Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War ep2 – Live Reaction

The first episode got me hyped but the next-episode teaser had clips that made me nervous. To me, episode 1 is more just history and exposition. I relate to a lot of the discussion but this was more educational than therapeutic since ATF and GE were always highlights. The teaser suggested to me that the next episode won’t be all sunshine and rainbows.

If you’re a weirdo like me and you like jumping into the middle of a series without seeing the first part, here’s how this post works. I  have included a time stamp then jotted some thoughts in response to what was discussed or shown on screen. Then I returned to this draft after some sleep to fine-tune these reactions into an actually coherent thought. I anticipate that some of these thoughts might need more commentary added so I’ll italicize the text to make these commentaries apparent. My goal is to try to keep my additional commentary to a minimum but there are some topics in this documentary that warrant more thought, especially this episode because some of my reactions were just an expletive.

Full disclosure, I watched all three episodes the evening it came out then rewatched it again the following weekend. Here are my thoughts and reactions in the second viewing. Lastly, I added context clues to each timestamp after the fact.

My roommates and I had a lot of conversation between episodes. Before this episode, we talked about the atmosphere of the stadium during an ATF. After wrangling their kids, we started discussing how well I handled the first episode vis-a-vis triggers and tough emotions. It was actually easy for me because ATF and GE was always wonderful. Of course, there were a lot of questionable practices and I should have been worried about a lot of things, namely one poor girl drifting in and out of consciousness for a couple of hours during one of my trips. I then had the Freudian slip that ATF was always “pleasurable.” Coily, I tried to correct with “pleasant” but let’s be honest, those endorphins hit hard. The high even lasts for days.

Anyway, onto episode 2. And man, this one is a doozy for me!

@00:00 lol I sold my honor ring in 2013. I even bought the old-school ring and wore both rings on each hand. Double honor! I think I sold them for ten bucks. I never got the money…

@01:30 Okay, be honest, who else chanted with their TV? I did, much to my roommates’ confusion.

@01:40 (Phil explains the rule of never putting Teen Mania in a negative light. How one can never speak ill of the ministry. Phil then admits that he has broken this rule.) Me too, Phil, me too. Honestly, I feel like this is why pro-TM people came out of the woodwork to harangue the blog last decade. We were simply saying the emperor has no clothes which, under normal circumstances would be no big deal and an easy fix: clothe the emperor! Instead, the Emperor has thin skin and took offense to being called wrong.

@3:50 (Mica explains about how we were told that we would take Christianity, or the Gospel for me, to where it hasn’t been before: media, politics, and education. For Mica, the logical step was to join the Honor Academy so that they could be surrounded with bold, passionate, on-fire Christians wanting to be world changers.) Like Mica, I too was consumed by the call. I enjoyed my trips and I knew that I wanted to go into long-term missions. So why not go to the Honor Academy? Then I would join the International House of Prayer (IHOP) and most likely return to Teen Mania for some more time. Being a Lifer was very much on the radar, especially as I was getting into my groove in the internship.

@6:00 (One of the first things you do at the cult is a sort of “amnesty” where you have to purge anything worldly. So if you came into the Honor Academy with your favorite AC/DC CD, you had to chuck it. Sometimes in the trash, but I guess there were bonfires too?) I was a total nerd. I don’t think that I had anything secular with me. I read the rules and had been on so many GE trips that I already knew the drill. At least, I don’t remember having to destroy any of my media possessions. I do think that I had some secular music saved on my computer now that the mp3 format was getting popular. That said, I didn’t listen to them. I may have broken some of the standard, but that wasn’t one of them.

@9:15 (The documentary shows people engaging in what we called “corporate exercise.” Normal people familiar with the military would call it PT. Other clips show ESOAL and other physical exercises. We had a few mantras down at the cult and one big one was “I beat my body and make it my slave.”) Oh man, I missed Corey’s comment about “make it your slave” when I this the first time. There’s a lot of issues surrounding race at TMM and I think that would be an interesting discussion to have. I would love to hear more from the POC perspective. I’m so glad that I’m seeing comments on TikTok appreciating what Corey had to say and that POC alumni are agreeing that this is a conversation that needs to happen.

