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0:00.0	Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised.
0:09.2	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.
0:20.3	The testimonies shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective
0:25.0	of the survivors. Not all legal outcomes are known or final. Any suspect is presumed innocent
0:31.6	until proven guilty in the court of law. Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski. Welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. Andrew,
0:41.3	thank you so much for joining me on today's show. Of course. You're so welcome. Thank you for having me.
0:46.5	Yeah, excited to talk with you. And I appreciate you humbling yourself to come on my show. You've already
0:51.1	spoken with Josh Harris, which is pretty recognizable name and probably
0:56.6	a source for many people's own religious trauma. But yeah, I'm really excited to hear a little bit
1:01.4	more about your story. Take me back really to your introduction to independent fundamental Baptist
1:06.8	kind of world. Like how did you end up in that bucket? Yes. So my parents, they both went to
1:13.2	college at Hyles Anderson, which is a big, it was a big fundamentalist college in the 80s and 90s.
1:19.7	It's they, I think they're just struggling to survive today. But yeah, back in the 80s, they were a
1:25.3	big deal. And my parents met there.
1:32.1	And my dad was studying pastoral ministry or something in that respect.
1:33.6	And my mom was studying English.
1:37.2	My mom became a Christian school teacher.
1:45.8	And after being in that environment for a few years, she was like, I do not want my children to be in this environment. I want to homeschool my children the rest of my life. And so that's what my parents decided. And it took my parents
1:53.0	like six to seven years, I think, to have children. So they were worried that they were never
1:57.1	going to have kids. So they prayed so hard. And when they were finally,
2:01.1	they had children,
2:01.7	they were like,
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