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Micah Brown: ESPN 30 for 30, Chuck and Tito

Beyond The Lens

English - June 29, 2021 13:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
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In this episode we welcome Division 1 football player turned filmmaker Micah Brown. Micah tells us about his determination that earned him a Div 1 football scholarship at University of Kansas, he tells us about his year in Hollywood and then how a meeting with an ESPN executive motivated him to make his first documentary, Prison Fighters for Showtime.

Micah shares with us how he was able to get the intimidating Chuck Liddell and Tito Oritz to be so forthcoming and vulnerable in his ESPN 30 for 30 Doc called Chuck and Tito. But before that film even came to fruition he walks us through the lunch meeting that changed his career forever.   And you Jayhawk fans will want to relive his infamous fake punt catch in the Orange Bowl. Needless to say that was not Beemer Ball’s finest hour.  We cover all of that and much more.