I Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Year of Polygamy podcast. I'm your host, Lindsay. And before we get started, it's June. It's my birthday month. And for my birthday this year, I'm asking for

donations for the Year of Plygamy podcast. If this podcast has been meaningful to you in any way,

go to year of polygamy.com. There's a donate page. Donate and make a contribution to the podcast.

Show me that you care. Show me that you appreciate the work that we're doing over here.

Now, today I have a really

fun interview coming up. I say fun because the guests that I interview is a comedian. An up-and-coming

comedian who grew up in a fundamentalist community, you might know him as King Benjamin on TikTok. Ben Brown

has graciously shared his story with us. And he is also going to be performing at the

Sunstone Symposium, which is happening July 27 through the 30th. I of course, am the executive

director of Sunstone, which is an open forum for Mormon issues. And everyone's invited. You don't

have to be Mormon. You don't have to be a believing Mormon, but you can be. and you're invited to come. So register at sunstone.org, and you can see Ben perform his set at Sunstone.

Now, I'm giving this little opening because usually I give some content warnings or trigger warnings if there's heavy themes of sexual violence or we're talking about things that you really shouldn't have kids in the room for. Today is not an interview of that nature, but I am giving a language warning.

And in some ways, it feels kind of silly to do that on podcast because most of us are adults here,

but you never know with the internet who's listening. Our guest today is a comedian and he sometimes

uses comedian

language and I didn't edit it out because like I do with many of my guests, I allow them to

share their story. I've been criticized for not pushing back sometimes on some of my guests for

some of their beliefs, but it's not a sense of cowardness. It might be rooted in a little bit of

Mormon avoidance of conflict. But really, I just try to take people where they're at when they're

telling their story, believe them when they tell me things. And I try to take their beliefs as

seriously as they do when I interview them. And it's no different for a comedian and the

language and story that he

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