@13:20 (Phil describes working in the ATF call center, which is what they’re showing on screen. There was ATF, GE, and HA and all 3 had their own call centers. The majority of interns were callers.) Oh my goodness! I sucked at the call center. Soul killing indeed! I felt the grind and I just could not be bold enough to refute some of the criticisms of the cult. The MOB had a book of arguments and rebutts, including why we weren’t a cult. We had to make like 50 or 60 calls in a day as the promotions team. Of course, starting an application was worth a few points. Filling out the other required forms, collecting the application fee, getting a profile pic were worth two calls each, I think. Finishing the whole package of an application was worth like 5 calls. There was indeed a quota system and I hated that job!

@14:17 (Obviously not everyone liked their job. So, what happens if you voice your concerns/frustrations about your placement? What if you feel like you would be more effective elsewhere? Well, the image tells you what. Ultimately, you need to die to yourself. Liz describes it as, “Your life means nothing compared to the purpose.) Dying to self was drilled into me. I hated my job but this was my position and I needed to grow. Mind you, I wasn’t really mentored to get better, just told that I need to be better. This was also very true during my GI year.

@16:40 (The Honor Academy had a strict code of conduct. Lots of rules on what can or cannot be done, including relationships and cross-gender contact. The documentary goes on to interview Joshua Harris, known for his book I Kissed Dating Goodbye which went on to become a cornerstone for purity culture.) Purity culture is also a topic I would like to address. I really bought into it, in theory at least, and felt so much shame about it. While I have my own thoughts and critiques for purity culture, I am not of the demographic most hurt by this belief system. If any women or AFAB individuals would like to also offer their insight, I would love to offer guest posts on the topic.

I would also like to address the discourse I have been seeing surrounding Josh’s inclusion of this documentary. Joshua Harris has gone on record to denounce his own book and has also announced that he had deconstructed. This is all well and good, but many people feel like letting him keep his platform makes his deconstruction feel insincere. I am proud of him for apologizing, but it does feel weird to have him still be preaching even if the message has changed, you know? Ultimately, I’m not sure where I stand on the matter and I am also wondering how I would feel if TM leadership also recognized their damage and tried reconciling. If Ron magically woke up one morning where it all finally clicked for him and he apologized, would I still be comfortable with him running a ministry?

@17:20 You know… I’m pretty sure Josh got me into wearing the fedora.

@17:40 not gonna lie, Joshua, you can still get it! Probably not from me, but quite a few people are still down bad!

@19:00 (Discussions shift to the rules and the Honor Code. They hint at the legalism at the internship but it’s worse than how they describe it in the documentary.) Confrontations were definitely us big brothering ourselves. Like, TM was always watching because there were hundreds of people seeking to remove any and all dishonor. There is one intern in particular that comes to mind when I think about the confrontational nature of TM. A pompous douche who grinned gleefully whenever he confronted me. It seemed like he was experiencing the same level of glee in telling me what I was doing wrong as one would for bringing someone to Christ. What was I doing wrong, you ask? Well, with him, my hair was too long.

I don’t think that the documentary goes into it, but we also had accountability cards that we filled out every week. This was part of our grade and if your score was too low, then you might go before the Honor Council and be placed on probation. I wanted to join the Intensive Elective Training program but couldn’t get in on my first application because my score was too low and deemed not disciplined enough to balance the extra load. So I started lying on my card. I eventually got into IET but did not finish it so I’m not a PUMA. Oh shucks…

@22:15 (As TM interns, we had to be above reproach. If it looked even remotely like something was against the rules, we were getting confronted. Definitely a “Watch what you say, what you do, AND what you think!” Honestly, it’s amazing we didn’t have someone follow Jesus’ teaching literally and actually lop off a hand or something.) Wait, they’re not going to talk about intern dating?! That was the typical “appearance of evil” I remember seeing during my time. For those not in the know, “intern dating” is when a man and a woman starting spending a lot of time together. They’re eating meals together, sitting near each other in classes/chapel. Essentially, they look like they’re dating without any of the actual PDA since that would get you kicked out. In my experience, it was just two people who really clicked and became friends.

