Agent Palmer

I’ve reviewed business books before. Usually, they are boring, outdated, lacking in reality, “do as I say, not as I do” affairs which I am surprised I ever let sit on my personal library shelves.

Thankfully, Legacy of Winning finally breaks that tradition. Here is a book that is co-written by then University of Tennessee Volunteers Football Head Coach, Phillip Fulmer, and Tennessee Associates International Chairman and CEO, Gerald Sentell.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A group of friends reconnects for the weekend after the attempted suicide of their friend Alex.

Ok, so it’s not The Big Chill, but About Alex is close, so close in fact that it may well just be The Millennial Big Chill. For those who enjoyed The Big Chill, the word “millennial” in front of it is not a detractor of the quality of the writing or the similar plot, but it does lead to some big shoes to fill in this timeshifted movie.

It feels like I have known Tim Matheson my whole life. The man is the voice of Jonny Quest, the actor behind Eric “Otter” Stratton, and Vice President John Hoynes. In between and since, I’ve seen him in Miami for Burn Notice and as an old curmudgeonly Doc in Virgin River.

Generally speaking these are my connections and touchstones to Matheson and his career. I thought, therefore, that I knew what I was heading for when I cracked the pages of “Damn Glad to Meet You: My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches.”

By the numbers, 2025 was not that out of the ordinary.

Fifty-two blogs were posted here, 26 episodes of The Palmer Files were published, and I had seven Proxycast appearances. There were also over 70 other podcasts which I produced across a few shows – The Good Government Show, Leading Iowa, and As Fate Would Have It.

If you are a regular viewer of this blog, you may be thinking to yourself, “Palmer reviewing a Coupland book about Marshall McLuhan? Hasn’t this already been done before?”

It has! Back in February of 2024, I reviewed Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan by Douglas Coupland. But the thing about reading through an author’s biography is that sometimes they cover a subject more than once.