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Episode 62: Jim Lampley

Jim Lampley is an American sportscaster and news anchor. He was best known as a blow-by-blow announcer on HBO World Championship Boxing for 30 years. He also had covered a record 14 Olympic Games on U.S. television, most recently the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

Episode 61: Tris Dixon

Tris Dixon is the former editor of Boxing News and has covered the sport for nearly two decades. He has worked as a boxing broadcaster for Sky Sports, BT Sport, and CNN. He authored the books The Road to Nowhere: A Journey Through Boxing’s Wastelands, Money: The Life and Fast Times of Floyd Mayweather, ghostwrote War and Peace: My Story with British boxing icon Ricky Hatton, and his latest book Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing

Episode 60: Maria Konnikova

Maria Konnikova is a Russian-American writer , with a Ph.D in psychology from Columbia University. Konnikova has worked as a television producer, written for several magazines and online publications, and written two New York Times best-selling books. She primarily writes about psychology and its application to real life situations.

Episode 59: Mark Cousins

Mark Cousins is a Northern Irish director and writer based in Edinburgh. A prolific documentarian, he is best known for his 15-hour 2011 documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.

 

Episode 58: Ashwin Rodrigues

Ashwin Rodrigues is a staff writer at Vice. 

Episode 57: Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson is a Welsh-American journalist, author, and filmmaker whose works include Them: Adventures with Extremists (2001), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), and The Psychopath Test (2011). He produces informal but skeptical investigations of controversial fringe politics and science.

Episode 56: Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames is an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs, and is the creator of two television series, Bored to Death (HBO) and Blunt Talk (STARZ). In the late '90s and early 2000s, he was a columnist for the New York Press for several years, and became known for self-deprecating tales of his sexual misadventures. He also has a long-time interest in boxing, appearing occasionally in the ring as "The Herring Wonder".

Episode 55: Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman is an American author and essayist whose work focuses on American popular culture. He has been a columnist for Esquire and ESPN.com and wrote "The Ethicist" column for The New York Times Magazine. Klosterman is the author of eleven books, including two novels and the essay collection Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto. 

Episode 54: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

Uncover the man behind the myth of one of America’s greatest and most complicated writers. Hemingway from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick premieres April 5, 2021 on PBS. 

Episode 53: Jerry Izenberg

Jerry Izenberg is a sports journalist with The Newark Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey. Izenberg has covered many memorable sporting events and figures of the late twentieth century, including Sonny Werblin's ownership of the New York Jets, the boxing career of Muhammad Ali, and the Loma Prieta earthquake which interrupted the 1989 World Series.