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.

Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend, Professor Richard

Luduke.

Hi, Garrett.

In this week's podcast, we want to continue our discussion of the Council of 50 Minutes.

We spoke last week about some of the teachings from the Prophet Joseph Smith that came out

of that.

And so what do we want to talk about this week, Gary?

I think I just want to go a little bit more in depth of how this council functioned

as far as what their plan was as it really affects Latter-day Saints going forward.

So it's important to note that when they are looking, we talked about this last episode,

but I'm just gonna keep, you know,

like all people who don't have anything to say,

I'm just gonna keep saying the same thing over and over again.

And it's like, oh, it seems like he knows what he's talking about.

He doesn't know what he's talking about.

But, um, uh,

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