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Speaker 1: And now Audio Theater Central.

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Speaker 2: Hello, welcome to Audio Theater Central. This is the show

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

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I'm your host, J D. Sutter, and this is episode

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two zero six. Well, I've got a couple of reviews

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coming up. First, we're going to talk about the Darkness

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Duology from Heart Matters and then the Jungle Book from

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Root and Twig Sounds. I've got some feedback from Michael

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and Blake, and before we get into that, we've got

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a bunch of audio drama updates to get to. Lots

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of cool stuff coming up in this space to talk about.

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But first I just want to say thank you to

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everybody who came out to the World Audio Drama Day hangout.

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It was a really great time just talking about audio

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drama and it was really enjoyable. Now I do have

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to apologize because the link that I sent out in

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the newsletter, for some reason, it got broken in the

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newsletter software. I copied it directly from Riverside, pasted it

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in and didn't change anything, but somehow the link got broken,

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and I don't know how many of you tried to

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click it and join and were not able to. Some

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people were able to figure out the link was missing,

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like a slash or the colon after the HTTPS or

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something like that. Somehow something got truncated there and so

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it wasn't working properly. That was a bummer. But for

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everybody that did show up, we had a great time.

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one point, so yeah, it was great time and we

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will probably be doing some more of those at some

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point in the future. All right, well, let's jump into

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the updates.

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Speaker 3: Water up the program to bring you a special report.

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Speaker 4: And in other news tonight.

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Speaker 5: A brief look at the headlines.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 7: They want exciting, fast piece news that's relevant and entertaining

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updates regarding a show that you're involved with or one

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to let us know about, head over to PFM dot

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link slash atc News and send us the information. Now,

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that form to get your information over to us. Well,

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this time around, it looks like we only got one

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recent release to talk about and then the rest of

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these are going to be upcoming projects. So first from

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Eternal Future Productions their second episode of the Chester and

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Ralphie short audio drama series. These are so so fun.

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This one is called Forest Fires and it is out

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now available for purchase, and it's only two bucks and

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it's a little bit longer than the first one, so

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it's just fun, fun stuff. Head over to Eternal Future

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Productions dot com and you can get your copy. Here's

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the synopsis. Ralphie learns a valuable lesson in listening when

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his frustration ignites a rather heated issue. This was written

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and directed by Jonathan Cook with sound designed by Alicia Hanson,

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and as in the previous one, Jonathan Cook plays Ralphie

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and Chester and Alicia plays the young Bunny. So it's

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about eight minutes long. Another fun installment in this, I

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don't know, it's almost like an audio cartoon just with

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the fun animal characters. So a lot of fun. So

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that is out now now coming up also from Eternal

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Future Productions. Episode two of Venture is in the post

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production stage. Jonathan Cook was working on voicetrack editing and

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now it's off to the sound designer Lee Stang, so

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that should be coming soon if you missed it. Episode

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you can check that out at the link in the

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show notes. By the way, it's also available on Dramafi

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and their YouTube channel, but if you want to purchase it,

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you'll have to go to their store. Now more news

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from Eternal Future Productions, and that is on Robin Hood

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Rising to Honor, which is their co production with LRT Media.

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stores and you can get digital or CD copies of

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Speaker 2: This next item is something that I'm quite excited about,

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and that is BBC Radio is doing an audio version

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of C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy now I know this

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he would like to do these in audio drama, because,

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of course he did the Chronicles of Narnia and C. S.

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Lewis at War and the Screw Tape Letters. He was

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the Chronicles of Narnia. The books are Out of the

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Silent Planet, Perilandra, and that Hideous Strength. Now, personally I

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three books. But BBC Radio is doing audio versions. Now,

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this is going to be interesting. It's coming out in

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March of twenty twenty five. But the listing I found

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for this project on Audible says, featuring a reluctant hero's

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extraordinary journey through the Cosmos. C. S. Lewis's classic trilogy

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contains all the magic, invention, humor, and big ideas of

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his Narnia novels thrilling, mystical, and evocative. It mixes theology

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struggle between good and evil. This audio collection includes Alex

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Jennings's unabridged readings of Out of the Silent Planet and Perilandra,

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and a stunning full cast adaptation of That Hideous Strength.

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all three of these. Now, I don't know exactly why

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and the last one in the series especially, but I'll

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take it. I'll take it. And you know, it's interesting

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because a listener not long ago emailed in about a

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project that her and some friends had done to adapt

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a section of one of these books. I think it

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all three of them, but I have high hopes about

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this project. So again, the fact that they're doing the

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last one is kind of odd, but I'll take it.

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you're not, I would say go read them first and

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of twenty twenty five. So link is in the show

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notes if you want to pre order this, but in

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any case, it's definitely what I'm looking forward to.

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Speaker 2: Next up is faith Filled Stories. This is the show

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from Austin Peache and the trailer for the next episode.

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The upcoming episode called an Extraordinary Lunch, has been released

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and sound design is close to completion. Early versions of

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the music cues have been received and the production is

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on track to be completed and released by the end

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of this year twenty twenty four. So let's go ahead

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and give a listen to the trailer for faith Filled

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Stories and Extraordinary Lunch. I heard that teacher everyone who's

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been talking about is outside best saying we certainly can't

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give them all something to eat. There's got to be

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at least five thousand men here. That boy over there

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offered his lunch to Jesus at least we have some

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food for Jesus to eat. There is enough for everyone.

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Speaker 7: You only brought a small lunch for two.

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Speaker 2: There's more than enough. Faith filled stories presents on extraordinary lunch.

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for you here on the main show. But I recognized

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a few voices there. Of course, Dwane Reffenberg as our

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announcer for that show. Always great to hear his voice.

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Christianna Thomas, Caleb Bresler, I think, And I'm not one sure,

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that one line there, but yeah, that sounds great. Obviously.

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Link is in the show notes. If you want to

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to the previous episodes. Well, I mentioned Caleb Bresler a

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called He Vanished Below. He said, this is a mystery

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thriller audio drama with creepy elements that is being produced

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by Caleb Bresler and Craig Hart. This is intended for

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an older audience than many shows in the family friendly

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space such as Adventures in Odyssey, and is more along

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the lines of the Father Gilbert series in terms of

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the target audience. The initial script has been completed. Currently

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we do not have a timeframe for release, but we

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should be moving into casting relatively soon. So this sounds

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really really interesting. The artwork looks really cool and it

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definitely has a creepy vibe to it. And link is

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when the episode is out. No word at this point

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on distribution methods yet, but in any case, as I've

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said before, I like seeing people do new things, and

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content it's aimed at an older audience is always welcome

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in my opinion, because there is plenty of stuff out

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Jake Muller Adventures, which is definitely in that category. So

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to hear more about this show. He vanished below, and

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we go from a thriller mystery show to an adaptation

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of classic literature. And this one is from Dramafi, a

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brand new Drama PHI original, an adaptation of and Prejudice. Now,

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Drama PI and she told me a little bit of

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the behind the scenes of this production. It's sounding really,

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really cool. I'm really excited to hear this on myself.

