Ep174: Celebrity Encounters With The Book of Mormon

[@anjavonpfeil4312]

Landon with the "Churchill" quote of the day!

[@donnellallan]

I went to the World's Fair in Spokane in 1974 with my member friend. She took me to the Book of Mormon Pavilion, and I purchased a Book of Mormon for a dollar while there. She excitedly shared the big news with her parents and later with the missionaries. I was puzzled by what the big deal was about me getting the book. I was baptized shortly after that and read through the entire Book of Mormon at least once a year for the next thirty-some years because I thought if I read it enough, eventually I would discover that it was a book worth getting excited about. That never happened. It was a dumb book in 1974 and it is still a dumb book today. I wish I had paid heed to what Mark Twain had to say, and trusted my own impressions. Thanks for a fun video. 💜

[@nanodon4]

Husband and I were interviewing a home-based childcare provider when her husband asked us "Would you like another testament of Jesus Christ?" 😂

[@mormonishpodcast1036]

Now you are a celebrity

[@moesyah]

cultch is a blessing! loving the long-form videos

[@JeffEHall]

I was a missionary in LA. I gave the book to James Brown on sunset Blvd. he said “thank you…. I’m more of a holy bible man myself but I appreciate it” he then handed it to his body guard and got into his bus.

[@sheliabryant3997]

@JeffEHall. Classy man. People ACCEPT the thing thrust into their faces or hands because they are 1) courteous NOT CURIOUS; 2) they do not want to STOP and be further delayed by DISCOURTEOUS conversation; 3) to engage - or be engaged at all - in such a scenario is a RISK. There is nothing courageous in this act. It is INTRUSIVE; INCONSIDERATE; JUST PLAIN APPALLING poor form. If someone even approaches THE PROFFFFFFFFFFIT, he is, at minimum castigated. I truly wonder what rmn would do if any person approached him with any thing in hand!!!? 🤮🤮 3

[@CatskillsGrrl]

As an ExMo, I know I will always be ‘Mormonish’ because I always talk to the missionaries if I possibly can. I want to offer them a friendly understanding encounter.

[@StephRivera]

You could do another video about all the famous ex-mormons: David Archuleta, Paul Walker, Ryan Gosling, Christina Aguilera, Jewel, Amy Adams, Katherine Heigl, Julianne and Derek Hough, Chelsea Handler, Mindy Gledhill, Jennette McCurdy, Dan Reynolds, Tyler Glenn, Brendon Urie, etc.

[@Leonard1977ful]

There is another actress that was raised Mormon by the name of Mireille Enos. She was on an ABC series that only lasted a season called The Catch. It was an entertaining show that was a little steamy, which kind of surprised me.

[@rhutabaga420]

This was really great, you guys are awesome

[@AlanZabriskie-tr2uj]

I only placed about 6 in 2 years in the UK from 76 to 78 because we had to pay for them ourselves and the zealots ended up going without food.

[@RecoveryTurtle]

Pope mobile to protect the pope from Books of Mormon and not bullets 😂 did the pope forgive the Mormon like he did his shooter?

[@Songsofourown23]

My VT in my ward told us her sister was Teaching Rick Schroeder from Silver Spoons and NYPD Blue. He joined the church but sadly it ended with him in a Domestic Violence Laden scandalous Divorce.😢

[@mormonishpodcast1036]

Seems Silver Spoons and Gold Plates don’t mix!

[@louiselucilla2163]

I think that most world leaders are in possession of many different religious books. This is useful to their knowledge of the culture and philosophy of the country the book represents.

[@CatskillsGrrl]

I was at BYU during the Osmond / Johnny Whittaker years and beyond. Hell, Provo would be excited just to hear about celebrities in town because they were at Sundance. ‘They are willing to be NEAR Mormons! Yay!’

[@kraniodesign4555]

200 million books of mormon and one in every marriot hotel room, and after 200 years, there are roughly 5 million active members. I think this demonstrates how ineffective the book of mormon is. Maybe this is another stat the church shouldn't publish

[@orisonorchards4251]

This! 200 million books... in landfills. Not the flex they think it is!

