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. I'm your host Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by

my friend Richard Leduke. Hello, Garrett.

In this week's podcast, we're going to conclude the three parts, podcasts around Joseph Smith,

both the history and context of him deciding to run for president.

And now we're going to start getting into some of the beliefs and parts of

his platform kind of where he's at we last left with his letter back to john c calhoun and i think

we're going to pick up here with with henry clay well and and you know at this point um we're

basically doing the hobbit series of Lord of the Rings,

right?

This, this was originally one movie.

It was supposed to be one movie.

It was easily, could have been done one movie, three movies.

I will say.

So, so there is a little bit, you know, behind the scenes on this.

It was supposed to be just one podcast. podcast and and we've kind of found a

vein here something that you're very uh that you are passionate about angry angry about

passionate about and so uh this happens sometimes where we start with a particular topic

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