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Tourist Information
by Brin-Jonathan Butler
Insiders looking out and outsiders looking in from the world of boxing. Hosted by Brin-Jonathan Butler
Episodes
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Episode109: Chris Jones
Chris Jones, a former writer-at-large for Esquire, has won two National Magazine Awards. His new memoir, Legs Hearts Minds: Loss and Its Remedies, was recently released through Random House. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, Golf...
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Episode 107: Tom Junod
Tom Junod is an American journalist who is currently a senior writer for ESPN.com. He is the recipient of two National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors.
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Episode 68: Ken Burns
Ken Burns is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films. His widely known documentary series include The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), Prohibition…
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Episode 67: Patrick Connor
Patrick Connor is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and the International Boxing Research Organization and author of 'Shot at a Brothel: The Spectacular Demise of Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena'
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Episode 66: Lance Oppenheim
Lance Oppenheim is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and producer from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His debut feature Some Kind of Heaven (2020) was an Official Selection at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
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Episode 65: Frank Brady
Frank Brady is an American writer, editor, biographer and educator. Chairman of the Department of Mass Communications, Journalism, Television and Film at St. John's University, New York, he is founding editor of Chess Life magazine.
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Episode 63: Teddy Atlas
Teddy Atlas is an American hall of fame boxing trainer and fight commentator.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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Episode 58: Ashwin Rodrigues
Ashwin Rodrigues is a staff writer at Vice.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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Episode 51: Brian Koppelman
Brian Koppelman is an American showrunner. He is the co-writer of Ocean's Thirteen and Rounders, the producer for films including The Illusionist and The Lucky Ones, the director for films including Solitary Man and the documentary This Is What They Want for ESPN as part of their 30 for 30…
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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.
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Episode 47: Holly Lawson
Holly Lawson is a personal trainer and former professional boxer originally from Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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Episode 41: Bill Hillmann
Bill Hillmann is an American author, storyteller, and journalist. He is a bull-runner and former boxer.
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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.
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Episode 39: T. J. English
T. J. English is an American author and journalist known primarily for his non-fiction books about the Irish mob, organized crime, criminal justice and the American underworld.
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Episode 38: Fernanda Prates
Fernanda Prates is an MMA staff writer at The Athletic. She is a sports journalist based out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who worked as a correspondent and reporter for MMA Junkie for three years.
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Episode 37: Todd Snyder
Todd Snyder is associate professor of rhetoric and writing at Siena College and author of the new book 'Bundini: Don't Believe The Hype'
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Episode 36: Robert Lipsyte
Robert Lipsyte is an American sports journalist and author and former Ombudsman for ESPN. He is a member of the Board of Contributors for USA Today's Forum Page, part of the newspaper's Opinion section. He received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2001 for his...
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Episode 35: Chris Bell
Chris Bell is an American director, producer and writer, known for his documentaries Bigger, Stronger, Faster., Trophy Kids, and Prescription Thugs. His work is focused on the impact that society has on our consumption and addictions, especially to prescription drugs.
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Episode 34: Brian Campbell
Brian Campbell covers MMA, boxing and WWE. The Connecticut native joined CBS Sports in 2017 and has covered combat sports since 2010. He has written and hosted various podcasts and digital shows for ESPN and Grantland.
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Episode 33: Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux is a British documentary filmmaker, journalist, broadcaster, and author. He has received two British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award. He is known for My Scientology Movie, When Louis Met... Jimmy and Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends.
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Episode 32: Steven Garza
Steven Garza stars in the Sundance Film Festival Grand Prize winning documentary “Boys State,” directed by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine.
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Episode 31: Roy Jones Jr.
Roy Jones Jr. is an American former professional boxer, boxing commentator, boxing trainer, rapper, and actor. He competed in boxing from 1989 to 2018, and held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including titles at middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and...
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Episode 30: Roberto José Andrade Franco
Roberto José Andrade Franco was born in Chicago but considers the El Paso-Juárez borderland home. After working in construction for over a decade, he attended El Paso Community College and then University of Texas at El Paso. He is now a PhD candidate at Southern Methodist University where he’s...
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Episode 29: James Altucher
James Altucher is an American hedge-fund manager, author, podcaster and entrepreneur who has founded or cofounded over 20 companies. He has published 20 books and he is a contributor to publications including The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and The Huffington Post....
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Episode 28: Errol Morris
Errol Morris is an American film director primarily of documentaries examining and investigating, among other things, authorities and eccentrics. His 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line is cited among the best and most influential documentaries ever made. In 2003, his documentary film The Fog of...
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Episode 27: Hamilton Nolan
Hamilton Nolan is a labor reporting fellow at In These Times. He has spent the past decade writing about labor, politics and a bit of boxing for Gawker, Splinter, The Guardian and elsewhere.
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Episode 26: Jesse Moss
Jesse Moss is a Sundance Award-winning director and cinematographer. His new film Boys State, co-directed with Amanda McBaine, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, in the US Documentary Competition. The film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize and acquired by A24 and Apple for distribution....
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Episode 25: Chuck Mindenhall
Chuck Mindenhall is an MMA writer published in The Ringer, SBnation, LA Weekly, and The Athletic.
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Episode 24: Jeff MacGregor
Jeff MacGregor is currently a writer-at-large for Smithsonian Magazine. He has written often for The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker, ESPN, Esquire, Men's Journal, Details and Los Angeles magazine, among many others.
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Episode 23: Wright Thompson
Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN.com and the author of The Cost of These Dreams. In 2019 he published a book of essays called The Cost of These Dreams. His work has been included in the Best American Sports Writing series numerous times.
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Episode 22: Dana Vespoli
Dana Vespoli is an American pornographic actress and film director. She is a graduated from Mills College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in comparative literature.
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Episode 21: David Hill
David Hill's first book, "The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice," is due July 2020 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. His work has been featured on This American Life, in New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The New…
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Episode 20: Jon Lee Anderson
Jon Lee Anderson (born January 15, 1957) is an American biographer, author, investigative reporter, war correspondent and staff writer for The New Yorker, reporting from war zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Uganda, Palestine, El Salvador, Ireland, Lebanon, Iran, and throughout the Middle East as...
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Episode 19: Wesley Lowery
Wesley Lowery is a journalist at CBS News, formerly at The Washington Post. He was a lead on the Post's "Fatal Force" project that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016 as well as the author of They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice...
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Episode 18: Dave Zirin
Dave Zirin, born 1974, is an American political sportswriter. He is the sports editor for The Nation, a weekly progressive magazine dedicated to politics and culture, and writes a blog named Edge of Sports: the weekly sports column by Dave Zirin. As of January 2020, he has authored ten books.
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Episode 17: Howard Bryant
Howard Bryant is a multi-award-winning author, sports journalist, and radio and television personality with ESPN and NPR. He is the author of the Legends series for young readers; Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston; The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron; Juicing the Game; and Full...
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Episode 16: Dr. Scott Weiss
Dr. Scott Weiss is the co-author of Confusing the Enemy: The Cus D’Amato Story and a licensed physical therapist and board certified athletic trainer based in New York. He is also a registered exercise physiologist and strength and conditioning specialist with over twenty years of experience.…
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