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Don’t forget about the upcoming 2022 LDS Film Festival, which will run 2-5 March at the SCERA Theater in Orem, Utah. The Interpreter Foundation’s new docudrama, Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, will receive its premiere there, on the evening of Friday, 4 March, and tickets are now available.
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Three new entries went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, all of them from the regular weekly Interpreter Radio Show:
Interpreter Radio Show — January 16, 2022
The 16 January 2022 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show has been freed from commercial interruptions, archived, and made freely accessible for your delectation and delight. This episode featured Bruce Webster and Mike Parker, who discussed Book of Mormon geography during its first hour. The second portion of the show was devoted to a conversation about the upcoming Come Follow Me lesson #9 (Genesis 24–27). The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard each and every Sunday evening from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640, or you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com.
Interpreter Radio Show — January 23, 2022
Steve Densley, Matthew Bowen, and Mark Johnson were featured on the 23 January 2022 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show. In this installment, the three amigos discuss Matt Bowen’s recent Interpreter journal article on Nephi’s wordplay describing the Abrahamic covenant. The second hour of the program is a roundtable discussion of the upcoming Come Follow Me lesson #10 (Genesis 28–33). If you’re in Salt Lake County, you can listen to the Interpreter Radio Show every single week of the year, on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640. Wherever you are, though, you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com. And, happily, since previous programs, cleansed of commercial and other breaks, are archived and made available to you at no charge, you can listen to them anytime, anywhere.
Interpreter Radio Show — January 30, 2022
The 30 January 2022 installment of the Interpreter Radio Show was led by Terry Hutchinson and Martin Tanner. In this episode, they interviewed Ben Spackman, discussing with him how to understand the background of the Old Testament and how to improve individual scripture study. The second portion of the show was a roundtable devoted to the upcoming Come Follow Me lesson #11 (Genesis 37–41). These two rich hours are now available at your convenience and at no charge. The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640, if you live in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. If you don’t, you can still listen to it live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com.
I would like to express my gratitude to all of those who volunteer to host the Interpreter Radio Show, and particularly to Martin Tanner, who not only serves as a host but also coordinates the overall effort and the volunteers. I’m also grateful to Bob Lavender, of LDS Agents, who sponsors the weekly program. And we’re about to undertake some specific measures to improve the audio quality of the live program (and, derivatively, of its archived recordings), which has often been less than optimal. Onward and upward!
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We spent much of the early part of today out of Lahaina, watching whales in the channel between Maui and Lanai. There were lots and lots of them. (I’m still watching them spout from where I currently sit, back on land.) Mostly, they were mothers and babies, most often accompanied by what the naturalist aboard our boat repeatedly called their “male escorts” or the moms’ “Maui boyfriends.” We saw quite a bit of everything, including the usual cruising while spouting, both mothers and babies gently floating while seemingly asleep, loud pectoral fin slapping (“pec slapping”), and even, in the distance, some full breaches — although, alas, each time that happened I was looking somewhere else. Probably the most interesting thing, which lasted something on the order of five minutes, was when a trio of mother, calf, and “male escort” took an interest in our boat and swam at a very shallow depth nearby us on both the port and starboard sides and, twice, right under us.
Afterwards, we had a really good lunch — our serious meal for the day — at the Lahaina Fish Company, on Front Street in Lahaina. The service was exceptionally friendly, as well; I wish I could remember the server’s name And the view was excellent, right on the water. We could see spouting whales from where we sat, and a large sea turtle swam by us at a distance of about fifteen or twenty feet. Mostly, we’ve eaten simply here, in our condo. But the other restaurant that I can recommend from this stay here in western Maui is Leilani’s on the Beach, at Whalers Village in Kaanapali, which also has a good sea view (and we were there at sunset). We had fresh line-caught island fish at both places, and we thoroughly enjoyed it. At the Lahaina Fish Company, we decided to share a dessert — the mana pie (something like a pecan pie, but with macadamia nuts instead of pecans) and local ice cream — and it was well worth it.
I offer these recommendations just in case somebody out there is thinking of visiting Maui in the foreseeable future — and not merely because my travelogues drive a few of my anonymous critics absolutely nuts, obliging them to send me multiple obscene and insulting emails. Of course, my general experience with restaurant recommendations is that, as soon as I make them, the chef is replaced by some cook who’s just been discharged by the Marines. Or something of that sort. So, as stock pickers and investment fund prospectuses like to say, past experience is not necessarily a reliable guide to future success.
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Many years ago, I ran across a story in a magazine that, its author claimed, really happened. And I believe him, since I think I’ve met the very librarian involved. He was, he wrote, doing research on St. David, the patron saint of Wales. But he couldn’t find everything he was looking for. So he went to the library’s reference desk and explained his difficulty. She listened attentively and then remarked, “Wow. I knew that they were intelligent, but I didn’t know that they had their own religion!”
A longtime faculty colleague of mine (for whatever it may be worth, the holder of a doctorate from a very elite eastern American university) has an analogous story to tell. He was researching the literary figure of Don Giovanni or Don Juan. In this case, too, he went to a reference librarian, seeking help to find more bibliographical resources. With a look of patient condescension, the reference librarian advised him that he should always use full names in his library sources, thus: Donald Giovanni or Donald Juan. Sheesh!
Posted from Kaaanapali, Maui, Hawaii
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