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

Durkmont, and I'm joined by my friend, Professor Richard

Leduke.

Hi, Garrett.

In this, well, in last week's podcast, we left you with an absolute cliffhanger, like a Perry

Mason murder she wrote, To Be Continued.

Right.

Where we said, we will talk about the Boston Tea Party.

I don't know why this is comical.

I don't know why it is either.

Richard's clearly not a patriot and needs to be re-educated.

So, but that wasn't, that wasn't enough.

Garrett threw in one additional tidbit on the declining population of montpelier

vermont and and uh assuming that none of you have the internet and could have immediately looked that up

we apologize that you waited a week for us to get to that what was the results yeah absolutely

so there's declining population.

In 2019, the population of Montpelier was just under 7,500.

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