This is Infants on Thrones.

Minnesot.

Welcome back to Infants on Thrones.

I'm Glenn O'Sland and I want to start today by thanking those of you

who gave such nice comments both publicly and privately on the Regret Minnesot. I'm glad that I was

able to touch something in so many of you and hopefully this one will go down a similar path.

So at the end of that regret episode I wondered out loud why we don't just stand up and make our dissent heard when we hear things

that we disagree with or that are just plain wrong.

Well, I mean obviously the answer is social convention you know there are consequences to such

behavior a Japanese proverb says that the nail that stands out gets hammered so yeah

you act out like that you're going to get hammered. I get that.

But there was one time when I actually did take a stand and risk that public hammer.

It was in a testimony meeting so so yeah, there was already a social space already carved out that would allow me to have some kind of a voice.

So it's not like I just stood up in the middle of a congregation and began spouting out from there.

I played by the rules.

I just didn't exactly say what's normally said in those situations.

So I'll tell you more about that in a little bit, but first, let me give you a little

bit of background.

Now I want to tell you about Chris.

And I'll be very up front with you that Chris is not this guy's real name.

I'm going to share with you some parts of Chris's life that he hasn't shared with

very many people and that he's very sensitive about for reasons that you'll

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