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 long-suffering, my crawling across the desert.

He doesn't even have a horse with no name.

He's simply just crawling across the desert, but the desert is also Shards of Glass co-host. Professor nearly Dr. Richard Ladook.

Oh, Garrett, thanks for having me back. I notice a, well, a decided lack of oomph from your side of the ledger there, Richard.

Normally you are a happy, I mean, you're essentially Teddy Ruxpin come to life.

You bring joy to everyone.

And it kind of seems that, that you're unhappy. How, how's the dissertation going? How are things going? You know,

I think, I think things are going pretty well. I mean, depending on the, on the situation,

implied referrals seem to increase email response by a rate of 20 to 54%.

So that's not one person listening has any idea what an implied referral is.

Yes.

Right.

And I neither have the time or interest or patients to explain it.

They don't care.

I've tried explaining it to people before.

No one cares about anything.

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