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To this weekend in Mormons, the happy edition
which stands for Tiffany and friends for you.
My name is Tiffany Hale, and I am
your c host tonight. And I am here
with 1 of my friends. I am here
with my friend, David Larsen.
And David, this is actually your second time
coming on the show with me,
but, yeah, kinda got ji the first time.
So, why don't you,
you you came on with me last September.
Explain to the listeners why they might not
have heard your podcast when you came on
with me last September.
Alright. Well, yes. This is my second time.
So I'm excited about that. I kinda feel
like, you know, the the actor in the
high school play that he goes to the
dress rehearsal and he gets to shot out.
I'm in front of his mom, he's a
girlfriend friend and the 3 people cheap buy
tickets there. And then everybody gets to see
him the second time. So I kinda got
the dress of her podcast. You did. So
the first time I was heading out on
vacation we recorded on a Thursday night. We
did instead of a Friday night, and the
plan was to release it on Saturday. Yes.
And then that Friday, the Tim ballard
news story just flooded the Internet, and that
was the far by far biggest story of
the week. And so you contacted Kurt, and
you and your sister
recorded an emergency episode for the Saturday drop.
Yeah. With the intention of,
releasing ours the next week. Exactly. Which it
did release on the website and on the
Youtube. But for whatever reason, it didn't drop
on the Spotify or the Apple podcast anywhere
else,
I don't know why
know. You Know. I I have a strong
suspicion that many of our listeners listen exclusively
on Spotify and apple podcast things. Do. That's
that's why you may not recognize me from
the first time because It's only out there
on the, website in the Youtube. So it's
good to be back. It is good to
be back. And the first time we did
you're sports fan. We did a lot of
sports stuff, but we also did new stuff.
Yes.
But again, yeah, You you kinda got ripped
off. So so... I've been looking for a
time to have you back and be able
to plug it in. And it worked for
the month of July. I'm glad to be
here. If you wanna go back and find
the old 1. I think it was called
this week in Mormon sports, she had a
subtitles steam rolled by Tim Ballard, but it
didn't make it
whatever. Yes. That was a crazy time when
that Tim dollar story broke. I could I
couldn't keep up. So
Well, as you know, anybody who comes on
the podcast live with me, I make them
drink post with me.
Because post them is our official sponsor of
this weekend in Mormons this year, and we
are very grateful to post them. And so
I have been con... Been con contracting all
of these host drinks so that I try
a new 1 every time I have someone
on with me. Now, let me tell you
where I saw this drink. Okay? This drink
and I'm I'm I'm gonna hold it up
and then I'll tell the listeners what's in
it before you and I taste it because
it kind of looks frightening. If you're watching
on Youtube, it looks little frightening as to
what in the world's of Tiffany put in
there.
There is a viral video that is going
around. I believe it's probably on Tiktok.
Although I don't think I saw it on
Tiktok. I think I I saw it on
Instagram or something.
Anyway, you take a cup and you spread
marshmallow cream inside the cup
and then you put crushed ice in it,
and then people are pouring their diet coke
over the top of it. Now I have
never tried this with diet coke, so I
have no idea what marshmallow agreement diet coke
tastes like together, but I suspect I would
probably like it because I love diet coke
coconut and I love marshmallow cream. So I
thought, well, why can we not do this
with with the chocolate with the cocoa post.
So here's what we did tonight. I took
my little trusty mason jars like, what I
had last time when I podcast with Lauren
Levin,
I put marshmallow cream all around the exterior
of the mason jar. You can see it's
kind of melted into the drink right now.
Through my in, I mixed up some of
the cocoa post them, and I threw in
a little of the sugar free vanilla flavoring
just to see what that tasted like. So
Let's let's cheers. Cheers. And let's give it
a try. See what it's like.
It's not as sweet as I thought it
would beans. Not with the marshmallow cream it'd
be a little bit sweeter, but I'm kind
of glad because sometimes the sweetness really overwhelm
me. Yeah
I don't like it as well as not
made last time. Well, I didn't have the
1 you had last time. So,
you you know what's your what's your big
review of? My review, I'm gonna give it
3 stars out of 5. Okay. Not not
I've had... I've had way worse, but I've
had better. Yeah,
maybe a little more
the post chocolate flavor. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't
little water. It's a little watery. But it's
up it's not that.
I think you're right. I think Shoulda have
made my post stronger.
Better learn. Live and learn. But, yeah. I
mean, seriously, it's not bad, and, you know
what the more And maybe it was just
my first
my first sip tasted a little week because
as I'm tasting more of it,
I'm definitely getting more flavor. And you know
what else? What? It's ice cold. That's a
hundred and 5 outside. That is very, very
trailing. I'm not gonna complain you to Still
like the Almond con con from last time
better. I think I will try this over
diet coke just for fun. So
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So
in my world, right now. Tell us about
your. In my world right now, I am
preparing for
girls camp.
Gross.
This is going to be an adventure is
all I have to say.
My husband and I last year if you...
Were listening in the podcast. We got asked
to cook for Girls camp and we cooked
for Girls camp. We did we... Apparently, we
were too successful in cooking because they were...
They they made us come back again. Either,
we didn't get it right, and they wanted
us... An opportunity to get it right or
we did it too well. I guarantee you're
rock. Because I know how melted you cook
indoors and out. Yes. You got it.
So...
But this is, like, the girls camp on
steroids. Oh, we got we got this tea
in charge. Your head this is a mountains.
So this and this is what we are
doing. This is probably just gonna be T
information for everybody here in just a minute
So we leave on Tuesday morning.
We drop our stuff off somewhere
because then we go to a trail head
and the girls backpack. And so we do
a 3 mile backpack hike into somewhere. I
don't know. It's a mountain... There's legs. I
don't know.
And then we camp overnight there, and then
in the next morning, we wake up, we
backpack or we hike up to a lake,
They hang out in the lake, then they
come back in the afternoon.
Grab their backpacks and we backpack on out.
And then we go to the church camp.
Okay?
So
girlfriend here has never been backpack packing. And
the reason girlfriend here has never been backpack
packing. His girlfriend here does not pee in
the woods. I am the Princess who does
not pee in the woods.
I am also the princess who agreed to
go on the 24 hour back huge rep.
It's been done before.
So I promptly got on Amazon, and I
ordered myself a device.
I have not test driven the device, I
am debating if I need to test drive
the device before I tip to pee in
the woods or if I just go, well,
this is my options so I'm going have
to figure it.
The d doesn't it?
I don't think so. The things I got
are, like, disposable throw away thanks. To pay.
No. No no.
And should not get the depends. I now
that you think michigan and have I don't
be a bad idea. Backup plan. Right? But
yeah. Okay. Anyway, so this this is this
whole backpack thing is, like, so
way outside my comfort zone.
And so we do that for the first,
you know, 36 hours or So the good
news is during the backpack. I don't have
to, like, cook for the girls.
