalism, Nationalism, and White Supremacy that has very little to do with anything Jesus taught in the Four Gospels.

[@patrickholt2270]

@@jeffweskamp3685 True. There's a high degree of cherrypicking of verses, and the absence of formal liturgy and lectionary means preachers being incredibly repetitive with very few messages. And of course the so-called prosperity gospel is just rebranded Tony Robbins style success guru shit. Anglican, Catholic and Lutheran liturgies involve a bunch of scripture in themselves, plus a rotation of the Psalms through the year, and lectionaries bring up readings from throughout scripture over a two year cycle. My experience of evangelical churches is that its always the same subjects and the same songs, and an incredibly reductionist treatment of the gospel as just the doctrine of salvation by faith, which lends itself to exactly the kind of do-what-you-like mentality of JF jr.

[@christiansgrignoli3351]

Mr. Holt, Thank you sincerely for giving your insightful comment! Only 10-25% of videos have a positive expected value or net present value. The variance depends on the topic. I only recently came across this channel. 15 minutes in and it's not that good.. I'm hoping it gets better. Comments on videos are only 1-10% +ev. You provided great balance, and id guess that we have similar lines of thinking. I have a finance degree and worked on some big mergers but the shit gets stale. Haha anyways, would you recommend any books or point me towards any documents/non-book info you found valuable or blew ur hair back..? Thanks

[@justcommenting4981]

It's just paganism. I don't think you can graft those ideals onto a society not already structured to accept them. Christianity was always like this once it became main stream and converts rolled into the same social club as Roman emperors.

[@lepus6511]

Such a classic episode. One of my faves

[@garylarocca6901]

Thanks gents.

[@sparkpenguin]

what i'm taking away from this is the fallwells were awesome until jerry sr. worst reality confirmed.

[@justcommenting4981]

Groomed into having an ownership stake in a hotel? Ok they got on it.

[@shultsy100]

Clooney was already cool but after his role in BURN AFTER READING he was DEF. my favorite actor and still ranks high. Slapping his belly, "Mmmm. Time for a run!"

[@jacedjohnson3541]

Great movie

[@stephenblobaum5506]

J. Falwell Jr. is on “Fister”.

[@No.0.o.0]

Helllll yeah

[@DongerDayz]

Never get sick of watching death smackington that penjaman

[@polbulanosalto7403]

Love any ep with JFJR but I would have liked to hear more about the firing. I'm kinda surprised they skimmed it considering it's so fresh

[@LotharTheFellhanded]

Falstaff is a cynical user of other people; he was recruiting unfit men for battle for “cannon fodder”.

[@berdyderg900]

Also their names are similar, thank you for coming to my Tedtalk

[@Dandymansam]

Jerry Jr. comes off looking like the William H Macy character in boogie nights...I wonder if he derives some gratification from being so emasculated in public like this, seeing as he enjoys being humiliated so much.

[@jvladcliff4083]

I imagine there were many cream pies enjoyed

[@justcommenting4981]

Cream pie yacht fundraisers

[@polemius01]

Fallwell uncovers the cynical hypocrisy that is part-and-parcel of Evangelical "Christianity/"

[@quadabyte8933]

"Clip" literally an hour long

[@commenter381]

Same clip Stephen Paddock used.

[@haroldalkema7464]

Fall of the House of Falwell.

[@hunterolsen2317]

@22:40 I love this part cause it reads like some kind accidental but perfectly on the nose Hill's like White Elephants kind of allegory towards her husband.

[@Fucyallfr]

Jerry Falwell Sr is me gooped off bottles of robitussin for like 2 years or whatever it was

[@Nicbn1]

It's fuckin tr3yway

[@ryanshields2195]

Can I get fifteen half-eaten cheeseburgers nahmean?

[@douglascoleman5588]

He's still quiet about his family's ties to Carl Townsend.

[@joshuamarx8209]

"Jesus says it's cool!"

[@joecasual2952]

I had a terrible man as a father. Thankfully he gave me a different name. JF Jr has a BIG cross to bare, as his POS father named him same. I hope he goes to a local court and names himself Susie Falwell Jones. Much better.

[@danielweed1548]

13:30 the Ralph Northam med school photo?

[@plateoshrimp9685]

I kind of hated when the writer said the story turned into a Cohen Brothers film just because people named Jesus were involved.

[@rabisneed1220]

So, on Gemstones, is Kelvin Granda?

[@haroldalkema7464]

When Jerry met Becky

[@SUPERBURLBOYROY]

The United States has the highest infant and maternal mortality rates out of any other high-income country and simultaneously spends the most on health care, …Jan 31, 2023

[@Marijuanamaths]

His muscles rippled in the sun. Skin the cream coffee color of a half breed Mandingo always faithful to his master. His manhood standing proudly and smooth he Melbourne’s my wife like a stallion….

[@inlieuofsense9521]

:(

[@vfanon]

I can’t believe the Faldwells used to be cool

[@campusdyno]

This is america? Its weirdly charming and I think way too wierd to be made up.

[@ogedeh]

Oh my god 51:24 💀💀💀

[@rabisneed1220]

Used Amstel as a mixer. Heard.

[@jack_rabbit]

i miss amber... did she leave?

[@philesq9595]

I heard she's working on a book. I could be wrong... curious too!

[@bossplayerunit4563]

she comes on sometimes, she was on jacobin not too long ago

[@bitteralmonds666]

I miss Virgil 🥷🏽

[@bitteralmonds666]

@KZbin is highkey garbage Spoken like a liberty u grad 🥷🏽👍🏽

[@justcommenting4981]

@KZbin is highkey garbage receipts

[@apothe0ses]

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[@geodav5700]

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