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The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon with us

We are ex-Mormons and we’re re-reading the Book of Mormon together, but this time we know that it’s a work of fiction. We think we’re funny. In each episode we read a new chapter from the BOM and uncover how the church’s teachings affected us in our conservative, faithful days. We believe in love and acceptance, but we process some anger along the way. Expect lightmindedness, loud laughter, evil speaking of the Lord’s anointed, and taking the name of the Lord in vain.

comedy comedy fiction

All Episodes

01:08:11

Jacob 01

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2023/02/23

What would you do with the lost 116 pages? Joe and Smith have a very limited imagination that has to do with money and/or sex and/or alcohol. Smith asks Joe to remind him about the happiness letter, but it didn’t work. Joe tells a mission story about the worst moment of his life. Joe remembers to tell the limousine joke from last episode. Music Provided by Eric VanAusdal The Book of Mormon is publicly available at churchofjesuschrist.org Join our patreon at-

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50:12

2 Nephi 32 and 33

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2023/01/26

The guys forgot about their idea to try to be more positive with their attitude toward the BOM. Joe says that he feels ashamed of how he used to use these two chapters with investigators when he was on his mission. The guys recommend finding the Whiskers and Wires release on band camp (and no other service, just band camp). Music Provided by Eric VanAusdal with permission from the artist. The Book of Mormon is publicly available at churchofjesuschrist.org Join our patreon at-

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01:12:25

2 Nephi 31 (back to explicit)

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2023/01/03

Joe and Smith are back without a guest and maybe they’re a little too critical (or not critical enough?) of how it went on the last episode. Joe goes on (what can only be described as) a rant about skepticism vs cynicism, or maybe sincerity vs cynicism. The guys play a round of Hymnal Literal Translation to learn some crazy ish. Music Provided by Eric VanAusdal with permission from the artist. The Book of Mormon is publicly available at churchofjesuschrist.org Join our patreon at-

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01:43:26

2 Nephi 30 (with guest Friendjamin!)

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/12/20

It’s happened. This week the guys are joined by a guest, Friendjamin, who is still a card-carrying saint of the latter-days. Joe recants his negative review of the Jon Heder ep of the Petey Pants Podcast. The conversation devolves into mission masturbation and the like. Smith took an awesome picture of hot lava that can be seen here. The guys are excited about their Turtle Friend’s LDS doctrine-based Christmas t-shirt that he designed. The guys play a round of “I’ve got some bad tunes for you” which

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53:29

2 Nephi 29

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/12/14

The guys are back and they did not land their exclusive guest this week (sad face). Smith sent Joe a picture of the cutest baby tortoises you’ve ever seen. They want you to check out their patreon page- https://patreon.com/JoeAndSmith. A bible? A bible? The more the merrier. Smith refers back to this classic Brother Jake youtube video about the different branches of the church. Smith proposes an interesting test to tell if one is a real Christian. Joe wonders about the future of the temple video

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01:00:42

2 Nephi 28, is it PG-13?

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/11/22

The guys are back with a new special challenge this week. They’ll get to it a few minutes in. Joe notices what he doesn’t like about dad jokes. Smith gives new meaning to the term ‘superspreader’ and makes Joe giggle. Smith refers back to the Aliki series of sketches from Portlandia. The guys try to self-edit to try to land a tbm guest next week. All sorts of aspersions are cast. Joe gives an attempt at an apologist answer for the BOM to teach principles in terms of conflict and good and bad. Eat,

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46:23

2 Nephi 27

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/10/06

Smith does his best Mark “Jacko” Jackson impression. Joe accuses Smith of sending him down a “Helf hole” after referring to him an article from Psychology Today published in 2017. The article is in reference to a separate scholarly article published in The Journal of Sex Research about so called, ‘sex addiction’ as it pertains to religious people. A bad Ballam shows up, but is quickly cast out. Joe claims he can do an impression of himself, but he doesn’t deliver. Joe makes an executive decision to

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56:25

2 Nephi 26

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/09/28

Smith asks for an idea about what to call listeners, Joe suggests not to include ‘anti’. Joe talks about his dear friend (not deer friend, aka D’ump) who is a loving tbm. The guys recap their time together in Denver for the Pavement show in Sep 2022. Smith noted Joe’s breathing. Joe gets a little frustrated by all of the filler in the BOM, just like last chapter. The guys discuss whether or not a church member is ‘allowed to ask questions’. Joe reaffirms that a big part of the guys’ premise is that

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01:27:21

2 Nephi 25

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/09/26

Show notes are on the way. The guys are recording together in the same room. Smith came to visit Joe so they could go to a concert together.

