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Thank you. specific organization unless otherwise stated. Hello, friends, and welcome to episode 223 of the Latter-day Lives podcast.

I'm your host, Sean Rapier.

Thank you so much for checking in with us again this week.

We've got such a fantastic show for you.

My guest, Spanky Ward, is a very talented screenwriter and filmmaker. And Spanky and I have been

trying to put this together since before we went on our long hiatus. So this is several years in the

making. I've never met Spanky before. I didn't know anything about

his story, and it absolutely blew me away. He is so inspiring and talk about just triumphing over

very, very difficult circumstances, and his attitude and his spirit are just incredible.

You will love this conversation. And coming up this week in my

latter day life, I will explain to you why we are not going to have an episode next week. So this is

kind of a combination of my latter day life, but also letting you know now, there will be no new

episode next week, but I promise it is for a good reason. I just wanted to make sure

you knew so you don't next Monday wonder if we've gone off the air or if there's something

wrong with the feed. So no new episode next week, but we will be back the following week,

and I will tell you all about it this week in my latter day life. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this week's conversation.

And today here on the Latter Day Lives podcast, we have got a remarkably talented filmmaker with a very exciting name that I can't wait to hear.

The backstory of the name, Spanky Ward.

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