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 Leduke.

Hello, Garrett.

That was our fourth take of trying to do this.

I don't know that, I think, I'm not sure that Richard's entirely educated on the reason why you do takes.

It's to not tell the audience that it took four takes for me to say the word standard of truth without saying the word, nerd, or without my wife speaking in the background. How are doing angie she's great she's doing just wonderful we're uh we're glad to be here this is uh part

four of uh maroni well i i feel like you kind of you kind of you kind of challenged me i did i

said at me pretty hard i said after the end of a part two, I said we never do multi-parters.

And I feel like it's hurting our brand.

And now we're doing four parts.

Garrett promised last week that we'd finish this week.

There's not even a chance we're finishing this week.

I mean, there's a chance.

Well, so this is one of the things that is great. So Garrett probably spends, oh, seven to ten hours in research per episode, plus or minus,

preparing some of the things that we have to be able to talk about.

And so as Garrett is doing additional research, he's finding more things that are interesting

that we can be able to talk about.

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