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insight and the stories of our faith unfold. Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Mormon newscast. It is Monday 6 p.m. on July 1st. I'm Rebecca Bibliateka. I am joined by my esteemed colleagues, Bill Reel. How are you on the very first day of July? This is kind of amazing. I am doing so good, Rebecca. How are you? I'm in the wrong way. I can go this way. Dang it. I know. Sometimes podcasters do that. We're like this or like that. I don't even know where to look. How are you, R. FAMM?

I'm fine. Thank you. And I agree with you. It's amazing that today is the first day of July. I just think by amazing I mean that the summer is kind of crept up on me for some reason.

It's been cold in Utah.

It was snowing like three weeks ago.

Suddenly the sun is out and it seems like it's summer. Well, apparently, I think that I heard somewhere that you were suffering from heat stroke yesterday. I have a little bit of a sunburn. Does it show through on the air? I don't know if it does or not. I was outside. I don't think it's a nice tan. I don't look as pale as I

normally do. I've gotten that comment before. So well, we'll see how the summer progresses. We'll

see what happens. All right. Let's get started. I will review the top stories for you guys. And then we'll

dive right in. We are going to be talking about Kyle Filipowski and Mormon grooming.

That's going to be my story.

Then RFM is going to update us on Tim Ballard.

Believe it or not, we haven't talked about him for months,

but he is back in the news in a big way with several stories to go over about Tim.

And then Bill Reel will finish off with the LDS Church

in American Politics. And this is going to be good. I know we all just watched the debate. So

we're going to have a lot to say about that. So excellent. I will lead off then. There's my name.

Keep us all in order with the first story. And I don't know how many of you have

seen this. It kind of started out slow midweek and then just like a speeding train, tons of

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