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Year of Polygamy Podcast

Episode 95: Dueling Josephs: How two Smith cousins shaped modern polygamy

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, History, Education

4.8821 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Join Lindsay as she interviews two historians, John Hamer and Don Bradley about the Smith cousins, Joseph F. Smith and Joseph Smith III and how their public feud shaped 20th century polygamy. Links mentioned in this podcast: The Persistence of […]

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0:00.0

This is Gerald Hasselpool, FMH blogger, and all-around Mormon feminist superstar.

0:12.1

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0:24.0

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0:29.5

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0:35.0

Please give and give generously, and then deduct it from your taxes like a true American.

0:37.1

And then eat some funeral potatoes.

0:39.5

Hey, you've earned it. One, two, three, go. feminist Mormon housewives.

1:05.3

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the feminist Mormon housewives podcast.

1:09.3

I'm your host Lindsay bringing you another episode in the Year of Pall Housewives podcast. I'm your host, Lindsay, bringing you another

1:11.2

episode in the Year of Polygamy series where we tried to understand and untingle the practice

1:16.7

of Mormon plural marriage. If this is your first time tuning in, I'd recommend going all the way back

1:21.4

to episode one, as this series is meant to go in order and give you context for what we're going to be

1:25.4

talking about today. And you can also

1:27.8

listen to this online at year of polygamy.com where you can get all the episodes in order without

1:32.8

all the other feminist feminist feminist Mormon housewives podcast. So without further ado,

1:39.7

I'm bringing on two fantastic historians. I'm sure if you know anything about church history, you've heard of these people.

1:46.8

Someone is returning, and that is John Hamer.

1:49.8

John Hamer, can you say hello?

1:51.7

Hello, great to be back.

1:53.5

I'm excited about how you're wrapping up this incredible series you've been doing.

1:59.2

Yeah, are you trying to say you want it to be done?

2:02.4

Well, I mean, it's been going on for more than a year.

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