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And now Audio Theater Central. Hello, welcome to Audio Theater Central. This

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is the show that explores family friendly
audio drama through news, reviews and interviews.

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I'm your host, JD. Sutter, and this is episode one ninety

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six, and we've got all of
those things in this particular episode. It

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is a packed episode. We've got
a review of six brand new shows from

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Heart Matters. We've got an interview
with the producers of those shows, Christy

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the executive producer and Austin the producer
and director. And we've got some feedback

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from Bethany Blake, Jeremy and Michael. A bunch of audio drama updates to

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get to. I've got a monologue
where I'm going to talk about how much

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is age a factor in writing and
acting in audio drama. So all of

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that is coming up here shortly.
But before we get into that, I

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want to say real quickly that if
you are listening to this show on Android

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and you're using the Google Podcasts app, that app is going to be shutting

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down very very soon. I believe
it's in May when it will be completely

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shut down. Google is closing that
app completely, So you need to find

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an alternative to listen to ATC and
all of your podcasts on Android. So

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I'm going to recommend a couple here. Pocket Casts is the app that I

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use personally and have been using for
many many years. Love it. It's

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a great podcast app, really easy
to use. They have some premium features

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which allows you to listen to all
of the shows that you're subscribed to in

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a browser as well as in the
app, and you can pick up right

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where you left off on your phone. Things like that, really cool stuff.

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Of course, we are available on
Spotify, which is available as an

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Android app as well, and another
option is an app called podcast Addict,

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So there's a few different options of
There are lots of different podcast apps available

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on Android. I can't speak to
the quality of them. There are some

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that are pretty good, some that
are really junkie. I went through a

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process of testing a bunch of apps
several years ago and that's when I landed

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on Pocketcasts as my daily as my
daily podcast app. But you know,

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there are lots of other ones out
there, but those are the ones that

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I think are the some of the
best options, and they're all linked in

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the show notes if you want to
check those out. Also, last thing

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before we get into the rest of
the show, and that is episode two

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hundred is coming up very shortly.
This is one ninety six, so it's

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not too far out now, and
thanks to Blake for reminding me. I

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wasn't even really thinking about it all
that much, and so he sent in

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a little audio message to celebrate the
two hundredth episode of the show, so

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I thought I would go ahead and
toss it out. Anybody else who wants

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to send in a little audio message, you can hit up the contact page

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on the website for the various ways
to do that. You can record a

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message and email it, you can
use the voicemail feedback line, or you

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can use the speak pipe widget that
is on that page. So I would

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prefer to have audio. If you
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text message or an email is fine
too, but it would be awesome to

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have an audio clip. So episode
two hundred coming up shortly, So thank

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you again for the nudge, Blake, and we'll see what you guys have

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to say. All right, let's
jump into the updates. We interrupt this

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program to bring you a special report
and in other news tonight, a brief

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look at the headlines now they want
exciting, fast piece news that's relevant and

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entertaining Like this just a reminder that
if you are a producer or actor or

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somebody involved in the production of a
family friendly audio drama that you want to

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let us know about keep us up
to date on the progress of it,

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head over to PFM dot link slash
atc news and submit that news to us,

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or click the button in the sidebar
on our website. Please use those

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methods to get those updates to us. Well. The first one is a

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blog update, and that is that
Austin Peache has published a review of season

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one of Kaboom. All of the
episodes from season one are reviewed there.

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Great post and if you haven't checked
out Kaboom yet, go give this blog

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post a review and it'll probably give
you the nudgs you need to go check

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it out. It's a really fun
anthology show and I think you'll enjoy it,

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so go ahead and check out this
review. Also out now is the

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first episode from the Heritage series from
LRT Media. It is called Captain Molly

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and the official summary is Courage under
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Margaret Corbin was an early woman warrior
who roke gender barriers to assist the Continental

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Army. Despite devastating losses and physical
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in one of the first battles of
the Revolutionary War. Her courage under fire

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and willingness to take up arms earned
her the nickname Captain Molly and a lasting

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place in history as a revolutionary hero. So this is out now. Lincoln

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in the show notices to go check
this out. Bethany Baldwin stars as Captain

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Molly, and LRT Media is really
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with their quality, and so I'm
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show you're going to enjoy. And
speaking of the Heritage series, the next

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episode, which is called Pony Bob, is coming soon. And I'm going

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to estimate or guess I could be
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this out. They're probably somewhere around
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not too long ago, just a
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were at forty percent. So I'm
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works and we'll be coming soon.
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that day in nineteen thirty three,
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they were bringing that up because in
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the grandson of brace Beemer, who
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Time radio show, in this episode
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is super super exciting for an old
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blown away that they had been able
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is amazingly cool. And I don't
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I'm guessing it might be related to
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see, but who knows. I'm
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Western because of the correlay that they're
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Beemer's grandson. Who knows, Again, more conjecture on my part. They

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haven't really said a whole lot,
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this guy, I think it's super
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They didn't say his name in the
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gonna have to wait and see.
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Media, they announced that they are
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Ryder, and they announced that not
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looks pretty cool. And I love
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show before, so I'm also really
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one is in the early stages.
They're just in the casting phase these days,

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but they're saying, get ready for
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outlaws and hard nosed brawls. So
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going to be an amazing, amazing
show. As I just said, LRT

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Media is just putting out some high
quality stuff. Man, I love it.

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I love it. But hey,
Craig Hart, don't forget about Chapelin

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Squeak. Now, we gotta wrap
that one up. Come on, man,

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I couldn't I couldn't resist giving him
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But yeah, really looking forward to
that one called Red mesa Ryder. Well.

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A quick update on Shadows in Daylight
Season two, Episode two is titled

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Trojan and has the music and sound
design in process, and Christopher Green said

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that he's been out recording on location
sound effects for this episode and so that's

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always fun. I've done a little
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I do enjoy taking out the old
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stuff like that. It's always fun. He also said that the music that

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he's heard so far from the composer
sounds really great, so looking forward to

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that. He said hopeful for a
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So that's episode two of season two
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very soon now. Glenn Haskell's First
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now. In the last episode,
we went through a whole bunch of things

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that he has lined up. But
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a couple of surprises coming for twenty
twenty four, and that is a planned

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summer release of a show called Amplified
Mortals, a superhero origin story set in

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the nineteen thirties. So I don't
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great sometimes, so I may be
completely misremembering. But I don't think we

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even knew about this one in the
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talked about this at all, unless
we just didn't know the title at that

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point, but you know if I'm
misremembering. But also we did talk about

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this one, I know, Range
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not coming until twenty twenty five,
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going to come out in twenty twenty
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story that also serves to introduce the
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awareness of the series before the first
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So that will be coming the premiere
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I guess is how he's treating this, so that's something to look forward

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to. And Dragnet four is in
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be coming fairly soon as well.
So lots coming from Glenn Haskell's First Acts

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productions. Well, Dominion Artists has
three new titles that they are announcing.

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The first is in the Nick Guy
Private Eye series and it's called Nick Guy

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and the Reformation Versus Revolution Affair,
and Frank Youuley, the producer and writer

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for this show, said that for
this installment, we will wrestle with the

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differences between reformation and revolution. Why
do we call the Protestant Reformation a reformation

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and not a revolution? Was the
American War for Independence a revolution or a

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reformation? And ultimately should we consider
Jesus a revolutionary or a reformer? So

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that sounds fascinating, he said,
along with the regular cast members Rebecca Bradford

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and Frank Eulee. This time we
are joined by the lovely and talented Bethany

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Baldwin, who does an incredible job
as Princess Christina of You Bet You stan

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Oh. I love that goodness.
Frank's sense of humor is so I've said

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this before, so this is nothing
new, but I love his sense of

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humor in these funny names and you
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and stuff that he comes up with
for his shows. Very very funny.

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Looking forward to that one. The
second one is also in the Nick Guy

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series. It's called Nick Guy and
the Vengeance is Mine Affair. In this

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installment, Nick Guy and Doctor de
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being played on the minor league baseball
team, the Motteville Yodlers. Why would

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someone seek to sabotage a last place
team? In this installment, we look

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at the difference between seeking justice and
seeking vengeance and why God commands us to

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leave vengeance in his hands. Wow. Okay, so man, they're tackling

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some interesting topics in this series,
so that's really cool, he said.

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They've also started work on the collaboration
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so that is slated for a spring
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I know that, I said at
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it's for if we count the Shadows
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doesn't have an actual title yet that
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one that we know of has an
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that is The Human Eel, which
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And this one's called The Human Eel
and Greystone, King of the Poodles.

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The summary is Fidele's Greystone. I'm
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but that's what I'm gonna go with. Fidele's or Fidelli's hmm. Anyway,

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Fideli's Greystone, as a child of
five, went missing. Twenty years

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later, he has discovered, having
been raised by a pack of feral French

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poodles. His transition from life as
a poodle to life as a human is

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not without some obstacles, mostly caused
by some mysterious happenings at the Porter Poodle

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Pound and Palace where Fideli's is being
housed. This serves as a backdrop to

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explaining the biblical understanding of the relationship
between man and animal. What does it

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mean for man to be created in
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that affect the distinction between man and
animals? And how are we to understand

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the dominion mandate given to man by
God in Genesis one twenty eight. So

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again, some deep topics there that
they're tackling with these series, and so

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lots to look forward to there from
dominion artists and Frank Hughley and his team

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testing one two three testing. That
was just me talking. I do that

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a lot. Where's my speech?
How long you've got to work with it?

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That's what I want to talk about. So here's what I'm thinking.

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I'm wondering how big of a factor
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for audio drama, since that's kind
of what the show is about. This

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is something I've been wondering and it's
just kind of been running around in the

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back of my mind for a few
weeks now, And you know, I

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don't know that I one hundred percent
have all of the answers in this regard,

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but it's just something that I've been
thinking about, and that's sort of

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what this segment is about. I
don't always have it fully fleshed out,

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and it's fun to just think out
loud a little bit and share with you

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and get your feedback as well.
So what I've been thinking is, you

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know, I've read a lot of
independently published fiction, primarily in the Christian

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fiction realm, and a lot of
that is written by younger writers, and

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a lot of it is written by
homeschooled kids. And I say kids.

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kid, I think. But so, you know, young people in their

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early mid late twenties even, you
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age, but I sort of think
of them as kids. But some of

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it is really good and some of
it is not so good. And you

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know, that is another point that
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here in the past, and that's
the democratization of media times you know,

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leveling the playing field can have positives
and negatives. Anybody can publish a book

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these days, and that's really cool. But anybody can publish a book these

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days, and sometimes they're not very
good. So it's a quandary. But

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that's not really the main point I
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that I have sometimes with some of
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these writers, and no fault of
their own, but they just don't have

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a whole lot of life experience,
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of depth at times. And I
can't recall ever reading one of these independently

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published books written by a younger writer
that deeply moved me, and people who

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know me in real life, no, I'm a bit of a softie,

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and so I have been known to
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listening to an audio drama and stuff. So it's not that that never happens

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to me. And so I think
that there is just a little something about

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somebody who's writing, even if they've
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is going through, just by virtue
of having it lived more life, you

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observe things you experience some things that
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going through, and so you're able
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just feels a little bit more genuine. And so sometimes I wonder if a

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very young writer can suitably capture the
nuance and subtext of a story, or

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what a story really needs for it
to have the impact that a more mature

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person might be able to do very
very well. And by ma sure,

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I don't necessarily mean you know you, or maturity level. I mean older

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people can be immature and younger people
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I'm talking aout. I'm just talking
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some years behind you, You've got
some miles beneath your feet, and it

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just makes you a deeper. Again, this is a generality and it's not

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always true, but I think it
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individual, and able to think and
write a little bit better. So these

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are kind of what I've been thinking
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apply to writing audio drama scripts as
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on the acting side of things.
Something that I've talked about with some friends

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in the past is child singers.
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cute little kid that can sing really
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telling me about, oh my goodness, this kid is amazing. They go

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viral or whatever, and I think
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they could say the words or sing
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they perhaps sing in perfect pitch,
and the performance is perfect in a

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technical sense, but it's missing some
heart because that young kid isn't able to

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fully grasp the words of the songs
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really deep heartfelt message of a song. And so while I also might enjoy

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hearing some of these kids' performances,
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level as somebody who has who can
sing and that music, those words that

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they're saying, you feel them deep
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a place of experience. And I
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For acting. Yes, at its
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technically anyone can pretend to be anything, and one of the benefits of voice

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acting is that the actor can't be
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play many more roles in terms of
age and ethnicity even or all kinds of

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things than they could if they were
on stage or screen. But if it's

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supposed to be a believable and genuine
story, can a very young actor convincingly

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portray a deeply complex, mature character
as well as as one who has really

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gone through a significant amount of life. I don't know. I lean towards

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probably not. Again, these are
generalities. There's always exceptions, But just

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because you know, let's take an
example of a young boy who has a

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very mature sounding, deep voice and
can sound like he's in his thirties or

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forties, and the sound of his
voice sounds like he would be able to

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tackle this particular role of the middle
aged man who is going through some terrible

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life circumstances. Will that teen or
twenty something be able to genuinely, believably

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portray this character so that the message
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really comes through in the performance?
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this is just something that's kind of
been rattling around in my brain for a

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little while. And I don't say
any of this to discourage young writers or

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actors because you have to start at
some time, and you have to get

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experience. And how do you get
experience but by doing the thing that you

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want to do. So I'm not
saying any of this to say, oh,

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you've got to wait till you're thirty
or forty or fifty to be able

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to do any audio drama, acting
or writing. Not saying that at all.

