Best Richard D Quinn Podcasts (2024)

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This is The Ted Dabney Experience

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The Ted Dabney Experience is a podcast project by Richard May, Paul Drury (Retro Gamer magazine) and Tony Temple (author of Missile Commander - A Journey to The Top of an Arcade Classic). We host in-depth conversations with the creative leading lights and supporting cast from the Golden Age of coin-op Video Arcade gaming.…

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TDE EP39 - Rob Quinn of Stern

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Rob Quinn joined Stern just as the company was branching out from it's core pinball business to explore the brave new world of videogames. Rob talks about his involvement with the company's early hit, Berzerk, his experiments with laser disc technology and his personal misgivings about how the company was managed.…

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TDE EP38 - Atari and Bally Midway Game Designer Mark Pierce

3M ago

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Mark Pierce was a game designer at Atari and Bally Midway. We talk to him about the protracted development of Escape From The Planet of The Robot Monsters, the axonometric, somewhat baroque B-movie arcade adventure, and the conversely swift creation of the tile-stacking puzzler classic, KLAX. Pierce also shares some amusing anecdotes about scouting…

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TDE EP37 - Jersey Jack Pinball Founder Jack Guarnieri

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From 1975 to present day, Jack Guarnieri has seen and done it all; from servicing mechanical pinball machines in the dive bars and laundrettes of Seventies New York, bearing first-hand witness to the inflation - and rapid deflation - of the video game bubble of popular lore, running his own operator route during the ‘80s and then to selling video a…

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TDE EP36 - Strong Museum Assistant VP Jeremy Saucier

7M ago

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Jeremy Saucier is Assistant VP at The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. Jeremy talks to us about the history and evolution of the Strong Museum and its pedagogical remit - from American history and Industrialisation to a focus on play - and gives us a fascinating insight into the day-to-day management of a museum. With a doctoral degree…

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TDE EP35 - Atari Inc Coin-Op Engineer Jeff Bell

8M ago

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Jeff Bell was a hardware engineer in Atari Inc’s coin-op division and officially the longest serving employee of the company; literally the last person to switch off the lights in 2004. Jeff walks us through his formative years learning the basics of electronics at his father’s desk, the brotherhood of Atari Inc, suspected mob involvement in the ea…

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188: Chosen Path: A Memoir by D. Michael Quinn 1:01:33

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Chosen Path, a memoir by D. Michael Quinn is a story of self-denial and inner struggle, while Michael strove to follow through on his personal commitments faithfully. The memoir, published by Signature Books is an intimate look into the life of one of Mormonism’s most prolific historians of church governance and LGBTQ intersections. Moshe Quinn, so…

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187: Carmina and Sabrina | Sister Missionaries Fall In Love 1:29:13

12M ago1:29:13

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Carmina and Sabrina were called to serve missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as Mormon missionaries. What they didn't expect was that they would meet each other--and eventually fall in love. This is a story about two Latter-day Saint women with unique stories of faith, of trial, of frustration, of hiding, and of freedom. Sa…

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186: Dan and Sara Fisk | Being Prepared for Allyship 1:21:07

1y ago1:21:07

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In 1998, the Fisk family faced what some might call a dilemma. A relative of theirs came out. Having been raised orthodox Mormon, Dan and Sara grappled with numerous questions: How should they navigate this news? What would the future of their relationship with their loved one look like? How could they move forward without sacrificing their standin…

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185: Jacob Lambert | I Came Out by Inviting People In 1:21:08

1y ago1:21:08

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Jacob Lambert's story is about finding support from those around you. Raised in an active Latter-Day Saint family, Jacob’s world view shifted when he began to figure out that he was gay at 16 years old. Despite his awareness of his sexuality, Jacob felt inspired to serve a mission and attend BYU. Little by little, as he let people in he felt more c…

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TDE EP34 - Atari Pong Creator Allan Alcorn

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For this episode we speak with none other than Allan Alcorn, Atari employee number three after Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, and the engineer of Pong, one of the very first video arcade games.By The Ted Dabney Experience

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184: Cameron Call | Breaking Out of Mormon Expectation 1:44:45

1y ago1:44:45

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Cameron Call grew up in Queen Creek, Arizona. He served a mission in Nashville, Tennessee—the same mission as his father. He married a woman in a Mesa Temple and has three children. He came out to his wife in 2018 after ten years of marriage and they decided to divorce in 2019. He and his ex-wife are helping their kids discover the beauties of life…

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183: Richard and Josh | A Love Story 1:08:26

1+ y ago1:08:26

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In the final episode of our three-part story, Josh and Richard share the couch as a couple! They talk about dating, separating religion from their reality, family, navigating a vulnerable part of their lives, and MARRIAGE! They reflect on what they have learned through this journey, how their lives have changed, and what they hope for the future. C…

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TDE EP33 - Atari Inc Designer and R&D Manager Roger Hector

1+ y ago

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Senior corporate executive, serial entrepreneur, automotive designer and fine artist. Roger Hector is not only a successful businessman but a bona fide creative polymath. A long time ago, Roger sharpened his pencils at Atari Inc, working alongside co-founder Nolan Bushnell and creative director George Opperman on a vast range of videogame projects.…

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182: Josh Castro-Mitchell | From the Philippines to Utah: Finding My Happiness 1:07:31

1+ y ago1:07:31

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Josh was thriving as a young, out, gay teen in the Philippines, but Mormon missionaries knocked on his door and he and his family ended up joining the Church. Soon after, his mother married a man from Utah, and Josh found himself living in a small religious town in Northern Utah. His life went from being openly gay and accepted to hiding his sexual…

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181: Richard Mitchell | When A Mormon Bishop Comes Out 1:19:39

1+ y ago1:19:39

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What happens when a former Mormon bishop can no longer stay closeted and hidden? He grabs the door-handle, walks through that door and into a world he’s avoided his whole life. Richard Mitchell was a very active, stalwart Latter-day Saint. He married a woman, had children, served in the church (including as Bishop) and tried to use the promises of …

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180: Brad Talbot | I Colored The BYU Campus in Rainbow 2:20:42

1+ y ago2:20:42

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What started as a dream to paint the Brigham Young University campus in rainbow paint ended up encouraging Bradley Talbot to start a movement that changed the face of BYU and literally lit it up with color. Brad took on Goliath—the Mormon Church and he organized a group of people to light the iconic Y in rainbow colors…not once, but three times. Bu…

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179: Flo Montierth | My Husband is Gay, Now What? 1:16:32

1+ y ago1:16:32

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My husband is gay, now what? In a topic not regularly discussed, Flo Montierth shares her story of dating, marrying and then divorcing a gay Mormon husband. As a lifelong lover of learning and teaching, Flo is an advocate for special needs and the LGBTQIA community. Navigating Mormon life in a mixed-orientation marriage was challenging, but leaning…

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TDE EP32 - Eugene Jarvis - Part 2

1+ y ago

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Part 2: Eugene Jarvis cut his teeth in the Atari pinball division before going on to produce the groundbreaking Defender for Williams Electronics. Also for Williams (contracted as Vid Kids, his new company with Defender co-creator Larry DeMar) was Stargate, Robotron: 2084 and Blaster. Jarvis left Vid Kids in 1984 to attend Stanford University where…

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TDE EP32 - Eugene Jarvis - Part 1

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Part 1: Eugene Jarvis cut his teeth in the Atari pinball division before going on to produce the groundbreaking Defender for Williams Electronics. Also for Williams (contracted as Vid Kids, his new company with Defender co-creator Larry DeMar) was Stargate, Robotron: 2084 and Blaster. Jarvis left Vid Kids in 1984 to attend Stanford University where…

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178: Joel Jacks | I Tried to Do Everything Right 1:32:36

1+ y ago1:32:36

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Joel was raised in an orthodox Mormon home, where rules were king—he never met a rule he didn't follow. His upbringing was one of “exact obedience”. PBS and KBYU were the only TV shows they were allowed to watch. He knew he was different, but didn’t have words to describe what that difference was. Family life for Joel was tenuous, to put it kindly.…

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177: Colby Majors | “Now Thank Him and Let Him Go” 1:22:38

1+ y ago1:22:38

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Colby is a convert to the church, having joined at 17 years old. One year later, he left his family to serve a mission in Venezuela. He returned home from his mission after 10 months due to anxiety-depression. The root cause of this depression…he had been withholding a secret: "same-sex" attraction. Not long after coming home from his mission, Colb…

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176: Lacey Bagley | Bisexual, Married, Polyamorous and Thriving 1:55:14

1+ y ago1:55:14

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Dr. Lacey Bagley is a queer Mormon and the owner of Celebrate Therapy. She has been married for 14 years to her husband Evan and together they have 2 young children. She’s polyamorous and is navigating, with happiness, this chapter of her life. What does the intersection of Mormonism and sexuality look like for Lacey? After devoting your whole life…

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175: Jake Shepherd | I Was Unprepared to Come Out 1:12:37

1+ y ago1:12:37

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At age 10 Jake was mercilessly bullied, the kids called him “gay” a word he didn’t understand. Using the family’s dial-up internet connection Jake turned to Google to better understand the word. A path of pain ensued. It would take Jake nearly seven years to finally say " I am gay" out loud. In the wake of that coming out experience came shame, per…

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TDE EP31 - Arcade Britannia author Dr Alan Meades

