SIM Ep 428 Chops 183: Megan Phelps Roper has Unfollowed
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Standard Issue
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Standard Issue for all women. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi, Hannah here and welcome to this week's Sunday Chops. I hope you're enjoying your Sunday. |
| 0:40.0 | I hope I'll be enjoying my Sunday. It's Friday where I am now, but you probably |
| 0:45.6 | knew that. In this week's chops I speak to Megan Phelps Roper. The name Phelps is |
| 0:51.7 | familiar to you that's probably because she was once a member of the notorious |
| 0:57.6 | Westboro Baptist Church. She left and has now written a book about her experiences within the church, which is also literally |
| 1:06.0 | her family, growing up within that church, how hard it was to leave, and I think most interestingly what we could all learn from those |
| 1:15.6 | experiences that's all coming up now so I'm going to stop talking but before I do |
| 1:20.7 | just to let you know we've got loads of great stuff coming up because we always do. |
| 1:25.2 | It's November just around the corner. |
| 1:27.1 | I know how did that happen? |
| 1:28.5 | We'll be talking to some men as we always do in November about some issues that matter to them and next week's |
| 1:34.4 | podcast is a gig cast in which we spoke to the excellent Rachel Paris and the |
| 1:39.0 | marvelous Katie Wicks. So just FYI if you want to make sure you don't miss any of that stuff |
| 1:46.2 | Subscribe on wherever it is you listen to your podcast and it'll be waiting for you. |
| 1:50.0 | Have a nice rest of what's left of your weekend and speak soon. |
| 1:53.2 | I'm joined by the magic of Zoom from beautiful South Dakota by Megan Phelps Roper, |
| 2:00.8 | Westboro Baptist Church Apostate and author of the memoir |
| 2:04.0 | Unfollow, available now in paperback from all good bookshops. It tells the story of |
| 2:09.3 | her time as part of what's been described as America's most hated family. |
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