Jamie MacDonald, fresh off winning New Artist of the Year at the Dove Awards, joins us as her new deluxe album arrives this week. We talk about what it’s like to be the biggest thing in CCM right now, reliving her testimony on stage every night and the Alaska fudge shop that can’t stop playing her record.
In RELEVANT Buzz, Instagram admits it’s been recommending Creed’s ‘Higher’ more than it should, and we think the algorithm might be trying to heal America. Drill rapper Fivio Foreign gets honest about the hardest part of his walk with Jesus, and Pope Leo says algorithms lack “the spark of humanity,” which has us asking where all the song bridges went.
Plus, Marty’s new co-working space comes with an indoor mini golf course, and his family’s Halloween costume plan leaves the rest of us in a cold sweat. Then One Has to Go closes it out: Pastor Appreciation Month downsized to a week, one severed head too many and a turkey leg that turns grown men into cavemen.
Highlights:
01:09 — Marty’s co-working space comes with a mini golf course
08:37 — RELEVANT Buzz: Instagram can’t stop recommending Creed’s ‘Higher’
10:26 — Jesse’s theory: The algorithm wants us back at Creed’s 2001 Thanksgiving halftime show
15:56 — Derek’s plan for the first Christian rap Super Bowl halftime
17:25 — Fivio Foreign goes from drill to praising Jesus (and gets honest about what’s hardest)
21:21 — Derek’s case for Fonzworth Bentley as hip-hop’s unsung hero
23:42 — Is AI art always a little cringe? Pope Leo weighs in
25:13 — Derek wants bridges and vamps back
29:21 — The architect who felt “God pushing my pencil”
32:53 — Jamie MacDonald on the long road to becoming Christian music’s biggest new name
35:37 — Why ‘Left It in the River’ hit so hard
38:29 — Playing the Ryman a mile from where she was born
40:21 — Is the pop culture Halloween costume dead?
41:07 — Marty’s family Halloween plan
45:37 — One Has to Go
47:05 — Derek on the Black church’s honor culture
50:39 — Derek has seen enough severed heads
52:26 — Seven-year-old Cameron explains street economics to his mom
54:34 — Where do the full-size candy bar houses actually live?
