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Welcome to Dedicated. i'm your host Doug brunt today we have the great William Finnegan he's the author of the memoir

barbarian days a surfing life which won the Pulitzer Prize he's also won many many

awards for his journalism covering political and cultural topics ranging from immigration,

apartheid, to the sex trade, horse racing, and to drag queen professional wrestlers from Mexico.

This is a writer with a lot of range. Bill, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Doug. Glad to be here.

So your selection for drink today was the straight ahead bullet bourbon and soda.

So I'm going to pour that out and get us started here.

So you know the last person on the show who called for bullet bourbon also had a Pulitzer.

So this must be some kind of brain food.

Yeah, it's a little secret we share.

Nice.

I like how Bullet has the cork stopper.

It makes me feel very old west.

It makes me want to pull it out with my teeth.

There's also Bullet Rye, but this is his stuff.

Okay.

All right, now we are officially settled in here with a bullet, bourbon, and soda.

Thanks.

Cheers.

Cheers.

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