1347: Mitch Shira - Impersonating LDS General Authorities as TikTok’s "genie_man"
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 214 minutes
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Summary
Mitch Shira is an actor and impressionst whose TikTok videos have been taking the progressive and post-Mormon world by storm. Under the TikTok handle "genie_man," Mitch impersonates past and present LDS Church General Authorities with incredible accuracy and sharp-edged humor. Today, meet the man behind the voices.
Warning: Adult humor. Discussion of electro-schock therapy of LGBTQ Mormons.
A sampling of MItch's videos:
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John |
| 0:14.1 | Delin. It's September 22nd, 2020. And today we have something different, something fun. I think |
| 0:22.6 | something entertaining and a little bit of sugar to help the medicine go down, so to speak. |
| 0:29.0 | Today we have on Mormon Stories Mitch Shira. Is that how I pronounce it Mitch? That's correct. |
| 0:36.1 | Mitch Shira. And you may recognize Mitch's face. Mitch is taking the progressive and post-mormon |
| 0:47.5 | Internet world by storm. He has produced a series of TikTok videos that impersonate various |
| 0:56.3 | LDS Church prophets. And they're super funny and they're a little bit sharp-edged. Sometimes they're |
| 1:04.9 | unsavory, a little bit blue or brass. I don't know exactly how to characterize it, but they're always |
| 1:13.4 | funny and they're always very effective and they always pack an important punch, pack a powerful |
| 1:18.7 | punch. There's some of the alliteration. I do want to give just a quick content warning. |
| 1:24.9 | Mitch deals with serious adult topics, including matters of sexuality. And so there's kind of an |
| 1:33.8 | adult content warning to this audio and video. If you are sensitive to those sorts of things, |
| 1:40.4 | if you can't wrap your brain around this idea that that lives or at stake, that that the way the |
| 1:46.8 | church teaches issues around sexuality, for example, really do impact lives. And sometimes in a |
| 1:54.9 | very serious or fatal way, thus sometimes the language needs to be serious. If you are not |
| 2:03.2 | cool with that, turn it off now. But these impressions are phenomenal. So find a way to them anyway. |
| 2:11.8 | He's known as Genie Man on TikTok, Genie G-E-N-I-E, underscore man on TikTok. |
| 2:20.6 | Also, there's sort of orthodoxy warning, I'll say. If you are sensitive to your |
| 2:27.0 | profiteers and revelators being impersonated, if you feel like that's sacrilegious, |
| 2:33.3 | if your interpretation of your temple covenants make it so that you are not comfortable with |
| 2:38.4 | flat laughter or evil speaking of the Lord's anointed, you may or may not decide that this |
| 2:44.8 | interviews for you. We're going to try and keep it fun and light, but we're also going to be doing |
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