Hello, welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.

Our guest on today's podcast is our friend David Archiletto.

Welcome to the podcast, David.

Richard, Papa Osler.

So good to finally get to chat with you after all these years. Well, it's great to have you here, David,

and we're going to go for about 30 minutes. David's got busy schedules. He's launching a book.

I just want to introduce myself real quickly if people aren't familiar with me. I'm a Latter-day

saint. I'm a married father of six, and about 10 years ago I was in charge of a

congregation of single LDS people, and a few brave men told me about what it's like being gay.

And in kind of a rebuke of the spirit, I realized everything I knew about gay people, was

straight people, and I just sort of reformatted my hard drive and let queer people tell me about being

queer. And then as that assignment ended, I just wanted to do everything I could to be an ally

to queer Latter-day Saints. And that's what I've been doing about the last eight years. And

David's been a huge influence for me as an ally. Both my wife and I always have enjoyed your music, David, but I've

listened to a lot of what you've shared in your own journey. And it's been so helpful to me to better

support queer people in my life. But I reached out to David. He's written a new book called

Devout, losing my faith to find myself. And he's also

just embarking on a book tour, and it's coming to Utah. And in the show notes, we'll link to the

book. It will also link to his book event in Salt Lake City, for those of you that are in the

Mountain West area. It's on February 24th, and there's multiple other cities. But I just

want to get data. We could go two different ways. We haven't done any prep listeners. I've got

three questions I'd love to ask you, or you could just blow off those questions, David,

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