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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of mormas Stories podcast.

I'm your host John Dillin.

It is October 21st, 2019 and we are so thrilled to be holding our concluding episode for

now with ex Scientologist and YouTuber and author and blogger Chris Shelton.

For those of you who have not been following our latest mormas stories podcast episodes,

we recently did two lengthy sit downs with Chris Shelton.

The first sit down did three three and a half hours on Elron Hubbard and the rise of

Scientology paying explicit attention to the parallels between Elron Hubbard's life

and Joseph Smith's life and the beginnings of Scientology and the beginnings of mormasism.

My listeners have really enjoyed pondering and thinking about those parallels.

They also enjoyed the in depth coverage that we were willing to give to any topic.

Nowadays oftentimes podcasts are highly produced super short and that's a great format.

But here on mormas Stories our mode is to go long form and to really go in depth and

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