Best Matt Whitaker Podcasts (2025)

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David Law, Catherine Whitaker, and Matt Roberts — co-hosts of The Tennis Podcast 1:06:23

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Episode 537 of the Sports Media Podcast features David Law, Catherine Whitaker, and Matt Roberts, the co-hosts of the popular "The Tennis Podcast." The podcast was recently named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best podcasts all time. In this podcast, we discuss the growth of The Tennis Podcast over the last five years; how influential the podca…

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Christian Witness in Catastrophic Times with Cornel West 1:54:15

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I had the privilege of sitting down with Dr. Cornel West, one of America’s most distinguished public intellectuals and philosophers, to discuss his historic Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh. The Gifford Lectures represent philosophy’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize, and West’s series marked a watershed moment – bringing a jazz-soaked …

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First Look: CBS Sports NFL analyst Bill Cowher 6:47

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Here’s a short clip from our upcoming interview with CBS NFL analyst and Pro Football Hall of Famer Bill Cowher. The full interview will be available tomorrow. In this clip, Cowher discusses the steps he takes to improve as a broadcaster and the kind of feedback he appreciates in his current position. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podc…

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NBC's Sports massive opening NFL week — Cowboys-Eagles and Bills-Ravens 46:53

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Episode 541 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Rob Hyland, the coordinating producer of Sunday Night Football and Drew Esocoff, the director of Sunday Night Football. NBC's NFL coverage begins on Sept 4 with the Cowboys at Eagles followed by the Bills-Ravens on Sept. 7. In this podcast, Hyland and Esocoff discuss what will be…

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First Look: What Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are like in television production meetings. Plus, the NFL's new virtual measurement technology 7:18

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Here’s a short clip from our upcoming interview with Rob Hyland, the coordinating producer of Sunday Night Football, and Drew Esocoff, the director of Sunday Night Football. In this clip, Hyland and Esocoff provide insight on what Bills quarterback Josh Allen and Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson are like in production meetings, and whether the new …

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Mark Vernon: Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination 1:19:30

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In this episode, we turn to the radical vision of William Blake with brilliant scholar and psychotherapist Mark Vernon. Mark argues that Blake isn’t just a historical curiosity—he’s a guide for rewilding our humanity in an age of spiritual flatness. We explore how Blake saw the collapse of cultural imagination coming 200 years ago, offering us a wa…

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Heidegger Dreams and Chicken Interruptions: An Onto-Theological Throwdown 1:46:49

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Bo and I dove deep into onto-theology after he texted me wanting to explore its “upside” – which led to a sprawling conversation about everything from James Dobson’s recent death and its impact on evangelical parenting, to Taylor Swift’s engagement, to my chickens interrupting the show. We unpacked how onto-theology (the problematic conflation of B…

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Nichole Torbitzky: Student Beliefs & The Evolution of Faith on Campus 1:27:01

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I got an email from a retired university chaplain who’d hit a wall – after decades of ministry, he felt so culturally alienated from undergrad students that he didn’t think he could do the job anymore. It made me think about my friend Nicole Torbitzky, who serves as both philosophy professor and university chaplain at Lindenwood University in Misso…

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The newest sports media reporter on the beat — and life as a Sports Illustrated writer in the 1980s 1:08:36

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Episode 540 of the Sports Media Podcast features Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal who recently became the lead media reporter for SBJ. Karp joined SBJ in 2006 and has held a number of positions at the publication. He is followed by Larry Keith, the author of a new autobiography, "Touch 'Em All: My Life And Career At $ports Illustrated." In th…

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The state of the sports business with Robert Fishman and Michael Nathanson of MoffettNathanson 51:31

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Episode 539 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Michael Nathanson, a Founding Partner & Senior Research Analyst at MoffetNathanson and Robert Fishman, a senior research analyst at Michael Nathanson. Their firm is a leading independent equity research publisher focusing on the most important companies across the Technology, Med…

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Aizaiah Yong – Sitting by the River with Jesus: Trauma, Mysticism, and Communal Healing 1:22:12

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What if everything we think we know about trauma and healing is backwards? Today I’m talking with Aizaiah Young about his incredible new book “Trauma and Renewal” and honestly, this conversation blew me away. Isaiah survived a near-death motorcycle accident right after passing his PhD comprehensive exams (talk about terrible timing), and during a 1…

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First Look: How big an NFL player will YouTube be by the end of the decade? 7:03

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Here’s a short clip from our upcoming interview with Michael Nathanson and Robert Fishman of MoffettNathanson, one of the leading independent equity research publishers focusing on the most important companies across the Technology, Media and Telecom landscape. In this clip, Fishman and Nathanson address how pro leagues should think about business …

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When the Church Forgets Christ with Tim Whitaker 1:40:45

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In this episode, Tim Whitaker from the New Evangelical joined me for one of those sprawling conversations that somehow manages to connect Christian nationalism, the Democratic Party’s moral cowardice, process theology, and whether buying burritos on payment plans signals the end of civilization. We started with our upcoming “God of Justice” class a…

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Soccer commentator Ian Darke 37:23

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Episode 538 of the Sports Media Podcast features renowned ESPN soccer commentator Ian Darke, who is the lead broadcaster for ESPN's coverage of the 2025-26 LaLiga season. In this podcast, Darke discusses his current U.S. broadcast schedule; calling LaLiga games; what he can do freelance-wise in the UK; why Barcelona's Lamine Yamal is currently the …

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Randall Balmer: Myth Busting Evangelical Activism & Its Origins 1:26:55

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What if everything you thought you knew about why evangelical Christians became politically active was completely wrong? Today I sit down with one of America’s greatest historians of religion, Randall Balmer, to do some serious myth-busting. We dive deep into what Balmer calls “the abortion myth” – the widely believed but false story that evangelic…

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First Look: ESPN soccer announcer Ian Darke on why Barcelona teenage phenom Lamine Yamal is now the face of global soccer 5:14

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Here’s a short clip from our upcoming interview with play by play voice Ian Darke. The full interview will be available on Friday. In this clip, Darke discusses the emerging greatness of Barcelona teenage star Lamine Yamal and what it is like calling his games in person. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To lea…

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Guillermo Bervejillo: Kojin Karatani’s The Structure of World History 1:31:32

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So I got pulled into this fascinating email exchange with Brian McLaren about Kojin Karatani’s The Structure of World History, and it turns out there’s this whole crew of organizers and academics who’ve been quietly working with these ideas to rethink everything from social movements to economic theory. My guest Guillermo Bervejillo—who went from b…

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Love at the Center: Tom Oord’s Systematic Theology Project 2:16:31

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What’s up, theology nerds! Today I got to sit down with my longtime friend Tom Oord, who’s in the middle of writing what might be the first ever systematic theology with “love” right there in the title. We dove deep into how systematic theology actually works – you know, the difference between someone like Wayne Grudem who treats the Bible like a c…

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Why Your Politics Need a Better Cosmology (Whether You Know It or Not) w/ Matt Segall & Aaron Simmons 1:58:28

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Y’all, this was our third live stream for the Democracy in Tension Summit, and boy did we get nerdy! I got Aaron Simmons (the Kierkegaard guru and summit co-pilot) and Matt Segall (our process philosophy friend fresh back from Europe) together to wrestle with Carl Schmitt, Christian nationalism, cosmology, and why the heck a new vision of reality m…

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Fox Sports and Chicago Bulls broadcaster Adam Amin 52:22

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Episode 536 of the Sports Media Podcast features Fox Sports play by play announcer and Chicago Bulls broadcaster Adam Amin. In this podcast, Amin discussed attending the annual Fox NFL preseason seminar and what's it like interacting with all of Fox Sports' on-air talent; being assigned Cam Ward debut for Fox; his thoughts on Stacey Dales serving a…

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First Look: Fox Sports play by play voice and Chicago Bulls broadcaster Adam Amin on what Fox's NFL summer seminars are like 7:34

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Here’s a short clip from our upcoming interview with play by play voice Adam Amin. The full interview will be available on Friday. In this clip, Amin discusses attending the annual Fox NFL preseason seminar and what it is like interacting with all of Fox Sports' on-air NFL talent. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and mo…

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The escalating stalking problem in sports 34:48

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Episode 535 of the Sports Media Podcast features Carson Kessler, an investigative reporter for The Athletic and a former investigative fellow at the New York Times. In this podcast, Kessler discusses her reporting on the escalating stalking problem in sports and how it particularly has escalated for prominent female athletes; The Athletic identifyi…

