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Greetings podcast, people. This is a special podcast. Brand had a chance to talk to Dallas Jenkins. He is the creator of the series The

Chosen. So many of you have emailed us and sent us Facebook messages and tweeted us telling

us we needed to see this series. I have not watched it yet, but Brant didn't. He loved it,

so he wanted to talk to Dallas about the depiction of Jesus, about how the show started.

And of particular interest is the disciple Matthew and how he

is depicted. He is depicted as having Asperger syndrome, which is very interesting. And so that's

where we'll pick up this interview. Seeing the depiction of Matthew, that's that prompted a ton of

questions starting with like, why? Where did from where in your where in your life were you

like I need to write this into this thing well um my i my first exposure with the special needs

world um was my mom's side of the family if you ever went to one of our reunions, you know, you

being on the spectrum would probably fit right in, but we have everything.

I mean, clearly there's a genetic disposition towards some sort of special needs issue

because in almost every single family on my mom's side, there's at

least one person who's either autistic or full on mentally handicapped in some way.

And so that's, I grew up with that a little bit in my extended family.

My younger brother is clearly on the spectrum a while ago.

It wasn't really diagnosed much.

You know, you back in the

80s and stuff, people just struggled and that was just what it was. Then my daughter, when I was,

when my daughter was about a year and a half old, she wasn't talking yet. I mean, she was barely

talking. And so she was clearly delayed. We weren't sure what the issue was.

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