1+ y ago

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Dr Alan Meades teaches the undergraduate and post-graduate game design courses at Canterbury Christ Church University and is the author of Arcade Britannia, published by MIT Press. After dedicating so many episodes of the show to the mythic American arcade of the late Seventies and early Eighties (in some ways perhaps more a figment of our collecti…

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174: Nate Gardner | Mission, BYU & (gay) Marriage 1:06:45

1+ y ago1:06:45

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Born and raised in Utah, Nate Gardner did everything he was supposed to do to be a good Mormon boy. After serving a mission and going to BYU Nate came out of the closet—fearing he would lose his family. Because of love, respect, communication and boundaries, Nate is closer to his family now as an openly gay man than he ever was when he was in the c…

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TDE EP30 - Atari Engineer Dave Sherman

1+ y ago

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Dave Sherman joined Atari shortly prior to Nolan Bushnell’s departure and was at the company through its precipitous near-collapse and subsequent restructuring during the infamous market crash of ’83 and ’84. Sherman worked alongside Dave Theurer on iconic such as I, Robot and Missile Command, and shares many an anecdote about those early days, inc…

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173: A Gay Mormon Rescue? Ben Schilaty and Charlie Bird: Panel Analysis 4:22:43

1+ y ago4:22:43

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Throughout Mormonism's history there have been a series of "rescues" where grassroots members, teamed with local church authorities, band together to rescue Saints in despair. Are we seeing an LGBTQ+ rescue in Mormonism? We're digging in...and talking about it. Inspired by Elder M. Russell Ballard's charge to "better understand the LGBTQ community,…

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172: Brayden Singley | A Journey of Finding Myself 1:41:45

1+ y ago1:41:45

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Viral Tik-Tok creator Brayden Singley sits down with the Latter Gay Stories podcast to spill the tea on life as gay man with Mormon roots. Brayden was born and raised in Northern Utah. He grew up a member of the LDS Church, served a 2-year mission in the state of Washington and attended BYU. In this episode Brayden candidly shares his story of sham…

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171: David Doyle | @NerdyGayMormon 1:11:26

2y ago1:11:26

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David Doyle is a Latter-day Saint from Florida. He is humble, reliable, lovable, nerdy, and gay. He is an active Latter-day Saint with stake leadership callings—and it is through those callings that he is able to fulfill some of his self-described “life missions”. Many people might argue that David’s life is not sustainable—that by choosing to rema…

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170: The Naked Pastor | David Hayward 1:06:22

2y ago1:06:22

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He’s known around the world as The Naked Pastor—and you’ve likely seen his cartoons on social media or in print—but who is David Hayward and why does his art speak so loudly for the LGBTQ+ community? David sits down with the Latter Gay Stories podcast to share more of his story and offers a behind the scenes peek into his talent. Have you had to de…

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TDE EP29 - Crystal Castles programmer Franz Lanzinger

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Franz Lanzinger programmed the singular Crystal Castles for Atari, Inc. Released in the summer of 1983 and housed within a typically eye-catching Atari cabinet, the game found modest success as a coin-op title and was adapted for numerous home platforms. Franz talks to us about being the person to establish the long-overdue display of creator credi…

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169: Carol Lynn Pearson | Loving My Gay Husband To Eternity 1:13:22

2y ago1:13:22

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Carol Lynn Pearson is a Mormon icon. In the early 1960’s two monumental experiences happened in her life: she married Gerald, a gay man—and she published her first book. From that first publishing—and her relationship with her gay husband—Carol Lynn Pearson forged a path forward for Latter-day Saints to better understand the LGBTQ experience. Her l…

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TDE EP28 - Food Fight programmer Jonathan Hurd

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Jonathan Hurd coded Food Fight at General Computer Corp for Atari. A decidedly ‘non-violent’ game amid a galaxy of shooters, Food Fight was GCC’s first title for a smart-thinking Atari after the infamous Super Missile Attack lawsuit was settled (for more on Super Missile Attack, listen to our interview with GCC’s Steve Golson).…

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168: Laurie Lee Hall | From Temples to Transformation 1:37:29

2y ago1:37:29

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At age five Laurie Lee Hall knew she was different, but she didn’t have words for what the “difference” was. For her, language—and better understanding wouldn’t come until many decades later. Few transgender people have had more influence on Mormonism than Laurie Lee Hall. Prior to (and sometimes during) her process of transition she served as a Bi…

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167: Weston Smith | Gay Mormon Missionary: Survivor 1:20:53

2y ago1:20:53

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Weston Smith came out as gay while his dad was serving as a bishop in the Mormon church. His parents were understanding, but navigating life a gay Mormon teen, trying to better understand your sexuality, and remain the “best” Mormon possible is often a recipe for disaster. Weston was no stranger to the turmoil that often comes from being gay and Mo…

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166: Evan Smith | From Stake Presidency to LGBTQ+ Ally and Beyond 1:37:41

