Side Stories: How to Leave The Mormon Church w/ Alyssa Grenfell
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The podcast features a deep, conversational interview with Alyssa Grenfell, an ex-Mormon author and public speaker, on her journey out of the Mormon faith. She highlights the lack of clear exit paths for members, noting that the church actively obscures its own signs of departure. The discussion reveals how Mormonism is structured to maintain control through ritual, secrecy, and social pressure—especially within temple ceremonies, which involve symbolic garments, handshakes, and ceremonies that create intense emotional and psychological experiences. Grenfell explains how the church’s belief system evolved, including shifts in doctrine like the suppression of polygamy and the adaptation to modern politics, while still preserving core ideas like the end times and the preservation of wealth. She critiques the religion’s internal contradictions, such as its endorsement of hyper-feminine lifestyles among women while maintaining a male-dominated theology. The conversation also touches on how former members struggle with social isolation, loss of identity, and the difficulty of adapting to a secular world—especially regarding norms like drinking, modesty, and personal freedom. The podcast underscores how Mormonism’s influence extends into everyday life, from personal relationships to political participation, and how the community often uses secrecy and ritual to reinforce loyalty. Ultimately, the episode serves as both an exposé and a guide, showing that the path to leaving is fraught, emotional, and often requires confronting deep-seated beliefs and societal expectations.
There's no place to escape to. This is the Lost Podcast. On the left. Side stories?
That's when the cannibalism started. Side stories. Yes.
Mormon alert! That's right, we have a full-on white Mormon alert! Mormon alert!
You know, as much as we've talked about Mormons on this show, I still feel like I know nothing.
But that's why, slowly but surely, we're educating you.
Welcome to Side Stories. Sitting here with Ed Larson, who is immune to the charms of the Mormon church.
I don't like them! He can't be bought by them. It doesn't matter.
Fuck soda! Seriously, he doesn't like soda. He can't have it anymore.
Yeah, seltzer's dry. I'm all seltzer now. Yeah, he can't even do it.
I don't want your syrups. I don't want your ice cream.
But we like coffee. I love coffee.
And that's the thing. That's what's nice to do in defiance of them.
My name is Henry Zabrowski. I am the opposite of a Mormon.
But today, we just. Not the total opposite.
You're still white. You're still white.
Yeah, I'm still a white man.
So that's still pretty, honestly, pretty great for me.
And today, we're doing a full guest episode.
Because I met this person through Natalie, as they were doing someplace underneath.
They are. An expert, because they were deeply involved in the Mormon church.
They got themselves out of the Mormon church.
She went and wrote a book called How to Leave the Mormon Church.
Which is one of the. It's a great manual for helping people.
Because what she realized, this influencer. I'd say influencer, presenter.
She has a YouTube channel, Alyssa Grenfell.
But she realized that Mormons were coming out of the church.
And being dropped into this modern world.
With no guide.
Yeah.
At all.
So that's why she wrote this.
To help people get out of the Mormon church.
We talked with her about a bunch of the secrets.
She brought some Mormon underwear in here.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I didn't know it was a thing.
Man, it's kind of sexy.
What do you mean it's sexy?
If you get all wet.
Oh, yes.
Because it's white.
Then you get to see through it.
And you can see through it.
We go through all of this.
The audience is going to love how sexual the conversation gets.
I do.
I tried some of it.
You're going to see.
I don't want to spoil it.
Yeah.
She is Alyssa D. Grenfell on TikTok.
That's A-L-Y-S-S-A-D-G-R-E-N-F-E-L-L.
That's where she prints her stuff.
She's also on YouTube.
That's right.
How to leave the Mormon church is way more difficult than just follow the sign that says exit.
Yeah, because guess what?
They cover the signs.
Yeah.
They do.
Can't get out.
So please listen to our long-form interview of Alyssa Grenfell.
You're going to enjoy this.
You're fucking better.
Oh, we're rolling.
Oh, great.
Okay.
Well, we have a very special guest today.
Somebody that is like truly in the world of religions.
Right?
There's not many.
There's not a lot of room for talkback.
Right?
They don't want you to do it.
And I find it interesting that of all the religions, besides Scientology, if you want
to call it that, that has such a deep core of people willing to talk about the church,
it is the Mormon.
It is the Mormon.
It is the Mormon.
Like, especially after the fact, even from within it, as we were just talking.
And what we have today is a truly very, very smart lady.
Love this book, which is How to Leave the Mormon Church.
And it is an extremely interesting book.
I love the fact that you focus on actual practical things that people need.
And we'll get into all of that.
You also have a YouTube channel that is just under your name, right?
Alyssa Grenfell.
And we're here with author, host, ex-mo, Alyssa Grenfell.
Thank you.
Thank you for having me.
And I'm also here with Ed Larson.
He's sitting right here.
How are you doing?
Yeah, no, I'm basically just hanging out.
This is a conversation between you two, and I'm just here to make sure Henry doesn't attack
you.
No, I'll never do that.
I'll never do that.
I love Mormonity.
I love the Mormonity of it all.
So if you're an ex-mo, do you know any ex-Larry or Curlies?
Don't do that.
I'm sorry, Alyssa.
Do you want to leave?
You know, I feel like I'm the butt of a. I feel like I'm the butt of an inside joke or something.
I don't know what that is.
Oh, it's the Three Stooges.
I'm too old.
Oh, is he Mormon?
No, no, no.
He's Larry, Curly, and Moe.
You literally sandbagged the whole thing at the very fucking top.
Hey, I think it's good.
I'm an escaped Catholic.
Okay.
You know, I was an escaped Catholic.
I went to Catholic school for a while, and I got out of there just as it started getting
hairy.
And now I'm a. What are you now?
What would you call yourself now?
I'm an atheist.
Hell yeah.
Full on?
Full on.
Yeah.
Hardcore.
We're number three now, atheists, in America?
If you call it a group, it's getting there.
Or ex-religious or secular.
Yeah.
A lot of people don't like to claim atheism.
Because they're assholes.
Because it's very unpopular.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Most atheists are pricks.
They can be.
They can be.
But mostly just because they're mad at fake God, like we all are.
Now, when you got out, how long?
You've been out for long.
Well, like five years now, right?
Ten years.
Fully ten years.
All right, good.
How long was it from the. First thought of getting out to getting out?
You know, it's really hard because you have so many thoughts about getting out, but you
suppress them so hard that kind of once I was willing to admit it to myself, I feel
like I'd kind of questioned my whole life.
Sure.
But I was probably. It was probably not until I was about 23 until I was, like, allowing myself to be honest
about it.
Fuck yeah.
Good for you.
Do you know, like, what was the big thing?
Like, what was. It was like, what was the straw that broke the camel's back?
I know you've talked about how it was obviously a long process of just being a lady in the
Mormon church.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And is it just that?
Like, what was the final. Yeah.
My questioning really started with not believing in God versus not believing in the Mormon
church.
Yeah.
So it kind of was like taking it all the way to the bottom.
And then once I stopped believing in God, then it was like, well, fuck Joseph Smith.
