Word of Promise Audio Bible with Carl Amari

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🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, Hank is joined on Hank Unplugged by Carl Amari, producer of the award-winning “Word of Promise” audio Bible. Find out how Carl has produced audio versions of the Bible that enable us to hear and understand the Bible like never before in human history.

Topics discussed include: the origins of Carl’s interest in classic dramatic radio (5:00); the future of terrestrial radio (11:00); presenting the Bible with A-list actors performing the audio to create a theater for the mind (13:00); the “street cred” Hollywood actors feel when working on a project related to the Bible (18:00); using the Apocrypha to better understand the Bible (24:00); the importance of having different biblical translations (26:00); the usefulness of having a theologian to provide actors with biblical context when recording the Bible (31:00); the evolution of production and consumption in media today (38:30); the free page Carl made for followers of CRI to stream the Word of Promise version of the Gospel of Mark [http://www.wordofgodcri.com] (42:00); will movie theaters soon disappear? (48:00); could audio Bibles help solve problems of biblical illiteracy in the world today? (51:00).

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0:00.0	Welcome to another edition of Hank Unplugged.
0:26.4	I love this name.
0:29.0	This is our podcast.
0:30.2	I've been doing broadcasts for 30 years, but I love doing podcasts because it is an opportunity for me to bring some of the brightest, most interesting people on the planet to my friends listening in to our conversation.
0:46.7	And today is no exception. I'm so excited to have this opportunity to, well, to have you know Carl Amari.
0:55.1	He is a Renaissance man in the entertainment industry.
0:59.1	He's an actor, a director, a producer.
1:03.3	He's a nationally syndicated radio host.
1:06.5	And Carl and I became friends over the Bible.
1:09.6	We both have this commonality, and that is a love for the
1:14.0	word of God. And we're going to talk about some of that today, because what Carl has done with the
1:20.2	audio Bible is simply unprecedented in human history, and it is exactly at the right time. Because over the course of the last few years, the highest growing segment of publishing is audiobooks.
1:38.6	And the global audiobook industry is currently, well, I don't know exactly what the number is, but it's like a $4 billion
1:45.3	industry. So excited to talk to Carl Amari. Again, he's an American actor. He's a director. He's a
1:53.1	producer. He's a nationally syndicated radio host and a good friend. Hi, Carl. Hey, Hank. How are you, my
2:00.6	friend? Thank you for having me.
2:02.1	That's great to have you. Last time I talked to you, I think you broke your nose.
2:05.6	It was my jaw.
2:07.1	What was your jaw? You were playing baseball, right?
2:10.0	Yeah, it's no fun breaking your jaw. You don't get to eat.
2:13.6	You got to, you got to, it was terrible for, for eight weeks, my jaw was wired shut and I had
2:21.7	to liquefy all my food.
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