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Welcome to another episode of Dedicated. Today, I'm thrilled to be with Tim Blake Nelson. He is an actor,

director, playwright, and novelist. He has starred in many movies. One of my favorites is,

Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? Which is, for my money, the best telling of The Odyssey. Forget that Matt Damon, that other film about it. He's also done a lot of stage

acting, including Shakespeare in the park, just up the street from us here in the open air theater

of Manhattan's Central Park. And the author of two novels, the latest is superhero, which is

terrific. This is eye-opening and clever and witty and funny and just awesome. Tim, welcome. Thank you. It's a real pleasure to be here. All right. Today we're going to relax and have a little green tea while we chat, which I think is the second green tea we've ever had on the show. Minjin Lee was our other green tea, if I remember correctly. Clearly I'm in good company. Yeah. Have you read her books at all,

Pachinko? I know, but I know, I certainly know of it and I believe my wife read Pachinko and loved it.

And it's a great book. It's a great book. So you are born in Oklahoma and I read your dad

was a wildcatter, which had me thinking about Billy Bob and

Landman.

My wife and I have been watching Landman and love it, if only for Billy Bob's performance,

but also it's an incredibly entertaining show.

I can't really say that someone like Billy's character actually exists in the oil business,

but it's pretty great.

Not too close to what anyone in the Nelson family has been doing out in Oklahoma.

And I also read that your grandparents escaped Nazi Germany in the 30s.

That's correct.

And that was sort of London first, then America.

Yeah.

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