I haven’t seen my friend James Herbert in person since, sheesh, must be January 2020? He was in Toronto for a visit and we sat together at some Raptors games that month and went out one night after one to a real “this place exists for people coming into town for games to get $40 nachos beforehand” establishment. I remember feeling so tipsy and happy and hopeful because talking to James about basketball — or anything— is like that. I’d had one beer.
The entire time James and I were recording this episode I watched the sun track very angelically and blindingly across his face in a kind of gentle and less cruel reminder of time’s inevitable passing, and I had that same feeling.
I wanted to have him on to talk about interviews and interviewing people, because he’s really good at it. On the episode I mention looking over in locker rooms, or on the sideline, to see James talking with a player or a coach who looks like they are hanging on his every word so much so that their bodies are angled intently toward him, or they are leaning down to get closer.
We talked about how to interview to people and when, when to “cut and run”, when to throw your questions out the window, why people shut down, and who we’ve loved talking to. We also talked about
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