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This is a 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:25.919 Jesse Kelly Show, I want you to think about something. 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:40.920 What if the world was ending tomorrow, And I should clarify, 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.160 I don't mean there's an asteroid going to come and 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:49.520 destroy everything and kill everyone, because that's a different scenario. 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:55.480 What if, according to your beliefs, there was going to 0:01:55.560 --> 0:02:01.320 be a rapture tomorrow, God was going to come snatch 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:05.240 you and your fellow believers up and take you off 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:09.960 into heaven, and everyone else was going to be thrown 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:15.120 into hell. It's already been decided. There's no saving them. 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:22.640 You can't do anything else for them. They're gone. What 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:34.239 does it allow you morally to do today? What does 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:38.600 it cause you to do when you interact with your 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:51.600 fellow man today? Are you kinder? Are you meaner? If 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.520 you're hungry and he has some food, do you just 0:02:54.639 --> 0:03:01.520 take it? Why not? I've asked myself this question about atheism. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:07.000 I'm not an atheist, and I wonder. I'm sure I 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:13.280 have atheists listening as we speak. I wonder how you 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.960 come up with your moral code if you are one, 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:21.880 Because societies throughout the history of mankind have used religion 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:25.399 to come up with their moral codes period. Whether you're 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.000 the Aztecs and you're carving out the heart of children, 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.799 whether you're choose Christians, Muslims, whatever the case may be, 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:36.360 the eight eight trillion different religions there have been, that's 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.000 how you come up with your moral code. But if 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.840 you believe there's nothing, how do you come up with yours? 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:47.800 And what's your motivation to stick to it? If it 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:55.320 doesn't matter, then it doesn't matter. Right, We're going to 0:03:55.400 --> 0:04:00.240 talk today about one of the most fascinating individuals you 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.080 probably have never heard of, and I will tell you 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.000 I have been reading on him for twenty four hours 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.920 now and I still cannot figure out if this person 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:17.920 is genuine, if he's the best con man of all time, 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:27.840 if he's a mixture of the two, clearly brilliant, maybe insane. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.400 I don't know, And you're going to have to come 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:38.080 up with your own and full disclosure, there's gonna be 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:42.200 some Mormon talk today. I'm not a Mormon, and if 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:46.640 I screw something up with your religion, you're welcome to 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.760 email me. But I don't feel bad about it. I 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:54.680 just you tell the rule if you get offended at 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.839 your fault. I've done the best I can to present 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.360 this as accurately as humanly possible. Buck up, butter cup. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.680 But you are welcome to correct me if I get 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.640 basics wrong. That doesn't bother me in the least. Then 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.039 you're welcome to yell at me too. I get that. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:09.599 If you got to get something off your chest, just 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.840 no that. I don't care if you're offended. I don't 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.880 get offended. Say whatever you want about me, My religion, 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:23.480 my family doesn't matter me. James Strang, that's the man's name. 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:29.799 He was born in New York, and from an early 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:35.320 age his mother was all over him as far as 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.600 protecting him goes. He was kind of a delicate boy, 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:44.679 they said. But again, it's so odd. From an early 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:54.480 early age he appeared to be brilliant, genius. As a child, 0:05:55.560 --> 0:06:01.360 he kept diaries. He kept diaries where he talked extensively 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.920 about how he thought he was supposed to be some 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:09.160 great world leader or general, compared himself to Napoleon. Wanted 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:16.000 to be that way. But also get this, wrote many 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:21.760 things in his diaries in code code that nobody could 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:26.279 decipher for over a hundred years after he died. As 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:31.680 a child, I don't I don't understand how that happens. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.960 He has a list of jobs. As he's coming up. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:44.200 He has a list of religions, including atheism. He's a Baptist. 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:50.000 At one point in time, he's most definitely a Charlotton. 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.640 At this point, does he remain as Charlotton? Well, you'll 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.800 have to decide for yourself. And what I say Charlotton, 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:05.000 I mean he's sold land to people in other states 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:10.679 that didn't exist, ended up having to leave town because 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.000 he sold land to a man in Ohio. And the 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:18.440 man goes to Ohio and the land doesn't exist, comes 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:23.480 back and says James, and James says peace. I'm heading 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:31.400 west and we are talking nineteenth century here. Nineteenth century. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:35.760 You need to understand a couple of things. Eighteen thirties 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:43.160 eighteen thirty four thirty five ish is a wealthy time 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.720 in the United States of America. There is a humongous, 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:51.040 humongous boom, economic boom in this country. There was silver 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:55.640 that was wages were up, employment was up. And at 0:07:55.680 --> 0:08:00.520 this point in time we are in the westward bansion 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:07.119 portion of America. This is going to be fairly rough 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.800 as far as maps go, but you need to think 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:17.000 of the Illinois really is that's Western America, and people 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:21.400 are beginning to explore out west of that. They're going 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:27.640 out to Utah, California, Colorado, and that place is still 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:32.040 considered to be wild and untamed. It is very much 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:40.880 dangerous country, Indian country, animal country. It's it's scary country. 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:46.120 But people pushed west for a lot of different reasons. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:52.840 People pushed west for freedom, You'll get a piece of land, 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:58.880 start my own thing. People pushed west for personal reasons. 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.000 Wife left me. I'm gonna strike out on my own. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:10.480 People pushed west for religious reason reasons, I'm gonna go 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:15.480 convert the savages, or in the case of the Mormons, 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:21.000 I'm going to push west because everyone hates our freaking guts. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.720 And they did, and they ended up settling in a 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:32.840 place Navoo, Illinois. It's a town that still exists, and 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.240 I'm not going to go into everything that happened there, 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.640 but just no, this is the place where Joseph Smith 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:43.560 was assassinated as he sat in jail, assassinated as in 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.360 two hundred men busted in and shot them to death. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.320 Mormons are trying to find a safe place for them 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:56.120 to practice their religion at this time, and what they 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:04.120 were running into was this America was extremely tolerant of religions, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:09.560 kind of extremely tolerant up to the point where your 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:17.520 religion set yourself apart, superseded society, superseded the law. And 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.920 there was a Mormon thing where they really believed in 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:28.480 setting up a monarch, a king. I'm talking crown in 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:33.600 the works, baby that gets uncomfortable and ended with Joseph 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:57.880 Smith dying and some problems began. Hang on. Home title 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.640 theft is not a joke. It's not something that only 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.920 happens in the movies. It doesn't only happen somewhere else. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.360 It is in every state here in the United States 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.520 of America, and they haven't found a way to stop 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.800 it yet except for home title lock. It's the only 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.880 chance you have at stopping it. If they come after you. 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.160 You see these cyber thieves, they go after home titles now, 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.280 which are digital, your home titles online. If they get 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.360 a hold of yours, and they're out there looking for 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.719 it as we speak, they're looking for mine too, they 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.240 will forge your signature on it. They will take a 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.800 loan out against it alone that you have to pay 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:41.520 back or you will be evicted from your home. That 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:45.440 is real. Home title lock is your chance to stop it, 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:50.160 go to hometitlelock dot com. That's home title lock dot com. 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.560 Register your address. See if you're already a victim, don't 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.040 forget to use the promo code Jesse for thirty free days. 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:24.520 Joseph Smith is dead. The Mormon Kingdom, if you want 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.280 to call it, I don't know if that's the right 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.400 way to put it. In Navoo, it's gotta go getting 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.600 run out of town. They need a new place to land, 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.480 and they need a new leader. Because Joseph Smith is dead, 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:42.920 the Mormon religion in America needs a new leader. Brigham Young, 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.280 I'm sure you've heard of him, steps up to the plate, 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:53.040 clearly the leader in the clubhouse. Mister James Strang also 0:12:53.320 --> 0:13:00.440 steps up. You see, he had converted maybe to more monism. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.839 We don't know. We don't know what's genuine and what's 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.560 not genuine. We know, according to everybody, he was a 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:15.280 relatively new convert to Mormonism, new Joseph Smith kind of. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:24.880 Joseph Smith dies and James Strang produces a letter from 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:31.080 Joseph Smith. He claims this letter is naming him the 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:36.920 new head of the Mormon Church. Now it gets interesting. 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.360 We know the man has been a charlatan in the past. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:48.640 We think the letters of forgery. Maybe James Strang was 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:53.319 a former postmaster to figure out if things are accurate 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.640 or not. Back then, you would check dates. You wouldn't 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.800 check dates stamps. You would try to figure out if 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:04.720 they look legit. And as a former postmaster, James Strang 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.959 would have possessed the ability to make it look legit. 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:12.880 All that said, this letter still exists to this day. 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.240 They still study it, and to this day there are 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.480 a bunch of people that say this is crap, and 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.320 there are a bunch of people that say this looks legit. 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.280 I don't know. I don't have answers to a lot 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.280 of the questions we're going to ask today. I know this, 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.720 James Strang produced a letter and said this is legit. 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.600 And there are a bunch of Mormons that said, you're 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.800 full of crap. And there are a bunch of Mormons 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.120 that said, oh, that does look legit. And we have 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:47.360 this divide in the Mormon Church. Now Brigham Young is 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:51.320 heading west. You know how all that ended up. He's 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.800 heading west. Let's get out of here. Let's get away 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:59.320 from everybody where we can practice our faith by ourselves. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:06.600 Strang doesn't want to head west, and many Mormons make 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:11.040 the decision to go with Strang, partially because they believe 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:16.840 Strang's claims and partially because the West is scary. And 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:21.360 let's be clear, the West is scary at this time. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:29.040 The best way I could describe it would probably be Africa. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:35.760 Pick some grassy plaine in Africa. Would you air drop 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:42.320 yourself and your family into some grassy plain of Africa? Now, 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:47.000 you might be fine, and you might not be fine. 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:52.760 Things could work out great. You could be eaten in 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:57.480 a bowl of stone from a cannibal tribe. Things could 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.040 be fine. You could live a free life, or you 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.760 could wake up in the jaws of a lion. You 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:09.880 don't know. That's a great way to describe what the 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:14.960 West really genuinely was in reality and in people's minds. 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:20.680 Back then, wild animals, big ones. Remember, they didn't have 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:25.920 grizzly bears really back east. Grizzly bears are a whole 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.800 new animal. Lewis and Clark wrote about this famously in 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.800 their diary as they were charting their way out west. 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.880 These grizzly bears terrified them. They talked about these monsters. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.600 You would shoot seven eight times and it doesn't die. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:47.040 That's scary. You have Indian stories which are scary. Obviously, 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.480 some of them are blown out of proportion, and some 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:52.320 of them are complete fabrications, but some of them ain't. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:59.040 People being tortured to death, burned alive, scalped. These are 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.640 stories that would be intimidating. So if you want to 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:07.080 practice your religion the way you want to, and he 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.800 wants your own place, but you don't necessarily you want 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.480 to go clear out west, it seems a little dangerous. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.480 Maybe this Strang guy is somebody you would want to 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:21.399 follow along with. And there are all kinds of divisions 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:25.600 in the Mormon Church at this time, possibly still today again, 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.560 I don't know. I'm not part of it, but one 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:36.640 of them is the multiple wives thing, polygamy. Strang at 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:42.760 first was against it, then he was for it. Many people, many, 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:48.359 many people who followed him were dead set against this 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:53.040 polygamy thing. I don't know what that division looks like 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:59.080 percentage wise in the Mormon Church, but many people were 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:05.679 against it. They end up following Strang up to a 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:13.919 place called Beaver Island, Quit Chris. Beaver Island is not small. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.560 It's in Lake Michigan. It's basically one quarter of the 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:24.960 size of Michigan. It's huge, and they're searching for a 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:29.480 utopian colony. This is the era of utopianism big time. 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.240 That's part of the reason the Mormons are heading west. 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.240 It's definitely one of the reasons they had to Beaver Island. 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.760 And back to the question at the beginning about what 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:41.840 you would do if you thought the world was ending 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.119 and you were getting into heaven and the other guy wasn't. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:49.679 This was an extremely strong era for that way of thinking, 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.680 especially amongst the Mormons. People thought the world was coming 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.960 to an end for a variety of reasons, and people 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.840 were desperate. Remember I said the market was going well 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.919 in the early eighteen thirties. In eighteen thirty seven, you 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:05.800 don't know about this, but there was a huge crash 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.359 of all that. It's called the Panic of eighteen thirty seven, 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.800 where the economy went into the crapper. That creates more 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.800 panic for people, more desperation, more reaching out. And you 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:19.600 find out there's a utopian colony on Beaver Island and 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:24.120 you say to yourself, that sounds not too bad, now 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:29.240 is how is mister Strang still convincing people of this. Well, 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:34.760 he had more than just a letter kind of. He 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:39.119 also had a vision, a dream, whatever you want to 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.639 call it, where an angel came to him and told 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.840 him you should be a leader. You can mock that 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:49.480 all you want. Scared desperate people who were prone to 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:53.160 believe that anyway may believe it. I will tell you 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.240 I believe in angels one hundred percent. I believe angels 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.720 have appeared and talked to people one percent. One hundred 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.760 percent says it in the Bible. I believe. So if 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.199 I'm a Mormon, is it that big of a stretch 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.560 to think one would appear to somebody someone I already 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:12.160 believe in. Maybe not. I don't want to make him 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.480 out to be crazy idiots. You understand what I mean. 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.040 And let's keep this in mind. Remember the diary when 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.880 he was a kid. This is a guy who had 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:25.919 several different jobs, and this was whatever he was, con man, religious, man, whatever. 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:33.840 He was an extremely capable, charismatic, intelligent individual. He would 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.360 not have appeared to be some wing nut up there 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.520 as he's telling you the story of the angels visiting him. 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:45.320 He also found some buried plates in the ground that 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.280 happened to have some engravings saying, hey, this is our guy. 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.160 Let's just say there was enough sign there that enough 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.840 people believed him. We're talking twelve thousand people here. Enough 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:02.560 people believed him. This is this is our guy. And 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:07.920 as part of being the guy of Beaver Island, he 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:12.199 has made the king, not necessarily of Beaver Island, but 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.880 the king of the people there. Again, it's gonna sound 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.639 like I'm defending him, makes him sound really bad, and 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:22.800 I mean crown and everything that sounds really bad. But 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:25.600 that was how Mormons did things at the time they 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:48.520 had a king. Angan Warrior's Heart is doing something awesome. 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:52.040 You see. I always say to people, don't tell me 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:56.000 what you believe, show me what you believe. If I 0:21:56.200 --> 0:22:00.400 tell you I care a lot about my health, I'm 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:03.080 very worried about it. And yet I haven't had a 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:05.000 piece of fruit in a week, and I eat fast 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:07.720 food three times a day. Do I really care about 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:11.000 my health? A lot of people tell you they care 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:14.080 about veterans, but then they don't do anything about it. 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:19.000 Warrior's Heart, they're finding veterans, They're bringing them into their 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:22.760 forty bed five hundred forty three acre ranch and they're 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:28.080 getting them the PTSD, substance abuse, mild traumatic brain injury. 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:31.960 Help they need. Warrior's Heart is out there doing the work. 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:34.639 Surely you and I can help them, right. It's a 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:37.800 five O one C three Go to warriors Heart dot 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:41.480 com slash the first or if you're hurting call eight 0:22:41.640 --> 0:23:07.800 six six nine five zero zero six three six. Beaver 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:15.040 Island becomes home through a gigantic sect of Mormons led 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:19.920 by their king, This king for six years, James Strang. 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:23.880 In case you're wondering, there were some other people on 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:26.240 the island. There were some Indians there. They kind of 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:31.000 just got run out. There were many many fishermen there, 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:33.920 and that ended up being a bit of a problem. 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:38.280 These were obviously not Mormons. They didn't like Mormons. The 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:42.000 Mormons who were there didn't like them. They got pushed around. 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:45.200 The fishermen claimed they would get revenge. Some people say 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:51.560 they did get their revenge one day. James Strang is 0:23:51.600 --> 0:23:54.960 a king. I know you're probably weirded out. You're thinking 0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:59.160 this is a little cultish here. I have to say 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:05.359 again though he wasn't a bad king. He was not 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:11.280 some tyrant. He had a bunch of wives, but he wasn't. 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:15.120 It was what he believed. He was not some tyrant 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:19.840 who abused his people. He understood Beaver Island was a 0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:27.880 virtual gold mine for himself because it had trees. It's 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:31.960 odd to think about, but there was a time when 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:38.160 trees were oil what oil is today. They were how 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:43.720 they fueled everything. Beaver Island had tons of trees. And 0:24:43.760 --> 0:24:46.480 when I say the man was capable in a good king, 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:49.520 I don't just mean he chopped down some trees and 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:52.680 sold them. Yeah, he chopped down trees and sold them. 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:58.960 He also had a rigorous replanting program so they could 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:03.480 replace any tree freeze they chopped down, keeping the economy going. 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:07.960 In fact, they still to this day honor the man's 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:14.560 environmental work. I'm not making this up. And I don't 0:25:14.720 --> 0:25:18.840 know if this was one big con or or he 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:21.200 really believed that. He may have still been an atheist, 0:25:21.280 --> 0:25:24.360 he may have still been a Baptist. I don't know. 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:30.639 But he wasn't bad. He really wasn't a bad king. However, 0:25:33.640 --> 0:25:37.680 remember the country has a problem with Mormons in general. 0:25:39.080 --> 0:25:42.440 And as the country is making its way, as it's 0:25:42.520 --> 0:25:45.200 feeling its way, deciding who and what we are, remember 0:25:45.200 --> 0:25:48.600 we're in the eighteen thirties. Here eighteen forties. We're not 0:25:48.760 --> 0:25:51.280 that old as a nation. I mean, that is a 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:54.080 baby as far as a nation goes. We're still making 0:25:54.080 --> 0:26:02.680 our way out west. Understandably, President ad inst Congress. They're 0:26:02.720 --> 0:26:06.880 a little bit apprehensive about what is, by all intents 0:26:06.880 --> 0:26:10.800 and purposes, a separate kingdom being set up on an island, 0:26:11.359 --> 0:26:16.440 and the island it was owned by the federal governments. 0:26:16.840 --> 0:26:20.280 It's not like he bought Beaver Island. He just kind 0:26:20.320 --> 0:26:24.840 of moved into Beaver Island and decided this is gonna 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:31.080 be my place. Oh did I mention he was a pirate? 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:36.800 They were pirates. They would steal people's stuff. There was 0:26:36.840 --> 0:26:42.320 a way of thinking that it's all about to end anyway. 0:26:43.400 --> 0:26:49.000 We're God's chosen people. You're not. These things are now 0:26:49.080 --> 0:26:54.679 my things. Now you can imagine how that would go. 0:26:54.760 --> 0:26:57.480 I'm trying to imagine. What's the best way to put 0:26:57.520 --> 0:27:02.240 that into words today. Pick a town where you live, 0:27:02.400 --> 0:27:04.920 This would be the best way to do this. Pick 0:27:04.960 --> 0:27:10.400 a town where you live, small town in picture. What's 0:27:10.400 --> 0:27:15.120 the religion? People are apprehensive. Islam's a perfect one. An 0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:19.600 Islamic guy moves into that town in a bunch of 0:27:19.640 --> 0:27:22.680 his Islamic followers, A bunch of his Muslim followers move 0:27:22.760 --> 0:27:27.439 into that town and they run out some of the 0:27:27.520 --> 0:27:30.120 non Muslims who were in that town. Okay, now you're 0:27:30.119 --> 0:27:32.119 a little weirded out. Maybe it's a town. They'll call 0:27:32.160 --> 0:27:35.080 it twenty thousand people. They run out a bunch of 0:27:35.080 --> 0:27:40.679 the non Muslim followers. This Muslim guy who leads the 0:27:40.720 --> 0:27:44.119 people into that town is all of a sudden calling 0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:48.719 himself a Sultan's he's the sultan. That's a little weird. 0:27:49.119 --> 0:27:52.800 There's a new mosque going up on every corner, and 0:27:53.680 --> 0:27:58.399 on occasion a group of Muslims from this town will 0:27:58.920 --> 0:28:02.920 ride into York Town and steal a car and drive 0:28:02.960 --> 0:28:08.560 it back their way. It was obviously a bit of 0:28:08.560 --> 0:28:11.240 a problem for people. It would make you what you 0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:13.600 would be a little apprehensive about that. You would be 0:28:13.640 --> 0:28:16.320 looking around. Don't tell me you wouldn't be considering a 0:28:16.400 --> 0:28:19.800 call to the FBI. Hey, are you do you know 0:28:19.880 --> 0:28:24.920 what's going on here? You would? That's how Mormons were 0:28:24.960 --> 0:28:28.720 viewed back then, were you adding? It doesn't take much 0:28:28.760 --> 0:28:33.240 stealing to get people. Now they're really angry and scared, 0:28:34.320 --> 0:28:37.840 and don't think for a second there wasn't some lying 0:28:38.040 --> 0:28:41.440 going on about the stealing that was actually taking place 0:28:41.480 --> 0:28:46.320 because people would be prone to believe it. I lost 0:28:46.360 --> 0:28:49.480 my horse. I bet the Mormons stole it. I'm gonna 0:28:49.480 --> 0:28:52.800 write the government, tell those some Mormons. Everyone will believe that. 0:28:52.840 --> 0:28:54.240 And the government gets it and they're like, yeah, I 0:28:54.280 --> 0:28:58.800 can see those dirty Mormons doing that. Absolutely. The Navy 0:28:58.920 --> 0:29:03.400 comes in rain the place and arrests him. They arrest 0:29:03.520 --> 0:29:07.640 James Strang. This might be my favorite part. He gets 0:29:07.640 --> 0:29:14.400 put on trial. He's so brilliant. He gets acquitted and 0:29:15.320 --> 0:29:20.320 runs for the Michigan State Legislature as a Democrat and wins. 0:29:21.320 --> 0:29:25.520 Not only does he run and win, he is, even 0:29:25.600 --> 0:29:30.520 according to people who hated his guts, an extremely accomplished, 0:29:30.680 --> 0:29:34.640 effective member of the Michigan State Legislature. He wasn't some 0:29:34.760 --> 0:29:39.040 wing nut who came in. He comes in and does 0:29:39.040 --> 0:29:42.800 a bunch of really good stuff. He does so well 0:29:43.280 --> 0:29:48.240 he gets re elected. I love this guy. I love 0:29:48.280 --> 0:29:59.120 this guy. Not everybody loved this guy though. Eventually he 0:29:59.400 --> 0:30:03.600 finds him self on a dock one day. There's a 0:30:03.760 --> 0:30:10.160 United States Naval vessel on this dock as well. There 0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:13.760 are a Navy seamen all over this dock as well. 0:30:17.080 --> 0:30:21.640 Two people come up to James Strang, shoot him in 0:30:21.680 --> 0:30:25.960 the head, grazes his head, shoot him in the cheek ouch, 0:30:26.680 --> 0:30:30.480 and also shoot him in the spine, paralyzing him. The 0:30:30.560 --> 0:30:34.120 two people then take their pistols and beat the crap 0:30:34.160 --> 0:30:38.360 out of him after he's been shot three times. They 0:30:38.440 --> 0:30:43.840 then run onto one of these ships. Nobody stops them, 0:30:44.360 --> 0:30:48.680 Nobody warns Strang, stops the guys, or even attempts to 0:30:48.800 --> 0:30:55.520 arrest them. They carry James Strang away where he lives, 0:30:55.520 --> 0:30:58.640 I believe, for a few weeks before he finally dies. 0:30:59.600 --> 0:31:02.920 It is is widely believed that the President of the 0:31:03.040 --> 0:31:09.840 United States himself and or the Michigan state government had 0:31:09.960 --> 0:31:20.200 him killed. That is the story of either the greatest 0:31:20.320 --> 0:31:27.280 con man of all time, certainly a charismatic, capable leader. 0:31:27.320 --> 0:31:29.320 How do we even put this, Chris, I don't want 0:31:29.320 --> 0:31:30.800 to call it a cult. I'm not going to try 0:31:30.800 --> 0:31:33.120 to insult a bunch of Mormons on here, but but 0:31:33.360 --> 0:31:36.440 is it would would other Mormons consider that a cult? 0:31:36.520 --> 0:31:40.720 It was a different sect, very much a rival sect 0:31:40.760 --> 0:31:43.080 to the other Mormons. I don't know what you want 0:31:43.080 --> 0:31:47.160 to call it, but I do know this, and I 0:31:47.280 --> 0:31:52.160 understand this is part of my broken down, awful nature. 0:31:54.960 --> 0:32:00.240 I kind of respect the hustle. I kind of back 0:32:00.240 --> 0:32:04.720