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Back to Search7282: Sugar Ray Leonard — The Trauma Behind the Smile of Boxing's Golden Boy | pplpod
Episode 7282
Sugar Ray Leonard won an Olympic gold medal with a smile so bright that corporate sponsors lined up before he turned professional. Behind the charm w…
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7284: Antoni Gaudi — Why Barcelona's Genius Architect Rejected the Straight Line | pplpod
Episode 7284
Antoni Gaudi looked at the straight line and decided nature had no use for it. He built the Sagrada Familia, Casa Batllo, and Park Guell using curves…
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7283: Tom Brady — The 199th Pick and the Myth of Athletic Inevitability | pplpod
Episode 7283
Tom Brady was the 199th pick in the 2000 NFL Draft, selected after six quarterbacks nobody remembers. Twenty-three years later he retired with seven …
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7280: Edward III — The Accidental Legacy of England's Warrior King | pplpod
Episode 7280
Edward III overthrew his mother's regency at seventeen, launched the Hundred Years War, and presided over the devastating Black Death that killed a t…
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7279: James I — The Wisest Fool in Christendom and the King Who United Two Crowns | pplpod
Episode 7279
James I of England was called the wisest fool in Christendom — a king who wrote books on theology and demonology, commissioned the most famous Englis…
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7278: Louis XVI — The Shy King Whose Hesitation Ruined France | pplpod
Episode 7278
Louis XVI was a locksmith by hobby and a king by accident of birth. He was shy, indecisive, and more comfortable taking apart mechanical devices than…
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7277: John Adams — The Science Nerd America Called a Tyrant | pplpod
Episode 7277
John Adams was the most intellectually gifted of the founding fathers and possibly the least suited to politics. He was vain, honest to the point of …
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7281: Rocky Marciano — The Short Heavyweight Who Retired Undefeated | pplpod
Episode 7281
Rocky Marciano stood five feet ten inches in an era when heavyweight champions towered over six feet. He compensated with a work rate and punching po…
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7273: Philip II of Spain — The Messianic Micromanager Who Ruled Half the World | pplpod
Episode 7273
Philip II of Spain ruled the largest empire the world had ever seen and tried to manage every detail of it personally. He spent his days alone in the…
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7274: Henry V — The Real King Behind the Battle Scars and Shakespeare's Legend | pplpod
Episode 7274
Henry V took an arrow through the face at sixteen and spent weeks having it surgically extracted. The scar he carried for life marked a king far more…
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