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Again, this is just something that's
been floating around in my brain and

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I just kind of wanted to toss
it out and see what you thought,

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let me know your opinions, And
maybe I'm missing something here, but I

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would love to hear your thoughts,
and you know, sort of where I'm

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coming down on it is maybe perhaps
stick to lighter topics and situations in the

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beginning for writers. Don't try to
tackle a deeply complex, nuanced situation that

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you personally have absolutely no clue about
how people in the real life would really

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handle that. Maybe maybe, or
maybe if you are going to try that,

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you're gonna have to sit down and
talk with somebody who has gone through

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that particular thing or something very similar
and maybe get their perspective so you can

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write that character and situation from a
more genuine and real place, I don't

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know. And the same for acting. Perhaps I know that personally and I

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am certainly not an accomplished actor.
I'm probably average at best, But I

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know that for speaking personally for myself, there are some roles that I think

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would have been very, very difficult
for me to even try to do twenty

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years ago and do them justice.
And maybe that just speaks to my lack

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of talent or abilities. But I
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for having some life experience, and
I think sometimes we discount some of these

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perspectives from writers who have been there, who have gone through a lot of

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life, and they might write a
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them in a way that we're like, I don't understand that. That doesn't

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I don't get why they're doing that. Well maybe again, lots of generalities

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here, but perhaps just maybe they're
writing from a perspective of really understanding what

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that would be like, and we
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aren't able to see that point of
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Let me know what you think about
all of this. Love to hear

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from you. Let's bring in our
guests I have some very important information and

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I thought i'd be getting it into
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Sir, can I speak to a
moment? Oh, well, there's

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nothing to it. I just ask
you the questions and you answered them in

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the tape recorder. Here play the
interview. Well, this is a conversation

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that I've been looking forward to for
quite some time since i first heard about

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this project. Well, I don't
even remember how long it's been, but

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it's been quite a while. But
I'm so excited to have some of the

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creative team at Heart Matters, and
you're gonna learn a little bit more about

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what that is here shortly. But
I'm thrilled to have Christy Jardo lead program

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coordinator, and another person that you're
very familiar with, Austin Peache, who

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is a regular contributor here on ATC, but he's also the audio content producer

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for Heart Matters. Thank you so
much for coming on the show to talk

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about what you guys have been working
on. Thanks for having us. Yeah,

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thanks so much. We flipped the
script on you. Austin got you.

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We got you in the other chair
today. Yeah. Yeah, it

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doesn't happen too often, but this
will be fun. Well, thank you,

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This is so exciting what you guys
have been working on. Obviously you're

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on ATC, so that means it's
relating to audio drama and we'll get to

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that in a minute. But Heart
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So Christy tell us a little bit
about what Heart Matters is and sure,

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what is the organization's mission. Our
mission is we demonstrate Christ's love by safeguarding

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hearts and minds through our digital media
safety, intervention and prevention programs. And

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so some of those programs are our
in school program. We go into schools,

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public schools, private schools, homeschool
groups, youth organizations, and we

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teach digital media safety to kids from
pre k all the way to eighth grade.

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And so we do that not only
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Bartlesville, but in surrounding communities.
So we have three counties that we go

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into and teach kids in school.
And so then we also have a resource

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center on site. People can come
and we've got books and handouts, We've

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got computers where people can sit down, and we have some videos that we

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highly recommend just learning about the safety. You know, how to keep kids

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safe. We even have computers to
where if somebody's struggling with an addiction of

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some kind, they can come and
sit down and learn more about it and

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kind of work through that. We've
had a couple of you know, for

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example, grandma's come in and say, hey, I caught my granddaughter sending

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inappropriate pictures? What do I do
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so it was really good we were
able to give them information, give that

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to them so they can go back
to their kids, you know, and

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try to help their grandchildren through stuff
like that. So we also have we

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bring in guest speakers, we do
presentations. They're the experts, right we

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kind of just give out their information, but we bring them in and serve

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dinner and let them speak to people
in our community about things that they do.

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We've had top digital tips and tricks. It's talking about Instagram, YouTube,

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Snapchat, all those things that kids
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parents about what's going on in there, how those predators are using those apps

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to get to kids. And then
we do things on online enticement, how

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kids are being groomed online. So
we're bringing those experts and teach our communities.

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About that, and then we do
workshops ourselves, go out and do

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these same kind of things, just
talking again, passing on the information to

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people in the community. And then
our last program is our app, which

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is what we're getting ready to talk
about here today. But what happened was

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it was born out of we go
into, like I said, the schools

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and we're not able to talk about
God or Jesus, which is our hope,

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you know, because this is sometimes
seems like a hopeless thing, is

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the exploitation of kids, and so
we know that hope, but we can't

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really share that hope necessarily in our
schools. And so we thought, you

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know what, the way that we
can do that is to create an app,

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an app where kids can come and
learn about digital media safety online but

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also the hope of Christ. We
can't do it there, we say,

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you know, our instructors can say, hey, let's talk about the rest

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of the story. If you want
to hear about that, why don't you

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go to our app. And then
they can hear about the Gospel and about

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the stories of the Bible and things
that help build that biblical character in them

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to help make those right decisions online
and off. Yeah, yeah, so

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you know you're making an impact there
in your local area, and now this

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is a way to reach a larger
audience, which you're doing to a certain

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extent already through your website. It's
full of resources they are already, but

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this is just another avenue that you
can explore. Absolutely. Yes, you're

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right. That's so exciting and it's
a very needed topic to address these days.

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And you know, so many parents
which you know, I can't say

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too much because I'm not a parent
myself, but I mean, they're not

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watching what the kids are doing on
these devices. So and I'll be honest

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with you, having these presentations,
our community is thirty five thousand, so

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it's not huge, but we can
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And I've had moms come up and
say, you know, I just

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want to worry about getting my kids
to bed on time and feeding them the

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right thing, and I don't even
want to worry about this or like,

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but if you're putting an iPad in
their hand or a phone in their hand,

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you got to worry about it.
You know, it's never too young

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to talk about the safety that because
there's predators that are out there trying to,

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you know, to get them,
and we don't want that to happen.

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So yeah, So as part of
this new app, you are going

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to be branching out into a completely
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and that is audio drama. So
tell us why audio drama and how

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is that going to help you accomplish
your mission? Absolutely well, like I

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said, we want to get out
there. We can't talk about the Gospel

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and the hope of Christ outside in
the schools, but we can on our

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own app. So that is one
thing that we for sure want to do.

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But it's also getting those kids to
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going to be online, let's have
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we also want to talk about media
balance. Okay, yeah, watch an

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ho or listen to an audio drama
but then put down the phone and go

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play outside or something like that.
But just being able to give them something

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that they can listen to that's going
to not only entertain them but also to

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teach them. And that's that's so
important too. Yeah, you got to

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have the balance. And what's so
cool about audio drama and regular listeners to

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the show know this. I love
this medium. So much because it's so

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powerful. You know, they could
grab the app, hit play on one

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of these stories and pull out a
coloring book and do something you know,

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stimulating with their mind while they're listening
as well. Yeah, which is kind

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of great that you say that,
because we have added coloring pages to our

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audio dramas that the kids can print
off in color. For the ones that

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are targeted to kids, they can. Yeah, we've got discussion questions that

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come along with the audio dramas that
Austin has fit together really good questions for

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them to think about. And we'd
love parents to sit down with the kids

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and go over these questions. But
then, like I said, we've attached

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to coloring page to that too,
so they could print that off color that

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while they're listening to the audio drama. Oh that's fantastic. We'll get to

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the content here in just a minute, Austin. But Christy, one more

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question directly for you, and what
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a range or what are we looking
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range. We have some that I
mean, honestly, anyone could listen to

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them and that would be great.
I just figure that maybe a target audience

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for us would be some little kids
might not want to listen to. You

408
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,640
know, well, I know we
won't want them to listen to, and

409
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,039
Austin will talk to you about it. We've got one coming up called Darkness

410
00:32:38,119 --> 00:32:42,680
Zoology, and it's got a two
part thing. We're going to make sure

411
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,440
that the parents know that this isn't
for young kids. But the ones that

412
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:50,240
are going to be launching again us, we'll talk about that. They can

413
00:32:50,279 --> 00:32:52,920
listen to any of those. Honestly, it's going to be great, but

414
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:57,240
we will have those that won't be
for young audiences, and we will make

415
00:32:57,279 --> 00:33:01,480
sure that parents know and kids know
that these for mature audiences. Yeah,

416
00:33:01,519 --> 00:33:05,519
and so, as you alluded to
it at the beginning of the conversation,

417
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,720
you're going to be addressing some topics
that are pretty heavy, some stuff that's

418
00:33:10,119 --> 00:33:15,799
you know, not applicable to all
ages. But I've listened to a few

419
00:33:15,799 --> 00:33:21,400
of the productions already and it's always
done tastefully and in an age appropriate way.

420
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,519
So I appreciate how you guys are
handling these topics. Yes, thank

421
00:33:24,519 --> 00:33:28,839
you so much. You know,
Austin has been working hard with the writers.

422
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,039
He has written a couple of them
and so him being able to communicate

423
00:33:32,119 --> 00:33:37,279
with them and them know our heart
and honestly we know their heart, and

424
00:33:37,359 --> 00:33:42,039
so it's been really easy to be
able to do that and to you know,

425
00:33:42,079 --> 00:33:44,640
tailor it to meet the needs,
you know, to be age appropriate.

426
00:33:45,119 --> 00:33:47,359
Yeah, yeah, so Austin,
Yeah, tell us a little bit

427
00:33:47,359 --> 00:33:52,000
about some of the productions. Now. The app is launching with six complete

428
00:33:52,599 --> 00:33:57,000
stories and then there will be more
to come, but tell us a little

429
00:33:57,039 --> 00:33:59,920
bit, just give us a little
teaser about maybe some of the things that

430
00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:05,359
they can check out right at launch. Sure. So the first audio production

431
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,400
that we ever did, the audi
drama that we did for the app was

432
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:12,239
The Spire and the Fly, which
is based on the eighteen hundred's poem.

433
00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:16,079
The script that I wrote, it's
kind of a test, if you will,

434
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:21,480
of how this would work. And
that's one of the stories that's geared

435
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:28,159
for more younger kids. That tells
about a flight named Felicia and an encounter

436
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,880
with a spider named Sick Freed for
and for listeners, if you want to

437
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:36,360
hear ATC's on J D. Sutter
play a villain, you can go listen

438
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:37,480
to the episode. You do.
You do a really great job with that

439
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:42,440
it's a really I'm sure it was
a really funderroll to play, but that

440
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,519
story is again for more younger kids, but again, like Christy said,

441
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:51,880
any agents can enjoy that one.
We have David versus Joseph, which is

442
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,639
a Bible story and in that title, he's like, you know, two

443
00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:59,800
different people in the Bible, basically
appair contrast of how two men in the

444
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:05,039
Bible. I will dealt with temptation
with David, King of Israel and Joseph,

445
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,159
Jacob's son. And that one's geared
pretty little bit older audience for closer

446
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:13,119
like teens, but I'm sure a
lot of kids would enjoy it too.

447
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,880
And then we have a Pigtail,
which is one of our h it's a

448
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:22,159
fairy tale that you have never heard
this in a way, play it this

449
00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:25,639
way. Before we had the idea
for to use the story of the Three

450
00:35:25,679 --> 00:35:30,440
Little Pigs, one of our writer's
Glenn Haskell, did such an amazing job

451
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:36,440
making this story fit for like a
modern audience and like modern technology and also

452
00:35:36,519 --> 00:35:39,599
be an absolutely hilarious. There's some
really people are really going to enjoy that

453
00:35:39,679 --> 00:35:45,079
and laugh over that, and we
have some really great actors in that one.