You know, like. Of course.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, because he's talking about God.
Yeah.
It doesn't make sense.
Well, I was just. You might as well believe in Zeus.
Oh, very much so.
I just had a. I went down a little bit of a rabbit hole with this horrific fucker named Nathan Larson
who killed himself.
Hey, careful.
I'm sorry.
You know, it's spelled the same way, too.
And he put up Joseph Smith.
He wrote this manifesto, and he put up Joseph Smith as, like, one of the heroes of white
supremacy.
He said in his manifesto he was celebrating Joseph Smith by how. Because of how. How powerful he was and how he was going to try to change the United States government
to be more like the Mormon church.
Yeah.
Joseph Smith tried to run for president.
Really?
And he. Basically, the reason that the Mormons kept getting kicked out everywhere they went was
because they would try to consolidate political power and because of the child rights.
The child rights are the. The child rights are the end.
That kind of. That always comes to see me like. And also the child rights.
It kind of rises to the top, but. It doesn't, though, unfortunately.
I feel like it's. Like, it's always the very. It's all just like, huh, they're trying to fuck with the voting systems and taxes.
And sometimes they have sex with the child.
That's fine.
But it's really just the taxes.
Yeah.
It's really. Yeah.
It's really the governmental power.
Yeah.
The reason they kept getting kicked out is because he kept trying to make himself the
leader of the militia and the leader of the town and the leader of the bank.
And, like, literally every position of power was unilaterally.
He was held by Joseph Smith.
Sounds like a fake name.
Sounds like he just made up the name.
He's like, ah, yeah, Joseph Smith.
He does.
He's a grifter.
He's a grifter and a grave robber.
Do we see that same thing now?
Like, in the end of, like, do. How different is the modern Mormon church to the old Mormon church?
I mean, there's a ton. At least on the governmental level, if you go to Utah, you'll feel like it's the same.
Because every. Both the senators, all of the congresspeople, and the governor are all still Mormon.
Yes.
So it's, like, still a theocracy.
And a lot of the laws are still controlled by Mormon, you know, temperance, basically.
But, I mean, they don't allow, publicly at least, the child brides anymore.
Or polygamy.
Though they still do believe in polygamy.
So. So how does that work?
Like, so they. So it's all in the books.
You get more than one wife.
I know.
It sounds hard.
My question is, how does it work?
How is the. Well, we believe in it, but we don't practice it work.
So, basically, they had to give it up to become part of the United States when they were just a territory.
And now, it's still in the scripture.
So, in the Doctrine and Covenants, it still says polygamy is a-okay.
It's basically, like, we believe in it, but because the laws of the land prohibit it, we honor and sustain the laws of the land.
Which is why, after they banned it in Utah. They set up colonies in Canada and Mexico to keep doing polygamy, which is where Mitt Romney is from.
Oh!
He seems Mexican.
There's something about him.
Yeah, I'm fair.
I don't know if I see it.
I see it's just something.
It's his hard-working, honest. Now, as far as horrible sons of bitches go, Mitt Romney seems like he's almost fine.
Is that true?
Am I completely off-base by thinking that?
Yeah, the political spectrum of Mormon men, Mitt Romney is. on the better side of that.
But how much is that their new savviness of the 2020s versus an actual, like, belief system?
Like, in your mind, because the Mormon church, I think that they're savvy.
They're actually weirdly, like.
They're very adaptive.
Yes.
They understand.
They'd rather adapt than stick to their guns, which is why, you know, polygamy, they got rid of the black ban from black people holding the priesthood.
They get rid of stuff all the time to modernize.
And then in these days, but, like, then how do they rectify it with it?
Now, like, when they talk to you guys about the old, like, the old days, like, how do they frame it?
Like, do they frame, like, when they make those big sweeping changes, like, what is it they say from the inside?
Yeah, it's a doctrine called continuing revelation that says that the current prophet can override and give new revelation versus, like, the previous prophets.
Got it.
So it's not that the old prophet was wrong so much as that the new prophet has new intelligence.
It's information, basically.
Ah, yes.
And now he's refining the science.
Yes.
Like L. Ron Hubbard, he's refining it.
So, all right.
So the end of the world, how many people?
130,000 people?
What is the number?
That's Jehovah's Witnesses.
Oh, it's Jehovah's Witnesses.
Well, isn't it, in Mormonism, it is the same number.
They use the number.
But isn't that number supposed to be, like, the idea that that's the amount of Mormons that will be left to lead the end world, like the 140,000?
You know, they do believe.
It's in the Book of Revelation, but I didn't really grow up hearing that number, ever.
Okay. Really?
So, yeah, I mean, I'm sure if you were to go back, and maybe this is just, like, the continuing revelation of it all, that I never heard this, because if I talk to a woman or anyone who was Mormon who was, like, 50 or, like, you know, older than me, they'll give me all this random doctrine that I'm like, "Fuck, I never heard that."
So there's a, like, I'm not going to, I can't deny that that might be a thing because it's changed so much.
And they used to have a lot more, like, craziness.
They used to have, like, crazy end times doctrine that they would teach that they've kind of moved away from.
And that as a whole, because, like, someone said that when we were doing the Chad Daybell/Lori Vallow, like, series, they said that you'd find that within every Mormon enclave, there's, like, a couple of crazy people.
Definitely, yeah, more than a couple.
Do you have an example of that?
Yeah, like, I, especially when I have moved around a lot, but I used to live in Montana.
Yeah.
Like, in my congregation in Montana, it was very Preppery, tons of, like, really obsessed with guns, really obsessed with food storage.
Well, it's a part, isn't it a tenet of the religion, too, to Prep?
Yeah, and that's why people are so confused by Mormons, like, meeting Mormons, because you can meet, like, a Botox Mormon who is, like, a lady with a boob job, and they all want to have a pool and a boat, and then in the same ward, congregation, there's, like, the Prepper Mormon who, they don't let their kids wear makeup, or, like, they, you know.
Yeah, you could say that inside of a Catholic church, as well.
Yeah, it's, like, what part they fixate on.
But with Catholic church, it's, like, all the social stuff is supposed to kind of be to the side.
You only get involved because you're forced to by all the guilt of the societal, like, pressing on you.
You know, I agree, but I also want a bunker.
Of course!
Yeah, bunkers should not be, bunkers should not just be for the corrupt.
Yeah, no, I mean, the end of the world is coming, so.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, can I ask--
Where else am I gonna play poker with my dogs?
Gabby, I don't know!
You gotta teach 'em how to be like, "That's not how you bluff.
That's not how you fuckin' bluff.
Every time you get a good hand, I shoot your tail away!"
Why does the Mormon Church save all this money for the end of the world?
You know, Jesus really loves USD.
Why--
Well, 'cause Jesus came to America.
I guess so.
Yeah.
And he's holding on to something like $100 billion.
More, yeah, it's like 300, probably.
Damn!
And they use it in their funny little Mormon way.
They say those little terms and phrases, and they say it was for a rainy day.
Yeah, it's our rainy day fund.
Is that 'cause of Noah?
Is that like a something to do with Noah?
