Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Year of Polygamy podcast.

I'm your host, Lindsay, and I'm really excited to be bringing on my friend Blair Osler. Blair, can you say hello?

Hi, Lindsay. So full disclosure, this is a re-recording of this episode.

So Blair and I might be a little scattered because we had recorded this really fantastic discussion

and then the audio just wasn't good enough.

So we're doing it again because it's only the best for the listeners.

Thank you for your sacrifice, Blair, for doing this again.

Oh, it is my pleasure. Anytime I get to talk with Lindsay Hanson Park on your polygamy is a great

day. So one of the things we were joking about earlier is there's a Mormon scholar named Blake

Osler, and I think that you should use this time to clarify and distinguish that, no, you are not Blake

Osler. Stop tagging you on Facebook and you guys are two different people and you're not family.

Well, it's so funny. Honestly, I didn't know this many Oslars existed within the academic world

until I started getting involved and I met all these other Oslars. And once I first started entering the blogger knackle and speaking at conferences, people would

always be like, oh, are you related to Blake Osler? I'm like, nope.

Yeah, I get the same issue with Ben Park, who I've had on the podcast. Everyone thinks he's my

husband or something. And I'm like, yeah, I've had on the podcast. Everyone thinks he's my husband or something.

And I'm like, yeah, I'll claim him as family. But yeah, I don't get tagged like you do because your

names are so very similar. And, you know, I just interviewed Claire Barris, who rhymes with Blair.

And so now I'm all sorts of messed up. Oh my goodness. So let's go ahead and get

into what we wanted to talk about today. Why don't you tell us just before we get into the notes,

why don't you tell us a brief overview of what you're hoping to discuss today? Yeah, well, I guess first

I'll just introduce myself briefly, Blair Osler. I am the former

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