157 - Mormonism: The Good, The Bad, and The FLDS

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

Cults, True Crime, Adult Humor, Religion, Conspiracies, Society & Culture, Education, History, Conspiracy, Biographies, Comedy, Dark Humor

4.8 • 22.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Mormonism. BIG topic today! Oh my HECK! We talk today about the history of Mormonism - a religion born in America. We'll go over the life of its founder Joseph Smith and investigate his claims of revelations. We'll look into the beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We go over the church's polygamist past and also examine how polygamy continues in fundamentalist derivatives of Mormonism, such as the FLDS, lead by imprisoned pedophile, Warren Jeffs. We get interesting and controversial, today, on Timesuck. Donating $3000 this month to the nonprofit - Youth on Record. Helping at-risk youth graduate and build careers in the arts. To learn more or donate yourself, go to https://www.youthonrecord.org/ Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at http://dancummins.tv) September 19-21 Phoenix Copper Blues Live CLICK HERE for tix! *** LIVE ANT HILL KIDS TIMESUCK *** September 21st at Copper Blues Live CLICK HERE for tix September 26-28 Indianapolis Helium Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! October 9th West Palm Beach, FL The Improv Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! October 10-13 Tampa, FL Sidesplitter's Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! October 18 Detroit/Pontiac, MI The Crofoot Standup Special Taping CLICK HERE for tix! October 19 Minneapolis, MN 10,000 Laughs Comedy Festival CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: Scared to Death! First two episodes come out on September 17th at Midnight. Subscribe!!!! Go to FelixGrayGlasses.com/timesuck 4 free shipping & 30 days of risk-free returns/ exchanges The Great Courses Plus!Get a full month FREE when you go to thegreatcoursesplus.com/TIMESUCK Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/R1K8qyI0L8k Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're over 5000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	Mormonism, its history is practices, its missionaries on bicycles.
0:04.2	Mormonism was one of the fastest growing religions in the world,
0:07.0	and it was born right here in America.
0:08.9	And it's a very American religion,
0:10.6	partly in the sense that it has a lot of good people in it.
0:12.9	And also a much darker past than it would like to admit.
0:16.4	We're going to talk a lot about its founder, Joseph Smith,
0:18.8	who he was and how he became the leader of a new religion in the early 19th century.
0:23.2	We're going to go over the church's history of polygamy,
0:25.6	a practice band well over a century ago by the LDS,
0:29.3	but something still currently practiced by way too many members of fundamentalist Mormon offshoots,
0:34.0	such as the FLDS. What is the FLDS? Who is this leader, Warren Jeffs? Why is he in prison?
0:41.3	Why is he such a flippant creep? Why am I saying flippant? Oh, my heck!
0:46.8	We'll talk about the FLDS as well, and I'll do my best to illustrate how modern mainstream
0:50.9	Mormonism is very different from its black sheep, FLDS little brother.
0:55.0	I'll try to be fair, but also not going to take it easy on Mormonism in today's
0:58.3	Nimrod approved. You shouldn't talk about religion, but I'm going to,
1:01.3	anyways, theological addition of Time Suck.
1:19.7	Happy Monday, mate, Saks, you beautiful bastards.
1:22.7	I'm Dan Cummins, the master's sucker, and you are listening to Time Suck.
1:27.1	My new horror cast where I try and scare the shit out of my wife, Lindsay, sorry about the language.
1:57.1	Shindig started off in 2016. Man what a ride has been. Three years ago I was recording
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