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Ryan Burge: Gen Z Revival?: The Next Chapter in American Religious Life 1:16:34

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Well, Ryan Burge is back with a bunch of graphs about the possible Gez Z revival. We ended up spending two and a half hours doing what we do best – meandering through vacation stories about all-inclusive resorts in Mexico, reports on Tripp’s sneaky chickens, and somehow ending up talking about Prince documentaries and Epstein files. We covered the …

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The NFL Takes A 10 Percent Stake in ESPN 44:34

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Episode 534 of the Sports Media Podcast features Jon Lewis, the editor and founder of Sports Media Watch. In this podcast, we discuss Disney/ESPN acquiring the NFL Network and substantial rights to RedZone, along with other content assets, in exchange for the NFL getting a 10 percent ownership stake in ESPN; how we see the deal; the game inventory …

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The Sacred, The Political, and Why We’re All Vulnerable with Aaron Staufer & Aaron Simmons 1:35:10

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Another epic live stream from our ?Democracy in Tension summit?! Aaron Simmons and I dive deep with theologian and community organizer Aaron Staufer about how sacred values and vulnerability shape our political life together. We wrestle with the big questions y’all have been sending in – can mainline churches recover a compelling sense of the sacre…

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A documentary on Diana Taurasi 40:06

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Episode 533 of the Sports Media Podcast features Katie Bender Wynn, a narrative documentarian whose latest is "Taurasi," a three-part docu-series on basketball icon Diana Taurasi. It will premiere on Prime Video on August 7 in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. In this podcast, Bender Wynn discusses why Taurasi is a subject worthy o…

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Brian McLaren & Jacob Erickson: Ecological Crises & Lament 1:15:49

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What’s up Theology Nerds! We’re diving deep into one of the most powerful sessions from last year’s ?Theology Beer Camp? in Denver – a conversation that honestly left me speechless. Brian McLaren kicks us off with a gut-punch keynote on ecological crisis and the power of lament that’ll challenge everything you think you know about faith in our curr…

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Michael McCann on the growing nexus of sports and the law 38:37

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Episode 532 of the Sports Media Podcast features Michael McCann, a legal analyst and senior sports legal reporter for Sportico and the Director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute and Associate Dean for Intellectual Life at the University of New Hampshire. In this podcast, McCann discusses how to write about sports legal issues for a layp…

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From Epstein to Palestine: The Common Thread of Basic Decency 1:59:58

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Wow, what a wild ride this turned out to be! Bo and I got into the religious landscape after I shared this crazy sticky note revelation I had at the cigar lounge – connecting Jeffrey Epstein conspiracies and Palestine through the lens of basic human decency and institutional trust. We ended up unpacking everything from why young people are abandoni…

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The targeting of the NFL's headquarters in Manhattan 28:03

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Episode 531 of the Sports Media Podcast features Jon Lewis, the founder and editor of Sports Media Watch. In this podcast, we discuss a gunman allegedly targeting the headquarters of the NFL when he burst into an office tower in Midtown Manhattan and killed four people, including a police office; CNBC's reporting of the NFL closing in on a deal to …

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Transcendence, Immanence, and Why Charlie Kirk is Bad at Theology with Kevin Carnahan & Aaron Simmons 1:24:38

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Hey y’all, so this was our first live stream kicking off this online democracy summit we’re doing – basically a bunch of us nerds getting together to wrestle with why everything seems to be falling apart politically and what the hell we’re supposed to do about it. Kevin Carnahan and Aaron Simmons joined me to dig into Kevin’s lecture about Christia…

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Healing Cancer My Way - With Dee Mani 1:08:46

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The amazing Dee Mani from My Way CBD, and author of the Amazon Best Seller - My Way, joins me on the Podcast this week to discuss her incredible journey of self healing herself from aggressive cancer using Cannabis, diet change and meditation alone. Dee has helped thousands of people from around the world since then and continues to do so, whilst s…

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The Athletic's Colton Pouncy on covering one of the most interesting teams in professional sports — the Detroit Lions 30:32

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Episode 530 of the Sports Media Podcast features Colton Pouncy, the Detroit Lions reporter for The Athletic and the co-host of "Welcome to Detroit," a Lions podcast with Nick Baumgardner. In this podcast, Pouncy discussed his objectives for covering training camp; why Lions head coach Dan Campbell is such as great quote; where the Lions sit among N…