Announcement: A New Gospel Fundamentals Class & A New Online Book Store For Orthodox Mormons

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Hi everybody, I hope your
weekend's going good.

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First, I just want to tell you
how much I love and appreciate

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each one of you, the listener
for the time you spend with me

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and, and listening to this
podcast.

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Again, when I started this
thing, I didn't think I'd have

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nearly the amount of listeners I
do now.

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So it really means a lot and
I've I value that.

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I have just a couple quick
announcements I want to get out

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there about some really cool
stuff I think you guys are

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really going to like.
And the first one is a good

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friend of mine, Taylor Smith.
He's been on the podcast many

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times.
I, I think upwards of of seven

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or eight has wanted to start a
class, OK.

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And it's going to be called
Gospel Fundamentals.

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Now it is going to be based in
the fundamentals, but you rest

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assured it will be from kind of
a more holistic view of the

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gospel, kind of a fundamentalist
view of the gospel.

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And so there's going to be a lot
of discussion around this and I

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think this is going to be
fantastic.

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And again, I'm not much involved
in this.

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The only thing I'm doing is I am
just hosting this.

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I am not trying to interject my
two cents.

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You hear enough from me as it
is, right?

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And look, as I've been told, a
little bit of me goes a long

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ways on people's nerves.
So I'm not going to be super

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involved in this.
I'm simply hosting it now.

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Why is this important?
Well, one, it never hurts to get

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re grounded in those principles
of the restored gospel, right?

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The other thing is this will
give us an opportunity not only

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to be ministered to, but also to
minister to others.

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And let me explain that.
So this is for everybody, right?

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So if you've never been Mormon
at all, but you're curious about

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the faith, this class is for
you.

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If you're an active LDS person
who's always wondered, hey,

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what, What did my crazy cousins
think?

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This class is for you.
If you are a fundamentalist but

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new to fundamentalism or you're
thinking about fundamentalism,

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this class is for you.
If you are a fundamentalist who

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has been in the faith your whole
life for 20 years or whatever

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this class is for you.
If you are new to this, this

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will give you an opportunity or
you know nothing about this.

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This will give you an
opportunity to be able to really

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dive in a little bit and
understand more about the faith.

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Now, if you're a Mormon
fundamentalist who's been doing

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this your whole life for 20
years, this will give you an

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opportunity to help out your
brothers and sisters who have

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questions about the gospel and
be able to interact with them.

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And so that's kind of the plan.
Now, this class is going to

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start Thursday, April 3rd at
7:00 PM Central, OK?

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And then from there, we'll have
it every single Thursday night

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after that.
Now, right now, I'm going to

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show you how to sign up for that
class, OK?

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So you're going to go to
mormonrenegade.com where you

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find the podcast, OK?
Just go ahead and Scroll down to

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the bottom there, all the way to
the bottom.

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OK, here we go.
You're going to see recent blog

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posts, OK?
Right under that heading, you're

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going to find the Gospel
Fundamental, excuse me, Gospel

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Fundamentals class blog post.
Just go ahead, click on that

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link, OK?
And this is going to give you

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another website address.
I want you to highlight that

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website address.
Just right click and copy.

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Then I want you to go over here,
open up a new search window on

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your Internet browser, paste
that in there, hit enter, and

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that's going to take you to a
program called Telegram.

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And I'm going to explain what
Telegram does in relation to

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this class.
But first you need to understand

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what Telegram is.
Telegram is kind of an end to

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end encryption software,
messaging software, right?

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So you can ask questions, you
can interact with others, and

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it's really super secure.
Now I want to stress, nothing's

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100% in this day and age, but
this is as close as what it

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gets.
OK, so you'll, you'll jump on

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this Telegram page by that link
and it's going to say join

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channel.
You're just going to hit that

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button and then you'll be able
to sign up for the class.

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Once you're in this channel,
you'll see there's another link

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and on Thursday nights at 7:00
PM Central, you just click that

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link and that'll take you to the
class on Zoom where Taylor will

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be teaching that.
That's all you got to do.

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Now this, this is set up so that
these we're we're hoping to keep

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these to about an hour.
However, that is a soft break,

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not a hard break.
If we see that a class is going

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really well, that there's a lot
of participation, a lot of

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questions, we're going to go
ahead and we're going to extend

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it however long we need, but
we're hoping to keep it to about

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an hour.
Now you can ask question we've

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got this structured so that
there's about 45 minutes of

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instructions and then a 15
minute question and answer

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period at the end.
If you're too shy to ask a

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question in front of everybody,
I get it right.

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I, I'm, I'm there with you.
I understand that.

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So then you can go back to the
Telegram page, okay, and this

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channel and here you can ask any
questions you want.

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Or let's say you're sitting in
class and you know what?

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You, you didn't think of the
question, but a couple days

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later a question occurs for you.
You can get on here and you can

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type your question in and it can
be a place for discussion and,

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and answering those questions.
Also, Taylor will, will post

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some of his lesson material as
well on this so you, you can

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read it and get ready for that
week's class.

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And it's just a good medium.
So again, super simple, go to

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mormonrenegade.com.
Go to those blog posts, click

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that gospel fundamentals link,
jump on in there, join on the

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Telegram group and then you'll
have the link to the class.

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That's it.
Super simple.

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If you struggle at all a little
bit, look, I'm not the most tech

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savvy guy.
Give me a call, reach out to me

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through e-mail.
I'll call you and we'll get you

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all set up so that you can go.
Again, this is open to

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everybody.
If you're, you know, an active

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LDS member, it's for you.
If you're never a Mormon, it's

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for you.
If you're a member of a Mormon

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fundamentalist group, the AUB,
the branch, the Nielsen Naylors,

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whatever the Centennial Park,
this class is for you.

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Everyone's welcomed and we can't
wait to see you here.

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OK, That's announcement number
one.

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OK, announcement #2 I always
take this really seriously,

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right?
This podcast, cuz I feel like

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it's a calling and I feel like
it's something that the Lord's

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going to kind of require a
reckoning at my hands, if you

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will, later on.
And so I always want to make

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sure I'm doing what it is He
wants me to do on this, OK?

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As I prayed about that this
year, one of the things that

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occurred to me is that it's time
to do stuff, right?

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It's time to, to, to start
getting more involved with each

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other as well as being able to,
to talk with one another and

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just do things right.
Look, Mormonism is not a

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spectator sport, right?
In the early days, it was

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getting your wagons.
We're, we're moving the church

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headquarters somewhere else.
And you went, you went and did

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right.
Mormonism by and large today is

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still that way with things like
our callings, things like

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teaching classes, getting
together with other Mormons,

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temple stuff, right?
It's it's as a participation

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kind of sport.
So as I got thinking about that,

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one of the things that really
got impressed on my mind through

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a lot of prayer and a lot of
fasting is that as Mormons, we

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need our own stuff, right?
It's great to go and participate

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in, in other conferences.
It's good to go and participate

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and then get your get what you
need for your, your scriptures

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and your, your books from desert
book.

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Nothing wrong with that, but at
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our own stuff and so I'm really
super excited to share this next

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thing with you.
OK, This site is called 1830

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mercantile.org.
OK, First off, before I get into

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telling you what this is, I just
need to give a big shout out to

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two guys.
And I don't know if they want

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their names mentioned, so I'm
not going to mention them yet.

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But one of them is a gentleman
who lives in Salt Lake who

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through the podcast has become
just a really good friend of

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mine.
And he was asking me earlier or

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later last year what it was I
was feeling pulled towards.

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I said, you know what?
I feel like I really got to get

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this site up and running.
And he said, you know what, I

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think that's a worthwhile idea.
Let me help.

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And he essentially bankrolled
this for me, OK, not so much for

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me, but for all of us.
And then I need to give a shout

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out to the gentleman who's
helped me work on on this

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website and get it up and
running because look, I ain't

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too tech savvy.
It's amazing.

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I can do a podcast.
So building the websites kind of

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out of my wheelhouse.
But he was able to do it and he

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had to work hard because there
was a lot of pushback on this.

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However, we were able to get it
done and it's not finished yet.

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The, the, the look of this
website is going to change

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dramatically, but the purpose
and its function will not.

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This is kind of rough.
It is out there and open, but

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it's close enough that we can
start asking you guys for your

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help on this.
OK, So what is 1830 tile?

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Excuse me, 1830 mercantile.org.
What this is is this is a place

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for fundamentalists to both buy
and sell products, goods and

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services.
OK, so let me just give you an

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example there's to start,
there's going to be primarily 3

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phases to the OR or three pages
to this.

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We're going to start out with
books, art and home Decor and

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music.
OK?

