On this episode of Bad Associations Chev chats with POMO Brian who has been out of the cult for 14 years. He started questioning the faith around 24 years old while studying The Daniel Book in 2006. He left soon after in 2008 after having no one to confide in. We discuss The Watchtower's inconsistencies, birthdays, Thanksgiving, being inactive and making friends outside of the organization.

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On this episode of Bad Associations Chev chats with POMO Brittany. We discuss a broad list of topics such as her getting disfellowshipped at only 14 then married at only 19 and the complexities of her JW parents having a relationship with her son. Also if anyone knows - what is the explanation a JW would give as to why dinosaurs are not in the bible?

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This episode of Bad Associations Podcast is of Chev speaking POMO D. The story of first awakening, online researching and the feeling of being on your own after exiting.

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On this episode of Bad Associations Chev chats with POMO Jakob. At the time of recording Jakob had been inactive for 6 months. We discussed how being a JW was his only identity after starting to study on his own at around 12 years old. He wanted to get baptized as soon as possible and immediately became a pioneer in 2019. He also describes his experience of JW conversion therapy with elders and the fear of being abandoned after his eyes were opened. In this episode you will also get to hear about his great friend who was more of a support and showed more unconditional love to him than anyone in the org.

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On this episode of Bad Associations Chev chats with POMO Isabel. Isabel had an eye opening experience at 6 years old after watching the films

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This episode of Bad Associations Podcast Chev listens to Eri's story as they explain starting to question the JW faith at 5 years, being baptized at 16 and what led to their exit. They attended what I believe to be a unique school seeing as it was a JW only private school. Have you ever heard of those? They also discuss how their partner went along in pretending that they were also studying to be a JW - just to keep the peace a little longer. Eri hopes to write a memoir eventually and I cannot wait to read it.

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On this BONUS episode of Bad Associations Chev chats with POMO Scott the documentarian behind the new film Witness Underground please check out his Patreon by clicking here and show support to Scott who has went above and beyond on his mission of advocacy. On this episode we talk about his first prayer to Jehovah being zero waste of time as he dove right into questioning the 144,000. He also discusses music in the JW community, the film festival industry and how JW magazines and books are no different than junk mail. Ok enough about the pod - GO WATCH THE FILM!!

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On this episode of Bad Associations Chev chats with POMO Joaquin who started questioning the cult very young but had his critical thinking shut down. We discussed lying on timecards, going to a convention while disfellowshipped and questioning the 1919 storyline.

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On this episode of Bad Associations Chev chats with POMO Diana who has been out of the cult for almost 10 years. We chat about feeling trapped by baptism and ending a JW engagement. She also makes a great point of why she thinks the public announcement should be different for disassociating versus disfellowshipping.

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On this episode of Bad Associations Chev chats with Jason. He was baptized in 1995 and disfellowshipped in 2001. He is most known for being the creator of AVOIDJW.ORG my go to source for all things JW. We talk about the site, and how he went from a true believer to one of the loudest exJW advocates and how there is "great freedom in leaving".

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