For this week, Cody covers the printing process of the Book of Mormon and takes a closer look at some of the alleged ‘witness’ testimonies used to legitimize Joe’s new religion. Acting as a divinely ordained meat telephone, Joe delivers a number of revelations from god with his head in a hat in order to berate his financial backer Harris for complaining about the expensive costs of printing a new Gold Bible.

References:

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, by Richard L. Bushman
Mormonism Unveiled, by E.B. Howe
Joseph Knight’s Recollection of Early Mormon History, Dean Jesse.
Early Mormonism and the Magical World View, by D. Michael Quinn
Mormonism 101: Examining the Religion of the Latter-day Saints, by Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson
Hearts Made Glad: The charges of Intemperance against Joseph Smith the Mormon prophet, by Lamar Peterson
No Man Knows My History, by Fawn Brodie
The Book of Mormon (1830 edition), by Joseph Smith Junior
Origin, Rise and Progress of Mormonism, by Tucker, Pomeroy
Did the Eleven Witnesses Actually See the Gold Plates?, by Bill McKeever.