Great And Spacious Podcast

Four apostate millennials sit down and take a long hard look at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints:Follow these friends raised in varying degrees of Mormonism as they attempt to make sense of what the Mormon Church actually teaches, and how that measures up to actual history and fact.Oh, also we’re super drunk!

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  Episode #15

  Episode 157 - We Love Woman!

  Aug 16, 20262h 27mS4

  Send us Fan Mail The final CES Letter episode begins with Utah’s apparently prayer-induced rain, tornado warnings, fire-nados, and the Anti-Intellectini: raspberry lemonade vodka, cranberry-apple-raspberry juice, and lemon, served with a rim of crushed Smarties—because intellectuals must be pulverized before they become dangerous. Abigail eats the leftover Smarties dust directly from the bowl before dumping it into her drink, creating a chunky sacramental slurry that perfectly embodies the episode’s theme. The hosts also investigate Alexander Skarsgård’s potential as a fuckable wicker basket, celebrate humanity’s ancient commitment to dildos, dissect the House of the Dragon finale, and establish that the Pokémon theme followed by Phil Collins’s Tarzan soundtrack is powerful enough to make a pregnant Abish cry about Robert Irwin. As usual, the road from Mormon history to sentient wicker penis is remarkably short. History: [00:32:04] Abigail presents “We Love Women,” an examination of how Mormonism reveres the abstract ideal of capital-W Woman while denying actual women autonomy. From wives appearing alongside houses, servants, oxen, and donkeys in the biblical inventory of male property to Doctrine and Covenants 132 declaring that plural wives “belong” to their husband, the institution praises women as daughters of God, mothers in Zion, and nurturers—provided they remain pure, maternal, heterosexual, beautiful without vanity, exhausted without resentment, ambitious only on behalf of their families, and authoritative without ever challenging male authority. Mormon women receive influence rather than power, then are encouraged to enforce the system through modesty lessons, marital advice, motherhood policing, and “benevolent sexism” disguised as loving concern. The internet takes that existing machinery and industrializes it. Church leaders encouraged women to carry Mormon domestic perfection onto blogs, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, where family life became missionary material, measurable content, and eventually a marketable product. Abigail traces that path from the bloggernacle and Eight Passengers to MomTok, Taylor Frankie Paul, and Ballerina Farm: Ruby Franke turned control and humiliation into parenting content; Taylor’s public unraveling became more profitable than perfection; and Hannah Neeleman’s elite ballet training disappeared beneath sourdough, raw milk, eight children, and an egg-collecting apron she received instead of the trip to Greece she wanted. Whether the woman is an immaculate tradwife or a televised train wreck, the machine sells tickets to both—and everyone watching, criticizing, hate-following, or recapping still feeds it. FHE: [02:10:44] The hosts finish the CES Letter’s “Other” section with the Church’s changing name, institutional anti-intellectualism, warnings against unauthorized internet research, and the wonderfully Orwellian claim that some truths are simply “not very useful.” Boyd K. Packer, Dallin H. Oaks, Quentin L. Cook, and Neil L. Andersen collectively argue that inconvenient history should be withheld, uncomfortable information is probably false, and anyone damaged by discovering documented facts can always repent and put the blinders back on. Meanwhile, the Church quietly publishes Gospel Topics Essays acknowledging many of the same claims it once dismissed as anti-Mormon lies. They also revisit “when the prophet speaks, the debate is over”—a doctrine rendered slightly inconvenient by the priesthood ban, the Church’s abandoned “I’m a Mormon” campaign, and Russell M. Nelson later declaring the word Mormon a victory for Satan. The central problem is not one questionable claim that can be patched with apologetics; it is hundreds of contradictions, reversals, omissions, and falsehoods accumulating until the shelf ceases to exist. The hosts close four years and 157 episodes with reflections on the anger of realizing they and their families were systematically lied to, Abish’s upcoming maternity hiatus, and one final prayer offered in the sacred name of Fanny Stenhouse and her stolen fucking bonnets. Follow us on Insta @gr8_and_spacious, Twitter @gr8andspacious, Discord (https://discord.gg/pdeXSQdga) and Reddit u/gr8_and_spacious for behind-the-scenes shenanigans, hilarious memes, and maybe even a sneak peek at our next episode.. If you've got a burning question, a hilarious anecdote, or just want to say hi, shoot us an epistle at greatandspaciouspod@gmail.com. And don't forget to like, subscribe, and leave a review of our podcast! Support the show

