HeartMatters Audio Drama Review & Producers Interview

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And now Audio Theater Central. Hello, welcome to Audio Theater Central. This
is the show that explores family friendlyaudio drama through news, reviews and interviews.
I'm your host, JD. Sutter, and this is episode one ninety

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six, and we've got all ofthose things in this particular episode. It
is a packed episode. We've gota review of six brand new shows from
Heart Matters. We've got an interviewwith the producers of those shows, Christy
the executive producer and Austin the producerand director. And we've got some feedback
from Bethany Blake, Jeremy and Michael. A bunch of audio drama updates to

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get to. I've got a monologuewhere I'm going to talk about how much
is age a factor in writing andacting in audio drama. So all of
that is coming up here shortly.But before we get into that, I
want to say real quickly that ifyou are listening to this show on Android
and you're using the Google Podcasts app, that app is going to be shutting

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down very very soon. I believeit's in May when it will be completely
shut down. Google is closing thatapp completely, So you need to find
an alternative to listen to ATC andall of your podcasts on Android. So
I'm going to recommend a couple here. Pocket Casts is the app that I

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use personally and have been using formany many years. Love it. It's
a great podcast app, really easyto use. They have some premium features
which allows you to listen to allof the shows that you're subscribed to in
a browser as well as in theapp, and you can pick up right
where you left off on your phone. Things like that, really cool stuff.
Of course, we are available onSpotify, which is available as an

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Android app as well, and anotheroption is an app called podcast Addict,
So there's a few different options ofThere are lots of different podcast apps available
on Android. I can't speak tothe quality of them. There are some
that are pretty good, some thatare really junkie. I went through a
process of testing a bunch of appsseveral years ago and that's when I landed

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on Pocketcasts as my daily as mydaily podcast app. But you know,
there are lots of other ones outthere, but those are the ones that
I think are the some of thebest options, and they're all linked in
the show notes if you want tocheck those out. Also, last thing
before we get into the rest ofthe show, and that is episode two

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hundred is coming up very shortly.This is one ninety six, so it's
not too far out now, andthanks to Blake for reminding me. I
wasn't even really thinking about it allthat much, and so he sent in
a little audio message to celebrate thetwo hundredth episode of the show, so
I thought I would go ahead andtoss it out. Anybody else who wants

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to send in a little audio message, you can hit up the contact page
on the website for the various waysto do that. You can record a
message and email it, you canuse the voicemail feedback line, or you
can use the speak pipe widget thatis on that page. So I would
prefer to have audio. If youcan't do that, you know, a

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text message or an email is finetoo, but it would be awesome to
have an audio clip. So episodetwo hundred coming up shortly, So thank
you again for the nudge, Blake, and we'll see what you guys have
to say. All right, let'sjump into the updates. We interrupt this
program to bring you a special reportand in other news tonight, a brief
look at the headlines now they wantexciting, fast piece news that's relevant and

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entertaining Like this just a reminder thatif you are a producer or actor or
somebody involved in the production of afamily friendly audio drama that you want to
let us know about keep us upto date on the progress of it,
head over to PFM dot link slashatc news and submit that news to us,
or click the button in the sidebaron our website. Please use those

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methods to get those updates to us. Well. The first one is a
blog update, and that is thatAustin Peache has published a review of season
one of Kaboom. All of theepisodes from season one are reviewed there.
Great post and if you haven't checkedout Kaboom yet, go give this blog

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post a review and it'll probably giveyou the nudgs you need to go check
it out. It's a really funanthology show and I think you'll enjoy it,
so go ahead and check out thisreview. Also out now is the
first episode from the Heritage series fromLRT Media. It is called Captain Molly
and the official summary is Courage underFire for a cause greater than herself.

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Margaret Corbin was an early woman warriorwho roke gender barriers to assist the Continental
Army. Despite devastating losses and physicalwounds, she persevered in defending Fort Washington
in one of the first battles ofthe Revolutionary War. Her courage under fire
and willingness to take up arms earnedher the nickname Captain Molly and a lasting
place in history as a revolutionary hero. So this is out now. Lincoln

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in the show notices to go checkthis out. Bethany Baldwin stars as Captain
Molly, and LRT Media is reallyknocking things out of the park these days
with their quality, and so I'mpretty sure this is going to be a
show you're going to enjoy. Andspeaking of the Heritage series, the next
episode, which is called Pony Bob, is coming soon. And I'm going

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to estimate or guess I could becompletely wrong, but I'm just gonna throw
this out. They're probably somewhere aroundfifty percent completed on that production, because
not too long ago, just ahandful of days ago, they said they
were at forty percent. So I'mjust estimating here, but it's in the
works and we'll be coming soon.And they said on January thirtieth that on

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that day in nineteen thirty three,the Lone Ranger debuted on radio, and
they were bringing that up because inPony Bob, they've been able to get
the grandson of brace Beemer, whoplayed the Lone Ranger in the original old
Time radio show, in this episodeof Heritage called pony Bob. So this
is super super exciting for an oldtime radio nerd like me. I was

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blown away that they had been ableto do that. So I think that
is amazingly cool. And I don'tknow anything about this story pony Bob.
I'm guessing it might be related toa Pony Express Rider perhaps, so we'll
see, but who knows. I'malso going to guess that it's probably a

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Western because of the correlay that they'redrawing with the Lone Ranger and getting brace
Beemer's grandson. Who knows, Again, more conjecture on my part. They
haven't really said a whole lot,But in any case, that they got
this guy, I think it's supercool. And I don't know his name.
They didn't say his name in theannouncement, so we're just we're just

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gonna have to wait and see.But speaking of Westerns, also from LRT
Media, they announced that they areworking on a standalone western called Red mesa
Ryder, and they announced that notlong ago and posted the cover art which

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looks pretty cool. And I lovewesterns, as I've said here on the
show before, so I'm also reallylooking forward to this one. So this
one is in the early stages.They're just in the casting phase these days,
but they're saying, get ready forsome good old gunfights, land disputes,
outlaws and hard nosed brawls. Somy goodness, this sounds like it's

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going to be an amazing, amazingshow. As I just said, LRT
Media is just putting out some highquality stuff. Man, I love it.
I love it. But hey,Craig Hart, don't forget about Chapelin
Squeak. Now, we gotta wrapthat one up. Come on, man,

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I couldn't I couldn't resist giving hima hard time if he's listening.
But yeah, really looking forward tothat one called Red mesa Ryder. Well.
A quick update on Shadows in DaylightSeason two, Episode two is titled
Trojan and has the music and sounddesign in process, and Christopher Green said

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that he's been out recording on locationsound effects for this episode and so that's
always fun. I've done a littlebit of that myself on occasion, and
I do enjoy taking out the oldrecorder and going to capture some audio and
stuff like that. It's always fun. He also said that the music that
he's heard so far from the composersounds really great, so looking forward to

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that. He said hopeful for alate February or early March release on this.
So that's episode two of season twoof Shadows and in Daylight coming very
very soon now. Glenn Haskell's FirstActs Productions also has some stuff coming up
now. In the last episode,we went through a whole bunch of things

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that he has lined up. Buthe recently let me know that he's got
a couple of surprises coming for twentytwenty four, and that is a planned
summer release of a show called AmplifiedMortals, a superhero origin story set in
the nineteen thirties. So I don'tnow, my memory is not all that
great sometimes, so I may becompletely misremembering. But I don't think we

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even knew about this one in thelast episode, so I don't think we
talked about this at all, unlesswe just didn't know the title at that
point, but you know if I'mmisremembering. But also we did talk about
this one, I know, RangeDrifters, which he was originally saying was
not coming until twenty twenty five,but he said the first episode is actually

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going to come out in twenty twentyfour, and it's going to be a
story that also serves to introduce themain characters and will hopefully serve to increase
awareness of the series before the firstsix main episodes come in twenty twenty five.
So that will be coming the premiereof Range Drifters sort of a pilot,

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I guess is how he's treating this, so that's something to look forward
to. And Dragnet four is inthe recording phase now, so that will
be coming fairly soon as well.So lots coming from Glenn Haskell's First Acts
productions. Well, Dominion Artists hasthree new titles that they are announcing.

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The first is in the Nick GuyPrivate Eye series and it's called Nick Guy
and the Reformation Versus Revolution Affair,and Frank Youuley, the producer and writer
for this show, said that forthis installment, we will wrestle with the
differences between reformation and revolution. Whydo we call the Protestant Reformation a reformation
and not a revolution? Was theAmerican War for Independence a revolution or a

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reformation? And ultimately should we considerJesus a revolutionary or a reformer? So
that sounds fascinating, he said,along with the regular cast members Rebecca Bradford
and Frank Eulee. This time weare joined by the lovely and talented Bethany
Baldwin, who does an incredible jobas Princess Christina of You Bet You stan

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Oh. I love that goodness.Frank's sense of humor is so I've said
this before, so this is nothingnew, but I love his sense of
humor in these funny names and youknow, the character names and place names
and stuff that he comes up withfor his shows. Very very funny.
Looking forward to that one. Thesecond one is also in the Nick Guy

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series. It's called Nick Guy andthe Vengeance is Mine Affair. In this
installment, Nick Guy and Doctor deSoto are hired to investigate the strange pranks
being played on the minor league baseballteam, the Motteville Yodlers. Why would
someone seek to sabotage a last placeteam? In this installment, we look
at the difference between seeking justice andseeking vengeance and why God commands us to

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leave vengeance in his hands. Wow. Okay, so man, they're tackling
some interesting topics in this series,so that's really cool, he said.
They've also started work on the collaborationwith Christopher Green in Shadows in Daylight,
so that is slated for a springrelease, but no specific date yet.

