Latest Mormonhistory Podcast Episodes
Ep 76 – Blasphemers Beware
Naked Mormonism Podcast - November 10, 2017 02:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we take a look at the avalanche of acts and ordinances that were being passed in Nauvoo to establish some semblance of a real operating city. Joseph Smith and his favored elites had a lot of work to do and were in the process of forming new committee and organizations on a daily...
Ep 75 – Bennett’s Teetotalitarianism
Naked Mormonism Podcast - November 03, 2017 02:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, the era of excitement for the new official Mormon home in Nauvoo gets to the leadership’s collective head. Wreck-it Bennett gets up on the stand during his mayoral inauguration and sets out a number of decrees Nauvoo would need to fulfill if it’s to last into the coming decade. ...
Ep 74 – Foster Pulls a Pistol on Joseph Smith
Naked Mormonism Podcast - October 27, 2017 02:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this week’s episode, we read through a bunch of the first revelation Joseph Smith gave in Nauvoo that made it into the D&C, section 124. Since the passing of the Nauvoo Charter, the Mormons could finally rest easy that they wouldn’t be chased out of Illinois after living there a year like had...
Ep 73 – Heber Kimball Visionary Polygamist
Naked Mormonism Podcast - October 20, 2017 04:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we finally introduce someone who’s been long overdue for our historical timeline, Heber C. Kimball, maybe you guys can help me come up with a fitting NaMo nickname for him. After that we jump into a letter Bennett wrote to the brethren to be published in the Times and Season sta...
Mythinformation follow-up
Naked Mormonism Podcast - October 16, 2017 20:24 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsA follow-up on the Mythinformation Conference. Some listeners wanted more details so Marie and I discussed what happened at Mythinformation while it was fresh on my mind. This orginally aired in the MyBoM podcast patreon only feed, but by popular demand we're releasing it to both of our regular ...
Ep 72 – Nauvoo: Divine Inspeculation
Naked Mormonism Podcast - October 13, 2017 03:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we dive right back into the historical timeline with talk on some detailed land purchase agreements. Jo and the Mormons were in a bad spot when they began settling Nauvoo and land speculation was the new counterfeit money to hobble the church along with a falsely inflated econom...
Ep 71 – Worst POTUS EVER with Cognitive Dissonance
Naked Mormonism Podcast - October 02, 2017 23:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we invite on Tom and Cecil of the Cognitive Dissonance podcast to talk about the worst presidential candidate in American History, Joseph Smith. From New York to Illinois, everything Jo touched fell into a state of chaos and ruin. By the time we get to his 1844 presidential camp...
Ep 70 – Illinois Theocracy with Geisner, Shepherd, Marquardt
Naked Mormonism Podcast - September 28, 2017 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we record from NAUVOO during the John Whitmer Historical Association conference. We talk with historians William Shepherd, Joseph Geisner, and H. Michael Marquardt about the Council of Fifty and the Hodge murders, the subjects these historians have been researching most recently...
Ep 69 – Mormon Apologist Debate
Naked Mormonism Podcast - September 22, 2017 12:45 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we catch up with the Quorum of the Twelve apostles to see how their missionary efforts were developing in Europe prior to their departing England to make their way back to Nauvoo. They got in some sight-seeing and spare no detail in reporting everything back to the brethren on t...
Ep 68 – Motivations of a Broken Mind
Naked Mormonism Podcast - September 15, 2017 03:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we jump right in to adding an incredible well of depth to the character of Joseph Smith by reading a number of excerpts from William Morain’s “The Sword of Laban, Joseph Smith and the Dissociated Mind”. The excruciating pain from his childhood leg surgery coupled with the death ...
Ep 67 – Perception Check
Naked Mormonism Podcast - September 08, 2017 00:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we try to gain new perspective. John Bennett addresses the brethren during the October 1840 conference to gain access to the in-group of trusted Mormon leaders with a new rule requiring 2 or 3 witnesses to any crime. How would this affect polygamy as it begins to lurk under the ...
Ep 66 – God Mode Jo
Naked Mormonism Podcast - September 01, 2017 01:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, Jo, Bennett (Brokeit), and Thompson, join forces to draft the Nauvoo Charter for approval by the Illinois State Legislature. We read right through the whole thing because that’s how we roll on this show. The Charter was essentially a copy and paste of the Springfield City Charte...
Ep 65 – Hurricane Harvey Harbinger
Naked Mormonism Podcast - August 28, 2017 03:13 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we do something we’ve never done before; cover a news story as it’s breaking. Hurricane Harvey has already wreaked billions of dollars in devastation on Texas and one concerned parent wants to reach his missionary son. Unfortunately, the rule book doesn’t allow for this so the M...
Ep 64 – Death of Joseph Smith
Naked Mormonism Podcast - August 25, 2017 00:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we bid farewell to some prominent members of the Mormon church as so many were perishing due to famine and resulting sickness. Joseph Smith Sr., Big Daddy Cheese as we know him, imparts blessings on his wife and children as the darkness begins to close in. After that, we catch u...
Ep 63 – Failure to Prophesy
Naked Mormonism Podcast - August 18, 2017 02:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, Jo goes on a smear campaign against the POTUS, Martin Van Buren. Jo claims his dog is more fit to run the country than Van Buren, likely giving him the confidence and social clout to run for President in the 1844 election. After that, Jo introduces baptisms for the dead and the ...
