Episode 136: Sen. Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley is one of those wildly talented people, a star athlete with a brilliant mind. As a kid, Bradley practiced basketball for hours every day. He went to Princeton University where he was the 1965 NCAA champion of the year. Then it was on to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. But basketball still called to him and he joined the New York Knicks, playing on the dream team which won two NBA championships. After life on the court, Bradley decided to try politics and was elected to the U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Losing the Democratic Presidential nomination to Al Gore in 2000 ushered in a period of reflection and soul searching. He’s made a film called Rolling Along. It’s a one-man show about his life. We talk about all the chapters on “Now What?”