Hey, this is the moment I'm Brian Coppelman. Thanks for listening my guest today. Well,

it's really my co-host today. Yeah, I'm not really a guest.

Yeah, she's not a guest. You're my co-host, which is not really the most

formal relationship that you and I have.

You only know each other as podcasters.

Yes, we're just podcast friends. My daughter, Anna Coppelman, is here to co-host and to ask me

questions. This is an ask me anything episode of the moment. The letters we get after we do these

are so great. People write to the moment BKGmail.com. We read all of them and we really appreciate it

and we're glad to know that you dig these conversations and I certainly love them because it's a chance

to be with Anna and I really love answering the questions, hearing what you're thinking about

and trying to connect with you through that dialogue. So, Boo, what's going on?

I just wanted to say that so many of the questions this time were addressed to both me and you

and it made me so happy. Right? It was that great. Yeah, it's becoming a usual thing.

It is. It's a usual. I haven't done one without yet. I haven't done an ask me anything pod

without you in a long time. But I think this was the first time people were like, do you're Brian

and Anna? I agree. I agree with you and it makes me smile and it's great. So, yeah, you're

official. I'm officially a part of it. Okay, I can ask you the first question. Are you ready?

Rock and roll. Okay. Hey, Brian, I'm an early career WGA writer.

Couple of jobs under my belt, but still young. My question for you is this.

As a writer, it feels like you have to constantly live at the extremes of optimism and pessimism.

Blind optimism because you have to get out of bed, start a new project and tell yourself this one

will be different. It feels like you have to be at least somewhat delusional to keep kicking the

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