The Shining City - 136
The How-To Heretic
How to Heretic
5.0 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
This week! Uncle Doug examines the deadly intersection of good penmanship and murder with Mark Hoffman and Uncle Mark shares part 1 of his interview with journalist and author Jared Yates Sexton to explore the nightmarish origins of American theocracy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome friends to the how-to-heritic. I'm Uncle Mark and I'm Uncle Dan and I am |
| 0:11.9 | Uncle Doug and this is your user's guide to life on the outside. |
| 0:16.1 | That's right, leaving religion is the first step into a larger, better world. |
| 0:20.0 | But it can be a scary world. |
| 0:22.0 | Ahh! Things work differently now. |
| 0:24.0 | Never bear, that's why we're here. |
| 0:26.0 | We're your audio uncles. |
| 0:28.0 | And with help from good friends and experts in all sorts of fields. |
| 0:33.4 | We're going to share the stories and seek the knowledge |
| 0:35.5 | to build a great life. |
| 0:36.6 | After all, we only get the one that we know of, |
| 0:39.0 | so you better make the most sense. All right, so let's do version one. |
| 1:02.0 | Fellas, hello, what a beautiful sunny day here for the three of us to be a beautiful sunny day here for the three of us to be apart part together. Yeah, and it's a lovely day. |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah, it does help the spirit somewhat when the sun is out and the birds are chirping and the flowers |
| 1:10.4 | are blooming. |
| 1:11.4 | But that's not what we're going to talk about today is it |
| 1:14.1 | no never that yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna start us off with a long and windy road |
| 1:21.4 | a crazy crazy tale of forgeries and salamanders and bombs. |
| 1:27.0 | It's really a story about Mormons and penmanship. |
| 1:30.0 | Yes. |
| 1:31.0 | Right. |
| 1:32.0 | And yeah, the Mark Hoffman Saga. They may have beautiful penmanship. They tend to have beautiful penmanship. They're very prideful that way. I am then going to conduct an interview with a author and journalist |
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