Ep 200.4 — Sun Afternoon Apr 2026 General Conference
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General Conference for Apr 2026 is here. We watched the whole thing so you don’t have to. This is our breakdown and hyperfocus on what slipped through what slipped through the cracks! Sunday Afternoon: Christofferson Q12 - The end is coming, be outward bigots Chi Hong (Sam) Wong Q70 - Remember, Remember BoM lesson Aaron T. Hall Q70 - Names of Jesus from BoM Susan H. Porter Primary GP - Baby-talk talk Neil L Anderson Q12 - Eternal Marriage Quentin L. Cook Q12 - First vision 1823, doesn’t mention 1820 Taniela B. Wakolo Q70 - Bigotry is still bigoted even when it...
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Ep 200.3 — Sunday Morning Apr 2026 General Conference
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General Conference for Apr 2026 is here. We watched the whole thing so you don’t have to. This is our breakdown and hyperfocus on what slipped through what slipped through the cracks! Sunday Morning: Ucthdorf Acting Pres of Q12 - Happy Easter, I guess? Emily Bell Freeman YW GP - Best of days, worst of days Pedro X. Larreal Q70 - Happy easter Edward B Rowe Q70 - I didn’t get blown up by a landmine, that’s what matters Ronald Rasband Q12 - People with disabilities will be resurrected perfected Dale Renlund Q12 - So many balls out there, keep your eye on the Jesus...
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Ep 200.2 — Sat Afternoon Apr 2026 General Conference
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General Conference for Apr 2026 is here. We watched the whole thing so you don’t have to. This is our breakdown and hyperfocus on what slipped through what slipped through the cracks! Saturday Afternoon: Gary Stevenson Q12 - Lost luggage Edwardo Ortega Q70 - To new members Wan-Liang Wu Q70 - More diversity through assimilation David J. Wunderli FC YM GP - Youth carry too many rocks Gerald Causse new Q12 - The Truman Flater Earther Bryan J Holmes Q70 - Marathons and necessity of prophetic witness and blind obedience Clement M. Matswagothata Q70 - Great story, maybe...
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Ep 200.1 — Sat Morning Apr 2026 General Conference
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General Conference for Apr 2026 is here. We watched the whole thing so you don’t have to. This is our breakdown and hyperfocus on what slipped through what slipped through the cracks! Saturday Morning: Oaks POTLDS Patrick Kearon Q12 - Callings Kristen M. Yee SC RS GP - assignments and ministering David A. Bednar Q12 - endure, you whiny little shits Michael John U. Teh Q70 - diversity through assimilation Jorge T Becerra Q70 - poverty, tithing, immigrants CryRing - praying is powerful Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a...
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Ep 199 — Journal of Mormon Polygamy Conference | Sense & Sensibilities
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Bryce attended the Journal of Mormon Polygamy Conference and snagged a few interviews from attendees, organizers, and presenters. It was a fantastic experience! The first issues are printed and ready for purchase at the link below and it’s a great conference as well. Come next year! After that we discuss Sense & Sensibilities by Jane Austen to round out the third episode of Women’s History Month. We end with some happy news from boxing trainers helping parkinson’s patients. Show Notes: Journal of Mormon Polygamy website with currently-available issues ...
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Ep 198 — Women’s History Month | Orlando
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It’s Women’s History Month! We first talk about a few women in history who dared to stand out because representation matters. These are women in science, medicine, and even espionage who did amazing things to further scientific advances, to help heal people, etc and they deserve to be recognized. For the media segment, we talk about the 1993 movie Orlando, starring the amazing Tilda Swinton. Following that, we close out with happy news about Dolly Parton and children’s books. Show Notes: Books to read: Code Girls: The Untold Story of the...
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Ep 197 — Clark Gilbert | Pure In Heart pt. 2
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The time has come for a new apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Clark G. Gilbert; time for your podcast hosts to rise to the occasion with another Apostolic Profile episode. He escaped the religious persecution Mormons often suffer growing up in Scottsdale, AZ, to go to BYU. Then off to Harvard for business, to acquire more useful skills for his forthcoming career in the Church Education System (CES). Before CES, however, Gilbert was responsible for trimming all the fat at Deseret News, which amounted to firing 40% of the workforce and shifting it to an unabashedly...
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Ep 196 — Jesse Owens | 42: Jackie Robinson
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It’s February and that means it is Black History Month. And since we are in the middle of the 2026 Winter Olympics, we are going to talk about one of THE most famous African-American Olympic athletes of all time, Jesse Owens. We then discuss the movie 42, the story of Jackie Robinson’s first year in the white baseball league in 1947. After that, we’ll round out the episode with happy news about a peace march from Texas to DC. Happy Black History month! Next Live Show: Monday February 23, 6:00 PM (MT) We will talk about the newest apostle. We look forward to seeing...
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Ep 195 — Ethics, Morality and Professional Responsibility | Pure in Heart pt. 1
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Ready for more Dallin Oaks stuff? First we talk about a letter Joseph Smith wrote to W.W. Phelps. Then we discuss the law review article “Ethics, Mortality, and Professional Responsibility”, by Dallin Oaks published October 1975 in the BYU Law Review. For the Sword of Laman, we take a look at the first two chapters of Oaks’ book Pure In Heart. We finish it off with some happy news about a judge overturning Trump’s block of an off-shore wind project that could power 600,000 homes. Enjoy! Show Notes: Letter to W. W. Phelps Jan 11, 1833 Modern...
