Episode 708 | Interview with "The Family" Netflix Documentary Author, Jeff Sharlet
The Benjamin Dixon Show
The Benjamin Dixon Show
4.6 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I speak with the author of the book that the documentary is based on, Jeff Sharlet. We dig into this series as well as the political and social implications of a religious organization that wields this much influence over political leaders.
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| 0:10.2 | Progressive Army. |
| 0:11.3 | I am getting ready to plunge you into a conversation |
| 0:17.5 | that I had with author and journalist Jeff Charlotte. He is the author of the book, The Family, and there is a Netflix documentary by the same name. |
| 0:28.0 | The Netflix documentary gives the account of this secret, highly secret conservative Christian organization |
| 0:36.7 | that has tremendous impact not only in Washington, D.C. direct impact on presidents and senators and Congress people but they have |
| 0:46.0 | a global reach and have global impact. |
| 0:50.8 | They are the leaders of the annual prayer breakfast that has taken place since Dwight Eisenhower. |
| 0:58.0 | They are the most influential and most powerful Christian organization on the face of the planet and no one really |
| 1:06.7 | knows anything about them. |
| 1:09.4 | I can describe it so much more, I can talk about it, so many things that I want to give my commentary but let's listen to Jeff as he |
| 1:17.4 | explains in this interview. With me now is Jeff Charlotte he is the author of the book The Family and he is the central focus of the documentary on Netflix by the same name, The Family. |
| 1:31.0 | And I just want to read this. |
| 1:33.0 | This is how Netflix describes the series. |
| 1:36.5 | The family is an ignomatic conservative Christian group |
| 1:39.6 | known as the family wields strong influence over Washington DC in pursuit of its global ambitions. |
| 1:47.1 | The motto Jeff that you repeated several times is Jesus plus nothing, but as the series unpacks there's a whole lot more to |
| 1:56.4 | this than just Jesus plus nothing. Yeah it is I, or in some ways almost less, |
| 2:03.6 | because it's not even really a whole lot of Jesus. |
| 2:05.6 | This is the oldest and most influential |
| 2:09.2 | and most secretive Christian conservative group |
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