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Lauren Drain Kagan (IG: @LaurenDrainFit) is a New York Times Best Selling Author with her book Banished: Surviving My Years in Westboro Baptist Church. She's a registered nurse, certified personal trainer and mother. She's a WBFF pro and currently has almost 4 million followers on Instagram. Learn more about Michael's Men of Action Mentoring Program: https://go.moamentoring.com/i/2 Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelSartain Listen on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-michael-sartain-podcast/id1579791157 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2faAYwvDD9Bvkpwv6umlPO?si=8Q3ak9HnSlKjuChsTXr6YQ&dl_branch=1 Filmed at Sticky Paws Studios: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UComrBVcqGLDs3Ue-yWAft8w 0:00 Intro 0:58 First time meeting Lauren 1:21 Making influencers three-dimensional 2:20 *Amazing story getting out of a cult 4:32 Inconsistencies with the Bible 6:09 Purpose for writing the book 7:09 Sexual improprieties, Alcohol use 8:41 Confusion about sex after marriage 9:17 Misogyny, arranged marriages and control 12:05 Margaret Atwood and the Handmaid's Tale 13:15 *Westborough Baptist Church protests 15:50 *Getting media attention 16:31 *They were the only people going to heaven 18:20 Nothing was forgivable 19:16 Other hypocrisies 22:11 Definition of a cult 24:53 Physical abuse 27:07 Different ethnic groups and Revelations 29:27 The death of Pastor Phelps 34:53 More discrepancies with the Bible 36:45 Beliefs that stay with you after you escape 41:53 *Deprogramming yourself 46:07 Sex in the Bible 46:36 Evolution 48:51 Vladimir Putin 50:13 Oppression against Jews 52:36 Moonlanding conspiracy 53:00 Going to public school while being part of a cult 56:00 Sharpied out of family photos 57:23 Narcissistic supply 59:05 Lubyanka prison and the KGB 1:00:53 Defecting from the cult and feeling suicidal 1:02:15 PTSD and therapy 1:03:52 Forgiveness 1:06:17 *My father's death 1:08:15 Aria Sky Kagan 1:09:50 Transitioning out of the cult 1:11:53 Ex best friend 1:13:54 Lauren's mom 1:15:05 Transition back into dating 1:18:01 Meeting your husband on Match.com 1:21:15 *You're not girlfriend material 1:23:06 *A relationship in Las Vegas 1:24:29 California is a terrible place to live 1:26:14 Signs that David was the one 1:29:16 Preventative side of healthcare 1:31:03 When did you realize you could get this ripped? 1:33:09 Competing in the northeast 1:36:30 Transition away from nursing 1:38:28 What is the thing most trainers are getting wrong? 1:40:43 @TheNurseMary: Coworkers judgmental about OnlyFans 1:44:00 Huge influencers who don't do nudes on OnlyFans 1:47:22 Instagram is like an abusive boyfriend 1:48:55 Complications during pregnancy, sciatica 1:50:30 Post baby workout routine 1:51:43 Posting your relationship on Instagram 1:56:15 *Not available during my growth on Instagram 1:57:45 Jamie Villamor: When are you going to work out with me? 2:00:23 Testosterone and estrogen 2:02:56 *I'd like to f$&k my wife once in a while 2:05:30 *Test is the reason for this podcast 2:07:50 *UNLV study 2:10:40 What charities do you support? 2:11:28 How many people have left Westboro Baptist church? 2:13:01 Living in Las Vegas 2:14:40 Favorite people to work with, Mike Tang 2:16:47 *Monogamy 2:19:00 Anyone you don't like to work with 2:22:49 *Jamie Villamor 2:24:03 Book advance 2:25:09 Legal ramifications of the book 2:28:21 How do you know you're in a toxic situation? 2:31:07 Outro
Are you ready to know the truth? What you always thought you knew about the Westborough Baptist Church is about to be flipped on his head. Another installment of Stories For The People, this was submitted by Vic Cedeno, good thing I was able to create something amazing out of his lackluster story prompt.
