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Joe urges non-violence and openness, while expressing hope that the universe might be fundamentally libertarian.

Father Gabriel discusses the church's treatment of the Penitentes of New Mexico as an example of the church bowing to the pressure to Americanize.

Researcher Manuel Padro presents a paradigm for understanding the opposition to Joseph Smith: that Smith and his followers can be understood as practitioners of folk Christianity of the "cunning folk" type, and his detractors made accusations of witchcraft.

Travis Clark magisterially introduces the audience to Aztec society, architecture, religion, and art. Poor production quality is Dave's fault.

Writing GoH D.J. Butler egregiously infringes on the territory of the musical performers to inflict an hour of semi-melodic suffering on the convention crowd. People forgive him.

Written for LibertyCon 2022.

Originally recorded for backers of a kickstarter by Jagi Lamplighter.

Cosmic Dangers (the LTUE Song) I must have been about thirteen, my parents sent me to the mezzanine Up on BYU hill all alone, man, the place was manic Nerds and hippies and all that ilk, playing guitar and singing filk And rolling ten-sided dice, but no one worried that it might be Satanic I saw Uncle Orson, he looked weird, he had a long and pointed beard Mormons don’t have facial hair, unless they’re long dead Steven Donaldson put me to sleep, but he didn’t seem half the creep I kinda figured he might be, based on some of his books I’d read CHORUS: LTUE, you’re still the one for me Vampires! Flying lizards! Orc hordes! Elven wizards! You’re learning how to write but more than that You’re learning how to make friends Klingons! Space rangers! Nanite plagues! And other cosmic dangers! You gotta do the work to learn exactly How the story ends Fast forward twenty-five years, and more than one change of gears I’ve got an agent and a couple of books, he’s trying to see what sells All the guests of the sympo-see-um, I made a list, I drove down to see ’em Larry Correia, Dave Farland, Lee Modesitt, Howard Tayler, and Dan Wells BRIDGE: Beef chow mein will get you into the green room You’d be surprised how far a little food can go SURF SOLO Here’s to my friend Jody, man, if you didn’t know, she’s Written forty-odd books, and as people go, Jody’s the best And Megan, I don’t know her, but she’s come up from LA, so let’s show her A good nerdy time, like a good nerdy honored guest CHORUS So here’s to David Doering, with Dave it’s never boring It’s about damn time somebody put Dave in a song And all the rest, too many to list ’em, but if they left, man, I sure would miss ’em Even the kids who are afraid to get my pronouns wrong CHORUS

Bruce F. Webster talks about the recent revelations of government encounters with UAPs -- totally NOT UFOs.

Bruce and Marjorie Allred present a paper on the uses of ecology in science fiction and fantasy literature. This is an encore presentation of material that was first presented at Life, the Universe and Everything in February 2019. (Note that this is the Shared View from the Zoom recording, sharing the Allreds' slides. Also note that due to technical errors, the slides didn't advance for about the first 12 minutes.)

D.J. Butler sings and gives away books. Fun fact: the shout at about the 13-minute mark is because someone had dialed into the Zoom call with video on and pants off. But this recording, for better or for worse, only captures Dave.

Author Dave (D.J.) Butler reads chapter one of THE KIDNAP PLOT, the first book in the middle grade steampunk adventure series, THE EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEYS OF CLOCKWORK CHARLIE.