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and especially on something dealing with the subject that I really don't have an awful lot of

knowledge about that subject is Joseph Smith and Polygamy. But in preparing for today's podcast

and the interview with Jonathan Streeter on the subject, as well as during the course of the

podcast itself I learned a lot of very interesting things and found a lot of what I hope are interesting

things to say about the subject. The podcast, as it turned out, went for three hours. Yes, three hours

of me and Jonathan Streeter talking about this subject. So my plan is to take that three hours

cut it up into three parts each an hour long and release these as podcasts on Radio Free Mormon

today, tomorrow and on Friday as well. It is a little bit overwhelming to listen to all of this

in one sitting, three hours. It was a little overwhelming to me just to participate in it for

three hours. I found that I got a headache by the end of it trying to keep track of all the intricacies

and all the relationships and all the dramatist persona that were involved, even in this one incident

related to plural marriage in Joseph Smith and the specific incident has to do with Joseph's

marriage to the daughter of Newell K. Whitney and Newell K. Whitney's wife, Elizabeth Whitney,

and that daughter's name was Sarah Whitney, Sarah Ann Whitney. And the reason this particular episode

of plural marriage is so interesting and so important is because it is the one episode that we have

documentation on because Sarah and or her parents insisted that Joseph Smith put it in writing.

That Joseph Smith put in writings all the blessings that were going to be incurred to Sarah and her

family as a result of Sarah agreeing to marry Joseph Smith and as a result of Sarah's parents

agreeing to allow their daughter to get married to Joseph Smith. She was only 17 years old at the time

parental consent was required. So the reason this podcast is titled a bad defense is the worst

offense is because we not only deal with the subject and the documentation that surrounds it and

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