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Hey it's J. Halpern.

We have a new limited series in my podcast Deep Cover out now all about George

Santos that's like you know Mr Ripley meets catch me if you can I mean the the guy who winked everyone. How did George Santos convince

everyone that he was someone else and how deep do his lies go? Listen to

deep cover George Santos on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to

podcasts. His first afternoon at Lawrenceville, he began by shooting 14 foot jump shots from the right side.

That's John McPhee, now 93 years old, the Grand Master of Literary Non-fiction. He's reading for us from the first book he ever published back in 1965.

He called the book A Sense of Where You Are.

It was about a Princeton University basketball player,

named Bill Bradley. He got off to a bad start and he kept

missing them. Six in a row hit the back rim of the basket and bounced out. The writer had talked the player into letting him watch his private workout.

It was just the two of them, alone in some high school gym that Bradley had never been in before.

He stopped looking discomfited and seemed to be making an adjustment in his mind.

Then he went up for another jump shot from the same spot and hit it cleanly.

I'm 11 years old when I read with John McPhee wrote about Bill Bradley,

but I don't care about John McPhee wrote about Bill Bradley, but I don't care about John McPhee. I only want to know more about Bill Bradley.

At this point he's in the NBA, and I've set up a poop in my bedroom to create the upcoming 1972 finals, which I care about only because Bradley will be in them.

I play out this entire two-hour game.

I also serve as the play-by-play announcer into a tape recorder

I've set up on my desk. Nick's down by one, five seconds left. Bradley in heavy traffic. Bradley

Grittles left. Bradley shoots. It's good.

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