454
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,719
Probably the standout in that one,
it's probably Bethany Baldwin as the narrator

455
00:35:49,039 --> 00:35:52,519
omniscient narrator, and John Farnoff plays
a couple of characters in that, including

456
00:35:52,639 --> 00:35:57,199
the Big bad of Wolf. And
that's that's good. That's a lot of

457
00:35:57,199 --> 00:36:00,239
fun. That's that one's probably more
geared for kids, but I think all

458
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:04,400
the humor is going to be applicable
to probably a little bit older audience,

459
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:08,039
but it's still appropriate for all ages. We have another fairy tell story called

460
00:36:08,079 --> 00:36:10,559
snow White, Two Dwarves and a
Queen, which has also written Mike Glenn

461
00:36:10,559 --> 00:36:16,280
Haskell and dealing with some cyber bowling
and things like that where you'll probably guess

462
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:21,079
who does a cyber bowling, and
that one based on the story. Okay,

463
00:36:21,159 --> 00:36:22,800
okay, I'm gonna interrupt you right
here, Austin, because I listened

464
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:27,159
to that one and I was laughing
so hard at some of the points of

465
00:36:27,199 --> 00:36:31,679
that one. It's like these,
I mean, young young kids are some

466
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:36,039
of that stuff's going to ride over
their head. But I love that it's

467
00:36:36,119 --> 00:36:39,599
in there because I was like,
this is this is genius. Sorry,

468
00:36:39,679 --> 00:36:44,800
now you can continue. You're good, No, you're good. I'm glad

469
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:49,119
I'm really glad you enjoyed that one. Speak mar Names and that one you'll

470
00:36:49,119 --> 00:36:52,719
hear Glenn Haskell and Kila Bresler and
Triscia Rose, Oh my goodness, Tricia

471
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:58,920
Rose is so amazing with a role
the evil Queen and that one you're you're

472
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,960
really gonna enjoy hearing that. We
also have the Dundersage Delusion, which is

473
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,679
another script by Glenn Haskell. Glenn, as ATC listeners know, Glenn is

474
00:37:07,679 --> 00:37:10,239
a writing machine. He never never
sleeps when it comes to writing stuff,

475
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:14,760
it seems like. But he's also
an actor in that one too, that

476
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,719
deals with about being careful what take
what we take into her minds, in

477
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:22,400
this case song lyrics and showing it
in a funny and unique way about being

478
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:27,519
careful what we allow into our minds
and how those things can influence us in

479
00:37:27,559 --> 00:37:30,320
our actions. Glenn Haskell e sid
it's in that one and a few of

480
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:35,800
the dane Arts, the dane Art
family which very talented family, and also

481
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,360
Rebecca Bradford from Nickuy Private Eyes and
that one as well, and this was

482
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:45,360
probably my favorite one in the launch
shows is A Far Off Planet, which

483
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:51,960
is a masterpiece written by Alicia Hansen
and it's a story of the prodigal sun

484
00:37:52,519 --> 00:37:55,599
set in space. Oh wow.
And for me, I'm not a sci

485
00:37:55,639 --> 00:37:59,360
fi fan really, but I had
this idea for it, and I pitched

486
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,440
it to a lead shit and as
you all us know, she's a big

487
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,519
sci fi fan, and you know
with her show Venture and all that she

488
00:38:05,679 --> 00:38:09,000
knows the that genre very well,
and she wrote in a way that people

489
00:38:09,039 --> 00:38:12,360
like me can appreciate, even though
it's, you know, a sci fi

490
00:38:12,639 --> 00:38:19,400
space thing, but very emotional,
very very epic story with like some great

491
00:38:19,639 --> 00:38:22,880
actors like Dominic Trice Place the Lee
Carton that John Thornoff play some roles in

492
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:28,760
that too, and Garret Vanderberg does
awesome music with that too. And Micah

493
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,159
Tscha, oh wow, my goodness
his his sound design for that is amazing.

494
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,360
That one's that one's a lot of
fun too. But yeah, there's

495
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,000
a little bit for everybody. There's
stuff for younger kids, you know,

496
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:42,039
older kids, teenagers, and just
stuff that for the whole family to enjoy

497
00:38:42,079 --> 00:38:45,119
together. That's amazing. Well,
I think we should let the listeners hear

498
00:38:45,159 --> 00:38:50,159
a little trailer that give them a
little taste of these audio dramas. What

499
00:38:50,159 --> 00:38:53,599
do you think let's do it.
Yeah, all right, join Heart Matters

500
00:38:53,639 --> 00:38:58,119
as we take you on an audio
journey from the pages of the Bible.

501
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:00,320
If you do not bring me more
money than what I paid your brothers and

502
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:07,440
you will be beaten beyond recognition.
Do you want to to the far reaches

503
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,679
of space? What's going on?
I've just received the warning that the storm

504
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:15,079
is here, much earlier than anticipated
and much more spear. The population has

505
00:39:15,119 --> 00:39:22,079
been ordered to seek shelter immediately down
to the world of insects with web That

506
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,880
means you're a spider. Why,
of course, I come from a long

507
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:31,119
line of spiders, classically trained in
web design and everywhere in between. I'm

508
00:39:31,159 --> 00:39:36,000
not sure if you should be concerned, but chickens make impressive house cleaners.

509
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:40,119
Chickens Obviously, someone doesn't want you
to know about it. Plus fairy tales

510
00:39:40,119 --> 00:39:45,199
like you've never heard them before?
Big Bad named that they are relative.

511
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:50,760
There were books about them. Yeah, I've been reading up screen screen on

512
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:55,440
my desk. Who's by far most
picturesque. Find these stories for kids,

513
00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:00,119
teens and the whole family, and
the Heart Matters out download today from the

514
00:40:00,159 --> 00:40:05,760
Apple App Store, Google Play and
the Amazon App Store. Oh man,

515
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,800
I love that, and I know
the listeners will too. And as as

516
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:14,239
you already said, there's some very
familiar voices in there, and even got

517
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:22,320
a little a clip of an old
Sigfreed in there. Yep. And yeah,

518
00:40:22,559 --> 00:40:25,599
that was so much fun to play
that character. It probably had too

519
00:40:25,679 --> 00:40:31,519
much fun, but with it,
well, villains are usually the most fun

520
00:40:31,599 --> 00:40:36,679
characters to play for a lot of
people. Yeah, yeah, the web

521
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:42,320
designing spider, Yeah, I love
it. And you know, as we

522
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:46,280
said, you know these there's a
lot of humor in at least especially in

523
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:51,480
the ones that I've heard so far, but I don't think that that diminishes

524
00:40:51,559 --> 00:40:55,400
the lessons that are involved, because
that one in particular, I mean,

525
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:59,400
there are some there are some funny
lines throughout it, but the end is

526
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:05,199
not funny, and the narrator comes
in and kind of well, I hate

527
00:41:05,199 --> 00:41:07,719
to call him even a narrator.
I think he's more of a storyteller that

528
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:13,559
actually kind of guides the listener through. And because that one is geared towards

529
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,159
a little bit of a younger audience, I think it was perfectly appropriate and

530
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:21,480
I loved the way it was done. And so man, I'm just really

531
00:41:21,599 --> 00:41:23,880
really excited about what you're doing now, Austin. I wanted to ask you,

532
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:28,280
because you know, you're not a
stranger to the audio drama world.

533
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:34,199
You've been producing and writing audio dramas
for a very long time, but this

534
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:37,119
is a new territory for you.
So what has that transition been like,

535
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:43,519
going from more of a hobbyist into
a professional setting. So to tell us

536
00:41:43,559 --> 00:41:46,519
a little bit about that, well, that in itself was quite the journey.

537
00:41:46,559 --> 00:41:51,920
I actually did not start working at
Heart Matters as audio content producer.

538
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,440
I was hired on as a social
media coordinator. Can remember what the exact

539
00:41:54,519 --> 00:41:57,559
role was. I think it was
basically with a lot of social media is

540
00:41:57,559 --> 00:42:00,280
and web design stuff and I know
resume i'd put, you know, my

541
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:05,840
work on faith field stories and stuff
like that, and Christy I think I

542
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:07,960
had listened to that and stuff,
and I think I mentioned my interview about

543
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,400
hey kind of cool to the audi
dramas, like I mentioned an app,

544
00:42:12,199 --> 00:42:14,519
and so for a while, like
you know, I had in the back

545
00:42:14,519 --> 00:42:15,519
of my mind and like, oh, this might be a good idea,

546
00:42:15,599 --> 00:42:20,199
but I was working on my social
media stuff, and of course people know

547
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,039
I love audio drama and I think
Hard Matters in their mission is a perfect

548
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:30,360
a place to create stories like that, and so I actually sent Christy,

549
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:35,760
who Christy hasn't listened to a lot
whole audi drama before this time, so

550
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,719
I sent her an episode from dankly
a Lane Beating the Beast, within which

551
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:44,159
tackle is a really tough subject in
that one. So Christy, what,

552
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:45,880
how how will you tell listeners what
you thought when you first heard that audio

553
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,559
drama? Oh? Wow, I
thought it was great. Again, like

554
00:42:49,639 --> 00:42:52,599
he said, it's not something that
I've ever really listened to. I haven't

555
00:42:52,599 --> 00:42:59,000
really listened too much. That's changed, but but being able to hear that

556
00:42:59,119 --> 00:43:04,199
and understand that that can come across
in that way. It's not visual.

557
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,239
I am visual, which is probably
why I kind of leaned towards the video.

558
00:43:07,559 --> 00:43:12,039
However, like I said, until
this, I have listened to some

559
00:43:12,079 --> 00:43:16,599
of these stories of ours a few
times, just on occasion for the fun

560
00:43:16,599 --> 00:43:22,639
of it. So I'm really getting
to know that genre better and I really

561
00:43:22,679 --> 00:43:27,760
really like it. It's kind of
like when you're reading and I can visualize

562
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:31,880
everything in my head the way it's
coming across. So to hear that story

563
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:36,760
and to be able to see that
in my head for that to come across.

564
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,239
I thought it was unbelievable. So
I'm like, we could do this.

565
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:44,440
That's awesome. I can't do this, but you can do this.

566
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:51,119
Well. I'm grateful for the trust
y'all gave me in that in I know,

567
00:43:51,199 --> 00:43:52,000
like listen to that. That was
kind of like the green light.

568
00:43:52,079 --> 00:43:54,519
Okay, we can do audio drums. Let's do an audio dramas. So

569
00:43:55,239 --> 00:44:00,400
I roll eventually morphs into audio content
producers. So as for my job,

570
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:05,360
every day I'm working on audo dramas, getting casting and voice tracked and things

571
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,400
like that. And coming from just
doing it as a hobby where I just

572
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:12,039
do my free time, you know, like in the evenings or on weekends

573
00:44:12,119 --> 00:44:15,719
and things like that, doing it
as a job one is a dream come

574
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:17,480
true. I'm very blessed. I'm
very thankful to God to give me this

575
00:44:17,559 --> 00:44:22,320
opportunity because I love this meetium.
I think it's a great medium to tell

576
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:29,639
stories, especially really good messages.
And it's been kind of surreal where every

577
00:44:29,679 --> 00:44:34,159
day I'm front every weekday I'm here
and working on audi dramas, and it's

578
00:44:34,199 --> 00:44:37,000
like it's not something I thought would
happen, especially in my hometown. I

579
00:44:37,039 --> 00:44:40,440
thought maybe something I would do like
freelancer, move out of state to do

580
00:44:40,519 --> 00:44:44,440
but don't get to do it.
Here is a big blessing, but it's

581
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,480
also you know, a little more
stressful to a certain extent because I have

582
00:44:46,519 --> 00:44:49,840
you know, actual, you know, firm due dates. Okay, I

583
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,679
need to have actors lines by the
specific day. I need to send them

584
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,840
notes for retakes at certain times,
and they need the music for this to

585
00:44:55,880 --> 00:45:00,159
be done at a certain time.
So have jugglingly a lot of that the

586
00:45:00,159 --> 00:45:02,159
same time, and it makes things
a little more stressful, but it also

587
00:45:02,199 --> 00:45:07,239
helps more creativity happen. I know
sometimes if you if you're giving like a

588
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,960
deadline for a certain thing, you're
gonna work harder. You're going to do

589
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,039
your best for that, where if
it's just something you do on the side,

590
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:15,400
like oh, that can be done
at any point in the future,

591
00:45:15,639 --> 00:45:17,480
you know, it's easy to put
that on the back burner. But when

592
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:21,880
you're focused on this, I think
you can create a much better product.

