The Legal Battles of Mormonism’s Joseph Smith

Radio Free Mormon

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Join Bill Reel and Radio Free Mormon on Mormonism Live as we dig into the long and turbulent history of Joseph Smith’s run-ins with the law. From treasure digging charges in New York, to assault accusations in Ohio, to treason indictments in Missouri and Illinois, Joseph Smith’s life was marked by constant legal battles that… Read More »

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0:01.0	Good evening, everybody.
0:02.8	Mr. Radio Free Mormon, how are you this evening?
0:04.8	Super duper. Thanks for asking, Bill.
0:06.9	Excellent. This will be a fun night.
0:09.1	It is the 3rd of September, 2025.
0:13.6	And here we are, Mormonism live.
0:16.7	And we're happy to be here with you guys.
0:18.7	We're glad that you are here with us.
0:20.4	And this should be a fun
0:21.3	night. Anything you want to say before we jump into the episode, RFM? Yeah, I'm so glad that September is here
0:28.2	looking forward to cooler temperatures. And I'm sure I'm joined in this by Tim Rathbone at least.
0:33.9	Yeah. It's a little cooler here in Cedar City, but the last few days have been hot, so I'm excited about the fall temperatures on their way as well. Also, my birthday is in September. So that comes around. What day? Great tell. The 14th of September. Remember, remember the 14th of September. Yeah. Okay. So there is. But that does remind me in two days. Oh, it's November anyway. Anyway,
0:59.7	so it's September 14th. Let me write this down here so I can forget it anymore.
1:07.1	Or ask me and yeah. 914, 25. That's going to be Bill's birthday. And how old? 47, I think. I don't keep track that well, but 47, I believe. I think that's a prime number. So there you are. 4 plus 7 is 11 and 11 in numerology means lots of interesting things. So I don't know them. I just, I just know from people like you who are
1:29.0	interested in numerology. Oh, you're adding the two numbers from your age, the four and the seven that
1:33.6	you will be. That is the trick. Whenever you do numerology, whatever number you need to get to,
1:39.5	you figure out some way of multiplying, dividing, adding, subtracting, and then you tell the audience
1:44.0	that it was there all along if they just would have seen it. You're right. It is a very magical number. out some way of multiplying, dividing, adding, subtracting, and then you tell the audience that
1:44.2	it was there all along if they just would have seen it.
1:46.7	You're right. It is a very magical number. The problem is that you're turning 47 in a few
1:51.1	days, but that means you're ending your 47th year. So all the magic is about to expire.
1:56.6	Well, there it goes. Folks, tonight, let me grab this off the screen.
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