The Cult of Warren Jeff’s FLDS Pt1: “Keep Sweet”

The Cult of Warren Jeff’s FLDS Pt1: “Keep Sweet”

Published on Jul 23
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<p>Before he was your favorite podcast host, Tyler Measom was… just a dude with a camera and a crush.</p><p><br></p><p>It was 2005, and Tyler found himself driving deep into FLDS polygamist territory - with his co-director-slash-maybe-love-interest (hey, Jennilyn) - to make a documentary about the "Lost Boys" exiled from a fundamentalist Mormon cult run by none other than slimeball Warren Jeffs. That little film? Sons of Perdition premiered at Tribeca.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And one of the mothers at the heart of that story? Jorjina Broadbent.</p><p><br></p><p>This week, Jorjina, mother of twelve (yes, twelve), former sister-wife - joins us to recount what life was really like inside the FLDS: arranged marriage, relentless obedience, magical underwear, and raising a family in a trailer where babies sometimes had to sleep in drawers.</p><p><br></p><p>And the escape is hair raising. And Tyler was there to capture it.</p><p><br></p><p>This is Part One of Jorjina’s extraordinary story.</p>...