Chuck Bryant

He got off to a kind of a rocky start there because he had had an affair with Lois Roden, who I guess was Benjamin Roden's wife.

Yes.

If the math checks out, she was in her 60s and he was in his 20s.

And he got into a squabble with her son about who was going to become leader and ended up shooting him.

And like he was arrested and everything.

And it was a hung jury.

So he never he never had to serve time for that shooting.

Yeah.

You know, he had a pretty rough upbringing before that.

Like you said, he was born in Houston.

He was reportedly had suffered sexual abuse of his own at the hands of older boys.

He had dyslexia and did not do well in school.

I think he failed first grade a couple of times and was a dropout by the time he was in middle school.

And yeah, so, you know, that was his sort of rough childhood.

Yeah, for sure.

One of the first things he did once he was in charge was he said, God has told me that I need to bear a lot of children and I need to have multiple wives in order to do that.

I think he was supposed to, God told him to have, or at least he said God told him to have 24 children.

and they would be sort of the rulers in the future kingdom.

And so at first he started with the single women of the group, and then that wasn't enough.

And he was having a lot of kids.