Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmestory's podcast. I'm your host,

John DeLin. It is April 14th, 2021. And today I am super excited to have back in studio,

Shannon Flynn. Many of you know the story of bomber and forger Mark Hoffman. It was recently covered

in the Netflix three part documentary series called Murder Among the Mormons. And many would say

kind of the the star of that documentary was Shannon Flynn. Shannon Flynn was, I would say,

he knew Mark Hoffman. I'd say he was business associates with Mark Hoffman. And I would say on

some level, he was a friend of Mark Hoffman, although we'll let him speak for himself. But yesterday

we did a good four hours with him focusing mostly on honoring and remembering a mutual friend,

colleague associate, which was Lynn Jacobs. Today we are just going to dig into Shannon's life

and mostly we're going to spend some time just remembering and reflecting on Shannon's memories

and reflections of bomber and forger Mark Hoffman and his involvement. So we're going to just jump

to the questions because there's so many. So Shannon Flynn, welcome back to Warmestories.

Thank you for having me back. It's actually April 14th. What did I say? April 12th.

April 14th. Thank you. Thank you. We want accuracy in this. Okay. Okay, Shannon, really quickly,

let's start just with a very brief background. Tell us, just spend a minute kind of telling us

where you're born, where you're raised, and what got you into Mormon history and Mormon documents.

Sure. I was born and raised here in Salt Lake City out on the mainly, I mean, we moved out

to where my parents lived all the time in 1961. So from then on, it was out in Taylor's

Vale, went to elementary school, junior high out there, and then took a bus and got to go to

Cottonwood High School and had a great experience. There was a tremendous school for me and what

I wanted in those days. Went on a mission to Brazil, 77 to 79, and while I was there, I began to

really take an interest in LDS Church history and doctrine, carried books with me, and then when

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