Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations.

Listener discretion is advised. My name is Eric Skrinski. As a former religious fundamentalist,

I'm shedding light on the dark side of the church, from the pulpit to the pews. But I'm not

doing it alone. Each week, I'm sitting down with survivors,

advocates, authors, and more to uncover the inner workings of these abusive religious groups

to give tactical tips on how to escape and to find out what we can do to take them down.

You're listening to the Bridge Boys podcast. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preach

Boys podcast. For today's solo episode, I'm going to be answering some of your listener

questions. I got some of these from the Preach Boys Facebook group, and I'm also going

live over on TikTok. So if I see any questions there, I'll be sure to add them into the mix. The first question

that I see is, are there any specific questions or language you intentionally avoid in your

interviews? It's a really good question. Honestly, some of the biggest things I try to avoid,

it's not so much certain language in the interviews themselves or in the

discussion. Like, typically, the way that I format my interviews is before every interview,

I have a pre-phone call typically with the person I'm interviewing. And then before the actual

interview itself, like right before we hit record, I confirm again the things

that we talked about, make sure that they still want to talk about all those same things.

And then I always ask this exact question, is there anything you absolutely want to talk

about? Is there anything you absolutely don't want to talk about? And that way, if there's

anything you want to make sure that we do cover, they can say so. If there's anything that

they absolutely feel uncomfortable talking about, I can address that as well.

And so as long as it's within those parameters, that's okay. I will say for the listener's

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