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e dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Missed opportunity. I love
sharing conversations. Hosting them requires a lot of show prep.
Now my podcasting platforms feature thousands of guests. What you
don't have access to are my missed opportunities. I mean,
the show prep was one hundred percent completed, the conversation
it didn't happen. I keep all of my notes because
I believe that paths will one day cross again. Let
me explain missed opportunity. It's my questions and statements without
their answers. I'm leaving open enough space at the end
of every question, hoping they'll download the talk and insert
their answers, then send it back to me. Missed opportunity
is a lost piece of history, Like a message in
a bottle, it's been tossed out to see. I just
hope to locate a destination. This week, we're putting focus
on my missed opportunity with defense lawyer Nancy Hollander. Okay,
Nancy Hollander a real life attorney played by the legendary
Jodi Foster. You remember that movie from twenty twenty one,
The Mareitinian. Nancy Hollander is an internationally recognized criminal defense lawyer.
Her practice is dedicated to representing individuals and businesses who
have been accused of getting involved with national security issues. Now,
how does that twenty twenty one movie play into this? Well,
it's a true story about one man's long fight for
freedom and his relentless pursuit for justice. The movie was
directed by My Academy Award winner Kevin McDonald. He was
the creator of the Last King of Scotland and Whitney. Now,
if you still buy DVDs, this set comes with alternate
openings and several deleted scenes. The invitation to share a
conversation with Nancy Hollander arrived on May seventh, two thousand,
twenty one. Today's date who March fourth, twenty twenty six,
Many many, many years have gone by. The promotions team said, yeah,
let's put this together. In fact, we're going to give
you a twenty minute talk on May thirteenth. My reply
is always going to be two words. This time around,
I chose can't wait. Three days later, my twenty minute
talk was cut in half, which is never an issue.
I've been known to do three minute talks that are
better than a twenty minute talk. May twelfth, the zoom
link was sent, Oh my god, this was going to
happen well. Within twenty four hours, that talk was moved
to May twenty fifth, twenty twenty one, to which my reply, MM,
it was more more than two words. It was oh no,
I am unavailable, which is very rare of me. Coming
up next, my questions, my statements for Nancy Hollander on
Missed Opportunity. Hey, thanks for coming back to Missed Opportunity
this week. It's my missed opportunity with defense lawyer Nancy Hollander.
Not very often do we get the opportunity to have
a real conversation with a real person associated with a movie.
When you looked into Jodie Foster's eyes. What did you
feel the movie itself? This film has the strength to
create conversations long after that experience on a flat screen
TV or inside a theater. How did you find any
type of peace of mind when you know what this
movie is about being a criminal defense lawyer. Every court
room is not the same. How do you deal with
the reverb as well as those who don't respect the
room as much as you do? I love this quote.
It's not who we are now, it's who we were then.
Oh that deserves to be in a courtroom. It's not
who we are now, it's who we were then. Nancy,
you did a lot of behind the scenes government work
on this to keep this movie moving forward. What was
the right reason you felt in your heart? I mean, seriously,
how are you able to travel the world to do
what you do? Is there a global bar that you
stop in where people go, Hey, everybody, it's Nancy. Were
you on the set to watch any of this piece together?
You are credited for turning this book into a movie
now available on DVD. What is that like when your
thoughts of the past become our present as viewers? And
there you have it? Another missed opportunity a lost piece
of history. It's a message in a bottle that's been
tossed out to see and it's time to locate the
destination missed opportunity. You now know the questions, so let's
locate the reactions. The door is always going to be open.
If you are or no Nancy Hollander, please reach out
to me at ARROWC at gmail dot com. That's ARROWC
at gmail dot com, a R R O E C
at gmail dot com, and as always, be brilliant