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part adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Dramafi partnered

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with a UK theater company, Little Pixie Productions, so all

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of the actors for these British characters are British actors

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and it was written by Melissa Leilani Larson and directed

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by Elizabeth Hanson. Elizabeth said that The show has a

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stellar cast, including Shannie Wallace or Shaney Wallace, I apologize,

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she was the star of the movie Oliver. So this

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on the Air did one handful of years ago, but

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that was a highly, highly truncated, condensed, abridged version of

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that story. There's a lot more to this that they

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for with their adaptation, and it's a great one, don't

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to on Drama Phi. Next up is from in Victim

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of this show, The Invicted Collective. So what is the

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here's a little teaser. What if the Tale of Gilgamesh

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wasn't just simple fantasy? What if it was a story

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carefully constructed to hide an ancient truth that the world

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was never meant to discover. Our story, taking place in

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the nineteen thirties, will follow Arthur Mohammad, Lola Bashir, and

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a wide range of colorful characters as they seek to

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unearth the shocking truth behind this ancient Mesopotamian mystery, all

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while facing down a violent foe who seems to want

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to stop their mission no matter the cost. Think Indiana

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Jones meets the Strange Brigade, and you'll be close to

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the pulp action style we're going for. For the twenty

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five minutes a week that you put your headphones on

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and join us story, you'll be immersed in an audio

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drama adventure that will blow your mind and take you

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to places you've only dreamed of. So obviously that sounds

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pretty epic now, I think it was. In the last episode,

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we talked about the Marona Grant Show, which is also

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a production of in Victim Digital, and they're also going

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to be kickstarting that. So they're using this model of

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producing a pilot, an initial episode of a project, putting

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it out there for free to give people a taste

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of what they are capable of producing, and you can

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make the decision based on that free episode whether or

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not you want to back the project. So I think

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this is a great way to, you know, kind of

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test the market and see what people are interested in.

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Now I know that this show sounds very interesting to me,

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so I'm on board and I will be backing this project. Now,

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I'm not telling you that you must or anything like that,

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but I think you should go check it out. At

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the very least, go listen into the episode, which is

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linked up in the show notes, and see if that

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sounds like something you're interested in. And then there's also

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a link to the kickstarter project so you can go

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back that. Now, this is an interesting thing too. If

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they make their goal on this project, they have some

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stretch goals with this Kickstarter that will then end up

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funding the Marona Grant, so they may not even have

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to do another campaign for that show. So I really

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hope this is successful. And if this sounds like something

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you would be interested in, please go check it out

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and back it with your dollars. And our last item

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is another upcoming audio drama, and that is a brand

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new ish show from yours truly. So in January of

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this year, I produced a micro audio drama called Another

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Year Older, Another Year Wiser, and I got some really

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great feedback on that problem and several people were asking

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me what happens next with these characters, And it was

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never my intention to turn it into a series, but

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after hearing that from several different people on multiple occasions,

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I decided to go ahead and give that a try.

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So there is a link in the show notes to

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a post on my website which explains more of the

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behind the scenes of how I'm developing this show. But

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that initial episode is now going to be the first

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of a series called One Day in Aspen Creek, and

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episode two is already in the works. It is called

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Another Day, Another Dollar, and is going to be featuring

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the one and only Phil Lawler, co creator of Adventures

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and Odyssey I am super, super excited about that. And

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Phil did an amazing job with his role in this,

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and I'm excited to get this one out to you.

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The goal is to have it out by the end

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of November. Don't know if that's actually going to happen.

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Life has been a little crazy for me lately and

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things have been slowing me down. But that is the

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goal to get it out by the end of November.

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If not, it will definitely be out by the end

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of this year. And again, this will be part of

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this new series one day in Aspen Creek, as I

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said a moment ago. If you want more information on

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the development of this new series, links in the show notes.

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Go check that out, and you can go ahead and

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put in your email address to sign up to my

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email notification list, so you'll know about the new episode

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the moment it comes out, and it will be available

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to stream on my website for free. All right, well,

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let's move into the reviews.

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Speaker 7: What do you think of our little plan?

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Speaker 4: Your characters were weak, your dialogue was cliched, and you

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didn't have much of a story.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful everyone, We have a delightful show.

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Speaker 2: It's the Michael A true genius to use symbolism in

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that way.

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Speaker 7: You may even get a standing of.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've got two reviews for you in this episode,

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and we're going to start off with one that is

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a little bit more on the serious side, and then

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we'll move into one that is a little bit lighter.

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But first we're going to talk about the Darkness duology

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from Heart Matters. Now, this is a really really interesting

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audio drama concept. Now, I think there have been others

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who have done something similar, where you explore multiple outcomes

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of a story, such as things in Odyssey. I can't

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remember the episode titles off the top of my head,

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but you know where a character will explore possible outcomes

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through one of WIT's envisions or something like that. But

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this one is a very different approach to that sort

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of idea, and that is where you take the same

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story or the same circumstances that lead up to a story,

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and then you explore both outcomes in different episodes. So

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I'm probably not explaining this very well, but I'll try to.

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I'll try to explain it a little bit better as

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we get into it. If you have not heard this

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audio drama yet, But before I go any further, I

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just want to say at the outset, this one is

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not one for kids. This is not for the little ones.

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And that is not because it is bad content in

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any way, but it is dealing with some very dark

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and serious topics that are not for little ears. But

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it is a message because we know that the audio

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dramas that Heart Matters produces they do have a message

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to them, and there is a purpose there is. I

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know this term has a negative connotation most of the time,

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but there is an agenda here, and I don't think

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that's a bad thing in this case. But these topics

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that are touched on are very very important for teens

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and young adults in this era that we're living in,

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and so I'm glad that somebody is addressing these sorts

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of topics. But it's dark. It's not fun necessarily to

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listen to, though I think it is handled in a

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great way. I just wanted to make it clear from

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the beginning that parents, this is one for you to

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listen to and then maybe listen to with your older

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teens if you think that it is applicable for them,

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but not for the little ones. Okay, So the darkness

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duology is just that it's a two part audio drama,

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and each one explores a different story outcome. So story

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outcome one is darkness consumed and story outcome two is

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Darkness exposed. Now, even though they are exploring two different

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outcomes from the same route or starting place, they do

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not like retread a bunch of ground, which is one

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thing that I was a little bit concerned about as

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I was going in when I heard about the concept

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of this audio drama. I was worried that, you know,

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you would listen to part one and it's not even

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accurate to call them part one in part two because

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they are not concurrent, right, They're two different stories here,

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but they both stem from the same event. But I

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was concerned that I would listen to one of them

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and then you know, you get to the end, and

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then you go to the second one, and you're going

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to retread a bunch of content before you get to

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where the where the paths diverge, so to speak. But

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that is not how it is handled. And I should

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say at this point that it was written by Darby Kern.

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And we know Darby is an excellent writer. He's skilled

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at writing audio drama scripts. We know that from his

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work on Lamplider Theater and The Extraordinary Adventures of G. A. Hinty,

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and of course his own shows Jake Muller Adventures and others.

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So I guess I should not have worried too much

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about that. But it was done in a really, really

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nice way. I thought the way that the story plays

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out between the two different variations was done very well.

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That said, when you go to listen to these, if

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you haven't already, you will want to start with story

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outcome number one, which is called Darkness Consumed. Now, between

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these two episodes, the runtime is nearly an hour, so

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just over fifty five minutes total, and these were released

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in September of this year, twenty twenty four. As I mentioned,

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both parts were written by Darby Kern, and these were

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produced and directed by Austin Peachy with the executive producer

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Christy Jardo, and music by Jared Depesqual and sound design

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by Ezra Losa. Now, again, this was a unique approach

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to telling a story with alternate endings, and I think

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they did it very well. It was brilliantly written, and

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I do have to say it is extremely sad everything

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that is touched on in this in this two part dramatization.

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It's heavy stuff. It's heavy stuff. I mean, it's not

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dissimilar from some of the topics that are covered in

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River Cross productions that we've talked about in the past.

