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Hey, thanks for listening to us. You stayed on almost two hours.

Yeah, it's flown by. And John Larson, it's good to finally sort of meet you.

Hey, Randy.

I got to say I'm exactly everything you say pretty much is right on.

And I want to say, everything who says?

I'm talking to Larson, right? Everything, John says.

Oh, no!

No, no, no.

Anyway, John Larson, intellectually, and he's right where I am.

But anyways, I just want to give Larson kudos for that.

Joseph Smith being the goof off in the back of calculus class.

That isn't really the calculus class analogy.

That was seriously, that was an old timer.

So my first question, I'll go ahead.

No, once you get out of the circular reasoning that he's a prophet and you start,

you have to really ask yourself, well, why do you believe this guy?

And it's a hard question to answer.

Well, I guess I had a three-hour conversation with my best man in my wedding.

He's a true believer.

Let him know that I'm an atheist now.

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