Bill Bradley

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Bill Bradley is a two-time NBA champion and hall of famer, Olympic gold medalist, and former U.S. Senator. He recounts all of this and more in his one-man show, Rolling Along: An American Story. Bill joins Bullseye to talk about his theatrical performance, his 2000 run for President of the United States, and so much more.

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0:39.0	I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:40.0	I'm not sure that there has ever been a time that Bill Bradley, who is my guest on this program,
0:46.0	has sat down and said to himself, you know what, I'm done pretty good, I'm going to take it easy,
0:51.8	have a nice tea, watch the sopranos or something.
0:56.6	For all of his 80 years on this earth, Bradley has wanted more from himself. That ambition drove him to the Ivy League where he took
1:08.6	Princeton to the basketball final four.
1:12.8	It got him a Rhodes scholarship.
1:14.8	It took him to the New York Knicks.
1:17.0	It helped the Knicks get their first ever
1:19.0	NBA championship in 1970,
1:21.0	then another in 1973.
1:24.0	Even when he retired from basketball, he wanted more, so he ran for Senate in New Jersey.
1:30.0	He was elected in 1978, again in 86 and 92. He retired from the Senate in
1:37.1	1998 and he could have just taken it easy, maybe made some money on the lecture circuit, but he of course did not take it easy.
1:45.1	He challenged Vice President Al Gore for the Democratic presidential nomination, a
1:49.9	monumentally difficult task. Losing that election in 2000 was the end of his political career, but again, why rest on your laurels?
2:00.0	He still works. He's written seven books. He hosts his own weekly show on satellite radio and he
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