About this episode
Bonnie Tsui is an award winning journalist & author, receiving the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. Bonnie is a lifelong swimmer and the author of, "Why We Swim".
And, check out her newest novel, "Sarah and the Big Wave The True Story of the First Woman to Surf Mavericks".
00:00 Bratter PA, Immigration Law
00:05 Hello Bonnie Tsui
01:00 What's your relationship to swimming?
03:28 First swimming memories
06:30 Researching the book
08:45 What got cut from the book?
11:40 Guðlaugur Friðþórsson
16:43 Beine Wellness
17:31 Swim Angelfish
18:08 Swimming during COVID
23:00 What swimming has done for Brett
25:18 Lifeguard Brett
26:05 Drowning moment?
29:00 Fear
31:30 50 Freestyle
33:40 Dara Torres
40:00 Do you feel competitive still?
41:30 Open water swimmers vs Pool swimmers
45:00 Samurai swimming
52:00 People born to swim
56:45 Bonnie's kids learn to swim
59:03 Swimnerd Live Virtual Scoreboard
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