593
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:25,440
And frankly, I don't do as
much as some people a lot. How

594
00:45:25,599 --> 00:45:29,400
these audio dramas, how great they
are. I give that one credit to

595
00:45:29,599 --> 00:45:32,559
God, the ultimate storyteller, and
also for the many talented actors, the

596
00:45:32,599 --> 00:45:37,559
writers, the sound designers, the
music composers, and the people that create

597
00:45:37,559 --> 00:45:42,360
the artwork things like that. It's
just so it's such a fun thing to

598
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,519
be part of a team effort.
And I've worked on some projects where basically

599
00:45:45,559 --> 00:45:49,280
I was the only one doing it
most everything, and that's not always the

600
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,960
most fun thing to do. So
be able to share the burden. I

601
00:45:52,039 --> 00:45:55,039
know that sounds kind of bad,
but to be able to share share those

602
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:00,920
different parts of the process with other
people and collaborating with them that give and

603
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:05,239
take. Okay, we need this, let's go in this direction. That's

604
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,800
a process too, of the collaboration
process. I've learned a lot more with

605
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,840
going with what we thought we wanted
and they may it's a different direction,

606
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,000
but maybe this is a better direction. And doing those things helped me teach

607
00:46:16,079 --> 00:46:20,679
me we're working on a team and
things like that, and also working for

608
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:22,880
you know, like an employer,
like making sure that you make a best

609
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:28,800
product. Can that's also you know, communicating the message for the mission of

610
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,320
the organization as well. And it's
been a learning process, like I'm still

611
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,800
learning, but it is. It
is such a fun ride, and I'm

612
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,519
so so grateful to God and for
everyone of Hard Matters for allow me to

613
00:46:38,559 --> 00:46:42,039
be able to do this for them. Well, yeah, you never stopped

614
00:46:42,079 --> 00:46:46,280
learning, and I think people that
decide that they know enough are not usually

615
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:51,480
going to last very long. So
yeah, having that willingness to just keep

616
00:46:51,519 --> 00:46:55,159
learning and with every production you figure
out maybe a little thing here that you

617
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:59,039
might tweak or whatever. So yeah, I think that's important. And you

618
00:46:59,039 --> 00:47:02,519
write it. It's a collaborative process, but you still have to have somebody

619
00:47:02,559 --> 00:47:07,559
at the helm and so you know, you're steering the process, and so

620
00:47:07,639 --> 00:47:14,880
it's important every single aspect and what
I've heard so far has been really really

621
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:20,679
great quality, So I'm I think
it's this is really good stuff. I

622
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:22,639
mean, what you guys are doing, I'm really excited for where it's going.

623
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:28,519
Well, thank you. I'm glad
you're enjoying it absolutely. So there's

624
00:47:28,519 --> 00:47:31,199
a link in the show notes to
of course the Heart Matter's website for people

625
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:35,840
to go check out everything that you
guys are doing, but also links to

626
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,960
where they can go get the app. And so you know, we said

627
00:47:39,159 --> 00:47:44,920
six stories are in the app at
launch, how often will we be getting

628
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:50,159
new content In terms of audio dramas
well, we have several odd drums that

629
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:54,239
are still yet to come. This
year, we have a standalone production called

630
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:58,760
In the Worlds Collide coming out in
April of this year, dealing with VR

631
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:02,760
in video game addiction. Really epic
story and we're close to we're getting close

632
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:07,880
to the end of that process of
producing that and it's sounding amazing. It's

633
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:09,920
because of the many talented people that
are working for us on this, and

634
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:15,599
it's it's gonna be pretty epic.
We also have another Bible audo drama similar

635
00:48:15,639 --> 00:48:21,639
to David Versus Joseph, coming out
sometime in July. Then we also have

636
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,159
in September, which is gonna be
The Darkness Duology. That's a two part

637
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:31,719
show that deals with an issue that
is very prevalent and very saddening in today's

638
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:38,920
world for kids and teenagers, is
suicide and how the digital world influences those

639
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:44,719
kinds of things. And it's very
unique story with a story with the same

640
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,880
circumstances, but two different endings,
and but each episode can stand alone on

641
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:52,119
its own. You'll listen to one
in any order, just two different endings.

642
00:48:52,119 --> 00:48:55,079
But hopefully in all of it shows
you know the hope, hope that

643
00:48:55,159 --> 00:49:00,400
Christ can give and also hopefully help
people think twice about take in their own

644
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:04,960
life and showing how it can be
for the people left behind and how there

645
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:08,760
are options to get help. And
then closing out the year, we're gonna

646
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:14,440
have a I guess say, a
mini series or multi part story called Princess,

647
00:49:15,159 --> 00:49:19,840
which has to do with human trafficking
in the US, and that's a

648
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,920
very powerful So that's probably gonna be
the it's the long it's gonna be the

649
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:25,159
longest this year, so that we've
been working on one of the most one

650
00:49:25,159 --> 00:49:29,440
of the most powerful and most I
want to say, probably heart wrenching to

651
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:30,239
a certain extent. Again, like
we're still gonna, you know, be

652
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:35,480
tasteful with it and things like that, and kind of my model for some

653
00:49:35,559 --> 00:49:37,719
of these shows is like River Cross, I think you mentioned that earlier.

654
00:49:38,079 --> 00:49:42,039
They're dealing with really tough subjects on
things happening to children in Africa, but

655
00:49:42,199 --> 00:49:45,920
in a tasteful way, but a
good story first and foremost. And that's

656
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:49,639
what I went for these stories,
is good story first and foremost. If

657
00:49:49,639 --> 00:49:52,840
you don't have a good story and
you're just having characters, you know,

658
00:49:53,039 --> 00:49:58,360
just preach at someone and just saying
it, you know, not in an

659
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:01,239
organic way, but a story is
going to teach a lot more than someone

660
00:50:01,639 --> 00:50:07,599
given a lecture or a sermon.
So we want all these stories to help

661
00:50:07,679 --> 00:50:13,519
edify people and inform people. And
we have more audi dramas planned for twenty

662
00:50:13,559 --> 00:50:15,800
twenty five or I saw the first
draft for one the scripts for next year,

663
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:19,599
and that's going to be a lot
of fun. Yeah, several more,

664
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:23,239
several shows planned for So we don't
have any plans to stop doing audio

665
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:27,360
dramas. We love making them and
we hope people will love hearing them.

666
00:50:28,079 --> 00:50:30,400
Oh man, that's awesome. I'm
really excited about you know. You know,

667
00:50:30,679 --> 00:50:37,639
again we're talking about some heavy stuff
here, but it's a ministry tool

668
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:42,679
here that you that you can use
this medium to reach out to touch people's

669
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:47,039
lives. And that's what storytelling really
is all about. Each one of us

670
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:53,239
is a story, and I believe
that God has put that in us,

671
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:59,480
and we love story and so that
you guys are putting that first. You

672
00:50:59,559 --> 00:51:00,920
know, Yes, we want to
we have we have a message with what

673
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:05,599
we're doing here, but we want
to tell a good story too, and

674
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:09,119
you're you're doing that and and so
I'm really excited about it. And Christy,

675
00:51:09,559 --> 00:51:15,239
what was the reason, I mean, explain to the listener why it

676
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:20,639
was important to have these discussion guides
and other things to go along with these

677
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:25,239
with these episodes. Sure, absolutely, you know, I think sometimes maybe

678
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:30,199
we want to make sure everybody gets
the message of the story, and I

679
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:32,639
think it's written so that they will. But if they don't, or if

680
00:51:32,679 --> 00:51:36,920
they want to go a little further, you know, we've put those questions

681
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:40,159
in there so they can kind of
look at what I'm doing. How did

682
00:51:40,159 --> 00:51:44,800
I see that? How what would
I have done if this had happened to

683
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:49,400
me? I'm thinking of Felicia.
What would Felicia's mom? What could she

684
00:51:49,559 --> 00:51:53,519
have done so that Felicia didn't I
won't give it away, but I think

685
00:51:53,559 --> 00:52:00,320
we probably all know, but for
the listener to put themselves in that,

686
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:04,360
you know, the shoes of that
character, to decide what they would have

687
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,000
done, What could I have done? What would I have done? And

688
00:52:07,079 --> 00:52:10,159
if I didn't make that choice,
what would the outcome be? Of course,

689
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:15,360
Austin's you know, put those discussion
questions together and we're pointing them to

690
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:20,159
scripture too, So I think that's
like the thing that I love the most

691
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,239
in those discussion questions, is pointing
them to scripture and then just teaching them

692
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:28,239
along the way this is what she
should have done, This is what you

693
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,239
know. It's easy to see hindsight, right. I mean, we can

694
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:34,199
all say that we've all made mistakes
and we can will continue to do that.

695
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:37,480
But if we teach them the right
way now when they're met with something,

696
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:42,400
then maybe they'll realize, oh wait
a minute, I remember this in

697
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,559
The Spider and the Fly. I'm
not going to do this. I'm going

698
00:52:45,599 --> 00:52:50,639
to choose this way this time.
You know. So when we have we

699
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:52,760
have students that come up to us
when we're in the schools and come up

700
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:57,079
to the instructors and say, you
know, when little boys like you know

701
00:52:57,119 --> 00:53:00,280
what, I remembered what you said
in class last week, and I put

702
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:04,199
my game down and I went and
played it with my little brother outside,

703
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:07,360
you know, and he said and
it was a lot of fun. So,

704
00:53:07,599 --> 00:53:09,199
you know, those things that we
begin to teach. And then there's

705
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:15,159
the heartbreaking stories or you know,
somebody adult reached out to me on this

706
00:53:15,199 --> 00:53:16,719
game I was playing and he wanted
to meet me in person, and you

707
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:20,880
know that kind of thing. So
we can say, hey, we don't

708
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:22,239
talk to people unless we know him
in real life, you know. So

709
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:27,400
those lessons that were teaching out there, we can teach within here, and

710
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:30,719
so that's what those discussion questions are
kind of meant to do, is to

711
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:34,480
continue to teach. And also again, like I said, what would you

712
00:53:34,559 --> 00:53:37,199
do if you were in that position? Yeah, yeah, that's fantastic.

713
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:42,400
Now this is a question that's more
for me, I think, or and

714
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:46,559
I guess the super fans of audio
drama in the audience, which I know

715
00:53:46,599 --> 00:53:51,159
there are a few, but for
those kind of people. Is there any

716
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:55,679
chance that a CD collection might be
made available at some point? Ooh,

717
00:53:57,039 --> 00:54:02,480
I didn't know that was a thing. I would say, yes, wonderful.

718
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:06,400
I think we could probably do something
like that. I think something else

719
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:12,360
that Austin did when he got the
music composers together. You know, we

720
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,320
have original soundtracks too. I don't
know if you've had a chance to go

721
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:20,079
on there. So that's a lot
of fun. We were kind of updating

722
00:54:20,079 --> 00:54:22,199
the app today as we were sitting
there together, and we just had a

723
00:54:22,199 --> 00:54:25,840
far off planet playing in the background, you know. So I think that's

724
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:30,920
pretty amazing just to hear those the
original music too. So we put that

725
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:34,800
in there for people to enjoy also, so that might be something that goes

726
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:37,599
on there also. Oh, that's
wonderful. I didn't see that yet.

727
00:54:37,639 --> 00:54:42,079
So well, speaking of other features
in the app, but tell just a

728
00:54:42,119 --> 00:54:45,760
real briefly what other kind of content
and resources are going to be available there.

729
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:51,639
Sure, So we have what we're
calling masterclasses, So we're just going

730
00:54:51,679 --> 00:54:55,840
to launch with one. But within
that one, it's one of our youth

731
00:54:55,880 --> 00:55:00,000
pastors and his wife's a teacher,
and it's called commune Cating with Teens.

732
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:07,119
And so within that there's about nineteen
two to three minute videos on different subjects

733
00:55:07,119 --> 00:55:13,000
of talking with your team. We're
going to have videos doing Bible stories.

734
00:55:13,159 --> 00:55:15,960
So one of the first ones that's
going to come up is going to be

735
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:20,360
Christ in the Cross, and so
again it's going to be told in an

736
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:23,599
entertaining way, but a way that
those you know, kids listening can kind

737
00:55:23,639 --> 00:55:28,760
of sync that in and adults you
know that those lessons and so there'll be

738
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:32,599
a bunch of things like that.
It's two people talking it out. One's

739
00:55:32,639 --> 00:55:37,159
giving the story, narrating it while
the other one might be kind of giving

740
00:55:37,199 --> 00:55:43,880
it a little flare. And then
we also have something called Safety with Ryan.

741
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:46,719
So this is geared towards parents,
and it's just talking about the different

742
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:51,599
apps that are out there that the
kids might be on, and so just

743
00:55:51,639 --> 00:55:54,559
giving them a little a little information
on what can go on in the app,

744
00:55:54,639 --> 00:55:58,360
what the app does, and maybe
how you can keep it you know,

745
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:01,119
can kind of lock it down or
keep it SA or some of them

746
00:56:01,559 --> 00:56:05,840
we don't recommend at all, and
so those will be up in there.

747
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:12,480
Then we also have short films and
those are again just videos of probably two

748
00:56:12,519 --> 00:56:16,320
to five minutes of doing the same
thing, teaching again, all in an

749
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:22,119
entertaining way. A lot of it's
comedy, some of it's not so funny,

750
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:28,039
but it's again teaching kids about what
can happen online. And then we

751
00:56:28,159 --> 00:56:32,639
also have we're coming out with a
documentary probably I think January twenty twenty five,

752
00:56:32,679 --> 00:56:36,280
but there is a kind of a
trailer in there. It's a twelve

753
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:39,840
minute trailer that we did. It's
about a young woman who was groomed and

754
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:45,920
abused by her professor. And so
again it's part of that piece of I

755
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:52,280
won't say necessarily trafficking, but it's
within that. So a lot of stuff

756
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:54,840
took place online and so we're just
trying to teach people through that. And

757
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:59,679
she said again, if it could
help you help just one person to be

758
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:05,039
able to see her story and to
know when something like that is happening and

759
00:57:05,079 --> 00:57:07,880
then they can stop it, she
said, then it's all worth it.

760
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:14,159
So wow. Yeah, And the
good news about this is you get access

761
00:57:14,199 --> 00:57:19,119
to all of these resources, all
these awesome audio dramas and more to come,

762
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:25,480
for the price of nothing. All
right, it's free. Yes,

763
00:57:25,559 --> 00:57:30,760
it's free. Yes, which is
I love that that we're able to do

764
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:37,440
that. We have a resale store
here in our town and people donate items

765
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:43,119
to them, and then on Tuesdays
and Saturdays and once a month on Thursdays,

766
00:57:43,159 --> 00:57:45,760
they're open for people to come purchase
things from there. And they make

767
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:51,599
up about sixty percent of hour of
the donations that come up of the money

768
00:57:51,639 --> 00:57:54,000
they were able to use, and
then the rest of it comes from Yeah,

769
00:57:54,039 --> 00:58:00,000
it's pretty amazing. Now I say
that before we begin the app,

770
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:05,119
so it's going to change a little
bit with the app. But we're just

771
00:58:05,159 --> 00:58:07,840
hoping that, you know, if
people see something that they like or they

772
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:14,000
really appreciate these audio dramas or these
short films or another thing that's going to

773
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:17,599
come out next year as a puppet
show and it's a drama. It's called

774
00:58:17,679 --> 00:58:24,400
Jungle Elementary and it's gotta be two
seasons that will come out next year.

775
00:58:24,519 --> 00:58:30,000
And so that's pretty fun in itself, but weird. It's being written right

776
00:58:30,039 --> 00:58:36,320
now, and we've got the puppets
already made from a company in California and

777
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:40,000
so they're here and so we could
see them every day. They're pretty life

778
00:58:40,039 --> 00:58:45,000
size, so it's going to be
really amazing. But that's just going to

779
00:58:45,039 --> 00:58:47,679
be something else coming along. But
you know, if people see that and

780
00:58:47,719 --> 00:58:52,199
they're learning stuff and their kids are
enjoying it, we're hoping that they kind

781
00:58:52,239 --> 00:58:55,159
of buy in, you know,
to help that next thing to be made.

782
00:58:55,280 --> 00:59:00,639
So why we really are so blessed
with that resale shop. I know

783
00:59:00,159 --> 00:59:04,599
with what's coming up, it's going
to take private donations and things like that,

784
00:59:05,119 --> 00:59:09,079
but we're believing for provision from God
because we honestly believe he's calling us

785
00:59:09,079 --> 00:59:12,840
to do this. So yeah,
yeah, it makes it really easy in

786
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:15,280
the app. It makes it really
easy to donate. So if you like

787
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:16,480
any of the content and there,
you want to see more happen. And

788
00:59:17,039 --> 00:59:20,360
I know if youc Is talked of
this a lot about how you know,

789
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:24,079
good audio drama does not come cheap. So if you feel blessed by it,

790
00:59:24,119 --> 00:59:28,320
if you think this is something that
is worthwhile, we'd appreciate it if

791
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:30,719
you donate. You know, donating
the app makes it really easy to do

792
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:36,400
that, and that'll help the organization
keep running and more audiodramas and video is

793
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:40,119
made. Yeah, I mean,
we believe that the worker is worthy of

794
00:59:40,239 --> 00:59:46,599
his higher And also there's the what's
called the value for value model that a

795
00:59:46,679 --> 00:59:51,880
lot of content is distributed under,
and that is, you know, we're

796
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:54,400
giving this to you. If you
get value out of it, then maybe

797
00:59:54,719 --> 00:59:59,000
give us a little bit back in
return. And so I think that's that's

798
00:59:59,239 --> 01:00:01,480
a great way to do it.
And of course, as Austin mentioned,

799
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:05,559
you can do that through the app
or head over to heart Matters, dash

800
01:00:05,639 --> 01:00:08,960
Okay dot org and there's a there's
I'm sure there's a way to do that

801
01:00:09,039 --> 01:00:13,639
there as well. Before we head
out the door, Christy, any any

802
01:00:13,719 --> 01:00:15,760
last words anything we didn't cover that
you want to make sure to let the

803
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:22,000
audience know about. I honestly can't
think of anything. I really appreciate you

804
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:27,920
having us on I really do,
and this is something that my background is

805
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:31,480
not in this. My degree is
in microbiology, so oh wow, this

806
01:00:31,639 --> 01:00:37,079
is totally different than anything I have
ever done. God called me into nonprofit

807
01:00:37,199 --> 01:00:42,039
five years ago and so here I
am. But I am so humbled and

808
01:00:42,119 --> 01:00:44,880
honored to be able to be a
part of something like this because, like

809
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:46,719
I said, I think I operate
on the other side of the brain that

810
01:00:47,639 --> 01:00:52,559
a lot of creative people do.
So I can do the spreadsheets and the

811
01:00:52,559 --> 01:00:57,920
budgets and I can create that way. But what you guys are doing,

812
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:01,159
I think is something that is not
in my skill set. But I am

813
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:06,920
absolutely having a ball doing it.
So well, I want to say just

814
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:10,000
say for me, thank you for
seeing the potential in this medium to use

815
01:01:10,039 --> 01:01:15,440
it in this way. It's a
powerful storytelling medium and I love what you

816
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:19,360
guys are doing, and so thank
you, and thank you for letting me

817
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:22,639
be a little part in participating in
one of the episodes. So that was

818
01:01:22,679 --> 01:01:27,079
a lot of fun too. Absolutely, I think that's great. And yeah,

819
01:01:27,159 --> 01:01:30,840
don't stop, don't stop trying out. We expect you to be in

820
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:35,079
more of them too, Okay,
Austin anything else that we want to let

821
01:01:35,159 --> 01:01:37,960
the audience know about. Well,
another thing that you all can do for

822
01:01:38,039 --> 01:01:40,960
us, if you if you believe
in the mission of Heart matters and what

823
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:45,280
we're doing is also to pray for
us. It's not a it's not an

824
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:49,360
easy thing what we do, and
I'm not trying to make us. Some

825
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:52,840
want to pity us, but it
is is tough material to work with and

826
01:01:53,039 --> 01:01:59,039
the stories we hear and what we're
making and you know, moving on the

827
01:01:59,039 --> 01:02:01,920
devil's territory. Devil does not like
it. So we would appreciate everybody out

828
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:06,760
there that was a Christian that would
stand behind us and pray for us and

829
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:12,000
that we would keep doing the Lord's
will. And we would greatly appreciate that,

830
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:16,840
absolutely absolutely well. Again, links
to the website and the app are

831
01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:21,400
in the show notes. I highly
encourage you to go check this out and

832
01:02:22,199 --> 01:02:27,440
listen to these episodes. And I'm
sure that there's a family or your own

833
01:02:27,679 --> 01:02:30,719
children who will benefit from listening to
this, to these productions. So thank

834
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:35,360
you again, Christy and Austin for
Kevin on the show, thank you so

835
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:37,159
much. Yes, thank you,
JD. This is a lot of fun.

836
01:02:37,519 --> 01:02:42,440
It's a murder mystery sort of cross
between William Shakespeare and Agada. Christie,

837
01:02:42,679 --> 01:02:45,400
No, it's not that I didn't
like it, it's that it wasn't

838
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:49,079
a good play. This will be
one of the best shows we have ever

839
01:02:49,159 --> 01:02:52,639
done, Such an amusing show.
What was that line you coined? I

840
01:02:52,719 --> 01:02:58,079
never knew acting could be so much
fun. Well, you just heard all

841
01:02:58,159 --> 01:03:01,000
about these audio dramas, where they
came from, and a lot of the

842
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:05,760
people involved in them. But let's
go ahead and dive into them a little

843
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:07,280
bit deeper. Now, there are
six of them here, and they're all

844
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:13,280
about thirty minutes or less, so
we're not going to take a whole ton

845
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,880
of time with them because they don't
want to give away any spoilers. But

846
01:03:16,119 --> 01:03:21,519
I do want to touch on a
few things with regard to each episode here.

847
01:03:22,079 --> 01:03:30,599
So let's talk about the six Heart
Matters standalone audio dramas that are in

848
01:03:30,719 --> 01:03:36,719
the app today as of the launch. And we've got a good variety here

849
01:03:37,239 --> 01:03:42,039
of these episodes, and of course
link is in the show notes to head

850
01:03:42,039 --> 01:03:45,440
over there, get the app,
visit their website learn more about what they're

851
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:49,639
doing. We talked about all of
that with Christy and Austin just a moment

852
01:03:49,719 --> 01:03:53,280
ago, and speaking of them,
Christy Jardo is the executive producer of these

853
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:59,119
Heart Matters audio dramas, and producer
and director was Austin Peachey on all six

854
01:03:59,159 --> 01:04:02,079
of them as well. Well.
So let's jump into these audio dramas.

855
01:04:02,239 --> 01:04:06,639
Now, quick note before we get
started. I was involved in one of

856
01:04:06,679 --> 01:04:11,599
these shows, as you heard in
the interview there, and Austin is of

857
01:04:11,599 --> 01:04:15,199
course a friend and a longtime ATC
contributor. But I do have to give

858
01:04:15,199 --> 01:04:18,880
an honest review of these. Now
these are it's just my opinion. You

859
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:25,760
are free to disregard my thoughts on
these, but that has been a foundation

860
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:30,559
of Audio Theater Central from the beginning, and that is that we give honest

861
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:36,679
critiques and reviews of audio dramas.
So that might mean that on occasion there

862
01:04:36,719 --> 01:04:41,280
are things that we think could have
been improved, and we're gonna bring those

863
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:45,920
up when that happens. So I
just wanted to give that caveat that,

864
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:49,320
you know, just because I was
involved in these, I'm still going to

865
01:04:49,400 --> 01:05:01,960
give an honest assessment my opinions of
these audio dramas as and jage he pays

866
01:05:02,159 --> 01:05:15,679
off God for everything else. I'm
praying your take as a servant, be

867
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:28,360
your progame. So Daddy, I'm
too Cold song of the lists before I

868
01:05:28,519 --> 01:05:34,840
could see you were listed from my
footsteps. You came learn and off me

869
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:47,719
as com cold, but your bodies
used to love the pod God broken lone?

870
01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:56,000
Is me enough? Prodigal would know? I have love to his daddy?

871
01:05:56,159 --> 01:06:01,719
Pis you enough? Were? We're
gonna go down these six audio dramas

872
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:05,559
in the order that they were released
on the app here. So the first

873
01:06:05,559 --> 01:06:09,480
one is The Spider and the Fly, and that just happens to be the

874
01:06:09,519 --> 01:06:13,800
one that I am in. So
here is the summary for this fourteen minute

875
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:18,280
audio drama. A spider named Siegfried
has moved into Felicia, the Fly's neighborhood.

