Last spring I wrote an article for Breakpoint on the NBC series, Heroes, specifically about the young Japanese time-and-space shifting comic book geek Hiro Nakamura as a type of the Christian learning to use his God-given gifts. Apparently someone read it and several weeks ago I got a call from folks at Family Life Today about being interviewed on the themes in the piece. One of their show hosts, Bob Lepine, was starting a new series of podcasts, called Ear Reverent, and I recently downloaded the finished program to iTunes. I was impressed by the quality of the show. It seems somewhat like Ken Myers wonderful Mars Hill Audio programs except with more emphasis on pop culture. The show host Bob Lepine obviously knows the entertainment landscape and is fun to talk with.
If you’ve never downloaded and listened to a podcast before, it’s an MP3 digital file you download user a player like iTunes or Winamp. Here is the Family Life podcast page with instructions for downloading iTunes and their regular podcastfare. Ear Reverent is so new there’s no website page for it yet. But, if you already have an MP3 player on your computer, try clicking on this link, and it should take your player right to their free subscription page. Be sure when you download it you open the program to see the several episodes now available. I’m new at downloading as well and had to experiment with the controls to make sure I had the episodes. My interview leads off Episode 3. Hope you like it. One funny thing about Bob’s introduction–he took 13 years off my age, and that feels good.
Alex,
Great comments on Ear Reverent. As the agency working with Bob Lepine. . .he is associated with FamilyLife of Little Rock AR(www.familylife.com) and their daily radio show, “FamilyLife Today with Dennis Rainey”–not Family Life Radio (Tucson AZ).
Comment by Michelle Blood — November 30, 2007 @ 12:23 pm |
Whew–that is a little confusing. Thanks for the corrections Michelle!
Comment by Alex — November 30, 2007 @ 6:34 pm |
I closed my eyes when I heard this…and I was right back in your classroom again. And hearing your voice meshed with that of Bob Lepine, who has taught me over the airwaves with Dennis Rainy for practially forever… it was phenomenal. I don’t watch Heors. I don’t have that kinda time. But Keith does. Apparently, he can do that at his job when things get slow. He;s a big fan of the show. I watched his reaction as I played the podcast, and I could see him smile and nod in recognition and even agreement. So apparently, you struck some kinda chord with him.
By the way. See Enchanted. It rocked.
Hope you’re enjoying Madman.
Much Love.
Ashley Penn
Comment by Ashley — December 2, 2007 @ 6:54 pm |