# George Plimpton
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George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician demeanor and accent. He was also famous for "participatory journalism" which included competing in professional sporting events, acting in a Western, performing a comedy act at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.
345. The Dear Princess Swan | Lee Radziwell
In this episode, we explore the life, loves, and increasingly complicated relationships of Lee Bouvier Radziwill, which a lens to two in particular. The first with her sister, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The next, with her best friend, Truman Capote. Moving from the White House to Montauk to the ...
E59 | In Cold Blood | Part One of the Book Series
On a Monday morning in November 1959, Truman Capote found a three hundred word wire story deep inside the New York Times. A wheat farmer, his wife and two of their children had been found bound and shot in their farmhouse in western Kansas. Nothing had been stolen. Capote went to Kansas with Harp...
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Here’s one of my favorite Slow Baja conversations --Johnny Johnson from February 2023, recorded at the Chenowth Legacy Lodge.
Sadly, Johnson passed a few months after we made this recording. Please watch to the end for new interview footage.
Johnny Johnson was one of the early champions in off-r...
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The Search for Koi Motsai
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