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question or comment, or find out more about the resources we shared. And now, today's podcast episode.

Britt Hartley, how are you? I'm so good, Bill. I think the people coming from the Mormon community might be interested on where you're

podcasting from today.

This might look a little familiar.

I'm sitting in Mormon Stories studio, and I just went out to, went up to Salt Lake

City to hang out with John and Margie DeLyn. And we did over

today and yesterday a nine hour interview that I think is going to be well received by the

folks who are interested in Mormon discussion or my work as a content creator. We had conversations on everything, stuff like deconstructing Mormonism,

how I got into the church, and maybe from facets that we'd never quite explored before.

And then my favorite was this today's conversation,

which was really more of like this awakened reconstruction. What is one who's

thought this all through? What does one have to offer on this side of things to help people

reconnect with something? And Margie and John were just super great at facilitating that conversation, asking good questions, making good comments.

And Amanda chimed in from time to time, and she really accentuated the conversation.

And it was a total blast.

And then tonight at six, there's a VIP dinner and a seven o'clock program where I still have to come up with something to say and

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