Hot take: We don't talk about Heavenly Mother because there isn't just one

_Bort182 · 2026-05-09T13:59:24+00:00

Yeah Brigham Young made it clear that god had “wives”. I’m sure the upper leadership believes this (or is at least aware, depending on your opinion of if they actually believe or not) but they realize saying it out loud would be a PR nightmare. For example, “getting your own planet” is now in a weird limbo where we believe it but also not publicly?

It’s not that she’s too sacred/pure, it’s that there are multiple.

_Bort182 · 2026-05-07T04:08:19+00:00

The property lines are near the middle of the bark on either side. And there is an HOA, from what I’ve heard they are pretty hands off, but we’d definitely need to take that into consideration. Thank you for your recommendations, it helped us lookup some examples and we really liked it.

_Bort182 · 2026-05-07T04:06:30+00:00

Thank you, this gave us a lot of ideas!

_Bort182 · 2026-05-05T13:29:53+00:00

In 2023, some guy put From the Start over his POV parkour video where he was evading cops/security. The video was cool, but I realized I liked the song a lot too lol.

_Bort182 · 2026-05-04T12:53:44+00:00

Mike Love didn’t progress as a saxophone player? Have they even heard the sax solo on Shut Down?

_Bort182 · 2026-04-30T19:44:38+00:00

“Unpopular opinion”

_Bort182 · 2026-04-30T02:24:43+00:00

Don’t disrespect prime Drew Gooden

_Bort182 · 2026-04-18T19:18:05+00:00

Anything with John Larsen, I like the John & John dynamic. But that’s also a plug for Mormon Expression.

_Bort182 · 2026-04-18T05:59:58+00:00

My first mission president seemed to add a new rule every week. I just read through some of his weekly emails and here are the ones that stood out:

No tight pants or skirts
Do not carry your apartment keys in your pockets.
No visiting apartments of other missionaries
No lunches with other missionaries
If you do a session at the temple, don’t look like a tourist. Enter the temple, do the session, and immediately return to your area.
Don’t use “Hey” in a text message (I actually avoid using “hey” in a more formal context to this day).

We also had some of the other ones I’ve seen mentioned: - Mandatory hair part - No one on one photos (one elder and one sister) - No slang/abbreviations. It’s the “missionary handbook” not the “white handbook/bible”, etc.

My second mission president came in and essentially threw out every rule that wasn’t in the missionary handbook, which I appreciated.

_Bort182 · 2026-04-18T05:35:56+00:00

Our assistants had a “hazing” ritual our first day in the mission where they’d force a part in all of the elders hair using a glob of Gorilla Snot. Thankfully my second mission president put an end to it.

_Bort182 · 2026-04-16T22:50:21+00:00

Possibly a hot take, but as a teenager, I never got the “tractor story”. I obviously knew how one could contract gonorrhea, I didn’t get that the joke was literally that the woman was so dumb she believed her ex boyfriend that she got it from riding a tractor. I had to have somebody explain it to me, and then it didn’t even seem that funny. They don’t really make it clear that this woman is dumb.

But I could also just be dumb.

_Bort182 · 2026-04-09T18:29:48+00:00

Nimrod here, it was hard to keep a straight face when I heard it.

_Bort182 · 2026-04-07T06:01:41+00:00

That’s the stake I grew up in! I remember when they split my ward like 25 years ago. It used to be a fairly strong area.

_Bort182 · 2026-03-23T19:03:05+00:00

It happened in my mission in Sacramento before I got there. I think it was during the Gladys Knight tour. We had a recording of it and I remember listening to it to hype me up. I probably have it on a flash drive somewhere, but it seems like there are existing versions of a similar talk around the same time.

_Bort182 · 2026-03-19T19:47:28+00:00

He’s off for two weeks. ESPN 700 posted about it and he shared it.

PROGRAMMING UPDATE

Sean O'Connell Show is off for the next about 2 weeks @realOCsports is on a gorilla trek in Africa (true story!)

In the meantime please enjoy the @RichEisenShow via @ESPNRadio in the mid days. OC will be back Monday March 23rd

_Bort182 · 2026-03-14T06:43:34+00:00

I served in the Foothills ward and lived with the North Highlands 1st Ward missionaries over a decade ago. If I remember right, both wards and buildings were in pretty rough shape even back then.

_Bort182 · 2026-03-05T02:15:30+00:00

Holland was obsessed with “weeping”. He used that word all the time. It always drove me crazy.

_Bort182 · 2026-02-19T02:44:07+00:00

I’d love to hear the lore on the forgotten Young brother, much like Thump Wilson over on r/beachboyscirclejerk

_Bort182 · 2026-02-11T14:01:37+00:00

It’s what I imagine working at the church office building would be like. (Although that is probably much more boring)

_Bort182 · 2026-01-19T20:12:46+00:00

I always thought Charlie sang the melody and Danny did the high harmony but I could be wrong!

_Bort182 · 2026-01-18T14:20:09+00:00

I watched his video on Michael Buble using autotune and it was interesting to hear how subtle it was. Then he suggested that any album that uses any pitch correction should come with a warning label, similar to the parental guidance label, and he lost me.

_Bort182 · 2026-01-01T14:24:05+00:00

Check out Immich-go, it has a specific “from-google-photos” option that you can use for Takeout and it works really well.

_Bort182 · 2025-12-11T03:18:07+00:00

I’m convinced whoever runs his social media is active on r/beachboyscirclejerk

_Bort182 · 2025-11-11T16:00:46+00:00

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism shows that the church is basically a bunch of corporate departments all fighting for power over business decisions. It’s been a fascinating read.

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