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 Leduke. Hello, Garrett. In this week's podcast, we're coming to you remote from our

satellite studio off of the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. On location. On location.

Yes. Bringing, doing the research and bringing the hard truths to you.

Yes, the zero dollars that we've made on the podcast has really paid off.

And so we decided, actually, we had a trip plan to, with our wives, to, becky's birthday was what the point of this was

yeah initially yeah yeah and then covid and things got moved around but you know what we will not

be stopped by bottomless soda packages or steel drums you know know, inviting us out onto the deck.

We will push forward.

And we actually were at, we just left yesterday.

We went to Chitsinica, which was a pretty amazing experience.

And so we wanted to use kind of that as a jumping off point to discuss a

couple of things but first we wanted to read a couple of well an email a couple of

emails that we received the first one comes in with just glowing praise.

This comes from Jeff.

So have you ever watched one of those teaser videos on social media that are promising something utterly and completely phenomenal

that will change your life forever?

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