I am Ryan McKnight. I'm Kara Santa Maria. I am Christopher Smith. Hi, I'm Andrew Torres. This is

Naked Mormonism. The Serial Mormon History podcast. Welcome to episode 153. This is actually part one of the Naked Mormonism podcast. So what you're going to listen to today was an amazing opportunity that I had to sit down with author and historian D. Michael Quinn. When we get into the actual interview, you're going to get, you know, the proper introduction for Dr. Quinn.

But I just want to say this was an opportunity that I was able to seize on during Sunstone in Short Creek in April of 2019.

It was truly an honor and a pleasure to speak with Dr. Quinn.

And just to let everybody know, this is a long one.

We broke it up into two parts.

You're going to get episode 153 and 153.5.

That is going to be the two separate episodes.

But just for continuity's sake, and just to make it a little more easy to digest,

we've split it up into two parts,

but it's just shy of three hours, it looks like.

Now, I have edited out a little bit of content

just for length, but of course, if you are a Patreon subscriber over at patreon.com slash

naked Mormonism and you're supporting the show and a dollar an episode or more, you're going to

get access to the full interview, the full uncut interview that I did with Dr. Quinn. It's an interesting

subject. He's an interesting guy. And his story with Mormon history is, well, I don't think

that I'm the only person to call it fascinating. It is really, really quite fascinating.

So part one here, we go through Dr. Quinn's experience as a young

kid coming to fall in love with knowledge at the age of nine. We go through his time

working with the church and his employment, him getting education, him working with

Leonard Arrington. And this whole episode, this part one of the interview is

interestingly enough, the shorter part of the interview. But we really get an idea of a window

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