876
01:06:18,679 --> 01:06:23,679
She's been warned not to get near
the spider's home. Is Siegfried as

877
01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:29,400
dangerous as her mom says? Or
is Sigfreed actually a good friend? So

878
01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:33,079
this one was written by Austin Peachey, with sound design and music by Mark

879
01:06:33,159 --> 01:06:38,679
mulcahy, who you may be familiar
with from Greenhorn Tails. He's done some

880
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:43,400
work on that show, and of
course he worked on the Watch and some

881
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:49,119
other projects. And I've really really
liked Mark's work and his music and his

882
01:06:49,199 --> 01:06:55,440
sound design are always really really great. So this is a show that is

883
01:06:55,559 --> 01:07:01,280
geared towards a younger audience, and
it's basically talking about stranger danger essentially to

884
01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:06,000
put it in the vernacular, so
to speak. And I thought this one

885
01:07:06,039 --> 01:07:10,559
came together really really well. I'm
not gonna talk about it too much because

886
01:07:10,559 --> 01:07:13,760
I don't want to see him self
serving, because again, I did have

887
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:16,800
a role in this. I get
to play Siegfried the Spider. Had a

888
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:23,320
great time with that role. And
the rest of the cast Jonathan Cook as

889
01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:28,519
the storyteller, Christianna Thomas as Felicia
the Fly, and Tricia Rose as Felicia's

890
01:07:28,559 --> 01:07:31,559
mother, they were phenomenal. They
really really did a great job. I

891
01:07:31,599 --> 01:07:35,880
thought this one came together really,
really nicely. One thing about the sound

892
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:40,440
design that I thought was really kind
of funny is because we have, you

893
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:44,039
know, Felicia. There's a scene
where she's leaving the house heading out to

894
01:07:44,079 --> 01:07:47,960
go to school and we hear where
the flies live. Now, they don't

895
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:54,519
live in a typical home. You
know, sometimes stories that feature animals or

896
01:07:54,519 --> 01:07:59,119
insects they actually have houses. In
this case, they live in a garbage

897
01:07:59,159 --> 01:08:02,239
can or something like that. If
I remember correctly, and so in the

898
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:09,039
sound design they chose, Mark chose
to still use like actual doors opening and

899
01:08:09,079 --> 01:08:13,320
closing, which I thought was a
funny, funny touch because we hear in

900
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:15,359
the story that they live, they
don't live in a house, So I

901
01:08:15,359 --> 01:08:18,239
thought that was just a funny,
little comical element that he added to it.

902
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:21,520
There are some humorous lines in this
one here and there, but overall

903
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:28,680
it is not intended to just be
a story that you're sitting there chuckling and

904
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:32,279
go falling at, because it's talking
about a serious topic, which all of

905
01:08:32,319 --> 01:08:38,680
these really do in some way.
And so I thought this one was done

906
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:42,800
really really well, and Austin really
really impressed me with the writing on this

907
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:47,000
one. So I really enjoyed The
Spider and the Fly really really fun show.

908
01:08:48,199 --> 01:08:53,840
And now that I say fun,
sounds terrible to categorize it like that

909
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:57,800
because it is so serious and the
ending is not fun, but I think

910
01:08:57,800 --> 01:09:00,880
you'll understand what I mean when you
listen to it. Well. Next up

911
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:06,399
is David versus Joseph. The summary
is two different lives, the same opportunity,

912
01:09:06,800 --> 01:09:13,000
two different outcomes, which hero of
the Old Testament will fall? And

913
01:09:13,039 --> 01:09:17,359
this one is right at thirty one
minutes long, also written by Austin and

914
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:24,520
sound designed by Christopher Green and music
by Dominic Trice. Now this one is,

915
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:27,079
of course it's a Bible story,
so we know how these go,

916
01:09:27,840 --> 01:09:31,279
but it's an interesting way to put
these two different characters back to back and

917
01:09:31,399 --> 01:09:39,000
we see how this story plays out
framed in this perspective of temptation, and

918
01:09:39,239 --> 01:09:43,199
how each of these men reacted to
it. Now, if you're familiar with

919
01:09:43,239 --> 01:09:46,439
the Bible at all, you'll know
these stories, but the way that they

920
01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:55,039
are chextaposed in this particular production was
really interesting and I thought it was handled

921
01:09:55,039 --> 01:09:59,279
well. We had a great cast. Of course, we have the main

922
01:09:59,319 --> 01:10:02,319
characters of Joe Joseph, who was
played by Dominic Trice in addition to doing

923
01:10:02,319 --> 01:10:09,479
the music, and David was played
by Craig Hart. And we have a

924
01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:15,159
full cast here which includes Bethany Baldwin
as Potiphar's wife. We also have Tricia

925
01:10:15,279 --> 01:10:21,479
Rose as Bathsheba, and Austin Peache
also picks up a role here. We

926
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:26,479
have Steve Phillips, Glenn Haskell,
Frank Hugh Lee, John Mark Force,

927
01:10:27,319 --> 01:10:32,600
and Garrett Vandenberg. Also hopefully I'm
not missing anybody, but a pretty good

928
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:39,239
sized cast for this half hour show, and this one, I would say

929
01:10:39,359 --> 01:10:44,560
is aimed at an older demographic.
Most really small children are not going to

930
01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:51,159
be encountering this particular issue of lust
and temptation, so I think this one's

931
01:10:51,159 --> 01:10:57,039
for older teens. And of course
the scenes with Potiphar's wife are a little

932
01:10:57,039 --> 01:10:59,520
bit edgy, but it is trying
to make a point, is trying to

933
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:02,640
show you what really happened in this
story. So again I think this one's

934
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:08,199
for older teens. But it's extremely
well done. The performances were fantastic.

935
01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:13,199
Bethany Baldwin was a standout in this
one. She was fantastic, as was

936
01:11:13,239 --> 01:11:17,119
Dominic as Joseph. Just really really
great job all around from the cast on

937
01:11:17,159 --> 01:11:24,279
this one. So that is David
versus Joseph. The next one is called

938
01:11:24,319 --> 01:11:30,640
a Pigtail and it's th al E
not t ai L, and the summary

939
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:34,239
is a trio of pig siblings are
looking at building their own homes. However,

940
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:38,920
they've caught the attention of the Big
Bad Wolf, who finds a way

941
01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:44,319
to influence them into building inferior houses
through his online presence. This one is

942
01:11:44,359 --> 01:11:47,319
twenty two minutes long and it was
written by Glenn Haskell, with sound designed

943
01:11:47,319 --> 01:11:51,199
by Ben Kimp, who you may
be familiar with from a bit of Time

944
01:11:51,239 --> 01:11:56,760
Travel and his new show The Church
at Tressel Falls, as well as working

945
01:11:56,840 --> 01:12:00,960
on Greenhorn Tales as well. His
sound design is always really really good.

946
01:12:00,399 --> 01:12:04,239
I always appreciate his work as well. And so this one, of course,

947
01:12:04,279 --> 01:12:11,039
as the summary says, it's talking
about online influencers and the way that

948
01:12:11,159 --> 01:12:16,640
they can well influence your buying habits
or whatever the case may be, and

949
01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:23,720
of course more sinister things as well, But this one tackles this topic in

950
01:12:23,760 --> 01:12:28,800
a really really funny, humorous way, of course, a retelling of the

951
01:12:28,880 --> 01:12:32,319
classic tale of the Three Little Pigs
in a modern setting, and of course

952
01:12:32,399 --> 01:12:39,520
using the Internet as a main focus
here. And this one is the one

953
01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:45,439
that you heard Austin reference in the
interview that Bethany Baldwin plays the omniscient narrator

954
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:50,159
and so a really humorous take.
What I liked about it is it was

955
01:12:50,239 --> 01:12:55,079
a little bit similar to the way
the narrator acts in Jungle Jam, how

956
01:12:55,079 --> 01:12:59,239
he sometimes interacts with the characters.
So that was a really fun touch.

957
01:13:00,159 --> 01:13:03,880
And we know that Glenn Haskell is
a great comedy writer so there's some very

958
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:09,560
funny lines here. We have Christopher
Green as Brian, who is one of

959
01:13:09,560 --> 01:13:14,680
the pigs, Rebecca Bradford as Bridget, another pig, and John Foraranoff as

960
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:19,560
Kevin, the third pig, and
so they all did a really great job

961
01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:24,279
here. And then we have John
Fornoff also as the Big Bad Wolf.

962
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:29,600
Now, this is one thing that
I was not super crazy about because I

963
01:13:29,600 --> 01:13:34,640
thought I thought those voices were a
little bit too close. We had John

964
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:41,520
Tharanoff playing one of the pigs and
the Big Bad Wolf. If it had

965
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:45,680
been me, I would have cast
a different voice there. I just thought

966
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:50,039
they were too similar. Again,
this is just my opinion, but that

967
01:13:50,279 --> 01:13:57,079
was one thing that I thought I
would have done differently personally. But in

968
01:13:57,159 --> 01:14:00,199
terms of the acting itself that it
was all fantastic. And I love the

969
01:14:00,199 --> 01:14:05,159
way that John Fornoff plays these characters, especially the wolf. He's got some

970
01:14:05,279 --> 01:14:11,399
very funny lines. There's some interactions
with other characters that were just very very

971
01:14:11,399 --> 01:14:16,359
funny. There's also a bus driver
as they're traveling to where they're going to

972
01:14:16,399 --> 01:14:23,560
build their homes, very very funny
character. Again, the humor that Glenn

973
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:28,760
incorporated into this is very very fun
and I always enjoy his stuff, and

974
01:14:28,840 --> 01:14:31,560
so this is a really fun one. This one's totally fine for all ages.

975
01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:38,479
I think. You know, sometimes
parents are given very young children these

976
01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:43,359
smartphones, so this is a topic
that needs to be addressed. And you

977
01:14:43,399 --> 01:14:46,439
know what, here's the thing.
I mean, I hope parents will listen

978
01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:50,560
to these things and realize that maybe
it's not such a great idea to just

979
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:57,840
give unfettered access to the Internet through
iPads and smartphones to our young kids.

980
01:14:57,960 --> 01:15:03,560
So anyway, I'll get off myself
box now. But that is a pigtail,

981
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:09,039
very very fun. Really enjoyed it. Well, that's three down.

982
01:15:09,039 --> 01:15:12,680
We've got three more to go.
The next one is snow White, Two

983
01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:17,520
dwarves and a Queen. Now this
is sort of again a fairy tale that's

984
01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:24,039
been retold, but in a pretty
different way. We only have two dwarves,

985
01:15:25,880 --> 01:15:29,920
oh goodness. The summary is the
annual Fairest of them All ball is

986
01:15:29,960 --> 01:15:33,640
approaching and the Queen is looking forward
to being admired and crowned at it again.

987
01:15:34,279 --> 01:15:39,279
But a stranger named snow White arrives
in the kingdom and threatens the Queen's

988
01:15:39,399 --> 01:15:44,239
plans. This one's about twenty one
minutes Long, also written by Glenn Haskell,

989
01:15:44,560 --> 01:15:49,600
with sound design by Ezra Losa.
So again a retelling of the snow

990
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:58,000
White story in a more modern context, but some very different elements. I

991
01:15:58,239 --> 01:16:02,680
really really enjoyed this one. I
laughed out loud multiple times during this one,

992
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:08,279
and I've gone back and listened to
it again and had the same same

993
01:16:08,319 --> 01:16:12,479
reaction. I just so many funny
lines here. The dwarfs. Here we

994
01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:17,800
have Sparky and Leon played by Glenn
Haskell and Caleb Bresler. Just some great

995
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:24,479
interactions between those two and then with
other characters, just funny stuff. Caleb

996
01:16:24,479 --> 01:16:30,720
Bresler also plays the Queen's mirror,
does a great great job, and Glenn

997
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:33,000
is also the narrator here, so
goodnes I see he was the writer,

998
01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:39,479
narrator and plays one of the dwarves. Great job all around. The Queen

999
01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:43,640
was played by Tricia Rose. She
does a fantastic job of playing an evil

1000
01:16:43,720 --> 01:16:48,000
villain. Really really enjoyed her performance. Freya, who is the Queen's attendant

1001
01:16:48,159 --> 01:16:53,560
or assistant, whatever whatever you want
to call her, played by Rose Beasley

1002
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:58,000
and she did a wonderful job as
well. And then we have snow White,

1003
01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:00,239
who was played by Heidi Stewart,
who if you've listened to the Seneca

1004
01:17:00,279 --> 01:17:04,960
Awards for the last several years,
you've heard her voice every year, and

1005
01:17:05,119 --> 01:17:10,039
of course she's been in Lamplighter Theater
and other stuff as well. Really really

1006
01:17:10,039 --> 01:17:15,640
great performance by Heidi. Overall,
Man really really had fun with this one.

