Ep. 22 - Brian Blake - White House Insider, Public Servant, Mormon

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

Society & Culture

4.5 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Brian Blake worked in the Bush White house beginning in 2001. In this episode, Brian tells us about his life in Washington DC, Working for the office of the Drug Czar, being in government during 9/11, meeting famous politicians, and how being a member of the church affects it all. This is a great behind the scenes of what it is like to work in the nation's capitol.

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0:00.0	The Latterday Lives podcast is not owned nor operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:10.1	Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and guests,
0:15.2	and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:22.8	Hello, friends, and welcome to another episode of the Latter Day Lives podcast.
0:27.3	My name is Sean Rupier.
0:28.6	I am your host, and this is episode 22.
0:32.1	In the last few weeks have been so fun as we have been very blessed to have conversations with people involved with the hashtag
0:41.1	light the world campaign. And it has been so fun to talk to these artists and find out what
0:47.2	they're doing and to be a part of it all. This week, we're going to have a bit of a departure.
0:51.7	And our guest this week is just fascinating, but more of a traditional
0:55.8	guest that we would have had before Light the World. A couple of housekeeping notes, first
1:01.4	of all, I've been doing show notes every week and I've had a couple of people who really seem
1:06.3	to like them, but based on the numbers we're seeing, not a lot of people go check out the show
1:10.3	notes. They take a very, very long time. So we're going numbers we're seeing, not a lot of people go check out the show notes.
1:16.9	They take a very, very long time. So we're going to start something new, which is instead of show notes, if you have any questions about the episode, anything you can't find on the web or anything
1:22.6	that was unclear, if you could just email me, I would be happy to email you back. I generally
1:27.3	respond to emails pretty quickly. And you'll get my email information at the end.
1:33.1	So we're going to discontinue show notes for a while and kind of see how that goes.
1:37.9	Another couple of notes, the next two weeks, the next two Mondays in a row are Christmas and New Year. And a couple of listeners
1:45.7	have reached out and have said, hey, are you taking a break? Of course not. We're going to have two
1:50.2	new episodes, one on Christmas Day and one on New Year's Day. And they will be somewhat themed
1:55.8	toward Christmas and New Year. And that way, when you get your brand new iPad or your new phone or your new
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