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Episode 49: Alex Vadukul

Alex Vadukul is a city correspondent for The New York Times. He writes for Sunday Metropolitan and is a three-time winner of the New York Press Club award for city writing. He teaches journalism at The New School.

 

Episode 48: Jason Kander

Jason Kander is an American attorney, author, veteran, and former politician. A Democrat, he served as the 39th Secretary of State of Missouri, from 2013 to 2017. 

Before entering politics, he was an intelligence officer in the Army National Guard, achieving the rank of captain.

 

 

Episode 47: Holly Lawson

Holly Lawson is a personal trainer and former professional boxer originally from Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada 

 

 

Episode 46: Evan Rutkowski

Evan Rutkowski is the head of boxing at Ring City USA and formerly worked as a marketing executive for HBO Sports. 

Episode 45: Bruce Pandolfini

Bruce Pandolfini is an American chess author, teacher, and coach. A USCF national master, he is generally considered to be America's most experienced chess teacher. Pandolfini was a consultant to The Queen's Gambit, a 2020 American Netflix miniseries.

Episode 44: Andre Ward on 'Tyson vs Jones'

Andre Ward is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2017. He retired with an undefeated record and held multiple world titles in two weight classes. He also won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 2004 Olympics.

 

Episode 43: Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, playwright and short story writer. His novel Trainspotting was made into a film of the same name. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films.

Episode 42: Thomas Hauser

Thomas Hauser is the author of forty-eight books on subjects ranging from professional boxing to Beethoven. Hist first novel Missing was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the National Book Award, and was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek. Hauser wrote Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times—the definitive biography of “the most famous man on earth”—was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. 

Episode 41: Bill Hillmann

Bill Hillmann is an American author, storyteller, and journalist. He is a bull-runner and former boxer.

Episode 40: Charles Bock

Charles Bock is an American writer whose debut 2008 novel Beautiful Children was selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year for 2008, and won the 2009 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.