On this episode, we talk maybe way too much about DanRad, discuss just how much of a pain in the ass Nephi was, learn all about Lehi finding a metaphor for the holy spirit in the dirt outside his tent, and receive an education about the possible steampunk origins of the aforementioned metaphor.
Abish, very concisely and not at all devolving-into-a-game-of-fuck-marry-killingly, presents our cocktail this week:
AaaAAAaaa follows up with a summary of Nephi’s summary of Lehi’s summary of an angel’s summary of the future, which from what we understand involves a large pile of harlots. Nephi is a bitch to his brothers yet again and speaketh hard things against them, meanwhile Lehi is still just chillin’ in his tent where he finds a wilderness GPS aka the Liahona. Laman and Lemuel consider killing Lehi and Nephi but, unlike SOME people, opt not to go the murder route.
Moroni brings us the words of some modern day con artists prophets about our own built-in “ball of curious workmanship” and no, that’s not a thinly-veiled reference to testicles, it means your conscience. But really we all know that you shouldn’t follow your conscience, you should follow the prophet OR ELSE.
Abigail tells us about what the Liahona may have actually been, assuming the Book of Mormon is, in reality, the most correct book. We learn about all kinds of cool-ass ancient navigational instruments like the astrolabe or the armillary sphere.
The spherical astrolabe from medieval Islamic astronomy, c. 1480, in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford 
Celestial Globe, Isfahan (?), Iran 1144. Shown at the Louvre Museum, this globe is the third oldest surviving in the world. 
Armillary sphere with astronomical clock, made in 1585 in Kassel, now at Nordiska Museet in Stockholm 
Prague Orloj is a medieval astronomical clock attached to the Old Town Hall in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.