Glenn and Tom (sorta) sit down once again with Lars Neilson to discuss the fall out from last month’s Letter to the IRS Director, and specifically discuss the most recent Washington Post article detailing the fall-out between Lars and his twin brother David, the whistleblower who did not want this information to go public. We talk about their shared background, their family culture, their motivation for filing this whistleblower report, and the reasons why David wanted to keep it quiet while Lar...
Jan 17, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 532
Mormon doctrine set to music. A throwback episode to March 2015. Enjoy!
Jan 16, 2020•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 531
Glenn sits down with Anthony Magnabosco and a few podcast listeners who joined us live to talk about Street Epistemology, and God, and Truth, and Language, and burning bosoms and stupors of thought and other Mormon ways of verifying belief. Help Anthony meet his GoFundMe goal Support Infants on Thrones on Patreon...
Jan 11, 2020•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 530
This is part 2 of Anthony Magnabosco’s SE conversation with two mormon missionaries. Click here to support Anthony’s GoFundMe to attend General Conference in Salt lake City, Utah.
Jan 08, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 529
What would you say if you were a Mormon Missionary and you were approached by a well spoken, respectful atheist asking you how you came to be so certain about the Truth of Mormonism? Street Epistemologist Anthony Magnabosco did this very thing with two Mormon Missionaries. Spoiler alert: he didn’t accept their free picture of Jesus or a free Book of Mormon. Anthony’s YouTube video with the missionaries. Want to help Anthony get to Utah for General Conference? Here is Anthony’s GoFundMe Page....
Jan 03, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 528
What is real? What is true? And who has the advantage when it comes to survival of the fittest: those who see it like it really is, or those who don’t? Today Glenn does some Mormon-focused riffing on Donald Hoffman’s 2015 Ted Talk “Do we See Reality as it is?”
Dec 31, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 527
Glenn sits down with award winning author and Life Coach Alan Cohen to discuss spirituality vs. religion, reclaiming the concept of God, the relationship between love and fear, and the book A Course in Miracles Made Easy . Find out more about Alan Cohen here: https://www.alancohen.com Please come support Infants on Thrones on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Infants...
Dec 19, 2019•58 min•Ep. 526
Has the Mormon Church been hiding billions of dollars in some kind of illegal tax shelter? Glenn and Tom sit down with Lars Nielsen, author of the Letter to the IRS Director. Links referenced in our discussion: The 74-page Letter to the IRS Director: https://www.scribd.com/document/439385879/Letter-to-an-IRS-Director A 7-minute video introduction: https://youtu.be/DXOWRN19i-4 A 77-minute full video exposé: https://youtu.be/KDlFZF3RyhE Religion Unplugged article: https://religionunplugged.com/new...
Dec 17, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 525
If your thoughts create your emotions, can you control your thoughts to create the kind of emotions that you really want to feel? And if a conman (or woman) tells you they are conning you, are they really actually conning you?
Dec 07, 2019•2 hr 21 min•Ep. 524
Matt and Tom discuss parenting beyond mormonism. What they have learned, what they know, and what they don’t know.
Nov 30, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 523
What would you do if you were diagnosed with cancer and given only a few more weeks to live? Would you travel the world and experience as many things as you could before it was too late? What if the joy that you experienced during those travels actually healed you? Sara Emmitt is a singer, a cancer surviver, a world traveler, and today she shares her story of balance, self-love and self-discovery through the traditional Hawaiian healing practice of Ho’oponopono: I’m sorry. I forgive you. Thank y...
Nov 22, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 522
So if 90% of our 70,000 daily thoughts are repeats from the previous day — if our bodies create repetitive habits over time, and reinforces those habits unconsciously over and over and over again, how exactly can we change? Today’s episode explores Dr. Joe Dispenza’s advice.
Nov 16, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 521
How many throughts do you typically think on any given day? 600-700 maybe? 6000-7000 maybe? Nope. It’s 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day. And 90% of those are thoughts that you are repeating from the previous day. And 50% percent of your memories are false. What does that mean for the way you live your life? Today Glenn addresses these questions as he walks you through part of Dr. Joe Dispenza’s recent series on the brain: Rewired.
Nov 14, 2019•39 min•Ep. 520
Glenn and Tom discuss the movie Joker (spoiler alert — we talk about spoilers) and make the ever-so-obvious connections to Joseph Smith and the Mormon church. Enjoy!
Oct 25, 2019•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 519
Matt gives us minisode by sharing a parable loaded with metaphors.
Oct 05, 2019•20 min•Ep. 518
Matt and Kristin talk with Tom about methods they’ve learned about how to best communicate and connect with others.
Sep 29, 2019•43 min•Ep. 517
What if Joseph Smith were teaching his teachings today? Maybe they’d sound a little bit like Abraham Hicks. The eternal nature of intelligences. The eternal progression of man. The idea that as man is god once was and as god is man may become. Spiritual gifts, the power of faith, that as a man thinketh so is he, the worth of a soul is great, man is that he might have joy, there must needs be opposition in all things but that all sins are wiped clean by a loving god and that all these things shal...
Sep 19, 2019•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 516
Glenn and Tom sit down with Kristy Johnson to discuss her documentary “No Crime in Sin,” which tells the story of Kristy’s sexual abuse at the hands of her CES Leader and BYU Teacher father; how the Mormon church swept it all under the rug; how Kristy and two of her siblings confronted their father 30 years after the fact, and what this has all meant for Kristy and her siblings today. Kristy shares her healing process and how it now feels to live a life free of fear. “ No Crime in Sin ” is strea...
Sep 12, 2019•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 515
Glenn, Tom, and Matt are joined by 7 or 8 listeners to discuss guilt and empathy.
Aug 23, 2019•2 hr 27 min•Ep. 514
What is Guilt? What is Shame? What is Empathy? How do all of these things affect us? It’s time to evaluate where we stand. This episode includes 30 min of new material and a throwback to IOT’s 2nd episode: Guilt, a panel discussion between Tom, Randy, Bob, Matt, and Glenn that was originally published on Aug 30, 2012. Join us for a live “what do we all think about this now” discussion on Wednesday, August 21 at 10pm ET on our Patreon page. Sign up to support the podcast on Patreon here if you ar...
Aug 16, 2019•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 513
Another Jeremy Goff smackdown, and another exemplary satirically celestial appearance of the one and only (if only that were accchttually true…) Stephen Erastus Knudsen III — the mold from which Jeremy Goff has been cut. Enjoy!
Aug 09, 2019•51 min•Ep. 512
What do Brigham Young and Charles Manson have in common? All you need is love — AKA shedding a wicked person’s blood so that they can pay for their sins and be exalted in the highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom. Cuz that is what Jesus REALLY meant when he said “love your neighbor as yourself.” It’s right there in the Journal of Discourses. Straight from the mouth of a prophet of God. Take a listen.
Aug 07, 2019•32 min•Ep. 511
What if the emotions from Pixar’s “Inside Out” got together in a Mormon-formed brain that experienced a faith crisis? Which emotion dominates in a pre, mid, or post-faith crisis mind? Those were the questions we playfully explored in our Sunstone panel on Aug 1, 2015 at the University of Utah. Listen in as Glenn narrates and the audience chooses exactly what will become of Joy (Jake), Sadness (Scott), Disgust (Matt), Fear (John), and Anger (Randy).
Aug 02, 2019•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 510
Glenn reads (and responds to) a Jeremy Goff blog post about why people leave THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, and then revisits a classic Infants’ panel discussion “50 Ways To Leave the Church” with Tom, Randy, Jake, and John. Enjoy.
Jul 28, 2019•2 hr 43 min•Ep. 509
When is murder not actually murder? Jeremy Goff sets the record straight once again. You just gotta hear it to believe it.
Jul 23, 2019•32 min•Ep. 508
Can sarcasm and humor help heal the wounds of a faith crisis? Those are the questions considered in today’s episode as Glenn is interviewed by author and life coach Wendi Jensen for her group Thriving After Mormonism. wendi@wendijensen.com www.thrivingaftermormonism.com
Jul 11, 2019•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 507
Three episodes in one. First, Glenn and Tom reflect on their missions and share how their patriarchal blessings impacted the course of their lives. Then you get to hear a previously unpublished episode from 9 years ago that goes into more detail about their mormon missions. And finally, the story of a one time streaking missionary who is now a religion teacher at BYU Idaho. A fun, jam-packed episode. Enjoy,
Jun 30, 2019•3 hr 12 min•Ep. 506
What would Joseph Smith say if he were to offer some kind of apology today? Glenn takes a stab at imagining such an apology. Tom and Brady take a stab at stabbing that stab. Sorry if that sounds like way too much stabbing. Blame it on the angel with the flaming sword.
Jun 24, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 505
Glenn and Tom are joined by Brady Bluhm to have another condescending conversation with Quad (the almighty).
May 27, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 504
Glenn and Tom sit down with Street Epistemologist extraordinaire Anthony Magnabosco to talk with Renee Cordeschi about her exit from the Jehovah’s Witness cult. Keep track of any the Mormon parallels. There will be a quiz (only 144,000 people will pass).
Apr 28, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 503
