Ep. 361: SURVIVOR of Bill Gothard/Duggar Cult Speaks About Escaping, Child Abuse & Weird Sex Practices

The Liz Wheeler Show

Blaze Media

Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.9 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The eyes of the world are on the Duggar family of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting following the release of a new documentary, Shiny Happy People. Today’s Liz is joined by a survivor of the cult led by Bill Gothard as he exposes the child abuse and weird sex practices that underpinned their teachings, and shares his story of escaping and maintaining his Christian faith. Plus, how does his experience compare to what was portrayed in the viral Amazon documentary? This is The Liz Wheeler Show. -- Sign your Statement of Support for Pro-Life Students. Text LIZ to 20401 to tell pro-life students on the front lines that you have their backs. -- Download the free Upside app to start saving money on your first tank of gas today. Use promo code LIZ5. -- So embrace your strength, and let Black Forest help you get there. Go to https://blackforestsupplements.com and use code LIZ10 at checkout for a 10% discount. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Where are you?
0:01.1	Asteroid City.
0:02.2	From director Wes Anderson.
0:04.0	Welcome to your stargazers and space cadets.
0:06.8	What are those pulses indicate?
0:08.3	The beeps and blips we don't know.
0:09.8	There's an alien.
0:11.8	That actually happened.
0:12.8	This June, place all witnesses under a group arrest.
0:15.8	How long can they keep us in Asteroid City?
0:17.8	I'm in O'Hurry.
0:18.8	I like aliens.
0:19.8	Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks.
0:23.2	What a strange experience this is.
0:25.4	Asteroid City, in cinemas June 23.
0:28.4	Booktickets now.
0:30.4	I finally watched this wildly popular documentary
0:33.7	that Amazon published.
0:35.1	It's called Shining Happy People.
0:36.6	It's about the Dugger cult or the cult that the Dugger family
0:40.4	belonged to.
0:41.4	Evidently, this family with 19 children
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