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 testimony shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective of the survivors.

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Now, here's your host, Eric Squarsinski.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in.

Today's episode was originally going to be one I released on a Wednesday because I've been

experimenting with some of the shorter, more topic-based solo episodes on the Wednesday

releases. But there's just too much to the story,

and I want to share it on a normal Sunday release slot. I am talking today about a viral clip of

Pastor Bobby Leonard in North Carolina that has been going all over social media, has gotten a ton of

media coverage, and I'm going to be honest, I've never heard of Pastor Bobby Leonard or his church or associate

ministries like Bible Baptist Tabernacle until February 20th, 2004, just this week,

when my friend Bad Sermons on X posted this shocking sermon clip.

I told my wife, this is the kind of preaching we need.

I told my wife, I said, Mama, when you go, when we go to Fission Forge, to the outlet malls.

When you go uptown here,

we'll go up and sit at the parking lot at the

Outland Mall, I mean the mall here.

Before I let him even continue with all the stupid things he's going to say,

just hearing him ramble through the first part of this clip

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