Bonus Episode: Telling the Story of the Exodus
Holy Ghost Stories
Justin Gerhardt
4.9 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Holy Ghost Stories creator Justin Gerhardt sits down with composer Kendall Ramseur to pull back the curtain on Episodes 1 and 2 of The Exodus.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:49 How It Began
06:04 The Major Theme of Exodus
06:59 How Does Kendall Score an Episode?
11:53 Leitmotif Case Study: Moses
15:16 Moses' Birth, Moses' Theme
23:00 Shiphrah & Puah, The Midwives' Theme
28:52 The Death of the Firstborn Theme
34:22 Pharaoh's Theme
38:57 The Burning Bush - Yahweh's Voice, Yahweh's Themes
59:29 Staff-Become-Serpent
1:07:12 Why We Love Doing This
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Justin here. Welcome to the first of two mid-season bonus episodes with yours |
| 0:13.0 | truly and the one and only Kendall Ramseur, my composer, the genius behind the musical magic |
| 0:20.3 | your hearing in season four, and my dear friend. |
| 0:24.8 | Kendall, say hello to the best audience in the world of podcasting, would you? |
| 0:28.5 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:29.4 | So happy to be here. |
| 0:30.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:32.3 | Okay. |
| 0:32.8 | So if you are listening, kind listener, to this particular bonus episode in the spring of |
| 0:39.7 | 2023, you will know that we are currently in the middle of a break between parts one and two |
| 0:46.9 | of season four. |
| 0:48.5 | Kendall and I in the midst of this break are catching our breath, catching up on writing and |
| 0:52.9 | recording and scoring. It's been a welcome, |
| 0:56.2 | productive hiatus for sure. However, it's not lost on us that you, dear listener, are being |
| 1:03.5 | deprived at the moment of new Holy Ghost Stories content. And the last thing in the world we want |
| 1:10.1 | is for the natives to get restless, right? |
| 1:12.7 | So Kendall and I thought it would be fun to rectify that dearth of content and invite you to |
| 1:19.0 | sit in on a couple of conversations about our cooperative work this season in telling the story |
| 1:24.4 | of the Exodus. So we're going to pull back the curtain and talk a bit right now about what we've done, |
| 1:31.1 | how we've approached doing it, and why we've made some of those decisions. |
| 1:36.8 | So in this bonus episode, we will dive into some highlights from labor and delivery and induction, |
| 1:42.9 | the first two episodes of season four, and then next time |
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