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Infants on Thrones

Ep 143 – Zelph on the Shelph

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2014

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Tired of manipulating your children’s behavior with a creepy little nicknack just one month every year?  Well… does Matt have something for you — and just in time for Christmas!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Infants on Thrones.

0:04.0

Minnesot.

0:05.0

Minnesot.

0:06.0

Minsot. Yeah!

0:10.0

Do your kids love the elf on the shelf?

0:14.4

Wish you could manipulate...

0:17.4

Uh, use it to influence your kids all year round without using the double magic of Santa?

0:23.0

Ho, ho, ho, ho!

0:25.0

Or that blasted buddy the elf?

0:29.0

I just like to smile.

0:30.0

Smiling is my favorite.

0:31.0

Well, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons, in association

0:36.1

with Deseret Book and Bonneville Communications, has the answer for you with... Zelf on the shelf. Yes, Zelf on the shelf. You don't need to use the

0:50.4

invisible Holy Ghost to get your kids to do what's right?

0:53.7

Give your kids something tangible to be afraid of with Zelf on the shelf.

0:58.7

But who's Zelf?

1:01.0

Good question. Zelf was a white laymanite warrior.

1:05.0

What's a laymanite?

1:07.0

Honey, remember from Sunday school, laymanites are the bad people that descended from Lehi

1:12.0

and were cursed with dark skin for being wicked. It's not racist.

1:17.0

Who's Lehi again?

1:19.0

He was a Jewish prophet that sailed to America from Israel 600 years before Christ.

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