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Hello everyone and welcome back to another important episode of Warmest Stories podcast.

I'm your host John DeLin.

Again, it is November 7th, 2019.

We're live streaming and recording from Kirkland, Washington, very close to my former home

in Istaquil, Washington, where he used to work for Microsoft.

And we are here to interview Mike Brown.

We are continuing in our interview with Mike Brown.

We just spent several hours hearing about Mike's story, how he was raised in the church,

served a mission, how Mike eventually got married in the temple, and served the, you know,

was living the Mormon dream with his wife and young kids until in around, in around 2015,

he started studying church history and studying Mormon truth claims in depth and experienced

kind of the rabbit hole faith crisis himself, which went into full, full bloom in 2016,

which led Mike to start writing some essays.

And Mike has written over 30 essays, dealing in depth with church history and Mormon truth

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