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Ep 194 — Dallin Oaks | Carthage Conspiracy
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Well, it’s time. Let’s talk about President Dallin Harris Oaks, the Hoaks man, the Mormon Gollum. First, we cover the biography In the Hands of the Lord: The Life of Dallin H. Oaks by Richard Turley. Then we take a look at Hoaks’ book The Carthage Conspiracy, as well as a presentation from 2021 where he actually uttered a prophecy! And after all that, we share some amazing science news. Researchers at Johns Hopkins have uncovered a surprising new way to influence brain activity by targeting a long-mysterious class of proteins linked to anxiety, schizophrenia, and movement...
info_outlineThe time has come for a new apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Clark G. Gilbert; time for your podcast hosts to rise to the occasion with another Apostolic Profile episode. He escaped the religious persecution Mormons often suffer growing up in Scottsdale, AZ, to go to BYU. Then off to Harvard for business, to acquire more useful skills for his forthcoming career in the Church Education System (CES). Before CES, however, Gilbert was responsible for trimming all the fat at Deseret News, which amounted to firing 40% of the workforce and shifting it to an unabashedly apologetic mission statement defending the church. Once appointed to CES, Gilbert instituted a series of Orwellian surveillance systems at BYU to punish thought crime; Ernest Wilkinson would be proud and Jeffrey Holland finally has a man to fire some muskets. Now Gilbert joins as the youngest apostle, securing his future position as prophet circa 2050s-70s. This “disruptive innovator” has a lot of new ideas to keep the church as extremist-conservative as is legally permissible heading into the 22nd century. This call to the Apostleship by Dallin Oaks ensures Oaks’ legacy remains long after he’s become a shepherd of worms. Patrons get a bonus segment comparing Gilbert’s interviews at Deseret News and SL Tribune immediately after his ordination, which tangentially serves as a case study for the deterioration of journalism at Deseret Media, due to Gilbert himself. After that, it’s our next installment of Oaks’ book, Pure in Heart, where he discusses the importance of mindset and intentionality when rendering service, especially for the church. We end with happy news about a potential future cure for Type 1 Diabetes.
Show Notes:
Clark Gilbert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_G._Gilbert
Gilbert’s likely tenure as future prophet https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/1r8c74x/on_his_first_day_in_the_q15_clark_g_gilbert/
Official press release https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/clark-gilbert-called-quorum-of-the-twelve-apostles
Gilbert Op-ed for ChurchNewsroom
The Parable of the Slope https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2021/10/16gilbert?lang=eng
Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave
https://hbr.org/1995/01/disruptive-technologies-catching-the-wave
The Disruption Machine by Jill Lepore
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine
Gilbert’s profile on BYU Law and Wheatley Institute with law-focused talks
https://www.religiousfreedomlibrary.org/authors/clark-g-gilbert
Gilbert: Stewardship of Our First Freedom
https://www.religiousfreedomlibrary.org/documents/the-stewardship-of-our-first-freedom#note-30
Gilbert: The Courage of Our Convictions
Gilbert: Dare to be Different
American Disestablishment: The Conclusion by Miles Smith
https://davenantinstitute.org/american-disestablishment-the-conclusion/
Disestablishmentarianism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disestablishmentarianism
Governance and the Religion Question: Voluntaryism, Disestablishment, and America’s Church-State Proposition by Carl H. Esbeck
https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1156&context=facpubs
Becket Foundation “Religious Liberty” SCOTUS victories
https://becketfund.org/cases/?fwp_case_court=us-supreme-court&fwp_case_status=past
Hosanna-Tabor
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/565/171/
Trinity Lutheran
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/582/15-577/
Our Lady of Guadalupe
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/591/19-267/
Carson v. Makin
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/596/20-1088/
How SCOTUS is Dismantling the Separation of Church and State
American Council of Education
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-council-on-education/
Becoming BYU
https://aims.byu.edu/becoming-byu
LDS Education Boss Touts BYU’s Commitment to Religious Freedom by Peggy Fletcher Stack
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/01/24/byu-will-never-back-away-its/
Spiritual Crackdown at BYU? By RadioWest
BYU New Employment Policy
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/03/10/new-employment-policy/
BYU employment questionnaire
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/ecclesiastical-leader-questions-new-ces-hires
Fine Print: The Deseret News Spins its Circulation Numbers by Rachel Piper
https://www.cityweekly.net/news/fine-print-the-deseret-news-spins-its-circulation-numbers-2207487
Dallin Oaks and Clark Gilbert: Stand Fast with Love in Proclaiming Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6IXLufuAAQ
Gilbert Deseret News interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORUY06HPmfM
Gilbert SL Trib interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FPwhJhBJ-A
Ben Park video on Gilbert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTXXNeydptg
Gordon Monson: Clark Gilbert has been called as an LDS apostle. Now, we’ll see if he’s chosen.
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/02/13/maybe-clark-gilbert-will-be/
Gordon Monson: LDS Church education boss should put down the hammer at BYU and pick up an olive branch: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/01/06/byu-there-is-too-much-fear-too/
Dark days: New rules have BYU professors running scared https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/01/05/byu-blue-why-these-are-dark-days/
Sword of Laman: Pure In Heart, by Dallin H. Oaks
The Mansion, by Henry Van Dyke: https://americanliterature.com/author/henry-van-dyke/short-story/the-mansion
Happy News:
A bold new plan could finally cure Type 1 diabetes: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260302030648.htm
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen
Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism on his Speaking of Cults series. Our most recent discussion was on The Unpaid Army of God: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de543-d9tME
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