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It's tough subject matter, but the things that kids are

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exposed to these days online and from their peers in school,

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even it necessitates a frank approach to these topics, I believe.

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And so these these touch on things such as sus

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side and extortion and blackmail and kids sending not great

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photos via instant messaging. So I'm trying to be careful

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how I phrase think, because I know that there are

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younger people who listen to this podcast, but I think

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you get the gist of what I'm talking about here,

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and again, these are topics that parents need to address

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with their children. And also keep in mind that Hard

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Matters is not just making audio dramas for churched people, right,

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They are also coming at these topics in a way

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that makes it approachable for unchurched people. And so I

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think the way that they handled it is really really

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well done in these audio dramas.

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Speaker 7: Here.

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Speaker 2: Now let's talk a little bit about the cast here. Now,

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Andy Harvey is sort of like the main character. He's

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the common thread that runs through both of these parts.

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Even though the story is about a teen boy. Andy

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Harvey plays this sheriff in this story and he is

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really really good. And the teen boy I mentioned is

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Branson Keeley and he's played by Devin Lewis, and his parents,

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Roger and Beth, are played by Jonathan Cook and Alicia Hanson.

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And so those are sort of our four main characters.

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There are a lot of other supporting characters in this.

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In fact, I think, if I'm not mistaken, I believe

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this is probably one of the largest casts in a

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Heart Matters production, at least ones that have been released

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to date. There was quite a large cast, and there's

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a lot of supporting characters. And I've noticed that's something

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that I think is one of the things that Darby

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does really well is incorporating because in real life a

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little bit of a tangent here. As you're just going

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through life, you know, you're running into people constantly. You're

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interacting with the cashier at the grocery store, or the

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teller at the bank, or even just walking down the street.

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You might say hello to somebody that's walking past you,

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So you're interacting with a lot of different people. Now

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when you're writing an audio drama script. A lot of times,

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at least I try to do this as a writer,

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try to find a balance between super authentic and realistic

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and a manageable cast. Right, So you know, every single

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character you write, you have to find an actor for

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that character, whether they're that cashier at the grocery store

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who says two lines or not, You've got to find

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somebody to voice that character. So I've noticed that Darby

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writes a lot of characters in his stories. Like I

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don't want to give any spoilers, but in Jake Muller

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Adventure's Blood, there are a ton of just characters here

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and there that are you know what we call in

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the industry bit parts. They're a line or two here,

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but they help with the realism of the story and

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they help move the plot forward with a brief interaction

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with this main character. And so again a little bit

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of a tangent, but I picked up on that in

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this story. There's a lot of little pieces here, and

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it helps make this story feel very real, genuine and authentic.

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So all of these other characters, you know, we have

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Brandon's peers at school and school staff, and a couple

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of fishermen in one scene and things like that. So

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there's a lot of these characters, and there's a lot

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of familiar names in the cat here that I think

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you will probably be familiar with, such as Heidi Stewart

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and Bethany Baldwin and Rose Beasley, and some well known

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names like Amy Lilly and John Thornoff and Glenn Haskell.

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So great, great cast. Everybody did really really well with

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their parts. And so just to give you a little taste,

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because I don't want to go into too much detail,

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because I really don't want to spoil anything, because I

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think this is a show that you need to really

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00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:38,079
just experience for yourself. And so let's go into the

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00:29:38,119 --> 00:29:41,279
summary of part one, Darkness Consumed.

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Speaker 5: I want to look at you, boy. I can see

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00:29:49,559 --> 00:30:00,000
the lies, I can see the love and the sum

486
00:30:00,279 --> 00:30:08,400
bright fields of joy, dark nights away in a story bed.

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Speaker 3: I want to go with you, but I can't follow.

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Speaker 4: So keep too, you.

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Speaker 6: Keep to the road, and you'll find joy.

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00:30:27,599 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 2: The town of Roosevelt is in shock after the unexpected

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death of local high schooler Brandon Keighley. Sheriff Madson goes

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on an investigation to find out what really happened to him.

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00:30:37,799 --> 00:30:41,000
What he discovers will reveal some tragic secrets that will

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affect the lives of the Kighleis and everyone around them.

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Now that is the summary for Darkness Consumed, which is

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story outcome number one. Now story outcome number two, Darkness Exposed.

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The summary is as follows. Brandon Keeley is the hometown

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00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,839
hero after an incredible football game. However, his world starts

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00:31:02,839 --> 00:31:05,039
to crumble around him when he makes a mistake that

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00:31:05,119 --> 00:31:10,000
may affect his entire life. And a little bit of

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00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,359
a side note here, but I love that Heart Matters

502
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,720
has scripture versus for both of those parts that tie

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00:31:17,799 --> 00:31:23,759
into the things covered. And again some dark, heavy material here,

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00:31:24,319 --> 00:31:29,400
but so well done. The content and the topics and

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00:31:29,519 --> 00:31:33,400
themes covered are presented in such a good way that

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00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:38,039
I think even though it is it is point blank

507
00:31:38,279 --> 00:31:41,839
like what is being talked about, it's done in a

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00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,720
palatable way, and I think they did a very good job.

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00:31:44,759 --> 00:31:48,559
The sound design is quite good. Kudos to Ezra Loosa.

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00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,599
He did a really good job with the sound design.

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00:31:51,079 --> 00:31:57,279
The music is super solid, like it feels really really nice.

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00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,400
If a bit minimal. It's not always at the front,

513
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because with a story like this, you want the message

514
00:32:06,119 --> 00:32:09,000
to be at the forefront. And I don't mean that

515
00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:11,720
in a bad way. I mean want you don't want

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00:32:11,759 --> 00:32:15,759
anything to get in the way of the story here,

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00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,559
and the music does not do that. I have heard

518
00:32:18,559 --> 00:32:21,440
some audio dramas where that is case, not anything that

519
00:32:21,559 --> 00:32:24,160
Jared has composed, because he's a master at this, but

520
00:32:24,839 --> 00:32:28,359
it is a bit minimal. It's not like a very

521
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:32,559
elaborate orchestral kind of thing. In fact, there is some

522
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:38,559
bonus content and interview with Jared talking about the process

523
00:32:38,759 --> 00:32:42,799
of scoring this audio drama. It is really really interesting

524
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,680
and I think it's definitely worth a listen. It's only

525
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,839
about thirteen minutes. And speaking of bonus content, there's also

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00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,720
not just the scripture references that you can read to

527
00:32:54,759 --> 00:32:57,759
help talk about some of these topics with your family,

528
00:32:58,079 --> 00:33:02,240
but there's also discussion guides and those are very very

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00:33:02,279 --> 00:33:07,000
helpful as well. And in addition to the interview with

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the composer, there's also another dozen minutes or so of

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00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,839
testimonials from cast and crew members which just talk about

532
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,839
the impact of the story and so all of that

533
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,279
bonus content is super cool. You know me, I'm a nerd.

534
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:26,319
I love the behind the scenes information about a production,

535
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,400
and so that kind of stuff is always going to

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00:33:29,839 --> 00:33:32,200
be high on my list. So as soon as I

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00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,960
finished listening to these I went and consumed all of

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the bonus content as well, and it's fantastic. But I'm

539
00:33:39,559 --> 00:33:43,039
not going to give specifics here, but technology and the

540
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,759
Internet in particular is a big part of what happens

541
00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:51,640
in these stories, and so Jared used some tech elements

542
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,599
and I'm not going to give specifics here to help

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00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,480
inform his score and the way he wrote the music

544
00:33:57,519 --> 00:34:00,839
for this production, and he goes into all of the

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00:34:00,839 --> 00:34:05,039
specifics of that in that bonus interview, and I found

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00:34:05,079 --> 00:34:08,079
it absolutely fascinating. If you've listened to the show for

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00:34:08,119 --> 00:34:09,599
any length of time, you know Jared is one of

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00:34:09,639 --> 00:34:13,000
my favorite composers, and so just hearing him talk a

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00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,679
little bit about his process on this show in particular

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00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,719
was really really cool. But there isn't a whole lot

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00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,400
more that I can say because I don't want to

552
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,039
give away too much, so this is going to be

553
00:34:25,119 --> 00:34:30,159
a shorter review. But I think for adults, especially parents

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00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,760
and grandparents even I think this is something that you

555
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,039
should go listen to find out exactly what is going

556
00:34:38,079 --> 00:34:44,719
on in the world of proliferation of mobile devices for

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00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:49,079
kids these days, and using this audio drama as a

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00:34:49,079 --> 00:34:52,400
way to inform yourself about what is going on. I

559
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,239
know that Darby Kerr did a lot of research into

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00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,119
this as he was writing this, and even though it's

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00:34:59,119 --> 00:35:02,800
covering some dark it's needed. I think it is needed

562
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,239
today and I think this would be a good way

563
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:11,599
to open up some conversations with your teen children about

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00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,840
some of the dangers that are out there. And I

565
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,320
appreciate what Heart Matters is doing in this space of

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00:35:19,519 --> 00:35:23,400
trying to tackle these sort of unsavory topics that nobody

567
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:27,280
really wants to talk about but are important to cover

568
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,880
in this world that we're living in. So I think

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00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,039
they did a fantastic job with it. It's not an

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00:35:33,039 --> 00:35:34,719
audio drama that you're gonna want to listen to over

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00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,599
and over again. It's definitely not, at least I don't

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00:35:38,599 --> 00:35:40,360
think it is. It's not one that I will go

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00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,840
back to over and over again. But it has a

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00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,840
purpose and it serves that purpose really well. And the

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00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:52,119
various elements of the production, the acting, sound design, music,

576
00:35:52,199 --> 00:35:56,519
all come together and support this story, and I think

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00:35:57,119 --> 00:36:01,599
it is a valuable audio drama And I love I've

578
00:36:01,599 --> 00:36:04,199
said this before. I love seeing people do things with

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00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,719
audio drama that is not common. It's not done all

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00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:13,800
the time. And so one, they're tackling topics that you

581
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,320
know are not fun to have to address, and they're

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00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,559
using the medium of audio drama and storytelling to broach

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00:36:21,639 --> 00:36:27,800
these subjects. And two, this really unique storytelling method of

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00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:34,039
looking at two different outcomes of a situation, and one

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00:36:34,119 --> 00:36:37,000
has a not great ending and one has a much

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00:36:37,039 --> 00:36:41,000
better ending. So even though I said it is extremely sad,

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00:36:42,039 --> 00:36:45,679
there is a happy outcome in one of these and

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00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,840
so it doesn't leave you with despair. It leaves you

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00:36:50,119 --> 00:36:54,519
with hope, and it leaves you with a depiction of

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00:36:54,559 --> 00:36:58,960
how some of these things can be combated or tackled

591
00:36:59,639 --> 00:37:04,079
in a teen's life, and how they can overcome, move

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00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:11,000
past mistakes, and recover from some of these terrible situations.

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00:37:12,159 --> 00:37:14,639
I know I'm being very vague here, but I'm trying

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00:37:14,679 --> 00:37:18,880
to be careful about what I say here. I think

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00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,400
you get the gist of what is what I'm talking

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00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:27,159
about here, and I will be a little transparent here

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00:37:27,199 --> 00:37:31,280
and say that it took me a while to listen

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00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:35,440
to these because I knew that there was going to

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00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:40,159
be an element dealing with suicide in these stories. And

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I have lost family members to suicide family members plural here,

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00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:55,320
and while those were not recent, one was just within

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00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:59,079
the last handful of years. And then this year twenty

603
00:37:59,159 --> 00:38:03,880
twenty four, I lost to other people, not family members,

604
00:38:04,639 --> 00:38:08,159
but people in my social circles to suicide as well,

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and one was right before the release of this audio drama,

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and I had to give it a little bit of

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00:38:18,079 --> 00:38:22,960
time before I could actually even listen to these. But again,

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I think they did a really good job of making

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sure to be straightforward with what they were talking about,

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00:38:30,559 --> 00:38:36,920
not sugarcoat things, but not dwell too long on those

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00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:43,639
dark moments. So again, kudos to Heart Matters for producing

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00:38:43,679 --> 00:38:49,400
this powerful audio drama Darkness Duology links in the show

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00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,239
notes as always to go ahead and check it out.

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00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,239
As with all of the Heart Matters audio dramas, you

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00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,920
can listen to them for free in their app and

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all of the bonus content that I mentioned is also there.

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And I definitely think it is a well produced audio

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drama that is worth your time, especially if you have teens,

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even if you have younger kids. Right now you can

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00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,840
get ahead of some of these topics. You inform yourself

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now before your kids get to the age where they

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00:39:20,559 --> 00:39:23,679
might be faced with the topics that are covered here.

623
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:28,119
So again, Darkness Duology from Heart Matters, very well done

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00:39:28,639 --> 00:39:30,960
and as I said, link is in the show notes,

625
00:39:31,119 --> 00:39:34,320
so you can go in and listen to this while

626
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:38,920
moving into our second review, something a little bit lighter,

627
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:43,760
and that is classic literature with a bunch of animal characters.

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And I am really excited to talk about this because

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we've talked about this over the years on this show,

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and in recent years there has been a sort of

631
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,599
resurgence of interest in this type of production, and that

632
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:06,840
is what I call the audio drama audiobook hybrid. Now,

633
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:11,400
that is a production that's like what Sergent Family Productions

634
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:17,400
did with Wayfarer and with their Generations audio books. It's

635
00:40:17,639 --> 00:40:22,360
a full cast, word for word narration of the audiobook,

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00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,840
but all of the dialogue is actually acted out and

637
00:40:27,039 --> 00:40:31,239
there's a full sound design with effects and music in

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00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:35,599
the background. Now, that is what Graphic Audio produces. And

639
00:40:35,639 --> 00:40:39,519
we've talked about their adaptation of the Gospel of Mark

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00:40:39,679 --> 00:40:42,239
and some of the other stuff that they have done.

641
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:46,679
It's a really cool way to take an audiobook to

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00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,199
the next level. Now, what I want to talk about

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00:40:50,199 --> 00:40:53,840
today is from a new Ish company called Root and

644
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:59,440
Twig Sounds and their production of The Jungle Book. They

645
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:03,880
call it a soundscape audiobook. Now, it is very, very

646
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:07,920
similar to the other productions that I just referenced. The

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00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:12,320
main difference is that all of the characters and the

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narration is done by one voice. However, this one person

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00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:24,960
does amazing character voices, and that is Phil Draggish. He

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00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:31,880
does a fantastic, fantastic job. Many of the characters sound

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00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,280
completely different from one another and you would not even

652
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,239
know that it is the same man doing all of

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00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:45,480
these characters. So let's talk about the Jungle Book Soundscape audiobook.

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It was released in twenty twenty three and it is

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nearly six hours long, five hours and forty eight minutes long.

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And here is the summary.

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Speaker 6: In the water, the suns and the daughters, and we

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00:42:06,159 --> 00:42:07,800
hold our hearts.