@23:00 (Going back to race and Corey’s poignant point of “There wasn’t really any space for racial identity.” I’m low-key surprised that Corey was allowed to get corn rows braided at all.) I always felt that there was an elephant in the room regarding race at TM. While I was colorblind back then, the sheer difference demographics were obvious even to me. During my time, I believe there were 3 black interns, maybe 6 if we count GI. Perhaps a dozen black people if we include staff. That would make up about a tenth of a percent of the TM population. Weeks before I finally left, my manager was a bro and hosted a Christmas party at his place in Hideaway, a gated community. We had a black man on our team and the manager joked about him needing to duck down in the backseat as we passed through the gate. The joke being along the lines of “We can’t be letting them know we snuck/let a black inside!” (intentional problematic wording to emphasize the poor taste) We of course all laughed, including him. Now that I am older, wiser, and trying to be anti-racist, I now wonder how sincere those chuckles from him were or if he was just code switched. Actually, POC alumni, how often did you guys code switch? Or were you permanently stuck in dealing with whitey so there really wasn’t any switching?

@23:45 (Moving onto the cherry on top of this shit sundae. Life Transforming Events or LTEs were a huge highlight to the program.) LTEs were my jam! I loved talking about these when I called teenagers and begged them to apply so I could boost my numbers. Silver linings and whatnot… These things were so big that almost every LTE was split across two weekends so every intern could participate without shutting down the whole ministry.

We need to address some oversight in journalism here. This isn’t a problem with just Amazon or Shiny Happy People but more of a trend in reporting on LTEs at TM in general. Everyone seems to focus on the big ones: Unreached People Group (UPG) and ESOAL since they’re the dramatic and super culty ones. I was actually thrown off when they showed World Awareness later on. Okay, well, “triggered” is the correct word, but I was surprised by its inclusion once I was done being triggered… If you aren’t an alumnus, there were many Life Transforming Events, in order from an August’s perspective:

• Gauntlet (first week of internship and was onboarding)
• Endurance LTE (Climb a mountain for Jesus!)
• ESOAL
• Vision LTE (fall fasting) 3 days of no speaking or eating. Just worship and devotion time.
• Gauntlet but for the Januaries
• Fasting LTE (spring)
• “Endurance” LTE (Run a 10k for Jesus! Only one of these is the actual Endurance but I don’t remember which)
• Men’s/Women’s LTE (How to be a good man/woman of God! The inspiration behind Ned Flanders from the Simpsons was there my year)
• Unreached People Group
• World Awareness LTE
• Celebration (An Olympics of various sports, company picnic games like pie eating and synchronized swimming, ended with a mandatory track meet)
• Crosswalk for the older interns. This was discontinued during my time and I feel like ESOAL was supposed to be its replacement, although I think there was one year with both LTEs.

@24:50 (Dani describes the vague language used in the handbook but ultimately boils down various activities to “Christian LARPing” [Live Action Role Play]) Didn’t really catch Jeff Sharlet’s comment the first two times around but I’m catching it now. Jeff Sharlet talks about how the goal is to blur the lines between fantasy and reality. Fun story: before I found this blog, I knew I was crazy. I couldn’t tell you how or why I felt that way other than I was depressed and anxious but something inside was screaming that I was not right in the head. I’m pretty sure it was PTSD from the cult. I had a couple of psych evals done and one of the diagnoses was my inability to adequately separate fact and fiction. I wish I had the wherewithal at the moment to ask the basis for that diagnosis. It’s not like I imagine I’m in a fantasy realm and I inadvertently step in front of traffic thinking I’m chasing a bee or something. I think there were just some things I said that were really off but in the moment I felt like it was normal. Stuff like being prophetic and other charismatic Christianisms.

@25:20 (We have been talking about the Unreached People Group. Pretending to visit a 10-40 window country where Christianity is illegal so we had to smuggle Bibles and Jesus in.) I was so cringe during my UPG. I was on the missionary side and I think I tried converting the government was more my goal, using what I learned the prior week in our Apologetics class. For the less-than-honorable interns, we had another name for the UPG: the No-Rules LTE. The tribes had a lot of leeway in developing their customs, as you can see in the documentary. Things like rituals, taboos, and mores that, which included actions that if done at any other time in the internship you would potentially get kicked out. The stories from these UPGs, the lore behind the scenes, include things like wild parties and potential demonic possessions and exorcisms. I think the possessions were part of the act, but interns did report legitimate feelings of evil around the woods. I think I also remember some talk about horrible gender roles in these tribes and even sexual assault. It’s almost like Mad Max but with black and brownface. During my time, the tribes were assigned an actual real-world people group to research and study so they could really get into the roleplaying. This could have been an interesting sociological activity if only it didn’t get too Stanford Prison Experiment.

@26:40ish (Shifting from the UPG and onto the Crosswalk LTE.) I was way after the Crosswalk era. Instead, they still would wake us up some random weeknight at 2 am and march us to the back 40. This was a part of Specialized Training Initiative but several of us just called it Shoot The Intern. It was at least an elective training initiative but it was pitched as a way to get pushed a little more. They didn’t tell us what all was involved other than that we’d get yoinked from our beds and do stuff. It was kind of like a mini-ESOAL but we had no idea what we were getting into and I’m pretty sure we were sworn to secrecy after the fact so no one “missed out on the extra stretching” or some BS. I’ll break the secrecy, you got shot at with paintballs. You had to move from point A to point B without getting shot. One place it was more of a capture the flag kind of thing. Another place you had to run through a clearing or something. I’m blanking on the particulars despite having done it twice and facilitating/planning it my GI year.

@29:30 (The interviewer asks Carrie if she assumed that she would die as a martyr as a kid.) I was also going to be a martyr. I believe I mentioned it in my last post. I felt this call when I was like 10 or 11. I read Jesus Freaks by DC Talk, which was a compilation of martyrs and how they died for Jesus over the past millennia. I knew that I was called to China and since Christianity is illegal over there (or was or maybe this was just propaganda) I will most likely be thrown in prison and need to die for my faith. To this day, I struggle with the idea of growing old. The idea of my body wearing down and no longer being able to use it terrifies me. When my wife saw this segment and heard me talk about how I too planned on being a martyr, her response was, “Well no wonder you are afraid of getting old!” I think it’s very much akin to people who struggled with suicide as teens/young adults. You spend so much time assuming that you’re going to off yourself that the concept of reaching adulthood is foreign. So for those of us who manage to get past our suicidalities, we really struggle with adulthood because as Dante Hicks put it:

@30:00 (Ray Boltz’s I Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb where a father explains to his son how Christianity is illegal, punishable by death. This was done inside a prison cell.) I remember watching this music video when I was a kid, about the same age as the kid in the video. I completely forgot about it until now, but wow! No wonder I thought about martyrdom when I’m exposed to this mentality as a child.

@32:30 (Talking about Day One, an ATF on a grander scale or a proto-BattleCry. Columbine had occurred and Ron co-opted the story to build up the fervor.) I was still fairly young when Columbine happened. It was scary but it was so rare back then. My first year teaching was rough when we went into level 2 lockdown twice in a school year. Now, much like how I imagined getting martyred, I just assume that I’ll get gunned down as a teacher. My town has a memorial for teachers who were victims of school shootings and it sucks seeing names getting added year after year. Call your fuckin senators! They’re too worried about the fake threat of litter boxes in schools but refuse to talk about the actual talk about putting buckets in classrooms for when lock downs reach hour 6 and no one has been allowed to go to the bathroom.

@36:32 Not to go Godwin’s Law, but anyone getting Hitler vibes from Ron? I hear the passion and cadence in Ron’s speech and it eerily reminds me of hearing Hitler’s speeches. Both have a shaking of fists and crowds going crazy. I don’t think that Ron = Hitler by any stretch of the imagination. Ron hasn’t committed genocide. But Hitler did have impassioned speeches about the youth being our hope for the next generation as well as speeches about infiltrating every part of society: school, politics, commerce, etc and how we need to get the country back to its traditional values. Likewise, Ron did too. The ends aren’t the same nor are the means, but it’s odd looking at this from an outsider’s perspective well after the fact.

Hitler at the Opening Ceremony for the Olympics.

The crowd goes wild as Ron pumps his fist to punctuate each statement about pursuing God relentlessly.

@37:15 Yippee ESOAL…. Honestly, I’m not sure what more to add here. We’ve all seen the clips, we know what it looks like and how crazy that we were subjected to this. If you’re not familiar with ESOAL, these are all excellent clips that show how horrendous it was but you must remember, they’re not showing everything. It was worse. There are so many “evolutions” (what we called activities). It’s weird seeing clips of my friends and roommates again but it’s terrible seeing them in this context.

