Good evening, everybody, and welcome to the show. This is Radio Free Mormon, broadcasting behind enemy lines.

Tonight's episode, The Show, the LDS Church, doesn't want you to see.

Now, I'm fully aware that when a person sees a title or a thumbnail like that, they're likely going to think this is clickbait.

This isn't really going to measure up

to what is being advertised. But I guarantee you that this is actually true. This is the show

the LDS Church doesn't want you to see, particularly this episode of the show. And the reason I say

that is because the prior version of this episode got taken down

by the church when they levied a copyright strike against it a year ago. Technically, it was September

of 2024. A member of the church had leaked to me a slide deck. Now, this was no ordinary

slide deck. This slide deck was reputed, at least by

the person who leaked it to me. It was reputed to be slides used by Elder Dallan H. Oaks in a leadership

training in the summer of 2024. This leadership training was directed, especially to bishops and state presidents.

I doubt that President Oakes was talking directly to them, though he may have been.

He was probably talking to the middle management guys who are then supposed to take his message directly to the state presidents and the bishops.

And that message was, guys, you're not excommunicating enough Mormons.

We need to up those numbers and don't be shy about it.

So I got those slides.

I did a show about it.

It was episode 363 of Radio Free Mormon.

And shortly after it went up, the church levied a copyright strike against

it, which caused it to be taken down. Now, there are two versions, by the way, at least two

versions. There's the one on YouTube, which did get taken down, and which I'm going to replicate

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