Because they have the re meals,
and then I am putting together little packets
for them for breakfast, like, they get a
little Ziploc bag has some instant meal and
hot chocolate. And then I'm giving them another
black bag that has, like, a protein bar
and snacks and things like that to eat,
like for lunch and stuff the next day.
So I don't have to cook.
I just have to sleep in a tent
and pee in the woods.
You can do it. I have all the
face world. I was telling my office about
this and they were like, this is what
the Princesses is doing. I'm like, yeah, this
is what the Princess is doing. This is
way outside the Princess comfort zone. I am
working on having, like, a really good attitude.
It's just 1 1 notch above track. You
buying track. I did survive track. They had
porta pot on track bell. It's my it's
notch Anyway, you could do. And my husband
loves to backpack, So I am in part
going and doing this and having a very
good attitude because I'm, like, it's 24 hours.
I can do anything hard for 24 hours.
That's... I I can do that. I will
probably learn some really good live lessons from
this and I'm going to have my Tim
gun make it work moment, and I am
going to make it work. But then when
we get to camp, so that's that's Tuesday.
We get to Camp Wednesday. We set up
Camp Wednesday.
Thursday, they are then floating down the river,
so we're hauling all these flotation devices up
there so that they can float down the
river. They're doing that on Thursday.
Then on Friday,
we get up we eat breakfast. They hit
the road again, and this time, they are
biking. So we are hauling all the bike
up there as well. I cannot even begin
to describe to you The logistical nightmare that
is... That that is our girls camp. So
it will be a very active girls camp
to say the lease and I'm sure next
time I record, I will have all sorts
of tails to share with there yet. I
can hardly wait. So
Alright. Well, before we get into our news
stories tonight,
I need to talk about last week's episode.
Last week's episode of T,
was a twin siblings edition.
There are a couple of corrections that Tiffany
needs to issue because,
I was... As I was listening, there were
a couple of times I was kind of
maybe
shouting at my phone going that is so
incorrect. And so I am sure that other
listeners might have been shouting at their phone
as well. I might have been also.
So first of all, Melissa kept saying the
episode the week before was a Twin sister's
edition.
No. It was a ta addition. I had
my friend Lauren Le on. She in no
way shape or performs sounds like Carrie anne.
So just because it's a female voice. Doesn't
necessarily mean it's to sister edition.
And then Matt proceeded to say, hey, there's
2 new movies that are coming out in
the fall,
escape from Germany and here attack. Well, he's
right about hair attack, but I'm like, dude,
escape from Germany came out in April. It's
not coming out in the fall. And perhaps
if you'd listen to a couple of the
episodes that I've recorded, I have talked about
it extensively. So Those are my corrections for
you listeners out there who are yelling at
your phone during the 2 siblings episodes. Also,
Jack D, not the fighting pre. Oh, yes.
Jack Mc not the fighting bridge definitely
so... Okay.
Alright. So we will move on to some
new stories now that we've issued our twin
corrections.
Alright. We are literally 2 weeks away from
the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics. I
am so freaking excited. I love the Paris
Olympics
I have a plan to, relocate a television
outside to my patio, and I am going
to sit out there in the Summer evenings
with my television.
Partake of Olympic sport and cheering on team
Usa. Even if it's a hundred 5. Even
if it's a hundred 5. My my patio
in the evening is blocked by my house.
99.
Exactly.
So we got a couple of stories we
need to follow up on real quick. So
first of all, there is a By runner
by the name of Whitney Morgan who qualified
for the Olympics. Now, she runs the 5000
meters.
And when she went to the Olympic trials
here in America, she placed fifth. Now the
top 3 people get to go to the
Olympic. So as a fifth place finish,
She,
you know, she was not guaranteed a spot
at the Olympics. But her coach also knew
that the person
who... That the... Some of the other runners
that were in 5000 meter also ran, like,
the 1500 meter and the 10000 meter,
And if they qualified in both events, they
may want to focus on 1 rather than
the other. And that is exactly what happened.
Is the fourth plates finish her
decided,
I wanna run the 1500 because she qualified
in both the 1500 and the 5000.
So then the,
that would be the third place finish. So
I guess only the top 2 in the
5 3, But then the third. And the
force, both dropped. Yes. The third and the
fourth both dropped out because the fourth 1,
she also runs the... 10000 meter, and she
said, I don't wanna run the 5000. I
wanna run the the 10000 meter. And so,
D Taylor, who is the By coach, and
also coaches this so, this
sister by the name of Whitney Morgan,
called her up last Saturday was asking her
how her workout was, and then she said,
by the way, how's your French and Whitney
said my French, and she said, Whitney said,
are you serious? I'm going to Paris? And
because these... The third and the fourth place
finish dropped out, Whitney now has punched her
ticket to Paris and gets to now claim.
Forever an eternity, I was in Olympia vpn.
And that's awesome. And what I really love
was the coach knew that some of the
runners that might be jennifer were in that
position. And she colder her.
Even if you're in fifth, keep it, keep
it hard and the the the 4 in
front kinda pulled away at the end, but
she knew that that was a possibility. And
so she really it just giving up. Right?
She she fought to keep that fifth face
place on and the paid off. She did,
and it paid off just like what you
said it paid off really well because now
like I said, she's going to the Olympics
and that's... And that is great for her.
Alright.
Our next story.
Again, staying on the long distance runner track
that we have here. There's an interesting story
that came out at came out at the
end of June, but I was holding it
for this episode because this episode preceded the
Olympics, and it is called the making of
a S chaser. How By became S chase
University.
So as we know, By is known as
a quarterback factory.
However,
By is quickly being known as the S
Chase University.
Because By is sending
3 S Chaser to the Olympics 2 male,
1 female. They're sending also sending 2 marathon
runners to the Olympics, and now this Whitney
morgan in the 5000 meter. So By has
these incredible long distance runners, and they have
never qualified. I I believe this many
Current and former athletes. Tied tied for the
record tied for the record. And so the
article goes through and talks about how
how how the... How S Chase came about
for By
that I thought this was really interesting.
So S Chase,
it's kind of a strange event because you've
got your distance running and you've got your
hurt.
And then you've got this obstacle course that
has these water elements,
and so there's a lot of technicalities to
s chasing.
And so they can take a good coach
can take a a moderately capable distance runner.
And if that modern capable distance runner can
learn the good technique for hurdles.
And for these water jumps that they have
to do, they can become a fantastic S
chaser.
And by why you figured that out pretty
early on, and so they've built up this
reputation as this great program
for S chasing.
So the article kind of goes into the
history,
and there was a a gentleman by the
name of Willard
Let's see. Hershey. Hershey. Yes. Willard Hershey.
And he coached, I believe or...
He did hurdles. He did hurdles.
This this idea of teaching technique for for
S chase, came from a coach by the
name of Chic His,
pat shane.
Well, the the origin in the seventies lies
with Pat shane. He was a s chaser
at by.
But
coach was His. His coach was Chick his
hop. And so that's
that's where he kind of then
picked up some of these techniques
and
turned them into By.
And and originally, up until I you leave
the early 2 thousands. There was not a
women's S chase program. There was just a
men's s chase program. And so they started
advocating with, of, college athletics to add a
women's S Chase program, they could see that
this was coming, so they started then training
their women. So that when this S Chase
program for women,
was an approved event, boom, By was was
ready to go. And, of course, the article
play pays homage to the infamous
Henry Marsh. Famous.
He's famous. Yeah. I called him infamous. Yeah.
Well, no. He's a great guy. He is
a great. So so talk to us back
Henry Marsh. So Henry, he... Henry Marsh, he
was 1 of the first, at By,
and he did so well learning the Ski
Chase program that he qualified for the 76
Olympics, like, not long after got off his
mission. Right? This is a little kid. And
but really, he was in the prime of
his People chasing career for 19 80 and
19 84, and he was just snake.
Yeah. Because 80, he was he was he
was a favorite for the middle, and that's
the the olympics got boycott in the Us.
84
was in Los Angeles. In los Angeles. So
remember the Los Angeles Living olympics. And at
that time, he was living in Battle Utah,
which is my home. So he was a
big deal around my parts.
And we were all cheering for him watching
the Tv and what happened was he crushed
it at the olympic trials and right after
he got a virus.
And he was basically
training at that kinda half speed Yeah. All
between the the Olympic trials and the Olympics,
and he wasn't at a hundred percent
for the actual Olympic race, and he gave
it everything he had... He was in second
place go down the stretch and just ran
out of gas and finished in fourth by,
like, blood step. And then collapsed on the
track and had to be carried off. It
was really tragic, but
there's actually a podcast
from last year called on the Wise guys
podcast cast. U. He's a guest for an
hour and he talks about all his career
and everything is really... Almost been that's fascinating.
But he got some great you know, analog
about people choosing chasing like life, You know,
you you gotta go over the hurdles and
to get through the hard times and need
get up and the keep moving, and
Poor Henry Man. I wish he could've have
got a medal, but, you know, he succeeded
in life in a lot other areas. So...
Good for him. Exactly.
Anyway, this is just a great article that
talks about,
how By has just really built up this
S chase program.
And it really is kind of amazing when
you look at,
again, at the number of athletes that would
be what connections, that are headed to the
Olympics in track and field events,
most notably the Steep Chase but other long
distance running events. So they are going to
be very fun to watch.
Nice.
Alright. Staying on the Olympic theme. We got
the gym. We got the gym. Gym for
that.
Everybody's
either favorite or least favorite basketball player from
the state of Utah depending on probably what
college it you're for.
In anyway,
By people love to hate on the gym,
but Well, if Kirk, for those of you
who may not know who Jim that was,
he played Basketball for By, and
was very popular. Very popular. He had fantastic
college career.
Had a lot of expectations going into the
pros for various number of reasons. There's a
a really long article that was published a
couple of weeks ago in time that we're
not gonna go into here, but you can
look it up that really goes into the
details of what's kinda, the ups and downs
of his career. So this was a little
in the Nba,
found success overseas, especially in China, He was,
like, a legend in China, and then came
back was drifting around some European leagues and
then got the attention of the
3 on 3 F basketball league and specifically
the People in charge of the Us Olympic
team. Because this is a debut sport. Yeah.
This Olympics. Well, I that might have been
at the last 1 also.
I think I think I... I'm I wanna
think the last 1, maybe it was an
exhibition sport. It was it Yeah. Because the
article says here he's representing the United States
in the Olympic debut of 3 by 3.
Because I do remember the 3 by 3
in the last olympics but I do. I
think it was just a test run Yeah.
To see
how it would how it would fare. Yep.
So... So he's going to be on the
United States through guys. Yeah. I looked him
up the F website, The 3 by 3,
he's actually the number 1 ranked player in
the Us. Oh, wow. And the number 4
ranked player in the world.
Wow. The Usa is the number 2 c
going to the tournament. The bad news is
is that, like, 5 of the top 8
players or so are all on the number
1
So that's because that's Serbia. Serbia. And that's
their opening match. So that's gonna be a
really good gauge. That will or how they're
gonna do. But that will be So telus.
Because I am... You are more in intune
with sports than I am. What it... How
does the 3 by 3 work in in
comparison to your typical bass? Come on. Right.
So 5 on 5, you know, we've all
seen that Yeah. 3 on 3 differs. It's
it's it's a smaller court.
I
I think it's the actually, maybe only a
half court. That's what I was thinking. Because
I think I only saw a half court,
and they all use the same basket. Yeah.
Use the same basket. So a lot people
that play basketball played out for. Mh gonna
take it back. 3 on 3 as it,
but distant shooting as a premium.
Did you get 2 points for a... What
would be a 3 point shot. Okay. 1
point for a regular basket. Okay. And it's
based on time or points. So first 1
to, like, 21 wins,
or whoever's ahead after 10 minutes.
Okay. So if you got somebody that can
sync from jeep from deep, and that's what
Jim does. Okay.
Well, well, he's he's good at other things.
Yeah. But that's his specialty, then then you
can score double the points of your... That
the radio your opponent if they're only getting
ones and Awesome. So it's it's really kinda
Tailor made for his skill set. Well, and
it sounds to me, like, sometimes a regular
basketball game my my Ad kicks in. I'm
like, this 3 by 3 seems pretty down
and dirty and quick and vast. I made
laugh... I made realize. Exactly.
So... So maybe I'll have to catch some
gym for dash. Yes. So he's he's on
the team, and
he's he's
honestly, if you were to look at all
the, members of the church who are going
to Paris,
the person with the best chance of winning
a medal, it's probably Jim. I agree.
So... I agree. Well, I hope he comes
home with some hardware because it would be
very well deserved. But he's excited.
The end of this article that was in
the the desert News is a of weeks
ago of June eighteenth. Says his kids, all...
His wife had kids are going. They've all
got red white and blue outfits for every
single day they're there. And they're excited to
That's Time this was written, it said they
have 2 more... 2 up tournaments to play.
I looked it up they won both of
them. So... Awesome. They are ready to go.
K. And and we should say, we we
should qualify that statement of members likely to
win metals.
American members, like, they didn't win rentals because
we know that there are probably several members
of the church from other countries because this
always happens that end up winning metals. We
just haven't gotten a lot of press on
them in America.
Once they start winning metals, the desert News
will pick up the stories, and then we'll
be able to discuss those are overseas members
that went some medals, and we will do
that because, again,
Olympic medal is Olympic medal. I don't care
what country you're from. I think it's very
cool. It's awesome.
Okay. Speaking of Olympic metals. We are going
to revisit Mi mckay skinner
So Mi michele Skinner is a gym, and
she was an alternate gym 4 years ago,
lin simone bile dropped out. Mi michele was
able to take her place on The vault
and ended up with silver metal on the
vault.
So they recently
had selected the new
Gymnastics team for this year's Olympics.
And Michael michele kinda threw some shade at
the at the team. She said,
Besides simone, I feel like the talent and
depth just isn't what it used to be.
Just notice. I mean, obviously a lot of
girls don't work as hard.
So she throws this down on a Youtube
video, and she starts getting a that
of not
positive
reaction to it. Exactly. Little pushback. So she
goes about trying to react, retract it.
And doesn't do a very good job. She
said a lot of the stuff that I
was talking about wasn't necessarily about the current
team, because I love and support the girls
that made it, and I'm so proud of
them I'm like, honey, I saw your statement.
That really seemed like it was pretty much
a about the current team, and you were
throwing shade that they never worked as hard
as you did.
In any event,
she...
This has been a story that hasn't died.
Like, I have seen this on my news
feed for... I swear at least 10 days
now, just lots of of pushback and and
her retract did pull the video, but once
it's been out there once... Exactly. I got
a copy. Exactly. So Hopefully, they will go
and win all sorts of good metals, and
then maybe Mi michele could say something nice.
Some simone bile had the funniest comment. She
got on Twitter, and she said,
not everyone needs a mic and a platform.
And the listeners are probably thinking that about
me right now. Oh
Doubt it.
Okay. Okay. We are done with our sports
and our Olympics. We will actually move on
to some hard hitting dance. Alright. Now this
this was a great article that actually just
came out today because it happened yesterday.
This was on the church news,
written by Sarah. We release the editor of
the Desert at news.
The title was what 1 general authority 70
learned after California's
prop 8 about peace making.
And this is a fascinating
kind of
historical
visitation of all the events that have taken
place between mainly the church and the Lgbt
community
since prop 8. So if we flash back
in time to 2008.
That's when prop was in California, which was...
The church was
pushing and helping to fund
Encouraging members. Team members to go out and
basically stump for this
proposition in California,
basically, you know, defining marriage between a man
and a woman. And, you know, the the
way this... And the person giving the talk,
this is in,
Not dame in Indiana, and it's elder Alexander
Dish who. I know he's spoken in in
the past years. He has his conference. He
has. And so he's an attorney, and,
he's been involved in this and he's talking
about a, religious liberty in a polarized age.
And what he says was that, you know,
at that time, the church sought itself has
anticipating in the democratic process on a matter
of legitimate.
Debate and public policy.
But on the other hand, you know, the
the Lgbt community has been say in California
saw it as a denial, not just of
marriage status and benefits, but have equal dignity
and citizenship. And the... He says the anger
and anguish were real, and so is the
back flashes
against the church jesus Christ. A lot of
other Yeah. Faith based groups sponsoring this, but
as usual, you know, the church gets a
little bit of extra
attention thrown its way. So this kind of
what what kicked off
church leaders and
the Lgbt
queue community in Utah to maybe start talking
together So... Yeah. And working together... Working together.
So
There was a man, AAAAA
church employee named Bill Evans who just recently
died in the last couple of weeks.
And he was heading the the... The church's
government relations team and says he was a
peace, not a culture warrior.
And so he, and some church representatives got
some some people the other quietly in Salt
lake City with some,
Lg.
Bt
representatives, and they talked mostly just to kinda
get to know each other oil. And then
as time went on, they started feeling each
other and figuring out what was important to
each other and learning a, you know, these
are real people on both sides with good
points and things to talk about. And so
they've started resolving a lot of things kinda
under the table without the media even getting
involved in in in backlash. But all those
efforts eventually led to the now famous,
2015
legislation in Utah when they call via... I
think they call it, like, the Utah. They
call yeah have the Utah compromise. Right. And
so
And and I love what he says he
says the the culture and rhetoric of a
very conservative state shifted in response to law.
Not just the words of the law, but
the process by which the sides it comes
together to enact it. And then Elder du
says, Utah remains 1 of the most sexually
conservative states in the nation, but is also
1 of the most supportive of basic rights
against unjust discrimination for Lgbt
persons. Yeah. And
then it goes on and talks a little
bit more about further the efforts to pick
a national,
in the 2019
fairness her all act.
Which didn't pass. He says it was probably...
It was long and complex and probably too
long and too complex, but He said that
going through that effort taught them to be
more practical in my psychological ideological,
to listen more carefully and understand opposing views
and to respect and and trust each other.
And I really I really like this because,
you know, I think a lot of us
Mh. Grew up in the... An age of
the church where was like, you know, certain
issues
that's bad. Yeah. We don't do it and
the story. Exactly. Without giving any consideration to
the the mitigating effects of, you know, these
are real people have being affected. They have
feelings,
many of them aren't choosing this deliberately, you
know, it's just kinda how they feel, and
they're confused and they're being feel like they're
being driven out. You know, we all know
People that have of experience and continue experiences.
And I I love how this article kind
of explains the evolution of both the church
and I think a lot of individuals within
the church over the period of time and
coming to grips with with tough issues like
this and how to be more christ like
towards people.
Well, and what it reminded me is, you
know, president Nelson has...
His famous talk about, you know, bp piece
makers.
This is a an example of how to
be a peace.
They weren't in there yelling and screaming with
each at each other. They started off by
having a civil conversation and getting to know
the other person.
And it is really amazing to me that
when you are able to connect on a
human level with another individual. Even if you
completely disagree with that
in... With choices that that individual has made
in their life.
Once you are able to connect on a
human level with that individual,
though you you can find the areas where
you have the common ground that you can
agree on or
you can learn to see it from their
perspective and go, okay. I may not agree
with that, but I understand the perspective that
they have. I understand where they're coming from.
I'm going to respect them on that. I'm
going to respect
that they have their freedom to choose that
and just ask that they respect that I
have my freedom to choose that. And I
just think it is such a good example
of president Nelson's talk on being a peace.
I also think it is a good example
of,
Spencer Cox, the governor of Utah. He famously
said we need to disagree better.
He does not like the current rhetoric that
we have in today's political economy
that is all about... You're either with me
or against me. And if you're not with
me and you don't agree with me 100
percent than you're against me. He's like, no.
We need to learn to disagree better and
we need to learn to respect
viewpoints and people that we disagree disagreed with.
And so
I
just... I I really
appreciated what El D douche k had to
say.
That he was saying it at a forum
that specifically dealt with religious liberties
because if we want to protect our religious
liberties,
we need to protect others rights as well.
We will not be able to protect our
religious liberties at the exclusion of protecting other
people's rights as well. Yep.
So that's straight. Rain article.
Okay. The next 1 is a little more
of a shout out.
So the church recorded this
kind of concert that's called
festival, a youth concert. And so they recorded
this on June fifth and sixth, 20 24,
it will be available for release on the
Church's broadcast page and their streaming app and
all of the forms that the church has
media on on August fifth. And so what
they did is they have a select group
of songs and they had asked a number
of young people to sing these songs, they
have released the songs so that you can
listen to the songs ahead of the concerts
that will be released. There's also some music
videos associated with these songs,
and they said, you know, the purpose of
this event is to strengthen
disciples in Jesus Christ through music.
