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

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

and teachings of the 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 a special bonus episode.

It's sad, actually, that we are doing a bonus episode for this purpose, but we don't have the ability to control ourselves. And we don't want our actual podcast to be only talking about March Madness.

And we've got a lot of buy-in from the folks, but I am your host, Dr. Garrett-Dirkmont. I'm joined by my friend, Dr. Richard Leduke. And we're going to talk a little bit of March Madness. You know, and maybe, I don't know, other things like maybe Richard has some French poetry he'd like to share. I don't know what you about, Richard? Well, Garrett, there's so many exciting things that are going on right now. Both of our sons have

their mission papers submitted, but we don't have calls yet. We've got the, we've got the

dead and in hell bracket challenge for sweetwater, or sweetwater rescue for, uh, sweetwater

rescues in on a, I like how it started as, you know, we are supporting that charity and suddenly

that's the company now.

It's a...

Your hostile takeover bid is well understood.

Oh, we used to...

We started as an organization to help people get to the temple, and now it's all about NCAA picks, Garrett.

It was always a- Look, a lot of charities lose their way.

A lot of charities, you know, they start off with, we like to help children have school books in Africa,

and they end up buying people Tesla's in the administration.

So that's, I feel like that's the trajectory you were already on.

No, no, no, now it's all about stone cold lock picks of the week for the, for the bracket.

We, you know, here at whatever organization I'm currently representing.

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