But what does that, what does a rainy day mean?
You know, I do, in Mormonism, and every religion seems to have, like, different interpretations of the end times.
In Mormonism, the belief is that Jesus will renew the earth and things are gonna be really good.
But before they're really good, like, shit's gonna hit the fan.
Tribulations.
Yeah, so my guess in their mind is they're saving it for the tribulations.
Like, there's another prophecy that at some point the Constitution will hang by a thread.
This is from Joseph Smith.
Yeah.
And that the Mormon people will step in and save the Constitution and save, like, God in America or whatever.
What do they do if money isn't real anymore?
It's the end of the world.
It's gonna be hard.
But do you feel like, that's what I've heard, right?
So that's like a dog whistle.
Mm-hmm.
Right?
The hanging by a thread term.
Like, there was some, somebody used it.
I forgot who it was.
I think it was.
Probably Lori, yeah, Chad Daylow and Lori Vallow.
Yes.
Like, that's the type of Mormonism they were really into.
Because it seems that her father, Lori Vallow's father, was a heavy prepper.
And he said the same thing.
Like, apparently they started hardcore when some guy in the government said hanging by
a thread on television.
And then he said, we are not, we're ready to go.
That's the Mormon signal.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I found this.
There's this YouTuber that is like a Mormon prepper.
And he has this spreadsheet, this Google Sheets thing with like, it has like 200 tabs.
And in each tab, they're basically tracking all of the metrics that Mormon leaders have
said are like signs of the end of the world.
And every time, I've gone back to it like so many times, and there's always like, you
know how you can see how many editors there are?
There's always like unlimited editors.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So basically, the religion is just becoming what the people say it is.
Yeah.
At least like the, you know, the church could very well like tamp down on this like kind
of extremist sect or like branch.
Well, those are the people that give the most money.
Well, no.
Because unfortunately, in the Mormon church, like the theology has a built in sort of franchisee
like thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And if you make a strong enough claim to be your own prophet, you can spin your own church
off the main Mormon body.
And it's still Mormon, capital M, Mormon.
Mormonism.
Mormonism.
Yeah.
Like, I mean, Chad Daybell is an example of that.
Warren Jeffs.
The Lafferty's, Warren Jeffs, FLDS, like most of these sects, there's one called the
Order.
I mean, there's some that are polygamous, some that are, you know, some that are like
three people, some that are 100.
And like, Mormonism, because it's built on prophets, it's very easy to claim prophetic
authority.
Yeah, right.
Because you just say it.
Because it's, to me, kind of feels like, like joking, but like, it kind of feels like
when you bluff in poker, where it's about timing.
It's about like, okay, like, what's this number from?
Trust me, I just watched a documentary series.
Sam Bateman.
About Sam Bateman.
And it seems it's like, okay, it's like he waited for a little bit.
Yeah, wait for the power vacuum.
And then you're like, I'm the prophet now.
And then like, you just have to wait properly.
Yeah.
And wait till people are kind of like, what do we do next?
They're like, you know, or if the, like the FLDS, the reason they became like more well
known is because everybody, Wilford Woodruff is the one that said, we're not doing polygamy
anymore.
And then they were like, well, that's a sign he's a fallen prophet.
Sure.
So they wait till there's like a fallen prophet moment.
And then some new dude is like, charismatic and just like, oh, it's me now.
So the leaders just basically call it.
They're like, I call it.
I'm it.
I'm the guy.
It does seem like it.
And when they're setting up that family, like what exactly is the benefit of being a sister
wife?
What is it?
Besides just getting all that fucking primo dick.
Jesus Christ.
All that delicious, delicious.
Your wife came in here and told you to be nice to her.
I'm just saying.
Natalie came down and she said, be nice to her.
I'm being extremely nice.
I'm just saying.
We have to be nice to her.
I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
We all can imagine just getting that, oh, Sam Bateman's delicious tiny hands.
With his white leather jacket.
Oh, God, he's cool.
He's so disgusting.
God, he's so cool.
And he's so fast.
But he's got all those, I mean, he has like seven Bentleys.
It's like clearly, you know, he figured out something.
Well, you know, he's just taking money from them.
Yeah.
He's figured out how to manipulate people.
But I mean, from a sister wife perspective, I do feel like if someone tells you your salvation
is dependent on doing fucking anything.
If you believe them, you'll do whatever.
Like, I mean, that's like the premise of cults.
So I think the sister wife thing is the same, where it's like they're born into it.
They believe it fully.
And they believe that if they don't, that they're going to hell.
You ever try to get someone out, like explain to them, listen, this is all wrong.
I'm out.
My life's so much better now.
Yeah.
To Mormons, yes, but not to FLDS or like polygamous people.
They don't even talk to you.
Okay.
I mean, that Trust Me documentary was so fascinating watching her slowly.
Like having to literally deprogram them to even get them to the point where they're even
willing to acknowledge that I don't want to be raped anymore.
Yeah.
And I mean, especially the scene where they're in the car, the two girls trying to get Sam
Bateman out of jail.
And they're like, I have never been happier in my entire life.
This is exactly where I want to be.
And we're basically actually celebrities.
I believe that, like they're saying, I believe that I am the most important person on the
planet right now.
And I'm like, I'm going to be the most important person on the planet right now.
