Latest Tomcowell Podcast Episodes

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Ep. #38: Jennie Sutton

SPECIAL PEOPLE - March 15, 2016 04:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Jennie Sutton is a comic, ex-Letterman monologue writer, and part-time humanitarian.

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Ep. 37: Daniel Perafan (part 2)

SPECIAL PEOPLE - March 08, 2016 05:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Daniel Perafan returns. He lost 155lbs in five months. And it almost killed him.

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Ep. #36: Alexis Guerreros

SPECIAL PEOPLE - March 01, 2016 05:30 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Alexis Guerreros is a comic and broadcaster. He grew up in Newark NJ, with gangsters, goons, + ne'er-do-wells.

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Ep. #35: Selena Coppock

SPECIAL PEOPLE - February 23, 2016 05:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Selena Coppock is a comic, podcaster, author and Guns N' Roses obsessive. We rap.

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Ep. #34: Chris Calogero

SPECIAL PEOPLE - February 16, 2016 05:10 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Chris Calogero (@RealChrisCal) is a comic. His best friend and roommate passed away in their home last year. We talk about it.

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Ep. #33: Diego Lopez

SPECIAL PEOPLE - February 09, 2016 05:10 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Diego Lopez (@walkingalonenyc) is a retired cage fighter. Now he's a comic. We talk about it.

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Ep. #32: Monroe Martin

SPECIAL PEOPLE - February 02, 2016 05:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Comedian Monroe Martin (@MonroeMartinIII) grew up in foster care. He lived in 15 homes in 14 years. We talk about it.

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Ep. #31: Oiver Chin

SPECIAL PEOPLE - January 26, 2016 05:05 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Oliver Chin (@oliverdirtyb) is a comedian and storyteller. When I first met him, his name was Rita. We talk about it.

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Ep. #30: Alyssa Limperis

SPECIAL PEOPLE - January 19, 2016 05:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Alyssa Limperis (@alyssalimp) is a comic and good person. We talk dads, and the 2012 Miss Universe winner.

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Ep. 29: Tovah Silbermann

SPECIAL PEOPLE - January 12, 2016 05:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Tovah Silbermann (@milbermann) is a producer of comedy shows and other joyful things. She used to be a Hassidic Jewish lady. Then she stopped. We talk about it.

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Ep/ #28: Serge Kovaleski

SPECIAL PEOPLE - January 05, 2016 05:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Serge Kovaleski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times. We talk Trump, biker gangs, Harper Lee, and more.

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Ep. #27: Chris Bannon

SPECIAL PEOPLE - December 15, 2015 05:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Chris Bannon (@cjbannon) is the Chief Content Officer of Midroll, and one of the wisest people I know. He mocks me without mercy. Loved it.

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Ep. #26: Megan Gailey

SPECIAL PEOPLE - December 08, 2015 05:10 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Megan Gailey (@MeganGailey) is my friend. She just did stand-up on Conan. WE. BROKE. IT. DOWN. Highs, lows, middles, + mothers.

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Ep. #25: Brooke Arnold

SPECIAL PEOPLE - December 01, 2015 05:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Brooke Arnold (@brooke_arnold) grew up in the same Christian fundamentalist movement as the Duggar family. She didn't like it. At all.

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Ep. 24: Bob Hansen

SPECIAL PEOPLE - November 24, 2015 05:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Bob Hansen (@bobhansenjokes) is a former professional wrestler. You may know him better as Bob Thrash. He takes me into The Squared Circle.

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Ep. #23: Ahri Findling

SPECIAL PEOPLE - November 10, 2015 05:30 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Comic, writer and producer Ahri Findling (@theycallmeahri) was bullied as a child. Brutally bullied. But even if he could, he wouldn’t go back and change a thing. It made him who he was: a guy he (mostly) likes.

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Ep. #22: Doug Smith

SPECIAL PEOPLE - November 03, 2015 05:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Doug Smith (@whodougsmith) is a comedian and a new father. Two months ago, his son Mason entered the world. The kid's journey - from conception to EXTREMELY difficult birth - is a wild one. Doug tells it brilliantly. It's a hairy ride with a happy ending. Enjoy.

