The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter

Day Saints. Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and

guests and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated. Hello, friends, and welcome to the Latter Day Lives podcast. My name is Sean Rup here. I am the

host of the show. This is episode number 65, and it is good to be back. Last week, we took a little sabbatical with the social media fast going on.

I didn't want to tempt anybody to check Facebook to see anything about our guest,

and I didn't want to get on and do all the social media.

I took the fast right along with everyone else, and 10 days off of social media,

I will just tell you it was wonderful.

Learned a lot about myself and I'm grateful to be back on and we'll be fully supporting this

episode, of course, and moving forward. But it was a wonderful experience and great to just take a

week off. I will say that much too. But boy, am I happy to be here. My guest this week, now,

all of my guests are special. No question. Every one of them has an incredible story to tell,

but this week's guest maybe is a little more special to me than normal, because my guest this

week is my own mother. My mom is an amazing person. Both my parents are incredible.

But my mom grew up with such an amazing story that she's told us. I've heard little bits and pieces all my life.

And so to sit down and talk about her childhood, trust me, you will be fascinated. It's an amazing story.

And this week in my Latter-day Life, I'm going to tell you all about a band that I absolutely love.

They are coming in concert and why I have no intention whatsoever of going to see them.

It's all coming up on this week's show.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy this week's conversation.

So one of the great blessings of having a podcast is that I occasionally get fans and I have

messages from fans. And my guest today has been a fan of

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