2y ago1:37:41

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Evan Smith met the intersection of sexuality and religion while serving as an LDS Bishop and eventually in a Stake Presidency. It didn’t take long before Evan began to better understand the difficult and impossible restraints the Church’s policies and doctrines place on LGBTQ Mormons. In the midst of these dichotomies, Evan, and his wife, Cheryl le…

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165: Paul Bird | Finding My Balance As a Gay Mormon 1:08:40

2y ago1:08:40

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For orthodox Christians, especially Latter-day Saints, Paul Bird’s life doesn’t fit the mold. He admittedly loves the Word of Wisdom, but loathes the Law of Chastity. And that is where is story blossoms. Paul is from Tucson, Arizona. He grew up Mormon and, in the closet. He decided to come out when the exclusion policy was leaked in November 2015. …

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TDE EP27 - Bally Midway graphic artist Paul Niemeyer

2y ago

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In any video arcade, especially during the proverbial Golden Age of the Seventies and Eighties, it wasn’t always the games on screen that first caught the eye but the colourful, imposing, sometimes lurid cabinets that housed them. This was bona fide pop art for the coin-op kids of America and beyond. Paul Niemeyer started his career at developer Ba…

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164: Josh Morris | An Honest Conversation About Being Gay 1:13:21

2y ago1:13:21

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Josh Morris was raised in a very small, rural Utah community. Living as a closeted gay teen, in a predominately Mormon town leaves a lot to be desired. The community isn't rich with diversity or opportunity when it comes to understanding your sexuality. In this episode Josh candidly shares his story. He opens up about the good, the bad, the mistake…

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Intuitive Ginny Jablonski - Promoting the Evolution of Conscious Interspecies Relationships 1:00:19

2y ago1:00:19

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Ginny helps both humans and animals understand how past trauma is affecting their lives. Drawing from her own journey and challenging experiences, Ginny is utilizing her intuitive abilities to help many. Count me as one in the "human kingdom" who is very grateful she's chosen to share her gifts world wide, shining her light BRIGHT!…

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163: Melinda Hannah | Painting The Faces of Love 1:11:13

2y ago1:11:13

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Melinda Hannah is no stranger to pain or trauma. She battled her own traumas while simultaneously watching other’s experience their own. Melinda is an artist. She used her talent and brush to paint to tell the stories of the marginalized people among us. While meeting with members of the LGBTQ community who were dying of AIDS, she visioned an art p…

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162: Colter Wild | Finding My Inner Peace 1:25:42

2y ago1:25:42

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Latter-day leaders have often warned that happiness, truth, and spiritual experiences are only found within the framework of Mormonism—Colter's story defies that narrative. Shortly after coming out to his "Provo Mormon" family, Colter began to navigate his own course of spirituality, connection, and mindfulness. Outside of the church, he was able t…

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161: sExcommunication: The Mormon LGBTQ+ Dilemma 7:14:01

2y ago7:14:01

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The LatterGayStories podcast has been following over a dozen same-gender couples that are facing excommunication (membership councils) from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their offense: being legally and lawfully married. In April of 2019, the Church publicly announced that same-sex couples would no longer be considered apostates …

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TDE EP26 - Twin Galaxies founder Walter Day

2+ y ago

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We speak with Walter Day, the grandfather of e-sports and the inspiration for Wreck-it-Ralph’s avuncular arcade manager, Mr Litwack. Walter is the founder of the long-defunct but world-famous Twin Galaxies video arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa, and the international scoreboard of the same name. Day waxes lyrical about the trials and tribulations of running…

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Part 2: Michelle Russo Kundzicz - Discussing reincarnation, reiki, angels, guides and more! 37:16

2+ y ago37:16

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Michelle shares more of her insights on our spiritual lives here and beyond. Always a stimulating conversation with Michelle!

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Delightful Spirit Medium Michelle Russo Kundzicz discussing spirit, life and beyond! 53:07

2+ y ago53:07

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Hull, MA native Michelle Russo Kundzicz eloquently shares with us her experiences and thoughts on spirit, love, our higher self, reincarnation and much more. Lots to cover and enjoy so there will be more to come with Michelle I'm sure!

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160: The Black Menaces | Televising the Mormon Revolution 1:31:28

2+ y ago1:31:28

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In less than one year, five students at Brigham Young University have amassed a social media following of nearly 1,000,000 people. The group, calling themselves the Black Menaces, create videos online that have been liked and shared more than 25 million times and messages supported by celebrities and influencers around the globe. So, what are these…

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Death Comes a Calling for Gary Ramsey Again .... No Worries! 47:39

2+ y ago47:39

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Gary Ramsey is the author of "Bliss: One Hero's Journey" which is the account of his first go around with cancer 7 years ago. Cancer has returned but tune in to learn it's no big deal for Gary!

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