Preacher Boys Podcast

Eric Skwarczynski

An ex-fundamentalist sheds light on the dark side of the church… from the pulpit to the pews.

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  1. Oct 11

    They Escaped the NXIVM Cult on Camera... Do They Regret Processing Their Trauma on Film?

    Support the Show: Patreon.com/PreacherBoys ✖️✖️✖️ Grab YOUR copy of A Little Bit Culty Here: https://amzn.to/4AUAW33 The book is also available on Audible! Prime members get four months of Audible free for just 99 cents! Try it out here: https://amzn.to/4AfEDQw [As an Amazon associate I may receive a small commission from purchases made from links on this channel.] Culty shit is everywhere—and this book shows you how to spot it, escape it, and heal from it. From former NXIVM insiders turned whistleblowers and hosts of the hit podcast A Little Bit Culty comes a gripping, practical, and surprisingly hopeful guide to understanding how manipulative people and systems get their hooks into us—and how to get your life back when they do. Drawing from their harrowing experiences inside NXIVM, their roles in HBO’s The Vow, and hundreds of conversations with survivors and experts, Sarah Edmondson and Anthony “Nippy” Ames pull back the curtain on the tactics of coercive control: love bombing, gaslighting, identity erosion, charismatic leadership, toxic spirituality, trauma bonding, and more. Blending memoir, survivor wisdom, cultural commentary, and hard-won humor, A Little Bit Culty decodes the red flags hiding in plain sight—in relationships, workplaces, wellness communities, social media movements, churches, and anywhere someone claims to have all the answers. Whether you’re untangling your own experience, worried about someone you love, or simply curious how smart, capable people get drawn into high-control groups, this book is the compassionate, no-BS field guide you’ve been waiting for. Part cautionary tale, part survival manual, and part rallying cry, A Little Bit Culty will leave you wiser, stronger, and far less likely to fall for anyone promising “transformation” at the cost of your autonomy. Welcome to the club—the one that helps you stay out of cults. ✖️✖️✖️ CONNECT WITH THE SHOW: preacherboyspodcast.com https://www.youtube.com/@PreacherBoys https://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdoc/ https://twitter.com/preacherboysdoc https://www.instagram.com/preacherboyspod https://www.tiktok.com/@preacherboyspod To connect with a community that shares the Preacher Boys Podcast's mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/ ✖️✖️✖️ The content presented in this video is for informational and educational purposes only. All individuals and entities discussed are presumed innocent until proven guilty through due legal process. The views and opinions expressed are those of the speakers. ✖️✖️✖️ Music by Lou Ridley — “Bible Belt” | Used with permission under license.

  2. Oct 10

    The Dark Side of Christian Worship Music: Money, Sex Appeal & Power

    Support the Show: Patreon.com/PreacherBoys✖️✖️✖️How did songs beloved by white evangelicals become the soundtrack of Christian nationalism? Author and former worship leader Rick Pidcock joins Eric Skwarczynski to unpack his new book, Weapons of Worship: How the Songs of Evangelicalism Form the Soundtrack of Extremism.We cover the history of the Christian entertainment industry, how a handful of megachurches control worship music, how money shapes the biggest hits, and why the sexualization of female worship leaders is built into the system.Grab a copy of Weapons of Worship: https://amzn.to/4edQi93Rick's. book is also available on Audible! Prime members get four months of Audible free for just 99 cents! Try it out here: https://amzn.to/4AfEDQw[As an Amazon associate I may receive a small commission from purchases made from links on this channel.]✖️✖️✖️CONNECT WITH THE SHOW:preacherboyspodcast.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@PreacherBoyshttps://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdoc/https://twitter.com/preacherboysdochttps://www.instagram.com/preacherboyspodhttps://www.tiktok.com/@preacherboyspodTo connect with a community that shares the Preacher Boys Podcast's mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/✖️✖️✖️The content presented in this video is for informational and educational purposes only. All individuals and entities discussed are presumed innocent until proven guilty through due legal process. The views and opinions expressed are those of the speakers.✖️✖️✖️Music by Lou Ridley — “Bible Belt” | Used with permission under license.