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00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:16,280
Speaker 4: Before us, and we look to the distance and raise

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00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:25,639
our resistance in the face of the four sents gathered Aginsta's.

661
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 6: Penwy dream and the Knight of a King and a

662
00:42:30,199 --> 00:42:38,519
Kingdom which Joy writes the salts and the innocening will

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00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,280
we will carry the five?

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00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,679
Speaker 4: I will, I will carry the five.

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00:42:45,679 --> 00:42:47,639
Speaker 6: I'll carry the five for you.

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00:42:48,679 --> 00:42:52,119
Speaker 2: Step into the mythic world of Rudyard Kipling's classic The

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00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:56,039
Jungle Book through the immersive power of a soundscape audiobook

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00:42:56,519 --> 00:43:00,320
Meticulously crafted. The Root and Twig Sounds production crew is

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00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,840
proud to present this unique take on the timeless tale,

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00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:08,519
featuring captivating sound effects, epic original music, as well as

671
00:43:08,559 --> 00:43:13,079
delightful voice acting and narration by Phil Dragish. Join us

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00:43:13,199 --> 00:43:18,280
listener for an unforgettable and unabridged journey with Magli Bagheera

673
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:23,920
Baloo and the treacherous Sheer Khan. Now, as I said,

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00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:28,199
all of the characters are played by Phil Dragish, And

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00:43:29,159 --> 00:43:31,840
as you heard in the summary, there is original music

676
00:43:32,159 --> 00:43:37,519
composed by Alexander Amadeo. Hopefully I'm pronouncing that correctly, and

677
00:43:37,679 --> 00:43:40,639
it was produced and directed by Phil Dragish and A.

678
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:48,400
Y Barker. Now, this is a mostly word for word

679
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,719
narration and dramatization of the original text by Rudyard Kipling,

680
00:43:53,159 --> 00:43:56,239
written in eighteen ninety four. And I say mostly because

681
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:02,239
I was following along the audio production while reading the text,

682
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:08,480
and I did notice a few slight differences, a transposed

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00:44:08,519 --> 00:44:13,480
word here or there, and maybe where the original text

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00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:17,079
might use a word, you know, a couple of times

685
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,960
in succession, like in a bit of dialogue. They might

686
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:25,039
have dropped one of those out. But essentially it is

687
00:44:25,079 --> 00:44:29,679
a word for word audio dramatization of the original novel.

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00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,440
Now I want to play a little sample so you

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00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:37,800
can get an idea of what this audiobook, this soundscape

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00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:41,039
audiobook sounds like. So let's take a listen to this

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00:44:41,159 --> 00:44:45,360
sample of root and Twig sounds the Jungle Book.

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00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 3: The moonlight was blocked out of the mouth of the

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00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:52,760
cave for Sheer Khan's great square head and shoulders were

694
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:59,199
thrust into the entrance. Tobaki behind him was squeaking, and

695
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:04,639
I wend in there. Sher Khan does us great honor,

696
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:09,480
said father Wolf, but his eyes were very angry. What

697
00:45:09,519 --> 00:45:10,920
does sher Khan need.

698
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:18,559
Speaker 7: My quarry? Our man's scarf went and.

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00:45:18,679 --> 00:45:20,320
Speaker 3: Sway, said sher Khan.

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00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:26,639
Speaker 7: It's spars frog off, give it to them.

701
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 3: Cha Khan had jumped at a woodcutter's campfire, as Father

702
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:35,000
Wolf had said, and was furious from the pain of

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00:45:35,039 --> 00:45:38,400
his burned feet. But Father Wolf knew that the mouth

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00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,679
of the cave was too narrow for a tiger to

705
00:45:40,679 --> 00:45:44,119
come in by, even where he was. Sher Khan's shoulders

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00:45:44,119 --> 00:45:46,840
and forepoles were cramped for want of room, as a

707
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,079
man's would be if he tried to fight in a beryl.

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00:45:49,679 --> 00:45:52,480
The wolves are a free people, said Father Wolf. They

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00:45:52,559 --> 00:45:54,920
take orders from the head of the pack, and not

710
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,599
from any striped cattle killer. The man's cub is ours

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00:45:58,960 --> 00:45:59,760
to kill, if.

712
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:05,039
Speaker 7: So you choose, and you notions till the fish chooser

713
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,079
by the booth that I kill. I just standing to

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00:46:09,199 --> 00:46:13,159
your dogs, tand for my fair torus, it is I

715
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,360
shell can oh speech.

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Speaker 3: The tigers rolled down the cave with thunder. Another wolf

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shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward her

718
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eyes like two green rooms in the darkness, facing the

719
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blazing eyes of sheer car.

720
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Speaker 1: And it is I luxure the demon who answers the

721
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mans comes mine locally, mine to me. He shall be killed,

722
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he shall live, to run with the back and to

723
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hunt with the back. And in the end, look, hundred

724
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of little naked cubs, frog eater fish, can you shall

725
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hunt me?

726
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Speaker 7: Now?

727
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Speaker 1: Get heads or by the sum board that I killed.

728
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I eat no stuff cattle. Fact, I'm goings to thy mother,

729
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beast of the jungle, lamer than ever the chemist to

730
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do the world.

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Speaker 3: Father Wolf looked on, amazed. He had almost forgotten the

732
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days when he won Mother Wolf in a fair fight

733
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from five other wolves, when she ran in the pack

734
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and was not called the demon for compliments. Khan might

735
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have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up

736
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against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was

737
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she had all the advantage of the ground and would

738
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fight to the death. So he backed out of the cave,

739
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mouth growling, and when he was clear, he shouted.

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Speaker 7: He'll snog box in his own yard. We will see

741
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what a packfussly to this fostering of man cobs. The

742
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cover is mine and to my keys. He will come

743
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in been oh, bush of thie.

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Speaker 2: Oh it is so so good, It sounds so amazing.

745
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And the interesting thing about this this is the first

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production from this team under the brand of Root and Twig,

747
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and it was funded by a Kickstarter project in the

748
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spring of twenty twenty one, and this allowed them to

749
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sort of get started, and they've done a couple of

750
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shorter pieces since the release of The Jungle Book, and

751
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I'm excited to see what else they can do, because,

752
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as I mentioned, there's been a resurgence of interest in

753
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:29,480
this sort of format of these enhanced audiobooks where it's

754
00:48:29,519 --> 00:48:33,960
a single narrator and then those audiobook audio drama hybrids

755
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where you have a full cast, and I really like

756
00:48:38,679 --> 00:48:42,480
these types of stories. I love straight audio drama, you know,

757
00:48:42,679 --> 00:48:47,280
that's one of the storytelling mediums that I dearly, dearly love.

758
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But I'm also a big fan of long form audiobooks.

759
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And when you sort of merge those two together, you

760
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,519
get these enhanced ones where there's a single narrator and

761
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sound effects and music, and there's a lot of that

762
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kind of stuff out there, and then you have these

763
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other ones where you have a full cast. And I

764
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like all of this kind of stuff. So we've said

765
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in the past that, yes, Audio Theater Central is primarily

766
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about traditional regular audio drama, but occasionally, if there is

767
00:49:19,599 --> 00:49:24,239
a one of these enhanced audio books or hybrids that

768
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are really compelling, we'll talk about those as well, because

769
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they are so closely related. And this is an example

770
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of one that has done extremely, extremely well. So because

771
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this was funded by a Kickstarter. They have a really

772
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interesting introduction to set up the production and they sort

773
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of frame the story with the whole team there around

774
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a fireplace and introduce Phil as this storyteller and I

775
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,039
thought that was a really neat way to set up

776
00:49:58,519 --> 00:50:02,559
the production. And when I was contacted by the team

777
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about this show from the producer A. Y. Barker, he said,

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our company, Root and Twig Sounds, is focused on creating

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classic novel soundscape audiobooks spectacularly done for the modern ear.

