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includes a brief mention of suicide. Please listen with care. Sarah, have you been watching all

the Mormons in our pop culture lately? Like, I'm sure you're watching Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, right?

Well, of course, Salt Lake City.

I mean, Jen Shaw.

And yes, I definitely am very fascinated by this rise of Mormonism in pop culture.

I am watching all of it.

And I think what I love the most is how they're always fighting while holding like a 90 ounce cup of soda.

They drink so much soda in the secret lives of Mormon wives because they have that thing swig that I'm like, are they just constantly like irving and gassy?

I think they're just vibrating.

It's just, it must be crazy, right?

Well, I ask because I'm about to tell you about another story that made headlines all over

the world about the Mormon church. When one of its members made his crisis of faith, everyone

else's problem. On January 6th, 1984, days before his 30th birthday,

Steve Christensen is about to buy himself a big present.

Steve lives in a suburb of Salt Lake City.

He's got a broad frame and thick, dark brown hair that hangs over his forehead.

He's a financial consultant, a father of three,

and a Mormon bishop who collects documents

and rare books related to the church. And today, he's about to buy one of the rarest,

most important church documents in the world. The document is known as the Salamander letter.

It was supposedly written by an early member of the church, and it totally upends the church's

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