Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation.

Here's your host, former ESPN producer, Jason Romano.

Hey, guys, welcome back to Sports Spectrum.

I am Jason Romano.

Today's show is going to be a great one. This was one of those bucketless guests. So people ask me all the time, who do you want to have on your show? You know, who are the guests that you would love to talk to someday? And if Tim Tebow and Davo Sweeney are listening right now, we want to talk to you on sports spectrum. But then there are some

other people that are maybe under the radar, not as known. And a couple of those people have been on

the show in the last few months, including Annie F. Downs, who is, as I call her the goat of podcasting and

does a great job with her show. That sounds fun. And then today's guest, John Acuff, New York

Times bestselling author. He's a speaker. He's an awesome dude and very, very funny. And he's

written some amazing books. He's a wonderful follow on Instagram and Twitter. And I really enjoy

just kind of interacting with John. And we don't really know each other. We run in circles where he knows some people that I know and I know some people that he knows, but we're not really friends or anything like that. But he's a guy I've always wanted to have on the podcast. Now, four years in with Sports Spectrum. And today we got to make that dream, I guess, a reality in having John Acuff on the show. And he delivered. He was

great. It was a lot of fun. He's got some wonderful little quirky one-liners. We talk about his new book. It's called Soundtracks, which is a game changer, I think, that you all will want to pick up and read. And then we get into some fun sports stories as well. And then we talk shop podcasting after we stopped recording.

So I wish I kept recording because I think that would have been as fun of a conversation for you to listen to as well. And then we talk shop podcasting after we stopped recording. So I wish I kept recording

because I think that would have been as fun of a conversation for you to listen to as well.

So John's coming up. But first, I want to tell you about a couple places that you can reach us.

First, our website, sportspectrum.com is the home base for our content. Make sure you're

bookmarking the website and going there each day for new content, new articles,

new stories on the intersection of sports and faith, daily devotionals there, podcasts as well.

You can listen to it all at sportspectrum.com. And then our magazine, our brand new issue is out.

The spring issue of the Sports Spectrum magazine is available now, and you can subscribe

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Sportspectrum.com to subscribe right there. You get five issues plus maybe one or two bonus issues.

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