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  Episode #14

  Episode 156 - As Ye Have Done Unto the EBITDA, My Brethren

  Aug 9, 20262h 21mS4

  Send us Fan Mail The CES Letter has finally reached the magnificently specific category of “Other,” so naturally aaaAAAaaa commemorates the occasion with the Seed of Cain , a drink conceived as two ounces of black rum, half an ounce of lime juice, and Pitch Black Mountain Dew. Unfortunately, the gas station declined to participate in the bit, forcing a substitution of electric-blue Voltage and transforming the intended abyssal cocktail into something grayish, ominous, and apparently tasting like “rum and Mountain Dew.” From there, the intro becomes a pop-culture yard sale: The X-Files briefly forgetting whether Scully believes in science, the enduring hotness of Gillian Anderson, Christopher Nolan’s enormous practical Cyclops, House of the Dragon dragon discourse and the defense of poor cave-dwelling Sheepstealer, the return of Ted Lasso , grown-up Avatar characters, Pokémon, pregnancy ultrasounds, appendicitis, and the disturbing realization that modern medicine is doing things that would have looked like sorcery approximately five minutes ago. History: [00:36:01] Abigail heads all the way back to the ancient historical epoch of September 1993 for the story of the September Six , six unrelated Mormon writers, scholars, feminists, and intellectuals who were disciplined by the church within twelve days of one another. Against the backdrop of Boyd K. Packer identifying feminists, homosexuals, and intellectuals as major threats, the Strengthening Church Members Committee collecting information on members, and independent Mormon scholarship becoming increasingly difficult to contain, Abigail walks through Lynn Whitesides, Avraham Gileadi, Paul Toscano, Maxine Hanks, Lavina Fielding Anderson, and D. Michael Quinn and the dangerously radical ideas that got them into trouble, including feminism, Heavenly Mother, historical documentation, criticism of ecclesiastical abuse, and the unforgivable act of looking at Mormon history with your eyes open. The segment digs into the church’s convenient insistence that these were unrelated local disciplinary decisions despite the spectacular coincidence of timing, overlapping intellectual networks, prior monitoring, and leadership rhetoric aimed at precisely these kinds of members. The fallout extended far beyond six membership records, encouraging an entire generation of Mormon scholars and feminists to self-censor when the possible costs included ordinances, careers, marriages, and community. The bleakest coda belongs to Lavina Anderson, whose attempts to return were rejected while she was alive, only for her temple blessings to be restored after her death. As Abigail puts it, the institution eventually got to keep much of the scholarship while losing the scholars, then quietly acknowledge many of the same historical realities without ever apologizing to the people punished for discussing them first. FHE: [01:51:57] The gang opens the CES Letter’s miscellaneous junk drawer with Richard Bushman’s observation that Mormonism’s dominant historical narrative “is not true” and proceeds directly into the church’s long record of historical whitewashing. First up is the priesthood and temple ban on Black members: the modern church says its records provide no clear explanation for the ban, while earlier First Presidency statements explicitly described it as doctrine and connected racial restrictions to premortal behavior and the supposed curse of Cain. The discussion turns to the racist “fence-sitter” theology members were still being taught within living memory, followed by Zina D. H. Young’s polyandrous marriages, Joseph Smith’s angel-with-a-sword coercion story, Brigham Young’s conveniently absent wives in correlated manuals, and the church’s habit of making yesterday’s emphatic doctrine into today’s mysterious administrative shrug. Then capitalism enters the temple. The hosts dig into financial secrecy, Gordon B. Hinckley’s claim that church finances belonged to contributing members despite those members being unable to inspect them, teachings commanding members to pay tithing before rent, utilities, or food, and the CES Letter’s comparison between humanitarian spending and the enormous cost of City Creek Center. Lorenzo Snow’s famous tithing plea also gets the red-pen treatment when the crucial qualifier “who has means” disappears from later church quotations. By the end, the conversation has widened into Mormon anti-intellectualism itself: an institution teaching people to distrust inconvenient information, doubt their own conclusions, and treat obedience as safer than curiosity. Naturally, the episode closes by invoking the September Six like newly canonized patron saints of asking too many fucking questions. Follow us on Insta @gr8_and_spacious, Twitter @gr8andspacious, Discord (https://discord.gg/pdeXSQdga) and Reddit u/gr8_and_spacious for behind-the-scenes shenanigans, hilarious memes, and maybe even a sneak peek at our next episode.. If you've got a burning question, a hilarious anecdote, or just want to say hi, shoot us an epistle at greatandspaciouspod@gmail.com. And don't forget to like, subscribe, and leave a review of our podcast! Support the show

