Hello, everybody.

I'm probably in the most unlikely stage setting today that, I don't know, I've ever been in,

although I've been in some unlikely places.

This is the house of Caiaphas, the high priest during the time of Christ.

It's the setting for part of the chosen. One of the most successful series, and I would

say probably indisputably the most successful religiously based series ever produced. I'm here

today to talk with the creator, producer, director, and writer of that series,

Dallas Jenkins, who's invited us down here to see the studio and to see the sets and to talk

about how this most unlikely of all occurrences made its manifestation. So what did we talk about?

Well, the emergence of the chosen as a spectacular success occurred on the heels of a relatively cataclysmic failure.

The precursor movie, so to speak, at least from a career perspective of Dallas, was a failure.

It launched as a Hollywood production and spiraled downward almost immediately.

And we talked about the desperation, the despair and hopelessness that accompanied that failure, and then the surprising and

remarkable consequences that unfolded across time. And I don't want to spoil the story. You have to

hear it in its details to really understand what transpired. But out of the ashes of that defeat, let's say, rose the radical success of the chosen, very unlikely enterprise. And I was extremely curious about how that happened.

I wanted to know how it happened personally.

What was the response to the, what was Delis's response to his failure?

And how did the idea of the chosen make itself present?

And what did that mean practically?

And why did the audience respond?

And how was it financed? And what was the marketing approach and what did that mean practically? And why did the audience respond?

And how was it financed?

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