Ed Helms

The crazy thing is that back in 1919.

These workers were in like really horrendous conditions and still trying to make it work.

But it's sort of it's all relative, right?

It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter what like what the actual conditions might be.

It's the disparity itself that is so that just feels so off.

I'm John Polk.

For years, I was the poster boy of the conversion therapy movement, the ex-gay who married an ex-lesbian and traveled the world telling my story of how I changed my sexuality from gay to straight.

Once upon a time, I was on 60 Minutes, Oprah, the front cover of Newsweek.

And you might have heard my story, but you've never heard the real story.

So join me as I peel back the layers and expose what happened to me in the midst of conversion therapy to shine a light on what the X Game movement does to people and the pain it continues to cause.

I had lost 150 pounds because if I couldn't control my sexuality, I was going to control my weight.

It sounded like, and this is the word I used, a cult.

And as I look, too, at the harm I did from within.

Listen to Atonement, the John Polk story, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

It's about engineering consciousness.

All right.

I'm going to barrel through a big chunk here.

Bolshevik revolution has happened and it's just sort of rippling through America.

Strikes were breaking out all over the country.