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  Episode #13

  Episode 155 - Cooking the Water Lets the Sin In

  Aug 2, 20261h 39mS4

  Send us Fan Mail The hosts celebrate Pie and Beer Day with pizza pie, tiny strawberry-rhubarb pies, actual beer, a root beer float, and green tea for anyone whose digestive tract has already filed a formal grievance. The festivities immediately dissolve into Utah’s apocalyptic summer weather, Hercules-era Thebes comparisons, sundial penis cosplay, the creative scholarship of r/cospenis, and an extensive catalogue of porn-title wordplay that absolutely nobody requested and everyone desperately needed. The pop-culture side quests continue through Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey , Elliott Page’s casting, Claudia’s honeymoon pilgrimage through Carmel, the Madonna Inn, Disneyland, San Francisco, and Carrot Top’s ancient Las Vegas residency. The group also investigates Abigail’s cursed purple dress, the Costa Concordia disaster and its deeply punchable captain, and a mysterious rain of bluegill fish, which was either caused by a confused pelican, Utah’s developing Sharknado infrastructure, or God finally attempting a miracle with whatever aquatic scraps were left in the celestial freezer. OOPS ALL SCIENCE! The hosts return to the CES Letter’s brief science section, where Mormonism insists that “true science” and “true religion” cannot conflict before immediately driving Adam and Eve directly into the fossil record. The discussion covers the claim that death entered the world only after Adam’s fall around 4,000 BCE, despite billions of years of extinction, ancient hominids, mass extinction events, and an entire geological archive refusing to participate in Sunday School. They also revisit anachronistic Book of Mormon animals, the Tower of Babel, Noah’s Ark, the global flood, Neanderthal DNA, and the apologetic tradition of discovering that every inconvenient animal was apparently a taper wearing a little historical disguise. The scientific potluck expands into whether hundreds of thin, ring-bound gold plates could physically survive engraving, transport, bean-barrel storage, and Joseph Smith sprinting through the forest without becoming an expensive metallic accordion. The hosts also explore food-safety regulation and produce-borne “butthole COVID,” AI models escaping sandboxes and claiming fictional childhood memories, and the human body as compelling evidence that intelligent design was delegated to an unsupervised intern. From whale fingies, endogenous retroviruses, stratigraphy, and ancient earthquake records to toxoplasmosis, explosive seed pods, self-burying plants, and the Word of Wisdom discouraging beverages that required people to boil their disease-riddled water, the natural world proves far stranger, messier, and more magnificent than anything correlation could fit onto a laminated Primary handout. Follow us on Insta @gr8_and_spacious, Twitter @gr8andspacious, Discord (https://discord.gg/pdeXSQdga) and Reddit u/gr8_and_spacious for behind-the-scenes shenanigans, hilarious memes, and maybe even a sneak peek at our next episode.. If you've got a burning question, a hilarious anecdote, or just want to say hi, shoot us an epistle at greatandspaciouspod@gmail.com. And don't forget to like, subscribe, and leave a review of our podcast! Support the show

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  Episode #12

  Episode 154 - Not in God’s White Heaven

  Jul 26, 20261h 54mS4

  Send us Fan Mail With fellow desert people Abby and Sam joining the table, Abish blinds everyone with the Science of the Lambs , a radioactive-green experiment combining Midori, blue curaçao, vodka, and some suspiciously persistent flat Sprite. A skewer of rainbow gummy frogs provides the educational garnish because dissecting amphibians is science, and because gummy fetal pig hearts remain tragically unavailable. The drink is considerably more successful than the infamous hot-dog-water cocktail, whose surviving cocktail wienies were recently discovered fossilized in the refrigerator. The intro proceeds with all the discipline of an unsupervised particle accelerator, bouncing through chicken-heart meat gum, the new Little House on the Prairie , Netflix’s live-action Avatar , From , The X-Files , The Odyssey , World Cup corruption, and an urgent philosophical debate over whether Dani Rojas is too precious to fuck. He is not. Science has spoken. History: [00:30:51] Abigail begins with the Tower of Babel and discovers that the entire biblical story is only nine verses long, despite centuries of Christians attaching an expanded cinematic universe to it. Genesis never says the builders wanted to storm heaven, overthrow God, survive another flood, or construct the tower under the supervision of Nimrod. It simply describes humanity building a city and a tower, followed by God scrambling their language and scattering them. The familiar Sunday School version is less biblical history than theological fan fiction with a surprisingly generous special-effects budget. The likely inspiration was Babylon itself, particularly the enormous ziggurat Etemenanki, whose construction required fired bricks, naturally occurring bitumen, cedar beams, centralized government, and a staggering amount of human labor. Babylon’s monumental architecture advertised the power of its kings and patron god Marduk, while the Hebrew writers had excellent reasons to hate the empire that conquered Judah, destroyed Jerusalem and its temple, and deported much of the population. The story therefore functions less as a warning against tall buildings and more as a Hebrew roast of imperial power, centralized authority, and Babylon’s enormous bricked-up civic penis. Abigail then launches into a speedrun through historical linguistics, explaining that languages do not suddenly appear, remain perfectly preserved, or decay from one original divine tongue. They drift through pronunciation, grammar, syntax, borrowed vocabulary, migration, conquest, trade, technology, jokes, and children imperfectly recreating the noises made by adults around them. Linguists can trace related words backward toward reconstructed language families such as Proto-Indo-European, but spoken sounds leave no fossils and there was never a single morning when everyone woke up speaking something new. That creates a particular problem for Mormonism, because the Book of Ether turns the confounding of languages into a literal historical event witnessed by Jared, the brother of Jared, their families, and the future passengers of several bitumen-sealed ocean barges. While other Christians can treat Babel as an etiological myth explaining linguistic diversity, Mormon scripture parks a wooden submarine directly in the middle of that escape route. The result is a doctrine chained to an ancient legend, a brief detour through Mahonri Moriancumr and the children of Aronek, and the devastating revelation that even humanity’s supposedly perfect original civilization still named one of its children Jared. Follow us on Insta @gr8_and_spacious, Twitter @gr8andspacious, Discord (https://discord.gg/pdeXSQdga) and Reddit u/gr8_and_spacious for behind-the-scenes shenanigans, hilarious memes, and maybe even a sneak peek at our next episode.. If you've got a burning question, a hilarious anecdote, or just want to say hi, shoot us an epistle at greatandspaciouspod@gmail.com. And don't forget to like, subscribe, and leave a review of our podcast! Support the show