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Now, right now we don't have
anything on art and music.

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I'll talk about that in just a
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But what we do have is I reached
out to someone we all know

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really well and he was super
excited about the idea.

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And so under books, if you go to
shop now, it's going to pull it

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up and it's Drew Briny that that
was excited about doing this.

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And here you're going to be able
to find every one of Drew's

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books in one place where you can
go and buy that book.

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So let's say you're like, man, I
really need to get that book by

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Drew about Adam God teachings.
Well, you just Scroll down here

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and I'll be darned.
There it is.

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You just click buy now.
That takes you right to the page

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that you can buy it from there
on Amazon.

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That's it.
Super simple.

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OK, Now the gentleman that
helped me build this website,

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what am I saying, Bill?
Help.

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He built the website.
We had to buy some products for

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just not hosting it, but also
being able to have point of sale

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programming, that sort of thing.
So there's a couple of different

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options here for this, OK, that
you as a seller will be able to

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incorporate.
Now let's talk about the

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procedure for getting you on on
this site.

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So let's just say for the just
an example, you're somebody who

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is a painter, right?
You produce great art and you

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want to be able to share that
art with other people.

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This is a place for you to do
it.

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So you would simply reach out to
me one of two ways.

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You could reach out to
methroughmormonrenegade@gmail.com

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and just say, hey, looking to
sell something right in your

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subject line?
Or you could go to 1830

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mercantilestore@gmail.com, same
thing.

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Hey, I want to list an item.
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At that point, you'll either
leave me your phone number or

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your e-mail address.
I will reach back out to you.

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We can either have a phone
conversation, a Zoom

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conversation, or just by e-mail,
whatever you need, right?

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You get me an example of what it
is you want to sell, kind of

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like a little picture or
whatever.

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I put it up on the website.
Again, I don't put it up on the

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website, but but the gentleman
who built the website does.

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We set the price point and we go
from there and you're off and

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running and there's a couple
different ways that you can

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collect what it is the the money
from what it is you're selling.

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Now I'm really here was my worst
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people were looking at that
people would look at this as I'm

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trying to fleece or make money
off the backs of other

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fundamentalists and nothing
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Please rest assured, I am taking
a very, very small percentage of

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this, somewhere between 3 and 4%
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Why am I doing that?
So I can just keep the lights on

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on the website because this is
going to be one of those

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websites that is going to always
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There's always going to be new
products, new goods, new

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services that are added that
cost me money to keep the lights

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on on the website.
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gentleman who's building it for
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And so I really need to to, you
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losses so I can just keep it
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If I could offer it for free, I
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And I hope you understand that.
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important and why do I feel like
we as, as a community of

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fundamentalists, we need this.
We need this for two reasons.

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If we continue to do business
with the world alone, there's

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many companies who take the
profits that we provide them and

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they do horrible things with
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That I know doesn't sit well
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audience.
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given our, the very nature of
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tough to get the word out that,
hey, this, I'm offering this

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product, I'm offering this book,
or I'm offering these, these

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these goods and services.
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insular that way, right?
This is an opportunity where

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fundamentalists from all over
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with another right now.
Not only are we going to be able

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to keep the money in house, so
to speak, right, to bless the

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lives of people whose, whose
morals and values line up closer

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to our own, but it's also an
opportunity to get to know other

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people, right?
As, as you do business with

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other fundamentalists, you're
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relationships and, and again,
we're all going to need each

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other at some point, right?
I'm not saying that we should

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hug it out on Sundays.
I think there's beauty and I

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think it's a great thing that we
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within Mormon fundamentalists.
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should get together under 1
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not hugging it out on a Sunday,
we better figure out how to work

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together and have a barbecue on
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I think that's super important.
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blessed at being able to meet so
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because of the podcast.
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just immense talents and immense
they they have something to add

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to to our lives.
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be offered.
OK, that's it for that.

