S6E2 President Holland and Avoiding Deception

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 990 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

We begin the episode with a loving tribute to President Holland and move on to a discussion of a fraudulent email that was sent out to many members of the Church representing itself as an email coming from the Church while making a series of false claims. We also discuss a litner’s email about Joseph Smith’s successor and a tremendous scientific experiment on YooHoo performed by a litter in Fairbanks, Alaska. Link to the YooHoo Scientific Experiment: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-Tg5QE6bRRpsRC_yg7rG82uXzC__dk2m?usp=sharing Standard of Truth Tour dates for the summer of 2027: ⁠ https://standardoftruth.com/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.
0:41.1	I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm feeling very under the weather.
0:46.3	We should have just canceled doing an episode, but I'm joined by my, my usurper who was waiting for just the moment.
1:01.5	As soon as I told him, my throat wouldn't work.
1:04.3	He said, well, you know, I could just do the whole show.
1:10.0	I've got, I've got 20 minutes on reciprocity.
1:13.1	I've got another 20 minutes on prospect theory.
1:15.6	I could just go.
1:17.3	Oh my gosh.
1:19.1	Well, I'm joined by my friend Richard Luduke.
1:21.7	I do apologize that I, for multiple times during the show, as I try to breathe and or talk, I will probably
1:33.3	start falling into an NPR whisper voice where, thank you so much for joining us on NPR.
1:42.3	Notice I could talk like this all day.
1:45.4	There's a certain sense to the timbre and the whisper that it works.
1:50.4	Hello, Garrett.
1:51.7	Thanks for having me back.
1:53.3	I'm really excited to be here.
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