Her Dad Convinced Christians Their Toys Were Evil
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.5 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Lindsey Williams returns to the podcast to join me in interviewing Taylor Burge, stepdaughter of Phil Phillips.
She shares what it was like growing up in the home behind Turmoil in the Toybox, the infamous book that warned Christian parents about the supposed demonic dangers of He-Man, Care Bears, Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, and other pieces of 80s and 90s childhood.
In this conversation, Taylor reflects on being raised as one of the “poster children” for her father’s ministry, the pressure of growing up inside fear-based Christianity, the complicated legacy of satanic panic, and how she now thinks about parenting, faith, community, accountability, and breaking cycles as an adult.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. I'm your host, Eric Skritsnski. I'm a former |
| 0:04.3 | fundamentalist who now sheds light on the dark side of the church, from the pulpit to the pews. |
| 0:10.0 | Before we're getting to today's episode, I want to give you a little bit of context because this |
| 0:13.6 | conversation has been sitting in the vault for a minute. Back in August of 2025, I had Lindsay |
| 0:19.3 | Williams on the show to talk about Phil Phillips book, |
| 0:22.2 | Termoyal in the Toy Box. |
| 0:23.9 | The episode started as a conversation about this very bizarre, very 1980s satanic panic book |
| 0:28.9 | that warn parents about the spiritual dangers of he-man, masters of the universe, |
| 0:33.0 | Dungeons and Dragons, Care Bears, My Little Pony, Cabbage Patch Dolls, Star Wars, |
| 0:38.9 | basically anything that might make a child experience joy for more than 30 seconds. But as we got into it, the episode |
| 0:44.1 | became less about just laughing at this really weird old book and more about what it was like |
| 0:49.6 | to grow up in homes where these ideas were taken seriously. We talked about favorite toys |
| 0:53.6 | being thrown away, |
| 0:54.4 | cartoons being banned, movies being burned, fear of demons and possession, and the way fundamentalist |
| 1:00.0 | parents were taught to see danger in everything and how that kind of paranoia shaped so many of us |
| 1:05.4 | as kids. After that episode with Lindsay came out, someone named Taylor Burge reached out to me and |
| 1:10.2 | said, hey, I'm Phil Phillips' stepdaughter, and I'd be open to coming on the podcast. And obviously, |
| 1:15.2 | when someone reaches out to me and says, hey, I'm the stepdaughter of the guy that wrote |
| 1:18.8 | turmoil in the toy box, I'm taking that podcast. So we recorded this episode about six months ago, |
| 1:25.4 | then for a bunch of reasons, it just sat there. I got ready to |
| 1:29.6 | move right around this time. I was putting together a book proposal. I was filming for this |
| 1:34.0 | top secret project I can't say anything about just yet. And in the middle of that, I kept getting |
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