And now, the moment, with Brian Koppelman. moment don't you waste it on regret.

Hey, this is the moment.

I'm Brian Koppelman.

Thanks for listening.

Couple things.

One, thanks for the great response to the Baron Davis

podcast a couple weeks ago.

It's been really wonderful to hear that you got a lot out of it.

And I think Baron was amazing for being so forthcoming and cool and really letting me and us into his world.

So that's great.

And if any of you are listening through any kind of iTunes app, he'd be great if you hit the iTunes store and

rated the podcast and maybe wrote something and let them know that you did it. I'd appreciate it.

Colson Whitehead is going to be here soon and Colson is a genius. I know this because I've read his stuff but beyond that he's actually been

deemed a genius by the only people who can in this society by the

makarther organization who have given him the makarther genius grant

uh... for his fiction writing

we're talking about his non-fiction uh... book which is called the noble hustle and it's about his a run at the

2011 world series of poker I don't want to talk for a long time before Coulson gets here because I have so much that I want to talk to him about.

You know, I am, my partner David Levine and I wrote Rounders, the poker movie and that's what started our career as screenwriters and filmmakers.

So I have a very jaundiced eye when I read poker writing, and I'm not generous of spirit about it and I always think everybody's

a fraud and a phony who try to write about it. I have to say Colson's book blew me away and if you're interested at all you should get the book and read it and

and listen to our conversation. Thanks be back when Coulson's here.

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