Leon Neyfakh is the co-creator of the Fiasco podcast and the president of Prologue Projects, a small podcast studio in Brooklyn. Previously, he hosted and co-produced Slow Burn at Slate. Neyfakh started his career in print journalism, writing for the New York Observer, the Boston Globe, and Slate. He is the author of The Next Next Level: A Story of Rap, Friendship, and Almost Giving Up.
Here are the episodes on which Leon has been a guest:
Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I
am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess.
On this our 121st episode our returning guest is Leon Neyfakh. You first heard him on Episode 101 of the podcast. Leon Neyfakh is a
staff writer at Slate Magazine and the host of Slow
Burn. He was previously a writer for the Ideas section of the
Boston Globe and the New York Observer. He is the author of The
Next Next Level: A Story of Rap, Friendship, and Almost Giving Up. Join The Rob
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Hello
and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob
Burgess. On
this, our 120th episode, our guest is Jonathan Abrams.
Jonathan Abrams is an award-winning
journalist who writes for Bleacher Report. He is the author of the
New York Times bestselling Boys Among Men. He was previously a staff
writer at Grantland, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times
and is a graduate of the University of Southern California.
His new book, “All the Pieces Matter:
The Inside Story of The Wire,” was released Feb. 13, and is now
also a New York Times bestseller.
Hello
and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob
Burgess.
On this our, 118th
episode, our guest is Arjun Singh Sethi.
Arjun Singh Sethi is a community
activist, civil rights lawyer, writer, and law professor based in
Washington, DC. He works closely with Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and
Sikh communities and advocates for racial justice, equity, and social
change at the local and national levels. His writing has appeared in
CNN Opinion, The Guardian, Politico Magazine, USA Today, and The
Washington Post, and he is featured regularly on national radio and
television. He holds faculty appointments at Georgetown University
Law Center and Vanderbilt University Law School, and presently
co-chairs the American Bar Association's National Committee on
Homeland Security, Terrorism, and Treatment of Enemy Combatants. He
lives in Washington, D.C.
His new book, "American Hate:
Survivors Speak Out," will be published Aug. 7.
Hello
and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob
Burgess.
On this our, 117th episode, our guest is … me! My first solo
episode of this podcast was Episode
41,
the
second was Episode
62and
the third was Episode
84.
And, on Episode 100, I was joined by my wife and regular guest Ash
Burgess, who interviewed me. I am a nine-time award-winning
journalist whose work has appeared in print, radio, online and
television. On Monday, I started by new job as News Editor of NUVO
Newsweekly, where I was also a freelance reporter and photographer
back in 2010 and 2011. Most recently, I was Managing Editor of the
Indiana Lawyer. I have previously worked as City Editor/Opinion Page
Editor/Editorial Board Member at the Kokomo Tribune, and before that
as a reporter at WFHB, Times-Mail, The Reporter-Times, Ukiah Daily
Journal and Ukiah Valley Television.
Oh yeah, and I’m also the proprietor of the podcast, The Rob
Burgess Show. Join The Rob
Burgess Show mailing list! Go to tinyletter.com/therobburgessshow
and type in your email address. Then, respond to the automatic
message. I have a Patreon account, which can be found at
www.patreon.com/robburgessshowpatreon.
I hope you'll consider supporting in any amount. Also please make
sure to comment, follow, like, subscribe, share, rate and review
everywhere the podcast is available, including iTunes,
YouTube,
SoundCloud,
Stitcher,
Google
Play Music,
Facebook,
Twitter,
Internet
Archive,
TuneIn
and RSS. The official
website for the podcast is www.therobburgessshow.com. You
can find more about me by visiting my website, www.thisburgess.com. If
you have something to say, record a voice memo on your smartphone and
send it to therobburgessshow@gmail.com.
Include “voice memo” in the subject line of the email.
And here is a YouTube playlist of all the songs I mentioned on this episode: