[leighton] After we interviewed Nathan, we thought it might make for an interesting show to have his sister, the figurehead of the Westboro Baptist Church, come onto the sow. Unfortunately, in our opinion, we believe we were woefully wrong. Between attempts at maintaining calm there is little more than a long litany of quoted scripture and anger/screaming from both sides. We do not believe this is of the quality that we like to maintain, but before we delete and forget the experience we have decided to allow all of you to decide whether you want to be exposed to something blatantly bad.
If you all chime in with a desire to listen to this, we post it immediately without any editing and leave you all to torture yourselves. Whether you want it or not, we will post a new episode next week. This one is little more than that bit of extra liver on the side of our plate neither of us want to touch or even look at again.
EDIT: You asked for it. Shirley Phelps-Roper of the singin’ Westboro Baptists.
98 Responses to “Interview with Shirley Phelps-Roper”
Oh, I want to listen. Please post!
Here’s a vote to post it. Though we risk poisoning our minds with her bile.
Post it!
I’m torn. On one hand, I want to hear it. On the other hand, it further gives them a voice.
Let’s hear it!
Oh please sir, may we listen?
Yeah, I’m sure you were outclassed, you and Chuck are only regular assholes, NOT Holy AssHoles and you haven’t been trained to do the Holy Bully Smackdown. You could just post it as a point of interest rather than a regular Podcast. I’d listen to it (to analyse the adversaries tatics, of course).
I hope you thanked her for preaching what her bible teaches. I also hope you asked her to step up her game and start acting on the advice of the bible instead of yelling from street corners.
Oh yeah, I’d like to listen. I think these people express the dark, sociopathic heart of Calvinism fairly well. Lets expose it as much as possible.
BRING IT.
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do it
Please post the episode as it would be nice to hear from the other side of the family argument.
Post please, it’ll be… interesting.
Pleasepleasepleaseplease. The Phelps are fascinating, and I’d like a chance to hear her respond to your dick jokes.
Please! My alarm needs a new audio clip to force me out of bed in the morning.
yes yes !!!!!!!!! please please !!!!!!
my sweet satan demands a listen
I’ll vote no, but only to keep the tally interesting.
I got married once, so I’m a sucker for infliction of punishment to myself. Post it or I’ll get married again!
hell yes
I’m not with her..
Please Please Post…….
Oh my God she’s on meth! Won’t shut up for a second.
Leighton and Chuck, you are forgiven for not doing prop 8. How you could deal with this twit as long as you did… you have the patience that I never could aspire to. Gentleman, Thank You for this brief glimpse into the psychosis this female is involved in. By the way, Chuck, what would you prescribe somebody like this for her delusionary Bullshit?
Just curious,
Louise
Haldol. No question.
I’d give he a nice does of hemlock
*her
I refuse to listen to this until morning. I don’t want nightmares.
Oh my God (who doesn’t exist) this woman should remove the stick from her ass and the speck from her eye and tone herself down like a good woman who follows the Bible should do.
Hol-y shit. That was incredible. That lady is crazy. So from what little I learned from her is the following:
-Her dad will be alive when Jesus returns.
-You must follow everything the bible says, even the stuff about rape in Deuteronomy.
-It is ok for God to allow harm and/or death to children (based on the actions of their parents apparently).
-People scoff more now than they did at any time in history.
-The end of the world is imminent, although the word imminent has no definition.
-You can be saved even if you’re not among God’s pre-chosen elect?
What else did I miss? I only became more confused about this group of people by listening to her and this podcast.
Wow, i think my brain actually melted from listening to her bullshit….. I think you ve got a winner for next weeks skunkdick right there……. bat shit crazy
That was actually really interesting. Thanks guys. I notice that she just said she ‘expected’ her father to be alive when the rapture occurs; she left herself an out. I’d be interested to hear a debate between her and a more typical Calvinist. I wonder if such a person could actually make a clear theological case against WBC theology and behavior arguing from scripture. If I can make a recommendation for a podcast (and risk you never doing this, of course, just because a fan recommended it) I think you ought to do an episode about predestination as it relates to the character of God, and more importantly the character of those who call such a God “good”. Frankly, I don’t think there is a coherent alternative to predestination given the existence of a God with the traditional attributes of God (or the closest coherent approximation of them), but at least Arminians, through the power of careless thinking, can suppose that in some sense God ‘wants’ everyone to be saved, but his ‘hands are tied’ by his need to do ‘justice’. That is still, in my judgement, to the moral discredit of the Arminians, but they are sparking white compared to the Calvinist who calls a being “good” who tortures other beings forever to ‘glorify’ himself.