[@Leonard1977ful]

Thanks, Rebecca, for sharing this. It was awesome. I remember going to see the movie The Pink Panther with Steve Martin with my single adult branch, remembering hearing the rumor that the Steve Martin joined the church. Now, I'm glad to hear from you how that rumor got started.

[@andreadiamond7115]

JW’s and Scientology (also cults) love talking about their celebrities too. I don’t hear that from other religions.

[@sheliabryant3997]

@andreadiamond. You'd be hard-pressed to find such crass presumption in most people. There is a BASIC ANIMAL PRINCIPLE called 😮😮 BOUNDARIES.

[@darbasilio]

We had a guy in our ward a while back who taught Gladys Knight in Las Vegas, his companion baptized her. I don’t remember the whole story, this was a long time ago.

[@DirtmopAZ]

Wish I had a popemobile

[@coryhor3050]

I was there when Cody Judy rushed the stage. Don’t remember much of it though because I was too engrossed in a back rub 😂

[@schrecksekunde2118]

and go "quotations of chairman Mao" ! 😄✊

[@corylarsen2889]

Just FYI: Wladimir Kochanski was a fraud. He could paly the piano, but he was not Polish. He was from Texas and his real name was Robert Harvey. His Wikipedia page has been scrubbed to eliminate all references to these facts.

[@benjamingardea4511]

It’s really funny people try to compare distribution of religious texts with novels. Demand vs distribution.

[@Planet-Steel]

Watching as replay Crew - this is so much fun guys!! Thanks millions xx ❤

[@barbroper4483]

A teenage girl in my ward LOVED John Denver. I remember her bearing her testimony repeatedly about how she had sent him a book of Mormon with her testimony in it. She was just sure he was going to join the church....

[@mormonishpodcast1036]

Great story! I love John Denver too!

[@susaneweinberg4411]

Someone said to me 20 years ago that the church produced Christmas film of the janitor who lived in a basement who was played by the elderly Jimmy Stewart (does anyone remember that film) Someone said that he became a Mormon before he died. 🙄

[@NMBlackbird]

Chloroform in film

[@thelastgoonie6555]

I'm sure Elvis' temple work has been done 500x by now. Pretty sure my Home Teacher's brother-in-law's next door neighbor's former mission companion was baptized for him. All the name dropping and touting of celebrities is very Scientology. #Ziontology

[@mormonishpodcast1036]

They have to keep doing the work for him because every time someone does his Temple work for him they get that strange feeling that Elvis has left the building!

[@claudetterush1086]

My ward had a professional photographer come to the Cultural Hall (😜) and take family portraits. We pasted our testimonies (free) along with the portrait (which we paid for) into a Book of Mormon (which we also paid for). We were encouraged to buy and send at least ten copies. We sprung for one.

[@sheliabryant3997]

@claudetterush. Just shaking my head. 🤮Back and forth. Back and forth. [There is a phenomenon in this that just occurs now: some PEOPLE derive a weird sense of SHARED celebrity just by being able to tell, and tell, and tell , ..... about their "intimate" contact with a person "of repute"; something like the gold-leaf rubs off.

[@louiselucilla2163]

Books of Mormon ... please.

[@mormonishpodcast1036]

I thought the plural was Book of Moroni! Lol. We stand corrected! Thanks for pointing that out!

[@China-Clay]

I really thought it was the other way!

[@louiselucilla2163]

@@mormonishpodcast1036 hahaha.. there are many books but only one Mormon. heehee.

[@nancyking8438]

Thankyou for a fun evening! Loved it

[@mormonishpodcast1036]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@barryrichins]

Hey, Boys and Girl, I have read the Book of Mormon in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and half way in Italian, yet never found it very interesting nor good literature. To Me, good literature is something that I want to read so badly that I read all night until the rising sun tells me it is almost time to go to work again. And, at work, I can hardly wait to get home so that I can read once more through the night. The English version became so boring to read that I decided if I had to read the Book of Mormon frequently, I might as well perfect my Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese at the same time and get something valuable from the experience as well. I feel a bit competent to comment on the Book of Mormon as literature because I am a retired college professor of English and Spanish and have read a good number great books in Spanish, Portuguese, and French as well as English. A great book to read, the Book of Mormon, to me, is not!

