Episode 1297: Aodhan King & Benjamin William Hastings Made a Worship Album in 10 Days, Plus Lecrae and M.I.A.
The RELEVANT Podcast
RELEVANT Magazine
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week, we sit down with former Hillsong-ers Aodhan King and Benjamin William Hastings, who just announced a joint worship album dropping next month. They tell us about it — and also tell the unhinged story of how they met 15 years ago. (Lesson: Need pants? You might meet a new friend.)
In RELEVANT Buzz, this week Lecrae became the first Christian rapper on NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts (apologies to Marla) and we tell you about M.I.A.'s new faith-rooted album inspired by the Book of Revelation and the Ark of the Covenant. (Yes, we play *that* Indiana Jones scene.)
In Slices, the heroic Artemis crew had a very relatable problem during the mission, and a chimp clan in Uganda is apparently in a full civil war.
"One Has to Go" hits youth group bands, cereals, comedy movies, Disney Channel shows, sports movies, reality TV and worship era anthems. Jesse was sweating at one point.
Highlights:
00:00 — Intro / Magic game recap, documentary tangents
16:27 — RELEVANT Buzz: Lecrae's Tiny Desk debut
21:37 — M.I.A. announces MI7
31:42 — Benjamin William Hastings & Aodhan King
39:45 — Slices: Artemis & Microsoft Outlook in space
43:25 — Chimp clan civil war
47:00 — One Has to Go: Youth group icons / Cereals / Comedy movies / Disney Channel shows / Sports movies / Christian music / Worship anthems / Bible figures
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| 0:00.0 | This episode 1297, and it's a relevant podcast here in Orlando. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm your host, Cameron String, and joining me from Loverland, Virginia. |
| 0:12.6 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:14.0 | From Nashville, artist, producer, Mogul, downtown Emily Brown. |
| 0:18.4 | Hey, y'all. |
| 0:20.0 | Derek's off today. That is our managing editor for you new viewers and listeners. I was going to say, do any of those words apply to me? Not a one. Also a mogul in the crochet space, selling fine oven mitts and hand warmers. That is true. Yep. Yes. No, that's Marty's domain. I'm not the crocheter. Oh, that's right. I'm thinking of your mom. Is that you're right? My mother's a quilter. Very different. Very different. My apologies. I see no difference, but we'll believe you. Okay. The quilting and crocheting community is coming after you now. Be prepared. |
| 0:55.0 | Wait, are they like rivals, the crocheters and the quilters? Like who's the real thread? |
| 0:59.3 | The lore just goes so deep. Do they have like threading competitions and stuff? Yeah, I don't know. |
| 1:04.9 | It's a, well, crochet doesn't use thread. So there's that. I just, I just watched a very boring, speaking of very boring hobbies. I, I, uh, I, uh,'s that. I just watched a very boring, speaking of very boring hobbies. |
| 1:12.2 | I just watched a very boring documentary series about the world of competitive chess. |
| 1:18.5 | I don't know if you've seen this on Netflix. |
| 1:19.6 | I have. |
| 1:20.1 | I almost fired it up last night, but I ended up going to bed early. |
| 1:23.0 | It's wild. |
| 1:24.6 | There's cheating. |
| 1:26.2 | There's, there's like guys that hate each other because of chess. |
| 1:31.7 | And dude's name maggis and stuff. |
| 1:34.5 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:35.5 | And then I have, there's also a series going on right now on HBO. |
| 1:40.5 | It's 824 style documentary of the world of bowling. |
| 1:44.4 | Yeah. And it's like a weekly. I mean, it's that24 style documentary of the world of bowling. Yeah. |
| 1:44.9 | And it's like a weekly. |
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