Casey Elliott on the power of music and the Psalms (week of Aug. 22, second to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Singer and actor Casey Elliott speaks about the power of music and its universal nature to speak to us. He and Kerry explore several psalms both in terms of their power as music and lyric and in terms of their doctrine and their applicability in our lives.
We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and for our editor, Jacob Muhlestein, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Scriptures A Real podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have helped them become more real to us because we think that helps us draw them more into our lives and apply them better, |
| 0:21.6 | and we need all the power we can get from the scriptures. I'm your host, Kerry Milstein, and I'm so |
| 0:26.0 | happy for my guest today. I have with us Casey Elliott, who's a singer and actor. Casey's been on |
| 0:34.5 | Broadway and toured Jean Valjean and Les Mis and a lot of other roles. He's been on Broadway and toured as Jean Valjean and Le Miz and a lot of other roles. |
| 0:40.1 | He's been in church films and other kinds of films as an actor and as a member of a tenor group right now. |
| 0:48.7 | I'll let him tell you a little bit more about that, but has a long, you'll recognize him many of you if you're doing this on |
| 0:55.5 | YouTube, but I think he's even been in some Temple films, but we'll, you'll recognize him |
| 1:02.4 | and his voice, but I'm just happy he's willing to come on and share with us. So welcome, Casey. |
| 1:08.3 | Yeah, thank you, Kerry. It's good to be with you. I've been a fan of yours |
| 1:12.2 | ever since I heard you on another podcast. And I think Hank Smith referred to you as like the LDS |
| 1:20.4 | Indiana Jones. Yeah, that's because those guys don't really have anything better to do. So yeah, they just sit around and make funny videos of me and try and give me a hard time. But anyway, they're a great bunch. So, well, tell us a little bit more about yourself, Casey. What did I miss? And I mean, I know you're married, that kind of thing. What else should we know? Yeah, no, I live up in Layton, Utah. |
| 1:47.1 | I make sure to drop the tea on that, just so people know I've been here long enough. |
| 1:52.3 | There you go. |
| 1:53.5 | There you go. |
| 1:54.7 | If it's Layton, you know, they're not a native. |
| 1:58.3 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:58.8 | So, well, it's our British background right so we go |
| 2:01.7 | late in yeah but now I have four kids three teenagers as of this year so good |
| 2:10.7 | luck with that yeah 16 to 9 it's great I I love the different age ranges and all the all the unique aspects of each age brings with it, you know, just just fun and and different different kind of life. But, but yeah, we've been up here for about 11 years. |
| 2:35.7 | Before then, I toured a little bit with some Broadway shows. |
| 2:39.8 | And then- |
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