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Much of our inspiration comes from productions like Focus on

781
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the Families Chronicles of Narnia adaptation and BBC's Lord of

782
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the Rings adaptation, the one with Ian Holme as Frodo,

783
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And if you have been around for any length of time,

784
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you know I love both of those. The Radio Theater

785
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Narnia's are fantastic. I love BBC's Lord of the Rings

786
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so so good. And I will say that even though

787
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it wasn't an official release, I said a moment ago

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that The Jungle Book is the first official release from

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Root and Twig. It is not the first production that

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Phil has worked on, and that is because back he

791
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produced a fan production of the Lord of the Rings

792
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where he gave that whole story this same treatment where

793
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he does all of the voices. Now it's not an

794
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official release, so you can't purchase it anywhere. So I'm

795
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glad to see that he sort of found his niche

796
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in this world of audio storytelling, and he's taking those

797
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skills and applying it to other texts that are in

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the public domain that he can make. And so his

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performances here are fantastic. His Bagheera and Sheir Khan especially,

800
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and the voice that he does for Ka, I mean,

801
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they are so so good. The music also in this

802
00:51:45,079 --> 00:51:49,599
production is fantastic, so shout out to Alexander, really really

803
00:51:49,679 --> 00:51:54,119
great music. Now, there is one thing to note if

804
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you are only familiar with like the Disney version of

805
00:51:57,559 --> 00:52:01,480
the Jungle Book story, some of the the pronunciations are

806
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going to be different. They I think these might be

807
00:52:04,519 --> 00:52:08,639
a little bit more British pronunciations, Like for the bear,

808
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they say Balu instead of Blu, and Maugli instead of Mowgli,

809
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which is you know, the disnification of that story. I

810
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don't know how Kipling would have pronounced it, but those

811
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are the pronunciations that they use for those characters. So

812
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that is one difference you might notice now speaking of

813
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:34,039
Disney's jungle Book. Now, there is an audio drama version

814
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of Disney's Jungle Book which is also quite good, and

815
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they take audio from the animated feature for that audio version,

816
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which is also linked in the show notes, So if

817
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:48,760
you are partial to that Disney version, there is an

818
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audio edition of that, so it's really cool now. Also,

819
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not that long ago, ATC contributor Joe Pearson did a

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review of Audible's new exclusive audio drama adaptation of The

821
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Jungle Book, which is a full cast, and that's also

822
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really really well done, so link is in the show

823
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notes to that. Also, BBC Radio has done an audio

824
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drama adaptation of The Jungle Book, and if you are

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familiar with the full book from Rudyard Kipling, you will

826
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know that the Disney version cuts out a ton of

827
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stuff and it only focuses on the characters of Mowgli

828
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and the wolf pack and the tiger and the monkeys

829
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and that kind of stuff. But the Jungle Book is

830
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much more than just those characters. It's a whole collection

831
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of all of these different stories with mostly animal characters,

832
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and the Mogli stories are only part of it. So

833
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this version or this production here from Root and Twig

834
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produces the entire book, all of the stories, so it's

835
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not just the Mowgli stuff. And one of the stories

836
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which is included is the story of Ricky Ticky Taby

837
00:54:03,159 --> 00:54:07,159
the Mongoose and Lifehouse Theater on the Air did an

838
00:54:07,199 --> 00:54:10,639
adaptation and audio drama adaptation of Ricky Ticky Tabby several

839
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years ago, which Robert Thacker ATC Contributor reviewed here on

840
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our site as well. So links to all of these

841
00:54:19,039 --> 00:54:21,960
adjacent productions are in the show notes if you want

842
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:25,079
to check those out. As well as while we're talking

843
00:54:25,079 --> 00:54:29,480
about Rudyard Kipling, for our verses in Vox series, we

844
00:54:29,679 --> 00:54:34,119
did an audio production of Rudyard Kipling's epic poem If

845
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:38,159
and it has an original score by Jared Dipesqual, so

846
00:54:38,599 --> 00:54:40,719
that is also linked in the show notes. But I

847
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:44,599
wanted to mention all of these tangentially related productions because

848
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what Kipling has done here with these stories, it's epic,

849
00:54:50,639 --> 00:54:55,000
and there's all these different interpretations of them and they're

850
00:54:55,039 --> 00:54:58,440
all great. They're all great, and so I wanted you

851
00:54:58,599 --> 00:55:01,519
to be aware of all of those other versions and

852
00:55:02,119 --> 00:55:04,440
what Root and Twig has done here is take the

853
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entire source material and has just made it come alive,

854
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:13,679
right because they have all the elements of an audio

855
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:17,760
drama with the sound design and the music and the acting,

856
00:55:18,159 --> 00:55:21,280
but it is the entire text of the book. So

857
00:55:22,079 --> 00:55:25,679
this is another level. It's another layer of really cool

858
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:30,079
audio content. Again, it's almost six hours long, and it's

859
00:55:30,199 --> 00:55:34,920
quite affordable as well, so they're not trying to charge

860
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:36,719
you an arm and a leg for this, even though

861
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:40,519
most six hour audiobooks are going to be quite expensive.

862
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If you go to Audible or other audiobook outlets, which

863
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:46,159
I think you can get this there, so if you

864
00:55:46,199 --> 00:55:47,800
want to go that route, you can, But I would

865
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:50,800
recommend going directly to the Root and Twig website and

866
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,440
getting it directly from them. You get the DRM free

867
00:55:53,519 --> 00:55:55,880
files so you can put it on your own device,

868
00:55:56,719 --> 00:56:01,159
and it is a really really cool Now, if I

869
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:04,440
were to get a little nitpicky, I would have preferred

870
00:56:04,559 --> 00:56:09,199
a bit more differentiation between the narrator and Bagheera's dialogue

871
00:56:09,679 --> 00:56:14,440
because that character voice was a little similar to the narrator. Now,

872
00:56:14,559 --> 00:56:19,920
I know that in some adaptations with the Mowgli stories,

873
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they often have Bagheera as sort of the narrator of

874
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:25,920
these tales. So I don't know if maybe that was

875
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:29,840
an intentional decision on Phil's part to try to make

876
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:34,760
that connection there, But for me just personally as a consumer,

877
00:56:35,199 --> 00:56:37,960
I would have liked to have heard those differentiated just

878
00:56:38,199 --> 00:56:41,800
a hair more, you know. But other than that, his

879
00:56:42,039 --> 00:56:47,199
character voices are top notch, And in addition to acting

880
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:50,800
out all of the dialogue, they do put in some

881
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:54,079
vocal effects to help things and layer things and make

882
00:56:54,119 --> 00:56:57,039
it sound like these are really animals and things like that.

883
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:03,440
So this projection is really really high quality. I really

884
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:07,519
enjoyed listening to this. Now, as I mentioned, this is

885
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the entire collection of stories from the Kipling books, so

886
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,400
as I alluded to a moment ago, it has the

887
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story of Ricky, Ticky Tavy and the seals, and the

888
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:21,320
story of the elephants and all of this stuff. So

889
00:57:21,719 --> 00:57:26,159
there is a lot to enjoy about this production. For

890
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:29,960
me personally, I think the Moguli stories are the most compelling.

891
00:57:30,599 --> 00:57:33,079
Now that is no reflection at all on Root and Twig.

892
00:57:33,199 --> 00:57:37,840
That's just a reflection on Kipling, but and it's just

893
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,280
a personal preference as well. The rest of the stories

894
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:47,719
are fine, I just particularly enjoy the Moguli and Bagheera

895
00:57:48,039 --> 00:57:52,079
and Blue stories, and I mentioned a moment ago, but

896
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:55,960
it Feil's voice for Co the Snake fantastic and sheer

897
00:57:56,079 --> 00:58:01,480
Khan just extremely well done. And so as always, a

898
00:58:01,559 --> 00:58:03,280
link is in the show notes to go check out

899
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:06,760
the production here, which I think would be a solid

900
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investment for you. But also I'm just really looking forward

901
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:14,480
to hearing what else this team comes up with, because

902
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:18,679
the public domain is jam packed with some amazing stories.

903
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:23,280
And as I said, I'm a big consumer of audiobooks,

904
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and I much prefer listening to unabridged audiobooks, and so

905
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:33,719
when there's an option to get an unabridged audiobook with

906
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:38,639
those extra layers of music and sound effects and acting,

907
00:58:39,519 --> 00:58:42,920
most times I'm going to choose that over the traditional

908
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:49,039
single voice narrator without any of those other audio elements added,

909
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:54,599
because I just love how enriching and immersive this other

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00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:57,800
approach to audiobooks is. In fact, I mean we recently

911
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:01,360
had John Erickson from the Hanky Caut Dog series. I

912
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:04,920
mean those are enhanced audiobooks, right, I mean it's it's

913
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:09,559
a single narrator, but he's doing character voices as well

914
00:59:09,719 --> 00:59:12,960
as having the layers of music and sound effects. So

915
00:59:13,519 --> 00:59:17,360
this is similar obviously with a different audience in mind,

916
00:59:17,519 --> 00:59:21,679
perhaps with classic literature versus you know, stories for kids,

917
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:26,519
but this is all in the same spectrum of this

918
00:59:26,719 --> 00:59:31,079
audiobook to audio drama content. And so I'm loving what

919
00:59:31,159 --> 00:59:34,079
I'm hearing from Root and Twig Sounds and I hope

920
00:59:34,119 --> 00:59:36,880
they continue. So well done to this team for their

921
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first production. And link is in the show notes if

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you want to go check out Root and Twigs Soundscape

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Audiobook of The Jungle Book.

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Speaker 7: So what do you think of the show?

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Speaker 4: Please leave your message after the zione Hi Audio Central.

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Speaker 2: Hey guys, this is awesome preaching.

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Speaker 1: How about j D Royan Andrew minumed Victoria. Now, yesterday

928
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I received a letter from a big band. No time

929
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to I've got emails another package for me today. No,

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it's actually just your mail.

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Speaker 7: Yes it is that.

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Speaker 2: Time to get to the feedback from you, our community.

933
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But before we do that, I did forget to mention

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in the review there of The Jungle Book that Kipling's

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original book, The Jungle Book also contains a handful of

936
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poems throughout, so it's not just these stories, but there's

937
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also some poetry, and these poems are written from the

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perspective of various characters from the stories, like there's one

939
01:00:40,119 --> 01:00:43,320
written from Mowgli's perspective, and so all of those are

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01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:47,480
included in this soundscape audiobook that Root and Twig Sounds

941
01:00:47,519 --> 01:00:51,719
has produced. So I did neglect to mention that during

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01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:53,400
the review, so I wanted to make sure to let

943
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:55,960
you know about that. So it's really really cool. But

944
01:00:56,039 --> 01:00:57,559
now let's get to the feedback. If you would like

945
01:00:57,599 --> 01:01:00,599
to get in touch with us, feedback at audio central

946
01:01:00,639 --> 01:01:02,920
dot com is the way to do that. Comment on

947
01:01:03,039 --> 01:01:06,440
our show notes or send your text messages or a

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01:01:06,519 --> 01:01:10,360
voicemail to six two three six eight eight two seven

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seven zero. Well, first up is an email from Michael C.

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And he said, JD thanks for the Hank the cow

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Dog recommendation. I listened to one book reading by John

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Ericson and the Hank Audio Drama podcast. I noticed embedded

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in the podcast was an advertisement with a song that

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included references to HGB grocery store bags being brought in

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by Sally May of the Hank series, and another with

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Wallace the Buzzard talking about how HGB meets are so

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fresh and he likes his meats to not be so fresh.

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John Ericson voiced Wallace the Buzzard, and I love Wallace

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and Junior the Buzzards, but I was thinking of your

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idea of using partnerships for marketing through audio drama. The

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aboved examples seemed related somewhat, but not exactly your idea,

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and that is a really good point, Michael. I had

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completely forgotten about that sponsorhip deal there from the Hank

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podcast when I was talking about that idea in a

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previous episode, but that is a good point. I don't

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know the specifics. I didn't ask John about this, but

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obviously AGB was involved in this in some way. I'm

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assuming there was an exchange of money there for them

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to integrate AGB into the story like that, And there

970
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were definitely audio ads in the podcast as well. Now

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I listened to this quite some time ago, and I

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don't know if those are ad files that they have

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switched out at all, or if they've updated them since then,

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because it was a few years ago when that first

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came out, so I don't know if those full on

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advertisements are still a part of the files today, but

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there were actual ads in them. At that time as

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well aside from these integrations that you're talking about. But yeah,

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that is a really great idea. I like that idea

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of combining these things and it doesn't get in the

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way of the story. I mean, that joke there with

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the buzzard is hilarious. I mean, and it fits into

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the storyline. So we don't have agb around here in Arizona,

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at least not anywhere near where I live.

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Speaker 7: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I've not heard of any here. I think that is

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a Texas grocery store chain, so that makes sense. The

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stories are set on a ranch in Texas, so integrating

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01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:27,800
a regional a regional business like that makes a lot

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01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:29,920
of sense. So yeah, I would love to see more

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things like that and innovative ways of getting funding for projects.

992
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I think it's great. Back to Michael's email, he said,

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please keep recommending and covering the hybrid audiobooks like the Bible.

994
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John Fornoff is doing well. I will keep doing that,

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as you just heard a moment ago in the review

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01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:49,840
of the Jungle Book. Back to the email, he says,

997
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:52,239
one more thing, what is the name of the children's

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01:03:52,239 --> 01:03:55,119
audio drama created by the man from Germany who died

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01:03:55,159 --> 01:04:00,679
of cancer. Well, that was the Billy Brown Audio Adventures,

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and as you said, it was a children's audio drama.

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He produced three episodes, one called Billy Brown and the

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Mystery Package, Billy Brown and the Frog Tunnel, and Billy

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01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:15,960
Brown Goes Hiking, and they were like thirty to forty

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01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:20,719
minute episodes, a really well done, well acted, well produced

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01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:25,360
audio drama. Very very unfortunate that he passed away a

1006
01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:28,960
handful of years ago. I'm not exactly sure how to

1007
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:30,960
pronounce his last name, but his name, his first name

1008
01:04:31,039 --> 01:04:34,159
was Yin's Yan's Humor, I think is how you say it.

