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That's So Fcked Up

The New F Word- Ep. 4: "Growing Up Gothard" and the IBLP Child Abuse Manual, "To Train Up a Child"

That's So Fcked Up

Ashley Love Richards

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.5541 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

This week Fallon summarizes the second episode of Shiny Happy People, "Growing Up Gothard". In this episode, "as IBLP's homeschooling empire grows, it becomes clear that patriarchal, abusive authority is at the core of Bill Gothard and Jim Bob Duggar's power." - Amazon Prime

Ash then talks to Fallon about the IBLP's official child abuse manual, To Train Up a Child. Authored by Michael and Debi Pearl, the book has led to the death of at least three children. The purpose of the book is to break a child's will from infancy so they never become unruly.

TW: HEAVY child abuse of all kinds.


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0:00.0

A lot of what was taught was just pure conjecture from Bill Gothard and his fellow authors.

0:06.7

For example, fossils did not accumulate over millions of years.

0:11.2

They basically were put there all at the same time.

0:15.1

Hands are composed of non-living atoms.

0:17.9

I don't understand that one at all.

0:19.7

And he said he had a friend that never learned math outside of fractions

0:22.4

because you can use fractions in baking, and that's good enough.

0:26.6

That's so fucked up presents.

0:30.6

That so fucked up presents.

0:34.6

That's so fucked up presents.

0:35.6

That's so fucked up presents That so fucked up presents That so fud so presents versions. It's perfect because we're going to get really hardcore.

1:11.2

So let's talk about the Roman Empire a little bit.

1:13.8

Start from the top.

1:14.8

Start from the top of the Roman Empire.

1:17.3

That's a big topic.

1:18.5

Yeah.

1:19.0

So we saw this meme the other day.

1:20.6

And it was, you know, the couple laying in bed and she says, like, I bet he's thinking about whatever and the guy's thinking about something totally

1:27.9

different and stupid.

1:29.0

I bet he's thinking about other girls and the guy is like the Roman Empire.

1:33.2

And so it had a thing that said like most men think about it a lot.

1:37.2

And I looked at my husband and I was like, do you think about it a lot?

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