Ep 785 – SMACKDOWNS ONLY: The Poelman Smackdown

Infants on Thrones

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The story of the Mormon church trying to flush a slightly off-message conference talk down the memory hole back in 1984. What was so “off message” that they had to try to change it forever? (That’s what is so… revealing).

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0:00.0	Infants on Thrones. In its heyday, as part of this weird x-mormon internet space thingy was a legendary x-mormon podcast, a living legendary x-mormon podcast.
0:11.0	A living legendary x-mormon podcast that would live long after lots of other living legendary x-mormon podcasts have died.
0:17.0	Part of it's unique living legendary in the stems from its many many smackdowns. Those times when infants would read something and then smack it down.
0:22.0	This is one of those legendary smackdowns. A classic if-and-son-throne smackdown that made today's weird x-mormon internet space thingy, what it is today?
0:28.0	This is Infants on Thrones. Smackdowns only please.
0:43.0	Welcome back to Infants on Thrones. Smackdowns only please.
0:48.0	I'm Glenn Osland and what you're going to hear today was recorded way back in December 2010.
0:54.0	And if you don't already know the story about Ronald Pullman, you're in for a real treat.
0:59.0	Because in 1984, Ronald Pullman gave a talk in general conference that made church leaders less important than the gospel.
1:06.0	And those church leaders did not like it one bit. So they asked Ronald Pullman very nicely to rewrite parts of the talk and re-record it in front of an empty tabernacle along with a cough track to try and pass it off like nothing had ever happened whatsoever.
1:21.0	But people had recorded the original talk with their VCRs and well, can you say Aegon face?
1:27.0	Now I consider this the first unofficial infant smackdown and now you get to hear it. So here it is. Enjoy.
1:35.0	Hang on to the hatching rises. This is the world's riding awareness.
1:41.0	Both the gospel of Jesus Christ and the church of Jesus Christ are true and divine.
1:50.0	However, there is a distinction between them which is significant.
1:56.0	Both the gospel of Jesus Christ and the church of Jesus Christ are true and divine.
2:04.0	And there is an essential relationship between them that is significant and very important.
2:10.0	The gospel of Jesus Christ and the church of Jesus Christ are true and divine.
2:25.0	However, there is a distinction between an essential relationship between them.
2:35.0	This is an essential relationship.
2:41.0	This is an essential relationship which is significant and very important.
2:48.0	Okay, touch this.
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