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🗓️ 18 April 2020
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0:00.0 | The Hey everybody. Hi guys, hi guys, well from beautiful if a little chilly for the season Salt Lake City Utah. |
0:25.0 | It's thank God I'm atheist the podcast. |
0:27.5 | I'm Frank Feldman and I'm Dan Beecher. |
0:30.5 | And coming up on the show today, Dan, we're going to be talking about Mormons and |
0:39.2 | and their growth, right? But this back, what a lot of people, one of our listeners probably don't know is that back in the 80s and 90s, after a massive growth spurt, the Mormons were projected to be like basically taking over the world in just a few decades right? |
0:55.2 | Well so we have some predictions that were made by demographers by by by social scientists |
1:02.4 | of the era who yeah and and they knew what they were doing yeah |
1:07.1 | kind of these are these are real scientists who are looking at the at the numbers |
1:11.9 | looking at the trend lines looking at the you know all of the different things |
1:16.0 | but they came up with some some hooey Dan oh way a way to bury the lead. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, |
1:23.0 | wait, spoiler alert. |
1:25.0 | Franklin, we're not actually saying actual numbers. |
1:27.0 | When people hear these numbers, |
1:29.0 | Yeah, it's pretty amazing. |
1:30.0 | They weren't quite right, |
1:31.0 | anybody thought. They were guessing in the mid 90s what it was going to look like by the year 2020. Well we're in the year 2020. So we can actually look. Yeah, and see how close they came. |
1:44.0 | And how wrong were they? |
1:45.0 | But yeah, exactly. |
1:46.0 | We'll get that to the, get to that in the second half of the show. |
1:50.0 | In the meantime, Dan, I've got some some news. |
1:57.0 | Maybe potentially sad news for a lot of a lot of our listeners I'm sure you know for for years |
2:06.8 | we've we followed the antics of the religious right and we play a little clip in the middle of the show and we've grown fond of certain people and we've grown to loathe other people. |
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