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Hello friends and welcome to another episode of the Latter-day Lives podcast.

My name is Sean Rupier. I am your host, and this is episode 24, and I'm going to apologize

in advance if this opening and the closing are not the best audio quality. I'm actually

recording this from a hotel room.

It's New Year's Eve, and we are in Times Square at a hotel right in Times Square.

Pretty exciting place to be, but not the best place to record. It's actually quite loud in here.

So please excuse any external noise,

but what a great show we have for you this week. First of all, happy new year. Thank you so much for

tuning in. We're so glad your year this week and every week. We really appreciate it. My guest this

week, Brad McBride, is a guy I've followed for a while now. He has a blog. He's been

running for many years. He's going to tell you all about it. It's called Middle-aged Mormon

Man. And if you're not already a reader of it, I highly recommend you follow it as well as on his

personal Facebook page. He does the Sunday night check-in, which is one of my favorite things

in the world. Brad is just a fantastic guest, and you're just going to love him. And this week in

my Latter-day Life, at the end of the show, I'm going to tell you about a fascinating experience we had

going to church this morning here in New York. So that's really about it. Just sit back, relax,

and enjoy this week's conversation.

And it is my pleasure to have here in the studio with me a middle-aged Mormon man. Now, there is a middle-aged

Mormon man in the studio every week. That's me. But this week, you got two middle-aged Mormon men.

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