Ep. 184 - Doug Wright - Legendary Utah Broadcaster

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

Society & Culture

4.5 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Doug Wright is a Utah native, proud of pioneer roots that go back to the 1840s. He was raised by a devoted single Mother. He spent over forty years as one of the leading voices on KSL Radio and is still the host of The KSL Movie Show. Raised in the Sugarhouse area, Doug began his broadcast career while still in high school. Married for over 30 years to his wife D., they are the parents of three children. Doug shares with us amazing stories of growing up, as well and gives us an insider's look into his amazing broadcasting career.

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
0:12.0	Day Saints.
0:13.0	Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and guests
0:17.3	and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:26.2	Hello, friends. Welcome to episode 184 of the Latter Day Lives podcast. I'm your host, Sean Rapp here,
0:32.5	and it is so good to be back with you. Again, I'm so sorry we didn't have an episode last week. I was so sick.
0:41.2	That cold was just horrible, but I'm feeling much better now and had a wonderful weekend with
0:47.3	conference, and I'm so glad to be back with you. Before we get into this week's amazing episode,
0:53.4	I do want to thank a new reviewer, and that is on Apple Podcast. Thank you. Before we get into this week's amazing episode, I do want to thank a new reviewer, and that is
0:56.4	on Apple Podcast. The username is Nellie Nelson, who says, Amazing and Informative is the title of
1:05.2	her review. It says, these podcasts are absolutely amazing. I look forward to each episode and left us a nice
1:11.9	five-star review. Thank you so much, Nellie. We really appreciate it. These reviews just help
1:17.7	us grow and help other people find the show. So thank you so much. And then also, we have a
1:24.2	favor to ask from our listeners. And this comes from Skyler Fleming, who he had his own
1:31.1	episode a few weeks ago. You know, he does our social media. He has done amazing things. And if
1:36.8	you're not following us on Facebook and Instagram, man, you're missing out. He has put out some
1:42.2	just great content. I loved it all through conference.
1:45.9	He kept posting different questions, and thank you so much to all of you who jumped in and
1:51.4	answered. And one of the things he posted was asking the question we asked all our guests.
1:57.7	He asked our listeners, which I just love, and that was what does being a
2:02.4	member of the church mean to you? And I'm sure many of you have thought of your own answer to that
2:07.5	question, but we would love to have you share your answer, and we'd love to share it on social
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