that they like the feeling of first wife feeling they're powerful the chosen wife feeling yeah
you know because they're a part of a new cool basically the new hip mormon school yeah like
if you walk out you know if you walk out in a like i think that's yeah the the like b a being
able to like rise up in a cult or in a religion is like a power trip because you're like look at
how excellent i am because i'm already in the truest religion on earth and now i'm in high
leadership in the truest religion on you know because there are people like you where you were
so nervous it made felt like this burden like you need to be a perfect mormon yeah you seem to like
feel like this tremendous burden and it seems it's those that think oh actually this makes me
closer to god i like this it serves another purpose yeah i think and i think i had probably
both experiences like both emotional experiences at different points yeah where like i
went on a mission and i went on a mission and i went on a mission and i went on a mission and
on a mission um would you go to fucking colorado okay my husband went to sweden so that's cool
but don't they isn't there like a thing with where you go isn't there like uh an insinuation kind of
like not anything like they kind of tell you like it's special but it's a ping pong ball out of a
fucking thing but no it's like my buddy don is mormon growing up he definitely but because he
could speak spanish fluently they sent him to south america they you submit a whole application
and if you had like
say that i had a parent who served in a certain place they might be like oh we'll we'll send you
to that same place or if you learn japanese in high school okay we'll send you to japan
um or often it is like literally just racial profile profiling like if you are black and you
are in living in america they'll send you to africa um because you'll have an easier time
converting people because you look like the people so asian mormons they'll send to asia
even if they're like as white american like basically still just from america from utah
christianity has taken over africa and like it's not like it was definitely white people who did
that yeah true dutch and now and then well now the chinese are turning it into a gigantic cobalt
mine they'll usually do they'll pair someone who is of the ethnicity of the country with a white
person interesting so it like gets them almost into the door but then also introduces like this
cool american religion
if you told me you were from colorado i believe you yeah yeah yeah or utah i mean you have a
colorado vibe but that's better than a utah vibe i'll take it's the nose ring
could you ski is that why they sent you they're like she'll be great on the slopes she loves she
loves going down so the reason i think i was sent to colorado is because i disclosed mental health
issues and if you disclose mental health issues you're seen almost like as a flight risk where
they don't want to waste a ticket a ticket to europe on you
and maybe you'll be sent home early so i mean this is like most most of this is like what people you
know assume the the word on the street you know there's no handbook that says this but they were
right yeah they definitely they nailed it um yeah so if i had not disclosed that or like um another
funny thing is only women are in the temple square mission in utah because it's like a honeypot
situation so if you go walk through the temple square you'll only see like very beautiful young
women i noticed that it's like very beautiful like blonde blue eye none of the elders yeah they
don't let the stinky boys go no no because i hate the boys the boys are gross yep most people feel
that way walking around with backpacks on and they just got done biking always i have this idea
this happened to me the other day they came to my door alissa i took all of my strength to not
heretic them
because like our home as you can imagine
excellent yes here we go enjoy have a cup of coffee
is there anything you miss the book the book of mormon i did bring one oh nice did you steal it
yeah good no this is my well did i bring it okay here it is
i wanted to give this to you that's so sweet of you i wrote my testimony in the front just kidding
this was all an elaborate ruse i'm still mormon
that's the most effective sales pitch i've ever seen honestly but is there anything is there
anything you're like oh fuck like that i miss um you know i think mostly uh when you leave a religion
like the mormon church you're never going to be able to like replicate the sense of community
because i'm kind of an orphan now from like i'll never be able to be as integrated into a social
group as i wasn't to the mormon like mormon church i'm an atheist i think you're great
and my family hates me now so i mean you know it probably would have anyway so i maybe i miss my
family yeah well they see here's the thing they if you would have stayed they still would have hated
you but they would have been currently abusing you as well yep and so like maybe just as angry
that is love yeah and so you made the right choice very conditional love but like when you you know
i mean i still miss like i i wish i could still walk into a room and say what i'm feeling around
my family you know not that i ever like fully could but i felt like i could at least more than
i do now when's the last time you talked to him um like a month ago okay
it's very cordial we don't and you know i know that they hate that i'm doing all of this and
especially i brought the temple clothes today oh no we're good i want to try some on that's the
most heretical thing i do so i think that that specifically is what has made them the most
frustrated they gotta see it though like it's for like honestly we're fucking curious sorry
the rest of us are super fucking curious you don't have secret underwear then if you don't
even know about it then don't have it just call it underwear yeah as soon as you say secret
underwear what was like would you say the biggest cultural like hurdles you hit when you left like
what was the the hardest part to kind of like that's what i loved what you did with your book
i love the fact that you helped kind of be like here's a couple of things that help you not be as
weird when you get into public school like when you get out of school you're like oh my god i'm
amongst us i would say like um mormonism gives you so many rules that then when you leave this
is a big problem with a lot of ex-mormons is it's like feels like there's no rules
so um i would say like trying to adapt to okay i want to try drinking but i literally have no
context for this i haven't grown up seeing drinking in movies even i haven't seen my
parents do it like whether it's that or any other substances uh immodesty or like you know i never
tank top before like yeah it's like that's wild too that's immodest right like it's any any inch
yeah any showing your shoulders short shorts like so i think i think like figuring out the balance
between like doing what always feels very radical like drinking coffee feels very radical
but the celsius allowed no well uh so it is now because they kind of got rid of the caffeine rule
but when i was a kid i couldn't have caffeine yes this is one of the big changes because
rob brought this up before the show is with the dirty soda
yes and that was what eddie was very dirty soda eddie wanted to know what a dirty soda was
you don't think you do at least i can describe to him what a dirty soda is yeah it sounds kind
of gross but it's basically and sonic sonic has already been doing stuff like this so it's kind
of a ripoff of sonic but aren't they kind of a mormon company so sonic yeah i don't think sonic
all right yeah i'm sorry i thought that swig is the uh main dirty soda company but it's usually
like any soda with like a
creamer so they'll put like half and half into their soda or coffee creamer
or like they'll do like the pumps of the italian soda pumps type stuff like
any mixin and then like lime or it's how vanilla coke got invented dude you should try it it's so
sweet it's so gross it's like vanilla ice cream sometimes in your soda kind of that's cool that's
a float that's a root beer yeah yeah these are all products i mean it's i feel like the
it like gives me a stomach ache but i'm also not like a huge soda drinker so i mean it's not as bad
as like a rum and coke still not it's not that dirty i prefer a rum and coke
do you find that now like that the world seems to kind of be cracking open about
mormonism and understanding like aren't they having a hard time keeping people in
so apparently from a recent study i think i've heard different stats but i've heard 40 of people
my age and younger leave i've heard 40 of them leave and i've heard 40 of them leave and i've
heard 50 it's hard to know because like they have to be hitting on a young person problem
yeah i think they definitely are and they don't want to do anything there's a subreddit called
mormon shrivel yes that has like every time a church building goes up for sale people post it
on there and yeah i mean i definitely think they're shrinking and maybe that's why they
are now changing other rules like they change the rule about tattoos and piercings yeah that's so
you fucking weak bitches you're so fucking weak well
they stopped getting their money dude they stopped getting their fucking income so they
gotta bend some rules catholic church doesn't give a fuck yeah pope leo he's talking about
anti-ai but he still hates gay people and he doesn't give a fuck that's a fucking
they got that's a cult with a spine that's where they need to get going but like yeah that must be