Does that woman have ears? if so she never uses them. I don’t think I have ever shouted more at my speakers for her to actually listen to what you guys where saying If that’s Gods best way of showing love compassion and mercy I don’t want anything to do with it.
If there where an Heaven and she goes there, I don’t want to go.
Is there anyway of me getting of this Planet? I suppose I should be glad im not in the same country.
If you guys ever do a skunkdick of the year there is the top contender so far.
Hey guys, I’m so glad your promised Prop. 8 episode is finally out!
To be fair, though, this does look interesting.
Wow. Uhm? Yeeeeeah. Wow. No words. Just… wow.
Well that was something . . . I would love to hear you pull some of her rants out as clips and hear what you think about what she was saying. Something like the Religious Podcast Takedowns.
She wouldn’t shut up at all. I would have love to hear you rip apart her ideas a bit more it she could have learned to stop yelling. Some of my favorite parts were when one of you in desperation would just say . . . “Leighton?” or “Charlie?” . . . as if to say . . . “Help my from strangling myself. This fuckwit is driving me crazy!”
If she said “listen dummy” one more time I was gonna crawl through the internet and strangle her.
Ok. That is my take on it.
I am sure that the Prop 8 Podcast is “imminent.”
Fitting that her insult of choice was one that I haven’t heard since about the 2nd grade: “dummy.”
The dynamics in that interview were off the charts. Amazing what inserting a whole lot of crazy into a conversation does. I liked Leighton’s approach to his questioning. I think that rather than challenging Shirley, as Chuck was prone to do, the interview was at its most interesting when Shirley was allowed to “rationalize” her views and behaviors.
I do wonder what Leighton hoped to gain by revealing his childhood trauma to Shirley, though. Was it to see just how ugly she could get?
My heart goes out to you Leighton. Shirley’s assault to assign blame to your mom as justification for the behavior of a pedophile was trauma to my ears. The only person at fault was the man who assaulted you. Not the wandering 5-year old. Not your mom. Just him.
After listening to this I can’t tell if you guys are brave, crazy or both for trying to take on that… mess of a human being. You can just hear the crazy cult mentality in her. For once I actually felt kind of bad for you guys. That’ll go away with the next podcast I’m sure.
OH HER GOD! I’d rather go to hell too.
Wow…good for you both for being calm and rational…because I would not have been.
Another amazing episode that once again Chuck & Leighton handled with just the right mix of approaches. You didn’t need to give her much rope to hang herself. In summary: disturbing, very disturbing.
My favorite quote was from Chuck; “It used to be god sent she-bears, now he just sends the Phelps.”
I’m going to using that.
Guys, you did an excellent job handling this hideous beast in human disguise. Kudos to you. I’ve already linked it on my FaceBook account to share the madness (how could I do otherwise?)
And Leighton… *hugs*
HOLY SHIT! When she started to sing…That was batshit crazy…
Wow.
The amount of insanity spewing from this woman was scary. I was worried it would somehow infect my psyche. The bitch from “Misery” can’t hold a candle to this derranged individual. My respect to you guys. You’re tougher than James Caan. You plunged willingly into the situation.
I kept wishing you guys had some “Beep!” button, for shutting her up while she ranted. I honestly have never heard such a crazy, self-centered, ignorant and hate-filled individual. I might be misunderstood on what I mean by what I’m going to say but I’ll say it anyway: I found her to be both insane and very american. By the the latter I’m refering to the way she labeled “doomed america”, her overall choice of words, her singing and her constant superiority complex. It reminded me of “Team America World Police”.
So.. this comment box background has flowers. What the fuck guys?
I do have something to thank Shirley for – my favourite new word, “imminent”. Boss: When are you going to have that report done? Me: “It’s imminent”. Husband: “When’s dinner gonna be ready?” Me: “it’s imminent”. I agree re the singing: it reminded me of a freaky EVP or a horror (that’s horr-ah) movie.
Herb: It was brought up because just two seconds before that she was accusing us of only searching the bible for those things which were wrong with it. I was attempting to point out that this particular experience pushed me towards religion and it was the scriptures themselves which began to play a role in my departure from religion. I never would have guessed she would have taken such a tactic, but in a way I’m glad she did. If people ever wondered about her craziness and the evil inside of her, it’s pretty damn apparent now.
I am sorry you had to go through that with such a despicable person.
And really, I think that’s the first time we’ve heard you get really angry.