Megan Phelps-Roper

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Megan Phelps-Roper (The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, Unfollow) is a journalist, author, and podcaster. Megan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss what it was like to leave the Westboro Baptist Church community, her views on organizations who use shame to control people, and what power people can have in asking questions. Megan and Dax talk about why having compassion for people who are different from you is important, being taught to question everything no matter the cost, and why freedom of speech is such a controversial topic. Megan explains how she was argued out of her belief system, why she agreed to be apart of a podcast about J.K. Rowling, and why having dissenting opinions is the key to a successful pluralistic society. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:02.8	Experts son, expert I'm Dan rather, I'm joined by Lily Padman.
0:06.0	Hello, Lily Padman.
0:08.4	Good gloomy morning to you.
0:10.1	Good gloomy morning to you.
0:12.1	It's June, gloom, we're in the thick of it. It's June gloom.
0:13.0	We're in the thick of it.
0:14.0	Yes, June gloom, Apex gloom.
0:16.0	Hasn't been sunny in four years.
0:18.0	Yeah, but we're getting through.
0:20.0	We have multiple times over the last three or four months recommended the witch trials of JK
0:26.9	Rowling podcast. We're obsessed with it. I've been recommending everyone listen to it and we have on today the creator and the journalist behind that
0:38.1	podcast her name is Megan Phelps Roper and she also interestingly was a member as a child of Westboro Baptist and left that church.
0:51.3	That's right.
0:52.3	Making her very capable of telling this story.
0:56.3	Yes, which she told beautifully in her memoir called Unfollow. So everyone should check out Unfollow as well. You're going to fall in love with her as everyone does. She's so thoughtful. Exceedingly thoughtful. We loved getting to talk to her and again one more gentle
1:13.5	nudge to check out the witch trials of JK Rowling. It's so wonderfully done. Please
1:17.6	enjoy Megan Phelps Roper.
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1:34.0	He's an I'm Chirons bad.
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