Josh Lobo - What Happens When You Troll a Cult

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Filmmaker and Lola's pal Josh Lobo shares his experiences as a teenager dealing with a militant small-town religious group in Wyoming. He'll discuss how trolling the group on Facebook led to them seeking revenge, escalating over time to the point of shooting his car up, how he sought legal action to protect himself, and whether or not he regrets his behavior. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp! Learn more and save 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/trust Got your own story about cults, extreme belief, or abuse of power? Leave a voicemail or text us at 347-86-TRUST (347-868-7878) OR shoot us an email at Trust Me Pod @gmail.com INSTAGRAM: @TrustMePodcast @oohlalola @meaganelizabeth11 TWITTER: @TrustMeCultPod @ohlalola @baberahamhicks TIKTOK: @TrustMeCultPodcast

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0:00.0	If you have your own story of being in a cult or a high control group or if you've had
0:04.1	experience with manipulation or abuse the power that you'd like to share, leave us a message
0:08.4	on our hotline number at 347-86 trust. That's 347-868-7878 or shoot us an e-mail at TrustMePod
0:18.2	at gmail.com. Trust me, do you trust me? Trust me, I'm like a smart person. Yeah, I've never
0:25.6	lied to you. I never have lied. If you think that one person has all the answers, don't!
0:32.5	Welcome to TrustMe. The podcast about cults, extreme belief, and manipulation from two trolls
0:37.4	who've actually experienced it, I'm Lola Blunk. And I'm making a Lisebeth. We're not really
0:41.8	trolls, you guys. Kind of, today we're so sick, we're a little bit. Well, we're trolling you with
0:46.8	our sniffles. Yeah. Today, our guest is filmmaker and my pal, Josh Lobo, who's going to tell us about
0:53.3	his experiences with a militant small town religious group in Wyoming. He will tell us about how it
0:58.4	all began with some good old-fashioned early Facebook trolling, which escalated over time until
1:03.2	many members in the group sought revenge on him for his behavior. And he'll tell us about how
1:06.8	it ended and his car being shot full of bullet holes, the legal action he had to take to get them
1:11.6	to leave him alone, and whether he regrets his trolling behavior now. That's right, it's a fascinating
1:17.2	story, change your pace for us, and we will get into all of that in a minute. And before that,
1:21.6	I wanted to know Megan, what's your coldest thing of the week? Okay, this is somebody I actually
1:26.1	really want to have on the show. Her name is Ashley Boeder. She's a ballerina in the New York City
1:30.9	of LA. And she was just asked not to perform in one of her last performances in which she was the
1:36.6	main character because they said she gained a few pounds. So she was sat out, told to kind of lie
1:43.4	about it. And wow. Yeah, the dance world has these unwritten rules and laws. And she's 38 years
1:52.0	old. This is one of her last performances. She won. I'm not finding it exactly, but she's won
1:58.0	the version of the ballerina Oscars essentially. So she's one of the best and she gained three pounds
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