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Jackson Washburn — ASU, Harvard Divinity, UCLA PhD, Armenia mission — called into James White’s show and asked one question.Name a single work in Mormon studies you actually keep up on.White’s answer: a guy he knew who left, Blake Ostler from the late 90s, and “a lot of Dan McClellanism.”That’s the episode.- 2017 outside the Mesa Temple. Apologia cut the part where the 18-year-old kept up.- Calvinist tells him to repent and believe. Calvinist theology says he can’t.- Jeff Durbin called an Armenia mission “a ministry of death.”- White’s doctorate is from a unaccredited school. Washburn’s PhD is not.- Oxford Annotated Book of Mormon. Grant Hardy. Royal Skousen. BYU Studies. All public.- “New Mormonism” is just members saying the 1960s tracts are recycled 1870s affidavits.- Kingdom of the Cults still says “temple Mormons” and “caffeinated bedrooms.”- David Whitmer and priesthood. 30-second Google. Peer-reviewed article. White said it doesn’t exist.- Then he said 80-year-olds can’t lead. D. Todd Christofferson is 81 and just killed sports betting.- Open invitation: steak dinner, come on the show.Anti-Mormon rule #7: they tell you you’re stupid if you believe, then can’t name a book.#JamesWhite #JacksonWashburn #WardRadio #ApologiaChapter Markers0:00 – He called James White and asked for one book 2:55 – 2017 Mesa Temple. The cut conversation. 6:00 – “Repent and believe” — according to your own theology I can’t 9:25 – Armenia. First Christian nation. 10:30 – Accredited PhD vs. the unaccredited doctorate 13:00 – Name a Mormon studies book. Go. 15:15 – “Dan McClellanism” and a 90s Ostler volume 17:55 – They’re calling it “new Mormonism” now 24:00 – Oxford Annotated Book of Mormon. Grant Hardy. 55:00 – Kingdom of the Cults. Caffeinated bedrooms. 1:00:45 – David Whitmer. 30-second Google. 1:06:00 – Nicaea has nothing to do with Mormons. Sure. 1:08:35 – 80-year-olds can’t lead. Christofferson is 81. 1:12:10 – Why he actually called inBecome a member of this channel to get early access to videos and members only content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinSupport the channel by purchasing equipment to help make content through our Amazon Wish List (please write a limerick in the "gist notes" and we will read it on the show!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareTo order Ward Radio Branded "merch", please visit: https://www.wardradio.com/category/all-products For this and more, please visit: WardRadio.comNow go do your ministering! (Home Teaching)⚡For more information on Go And Do Travel, please visit https://www.goanddotravel.com/1126wavemakersWe would also like to thank the following generous sponsors:⚡For more information on scripture notes please visit: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradio⚡For more information on the Angel Studios Guild , please visit Angel.comFollow us at:Instagram:@WardRadioWorldwideFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwideTo subscribe to "The Women of Ward Radio" Youtube Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu-wpRztV-8TYXClhUZhhwTo Subscribe to Cardon Ellis' Adventure Channel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/@CardonEllisAdventures

Charlie Chaplin smuggled the raw negatives of **The Kid** into Salt Lake City inside **coffee cans** — hiding them from his estranged wife Mildred — and finished the picture in a rented room at the **Hotel Utah**.That building is now the **Joseph Smith Memorial Building**.This episode:- Plays the *Great Dictator* speech first- Then the 1920 Salt Lake edit job- Rodney Dangerfield’s *My Five Wives*- Hotel Utah as Salt Lake’s Nauvoo House- The 60-year rumor that Joseph and Hyrum were buried under Temple Square- Why Joseph Smith III made Joseph F. Smith knock it off- Why the RLDS dug in Nauvoo in the 1920sA silent-film masterwork. A Mormon hotel. Coffee cans.#CharlieChaplin #HotelUtah #WardRadio### Chapter Markers0:00 – The Great Dictator 4:40 – Chaplin saw Hitler coming 5:00 – He finished *The Kid* in Hotel Utah 7:00 – It’s the Joseph Smith Building now 7:20 – *My Five Wives* 8:40 – Nauvoo House energy 10:30 – First stoplight folklore 11:20 – The rumor Joseph was buried on Temple SquareBecome a member of this channel to get early access to videos and members only content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinSupport the channel by purchasing equipment to help make content through our Amazon Wish List (please write a limerick in the "gist notes" and we will read it on the show!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareTo order Ward Radio Branded "merch", please visit: https://www.wardradio.com/category/all-products For this and more, please visit: WardRadio.comNow go do your ministering! (Home Teaching)🍿For more information on the October 2nd, 2026 Event, please visit https://www.wardradio.com/event-details/ward-radio-pre-screening-of-brother-joseph-again⚡For more information on Go And Do Travel, please visit https://www.goanddotravel.com/1126wavemakersWe would also like to thank the following generous sponsors:⚡For more information on scripture notes please visit: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradio⚡For more information on the Angel Studios Guild , please visit Angel.comFollow us at:Instagram:@WardRadioWorldwideFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwideTo subscribe to "The Women of Ward Radio" Youtube Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu-wpRztV-8TYXClhUZhhwTo Subscribe to Cardon Ellis' Adventure Channel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/@CardonEllisAdventures

