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Welcome to you, softcore History.
Welcome back to soft core History. I'm

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your host for the week, Damn
Rochester, and I'm joined as always by

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Rob Fox NJ. Goldman. What
is up boys? Hello? Happy holiday

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weekend? I guess troublingly sober is
I guess it's not so happy you do.

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You don't really say happy Memorial,
but you see it everywhere. I

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mean you say Happy Easter and there
was a man was crucified. Well,

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I guess you don't say happy Good
Friday though everyone. It's in the name

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though. Yeah, oh that'd be
great. That's how every church should just

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at the end of the Good Friday
service just blast that what blast? What?

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Living on a prayer? Oh yeah. It is easily one of my

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favorite weekends, though the mooral dy
Bekending's good Man's Day. It's like the

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launch of summer. It is.
It's the like sort of unofficial official beginning

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of summer, which conversely makes Labor
Day one of my least favorite weekend.

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Labored Nah, no, because you're
a big fall guy. I have a

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big fall guy. Actually, yeah, but but I will going Yeah,

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my outfit game gets Oh my god, dude, because once you can cover

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up your trash body. It's good
for you. And even the parts of

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my body that like should objectively look
good, like I've got pretty good calves,

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they're still so pale that they're gross, you know what I mean.

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Like even after Memorial Day is the
only time you're like in taste, like

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because white, you can finally start
being yourself. Oh yeah, yeah,

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Like I'm wearing white pants, but
you're always white. I'm always wearing Labor

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Day. You're just tack. It's
pathetic, that's gross. Yeah, but

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Memorial Day pretty much launches me being
able to take off my shirt whenever it's

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okay, it's not a You live
in Texas, so yeah, true,

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you live in Austin more importantly,
right, there's no I don't know that

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you need a shirt to dine at
most places that have a waiter. I

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always hate it when I see a
homeless guy that's just shredded. It's like,

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man, maybe I could benefit from
this living off the land baby.

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Yeah. When I first moved here, because like I was used to Saint

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Louis hobos, you know what I
mean, like just filthy bums, like

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street rats. Yeah that had to
like survive a winner, you know,

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what I mean, And I get
down here and I would just like get

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a job at Abercron, but you
asshole, Yeah, like just go stand

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shirtless in front of a store,
like just literally your jeans are already ripped.

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You're perfect. It's crazy. I
paddle boarded yesterday and saw almost meant

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take a ship in the river.
So that was, ah, there it

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is. That's what you get first
off that river. The one you paddle

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board is shit. It's a bad
homeless shit and dead bodies. Yeah,

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so what do you what do you
want? And then I stayed out late

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because Randy convinced me to wait for
the bats. And we were there till

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like ten o'clock at night and waiting
for bats. Bats never came. Were

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on a bridge for hours. We're
under the bridge paddleboard and then we paddled

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at night and we saw but we
did get to see Starlink so elon muss

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like, uh, satellite thing that's
in a straight line that's been there for

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like three or four years. We
actually saw it in real life, real

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time. I can't even tell you
how like if someone was like, do

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you want to go see the bats, like the sentence wouldn't even finish before

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I was talking. We were there
all day. But he's just like,

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let's stay for the bats. That's
the worst attraction in Austin. It's fun

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once, you know. Have you
ever seen them? I gave up.

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Have you ever seen them there?
No? I haven't. There's a lot

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of them when they well, there
used to be at least I think they

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all died from the freeze. Yeah, they might have died in the colds.

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They don't like that, they really
don't. We have a lot of

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bats in the woods across the street
from our house. They're kind of cool.

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Yeah. Yeah, they eat mosquitos. I like bats. Bats are

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fine. They actually also helped with
the production of rum. What. Yeah,

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they're one of the biggest pollinators of
sugarcane. Okay, yeah, it's

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weird. So that's why the Bacardi
symbol is a bat. Yes. I

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didn't look into it. I was
like, what is like some vampires ship?

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Yeah, well vampires do love ros. Actually, how COVID started it

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was distilled rum. Yeah, there's
the bat got in or I guess it's

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undistilled. Yeah, yeah, like
those are the raws from you ever taste

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it? Yeah, it's just like
bat fur. And teeth. Yeah.

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Gross. Anyway, welcome into softcore
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just drop their topics in there.
Yes, you can offer up a suggestion

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which you want to hear on the
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actually got my topic this week from
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place you're going to be getting topics
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right. Yeah, we're gonna have
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If we all start pulling you,
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a fire emojy or something, just
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I will know did because remember our
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two episodes when we record, right, we record the Patreon and the main

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at the same time, like back
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could come in that we'd have the
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that discord room makes it like a
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It's gonna happen one day. We've
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that we've already covered something I'm gonna
cover and like because you forget certain Yeah,

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yeah, like, oh you guys
forget Little Rob does a lot.

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But I'm pretty on point with what
we've covered. I could if you.

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I can't tell you the list,
but if I hear it, I know.

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The only the only stuff about history
I don't remember is anything involved with

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this podcast. Yeah. I could
pull a history fact out of my ass

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right now any second of the day. But you asked me what we did

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on the podcast two weeks ago.
How many were sacrifices he share, Oh,

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I guess it was like eight million
a year. Yeah, it was

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one hundred million a year. It
was a but jillion a year. Yeah,

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the entire population of Earth per year. There was just a factory,

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a tech women just in stirrups.
So just mat Yeah, listen, I

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will not apologize from my source of
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what someone on the discords like,
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gets all of his questions from not
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week. Again, that's on Patreon, so is the game show. So

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you get two extra episodes a week
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get like an extra topic basically,
and then maybe a watch along maybe a

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voicemail episode, just depends. Somebody
asked for the regular episode right now that

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is ad free. I don't know
if I want to do that though,

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because it might affect our numbers,
so new we'll see figure it out either

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way. Let's start this week's topic
than again to discord remember easy havoc.

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This week we're talking about James Jesse
Strang. Okay, I'm disappointed in that

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man's discord name. I was expecting
something horrifying, you know what I mean,

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just like TFM commoners. Yeah,
well there it's they're worse in some

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ways, you know, just like
Ushwit sixty nine. Why would that be

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our people too? Just it's just
the worst thing you can think of plus

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sex. No, I think the
Discord you pretty much have like your name.

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Yeah, I mean it's my name
on on for Discord, but that's

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same because yeah, I don't plan
on getting into anything malicious on Discord.

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Right, Rob just said his Discord
name. It's Auschwitz sixty nine. Yeah,

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that's Rob's legal name too though,
so it checks out. It's on

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the driver's license. I get a
lot of high fives at the Texas DMV

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say bad luck, but the teas
Our boy was born March twenty one,

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eighteen thirteen, in New York.
Now that was only seventy years before the

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Battle of Waterloo, so two years
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Again, this is Inside Baseball.
A lot of people have not listened to

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that episode because we only have five
hundred patrons, but five hundred and ten.

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By the way, our goal is
just to We've just been We're joking

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Friday night, were Saturday, We're
out. We're like God, I just

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want to stay above five hundred when
the purge comes. The purge comes every

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first of the month. Cards get
the climb wrapped in right, get that

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shit in order. People. Either
way, our boy Strang is a youth

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kept a rather profound personal diary written
partly in secret code that was not deciphered

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until over one hundred years after it
was authored. By the way, this

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man, just to kind of tease
what we're getting into, he is and

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he is a disciple of the Mormon
Church. Oh fuck yeah, Joseph Smith

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or bring him young? So he's
a rival, bring him young? He

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is Joey Smith's kind of boy.
Okay, so this is sort of a

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he kind of reverses Paul situation.
After Jesus fucks up, he branches off

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and starts his own kind of division. Okay, yeah, is this going

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to be the founding of um,
what do they call the Joe's Witnesses?

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You'll find out. Okay, it's
not that though, Okay, Jehovah's I

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had a couple roll up on Saturday
before we went out to hang out with

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you guys. Yeah, I haven't
seen one in person in a long time.

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It's been a minute. It's been
a minute. And I love the

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way they do it. They show
you three flyers or like, do any

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of these topics interest you? And
like one of them was like can the

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dead really rise again? Can you
speak to your dead relatives through God.

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And I was like, no,
none of them do. No, rob

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this man's branch of Mormonism still exists. But it's, uh, you're gonna

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find out, not really relevant anymore. Oh but the story itself is we're

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along for the journey, not the
destination. Okay. Yeah, So his

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ar contained Strang's musings on a variety
of topics, including a sense that he

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was called to be a significant world
leader like Caesar or Napoleon. That's never

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a good sign. Why because those
people do fucked up shit. Like if

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you're like, I think I'm gonna
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I'm gonna be like that. Actually
you know who thought that? Caesar,

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Please stop touching your mica. He
was like, I and I want to

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be as big as Alexander the Great. And that's why he got stabbed a

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hundred times. But he was pretty
big. Yeah, I mean we still

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talk about him. We did a
lot. He's pretty important. Yeah.

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All he had to do was destroy
a republic make an empire. You know

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what my favorite Napoleon quote is,
by the way, that I just learned

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recently, is Han this island sucks. He thought that about a lot of

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islands. Yea, three different islands, the one he was born on and

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the two he was exiled too.
He was like, fuck this island.

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It kind of is like a that's
the biggest punishments, Like we're sending you

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back you island to another island.
Yeah, og, Yeah, this is

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like such a stone cold, like
cold motherfucker. Quote when he when he

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took command of France, not the
army, but like when he became in

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charge of France, he I guess
at one point he said, and I

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just he wasn't doing this, but
I imagine him smoking a cigarette because he's

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French and this is so badass.
He was just like this thought that would

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be another of Washington No empire.
Yeah, He's like, I'm not giving

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up my throne. That's good.
It's hard. You don't get it back

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when you give it a stone cold
But speaking of thrones, this man thought

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his quest was to be of someone
of importance. He did not wish to

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follow his father's calling as a farmer, so he took up the study of

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law. Oh Strang was admitted to
the bar in New York at age twenty

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three, and later at other places
where he resided, he'd became county postmaster

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and edited a local newspaper, The
Randolph Harold Strang, who was once described

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as or. He described himself as
a cool philosopher. D cool philosopher.