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EP. #21: 'Arthur'

SPECIAL PEOPLE - October 27, 2015 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
My friend 'Arthur' talks us through the entire story of his marriage. And his divorce... after just one year of matrimony. This is intense stuff.

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Ep. #20: Betsy Capes

SPECIAL PEOPLE - October 13, 2015 04:05 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Betsy Capes is the founder of Capes Coaching, that helps artists and creative professionals achieve their goals. It's not a "trust falls and Scientology"-type deal. It's the real deal. She has a fascinating story. Here it is.

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Ep. #19: Daniel Perafan

SPECIAL PEOPLE - October 06, 2015 04:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
My friend @DanielJPerafan talks Colombians, cousins marrying, drugs, weight-loss and what it feels like to be catfished. Yes. That happened to him.

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Ep. #18: Joe Zimmerman

SPECIAL PEOPLE - September 29, 2015 04:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Comedian Joe Zimmerman (@joezimmerman, Comedy Central Half-Hour) stops by to discuss social media diets, 1 success out of 100, and the art of the short written funny thing.

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Ep. #17: Mike Sacks

SPECIAL PEOPLE - July 21, 2015 04:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Mike Sacks (@michaelbsacks) has written for precisely EVERYONE: Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, Radar, Funny or Die, MAD, New York Observer, Premiere, Believer, Vice, Maxim, Women’s Health, and Salon. He's most celebrated for ...

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Ep. #16: Ryan Beck

SPECIAL PEOPLE - July 14, 2015 04:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Ryan Beck (@iamryanbeck) is a writer and comedian, the brains behind The Ryan Beck Show, and an all-round good guy.

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Ep. #15: Jenn Welch

SPECIAL PEOPLE - June 16, 2015 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Haitian therapists. Yoga ball sex. Nicholas Cage's birthday party. This episode has everything. Jenn Welch (@jennwelchnow) stops by to talk sobriety, sexual awakenings, and why watching grown men play Tony Hawk on Playstation is not strictly considered foreplay.

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Ep. #14: Ronnie Fleming

SPECIAL PEOPLE - June 09, 2015 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
This was f**king fun. Ronnie Fleming (@ron_flem) is about to start a podcast. He wrote me a message asking for advice. I said "yes, if we can record it". So we did. Think of this as a "meta"-episode, commenting on its own creation as we make it. Like the movie Barton Fink. Or any episode of Anim...

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Ep. #13: J.R.Havlan

SPECIAL PEOPLE - May 19, 2015 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
J.R. Havlan (@jrhavlan) is an eight-time Emmy Award winner and an 16-year writing vet for The Daily Show on Comedy Central. He also hosts The Writer's Bloc Podcast where he interviews the finest TV writers in the business. We talk about Jon Stewart, Bassem Youssef, and the high school guidance c...

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Ep. #12: Jonathan Van Tulleken

SPECIAL PEOPLE - May 12, 2015 18:54 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Jonathan Van Tulleken (J, to his friends) is a filmmaker. We have been friends for 25 years. He talks about his teacher at Columbia Film School, Eric Mendelsohn. We also discuss the merit of small talk, and the peerless joy of paintball.

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Ep. #11: Anthony DeVito

SPECIAL PEOPLE - May 05, 2015 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Comedian @AnthonyDeVito_ is one of the Rad Dudes of the RadDudeCast. He stopped by, very early in the life of this podcast. What resulted was an insane conversation. It went everywhere, and was enormous fun. This was an early "sketch" of Special People, which due to my tecnhical incompetence did...

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Ep. #10: Kyle Ayers

SPECIAL PEOPLE - April 28, 2015 04:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Comedian Kyle Ayers (@kyleayers) talks about his high school English teacher Ms. Veitor. He went through something terrible one year. She pulled him out of it and changed his outlook forever. 

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Ep. #09: David Ebert

SPECIAL PEOPLE - April 21, 2015 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
David Ebert (@horsedivorce) is a writer, actor, comic and TV star. He's a regular on both MTV2's Guy Code and their newest show, Joking Off. He grew up in a Christian cult in Western New York. One man made him hate it. Another man helped him understand what life could be like outside it.

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