The Source Material: Episode 5 - Whistling in the Dark

Guest Featured

Jared Beasley Journalist and author of The Endurance Artist: Lazarus Lake, the Barkley, and a Race With No End (Simon & Schuster) Key Themes

• The writing of The Endurance Artist: what three years of reporting looks like from the inside
• What Jared found that surprised him most about Laz
• The Barkley as a cultural phenomenon: Netflix, the New York Times, the viral photographs
• Laz on his own fame, the quote Jared captured that appears nowhere else
• What the race means beyond sport, the philosophical argument of the book
• The difference between the Laz the public sees and the Laz Jared came to know

Standout Moment

Jared on the moment he knew he had a book: the math problem, the quit, and the email, and realizing that Laz had put him through a version of the Barkley before he'd ever set foot in Frozen Head.

Series Context

Bonus Episode 05 of 06. The penultimate episode of The Source Material. Next episode: Barkley's Mad Genius - Doc and Laz, the final word.

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