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The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Jon Lovett: 8/26/14

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2014

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Jon Lovett was a White House speechwriter while in his mid-twenties. Now 30, he creates TV shows. He talks about that ride, proximity to power, and why he does what he does. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And now, the moment, with Brian Coppelman.

0:04.0

Hey, this is the moment.

0:06.0

I'm Brian Coppelman.

0:08.0

Thanks for listening.

0:09.0

That was a really, uh, that was a really enthusiastic hey. I think I drank something with caffeine in it and got very

0:17.8

excited for a second. But we can keep it. We'll keep it there. Why not? Why not be excited on a Tuesday afternoon or morning whenever you're listening to it?

0:26.0

Maybe it's Wednesday or maybe you're listening for some insane reason.

0:30.9

You're just binging on episodes of the moment and it's some other day.

0:36.6

It could be really anyone to seven.

0:38.1

Anyway I was excited.

0:39.6

I'm still excited.

0:41.0

John Lovett is going to be here soon and I love this guy. Love it is one of the

0:47.4

most impressive dudes I've ever met. He at a very young age was speech writer, I think kind of right out of college

0:59.0

after doing stand-up for a little while, speech writer for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 campaign and then hired to be a

1:06.5

speech writer for the president of the United States as soon as they took office and worked on many State of the Union addresses,

1:16.7

wrote some landmark speeches about really important issues, and was really

1:22.2

known as the funny guy in the White House.

1:24.4

And before the age of 30, he left that to go into show business.

1:30.2

Maybe he's not that smart, actually, after after all if you think about it.

1:32.5

But he left, I think it's the second term started and created a television show that ran last year

1:41.6

with Josh Gad and just now has been working on the newsroom.

1:47.0

And I'm really excited to have John here.

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