In this episode with Debbie Wong, we explore the theological question of babies praising God through the sounds they make -- the _jubilus_, as in the work of Augustine. This leads us to the practical question of how to understand the role the "woahs" and "ohs" in contemporary worship more broadly. Is it good and right to have these kinds of phrases…

30&Nerdy Show Notes 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery Hippie Water BIG REMINDER: When you check out at Hippie Water, use the promo code NERDYFOR30! 30&Nerdy Podcast is a NerdySouth Podcast and a member of The Nerd Initiative and a foun…

30&Nerdy Show Notes 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery Hippie Water BIG REMINDER: When you check out at Hippie Water, use the promo code NERDYFOR30! 30&Nerdy Podcast is a NerdySouth Podcast and a member of The Nerd Initiative and a foun…

In this episode with Dr. Nelson Cowan and Dr. Emily Andrews, we discuss their recently co-authored article "Liturgical Gift or Theological Burden? Teenagers and Ecumenical Liturgical Exchange Events" (Religions, 2024). We explore how the worship preferences of young people might surprise those who have long styled worship to "attract the youth" in …

30&Nerdy Show Notes 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery Hippie Water BIG REMINDER: When you check out at Hippie Water, use the promo code NERDYFOR30! 30&Nerdy Podcast is a NerdySouth Podcast and a member of The Nerd Initiative and a foun…

30&Nerdy Show Notes 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery Hippie Water BIG REMINDER: When you check out at Hippie Water, use the promo code NERDYFOR30! 30&Nerdy Podcast is a NerdySouth Podcast and a member of The Nerd Initiative and a foun…

30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery Hippie Water BIG REMINDER: When you check out at Hippie Water, use the promo code NERDYFOR30! 30&Nerdy Podcast is a NerdySouth Podcast and a member of The Nerd Initiative and a founding member of #TheC…

30&Nerdy Show Notes We are back with more conversation with our favorite Hippies; Sasha Pieterse, Taylor Sewell, and Alex Sewell. In this second part of the interview, we discuss what a Hippie is in 2024, get a peak behind some things in the entertainment industry, and learn more about these beautiful people and this amazing company. 30&Nerdy Openi…

30&Nerdy Show Notes In this episode, we have part 1 of our interview with Hippie Water. In this interview, we will hear from actress and CEO of Hippie Water; Sasha Pieterse, Chief Product Officer and Beverage Queen; Taylor Sewell, and Chief Operating Officer and King of Ideas; Alex Sewell. We will learn about the beginnings of Hippie Water, the fou…

30&Nerdy Show Notes In this episode, we talk about some Terrifying Tales of Tennessee! So get out your EVP and get the salt! 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery Hippie Water 30&Nerdy Podcast is a Studio66 Podcast a member of The Nerd Ini…

30&Nerdy Show Notes In this episode, we talk about some Terrifying Tales of Tennessee! So get out your EVP and get the salt! 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery Hippie Water 30&Nerdy Podcast is a Studio66 Podcast a member of The Nerd Ini…

30&Nerdy Show Notes Intro: 0:00 John Rhys-Davies Interview: 11:30 Nic Nemeth (formally Dolph Zigler): 12:52 Linda Young (og voice of Lord Frieza from Dragon Ball Z): 18:16 Shilly and Shelby (Cosplay): 20:25 Jim Cummings (voice of Darkwing Duck, Winnie the Pooh, and more): 23:50 Intermission: 27:35 Sitdown Interview with Teagen Early (Athenafrom EPI…

30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery Hippie Water 30&Nerdy Podcast is a Studio66 Podcast a member of The Nerd Initiative and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and our friends at Fan Boy Expo for the next event! This Episode …

Spoiler Alert! 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery 30&Nerdy Podcast is a Studio66 Podcast a member of The Nerd Initiative and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and our friends at Fan Boy Expo for the next event! This Episod…

30&Nerdy Show Notes 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery 30&Nerdy Podcast is a Studio66 Podcast a member of The Nerd Initiative and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and our friends at Fan Boy Expo for the next event! This E…

30&Nerdy Show Notes 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery 30&Nerdy Podcast is a Studio66 Podcast a member of The Nerd Initiative and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and our friends at Fan Boy Expo for the next event! This E…

