Hosts Reflect on All Out In The Open

All Out in the Open

All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

Latter-day Saint, Christ, Society & Culture, Mormon, Gay, Religion & Spirituality, Faith, Lgbtq, Transgender, Church Of Jesus Christ, Christianity, Lgbt, Lds

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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To celebrate one year of All Out in the Open, hosts Charlie Bird, Ben Schilaty, Liz Macdonald, Michael Soto, Iese Wilson and Clare Dalton reflect on their favorite episodes and biggest takeaways. We’ll be taking a break from the podcast to assess the best way to meet the needs of the community moving forward. Thank you for tuning in each week—your support means the world to us. We’ll be sharing more resources, events and opportunities to get involved soon.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome back to All Out in the Open. We are so excited for kind of a special episode. As you know, about a year ago, we switched formats and we've been doing different episodes each week with different contributors,
0:21.7	different co-host, and it's been amazing. So we just kind of want to take a look back at the
0:27.2	past year and kind of do like a year in review and talk about some highlights. And we have
0:32.7	very special guests today. We have all of the hosts of the podcast yeah and they're all in
0:37.8	Arizona and we're in Utah and we're joined through the miracle of technology
0:42.3	and sound guy Mike the miracle of sound guy Mike yeah so today we were just
0:49.1	gonna go through and we'll probably just go episode by episode and well not all
0:54.0	the episodes we're gonna go
0:55.1	we're right like type of episodes so liz and michael will start talking about their all together
1:00.0	episodes then yesterday with his out and about claire with in the scriptures and then me and ban will
1:04.4	talk about some of the highlights from exclusive episodes and the openups that we've done yeah and
1:08.7	we would love to hear like your thoughts your thoughts, your feedback and, like, what episodes
1:12.5	are most meaningful for you.
1:14.7	So, all right.
1:16.4	Liz and Michael, welcome.
1:19.6	Thank you.
1:20.6	We're so glad to be here.
1:21.9	Yeah.
1:22.2	Yeah, we are so, I'm so grateful for the time and effort you've put in on this project over the past year.
1:29.4	And your episodes particularly, I think, have been so helpful for me to kind of just see
1:36.7	the community building aspect. And it's, it's, it was so cool how y'all have brought in people from different faiths and different like political backgrounds and really made a space of bridge building and I'm just curious as you look back on the year which episodes have been or which guests have like felt the most meaningful or if there's been any just like highlights stick out moments.
2:02.0	I know that's probably hard to ask.
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