It is. I actually went on to Spotify
and typed in the name of the concert
specified, and it was not hard find. Okay.
And tell me what you thought of the
song you heard. They were good. I mean,
you know, they're kind of... They're basically
modern pop genres deal. Right? Okay. The first
song, I thought I was listening maybe to
a Cs song. Okay. But sounded a little
bit like that, but but then, you know,
got some other ones now. I will say
this... It's a compilation. So many of these...
If people that are into this kind of
music will have heard many of these songs
were. You know, it... The list how many
downloads there are in Spotify
song and 1 of it's like the 10000000.
You know, that shouldn't house. Is that the
F y midland lane?
The last word if you believe. If you...
So... Yeah. So the middle 3. It's either
5, 6 and 7 or 6 7 and
8 on the list,
follow FSY Med, what is the joy? Those
would seem to be the new 1. Okay.
Because they were down. You know, it's a
couple thousand. And everything else had a lot
more. So it's it's a little bit of
new material mixed in with some some popular
older material, but.
I'm betting for the concert they'll have, you
know, fresh ways of presenting. I think the
article talked about how 1 of the girls
got to go with.
She's scored in the fill from philippines. Yeah.
I think took her to the philippines and
wandered it all over for 3 days or
and making the video. So I think, you
know, the purpose of the play is is
getting you familiar with the meeting. Exactly. So
that we they'll have the concert. Yep.
Way to see it. Yeah.
I think I think that's awesome. I mean
gonna have to... I I wanna go find
the music because I always love it.
I mean, I love the Hem. But I
also love when we have other
worship worship full music that focuses on cracks
that maybe is a little more pop related
Yeah. And relatable. Yep.
Okay. Right. Church ball. Sure the new church
ball. Did play any kind of church ball.
Well, you know, when I was a teenager,
we had Volleyball. And so, you know, we've
had a we'd have award girls Volleyball team
and we play other other
Volleyball teams within the stake. But what I
remember from Church ball growing up is our
award had an adult male basketball team and
let me tell you the throw downs and
Smack downs Now, I was never there, but
I heard about them when my parents were
discussing them. From certain ward members and their
behavior At I church ball. Yeah. There. I'm
sure there are legendary stories of church ball
happenings
across the Western United States. Yeah. Decades gone
by. I think Well, this is a new
twist on church box, this article. So, this
article again from the Church Dudes, and it's
it's really just little mini snippets of things
happening around the world. And then they'll direct
you to links for the full story in
the native language even significant translate, but okay.
Gonna up a little bit more on them.
So
in Korea, we had a a food cell
tournament, which I had to read about what
that was. Explain to our listeners what food
all is because I never heard all. It's
kinda like mini soccer. It's 5 on 5.
The ball's smaller, and less bouncy, the gold
smaller, the field smaller and otherwise, it seems
like it's basically trying to keep the ball
goal. Right? So... Oh, k. So the that
that was for young women and adults in
in the Korea area. They had 4 steaks
that went and competed in that. They had
a great time.
They also had a ping pong. I think
they had a ping pong turn with you.
They call it. Table table tennis. Yes. I
call it's ping pong. It's ping being pong.
Is that... I mean, I know in the
world they call it table, Tennis. Are are
our Americans the only 1 that calls call
it ping pong. Absolutely not because the Chinese
word for Ping pong is ping pong show.
Oh,
Okay. Where we get it from it's Chinese.
Because III don't know. Ping pong just seems
a lot more fun to in the table
test. Yeah. So they had that, and
then there was a little snippet about a
gentleman from originally from Ghana,
his name is
Martin Bin.
He was from Ghana. He moved to Japan
as a youth.
Got into boxing,
joined the church.
Married a gal had an injury got back
in the boxing after he joined the church
and became, like, a middle way champion. Yeah.
In Japan of all places. And
just to cute little thing about him and
his wife eventually joined the church They got
sealed the temple a few years ago. So
we got a Peruvian dancer. Yeah. That didn't
see his name, but that's where the the
Yeah. The link keep in handy. I clicked
on the Spanish
version of the po website. He's 17 years
old now. He's been dancing for 10 years,
and he
he... Like, won this competition that, like, it
seemed like it was getting you into some
art school that's very prestigious just really hard
to get into.
So I may have been...
The Spanish translation was a little rough, But
kinda what I was trying to get from
it. And then so good on him for
for for being a awesome peruvian dancer. And
then finally, this was an interesting 1 because
with the world politics being with the art.
Forget about Russia. Yes. There are members of
the church in Russia still, and you will
notice that the church doesn't really take a
political position. They take an anti war position,
but they don't take an anti country that
started the war position. No. They don't.
I'm sure there's many of members that wouldn't
care if they did, but they do have
members... We do have members in Russia.
And they had an inter faith event
in Russia
that involved another Christian face and some Islam.
And again, they were doing and the table
10. The table tennis. Also known as ping
Pong. Ping pong. Yes. And they they hope
to deal able to do it again in
the future. So really call. Pretty cool little
summary of
church ball around the world
Exactly. More love and less. I was gonna
say it seems like more herb.
Less ski should probably
Less swearing.
No swear the church ball. Come on.
There's he's no crying in Baseball. There's no
swearing in church ball.
Okay.
Believe that.
Exactly.
Alright. So our next story is kinda sad.
Over the weekend,
well, first of all, there is a company
called lifetime products. And they are pretty big.
At least here in Utah, Idaho, probably Arizona
area.
They they are they are national, but they
develop... They have a lot of products like,
foldable picnic tables and basketball hoops and they're
they're plastic and they're sturdy and they're designed
for families, and they like, they like last
forever.
They're bulletproof. They're bulletproof. Exactly. We have... I
don't know how many of their, like, foldable
tables that you have.
Anyway, and this... Company that was started in
Utah and somebody's garage,
and there was a gentleman who was there
from the beginning, and his name was Richard
David Hen.
This and he was the Ceo of this
lifetime company, and he was involved in a
tragic accident this last weekend and he and
his family had presumably been up boating up
in the Ogden canyon area because they were
coming down the canyon with their Suv and
their boat attached to it.
They were going up. And they were going
up the canyon. Excuse me. Yeah. They were
going up the canyon.
There was a
truck that was carrying a bull that was
going down the canyon.
The bull...
It is unknown why, but the bull came
off of the flatbed,
However it was being carried on this truck.
And it landed on the Suv,
it ended up killing Richard David Hen, as
well as his daughter Sally.
His wife and 2 other children were in
the car at the time they were not
seriously
injured.
But, unfortunately, he lost his life and and
a bit unusual because well not a bit
unusual. I me very sad.
I believe it... It's not clear if he
is a former stake president in his stake
or if he was the current state president
at the time. It just said that in
addition to his business leadership, he served as
a state president for the church of Jesus
Christ of Latter, Saints in the Ogden u
top pleasant valley steak. So
Very sad. Very sad and really kind of
a just a freak accident. Have you been
on that before? I have haven't I've been
on logan tan, but I haven't done ogden.