1007
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:18,039
Now, there was a couple of
times where I thought the pacing in

1008
01:17:18,239 --> 01:17:25,479
the overall mix could have been adjusted. There was just a couple of moments

1009
01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:28,520
where I just felt a little off
and I would have liked to have seen

1010
01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:32,520
that tightened up in a couple of
spots. But overall, really really nicely

1011
01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:36,079
done. Again, I laughed out
loud at this one. Had a lot

1012
01:17:36,079 --> 01:17:41,439
of fun with this. One of
my favorites in this first batch of productions

1013
01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:45,359
from Heart Matters. All right,
we move on to the penultimate one,

1014
01:17:45,399 --> 01:17:51,039
and that is called a Far Off
Planet. The summary is Duade has it

1015
01:17:51,119 --> 01:17:57,720
all a luxury apartment on Mars,
his own teleporter, and a companion robot.

1016
01:17:58,359 --> 01:18:02,720
However, and approaching dust storm might
change all of that. And this

1017
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:08,079
one is just over a half hour. This one was written by Alisia Hanson

1018
01:18:08,119 --> 01:18:12,880
of Eternal Future Productions, who you
know her work from Pirateers, but this

1019
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:16,039
is something very different, and as
Austin mentioned earlier, you know she's working

1020
01:18:16,039 --> 01:18:20,079
on her own science fiction show.
And this is the story of the prodigal

1021
01:18:20,159 --> 01:18:27,800
sun set in space and it is
really really well done. Sound designed by

1022
01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:33,399
Micah Touchet, music by Garrett Vandenberg, and I absolutely loved this one.

1023
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:36,680
Now, this one is I think
aimed at an older audience too, so

1024
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:42,680
that might be something to do with
it, because it is more not mature

1025
01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:45,520
in a bad way, but it
is aimed at an older demographic, and

1026
01:18:45,560 --> 01:18:50,960
so I am in the older demographics. I really enjoy this. My goodness.

1027
01:18:51,119 --> 01:18:55,279
The cast, it's got one of
the larger casts, maybe even the

1028
01:18:55,359 --> 01:19:00,399
largest cast of any show of these
six so far. But everybody was so

1029
01:19:00,399 --> 01:19:05,640
so good. We had Dominic Trice
in the lead role of Duade, who

1030
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:11,880
is of course the prodigal son here, and he did a fantastic job in

1031
01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:15,560
this character's role. My goodness,
I really really enjoyed his performance. We

1032
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:23,319
had Betsy Nicholson as an animated voice
of multiple different I started to say inventions,

1033
01:19:23,319 --> 01:19:27,079
but that's not the right word.
Just different interfaces, maybe is the

1034
01:19:27,279 --> 01:19:32,479
is the word in this futuristic space
world. And she had the perfect intonation

1035
01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:38,840
and cadence. She did a great
job as a as a an AI sort

1036
01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:42,640
of voice. We had Andy Harvey
here in the in the cast, and

1037
01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:47,239
Craig Hart Glenn Haskell as a security
robot. Jonathan Cook plays a shop owner

1038
01:19:47,279 --> 01:19:54,640
in a scene. We had John
Fornoff as the aforementioned companion robot of Duade,

1039
01:19:54,920 --> 01:20:00,680
whose name is Rizzo. And this
one was just an interesting, interesting

1040
01:20:00,720 --> 01:20:08,880
way to tackle this story. And
you know, if you've been around church

1041
01:20:09,199 --> 01:20:13,399
for any length of time read the
Bible, you know this familiar story.

1042
01:20:13,439 --> 01:20:18,800
But hearing it turned in this way
and presented in a new way, I

1043
01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:24,720
mean, this is not the first
time a Bible story has been retold in

1044
01:20:24,760 --> 01:20:30,119
a new context. I mean that's
been happening for forever probably, But there

1045
01:20:30,199 --> 01:20:35,279
was something really interesting about this.
And Austin said earlier that he's not a

1046
01:20:35,359 --> 01:20:41,600
huge science fiction guy, and I'm
not either, but I really really enjoyed

1047
01:20:41,600 --> 01:20:44,960
this one. And this one is
my absolute favorite of these first six.

1048
01:20:45,159 --> 01:20:50,439
I don't know, every single element
of it was just really good, really

1049
01:20:50,439 --> 01:20:56,279
good. The writing, sound design, music. Now I haven't asked him

1050
01:20:56,319 --> 01:20:58,760
about this, but I'm sure that
Micah had a lot of fun with the

1051
01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:05,520
sound design here with a science fiction
world, it's probably a challenge and freeing

1052
01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:10,600
at the same time, because we
don't have any of these things really in

1053
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:15,000
real world in our life. Son, you have that freedom to sort of

1054
01:21:15,039 --> 01:21:18,880
imagine what these things might sound like. But on the other side, you

1055
01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:24,560
do have the challenge of making sure
that it's we can understand it as a

1056
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:28,319
listener who has never experienced these things, so you have to walk that line.

1057
01:21:28,359 --> 01:21:33,439
And I think he nailed it.
These inventions and tools that Duade encounters

1058
01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:39,239
and uses, these teleporters and all
this stuff, robots, it sounds like

1059
01:21:39,399 --> 01:21:44,039
a real world and I can absolutely
picture it in my mind as I'm listening,

1060
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:47,800
and so I really really really enjoyed
this one. We also have John

1061
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:54,840
Fornoff in the role of Duade's father, and he does a fantastic job there

1062
01:21:55,239 --> 01:21:58,840
as well. So just a really
really great one. Again, this is

1063
01:21:58,880 --> 01:22:02,119
my all time favorite of the first
six. I think anybody who listens to

1064
01:22:02,119 --> 01:22:05,159
this one is going to enjoy it, even if you're not a science fiction

1065
01:22:05,279 --> 01:22:12,279
fan. It's just well done,
very very well done. All right,

1066
01:22:12,319 --> 01:22:15,039
So we come to our last audio
drama of this batch, and it is

1067
01:22:15,159 --> 01:22:21,359
called The Dunder Sage Delusion. The
Summer is Zeke's grandpa tells him a story

1068
01:22:21,399 --> 01:22:28,079
about Claude dunder Sage, a man
whose life was filled with jogging plates and

1069
01:22:28,199 --> 01:22:31,079
cleaning chickens. This one sixteen and
a half minutes long, and it was

1070
01:22:31,119 --> 01:22:36,960
also written by Glenn Haskell, with
sound design by Mark mulcahey. This is

1071
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:45,840
a fun one. It's tackling the
idea of how content can influence our minds

1072
01:22:45,840 --> 01:22:48,359
and what we think about and how
we perceive things. Actually, I think

1073
01:22:48,399 --> 01:22:54,680
Austin said it earlier that it's about
in particular in this context, it's about

1074
01:22:54,720 --> 01:23:00,239
song lyrics, and so that is
an interesting way to frame this particular topic

1075
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:05,199
and jogging plates. I'm sure you
can pick up on the reference there to

1076
01:23:05,640 --> 01:23:11,159
some nursery rhymes and things like that. This is another really fun one.

1077
01:23:11,640 --> 01:23:15,880
The grandpa and grandson are played by
John Daynert and Rigby Dayannert. We have

1078
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:21,640
Claude who is played by Glenn Haskell, and so it's framed as a as

1079
01:23:21,640 --> 01:23:27,840
a talk show, and so Claude
is being interviewed by Carly who is played

1080
01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:31,439
by Katie Daanert. Really really fun
performances from all of them. There are

1081
01:23:31,479 --> 01:23:36,960
some very funny lines in this one, and I found myself chuckling along to

1082
01:23:38,439 --> 01:23:43,279
this one on multiple occasions. This
is a shorter one, like I said,

1083
01:23:43,359 --> 01:23:47,760
sixteen and a half minutes, so
it's the second shortest one of this

1084
01:23:47,920 --> 01:23:54,119
batch, but it does pack a
great message. I think it's applicable to

1085
01:23:54,600 --> 01:23:58,319
all of us, even adults.
You know, be careful little ears what

1086
01:23:58,359 --> 01:24:01,039
you hear. You know, that
is a mantra that we all should be

1087
01:24:01,039 --> 01:24:06,479
thinking about. And so it is
of course really applicable to kids, as

1088
01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:12,479
they are sponges and they soak in
everything that comes around them. So being

1089
01:24:12,520 --> 01:24:15,640
careful to guard your mind, your
heart, your eyes, and your ears

1090
01:24:15,880 --> 01:24:21,640
is extremely important, and so every
single one of these six audio dramas is

1091
01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:28,439
tackling that as an overarching theme.
Now, the way that might come out

1092
01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:33,640
is different in each one of these, but overall that's the goal. It's

1093
01:24:33,640 --> 01:24:38,840
to guard your heart and your mind. That's why they're called Heart Matters,

1094
01:24:40,079 --> 01:24:45,800
because we need to guard our hearts, and it's particularly important for younger people.

1095
01:24:46,600 --> 01:24:51,079
And so I love what a Heart
Matters is doing. This is just

1096
01:24:51,239 --> 01:24:56,840
the first of many more to come. I'm hoping that this continues for a

1097
01:24:56,840 --> 01:25:00,439
long time. Now here's something that
I would like to toss out. If

1098
01:25:00,479 --> 01:25:06,199
you have any feedback on these audio
dramas or the app, the way it

1099
01:25:06,319 --> 01:25:12,720
functions, any features and things like
that, how you interact with the contents.

1100
01:25:12,840 --> 01:25:17,079
As Christy mentioned earlier, there are
also music soundtracks for three of these

1101
01:25:17,079 --> 01:25:23,079
productions. You have discussion questions,
you have coloring pages, so all of

1102
01:25:23,079 --> 01:25:26,239
that content is in here. It
relates to these audio dramas. So if

1103
01:25:26,279 --> 01:25:28,680
you have any feedback at all,
of course, you can reach out to

1104
01:25:29,159 --> 01:25:31,720
Heart Matters directly through their website or
something, but if it's easier for you

1105
01:25:31,760 --> 01:25:38,640
to just hit me up via all
of our methods to contact us. I've

1106
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:43,000
told Christy that I can pass on
that information to her, so they are

1107
01:25:43,039 --> 01:25:47,439
open to hearing how these have these
stories have impacted you, how your interaction

1108
01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:51,520
through the app with this content is
going, So be sure to let them

1109
01:25:51,560 --> 01:25:55,720
know or let me know and I'll
pass it on. But overall, again,

1110
01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:59,079
really enjoyed these six audio dramas,
looking forward to more to come.

1111
01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:01,159
Love it heart Matters is doing,
so be sure to check out the links

1112
01:26:01,199 --> 01:26:04,279
in the show notes to go and
listen to these. You can stream them

1113
01:26:04,319 --> 01:26:09,359
all for free right now, so
what do you think of the show?

1114
01:26:14,079 --> 01:26:16,880
Please leave your message after the shown. Hi. Audi Theater Central. Hey

1115
01:26:16,920 --> 01:26:21,560
guys, this is awesome. Hello
j D Royan, Andrew Minum Victoria.

1116
01:26:21,840 --> 01:26:25,960
Now, yesterday I received a letter
from a big fan. No time to

1117
01:26:26,039 --> 01:26:29,720
Josh, I've got an email list
another package for me today. No,

1118
01:26:29,840 --> 01:26:35,319
it's actually just your mail. Well, speaking of feedback, if you would

1119
01:26:35,359 --> 01:26:41,880
like to feedback here regarding ATC,
you can send in your emails to feedback

1120
01:26:41,880 --> 01:26:45,640
at Audio Theatercentral dot com. Of
course, you can always comment on the

1121
01:26:45,640 --> 01:26:48,399
show notes, or send a text
message or give us a call to six

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01:26:48,520 --> 01:26:55,720
two three six eight eight two seven
seven zero. Well. The first up

1123
01:26:55,920 --> 01:27:00,159
is a comment on Spotify regarding the
last episodepisode one ninety five, where I

1124
01:27:00,199 --> 01:27:03,800
talked about what's coming in the year
of twenty twenty four. It is from

1125
01:27:03,840 --> 01:27:08,359
Bethany Baldwin, who we've already talked
about a couple of times here in this

1126
01:27:08,399 --> 01:27:12,079
episode. But she said, great
episode, enjoy the detail you go into.

