I certainly appreciate an unflinching look at history, but the host is just snotty and dickish in his analysis. It feels much more like a cathartic therapy session for the host to deal with his anger at the Mormon church than an actual attempt to provide critical historical analysis for listeners. So if you hate Mormons or the Mormon Church this podcast is great outrage porn, but if you appreciate serious historical research find something else.

If you were raised mormon as I was, you were not taught the true history of the Mormon church from its conception. Bryce breaks it down, cites his sources, and offers a detailed account of each of the key players. Worth listening to again and again. Love this podcast.

Amazing podcast live how it’s done and love just ripping the bong as I listen

In my quest for information on the Mormon religion, I found this podcast. I’m a never Mormon, but have family that converted, and thereby why I’m interested in the history and beliefs of this church. The podcast is very well done, interesting, factual, educational, and entertaining. Five stars!

I’m leaving the church soon and I found this recently, it gave me a lot more insight! I love the comedic relief too!

Sorry, I didn’t see this podcast until recently. I see you started it some time ago. It’s 2023 now. I’m glad I found it through the recommendation of another podcast.

So I realize that you are an atheist and I myself am a non-denominational not a member of any organized church 100% biblical Christian, and I’d like to have a conversation directly with you about some things that you say and some things that you believe more questions than anything else. If you can have a intellectual conversation without hostility in either direction, then I would love to have a legitimate conversation with you. Let me know if you would be interested

Best quote of the show Thank you Darwin Eff you Joseph

Thank you for the eye opening information. It's such a great listen and a relief that the story is being told

This has been the absolute best coverage of the founding of the Mormon church and has provided me with so much information! Thank you so much for making this podcast! I only wish I would have found it sooner. I’ve been out of the Mormon church for 20 years and had quite a lot of discussions with TBM’s immediately following my exit and if I would have had the information from this podcast at that time I probably would have been able to convert others to the truth of the matter. I didn’t have or need all the facts presented in this to leave myself but others need a lot more evidence to get past the cognitive dissonance of the church history. Thank you Bryce! Truly invaluable information!

I had high hopes for this podcast after listening to the introduction. However I was disappointed by the following episodes. The podcaster’s emotional outbursts, yelling at historical figures, unnecessary swearing, and bizarre nicknames for historical characters, are all juvenile and very disturbing. On the plus side the podcaster makes good use of direct historical sources. I wish the creator would re-record this series without the emotionalism, and ridiculous nicknames. Edit: The Episode 6 judgment calls on which parts of the world were “civilized” in the nineteenth century was very colonialist, and euro-centric. This totally turned me off and rendered the series unlistenable.

This podcast is well researched and has a high production value. This podcast is a great resource for anyone wanting to know the history of Mormonism.

Wow, I made it through the whole thing! After reading “Under the Banner of Heaven” several years ago, I became obsessed with LDS history. I read several books on the subject and many books on the individual major players. I discovered “Naked Mormonism” about two years ago. I listened from beginning to end finishing on 08.17.2021. In total, I think Mr. Blankenagel did a great job. He worked through early LDS history in a thoughtful, thorough, and thought provoking manner. My shelves are weighed down with several more books as a result of listening to this podcast. Mr. Blankenagel did a significant amount of growing up and evolving over the course of the podcast. His willingness to share his own emotional and intellectual reactions to Mormon, (and his own family’s), personal history is to be commended. At some points laudable and others cringe worthy. His willingness to self reflect and sometimes apologize for his honest and immediate emotional reaction to the content is refreshing and reflects the character instilled in him by his family, and, somewhat ironically, his LDS heritage. He matures significantly over the course of the podcast. It was an honor to be able to listen in on the process. Naked Mormonism is full of history, perspective, wonderful interviews with modern Mormon historians and authors who offer additional and sometimes differing expertise and opinion on LDS history. It is partly objective history based on primary resources and partly subjective personal editorial based on lived experience and a quest seeking understanding of some difficult parts of human existence. Naked Mormonism raises more questions than it answers. As it should. There are many branches left to explore and develop. Some, I hope, by Mr. Blankenagel himself and others by other people willing to carry the torch deeper into the recesses of tributary caves to shine light into the many cracks and crevices contained within. Too much here for any single individual to explore and reflect on. The death of Josph Smith is really the end of the beginning of the history of the Saints. What lies ahead is equally fascinating, astonishing, and infuriating. I sincerely hope that Mr. Blankenagel continues his overview of this history of Mormonism, the American West, and the insight it gives into human nature itself. Bravo Mr. Blankenagel! Carry on, carry on. Go West young man. Myself and many others will join you and help you along the way.

While listening to this, Episode 1 of Naked Mormonism, I developed my first tiny bit of sympathy for the ultimate con man, Joseph Smith, Jr.. He certainly had a tough snd hungry childhood.