  3. Sep 27

    Sex Educator Reacts to Bad Evangelical Sex Advice and Purity Culture Preaching

    EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://bbvibes.com/preacherboys #bbpartner ✖️✖️✖️ Support the Show: Patreon.com/PreacherBoys ✖️✖️✖️ Erica Smith — sex educator and author of The Purity Culture Recovery Guide — is back on the Preacher Boys Podcast for another reaction episode, and this one is packed. Host Eric Skwarczynski shows Erica some of the worst clips circulating from evangelical influencers, purity culture preachers, and "manosphere" commentators talking about sex, modesty, masturbation, pornography, and relationships — and gets her honest, expert reaction to each one. Get a copy of The Purity Culture Recovery Guide: https://amzn.to/46FFlJt *As an Amazon associate, I receive a small commission from purchases made from links on this channel. ✖️✖️✖️ CONNECT WITH THE SHOW: preacherboyspodcast.com https://www.youtube.com/@PreacherBoys https://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdoc/ https://twitter.com/preacherboysdoc https://www.instagram.com/preacherboyspod https://www.tiktok.com/@preacherboyspod To connect with a community that shares the Preacher Boys Podcast's mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/ ✖️✖️✖️ The content presented in this video is for informational and educational purposes only. All individuals and entities discussed are presumed innocent until proven guilty through due legal process. The views and opinions expressed are those of the speakers. ✖️✖️✖️ Music by Lou Ridley — “Bible Belt” | Used with permission under license.

  4. Sep 20

    How "Nudify Apps," Grok, and Other AI Tools Are Being Used to Abuse Women

    EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/preacherboys-podcast #bbpartner ✖️✖️✖️ Support the Show: Patreon.com/PreacherBoys ✖️✖️✖️ Want deeper insight into this topic? Grab a copy of The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Gender Bias Are Reinventing Misogyny: https://amzn.to/4hAIS1IThis book is also available on Audible! Prime members get four months of Audible free for just 99 cents! Try it out here: https://amzn.to/4AfEDQw[As an Amazon associate I may receive a small commission from purchases made from links on this channel.] ✖️✖️✖️ This episode of the Preacher Boys Podcast covers the weaponization of AI image generation tools to create non-consensual sexual content, deepfakes, and child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This episode covers: — How X's AI tool Grok has been used to generate non-consensual sexualized images of real women at scale — Grok's own admission that it complies with sexualization requests with little to no safeguards — The alarming lack of age verification in AI image generation tools — Real cases of church leaders and Christian school staff using AI to create CSAM — The legal gray areas around AI-generated deepfakes, including a Wisconsin case where a CSAM possession charge was dismissed on First Amendment grounds — State-level fights over deepfake and "nudify" app legislation, including Minnesota's law and xAI's lawsuit against it — Why women already navigate a heightened sense of vigilance and safety, and how accessible AI tools are compounding that fear — The current federal stance on AI regulation and what it means for victims going forward ✖️✖️✖️ CONNECT WITH THE SHOW: preacherboyspodcast.com https://www.youtube.com/@PreacherBoys https://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdoc/ https://twitter.com/preacherboysdoc https://www.instagram.com/preacherboyspod https://www.tiktok.com/@preacherboyspod To connect with a community that shares the Preacher Boys Podcast's mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/ ✖️✖️✖️ The content presented in this video is for informational and educational purposes only. All individuals and entities discussed are presumed innocent until proven guilty through due legal process. The views and opinions expressed are those of the speakers. ✖️✖️✖️ Music by Lou Ridley — “Bible Belt” | Used with permission under license.

