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It is so nice to have Andrew Pledgeer back on the show, the social media director extraordinaire, of the podcast and an all-around good person.

I know that you want to come on and talk about some new things and new developments, new things

that have been explored by you. And so I can't wait to get into that whole discussion.

If you can spend a couple moments just introducing yourself again, that would be great.

Of course. Yeah, I'm so excited for this. And I'm glad we could work this out.

But for people who do not know me, my name is Andrew Pledgeer and I was raised in the

independent fundamental Baptist movement, a very strict movement with a strict code of conduct,

heavy emphasis on hell and in time prophecies. And they

claimed that the KJV Bible was the absolute truth and the only word of God. So a very culty

movement. And I was homeschooled my entire life for the purpose of indoctrination by my mother. And it was interesting because my parents,

they also grew up in the IFB, and they were convinced it was the truth. And they wanted to indoctrinate

me and my brothers. And growing up in that very isolated and high control environment, I then realized very late on,

which is understandable in that kind of environment when you don't have any kind of sex education

at all. But I realized that I was gay and being that in that environment was seen as an

abomination. You were compared to murderers.

You were compared to pedophiles. So it was one of the worst things that you could be in that

environment and it caused a lot of religious trauma from that. And when I graduated from homeschooling,

the control was not going to stop there. My parents would only help me

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