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I know that, I said atthe top three new titles, I guess
it's for if we count the Shadowsand Daylight crossover here, but that one
doesn't have an actual title yet thatwe are aware of. So the third
one that we know of has anofficial release that is coming soon, and
that is The Human Eel, whichis a spinoff series from Nick Guy.

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And this one's called The Human Eeland Greystone, King of the Poodles.
The summary is Fidele's Greystone. I'mtotally guessing on that name the pronunciation there,
but that's what I'm gonna go with. Fidele's or Fidelli's hmm. Anyway,

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Fideli's Greystone, as a child offive, went missing. Twenty years
later, he has discovered, havingbeen raised by a pack of feral French
poodles. His transition from life asa poodle to life as a human is
not without some obstacles, mostly causedby some mysterious happenings at the Porter Poodle
Pound and Palace where Fideli's is beinghoused. This serves as a backdrop to

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explaining the biblical understanding of the relationshipbetween man and animal. What does it
mean for man to be created inthe image of God? And how does
that affect the distinction between man andanimals? And how are we to understand
the dominion mandate given to man byGod in Genesis one twenty eight. So
again, some deep topics there thatthey're tackling with these series, and so

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lots to look forward to there fromdominion artists and Frank Hughley and his team
testing one two three testing. Thatwas just me talking. I do that
a lot. Where's my speech?How long you've got to work with it?
That's what I want to talk about. So here's what I'm thinking.
I'm wondering how big of a factoris age in writing and acting, specifically

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for audio drama, since that's kindof what the show is about. This
is something I've been wondering and it'sjust kind of been running around in the
back of my mind for a fewweeks now, And you know, I
don't know that I one hundred percenthave all of the answers in this regard,
but it's just something that I've beenthinking about, and that's sort of
what this segment is about. Idon't always have it fully fleshed out,

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and it's fun to just think outloud a little bit and share with you
and get your feedback as well.So what I've been thinking is, you
know, I've read a lot ofindependently published fiction, primarily in the Christian
fiction realm, and a lot ofthat is written by younger writers, and
a lot of it is written byhomeschooled kids. And I say kids.

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You know, I'm in my forties, so anybody younger than me as a
kid, I think. But so, you know, young people in their
early mid late twenties even, youknow, no disrespect to people of that
age, but I sort of thinkof them as kids. But some of

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it is really good and some ofit is not so good. And you
know, that is another point thatI think we've touched on a little bit
here in the past, and that'sthe democratization of media times you know,
leveling the playing field can have positivesand negatives. Anybody can publish a book
these days, and that's really cool. But anybody can publish a book these

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days, and sometimes they're not verygood. So it's a quandary. But
that's not really the main point Iwant to touch on here. The issue
that I have sometimes with some ofthis fiction is due to the age of
these writers, and no fault oftheir own, but they just don't have

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a whole lot of life experience,and so therefore the writing lacks a lot
of depth at times. And Ican't recall ever reading one of these independently
published books written by a younger writerthat deeply moved me, and people who
know me in real life, no, I'm a bit of a softie,
and so I have been known totear up reading a book or of course

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listening to an audio drama and stuff. So it's not that that never happens
to me. And so I thinkthat there is just a little something about
somebody who's writing, even if they'venever experienced the exact circumstance that their character
is going through, just by virtueof having it lived more life, you

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observe things you experience some things thatmight be similar to what your characters are
going through, and so you're ableto write these situations in a way that
just feels a little bit more genuine. And so sometimes I wonder if a
very young writer can suitably capture thenuance and subtext of a story, or

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what a story really needs for itto have the impact that a more mature
person might be able to do veryvery well. And by ma sure,
I don't necessarily mean you know you, or maturity level. I mean older
people can be immature and younger peoplecan be quite mature. That's not what
I'm talking aout. I'm just talkingabout just the fact of that you've got

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some years behind you, You've gotsome miles beneath your feet, and it
just makes you a deeper. Again, this is a generality and it's not
always true, but I think itmakes you a deeper, more well rounded
individual, and able to think andwrite a little bit better. So these

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are kind of what I've been thinkingabout, and I think that this might
apply to writing audio drama scripts aswell, and on the performance side,
on the acting side of things.Something that I've talked about with some friends
in the past is child singers.Now, I know that everybody loves a
cute little kid that can sing reallywell. I've had friends and family members

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telling me about, oh my goodness, this kid is amazing. They go
viral or whatever, and I thinkit's the same thing. You know,
they could say the words or singthe words correctly, they pronounce it right,
they perhaps sing in perfect pitch,and the performance is perfect in a

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technical sense, but it's missing someheart because that young kid isn't able to
fully grasp the words of the songsthat they're singing, especially if it's a
really deep heartfelt message of a song. And so while I also might enjoy

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hearing some of these kids' performances,I do think they can't reach the same
level as somebody who has who cansing and that music, those words that
they're saying, you feel them deepdown because you know that it's coming from
a place of experience. And Ithink it's the same with audio drama performances.

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For acting. Yes, at itscore, acting is pretending, and
technically anyone can pretend to be anything, and one of the benefits of voice
acting is that the actor can't beseen, and so this allows them to
play many more roles in terms ofage and ethnicity even or all kinds of

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things than they could if they wereon stage or screen. But if it's
supposed to be a believable and genuinestory, can a very young actor convincingly
portray a deeply complex, mature characteras well as as one who has really
gone through a significant amount of life. I don't know. I lean towards

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probably not. Again, these aregeneralities. There's always exceptions, But just
because you know, let's take anexample of a young boy who has a
very mature sounding, deep voice andcan sound like he's in his thirties or
forties, and the sound of hisvoice sounds like he would be able to

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tackle this particular role of the middleaged man who is going through some terrible
life circumstances. Will that teen ortwenty something be able to genuinely, believably
portray this character so that the messageand the essence of who this character is

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really comes through in the performance?Again, I don't know. And so
this is just something that's kind ofbeen rattling around in my brain for a
little while. And I don't sayany of this to discourage young writers or
actors because you have to start atsome time, and you have to get

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experience. And how do you getexperience but by doing the thing that you
want to do. So I'm notsaying any of this to say, oh,
you've got to wait till you're thirtyor forty or fifty to be able
to do any audio drama, actingor writing. Not saying that at all.
Again, this is just something that'sbeen floating around in my brain and

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I just kind of wanted to tossit out and see what you thought,
let me know your opinions, Andmaybe I'm missing something here, but I
would love to hear your thoughts,and you know, sort of where I'm
coming down on it is maybe perhapsstick to lighter topics and situations in the
beginning for writers. Don't try totackle a deeply complex, nuanced situation that

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you personally have absolutely no clue abouthow people in the real life would really
handle that. Maybe maybe, ormaybe if you are going to try that,
you're gonna have to sit down andtalk with somebody who has gone through
that particular thing or something very similarand maybe get their perspective so you can

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write that character and situation from amore genuine and real place, I don't
know. And the same for acting. Perhaps I know that personally and I
am certainly not an accomplished actor.I'm probably average at best, But I
know that for speaking personally for myself, there are some roles that I think

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would have been very, very difficultfor me to even try to do twenty
years ago and do them justice.And maybe that just speaks to my lack
of talent or abilities. But Ido think there is something to be said
for having some life experience, andI think sometimes we discount some of these

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perspectives from writers who have been there, who have gone through a lot of
life, and they might write ascript or a character and portray them show
them in a way that we're like, I don't understand that. That doesn't
I don't get why they're doing that. Well maybe again, lots of generalities

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here, but perhaps just maybe they'rewriting from a perspective of really understanding what
that would be like, and wewho don't have as many miles behind us,
aren't able to see that point ofview. So that's what I'm thinking.

