Ep. 59 - Brian Koppelman: Brian Ruined My Life

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 7 November 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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James and Brian, although having never met before, instantly bond. They both, albeit at different times, played poker at the legendary Mayfair Club and relive some of those great stories. As Brian says, "You'd leave early in the morning...

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.0	This is the James Altature show on the Stansbury Radio Network.
0:16.0	This is James Altature.
0:18.0	Very happy to have as my guest Brian Copleman, who wrote some of my all-time favorite movies,
0:24.0	including one movie that may be ruined my life, which is called Rounders about poker.
0:29.0	Brian, I have you completely to blame for that.
0:33.0	It just makes me so happy to know that.
0:36.0	During the year...
0:39.0	I'm just going to get right into it.
0:41.0	During the year after Rounders came out, I played poker every single night.
0:49.0	So 365 straight days from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m.
0:52.0	and do you know where I played?
0:54.0	Where'd you play?
0:55.0	I played at the Mayfair Club.
0:58.0	Oh, no way.
0:59.0	Yeah, that's awesome.
1:00.0	Yeah, which is where, of course, rounders, you know, ostensibly it kind of takes place.
1:06.0	Or you based it on.
1:07.0	I mean, yet the club that Phompke Janssen's character...
1:11.0	Ingrid was always working there.
1:14.0	Right, in real life it's Ingrid in the movie, it's Petra, but yes, that's exactly right.
1:18.0	Ingrid was definitely the inspiration for that character.
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