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 this Standard of Truth podcast.

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

Hello, Garrett.

In this week's episode, we respond to a listener, listener's email that lit me up a little bit. She called me to the carpet.

Now when you say lit you up, was this kind of like a

you were caught smoking in middle school type of a thing?

No, no.

She took umbrage with something that I had said and I think even the word umbrage is

Well, and I think she's expecting something kind of conciliatory here where I comment.

Well, let's first, let me ask the question.

Were you wrong?

I was not wrong.

Okay.

So that one of the things about making a reconciliation is someone at some point has to admit.

Not only was I not wrong, I couldn't have been more right.

As almost PhD, Richard, I am at my most arrogant right now.

Right. So you have it, weren't you initially in your first class of your PhD program,

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