Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Coppelman. Thanks for listening. I'm thrilled.

Well, I'm thrilled a bit of a bunch of things. One, happy new year everybody. Two,

I'm thrilled to be back to in the podcast. I have missed this conversation with everybody

these past three months. Well, I've been working and trying to think about how I wanted to approach

this for 2022 and the number one rule for me. And it's basically been the guiding light for

the podcast the whole time is I will only have conversations with people whose work fascinates me

or whose career arc fascinates me, whose personal story fascinates me. And some of those people

will be people you've heard of, some of those people will be people who have been on the podcast

for some will be people who are new to all of us. And then I'm also going to do episodes

where I just talked to you and answer questions that you send in. And essentially, I'm going to

do this podcast for the reasons I did it when I started it. And I'm going to continue to not

think about any other ramifications of it. And I can't tell you how many times I run into somebody

who says, I've listened to the first episode you did with your wife, Amy Coppelman,

the filmmaker, novelist, more than one time. I mean, people listened to that last episode. I mean,

I did two, three times. And I understand why because I have been listening to Amy talk for 30

plus years. And I still want to hit the rewind button and hear what she says again about stuff.

Because she only speaks when she really has something to say. And she's one of the least

foolish people I've ever met. This past year, Amy's movie, A Mouthful of Air, was released in

theaters all across the country. And this week, it's going to be available on demand,

wherever videos on demand are available. And this film stars Amanda Cipherett,

and Finn Whitrock, and Amy Irving. And it's a devastating and devastatingly beautiful work.

And it is something, look, I've watched the movie 20 times and read the novel. In many iterations,

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