PSA: Murder Among the Mormons - Seeking Your Reactions to Mark Hofmann Documentary
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Hey Mormon Stories Listeners!
I am planning some super-cool interviews for the newly released "Murder Among the Mormons" documentary (released today on Netflix). A few SUPER important requests for you all:
- Please watch it ASAP! It's fantastic!
- Please share it with all your believing Mormon family members and friends. If they are concerned about the content, consider letting them know that:
- Richard Turley (former assistant LDS Church historian and head of LDS Church Public Affairs) participates in the documentary, and
- The documentary was carefully designed by both Jared and Tyler to be fair/balanced. In my opinion, the doc is TOTALLY TBM worthy, so please watch it AND tell everyone about it!
I am planning several super cool interviews, including an interview with Directors - Jared Hess and Tyler Measom. So stay tuned for that!
Here's where I need your help. I would REALLY love it if you would share with me: a) your reactions to the doc, and b) any questions you have for Jared and Tyler. This will help me make the most of time with them (which I see as precious). It will also stand as a cool record of progressive and post-Mormon reactions to the film.
Please post your reactions here!
If you want to watch additional coverage of the Mark Hofmann bombings on Mormon Stories Podcast, you can check out the following episodes:
- An interview with Allen D. Roberts and Curt Bench about Mark Hofmann.
- An interview with Brent Metcalfe - personal friend of Mark Hofmann.
- An interview with Sandra Tanner - whose husband Jerald determined that Mark Hofmann was a fraud before any of the LDS Church leaders.
Thank you in advance for your support! And a HUGE thanks to Jared and Tyler for making a documentary that we ALL can be proud of as Mormons/Ex-Mormons. More soon!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's Sean Delin. It is March 3rd, 2021 and today is a super exciting day. |
| 0:07.2 | So I have an announcement and a request and both are really important. The announcement |
| 0:11.5 | is that today I am super excited to announce that a new documentary has been released by |
| 0:19.8 | Netflix called Murder Among the Mormons and it is a documentary created by Jared Hess, |
| 0:27.6 | the creator, director, writer of Napoleon Dynamite, who is a dear friend and my dear friend, |
| 0:32.7 | Tyler Miesem, who is the director of several Mormon themed documentaries, including |
| 0:38.1 | Suns of Tradition and on a Slire and a really cool MTV documentary that isn't Mormon |
| 0:43.5 | related, but it's just super cool. Anyway, so many of us for so many years, if not decades, |
| 0:49.8 | you know, have been wanting the Mark Hoffman story to finally be told in a documentary |
| 0:55.6 | or a drama, a sensation on TV or on the screen and today it's finally happened. March 3rd, |
| 1:01.8 | Go to Netflix, Murder Among the Mormons has been released. It's a three-hour, three-part |
| 1:07.4 | documentary and it is super well done and I honestly cannot imagine of two better people |
| 1:13.3 | to do this than Jared Hess, who's brilliant and well connected and funny and fair and |
| 1:19.2 | just a kind of funny professional. And Tyler Miesem, who is, in my view, the best Mormon |
| 1:24.5 | documentary filmmaker on the planet. So it's released, it's out, I've seen it, it is |
| 1:30.2 | fair, it is balanced, it is thoughtful, it is meaningful, it is important and you all |
| 1:37.5 | need to go see it right now. That is the first thing that I need to announce. Go see this |
| 1:42.5 | documentary. The second thing that I want to announce is that for any of you who want |
| 1:47.3 | more backstory on the documentary, of course, I've interviewed Brent Metcalf, who is featured |
| 1:51.9 | in this documentary, I've also interviewed Sandra Tanner, who is featured in this documentary |
| 1:56.4 | and I think I've even interviewed at some point or someone affiliated with me as interviewed |
| 2:00.4 | Kurt Bench. But anyway, there are several Mormon Stories podcast episodes if you want |
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