Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast, hosted by historian Dr. Garrett Dirkmont,

where we explore the early days of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

and gain rare historical insights into how a young farm boy was able to establish a new church

and grow it by way of visions,

manifestations, and miracles.

Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast.

This is the bonus episode.

We've gotten some interest and some questions as it relates to

the book that Garrett and his co-author Michael McKay wrote from Darkness Unto Light, Joseph Smith's

translation and the publication of the Book of Mormon. And so I wanted to ask Garrett a couple of questions about the book specifically to try

to understand a little bit more some of the things that are that are in it.

We just did two-part podcast where we talked about the translation of the plates and you

were able to hit a lot of things.

Yeah, basically the entire book.

The entire book.

So you don't need to buy it.

It's really not a way of like, yeah, you could buy the book and read it or you could

just listen to the podcast.

You can see how, you know, this is not the best marketing, but yeah.

Yeah, absolutely.

Or you can just go to the gospel topics essay and not listen to

this podcast yeah really i mean we already came up with the fact that if you just read that new

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