Good thing this guy gave up podcasting!

This show is excellent when sticking to its historical look at Mormonism. The narrator does great research and presents his findings entertainingly. You have to skip around a lot because he also wants to be a Social Justice Warrior constantly.

He is, by far, my favorite Mormon history communicator. His scholarship and understanding of events and people draws you in for an exhilarating ride that is LDS history. Bryce, thanks for your contribution to my continuing education. My life is better because of your work. Fascinating stuff brother. Peace and love to you and yours. Hope to meet you someday. Aaron Hullinger

I am truly impressed by the amount of research and dedication is put into this content. Thanks Bryce for your hard work.

I absolutely love this podcast! He obviously puts the work in and does his research, but he manages to do so and inject his own brand of humor that makes me laugh at the whole disgusting history of the church. Bravo!

Well-researched, if occasionally overdone.

Joined the LDS and served a mission, I left the church as I came to learn more and more “odd” doctrines. This podcast is well researched and I really enjoy it a lot. Members usually say, people leave because they have their feelings hurt but over the years I have realized most leave as they discover what the church actually teaches. Many find other churches and live happier lives elsewhere. God speed.

Bryce has done a lot of maturing through the podcast and his latest episodes are much better than the earlier ones. I really just want a historical timeline without a lot of commentary. If you’re missing the Millennial Superiority with the unquestioned clarity of three decades of life-experience and general, “OK Boomer,” snark of the earlier episodes, you can always go to The Glass Box Podcast. (As a Gen X, I miss the absolute certainty of my convictions. It’s fun to hear that again.)

Absolutely useful, well researched, and offers links to resources. I click on the links. Ep1 starts amazing and each episode is consistently better than the last. I personally don’t like the pet names and the fiction experiment on ep 170. But everything else lands perfectly and I find it easy to overlook the few elements I don’t like. It’s a wonder source for recovering a lost history. The tue history is more interesting than the common Sunday school narrative. I want a box office Movie of true General Joe. I’ve also found it very therapeutic while on my path recovering from my painful escape from Mormonism.

I love every minute of what you offer and can’t get enough of it. I’m only on chapter 9. I started listening because my daughter just sold a manuscript of her most recent novel, a book about Emma Smith. I started researching the characters she was describing and found your pod cast. You provide what I feel is a thorough history of a full blown narcissist and my daughter brings the tragic life that Emma lived to life. The combination of the two is both informative and heart wrenching at the same time. We are Jack-Mormons as a result of having strong critical thinking skills. I respect others right to worship however they choose but man, you have to have some serious blinders on to overlook Brother Joe’s shenanigans and not pick up on the fact that he was self serving, manipulative and an all around jack-ass! Thank you for you work!

I am very very exmormon and I appreciate the research and loads of information but each time I listen it becomes more political. I don’t come here and listen for that. It is becoming more than I can handle. I would love to keep listening to history of the Mormons but I don’t think I will be listening anymore until it is less political. This could be so much more than it is.

Thank you for putting together this amazing podcast and the time it takes to put each show online. Always looking forward to new episodes!

Bryce definitely has an atheistic point of view in his podcast. Who cares! He researches all the details and they are irrefutable. Fantastic podcast. Thanks Bryce.

I wanted to like this podcast but this style is not for me. Too much with the language and rants.

Thanks so much for providing all this history in one place. Your research and insights are fantastic. Great job Bryce

Bryce is full of himself! He's is like the Rush Limbaugh of the ex-mo world. He loves to assign insulting pet names to figures in church history- "Bloody Brigham" (Brigham Young), "Not too Smarty Marty"(Martin Harris) and "John Broke-it" (John Bennett). Just like Rush Limbaugh, he thinks these insulting pet names will impress us and endear us to his "cleverness". If Bryce would like to be taken more seriously in his efforts to give us a more informative view of church history than the white washed version we have been spoon fed all our lives, then he needs to grow up a bit. I’ve heard Bryce as a guest on other podcasts covering Mormon history as well, his obnoxious arrogance and giggling at himself is just annoying.

It is so helpful to understand the history! And so well researched and delivered.

Love this podcast so much! This is not the fairy-tale, white-washed version of church history we as members have always been taught... this is raw, unapologetic facts! And I can’t get enough! It’s fascinating, validating, and healing!!! I looooove it!!!!

Hard to find a solid, history-focused podcast on Mormonism. This one is top notch. The research is incredibly well executed.

I was wanting to listen but your names for these historical people was such a turn off. Seriously??? You had such potential but your ridiculous names took away from your content. Maybe you might want to rethink that as well as apologizing for profanity. If your gonna curse just do it. Don’t explain why. These were humans that lived. Call them by their names and let the listener decide what they think of them.