  5. Sep 15

    Why 16 Million Women Left the Church in 10 Years | Sarah Stankorb

    Purchase a copy of Damned if She Does: https://amzn.to/4xpoNAc Sarah's book is also available on Audible! Prime members get four months of Audible free for just 99 cents! Try it out here: https://amzn.to/4AfEDQw ✖️✖️✖️ Support the Show: Patreon.com/PreacherBoys ✖️✖️✖️ Ordinarily, women are more religious than men. But these are no ordinary times. In America, where Christianity is still the most common religion, women are vacating churches. In the past decade, 16 million women have left the church. Younger women are disaffiliating from religion faster than men. For some women, leaving is like a dramatic divorce; for others, as one woman tells Stankorb, it's more like women and the church "stopped calling each other." Exploring trends from the 1980s to today, Damned If She Does is an intimate account of women whose stories got missed during the Christian Right's headline-grabbing rise to power. Their exodus is marked by harm, disillusionment, and drift: from pastors' wives and a national Christian TV show host, to girls whose horrific abuse gives another face to the Catholic sex abuse crisis. Some couldn't stand by a church that cast out their queer friends. Others were maligned for who they loved. Churches with strong opinions on sexual purity and abortion stood beside men with histories of assault. With horror, women who loved the church watched the rise of Christian nationalism and saw their faith bastardized. Finally, they've had enough. Some are atheists. Others are forging new spiritual avenues through astrology or energy work or connection to their ancestors. Some have a Christian faith they no longer entrust to an institution. Attuned to emotional subtlety, women's agency, and religious longing, Stankorb asks what happens when a woman realizes that she's damned both if she stays and if she leaves. This consequential work of narrative nonfiction is a poignant reminder that women deserve better, and a tale of what happens when they don't get it. ✖️✖️✖️ CONNECT WITH THE SHOW: preacherboyspodcast.com https://www.youtube.com/@PreacherBoys https://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdoc/ https://twitter.com/preacherboysdoc https://www.instagram.com/preacherboyspod https://www.tiktok.com/@preacherboyspod To connect with a community that shares the Preacher Boys Podcast's mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/ ✖️✖️✖️ The content presented in this video is for informational and educational purposes only. All individuals and entities discussed are presumed innocent until proven guilty through due legal process. The views and opinions expressed are those of the speakers. ✖️✖️✖️ Music by Lou Ridley — “Bible Belt” | Used with permission under license. ✖️✖️✖️ As an Amazon associate I may receive a small commission from purchases made from links on this channel.

  6. Sep 13

    Do Christian Men Even Like Women? | The Dark Beliefs of the Trad Wife Movement

    EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/preacherboys-podcast#bbpartner✖️✖️✖️Support the Show: Patreon.com/PreacherBoys✖️✖️✖️CONNECT WITH THE SHOW:preacherboyspodcast.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@PreacherBoyshttps://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdoc/https://twitter.com/preacherboysdochttps://www.instagram.com/preacherboyspodhttps://www.tiktok.com/@preacherboyspodTo connect with a community that shares the Preacher Boys Podcast's mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/✖️✖️✖️The content presented in this video is for informational and educational purposes only. All individuals and entities discussed are presumed innocent until proven guilty through due legal process. The views and opinions expressed are those of the speakers.✖️✖️✖️Music by Lou Ridley — “Bible Belt” | Used with permission under license.

  7. Aug 23

    Reacting to Pastor Eddie Lapina's Purity Culture Sermon at FBC Hammond's Youth Conference

    EVERYONE who signs up to my giveaway will receive a FREE Rose suction toy with their @bellesaco order!  https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/preacherboys-podcast #bbpartner ✖️✖️✖️ In this episode of the Preacher Boys Podcast, host Eric Skwarczynski reacts to a purity culture sermon preached by Eddie Lapina, assistant pastor at First Baptist Church of Hammond, at a youth conference. Using two apples as an object lesson, Lapina compares sexual activity to bruising and "splitting open" fruit that forever loses it's value. Eric unpacks the sermon's violent language around sex, the objectification baked into purity culture teaching, and how this kind of messaging disproportionately targets young women. He also reacts to the moment Lapina brings his own granddaughter on stage as a live illustration for the sermon, and shares insight from sex educator Erica Smith on how purity culture teaching can compound harm for survivors of sexual abuse. ✖️✖️✖️ CONNECT WITH THE SHOW: preacherboyspodcast.com https://www.youtube.com/@PreacherBoys https://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdoc/ https://twitter.com/preacherboysdoc https://www.instagram.com/preacherboyspod https://www.tiktok.com/@preacherboyspod To connect with a community that shares the Preacher Boys Podcast's mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/ ✖️✖️✖️ The content presented in this video is for informational and educational purposes only. All individuals and entities discussed are presumed innocent until proven guilty through due legal process. The views and opinions expressed are those of the speakers. ✖️✖️✖️ Music by Lou Ridley — “Bible Belt” | Used with permission under license.

