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Infants on Thrones

Ep 792 – MFM: Stephen Erastus Knudsen III

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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0:00.0

Infants calling colab. Come in colab. Infants calling colab. Come in colab.

0:10.0

This is colab. What is wanted?

0:15.0

Infants having been curious and playfully engaged in all things desire further whatever you got for me

0:24.0

by revisiting some of my favorite mini-sodes and something something about a veil.

0:29.0

Keep on listening then and your request shall be granted all for the greater good.

0:36.0

All about the greater good.

0:59.0

I am, I am Superman and I can't do any day.

1:06.0

This is Infants on Throne.

1:11.0

Mini-sode.

1:17.0

Welcome back to Infants on Throne. I'm Glenn Osland and I'm going to try something today.

1:23.0

I've been thinking about this for a while. I don't know if it's going to work or not but that doesn't always stop us from doing stuff.

1:32.0

I'm going to try this out.

1:35.0

When I was a senior at Brigham Young University, I took an English class and we're talking about probably 1996.

1:44.0

It was a satire class and it was my seminar class. I think it was called where I had to write the equivalent of a master's thesis basically for my bachelor's degree in English.

1:56.0

We had some options on what we could do. We could either write a report or create some satire of our own.

2:04.0

So I took the second option and I created a character called Stephen Erassas Knudsen III that to me epitomized all of the things that I really hated about Mormon culture.

2:19.0

I was still a believing Mormon at this point but I really did not like what I was seeing in some of the students around me, some of the missionaries that I'd been mission companions with.

2:31.0

And so Stephen Erassas Knudsen was a way of venting this. So what you're about to hear is what I wrote back in 1996.

2:40.0

I've used it on blogs since then there may be a handful of people who are familiar with this but I doubt it. So here we go.

2:51.0

The life and times of Stephen Erassas Knudsen III.

2:56.0

Brother Stephen Erassas Knudsen III was born April 6 1966 in Sunnyvale, Utah.

3:02.0

The oldest of three children, Stephen lived a life of near perfection, gaining exaltation through translation and the twinkling of an eye on his 33rd birthday, April 6 1999 at precisely 6.32 a.m.

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