SIO333: 'Under the Banner of Heaven' and the Lafferty Murders, with The Glass Box Podcast
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
When I started watching Under the Banner of Heaven, I honestly had no idea it was a: true crime and b: MORMON AS HELL. (I had just wanted to watch Andrew Garfield in a thing...) Well, if you were left a little confused by the Mormon lore in this true-crime thriller, have we got the show for you! Bryce Blankenagel and Shannon Grover help us understand this very... bizarre religious history. And Shannon has a personal connection to the real case!
Check out the excellent Glass Box Podcast!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries Only. This is episode 333. I'm Thomas and that's Dr. Lindsay |
| 0:17.9 | Ostriman. How you doing Lindsay? Fantastic. How are you? I am great and I'll tell you why. It's |
| 0:22.6 | because I'm so excited for our guest today. A little bit of a change up on today's show. I'd |
| 0:26.6 | like to welcome my favorite ex-mo. No offense, Shannon. Bryce Blankenegel. How are you doing? |
| 0:34.3 | I'm fantastic. As soon to be your second favorite ex-mo. I was going to leave that open. That |
| 0:38.8 | possibility, Shannon, is open. It's going to be open-minded. Bryce and I have a history, you know, |
| 0:44.4 | an elaborate romantic history that we won't get into here. That's just for patrons. |
| 0:52.0 | Bryce, there you go. Bryce and Shannon from the Glassbox podcast. How are you two doing today? |
| 0:57.3 | I'm good. Fantastic. Thanks for having us. We're excited to be here. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah. So this came out as totally left field because here's what is happening. All right, |
| 1:05.2 | I became a fan of one Andrew Garfield recently. For weird reasons. Everybody I think I already watched |
| 1:11.5 | those old Spider-Mins, but I never watched those. I didn't watch any of the stuff he was in. But my |
| 1:15.3 | wife had that new documentary on HBO about the guy who wrote rent that Andrew Garfield is in. |
| 1:21.6 | And I wasn't even watching. She was watching it. But he's so delightful that me like it was a |
| 1:26.6 | second hand delightfulness, just not even watching him that I absorbed. And I just started really |
| 1:31.2 | liking this guy. And then I saw that new Spider-Man that he'd guest start in, liked it even more. |
| 1:35.9 | And so then we see a preview for Under the Banner of Heaven. And I know nothing about this. Zero |
| 1:40.5 | about this, but it's an FX show, you know, it's good, usually good channel. And it's got Andrew |
| 1:45.5 | Garfield in it. I'm not even a big true crime fan. I'm like kind of like had enough a true crime. |
| 1:50.2 | I feel like our society has a unhealthy relationship with true crime. But it's Andrew Garfield. I'm |
| 1:54.5 | like, well, I have to watch this. And so lo and behold, we turn it on. And again, I know nothing |
| 1:58.9 | about this. I've just like, ah, it's a crimey crime thing. Turn it on. Oh boy, it's Mormonism, like |
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