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Let me know what you think aboutall of this. Love to hear
from you. Let's bring in ourguests I have some very important information and
I thought i'd be getting it intothe hands of a real reporter. Sir,
Sir, can I speak to amoment? Oh, well, there's
nothing to it. I just askyou the questions and you answered them in
the tape recorder. Here play theinterview. Well, this is a conversation

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that I've been looking forward to forquite some time since i first heard about
this project. Well, I don'teven remember how long it's been, but
it's been quite a while. ButI'm so excited to have some of the
creative team at Heart Matters, andyou're gonna learn a little bit more about
what that is here shortly. ButI'm thrilled to have Christy Jardo lead program

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coordinator, and another person that you'revery familiar with, Austin Peache, who
is a regular contributor here on ATC, but he's also the audio content producer
for Heart Matters. Thank you somuch for coming on the show to talk
about what you guys have been workingon. Thanks for having us. Yeah,
thanks so much. We flipped thescript on you. Austin got you.
We got you in the other chairtoday. Yeah. Yeah, it

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doesn't happen too often, but thiswill be fun. Well, thank you,
This is so exciting what you guyshave been working on. Obviously you're
on ATC, so that means it'srelating to audio drama and we'll get to
that in a minute. But HeartMatters is a nonprofit organization in Oklahoma.
So Christy tell us a little bitabout what Heart Matters is and sure,

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what is the organization's mission. Ourmission is we demonstrate Christ's love by safeguarding
hearts and minds through our digital mediasafety, intervention and prevention programs. And
so some of those programs are ourin school program. We go into schools,
public schools, private schools, homeschoolgroups, youth organizations, and we

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teach digital media safety to kids frompre k all the way to eighth grade.
And so we do that not onlyin the town that we are in
Bartlesville, but in surrounding communities.So we have three counties that we go
into and teach kids in school.And so then we also have a resource
center on site. People can comeand we've got books and handouts, We've

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got computers where people can sit down, and we have some videos that we
highly recommend just learning about the safety. You know, how to keep kids
safe. We even have computers towhere if somebody's struggling with an addiction of
some kind, they can come andsit down and learn more about it and
kind of work through that. We'vehad a couple of you know, for
example, grandma's come in and say, hey, I caught my granddaughter sending

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inappropriate pictures? What do I dobefore I tell mom and dad? And
so it was really good we wereable to give them information, give that
to them so they can go backto their kids, you know, and
try to help their grandchildren through stufflike that. So we also have we
bring in guest speakers, we dopresentations. They're the experts, right we

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kind of just give out their information, but we bring them in and serve
dinner and let them speak to peoplein our community about things that they do.
We've had top digital tips and tricks. It's talking about Instagram, YouTube,
Snapchat, all those things that kidsare on. Come in and tell
parents about what's going on in there, how those predators are using those apps

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to get to kids. And thenwe do things on online enticement, how
kids are being groomed online. Sowe're bringing those experts and teach our communities.
About that, and then we doworkshops ourselves, go out and do
these same kind of things, justtalking again, passing on the information to
people in the community. And thenour last program is our app, which
is what we're getting ready to talkabout here today. But what happened was

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it was born out of we gointo, like I said, the schools
and we're not able to talk aboutGod or Jesus, which is our hope,
you know, because this is sometimesseems like a hopeless thing, is
the exploitation of kids, and sowe know that hope, but we can't
really share that hope necessarily in ourschools. And so we thought, you

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know what, the way that wecan do that is to create an app,
an app where kids can come andlearn about digital media safety online but
also the hope of Christ. Wecan't do it there, we say,
you know, our instructors can say, hey, let's talk about the rest
of the story. If you wantto hear about that, why don't you
go to our app. And thenthey can hear about the Gospel and about
the stories of the Bible and thingsthat help build that biblical character in them

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to help make those right decisions onlineand off. Yeah, yeah, so
you know you're making an impact therein your local area, and now this
is a way to reach a largeraudience, which you're doing to a certain
extent already through your website. It'sfull of resources they are already, but
this is just another avenue that youcan explore. Absolutely. Yes, you're
right. That's so exciting and it'sa very needed topic to address these days.

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And you know, so many parentswhich you know, I can't say
too much because I'm not a parentmyself, but I mean, they're not
watching what the kids are doing onthese devices. So and I'll be honest
with you, having these presentations,our community is thirty five thousand, so
it's not huge, but we canonly get about thirty people to our presentations.

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And I've had moms come up andsay, you know, I just
want to worry about getting my kidsto bed on time and feeding them the
right thing, and I don't evenwant to worry about this or like,
but if you're putting an iPad intheir hand or a phone in their hand,
you got to worry about it.You know, it's never too young
to talk about the safety that becausethere's predators that are out there trying to,

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you know, to get them,and we don't want that to happen.
So yeah, So as part ofthis new app, you are going
to be branching out into a completelynew medium for you from what I understand,
and that is audio drama. Sotell us why audio drama and how
is that going to help you accomplishyour mission? Absolutely well, like I
said, we want to get outthere. We can't talk about the Gospel

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and the hope of Christ outside inthe schools, but we can on our
own app. So that is onething that we for sure want to do.
But it's also getting those kids tocome to the app where if they're
going to be online, let's havesomething constructive for them. I mean,
we also want to talk about mediabalance. Okay, yeah, watch an
ho or listen to an audio dramabut then put down the phone and go

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play outside or something like that.But just being able to give them something
that they can listen to that's goingto not only entertain them but also to
teach them. And that's that's soimportant too. Yeah, you got to
have the balance. And what's socool about audio drama and regular listeners to
the show know this. I lovethis medium. So much because it's so

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powerful. You know, they couldgrab the app, hit play on one
of these stories and pull out acoloring book and do something you know,
stimulating with their mind while they're listeningas well. Yeah, which is kind
of great that you say that,because we have added coloring pages to our
audio dramas that the kids can printoff in color. For the ones that

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are targeted to kids, they can. Yeah, we've got discussion questions that
come along with the audio dramas thatAustin has fit together really good questions for
them to think about. And we'dlove parents to sit down with the kids
and go over these questions. Butthen, like I said, we've attached
to coloring page to that too,so they could print that off color that

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while they're listening to the audio drama. Oh that's fantastic. We'll get to
the content here in just a minute, Austin. But Christy, one more
question directly for you, and whatis the target audience for these Is it
a range or what are we lookingat here? Yeah? It is a
range. We have some that Imean, honestly, anyone could listen to
them and that would be great.I just figure that maybe a target audience

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for us would be some little kidsmight not want to listen to. You
know, well, I know wewon't want them to listen to, and
Austin will talk to you about it. We've got one coming up called Darkness
Zoology, and it's got a twopart thing. We're going to make sure
that the parents know that this isn'tfor young kids. But the ones that
are going to be launching again us, we'll talk about that. They can

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listen to any of those. Honestly, it's going to be great, but
we will have those that won't befor young audiences, and we will make
sure that parents know and kids knowthat these for mature audiences. Yeah,
and so, as you alluded toit at the beginning of the conversation,
you're going to be addressing some topicsthat are pretty heavy, some stuff that's
you know, not applicable to allages. But I've listened to a few

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of the productions already and it's alwaysdone tastefully and in an age appropriate way.
So I appreciate how you guys arehandling these topics. Yes, thank
you so much. You know,Austin has been working hard with the writers.
He has written a couple of themand so him being able to communicate
with them and them know our heartand honestly we know their heart, and

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so it's been really easy to beable to do that and to you know,
tailor it to meet the needs,you know, to be age appropriate.
Yeah, yeah, so Austin,Yeah, tell us a little bit
about some of the productions. Now. The app is launching with six complete
stories and then there will be moreto come, but tell us a little
bit, just give us a littleteaser about maybe some of the things that

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they can check out right at launch. Sure. So the first audio production
that we ever did, the audidrama that we did for the app was
The Spire and the Fly, whichis based on the eighteen hundred's poem.
The script that I wrote, it'skind of a test, if you will,
of how this would work. Andthat's one of the stories that's geared

(34:21):
for more younger kids. That tellsabout a flight named Felicia and an encounter
with a spider named Sick Freed forand for listeners, if you want to
hear ATC's on J D. Sutterplay a villain, you can go listen
to the episode. You do.You do a really great job with that
it's a really I'm sure it wasa really funderroll to play, but that

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story is again for more younger kids, but again, like Christy said,
any agents can enjoy that one.We have David versus Joseph, which is
a Bible story and in that title, he's like, you know, two
different people in the Bible, basicallyappair contrast of how two men in the
Bible. I will dealt with temptationwith David, King of Israel and Joseph,

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Jacob's son. And that one's gearedpretty little bit older audience for closer
like teens, but I'm sure alot of kids would enjoy it too.
And then we have a Pigtail,which is one of our h it's a
fairy tale that you have never heardthis in a way, play it this
way. Before we had the ideafor to use the story of the Three

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Little Pigs, one of our writer'sGlenn Haskell, did such an amazing job
making this story fit for like amodern audience and like modern technology and also
be an absolutely hilarious. There's somereally people are really going to enjoy that
and laugh over that, and wehave some really great actors in that one.
Probably the standout in that one,it's probably Bethany Baldwin as the narrator

(35:49):
omniscient narrator, and John Farnoff playsa couple of characters in that, including
the Big bad of Wolf. Andthat's that's good. That's a lot of
fun. That's that one's probably moregeared for kids, but I think all
the humor is going to be applicableto probably a little bit older audience,
but it's still appropriate for all ages. We have another fairy tell story called
snow White, Two Dwarves and aQueen, which has also written Mike Glenn

(36:10):
Haskell and dealing with some cyber bowlingand things like that where you'll probably guess
who does a cyber bowling, andthat one based on the story. Okay,
okay, I'm gonna interrupt you righthere, Austin, because I listened
to that one and I was laughingso hard at some of the points of
that one. It's like these,I mean, young young kids are some

(36:31):
of that stuff's going to ride overtheir head. But I love that it's
in there because I was like,this is this is genius. Sorry,
now you can continue. You're good, No, you're good. I'm glad
I'm really glad you enjoyed that one. Speak mar Names and that one you'll
hear Glenn Haskell and Kila Bresler andTriscia Rose, Oh my goodness, Tricia

(36:52):
Rose is so amazing with a rolethe evil Queen and that one you're you're
really gonna enjoy hearing that. Wealso have the Dundersage Delusion, which is
another script by Glenn Haskell. Glenn, as ATC listeners know, Glenn is
a writing machine. He never neversleeps when it comes to writing stuff,
it seems like. But he's alsoan actor in that one too, that