because it's really kind of all zipping out now it's like so this actually probably puts us into
a really fun good way to start this which is i find it interesting that your parents think that
you talking about the temple garments is the most like like the horrific thing that you do why um
because the temple is like the most secretive part of mormonism um i know that probably for
you know you all like you just google it and you'd see the things online and you'd be like
oh that's what it is but like for within the religion or like it feels like a cult when you
start talking about the temple it's like a very well-protected secret like i didn't know anything
about the temple until i went through it myself and i would even have um you know friends in high
school because i grew up outside of utah they'd try to they'd be like watch this youtube video
and i'd be like i know
i was like no this that's sacred like so whether it's like the secret handshakes or the apron or
like the the words that you know the secret words that you learn yeah there's like certain things
you have to say like a passcode yeah and there's like a you don't know doesn't somebody stick like
their hand through the curtain and then you go through the whole thing and you did the whole
thing right the most boring secret handshake of all time unfortunately yeah i wish it was like
you guys hold pancakes
which well which hand there are four handshakes what's the what's the first hand so the first
handshake okay the first handshake is you put you both put your thumb on like the yeah right there
so like right on the knuckle okay okay so that's the second one is the valley of the knuckle valley
of the knuckle which is what i normally call that the vagina of the knuckle continue i'm just saying
um and then the next one you would go like this okay and i would do that to you
well okay then you pinch the hand no well that's that's we do me and julie we do that to each other
we squeeze this little meat right here it feels good it is really nice where did all that shit
fucking i know that everything was stolen from masonry and all that kind of stuff do they but
we didn't oh we didn't do the most fun hand oh please the fourth one you uh do that with your
pinkies and then do this and then like that oh wait like tickle you know no yeah like that this
one's actually kind of cool that's the patriarchal grip i feel like yeah you know we're gonna start
off a mountain yeah i want to do that yeah yeah i want to do that with you go ahead all right so
we could just sit here and here and then you put this here and there we go yeah that's awesome that
feels like you're getting in yeah actually make me feel strong i do feel it feels gender edifying
when we do that though like what do they tell you that is so it's in the temple they say it's the
signs and tokens that you will present to the angels who stand as sentinels in the celestial
kingdom got the highest level of heaven which is interesting because it's very similar to what the
the buddhists do with the bardo with this idea of like physicalizing this idea of you have to
there are certain steps you're gonna have to go through in order to get through and it's very
like one-to-one it's not allegorical man it is the thing you're gonna you're gonna meet an angel
and so that's what they're saying right is that when you die this is gonna be the same setup but
it's gonna be in heaven yes and there's also so there's the handshakes and then there's the words
you have to know so i like to do that and then there's the handshakes and then there's the words
you have to know so i like got a new it's called a new name which a lot of religions
i wish there was some latin that would be kind of fun is it just made up is it names or is it
actual made up words so it's names from the bible which is you're good which is so funny because um
they're supposed to be from the bible but there's like way more men in the bible than women
yeah so um men
so
,
so uh like the men's names are all things like adam or michael like these like you know awesome
like the very main characters of the bible and the women will be like abish like esther esterman
it's all bad names yeah grimlock you know grimlock and when you went through it did
you feel anything uh mostly afraid yeah um because it gets built up so much that it's like
so much in your mind as like literally the most important thing that will ever happen to you
yeah um you're endowed with power on high and after you go through the ceremony and you get
past the angels that's like the the ceremony that is basically your pre-entrance ceremony
to becoming a god fascinating so and then what do you do after that you go like get
the hamburgers and stuff like you go do all this and say like okay you just became a god
let's go let's go to mcdonald's it's more like a god in utero
and then you just go off and live a life yeah i mean then you are supposed to keep your covenants
so you make all these promises in the temple that your covenants and then the rest of your life is
kind of the test to prove you can keep the temple covenants and that you used to have to promise to
kill yourself if you yeah that's i mean i didn't have to promise that to kill myself
which is why i can talk about that's what we got
god you're fucking got you god i got you fucking god man i can't believe
there's levels to heaven go fuck yourself i know he's saying if i don't if i die poor
you probably you don't is it based on money it's not platinum diamond it's not socioeconomic yeah
it's not based on like your net worth at the time of death um but they do like a rich mormon they
love a rich oh yeah yeah and they are always the ones who get like promoted into the higher levels
of leadership but yeah we would go to the telestial kingdom because you guys are atheists
um christianist even worse okay yeah well so there's change me
trying to fix me so even satanist would still go to the same level
unfortunately i wish there was a better cooler level for you for being a satanist no i like ah
honestly it's be hell in and of itself don't bring me to mormon heaven i don't want to go
so salt lake city was nice salt lake city's fine well salt lake too is so weird because
you have the
church hq but that's also like the most secular city in utah so there's like a huge counterculture
where you can there's like this barber shop where they have the temple symbols on the barber shop
is like the logo which is also like very heretical but like there's a lot of like temple middle
fingers around or like everywhere a bar called water witch which is like what joseph smith was
so slc has got the single of all of the places i've been to one of the most intense alt scenes
oh yeah
hilarious out there that's because the ex-mormon thing because like you know it's like the pendulum
you kind of become like more you're like let me let me go the opposite direction i'm gonna do all
the drugs we need all the tattoos yeah i'm gonna be a satanist and fuck all of this it's so much
fun you guys are great um okay so we're here you have brought some temple garments yes i'd love to
at least look at them okay because the only time i've ever seen them is in i'm gonna be uncouth here
okay
there's a series of documentary films on the internet called mormon girls with a z yes i'm
familiar now that is the only way i've seen these before so please let's unsex these
impossible yeah i'm sorry yeah because that's the thing is that they seem kind of like
like they are very lacy okay okay so how often do you wear yeah how often you wear these um
like a mormon burka mostly just okay so here's the i have here the underwear and the temple robes
kind of separate things but um this is the underwear all right so now the underwear for
those of you who don't know they're not watching this i will describe it i have one pair of boxer
briefs they're like this is a long-legged boxer brief i like a long leg boxer brief i don't they
ride up they do well yeah sometimes it's like nice because you don't have the thigh chafing
i guess it's true now does that go on with no underwear with that on
correct so that's first layer so this is your bottom underwear it is a little loose as a man
man and woman oh so women also have the same yeah you have a little panty these are women's
underwear okay so men and women wear the same underwear basically women aren't wearing underwear
they're wearing this yeah i guess yes they're not wearing it's almost like a spanx thing like you
know uh but also so then they also have the symbols so if you see they have like that little
stitch there yes that's part of the temple ceremony
got it okay so and then they come in different like fabrics too so but they're always white
yes they're always white now gotta hit that i'll put it on the clown what what my question is is
what does one do with i'm going to say the mormon men from what i've seen i'm just going to make a
call i think they're a skid marked group of men i think that there was a group of men it's a lot
of fast food i feel like if there was a group of men that would leave skid marks it would be the
mormon men how are we getting these stains out i'm gonna say the baptists are worse
can you speak to experience uh you know i can't speak to the experience of if mormon men generally
get skid marks because it has to be a thing that's definitely side stories lpotl at gmail.com
that has to be a fucking thing i'm afraid we're gonna have to get a new mormon expert
yeah you might need a dude for that one
no way he's wiping right yeah i mean i can't speak to that i can't speak to being a sister wife
and to wilson so they got the men uh so this is the top so you wear this every day
