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Hey, this is the moment.

I'm Brian Koppelman.

Thanks for listening.

What a pleasure it is to be here with old pal Stephen Conkin who plays Ari Spiroz on the hit

Showtime a television series, Billions, and who is also a drama circle,

nominee, Tony nominee, for being one of the most highly regarded respected theater actors in the city.

He's been in scores of movies that you've seen.

He is a regularly recurring character on Handmaid's tail and I think crucially Kunks and I

sort of grew up together he's younger than am, but we went to the same elementary, junior, high school, same college. I didn't know him at college. We weren't friends at college, but his older brother and my sister were great friends growing up and so it's been great to get to work together on billions and

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