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unfold. Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of the Mormon newscast. It is Monday. It is May 12th,

the day after Mother's Day. We're going to talk about that a little bit going forward. I am Rebecca Bibliateca. I am joined today by, if I'm honest, probably my favorite of my two co-hosts. Of course, if RFM were here, I'd probably say the same thing. But of course, the amazing Bill real. And why don't you, Bill, tell us a little bit about what happened over the weekend and maybe why RFM is not with us because it's kind of related.

Yeah. Radio Free Mormon went to Las Vegas to hang out with Randy Bell for a few days.

And one of the things he did was make a side trip, an excursion to southern Utah,

where we got together with a bunch of listeners, fans, followers of our work.

And there were maybe 40 of us there

total, spent the evening having a great meal, having good conversation. RFM did some magic tricks.

We told some stories, answered some questions, and had a great conversation with those in attendance.

So I hope those that were

there if you're in the chat. I'd love to know your feedback, but I thought we had a really good

time. Yeah, it sounded fantastic. Like when I first heard about it, I thought, you know what,

I should grab some tickets and then it was sold out just like that. So I feel like you guys,

yeah, should do it again because I know there

are more people that would love to have that, you know, intimate evening with RFM and Bill Reels. So

good. Very, very fun. So all right, well, we wish RFM safe travels as you returns home and we'll

try to do the best we can without him. So all right, let's go to our slides. We have quite a number of stories

today. It's kind of interesting, all the stuff that happened this last week. So we are going to be

talking about the LDS Church settles 100 sexual assault lawsuits. This is a huge story,

and Bill's going to cover that. We also have, believe it or not,

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