Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. In this podcast, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont and Professor Richard

Luduke explore the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the

life and teachings of Prophet Joseph Smith. They examine the original historical sources and

provide context for events of the past.

They approach the history of the church with faith, expertise, and humor.

Merry Christmas.

I played Santa several times in my ward, and well, maybe I shouldn't be admitting that on the air.

We thought we would drop a special Christmas Day bonus to everybody listening.

I think this was Richard's idea?

It was. Hello, Garrett. I will say that

it was one of these things where we get to the end of the year. We wanted to do another thing

with Christmas. It would be kind of weird to do it in January. And so we're squeezing it in.

And so there's a, there's a kind of a cool story that Garrett's funny because Amazon doesn't think it's a problem to deliver my Christmas gifts in January.

No, they do not.

I mean, look, a lot of things, you know, it's incredible how quick it gets here.

There are some things you order and then like every other, every other day you get an update.

Oh, your delivery's been delayed

it's been delayed it's been delayed it's in june it's in what did the to the country that

manufacture this have a coup what's going on why am i not able to get this well we we talked about

you know if you're listening to this there, there's a good chance that you just

listen to our Christmas episode, our episode talking about Christmas.

That's right.

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