I'm Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Year of Polygamy podcast.

I'm your host, Lindsay, and today I'm bringing on a very interesting scholar, Antonio Trevisan.

Did I say that correctly?

That's right. That's an Italian last name. I'm originally from Brazil, so

that's probably the third possible pronunciation. All right. So we're somewhat in the ballpark.

So Antonio, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and give us some background information on you first.

So I have a degree in translation. I've worked with a translation and copy editing and language

teaching back in Brazil. I've moved to the United States and here I've become production worker. I've been working in a

food factory for the last four months. I've done some research on Rosler Barron and his church

of the firstborn. I also write for a Brazilian group blog called Vosius Bormons. Yeah, that's it. So Ross LaBaron is someone we've talked about

a little bit. I interviewed Robert Wright Black and he talked about getting his authority from

Ross LeBaron and sort of shared some of the wild eccentricities of Rosslebaron that, you know,

he lived in a shack with a goat and things like that. So I've been wanting to talk about Ross

for a long time because even though he was eccentric, he is considered by many fundamentalists to be a legitimate, or at least argues a good case for a legitimate source of authority. So I'm so excited to talk about this with you. But how did you get interested in Ross Liberon?

Back in 2002 or three, I was coming home from my LDS mission. I served an LDS mission in Japan,

and I started reading about Mormon fundamentalism in general, and I was really curious. I was attracted to some ideas of Ross LeBaron,

and his adopted sons. I had Matt to line. And I thought it was really unique, and it was

something I wanted to go deeper into. Why weren't you afraid to look into that, like many traditional LDS people?

A good question. I don't know. I converted to the LDS church as an adult. I was 24, almost turning 25. The earliest memory I have about the name Mormon, Mormon

Church, was in my childhood. There was going to be a TV show about Mormon polygamy. Either

my parents didn't allow me to watch or there was something more interesting on TV.

I didn't watch, but that was something that was in the back of my mind for all my life.

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