7236: Janis Joplin — The Raw Nerve and Unfiltered Pain Behind Rock's Greatest Voice | pplpod
Janis Joplin sang like she was tearing something open inside herself. The power came from pain — a childhood of relentless bullying in Port Arthur, Texas, that left wounds no amount of fame could clos...
16 Jun 21min
7235: John Ford — The Paradoxical Life of America's Greatest Film Director | pplpod
John Ford won six Academy Awards and created the visual language of the American Western. He was also a bully who humiliated actors on set, an Irish-American who romanticized a frontier built on the d...
16 Jun 21min
7234: Don Siegel — The Man Who Built Clint Eastwood's Toughest Persona | pplpod
Don Siegel directed five films with Clint Eastwood, including Dirty Harry, and shaped the screen persona that made Eastwood the biggest movie star in the world. While Sergio Leone gave Eastwood the po...
16 Jun 22min
7233: Arnold Palmer — The King Who Built the Blueprint for the Modern Athlete-Brand | pplpod
Arnold Palmer did not just win golf tournaments. He invented the concept of the athlete as brand. Before Palmer, professional athletes played sports and went home. Palmer turned charisma into endorsem...
16 Jun 19min
7232: Keith Richards — The Choirboy Behind Rock's Most Dangerous Myth | pplpod
Keith Richards sang in a church choir as a boy soprano and was praised by his choirmaster for his pure tone. Decades later he became the most famous drug survivor in rock history, a walking contradict...
16 Jun 24min
7231: Tiger Woods — The Building and Breaking of Golf's Greatest Prodigy | pplpod
Tiger Woods was engineered from birth to dominate golf. His father put a club in his hands before he could walk, trained him with military psychological techniques, and produced the most dominant golf...
16 Jun 17min
7230: George Gershwin — The Brooklyn Outsider Who Invented America's Sound | pplpod
George Gershwin was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who grew up on the Lower East Side and taught himself piano on a neighbor's instrument. He merged jazz, blues, and classical music into somethi...
16 Jun 19min
7229: Robin Williams — The Brain Disease That Betrayed a Comic Genius | pplpod
Robin Williams could improvise faster than any comedian alive. His mind moved at a speed that left audiences breathless and interviewers helpless. When that mind began to betray him — misdiagnosed as ...
16 Jun 19min
