Josiah Queen: The Heart Behind “The Prodigal” | EP 153
The George Janko Show
George Janko
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:04 Life on Tour With Family
05:13 Belle’s Reaction to “Judas”
09:02 Taking Authority Over Demons
13:02 Doing For God vs Knowing God
18:51 Staying Centered Before Shows
24:10 Making Music That Feels Honest
26:48 “I Am Barabbas” Changed Everything
29:13 From Church Maintenance to Radio
34:32 Nashville, Europe & Tour Chaos
43:28 How Josiah Actually Found God
48:28 Chasing Hits vs Following Jesus
54:52 Why Rest Refills Your Soul
59:35 What Josiah’s Dad Got Right
01:04:22 What the Devil Is Attacking
01:09:00 Staying Present in the Promised Land
01:11:06 Worship Music vs Self-Worship
01:15:00 The Cost of Being Your Brand
01:16:54 Would Jesus Sit on This Podcast?
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| 0:30.0 | Oh man, never like this. Never been in an interview like this or God, I'm doing all these things |
| 0:35.3 | for you and but yet I still feel like I just feel like I haven't gotten closer to you. Like, it's so, you can do so much for Jesus, but still not getting closer to him. Oh, wow. What is the devil attacking you? What's your fears right now? I used to get so anxious before playing shows. The idea that, like, people were coming and maybe some people weren't saved and it was on me. By me doing that, I'm telling God, like, I don't know, I don't |
| 0:57.8 | trust. playing shows. The idea that like people were coming and maybe some people weren't saved and it was |
| 0:54.2 | on me. By me doing that, I'm telling God, like, I don't know, I don't trust that you put me in the right position. Yeah, I just, that's why I think I love writing music and I feel like it's the easiest way for me to talk to him and be honest, you know? I'm just paying. I don't fight. You give me a lot to think of me. I only go the way. Why would you get a mistake that way? |
| 1:11.7 | I'm trying to correct me while I'm stuck in my own ways. |
| 1:14.2 | Why would you take advantage of that? I don't believe I'm going to be true. I just think they're a street. Hey, before we jump into today's episode, I just wanted to remind you that I'm coming to San Diego and we're only doing comedy four shows May 29th and |
| 1:28.7 | 30th Friday and Saturday get your tickets link is in the description enjoy today's |
| 1:32.9 | episode okay so will you guys give me like how do you normally like end it like how do you like how's it |
| 1:37.8 | like how do I end it like I say hey stop talking to me we're like dude it's just we're just chilling. It's already rolling. It's just very natural. Okay, cool. Perfect. Okay, awesome. By the way, just FYI, he brought five people with him. Who's your favorite? My wife. That makes sense. That makes sense. That's an easy one. Welcome back to the George Jango show, guys. I am here with Josiah Queen. I was expecting like a clap from your studio. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Non-supporting. Non-supporting. Dude, dude, thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. Oh, man. The first time we ever met, we were at my show yeah where were we norfolk yeah yeah dude beautiful |
| 2:19.3 | just beautiful there i just remember you the whole show you just you you you just dogged on the whole |
| 2:26.6 | the on the city the entire yeah they needed to be done yeah somebody needed to speak the truth around |
| 2:31.5 | that uh i dog on your brother yeah it's okay I got with him, I was just making fun of his brother the whole time. He's like, all right. Hey, in Norfolk's events, the only location we saw was what? We were like on this dark harbor. Oh, you mean the whole thing? It's raining the entire time. Yeah, we can. |
| 2:51.2 | They were like, yeah, yeah, this is a military area. |
| 2:53.7 | I go, hey, hey, hey, I could tell. |
| 2:57.5 | I'm the only Middle Eastern walking around, dude. |
| 3:01.1 | Well, dude, thanks for being here. |
| 3:02.4 | I know you're on tour right now. |
| 3:04.1 | And now, how many tours have you been on? |
| 3:05.9 | Dude, I don't know. |
| 3:06.9 | I think we did four last year. And then, um, I think this might be the sixth one we've been on. Dude, how do you feel on tour, man? Uh, dude, I think we've built up a really good team now, um, where there's, it's a lot less pressure on me to do things. Dude, I pretty much just show up. Bro. At the show. So now it's like been pretty easy in that way. |
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