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Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Latter Day Lives podcast.

I'm your host, Sean Rappere, and we are jumping on for a really, really quick episode,

mostly just to let you know, we are coming back.

The Latter Day Lives podcast is coming back. And we're going to have all new episodes, and we're super excited. So I wanted to jump on and kind of just fill you in as to what's happening.

If you're new to the show, I'll give you kind of a quick overview.

And for those who have been around a long time, I'll just tell you really quickly kind of what's been going on and why we're coming back.

But quick history.

In 2017, I was a guest on a Disneyland podcast with my dear friends, Sean and Brian Lourdes.

Their podcast was so much fun to record, I became fascinated with podcasts and kind of had it

on my mind.

Maybe I could have a podcast.

And one Saturday morning, I woke up and I just knew it was time and Latter Day Lives was born.

We had no idea what we were doing, but we picked up some equipment, started recording, and we started building up a little bit of an audience, and then we built more and more.

And pretty quickly, we got up to a whole bunch of episodes. We got to meet the

most incredible Latter-day Saints. We started mostly with actors and comedians and filmmakers,

and then all of a sudden we just started meeting politicians and athletes and people who had

survived incredible life events and authors and musicians

and, oh, so many incredible people. A lot of those people I met through the show are still

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