30&Nerdy Show Notes 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery 30&Nerdy Podcast is a Studio66 Podcast a member of The Nerd Initiative and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and our friends at Fan Boy Expo for the next event! This E…

Which color was your favorite?? In this episode, we take a walk down memory lane to discuss the WOW! Worship discs and their place in the growth of CWM in the late 1990s and 2000s. Dr. Joshua Busman and doctoral candidate Debbie Wong explore with me the marketing of the this series and the "portable affect" of CWM.…

30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery 30&Nerdy Podcast is a Studio66 Podcast a member of The Nerd Initiative and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and our friends at Fan Boy Expo for the next event! This Episode is brought to…

In this episode with Dr. Sarah Kathleen Johnson, we discuss her recently co-authored article "Contemporary Worship Music as an Ecumenical Liturgical Movement" (Worship Journal, 2023). We explore how contemporary praise and worship music has found its way into the hearts and hymnals of a wide variety of Christian traditions as it connects Christians…

30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery 30&Nerdy Podcast is a Studio66 Podcast a member of The Nerd Initiative and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and our friends at Fan Boy Expo for the next event! This Episode is brought to…

30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery 30&Nerdy Podcast is a Studio66 Podcast a member of The Nerd Initiative and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and our friends at Fan Boy Expo for the next event! This Episode is brought to…

In this episode with Dr. Anna Nekola, we discuss her recent article "Congregational Music as 'Phatic Communication': Affect, Atmosphere, and Relational Ways ofListening" (Yale Journal of Music & Religion, 2022). We explore some of the social functions of music and how it does more than open of spiritual pathways between us and God but also social p…

30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery 30&Nerdy Podcast is a Studio66 Podcast a member of The Nerd Initiative and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and our friends at Fan Boy Expo for the next event! This Episode is brought to…

30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery 30&Nerdy Podcast is a Studio66 Podcast a member of The Nerd Initiative and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and our friends at Fan Boy Expo for the next event! This Episode is brought to…

For the past few years, Dr. Kelsey Kramer McGinnis has been covering worship music as a journalist for Christianity Today. Her articles have been stirring up really important conversations among worship leaders! She joins me on the podcast to talk about how the Worship Leader Research project fits into her broader view of whats going on in the wors…

30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 6 of 30&Nerdy Podcast is Presented By: Tennessee Legend Distillery 30&Nerdy Podcast is a Studio66 Podcast a member of The Nerd Initiative and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and our friends at Fan Boy Expo for the next event! This Episode is brought to…

We are back, Nerds! Thank you for your patience as we move through the new world of being a part of so many more things than just this one podcast now. We have joined The Studio66 Podcast Family brought to you by Tennessee Legend Distillery and are brother podcasts with two other amazing podcasts: The Between 2 Barrels Podcast and The CockyTop Podc…

In this episode with Dr. Nathan Myrick (Mercer University), we discuss his recent book _Music for Others: Care, Justice, and Relational Ethics in Christian Music (Oxford University Press, 2021). We explore what we are after in making music together -- and perhaps what we should be after in church music in particular. Namely, what kinds of relations…

I chat with my Worship Leader Research teammate Marc Jolicoeur about his role on the research team and how the project is impacting his work as a local church worship leader. He's an avid learner who brings his joy and hope to this important pastoral work.

I chat with my Worship Leader Research teammate Elias Dummer to talk about his contributions to the project, his hopes for the future of worship, and his experience in the worship music industry.

In this episode with Dr. Jonathan Welch (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary), we discuss the legacy of the song story column in Worship Leader Magazine and what it can tell us about how worship songwriters imagine God's participation in the creative act. Welch encourages worship songwriters to know that God is present in the process, even if…

30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 5 of is Presented By: Advertising Expressions 30&Nerdy Podcast is a BadCastCompany Production and a member of PodNation and a survivor of theaPODalypse 30&Nerdy Podcast is a member of The #InNerdCircle on Twitter and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and…

My fellow Worship Leader Research teammate Dr. Shannan Baker takes a minute to chat about the WLR project, her hopes as a researcher, and what animates her ongoing care for the contemporary worship phenomenon as a researcher.