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That just means you're a libertarian.
Oh no, I'm not like the regular

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Republicans. I'm a cool Republican.
You can have a gun. I don't

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care. You can smoke. Hey, there's there's someone, Come and lock

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the door. I'm not so good
with money, though terrible with it.

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He became a Baptist minister, left
in February eighteen forty four to join the

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day
Saints. He quickly found favor with our

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guy Joey Smith, okay, though
they had only known each other for a

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short time. He was baptized personally
by Joseph Smith on February twenty fifth,

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eighteen forty four. What a flex
Yeah. On March third of that year,

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he was ordained an elder by Joseph's
brother Hiram, and sent to Smith's

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request, or by Smith's request,
to Wisconsin to establish a Mormon steak at

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Wory. Shortly after Strength's departure,
Joseph Smith was of course murdered by an

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anti Mormon mob in Illinois. The
amount of times Joseph we could do a

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whole episode on the amount of times
Joseph Smith was tarred and feathered and run

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out of places like he They ended
up in Utah because that's like no one

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could continually push them out. That's
the furthest they could be pushed out to,

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Like they were basically exiled everywhere they
went, and Utah was the furthest

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away they could get from everyone.
People do not like Mormon's back then,

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no more so than it was.
I mean, it was like straight up

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just legal to kill a Mormon.
Yeah, in Missouri I think it was

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where it was like, yeah,
just killed the Mormon. Yeah, just

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just kill them. Yeah, I
don't know that one's off the books.

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What a way to get away with
murder? Well, technically, yeah,

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you're on a My client could smile. The client could smell the morment on

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him from a mile away with his
nice pleasant trees. Yeah, this big

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creepy smile, his blonde hair.
There's many, many children, all the

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wives. So after Smith's assassination,
there was a bit of a power struggle

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between who was going to take the
throne to this church. Strand claimed that

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he had the right to lead the
Latter day Saints even though he's only been

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there for like a cup of coffee. And he uh. Not only was

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Smith's kind of written error, because
he he forged documents that Joseph Smith wrote

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saying that Wait, so this guy
forged a documents saying he was supposed to

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succeed him. He's forged a doc
he forged a succession plan. He forged

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a document to succeed the man who
forged documents to start religion. Oh,

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and we're gonna get into some of
his own plates. He finds plates by

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the way that you gotta think no
one else in Smith's inner circle was a

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lawyer either. So he's like,
okay, I got it. No,

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he's a pretty well spoken dude.
Yeah, I got I'll take care of

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the legal stuff. Don't worry.
Hey, honey, you hear new plates

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dropped? It's hot, new plate
drop. Honestly, most of my Mormon

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knowledge comes from that episode of South
Park. It's not wrong, well it

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should Yeah, it's not wrong at
all. It's like, you can get

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an accurate depiction of both Mormonism and
scientology from South Parking Book of Mormon.

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Yeah. Yeah. The only difference
is that they like Mormonism. Yeah yeah.

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That was a whole running bit in
South Park, Like they're so nice.

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It's like everyone goes to Heaven to
be judged. It's like, oh,

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I'm Jewish, well I'm Christian.
It's like no, sorry, it

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was the Mormons were right, Yeah, everyone else goes to hell because God's

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that weird monkey thing. Yeah yeah. So his most significant rivals were Bring

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Them Young and Sydney Rigdon, a
member of Smith's first presidency. A power

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struggle ensued, during which Young quickly
disposed of Rigden, and Young would reject

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offers to debate strang for the first
three years before leading his followers to Utah,

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while Rigden went to Pennsylvania. What
an American religion? Yeah, debate

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me bro Noah. Also, I
refused to debate, right yeah. It's

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like I think that that's pretty smart. I'm Brigham's part. It's like,

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what is debate? I'm not debating
lawyer? Yeah yeah fuck that. We

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honestly like people like I can't believe
they're not debating. It's like, what

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debate has changed anyone's mind ever?
I've never once watched a debatement like you

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know what, I actually I'm gonna
go with you. Yeah, they're right.

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Strange insisted the laws of the church
prevented excommunication without a trial. He

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equally asserted that the twelve Apostles had
no right to sit in judgment on him,

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and as a lawful president, he
was the lawful president of the church.

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Strange rested his claim to leadership by
an by the ordination of an angel

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at the very moment Joseph Smith died, that's smart, that's a good move.

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No angel, actually get this.
Angel came down, told me,

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yeah, it's me. That was
a good family guy. Been on that

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like a year, like years and
years ago. He was like my next

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witnesses, the ghost who never lies. I mean, that's religion in a

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nutshell. So not only was he
ordained by an angel, he also had

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a letter of appointment from Joseph Smith
himself. See, I think he could

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have just stuck with the angel and
not forged the document. He would have

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had a stronger claim the later.
The letter was dated June eighteenth, eighteen

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forty four, just nine days before
Smith's murder. That would make you a

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suspect. You would think, yeah
right, They're like okay, great,

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Joseph, thanks and you just leave
and you're like, he's in Carthage,

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He's in Carthage, Illinois. Do
you do with him what you will?

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Missirians, Smith and Strange were some
two hundred and twenty five miles apart at

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the time. Strang offered witnesses to
affirm that he made his announcement before news

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of Smith's demise. Strang's letter is
held today by Yale University. Every aspect

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of the letter has been disputed by
opposing factions, including a postmark and signature.

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Pretty much. They came to the
conclusion that all of this is strengths

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writing. It's yeah, it's all
bullshit. It's honestly, like, do

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you do you think that David Miskovich
studied what happened in Mormonism after Smith died

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to like understand how to just take
control of scientology about it, dude,

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It's perfect. It's it's a like
a carbon copy, yeah, of what

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happened. And miss Kevich is like
the way he came in to scientology,

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he was just like a breezer from
the get ye. It's just like I'm

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going to fuck him up. Like
he just his biggest thing is like clothes

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lining people. That's what he's like
most known for. Behind closed doors.

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He would just walk up to someone
and like fucking clothes line him and just

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tell him to get in line.
Like he's he's a monster, truly,

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like he's an awful human being.
That's so fucking funny. He's like this

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tall too, Yeah, he's he's
in He's shorter than Tom Cruise, Like,

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which is How's that possible? That's
why? How could he close line

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anyone? You're hitting him like in
the stomach. Why do you think Cruise

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likes hanging out with him? Yeah? I guess. Yeah. Do you

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think he ever beat the shit out
of Tom Cruise? No? I think

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TC is untouchable in scientology, like
he is their most prized jewel. He

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is. Yeah, if if what's
his name? If l Ron Hubbard is

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like Christ, Tom Cruise is like
Paul. Oh yeah, dude, I

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mean like Peter. Yeah, like
it was supposed to be Trivolta, but

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like you know, you know now, sometimes you just gotta have some bathhouse

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time. Yeah. The reason this
letter works is because he also has some

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power players in his corner, like
Joseph Smith's mother and family members, a

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couple of brothers. I like to
just it's probably isn't true, but I

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like to imagine that Joseph's mother is
entirely senile at this point, and he's

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like missus Smith, missus Smith,
the angels here, and he just like

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paints a guy gold and like,
yeah, if I tell unto you,

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mother Smith, it's a thousand percent
accurately. Yeah. I don't even have

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to do the research for that.
She was probably off the fucking wagon,

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like yeah, which she had.
She was in strings corner, Yeah,

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okay, Yeah, she's the age
probably blind, deaf and dummy. Yeah

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yeah, make shift wheelchair. Yeah, just getting exploited every day. Oh

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boy, that's the life, right
this wheeler back into a closet with some

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porridge. When she's done, all
right, just gotta keep her alive.

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Sleep. The angel will be back
soon. Yeah. About twelve Latter Day

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Saints ultimately accepted Strength's claims. A
second stake of Zion was established on Beaver

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Island in Like, Michigan, where
Shreng moved his church headquarters in eighteen forty

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eight. Smart to get on an
island another island, boy, defend got

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to be able to defend yourself.
Yes, if you're like honestly in a

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religion, I guess maybe it's it's
different than I suppose. But like,

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wouldn't you just want to be like, hey man, I'm just trying to

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get to heaven and like worship,
Like I don't care. Who's the next

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fucking American pope. Yeah, like, come on, figure it out.

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Just God damn it, get it
together. Yeah. Isn't this about getting

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to heaven right at the end of
the day, this is about helping people.

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No, it's it's about you being
great. Always was he was never

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like, he's very kind of calculated
and smart with what he does. Actually

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kind of a decently like a decent
human being too. He's like in favor

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of women, black people, and
Native Americans having rights and stuff. Oh

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string, which was big back then. Yeah, he was. He was

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pro Native back then. That was
very uh and anothetical to bring him you

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say, no, wonder bring him
young one the fight. Yeah. The

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mark of Kane, I believe,
is the reason black people were black,

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according to Brigham Young for yeah,
well, there's a line in Book of

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Mormon that it's like, can God
change his mind? Not black people in

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nineteen seventy two or something like that. Yeah, when you need good pr

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God always changes his mind. Yeah, it's great and I think it's literally

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like it's so and I believe in
nineteen seventy two God changed his mind about

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black people. Yeah, black people. It's ridiculous. Yeah. Um,

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there was a high turnover rate.
There was a many defections, mainly because

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of Strang's flip flop on bolygamy.
Well you can't. You can't mess with

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the man's access to living in women
and infinite women. Excuse me what you're

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you're taking away? What now?
Because ginally he opposed the practice at first,

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but once you know, he became
head Haunchell. He reversed course in

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eighteen forty nine and then one of
its strongest advocates. Weird, Oh so,

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but what didn't they have the same
belief then? Wasn't bring him young

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pro polygamy as well? Um Smith
was? I know, but wasn't young?