every day day and night under your clothes under your clothes now do when you wear these as well
like do you have to how many pairs of these do you have um and like same as normal underwear got it
yeah so and then change it every day so it's not like you can only have one set no it's not
disgusting that would be hilarious i just thought it was like one set and then you should wear that
forever so it falls off like it's a hell's angels leather they're clean do you want to try to put
one of them on yes it might be a little small i'm gonna step out for women step out i'm gonna
come right back please banter amongst no actually i do have a question about um about what's going
on in the morgan community right now okay the the head dude the old guy he just died yes what's his
name nelson nelson prophet president nelson president nelson so who replaced him do you know
oaks yeah president oaks so what's his deal um he so he's a lawyer or he is a lawyer by trade
so um that's why
is getting sued in my opinion because basically he's like taking over you know the prophet
basically gets to take over the reins for the church so i think nelson was a little softer
okay still not that but like physically too yeah very old yeah they're all so old too this is very
sexy this is great god i can see your hair through it yeah that is crazy do you want the
well yeah give me
maybe the bottoms they're gonna have to stay with me
don't put a don't make them you're under nothing yeah go for it yeah yeah let me just we were gonna
i see through this i don't he's gonna come in with his over your pants yes i don't want to yes
she doesn't need to see his penis yeah no this is like come on yeah i usually just put them on
over my clothes but he's going he's going hard so no bras in the morning you can wear you still
wear a bra okay but like you're supposed to wear um um on basically you're supposed to wear a bra on
basically under the garment or like yeah or is it sorry over the garment so the garments are as
close to your skin as possible see like to be honest you it is nice it's very form-fitting
i do feel like with i don't know if it's supposed to be yeah they are women's are they supposed to
be loose are these yours yeah so those are well no those are a new it's a new pair so okay yeah
my so i can really blow through these yeah you're welcome to they're not yeah those are like fresh
out of the bag now how do you order them um you can't well you can't and now since i took my name
off the rolls i can't but really yeah you have to have the special recommend oh wow so this is a
collector's item it really is people go well because of the sex thing the girl's gone wild i
do think people will like try to buy them online because it's like a kink wow what do you mean
you know what but this is kind of it's form-fitting i feel like that i could you know a lot of the
guys could use a little bit more support and i think that this is kind of nice for them this
is actually kind of comfortable okay yeah they're really nice they're very um soft yeah yeah and
what is that okay so so basically as part of the temple ceremony you would first receive your
underwear and your new name so you get it that day you get it that day so it's all happening to you
at once is that when you turn eight no that's your baptism that's the baptism so usually endowment is
after 18 it's like 18 to 25 because you have to really choose yeah you have to opt in well yeah
basically you you would get interviewed and you have to like pass all their questions and stuff
to get the temple recommend yes and you have to do that for baptism you get an interview and then
you have a separate interview for the temple and then you have an interview to get married in the
church so it's like yeah constant um so what is this thing so you get so once so once you get
the underwear that's called the washing and anointing ceremony you get the new underwear and
the new name and uh and then you go into the endowment which is like the main ceremony um i
don't you can wear this dress if you want i mean i don't know is that one yours too is that one also
yours this one is for real my dress so wow so they put that on you and then that's how you walk
through your dress i bet i bet this would fit you because see the holy what i had to get when i got
my confirmation i had to go to the husky section yeah oh yeah yeah yeah i'm not gonna fit this no
oh no i will destroy this well maybe you're a tiny woman are you sure yeah oh yeah it's very
it's kind of big on me but i'm i'm pretty thick right now you know i'm creatine i work out i think
if henry put it on it would explode should i put it on yeah sure we can have it makes me feel like
i look good in this yeah i can see honestly gold chain i feel like this is like borderline like
italian man on vacation
get the chains out so they're over the top
this is like really nice i miss the 1920s you're welcome to have it this is like a sleepover i'm
gonna tell you i don't know if you want it back i have a lot of backups okay so so is this going
out or is this sleeping this is for just the endowment ceremony so this is just so just for
the endowment alissa is wearing a beautiful lace dress and she's wearing a beautiful lace dress
with it's got some mother of pearl beads on it and then she's like oh you're dressing like a bride
it's kind of but you would do this all the time in the temple well i love the over the shoulder
lace very greek yes very air like aristotelian like that's the thing right it feels very
and it is it's almost like yeah i mean it's kind of stolen it's kind of stolen from masonry
but it's also for me
joseph smith's little spin oh my god they have a leaf thing over the crotch yeah that's just like
you're in the adam and eve yep oh yeah just make sure that nobody sees anything do you all believe
in adam and eve yes yeah yeah well adam and eve were the first mormons oh they were yeah the very
first mormons so where so jesus came to salt lake city no no he came to new york he came to new york
actually no so um you look like you look more irish yeah you look like my babu you look like
like it kind of looks your grandma babu no but you know i mean like but you look like a russian
uh uh like bride woman like this is now you're a ghost this is right now i feel like i'm in the
haunted mansion you're just so frightened why do they do this why do they do this to you you have
to do this to become a god in the afterlife but it's just fabric how much is this so this whole
get up is probably like 100 bucks it's not too bad probably more now it was 100 bucks like 15
years ago but they don't give it to you for free no so you gotta buy it and then you show up and
same with the underwear so you buy your own shit you show up to your endowment and then they put
the shit you just bought on your body basically yeah you're or you're like your mom would help you
and throughout the ceremony you add more things so like you start with just the white dress and
then as the ceremony progressed well you start with the white dress and the underwear um and
then as the ceremony progresses you start adding these little pieces on wow do they all have
different meanings the pieces um so this is supposed to be represent adam and eve so right
about that it's a green leaf because you learn the story of adam and eve leaving the garden of
eden which is in missouri which is also hilarious the idea that anybody would not want to leave
missouri i've always wanted to go to branson it's so weird if branson's the garden of eden
i literally turned around and saw you forgot that you were wearing that i was like i thought i saw a
ghost yeah oh my god it's the nun who is this yeah i feel like uh and then during certain parts of
the ceremony the women they they kind of changed it but you have to veil your face so when you
chant in a circle you do this oh god hear the words of my mouth and you're doing the patriarchal
grip with the person next to you and you're doing all of this for the first time and you're like what
the what the fuck is happening it is you know but i actually view it as a i mean uh more cynically
obviously l ron hubbard built it very specifically into scientology the xenu reveal was so specifically
done to get you all the way in like he knew he knew what to do he knew to put you through
yeah he learned it from the oto he learned it from other religions
and that's kind of fine that interesting is that you're what you see here is the old
g version of it from stolen from freemasonry of how to make somebody stay yeah and it's like you
have to do so much work just like scientology you have to do a lot of work to get to the point where
they even allow you to have this information yeah so by the time you're walking the walk
the idea of it being silly or or dumb must do it like that's the last thing from your
like what you were saying it's very fright it must be very powerful and frightening because
and it makes because when you go through this you're like damn mitt romney did this
my parents did this all of my closest like my all my loved ones in this entire community did this
and there were okay with it so if i'm not okay with it it means i'm wrong yes because everyone
i love and trust has literally done this fucking chanting ceremony which means and you've just went
and have done let's just be nice here an hour of total nonsense that doesn't do anything and
when you're in the middle of it and like i've read that a lot of people talking about this you're like
oh this is all weird and sad and scary did you see some people who like obviously felt like they were
filled with god's love um so