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Noel Snyder, author of the book _Sermons that Sing: Music and the Practice of Preaching_ (IVP Academic, 2021). Dr. Snyder explores the musicality of the preaching moment as we discuss the preaching of Elevation Church Pastor and songwriter Steven Furtick.

30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 5 of is Presented By: Advertising Expressions 30&Nerdy Podcast is a BadCastCompany Production and a member of PodNation and a survivor of theaPODalypse 30&Nerdy Podcast is a member of The #InNerdCircle on Twitter and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and…

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30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 5 of is Presented By: Advertising Expressions 30&Nerdy Podcast is a BadCastCompany Production and a member of PodNation and a survivor of theaPODalypse 30&Nerdy Podcast is a member of The #InNerdCircle on Twitter and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and…

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30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 5 of is Presented By: Advertising Expressions 30&Nerdy Podcast is a BadCastCompany Production and a member of PodNation and a survivor of theaPODalypse 30&Nerdy Podcast is a member of The #InNerdCircle on Twitter and a founding member of #TheCouncilOfNerds Join us and…

"There'll be no negotiating with the apprentice of Anakin Skywalker." In this episode, we discuss the newest Star Wars show, Ahsoka, in all of its entirety. We talk about characters, the plot, where we go from here, and much more. 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 5 of is Presented By: Advertising Exp…

In this episode, we interview the amazingly talented, fun, and multi-gifted Danica Jenelle from Talkulture. We discuss her time as a theatre teacher at NC State, her travels with GalaxyCon and Fanboy Expo, and her hit show Talkulture with her best friend Kid Cadet. Do not forget to subscribe to their show on YouTube and on Facebook. Please give the…

"TURTLE POWER!" What's up Nerds and Nerdettes! In this special episode, we bring you the interviews and conversations of our time at Fan Boy Expo in Orlando Florida. We Want to thank David and JoAnna of Fan Boy Expo for all the opportunities we have had and all the partnerships. 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Cro…

"It's Time...It's Time...It's Tano Time!" In this episode, we discuss some things going on in The Nerdiverse, Preview WWE Payback's card, and give our thoughts on the first three episodes of Ahsoka on Disney+. What are your thoughts? Let us know by emailing us at [email protected] Show Notes: 0:00 - Opening 1:10 - Intros and Catching Up 13:50…

"There will never be another Bray Wyatt." In this episode, Juice and Tyler Mac discuss all the happenings in the last week or so, the loss of two WWE legends, Edge's Retirement, Super Mario and the possibility of a Cinematic Universe, and so much more! Show Notes: 0:00 - Opening 1:10 - Intros and Catching Up Garth Brooks Conspiracy Theories Blind S…

"Let me talk to ya!" In this episode, The Juicy one and The Duke discuss their thoughts on SummerSlam'23 and the Raw after SummerSlam. They also discuss some different topics from around The Nerdiverse. Plus, Tyler Mac has finally finished his DreamCast of the rebooted Batman Universe for James Gunn. If you have any thoughts on his cast or their di…

In this episdoe, The Nerds talked about so much. They discuss news and discussions of The Nerdiverse, Movies in theaters lately, The Strike and Preview SummerSlam '23. 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 5 of is Presented By: Advertising Expressions 30&Nerdy Podcast is a BadCastCompany Production and a …

"Oh yeah? Well your Father's a putz." It's on to the Independence Day sequel. While it isn't the best sequel ever, it definitely aint the worst. Follow along, as Juice and Tyler Mac watch the sequel and talk it out along the way. What else should they watch? 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 5 of is P…

Interviews, panels, and just go old fashioned hangin out. Sometimes, the best thing for a Nerd to do is to be amongst their Herd. We did just that. Thank you to all the amazing people that we met and interviewed. A huge shoutout to Fanboy Expo for having us, again, this year. Until the next one... Cheers To Ya Nerds! 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Sta…

"Genius...my Father's a genius." 0:00 - Opening 1:10 - Welcome and Intros and Fanboy Expo 7:14 - Independence Day 1:05:51 - The Ballad of 30&Nerdy 30&Nerdy Opening Rift: Kyle Standifer The Ballad of 30&Nerdy: Beth Crowley Season 5 of is Presented By: Advertising Expressions 30&Nerdy Podcast is a BadCastCompany Production and a member of PodNation a…