The Podcast Where Faith And Sports Mix

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Episode 446 of the Sports Media Podcast features the co-hosts of The Sports Spectrum podcast, an interview-driven show featuring stories at the intersection of faith and sports. The guests are Matt Forte, who played 10 years in the NFL as a running back for the Bears and Jets, and becomes a co-host on Nov. 5, and Jason Romano, a former ESPN producer who has been the podcast host since 2017. In this podcast, Forte and Romano discuss what the Sports Spectrum offers listeners; why Forte decided to become an on-air host; how deep the show go into a person's faith, religious experience, testimonial and connection to Christ; who listens to the show based on their data; how someone who doesn’t belong to a religion would interact with the podcast; how Forte saw playing in the major media markets of Chicago and New York; whether discussing religion is a third-rail issue in a locker room and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Media Podcast. I'm your host, Richard Deich. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:14.0	Today's show is focused on a long-running podcast that interviews athletes about their faith, sports, and their
0:23.0	relationship to Christ.
0:25.0	We have two guests this week.
0:26.3	First up, Matt Forte.
0:27.9	That name should ring a bell if you're an NFL fan.
0:30.3	He played 10 years in the league as a highly productive running back for the Chicago Bears and
0:36.9	the New York Jets.
0:38.3	And on November 5th, he will become the co-host of the Sports Spectrum podcast.
0:47.1	He's joined by Jason Romano, who's been the long-running host of the Sports Spectrum podcast.
0:51.8	He will transition to, I think it was maybe like an executive producerish kind of position.
0:56.4	And sometimes.
0:57.0	Wise counsel.
0:58.0	Wise counsel.
0:59.0	Wise, yes.
0:59.7	Jason is always wise, Matt.
1:01.5	And sometimes co-hosts.
1:03.2	So to give you a sense of if you, if you're not familiar with this podcast, I would,
1:09.6	even if you are not, let's say, like a deep person of
1:13.5	faith, check out the guest list they've had because the amount of like pretty high profile
1:19.1	people who they've had is pretty extraordinary from like Nick Foles, it was a recent guest
1:25.2	rate and more. That's Sydney McLaughlin, essentially the star of the Paris Olympics.
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