The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Justin Townes Earle is a distinguished singer-songwriter best known for records such as Midnight at the Movies and Harlem River Blues. Justin, the son of the legendary songwriter, Steve Earle, talks about growing up personally without his father and professionally in his wake. Plus, Justin reflects on his destructive youth, shares stories from the road, talks about learning how to read and write as a dyslexic, and why after all his struggles he still believes you don't need to be miserable to write a great song. His two latest albums are Single Mothers and Absent Fathers. For a full catalog of Justin's music click here. Topics mentioned: Single Mothers & Absent Fathers by Justin Townes EarleThe Moment with Aimee Mann: 8/18/15I Smile Back"Midnight at the Movies" by Justin Townes EarleThe Moviegoer by Walker PercyClosing Time by Tom WaitsMindfield by Gregory Corso"Cocksucking Blonde" by Stephen Yerkey"Blues Run the Game" by Jackson Frank"Am I That Lonely Tonight?" by Justin Townes Earle"Christchurch Woman" by Justin Townes Earle"Ain't Glad I'm Leaving" by Justin Townes Earle"Halfway to Jackson" by Justin Townes Earle"Looking for a Place to Land" by Justin Townes Earle"Hymn 101" by Joe Pug"Traveling Alone" by Jason Isbell"A Boy Named Sue" by Shel SilversteinGuitar Town by Steve EarleOn the Road by Jack Kerouac"South Georgia Sugar Babe" by Justin Townes Earle"Desperados Waiting for a Train" by Guy ClarkOld No. 1 by Guy ClarkDublin Blues by Guy Clark"Hemingway's Whiskey" by Guy ClarkHearthworn Highways"You Never Even Call Me By My Name" by David Allan Coe"Would You Lay with Me in a Field of Stone" by David Allan Coe"Baby Let Me Follow You Down" by Bob Dylan and Eric Von Schimidt"The House of the Rising Sun" by Dave Van Ronk"Baseball's Sad Lexicon" a poem by Franklin P. AdamsRecording King guitarsWar Elephant by Deer TickMiddle Brother by Middle Brother"Big Sky Country" by Chris Whitley"Can't Hardly Wait" a cover by Justin Townes EarleNothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now by Justin Townes Earle People mentioned: Justin Townes EarleAimee MannSteve EarleJulian LennonJakob DylanTownes Van ZandtErnest HemingwayWilliam BurroughsJohn GottiWilliam VollmannWilliam FaulknerSlashScotty MeltonRaymond CarverMalcolm HolcombePenn JilletteSteve GoodmanJohn McCauleyLouis ArmstrongCheap TrickDr. DreGeorge WillJohn McGrawMike MillsWillie MaysTony FitzpatrickChris StapletonSturgill SimpsonGillian WelchTaylor GoldsmithDawesDelta Spirit This episode of The Moment is brought to you by Showtime's new series Billions. Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis star in this bold, original drama as two of New York's most powerful titans locked in an epic battle of egos. And there is no line both men won't cross to win. Billions premieres January 17th at 10pm-only on Showtime. Email: themomentbk@gmail.comTwitter: @BrianKoppelmaniTunes: itunes.com/themoment 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, the filmmaking partners responsible for the movies Half Nelson, Sugar, and Mississippi Grind, look back at how they started making movies, talk about their creative partnership, and discuss their frustration with the amount of people who have watched Mississippi Grind. Plus, the two dissect the decisions they've made to keep making independent films and why directing television shows (The Affair, Looking, Billions) can be a scary, vulnerable experience.  Topics mentioned: Mississippi Grind, Half Nelson, Sugar, Billions, Buffalo '66, "How to Annoy a Fan Base in 60 Easy Steps" by Bill Simmons, Do The Right Thing, She's Gotta Have It, Goodfellas, First Blood, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Raising Arizona, Stranger Than Paradise, Slacker, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause" by The Jackson Five, NY 99X Radio Station, Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair, True Lies, Struggle a short film by Ryan Fleck, Creed, Hard Eight, California Split, Gowanus a short film by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, Out of Sight, The Moment with Scott Rosenberg: 12/22/15 People mentioned: Vincent Gallo, Rick Barry, Spike Lee, Leonard Maltin, Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Linklater, Emily Dickinson, James Cameron, Grant Heslov, Ryan Coogler, Ryan Gosling, Ben Mendelsohn, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, James Lipton This episode of The Moment is brought to you by Showtime's new series Billions. Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis star in this bold, original drama as two of New York's most powerful titans locked in an epic battle of egos. And there is no line both men won't cross to win. Billions premieres January 17th at 10pm-only on Showtime. Email: themomentbk@gmail.com, Twitter: @BrianKoppelman, iTunes: itunes.com/themoment 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Note: This episode was produced and aired by Grantland in January 2015. Amy Schumer, groundbreaking comedian, on what she loves and hates about her life right now. Email: themomentbk@gmail.comTwitter: @briankoppelmanRate us on iTunes: itunes.com/themoment 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Scott Rosenberg, the writer best known for his movies Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, Beautiful Girls, and Con Air. The two discuss the impact of Scott's father passing away, creating languages in movies, and the themes that run through