What's up everybody? It's Austin Rivers from Off Guard and I've got some exciting news.

Off Guard hosted by me and my guy Pasha Gigi is officially moving to our own

podcast feed. We are now dropping two shows every week. Me and Pasha go way back and talk so much hoops already

that we figured it was time to fire up the mics and let you in on these conversations.

Every week, Pasha and myself will hit on the biggest stories happening around the league.

Tapp it to the show twice a week on our new off-guard feed on Spotify or wherever you get your

podcast.

Today's episode is about the controversial life and legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died last week at the age of 100.

First as Richard Nixon's National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, and then as an author and diplomacy

whisper in almost every subsequent administration.

Kissinger's life is overstuffed with accomplishments and disasters and breakthroughs and

catastrophes, many of which continue to shape the world in which we live.

Today's guest is George Packer, an Atlantic staff writer and the author of several books,

including Our Man, a biography of Richard Holbrook, who was another towering American diplomat

in the 20th century, who was also Kissinger's rival and sometime partner in diplomacy.

Henry Kissinger was born in 1923 in Bavaria, Germany.

He emigrated to the US at the age of 15 years old in 1938 before 13 members of his family were murdered in Nazi gas chambers.

Before he became the most famous foreign policy figure of the century.

Kissinger spent more than a decade at Harvard,

first as an undergraduate, then as a PhD student,

and then again as a professor and public intellectual.

In the 1960s, he became well known as a commentator

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