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deals with about being careful what takewhat we take into her minds, in
this case song lyrics and showing itin a funny and unique way about being
careful what we allow into our mindsand how those things can influence us in
our actions. Glenn Haskell e sidit's in that one and a few of
the dane Arts, the dane Artfamily which very talented family, and also

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Rebecca Bradford from Nickuy Private Eyes andthat one as well, and this was
probably my favorite one in the launchshows is A Far Off Planet, which
is a masterpiece written by Alicia Hansenand it's a story of the prodigal sun
set in space. Oh wow.And for me, I'm not a sci
fi fan really, but I hadthis idea for it, and I pitched

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it to a lead shit and asyou all us know, she's a big
sci fi fan, and you knowwith her show Venture and all that she
knows the that genre very well,and she wrote in a way that people
like me can appreciate, even thoughit's, you know, a sci fi
space thing, but very emotional,very very epic story with like some great

(38:19):
actors like Dominic Trice Place the LeeCarton that John Thornoff play some roles in
that too, and Garret Vanderberg doesawesome music with that too. And Micah
Tscha, oh wow, my goodnesshis his sound design for that is amazing.
That one's that one's a lot offun too. But yeah, there's
a little bit for everybody. There'sstuff for younger kids, you know,
older kids, teenagers, and juststuff that for the whole family to enjoy

(38:42):
together. That's amazing. Well,I think we should let the listeners hear
a little trailer that give them alittle taste of these audio dramas. What
do you think let's do it.Yeah, all right, join Heart Matters
as we take you on an audiojourney from the pages of the Bible.
If you do not bring me moremoney than what I paid your brothers and
you will be beaten beyond recognition.Do you want to to the far reaches

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of space? What's going on?I've just received the warning that the storm
is here, much earlier than anticipatedand much more spear. The population has
been ordered to seek shelter immediately downto the world of insects with web That
means you're a spider. Why,of course, I come from a long
line of spiders, classically trained inweb design and everywhere in between. I'm

(39:31):
not sure if you should be concerned, but chickens make impressive house cleaners.
Chickens Obviously, someone doesn't want youto know about it. Plus fairy tales
like you've never heard them before?Big Bad named that they are relative.
There were books about them. Yeah, I've been reading up screen screen on
my desk. Who's by far mostpicturesque. Find these stories for kids,

(39:55):
teens and the whole family, andthe Heart Matters out download today from the
Apple App Store, Google Play andthe Amazon App Store. Oh man,
I love that, and I knowthe listeners will too. And as as
you already said, there's some veryfamiliar voices in there, and even got
a little a clip of an oldSigfreed in there. Yep. And yeah,

(40:22):
that was so much fun to playthat character. It probably had too
much fun, but with it,well, villains are usually the most fun
characters to play for a lot ofpeople. Yeah, yeah, the web
designing spider, Yeah, I loveit. And you know, as we
said, you know these there's alot of humor in at least especially in

(40:46):
the ones that I've heard so far, but I don't think that that diminishes
the lessons that are involved, becausethat one in particular, I mean,
there are some there are some funnylines throughout it, but the end is
not funny, and the narrator comesin and kind of well, I hate
to call him even a narrator.I think he's more of a storyteller that

(41:07):
actually kind of guides the listener through. And because that one is geared towards
a little bit of a younger audience, I think it was perfectly appropriate and
I loved the way it was done. And so man, I'm just really
really excited about what you're doing now, Austin. I wanted to ask you,
because you know, you're not astranger to the audio drama world.

(41:28):
You've been producing and writing audio dramasfor a very long time, but this
is a new territory for you.So what has that transition been like,
going from more of a hobbyist intoa professional setting. So to tell us
a little bit about that, well, that in itself was quite the journey.
I actually did not start working atHeart Matters as audio content producer.

(41:52):
I was hired on as a socialmedia coordinator. Can remember what the exact
role was. I think it wasbasically with a lot of social media is
and web design stuff and I knowresume i'd put, you know, my
work on faith field stories and stufflike that, and Christy I think I
had listened to that and stuff,and I think I mentioned my interview about
hey kind of cool to the audidramas, like I mentioned an app,

(42:12):
and so for a while, likeyou know, I had in the back
of my mind and like, oh, this might be a good idea,
but I was working on my socialmedia stuff, and of course people know
I love audio drama and I thinkHard Matters in their mission is a perfect
a place to create stories like that, and so I actually sent Christy,
who Christy hasn't listened to a lotwhole audi drama before this time, so

(42:35):
I sent her an episode from danklya Lane Beating the Beast, within which
tackle is a really tough subject inthat one. So Christy, what,
how how will you tell listeners whatyou thought when you first heard that audio
drama? Oh? Wow, Ithought it was great. Again, like
he said, it's not something thatI've ever really listened to. I haven't
really listened too much. That's changed, but but being able to hear that

(42:59):
and understand that that can come acrossin that way. It's not visual.
I am visual, which is probablywhy I kind of leaned towards the video.
However, like I said, untilthis, I have listened to some
of these stories of ours a fewtimes, just on occasion for the fun
of it. So I'm really gettingto know that genre better and I really

(43:22):
really like it. It's kind oflike when you're reading and I can visualize
everything in my head the way it'scoming across. So to hear that story
and to be able to see thatin my head for that to come across.
I thought it was unbelievable. SoI'm like, we could do this.
That's awesome. I can't do this, but you can do this.

(43:45):
Well. I'm grateful for the trusty'all gave me in that in I know,
like listen to that. That waskind of like the green light.
Okay, we can do audio drums. Let's do an audio dramas. So
I roll eventually morphs into audio contentproducers. So as for my job,
every day I'm working on audo dramas, getting casting and voice tracked and things
like that. And coming from justdoing it as a hobby where I just

(44:07):
do my free time, you know, like in the evenings or on weekends
and things like that, doing itas a job one is a dream come
true. I'm very blessed. I'mvery thankful to God to give me this
opportunity because I love this meetium.I think it's a great medium to tell
stories, especially really good messages.And it's been kind of surreal where every

(44:29):
day I'm front every weekday I'm hereand working on audi dramas, and it's
like it's not something I thought wouldhappen, especially in my hometown. I
thought maybe something I would do likefreelancer, move out of state to do
but don't get to do it.Here is a big blessing, but it's
also you know, a little morestressful to a certain extent because I have
you know, actual, you know, firm due dates. Okay, I

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need to have actors lines by thespecific day. I need to send them
notes for retakes at certain times,and they need the music for this to
be done at a certain time.So have jugglingly a lot of that the
same time, and it makes thingsa little more stressful, but it also
helps more creativity happen. I knowsometimes if you if you're giving like a
deadline for a certain thing, you'regonna work harder. You're going to do

(45:10):
your best for that, where ifit's just something you do on the side,
like oh, that can be doneat any point in the future,
you know, it's easy to putthat on the back burner. But when
you're focused on this, I thinkyou can create a much better product.
And frankly, I don't do asmuch as some people a lot. How
these audio dramas, how great theyare. I give that one credit to
God, the ultimate storyteller, andalso for the many talented actors, the

(45:32):
writers, the sound designers, themusic composers, and the people that create
the artwork things like that. It'sjust so it's such a fun thing to
be part of a team effort.And I've worked on some projects where basically
I was the only one doing itmost everything, and that's not always the
most fun thing to do. Sobe able to share the burden. I
know that sounds kind of bad,but to be able to share share those

(45:57):
different parts of the process with otherpeople and collaborating with them that give and
take. Okay, we need this, let's go in this direction. That's
a process too, of the collaborationprocess. I've learned a lot more with
going with what we thought we wantedand they may it's a different direction,
but maybe this is a better direction. And doing those things helped me teach
me we're working on a team andthings like that, and also working for

(46:20):
you know, like an employer,like making sure that you make a best
product. Can that's also you know, communicating the message for the mission of
the organization as well. And it'sbeen a learning process, like I'm still
learning, but it is. Itis such a fun ride, and I'm
so so grateful to God and foreveryone of Hard Matters for allow me to
be able to do this for them. Well, yeah, you never stopped

(46:42):
learning, and I think people thatdecide that they know enough are not usually
going to last very long. Soyeah, having that willingness to just keep
learning and with every production you figureout maybe a little thing here that you
might tweak or whatever. So yeah, I think that's important. And you
write it. It's a collaborative process, but you still have to have somebody

(47:02):
at the helm and so you know, you're steering the process, and so
it's important every single aspect and whatI've heard so far has been really really
great quality, So I'm I thinkit's this is really good stuff. I
mean, what you guys are doing, I'm really excited for where it's going.

(47:23):
Well, thank you. I'm gladyou're enjoying it absolutely. So there's
a link in the show notes toof course the Heart Matter's website for people
to go check out everything that youguys are doing, but also links to
where they can go get the app. And so you know, we said
six stories are in the app atlaunch, how often will we be getting

(47:45):
new content In terms of audio dramaswell, we have several odd drums that
are still yet to come. Thisyear, we have a standalone production called
In the Worlds Collide coming out inApril of this year, dealing with VR
in video game addiction. Really epicstory and we're close to we're getting close
to the end of that process ofproducing that and it's sounding amazing. It's

(48:07):
because of the many talented people thatare working for us on this, and
it's it's gonna be pretty epic.We also have another Bible audo drama similar
to David Versus Joseph, coming outsometime in July. Then we also have
in September, which is gonna beThe Darkness Duology. That's a two part
show that deals with an issue thatis very prevalent and very saddening in today's

(48:31):
world for kids and teenagers, issuicide and how the digital world influences those
kinds of things. And it's veryunique story with a story with the same
circumstances, but two different endings,and but each episode can stand alone on
its own. You'll listen to onein any order, just two different endings.

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But hopefully in all of it showsyou know the hope, hope that
Christ can give and also hopefully helppeople think twice about take in their own
life and showing how it can befor the people left behind and how there
are options to get help. Andthen closing out the year, we're gonna
have a I guess say, amini series or multi part story called Princess,

(49:15):
which has to do with human traffickingin the US, and that's a
very powerful So that's probably gonna bethe it's the long it's gonna be the
longest this year, so that we'vebeen working on one of the most one
of the most powerful and most Iwant to say, probably heart wrenching to
a certain extent. Again, likewe're still gonna, you know, be
tasteful with it and things like that, and kind of my model for some

(49:35):
of these shows is like River Cross, I think you mentioned that earlier.
They're dealing with really tough subjects onthings happening to children in Africa, but
in a tasteful way, but agood story first and foremost. And that's
what I went for these stories,is good story first and foremost. If
you don't have a good story andyou're just having characters, you know,
just preach at someone and just sayingit, you know, not in an

(49:58):
organic way, but a story isgoing to teach a lot more than someone
given a lecture or a sermon.So we want all these stories to help
edify people and inform people. Andwe have more audi dramas planned for twenty
twenty five or I saw the firstdraft for one the scripts for next year,
and that's going to be a lotof fun. Yeah, several more,

(50:19):
several shows planned for So we don'thave any plans to stop doing audio
dramas. We love making them andwe hope people will love hearing them.
Oh man, that's awesome. I'mreally excited about you know. You know,
again we're talking about some heavy stuffhere, but it's a ministry tool
here that you that you can usethis medium to reach out to touch people's

(50:42):
lives. And that's what storytelling reallyis all about. Each one of us
is a story, and I believethat God has put that in us,
and we love story and so thatyou guys are putting that first. You
know, Yes, we want towe have we have a message with what
we're doing here, but we wantto tell a good story too, and

(51:06):
you're you're doing that and and soI'm really excited about it. And Christy,
what was the reason, I mean, explain to the listener why it
was important to have these discussion guidesand other things to go along with these
with these episodes. Sure, absolutely, you know, I think sometimes maybe
we want to make sure everybody getsthe message of the story, and I

(51:30):
think it's written so that they will. But if they don't, or if
they want to go a little further, you know, we've put those questions
in there so they can kind oflook at what I'm doing. How did
I see that? How what wouldI have done if this had happened to
me? I'm thinking of Felicia.What would Felicia's mom? What could she
have done so that Felicia didn't Iwon't give it away, but I think

(51:53):
we probably all know, but forthe listener to put themselves in that,
you know, the shoes of thatcharacter, to decide what they would have
done, What could I have done? What would I have done? And
if I didn't make that choice,what would the outcome be? Of course,
Austin's you know, put those discussionquestions together and we're pointing them to

(52:15):
scripture too, So I think that'slike the thing that I love the most
in those discussion questions, is pointingthem to scripture and then just teaching them
along the way this is what sheshould have done, This is what you
know. It's easy to see hindsight, right. I mean, we can
all say that we've all made mistakesand we can will continue to do that.
But if we teach them the rightway now when they're met with something,

(52:37):
then maybe they'll realize, oh waita minute, I remember this in
The Spider and the Fly. I'mnot going to do this. I'm going
to choose this way this time.You know. So when we have we
have students that come up to uswhen we're in the schools and come up
to the instructors and say, youknow, when little boys like you know
what, I remembered what you saidin class last week, and I put

(53:00):
my game down and I went andplayed it with my little brother outside,
you know, and he said andit was a lot of fun. So,
you know, those things that webegin to teach. And then there's
the heartbreaking stories or you know,somebody adult reached out to me on this
game I was playing and he wantedto meet me in person, and you
know that kind of thing. Sowe can say, hey, we don't

(53:20):
talk to people unless we know himin real life, you know. So
those lessons that were teaching out there, we can teach within here, and
so that's what those discussion questions arekind of meant to do, is to
continue to teach. And also again, like I said, what would you
do if you were in that position? Yeah, yeah, that's fantastic.
Now this is a question that's morefor me, I think, or and

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I guess the super fans of audiodrama in the audience, which I know
there are a few, but forthose kind of people. Is there any
chance that a CD collection might bemade available at some point? Ooh,
I didn't know that was a thing. I would say, yes, wonderful.
I think we could probably do somethinglike that. I think something else

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that Austin did when he got themusic composers together. You know, we
have original soundtracks too. I don'tknow if you've had a chance to go
on there. So that's a lotof fun. We were kind of updating
the app today as we were sittingthere together, and we just had a
far off planet playing in the background, you know. So I think that's
pretty amazing just to hear those theoriginal music too. So we put that

(54:30):
in there for people to enjoy also, so that might be something that goes
on there also. Oh, that'swonderful. I didn't see that yet.
So well, speaking of other featuresin the app, but tell just a
real briefly what other kind of contentand resources are going to be available there.
Sure, So we have what we'recalling masterclasses, So we're just going

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to launch with one. But withinthat one, it's one of our youth
pastors and his wife's a teacher,and it's called commune Cating with Teens.
And so within that there's about nineteentwo to three minute videos on different subjects
of talking with your team. We'regoing to have videos doing Bible stories.

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So one of the first ones that'sgoing to come up is going to be
Christ in the Cross, and soagain it's going to be told in an
entertaining way, but a way thatthose you know, kids listening can kind
of sync that in and adults youknow that those lessons and so there'll be
a bunch of things like that.It's two people talking it out. One's
giving the story, narrating it whilethe other one might be kind of giving

(55:37):
it a little flare. And thenwe also have something called Safety with Ryan.
So this is geared towards parents,and it's just talking about the different
apps that are out there that thekids might be on, and so just
giving them a little a little informationon what can go on in the app,
what the app does, and maybehow you can keep it you know,

(55:58):
can kind of lock it down orkeep it SA or some of them
we don't recommend at all, andso those will be up in there.
Then we also have short films andthose are again just videos of probably two
to five minutes of doing the samething, teaching again, all in an
entertaining way. A lot of it'scomedy, some of it's not so funny,

(56:22):
but it's again teaching kids about whatcan happen online. And then we
also have we're coming out with adocumentary probably I think January twenty twenty five,
but there is a kind of atrailer in there. It's a twelve
minute trailer that we did. It'sabout a young woman who was groomed and
abused by her professor. And soagain it's part of that piece of I

(56:45):
won't say necessarily trafficking, but it'swithin that. So a lot of stuff
took place online and so we're justtrying to teach people through that. And
she said again, if it couldhelp you help just one person to be
able to see her story and toknow when something like that is happening and
then they can stop it, shesaid, then it's all worth it.

(57:07):
So wow. Yeah, And thegood news about this is you get access
to all of these resources, allthese awesome audio dramas and more to come,
for the price of nothing. Allright, it's free. Yes,
it's free. Yes, which isI love that that we're able to do

(57:30):
that. We have a resale storehere in our town and people donate items
to them, and then on Tuesdaysand Saturdays and once a month on Thursdays,
they're open for people to come purchasethings from there. And they make
up about sixty percent of hour ofthe donations that come up of the money

(57:51):
they were able to use, andthen the rest of it comes from Yeah,
it's pretty amazing. Now I saythat before we begin the app,
so it's going to change a littlebit with the app. But we're just
hoping that, you know, ifpeople see something that they like or they
really appreciate these audio dramas or theseshort films or another thing that's going to

(58:14):
come out next year as a puppetshow and it's a drama. It's called
Jungle Elementary and it's gotta be twoseasons that will come out next year.
And so that's pretty fun in itself, but weird. It's being written right
now, and we've got the puppetsalready made from a company in California and

(58:36):
so they're here and so we couldsee them every day. They're pretty life
size, so it's going to bereally amazing. But that's just going to
be something else coming along. Butyou know, if people see that and
they're learning stuff and their kids areenjoying it, we're hoping that they kind
of buy in, you know,to help that next thing to be made.
So why we really are so blessedwith that resale shop. I know

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with what's coming up, it's goingto take private donations and things like that,
but we're believing for provision from Godbecause we honestly believe he's calling us
to do this. So yeah,yeah, it makes it really easy in
the app. It makes it reallyeasy to donate. So if you like
any of the content and there,you want to see more happen. And
I know if youc Is talked ofthis a lot about how you know,

(59:20):
good audio drama does not come cheap. So if you feel blessed by it,
if you think this is something thatis worthwhile, we'd appreciate it if
you donate. You know, donatingthe app makes it really easy to do
that, and that'll help the organizationkeep running and more audiodramas and video is
made. Yeah, I mean,we believe that the worker is worthy of
his higher And also there's the what'scalled the value for value model that a