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I mean youngs for sure. It's
weird when you have first DIBs.

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It's the first thing back on the
menu, right, that's funny. So

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I wonder if he lost a bunch
of dudes because he was opposed to it,

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and then like once he needed for
politics, he's like, okay,

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okay, you got as many wise
as you want. What Yeah, grabbed

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whatever nine year olds you need.
Put him in your stable. He was

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losing people because he was taking lives. Really yeah, he taking other people's

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wives probably, Yeah, that's nobly
it's how you lose him. He ended

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up marrying technically five spouses and father
and fourteen children. That's actually that feels

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low, not the spouses, the
kids. He's only in power for six

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years, Okay, Like, come
on, man, you're cranking out almost

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three a wife less. That's so
low. Back then only three a wife.

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But all right, so back to
your original point. Many of his

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disciples kind of defected because they viewed
him as the monogamous counterweight to bring him

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Young's polygamous version. Okay, but
then he, of course when he gets

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in power, reverse course. Yeah, it's as soon as you get first

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DIBs, it's back on the menu. Right, So you think it was

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a personal thing not a political thing, Like he's like, you know what

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I mean, it's probably both.
It's a little ale will be you know,

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like he once he got in power, it's like, well, actually,

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I'd love to have a few.
The missus is looking a little frumpy.

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Meanwhile, Annabelle over there is nineteen
and real tight. You know,

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Mary's pregnant. I gotta run this. I gotta run this colony somehow,

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right any more followers? Damn it? Better make him myself. M Strange

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defended his new tenant, claiming that
far from enslaven or demeaning women, polygamy

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would liberate and elevate them by allowing
them to choose the as possible male based

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upon any factors which he deemed important
to them. I've been saying that for

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years, So that's how you kind
of if you ever want to broach the

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topic about maybe an open relationship,
be like, no, let's to elevate

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you. Yeah, this is liberating
someone a friend of mine messaged me the

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other day about some like really attractive
woman on Housewives just something and there's like

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a powerful, realitary like smart,
blah blah blah. And she was like

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you men, like she's dating a
woman now and she's married, like the

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first one sheds like you men screwed
up, Like you miss you missed out

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on so many like amazing women.
And I was like, look, it's

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not my fault. The government's fascist
and won't let me have another wife.

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Like, I'll marry her tomorrow if
you make it legal. I don't ever

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you want more than one marriage now
absolutely about to say like what now marriage

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is great? Two would be hard, right, Two would be difficult if

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you married your bro. Oh that's
free bro jobs. Well yeah, the

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bros have the run of the house
and then there's like a bang basements.

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If you're getting you're getting real red
dragon over here. Um, real buffalo

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Bill, buffalo bob Bill. But
you blah. Strang and his first wife,

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Mary Pierre, separated May eighteen fifty
one, though they remain legally married

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until Streng's death. Yeah, it's
not about right. Yeah, look,

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you're only legally married as as far
you're only legally married if your spouse can

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see you. She was still there
though, Yeah she was hanging out,

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okay, but if she like left
for a different town. She's a single

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lady, especially back then. Yeah, you you disappear off the face of

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the earth if you're not my field
of vision? Were you guys? Are

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you guys old enough for I don't
know if this still was the thing once

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you guys were like in college or
even in high school. But like people

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used to be like, he's not
cheating if you're needed. Even zip code,

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bro, I do remember that line. I believe it was area code

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where oh area code? Yeah yeah
yeah, because like zip zip codes across

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town that's literally down the street in
some places, like that's well the zip

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code in downtown it's different. Like
no, it was areas that cheating,

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even the different area code. Bro. Yeah, no, I was around

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when that line of thinking was thrown. Okay, it's just like what but

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I buy it back that two towns
of something ridiculous. Uh the other day

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where it said like seventy percent of
people cheat on their bachelor or bachelorie parties,

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really that seems so high. That
is insanely high. Not a prayer

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not to mention, because most dudes
they go on a bachelor party are not

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getting laid. Yeah, even if
they tried, even if they tried to

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cheat on their significant other, they
would definitely not the main person. I've

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hooked up on one or two bachelor
parties. But like, but yeah,

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the the soon to beat room.
No. First off, like if I

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tried to fuck someone on my bachelor
party and got denied, how would you

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would it be worse if you're,
say Courtney try to cheat on you at

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a bachelorte party and then got denied
by somebody. That would would that break

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you? No? Actually, yeah, that'd be hor horrific. But like

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half of like if I tried to
do that, I was like, she

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doesn't even have it like that.
Yeah, it's like Nadi, her husband's

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the only one that wants that,
damn. Oh. But like for me,

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if if I tried to do that
on my bachelor party, like we

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were at Missoo or my bachelor bachelor
party, we were at Missoo, um,

404
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,279
half of the guys there would have
like tackled me and been like you're

405
00:28:33,319 --> 00:28:34,920
not going home with her? Yeah, be Like we would have been like,

406
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,920
dude, what the fuck are you
doing? You're very drunk, we're

407
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,000
taking you home. Also, like
and then like the and then it's so

408
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:47,000
shitty to do to your friends because
then they have to live with that secret.

409
00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:48,880
Yeah, they're like the weddings like
a month and a half later.

410
00:28:49,279 --> 00:28:53,039
I'm very I'm very thankful that I've
never been on a bachelor party where dudes

411
00:28:53,039 --> 00:28:56,640
are like, all right, I'm
gonna cheat on my future life. Now.

412
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,279
I was like, that's definitely I
have friends that have stories. I

413
00:28:59,319 --> 00:29:03,079
think we keep good company. It's
yeah, it's pretty scumbag for you.

414
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,039
Uh yeah, despite what the appearance
may portray. But yeah, no,

415
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,720
Like I've definitely had friends that have
talked about bachelor parties They've went on where

416
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,319
it's like, yeah, dude,
this guy just like being a stripper.

417
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,559
Why why I have been on one
of those bachelor parties? And that's literally

418
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,160
all I can say. Yeah,
I know, yeah it was I was

419
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:27,279
too young and unattached. I think
I can guess what it is. Maybe

420
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:33,240
I was too young and unattached to
care at all. But like, like

421
00:29:33,359 --> 00:29:37,119
looking back now, I'm just like, holy shit, what a shitty thing

422
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,720
to do. You're a bad person. Like I could tell you off air,

423
00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:45,599
I could confirm off air what it
is, but which one is described

424
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:52,440
the patreon you know who you are. But man, yeah, but at

425
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,319
the time, I was like so
young that I was just like, whatever,

426
00:29:55,440 --> 00:30:00,160
will release the documents? Yeah,
So Strength's fourth wife. It is

427
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:06,359
a funny little story Sarah Adelia.
Right after hurt or his death, she

428
00:30:06,559 --> 00:30:11,119
remarried and eventually divorced her second husband
because he was not interested in polygamy.

429
00:30:12,279 --> 00:30:17,680
Really, he was a little bit. So she was into she wanted she

430
00:30:17,759 --> 00:30:21,119
was into CUK play or no,
wait, she she didn't want to bear

431
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,599
the entire bird. So strange marries
this girl as his fifth orr, his

432
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,720
fifth, fourth wife, fourth or
fifth wife, one of the two,

433
00:30:29,079 --> 00:30:33,440
and h once he dies, she
remarries, and then her new husband's like,

434
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:38,519
I don't really want to I just
love you lame, I know what.

435
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,200
Honestly, I hate when people do
this. But my first thought actually

436
00:30:42,319 --> 00:30:47,119
is like she was a lesbian.
She wanted the ladies around maybe, or

437
00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:48,880
she's just like, I'm not trying
to do like one hundred percent of the

438
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:52,920
time with you. Oh true,
I don't want to run this house by

439
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:57,039
myself, like I could use the
help. Yeah yeah. Also because first

440
00:30:57,079 --> 00:31:00,920
wife what was it on Big Love? What was it called, there's like

441
00:31:00,079 --> 00:31:06,039
sister their sister wives, but the
first wife she's in charge though, Yeah,

442
00:31:06,079 --> 00:31:11,000
she's she's the head and the other
wives or her little minions. Yeah

443
00:31:10,759 --> 00:31:15,640
yeah, man, uh god?
What was her name the chick on Big

444
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:21,359
Love? American psycho? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Chloe something yeah

445
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,119
yeah, great actress, she was
great. I was she's actually wasted as

446
00:31:23,119 --> 00:31:26,319
being like the weird prude super Mormon. Yeah, I know, she's she

447
00:31:26,519 --> 00:31:30,240
anytime she shows up in something like
this is probably gonna be pretty good.

448
00:31:30,319 --> 00:31:32,960
Yeah, she's always pretty solid,
but she was. It was funny that

449
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:38,400
she was at My favorite episode of
that was when they found out like he

450
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,720
was taking viagra, that the other
wives found out that he didn't need viagra

451
00:31:41,839 --> 00:31:49,240
with the youngest hots wife. Wait
what Yeah? So. Sarah Right described

452
00:31:49,279 --> 00:31:53,519
Strang as a very mild spoken,
kind man to his family, although his

453
00:31:53,599 --> 00:31:59,440
word was law. She wrote that
while each wife had their own bedroom,

454
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,599
they shared meals and devotional time together
with Strang, and life in their household

455
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:08,319
was as pleasant as possible. Oh
good family man, it's a good guy.

456
00:32:08,559 --> 00:32:12,960
Everyone had their own beds. Oh
but you know, a little playtime

457
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,640
together. What does that mean?
Yeah? What's that? I mean he

458
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:20,839
could fuck him at the same time. Oh, oh lord, this guy's

459
00:32:20,839 --> 00:32:23,839
crushing it. Yeah. No,
I think he's got everything figured out.

