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 who keeps, you know,

thanking me for having him back, even though we are in our fourth season.

And in fact, there's never been any attempt to replace him.

And we don't have any, you know, there's no, there's never been any attempt to replace him and we don't have any you know there's no

there's no open postings for the position although there are lots of you who do email saying

i would like to take richard's job so maybe he's feeling a little bit insecure but my friend

professor richard leucke hello Garrett. Thanks for having me back.

It's really great to be back.

We have a couple of emails, and we'll see how this goes.

We've done an ever so slight amount of prep.

I'm hoping this episode goes one way, and we shall, we shall see the way it goes. I'm hoping it

doesn't ever air. Um, the subject from, from Betty, historical relatives of shame. First, I just

wanted to thank you both for your wonderful podcast. I just discovered your podcast after Garrett's

last appearance on Follow Him.

I subscribed right off and binge listened until I caught up on all episodes.

Wow. Wow.

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