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So you want me to rewatch the video, provide time stamps with descriptions, and post it for you?

Lynn Packer lays it out in detail in the link I posted. Lynn did the work and I'll let his efforts speak for themself. The specifics are outlined well in the video I posted. Here is a brief summary included in the link. this YouTube video report documents, Tim Ballard and Russell Ballard were, in fact, deeply involved in more than one business enterprise and both are lying when they deny it. It shows the entire Quorum of Twelve Apostles, during a secret meeting, learned first-hand about one of the Ballards’ financial ties: A shared interest in a motion picture in the works at the time, Sound of Freedom, a movie meant to immortalize and enrich Tim Ballard while promoting Mormonism, i.e., serve as a missionary tool. Lynn Packer was a long time investigative journalist for KSL, taught journalism at BYU, and is the nephew of Boyd K. Packer. He's also the journalist who broke the Paul H. Dunn story. Phaedrus

Other people involved have said in interviews that M. Russell was involved financially. There is also other evidence connecting the two like the for profit companies sharing a address with M. Russell Ballard's family members. Two additional apostles seem to be investors in Tim's businesses as well. Lynn Packer, former KSL reporter, has been covering this for a long time and in his most recent video covers a lot of evidence. He also outlines a meeting with the producers of The Sound of Freedom having a secret meeting with the full quorum of the 12 apostles on January 12, 2017. Phaedrus

Despite the denials the evidence also seems to be pointing to M. Russell Ballard and Tim Ballard having quite a few financial relationships. Which is ironic because Ballard began his career as an apostle with a few financial scandals. I don't see a easy way for the church to bail M. Russell Ballard out of this situation like they did with the Bountiful Regional Center. Phaedrus

I think he does a good job of explaining why scholars use critical biblical scholarship to treat the bible as a collection of assembled historical documents. He touches on form criticism, source criticism, textural etc. and contrasts that what can be believed by faith. Using his social media platforms he works as a communicator providing public scholarship in a way that makes it accessible for general understanding. He said he is still an active member of the church but won't specifically talk about his personal religious beliefs. Phaedrus

I know @maklelan was around it at lot in the early years. He was in the church translation department for many years and is now very popular on social media. He's super popular for making scholarly biblical topic understandable. Here is his Mormon Stories interview Part 1 Phaedrus