460
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,839
Yeah, I think he did it, super dude pretty well. See,

461
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,960
if you're the head of the Mormon
church, it all makes sense. You're

462
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:36,720
the fuck pope. Yeah. They
just completely won eightied on that, didn't

463
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:44,119
they? So like Joseph Smith.
James Strang reportedly had numerous visions on Earth

464
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:51,519
and translated alleged ancient metal plates using
what he said was a biblical urum,

465
00:32:51,559 --> 00:32:57,880
and he claimed to have restored long
lost spiritual knowledge to humankind. Oh any,

466
00:32:58,079 --> 00:33:00,119
like what, yeah, what Greek
fire? Did he bring back Greek

467
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,759
fire? He did not bring back
Greek fire before, Get the fuck out

468
00:33:02,799 --> 00:33:06,799
of here. Now what did he
what did he bring what long lost spiritual

469
00:33:06,799 --> 00:33:10,559
knowledge? Well, like Smith,
he presented witnesses to authenticate his records and

470
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:15,640
claimed to have that he claimed to
receive on Like Smith, however, Strang

471
00:33:15,839 --> 00:33:22,519
offered his plates for public examination.
Oh he yeah, he laid it all

472
00:33:22,559 --> 00:33:24,039
on the table. He's like,
worst case scenario. You guys call me

473
00:33:24,039 --> 00:33:29,079
a liar. I'm gonna go home. Bang five bitches. So who's really

474
00:33:29,079 --> 00:33:34,160
losing here? Were these gold plates? Uh no? Uh, well,

475
00:33:34,279 --> 00:33:38,319
I'm already doubting. Yeah, that's
Joe's were gold. So his witness was

476
00:33:38,359 --> 00:33:43,920
a non Mormon, Christopher Shoals,
the inventor of the typewriter and editor of

477
00:33:44,079 --> 00:33:49,920
local newspaper. We already got an
editor to authenticate the plates. He perused

478
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:55,000
Strang's vary plates and they're made a
brass mm well second edition, right,

479
00:33:55,079 --> 00:34:01,480
you know it's a paperback. Yeah. But his witness was like, he's

480
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:06,400
an honest and earnest man. Yeah, he usually doesn't lie. So I

481
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,079
guess if he said an angel came
and gave him some brass plates, I

482
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:15,199
gotta believe him. Right, He's
not some horse thief. Right. So

483
00:34:15,519 --> 00:34:24,400
Strange published his translation of these plates
um in the newspaper and they eventually end

484
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:30,440
up going this and though the plates
plates do, the actual plates disappeared around

485
00:34:30,519 --> 00:34:35,519
nineteen hundred, oh so, way
after he's dead. Yeah. Sorry,

486
00:34:35,559 --> 00:34:37,119
there was a spider in my tink
top. I was wondering what was going

487
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:40,199
on. But it was a spider. Yeah, I felt something like drop

488
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,760
back there, and I was like, uh, I gotta get off the

489
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,280
mike. Welcome to the studio,
Welcome to the hill country. Yeah,

490
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:50,159
it's like, god, damn,
it's our second spider incident. Yes,

491
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,639
it was a little guy. That's
good. Yeah, it wasn't the thing

492
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:58,760
that was behind Rob. If that
happened, I would have screamed. I

493
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,719
would have been like an octave for
cameras and had to take a break.

494
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:05,199
Yeah. Anyway, now to kind
of dig into what these plates were.

495
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,920
Some of Strength's teachings deferred substantially from
those of the Latter Day Saints leaders Joseph

496
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:14,920
Smith, for instance, Strang rejected
the traditional Christian doctrines of the trinity and

497
00:35:15,039 --> 00:35:17,719
the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.
He's like, I've done a lot of

498
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,519
fucking and I just don't know how
he can put a baby in there.

499
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,920
Do from like across the room or
yeah. He insisted that there was only

500
00:35:27,079 --> 00:35:34,079
one eternal God in all the universe, Father in that progression of godhood was

501
00:35:34,159 --> 00:35:36,920
impossible for Jesus, Like, oh, so he didn't he believe. He

502
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:38,559
didn't believe that Jesus was part of
mine. He was like, Jesus was

503
00:35:38,679 --> 00:35:43,119
just a man, just a prophet
um some of God, but not God.

504
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,400
Different person. He didn't believe in
the trinity. God has always been

505
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:50,239
God, said Strange. And he
was only one person, not three people.

506
00:35:50,559 --> 00:35:53,519
According to the doctrine of the Christian
Trinity, Jesus Christ was presented as

507
00:35:53,559 --> 00:35:58,440
the natural born son of Mary and
Joseph, who was chosen from before all

508
00:35:58,559 --> 00:36:01,400
time to be the same if you're
a mankind, but he had to be

509
00:36:01,519 --> 00:36:08,760
born as an ordinary mortal from two
human parents as demon worshiping Catholics. How

510
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:14,599
do you feel about that? That's
bullshit? It actually is logically bullshit because

511
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:21,360
this guy's just like, actually,
God doesn't have that power. Oh,

512
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,280
he has a lot of takes on
God. Yeah. No, no,

513
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:28,599
like God is not perfect. Oh's
mind. I mean, actually, that's

514
00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:31,840
an interesting argument to make because you
know, there is a probably an argument

515
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,159
that could be Maybe it's like,
well, yeah, God's fucking powerful,

516
00:36:35,679 --> 00:36:39,719
right, super powerful, but in
the realm of God being all powerful and

517
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,239
all knowing or two different things,
right, Yeah, like if you can

518
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,320
create anything like drop drop anyone Dad
at the drop of a hat, you

519
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,239
know what I mean, whatever,
that doesn't necessarily mean you're all knowing.

520
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,920
Well, then you get into like
fucking what is it? Predetermination? Yeah,

521
00:36:53,119 --> 00:36:57,360
all knowingness and like omnipotence. Right, so it's like, well you

522
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,159
made me this way, asshole,
Like why'd you do that? Ye?

523
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,159
So Strange denied that God could do
all things, and he insisted that some

524
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,400
things were as impossible for him as
they are for us. Well, it's

525
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:13,480
the great Homer Simpson question about God. What is God so powerful that he

526
00:37:13,559 --> 00:37:19,360
can make a burrito so hot?
He himself cannot eat it. That plagued

527
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,000
Homer. So this is kind of
a weird progressive view he has. He

528
00:37:22,079 --> 00:37:25,039
does not see a conflict between science
and religion, and is it actually a

529
00:37:25,119 --> 00:37:31,800
proponent of evolution honestly, I mean
the whole divine watchmaker like intelligent design theory,

530
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,639
it's probably the best attempt at bridging
that gap where it's like, yeah,

531
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:40,519
like they left the bacon right,
the earth is an oven and God

532
00:37:40,559 --> 00:37:44,440
put the ingredients there and Earth cooked
it right, you know, and it's

533
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,079
like, okay, that again.
He said this in eighteen forty years.

534
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:51,440
Yeah, intelligence design's been around for
a while, but I think I doubt

535
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,639
that it's it's a novel for someone
to believe that, but I doubt he

536
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:58,159
was the first to wreck to think
about it. It's definitely progressive. He

537
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,719
wasn't the first, I'm saying he
championed. Yeah, yeah, no,

538
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:06,239
that's super progressive for that church.
Yeah. Strength spoke lonely about future generation

539
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,199
and people who would make a religion
or make religion a science to be studied

540
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:15,519
as an exact mathematics. The mouth
of the year will be open, he

541
00:38:15,679 --> 00:38:21,079
prophesized, and the whole earth enlightened
man, he'd be pretty he'd be pretty

542
00:38:21,079 --> 00:38:25,760
disappointed in science today. Like can
you imagine, like from the early eighteen

543
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,880
hundreds to the late eighteen hundred you
have all this, Like you imagine what

544
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,480
science is gonna do one day,
all these incredible things like you had when

545
00:38:32,559 --> 00:38:37,719
was Frankenstein written like the eighteen twenties, and it was like like creating life

546
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,280
with lightning, electricity and shit like
that. And then now you just like

547
00:38:42,119 --> 00:38:49,039
Ai being like, hey, jaw
like a car made out at dicks be

548
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,800
boop. Yeah, We're just like, hey, Ai, yeah, write

549
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:58,760
me an episode of Seinfeld. Yeah, but Jerry is an octopus. Here's

550
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,760
another kind of controversial take he had. He didn't believe in damnation. He

551
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:06,760
said a free agency was real.
Humanity would be given the opportunity to fall

552
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:12,599
learn from their own mistakes. I
also don't get eternal damnation for most things,

553
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,920
like obviously like murder, rape,
things like that. Right, sure,

554
00:39:16,159 --> 00:39:21,000
but like, uh, you weren't
as good as you could have been,

555
00:39:21,519 --> 00:39:25,119
yea, Like come on, yeah, like what there's got to be

556
00:39:25,199 --> 00:39:29,880
like some sort of like makeup test, right, Yeah, Like it's all

557
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,039
right, you get like a couple
of years here, right, Look a

558
00:39:32,119 --> 00:39:36,400
couple more years to work it out, even a lot of murders. If

559
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:40,079
it's like a crime of passion forever, yeah, forever, too long,

560
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:45,400
forever. Yeah, it's it's just
the scale, right, anyone tells that,

561
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:51,679
you know, I think I should
be allowed into heaven just in case

562
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,079
I kill someone. He's gonna be
really sorry. We're Catholics, that's true.

563
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,119
Yeah, I mean we could.
I don't have to be sorry until

564
00:39:57,199 --> 00:40:00,159
like three seconds before I leave.
Yeah, but if you get taken out

565
00:40:00,199 --> 00:40:02,679
by like a car right on the
way to my last rites, yeah,

566
00:40:05,039 --> 00:40:10,000
sorry. Bub Something he did introduce
to Mormon celebration rituals was animal sacrifice.