@38:00 (Trigger #1) That was fairly rough! I’m writing this several days after watching for the second time so it’s hard to remember what exactly got me other than everything. I believe the mix of seeing my friends and the clip of everyone napping on the dirt path. I had a dirt nap around hour 62. My hips were already injured but I was toughing it out. The nap gave my body enough time to settle but they didn’t give us enough time for a nap so I woke up really feeling the pain. I toughed it out for another hour but I just couldn’t march anymore. I had to be carried back to my dorm.

@38:30 I was too triggered to really react in the moment, but I remember the hole, or one like it, shown here. It was essentially a shallow grave and they squeezed like a dozen of us into the hole and underneath a tarp, just like the one in the video. I was lucky to be one of the last ones in my group so I was on the outer edge. I can still taste the dirt and feel its dry grit in my dehydrated mouth. I was exhausted from doing flutter kicks ad nauseum (which is why my hips are fucked now). Since this reaction, I had my first flashback (at least this decade) and I was transported back to the obstacle course where all this happened. I was distinctly stuck in the part of the event where we started learning the Moves.

@39:35 (Hasz meets with a group of facilitators and discusses the upcoming event: an 8th grade math quiz. Somehow this is a Mensa challenge?) David. What the fuck? Mensa and file by intelligence?? I mean, I get it is for an LTE but fuuuuuuck Now I’m wondering how often these kinds of meetings were outside of ESOAL. Gauntlet is all about figuring out a person’s perceived strengths and weaknesses, personality types, skills and whatnot. Then there’s a draft, much like the NFL’s, where departments fight over interns. OTOH, if they did this for Gauntlet why do it again for ESOAL if the data is already there? Or maybe it’s because we weren’t allowed to have names and it was just easier to have us quiz again instead of cross-referencing numbers to “Mensa Profiles.” What a load…

@40:05 (Trigger #2. Interns are stepping into an in-ground trough filled with ice water.) I handled it better this time watching, but I broke down the first time watching. This has been my biggest trigger/panic attack to date since leaving the HA. These interns in the video were my friends. One was even my roommate. Hearing these kids’ agony, regardless if it was just the cold temperature or because this was a completely traumatizing event, it took me back. In this video, it was just the orange shirts, the Bring-It-On interns, but I eventually did this evolution as a normie. There are so many times that the weather is just right and it feels like the same weather as ESOAL or the UPG, especially if there’s smoke in the air. They told us that this would be for our benefit so that we can tackle the hard challenges of the world. Honestly, dealing with my trauma from TM has been the hardest challenge in my life. There is a possibility that ESOAL somehow prepped me for dealing with my mom’s hospice and death, but I don’t know how any of the flutter kicks, eating baby food and pickled pigs feet, rolling down vomit-covered hills really helped me at all. I don’t credit with Teen Manai for equipping me with tools to navigate suicidal ideation. I don’t even credit Teen Mania for putting me in the mental hospital for suicide (yay daddy issues!). But I know what I am capable of because I have survived this bullshit. I survive to spite Dave and Ron, and Mitch McConnell…

@40:38 (I missed this because each time I’ve been in mid-trigger, but chopped up, I think I can muster through*. Carrie puts it best.) “That pain and that hurt and inappropriateness of creating a spiritual climate with this pretend military training was to get you to come to the very, very end of yourself. That was the moment I knew that whatever it was before now, they were raising martyrs, and they were recruiting children.” *I could not. I broke down listening to Carrie for the first time. They sought to break us. The point was to break us. I know that ESOAL is only one weekend out of 12 months of internship, this seems to be the main criticism of talking about the physical toll of TM but I think people forget just how military focused we were. Every extreme LTE or activity had someone wearing BDUs and paintball guns. We even talked about how we could and should be like Jason Bourne from those movies with Matt Damon. Our training wasn’t too dissimilar, at least what I saw in the movies.

@41:17 (Trigger #3. End Times or World Awareness LTE. This hit me hard on the first watch but I think I was okay on the second? Or I was too triggered by ESOAL that I dissociated this time around.) I think I could make two separate posts because I can speak from both perspectives of an undergraduate and a graduate intern. I wish that the documentary had a little more context because I doubt that any alumnus pre-2007 or even just a casual viewer would catch on. They play this clip (@41:54) of an intern talking about how they just stormed in.

So let’s back it up. It’s 2007 and the leadership announces a new LTE called “World Awareness” (I never heard of the End Times LTE before this series). We were told that we would be watching movies which would be periodically paused so that we can have some discussion. This is actually decent from an educational standpoint (this is something I do with my own students but for like, normal science videos). The movies would be challenging, but we would talk about real issues of being a person put in a tough position, like someone hiding the Jews from the Nazis, and how we would handle ourselves. I think there was also talk about regular presentations. We started with Hotel Rwanda, about the Rwandan Genocide of the Tutsi. After the movie, GIs in military gear storm the auditorium and Heath Stoner steps up to Hasz and claims that we’re under a new regime, a one-world government, and now it’s illegal to be a Christian. Instead, we must bow before a red flag with some Middle- or Far-Eastern aesthetics and chant a potentially problematic, Arabic sounding chant. When we do so, we get a (temporary) tattoo of the flag’s emblem. Essentially, we got Red Dawned if you’ve seen the popular Patrick Swayze movie from the 80s or the more remake with Chris Hemsworth from the 2010s. We manage to escape into the Back 40 to live as refugees. But we had no idea that this was going to happen. Well, some of us did, but I’ll leave that story for later.

@42:18 (The World Awareness Trailer plays. It depicts an intern getting beat up seemingly in an interrogation. Interns are shouting at each other in the mass confusion. Another GI brandishes a paintball gun and shouts at the prisoner who is the POV.) I actually just learned about this video’s existence days before this series aired. I’m glad they could include it. Does anyone know anything about this video like when and why it was made? I probably would have been in that WA video but I crashed out and slept through the big fun stuff during the actual event when I was a GI.

@43:30 (Journalist Jeff Sharlet describes how Teen Mania Ministries fits into the larger picture of instilling Christian Nationalism through partnerships like Dr. James Dobson and the Arlington Group. He continues to describe how there are these disparate fiefdoms of Christianity and these groups are trying to align the separate fiefdoms into a coherent movement.) They don’t even talk about how there was Honor Academy North (Bethany College of Missions) and how we were planning to expand to open campuses on both coasts. We remember this yes? For the alumni who may not remember, TMM launched the Executuve Track. The goal was to create new intense leaders and grow the ministry more than just the Texas campus. I would love to hear the perspectives of the executive track alumni, especially if you remember it fondly. I personally have a sore spot against this track and I would love to hear people’s story so that I can maybe massage out that sore spot.

@43:30 Also, FUCK CHUCK COULSON! He authored one of the books we had to read but I am forgetting the title thanks to all of the triggers. How Now Shall We Live? I actually don’t really remember much from that book or that class other than the Synanon story, which I’ve already talked about.

@47:15 (A teaser for the next episode where the Politics of Ron and Teen Mania are analyzed in the big picture of today’s Christian Nationalism. Namely, the San Fransisco protest of 2006 was shown. I believe this protest helped springboard BattleCry. It kinda feels like some viral marketing of sorts.) I would have been at that San Fran protest if California wasn’t so friggin far away from my home.

Phew! We made it. This is a hard episode and I’ve heard and seen so many people talk about this being the big one. I am also one of those people. I was hoping that I would be able to edit this post mostly unscathed but not without one breakdown and a looooong walk to the vending machine for some self-care snacks. As I was editing this post, I messaged my wife about when we marathoned these episodes and how ESOAL and World Awareness were covered so quickly. It was like I was speedrunning my triggers and we really should have paused the video to decompress between each trigger. Now I feel like a kid poking at a nasty scrape. It still hurts immensely, even when taking some time to pause and breathe and walk. These scenes tore open the wound that I didn’t really realize I still had.

After watching this the second time around, I had a really tough time the following day. I likened it to being really, really constipated but then having explosive diarrhea after the blockage is free. It wasn’t cathartic but I do feel empty.

In the moment, I made a note to myself to include some of the stuff that the documentary left out and isn’t covered in the third episode. I added some of these when editing but some things that were missed: GI Roads, Other GI programs (episode 3 talks just about the Ministry Team but we had MA, CA, MT, GIIET, BOS, ET, FotBH, SOW, CCM, and probably half a dozen others I missed), the other less visually-striking LTEs like Gauntlet and Fasting, no talk about Specialized Training Initiative/Shoot The Intern, Intensive Elective Training, Club 21, as well as some of the classes like Trailer Club and the woman’s version, Woman at the Well? These are some things that I would like to make posts about in the future to help paint a more complete picture. In the mean time, be on the lookout for episode 3’s reaction in a few days!