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.

This podcast is our Fourth of July Spectacular podcast.

Hopefully, you're going into the Fourth of July weekend,

and you have wonderful plans.

We're here to tell you about the early church's on the 4th of July.

But before we get to that, we received an email that we wanted to read.

This comes to us from Tanner.

In December, seven months ago, I emailed you and asked you if you could discuss the violence

in Missouri and why it occurred.

I've waited through conversations about rice tariffs and townships, just hoping I would

hear the desired topic in my lifetime.

Well, first of all, that's just pausing really quickly.

You hoping that you'd hear it in your lifetime.

I mean, you're really wishing on a star there.

Well, I don't know.

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