Unpacking our Different Reactions to General Conference

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All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

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🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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THE Exclusive: In this episode, Charlie and Ben reflect on their contrasting experiences at the most recent General Conference. Charlie had a positive and hopeful experience, while Ben felt deeply hurt and ostracized by certain messages. As they discuss the positives and negatives, the conversation shifts away from the conference itself and becomes more focused on personal pain and frustration. Ben shares his struggles with feelings of exclusion, while Charlie tries to validate his pain but s...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to All Out in the Open. We are so glad you're here. I'm Charlie Bird and I'm Ben Shalati and this is our first the exclusive episode.
0:08.0	So on months where there are five Tuesdays we're gonna have an extra episode. We're trying
0:13.0	and I will just talk about current events. We might do a Q&A. We'll just be like
0:18.2	an extra episode and for this one we thought it'd be fun to talk about
0:20.9	general conference and our experiences with general conference.
0:22.8	Yeah, it was kind of fun that there was actually like a current event on the first exclusive episode.
0:26.4	And actually this episode took such a turn that I was not anticipating.
0:30.9	Yeah, but you got in a fight.
0:32.3	Yeah, it was very interesting.
0:34.0	So Ben and I both had really different experiences at conference.
0:36.9	He found it difficult and I found it really inspiring.
0:40.9	And so we kind of, you, you,
0:43.0	you, terrified, I don't want to talk about.
0:45.4	I felt very invalidated by you and some things
0:48.2	that you were saying.
0:49.8	And I felt like, like you were being so validated.
0:53.0	Yeah, I didn't know how to come across because I felt like whatever validation I gave was not received.
0:59.0	It was really interesting.
1:00.0	So you're going to hear that.
1:02.0	I'm kind of glad we're giving this like little preemptive warning. So it's not just like awkward because there was resolution. I promise.
1:10.0	Yeah. And so we're just going to have that first part of our conversation be the exclusive and then we'll do the resolution next week. Charlie, we both got to go to general conference.
1:27.0	Yeah, how was it for you?
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