Brigham Young (Part 1)
How to Take Over the World
Benjamin Wilson
5.0 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm gonna show you how great I am. |
| 0:04.0 | This would have a tiny tower. |
| 0:07.0 | I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, |
| 0:10.0 | I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody. |
| 0:20.0 | Bear with me for two minutes. Let me make my case. I know you probably haven't heard of Brigham Young, |
| 0:27.3 | so let me tell you why you should care about this story, about this episode. So first of all, |
| 0:32.5 | it's just a wild story. Let's start with the numbers. Brigham Young married 56 times. He had 57 children by 16 women. |
| 0:40.0 | Born into abject poverty, he amassed a fortune of more than $15 million before his death. |
| 0:45.2 | He did this by establishing not only a dozen business enterprises, but more than 200 cities, towns, |
| 0:51.1 | and colonies, and even a couple of universities. He did this by leading 60,000 people, |
| 0:56.9 | most of them virtually penniless, across the continental United States, on foot, and in wagons. |
| 1:02.3 | He was a governor, a founder, an apostle, a leader, a businessman, a visionary, and a prophet. |
| 1:08.5 | He has been called the American Moses, and I think it's an apt description. |
| 1:12.2 | He was a religious and secular leader who moved his people through a dangerous wilderness |
| 1:16.4 | and established a way of life in a new land. He was the second prophet, or leader, of the Church |
| 1:23.2 | of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, frequently known as the Mormon Church. He was an important |
| 1:28.2 | religious leader with an interesting philosophical and religious perspective, but he's perhaps |
| 1:32.7 | better known as a settler and a colonizer who built cities, churches, schools, canals, roads, |
| 1:37.7 | and railroads. To me, I think the reason I'm drawn to Brigham Young is this. When I was |
| 1:42.9 | growing up, I loved SimCity. That was a |
| 1:45.8 | computer game where you could design your own city complete with housing, business district, |
| 1:50.1 | municipal buildings, sewers, roads, railroads, canals, theme parks, everything. You could design |
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