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.

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, you're tuning in to episode number 301 of the Preacher Boys podcast, which sounds

really unbelievable. I know last Sunday I did my 300th episode kind of breakdown and

shared some appreciation of those of you who have been

tuning into the show from either day one or those of you that even tune in recently and

have started following the show. I just want to say again, thank you to everybody who's

been so supportive of this journey. And it's been amazing and talk to survivors and experts.

It's been amazing to be able to talk a little bit about the past within

fundamentalism, but it's also been really special to me to be able to share a little bit over

time of my own journey and the ongoing journey that I'm experiencing, having left a

extremely toxic religious fundamentalist group, and where that's leading me to in the present

day. And in the spirit of sharing my own story, I was actually on a podcast just recently called

Colts to Consciousness. Now, Colts to Consciousness is a podcast that is hosted by Shalise An

Sola. She is a ex-Morman, whose lineage actually goes all the way back to

the very founding of the Mormon Church. So her great, great, great, great, great, great, great,

she even still on the show. She doesn't know how many greats back she was a part of the church.

And so we had a really great conversation on her show just talking and comparing

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