Advertise on podcast: The Sport of Life: Chats w/ Comedians, Filmmakers, Sports Figures, Musicians, & Intellectuals

Grammy-winning musician Warren Haynes chats with Trey Elling about lessons on what NOT to do from David Allan Coe and plenty of positive lessins from the Allman Brothers Band, The Grateful Dead, & 30 years of Gov't Mule!

Trae Crowder chats with Trey Elling at Foxtail on Burnet Rd. The conversation includes some football talk, Halloween, and Trae refusing to be a victim of his own comedic success!

Bestselling author Chuck Klosterman chats with Trey Elling about his newest book, ROCK, which presents a fictionalized idea of the direction of rock music and it's role in society, as well his most recent bestseller, FOOTBALL, that explores the popularity of the sport in America!

Following the premiere of his new documentary, SURFILMUSIC, at SXSW 2026, Jack Johnson chats with Trey Elling about his love of music, filmmaking, surfing, and family.

ESPN's Heather Dinich chats with Trey Elling at Big Ten Media Days in Chicago. The conversation includes her thoughts on the Texas Longhorns in 2026, the most likely contenders in the Big Ten, and where her love for college football comes from!

Texas Tech Red Raiders head football coach Joey McGuire chats with Trey Elling at Big 12 Football Media Days in Frisco! The Sport of Life aims for entertaining & informative long-form conversations with comedians, filmmakers, musicians, intellectuals, authors, and sports figures!The website: https://withtreyelling.com/The Sport of Life on ESPN Austin, weekdays from 6-7pm CT: https://www.1027espn.com/show/the-sport-of-life-trey-elling/On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withtreyelling/On Twitter: https://x.com/withtreyellingOn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/withtreyelling

Texas Longhorns softball coach Mike White sits back down with Trey Elling, a month after his team won a second straight national championship, to relive his team going back-to-back, philosophize on how to instill grit, and more! The Sport of Life aims for entertaining & informative long-form conversations with comedians, filmmakers, musicians, intellectuals, authors, and sports figures!The website: https://withtreyelling.com/The Sport of Life on ESPN Austin, weekdays from 6-7pm CT: https://www.1027espn.com/show/the-sport-of-life-trey-elling/On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withtreyelling/On Twitter: https://x.com/withtreyellingOn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/withtreyelling

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey chats with Trey Elling at the conference's 2026 football media days in Tampa, FL!The conversation revolves around the SEC possibly breaking away from the rest of college football in creating its own system of self-governance. The Sport of Life aims for entertaining & informative long-form conversations with comedians, filmmakers, musicians, intellectuals, authors, and sports figures!The website: https://withtreyelling.com/The Sport of Life on ESPN Austin, weekdays from 6-7pm CT: https://www.1027espn.com/show/the-sport-of-life-trey-elling/On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withtreyelling/On Twitter: https://x.com/withtreyellingOn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/withtreyelling

Texas Longhorns' starting quarterback Arch Manning chats with Trey Elling at SEC Football Media Days in Tampa, Florida!

Emmy-winning TV creator and writer Michael Schur (SNL, The Office, Parks & Rec, Brooklyn Nine- Nine, The Good Place) chats with Trey Elling about his new book, ⁠BIG FAN: TWO FRIENDS, 82,490 MILES, AND THE WILD, WONDERFUL SPORTS WE LOVE⁠. Co-authored with lauded sports writer and friend Joe Posnanski, the book explores what it means to be a fan for sports they love, others that they're unfamiliar with, and some they downright hate! Starting with football (0:00)Darts championships and their bathrooms (6:49)Unrivaled Basketball and 'creating' fandom (11:31)Dead & Co at the Sphere and Wrestlemania (19:29)'Awe' and fandom (26:44)Mike rigging his son's Red Sox love (29:28)Mike's attempt to revive FIELD OF DREAMS (38:39)The question for a sequel for BIG FAN (44:44) The Sport of Life aims for entertaining & informative long-form conversations with comedians, filmmakers, musicians, intellectuals, authors, and sports figures!The website: https://withtreyelling.com/The Sport of Life on ESPN Austin, weekdays from 6-7pm CT: https://www.1027espn.com/show/the-sport-of-life-trey-elling/On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withtreyelling/On Twitter: https://x.com/withtreyellingOn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/withtreyelling

Ben McKenzie is a filmmaker, actor, and bestselling author of EASY MONEY. He chats with Trey Elling about his superb new documentary, EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY, which documents is years-long journey to understand cryptocurrency and the people most responsible for popularizing its rise. For more on the film, including screenings at a city near you, visit their website HERE.The Sport of Life aims for entertaining & informative long-form conversations with comedians, filmmakers, musicians, intellectuals, authors, and sports figures!The website: https://withtreyelling.com/The Sport of Life on ESPN Austin, weekdays from 6-7pm CT: https://www.1027espn.com/show/the-sport-of-life-trey-elling/On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withtreyelling/On Twitter: https://x.com/withtreyellingOn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/withtreyelling

Andrew McCarthy is a New York Times bestselling author, travel writer, and filmmaker. He chats with Trey Elling about his newest book, WHO NEEDS FRIENDS: AN UNSCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION OF MALE FRIENDSHIP ACROSS AMERICA. Topics include: The genesis of the book (0:00)Small town America (3:40)Vulnerability (7:33)Have men always struggled to share feelings? (13:54)Lessons learned in Texas (17:23)Men's groups (22:26)Making friends in adulthood (26:40)

The iconic Yakov Smirnoff chats with Trey Elling at Cap City Comedy Club, during the 2026 Moontower Comedy Festival! Topics include: What he's learned from getting back out on the road (0:00)Remaining optimistic with comedy (11:25)Losing his career with the fall of communism (19:03)Living with Sam Kinison & Andrew Dice Clay (26:44)Yakov isn't actually Russian (33:56)Questioning the 'legend' label (35:54)The psychology of laughter in relationships (40:14)Fathering a baby at 75 (44:26)What he hopes to soon learn about standup (46:31)An ode to Mitzi Shore (52:48)An ode to standup (54:42)What he loves about this country (55:56) For more on Yakov, including upcoming tour dates: https://yakov.com/ The Sport of Life aims for entertaining & informative long-form conversations with comedians, filmmakers, musicians, intellectuals, authors, and sports figures!The website: https://withtreyelling.com/The Sport of Life on ESPN Austin, weekdays from 6-7pm CT: https://www.1027espn.com/show/the-sport-of-life-trey-elling/On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withtreyelling/On Twitter: https://x.com/withtreyellingOn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/withtreyelling

Comedian Josh Wolf chats with Trey Elling, prior to his latest stop at Cap City Comedy Club in Austin. Topics include: Smedium t-shirt guys (0:00)In-shape grandpa (4:21)Competing against your kids (11:15)Moving someplace completely foreign (21:27)Living in Seattle in the 1990s (32:49)An ode to fatherhood (40:13)An ode to standup (46:04)

Josh Scherer of Mythical Kitchen chats with Trey Elling, prior to his live taping of Mythical Kitchen at SXSW! Topics include: The art of the interview (0:00)Crushing content creation (9:02)Trey's last meal...Malort (13:37)Football...fantasy and real (16:53)Throwing hammer at UCLA (21:38)Music preferences (28:26)Good books (30:59)Cooking humanely harvested human (32:49)