you don't typically hear people like
well I went to Burning Man I dropped
acid and and I realized like Mormon
monogamy is really the proper way to
live yeah they're nice people though.
They might be right. yeah
Mormons are the nicest cult of all time
there they are some of the nicest folks
I know if I had to say if like there's
one religion where I to say like
what are your
expectations of friendliness and
niceness... like where's the
highest expectation? for me its Mormons.
mm-hmm.
That's one religion like I think it's
nonsense
I think Joseph Smith was a little con-man
in 1820 when he found golden tablets
that contained the lost work of Jesus
and only he could read him because he
had a magic rock and all that crazy shit
it is absolutely ridiculous but the end
result is a bunch of really nice folks
like they have a wonderful community
they're really nice to each other once
they get rid of all that polygamy shit
you know once they got rid of the 90
wives and you know dressing up like a
pilgrim they they became like a really
nice community of people they're like
generally really friendly so my granddad
who is a Business School professor
back in the 40s he moved his his little
family to Salt Lake City and they lived
there for a while and he was really
inspired by the kind of family values
and I think that's one reason he sort of
went on to have 12 kids of his own and
not that he turned Mormon but he thought
they're onto something in terms of how
seriously they take the future both on
earth and and in afterlife they believe
in well in the afterlife don't they get
a plan out of the wrong when they die
right well this is something I loved
about the TV series the expanse I don't
know if you've seen I keep hearing about
it and I haven't gotten into it yet it's
just too many damn shows that are
awesome to watch these days but as soon
as I'm done with Ozark I'm gonna jump in
What I loved about it is it's set maybe a
couple hundred years in the future and
so we've colonized Mars and the asteroid
belt, and there's one group of people who
are building the first ship to colonize
a distant star system
and who's doing it? The Mormons. Of course.
And I thought of course of course it's
going to be a religion that has a
farsighted approach and that's kind of
pronatalist and that's all about family
values and and like increasing their
numbers and and yeah of course it's
going to be them not what social justice
warriors putting together a starship? Yeah.
Did you ever see the the Osmond family
photograph from one of their albums
their early albums where they all got
their own planet because they think that
when you die you get your own planet and
so the album was based on that concept
and like if you open up the album it's
like oh here's planet Donny he's gonna
run little asteroid belt yeah third
they're totally locked and loaded to do
the interstellar colonization it's
strange though I mean it's true it's
strange the blinders that people go on
that people put on and that they would
put those blinders on like it's almost
like if he just can go hey look let's
just all admit Joseph Smith was full of
shit but we got a good thing going on
here folks we're all real nice to each
other and seems to be some real positive
energy involved in believing in this
higher power and this greater good and
this overwhelming sense of community
that we all have and they have a sense
of humor about it like the way they
reacted to the South Park guys doing
Book of Mormon it's fantastic what's
like fair enough.
They took out a full-page ad in the playbook! I mean
that... that is a brutal musical
in terms of like the way they're
depicted: buffoons, believing in nonsense,
trying to recruit these indigenous
people.... It's kind of I mean it's ruthless
and hilarious at the same time and
they're like "Wonderful! If you want to
find out more about being a Mormon here
come come to our website come check it
out thank you!"
