Episode 561 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features best-selling author Jeff Pearlman, whose latest book is "Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives Of Tupac Shakur." In this podcast Pearlman, who has written books on Walter Payton, the Dallas Cowboys, Bo Jackson. The Lakers and the 1986 Mets among others, discusses why he spent three years doing a book on Tupac; how he navigated interviewing nearly 700 people for this book; how the book reunited the mother and son from Tupac’s ‘Brenda’s Got a Baby’"; what Tupac might be doing today; getting criticism for writing the book; why he thinks recent sports nostalgia can sell and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

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