many of his films. Plus, Scott talks about how the Hollywood machine turned Gone in 60 Seconds into a different movie and why the true emotion of Scott's screenplays have rarely (if ever) been captured on screen. Topics mentioned: Things to Do When You're Dead in Denver Beautiful Girls Con Air Gone in Sixty Seconds Rounders Boston University University of Southern California The Moment with Tony Gilroy: 10/28/14 Sunset Boulevard The Black Ice by Michael Connelly October Road A Clockwork Orange House of Games Marathon Man Chinatown Lethal Weapon Leaving Las Vegas Jumanji Grease Electra Glide in Blue The Wanderers by Richard Price Ladies Man by Richard Price Magnum Force The Longest Yard The Deer Hunter Grosse Pointe Blank Solitary Man Disturbing Behavior Zoo Kangaroo Jack People mentioned: Gary Fleder Leslie Epstein Joel Silver Mike De Luca Quentin Tarantino Harvey Weinstein Shane Black Jon Favreau Steve Gaghan Peter Berg William Goldman Stephen King Salman Rushdie Donald Westlake Donna Langley Dennis Lehane Bruce Springsteen Vin Diesel James Patterson Ted Demme This episode of The Moment is brought to you by Braintree. Looking to set up payments for your business? Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution that accepts just about every payment method with one simple integration. Plus, we'll give you your first $50,000 in transactions fee­free. To learn more, visit BraintreePayments.com/Moment.  And by Making A Murderer, an unprecedented new documentary that takes viewers inside a high-stakes criminal case where reputation is everything and things are never as they appear. All episodes are now streaming, only on Netflix. Email: themomentbk@gmail.com Twitter: @BrianKoppelman iTunes: itunes.com/themoment 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Sarah Kay, the world famous spoken word poet. Brian and Sarah talk about how 9/11 impacted her life as a young artist and why people feel unwelcomed in the "house of poetry." Plus, Sarah reflects on her life on the road as an educator and poet, why she sees art as an exchange of gifts, and how she was confused for the waitstaff just before giving the TED Talk that changed her life. Topics mentioned:"If I Should Have a Daughter" a TED Talk by Sarah KayProject Voice"The Type" by Sarah KayBrown UniversityBowery PoetryNuyorican Poets Cafe28 Pieces from 2015 That Should Be Required Reading For Women by Emma GrayI'm 15-Years-Old And This Is What Love Feels Like by Anna Koppelman"Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie" by Bob Dylan30 Rock "Reunion" episodeElection"On the Discomfort of Being in the Same Room as the Boy You Like" by Sarah Kay"Winter Without You" by Sarah KayCUPSI Poetry Slam"What We Build" a Scripps commencement address by Sarah Kay People mentioned:Sarah KayDavid BermanMary KarrAnna KoppelmanLou ReedTina FeyPhil KayeAl GoreBill GatesChris AndersonCarly FiorinaMorgan Spurlock This episode of The Moment is brought to you by Braintree. Looking to set up payments for your business? Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution that accepts just about every payment method with one simple integration. Plus, we'll give you your first $50,000 in transactions fee-­free. To learn more, visit BraintreePayments.com/Moment. Email: themomentbk@gmail.com Twitter: @BrianKoppelman iTunes: itunes.com/themoment 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Jim James, the lead singer and songwriter for the band My Morning Jacket. Brian and Jim talk about the band's latest album, The Waterfall, and the message within many of their songs. Plus, Jim meditates on criticism and its role in the artistic process, how his songs are created over several years in a garden of ideas, and what it feels like, minutes before he steps on the stage, to bring a group of people together around one common cause --- love. Topics mentioned: The Waterfall album "Compound Fracture" by My Morning Jacket Z album "Wordless Chorus" by My Morning Jacket RPM - A non profit organization Bruce Springsteen's Harry Chapin Tribute E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction by David Foster Wallace "I'm Amazed" by My Morning Jacket The New Basement Tapes (w/ Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford, Rhiannon Giddens, and Taylor Goldsmith) "Blues Run the Game" by Jackson Frank One Big Circle: How My Morning Jacket Rebounded With Its Best Album in a Decade by Steven Hyden Out of Time album "Me and Honey" by REM "Country Feedback" by REM Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron "Believe (Nobody Knows)" by My Morning Jacket Led Zeppelin III "Tangerine" by Led Zeppelin People mentioned: Jim James Indigo Girls Bob Dylan Curtis Mayfield Neil Young Eckhart Tolle Lou Reed Michael Stipe and Peter Buck REM Monsters of Folk Nick Drake Washington Phillips Paul Simon Van Halen Motley Crue Nirvana Pearl Jam The Replacements Ken Wilbur Jack Kornfield This episode of The Moment is brought to you by Braintree. Looking to set up payments for your business? Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution that accepts just about every payment method with one simple integration. Plus, we'll give you your first $50,000 in transactions fee-­free. To learn more, visit BraintreePayments.com/Moment. And by The Message, an original science fiction podcast from Panoply and GE Podcast Theater. All of Season 1 is available now, so listen and find out why a 70-year-old alien recording seems to be killing people. Search for The Message on iTunes.  