567
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:14,559
What. Okay, this guy's awesome. I like this guy. He is

568
00:40:14,639 --> 00:40:19,480
like he's science and religion are the
same. Give me that goat and it

569
00:40:19,639 --> 00:40:22,599
just has a threesome in goat blood. It's like, we'll figure out the

570
00:40:22,599 --> 00:40:25,000
science behind this later. Science will
catch up to this and why it works

571
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:29,360
about what. Yeah, the math
will one day explain why God wants to

572
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:34,119
eat this goat's soul. Yeah,
he did still believe alcohol, tobacco,

573
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,519
coffee, and tea were all bad
and I hate him did that? This

574
00:40:37,599 --> 00:40:44,719
guy sucks? But yeah, plugamy
is no longer practiced by strings followers that

575
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,719
it still exists today, but belief
in the correctness is still firmed by them.

576
00:40:49,639 --> 00:40:51,880
What is it called. There's a
couple of thousand out there still,

577
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,000
we'll get to it. Um.
I think it's just like the strang I

578
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:59,039
no, I mean, what do
you say, correctness? Yeah, okay,

579
00:40:59,559 --> 00:41:01,159
the correct of polygamy is fine,
but like they don't do it.

580
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,840
Oh so they think it's fine,
they just don't do it. They're like,

581
00:41:05,039 --> 00:41:07,519
they're gonna make fun of us.
We don't want to be a burden.

582
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:12,559
Yeah. Well, also, I
guess you would have to do it

583
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,599
in violation of the law of wherever
you lived. Yeah, it's just a

584
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,559
huge hurdle. Yeah, like it's
a giant thing. You gotta worry.

585
00:41:19,599 --> 00:41:22,639
I mean, polygamy very much exists
in the United States today. It's not

586
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:27,679
something it's just underground, you know, it's it's you don't see it,

587
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:31,360
but it's there. It's good cross
fit, that's right. If you see

588
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:36,880
two people doing overhead snatch squats and
kissing, they got more than one wife,

589
00:41:37,639 --> 00:41:39,880
that's just facts. Yeah, like
that doesn't even a joke. A

590
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:44,719
CrossFit. I mean, I believe
if there was one place I believed with

591
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:50,559
practicing polygamy, it would be a
CrossFit box that they call the gems the

592
00:41:50,679 --> 00:41:52,280
box. No, they have boxes
that they jump on. No, but

593
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,559
they call the gym. It's called
up specifically a cross fit, the same

594
00:41:55,599 --> 00:41:58,880
way you call it building. You
go to a church if it's for a

595
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,519
religion, Yeah right, they have
a thing like that. Yeah. What

596
00:42:01,599 --> 00:42:07,639
do you think the cross and CrossFit
stands for Christ's Cross? It's not.

597
00:42:07,119 --> 00:42:10,199
There is a religious gym in town. Yeah, CrossFit gym is called the

598
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:15,480
box m. Weird? What is
it camp gladiator? Yeah? Yeah,

599
00:42:15,119 --> 00:42:20,280
there's very much I remember straight up, like cult or religion. I was

600
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,000
looking at applying to a job there
a while back, and I was like,

601
00:42:22,119 --> 00:42:24,039
Sir, reading the fine print,
I was like, oh, he

602
00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:29,519
probably wouldn't fit in there. Um. Like I said earlier, though,

603
00:42:29,679 --> 00:42:35,639
Strang allowed women to hold priesthood offices, which was unique for Letter Day Saint

604
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,480
factions. During his lifetime, he
welcomed African Americans into his church, and

605
00:42:38,559 --> 00:42:43,920
he ordained at least two of them
into his eldership. Strang also mandated the

606
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:50,039
conservation of land and resources, requiring
the building the parks and retention of large

607
00:42:50,199 --> 00:42:53,000
forest in his kingdom. That's good. That's a good thing. I like

608
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that anytime anyone's like, yeah,
we gotta make sure land is not just

609
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totally fucked right, thank you.
That's that's the least you can do.

610
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Yeah, it's like, what is
this place with all the natural springs?

611
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,840
Yellowstone? Yeah, let's not.
Let McDonald's build an amusement park here.

612
00:43:07,039 --> 00:43:09,440
Why not target? Why don't we
build a Target here? Wouldn't it be

613
00:43:09,519 --> 00:43:13,039
nice if there was a Target?
Yeah? I always hate it when people

614
00:43:13,079 --> 00:43:16,239
in small towns get excited for giant
box stores, Like you don't understand.

615
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:21,000
It's just like na man, Like, well if you didn't grow up in

616
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,519
a small town. Like when we
got a Walmart, people were so excited,

617
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cool because you can go everywhere for

618
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one thing, like the options or
dogshit before that, in terms of stuff

619
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you can buy. There's something to
be said for when you live in the

620
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within fifteen to thirty minutes that you can

621
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buy everything. Yeah, at the
same time, that's probably why you get

622
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hyped. Yeah, and then they
were like, wait, why are all

623
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these businesses closing like two years later, and it's like, oh the thing

624
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country. There's a lot of nothing.

625
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Yeah, well now, but there
is something. It's like, well,

626
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maybe those businesses that fucking closed down
should have tried to I honestly think a

627
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,079
lot of the appeal of Walmart.
Price certainly was part of it, but

628
00:44:07,119 --> 00:44:12,000
a lot of the appeal, especially
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629
00:44:12,079 --> 00:44:15,639
well that and you can get fucking
like they were offering stuff that wasn't available

630
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:19,440
before. Like sure, you know
what I mean, Like someone is eating

631
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there for it sounds dumb, but
like you you hear about like Oreos or

632
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:27,119
seven up on TV or what a
pizza even? Okay, our town wasn't

633
00:44:27,199 --> 00:44:30,920
that small? Yeah yeah, yeah, like we had stores. Yeah I'm

634
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:35,000
talking about I get that to a
degree where it's like, okay, shit,

635
00:44:35,119 --> 00:44:37,679
like they're not even like shops in
your your little town. No,

636
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,159
there's like I've been places in Georgia
and stuff where the main grocery store is

637
00:44:40,199 --> 00:44:43,400
a Dollar General, and yeah,
Walmart kicks the shit out of that.

638
00:44:43,519 --> 00:44:47,199
I get that, Well, dollar
It's Dollar General probably killed a real small

639
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,920
town business too, right, a
small town grocer. Yeah, they were

640
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:54,400
just even worse. Yeah, yeah, but Walmart in those kind of situations,

641
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:58,159
I do. But like insize towns. Don't be sad if a bigger

642
00:44:58,199 --> 00:45:01,519
spider kills a smaller spider. Right, yeah? Was there another sput around

643
00:45:01,559 --> 00:45:06,119
here? Na, No, you're
fine. Strang claimed that he was required

644
00:45:06,159 --> 00:45:09,599
to occupy the office of king as
it is described in the Book of Law

645
00:45:09,679 --> 00:45:15,840
of the Lord. So Strange was
accordingly crowned in eighteen fifty by the Chancellor

646
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:20,400
and Prime Minister George Shay Adams.
About three hundred people witnessed his coronation,

647
00:45:20,599 --> 00:45:23,400
for which he wore a bright red
flannel robe, which was topped by a

648
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:29,800
white collar with black speckles. His
crown was made of tin rather than gold,

649
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,000
and it was described in one account
as a shiny metal ring with a

650
00:45:32,039 --> 00:45:37,360
cluster of gold stars or glass stars
in the front um. When you say

651
00:45:37,519 --> 00:45:39,760
flannel, was about to get right
into that as well. Yeah, do

652
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:45,639
you mean patterned as well? It's
like lumberjack red flannel with Oh that is

653
00:45:45,679 --> 00:45:47,119
the most American king robe. I've
never heard of that. I mean he's

654
00:45:47,159 --> 00:45:52,000
in Michigan. Yeah, American Jesus
right there. Yeah, there's a constant

655
00:45:52,079 --> 00:45:58,559
joke in the hunting industry where it's
like you don't fucking need camo. It's

656
00:45:58,599 --> 00:46:01,519
like it's like, do you know
how many animals were killed by our grandparents?

657
00:46:01,599 --> 00:46:06,159
And flannel shirts? Bright flannel shirts. You need bright orange that no

658
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,199
one shoots you. Yeah, well
that that's necessary. But also it's like

659
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:13,719
the dear fucking no right has got
again. I know you're there. They

660
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,719
smell you, they like they know
someone's there. It's like either that or

661
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:22,280
oh you think like they don't notice
the giant pile of deer piss that's walking

662
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:23,679
around to them too, like when
people put the piss all over them.

663
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:27,239
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Now, not only was he in

664
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:30,239
this flannel robe, he also sported
a breastplate and carried a wooden sceptor.

665
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:36,119
Is he supposed to be like a
working man's pope? It sounds like a

666
00:46:36,599 --> 00:46:40,880
poor king. Yeah, it's crowne
This is like Bruce Springsteen does. The

667
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:49,440
Vatican in the US is Rain lasted
six years after the date of scornation.

