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Infants on Thrones

Ep 582 – The (fictional) Apology of Joseph Smith

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

What would Joseph Smith say if he were to offer some kind of apology today?  Glenn takes a stab at imagining such an apology.  Tom and Brady take a stab at stabbing that stab.  Sorry if that sounds like way too much stabbing.  Blame it on the angel with the flaming sword.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You didn't like that part, Tom, where Joseph Smith admits that he made up the stories?

0:07.0

Oh, he's so self-aware, dude.

0:09.0

I am a storyteller. Yeah, I knew what I was doing. I yeah I totally made that up.

0:16.4

I'm just gonna got you.

0:18.4

This is infants on Thrones, the philosophies of men in England with humans.

0:29.0

We are the court. Welcome back to Infants on Thrones. I'm Glenn O'Sland and this is episode 582, the Apology of Joseph Smith.

0:48.8

Now this is something that I recorded well over a year ago while I was in a state of, let's call it, super deep

0:56.7

meditation. Now I've always been interested in Joseph Smith. I've always wanted to understand

1:02.1

him better. I wanted to be like him in a lot of ways as I was growing up.

1:06.4

So this is an exercise where I tried to put myself in his shoes to imagine what he would say if I could talk to him about his life and

1:15.2

his experiences. So first I'm going to play for you the actual 12 minute

1:19.8

apology itself without any interruption.

1:23.0

Then you'll hear Tom Perry and Brady Blumen myself,

1:26.0

break it down and smack it around,

1:28.0

and there you go. That's an episode.

1:30.0

I hope you enjoy it.

1:32.0

And I hope it makes you think, and I hope it makes you think and I hope it inspires you to do

1:34.7

something like this on your own if you want to now if you do let me know I'd love to

1:40.0

read or hear anything that any of you listeners might want to create around this, just email

1:44.9

it to Infants on Thrones at gmail.com.

1:48.6

And now I give you the apology of Joseph Smith.

1:53.0

All right, so here's some thoughts that I had.

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