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Standard of Truth

S5E43 Dead and in Hell Part 3

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

4.9990 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we get back into who is dead and in hell with a discussion of President Zachary Taylor’s secret “mega-state” plan to skip territorial status by fusing the Mexican Cession into two giant states (California and New Mexico) and setting the stage for Deseret, Utah Territory, and next week’s “Who’s Dead and in Hell?” installment. Kristy’s KorneЯ (Last Minute Lesson Prep): Doctrine and Covenants 115 the revelation that formally names the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Standard of Truth Tour dates for the summer of 2027: ⁠ https://standardoftruth.com/tours Our 2026 tours are sold out, but if you would like to join us in the future here is a link to our 2027 tours: ⁠ Sign up for our free monthly email: ⁠ ⁠https://standardoftruthpodcast.substack.com⁠ If you have any questions or possible topics of discussion for upcoming podcasts, please email us at: ⁠⁠questions@standardoftruthpodcast.com

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. In this podcast, Dr. Garrett Dirk-Mott and Dr. Richard

0:08.2

Leduc explore the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the life

0:14.3

and teachings of the prophet Joseph Smith. They examine the original historical sources and provide

0:20.4

context for events of the past.

0:23.1

They approach the history of the church with faith, expertise, and humor.

0:37.2

Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.

0:41.0

I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and my co-host, who used to be my friend, just tried to get me to say the wrong name of the podcast as I did our introduction, Dr. Richard Leduke.

0:52.2

Our friendship apparently hangs by a Gossmer's thread.

0:56.4

Yeah, the same, the same web, the same strand of spider web that Jonathan Edwards saw

1:03.8

humanity dangling over the flames and sinners the hands on angry God.

1:09.4

That's where we're at.

1:11.2

Because as the recordings counting down, as we're about to go live to the billions and billions of four or five people,

1:22.5

he says the wrong name of the podcast, hoping, I I think that I would say the wrong name.

1:30.5

No, not hoping.

1:31.7

He was actually just mocking me because the last time we recorded, I happened to say the name of one of our premium podcasts that we haven't recorded in a year and a half and somehow I said it instead of

1:48.4

search these commandments. Is that about right, Richard? No, that's that you you nailed it. Hey,

1:54.7

Garrett. Thanks for having me back. So excited to to be here as we as we move forward,

2:00.5

ever forward on who's dead and in hell we are excited

2:04.9

to lots of people there yes no it's very exciting we now this garret we're we're going to get right

2:13.0

into it um we've got a phoebe draper pal Brown mailbag. We've got a Christy's Corner. Do you want to just jump right into Christy's Corner? The name of the church, I think, is what you wanted to talk about. Should we do Christy's Corner first?

2:27.5

I think so. I mean, we did have Mindy. She, she, she found out,

2:35.2

you know,

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