668
00:46:49,599 --> 00:46:53,280
July eighth is still mandated as one
of the two important dates in the UH

669
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:59,199
staying at church here, which whatever, I guess. Yeah, if there's

670
00:46:59,199 --> 00:47:04,199
a couple of thousand or the strange. Strang never claimed to be the king

671
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,960
of Beaver Island itself, nor did
he claim to be the king of any

672
00:47:07,039 --> 00:47:09,639
geographical entity. Instead, he claimed
to be the king of the Church,

673
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:15,199
which he considered to be the true
kingdom of God. So that way he

674
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:19,320
wouldn't get into any treasonous shit.
Pretty smart. Yeah, I mean that's

675
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:24,239
how you get Beaver Island bombed,
because he said. Strang never supplanted United

676
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:29,400
States sovereignty over Beaver Island. Yeah, because if literally if he did that,

677
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:32,079
they would just all right, send
the National Guard. Yeah, or

678
00:47:32,119 --> 00:47:35,519
you get just you get like a
Waco situation, you know. Yeah,

679
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,159
oh no, we don't let that
happen. You are king, you were

680
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:45,000
king of shit. Yeah, you
get a little too feisty. He there's

681
00:47:45,039 --> 00:47:49,719
only one true power, it's taxpayer
money, and who controls the most of

682
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:53,599
it the government. But since his
religion was the main body on the isle,

683
00:47:54,599 --> 00:48:00,400
he often asserted himself as a point
of authority on Beaver Island, even

684
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:06,960
over non Strange's Yeah, I mean, if the primary voting block in an

685
00:48:07,039 --> 00:48:10,320
area is one like can you imagine
the nightmare of like moving to a town

686
00:48:12,039 --> 00:48:15,920
and it's like eighty five percent scientologists. Yeah. Yeah, dude. That

687
00:48:16,079 --> 00:48:21,559
happens in the US too, like
a wild wild country. The yoga cult

688
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,159
that happened in Oregon. Yeah,
they moved into this town where there was

689
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:27,599
nobody and all these people in Oregon
and they're like, what the fuck.

690
00:48:27,639 --> 00:48:31,639
They're like voting their own crazy laws
in and they were just like, yeah,

691
00:48:31,679 --> 00:48:34,599
you have to deal with it now. Yeah, it's like that can

692
00:48:34,679 --> 00:48:37,280
happen. That happens called democracy.
Baby, it's happening in Wyoming too,

693
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:42,800
Like there's a huge white supremacist sect
that just took over a town. Yeah,

694
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:44,760
I believe it is in Wyoming,
and they're like, well shit,

695
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:47,320
now they're just making crazy laws here. We're just nice, farming people,

696
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:50,840
right. I don't want these people
here, damn it. Yeah. Beaver

697
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:52,079
Island's pretty big. I just looked
it up on the map, like it's

698
00:48:52,119 --> 00:48:58,519
there's a bunch of people there,
which Strang is aware of and realizes,

699
00:48:58,599 --> 00:49:05,000
Hey, we have to not necessarily
be an iron fist because they don't like

700
00:49:05,199 --> 00:49:12,159
us. So some Strange's were beaten
up while they were going to the post

701
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:15,239
office in order to collect their mail. Some of their homes were robbed,

702
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:22,119
even seized by Gentiles while Strange eight
Men's were away. On July fourth,

703
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,639
eighteen fifty, a drunken mob of
fishermen vowed to kill the Mormons or drive

704
00:49:25,679 --> 00:49:30,880
them out, only to be awed
into submission by Strang, who fired a

705
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:36,400
cannon at them nice which he secretly
acquired. What do you mean even he

706
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,400
probably secretly acquired it in so much
that they wouldn't know, you know,

707
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:42,840
like he didn't want the drunken fishermen
to know or whatever. But like that

708
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,119
wasn't illegal. That's probablys the funniest
thing when it's like Second Amendment does so

709
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,280
you can own a cannon. It's
like, did a lot of private people

710
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:52,440
owned cannons? Yeah, a lot, hundreds of thousands of Americans have owned

711
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,559
cannons throughout history. You ever been
knew a high school football game when they

712
00:49:55,599 --> 00:50:01,239
score a touchdown, lots of cannons, lots of cannons. Uh fucking seeing.

713
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:05,800
Augustine niece had a cannon for every
time they scored. You'd always forget

714
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:07,920
about it, though, and it'd
go off, and he's like, god,

715
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:12,039
damn it. Scary. I believe
when we were talking, maybe it

716
00:50:12,079 --> 00:50:15,280
was on the Pagreon the other day
about the Micah Wiener stories of from inside

717
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:19,599
TFM or whatever he was. I
think he was one of the people that

718
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:22,400
fired off the cannon and Kappa Alpha
orders front yard at the University of Missouri,

719
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,400
which was like a famous thing when
I got to school there. They

720
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:29,800
just jammed at full of fireworks.
I think every does they all have a

721
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,320
cannon. Yes, yeah, because
it's because Robert Lee's a spiritual phone,

722
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:39,639
right, yes, yeah, but
yeah, and I think you probably hate

723
00:50:39,639 --> 00:50:44,599
it went across the street ironically,
bring owner. Yeah, he did no

724
00:50:44,679 --> 00:50:49,000
demerits at West Point little loser anyway. Uh yeah, I have tons of

725
00:50:49,039 --> 00:50:52,679
friends that are in k but that
shit's fucking hilarious. He and I think

726
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:57,199
it Actually it exploded and flew across
the street and into the Mormon Center,

727
00:50:58,119 --> 00:51:01,559
the Mormon Student Center. So he's
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it. So after the mob failed

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to kill all the Mormons, they
eventually just went to court and accused Strang

804
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of treason, counterfeit, and trespassing
on government land, and theft, along

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with other crimes. He's brought to
trial in Detroit, Michigan, after President

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Millard Fillmore ordered US District Attorney George
Bates to investigate the rumors about Strang in

807
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his colony Shrank. Success successful trial
defense brought him considerable favor, and he

808
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used this leverage when he ran and
won a seat for Michigan State legislation as

809
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,760
a Democrat in eighteen fifty three.
Moving on it up, baby, So

810
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:20,719
they try to tear him down.
They moved my man up. That's right,

811
00:56:21,559 --> 00:56:23,639
he's zigged. They zagged. He's
a king in Congress. Now he's

812
00:56:23,679 --> 00:56:25,679
like, oh, I get to
actually practice my law. I get to

813
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:29,960
defend mine. Yeah. Really,
he finally gets to do the thing he

814
00:56:30,039 --> 00:56:32,480
was trained for. And he's not
a dummy, Like, clearly he passed

815
00:56:32,519 --> 00:56:35,840
the bar, right, yeah,
you gotta be able to know how to

816
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:42,239
do it. So, facing a
determined effort to deny him his seat due

817
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:46,119
to hostility of his enemies, he
was permitted to address the legislat legislator in

818
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:52,719
his defense, after which the Michigan
House of Representatives voted twice to allow King

819
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:59,599
Strang to join them. In the
eighteen fifty three legislation session, Strang introduced

820
00:56:59,639 --> 00:57:02,719
ten five of which pass. So
he's a good clip, right, that's

821
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:07,679
a good batting average for most people, Like, never introduce a bill.

822
00:57:07,159 --> 00:57:12,000
He was right, Yeah, yeah, he's bat in five hundred, Like

823
00:57:12,039 --> 00:57:14,840
he's fantastic. This look we've known
for a long time that this is a

824
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:20,079
busy beaver, right, this man
just doesn't stop. Oh he's a doer.

825
00:57:21,639 --> 00:57:27,559
Why did he passed more bills than
Bernie Sanders? Yes, in one

826
00:57:27,639 --> 00:57:30,360
year Bernie Sanders like named a post
office. That's it. Yeah, yeah,

827
00:57:30,639 --> 00:57:34,960
good jo bernard Um. Yeah.
It's one of those things though,

828
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:37,119
where you hear about people like this, they're like, oh man, these

829
00:57:37,159 --> 00:57:40,159
people are idiots, were dumb.
It's like you gotta understand, like just

830
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:44,559
because there's someone in power that you
think is stupid doesn't mean they're stupid.

831
00:57:44,719 --> 00:57:46,159
They're in power, right, I
figured out how to get there. It's

832
00:57:46,199 --> 00:57:50,599
like the Trump thing, right,
that fucking idiot. It's like, listen,

833
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:53,800
it works. Yeah, so is
he done? It works? Yeah,

834
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:58,360
Like I mean you could with a
lot of these guys, him or

835
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:00,760
Trump or anyone, you could,
I guess say like, oh, well

836
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:02,639
they found a little They're not necessarily
smart, but they were clever enough to

837
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:07,480
find a lane, you know what
I mean. The lane is the hardest

838
00:58:07,559 --> 00:58:09,519
part, right right. That's but
they're like a backdoor, I guess would

839
00:58:09,519 --> 00:58:12,960
be the better way to put it. Sure, either way, yeah,

840
00:58:13,039 --> 00:58:14,880
yeah, yeah, I mean but
either way though, like they're there.

841
00:58:15,079 --> 00:58:19,079
You have to in some ways it
doesn't matter. Yeah, you're right,

842
00:58:19,199 --> 00:58:21,639
like it died like it's like,
well, yeah, I guess they they

843
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:23,679
they seem dumb in a lot of
ways, but they're there. Yep,

844
00:58:24,079 --> 00:58:28,920
they made it. You're not there, Yeah, you be president. When

845
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:35,440
he was in office, he actively
fought for Native American rights and fought against

846
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:38,920
the illegal practice of trading liquor to
Native Americans up, which was a practice

847
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:44,239
of selling them diluted liquor mixed with
various contaminants at a high price. Oh

848
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:47,440
my god, what a monster.
No, he defended that. Yeah,

849
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:52,880
they were poisoning their liquor. Wait, he was defending the Native Americans and

850
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,840
saying, don't sell them poison.
Oh okay, I thought you were saying,

851
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,920
like, no, let's water it
down, let's fuck him up.

852
00:58:59,239 --> 00:59:02,360
People were doing that. Yeah,
okay, that's because it was illegal for

853
00:59:02,679 --> 00:59:09,360
Indians to buy liquor at all,
Like they were not allowed at any age.

