How does someone live a life of wonder, and what kind of world can we create today?
Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Brad Meltzer - Superhero Nerd, Mystery Debunker, High School Sweetheart.
Timestamps
1:30 - Our paths crossed many times, from high school to the White House.
3:22 - Tell me the story of Bill Clinton and Eli Segal.
3:40 - "I made the first bootleg Simpson's T-shirts."
5:50 - "He said, 'Don't go to law school.'"
6:34 - "This guy name Bill Clinton calls up one day and says, 'Will you run my campaign?'"
8:45 - "I thought I wrecked my life."
18:35 - "You appreciate what that means when that person that you look up to so much is thinking of you and shows you that kindness."
22:30 - "For life, so many things, it takes one person to say yes sometimes. And our job in life is to find that person."
25:30 - "There's one name on the cover of every book, but only a fool thinks it's a one person show."
31:04 - The TODAY Show was our first interviews.
37:15 - "The opening line review opens with, 'This show would be good if Brad Meltzer wasn't in it.'"
41:30 - Brad Meltzer's reading time with Barbara Bush: Re-creating the chocolate conveyor belt scene from I Love Lucy.
46:40 - "My 18-year old, with his eyes closed, feeling braille in the book and was like, 'Dad this one's actually good!'"
47:18 - "I love the fact that people now use our books to fight back against what they see in America today."