A real Joseph Smith signature still exists — on a piece of paper closer to tissue than a dollar bill.**Kirtland Safety Society.** January 1837. Anti-banking notes. Joseph and Sidney. $15,000 forty years ago. North of $500,000 now.This episode is a live comparison:- Early notes: almost always Joseph’s own hand- Later notes: secretarial — big S, too slow, too pretty- Same paper. Different hand.- Hofmann didn’t fake the notes. He *added* Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Newel K. Whitney and tripled the price- Purple haze under UV: iron-gall ink he aged too fast- PMG has authenticated Hofmann- A Hoffman forgery can be worth more than the real thing (salamander letter: $40k then, a million now in some rooms)- He started at 12 — fake mint marks on coins- Salt Lake Police evidence bags from the bomb in his own trunk, Feb 20, 1986- He practiced 65 signatures in prison. Bad Emily Dickinson. Dry ice to pop fake mint marksForty years later people still ask: is this a Hofmann?#MarkHofmann #JosephSmith #Kirtland #WardRadio### Chapter Markers0:00 – $15,000 then. Half a million now. 2:10 – Kirtland note: Joseph and Sidney 3:30 – Real signature vs. secretarial 5:15 – Anti-bank: the ones Joseph actually signed 7:20 – Live test: “too big” 8:20 – Hofmann added Brigham to triple it 10:00 – Purple haze under UV 11:50 – If he weren’t a murderer 12:40 – Evidence bags from the trunk bomb 16:20 – 65 signatures in his cell 17:40 – What Netflix cutBecome a member of this channel to get early access to videos and members only content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinSupport the channel by purchasing equipment to help make content through our Amazon Wish List (please write a limerick in the "gist notes" and we will read it on the show!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareTo order Ward Radio Branded "merch", please visit: https://www.wardradio.com/category/all-products For this and more, please visit: WardRadio.comNow go do your ministering! (Home Teaching)⚡For more information on Go And Do Travel, please visit https://www.goanddotravel.com/1126wavemakersWe would also like to thank the following generous sponsors:⚡For more information on scripture notes please visit: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradio⚡For more information on the Angel Studios Guild , please visit Angel.comFollow us at:Instagram:@WardRadioWorldwideFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwideTo subscribe to "The Women of Ward Radio" Youtube Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu-wpRztV-8TYXClhUZhhwTo Subscribe to Cardon Ellis' Adventure Channel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/@CardonEllisAdventures

27 July 1842. Joseph Smith dictates a revelation to Newel K. Whitney. Those are the words Whitney uses to seal his daughter **Sarah Ann** to the Prophet.It’s on the Joseph Smith Papers. Typed later. Verified by the Whitneys. In the Church History Library.This episode reads the ceremony out loud — then follows her life:- Parents in the room. Not a barn.- “So long as you both shall live” *and* throughout all eternity- Line of authority: Melchizedek, **Jethro**, the holy fathers- A year later: Joseph C. Kingsbury as a “pretended” cover husband- After Carthage: sealed to Heber C. Kimball for time — seven children- No children with Joseph that we can show- Why Jethro is in a Nauvoo sealing (D&C 84)- Priesthood that never all went to Goshen- Ether, Abraham, Shem the great high priest (D&C 138:41)- Ordinances as experiential testimonyMessy history. Still a pattern.#JosephSmithPapers #Sealing #WardRadioChapter Markers:0:00 – A ceremony Joseph dictated 2:00 – Why the Whitneys said yes 6:00 – The words of the 1842 sealing 10:40 – A year later: the cover husband 13:40 – Then Heber C. Kimball 16:00 – Why Jethro is in the ceremony 18:40 – D&C 84: priesthood that never all went to Egypt 23:00 – Ether before Abraham 27:00 – Ordinances as testimony 28:10 – Grover’s mosquitoes and the tower 34:30 – Shem, the great high priestBecome a member of this channel to get early access to videos and members only content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinSupport the channel by purchasing equipment to help make content through our Amazon Wish List (please write a limerick in the "gist notes" and we will read it on the show!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareTo order Ward Radio Branded "merch", please visit: https://www.wardradio.com/category/all-products For this and more, please visit: WardRadio.comNow go do your ministering! (Home Teaching)⚡For more information on Go And Do Travel, please visit https://www.goanddotravel.com/1126wavemakersWe would also like to thank the following generous sponsors:⚡For more information on scripture notes please visit: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradio⚡For more information on the Angel Studios Guild , please visit Angel.comFollow us at:Instagram:@WardRadioWorldwideFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwideTo subscribe to "The Women of Ward Radio" Youtube Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu-wpRztV-8TYXClhUZhhwTo Subscribe to Cardon Ellis' Adventure Channel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/@CardonEllisAdventures

On this episode, Joshua Carr joins us to talk about the recent interview he gave to Prager U regarding the darndest of LDS strengths!