# Screaming Boy Preacher 10 yrs ago?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 26, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970 "2002-07-26T17:54:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/1 "2002-07-26T17:54:13Z")
About 10 yrs ago, talk shows like Sally Jessy & Springer (when he was semi-respectable) had a 10 yr old boy & his family as guests.
The boy had been suspended from public school for scream-preaching at teachers & other adults before school but on school grounds, calling them fornicators & threatening them with Hell unless they repented.
I think the family’s name was Strode or Strobe & they came from North Carolina. Either the boy or his dad or both were named Dudley. He also had a 5 yr old sister who was starting the same
preaching.
Anyone know any clearer facts on this & whatever became of them?
And no- I know he did not go on to become Marilyn Manson _L_
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/2 "2002-07-26T19:32:00Z")
Darn good question. He would put the bible on the side of his face for some reason when he was screaming, right? Like as half a holy megaphone of something.
My WAG: He is either still an Christian extremist, or he’s become an anti-Christian extremist.
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### Author:  [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/3 "2002-07-26T23:35:07Z")
Weird. I was just thinking about that recently. It was in the late 80’s. Im thinking it was in Hendersonville,NC. He was on the local morning news every day for a few weeks. I think he finally got suspended. Im sure he’s all grown and married to a relative by now 😃
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### Author:  [@WV\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WV_Woman)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/4 "2002-07-27T00:01:38Z")
Quintas as someone who lives in Georgia you REALLY have room to make redneck jokes.
I was just thinking about that kid the other day, too. He was on Oprah.
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### Author:  [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/5 "2002-07-27T00:08:44Z")
I believe his name was Duffy Stroud and [I too would love to know what happened to him](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49613&highlight=duffy).
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### Author:  [@WV\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WV_Woman)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2002, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/6 "2002-07-27T00:15:37Z")
Taking the plunge and emailing Oprah.
I’ll let ya’ll know what they say.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/7 "2003-11-23T18:27:30Z")
It was DUFFY STRODE. I got to wondering again. Did a search & found an anti-Fundist site that referenced a LIBERTY MAGAZINE (Adventist religious freedom anti-Estab publication) article from 1989 titled “The Devil & Duffy Strode”. He was in Marion, NC. The article tho is not online & there wasn’t much info in the reference.
Still wondering whatever became of him & his family.
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### Author:  [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/8 "2003-11-23T21:40:47Z")
I remember the footage of the little bastard standing in front of his elementary school calling 10 year old girls whores.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/9 "2003-11-23T22:12:47Z")
Icerigger- you remember correctly except that I think his invective was more directed at passing adults & school personnel than at fellow children.
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### Author:  [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/10 "2003-11-23T22:31:30Z")
Apparently, they’ve gone from beating up on sinners to beating up on each other. The Charlotte Observer’s archives popped up “A Family of Fighters” which ran on 5/2/1998.
Here’s the lede:
"Their father sets the timer for three minutes, and Matthew and Pepper Strode start punching.Between jabs, Matthew, 15, shuffles his feet on the bumpy concrete floor of the family’s boxing gym. His 16-year-old sister pounds steadily nearby, and her gloves make dull thuds when they hit the red leather punching bag.``Time!’’ their mother yells when the timer beeps. The punching practice subsides.Ten years ago, David Strode’s cue would have sent his young children . . . "
Can’t send anymore as the rest of the article is behind their pay archives.
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### Author:  [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/11 "2003-11-23T22:33:09Z")
I need to add that this popped up by searching for “Duffy Stode” and that the rest of the archives contains the original preacher stories that also mention Matthew and Pepper Strode, so I assume this is the same family.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/12 "2003-11-23T23:16:48Z")
He’s probably snorting crank off of a biker chick’s ass somewhere.
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/13 "2003-11-24T02:03:17Z")
**LOL Rev**
Or rumor has it, he’s become the “boy toy” for the _entire_ Pastor Fred Phelps’ family.
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### Author:  [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/14 "2003-11-24T03:30:41Z")
He grew up and renamed himself Aaron Carter
ha
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/15 "2003-11-24T07:30:37Z")
The exposure of his father as a diehard, white supremacist, “Identity Christian” apparently put a damper on the 700 Club’s sponsorship of Duffy’s performances.
> [@](#):
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> Pretty much any time it lets them speak for themselves unhindered. The Duffy Strode incident faded away after Larry King allowed Strode’s father to babble a racist tirade unhindered
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2003, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/16 "2003-11-24T07:57:21Z")
I don’t recall any support by the 700 Club of this kid & his family. One show had the family’s pastor going on the record as telling them they were going to extremes (I think it was Sally Jesse) & it came out they considered going to church as extraneous & unnecessary.
Actually, I think teaching the kids, especially the daughter, to box is pretty cool.
I hadn’t heard but am not surprised by the racist stuff, Dad got chastised by Sally Jesse for his anti-Catholic remarks
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/17 "2003-11-24T15:03:01Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by FriarTed \*
> \*\*I don’t recall any support by the 700 Club of this kid & his family. One show had the family’s pastor going on the record as telling them they were going to extremes (I think it was Sally Jesse) & it came out they considered going to church as extraneous & unnecessary.
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> Actually, I think teaching the kids, especially the daughter, to box is pretty cool.
>
> I hadn’t heard but am not surprised by the racist stuff, Dad got chastised by Sally Jesse for his anti-Catholic remarks \*\*
I apologize, “sponsorship” was the wrong word. They initially reviewed his preaching sympathetically and held him up as an example of yet another devout Christian being persecuted for witnessing his faith. They did not show any of the really obnoxious scream preaching antics that got him thrown out of school, and which made Duffy the toast of the pre-Springeresque talk shows for a while before daddy started spouting about the mud people.
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### Author:  [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/18 "2003-11-24T15:41:53Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by pesch \*
> \*\*Apparently, they’ve gone from beating up on sinners to beating up on each other. The Charlotte Observer’s archives popped up “A Family of Fighters” which ran on 5/2/1998.
>
> Here’s the lede:
>
> "Their father sets the timer for three minutes, and Matthew and Pepper Strode start punching.Between jabs, Matthew, 15, shuffles his feet on the bumpy concrete floor of the family’s boxing gym. His 16-year-old sister pounds steadily nearby, and her gloves make dull thuds when they hit the red leather punching bag.``Time!’’ their mother yells when the timer beeps. The punching practice subsides.Ten years ago, David Strode’s cue would have sent his young children . . . "
>
> Can’t send anymore as the rest of the article is behind their pay archives. \*\*
Just wanted to point out that the kids _aren’t_ beating up on each other in this vignette–they are hitting punching bags.
A google search on “Pepper Strode” indicates that she is involved in women’s boxing.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/19 "2003-11-24T16:09:30Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by sugaree \*
> \*\*Just wanted to point out that the kids _aren’t_ beating up on each other in this vignette–they are hitting punching bags.
>
> A google search on “Pepper Strode” indicates that she is involved in women’s boxing. \*\*
Actually, I find that to be pretty cool, and tho it doesn’t mean she’s abandoned her extreme Fund’ist background, it is a somewhat non-traditionalist career.
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-boy-preacher-10-yrs-ago/120970/20 "2003-11-24T22:25:55Z")
Maybe these kids will turn their exposure from preaching into a career as ‘C-team’ actor, a la Marjoe Gortner.
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