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The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

MATT784 - Old Man Matthew Breaking the Fourth Wall

The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

Matt Whitman

Education, Reading, Morning, Bible, Christianity, History, Prayer, Devotion, Scripture, Study, Faith, Men's, Women's, Plan, Religion & Spirituality

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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MATTHEW 28:11-15 On this podcast we pick books of the Bible and work through them from beginning to end, bit by bit every day. This show exists because of listener support. If you'd like to consider supporting, you can learn more at thetmbh.com/support or check out the Patreon support page at patreon.com/thetmbhpodcast Thanks to everyone who supports TMBH You're the reason we can all do this together! Discuss the episode here Music written and performed by Jeff Foote

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There's certain moments in a cultural text and book movie story whatever that break the fourth wall everybody

0:14.9

knows that saying now I remember when I first got introduced that when I was a kid

0:17.7

and I was like I everybody's acting like they know what the fourth wall is I don't

0:20.4

know what the fourth wall is but it just means the coming out of the world of the story and

0:26.7

crossing the barrier into the world of the now of the viewer and it feels weird it jarring, it's like when we went to Blue Man

0:34.8

group the other night and they came down into the crowd and started hanging out with people.

0:38.8

It's just bizarre, it's a different proposition. There's supposed to be this barrier, this division,

0:45.6

but when you break that fourth wall,

0:48.7

the audiences tend to love it

0:50.3

because it becomes more real in your own world. I think about one of the big punchlines at the

0:56.8

end of the chronicles of Narnia, when Azland who clearly represents Jesus is having that

1:01.8

conversation, he's like, well, you know who I am in clearly represents Jesus as having that conversation.

1:02.5

He's like, well, you know who I am in this realm,

1:05.9

but I transcend all the realms.

1:09.0

And I'm butchering this, but the paraphrase I think

1:11.4

gets you to the gist. And but now you need to find me in. but the

1:15.0

reader, just, but now you need to find me in your realm.

1:16.0

It's the same realm that you and I, the reader, live in.

1:19.0

And it's like, oh, this just went from a fairy tale

1:22.0

to something that actually gets into my business a little bit.

1:26.0

Let's go to the other end of the Krasnus spectrum.

1:29.0

Deadpool, like his whole superpower, well one of his superpowers is that he transcends the whole thing, the whole

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