Thank you. Hello. Las vegas, nevada. I appreciate it. Welcome. [ cheers and applause ] thank you for joining us on the strip for the first of five nights in vegas. Thats very kind. I dont know, how many just out of curiosity, how many locals do we have in the audience tonight . [ cheers and applause ] all right. Well, i see a lot of faces i know. I grew up here. We moved to las vegas when i was 9 years old. I went to kenny gwynn junior high school. [ cheers and applause ] i went to Clark High School. [ cheers and applause ] and then the university of nevada las vegas. [ cheers and applause ] i enrolled at unlv in the fall of 1985. As a young man i had the privilege of watching the great Jerry Tarkanian and his running rebels electrify this town. [ cheers and applause ] i started a promising career in high school at a store called millers outpost where selling parachute pants and shrink to fit jeans. I got my first job in broadcasting, unpaid of course, hosting a sunday night talk show
An Award Winning journalist for the Atlantic Mckay Coppins is a veteran journalist and i say veteran because hes been reporting since he was a student at byu. Hes still pretty young, but know no one perhaps is better suited to write about senator romney. They share a faith, a political sensibility and a deep sense of right and wrong. Well hear more about that in a minute. Hes joined in conversation by Doug Fabrizio from College Radio west. I dont think dougs needs any introduction. Hes been a friend to all of us in the valley for many years. We look to him for advice and good humor, especially on nonfiction topics. Finally, before we get started, id like to say that a portion of all of our ticket sales go to fund our not for profit brain food books, working to get books into the hands of those without regular access, especially young people. Since the beginning of last year, weve distributed over 20,000 books across the state and also at the Pediatric Clinic in tuba city, arizona. So t
Section, this is one of the the three movements that were spending a lot of time on. The reason that i like to end with the Branch Davidians and to end with this particular or tex to talk about them is because it seems to really bring together a lot of the big themes that weve been talking over the course of the quarter. So on the one hand, we are finishing up our conversation about the Branch Davidians, but on the other hand, were using the entire course as a text to lift up these these points. So here is the agenda for today. And we spent some time about the cult perspective, which really is the anti cold perspective and then apply that and about how that shaped the events that took place in waco with the Branch Davidians in 1993. And then think through some of the consequences and implications of what happened there and then of of the way that the cult has been applied in context and and others. So so thats thats roughly the the agenda for today. I want to start out since this is so
Class in. Inventing religion in america and we are finishing up our conversation about the Branch Davidians and in particular using Eugene Gallagher and james tappers why waco to to shape our conversation is. I think i explained at the beginning of the course or at least the beginning of this this section, this is one of the the three movements that were spending a lot of time on. The reason that i like to end with the Branch Davidians and to end with this particular or tex to talk about them is because it seems to really bring together a lot of the big themes that weve been talking over the course of the quarter. So on the one hand, we are finishing up our conversation about the Branch Davidians, but on the other hand, were using the entire course as a text to lift up these these points. So here is the agenda for today. And we spent some time about the cult perspective, which really is the anti cold perspective and then apply that and about how that shaped the events that took place i
Our conversation is. I think i explained at the beginning of the course or at least the beginning of this this section, this is one of the the three movements that were spending a lot of time on. The reason that i like to end with the Branch Davidians and to end with this particular or tex to talk about them is because it seems to really bring together a lot of the big themes that weve been talking over the course of the quarter. So on the one hand, we are finishing up our conversation about the Branch Davidians, but on the other hand, were using the entire course as a text to lift up these these points. So here is the agenda for today. And we spent some time about the cult perspective, which really is the anti cold perspective and then apply that and about how that shaped the events that took place in waco with the Branch Davidians in 1993. And then think through some of the consequences and implications of what happened there and then of of the way that the cult has been applied in c