Ep. 221 - Catching up with Tracy Smith - Author of Deadly Shepherd

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

Society & Culture

4.7 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week we catch up with Tracy Smith, author of the new book Deadly Shepherd. We talk about his role as a Bishop, the writing process, publishing the book, and what's next in his writing journey.

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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
0:10.6	Day Saints.
0:11.6	Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and guests
0:15.9	and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:26.0	Thank you. specific organization unless otherwise stated. Hello, friends, and welcome to episode 221 of the Latter Day Lives podcast.
0:32.1	I'm your host, Sean Rappere.
0:33.8	Thank you so much for checking in with us again this week.
0:37.3	We've got such a great show for you.
0:39.7	This is a catching up episode with our friend Tracy Smith. Tracy was originally on episode 87 way back in April of 2019.
0:51.2	It's kind of funny. These are coming out almost exactly seven years apart. But
0:55.9	2019, we had Tracy on. He told his life story, which is just amazing. And Tracy has just
1:01.8	released a new book. So you're welcome to go back to 87 if you want to listen to that first
1:07.0	or check out this episode and go back. But Tracy is absolutely amazing. He's one of my
1:13.2	closest friends and such a talented, talented creative. I loved this conversation. Just fantastic.
1:21.5	And coming up this week in my Latter-day Life, we will have good days and we will have bad.
1:30.1	It's all coming up. So sit back,
1:33.6	relax, and enjoy this week's conversation.
1:51.7	And today, here on the latter day life's podcast, what a pleasure it is to have back one of a favorite of our audience.
1:56.3	Our guests absolutely loved his original episode, which was so many years ago.
1:59.7	I should have looked up how many years ago it was, very many years ago.
2:04.8	But we're going to do a catching up episode with Mr. Tracy Smith.
2:06.2	Tracy, welcome back to the show.
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