Hey, this is Brian. I am re-uploading an old episode today. This is Colin Quinn, one of my first 10 guests, someone whom I have long admired one of the best comedians, one of the best tweeters, and just one

of the smartest guys in general about how the world of show business and entertainment works. I hope you take this episode I'll be back

with a new one next week.

And now the moment with Ryan Kppelman. Hey, this is the moment.

There is nothing but the moment.

Don't you waste it on regret.

Hey, there's the moment. I'm Brian Koppelman. Thanks for listening. I normally do an introduction in advance before my guest is here, but the show business veteran Colin Quinn showed up when I showed up. He showed up early.

Was that some kind of training you had?

I'm always early. I'm always early.

And I'm sure that's actually done well for you?

Um, no, I don't feel like it served me at all or hurt or help me.

It's just the way it's always been.

I don't, I heard Jimmy Walker was going to get the remote control gig but you showed up before. I heard you shut up five minutes before. Yeah. Well like you said, diligence, smart, intelligence, whatever. Well yeah, so when we were sitting around here before this got sorted out because we were in another studio

and we got moved studios here, which I guess is why the garage approach to podcasting works because it's just your garage you don't get moved around but I said something about if you are we were talking about a mutual friend of ours Tom Kelly who's a talented writer and said he's smart, sane, and diligent and that if you're those three things, you can go pretty far.

Right, yeah.

And you said you were two of those three.

I'm two of the three, I'm smart and I'm diligent, but saying, you know, I mean, I never thought of myself as insane, and I was glad you said it,

you seemed relatively sane, you said to me, which which I agree with but I've had enough

feedback but then again maybe the feedback I've been getting is from people that are

insane you know insane people always think you're crazy so maybe I am saying

and I've just been listening to

Psychos since I do a lot a lot of well because we're all like narcissistic in my

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