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[00:00] Michelle: Welcome to today’s 132 problem pregame show. This is not actually today’s episode. We are just here, I’m here with my friend Adrian Croft, who has been helping me immensely and we are here with some really exciting announcements that I asked Adrian to come on and help me share. So we are announcing that today is our first live call in show that we are going to be doing this afternoon this evening, I guess at seven o’clock Mountain Standard time. So that’s seven o’clock in Utah. So that would be six o’clock pacific time and I guess, um nine o’clock on Eastern Standard Time. So wherever you fall in that, that’s the time we’re going to be doing it and we’ll give you some instructions about that. But first, we have a really exciting announcement to introduce to you all. And that is that we have 100 32 problems website and Adrian has been awesome and has both gotten us ready to do this live Colin show and has also done this website. So Adrian take it away and show us what you’ve been up to.
[01:05] Adrian: All right. So I’ll just share my screen here and we’re gonna take a look at the, 132 problems.org website. So, um, this is what we’ve got 132 problems.org. And, , we’re really excited to bring this to you. We’ve been working on for it for a few weeks anyway. And, , we just wanted to talk about what we have so far and then maybe, , kind of give a few teasers or, or ideas of what we’re gonna look at it in the future. So, this is the site, um we’re put in section 132 front and center. And if you come to the home page, you’ll see the the most recent blog posts and youtube episodes. The, the three most recent posts are, are always listed here. You know, there’s a sometimes a day or so delay. Um when a new youtube video comes out to get it posted on the website, but they’ll show up here and we’ll just click on, on one the most recent second or two year anniversary episode. So, what we’re doing with these is we’re taking the, the descriptions um and links that Michelle so faithfully puts into to youtube and cleaning it up a little bit and making a list of the links that are, are in the episode, just links to, to the site. But that what we’re really excited about is we’re actually transcribing using an online transcription service. All of the episodes. The many, many hours that Michelle has spent putting these together and interviewing awesome guests are being transcribed and put into the website. And you can see we have time stamp links and we’ve got things separated out by who spoke within the episode. And we’re looking to make this a repository of all this all this great content that she’s provided. And the cool thing about that is once this, these transcripts exist in the website, they’ll be searchable with a, a little search icon up here. So we’re hoping that they’ll become a, a great resource for anybody who’s wanting to search for. Oh, I remember Michelle talked about such and such, but I don’t remember what episode it was in. We’re hoping that it’ll, it’ll be a great resource that way. Um Now this does take some time. So it takes some money and it takes some effort to get this done and the transcriptions transcription service is not perfect. Um You know, like I just see this right here. There’s a, there’s a little flub in the transcription service. So we are working to proofread these and clean them up a little bit and there is a chance that we may reach out in the future for volunteers who might want to help um do that type of thing. But stay, stay tuned for, for that. If we put a call out for that. Um I did wanna just highlight one that we worked on the Rock Waterman episode. Um is one that we’ve done some work on recently where um not only do we have the links um mentioned at the beginning. Um We kind of broke it down by, you know, things that were talked about by chapters as you would see in, in youtube. And then we’ve actually put links in line in the text when a source or an another episode is referenced. Um Like here, the, the book Joseph F Polygamy, we put a link in line so that as if you’re reading the transcript, you can click that and get taken to, to that online resource. So that’s the goal for the, the transcripts is to really clean them up and make them super useful when you’re doing your own research or, or reading there. So um that’s the, the first thing I don’t know, I’ll pause there, Michelle. Do you have any comments or questions
[05:08] Michelle: on that or I just, I’m so excited about this because I know if there’s so much content and people like all of this is so exciting to me, but the transcripts are going to be such a useful tool where they’re searchable and, and you can search for the um papers and the Joseph Smith project that I referenced or different quotes I reference, you’ll be able to search them and hopefully find them so much more easily than trying to walk through 100 hundreds of hours of content to remember where something was talked about. So this is really, anyway, I, I’m like, so thankful to Adrian for what he has done because I think this makes all of this content so much more usable for people who are wanting to talk to other people about it or wanting to do their own research. It’s, it’s really, really exciting to me. So, thank you.
[05:52] Adrian: Yeah. Yeah, it’s, it’s really exciting, really fun. And so far I think I’m back to, you know, I’ve started at the most recent episodes and I’m working my way back with the transcription and I think I’m around episode 70 if I remember correctly. So, not quite halfway there. Um but we’ll, we’ll get all the way eventually and it’ll be
[06:14] Michelle: great. So let me ask you a question. Is it helpful? Now, is there a contact us link? Is it helpful if people send in errors they see in the transcript or is that not helpful? Is it better if you just find them on your own?
[06:27] Adrian: Um Well, if they look now they will find a lot. So they’re welcome. They’re welcome to do that. And actually, I think at the bottom of every page, I was gonna say, I, I was thinking there is a place to co to add a comment on a specific page. Um But I can, I can add that so I will, I’ll do that and then make it so that you can just add comments like on a blog post and we get notified when comments come in. And so then it keeps it just tied to that page and probably easier to find than, than an email. That’s, that’s harder to, to find what they were referencing. So,
[07:02] Michelle: ok, so we will have the comment function going and also the contact us. Well,
[07:09] Adrian: yes, we’ll get a Yeah,
[07:13] Michelle: wait. So those are probably there. Now by the time we’ve released this, knowing how efficient efficient Adrian is, I’m guessing. So, so we’ll be there when this is live. We’re recording this. I I’m a little bit ahead of time. So, ok. And so yeah, keep going.
[07:30] Adrian: Ok. So keep going. So this link gives you all the episodes from um most recent to earliest. Um So descending order and then you can click here because, you know, as everyone knows, Michelle always recommends that you start from the beginning. So if you click on episodes in order, they’ll be listed in order. Um Next we have a blog menu. So these are not things that are published on you youtube, but just little thoughts or, or um you know, here’s a clarifications on one of the episodes where um someone provided some work on the, the deeds. Um So someone who was it, Lindsay Lindsay Lewis did a whole bunch of research and provided a bunch of detailed maps to help um visualize what was going on in the, in the deeds episode. So, um that’s what the blog will be. Well, those will be um just posted on occasion. There’s no regular regular schedule for those. But
[08:37] Michelle: what I’m hoping to do with those is occasionally while I’m doing, I shouldn’t say occasionally, pretty frequently while I’m doing research or while I’m um investigating things I learned something new or I have a funny experience or a really amazing experience that I don’t necessarily share in the episode. And so that’ll kind of be um the updates of like, for example, I’m just writing one up right now about when I called, when I was doing research last week and I had to call the Church history Library and, and so I just called the call number and started to ask my question and the guy who I didn’t, um anyway, I’m telling it to horribly, but he just, all of a sudden said is this Michelle Stone, the Church history Library. And I ended up finding out who it is. And it’s anyway, we had a great conversation. It’s a um church, his story in his working on his phd who is hopefully gonna be able to come on the program. So fun experiences like that or mysterious experiences or suspicious, you know, all kinds of things like that. That’ll just kind of help people that well, I mean, be fun, additional content for people who want to follow along on the journey. And I think several of us will be adding to the blog post. Anyone who happens to have something that would be fun to read. Yeah.
[09:53] Adrian: And some of these I pulled off um you know, some of your posts on Facebook, I I extracted like this one I think was posted on Facebook. I extracted it from there and stuck it on here because I thought it was valuable. But anyway, I’ll
[10:05] Michelle: probably start posting here more than on Facebook going forward or at least in both places. OK. Mhm
[10:11] Adrian: So moving on, this is one that um this is one of those again that I just got on here today and it’s not fully functional yet. But the idea is here, we want to have like a Facebook type discussion forum where people could come and share ideas here um within the website. So um this, like I say, hopefully, by the time this airs will, it’ll be functional and you can register. But the, the idea here is um we’d have different forums where you could like this one’s submitting links and resources suggestions for this website um place where we could make announcements a question and answer area where you could submit a question and have it answered by other users or by Michelle. So um this is something like I said, this is brand new. I’m working out a few kinks, but we’re excited about having a, a place to have a, a forum um where everyone can register and share ideas and questions and discussions. So
[11:11] Michelle: I’m so excited again, discuss the episodes, discuss the research that’s being done like new discoveries that I, that anyone makes that, that we can share with one another. So I’m, I think that’ll be a really fun resource as well. Yep.
[11:25] Adrian: Um Next one here is this is a, a list that I’ve compiled of different places where Michelle has appeared on other people’s channels and I’ve linked um to many of these interviews. I don’t know if I’ve got them all, Michelle, we need to sync up and make sure that we’ve got them all. But there’s quite a few and those are interesting on, on other channels.
[11:49] Michelle: So I’ll keep you updated with any appearances I do. All right, perfect.
[11:54] Adrian: Um The last link that I have visible here is just a way that you can sport. These are the same links right now that are posted in all, all of the youtube videos. Um We’re also looking at um some other ways that possibly people could help out, but I don’t know if I wanna, we wanna spoil that now or not. There’s nothing concrete yet, but we are looking at different options for the future.
[12:18] Michelle: We are and um one thing I’ll say, I’m, I’m also, I’m not, this isn’t my skill set. So I’m so thankful to have Adrian on board and the other people that are helping, um, we are, we are working to figure out ways to thank people. Um Who, well, I, I’m always so thankful for people who are willing to donate to this podcast, but I’d like to come up with some more concrete ways to be able to thank people. And so that’s, that’s something we’re working on as well, but we will have some kind of um special content or gatherings or other um proprietary rewards of some sort for people who are donating to this, to this um endeavor that we’re doing. So. Anyway, we’re working on that as well.
[13:02] Adrian: Yep. So that’s what we have right now. Um So there’s a few things that I’ll mention for the future. Um We, I would like to put together an FA U A frequently asked questions page where, which would allow um kind of a quick look up for, you know, something that maybe you could point your friends to who are, you know, maybe starting to question the poly polygamy narrative or that type of thing. So, um that’s something we weren’t able to get it put together yet, but that’s something that’s planned um as a menu option here. We would have an FA Q and um as I mentioned in the, in the forum here, I think it would be a great way that all the listeners can help out to crowd source those questions, you know, if, if people can submit the questions, they think are the most valuable or helpful to somebody starting down this awakening path um that will help us to know what to bubble up to, you know, a main page, frequently asked questions. Um
[13:58] Michelle: So yes, I submit the questions and the answers because the more help we have with that as well, for sure, it would be great. Yeah.
[14:06] Adrian: Um And this links and resources, my original intent was to have um you know, another link here for, for links. So um things like the one I showed, you know, the Joseph F polygamy book or different other books, Whitney Horning books and, and that type of things we want to gather up all kinds of resources that are, are available,
[14:29] Michelle: other channels as well. Yeah,
[14:31] Adrian: other channels um you know, links, you know, that’s I would really like this to become um like the central place for polygamy research. So, you know, I think I haven’t spent a lot of time on Brian Brian Hale’s website, but I know he’s, you know, got a fairly comprehensive listing of, of polygamy resources that may be lacking in some areas or, or biased in some ways. Um I don’t know if I should say that or not, but anyway, iii I would like ours to be the best. Um So what that looks like and how we structure it, that’s gonna be a little bit of a problem or, you know, a, a problem to solve something to work out a process. Um But I’m excited for that. Just the, the one last thing I, I would talk about that Michelle and I discussed at one point is the possibility with with A I now, um there are ways that you can train an A I to on a, on a set of data and then created a chatbot customer service rep that you can ask a question to and it’ll answer it based on a set of DA data. So I’m really excited in the future. Once we get the transcripts, all generated and proofread and cleaned up um to hand that over to A I and maybe have a, a cool little question. But that could answer all the questions based on the, the information that’s presented in all of these hundreds of hours of possum research.
[15:58] Michelle: That’s so exciting. So maybe it’ll be chat JFP that Joseph polygamy and people you’ll be able to type in a question and have it, have it provide the answers based on the content in this podcast and other other similar resources. So that’s gonna be an Amaz. There are lots of exciting things coming. So, OK, I think everyone’s probably just like in love with Adrian and so thankful for everything that you’ve been doing for us. And this is really exciting. So please check out the website and keep, keep checking it out as more functionality comes online. Our next exciting announcement is which you already, you know that tonight is our first live call in show. And so um we we would have been able to do it with just chats and messages, but I really like to talk to people. So Adrian has been again just working to figure out how to make this possible that people could call in and talk on the show live. So I’ve asked him to come to also share the instructions and everything you need to know about that.
[17:06] Adrian: Alright, so I’ll just display once again my screen and so this is the placeholder for our live call in show that’s gonna happen in 45 hours as it tells us here. Um And we’ll put this link in the
[17:19] Michelle: description 45 hours from when we’re recording, but it will be a few hours. So.
[17:25] Adrian: Correct. Correct. Yeah, I gotta, I gotta switch my brain into that free recording thing. But um yeah, so we’ll put the link for this in the description and if you go to um you know Michelle’s channel and click on the live tab, it’ll be listed there as well. Um But so we’ll, we’ll start broadcasting at 7 p.m. Moun Mountain and you know, most of you who are, you know, familiar with, youtube will be familiar with a live broadcast, but there’ll be a, a chat. You can actually, this chat is actually live now. So if you want to start, um, seating your questions for Michelle right away, so we can take a look at those and, and prep for them. You’re welcome to do that. Um We see those as they come in. Um, but, well, you’ll also be able to call in with the phone. So the phone number is Joe one wife, which we love 5636639433. Joe one wife. Don’t call it now, please. But when we go live, feel free to call. If all the lines are busy, you’ll get voicemail. Don’t leave a voicemail because we won’t be able to check those during the live call. Just try back again in a few minutes and, and try to get through.
[18:40] Michelle: So, so we will be um, we’ll have someone also looking at chat so you can um, send in your chat questions if you’re not able to get through on the phone. Oh, I should have said from the beginning, this was actually planned to be our fifth Sunday um episode which I thought was really fun. But then I realized that fifth Sunday of March is actually Easter. So we decided to switch it up and go ahead and do it as a first Sunday episode this month, we do hope that this will be an ongoing feature. So if you’re not able to get through this time, go ahead and send it in in a chat or, or know that you’ll have more opportunities. So anyway, I think that this is a great time to do this call show, especially after our um the last episode, the two year anniversary episode, which really made a splash. I’m really excited about how many people are resonating with that and how it’s being shared. Um The channel has been growing as a result of that last episode. So this is a great time to do a call in show. So go ahead and I think if people leave, am I am I correct Adrian that if they just leave that youtube tab open, it will just start up automatically when we go live. So if you’re, yeah, just if you’re worried about missing it or you know, you can just leave that tab open and you’ll be able to the live or of course, it will always be up if you are listening to it later. So I’m really excited about this. Thank you again. Thank you, Adrian. Thank you for all of the listeners that have called this channel Grow that have been sharing these episodes. Thank you to all of the donors that are making this all possible brand. We’ll see you in a few hours.
