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.

I'm sitting here with Mark Merrin.

Mark, normally what I do is I record an introduction before the guest comes and then the

guest never hears it.

But in this case I want to actually play you what I said and then

we can react to it together okay so Joe would you please play the thing?

Is this where you're going to put the intro now?

Yeah, like it's all going to be the way...

So this is... Right.

This is the opening of the show right now.

Oh, and now you're going to play the intro that you're going to play behind my back.

That's right, but I... Well, you see that's great.

See, it's accusatory already that I was going to do it behind your back, but I'm not doing it behind your back.

Look, I do the same thing and I've gotten into trouble for it.

Let's hear it. it hey this is the moment I'm Brian

compliment thanks for listening this one really means something to me Mark

Maron will be walking in here soon, so this is going to be different.

The guests on my first two episodes, Seth Myers and Mario Batale are my friends,

but I've only met Mark three times.

We don't know each other.

And yet I've been arguing with him for years, looking like a crazy person as I

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