  8. Aug 20

    BIG ANNOUNCEMENT — I’m so glad I don’t have to keep this a secret any more!

    Support the Show: Patreon.com/PreacherBoys ✖️✖️✖️ I hate surprises. I hate having to keep secrets. I cannot handle it one bit. Ask my wife. I am the guy who always buys gifts weeks early and then wants to give them the minute I get home. Having to keep a secret for months is EXCRUCIATING. In April 2022, I filmed for a documentary series called Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals — and then had to keep it under wraps for a year and a half, until the show premiered in November 2023. By the time the trailer premiered I was DYING. That’s why I’m so relieved that I can officially, finally announce that in December 2025, I flew across the country to film for another hush hush television series — and now, almost 8 months later, I can tell you about it! Variety reports, “Season 2 of Toxic, the Elizabeth Chambers-hosted true crime series that explores poisonous romantic relationships and the trauma they cause, will premiere on Investigation Discovery on Sept. 15. According to ID’s announcement, the series will continue doing what it does best, following “Chambers as she speaks with survivors of toxic relationships, domestic abuse, and intimate partner violence and explores cases from all over the country.” I think my audience will be interested to know that one episode in particular is going to feature a case about coercion and abuse within an Independent Fundamental Baptist church — and it’s going to feature my friend and survivor, Sarah Jackson! The best part of the whole experience was that after years of talking virtually, I got to fly out and meet her in person. The episodes premiere on ID at 10 pm ET/PT on Tuesdays, and roll out weekly, also streaming on HBO Max — this episode looks like it’ll land somewhere in the latter half of the releases. I'm so excited to see this episode air, and for Sarah's story to reach more people who might need to hear it. I can’t wait to see how this turned out, and I’m honored I got to participate. Elizabeth was incredible — even if she was concerned about my Red Bull intake on set. And the rest of the crew were clearly talented and also so kind and accommodating as well. Really enjoyed getting to have a lot of great conversations on and off-camera with them. A cool bonus piece of context is that Toxic is going to appear on Investigation Discovery — which is where Let Us Prey premiered a few years ago, so it’s cool to be back on the same network. But another cool piece of context is that this particular project is produced by Breaklight Pictures — they have an amazing track record, putting out shows like Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed. Great company to be in. Obviously can’t share much more now, just wanted to drop something on the channel and podcast feed to let you know to keep an eye out for Season 2 of Toxic! Throw a reminder on your calendar, set that TiVo, get that blank VHS ready… or just tune in to HBO Max… that probably makes the most sense. https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/toxic-season-2-trailer-elizabeth-chambers-id-series-premiere-date-1236834163/ ✖️✖️✖️ CONNECT WITH THE SHOW: preacherboyspodcast.com https://www.youtube.com/@PreacherBoys https://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdoc/ https://twitter.com/preacherboysdoc https://www.instagram.com/preacherboyspod https://www.tiktok.com/@preacherboyspod To connect with a community that shares the Preacher Boys Podcast's mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/ ✖️✖️✖️ The content presented in this video is for informational and educational purposes only. All individuals and entities discussed are presumed innocent until proven guilty through due legal process. The views and opinions expressed are those of the speakers. ✖️✖️✖️ Music by Lou Ridley — “Bible Belt” | Used with permission under license.

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An ex-fundamentalist sheds light on the dark side of the church… from the pulpit to the pews.

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  • Creator
    Eric Skwarczynski
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    446
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Eric Skwarczynski
  • Show Website
    Preacher Boys Podcast
  • Provider
    Eric Skwarczynski

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