You're going to. And soo, Good evening you'll be ready.

How are you, Mr. R. Free Mormon?

I think somebody yelled R.F.

I think they did. I think that was in there.

Yeah, I'm not going to ask you to play the whole thing again but how are you doing Mr. real? I'm doing good. Somebody complained last week by the way folks we'd love to hear from you

Somebody complained last week that the applause at the beginning of every show is annoying as hell to them and

we'll certainly be willing to take it out if that's the feelings of a large chunk of you but we'd love your feedback.

I'm doing great. I'm really excited to have this conversation today with you. This has been a fun one that I've been preparing for a lot of weeks, but before we get started on it, I thought I'd turn some time over to you and just see if there's anything in your life or in your awareness of events going on or anything that you'd want to bring up.

Well, my new podcast, Brush up your Shakespeare, is proceeding apace. We are up to

Hamlet Act 1 scene 5 and that one has not been recorded yet though I hope to

get to that this week end trying to turn one of those out every week and getting lots of good

response from people there isn't a huge following yet we did crack a thousand

just subscribers I almost said describers.

And so I'm really grateful for that.

Also, Mormon Sunday School, a weekly podcast in which you are now taking part.

And I saw that just today you released an episode as well.

Yeah, I'm tackling the gospel principles manual trying to give people the the faithful

basic Mormon doctrine help people know what has changed from an older version of Mormonism to today.

And then lastly let the investigator or the non-member or the new member sort of sense what is the deeper doctrines that aren't

being taught by that basic manual they're not using that in the ward anymore at the

church level inside the two-hour block but I think it's a great manual to dive into basic

Mormon principles and doctrines. Yes and I will just say that Bill Reel first told me that he wanted to do an episode on the Spalding Theory,

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