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Episode 9: Tommy Tomlinson

Tommy Tomlinson has written for publications including Esquire, ESPN the Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, Garden & Gun, and many others. He spent twenty-three years as a reporter and local columnist for the Charlotte Observer, where he was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.

 

Episode 8: Sean Froudist-Walsh

Sean Froudist-Walsh is a neuroscientist who studies the brain in health and disease using a variety of computational, psychological and neuroscientific techniques. He has written or co-authored 31 published articles in international journals in the fields of neuroscience, psychiatry and psychology.

Episode 7: Tom Junod

Tom Junod is the recipient of two National Magazine Awards and worked at Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Life, and GQ among other publications. He currently works for ESPN The Magazine. Most recently Junod’s Esquire profile of Fred Rogers inspired the 2019 feature film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

Episode 6: Patrick Brazeau

Patrick Brazeau is a Canadian senator from Quebec. Brazeau is an Algonquin from the Kitigan Zibi reserve near Maniwaki. He worked at HMCS Carleton, a Royal Canadian Naval Reserve unit based in Ottawa that operates under the Canadian Forces Maritime Command. At the age of 34, he was the youngest member of the Senate. On March 31, 2012, Brazeau lost in a celebrity boxing match to Liberal MP (and future Prime Minister) Justin Trudeau.

Episode 5: Mickey Duzyj & Michael Bentt

Mickey Duzyj is an Emmy-nominated artist and director living in New York, contributing illustration and animation to clients like Netflix, ESPN, Nike, Wieden+Kennedy, Rolling Stone, Vice, Time, The Ringer, and The New York Times Magazine. Recent highlights include creating/directing the Netflix Original documentary series “LOSERS” and directing the award-winning ESPN 30 for 30 short "The Shining Star of Losers Everywhere". He was selected as one of Variety Magazine’s 2019 “Top 10 Documentary Filmmakers to Watch”.

Michael Bentt was one of America's most decorated amateur boxers and won the WBO Heavyweight title from Tommy Morrison in 1993, losing the title in his first defense in 1994 to Herbie Hide, where he was knocked into a coma and nearly died. After retiring from boxing, Bentt entered acting and playing Sonny Liston in the 2001 film "Ali" and doing the boxing choreography for director Michael Mann and Clint Eastwood for the winner of the Oscar for Best Picture, "Million Dollar Baby." Bentt is featured in the first episode of the 2019 Netflix original series Losers.

Episode 4: Mark Kriegel

Mark Kriegel is an author, journalist, and ESPN commentator. Kriegel is the author of critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers, Namath: A Biography, about Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath and Pistol: the Life of Pete Maravich and The Good Son: The Life of Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini.

Episode 3: DBC Pierre

DBC Pierre Pierre was awarded the 2003 Booker Prize for fiction for Vernon God Little, his first novel, becoming the third Australian-born author to be so honored. After winning the Whitbread First Novel Award the same year, he became the first writer to receive a Booker and a Whitbread for the same book.

The book also won the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Prize for comic literature at the Hay Festival in 2003, and earned the author a James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin.

Episode 2: Ben Anderson

Ben Anderson is an award-winning journalist, author, and filmmaker who has reported from around the world: Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea, Brazil, Congo, Cambodia among others, covering conflicts, environmental catastrophes and pariah regimes. His films include Holidays in the Axis of Evil, This is What What Winning Looks Like and Battle for Marjah, which later became a book, No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan. His war dispatches have been published in The Guardian Magazine and GQ UK. Ben is currently a senior producer and correspondent for VICE on HBO.

 

Episode 1: Rosie Perez

Rosie Perez is an actress, activist, author, dancer, and choreographer. Her film breakthrough was in 1989 with Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.  She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1993 for her performance in Fearless. She was also nominated for three Emmy Awards for her work as a choreographer on In Living Color. In 2014, Perez published an autobiography: Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling.