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Mormon Discussions Podcasts – Full Lineup

It Takes A Thief: RFM: 428

Mormon Discussions Podcasts – Full Lineup

Bill Reel

Religion & Spirituality

4.3618 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Radio Free Mormon welcomes Bill Reel into the studio for a deep-dive investigation into a troubling pattern coming out of the Ward Radio camp. RFM walks viewers through clear, point-by-point evidence that Ward Radio’s Jonah Barnes is presenting another scholar’s research as if it were his own. Bill acts as the jury… Read More »It Takes A Thief: RFM: 428

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. This is Radio Free Mormon, broadcasting behind enemy lines and all of that good stuff.

0:07.5

I am joined by a very special guest today. He may look familiar to you. His name, as I understand it, is William? Is that right? William Real?

0:16.8

Yeah, you can call me Willie.

0:19.4

Yay. okay.

0:21.3

All right. How about Charming Billy?

0:22.8

Well, there we go.

0:24.1

We'll call you Charming Billy.

0:25.2

Thank you so much for joining me today on the Radio Free Mormon show, Bill Real.

0:29.3

This should be a lot of fun.

0:30.5

I'm excited to see where this goes.

0:32.3

You told me that this would catch me a little by surprise, and I'd get to share some takes, sort of seeing these things

0:40.9

in prompt to. So I'm excited for what you've got in store today. Thank you. Let me go ahead and

0:44.9

set the stage for everybody. This is going to be a special episode and it's about Jonah Barnes.

0:52.3

Now, Jonah Barnes is also known as Captain Apocrypha. He's a guy who shows up regularly now at, what is it now? It used to be Midnight Mormons now at Cycord Radio, right?

1:04.8

And one week ago, yes. And one week I knew the answer to that question, actually, it is. And one week ago, he, uh, he showed up there and he had this incredible theory to spin, which was along the lines of the idea that Brigham Young never taught the Adam God theory. And he had a lot of crazy evidence to show people there were duly impressed. It doesn't take a lot to impress the people there, however.

1:32.2

And we're going to look at that. Now, what I'm going to do today, you know, I was a lawyer for 35 years.

1:36.9

The first eight years, though, I was a prosecuting attorney. After that, I went into defense.

1:42.2

But I'm going to put on my prosecutor's hat today. And I've been burning the midnight oil,

1:45.9

looking at evidence, researching the heck out of this case.

1:48.3

And I'm going to prove two things today.

1:49.0

All right.

1:51.4

You're the jury, by the way, Bill.

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