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 or Truth podcast.

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

Hello, Garrett.

We're going to break from this season's tradition of starting a part one and then never doing a part two by no no we have done part two's this is a vicious slander i'm just reading the emails i feel like you are libeling me

i'm telling you have we not done two apostles and apostates and apothecaries? We have, but, but it was like,

they were separated by about six moons. I mean, it was, it was quite a distance between them.

Okay. So, Jupiter size means is what you're saying. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying,

I'm saying here, we here we're about to do

maron i part two so we're we're on the heels of maroni part one we've got a lot of momentum

uh we've received many actually very positive we've received there's there's there are two

um episodes that we have done for or series episodes we've done.

And by we have done, I mean, I've been here and then Garrett did it.

Where we, the first one that was where we got a tremendous amount of feedback that was very, very positive was the prosperity uh, I think there were two, three, two and a half.

We could have been like 10 of those. Yeah, there were, I think it was there were two and a half

episodes of something like that. The on the prosperity theology, the idea that, you know, only

if you do good things and you're doing all the things right, then good things happen.

And it's like, well, I mean, maybe except for when it's not, doesn't, which is all the time.

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