I used to go up, at all the
time as a kid. My
had a have enough above the reservoir that
they were probably headed towards pine view. And
it's it's slow and twisty and, you know,
I, I can only imagine what happened, but,
you know, not strapped down well and going
a little too fast and that's
Very tragic. Very tragic.
Alright. So our next story,
Minerva. You know how I love me a
good minerva I story. This is the best.
This really is a great story. This this
is this not only combines spoon nerve tiger,
but none other than desi industries.
So there is a gentleman. His name is
David Anderson. He is a member of the
church. He also is a, an employee of
desiree industries down in the Mesa area.
So 2009,
he's sitting in his office there. Somebody drops
off as you do. I I quite routinely
here Boise after I clean... Do do deep
cleaning in my house take things to the
desert industries
for, you know, that that still have use
that I don't have used for anymore.
Somebody drove through their outdoor donation dock, dropped
off a few pictures and paintings that have
been sitting in the garage and left.
So the staff member is looking through what
was dropped off, and he notices this painting,
and he takes it into you the office
where this David Anderson is.
David Anderson
immediately
recognizes it. Well, he doesn't recognize the painting,
but he recognizes the style and he said,
that is a minerva tit at painting. And
he is freaking the freak out. He was
a fan of minerva tiger, so he immediately
knew what it was.
And he knew he was looking at an
original minerva tiger painting with some damage, some
scratches and grass clipping on it.
So it clearly had been hanging out in
a garage. Some some art person right now
is just mortified that A minerva was hanging
out in a garage.
Anyway, the painting depicted Jesus Christ blessing the
knee fights. And so he brother Andersen calls
Salt lake and they're like, yeah. We... We'd
we'd like that. We wanna... Yeah. Don't put
that on the floor and sell it.
So, I believe it was the assistant manager
that, then, drove it from Arizona up to
Utah. And brother Anderson never heard anything more
about the painting.
So then this year, Monday, June 20 fourth,
He is in Salt lake City for some
meetings, and he decides, hey, I'm gonna go
over to the Church history museum. So he
heads over to the church history museum, and
he sees that they have a minerva tic
exhibit. Now, they opened this entire minerva ty
exhibit last
July. And I believe it's getting close to
closing. This month. Yeah. It ends this month.
I went and saw it... It was fantastic.
Of course, I'm a big minerva fan. So
there you go.
Anyway, so he's touring the minerva, exhibit. He
turns the corner and there up on the
wall is the painting that was found at
his D, and he's he's speechless.
All all it said on the card was,
you know, this painting was found at a
D.
So he finds 1 of the dos. That's
1 of the little
volunteer workers who's there, you know, kind of
managing things, and he says, I couldn't speak.
I motion her to her, and she came
over and I finally said, That that that...
That's my D,
and she was like, really?
We always wanted to know the rest of
the story, so he, of course, provides the
rest of the story and and
and and provided that information to the Church
History Museum. 1 of the reasons that they
chose to use this particular minerva in this
exhibit was they showed the restoration process of
this minerva. And what they had to do
to restore this minerva And I remember seeing
that particular section when I did a tour
of the Minerva exhibit, and
and, again, they had photographs and things that
depicted it and you could see the rest...
You know, how they had restored it, and
it was it was very cool. So
he says this painting still has a lot
of meaning to him. He says, I just
love how Jesus spent the day teaching them.
This is a painting depicting of him in
with this... With the knee fights in America,
and
that, you know, it was time for him
to go. We had others to visit
and he also talks about the D. And,
you know, this painting was such a treasure
that the D received, but he said, There
are a lot of treasures at the D
that we have in our associates
and how they help their associates to gain
some skills of employment and things like that,
and blessing these associates 1 by 1, much
in the same manner that that Christ blessed,
the saints the knee fights 1 by 1.
So Just awesome. Lovely heartwarming story. Any quick
question. What's your best D score ever?
Oh,
See, III am not 1 of those ones
that really scour the D.
So I don't really have a good D
score. But I will tell you what my
husband likes to do. What's
So my husband likes to wear the button
up plaid shirts with short sleeves. Yes.
He does. He has a whole collection of
them. And
he
his... His job, he does lots of manual
labor And so he gets these shirts very,
very dirty. So, of course, I do not
want to go pay 30, 40 bucks for
a shirt that he's gonna essentially trash in
6 months. So probably, I would say, maybe
3 times a year, we hit up the
D. He gets a whole selection of new
plaid shirts He comes home. He gets rid
of all the shirts that have stains, grease,
tears,
and we pay about 5 books a shirt.
So that is my score for the D.
The D,
keeps my husband cloth in his daily clothing
in comfortable shirts that he likes to wear.
Fantastic. Without breaking my budget. Awesome.
I remember, ran forgot my driver's license.
I went as a sophomore in high school.
I needed some new soccer cl and soccer
as was coming up. I feed you grown
a little more
And I happened to be in the D
in Center, Utah and I was looking at
the shoe table, and there was like, a
pair of brand new soccer cl the exact
brand and type that I wanted. Dang. They
looked like they've been more once or twice.
They were my size, and they were 2
dollars.
That is a score. Some more of my
whole, all 3 years of high school soccer
and fantastic. That is awesome. So my best
d score. Love it. Alright. Okay. Let's talk
Lego. Los Lego land. We got a couple
of quick lego stories out of By.
We've got 1 where
what was it? About 10 years ago that
they had the Salt Lake temple up down
there, and
and everybody loved it. It was a Salt
lake temple built from Legos.
And
and then it got taken away, and I
think this this article is huge lego replica
of Temple square buildings draw big crowds to
V, my Tad walsh
And
so it was a grandma there There was
grandma because she she hadn't made the original
exhibit, and she wanted to take her grandkids
and she showed up and the exhibit was
gone. On. And so By why was like,
well, we'll do another 1. It took them
a few years, but they opened their their
their exhibit, and it's in the Harold B
league library.
And again, we've talked about this previously on
the podcast that it was coming. Yeah.
Tell the listeners the numbers. What kind of
numbers this exhibit is drawing
because it's astronomical.
It's phenomenal. So they said, like, 45000
people 45000...
The same as stadium of fire. Yes. And
nobody's getting burned by the legos. Exactly.
So... Oh, but the guy... I was I
was fascinated with the the backstory, the guy
who builds him. He's a German in a
immigrant name is, if he's german, I'm gonna
go with David Jung.
Okay. And, he was in the military. It
was a retired Apache helicopter pilot who fought
terrace in Afghanistan,
and then he built that temple a decade
ago, and it was so popular. The gas
started hiring, hey, Bill me this cool monumental
thing out of legos. So we started doing
it. And some of the things there that
the salt lake tab vernacular there's a picture
of it, and it's got all these
pristine curved tiles and the guy who hired
him to build the Tab wouldn't let him
3 d prints. Yeah. The custom shapes he
needed, so he had to go out and
buy these,
this this
make this process of using a custom saw
set up with
cable saw and and jigsaw saw and all
these different kinds of sauce to to drill
it down and he's super gl together and
just very detailed and I also loved the
little part where he put Star Wars Easter.
