# Joseph Smith

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Junk Refund Show, November 5, 2026

Junk Refund Show with Alan Cook Costco Parking Lots, Shovel Landscaping for a Brazil Laptop, and Decluttering Tabletops Broadcasting from a box truck in a Fairfax, Virginia Costco parking lot, Alan Cook explains how manual yard work funded a laptop for a Brazilian pen pal, critiques sports gambli…

Wild Bill Hickman, the Danites & Brigham Young's Blood Atonement | Mormon News Roundup

In this episode, we take a deep dive into some of the most disturbing and controversial episodes of early Mormon history—from the alleged murder confessions of Wild Bill Hickman and the history of the Danites, to the doctrine of blood atonement and the extraordinary legal efforts to indict Brigham …

Junk Refund Show, November 5, 2026

Junk Refund Show with Alan Cook Costco Parking Lots, Shovel Landscaping for a Brazil Laptop, and Decluttering Tabletops Broadcasting from a box truck in a Fairfax, Virginia Costco parking lot, Alan Cook explains how manual yard work funded a laptop for a Brazilian pen pal, critiques sports gambli…

Encore: Mormons and Polygamy: Separating Fact from Fiction

In this episode, we address the common misconception that Mormons practice polygamy, clarifying its historical context within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We discuss Joseph Smith's initial reluctance to embrace the practice, its biblical precedents, and how it differs from casua…

Apostle of Jesus Christ Continues to Reveal the Forgotten Scriptural Pattern: This Week the Prophet Ezekiel Becomes Another Directly Called Prophet of God Before Receiving His Famous "UFO" Vision

Apostle of Jesus Christ Continues to Reveal the Forgotten Scriptural Pattern: This Week the Prophet Ezekiel Becomes Another Directly Called Prophet of God Before Receiving His Famous "UFO" Vision (Old Testament Ezekiel 1-3; 33-34; 36-37; 47) Before examining Ezekiel's famous "UFO" vision, it is es…

“My father married my mother when she was 16. He then married her mother”

Jerusha has relatives who are married to Warren Jeffs, subject of the Netflix series, Keep Sweet, Pray and Obey, currently serving a life sentence in a Texan jail for sexual offences against children. Jeffs was the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polyg…

God's Plan in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Robinson Vasquez Montes' Story - Latter-Day Lights

What if the key to understanding AI has been in gospel doctrine all along?In this week’s episode of Latter-Day Lights, Scott and Darla sit down with Peruvian-born attorney, author, and Latter-day Saint convert Robinson Vasquez Montes, who shares how his concerns about AI's growing influence on huma…

Zelph and Book of Mormon Geography: What Most People Miss

In June 1834, Joseph Smith's Zion's Camp climbed a burial mound above the Illinois River and uncovered a skeleton he called Zelph: a Lamanite warrior who fought under a prophet named Onandagus. Archaeologists have since excavated that very mound. So what does the dig actually tell us about Zelph, a…

The Book of Mormon Secret I Missed My Whole Life with Jonah Barnes

Inside the first few chapters of the Book of Mormon there's a secret I read past over and over again… for my entire life. Then last year one book shined a light on it, and it changed how I read the whole thing. Lehi's family had already left Jerusalem when God sent his sons all the way back for one…