S1 Ep12: The Televangelist (Jim Bakker)
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Swindled
4.6 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
A popular evangelical preacher's financial and sexual scandals topple his Christian entertainment empire.
Prelude: The secrets of faith healer Peter Popoff are revealed.
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| 0:00.0 | From Marvel Studios, an invasion is here. |
| 0:03.5 | And we can't even tell who the invaders are. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a ticking time bomb. Fury, do you feel responsible? |
| 0:11.0 | How do you think I came back? |
| 0:12.5 | On Disney Plus. |
| 0:15.5 | You're the most wanted man on the planet. |
| 0:19.5 | I will change the game, Mr. Key. |
| 0:21.5 | Well, my mom always said I was special. |
| 0:24.0 | Marvel Studios' secret invasion, now streaming exclusively on Disney Plus, |
| 0:27.5 | 18 Plus subscription required, a season's Z-Apply. |
| 0:30.0 | You've got cancer or the stomach? |
| 0:33.0 | Are you ready for God to burn that cancer out? |
| 0:37.0 | Here it goes in the mighty. |
| 0:41.0 | Devil back off. |
| 0:45.0 | Back off, Devil! |
| 0:47.0 | Hallelujah! |
| 0:50.0 | Hallelujah! |
| 0:53.0 | In the 1980s, televangelism was reaching its peak, and Reverend Peter Popoff was one of the best. |
| 0:59.5 | He traveled from town to town, preaching to packed auditoriums, |
| 1:02.5 | and performing miracle healing acts, where he would select random members of the live audience, |
| 1:07.0 | channel the spirit of God, and cure them of their elements. |
| 1:10.5 | God told me, he said, you shrived that cancer with your fist. |
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