Brian Koppelman

I'm good at throwing a spiral and catching.

But I was not ever good.

I was always weak and slow.

But I played, you know, two varsity sports in high school.

I wasn't the best guy on either team, but I was on the teams.

You know, the teams were good, and I was on them.

So I've always played sports.

But I was way, way, way, way, way out of shape, man.

And...

Over pandemic, I had just two months before that changed my diet and started eating better and started losing some weight.

And then a mile away from me during the pandemic, we were upstate New York.

There was a tennis court.

Our son was grown, but he was home with us.

He plays tennis like exactly the level I do.

And I had one friend who kind of was in our little bubbly world who was a good tennis player.

I played like every day.

And I got good again at tennis.

Tennis, I know it sounds like a feet game, but you know, it's fucking hard and it's an incredible workout.

And at a good level, if you're 4'0", like it's at a good level of tennis, you're working very hard.

So I got in better shape and I was like, I was playing pretty competitively and then started shooting again after my show, after the thing, I started gaining weight again and I was still playing because I had gotten, so I was playing in a tennis tournament.