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

Leduc 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.

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've got a couple of emails that we'll be responding to that will take us down in various rabbit holes. The tangents await. Yes. All of our listeners

cry out. Is there any way that you could bring up an email, say that you're going to talk about it,

talk about something completely different for 10 minutes, and then never answer the question?

The answer for you is yes. Yeah, that's right. That's our branding and we're on brand. So this

comes, this first email comes to us from Oliver.

First, I want to congratulate you on having at least one listener in Nampa, Idaho.

Your hometown?

My hometown, right?

What was your high school mascot?

We were the Hawks, Skyview Hawks.

Okay.

That's right.

I was in Nampa Bulldog for a year and then they built Skyview and then I was within

that.

I thought you were going to tell me that like, I was kicked out.

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