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Penn's Sunday School

E470 Brian Koppelman (part I)

Penn's Sunday School

Penn's Sunday School

Society & Culture, Comedy, Arts

4.85.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The expectation of failure, nurturing your curiosity, the dangers of good reviews, & a particularly monstrous compliment. with Billions executive producer Brian Koppelman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Penn Sunday School, and to all his beings, all angels sing them round the streets, the music of all things.

0:13.0

Billions, Billions, Billions, Billions, Billions, Billions, do that show Billions?

0:20.0

Yeah, well my friend, Brian Coffman, he wrote the goddamn thing.

0:24.0

I'm going to be talking to him the whole time.

0:28.0

But here's the problem, Brian Coffman also likes me, so you're going to ask me a lot of questions about me,

0:33.0

and we'll get less to Billions than you might hope for, but hey, that's life, sucks.

0:38.0

We're a show in a studio, that doesn't suck.

0:42.0

Hey, this is the moment I'm Brian Coffman, thanks for listening.

0:45.0

I guess it's also Penn Sunday School.

0:47.0

Sure, it is.

0:48.0

It's both things.

0:49.0

It's both things.

0:50.0

And it's all things to all people.

0:51.0

It's even more than those two.

0:53.0

And my guest today is Penn Gillette, who, dude, I mean, you know how much you mean to me.

1:00.0

It's a rare thing for someone who starts out as a kind of an artistic hero to actually become a friend,

1:05.0

because you have to get through all those steps of bullshit to get to the place where we can have a real conversation.

1:12.0

But you and I did the work together.

1:13.0

Yeah, we did.

1:14.0

Who plays together.

1:15.0

And we're a number of you.

1:16.0

I think we're a number of you.

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