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  Episode #11

  Episode 153 - Goofus Soup

  Jul 19, 20262h 15mS4

  Send us Fan Mail The episode opens with fetus-based parasitism, the dangers of keeping a child who returns from Cairo possessed by an evil mummy, and a brief pregnancy scare that ends with the baby being completely fine, folded into an anatomically disrespectful pretzel, and suddenly kicking nonstop. The group also detours through toddler hyperfixations, the ancient discovery that chickens are made of food, and the unsettling realization that Abigail’s coworkers have accidentally memorized his historical lectures. This week’s cocktail is The Bathilda Bagshot , a grandma-coded sparkling concoction made with Sprite, Aperol, grenadine, champagne, and violet syrup. The drink commemorates the hosts’ ongoing theory that Mitch McConnell and various Mormon patriarchs are not technically alive but merely skin sacks animated by one extremely determined evil snake. Pop culture then swallows the room whole, covering Jeff Arcuri’s crowd work, House of the Dragon , the aggressively horny new Wuthering Heights , Obsession , Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey , internet racism about historical casting, John Bernthal’s urgent need to tell everyone something, and Taylor Swift’s billionaire wedding extravaganza summoning the Guillotine Girls once again. History: [00:39:01] Abigail introduces the central thesis of Freemasonry with a truth as old as civilization: boys love leveling up . Beginning with the Masonic legend of Hiram Abiff and Solomon’s Temple, she follows the mythology through the Knights Templar, whose actual history as crusading soldier-bankers was eventually alchemized into hidden treasure, secret knowledge, and medieval persecution fan fiction. From there, operative masonry, meaning men who were genuinely skilled at stacking rocks without killing anyone, evolves into speculative masonry, where the square becomes morality, the compass becomes self-restraint, and the rough stone becomes the imperfect man because apparently nothing can remain a normal tool once enough Enlightenment dudes gather in a tavern. The episode continues through the formation of England’s first Grand Lodge in 1717 and Adam Weishaupt’s short-lived Bavarian Illuminati, founded in 1776 after he essentially decided that Freemasonry was too expensive and started his own cooler secret club. Although the real Illuminati disappeared within about fifteen years, conspiracy culture inflated it into an immortal world government, aided by the same pattern-recognition slurry that later produced Wayfair child-trafficking theories and QAnon. Abigail ultimately frames fraternal orders as elaborate, ranked reconstructions of ordinary friendship and mutual aid: women bring soup when someone’s husband dies, while men appoint the Worshipful Junior Deputy Inner Sentinel of Extremely Normal Hats to authorize casserole distribution under Section 14. The conversation expands into male loneliness, emotional repression, AI companionship, and the radical possibility that men could simply hug their friends without first inventing 79 degrees of tit-touching secrecy. FHE: [01:46:39] Everyone now turns to the CES Letter’s section on the temple and Freemasonry, beginning with the conspicuous fact that Joseph Smith introduced the Nauvoo endowment only seven weeks after becoming a Mason. The group examines Heber C. Kimball’s claim that Mormonism possessed the “true masonry” supposedly preserved from Solomon’s Temple, then asks why God’s restored ancient ritual resembles the exact nineteenth-century Masonic ceremony Joseph had just experienced rather than any earlier form. The inventory of borrowed material includes the square and compass, garment and veil markings, names, tokens, signs, blood-oath penalties, and the intensely intimate Five Points of Fellowship, also known as therapy for touch-starved men but with substantially more knee contact. The hosts examine the church’s removal of the penalties and Five Points of Fellowship in 1990, along with the endowment’s continuing stream of “adjustments” that somehow never count as changes to an eternal and unalterable ordinance. This leads to the larger question of why an omniscient Heavenly Father would require his own children to present secret handshakes and memorized passwords before entering heaven. Personal temple memories provide the emotional underside: beige rooms, chlorine-soaked baptistries, borrowed white underwear, wet translucent jumpsuits, invasive nudity, polyester veils, and the disconnect between the transcendent spiritual experience everyone was promised and the deeply uncomfortable locker room they actually received. The episode is closed in the name of women, who managed to build communities of care without invented priesthood ranks, and with one final plea to humanity: men, just be gay. Follow us on Insta @gr8_and_spacious, Twitter @gr8andspacious, Discord (https://discord.gg/pdeXSQdga) and Reddit u/gr8_and_spacious for behind-the-scenes shenanigans, hilarious memes, and maybe even a sneak peek at our next episode.. If you've got a burning question, a hilarious anecdote, or just want to say hi, shoot us an epistle at greatandspaciouspod@gmail.com. And don't forget to like, subscribe, and leave a review of our podcast! Support the show

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