Warning: Egos of Kit & Jon May Soon Blow Through the Roof

The word is out about What Is the Point?! This week the Christian County Headliner published a profile of our own Kit and Jon and their What Is the Point? podcast.

Here's a bit to get you started:

It seems like everything these days is going high tech from music to lunch menus, and now even churches. Two members of the Life Point Church in Ozark have helped take their church to the next tech savvy level by producing a podcast each week.

Church members Jonathan Goings and Kit House star in and produce the weekly variety podcast from Goings' home.

A podcast is similar to a radio broadcast, but with one catch--it's never broadcast. Musicians, talk show hosts or anyone can record a segment and then upload it to the iTunes Web site on the Internet where anyone worldwide can download it, much like any song.

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Episode III: Summer in the Ozarks

Episode III: Summer in the Ozarks is now online. It includes a discussion of the 2007 Ozark Race Days and the 2007 Ozark Empire Fair, plus a Taylor Hicks concert report from Frickin' Betty G and listener e-mails.

Episode II: Facing the Giants

Episode II: Facing the Giants is now online. It includes a review of the movie Facing the Giants and discussions of God's providence and Internet 2.0.

Episode II Music

• Sometimes By Step—Rich Mullins (Kit House pick)
• Lonely Moon—Mark Heard (Kit House pick)
• Blueberry Hill—Bruce Cockburn (Kit House pick)
• All Summer Long—The Beach Boys (Kit House pick)
• Phantom Limb—The Shins (Kit House pick)
• Three More Days—Ray LaMontagne (Jon Goings pick)
  There's desperation in Ray's voice that would hint at a desire to return to something he loves.
• Your 8th Birthday—Cloud Cult (Jon Goings pick)
  My 8th birthday was nothing like this. I don't remember what it was like, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't anything like this. Great song though.
• Fallen—Vib Gyor (Jon Goings pick)
  This band has some serious potential. I'm very excited to hear what they have in store for us.
• +81—Deerhoof (Jon Goings pick)
  Sometimes it's supposed to be fun.
• Stop Ou Encore—Plastic Bertrand (Jon Goings pick)
  If this song doesn't do it for you then you really need to go down to Lake Springfield and bathe yourself 7 times.

Episode I: What Is the Point?

Episode I: What Is the Point? is now online. It includes an introduction to What Is the Point, including profiles of Kit House and Jon Goings, plus an interview with Chris 'Awesome' Austin and a discussion of first amendment rights.

Episode I Music

• Shut Us Down—Lindsey Buckingham (Chris Austin pick)
• Savin' Me—Nickelback (Chris Austin pick)
• Send Me On My Way—Rusted Root (Chris Austin pick)
• Summer Love—Justin Timberlake (Chris Austin pick)
• Jesus Walks—Kanye West (Jon Goings pick)
  This song reminds me that it seems we can rap about anything except fo' Jesus.
• The Small Print—Muse (Jon Goings pick)
  Who or what is your muse?
• Can't You See—The Marshall Tucker Band (Jon Goings pick)
  Did you need a practical (yet poetical) application of Matthew 5:29? Well here it is.
• Into the Ocean—Blue October (Kit House pick)
• Mysteries—Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs (Kit House pick)
• Because—The Beatles (Kit House pick)