(59:46):
lot of content is distributed under,and that is, you know, we're
giving this to you. If youget value out of it, then maybe
give us a little bit back inreturn. And so I think that's that's
a great way to do it.And of course, as Austin mentioned,
you can do that through the appor head over to heart Matters, dash
Okay dot org and there's a there'sI'm sure there's a way to do that

(01:00:09):
there as well. Before we headout the door, Christy, any any
last words anything we didn't cover thatyou want to make sure to let the
audience know about. I honestly can'tthink of anything. I really appreciate you
having us on I really do,and this is something that my background is
not in this. My degree isin microbiology, so oh wow, this

(01:00:31):
is totally different than anything I haveever done. God called me into nonprofit
five years ago and so here Iam. But I am so humbled and
honored to be able to be apart of something like this because, like
I said, I think I operateon the other side of the brain that
a lot of creative people do.So I can do the spreadsheets and the

(01:00:52):
budgets and I can create that way. But what you guys are doing,
I think is something that is notin my skill set. But I am
absolutely having a ball doing it.So well, I want to say just
say for me, thank you forseeing the potential in this medium to use
it in this way. It's apowerful storytelling medium and I love what you

(01:01:15):
guys are doing, and so thankyou, and thank you for letting me
be a little part in participating inone of the episodes. So that was
a lot of fun too. Absolutely, I think that's great. And yeah,
don't stop, don't stop trying out. We expect you to be in
more of them too, Okay,Austin anything else that we want to let
the audience know about. Well,another thing that you all can do for

(01:01:38):
us, if you if you believein the mission of Heart matters and what
we're doing is also to pray forus. It's not a it's not an
easy thing what we do, andI'm not trying to make us. Some
want to pity us, but itis is tough material to work with and
the stories we hear and what we'remaking and you know, moving on the

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devil's territory. Devil does not likeit. So we would appreciate everybody out
there that was a Christian that wouldstand behind us and pray for us and
that we would keep doing the Lord'swill. And we would greatly appreciate that,
absolutely absolutely well. Again, linksto the website and the app are
in the show notes. I highlyencourage you to go check this out and

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listen to these episodes. And I'msure that there's a family or your own
children who will benefit from listening tothis, to these productions. So thank
you again, Christy and Austin forKevin on the show, thank you so
much. Yes, thank you,JD. This is a lot of fun.
It's a murder mystery sort of crossbetween William Shakespeare and Agada. Christie,

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No, it's not that I didn'tlike it, it's that it wasn't
a good play. This will beone of the best shows we have ever
done, Such an amusing show.What was that line you coined? I
never knew acting could be so muchfun. Well, you just heard all
about these audio dramas, where theycame from, and a lot of the
people involved in them. But let'sgo ahead and dive into them a little

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bit deeper. Now, there aresix of them here, and they're all
about thirty minutes or less, sowe're not going to take a whole ton
of time with them because they don'twant to give away any spoilers. But
I do want to touch on afew things with regard to each episode here.
So let's talk about the six HeartMatters standalone audio dramas that are in

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the app today as of the launch. And we've got a good variety here
of these episodes, and of courselink is in the show notes to head
over there, get the app,visit their website learn more about what they're
doing. We talked about all ofthat with Christy and Austin just a moment
ago, and speaking of them,Christy Jardo is the executive producer of these

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Heart Matters audio dramas, and producerand director was Austin Peachey on all six
of them as well. Well.So let's jump into these audio dramas.
Now, quick note before we getstarted. I was involved in one of
these shows, as you heard inthe interview there, and Austin is of
course a friend and a longtime ATCcontributor. But I do have to give

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an honest review of these. Nowthese are it's just my opinion. You
are free to disregard my thoughts onthese, but that has been a foundation
of Audio Theater Central from the beginning, and that is that we give honest
critiques and reviews of audio dramas.So that might mean that on occasion there

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are things that we think could havebeen improved, and we're gonna bring those
up when that happens. So Ijust wanted to give that caveat that,
you know, just because I wasinvolved in these, I'm still going to
give an honest assessment my opinions ofthese audio dramas as and jage he pays

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off God for everything else. I'mpraying your take as a servant, be
your progame. So Daddy, I'mtoo Cold song of the lists before I

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could see you were listed from myfootsteps. You came learn and off me
as com cold, but your bodiesused to love the pod God broken lone?
Is me enough? Prodigal would know? I have love to his daddy?

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Pis you enough? Were? We'regonna go down these six audio dramas
in the order that they were releasedon the app here. So the first
one is The Spider and the Fly, and that just happens to be the
one that I am in. Sohere is the summary for this fourteen minute
audio drama. A spider named Siegfriedhas moved into Felicia, the Fly's neighborhood.

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She's been warned not to get nearthe spider's home. Is Siegfried as
dangerous as her mom says? Oris Sigfreed actually a good friend? So
this one was written by Austin Peachey, with sound design and music by Mark
mulcahy, who you may be familiarwith from Greenhorn Tails. He's done some

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work on that show, and ofcourse he worked on the Watch and some
other projects. And I've really reallyliked Mark's work and his music and his
sound design are always really really great. So this is a show that is
geared towards a younger audience, andit's basically talking about stranger danger essentially to

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put it in the vernacular, soto speak. And I thought this one
came together really really well. I'mnot gonna talk about it too much because
I don't want to see him selfserving, because again, I did have
a role in this. I getto play Siegfried the Spider. Had a
great time with that role. Andthe rest of the cast Jonathan Cook as

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the storyteller, Christianna Thomas as Feliciathe Fly, and Tricia Rose as Felicia's
mother, they were phenomenal. Theyreally really did a great job. I
thought this one came together really,really nicely. One thing about the sound
design that I thought was really kindof funny is because we have, you
know, Felicia. There's a scenewhere she's leaving the house heading out to

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go to school and we hear wherethe flies live. Now, they don't
live in a typical home. Youknow, sometimes stories that feature animals or
insects they actually have houses. Inthis case, they live in a garbage
can or something like that. IfI remember correctly, and so in the
sound design they chose, Mark choseto still use like actual doors opening and

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closing, which I thought was afunny, funny touch because we hear in
the story that they live, theydon't live in a house, So I
thought that was just a funny,little comical element that he added to it.
There are some humorous lines in thisone here and there, but overall
it is not intended to just bea story that you're sitting there chuckling and
go falling at, because it's talkingabout a serious topic, which all of

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these really do in some way.And so I thought this one was done
really really well, and Austin reallyreally impressed me with the writing on this
one. So I really enjoyed TheSpider and the Fly really really fun show.
And now that I say fun,sounds terrible to categorize it like that

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because it is so serious and theending is not fun, but I think
you'll understand what I mean when youlisten to it. Well. Next up
is David versus Joseph. The summaryis two different lives, the same opportunity,
two different outcomes, which hero ofthe Old Testament will fall? And
this one is right at thirty oneminutes long, also written by Austin and

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sound designed by Christopher Green and musicby Dominic Trice. Now this one is,
of course it's a Bible story,so we know how these go,
but it's an interesting way to putthese two different characters back to back and
we see how this story plays outframed in this perspective of temptation, and

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how each of these men reacted toit. Now, if you're familiar with
the Bible at all, you'll knowthese stories, but the way that they
are chextaposed in this particular production wasreally interesting and I thought it was handled
well. We had a great cast. Of course, we have the main

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characters of Joe Joseph, who wasplayed by Dominic Trice in addition to doing
the music, and David was playedby Craig Hart. And we have a
full cast here which includes Bethany Baldwinas Potiphar's wife. We also have Tricia
Rose as Bathsheba, and Austin Peachealso picks up a role here. We

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have Steve Phillips, Glenn Haskell,Frank Hugh Lee, John Mark Force,
and Garrett Vandenberg. Also hopefully I'mnot missing anybody, but a pretty good
sized cast for this half hour show, and this one, I would say
is aimed at an older demographic.Most really small children are not going to

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be encountering this particular issue of lustand temptation, so I think this one's
for older teens. And of coursethe scenes with Potiphar's wife are a little
bit edgy, but it is tryingto make a point, is trying to
show you what really happened in thisstory. So again I think this one's
for older teens. But it's extremelywell done. The performances were fantastic.

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Bethany Baldwin was a standout in thisone. She was fantastic, as was
Dominic as Joseph. Just really reallygreat job all around from the cast on
this one. So that is Davidversus Joseph. The next one is called
a Pigtail and it's th al Enot t ai L, and the summary

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is a trio of pig siblings arelooking at building their own homes. However,
they've caught the attention of the BigBad Wolf, who finds a way
to influence them into building inferior housesthrough his online presence. This one is
twenty two minutes long and it waswritten by Glenn Haskell, with sound designed
by Ben Kimp, who you maybe familiar with from a bit of Time

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Travel and his new show The Churchat Tressel Falls, as well as working
on Greenhorn Tales as well. Hissound design is always really really good.
I always appreciate his work as well. And so this one, of course,
as the summary says, it's talkingabout online influencers and the way that
they can well influence your buying habitsor whatever the case may be, and

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of course more sinister things as well, But this one tackles this topic in
a really really funny, humorous way, of course, a retelling of the
classic tale of the Three Little Pigsin a modern setting, and of course
using the Internet as a main focushere. And this one is the one

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that you heard Austin reference in theinterview that Bethany Baldwin plays the omniscient narrator
and so a really humorous take.What I liked about it is it was
a little bit similar to the waythe narrator acts in Jungle Jam, how
he sometimes interacts with the characters.So that was a really fun touch.

