Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Copplement. Thanks for listening. I'm here with Anna Copplement.

Hello. Hi, Boo. Hi. And Anna, as most of you know, who listen to the podcast, she

often will do these, ask me anything episodes. With me, whenever she can, she's great at it. She's

a professional podcast person. And you know, also, basically, my favorite person to talk to,

I got to start out. Well, first of all, thank you everybody for sending in great,

great questions. Also, thank you so many people sent me notes of condolence.

My dad Charles Copplement died five weeks ago. And many people said they felt like an

new him from the way I have talked about him for years on this podcast and other podcasts, which

was wonderful to hear. And not something I was aware of that I had made him a character in that

way on the podcast. I loved my dad in a very deep and profound way as everyone, probably in,

you know, even people with challenging relationships, their parents, that kind of love. It's prime

all that it is profound. I will say I didn't have a difficult relationship with my father. I

had an excellent relationship with him. We saw each other pretty much as the other was. And we

liked what we saw. My dad shows up in every single thing I've ever written in some way.

Not often not in the way that people when they watch the stuff think. He's rarely, it's

rarely as direct an analog. But his worldview, his approach absolutely shows up in so many of the

characters that Levine and I write that I write. My father was someone with a gambler's heart.

He was a brilliant person who was uneducated. And a lot of his life was spent trying to reconcile

those things. And I think that that lack of education, that lack of some kind of status being

conferred upon him gave him as well as growing up very poor gave him a kind of hunger. And that

hunger was there right up until the end. He was someone who loved to work. He loved to think. He

loved to sell. He loved to deal. He loved to con. And he loved his family. My nieces and nephews and

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