Episode 1 – Jay Caspian Kang (New York Times)

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Jay Caspian Kang of the New York Times joins us as the first guest on Doing It For Bartolo to talk about how he learned to become a reporter on the job, working for Grantland and Bill Simmons, the demise of Grantland, holding secret desires to become a lawyer, reminiscing on Linsanity and being an Asian-American in sports media. You can follow Jay on Twitter.

Here’s Jay’s piece in the New York Times magazine about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Joon and friend Robbie Harms, sports writer for the San Diego Union-Tribune, also talk about how they came up with the name for the show, their favorite characters from Friday Night Lights and the greatness of Michael B. Jordan in Creed.

Special thanks to Ronald Jenkees for letting us use “Try The Bass” as the podcast intro music. Check out his music on iTunes.