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And we know that Glenn Haskell isa great comedy writer so there's some very
funny lines here. We have ChristopherGreen as Brian, who is one of
the pigs, Rebecca Bradford as Bridget, another pig, and John Foraranoff as
Kevin, the third pig, andso they all did a really great job
here. And then we have JohnFornoff also as the Big Bad Wolf.

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Now, this is one thing thatI was not super crazy about because I
thought I thought those voices were alittle bit too close. We had John
Tharanoff playing one of the pigs andthe Big Bad Wolf. If it had
been me, I would have casta different voice there. I just thought

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they were too similar. Again,this is just my opinion, but that
was one thing that I thought Iwould have done differently personally. But in
terms of the acting itself that itwas all fantastic. And I love the
way that John Fornoff plays these characters, especially the wolf. He's got some
very funny lines. There's some interactionswith other characters that were just very very

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funny. There's also a bus driveras they're traveling to where they're going to
build their homes, very very funnycharacter. Again, the humor that Glenn
incorporated into this is very very funand I always enjoy his stuff, and
so this is a really fun one. This one's totally fine for all ages.

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I think. You know, sometimesparents are given very young children these
smartphones, so this is a topicthat needs to be addressed. And you
know what, here's the thing.I mean, I hope parents will listen
to these things and realize that maybeit's not such a great idea to just
give unfettered access to the Internet throughiPads and smartphones to our young kids.

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So anyway, I'll get off myselfbox now. But that is a pigtail,
very very fun. Really enjoyed it. Well, that's three down.
We've got three more to go.The next one is snow White, Two
dwarves and a Queen. Now thisis sort of again a fairy tale that's
been retold, but in a prettydifferent way. We only have two dwarves,

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oh goodness. The summary is theannual Fairest of them All ball is
approaching and the Queen is looking forwardto being admired and crowned at it again.
But a stranger named snow White arrivesin the kingdom and threatens the Queen's
plans. This one's about twenty oneminutes Long, also written by Glenn Haskell,
with sound design by Ezra Losa.So again a retelling of the snow

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White story in a more modern context, but some very different elements. I
really really enjoyed this one. Ilaughed out loud multiple times during this one,
and I've gone back and listened toit again and had the same same
reaction. I just so many funnylines here. The dwarfs. Here we

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have Sparky and Leon played by GlennHaskell and Caleb Bresler. Just some great
interactions between those two and then withother characters, just funny stuff. Caleb
Bresler also plays the Queen's mirror,does a great great job, and Glenn
is also the narrator here, sogoodnes I see he was the writer,

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narrator and plays one of the dwarves. Great job all around. The Queen
was played by Tricia Rose. Shedoes a fantastic job of playing an evil
villain. Really really enjoyed her performance. Freya, who is the Queen's attendant
or assistant, whatever whatever you wantto call her, played by Rose Beasley

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and she did a wonderful job aswell. And then we have snow White,
who was played by Heidi Stewart,who if you've listened to the Seneca
Awards for the last several years,you've heard her voice every year, and
of course she's been in Lamplighter Theaterand other stuff as well. Really really
great performance by Heidi. Overall,Man really really had fun with this one.

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Now, there was a couple oftimes where I thought the pacing in
the overall mix could have been adjusted. There was just a couple of moments
where I just felt a little offand I would have liked to have seen
that tightened up in a couple ofspots. But overall, really really nicely
done. Again, I laughed outloud at this one. Had a lot

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of fun with this. One ofmy favorites in this first batch of productions
from Heart Matters. All right,we move on to the penultimate one,
and that is called a Far OffPlanet. The summary is Duade has it
all a luxury apartment on Mars,his own teleporter, and a companion robot.

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However, and approaching dust storm mightchange all of that. And this
one is just over a half hour. This one was written by Alisia Hanson
of Eternal Future Productions, who youknow her work from Pirateers, but this
is something very different, and asAustin mentioned earlier, you know she's working
on her own science fiction show.And this is the story of the prodigal

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sun set in space and it isreally really well done. Sound designed by
Micah Touchet, music by Garrett Vandenberg, and I absolutely loved this one.
Now, this one is I thinkaimed at an older audience too, so
that might be something to do withit, because it is more not mature

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in a bad way, but itis aimed at an older demographic, and
so I am in the older demographics. I really enjoy this. My goodness.
The cast, it's got one ofthe larger casts, maybe even the
largest cast of any show of thesesix so far. But everybody was so
so good. We had Dominic Tricein the lead role of Duade, who

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is of course the prodigal son here, and he did a fantastic job in
this character's role. My goodness,I really really enjoyed his performance. We
had Betsy Nicholson as an animated voiceof multiple different I started to say inventions,
but that's not the right word.Just different interfaces, maybe is the

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is the word in this futuristic spaceworld. And she had the perfect intonation
and cadence. She did a greatjob as a as a an AI sort
of voice. We had Andy Harveyhere in the in the cast, and
Craig Hart Glenn Haskell as a securityrobot. Jonathan Cook plays a shop owner
in a scene. We had JohnFornoff as the aforementioned companion robot of Duade,

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whose name is Rizzo. And thisone was just an interesting, interesting
way to tackle this story. Andyou know, if you've been around church
for any length of time read theBible, you know this familiar story.
But hearing it turned in this wayand presented in a new way, I

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mean, this is not the firsttime a Bible story has been retold in
a new context. I mean that'sbeen happening for forever probably, But there
was something really interesting about this.And Austin said earlier that he's not a
huge science fiction guy, and I'mnot either, but I really really enjoyed

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this one. And this one ismy absolute favorite of these first six.
I don't know, every single elementof it was just really good, really
good. The writing, sound design, music. Now I haven't asked him
about this, but I'm sure thatMicah had a lot of fun with the
sound design here with a science fictionworld, it's probably a challenge and freeing

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at the same time, because wedon't have any of these things really in
real world in our life. Son, you have that freedom to sort of
imagine what these things might sound like. But on the other side, you
do have the challenge of making surethat it's we can understand it as a
listener who has never experienced these things, so you have to walk that line.

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And I think he nailed it.These inventions and tools that Duade encounters
and uses, these teleporters and allthis stuff, robots, it sounds like
a real world and I can absolutelypicture it in my mind as I'm listening,
and so I really really really enjoyedthis one. We also have John
Fornoff in the role of Duade's father, and he does a fantastic job there

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as well. So just a reallyreally great one. Again, this is
my all time favorite of the firstsix. I think anybody who listens to
this one is going to enjoy it, even if you're not a science fiction
fan. It's just well done,very very well done. All right,
So we come to our last audiodrama of this batch, and it is
called The Dunder Sage Delusion. TheSummer is Zeke's grandpa tells him a story

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about Claude dunder Sage, a manwhose life was filled with jogging plates and
cleaning chickens. This one sixteen anda half minutes long, and it was
also written by Glenn Haskell, withsound design by Mark mulcahey. This is
a fun one. It's tackling theidea of how content can influence our minds

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and what we think about and howwe perceive things. Actually, I think
Austin said it earlier that it's aboutin particular in this context, it's about
song lyrics, and so that isan interesting way to frame this particular topic
and jogging plates. I'm sure youcan pick up on the reference there to
some nursery rhymes and things like that. This is another really fun one.

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The grandpa and grandson are played byJohn Daynert and Rigby Dayannert. We have
Claude who is played by Glenn Haskell, and so it's framed as a as
a talk show, and so Claudeis being interviewed by Carly who is played
by Katie Daanert. Really really funperformances from all of them. There are
some very funny lines in this one, and I found myself chuckling along to

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this one on multiple occasions. Thisis a shorter one, like I said,
sixteen and a half minutes, soit's the second shortest one of this
batch, but it does pack agreat message. I think it's applicable to
all of us, even adults.You know, be careful little ears what
you hear. You know, thatis a mantra that we all should be

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thinking about. And so it isof course really applicable to kids, as
they are sponges and they soak ineverything that comes around them. So being
careful to guard your mind, yourheart, your eyes, and your ears
is extremely important, and so everysingle one of these six audio dramas is

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tackling that as an overarching theme.Now, the way that might come out
is different in each one of these, but overall that's the goal. It's
to guard your heart and your mind. That's why they're called Heart Matters,
because we need to guard our hearts, and it's particularly important for younger people.

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And so I love what a HeartMatters is doing. This is just
the first of many more to come. I'm hoping that this continues for a
long time. Now here's something thatI would like to toss out. If
you have any feedback on these audiodramas or the app, the way it
functions, any features and things likethat, how you interact with the contents.

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As Christy mentioned earlier, there arealso music soundtracks for three of these
productions. You have discussion questions,you have coloring pages, so all of
that content is in here. Itrelates to these audio dramas. So if
you have any feedback at all,of course, you can reach out to
Heart Matters directly through their website orsomething, but if it's easier for you
to just hit me up via allof our methods to contact us. I've

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told Christy that I can pass onthat information to her, so they are
open to hearing how these have thesestories have impacted you, how your interaction
through the app with this content isgoing, So be sure to let them
know or let me know and I'llpass it on. But overall, again,
really enjoyed these six audio dramas,looking forward to more to come.