854
00:59:09,559 --> 00:59:13,760
That's wild. So he kind of
seems like a decent guy. Yeah,

855
00:59:14,719 --> 00:59:20,280
overall, he definitely he's all right
in the spectrum off kings. Yeah

856
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:23,280
yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So as with Joseph Smith before him,

857
00:59:23,559 --> 00:59:30,599
James Strang had problems with excommunicated or
disaffected members, who often became anti

858
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:35,599
Mormon or even conspired against him.
Oh, he had some Leah reminies that

859
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:42,079
nosy bitch Thomas Bedford, who had
been flogged for engaging in adultery with another

860
00:59:42,159 --> 00:59:47,159
member's wife, blame strang for being
flogged in salt revenge. Fair enough,

861
00:59:49,199 --> 00:59:52,800
I guess. I mean you're the
one that joined the church with the flogging

862
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:54,920
rules. Yeah, don't join the
flogging church, right, Like, I

863
00:59:55,880 --> 01:00:00,400
what do you want to happen?
Yeah, like you knew the whole time.

864
01:00:00,559 --> 01:00:02,239
Like imagine, like someone sends you
to You're like, I'm gonna live

865
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:06,880
in that country where you know,
if I steal a banana, they'll cut

866
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:08,199
my hand off. And then someone
cut your hand off after you steal a

867
01:00:08,239 --> 01:00:13,280
fucking banana, and you're like,
whoa dad, piece of shit. It's

868
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:15,880
like yeah, people that are like
I'm gonna do hash and turkey. It's

869
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:19,960
like, well, you know the
law right? Yeah? You seen the

870
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:22,440
movie you see Midnight Express, Yeah, that's what happens seeing that. Yeah.

871
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:27,039
Yeah, the circle they walk in, that's so funny. One of

872
01:00:27,079 --> 01:00:29,360
my favorite parts of that movie is
where he's just on the stand like on

873
01:00:29,519 --> 01:00:32,800
his like eighth appeal, and he's
pulling like a Morgan Freeman in Shawshank where

874
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:36,800
he's just like fuck you, you
know, and but he's just like,

875
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:40,519
I have come to hate your people. Yeah, and it's like, wow,

876
01:00:40,559 --> 01:00:44,320
you commit a crime in their country
and they're spokeling a ton of hash.

877
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:49,880
Yeah. Another member, doctor McCulloch, had been excommunicated for drunkenness and

878
01:00:50,199 --> 01:00:55,480
other alleged misdeeds, and these two
conspired against Strang along with Mormon enemies who

879
01:00:55,519 --> 01:01:01,159
are living in the town. Two
of them out Sandra Wentworth and doctor Jay

880
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:08,679
Atkin Pistols or Atkin period. I
thought, for some reasons that'd be a

881
01:01:08,719 --> 01:01:15,679
great name. Doctor Pistols doctor gun. No pistols were acquired in the four

882
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:23,559
conspirators began seven days or several days
of target practice while they finalize their details

883
01:01:23,599 --> 01:01:29,400
of their murderous plans shooting Montage.
Also, by the way, the flogging

884
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:32,360
guy at least has a better complaint
than the drunk guy. Yeah, Oh,

885
01:01:32,519 --> 01:01:38,000
what you're mad that Mormons got mad
at you for drinking? You know,

886
01:01:38,119 --> 01:01:42,639
that's their whole thing. Like that
is like a huge tenet. Yes,

887
01:01:42,679 --> 01:01:45,320
somebody fucked the other guy's wife.
No, no, he no,

888
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:49,199
he fucked another guy's wife. Yeah, yeah, yeah, But I guess

889
01:01:49,199 --> 01:01:51,920
at that point, at that point, it's like the flogging pissed you off,

890
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:55,599
which I guess. You know,
there's no fun way to be flogged,

891
01:01:55,679 --> 01:01:59,679
right like that, You're just gonna
suck ass pool needle. Yeah,

892
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:01,119
that's only fun way, right,
Like it's gonna you're gonna be mad,

893
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:05,960
and that still hurts now. Strang
was aware that these guys were gunning for

894
01:02:06,079 --> 01:02:10,119
him, so but he openly challenged
them in the newspaper. How many He

895
01:02:10,239 --> 01:02:13,360
was like, coming get me?
Yeah, you know where right, well,

896
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:16,039
I'll be He pulled a Tony Stark. You know where I live.

897
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:21,719
I'm gonna be there banging out multiple
wives at the same time. Feel free

898
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:24,239
to bust in. It wasn't called
beaver Island until I moved here. Man.

899
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:31,880
He refused to employ a bodyguard or
carry a firearm or any type of

900
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:37,400
weapon. He's just like, yeah, whatever, if if I die die,

901
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:43,320
yeah, if I die, you
die if and that day didn't happen.

902
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:46,679
One day, June sixteenth, eighteen
fifty six, Strang was shot in

903
01:02:46,719 --> 01:02:51,400
the back on the dock of the
harbor of Saint James, the chief city

904
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:55,079
of Beaver Island by Wentworth in Bedford. So the guy who said exactly where

905
01:02:55,079 --> 01:02:59,119
he'd be and that he'd be unarmed
was killed where he said he'd be without

906
01:02:59,159 --> 01:03:01,079
guns. Oh you want to murder
me? Alright, alright, bitch,

907
01:03:01,159 --> 01:03:07,480
flagpole three o'clock. Yeah, I'm
not bringing anything to defend myself. An

908
01:03:07,519 --> 01:03:13,800
idiot. Now. They did this
in front of an entire US naval vessel

909
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:16,440
which was docked in the harbor.
Nobody aboard the ship made any effort to

910
01:03:16,519 --> 01:03:21,800
either warn or aid the victim.
Oh, so after he was shot,

911
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:23,880
no one was like. People were
just like, man, I mean if

912
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:28,639
I was a fucking navy guy,
if I was a seaman. Yeah,

913
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:34,679
And someone was walking up to David
Muskovich with his rifle and about to shoot

914
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:37,480
him and be like huh weird.
Yeah, got him off this deck.

915
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:44,079
Strang was hit three times. One
bullet grazed his head, another bullet lodged

916
01:03:44,119 --> 01:03:47,280
in his cheek, and a third
bullet lodged in his sphind and from the

917
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:52,119
waist down. One of the assassins
then savagely pistol whip the victim before running

918
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:58,119
aboard the nearby vessel, the naval
vessel. I went to hide on the

919
01:03:58,239 --> 01:04:02,400
naval vessel. So it's the highest
form of government execution. We got right,

920
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:04,840
Like, we murdered him. Quick, get on that staffed police boat.

921
01:04:05,039 --> 01:04:09,840
Yeah, that sounds like a brutal
way to die though, Like you

922
01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:12,239
get paralyzed from waist down. It's
all right, let's pistol whip him out.

923
01:04:12,239 --> 01:04:14,639
It's like, can't you just finish
me off? Yes, fucking shoot

924
01:04:14,679 --> 01:04:16,280
me again, you bitch. He
was taken back home, where he lived

925
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:20,760
for another three weeks before dying oh
July ninth, eighteen fifty six, at

926
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:26,239
the age of forty three, after
refusing to do while on his deathbed.

927
01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:30,480
While he's just kind of laying there
dying, he refused to deliver Bedford or

928
01:04:30,519 --> 01:04:34,960
Wentworth as the victim or as the
people that shot him, so he refused

929
01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:41,400
to accuse them. Yep, didn't
snitch, snach respect. That's snitching.

930
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:45,519
They just murdered you. That's snitching, dude, that's the No snitching is

931
01:04:45,599 --> 01:04:47,639
like oh I heard that, Like, you know, gee, Aramos moving

932
01:04:47,679 --> 01:04:54,000
a fucking kilo of cocaine next week
to the FBI or something. So this

933
01:04:54,199 --> 01:04:58,920
is like the police come there,
like, sir, who paralyzed you man?

934
01:04:59,119 --> 01:05:01,800
I know snooche Nah, fuck out
of hit cup. You already got

935
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:05,320
the stitches, you might as well
do the snitching, right. I think

936
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:09,800
he wanted to just kind of like
recover and probably get his own revenge.

937
01:05:10,239 --> 01:05:16,280
M fair, he died anyway,
But they were eventually captured and given kind

938
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:20,159
of a mock trial. They eventually
just paid a dollar twenty five and fees

939
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:29,000
and fines and we're let go cheapest
murder every yep. While strang lingered on

940
01:05:29,079 --> 01:05:32,320
his deathbed, his enemies in Michigan
were determined to extinguish the Beaver Island Kingdom.

941
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:43,199
On July fifth, eighteen fifty six, a bunch of drunk another drunken

942
01:05:43,239 --> 01:05:49,079
mob of gentiles descended upon the colony, and uh yeah, they just kind

943
01:05:49,119 --> 01:05:55,519
of fun sit up as we are
wanted to do. Yeah, this is

944
01:05:55,559 --> 01:05:59,559
what I tell people all the time
when they're like, good, believe the

945
01:06:00,079 --> 01:06:02,519
ryot or whatever. I'm like,
dude, it's just this. Do you

946
01:06:02,559 --> 01:06:05,400
believe this mob? Dude? This? I'm like, who this was the

947
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:10,119
worst stickerswever. I'm like, no, dude, it happens all the time.

