I Met My Cult Leader At the Beach w/ Hoyt Richards, ex-Eternal Values - S1E9pt1

IndoctriNation - A podcast by Rachel Bernstein

Rachel speaks with scholar, filmmaker, athlete, and former model Hoyt Richards on how he met a man, as a teenager, named Freddy-- who manipulated him into joining the Eternal Values religious cult. For Part 2 of the interview, the episode is only available at http://www.Patreon.com/Indoctrination. Hoyt describes the cult's descent into apocalyptic paranoia, the hours of abuse and public shaming that followers suffered almost daily, and how he finally escaped and got his life back.