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

Valter Longo, PhD, is director of the Longevity Center at the University of Southern California. He chats with Trey Elling about his new book,FASTING CANCER: HOW FASTING AND NUTRITECHNOLOGY ARE CREATING A REVOLUTION IN CANCER PREVENTION AND TREATMENT. Topics include:Explaining cancer (0:00)Explaining fasting (4:02)Fasting & cancer (7:03)Growth hormone factors & cancer (11:04)Animal protein debate (20:50)Fasting & specific cancers (31:38)The Ketogenic Diet (39:30)The downside of 16:8 time-restricted feeding? (44:19)His hope for the future (51:09)Ozympic & other GLP-1s (56:24)

ComedianBonnie McFarlane joins Trey Elling for a conversation about:Parenthood (0:00)Growing up without TV vs no limits (4:10)Standup comedy (8:27)Bourdain (15:50)Killing chickens, and other animals (17:22)More parenting (22:35)Awe (26:43)Rich Voss, LEGEND (28:57)An ode to standup (30:19)

Comedian & actorJon Lovitz chats with Trey Elling. Topics include...Tennis (0:00)Meeting baseball legends (5:37)Jon's standup journey (20:39)Norm Macdonald (28:39)

Alexander Hutchison, PhD, is an expert on sports performance and author of IN DEFENSE OF DOPING: REASSESSING THE LEVEL PLAYING FIELD. He chats with Trey Elling about the need to rethink certain performance-enhancing drugs in sports, due systems and testing protocols that are both inconsistent and hypocritical. Topics include: The book's inspiration (0:00) Defining 'doping' (9:43) PEDs fall into 1 of 3 categories (12:53) WADA's hypocricy (15:14) The value of HGH (21:07) A PED paradox in sports vs life (27:16) The Tour de France & PEDs, a history (33:35) MLB's gains & losses with PEDs (39:34) "Protecting the children" (41:35) Clenbuterol (47:15) Potential solutions (50:37) Drugs that should remain illegal (53:52)

Comedian Ali Siddiq chats with Trey Elling, amidst his current theater tour. Topics include: Spleeping, eating, and breathing standup (0:00) Filming in a prison (5:28) Tooth Fairy in the Siddiq home (9:32) Youth sports (16:19) Settling beefs in the boxing ring (22:21) What is worth the struggle? (24:08) Advice from Willie D (26:14)

James Murray is a multi-faceted entertainer, known for his work as "Murr" from IMPRACTICAL JOKERS and his efforts as a bestselling author, with nine novels under his belt! He discusses those things and more with Trey Elling, prior to his headlining shows at Cap City Comedy Club on Jan. 24 & 25! Topics include: Murr's standup show (0:00) Getting in trouble in school (5:32) Writing books & making movie adaptations (7:49) Impractical Jokers, fun for the whole family (11:24) Being friends w/ David Zucker of Airplane! fame (13:38) How Murr's wedding broke Smash Mouth up (18:16) A story about Steve Byrne (20:59) A story about Allen Iverson (22:41)

Filmmaker Garret Price chats with Trey Elling about his new doc on MAX, YACHT ROCK: A DOCKUMENTARY. Topics include: A Gen-Xer Making a Yacht Rock doc (0:00) Working with Bill Simmons (2:28) Defining Yacht Rock (4:42) The starting point (7:20) Steely Dan (9:21) Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins (10:23) Christopher Cross (11:34) "What a Fool Believes" (12:58) Yacht Rock & Hip Hop (14:40) MTV killing Yacht Rock (16:03) Toto and "Africa" (17:23) Donald Fagen (20:49) Appearing on camera (25:07) An ode to Yacht Rock (26:04) An ode to filmmaking (26:45)

Comedian Keith Robinson chats with Trey Elling, prior to his shows at The Comedy Mothership. Check out Keith's latest special, DIFFERENT STROKES, on YouTube! Topics include: Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn (0:00) Getting it from other comedians (5:26) Patrice O'Neal (10:41) Different Strokes (13:29) Mitzi and The Comedy Store (18:03) The Comedy Cellar (19:38) Messing with Bobby Kelly in Brazil (24:11) Fatherhood (27:01) An ode to standup (28:45)

Patrick Warburton (Puddy in Seinfeld, Joe Swanson in Family Guy, Lemony Snicket in A Series of Unfortunate Events) chats with Trey Elling about (re)starting a standup career at 60! Patrick headlines Cap City Comedy Club, December 27th-29th. Topics include: Getting back into standup, 40 years later (0:00) The Comedy Store in the mid-1980s (8:21) Barry Sonnenfeld (10:35) Doing blow with Robin Williams & Kinison (15:05) Giving a speech at the JuCo he failed out of (21:14) Pearl Jam (23:27) Pissing Larry David off (27:10) Fatherhood (29:00) An ode to standup (32:02)

Texas Longhorns' Outland- & Lombardi-winning offensive lineman Kelvin Banks chatted with Trey Elling at SEC Media Days, ahead of the 2024 season. Topics included: Leadership (0:00) Texas o-line thoughts (1:11) SEC ready? (3:16) BBQ reviews (4:03)