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

I'm your host, Lindsay.

And today we are going to be talking about the history of the Word of Polygamy podcast. I'm your host, Lindsay, and today we are going to be

talking about the history of the Word of Wisdom. That was not my original intent. What I meant to do,

and this is the fun thing about Mormon history, is you start going down one rabbit hole and you

find 400 other rabbit holes. This is the exciting part about Mormon history.

So here I am thinking there's some really cool stories about some immigrant families in Mormonism,

like the Danish, German families, Swedish families. And we don't often hear their stories because

when they first came, some of them were not English speaking. So I'm doing

some research there and I find this really prominent German family, the Nagel family. They were

actually the N-L-L-Family and they changed their name to Americanize it. So N-A-L-I-L-E. I come from German descent. We have

Weiss in our family, W-E-I, and then the Umlau, but we Americanized it and called it Weiss.

So, I mean, I don't know why none of these sound Americanized to me now, but this is the family I start looking at.

So this guy is a prominent polygamous. He has six wives. All the wives seem to relatively get along.

One of the wife's leaves because she can't handle a principal plural marriage but remains on good terms with the family

and she goes on and marries a monogamist and still interacts with the family so i'm reading about

this family and then i find out that this family has this huge vineyard and they're growing wine

for the profit and so i get chased down this rabbit hole. So today we're

going to talk a little bit about the Nagel family and we're also going to talk about the word of

wisdom because I've been meaning to incorporate that and I feel like this is a great place to do that.

Claire Barris, who has been on the podcast before, has been really generous. He shared his notes with me.

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