#266 Jon Finkel - Lessons From The World's Top Athletes
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🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Jon Finkel is the award-winning author of '1996: A Biography', 'Hoops Heist', 'Jocks In Chief', 'Mean Joe Greene' and more. His books have been endorsed by everyone from Mark Cuban and Tony Dungy to Spike Lee, Kevin Durant and Chef Robert Irvine. He has written for GQ, Men’s Health, Yahoo! Sports, The New York Times and has appeared on hundreds of radio shows and podcasts. His upcoming biography 'Macho Man: A Savage Life' comes out Spring 2024.
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| 0:49.8 | What's up ladies and gentlemen boys and girls around the world. I would like to welcome you back |
| 0:53.3 | to the Real Talk with Zubi Podcast. On today's episode we have got on John Finkel. He is an |
| 0:59.4 | author of many many books. Welcome to the show John, how you doing? |
| 1:03.8 | I'm great, thank you for having me. No doubt man, it's a pleasure. I've done a very brief intro |
| 1:08.2 | there but for people who are not familiar with you let's tell them a little bit about yourself. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah absolutely so you mentioned the books I've written a lot of sports biographies, biographies |
| 1:19.3 | Charlie Ward and one of the Highs and Trophy and was a you know the finals at Hoinkgaard, the NBA. |
| 1:26.0 | I worked on Media Green Daughter Biography. My books have been in Door 5 Mark Cuban and Spike Lee and |
| 1:31.9 | all these guys. So a lot of sports, a lot of fitness books. I have my big magnum opus coming up is |
| 1:37.1 | the definitive biography of the macho man Randy Savage which comes out to net spring which is like |
| 1:41.8 | the book I've wanted right because I was well. That's awesome man. Tell me a little bit about your |
| 1:47.2 | background before you started writing books. Tell me a little bit about your growing up where |
| 1:52.0 | did you grow up? Yeah so I grew up all over the place. At one point I was in like five schools |
| 1:56.5 | in four years. My dad kind of lived a bit of the American dream where he you know he was the |
| 2:03.0 | night manager of a Toys of Rust store. He started out as just like one you know just an employee |
| 2:07.9 | worked his way up to being the manager of the day shift and then the whole store and then |
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