Interview · moment 5 of 13
Dance-Fighting for Jesus and the Yates Family Drowning Story
from Happy Wife Happy Life · #115
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8 minGuest
Moses describes his great uncle's family capoeira dance-fighting as a conversion tactic, his parents' complicated marriage (his gay father), and reveals the cult's third family were the Yateses, leading into the horrifying true story of Andrea Yates drowning her five children.
- 10:58Tim learns that the kids weren't sent to school, which is illegal.
- 11:12Guest's mother regrets not sending her kids to school, ranking it second only to not getting a turkey meatloaf recipe from Grandma.
- 11:44Guest has only attended two months of school in his entire life.
- 12:00Mother's scheme to collect welfare: forge enrollment paperwork and use Whiteout to fake grades for the other kids.
- 12:19Tim compares the mother's forgery operation to rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can.
- 13:29The family spent significant time in Panama City, Florida, targeting spring break crowds for street preaching.
- 14:06Tim notes how many LA friends he has could logically join a collective instead of living their current lives.
- 15:18Guest's father is a pushover who goes along with living in a cult bus because his wife wanted it.
- 15:45Guest's mother bullied his father—who was gay—into a relationship; they got pregnant at six months before marriage.
- 16:41Great uncle Michael and his eight kids would do capoeira—dance fighting—on the street as a conversion tactic for Jesus.
- 17:07Tim asks how dance fighting became part of the street preaching recruitment strategy.
- 18:02Michael started the movement after getting injured during his Michigan State football career and crediting God with walking him off the field.
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