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insight and the stories of our faith unfold. Spencer Kimball, back when the church was true.

Back in flashbacks to all the conferences and firesides and my young life, yep, I was having a flashback.

All I could. It's all I could picture was the soft plentiful kisses.

Yes. On side of D. Michael Quinn's cheeks. So, welcome everybody for the Mormon newscast.

It is January 6th, 2025. I am joined by my esteemed colleagues Rebecca Biblioteca and Radio

Free Mormon. How are the both of you? I'm great. Thank you. How are you, Rebecca? I'm fabulous.

And happy New Year. It's 2025. Has anyone had to write it out on anything yet? I have, and I failed.

And it worked like a charm, but I focused on it.

If I'm not thinking about it, then I'm sure I'll revert to 24.

Yeah, I did that.

Well, folks, we do have a great show lined up for you.

This is the dark days ahead for BYU staff, which is the main story.

Radio Free Mormon will be covering that.

So the purge at BYU

begins again. And the next story we'll have is, who are the baddies? Are we the baddies?

Who's the baddies? So, and then next, and I'll be covering that, who's leaving the church,

who's staying? That's Rebecca Biblioteca. I've got another story. The Widows Might got mightier. And then Rebecca has a story for us, another church cartoon kerfuffle. So let's go to our lead story, Mr. Radio Free Mormon. Very interesting. I don't know if we're the baddies, but if the TBMs or the Soci's, we're the greasers.

All right. Today, breaking news at the Salt Lake Tribune, Peggy Fletcher Stack gives us huge story. It's a huge story. And it's an important story. It's huge in that way. It's also huge in the research that she had to do in the story in the weeks that she's put into it, obviously. It's titled and headline, Dark Days, new rules have BYU professors running scared. Clark Gilbert, the church's education commissioner, is determined to have faculty members who support the faith's

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