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 is your host, Eric Squarsinski. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher

boys podcast for the very first time. My name is Eric Skorsensky. I am a former fundamentalist who

grew up in the independent, Fundamental Baptist Movement, and I'm shedding light on abuse and

religious high-control groups that exist all over the country and around

the world. I interview survivors first and foremost, but I also interview experts, therapists,

analysts, historians, and more that can dive deeper into the where, what, when, and why

all these sorts of abuses are able to take place. And so I really hope you'll enjoy this show.

But before I dive into today's topic, I want to share two other podcasts that listeners of this show

would probably enjoy. The first is a podcast that I am actually a co-host on. I have two other

hosts, Travis and Jackie Chappell. And that podcast is called Figuring It Out. If you've noticed I've been a little bit quiet over the last couple of weeks on social media, it's because we've literally been batching out tons and tons of episodes for the last couple of weeks to get way ahead of our release schedule. And so we've got a ton of great content that's coming out

there. I have links to all of that in the show notes of this episode. But essentially on figuring it out,

we're going to be doing just that. We're going to be trying to figure it out. And for those

you that want more conversations around deconstruction, you want a little bit more lighthearted discussion about religion, philosophy, so on and so forth. It's a bit of an unbuttoned,

casual approach, just three friends talking about trying to figure out where they stand, what they

believe, and what the meaning of life truly is. So I know some of you are really interested in

conversations like that, and some of you are really interested in conversations like that,

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