S6E16 In Preparation of the First Vision (premium JSR)

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 992 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Any LDS podcast can do a review of general conference two weeks after the broadcast but here in the truth podcast we want to do our review of general conference three or possibly four weeks after the original broadcast Because of this, we are dropping a previously aired premium episode from Joseph Smith, and the Restoration about his preparation for the First Vision 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 Joseph Smith and the Restoration, a Standard of Truth podcast production.
0:09.7	In this podcast, host Dr. Garrett Dirkmont and Professor Richard LaDuke will discuss the events of the restoration in the order they occurred.
0:18.5	Listeners will follow Joseph Smith as he rises from the obscurity of a poor farm boy
0:23.5	to the prophet of the restoration.
0:26.0	They will learn of the trials and triumphs,
0:28.5	the miracles and misery of Joseph Smith,
0:31.4	and early members of the church. Hi, welcome to another episode of Joseph Smith and the Restoration.
0:46.5	A Standard of Truth podcast production.
0:48.9	I am your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont.
0:51.0	I am joined by my friend ever increasingly closer to becoming Dr. Richard Leduc.
1:00.1	Hello, Garrett. I'm very excited to be back on Joseph Smith and the Restoration. Thanks for having me back.
1:07.6	I have a tentative date for the dissertation defense, and I am very excited.
1:15.3	It looks like it'll be in November.
1:17.6	I have not yet told my wife what year.
1:21.3	Our premium listeners may not know, because I assume that our premium listeners who are all missionaries and or people
1:29.5	who've stolen this from the dark web, they may not know that I spoke at Education Week
1:40.4	this last week and there were dozens of people there that were all there to see Richard
1:47.3	and not me. And where's Richard? I thought he did everything with you. I'm like, well,
1:51.9	and I told them, I said, well, I'm not allowing him to speak with me at Education Week
1:58.9	until he has his PhD.D. at hand.
2:04.2	He has to have it.
2:11.3	And otherwise, he'll bring down the whole, you know, I can't, I can't just have some ABD up there speaking with me.
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