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49:30

2 Nephi 11-24

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/09/14

Joe questions whether reading the BOM is good for him. Smith suggests for the listener to order a free one, but the missionaries will bring it. The guys accidentally stumble into the church’s new branding campaign to have a BOM in your crotch. They return to the well until the end of the episode. In this chapter, JS warns us that there are some Isaiah chapters coming. Like 13 of them. There are 2 more BOMs in crotches. Smith has a story about a TBM friend, who may be a deer. The guys remember D’ump

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40:23

2 Nephi 10

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/09/07

A Smith and Joe exclusive! Joe takes it upon himself to read this week. It doesn’t take long before the guys devolve into adolescent pp jokes. They wonder who took the longest to take out their endowments out of the last few leaders of the church. Smith doesn’t like to use the word scripture. Joe makes a promise (that he later breaks) about a ‘yo kids are so perished’ joke. This chapter teaches us that there is no other nation that would crucify their god. God reminds Smith about John 3:16. Smith

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51:15

2 Nephi 09 part 2 of 2

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/08/31

Don’t adjust your podcasting devices, you’re hearing correctly. Smith picks up reading before talking or anything else?!!? Joe tells Smith about why they’re not funny, or maybe they’re only funny to each other. Is it learned or learn-ed? JS is not a fan of smart people. The learn-ed person is kind of the natural enemy of the con artist. Joe makes an ableist joke that seminary teachers would like. Can a person get reverse-circumcised? Smith looked into it before. Joe’s summary of how the contents of

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56:15

2 Nephi 09 part 1 of 2

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/08/26

Show notes are on their way, hold your tapirs

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56:24

2 Nephi 08

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/08/17

Smith starts us with a wonderful invocation. It gets a little morbid, but Smith tells us about a classic country song: Bury Me Under That Durian Tree. Joe invokes Marty Robbins. Smith wants to know the difference between light and heavy petting. Good thing Joe learned about it in seminary. The guys detour into more Pavement talk. Joe’s #1 fave Pave-cast is Meeting Malkmus: A Pavement Podcast. A close second: Stuff You Should Know. Smith contends that Malkmus is in the top 5 of the top 10 of

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44:26

2 Nephi 07

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/08/10

The guys are excited about the shoutout they got at the end of a recent episode of Once Upon a Mormon Podcast. They wish Bro Hyrum well on his gay marriage. Joe reiterates that he wants to be the first gay temple marriage, but doesn’t want to poke fun at actual gays, just the church. Smith has seen a couple of church illustrations of JS translating the BOM into a hat. Joe takes this opportunity to compare the sheet illustrations to a translation glory hole. Joe can be so juvenile sometimes. Smith

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42:00

2 Nephi 06

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/08/03

Just a head’s up that in this episode, the guys talk about FLDS (and LDS) prophets taking on child brides. The guys start out expressing some frustrations about their preoccupation with sex. Joe questions whether it was brought up as much as it feels like it was, but he still thinks the effect is that it feels like it was brought up all the time. The guys are still bummed that they can’t get gay married in the LDS temple yet (ps- they’re not gay, which makes them think they have a greater chance of

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54:00

2 Nephi 05

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/07/27

The guys are excited about their new theme song. Maybe the listener has heard it before, but this is when it debuted for them. Joe makes Smith listen to a wacky recording from Willy Wood. The guys wonder what it would be like to leave the early church and if it would upset JS. Joe returns and reports about Matt Easton, who mentioned being a proud gay son of God in his BYU valedictorian commencement speech. Joe has a lot of indignation about J-Ho’s response. Joe watched Won't You Be My Neighbor

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01:52:44

2 Nephi 04 For a more history part

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/07/20

It’s getting hot in Smith’s studio and he claims that sitting on cold rice can help. Joe does a little fact-checking on a supposed JS quote. The guys also mistake where the “save Jesus only” quote is, but they figure it out eventually. The guys aren’t sure whether the JS quote really came from him or not. Smith reminds the listener that if they disagree with him, they’re probably disagreeing with God too. Smith recaps how he feels about re-reading Rough Stone Rolling. Joe watched the Netflix Kanye

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01:16:17

2 Nephi 03

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/07/18

Unbeknownst to the listener, the guys have had a long break from the podcast and they missed each other. They already want to make sure that the listener is clued in on a mistake that is coming up on the next episode. Smith tells about what it was like to get a video message from Joe in a sexy, sexy, hospital gown. The guys think they are funny, but they personally know people who are funnier. Smith’s dad is doing his best to show unconditional love for his children despite what he learned in the

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01:13:13

2 Nephi 02

The Joe and Smith Podcast: Read the Book of Mormon... ·

2022/07/15

Smith introduces us to a very unlikable version of JS. Joe assures Smith that all sorts of women must be attracted to him. Smith concludes that it's difficult to be single as well as in a relationship. Joe tries to flex his BSA knowledge. Smith plays a similarly unlikable version of Joe in a reenactment of a phone convo with Joe’s dad. Smith wants to watch Encino Man (1992) instead of reading the BOM. Smith is curious about the baldness scale. Joe remembers hearing a wonderful round of FMK with the

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