[@CatskillsGrrl]

OMG I had forgotten all about the backrub brigades! Rebecca and I may be cut from the same cloth. I thought it was gross on a number of levels from the ridiculous to the sublime.

[@schrecksekunde2118]

what we learn is that the BoM go really well with opioids 👌

[@Randycwatts]

I love y’all , but you’re killing me by saying “Book of Mormons.” It’s “Books of Mormon!” I’m sorry, I can’t help it … I’m an editor! ❤️

[@dreibel]

oh yes, do an episode of the "Elder Gene Cook meets Mick Jagger on a plane" story! I live in Toronto. Back in 2003, prior to the SARStock benefit concert (the city had a SARS epidemic happening which had basically shut down the city's economy), in which the Rolling Stones were going to appear, the ward members got an email from the Stake warning members not to go to the concert due to the concerns of the Stones' Satanic influence. The letter included the entire text of Elder Cook's talk in which he talked about meeting Sir Mick on a plane, Mick's admission that he had taken the discussions while at college, and his confession that the Stones' whole purpose of their music was to get teens to have sex. Personally I think that Mick did meet Elder Cook, but knowing the British like I do, he decided to have fun with him in what is called "taking the piss". In other words, confirming Cook's confirmation bias of what he thought the Stones and rock n' roll was, and watching Cook's eyes bug out in horror. All I can say is that it's fortunate that Cook wasn't seated next to Keith Richards. :) The other thing about the letter - I was surprised that they didn't have a warning about AC/DC, who were also on the bill and also notorious in Christian circles as "agents of evil." And that they didn't warn Randy Bachman, who was still TBM at the time and playing with The Guess Who at that gig. FWIW, my TBM sister-in-law did attend the concert with my niece, who went there to see Justin Timberlake.

[@claudetterush1086]

I was in-ish when Cook told that Rolling Stones story: never laughed so hard in my whole life. As if!

[@jennifermay8710]

We had a book of mormon in our Best Western hotel this past weekend.

[@Hallahanify]

Did you throw it out?

[@dorimosher9800]

Prepare, Invite, and Follow-up

[@sewcellosusan8664]

The minute you said Elvis, I thought Osmond...

[@jewelgazer]

Snoopdog should rap the Book of Mormon 😉

[@stephenjackson7797]

15:50 finally start talking about celebrity encounters.

[@CatskillsGrrl]

Landon is quite the wit!

[@tawnyachristensen7310]

Fun episode.

[@davidbroadhead6814]

John todd a conspiracy theorist knew about the book of Mormon.

[@Gideonslc]

🤔🤔 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Or The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey As a better Airplane read? 🤔 "Christianity made me talk like an idiot" by Seth Andrews could be a great one to pair with "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins...

[@susaneweinberg4411]

Someone said to me 20 years ago that the church produced Christmas film of the janitor who lived in a basement who was played by the elderly Jimmy Stewart (does anyone remember that film) Someone said that he became a Mormon before he died. 🙄

[@susaneweinberg4411]

I lived in Arizona from 1995-2007 and Evan Mecham was totally against having MLK day. Mecham was impeached from his governorship in 1987.

[@kerryholyoak5720]

Mr. Kruger’s Christmas !

[@susaneweinberg4411]

@@kerryholyoak5720 yes that was it.

[@susaneweinberg4411]

@@Cultural_Hall I was in Flagstaff

[@claudemelancon5039]

​@@susaneweinberg4411 Still have the DVD that I think was included in a December issue of the Ensign many years ago.

[@rydiddy6233]

Wow we almost converted the pope?!

[@mormonishpodcast1036]

You mean the Spirit almost converted the Pope! Lol