On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we look at quite literally the worst church ever, the Westboro Baptist Church. Made famous for their slogan “God hates fags” (sorry for how many times we end up saying that in this episode!!!), this group is far from a traditional church with large numbers as they would have America believe. Indeed, they are a small, incestuous family community of around 80 members at their largest. They are a small, evil cult founded by the one-time Baptist preacher named Fred Waldron Phelps. Phelps basically stole a church from another church group and started to run it as a hate-fueled base for his family to make money, and he did a pretty good job at it. He raised his children to become lawyers, police, and correctional officers in prisons, and he started to keep the small church afloat by winning lawsuits against, well, everyone. All the while, he started to turn his church into what he called a picketing ministry. You see, on Oct. 12, 1998, a gay student named Matthew Shepard was killed in a brutal hate crime because he was gay. The douche bags at Westborough Baptist Church protested his funeral with the famous sign “God hates fags,” and the rest was history. (They even wanted to build a granite memorial that said he was burning in hell, but they were denied…) From there, they started to protest everything and blame every single ill in the nation on homosexuality and how much God hates gay people. Murder? God hates gay people. Soldiers killed by road side bombs? God hates gay people. 9/11? God hates gay people? They Jews? God hates gay people? Justin Bieber? God hates gay people. Seriously, they are like a Pokemon who can only speak by saying their name, but their name is God hates gay people. From their horrible song parodies against Michael Jackson, to their endless battles in court that they always seem to win, this cult of arse holes keeps on going. They lie and claim they protested over 40,000 events, but they really just post about them on their website. So, what exactly is their belief system? What ended up happening to the founder to get him kicked out of the church? What happened with his funeral? Why are so many younger members of the family defecting? Why do even the KKK hate the jack holes at Westboro Baptist? Listen, laugh, learn. Great Article: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/westboro-baptist-church
This week on Episode 57 of Bobby Pickles' Podcast (Episode 2 of Dying Scene Radio), Bobby prepares for a “blizzard of epic proportions” in Connecticut, while Bob sits at home in Florida wearing shorts and a T-Shirt. Together, they plow through another week’s worth of new music and highlight this week’s happenings, as reported by dyingscene.com. BAND SPOTLIGHT: Things Change This week’s BAND SPOTLIGHT is on the Canadian punk rock trio, Things Change. Often compared to Small Brown Bike, Hot Water Music and Jawbreaker, Jason Kindrachuk, the band’s guitarist/singer, talks to Bob and Bobby about the band’s origins in the prairies of Regina, Saskatchewan and how each band member migrated individually over 1700 kilometers to reform in Vancouver. The conversation turns to breaking into the Vancouver music scene and how Things Change gained their Facebook following of teenage girls who have recently broken up with their boyfriends. Bobby gets up close and personal with Damn Broads, an all-female punk band out of Torrington, Connecticut. The interview is conducted on-location at Snapper Magee’s from the stage where the ladies recently shot a new music video for their song, “I’m A Fake”, which can be heard here. While drinking shots of Jameson, these hardcore hunnies talk about playing nazi-bars and writing songs about the Westborough Baptist Church, while Bobby reveals his love and admiration for Mariah Carey…and that was only after the first round! You can watch the interview in its entirety on the DSR YouTube page. …Never forget the BliZZard of 2015. Here is this week’s playlist… Grenadiers – Factotum Maypole – Fire On The Stage Body Count – Institutionalized Stick To Your Guns – RMA (Revolutionary Mental Attitude) ft. Toby Morse Things Change – Modern Explorers Western Settings – Get It, Got It Science Club – Bad At Parties Damn Broads – I’m A Fake Raised Fist – Flow PIG PEN – Diarrhea and Febreeze Nick Ameen ft. Bob Noxious – Diarrhea of a Mailman Shit Hits The Fan – All In You Know Who – Marshall Stacks and Alcohol
This week on Dying Scene Radio, Bobby prepares for a “blizzard of epic proportions” in Connecticut, while Bob sits at home in Florida wearing shorts and a T-Shirt. Together, they plow through another week’s worth of new music and highlights, as reported by dyingscene.com.BAND SPOTLIGHT: Things ChangeThis week’s BAND SPOTLIGHT is on the Canadian punk rock trio, Things Change. Often compared to Small Brown Bike, Hot Water Music and Jawbreaker, Jason Kindrachuk, the band’s guitarist/singer, talks to Bob and Bobby about the band’s origins in the prairies of Regina, Saskatchewan and how each band member migrated individually over 1700 kilometers to reform in Vancouver. The conversation turns to breaking into the Vancouver music scene and how Things Change gained their Facebook following of teenage girls who have recently broken up with their boyfriends.Bobby gets up close and personal with Damn Broads, an all-female punk band out of Torrington, Connecticut. The interview is conducted on-location at Snapper Magee’s from the stage where the ladies recently shot a new music video for their song, “I’m A Fake”, which can be heard here. While drinking shots of Jameson, these hardcore hunnies talk about playing nazi-bars and writing songs about the Westborough Baptist Church, while Bobby reveals his love and admiration for Mariah Carey…and that was only after the first round! You can watch the interview in its entirety HERE.…Never forget the BliZZard of 2015.Here is this week’s playlist…Grenadiers – FactotumMaypole – Fire On The StageBody Count – InstitutionalizedStick To Your Guns – RMA (Revolutionary Mental Attitude) ft. Toby MorseThings Change – Modern ExplorersWestern Settings – Get It, Got ItScience Club – Bad At PartiesDamn Broads – I’m A FakeRaised Fist – FlowPIG PEN – Diarrhea and FebreezeNick Ameen ft. Bob Noxious – Diarrhea of a MailmanSh!t Hits The Fan – All InYou Know Who – Marshall Stacks and Alcohol
In this edition of the Round Table we do movies news about The Big Lebowski 2 and the Labyrinth 2 hoax, and also review Red 2 and Rush. We do another report on Ebola and ISIS and M. Night Shamalayan in our worst things ever segment. We do a Westborough Baptist Church update, and then we talk about how crazy jai a'lai is. We do a big Saint Louis sports breakdown with the Cardinals, Blues, and Rams, and then we talk about songs that pump us up. We wrap up with some Halloween talk and parenting tips. Enjoy.
TBTL chats with a guy in the middle of painting his house, the house he bought directly across the street from the gay-hating Westborough Baptist Church.