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, Genreff. In this episode of the Center of Truth podcast, we're going to answer a couple of email questions that we have.

We're going to do a little apostles and apostates.

But before we jump into that,

we wanted to talk a little bit about the tour that we just concluded.

Garrett, your thoughts?

Well, I got to say, you know, there was only a few times that we nearly, you know,

had to have a panic attack because we weren't able to make our scheduled times.

Honestly, the tour was amazing.

Those of you who are listening to, you know, every week's podcast, and this isn't your first week.

You heard our little live audience.

My son Kai, when he heard that, said, so you guys just piped in the sound of people clapping.

That's what he said. So my own son doesn't believe that we could have gotten people to

actually clap in an in-person broadcast. Well, in fairness, they weren't clapping on their own.

They were clapping when I cued them to clap because I don't know that they would necessarily

would have clapped on their own. But they- So we had an applause sign for what you're saying.

Well, I said there was an exit sign. And I said, as long as that's lit up, that's what I want you to applaud.

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