by the time like when you do the endowment everyone else which it could be like 30 to 40
people or more like everyone else in the room has already done the ceremony got it so when you go
through you and then you get this like special piece of paper that they tape onto you or they
pin onto you so everybody in the room knows that it's your first time oh and so it's almost like
also the like social pressure of like everyone's staring at me because they all know it's my first
time like the Catholics we do it as a team you know there's like a bunch of for Holy Communion
there's like you know 70 of us so we get in the cookie for the first time oh I remember the but
that was also different like you know Catholic it was like I kind of felt like maybe the same
where it's like a social but also like you've probably you probably saw lots of people do that
for the first time and get communion for the first time before you did it yourself I saw it yeah we
got to actually see you kind of visualize like okay someday I'm gonna do that and I know what's
like I know what I'm gonna wear I know what's gonna what's gonna be said this is like totally
blindsided yes it's done to it's done for that purpose yeah I like when I was growing up as a
Mormon teenager I thought I'm basically like a non-denominational Christian just with the Book
of Mormon like everything else felt like I'm going to youth groups I'm going to church on Sunday
I'm reading the Bible like you were almost like lulled into this sense of like I'm just like
everybody else and then you're like what the fuck oh my god it's the boiling water the frog in the
boiling water
yeah don't to kind of wrap this up but was there any because we do have current Mormon listeners
still somehow like we still have to say there's more underwear I've actually brought some of mine
from home this is the Satanist traditional Tommy John's what's a thing you're like yes because we
do we do still have some current Mormon listeners okay what's so fucking sorry about this yeah like
seriously but honestly what is the is there anything you could say to be like this is what
helped me get out this is what I did like I bet there are some people listening right now that
are scared to get out you know I find that engaging with stuff like this is almost like
the pinnacle of like right before you leave because you're like oh I'm so nuanced I can
listen to it and I still keep my faith but then it chips away at your like understanding of the
religion and like how much I feel like most people before they leave they go through like a doubling
down phase because they're like I don't want to leave I don't I can't cope with that I'd rather
just go harder yeah and then they fall off the cliff that are like oh I don't believe but so
maybe they're like that I don't know yeah no it's like it's like you always see like whenever like
someone's about to break up with someone they make a lot of noise and they're like oh I don't believe
lots of really nice mushy Instagram posts the longer the caption is the more in trouble the
relationship is exactly love my babe that's always like great relationship yeah yeah it's like done
or they're very like social Mormons like because it's so costly socially to leave the church
I find there's a lot of it's called PMO physically and mentally out so who like I don't know what
types of emails you're getting from Mormons but you were talking about too but like the lady
Mormons that are like you know like the lady Mormons that are like the lady Mormons that are
like doing all of the Botox all of the boob implants all of the stuff where it's like
hyper hyper feminine they are being extremely feminine and real housewives of Salt Lake City
like how does the Mormon church square with that fucking shit yeah I honestly I feel like it's
because the religion is like for men by men and men are never going to be pissed about women
trying to be hot so it does seem like that because men get no coffee
you can get a boob job you can get a boob job yeah and because Mormon men I mean I do say that I was
like man they have it fucking good they just get a job like if you stay in right like someone will
hook you up with a job someone hooks you up with a wife somebody looks for all the men it must be
hard to get men out yeah I think it very much is I mean my I was talking to a friend recently and
they know someone who recently they literally moved houses because they had left the church
and then found it like he he lost all of his like business contacts so they moved to a different
part of Utah and like pretended like they had been active in the other ward and then they were like
reintegrated so that he could get basically social contacts back that's how I said if you don't hear
me for a while you don't hear from me for a while and all of a sudden I'm like you you you somehow
see me under a different name as a small town preacher where I'm running a different church
and doing stuff just don't say anything just imagine you're making a documentary of some
yeah yeah yeah you're like you ever see me in that position just understand I'm working on
something okay because obviously I've lost everything yeah yeah and also let me I'll ask
you this question I was just asking Natalie upstairs okay this is got nothing to do with
Mormonism this is literally just a lady question because one question okay why'd you point at me
because you'll hear okay you get married at 20 years old right 21 years old yeah you're married
for like a year as your your man lady dies
how long are you a widower for are you a widower even if you get married again
I'm confused by the question it's okay you're young man young wife you asked this to Natalie
earlier yeah like how long do you have to wait before but just like are you always a widower
from then on no I don't think so yeah I mean are you if you have a wife that dies you're always a
even if it was the first marriage six months long you barely were married now you got a new wife
you've been with her for a decade if she dies you're always a widower you're always a widower
if she dies then you still love her so you're a widow yeah I mean I think you could self-describe
as a widower but if that was like the first thing out of your mouth when you meet people
it'd be a little hey I'm a widower this is my new wife though hey I lost the first one kept this one
yeah I'm a widower yeah that's a fun sentence you're like trying to use it for like sympathy
points I got widowers energy
she was upset yeah yeah
I don't know if that is a lady I don't think that's a lady question
I thought you were going to ask me like a period question
once married you are no longer officially a widower
that's actually from the newest study of the new wives administration
they say that you're no longer a widower
yeah the new wives say fuck that bitch
if you were to marry a widower you'd be a widower
let's say he really loved her you've been with your husband for a while you got kids and all that kind of stuff
the interview's over by the way
my question is is that if you were to
we'll save this
what do you mean you're halfway through the nonsense
I lost it I lost it I lost the edge
I thought you were going to ask about polygamy because if a Mormon man's first wife dies and then he gets remarried
then now he's a polygamist in heaven
interesting does he want that though
sealed to both well it doesn't matter if he wants it
did you get married but when you were still in the church
yes yeah we were married in the temple
really and you both got out
yeah oh are you still married to the same person
yes yeah that's amazing I know that's actually very beautiful
that's really beautiful honestly it's really nice
and you guys all were your kids in too
no thankfully we didn't have kids till after we left
got it
which you'd think maybe we'd be like fuck having kids we're not going to do that
but you know I still wanted to have kids after leaving
especially now that you got all your fucking ducks in a row
yeah
oh yeah
and how does he now that he's out too is he still kind of just like whoa like it's how's he his transition
what does he do for a living
is he cocaine salesman
he does PR and marketing
interesting
yeah um so yeah I mean we left together and we're raising our kids to be basically like atheists in Texas
which is like funny because my seven-year-old will come home and be like I told everyone God isn't real
and then they started arguing with me
fuck yeah it's sad
that is the Lord's work
yes it is
it's so bad
honestly
like sorry son
the older people are going to have a real I do think that it's that gender I have a lot of hope for those kids for your kids
I have a lot of hope for that generation
there's no nuns anymore
nuns are done
well I am I have hope but I'm also afraid because they're two I have two boys and I'm worried about like the red pill
neo conservative like the new conservative young men who are like
bone smashing
I think as long as um your husband like hugs him every once in a while
yeah yeah yeah
those are
that's what I mean
they will at least yeah they'll definitely grow up with a strong father figure who is not like that
as long as you got a father that can maybe show some form of affection that might help the little boys
yeah y'all are good parents you don't got to worry about that shit
yeah you already make great decisions like being on the show
I sure hope so
yeah being on this fantastic show
well thank you for having me
this has got to be one of the this is I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm apologizing her the viewers
I'm apologizing to everyone but I also feel like
did you see the symbols did you look
