Sarah Kay 10/16/18

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Brian Koppelman talks to Sarah Kay, the world famous spoken word poet 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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0:15.8	Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Koppelman. Thanks for listening. Our guest today is Sarah Kay, who I'm going to say some words like she's a poet and a spoken word poet and a teacher, but you should stop listening and you
0:22.0	should go find her TED Talk and I'm sure Sarah that you're tired of the TED Talk being the introduction to you
0:27.6	No, that's fine. I think that's many people's introduction to me and you should go watch it. Yes, it's 18 minutes, but it's worth it for you
0:36.2	to listen at least to the opening poem, but if possible, watch the TED Talk and then come
0:42.0	back because Sarah does a great, you do such a great job of introducing yourself and your sort of mission and everything you you know in a way you you stated in that thing this ambition for the kind of life you wanted to lead and then you've been leading it ever since.
0:57.0	Well, that wasn't the plan per se, but it's been nice that it has worked out.
1:04.8	I want to get into your story and what the plan, whether there was a plan, was there a plan?
1:09.0	No, not really.
1:10.0	Certainly not this.
1:12.0	Not the life that's happened since. No, no. Certainly not this.
1:12.6	Not the life that's happened.
1:13.7	No, no. I think if I had a vague plan it probably was either being a playwright or going to film school.
1:20.0	Those were sort of vague plans.
1:22.3	Even right up until when you gave that talk?
1:25.0	Oh, yeah, certainly, certainly.
1:27.0	I mean, in college I majored in modern culture and media,
1:30.0	which is about it's close to film studies as Brown University gets and I did a lot of
1:35.4	post-production intern stuff and I really thought I was gonna go to film school.
1:40.1	Because you thought this thing that you loved could never actually give you like the life sustenance?
1:45.0	No, I just I've always loved storytelling period and I think a huge part of storytelling is deciding what medium and what form a story wants to be
1:55.2	told in. So I have been a theater fanatic since I was a kid. Love movies, my parents are both photographers and do storytelling in a very
2:05.6	visual way. So film seemed like a really exciting one and that's kind of the
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