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Preacher Boys Podcast

330: Lester Roloff: Digging Into the Fundie Files with the We Are One Podcast

Preacher Boys Podcast

Eric Skwarczynski

Documentary, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime, Christianity

4.6701 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental,

0:06.9

physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement.

0:12.1

Not all legal outcomes are known or final.

0:15.1

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

0:19.7

Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski.

0:24.3

Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Bridger Boys podcast. Today, I am joined by my special guests

0:29.1

from the We Are One podcast, Jen and Olivia. I'm going to be talking with them about none other than

0:34.4

Lester Roloff. Lester Roloff was an extremely popular fundamentalist evangelist

0:38.3

who operated a series of quote-unquote troubled teen homes. While Roloff Homes promised to educate, nurture,

0:44.4

and disciple young children who were struggling with discipline or other issues, his homes actually

0:49.1

ran a lot more like unlicensed prisons for kids. Olivia and Jenner go into detail about the atrocities

0:55.2

at the Roll-Off Homes in their new podcast series on the We Are One podcast. But today I want to give

1:00.1

you a sneak peek into what you can expect to learn from the series, as well as go into the proverbial

1:04.9

vault and share some documents that you've probably never seen before, as well as spill the beans

1:09.9

on a deleted scene from Let Us Pray.

1:12.9

We get into all that and more, but I don't want to take any more time away from the episode.

1:16.9

Here's my conversation with Olivia and Jen from the We Are One podcast.

1:21.3

All right, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast.

1:25.0

Olivia and Jen, welcome to the show.

1:26.9

Hello.

1:27.1

Thank you.

1:27.8

I know we talked a little bit on the phone the other day, but give my audience kind of

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