This show is amazing and the thoroughness in research is incredible. I married an exmo and wanted to learn more about my in-laws because before a few years ago I thought LDS was just another form of Christianity... It’s been an amazing journey learning about the church and what is a huge part of American history. This show will appeal to anyone who is of faith or not that wants to know more about LDS and Joseph Smith. Thank you Bryce, please keep this up❤️

I am an atheist lesbian living with my wife and children in Philadelphia. I am fascinated by the different sects of Mormonism (fundamentalists and mainstream) and have been reading and listening to podcasts religiously for a few years now. I LOVE this podcast! I am learning the history of the Mormon church in a way that I have not heard it yet and I can’t get enough. Even my wife said that this is the first Mormon podcast she can stand to be in the same room with listening to! Entertaining, factual, and just overall great. Keep it up!

Call me crazy, but I couldn’t get through more than the first two episodes due to all the F-bombs and the nick names. It seems rather sophomoric after listening to so many other podcasts about church history out there. I’m sure there is some good content in there somewhere, but I’ll go elsewhere.

Enough good things really can't be said here, but what I'll say is how over the course of the series, Bryce has grown and refined his craft, and I truly feel like each and every episode is a little better than the one before -- that's just the kind of quality and care Bryce likes to take with his work. As far as the content itself, the shows are a delight to listen to, filled with stories you've never heard before and fantastic doses of skepticism, humor, and genuine wonderment at discovering something new. He's an amazing researcher, an engaging storyteller, and a prodigious author/writer who carefully chooses his words, doing an outstanding job. I'm so glad I found NaMo and Bryce Blankenagel!

I love your presentation of facts. I enjoy the rants and from time to time find them comical. Also how you take a look at the history doesn’t matter how dark or twisted it gets, and how you were an ex member so you have insight as well. Now I’m an ex member to after finding my way out and stumbled across your podcast. I highly recommend this show you want facts and some insider information this is it.

From a truck driving salesman to hosting an in-depth historical overview of the LDS church’s history, Bryce does amazing work in giving the details and facts and laying out his opinion on the matter with the information provided. It gives me, the listener and struggling Mormon, the opposite side from the church, to understand what could have happened and make a decision knowing both sides. Thank you Bryce for this podcast. It’s fantastic.

Great interviewer who allows the guest to tell their story and feelings. D. Michael Quinn is seriously me of the most interesting figures in church history. He was the revealing source before the internet gave us all the opportunity to feel what it’s like to read some of these documents.

This is a good podcast for anyone that wants to know more about the Mormon church but doesn’t know where to even begin research. The nick names help distinguish who is who and give a little insight into what they contributed to the early church.

His laughing at the silly stuff he’s reading is really annoying and the nick names are stupid. Information is really interesting but I couldn't get past episode 3 due to his narration.

Hi Brice I love the podcast I recently found your podcast! Keep up the good work. I am an ex flds member and I wish I could get more of my family to listen to this podcast! Thank you for making this!

I can only imagine the amount of time you put into making these episodes. Thank you so much for doing it. I love Mormon history and finding out facts that were never taught to me growing up in the church. These episodes are very educational. Thanks and keep up the good work.

I live with a houseful of Mormons and I am not, never was and never will be. It’s hard to argue with believers when they simply will not listen to anything but their belief. Anyone who tries to discredit their religion is simply ignorant and unwilling to believe the truth it appears. While I would say the believers are ignorant and unwilling to accept the truth. This is well researched and well presented and is music to my ears. I would love for my household to listen but they simply will not accept any claims against Mormonism.

This is an awesome podcast. Very well researched and great information. That being said, he kinda takes an intellectual show and dumbs it down completely. The nick-names are very ridiculous and alienate any beleiving members. I am not offended really, but it just makes me think, ‘man, what a missed opportunity to get facts to those people who will just shut it off because of all the derision.’ But if you can get past that it’s a great listen. I wish someone would take all his information, and make it sound intellectual so that it could be used to illustrate a post Mormon position to people who are afraid of Anti-Mormon Literature.

Hilarious and refreshing. This podcast is an outsider’s initial reaction to Mormon scripture. I thought I had come to a point in my life resolving to never spend one more second of it reading or listening to Mormons scripture, but this podcast has changed that for me altogether. “Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in!”

As someone who’s been free of the craziness of the church for a decade now, learning how false it all was is AWESOME and fascinating and I really can’t stop listening now that I’ve started!! I never considered the amount of lying that would be necessary to start a false church

I found this podcast while looking for mormon history. The way Brice develops every episode from starting to end, it is way entertaining and informative. Although most of the episodes are about and hour long or more, the quality of the content and the way is presented it makes this podcast one of my favorites.