Episode 1296: Madison Ryann Ward, American Idol Goes Full Worship & DC3's Historic Win
The RELEVANT Podcast
RELEVANT Magazine
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This week, Cameron, Derek, Emily and Marty cover a ton: American Idol's Songs of Faith Night, which was way more Jesus-heavy this year than last, British Christian rapper DC3 making MOBO Awards history, and the story of Forrest Frank's new indie band having to ditch their name days before releasing their debut album.
In RELEVANT Recommends, we talk to Madison Ryann Ward — an amazing, soulful singer (and former D1 volleyball player) who walked away from Rick Rubin's label after rededicating her life to Christ, and is now showing up everywhere and absolutely thriving.
In Slices, we cover a guy who’s selling a compass that only points to the Olive Garden in Times Square, and the story of 12 tons of stolen Kit Kat bars giving some pretty great April Fool's fodder.
At the end of the episode, we have a great edition of One Has to Go!
Highlights:
00:00 — Intro / Derek Minor's new single "Up"
07:35 — RELEVANT Buzz: American Idol Songs of Faith Night
15:00 — RELEVANT Buzz: DC3 wins two MOBO Awards
17:30 — RELEVANT Buzz: Forrest Frank's new band
24:50 — RELEVANT Recommends: Madison Ryann Ward
33:00 — Slices: Compass pointing to the Olive Garden in Times Square
35:15 — Slices: Someone stole 12 tons of Kit Kat bars
38:30 — One Has to Go: Holidays / Florida animals / Blockbuster night / MTV cartoons / Sports video games
49:00 — Outro
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It's episode 1296 and it's a relevant podcast here in Orlando. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm your host, Cameron Strang, and joining me from Nashville, artist, producer, mogul, Derek Miner. |
| 0:15.3 | What up, Do? |
| 0:16.3 | Just on the street there, our managing editor, downtown Emily Brown. |
| 0:19.3 | Hey, y'all. |
| 0:20.3 | And from L.A. You know from Social Club Misfits. It's Marty. What's that? Jesse is out today because it's his birthday week. Oh, wow. Yesterday was his birthday. And he's traveling today, traveling. No, yesterday you traveled to Orlando. And he's going to be here this weekend for the holiday. And then Derek's flying in on Monday and we're all going to hang out and go back floor seats to the Magic Pistons game. And I invited you to come, Marty, and you said yes and then blew me off. We have a death in the family. Oh, geez. I'll be honest with you, Cam, I'm going to be told. |
| 0:54.5 | I know that my family does not listen to this podcast. |
| 0:56.7 | They only speak Spanish, so that's the reason why. |
| 0:58.7 | But I have been using that death all week. |
| 1:02.3 | All week. |
| 1:02.9 | All week. |
| 1:04.0 | There are certain things that I had, like, I genuinely, like, I have to watch my son. |
| 1:07.4 | So, like, I actually do, like, like my wife is there's people flying in the airport |
| 1:11.9 | from LAX that's the whole thing but I've been using this excuse oh man milk for a lot of things |
| 1:18.4 | and so yeah you know when you get a death it's a good two weeks good two weeks you think is |
| 1:23.8 | you think it's two weeks yeah but there's a couple responsibilities responsibilities that I had that I had to push back because, and it worked. And, you know, I don't feel guilty about it. I don't feel guilty about it, honestly. I do think you might want to do a little bit of soul searching if you're not feeling like a tag guilty about it. You have to be able to use it at least like |
| 1:44.6 | i'd be doing the same thing dude you have to it's two weeks you get like to to make an excuse |
| 1:49.9 | that hey guys i'm sorry i didn't get to do this i'm on it now so yeah it's been but how |
| 1:56.0 | i don't want to say blessing i almost a blessing i don't know why how far away was the person because |
| 1:59.5 | like i a couple years ago tried to use my grandma just died. And they're like, you're full grown adult. Grandmas died. Dude, like, this is not traumatic. And I'm like, that's true. You know, that's what I would be saying. But yeah, so it is pretty traumatic death, honestly. Like, uncle died. He had cancer. You know, it's just awful. |
| 2:18.4 | And he's a really good guy. |
| 2:20.0 | But he's also one of those guys that like, you know, when people tell you, hey, if I die at my funeral, I want a party. He is the guy who's like, I remember at my wedding. I'm not, I'm not even joking around. He was doing like he's like in in his 60s, one of those guys that would jump on |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from RELEVANT Magazine, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of RELEVANT Magazine and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

