Rounders writer Brian Koppelman on my podcast

We talked about verbal poker tells in Rounders, the creation of Rounders, and more...

For a recent episode of the People Who Read People podcast, I talked to Brian Koppelman, who co-wrote the poker movie Rounders, and has created and written many other shows and movies, including the show Billions, and Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber.

Some things of interest:

• More than 12 years ago ago, I’d written a blog post about other tells in Rounders besides the Oreo cookie tell and I was curious to ask Brian what he thought about.

• I was also curious to ask Brian about his interest in reading behavior, because I’d noticed a theme in his work of people getting clues from other peoples’ behavior. (Some example clips from Billions: clip #1, clip #2, clip #3, clip #4.)

• How Brian got into poker.

• We talk about transcendental medication and why Brian is a big proponent of it.

Here’s the episode: https://behavior-podcast.com/the-allure-of-deciphering-behavior-a-talk-with-rounders-screenwriter-brian-koppelman