Yes. And some of them, we've got a
a repurposed Obi 1 Kenobi being Angel Moron
on the top of the temple. R2D twos
on the Joseph Smith building and And Y
yoda bag seagull outside the assembly hall. I
love that. I I love too. If you're
on the video, I got my Star Wars.
Oh, yes. You. Crossover t shirt. Love it.
Love it. You're the storm troopers crossing avenue.
Yeah I'm I'm representing. I'm Nike tonight. Nike.
No Olympics.
That's right.
Anyway,
So exhibit, I think it's going on for
a little bit longer at Ui.
But not much. I think there's only a
couple more weeks left left to see it.
Sat down there. And then a couple of
weeks ago, I had to just throw this
in,
Tiffany, I believe you mentioned the
engineering I engineering Lego content. I think it
was in my my episode with Lauren. Yeah.
The ta. So you're you're checking the the
website and looking and and they actually put
the results had it a few days ago,
They put the the entrance getting real on
social media on their Facebook page and then
people could just basically comment. And they tallied
them up, and the winners are,
the less strange... Listen... Sorry. The less stars
creative,
and I'm holding that picture up. They they
made a little...
They made a little wide backdrop, and it's
actually a the little candy factory in in
the in the really Okay. They actually go
in and you can twist this little knob
here in a piece of chocolate drops out.
And I looked at the last name of
the winners and it it triggered a little
thing in my mind so I did a
little, you know,
backtracking who's was commenting and whose friends with
who and discovered that, in fact, the the
La starch creative are the grandchildren and great
grandchildren
of my very good friends my next door
neighbor's is growing up amount. Oh my god.
Yeah. Small world
Shout out to Char and Larry Jensen and
Lisa and all the rest of the the
Jensen and then the large crew. For nausea
for the... For lego activity. The By
engineering department lego contest. I believe the winners
got a lego building,
what was it the engineering Engineering building? The
engineering building that had did built out Lego.
So
Very cool.
Okay. Our last news story,
Napoleon dynamite.
Can you believe it has been 20 years
since Napoleon dynamite came out? Crazy. That is
so crazy. So
they do this festival every year, but it's
kind of even a bigger deal this year
because it is the twentieth anniversary of Napoleon
dynamite.
And if you are an Napoleon dynamite pay,
you know, it was filmed and impressed in
Utah, or Idaho how excuse me. Yeah.
Almost the same thing. Almost the same thing,
I have an aunt that lives in preston.
She's gonna kill me for saying preston in
Utah. But no. It's preston out. Filmed a
preston idaho.
And so every year they have a festival
there. And so for 2 days, people can
come and meet other fans and check out
a lot of activities.
Some of the activities they have planned for
this year,
school bus tour,
photos by deb, make your own chap stick,
boom dogg kits,
lag drawing contest,
taught eating contest,
trivia contest,
group dance instructions,
thrift store prom, an Napoleon themed workout session,
Rex Dojo class, Longest football toss, movie screening,
T ball tournament, award ceremony,
just sounds like they're having a party in
impressed. It was a little surprised not to
see a cake building contest.
True.
Anyway, this will be held in 2 weeks.
So 2 weeks from today, the 20 sixth
of July and the 20 seventh of July.
So if you're not into the Olympics, and
you wanna go do something fun, go take
a trip to preston Idaho
and go celebrate
Napoleon dynamite.
Alright. We are... Now that we are done
with new stories, we are going to move
into a Mourn behaving badly. So
I have... I have a couple of fun
ones tonight.
Okay. This first 1.
Yeah. Alright. The title of this article is
former mormon reveals shocking theory about why so
many members of the church end up as
influencers.
So there is this woman. Her name is
Alyssa G. She's 31 years old.
She is making a career of being a
former mormon. Yep. She likes to talk a
lot of snack about the church and a
lot of smack about the religion that she
left, and the daily male likes to listen
to her.
Anyway. So this particular
article,
she is theo
that
because there are a lot of influencers that
have ties and connections to Utah and ties
and connections to the church. Charlie.
Mommy
And so she has this theory that these
influencers are secretly being sponsored by the Church
of Jesus Christ of gl Saints. For just
funnel the money in. They're funnel the money
in.
And
and she said, you know, that you know,
1 of the phenomenon is, you know, why
the why the mormons like to be influencers
just because they like to keep journals and
they like to show, you know, that they're
white and blonde and perfect and all of
that. And she said, while that contributes to
it, III really think that the church is
is funneling money.
And so when questioned about some of the
negative influencers like
Taylor Frankie Paul who was
if if you know her you know,
she's had her own edition of Mormons behavior.
She's had her own edition of Mormons behaving
Badly.
Alyssa,
G fields theory is with the church.
All press is good press. Whether it's good
or bad. So they don't they don't mind
sponsor the bad ones because it makes people
then go click in Mormon,
and then they, you know, get... They move
their their Google
analytics up.
She says that she doesn't believe that the
church actually pays them with money, but more
with travel and foods. Oh, yeah. Gift cards
gift cards.
And that and that there may be other
ways that the church is
sponsoring
these influencers without the influencers really knowing that
the are just sponsoring them. Paying for all
the Google ads. They're paying for all the
Google ads. So
anyway,
however, Alyssa gave no evidence that the more
churches is paying for any ads. Yeah. Shocker.
It's just her theory.
Anyway,
Nice theory,
doughnut... I do not believe it for 1
nano second. So so
Okay. Our last Mormons behaving Deadliest is kind
of an update.
I could not have you on without discussing
a to valor update. First Tim Ballard.
Well, at least this 1 isn't is it
like the original. You it it it's just
a minor update.
It's not like the mountains of evidence I
had to go through the first time around.
Evidence So it is fun evidence. Apparently, the
Utah a Crime lab has matched Tim dollars
Dna
to a sperm sample found on an alleged
victim's skirt According to court documents filed Monday
by the plaintiff.
This is giving me flashbacks of late who's
all over again. This is.
Monica.
We have your dress.
From the gap, that's really what I wanna
know is was this skirt from the gap.
As you know monica Whiskey dress was from
the gap. Is the skirt from the gap?
I've I've tried to forget. It's brought it
all back. Anyway, the woman who is the
plaintiff in this case is a woman by
the name of Celeste Bo
She was ballard executive assistant. She is 1
of several women who has accused ballard of
sexual assault.
What is really funny is,
several months ago ballard. Psychic, Janet Ransom,
she released a podcast
explaining how the Dna might be on boris
Skirt.
She said, well, bo and ballard shared a
suitcase. And so I'm sure that's how the
Dna got transferred.
Of course, of course,
boys says, no. I never shared a suitcase
with ballard. That is not not. How the
Dna
ended up on my scripts. It's about as
likely as the church pan for those Google
ads. Exactly. Yeah. So there's your 2 ballard
updates.
