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're going to talk about perhaps the occult, satanic rituals. Well, maybe, well, we'll get there.

Okay.

Yeah.

Well, we're going to start with some emails.

It's not going to be a how-to.

No, no, no.

There was some questions in emails about things that Joseph and the Smith family may or may not

have done.

Spoiler alert, they didn't.

And so we're going to talk a little bit about the sources and and some of the things that were that were said there we'll start with an email subject line thank you uh

i hope this note finds you well you know what rj it does it does find us well although we're a bit

a bit peckish i'm hungry i initially thought to write you regarding the full detail around John Taylor's

mini guns and those dozens he must have had with him, talked into the bandalier in Carthage.

That's funny.

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