Episode 39: Jesus Christ Superstar Billy Graham (w/ special guest: Sarah Jones)

Trillbilly Worker's Party

Comedy

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For our latest episode, we welcome back Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) of the New Republic to talk about her recent piece on the legacy of Billy Graham (the preacher, not the wrestler) in light of his recent death. We also talk about how the paranoid style of American Evangelicalism brought us to this current moment, and how Graham helped usher that in and bring it into the mainstream.

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0:00.0	The Oh, The Little Spies So straight how bright to
0:55.0	the great.
0:57.0	The most of the most I've come of their own. Our apologies right out the gate for having to do this over phone.
1:17.0	Although I think last time we interviewed you it was also over phone.
1:21.0	I think it was also over a phone. I think it was yeah. It's a Tom as Tom was saying earlier
1:26.4	today it's like we kind of take pride in our DIY set up here. That and the internet shit.
1:34.0	It's really bad.
1:37.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:39.0	I mean if you listen to the interview we did with Elizabeth Cat
1:42.0	like two weeks ago. The internet
1:45.5	went out like five different times it was really embarrassing honestly.
1:49.0	Well you know Trump's gonna fix it so you know, Trump's going to fix it, so, you know.
1:53.0	So he says.
1:54.0	Yeah, yeah, just hang in there.
1:56.0	The cavalry is coming.
1:57.0	Right, right, right.
1:59.0	Well, I hope you're doing well, Sarah.
2:01.0	It's been a minute. a minute but welcome back to the show.
2:05.5	Thanks for having me back for sure we wanted to talk to you about as I worded it. We wanted to talk to you a little bit about Billy
2:16.3	Graham, but more than that. First we need you to lay out your Christian
2:21.0	bona fides just to make sure that you're qualified.
2:24.0	Getting kicked out of Christian high school count?
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