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Insiders looking out and outsiders looking in from the world of boxing. Hosted by Brin-Jonathan Butler

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    • Society & Culture
    • 4.8 • 32 Ratings

Insiders looking out and outsiders looking in from the world of boxing. Hosted by Brin-Jonathan Butler

    Episode 95: Ben Johnson

    Episode 95: Ben Johnson

    Ben Johnson is a Canadian former sprinter. During the 1987–88 season he held the title of the world's fastest man, breaking both the 100m and the 60m indoor World Records. He won the 100 metres at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics; and at the 1988 Summer Olympics, but was disqualified for doping and stripped of the gold medal.

    • 44 min
    Episode 94: Michael Azerrad

    Episode 94: Michael Azerrad

    Michael Azerrad is an American author, music journalist, editor, and musician. A graduate of Columbia University, he has written for publications such as Spin, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. Azerrad's 1993 biography Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana was named by Q as one of the 50 greatest rock books ever written.

    • 1 hr 47 min
    Episode 93: Andrew Hammel

    Episode 93: Andrew Hammel

    Andrew Hammel holds law degrees from the University of Houston and Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar of the State of Texas in 1996. He is a former death-row defense lawyer and law professor. He is the author of Ending the Death Penalty: The European Experience in Global Perspective (2010) and many scholarly articles. He is fluent in English and German. His long-form journalism on famous true crime cases has appeared in Quillette, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Berliner Zeitung, and other outlets.

    • 1 hr 53 min
    Episode 92: Ric Burns

    Episode 92: Ric Burns

    Ric Burns is an American documentary filmmaker and writer. He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries since the 1990s, beginning with his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series The Civil War (1990), which he produced with his older brother Ken Burns and wrote with Geoffrey Ward.

    • 1 hr 24 min
    Episode 91: Nick McDonell

    Episode 91: Nick McDonell

    Nick McDonell is an American writer who has worked as a journalist, screenwriter, producer, novelist and researcher.

    • 1 hr 40 min
    Episode 90: Kim Cross

    Episode 90: Kim Cross

    Kim Cross is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist known for meticulously reported narrative nonfiction. A full-time freelance writer, she has bylines in the New York Times, Nieman Storyboard, Outside, Bicycling, Garden & Gun, CNN.com, ESPN.com, and USA Today.

    • 1 hr 9 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
32 Ratings

32 Ratings

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Smart stuff

Interesting show and intersections with boxing.

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Anyone that interviews Dan read and take some serious deserves one star for not taking their own work serious.

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Even if you don’t dig boxing

thoughtful insightful - never annoying - what a gift this podcast it

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