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But we had some conversations back in the day and

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01:04:38,519 --> 01:04:41,840
I was excited about what he was doing, and again

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01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:43,800
I thought they were very well done. The artwork for

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01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:49,400
them was really good. Unfortunately, since his passing, I've been

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01:04:49,559 --> 01:04:54,280
unable to find those anywhere online available. His website is

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01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:56,920
gone now. I'm assuming that the domain just ran out

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01:04:57,199 --> 01:05:02,400
and you know, nobody was paying for it, and the

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01:05:02,519 --> 01:05:07,599
other outlets which had digital versions are no longer available either.

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So it's very unfortunate because I would love to find

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01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:17,320
those available somewhere, so I could, you know, promote them again.

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01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:21,760
I thought they were extremely well done. So if anybody

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is listening and knows how to get in touch with

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01:05:23,679 --> 01:05:27,360
his family or anything like that, I would love to

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01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:29,599
get in touch with them and figure out how to

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01:05:30,119 --> 01:05:33,679
make these available if it's at all possible, because I

1024
01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:36,440
think they're worth listening to. And he was aiming them

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at a very young age, from like three to seven

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01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:41,519
years old, as part of his tradition of growing up

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01:05:41,559 --> 01:05:45,639
in Germany. It was a very very common thing for

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01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:48,880
children to listen to audio dramas as they went to

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01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:52,239
bed at night, and it's just part of their culture,

1030
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:55,400
he told me. And so I would love to see

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01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:59,519
these live on because he did such amazing work on these,

1032
01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:03,599
and I thought they were really fun shows. But again

1033
01:06:03,679 --> 01:06:06,360
that was called Billy Brown's Audio Adventures. And if you're

1034
01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:08,519
curious what, there is a post on our website which

1035
01:06:08,599 --> 01:06:13,360
talks all about them. Next up is an email from

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01:06:13,559 --> 01:06:16,480
Blake and he said, as you know, I am the

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01:06:16,519 --> 01:06:19,960
primary editor of Radio Theater Wiki and Hinty Alive Wiki.

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But I wondered how many actors from the four major

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01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:27,679
series recorded in London with the Glassboro Players have actually

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01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:31,159
appeared in all four series. So I checked and double

1041
01:06:31,239 --> 01:06:32,960
checked all of the cast lists for all of the

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01:06:33,039 --> 01:06:35,880
London productions of Focus on the Family Radio Theater, Lamb

1043
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:39,000
Ladder Theater, Heirloom Audio Is, The Extraordinary Adventures of Ga

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01:06:39,159 --> 01:06:42,760
Hinty and the Augustine Institute Radio Theater. And I made

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01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:45,159
sure I was careful in doing this so not to

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01:06:45,239 --> 01:06:49,079
miss any and of all the Glassboro players, meaning all

1047
01:06:49,159 --> 01:06:51,440
the British actors that have worked with Philip Glassboro on

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01:06:51,519 --> 01:06:55,079
family friendly audio drama. The following actors have appeared in

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01:06:55,239 --> 01:06:58,000
all four of the major series. Now there's quite a

1050
01:06:58,079 --> 01:06:59,639
list here, so I'm not going to read out all

1051
01:06:59,719 --> 01:07:01,320
of them here on the show, but they will be

1052
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:06,000
in the show notes the entire list, and he continues,

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01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:09,280
which actors are you surprised did not make the list?

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01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:13,119
Do you think I missed anyone? Remember that many of

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01:07:13,159 --> 01:07:16,679
the Glassborough players have been on two or even three

1056
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:20,320
of them. For example, my friend Heather hiher Forster has

1057
01:07:20,519 --> 01:07:23,119
only been in Focus on the Family Radio Theater. She

1058
01:07:23,199 --> 01:07:26,480
played the Mouse in Narnia's The Last Battle, Young Cosette

1059
01:07:26,599 --> 01:07:30,440
in Les Miss Arab and Mary Lennox in the Secret Garden.

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01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:34,760
She was in lamp Lader Theater, Jesse in a Peep

1061
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:38,840
behind the Scenes and Air Theater Joan in the Victory

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01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:42,000
of Joan of Arc. So she was in three, but

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01:07:42,079 --> 01:07:44,679
she didn't make it into the fourth ones. She wasn't

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01:07:44,719 --> 01:07:48,800
in Hinty apparently, and he continues that some may have

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01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:52,159
used different names as well, like Heather used Lily Milton

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01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:54,960
and Zoe Thorne before using her legal name for the

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01:07:55,039 --> 01:07:58,519
first time in the Victory of Joan of Arc or

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01:07:58,639 --> 01:08:01,519
Stephen Webb, who played Eustace in the Chronicles of Narnia,

1069
01:08:01,639 --> 01:08:04,840
using the name Tom Alexander in his Heirloom Audio and

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01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:08,440
Air theater roles. So what do you think who surprised

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01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:10,840
you the most, both in who made the list and

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01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:15,079
who didn't appear in all four? Wow, it sounds like

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01:08:15,199 --> 01:08:18,359
he has done an extensive amount of research. I would

1074
01:08:18,359 --> 01:08:22,079
have never known about some of these actors using different names.

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01:08:22,439 --> 01:08:24,279
I would never know that those are the same people.

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01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:27,800
I haven't done that kind of research myself, So that

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01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:30,960
is fascinating to me, and I love it. I love

1078
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:33,119
it that people are so passionate about this stuff that

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01:08:33,279 --> 01:08:34,920
they dig into the details like this, because I do

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01:08:35,039 --> 01:08:36,960
find it interesting. I just don't always have the time

1081
01:08:37,079 --> 01:08:39,920
to dig into things as much as I might like sometimes.

1082
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:43,279
But again the full list of actors that he mentions

1083
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:46,279
is in the show notes and it includes I'll just

1084
01:08:46,359 --> 01:08:49,239
mention a couple are here. Of course, Philip Sherlock, who

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01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:52,720
is Philip Lasporo, that's the name he uses for his

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01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:57,840
acting credits, John Reicse, Davis Finti, Williams, Peter Morton, Tao

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01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:00,159
Maggs just a few, and some of these people will

1088
01:09:00,159 --> 01:09:06,680
have also appeared in The Brinkman Adventures William Bradford a show,

1089
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:10,119
so several of these people were in those as well,

1090
01:09:10,279 --> 01:09:14,399
So even though that wasn't recorded in London, many of

1091
01:09:14,479 --> 01:09:18,199
those actors were involved in that as well, so really

1092
01:09:18,239 --> 01:09:21,359
really cool interesting stuff. So that list is available if

1093
01:09:21,359 --> 01:09:22,800
you want to check it out and post in the

1094
01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:25,880
comments or let us know and we can pass it

1095
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:28,720
on to Blake. But thank you so much to Blake

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and Michael for sharing your feedback. Really really appreciate that.

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01:09:32,199 --> 01:09:36,039
Always really enjoy hearing from you. I mean I may

1098
01:09:36,119 --> 01:09:39,399
say that often, but I don't just say that to

1099
01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:42,279
say that, I really do mean it. I appreciate that

1100
01:09:42,359 --> 01:09:45,920
you take the time to send in feedback, ask questions,

1101
01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:50,079
open up a dialogue about family friendly audio drama and

1102
01:09:50,279 --> 01:09:53,920
that you're even listening to the show. I definitely appreciate that,

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01:09:54,159 --> 01:09:58,239
so thank you and keep your feedback coming.

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Speaker 7: Well.

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Speaker 2: The songs at the top of the review segments were

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Carry the Fire and You'll Find Your Way, both by

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Andrew Peterson from his twenty twelve album titled Light for

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the Lost Bowie. Be sure to join the ATC Insiders,

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long ago and things like that special episodes that are

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kind of stuff. It's very infrequent. I don't bombarde your

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