1127
01:27:12,399 --> 01:27:15,479
So much great stuff coming out this
year and beyond let's go Audio drama

1128
01:27:15,479 --> 01:27:20,119
Renaissance. Yes, I'm in total
agreement Bethany on both points. Lots of

1129
01:27:20,119 --> 01:27:26,680
great stuff coming this year and this
renaissance, you know what there, it's

1130
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:30,399
sort of like a second wave in
my opinion, because we had this huge

1131
01:27:30,640 --> 01:27:36,640
resurgence in interest when podcasting sort of
started to blow up a few years back,

1132
01:27:38,199 --> 01:27:41,920
and so a lot of creators jumped
into podcasting to distribute audio drama,

1133
01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:47,000
and so that sort of started bringing
it back around in the consciousness, especially

1134
01:27:47,079 --> 01:27:54,399
here in the US and now in
the family friendly space. Just in the

1135
01:27:54,439 --> 01:28:00,520
last couple of years, there's just
been a huge uptick in content, and

1136
01:28:00,720 --> 01:28:02,600
ah, I think it's like a
second wave of this renaissance, if you

1137
01:28:02,600 --> 01:28:06,000
want to call it that, And
I am loving it. Oh my goodness,

1138
01:28:06,039 --> 01:28:11,239
I'm so glad to see this happening. Such great stuff coming and it's

1139
01:28:11,319 --> 01:28:14,760
clean and you could listen with your
whole family, and I'm so, so

1140
01:28:14,760 --> 01:28:19,039
so happy about this. Side note, that is the main reason why I

1141
01:28:19,039 --> 01:28:25,920
implemented that that new submission process these
days, because I just cannot keep up

1142
01:28:26,239 --> 01:28:30,479
with everything that's happening anymore. And
so yeah, it's just really really great.

1143
01:28:30,479 --> 01:28:34,199
That's a downside to it, but
I'm totally willing to put up with

1144
01:28:34,239 --> 01:28:39,720
that if that means we're going to
get some more great stuff. Well,

1145
01:28:39,760 --> 01:28:42,600
the next piece of feedback is an
email from Michael C and he said,

1146
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:45,479
I really appreciated your Sonicon coverage.
It made me wish I would have gone.

1147
01:28:45,920 --> 01:28:48,920
The next best thing to be there. Well, thank you, Michael.

1148
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:53,079
That was the goal. That really
was the goal. And you know,

1149
01:28:53,159 --> 01:28:57,000
I know that a lot of people
can't go and that I totally understand

1150
01:28:57,000 --> 01:29:00,199
that. I get that, and
so I also want to sort of bringing

1151
01:29:00,239 --> 01:29:03,920
the conference to you in give you
all the main takeaways, and coming up

1152
01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:11,520
very very soon, there will be
another episode totally dedicated to the top takeaways

1153
01:29:11,600 --> 01:29:15,920
with clips from some of the sessions
and interviews with people at the event.

1154
01:29:15,000 --> 01:29:19,840
So that's still to come. So
more Soniccon coverage is coming, So that's

1155
01:29:19,880 --> 01:29:24,479
something you can look forward to here
on ATC. But Michael also continued,

1156
01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:27,720
he said, I emailed Lamplighter Theater
asking if I could buy the book INDs

1157
01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:30,560
of the Finian Jones arc in a
set separately, and he was told that

1158
01:29:30,640 --> 01:29:35,039
no, you cannot do that currently, but that they do have the show

1159
01:29:35,119 --> 01:29:42,319
about Finian Jones exclusively in the works. And so he heard from Mary at

1160
01:29:42,399 --> 01:29:45,439
Lamplighter who said we are actually working
on that. Watch emails for a future

1161
01:29:45,479 --> 01:29:48,720
release. I do not have a
date for you, sorry. So I

1162
01:29:48,800 --> 01:29:53,800
reached out to my contact, Sarah
at Lamplighter and asked if she had any

1163
01:29:53,800 --> 01:29:57,199
more specifics on this. So here
you go, Michael, this is an

1164
01:29:57,239 --> 01:30:02,720
update directly from them. It's tentative
titled The Finnian Jones Chronicles, and it

1165
01:30:02,800 --> 01:30:06,239
is in the works because I know
that, you know, they've been talking

1166
01:30:06,279 --> 01:30:11,159
about it for years and I wasn't
sure if it was ever going to come

1167
01:30:11,199 --> 01:30:14,600
to fruition, but it is.
It is in the works, Sarah says,

1168
01:30:14,640 --> 01:30:15,760
and she said, I don't have
much detail that I could share at

1169
01:30:15,800 --> 01:30:18,920
this point, but we are hoping
to record it this year if all goes

1170
01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:24,079
well, and she reiterates it.
As of now, that's just the working

1171
01:30:24,119 --> 01:30:29,319
title and it is subject to change. But the Finian Jones Chronicles are coming,

1172
01:30:29,880 --> 01:30:33,039
and I'm really excited about this.
So lots of cool stuff coming.

1173
01:30:33,479 --> 01:30:36,119
So hopefully that will help you out
there, Michael. Yeah, something to

1174
01:30:36,159 --> 01:30:42,319
look forward to here hopefully later this
year. Next week got an email from

1175
01:30:42,479 --> 01:30:45,199
Jeremy and he said, I really
enjoyed your last podcast about the new audio

1176
01:30:45,279 --> 01:30:49,000
drama for twenty twenty four. I
would like to give you my top three

1177
01:30:49,079 --> 01:30:53,760
audio theater things I'm looking forward to
this coming year. Number three, I'm

1178
01:30:53,760 --> 01:30:57,239
looking forward to what Glenn Haskell is
putting out in twenty four. His production

1179
01:30:57,359 --> 01:31:00,479
sound really interesting to me, and
he seemed like a great person interview.

1180
01:31:00,319 --> 01:31:04,720
Yes, they do sound interesting,
and yes he is. Number two,

1181
01:31:04,760 --> 01:31:09,159
he says, I am really excited
for that mystery show you were talking about.

1182
01:31:09,399 --> 01:31:12,840
I really enjoy good mysteries. They
are some of my favorite series to

1183
01:31:12,920 --> 01:31:16,800
read. Now, he didn't specify, but I think he's talking about the

1184
01:31:16,840 --> 01:31:24,680
show from New Birth Audio, and
that is the Bayou Noir series, So

1185
01:31:24,760 --> 01:31:27,319
I think that's what he's referring to. And yes, I'm really looking forward

1186
01:31:27,319 --> 01:31:30,840
to that one as well, he
continues. Number One, Pause and Tales.

1187
01:31:31,319 --> 01:31:33,960
I really like this show, and
I have ever since two thousand and

1188
01:31:33,960 --> 01:31:38,039
four or two thousand and five when
it first aired. It's so hard to

1189
01:31:38,079 --> 01:31:41,279
wait until March. Now, Pause
and Tales is probably going to be my

1190
01:31:41,279 --> 01:31:44,640
favorite audio drama of twenty twenty four. Well, i'll see if I'm right.

1191
01:31:45,119 --> 01:31:48,039
Then, he continues, I also
had a quick question about Jungle JAYM

1192
01:31:48,079 --> 01:31:51,600
and Friends. I used to really
enjoy the shows from Nathan and Phil and

1193
01:31:51,640 --> 01:31:56,239
I really enjoy the songs from the
show. I remember hearing somewhere, though

1194
01:31:56,279 --> 01:31:59,239
I can't remember where, that there
was a CD with all of the songs

1195
01:31:59,279 --> 01:32:01,760
from the show is called Bert the
Moose sing Along. Would you happen to

1196
01:32:01,760 --> 01:32:06,439
know where I can purchase this?
And again this is from Jeremy Now.

1197
01:32:08,079 --> 01:32:11,800
I had never heard of this product, and so I did some digging around,

1198
01:32:12,199 --> 01:32:15,600
looked all over, could not find
anything about it. So I reached

1199
01:32:15,600 --> 01:32:19,920
out to Jeff Parker over there at
Fancy Monkey, the people behind Jungle Jam,

1200
01:32:20,359 --> 01:32:25,239
and unfortunately, he said, there
has never been such a product.

1201
01:32:25,479 --> 01:32:28,159
I would love it if we could
even just release the sing along with Bert

1202
01:32:28,159 --> 01:32:30,239
the Moose segments as downloads. We
had a ton of fun making them,

1203
01:32:30,239 --> 01:32:35,079
and people seem to enjoy them,
but they are based around albums we don't

1204
01:32:35,159 --> 01:32:41,439
own. The entire genius of that
segment was to help our label Everland to

1205
01:32:41,479 --> 01:32:45,600
get exposure for some of their other
projects. So unfortunately, there is no

1206
01:32:45,800 --> 01:32:51,640
Bert the Moose sing Along CD album, and there is also no way to

1207
01:32:51,640 --> 01:32:58,159
get those segments as downloads on their
own either. However, there is a

1208
01:32:58,279 --> 01:33:01,800
download for I think it's like an
nine minute or maybe ten minutes somewhere around

1209
01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:05,399
ten minutes called the Bear sing Along
or something like that, and so it's

1210
01:33:05,439 --> 01:33:12,600
gruffy, and so that is one
option. It's not what you were looking

1211
01:33:12,600 --> 01:33:16,359
for, Jeremy, unfortunately, but
I think at this point it's probably the

1212
01:33:16,399 --> 01:33:20,039
best we're going to get. But
thanks for reaching out, and thank you

1213
01:33:20,119 --> 01:33:27,159
to Jeff for sending me that information
as well. And our last bit of

1214
01:33:27,159 --> 01:33:30,720
feedback here is an email from Blake
and he said, I posted a page

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at ideas Wiki where I decided to
challenge myself to cast a modern adaptation of

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a Christmas Carol the same way Philip
Glasborough did. What I did was listen

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to a whole bunch of productions that
he directed and try to fit roles with

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actors that I knew to still be
alive and active. And it took me

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over three months to come up with
one, but I did. It got

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me thinking why not have ATC fans
engage in a fun way to cast a

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classic British story the way Philip Glassborough
would listen to productions he worked on,

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as well as other stuff from the
UK and try to imagine how their audition

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would go. It may not be
one hundred percent the same as casting an

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audio drama in real life. But
it gives people a fun challenge and it's

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a way to engage and maybe inspire
people. If nothing else, it also

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inspires me for an irl audio drama
I wish to eventually do on the Ukraine

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or the story of Ann Frank.
That is interesting. That is interesting.

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I would love to hear an audio
drama on the story of Anne Frank.

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Phenomenal book. Of course, I've
read the Diary of a young Girl and

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some of the other writings about her. Just an amazing person and their whole

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family, and so yeah, I
would love to hear an audio drama regarding

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that. And Blake did send the
link to his proposed new casting of a

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Christmas Carol and he made some really
interesting choices for characters. I think it

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would be very fun. So that
is linked in the show notes. And

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if you want to take up his
challenge and try to come up with a

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cast for or some other story,
that would be fun, and let us

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know if you do, and I'll
take a look at it. And I

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think that would be a lot of
fun. So again, links to that

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are in the show notes if you
want to check that out. And again

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thank you to Blake and Jeremy and
Michael and Bethany for the feedback. Really

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really love it when I get to
hear from you guys and get to respond

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back to your thoughts on something that
we've covered here on the show. We

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also had some really great feedback in
the show notes of last episode. Christopher

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Green and Caleb Bresler as well chimed
in about the things that are coming up

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this year, So I really appreciate
that Caleb and Christopher and of course Christopher

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also chimed in about the discussion regarding
the definition of family friendly audio drama and

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had some really really great thoughts to
share. And so one thing in particular

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that he said is that this illustrates
a larger concept. Is the goal safe

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content? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. A faithful adaptation of the Gospels would

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require depictions of a brutal form of
execution That doesn't fit into my definition of

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family friendly, but I don't think
that it means it shouldn't be made or

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listened to. He had a lot
more to say regarding that, some really

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really great thoughts on that. So
if you want to chime in regarding that

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discussion, please head over there and
do that on the show notes on episode

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one ninety five. But again,
thank you to everybody who sent in feedback

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in some form. Really really appreciate
it and I love interacting with you.

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Well, that's going to do it
for this episode. Man, it was

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a lot of stuff. I hope
you enjoyed it. Thank you again to

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Christy Jardo and Austin Peachee for coming
on the show to talk about heart matters

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and everything that they've got going on. The song at the top of the

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review segment is called Prodigal by Josh
Bates from the two thousand and five album

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titled Perfect Day. If you'd like
to hear more from us, you can

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going on whenever we have some news
to share with you in between episodes,

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and of course, you can get
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dot com slash contact and the show
notes for this episode are at audio Theatercentral

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dot com slash one ninety six.
Head over there, give us your feedback

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and check out the links to everything
we talked about. Thank you so much

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for listening. I'll see you next
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