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Here is my appearance on Kresta in the Afternoon from Monday, August 8, 2011, talking about the new translation of the Mass that will be going into effect this Advent.
Topics discussed include the length of God's nose (yes! really! listen to find out what this means!) and kneeling for Communion.
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Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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Ack! This is not a good time for my sound card to go on the fritz!
Very random comment here. I generally use Windows Media Player to play these sorts of things, and when I can I like to use the visualization “Scope” which is just a single green line that vibrates (or whatever the word would be) to the sound of people’s voices. It doesn’t work for some things though, like Catholic Answers Live podcasts, in which the visualization briefly freezes in an annoying way every three seconds or so.
On the ordinary JA podcast episodes, I can use this visualization with no problems, but on the Kresta bonus episodes there is the same problem as with Catholic Answers Live podcasts. It doesn’t matter at all of course, but it’s a curious thing. Some kind of difference in format for the sound, perhaps, or a slight difference in sound quality since it’s a radio broadcast?
My guess would be a difference in the encoding. The radio shows get encoded prior to broadcast (meaning, they’re not taken from an over-the-air signal; they’re technically recorded live and then encoded without ever going over the air), so the encoding is the most likely explanation AFAIK.