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Infants on Thrones

Ep 483 – Meet the Remarkably Remarkable Liz

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to be remarkable?  Randy and Glenn sit down with Liz, reigning champion of our February 2018 Listener Essay contest, to talk about what it is like to search for meaning in life after leaving the Mormon church.

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This is infants on Thrones, the philosophies of men,

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being with humans.

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We are the Corps. Thank you on Thrones, I'm Glenn Ostland and today we get to hear from the remarkably remarkable

0:26.1

Liz, the winner of our February 2018 listener essay contest.

0:32.3

By almost double the amount of votes that Delaney and Pete got.

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Now Delaney and Pete were a very close second and third. They were so close that I

0:40.6

mistakenly called Pete our second place winner multiple times even though that was actually

0:46.8

Delaney. Delaney was our second place winner. Pete was our third. Sorry about that Delaney.

0:51.5

But Liz just knocked all your socks off with her essay,

0:55.6

Remarkably Unremarkable. But look, what does remarkable actually mean? I mean, the word

1:01.5

remarkable. It means something that you are able to make a remark about, right? I mean that's a pretty low bar to set isn't it? But even if it weren't, Liz is definitely remarkable,

1:14.0

as you will soon see from the conversation

1:16.0

that Randy and I had with her.

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So enjoy.

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And for those of you who are interested

1:20.6

in submitting something for the May 2018 listener essay contest

1:24.8

which is going to start in just a few days. There's still time. I have about 8 to 10

1:29.2

essays right now. Some are as short as 5 minutes long, some are as long as an hour. I'll let you

1:35.1

listeners and your votes decide what length of essay you actually prefer. I just

1:39.8

like having this format to allow those of you an opportunity who want to express yourself

1:44.5

the ability to express yourself especially since you can't anymore because no one's

1:49.7

calling you up and asking you to give talks and sacrament meeting anymore.

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