yeah there's a V right here
yeah that's the most important part and then on the belly button too
your belly button has a V
oh no it's just a line
yeah they all mean different things
it's on Wendy
what do these mean
that's like was that where the tracker chip goes
no that's that's your c-section
oh
they're all the the masonry you know like the sim the compass and the ruler they're the masonic symbols
oh okay
this is a kind of
this is a kind of stuff I want on my own clothes I want to have a monogram
but it needs to be a Z of course
Alyssa you're wonderful
thank you so much
I'm glad people find the book
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by alissa grenfell check out her youtube it is endlessly fascinating you are constantly bringing
up really cool new information about the mormon like all of like everything that us let's just
say some of us are kind of obsessed with it right not saying me my wife yeah but yeah i mean you are
saying that but yes so you guys do great work so thank you yeah yeah and i have a tiktok and
instagram and if yeah mormon stories is great too so yes and he's getting sued john galen's getting
sued yeah it's so insane after all these years how do you avoid getting sued uh you know i think
it's probably coming but knock on wood i mean i think they're just waiting probably for that's
how you do it
you know you made it please i'll help you it's the best thing that could ever happen for your
youtube channel but the greatest i mean so i'm in texas whereas like john is in utah and the courts
are stacked with mormons yes so i also think the reason they're suing john and not me is they know
texans like evangelicals don't give a fuck well they actually hate mormons so is john still in
john delen is i think you know no he was excommunicated he's out right yeah he was
in he chose to stay in but was still publicly critical as an act like as a member and then
they excommunicated him in like 2018. man they really try yeah they try to go like well we'll
take a little bit of it but don't you dare come from our copyrights because we will see the balls
off of you because we don't care even though it's not real thank you so much hola son this was
wonderful this was awesome thanks for having me so much yeah yeah i can't wait to read the book
hail sweet satan yeah you know and uh hail sweet satan again just for the mormon community feels
really good i think i think he prefers lucifer
actually hail lucifer
wow she wasn't too upset by us no obviously i honestly as soon as i saw her i'm like oh she's
gonna hate me no she but she did a good you did a good job too because you didn't yell
no you didn't rip off your shirt i didn't eat a bunch of food no you didn't cover yourself
in all different sauces and i didn't start fucking smoking ass weed no no i mean we should
have though that would have been cool we got to get her on that that's next
yeah next we get her fully into drugs yeah bong rips with alissa i feel like that's what it comes
down to we need to do some lsd we need to do some honestly i'd even do cocaine with her just to do
it you know i've never done heroin this is the person to do this is the person because she seems
responsible if i turn a mormon person or exmo with heroin i win yeah she looks like she always
has narcan on her right yeah we do that too we stole it from by from back yeah yeah i do have
an arcane in my backpack so if you start to seize up an arcane you're gonna have an arcane in your
just be like
but this is coming out next week so i might be out of an arcane yeah you might have used it
because i'm going to bethlehem pennsylvania and they are gonna need it all right so go over to
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henry and i to write off our 4k dvd no addiction how dare you say that that is not what we're doing
also this weekend is the end of jk ultra we're gonna be in tulsa oklahoma at kane's ballroom
on july 17th
and then we're gonna be in oklahoma city on july 18th and then of course if you can't make it out
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can answer questions so oh hell yeah that's awesome i didn't realize we were doing that we
are nice and also uh if you're in texas on sunday i'm gonna be in plano uh i know texas is big but
plano wants you to come see me live at the mic drop that's gonna be the comedy club does the
comedy club who knows about the city i don't know if the city is always the most welcoming yeah
maybe not probably not but i'll be there on september 19th you know that shit and then i
got a bunch of other shows coming up i'm gonna be in chicago san francisco dc all kinds of places
go to eddytoons.com to go check out where i'm gonna be next and come see me live on the road
and then henry and i i'm telling you it's more than just crime wave at sea over here oh you got
to believe it's crime wave all over your face go to crime wave at sea.com slash last to go and buy
tickets we still got a couple of tickets left
honestly very few left yeah no and you can put them on layaway come and join us in the high seas
we will kill a woman together i'm sorry just because that's what happens on cruises yeah it
is all right but never really on royal caribbean no they only run for whales apparently but that's
just because whales are there in the way dude we always gotta get out of the way man did you hear
about that no i don't want to get into it yeah i want to get it doesn't matter apparently people
on the cruise didn't
even notice that's how great the boats are yeah royal caribbean they even what they ran over a
bunch of whales and didn't even know people still are having a great time yeah and also come check
us out at midsummer scream at the beginning of august out here in long beach if you could it's
gonna be a lot of fun we're gonna be selling the album doing a panel doing some signings and lots
of shit just fucking hanging out selling merch you know you know the bullshit that happens at
horror cons see my fucking ass over at midsummer scream hell yeah he's gonna spread his cheeks
let you see the whole you really don't want to but you can though
yes that will be available
i'll say hell is the ground fell good work yeah bye
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Alyssa Grenfell, an ex-Mormon and author of *How to Leave the Mormon Church*, shares insights on the challenges of leaving the church, emphasizing the lack of guidance for those transitioning out.
The Mormon church’s internal structure allows for splinter groups and prophetic claims, enabling sects like FLDS to form, often based on perceived spiritual authority or power vacuums.
Mormonism maintains complex traditions, including temple ceremonies involving symbolic clothing, handshakes, and rituals that feel deeply ritualistic and psychologically intense, often designed to foster loyalty and obedience.
Summary:
The podcast features a deep, conversational interview with Alyssa Grenfell, an ex-Mormon author and public speaker, on her journey out of the Mormon faith. She highlights the lack of clear exit paths for members, noting that the church actively obscures its own signs of departure. The discussion reveals how Mormonism is structured to maintain control through ritual, secrecy, and social pressure—especially within temple ceremonies, which involve symbolic garments, handshakes, and ceremonies that create intense emotional and psychological experiences.
Grenfell explains how the church’s belief system evolved, including shifts in doctrine like the suppression of polygamy and the adaptation to modern politics, while still preserving core ideas like the end times and the preservation of wealth. She critiques the religion’s internal contradictions, such as its endorsement of hyper-feminine lifestyles among women while maintaining a male-dominated theology. The conversation also touches on how former members struggle with social isolation, loss of identity, and the difficulty of adapting to a secular world—especially regarding norms like drinking, modesty, and personal freedom.
The podcast underscores how Mormonism’s influence extends into everyday life, from personal relationships to political participation, and how the community often uses secrecy and ritual to reinforce loyalty. Ultimately, the episode serves as both an exposé and a guide, showing that the path to leaving is fraught, emotional, and often requires confronting deep-seated beliefs and societal expectations.
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The book serves as a practical guide for people leaving the Mormon church, offering real-world advice and addressing the challenges of transitioning into a secular life.
Leaving is difficult because the church covers exit signs, and members are often left with no clear guidance, making the transition feel like a sudden and overwhelming shift.
While polygamy is still mentioned in scripture, it is not practiced publicly due to legal prohibitions. The church believes in it but prioritizes following the laws of the land, and some members maintain it in secret communities abroad.
Mormons believe in a future tribulation period and save money as a 'rainy day fund' for the end times, including the idea that the Constitution might be in danger and they will step in to save it.
Continuing revelation allows current prophets to override previous teachings, claiming they have new divine information, which justifies doctrinal changes over time.
Ex-Mormons often struggle with the absence of clear social rules and face social isolation, as the church's strict norms are replaced with a world that feels unfamiliar and confusing.
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