Let's Huddle with Ed Cunningham

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Let's Huddle with Ed Cunningham Podcast

Let's Huddle with Ed Cunningham is an interview and storytelling podcast at the intersection of sports, media, Hollywood, and pop culture featuring people who tell and participate in the biggest, craziest, and most meaningful stories on the playing field and off. Intimate with a celebratory and comedic tone, the series core is deep-dive interviews, along with commentary and scripted episodes, that all share personal growth and connections through our best sport meets life moments.

  1. 12/04/2022

    Grunge to High School Football with TJ Martin

    Oscar and Emmy winning director TJ Martin discusses growing up with parents who were in a pioneering rock band in early ‘80s Seattle, making movies about beer pong, Tina Turner and a high school football team in Memphis, along with his process and goals of storytelling. If you want to prep for or follow up after listening with TJ’s work, a good start would be "Last Cup", "Undefeated", "LA92" and "Tina". This episode is meant for a mature audience, and there are discussions of assault and trauma.

    49 min

  2. 28/03/2022

    Enemies to Family with Louisa Merino

    Mexican filmmaker Louisa Merino is an open water, long distance swimmer who met the subject of her documentary, “Jerry’s Last Mission”, while training in the pool. The beautiful, deeply moving film is about the fighter pilot who flew the last combat mission over Japan in World War II and was confronted by his enemy decades after the war when his youngest son moved to Japan and married the daughter of a Kamikaze pilot.

    38 min

  3. 08/03/2022

    Give Me One Hook with Patrick McManus

    Emmy winner Patrick McManus has directed just about every sport in America and beyond but it was his desire to try something new that led him to “America Ninja Warrior” and opened up a whole new career path. We discuss his transition to the reality competition format, the challenges of bringing to life one of the most beloved shows on television, and what he is looking for out of a football announcer.

    27 min

  4. 22/02/2022

    Rock Bottom to Scottsdale with Doug Smith

    Golf lifer Doug Smith was the first Black player at the University of Louisville and recently worked on an all minority broadcast team covering a tournament for the Golf Channel – a first for a sport still struggling to connect with and promote diverse players and industry professionals. After finally giving up his dream of playing on the PGA Tour, it was the business of golf that pulled Doug into his adult life where he hosts two golf podcasts, works for a golf technology company, and just recently, as a golf analyst and reporter. Doug’s story is inspiring and his grit and ingenuity shine through. As they say in golf, Doug is a grinder. He just sort of figures things out.

    42 min

  5. 15/02/2022

    Two for One with Doug Franz

    Longtime sports radio host Doug Franz took his wife to Cooperstown on their honeymoon and then bounced around from market to market as he built his career before a cold tryout with a new partner in Phoenix led to one of the Valleys most successful, longest running morning shows. With “The Doug and Wolf Show” gone, and his wife unwilling to move again, Doug now hosts a podcast, “Doug Franz Unplugged”. He was kind enough to let me borrow this episode, as it was mostly him interviewing me for his show, but we also dug into Doug and his process. He is smart, does good radio and we talk about the Oscars, the NFL, amateur athletics and, of course, The Boz.

    45 min

  6. 08/02/2022

    Do You Believe in Miracles with E.M. Swift

    Legendary sportswriter E.M. Swift spent over thirty years writing for Sports Illustrated with a specialty in covering the Olympics. It was his coverage of the 1980 gold medal winning USA Olympic hockey team that cemented them and their against-all-odds victory as one of the greatest miracles in sports history. We talk about his background as a college hockey player, how he got started at S.I. and the one article – a retrospective of how a group of amateurs defeated the best teams in the world – that established Swift as a key source for our understanding and appreciation of sports long before the 24-hour news cycle and explosion of outlets covering the games that we play.

    24 min

  7. 01/02/2022

    The Boz and The Dawgfather with John Costacos

    Award winning artist John Costacos helped cement sports stars as pop culture icons with inventive, stylized posters of players like Charles Barkley, Mark McGuire, Bo Jackson and Troy Aikman. Leaning into the aesthetics and mass-media sensibilities of the ‘80s and ‘90s, John and his brother’s company – the Costacos Brothers – were so good at what they did that they went from chasing deals to having stars call them asking for a poster of their own. We talk about how the company started, some of the biggest names and best photo shoots, their poster series featuring Don James, the legendary college football coach, and my favorite poster – The Land of Boz – which featured the viral-before-viral Brian “The Boz” Bosworth.

    31 min

  8. 27/01/2022

    Best Way Forward with Greg Whiteley

    Three time Emmy winning director Greg Whiteley joins the show to discuss the smash hit Netflix series “Cheer”, and how season two was nearly derailed by the pandemic and then rocked by news that a star from season one was accused and charged with multiple crimes, including sexual exploitation of children. Whiteley and his team, the ones behind “Last Chance U” also on Netflix, pressed on and have created a new season set in the world of competitive college cheerleading that will be talked about and debated long after its release. Warning – the episode includes spoilers from “Cheer” season 2 and has discussions of sex crimes. It is intended for mature audiences.

    22 min
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Let's Huddle with Ed Cunningham is an interview and storytelling podcast at the intersection of sports, media, Hollywood, and pop culture featuring people who tell and participate in the biggest, craziest, and most meaningful stories on the playing field and off. Intimate with a celebratory and comedic tone, the series core is deep-dive interviews, along with commentary and scripted episodes, that all share personal growth and connections through our best sport meets life moments.

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