SIO171: Bryce Blankenagel on Mormon Fundamentalists
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Bryce Blankenagel is an expert on all things Mormon, and he brings history to life in brilliant narrative form. He joins us today to bring to our attention a somewhat frightening strain of fundamentalist Mormonism he has observed, which is making its way online in social media hashtag form. And be sure to check out Bryce's work over on The Naked Mormonism Podcast, The Glass Box Podcast, and My Book of Mormon!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only Only. This is episode 171. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm your host Thomas Smith, and I am recording |
| 0:37.2 | on a crappy headset for just the bumper here |
| 0:40.8 | because when you have a baby who goes to sleep and you forget to record |
| 0:44.6 | bumpers before she goes to sleep, then you got to record downstairs. But not to worry, my main interview today is with |
| 0:52.1 | Bryce Blanken-aggle and it's in sterling quality audio. |
| 0:57.6 | Bryce is amazing. I really enjoy Bryce. He is an expert in everything Mormon history. He has some |
| 1:03.8 | fantastic podcast which we talk about so I'll leave it to then and he's going to |
| 1:09.2 | take us through some Mormon history and some Mormon fundamentalism, |
| 1:13.4 | some actually really kind of scary stuff |
| 1:16.0 | that we, you might not necessarily know about |
| 1:18.9 | when it comes to these really fundamentalist Mormon beliefs and how much they are around today and how much they might be kind of behind the scenes in certain respects, |
| 1:30.5 | when it is certainly when it comes to Utah politics and you know sometimes all of |
| 1:36.2 | Republicanism. Bryce is really good at making history interesting and taking you through a narrative in a way that is enjoyable and keeps you engaged. |
| 1:48.0 | He's great at what he does, so I'm so glad to have him on the show. |
| 1:50.6 | Let's hop on over. And I'm joined by Bryce Blanken-Agal. How you doing, sir? |
| 2:00.0 | I am joined by Bryce Blanken-agle. |
| 2:02.0 | How you doing, sir? I am How you doing sir? I am fantastic mr. Smith how are you this afternoon? |
| 2:07.0 | While I'm a bit embarrassed that I hadn't even realized that you hadn't been on this show before I just assumed you had because we've talked so many times and you've been on opening arguments. |
| 2:16.4 | So sincere apologies for me for not getting you on until now, but thank you so much for coming on. |
| 2:23.4 | I'm really excited to have you. |
| 2:25.0 | Hang on, so Thomas, you're telling me |
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