948
01:06:10,199 --> 01:06:14,719
Bit backloaded. Yeah, but like
my god, mob justice. It

949
01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:19,440
was just and it's funny that it
gets like conflated with like racial stuff,

950
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:23,639
and obviously a lot of it was
racial, but like they would mob up

951
01:06:23,719 --> 01:06:29,000
for anything. Nothing like a good
one. Everyone's bored. Yeah, so

952
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:32,480
like just groupthink fun fun. You
get caught up in the moment, Oh

953
01:06:32,559 --> 01:06:34,440
my god, thing, you know, you're burning down a building. I

954
01:06:34,559 --> 01:06:38,760
right a thing the other day where
a mob there was like a this dude's

955
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:41,400
grave marker from the eighteen hundreds and
it was like, I forgot his name,

956
01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:44,079
but it was you know, like
hire him, Ulysses whatever. Oh,

957
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:46,559
I know what you're talking about.
Wrongfully hanged for stealing a horse,

958
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:50,039
and essentially like this mob came after
him and was like you stole that fucking

959
01:06:50,079 --> 01:06:53,920
horse. Seems like I bought it
and they're like, no, you stole

960
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:56,320
it because it's the stolen horse.
We know it's stolen, and he was

961
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:58,880
like, no, I bought this
like three days ago, Like you stole

962
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:00,599
it, you bitch. And then
they later found out that he bought it

963
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:04,440
from the guys who stole it and
didn't realize it was stolen, and they

964
01:07:04,519 --> 01:07:08,760
fucking hanged him. Yeah, on
the headstone. It's just are bad or

965
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:15,000
something. Essentially, it's an are
bad hedgtow sweet yeah cool, respect at

966
01:07:15,079 --> 01:07:19,519
least, I guess. Yeah.
Strang refused to appoint a successor, tone

967
01:07:19,599 --> 01:07:25,320
his apostles to take care of their
families best they could. Left without a

968
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:30,159
profit to guide them, most of
Strang's followers departed the church in the years

969
01:07:30,199 --> 01:07:33,239
after his murder. Most of them
joined the reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints

970
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:40,760
under by U. They went to
they went to Brigham Yeah boo. However,

971
01:07:41,039 --> 01:07:45,760
a few days later or a few
a few of the Latter day Saints

972
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:49,039
continued to carry on Streng's mission without
his approval. So there's a couple that

973
01:07:49,119 --> 01:07:53,199
are just kind of lingering out there
still on Beaver Island, not on Beaver

974
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:56,360
Islands, just kind of spread throughout. I think a couple are in like

975
01:07:56,440 --> 01:08:00,559
Africa. Now that makes a lot
of sense. Yeah, uple of thousand

976
01:08:00,679 --> 01:08:04,599
or something. Damn, I was
hoping to see like some weirdo church on

977
01:08:04,679 --> 01:08:08,079
Beaver Island. Dude, keep it. I don't know, man, Like

978
01:08:08,119 --> 01:08:11,000
you imagine like you you live in
Africa? Do you live in Africa?

979
01:08:11,039 --> 01:08:13,440
And you're like why do we live
here? And you know, it's like

980
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:15,960
how did our family end up here
and they're like, well, this guy

981
01:08:16,079 --> 01:08:20,600
in Michigan. Like, the things
that lead people to the places they end

982
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:25,680
up are insane. It is diasporas
and stuff like that. Yeah, asp

983
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:30,079
us whatever. It's it's nuts to
think that there's probably some like nine year

984
01:08:30,079 --> 01:08:31,720
old kid. He's like, you
know, it's just like us pretty much.

985
01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:34,399
He's like living somewhere in Africa.
He's like, what why am I

986
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:39,479
here? It's like how do we
I mean, it's like they're probably too

987
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:42,239
bread out at this point, but
it's kind of like slave rita Ville,

988
01:08:42,319 --> 01:08:45,039
right, It's kind of where you're
like for a while, people were like,

989
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:49,359
daddy, why do we live in
the jungle Again, Well, we

990
01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:54,079
wanted slaves and they wouldn't let us
have them, but we don't have them

991
01:08:54,119 --> 01:08:57,079
now. Oh. King of Brazil
was like, hey, boy, come

992
01:08:57,119 --> 01:09:00,279
on down here own whoever you want? Damned eight who get back to ye

993
01:09:01,159 --> 01:09:08,359
ain't no place for an honest slaven
man like us. So so, while

994
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:11,960
Strang had a little bit of a
successful six year run after his death,

995
01:09:12,319 --> 01:09:15,399
his long term influence on the Latter
Day Saint movement was minimal. So,

996
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:20,840
uh, you know, this is
just kind of the fun little side quest.

997
01:09:21,239 --> 01:09:27,119
Yeah, it's one of the other
Mormons. I honestly, the offshoots

998
01:09:27,159 --> 01:09:31,880
that die out in religions are fucking
fascinating obviously, Like all the Dead Sea

999
01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:38,720
scrolls and stuff. Those are not
from like Catholics or not Cannon right there,

1000
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:45,039
there are from weirdo desert offshoots of
Christianity. Yeah. Yeah. It's

1001
01:09:45,079 --> 01:09:46,279
like, well, shit, we're
by ourselves. It's not like we live

1002
01:09:46,399 --> 01:09:48,920
right next to the head Hauncho,
so like we're gonna make up our own

1003
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:51,239
ship. Yeah, we gotta figure
some stuff out for ourselves. Yeah.

1004
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:56,920
No, I remember the Dead Squeze
Dead Sea Scrolls that they were found in

1005
01:09:57,199 --> 01:10:00,199
the twentieth century, right in forty
seven, I think, Yeah, so

1006
01:10:00,399 --> 01:10:02,520
they kind of like really got big
in the nineties. Yeah, the nineties,

1007
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:04,880
and like people are like, oh, this is gonna like oh my

1008
01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:08,840
god, and then they kind of
figured it out. It's like hmm yeah

1009
01:10:09,079 --> 01:10:12,880
whatever, like like Okay, it's
interesting, it's academically interesting. That's not

1010
01:10:13,439 --> 01:10:16,680
like it's not humanity, right,
yeah, you know, and that's a

1011
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:23,000
lot of it. It's just like
they are interesting offshoots but doesn't offer us

1012
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:25,920
any real knowledge, no, because
everyone's making it up as they go anyway.

1013
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:30,439
Yeah, yeah, would you guys
learn today, Um, I learned

1014
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:32,800
that. Uh we're just looking at
Google Maps, like Beaver Island might be

1015
01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:38,720
fun in the summer. Yeah,
oh yeah, yeah I've done. I've

1016
01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:42,880
gone to the Upper penn An Island
off the Upper Peninsula before in Michigan and

1017
01:10:43,399 --> 01:10:45,319
like mac and acor it was near
mac Andah. Yeah, it was called

1018
01:10:45,479 --> 01:10:49,119
uh Marquette Island. It was a
little my friend has like her family.

1019
01:10:49,159 --> 01:10:53,359
It's like a family lake house on
that and uh it was dope, dude,

1020
01:10:53,399 --> 01:10:56,279
that like all that whole area.
But and it's between it's south of

1021
01:10:56,359 --> 01:10:58,760
the Up but you have to go
up to the up and around to get

1022
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:01,079
it over the mac and Opera,
didn't Sheila, Um, Michigan's fun in

1023
01:11:01,119 --> 01:11:05,159
the summer. Michigan is the shit. Yeah, in the in the summer.

1024
01:11:05,239 --> 01:11:09,600
Who's Hitler? Bring him young?
Yeah? Bring him young? For

1025
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:13,359
sure? Is Hitler? Um,
he sucks. But what I learned is

1026
01:11:13,439 --> 01:11:15,560
don't tell people where you're gonna be
if they want to kill you, and

1027
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:18,319
don't hang out there unarmed. Yeah, Like do you kind of think a

1028
01:11:18,399 --> 01:11:21,920
little bit like what did he start
to buy his bullshit? You know,

1029
01:11:24,079 --> 01:11:27,960
because people start to become their bit
like because he never thought Jesus was like

1030
01:11:28,039 --> 01:11:30,479
God. So and he even thought
God was imperfect. But did he think

1031
01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:35,640
that he was untouchable in a way, maybe like God was gonna come save

1032
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:39,119
him or I don't think so,
because he had to deal with, you

1033
01:11:39,159 --> 01:11:42,760
know, the people that weren't in
his church constantly coming after his people.

1034
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:45,800
I don't know. That's a good
question, I guess, but I think

1035
01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:49,239
he was just like, maybe he
didn't see them as serious people. Fair,

1036
01:11:49,880 --> 01:11:54,560
He's like, what the other guys
wife fucker and the drunk. Yeah,

1037
01:11:54,760 --> 01:12:00,119
okay, I'll be at the dock
guys. Yeah cool, right that

1038
01:12:00,199 --> 01:12:04,319
bitch I flog? Yeah alrighty bet
you once? Yeah he cried he's gonna

1039
01:12:04,359 --> 01:12:08,119
take me out. I remember him. Yeah. Anyway, so all I

1040
01:12:08,159 --> 01:12:13,760
got today. Thanks for tuning in. Make sure to rate on Apple and

1041
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:15,880
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1042
01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:20,439
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1043
01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:25,279
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1044
01:12:25,319 --> 01:12:28,880
T shirt. Uh yeah, thanks
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1045
01:12:29,279 --> 01:12:32,680
We appreciate your listen and you know, make sure to spread the word

1046
01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:34,920
if you can, old friend about
the pod we have. We've had a

1047
01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:40,319
couple of reviews since then, so
thank you. Try Jose thirteen whiskey sours.

1048
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:44,319
And see, this is what I
was talking about with great names.

1049
01:12:44,399 --> 01:12:47,640
This is the best history related name
I've ever heard. What is it,

1050
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:51,319
swash Fuckler? Oh great, that's
fantastic. That's good, he said,

1051
01:12:51,399 --> 01:12:56,000
year old, five star review and
he spelled it really shittily, but in

1052
01:12:56,119 --> 01:12:58,279
like a historic way. Yes,
you know what I mean, like how

1053
01:12:58,359 --> 01:13:01,640
people just constantly misspelled stuff in their
diary. Yeah, but thank you all

1054
01:13:01,680 --> 01:13:06,600
you guys for all these reviews.
They're awesome. Uh for the five stars

1055
01:13:06,640 --> 01:13:10,119
stuff like that. We're almost eight
hundred. We're five ratings away from eight

1056
01:13:10,239 --> 01:13:15,079
hundred. Uh so let's get that
nice. Uh. But yeah, thanks

1057
01:13:15,079 --> 01:13:17,880
for tuning in. We love you
guys, and you just got soft served.