Ep. 20: Bruce Lee

Todd Melby is joined by Matthew Polly, author of Bruce Lee: A Life. Polly’s parents didn’t want him to study kung fu in China, but he went anyway. He wrote about the experience in American Shaolin, his 2007 memoir about learning martial arts at the Shaolin Monastery. Twelve years later, he published a biography of the martial arts superstar.

Host: Todd Melby

Guest: Matthew Polly, author of Bruce Lee: A Life and American Shaolin.

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