And Testing one, two three, testing one, two one two three this is radio free Mormon on the air

Broadcasting behind enemy lines tonight's episode a whale of of a Tale, Part 2, this time, it's personal.

You will recall that just earlier this month I issued the original episode titled A Whale

of a Tale in which we took a very close look

at a talk that was given in April 2018 General Conference.

The talk was given by a member of the 70 and the member of the 70 who gave that memorable talk was

Elder Larry Y Wilson. Why is his middle initial though later on elder Wilson may be wondering why it is that he gave this

talk in the first place, because in this talk he related a story about Frank Blair, and Frank Blair

was an ensign in the United States Navy during the Korean War.

And Frank Blair, according to the story, had a remarkable experience while he was serving as an ensign in the Korean War aboard a troop transport ship in a typhoon.

And in the prior episode, I spent some time looking at the story that was told.

It was a semi-miraculous story.

And yet, after I got done looking at it and after I got done

passing it by some career Navy men to see if it passed muster what we found out

is that upon closer inspection it broke up into little pieces like so much flotsam and jetsam on the water and indeed it seemed very very unlikely that not only did the semi-maraculous parts of it happen, but even the unmeraculous parts of it did not happen.

I am doing this podcast by way of follow-up to that podcast.

Two things have happened since that podcast released on Sunday,

August 12, 2018. The first that I want to mention is that one of the

listeners to this podcast took it upon himself to do some research regarding

Inson Blair to see if he could find out the name of the ship and some other details related

to Inson Blair's story that was told by

Elder Larry Wilson in conference. Now you will recall that there were not a lot of

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