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.

Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast. I'm not going 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 Leduc. Hello, Garrett. In this installment of the Phoebe Draper mail bag, we're going to start off with Garrett reading an email from, uh, and mix it up a little bit from the great state of Wisconsin. So Richard and I,

you know, we have production meetings. Uh, they consist of watching the Timberwolves game. Um,

and that was, that was a little deflating. So, um, uh, you know, I said, you know, I feel like Richard's just

talking too much on the podcast. Like, I need to be the center of attention. And, and Richard, he's,

he's slowly, he's just, he's mussel in his way in. It's true. We have people setting

fan mail just to him and I will not have it. Yeah. It's true. Yeah. So just, just real

quick. We've mentioned this before in previous episodes. The, the Brigham Young quote that we say

all the time to each other. Yeah, the Brigham Young quote that it goes back to when they're

talking in the council 50 minutes and Alman Babbitt, who is a,

he is a long time, uh, well, instigator, I think is a good way to put it.

Almond Babbat's the most curious person in church history because he is constantly at odds

with both Joseph Smith and with Brigham Young.

In fact, Joseph receives a revelation condemning Almond Babbitt for setting up a golden

calf for the worship of the people.

Now, I don't know a lot, but I'm just guessing that it's not a good thing for Joseph to receive

a revelation

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