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Love it heart Matters is doing,so be sure to check out the links
in the show notes to go andlisten to these. You can stream them
all for free right now, sowhat do you think of the show?
Please leave your message after the shown. Hi. Audi Theater Central. Hey
guys, this is awesome. Helloj D Royan, Andrew Minum Victoria.

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Now, yesterday I received a letterfrom a big fan. No time to
Josh, I've got an email listanother package for me today. No,
it's actually just your mail. Well, speaking of feedback, if you would
like to feedback here regarding ATC,you can send in your emails to feedback

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at Audio Theatercentral dot com. Ofcourse, you can always comment on the
show notes, or send a textmessage or give us a call to six
two three six eight eight two sevenseven zero. Well. The first up
is a comment on Spotify regarding thelast episodepisode one ninety five, where I
talked about what's coming in the yearof twenty twenty four. It is from

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Bethany Baldwin, who we've already talkedabout a couple of times here in this
episode. But she said, greatepisode, enjoy the detail you go into.
So much great stuff coming out thisyear and beyond let's go Audio drama
Renaissance. Yes, I'm in totalagreement Bethany on both points. Lots of
great stuff coming this year and thisrenaissance, you know what there, it's

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sort of like a second wave inmy opinion, because we had this huge
resurgence in interest when podcasting sort ofstarted to blow up a few years back,
and so a lot of creators jumpedinto podcasting to distribute audio drama,
and so that sort of started bringingit back around in the consciousness, especially

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here in the US and now inthe family friendly space. Just in the
last couple of years, there's justbeen a huge uptick in content, and
ah, I think it's like asecond wave of this renaissance, if you
want to call it that, AndI am loving it. Oh my goodness,
I'm so glad to see this happening. Such great stuff coming and it's

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clean and you could listen with yourwhole family, and I'm so, so
so happy about this. Side note, that is the main reason why I
implemented that that new submission process thesedays, because I just cannot keep up
with everything that's happening anymore. Andso yeah, it's just really really great.
That's a downside to it, butI'm totally willing to put up with

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that if that means we're going toget some more great stuff. Well,
the next piece of feedback is anemail from Michael C and he said,
I really appreciated your Sonicon coverage.It made me wish I would have gone.
The next best thing to be there. Well, thank you, Michael.
That was the goal. That reallywas the goal. And you know,
I know that a lot of peoplecan't go and that I totally understand

(01:28:57):
that. I get that, andso I also want to sort of bringing
the conference to you in give youall the main takeaways, and coming up
very very soon, there will beanother episode totally dedicated to the top takeaways
with clips from some of the sessionsand interviews with people at the event.
So that's still to come. Somore Soniccon coverage is coming, So that's

(01:29:19):
something you can look forward to hereon ATC. But Michael also continued,
he said, I emailed Lamplighter Theaterasking if I could buy the book INDs
of the Finian Jones arc in aset separately, and he was told that
no, you cannot do that currently, but that they do have the show
about Finian Jones exclusively in the works. And so he heard from Mary at

(01:29:42):
Lamplighter who said we are actually workingon that. Watch emails for a future
release. I do not have adate for you, sorry. So I
reached out to my contact, Sarahat Lamplighter and asked if she had any
more specifics on this. So hereyou go, Michael, this is an
update directly from them. It's tentativetitled The Finnian Jones Chronicles, and it

(01:30:02):
is in the works because I knowthat, you know, they've been talking
about it for years and I wasn'tsure if it was ever going to come
to fruition, but it is.It is in the works, Sarah says,
and she said, I don't havemuch detail that I could share at
this point, but we are hopingto record it this year if all goes
well, and she reiterates it.As of now, that's just the working

(01:30:24):
title and it is subject to change. But the Finian Jones Chronicles are coming,
and I'm really excited about this.So lots of cool stuff coming.
So hopefully that will help you outthere, Michael. Yeah, something to
look forward to here hopefully later thisyear. Next week got an email from
Jeremy and he said, I reallyenjoyed your last podcast about the new audio

(01:30:45):
drama for twenty twenty four. Iwould like to give you my top three
audio theater things I'm looking forward tothis coming year. Number three, I'm
looking forward to what Glenn Haskell isputting out in twenty four. His production
sound really interesting to me, andhe seemed like a great person interview.
Yes, they do sound interesting,and yes he is. Number two,
he says, I am really excitedfor that mystery show you were talking about.

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I really enjoy good mysteries. Theyare some of my favorite series to
read. Now, he didn't specify, but I think he's talking about the
show from New Birth Audio, andthat is the Bayou Noir series, So
I think that's what he's referring to. And yes, I'm really looking forward
to that one as well, hecontinues. Number One, Pause and Tales.

(01:31:31):
I really like this show, andI have ever since two thousand and
four or two thousand and five whenit first aired. It's so hard to
wait until March. Now, Pauseand Tales is probably going to be my
favorite audio drama of twenty twenty four. Well, i'll see if I'm right.
Then, he continues, I alsohad a quick question about Jungle JAYM
and Friends. I used to reallyenjoy the shows from Nathan and Phil and

(01:31:51):
I really enjoy the songs from theshow. I remember hearing somewhere, though
I can't remember where, that therewas a CD with all of the songs
from the show is called Bert theMoose sing Along. Would you happen to
know where I can purchase this?And again this is from Jeremy Now.
I had never heard of this product, and so I did some digging around,

(01:32:12):
looked all over, could not findanything about it. So I reached
out to Jeff Parker over there atFancy Monkey, the people behind Jungle Jam,
and unfortunately, he said, therehas never been such a product.
I would love it if we couldeven just release the sing along with Bert
the Moose segments as downloads. Wehad a ton of fun making them,
and people seem to enjoy them,but they are based around albums we don't

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own. The entire genius of thatsegment was to help our label Everland to
get exposure for some of their otherprojects. So unfortunately, there is no
Bert the Moose sing Along CD album, and there is also no way to
get those segments as downloads on theirown either. However, there is a

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download for I think it's like annine minute or maybe ten minutes somewhere around
ten minutes called the Bear sing Alongor something like that, and so it's
gruffy, and so that is oneoption. It's not what you were looking
for, Jeremy, unfortunately, butI think at this point it's probably the
best we're going to get. Butthanks for reaching out, and thank you

(01:33:20):
to Jeff for sending me that informationas well. And our last bit of
feedback here is an email from Blakeand he said, I posted a page
at ideas Wiki where I decided tochallenge myself to cast a modern adaptation of
a Christmas Carol the same way PhilipGlasborough did. What I did was listen

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to a whole bunch of productions thathe directed and try to fit roles with
actors that I knew to still bealive and active. And it took me
over three months to come up withone, but I did. It got
me thinking why not have ATC fansengage in a fun way to cast a
classic British story the way Philip Glassboroughwould listen to productions he worked on,
as well as other stuff from theUK and try to imagine how their audition

(01:34:01):
would go. It may not beone hundred percent the same as casting an
audio drama in real life. Butit gives people a fun challenge and it's
a way to engage and maybe inspirepeople. If nothing else, it also
inspires me for an irl audio dramaI wish to eventually do on the Ukraine
or the story of Ann Frank.That is interesting. That is interesting.
I would love to hear an audiodrama on the story of Anne Frank.

(01:34:25):
Phenomenal book. Of course, I'veread the Diary of a young Girl and
some of the other writings about her. Just an amazing person and their whole
family, and so yeah, Iwould love to hear an audio drama regarding
that. And Blake did send thelink to his proposed new casting of a

(01:34:45):
Christmas Carol and he made some reallyinteresting choices for characters. I think it
would be very fun. So thatis linked in the show notes. And
if you want to take up hischallenge and try to come up with a
cast for or some other story,that would be fun, and let us
know if you do, and I'lltake a look at it. And I
think that would be a lot offun. So again, links to that

(01:35:09):
are in the show notes if youwant to check that out. And again
thank you to Blake and Jeremy andMichael and Bethany for the feedback. Really
really love it when I get tohear from you guys and get to respond
back to your thoughts on something thatwe've covered here on the show. We
also had some really great feedback inthe show notes of last episode. Christopher

(01:35:31):
Green and Caleb Bresler as well chimedin about the things that are coming up
this year, So I really appreciatethat Caleb and Christopher and of course Christopher
also chimed in about the discussion regardingthe definition of family friendly audio drama and
had some really really great thoughts toshare. And so one thing in particular

(01:35:54):
that he said is that this illustratesa larger concept. Is the goal safe
content? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. A faithful adaptation of the Gospels would
require depictions of a brutal form ofexecution That doesn't fit into my definition of
family friendly, but I don't thinkthat it means it shouldn't be made or
listened to. He had a lotmore to say regarding that, some really

(01:36:15):
really great thoughts on that. Soif you want to chime in regarding that
discussion, please head over there anddo that on the show notes on episode
one ninety five. But again,thank you to everybody who sent in feedback
in some form. Really really appreciateit and I love interacting with you.
Well, that's going to do itfor this episode. Man, it was

(01:36:36):
a lot of stuff. I hopeyou enjoyed it. Thank you again to
Christy Jardo and Austin Peachee for comingon the show to talk about heart matters
and everything that they've got going on. The song at the top of the
review segment is called Prodigal by JoshBates from the two thousand and five album
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and of course, you can getin touch with us anytime at audio Theatercentral
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