ENCORE: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker: The God Fraud | Part 2

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the second part of this two-part epic, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker go their separate ways and carve out very different paths — but they both still love being in the spotlight. Tammy becomes a fixture on daytime and reality TV, while Jim gets out of prison and goes right back to televangelizing. This time, he’s embracing a whole new scheme: shilling products for the apocalypse.

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0:10.3	Sarah, do you have a favorite camp figure?
0:17.2	Like, you know what John Water says in that Simpsons episode?
0:20.2	The tragically ludicrous, the ludicrously tragic?
0:23.4	Yeah, I mean, I always go back to that Carly Clause tweet before she goes to the Met Gala,
0:29.4	where she's holding up the mirror and going, looking camp right in the eye, only to later show she did not dress Camp at all.
0:36.8	Like, no, terrible outfit, terrible outfit.
0:39.3	And to me, that was camp.
0:41.0	Well, I've always thought of you as my favorite camp figure.
0:44.6	You're like my Barbara Streisand.
0:46.7	Like you're notoriously difficult and everyone on the show is afraid of you.
0:50.0	And that's why they pay me the big bucks.
0:54.2	Well, as ever, I ask because today,
0:56.9	we're looking at how two people transform themselves
0:59.4	after public failures,
1:01.2	namely how one of them turned towards the tragic
1:03.5	and another towards the ludicrous.
1:06.2	Put on your best non-waterproof mascara, Sarah.
1:09.0	It's time we finish the ballad of Tammy Fay.
1:14.7	It's October 5th, 1989 in Charlotte, North Carolina. It's been two months since Jim Baker's
1:20.9	trial started. The trial has been plagued by delays, including a devastating hurricane.
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