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 your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend, Professor Richard Leduc.

Hello, Garrett.

In this episode, we're going to dive back in to part two of Apostles and Apostles.

We are not.

We are not. We are not.

I think we just put that up as a trial balloon.

And what we found was that everyone just, you know, they wanted to only talk about apostates.

And we wanted to do both.

Well, so one of the problems is actually, it's your fault, actually, a listener.

Because what happens is we get a lot of emails. And in the emails, we get really good questions that the emails are far more interesting and funny than anything we have ever done or said.

And so we want to share those emails and kind of get into some of that stuff.

And so we have, you know, I've used the reference before, Travis Tritt, the best of intentions.

But ultimately, we're just never going to get back to it.

Right.

So what we need our listeners to do is to just assume that whenever we say we're going to talk about anything, that we aren't.

So here's a perfect entry into the Phoebe Draper mailbag.

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