Today’s guest, Elizabeth MacBride, tells us how an early job covering Amish affairs for a local newspaper led to a life-changing assignment in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. In the last few years, she’s returned to the Middle East multiple times to report on issues from the Iranian startup scene to female entrepreneurship in refugee camps.
What’s it really like to cover the White House? Today’s guest, Bill Press, is the host of a political talk radio show, a former co-host of CNN’s Crossfire, the author of many books, and the former Chairman of the California Democratic Party. He tells us how he went from the seminary to a career in politics and the media, and shares stories about San Francisco in the Summer of Love, working with Governor Jerry Brown in the 70’s, and how he found his way onto national television.
Leafar Sayer of the Cholo Goth band Prayers talks about his troubled past, what he learned from being a gang member, how his dark experiences inspire his music, and why he believes he’s destined to follow in the footsteps of Prince and David Bowie.
On this episode, I speak with baseball writers, podcasters, and temporary professional baseball team overlords Ben Lindbergh & Sam Miller. Ben and Sam are the authors of The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team. Their book tells the story of how two Internet-based baseball writers ended up running the Sonoma Stompers, an independent league professional baseball team.