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 Lededuc. Hello, Garrett. We wanted to start off this week's podcast just to say

thank you. We receive occasional emails from listeners that... Most of them negative.

That's right. Yeah, you know, Paul from Minnesota writes, why do you exist?

And I don't think he means it like in a philosophical way.

No, it was good.

Why do you use specifically?

Why is this podcast?

You know, what is this?

But we do very much appreciate the listeners to the podcast and to the kind emails that we

receive.

We don't respond to all of them and we aren't able to get to all of the questions.

We have an enormous operating budget of zero.

And so essentially all of the time we spend doing this is, you, you know, we, whatever, we are the staff.

It's us.

That is correct.

And so.

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