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There's a third announcement
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make.
I'm hoping I'll be able to drop

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that in April, but we'll leave
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Now just to just an update on
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that you can get video, and I'm
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now.
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Up until now, if you've wanted
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get the video to the podcast on
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OK, that is changing now.
Spotify a few months back did

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something really cool and that
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not to just upload audio, but
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So if you just go to like
Spotify right now, this is only

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available on Spotify.
It's not available on Apple to

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my knowledge, or any other place
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podcast.
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place where you can find the
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kind of format, right?
Again, you can find the video on

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the Mormon Renegade Podcast
Rumble channel, but this is a

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little easier.
So what you do is you just go

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click on Mormon Renegade through
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There's the episode that I just
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If you click on that, hit play
that when we go out into this,

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there it is right there.
And you can just expand that and

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there's there's the video, super
simple, super easy, and is

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really kind of a game changer
here for people who want the

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video.
Look, there's a lot of stuff

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that people on my podcast
present, you know, slides

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information that you may want to
take a screenshot of or

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something like that.
And so this is a good place to

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do that as well as rumble.
OK, that is that announcement.

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Now there's just a few last
things I want to want to talk

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about and then we can go ahead
and I'll get out of your hair

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for the rest of your weekend
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So the the next announcement is
this for every faithful Mormon

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podcast, whether that's
fundamentalist or mainstream

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LDS, whatever, there's probably
three to four anti Mormon

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podcasts that happen.
Now when someone starts to

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encounter a faith crisis, look,
especially if they're in the LDS

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church, they're not going to
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And why aren't they going to
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Because they don't feel
comfortable asking the question

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because they're worried about
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Sometimes that's justified and
sometimes that's not.

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However, that is the truth,
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So in order to catch some of
those people sooner, it's vital

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that we move up the chain in the
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Now let me explain to you how
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The more like subscribes and
follows and shares a podcast

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gets, the higher it climbs in
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OK right now the anti Mormon
podcasts, those are much higher

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than the faithful Mormon
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If someones having a faith
crisis and the first thing that

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they encounter is anti Mormon
material that's going to

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influence them.
There needs to be more

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competition from those who are
faithful in their perspectives

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right now.
Here's where you get, you can

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help in this, right?
And it's super simple.

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All you've got to do is just
either like, subscribe and share

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this podcast and that will help
it go up the chain in the

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algorithm.
Look, you don't like mine,

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that's fine.
Go find somebody else who's

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faithful.
I don't care who it is, but just

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like and subscribe that podcast
so that it climbs up the chain.

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You guys have been very good to
me.

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I don't deserve any of you as
listeners.

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You guys have blessed my life so
much by listening to this

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podcast.
I honestly didn't think I would

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have the listenership that I do,
and I'm so grateful that you

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guys are here.
But we need to do a little bit

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more so that we can catch those
in crisis before they they

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completely fall away in
Mormonism.

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Because once they're gone, it's
90 times harder to bring them

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back into the fold, whatever
that is.

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Mainstream LDS, fundamentalist,
group, independent, doesn't

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matter.
Once they're gone, it's really

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hard to bring them back in.
So please like, subscribe, share

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the podcast so that we can move
up that algorithm and catch

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those who are struggling much
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Finally, and this is it, I love
hearing from you guys.

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I love hearing from the audience
and I try super hard to respond

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to each and every e-mail and
message I get.

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I know I'm a little behind right
now, but I'm working at trying

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to get that caught back up.
Now, having said that, if there

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is ever a subject that you feel
like I haven't covered or

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haven't covered good enough,
reach out to me, drop me a line,

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let me know.
Hey, Dave, I really need to know

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about this topic or that topic
and I will go find somebody who,

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who's really good on that topic
and bring them in.

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But please never hesitate and in
reaching out and let me know if

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there are certain things that
you want covered.

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I'm here to, to, to serve
however I can on this podcast.

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Again, you guys have been so
good to me.

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I feel like I know you sometimes
and I haven't met all of you.

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I've met a lot of you, but not
all of you.

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And I am just so fortunate to be
able to associate with you and,

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and, and have the ability to
serve you in this manner.

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Again, I love you.
Those are those announcements.

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Please sign up for the class
starting April 3rd at 7:00 PM

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Central and every Thursday after
that.

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Take a look at 1830
mercantile.org.

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If you have something to
contribute.

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If you're a photographer, a
painter and author, you offer

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goods and services, any goods
and services, drop me a line.

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Let me know.
I'll put you in touch with with

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the guy who builds the the the
website and he can get you on

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there and get you listed.
And finally, just like and

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subscribe to the show and never
hesitate in reaching out to me

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and tell me if you there's
something else you need.

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Again, I love you and I just
can't tell you how much it means

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to me that you spend your time
listening to this podcast.

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We'll talk to everyone next
week.

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Bye.