Hello everyone, and welcome to Speaking with Joy, a podcast to fill your soul, challenge your mind,

and make you brave. I'm your host, Joy Clarkson, and an evangelist for all things good, true,

and beautiful. So make yourself a cup of tea, find somewhere

comfortable, and let's dive in to this week's episode. Hello everybody and welcome back to Speaking with Joy.

You're joining me on what I have been calling my EscapeCast, which is good, true, beautiful, and wholesome distraction for you in this strange season that we find ourselves going through.

Today I have the great fun of inviting a very special and very related guest to me on the show,

which is my brother, Nathan Clarkson. Welcome on the show, Nathan.

Thanks so much for having me.

So I have been, as I was telling you before, Nathan, kind of doing these as a good hour of sanity and distraction for everybody and doing them on interesting topics. And today

is going to be so fun because we're just going to talk about our favorite characters from various

stories and books all around the theme of good men and literature and movies. And that relates to

Nathan's book, which is coming out today when I post this podcast,

a good man. So Nathan, why don't you give everybody kind of an introduction to who you are and

what you do in the world and where you're podcasting with me from? Because you're not actually

with me, obviously. That is true. I am right now podcasting from a quarantined studio apartment

in New York City. I am an actor. I'm an author. I'm a filmmaker. I love stories, as you

very well know, since I was a very young man. We have spent many an hour fighting imaginary

enemies in plain pretend, and I grew up and didn't want to stop.

And so I have lived in both Los Angeles and New York for the past decade.

And I've been lucky enough to be in feature films and TV shows and also lucky enough

to write my own stories down in books.

And so if it has to do with stories, I want to be a part of it.

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