SONNY SANDOVAL | Son of Southtown (Ep. 722)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In this episode, we welcome Sonny Sandoval to the show. He is the lead singer of the multi-platinum selling and thrice Grammy nominated nu-metal group P.O.D. P.O.D. has been making music for three decades and has sold over 12 million records worldwide. He is also the Co-Founder of the ministry group called The Whosoevers and the author of the new book “Son of Southtown: My Life Between Two Worlds”. In this interview, we discuss why the timing was right for him to release a book, what it was like growing up in Southtown, how the death of his mother helped lead him to Christ, how he got his start in music, the early days of P.O.D., Christians being critical of the band’s style of music, why heavy music isn’t automatically “satanic”, what it was like when the band experienced super stardom, why his band toured with bands that were not Christian, why he decided to take a year off from the band to start a ministry organization, his Mount Rushmore of P.O.D. albums, the one P.O.D. song that he would leave for humanity, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:28.2	All right guys, we've got a special guest on the podcast today. His name is Sonny Sandoval, and so I am like so giddy and excited about
1:32.7	this one. So this was pretty nostalgic and I kind of nerded out a little bit, but if you
1:36.2	don't know who that is, he is the lead singer of the multi-platin new metal group, POD. So P-O-D has been making music for over three decades now,
1:45.8	and they've sold like, I don't know, 12, 13 million records worldwide during that time.
1:50.3	But also, Sonny Sandoval is the co-founder of a ministry group called The Whosoever's,
1:53.9	and he is the author of the brand new book, Son of South Town, My life between two worlds. And so the band, POD, and I talk about this in the show,
2:02.2	is a very important band to me. This was a band that I found in middle school. And for a lot of you guys,
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