Introducing: In God We Lust

In God We Lust

Wondery

Jerry Falwell Jr., Jerry Falwell, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Liberty University, God Forbid

3.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

A hotel pool attendant in Miami meets a couple. The woman flirts with the pool attendant, and when one thing leads to another...all three of them become enmeshed in a long-term affair that involves sex, money, and power. At the center of the scandal is Jerry Falwell Jr., member of one of the most famous evangelical families in America and president of Liberty University. From Wondery, the makers of The Shrink Next Door and Bunga Bunga, comes IN GOD WE LUST, a six part reported series that looks at the secrets and lies that threaten the Falwell dynasty, and the young man at the heart of the story who tabloids will forever call “the pool boy.” Hosted by Brooke Siffrinn and Aricia Skidmore-Williams, co-hosts of the hit podcast EVEN THE RICH.

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0:00.0	Liberty University in Virginia has a very strict code of conduct.
0:09.2	You're not allowed to drink, you're not allowed to have sex, you're not supposed to curse
0:12.8	or do the sorts of stuff that is expected from, you know, good proper Christians.
0:16.4	Even students staring too long at each other isn't allowed.
0:19.8	They call it making eye babies.
0:22.2	And for 13 years, the man overseeing this code was Jerry Falwell, Jr., the president of Liberty
0:28.5	and the founder's son.
0:29.8	Whenever he would come on stage, there's this thing where every student in the building
0:32.9	shouts, Jerry.
0:34.9	At Jerry's side was his wife, Becky.
0:37.7	As a mother, I just want to talk to the students.
0:40.4	I want to talk to everybody.
0:41.4	Everyone kind of loved her because she was just a very sweet, very kind, very personal figure.
0:46.4	But what happens when the Falwells break their own rules?
0:50.0	A one-time Miami pool attendant, Jean-Carlo Grande, claiming he'd had a seven-year affair
0:55.4	with Falwell's wife, Becky, and that Falwell watched when they were intimate.
1:00.2	You could tell me anything about the corruption at the top of Liberty University, and I would
1:05.7	believe it.
1:06.7	From Wendry comes a very special, even-the-rich mini-series.
1:10.5	It's called, In God We Lust, a story about lies.
1:14.9	But here's the thing, nobody at Liberty keeps a secret for too long.
1:18.7	Hypocrisy.
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