Rick talks with Les Peek this week. He is part of the family that founded the Peek' Size Football Guide. It has now been published for 81 years. If you followed football around the country for the last eight decades, especially in the South, you know about Peek' Size.

Rick talks with Wendy Tacetta of Verizon this week. Wendy leads Verizon Business' Small Business Arm. Verizon is helping its small business clients.

Throughout the pandemic, Verizon Business has partnered with its small business customers ranging from providing financial assistance to advice to helping organizations rethink their technology footprint. Verizon has worked with LISC to give numerous local Atlanta businesses grant money.  A great talk on iHeart and great info from Wendy.

Rick talks with author, Jared Knott this week. Knott wants the reader to learn from history, to know that looking after the small details is vital in order to obtain the desired outcome. Carelessness changes and costs lives, many times sparking a tsunami which engulfs individuals, nations and empires. You will never discount the small details again after reading Tiny Blunders, Big Disasters. Of course, Tiny Blunders can lead to wonderful discoveries, such as when Alexander Fleming left some bread out and it molded, thus leading to the discovery of penicillin.   

Kim Carducci's debut book, The I of the Tiger, goes into depth about the mental health aspect of being a top performing athlete and offers ways athletes can manage their minds. Rick is joined by Kim, a former D-1 swimmer this week and it's a fascinating talk.

From "Meet the Frasers" Rick talks to reality star and former Miss Teen Rhode Island, Alexa Pagigiotis. Talking sports, mental health and the upcoming show and wedding.

Rick is joined by author and collector, Rodney Hilton Brown this week.

His new book is MUHAMMAD ALI: The Untold Story: Painter, Poet, and Prophet.

Rodney Hilton Brown, veteran, collector, and author, was the owner of an art gallery in Manhattan. He met  Muhammad Ali at a charity boxing match in Boston. They formed a friendship and partnership that lasted for the rest of Ali’s lifetime. Rodney became the greatest boxer of all time’s art dealer, friend, confidant, representative to the United Nations, and business. 

There is also an auction upcoming of some of these rare items. Muhammad Ali’s artwork and some other items will be sold at auction this coming October 5, 2021, in the morning at Bonhams in Manhattan and online.

With Mark Frissora, former CEO and President of Caesars Entertainment.

Mark P. Frissora was previously the Chief Executive Officer and President of Caesars Entertainment. He also has served as the chair and CEO of two Fortune 500 companies, Hertz Global Holdings, and Tenneco, Inc. With over 42 years of business experience, Mr. Frissora’s expertise spans across all levels of managerial and functional roles. He is known especially for consistently generating stakeholder/shareholder value at highly leveraged companies in both private equity and public markets, and successfully leading companies out of bankruptcy. Mr. Frissora credits his success to a strong work culture that focuses on customer-centricity, diversity, and employee engagement.

Rick is joined by former ATP pro and inventor of the Grip MD to talk about his new device to give you the perfect tennis grip.

Rick is joined by Christopher Clarey this week. He is the author of the just released, THE MASTER: The Brilliant Career of Roger Federer. This is 400+ pages on the greatness of Federer and Clarey talk all that are even more tennis.

Rick is joined by Vicki Bunke this week. Bunke is in the middle of participating in 14 open water charity swims for Swim Across America this summer to raise much needed funding for pediatric cancer research. Swimming from Nantucket to Seattle with lots of stops in-between. She is swimming in honor of her daughter Grace, whom she lost in 2018 at age 14 to osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer.