Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised.

You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement.

The testimonies shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective

of the survivors.

Not all legal outcomes are known or final.

Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law.

Now, here's your host, Eric Squarsinski.

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast, Bridget, and thank you so much for

joining me on today's show. Yeah, thank you for having me. Glad to be here. Yeah. Yeah. The first

question I have to ask you is, how are you doing? Because I am no stranger to covering what people take as very controversial subjects.

And the internet is a wild, ravenous, crazy place. And so since the book's released,

you know, I mean, do you feel you feel good? Do you feel like the response has been pretty positive?

Like what's been your kind of emotional state the last couple of months?

Yeah. So the response to the book has actually been overwhelmingly positive. And I think that

largely has to do with the fact that we have been very, I guess,

intentional about the audience that we've been targeting.

I was really, I don't know, I guess, I decided early on in the book that I was not going

to try to reach people from what I would consider to be a demographic

that is just not interested at all in listening.

I think a lot of books written from a Christian perspective are, you know,

attempting to reach that demographic, which, you know, more power to them.

We definitely need people reaching those.

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