Email: themomentbk@gmail.com Twitter: @BrianKoppelman iTunes: itunes.com/themoment 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Maggie Siff, the actress best known for her roles in Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy, and the upcoming Showtime series, Billions. Brian and Maggie reflect on the past year creating Billions together and how Maggie goes about preparing for her scenes on the show. Plus, Maggie talks about when she first fell in love with acting, why it's important to her to play strong, smart women on TV, and how she originally intended to read for Peggy Olson during her first Mad Men audition. Topics mentioned:BillionsMad MenSons of Anarchy"Mister Roberts"Being John MalkovichNYU Tisch School of the Arts People mentioned:Maggie SiffMatthew WeinerDamian LewisPaul GiamattiMalin AkermanDavid CostabileKurt SutterZelda FichandlerRon Van LieuThomas SadoskiAlan Taylor This episode of The Moment is brought to you by Braintree. Looking to set up payments for your business? Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution that accepts just about every payment method with one simple integration. Plus, we'll give you your first $50,000 in transactions fee-­free. To learn more, visit BraintreePayments.com/Moment. And by The Message, an original science fiction podcast from Panoply and GE Podcast Theater. All of Season 1 is available now, so listen and find out why a 70-year-old alien recording seems to be killing people. Search for The Message on iTunes.  Email: themomentbk@gmail.comTwitter: @BrianKoppelmaniTunes: itunes.com/themoment 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Jerry O'Connell, the actor best known for his roles in Stand By Me and Jerry Maguire. Brian and Jerry reflect on the life of River Phoenix and the audition that landed him a role in Jerry Maguire. Plus, O'Connell talks about how it was never his intention to be pitted against Tom Cruise after his comments a few weeks back and why there's still nothing quite like performing for a packed Broadway theater. Shownotes: Slate.com/TheMoment Email: themomentbk@gmail.com Twitter: @briankoppelman 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Derek Haas, the co-creator of Chicago Fire, executive producer of Chicago PD & Chicago Med, and the author of A Different Lie - the fourth book in a series featuring the contract killer, Columbus. The two talk about their respective creative failures, how Derek manages his time as a showrunner and novelist, and why Haas feels compelled to keep writing books. Plus, Derek reflects on his time learning the ropes in Hollywood and why he and his creative partner (Michael Brandt) decided early on to see every project through to the end.   Topics mentioned on today's show include: Chicago Fire Chicago PD Chicago Med A Different Lie by Derek Haas The Silver Bear by Derek Haas Columbus by Derek Haas Dark Men by Derek Haas 3:10 to Yuma Wanted The Double 2 Fast 2 Furious Baylor University The Writer's Market 2016 The Courier Runner Runner Rounders Our Man Flint Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Body by Stephen King The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway   People mentioned on today's show: Derek Haas Michael Brandt John Singleton Dick Wolf Eamonn Walker Fyodor Dostoevsky Geoffrey Chaucer Edmund Spenser William Faulkner Donald Westlake James Altucher James Coburn Scott Frank John Lee Hancock Craig Mazin Matt Olmstead Jeff Lowell   This episode of The Moment is brought to you by Braintree. Looking to set up payments for your business? Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution that accepts just about every payment method with one simple integration. Plus, we'll give you your first $50,000 in transactions fee-­free. To learn more, visit BraintreePayments.com/Moment.   And by The Message, a new podcast series from GE Podcast Theater.   Email: themomentbk@gmail.com Twitter: @BrianKoppelman iTunes: itunes.com/themoment 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Jesse Itzler, an entrepreneur and endurance athlete, about his new book Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet. The two discuss why Jesse invited a SEAL (David Goggins) to live in his home for a month, the importance of never feeling complacent, and how eating 15 bananas a day may just be his secret to success. Plus, Jesse shares a couple of stories about his ability to tolerate pain and how his next big endurance test may lead him to California's Death Valley.   Topics mentioned on today's show include: Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet by Jesse Itzler Atlanta Hawks ZICO Marquis Jet Spanx Hoosiers Patriot Tour Dallas Mavericks Michael Jordan's Fantasy Camp Fit For Life by Harvey Diamond   People mentioned on today's show: Jesse Itzler Sara Blakely Lucille Ball Tony Robbins Eminem Billy Joel David Goggins Wayne Dyer Mark Cuban Grant Hill Kyle Korver   This episode of The Moment is brought to you by Braintree. Looking to set up payments for your business? Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution that accepts just about every payment method with one simple integration. Plus, we'll give you your first $50,000 in transactions fee-­free. To learn more, visit BraintreePayments.com/Moment.   And by The Message, a new podcast series from GE Podcast Theater.   Email: themomentbk@gmail.com Twitter: @BrianKoppelman iTunes: itunes.com/themoment 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices