Podcast #372: Frank Schaeffer
Drunk Ex-Pastors
Christian Kingery
4.7 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode of Drunk Ex-Pastors we chat with well-known author, speaker, and former architect and leader of the Christian Right, Frank Schaeffer. We discuss his recent book, "Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy", which urges readers to rethink their understanding of Darwin's principle of "survival of the fittest" (turns out, "fitness" may have more to do with compassion and empathy than strength and domination). A thoroughly delightful conversation with a man whose impact on us is significant, to say the least.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey. |
| 0:01.0 | What's up? |
| 0:01.9 | How's it going? |
| 0:23.1 | Okay. Yeah. Yeah. How are you? I'm good. Good. Yeah. A little tired. Yeah. I started watching Ted Lassow. Oh, I'm so curious what you're going to think of that show. I love it so far. I think I've watched four episodes. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. Because he's just so unassuming. |
| 0:41.3 | And he's like an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile. Right. He's unflappable. He's an unflappable optimist. Yeah. And he just doesn't like he acts like he's kind of, um, sort of hapless and, and, uh, you know, in the dark yeah about people's like Machiavellian like career moves and like manipulation and all this kind of thing but he's not yeah he just doesn't play |
| 0:46.3 | that game yeah and so it's just like he's just like such a pure person he's guileless yeah yeah yeah um |
| 0:52.4 | yeah i uh i started watching it, this looks kind of stupid. |
| 0:57.4 | But you hear so much about it. |
| 0:58.8 | And then I kept watching it. |
| 1:00.0 | And by the end, I'm like, I want Ted Lassel to be my dad, my uncle, my grandpa, my best friend. |
| 1:05.3 | Like, I love him so much. |
| 1:06.6 | Well, when I first thought, I mean, I remember when it, they were showing trailers of it before it even came out. |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm like, oh, that looks mildly amusing. |
| 1:12.7 | And I like Jason Sudec. |
| 1:27.6 | Yeah. I just immediately forgot about it. And then, like, fast forward to like the Emmys or something, like two years later. Yeah. And all this talk about it. I'm like, that can't be that one show about the coach, right? it's got to be, because they're talking about this as if it's like some poignant thing. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.0 | And I'm like, no, that's, it's that show. |
| 1:31.3 | I'm like, okay, I'm going to watch this. |
| 1:27.6 | Yeah. about the coach, right? It's got to be, because they're talking about this as if it's like some poignant thing. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.0 | And I'm like, no, it's that show. |
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