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🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Koppelman. Are you ready for this by the way? |
0:06.7 | I'm so honored. This is like a slightly a pipe dream. So hey, this is the moment. I'melman thanks for listening here's the thing my |
0:14.0 | guest today is a super important writer and figure in the culture |
0:19.3 | Somen Shinani but what's more important to understand and it's hilarious that you just said, |
0:26.4 | oh, it's a pipe dream. |
0:28.9 | Somman has spent more time in my kitchen and my house with me in like sweatpants I mean the |
0:36.7 | opposite of any sort of a fancy or formal interaction then certainly like any guest on the show other than Amy or Levine. |
0:46.5 | So yeah, nothing to worry about Solomon and welcome. It's funny because you knew me really before I had a creative career. |
0:57.6 | So I remember I would tell you like, oh I'm working on something, something's happening, but I'm sure |
1:02.2 | you hear that all the time I was thinking about |
1:04.5 | this so Simon is most well known for being the author of the series of books that |
1:09.4 | started with the school for good and evil the sixth sixth book in the series is about to come out and |
1:16.4 | tell me what's it called? It's called a crystal of time. And but before |
1:21.6 | someone had written or even had made the deal for school for good and evil, he was a tutor. |
1:27.0 | He had a fascinating life that we're going to get into, went to Harvard and was a tennis player and was a filmmaker and went to film school and |
1:36.2 | made award-winning shorts and all this stuff. |
1:39.6 | But when I met Solman, my son was in ninth grade, I got permission to say this part, and he was his biology tutor. |
1:47.0 | And normally a tutor comes to the house and the last thing you want to do really is spend a lot of time |
1:52.7 | interacting with that person. But Somman somehow became and this isn't a cliche thing a |
1:57.4 | part of our family. He's he became he and Sammy are like best friends to this |
2:01.3 | day. He's close with Anna, our daughter and |
2:04.6 | so many Amy talk three times a week. So he really did now this is 10 years ago |
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