Smith Entheogen Theory Sunstone Presentation
Naked Mormonism Podcast - August 10, 2017 22:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsThis is the audio for the Sunstone presentation titled Revelation Through Hallucination, presented by Bryce Blankenagel and Cody Noconi. Please see https://youtu.be/t9OCSkqec5A for the video.
Episode 62 – John Bennett then Brokeit
Naked Mormonism Podcast - August 10, 2017 22:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we jump into early spring of 1840 with Elias Higbee in Washington D.C. still advocating on behalf of the Mormons. Jo gets back to Nauvoo after having abandoned the Mormons during a very harsh winter to speak with the U.S. government to get some kind of recourse for the Saints’ s...
Ep 61 – Congressional Deafening
Naked Mormonism Podcast - August 07, 2017 03:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this week’s episode, we cover the first 3 months of 1840 when Jo met with the United States Congressional committee to petition them for redress for what the Saints had suffered in Missouri. The meeting met every day over a week’s time and increasingly became more skeptical with each day of d...
2017 Sunstone SLC Wrap Up
Naked Mormonism Podcast - August 04, 2017 02:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we wrap up the 2017 SLC Sunstone Symposium. We begin with some musings on how everything went as well as a quick look at the great and spacious building across the street from Temple Square in downtown SLC. Then we bring on Marie Kent, host of My Book of Mormon podcast, to discu...
Ep 60 – CC Smith Entheogen Theory pt2
Naked Mormonism Podcast - July 26, 2017 06:28 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we continue our conversation with Cody Noconi from the Psilly Rabbits podcast about the Smith-entheogen theory. We cover the second half of the paper to be presented at Sunstone Symposium which deconstructs entheogen use through Joseph Smith’s early years and into Mormonism. The...
Ep 59 – CC Smith Entheogen Theory
Naked Mormonism Podcast - July 21, 2017 05:02 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we suspend the historical timeline to analyze the Smith-Entheogen theory along with host of Psilly Rabbits Podcast, Cody Noconi. Before that, we talk to Dan Wees of the Book of Mormon Comparative to get an update on his project. Then we move into reading part 1 of the Sunstone p...
Ep 58 - Fop or a Fool for POTUS
Naked Mormonism Podcast - July 14, 2017 05:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this week’s episode, we jump right into the latter part of 1839 with the quorum of the Twelve petitioning Jo to release the copyright on the Book of Mormon to begin printing the 1840 edition. The Times and Season church periodical begins circulating, and Jo finally departs for Washington D.C....
Ep 57 – Sign of the Times and Spiritual Tokens
Naked Mormonism Podcast - July 07, 2017 04:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we cover July to November of 1839. We start with a discussion about how scarce documentation is for this blackout period of Mormon history and what that means for historiographies which cover this time period. After that, Jo tells us how we can tell if a spirit is from God or th...
Home Evening Jun17
Naked Mormonism Podcast - July 07, 2017 04:20 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsThis is our NaMo Home Evening for June 2017 with featured guest Heretic Woman of Atheists on Air: Beyond the Trailer Park
Ep 56 – Re-Evolving Doctrine
Naked Mormonism Podcast - June 30, 2017 01:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this week’s episode, we cover June and early July 1839. Jo was signing land purchase agreements faster than he could tour the landscape to see if the sale was a good deal or not. He names a new town to be built under the banner of Zarahemla and continues to visit a bunch of Mormons to set str...
Ep 55 – Joseph’s Historical Revisionism
Naked Mormonism Podcast - June 23, 2017 14:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this week’s episode, we jump into all the work and frustration associated with building a city from a scratchy, bitey, black-water swampland. Sickness, exposure, and simple lack of resources find Jo and friends in desperate need of brokering whatever deal necessary to establish a new home for...
Ep 54 – The Spalding Virus
Naked Mormonism Podcast - June 15, 2017 01:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we’ll be talking about the PR nightmare that was the Spalding theory as it embodied a new resurgence in the public eye. Spalding’s wife, Matilda Davison, and Hingepin Sidney Rigdon went at it in a public letter exchange where she laid out the theory claiming the Book of Mormon c...
SpEdEp 44 – New Church History and Old Cults with Charone
Naked Mormonism Podcast - June 09, 2017 05:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we look at a new release from Deseret News which claims that the church will produce a new comprehensive history. A 4-volume set released over 4 years covering more than 200 years from an historically verifiable, transparent, fictionalized account, written at a 10th grade readin...
Ep 53 – Bloody's Play While Jo’s Away
Naked Mormonism Podcast - June 02, 2017 03:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we shift focus from Quincy to Liberty Jail and back as we follow Bloody Brigham Young stepping into the vacuum of leadership, making a power play in Jo’s absence. Jo agrees to buy the land deal proposed by Isaac Galland sight unseen after he screeds to him about Mormon doctrine....
SpEdEp 43 – Classic Psychedelics with Prof. Carl Ruck
Naked Mormonism Podcast - May 26, 2017 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 652 ratingsOn this episode, we air an interview conducted at Boston University’s theological department during the Mormon history tour. We get to hear from Professor Emeritus Carl A.P. Ruck of classical history. Ruck has been publishing in the field for 3 decades and sits as one of the foremost historians ...
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