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 of Truth podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend who is creeping ever closer to a dissertation defense.

He's so close that he may even have the defense scheduled. Is that correct?

Richard Lerduke. Hello, Garrett. Thanks for having me back. Yeah, we have a tentative date plan. Well, we have a day and a month. We do not have a year. So it's just like the second coming.

Yeah, that was, we made that joke. It's the reverse of the second coming. We made that joke on the,

on the premium. And so for all the missionaries in the Philippines listening to that, I apologize for

that. The angels in heaven do not know when the dissertation defense will be. But we are creeping

ever closer as I am wearing them down. I am not

getting better, improving, but they are growing tired of me. And we're almost there. I did actually,

this is very important. My dad has recently become a premium member because we don't give it to anybody for free except for missionaries.

Right.

My mom pays.

Legit Renee pays.

So look, I would give it to my mom for free, but there's no ability for us to do that.

Well, she can't, she, the, you know, the Google drive wouldn't work.

Right.

So, so, so, look, we, we could give her access to a Google drive with all of the,

them in there.

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