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 another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I am joined by my friend, Dr. Richard

Leduc, whose primary function on the podcast is telling me which podcasts we're recording for

and what its name is, as I just hit the record button and forgot the name of the podcast

that we have been doing for six years. Thanks for having me back, Garrett. It's a pleasure to be

here with you. It is funny. We were going to read as we go through the Phoebe Draper Palmer

Brown mailbag, which we didn't get to in the last episode because we were just going to talk about something real quick, and then we were going to

get to it.

And then I read some anti- Mormon thing, I think.

And then, yeah, then you just, you went.

But most of the Phoebe Draper Palmer Brown mailbag is hotel bus and food confirmations, which I could read, but they

wouldn't be nearly as good.

Now, there was a couple of things to speak to.

We've got a tour coming up here in a couple of weeks.

And there's also a fifth Sunday lesson on the Declaration of Independence.

And we have received many, many, many an email saying, hey, can you help set me up? I want to be a

stake relief society president. Yeah. Whoever's been assigned to do the fifth Sunday lesson, we've received a dozen e-mails from people saying, this is my one shot at moving up the ladder. I need this. Yeah. No, it's it's, it's, it's, it's, it's the M&M song, one shot, one opportunity. So what we're going to be doing is, and we do this every May, by the way, and so everyone can relax.

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