Okay.
Alright. So we are about to close the
show out.
Favorite things. Let's discuss our favorite things. If
you brought some fun stuff for me tonight.
Favorite things. So what have you brought for
me? Okay. I'm I'm I'm excited. I'm here.
I got 2 things. I'm here to keep
your mind.
Face. Okay. Alright. I gonna start with my
mind. Okay. Okay. So I have 3 podcasts
that I listen to weekly. I've got some
that I go in and out of there
I really like. But 3 that I'm I'm
I'm devoted to. 1 of them, I'm currently
c hosting,
obviously. Yes. Okay. So we don't need to
tap We don't need to talk Him. Another
1 is a come follow me
that a lot of people have probably heard
of is called on Jake Saints. How need
a lot of extra attention, but... I've been
looking for a new follow me because I'm
not really ji on the 1 I'm listening
to. Good 1. So I'm gonna write that
down. So Jared Hal easy a value you
professor. Is excellent. This is good. Alright. Now
the 1 I'm gonna tout a little bit.
Favorite thing. The favorite thing, it's called the
standard of truth. Okay. Now, it is not
a startup. It's been around a few years.
It's got a following though. I'm sure some
of the listeners have heard of it, but
many probably haven't Okay. Its main focus is
church history. Oh And I love church history,
and I love to laugh. U. And this
podcast makes me laugh while I learned about
churches 3. Mh. So it's 2 guys. 1
is a bona
Phd
Historian with lot of knowledge of church history.
His name is a doctor Garrett Dirk mo.
He okay is a professor of By right
now. And he is...
The the humor... It... His c host is
a a guy named Richard Lad duke. It's
their lifelong friends. They've been friends a really
long time. He's kind of the the side
humor guy. He's he's smart, but he's not
a church history specialist. Right? So he just
kinda keeps the humor role and and keeps
the conversation flowing.
But, doctor Dirk Mo,
despite the way they're sent a humor dose,
it's a little self deprecating, president frankly like...
Okay. Despite the way they put it forward,
he is incredibly smart, and he knows a
ton about history and church history.
And I guarantee you you listen to a
few episodes of this, you will learn a
lot about church history.
They'll probably laugh if you get their social
but most importantly, I think you will learn
a lot about
why context and why historical method
and details and sources really matter In making
arguments about church history that Okay. If there's
a bad argument about the bad anti church
Yeah. Argument out there. If he hasn't covered
it yet, he will, and he will rip
it the shreds back and forth. Oh. I'm
gonna have to check this out. This sounds
really good. Give you a few specific items
him Give me a few you specific
highly recommended 2 thumbs up. K. Alright. Let's
feed our face now. Okay. Now you have
fed my mind to let's feed our face.
My other favorite thing. I frequently,
especially before Covid, Probably gonna get back into
it more. I travel to Asia for business
quite a bit in my profession and,
My favorite thing that I built over the
last 20 or so years is Asian candy.
Okay. Is the best. We've got here... We
we know high choose Yes. High chew, but
I've been having High chew since before High
chew were before they showed up in big
bags at Costco. And and I have to
say this high chew that you've presented tonight
for of us on Youtube, it is not
packaged the way that an American high chew
is bad. These are these are the real
in the little sleeve they they originally were.
And these are exclusive
Okinawa limited, you can Okay. Only buy in
Japan or clay expensive. So I think you've
got the the line. I've got the
tangerine. I got a tango here. Okay. So
they're really good.
Oh dang. That lime tangerine.
Okay. If you go back to Japan, you
can to bring me like a Oh, you're
gonna let keep it.
Thank you.
Alright. Holy cow. That is the best
hi chew I have ever eaten.
The Japanese keep it for themselves. Wow. The
Americans have that 1. Wow. Yeah. Okay. Dang.
That is delicious. Thank you. Alright. On the
interest of time, let's just do
1 more here.
Wanna try these together. I haven't tried these
yet. K. This is called mango seed.
Said you had not heard of these. I've
have not heard of mango seeds explain what
they are. Now in in Asia, especially in
Singapore, they have what's called the King of
fruit and the queen of fruit. Okay. The
king fruit this durian.
Okay. You don't wanna go within 30 yards
of durian. Okay. You will smell it by
the time you get there.
There are singapore who are you are devout
durian and. Okay. This is the queen of
fruit. Okay. Durian, and by the way, it
smells like a baby diaper, it doesn't taste
much better. Catch. But, there's a cereal real
sweet. Yeah. Mango is the queen of fruit,
and it's okay really good. It's very sweet
and nice and mild.
These are... I've never had 1 of these.
This isn't a thai candy, but
not as sweet as the high choose. Mh.
But
I like it. Nice mild flavor. Mh. So
that's pretty much nice smile flavor. So... Oh,
thank you. I'll let you try the others
when we're off there. Mh okay in the
interest of time. In the interest of time,
and I'm gonna put a picture of all
of them up
on the twin Sisters Instagram.
Okay. So my favorite thing tonight is also
food related.
I mentioned at the beginning of the show
that I am in extreme girls camp prep
mode right now.
So I am going to share with you
something that will be coming to camp, and
I'm not only use this product for camp,
but I use it all the time just
in like my daily cooking.
This this right here.
They're called idaho buds, hash brown potatoes. It
is in a little carton like a quart
of milk sized carton,
and it is hash browns that are dehydrated.
I buy them in bulk at Costco. They
come in a package. I think of 8
little cartons at Costco,
It is so handy because it's... Like I
said, it's dehydrated. You just throw your water
in. It recon the hash browns, and then
you put them in your pan. Great for
backpack. Great for backpack packing. Great for girls
camp. I don't even buy frozen hash browns
anymore. This is exclusively what I use for
hash browns if I'm making hash. France like,
go with a meal or breakfast or something
like that. I've I've often wondered. I don't
know how they would do for the infamous
funeral potato that requires a hash.
I haven't been brave enough to try them
for that yet, but let me tell you,
like for cooking,
especially if you're going camping, this is fantastic.
Great food storage products, super shelf stable, and
so these are awesome. It's my favorite thing.
Awesome.
Hey.
Alright. Well, that about wraps it up for
us tonight. Are you gonna stick around for
our patreon episode? Absolutely.
Okay. Just to tease the viewers a little
bit? On Patreon tonight, we are going to
talk about an interview that Ryan and Ashley
Smith did.
They are members of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Saints. And they are the
current owners of the Utah Jazz in addition
to several other sports franchises down there.
None other than Carol Nikita, church reporter, Carol
Liquid nikita to sat down and did an
interview with them that was released on K
this week. And so we're gonna talk about
that. Yeah, the patron up is a
Fantastic.
David, it is been a pleasure to have
you. Thank you for coming back.
It's been delightful. You always come, and you've
researched the stories really well and have a
super good things to add. I'm so grateful
for that. And
well, thank you. It's been a pleasure. It's
been a pleasure. It's been nice to get
another crack at it. You get another crack.
And
and so, again, thank you.
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