Episode 439: Adam McKay

Published: May 12, 2021, 3:08 p.m.

b'Adam McKay is a film director, writer, and host of the podcast\\xa0Death at the Wing.\\u201cSometimes you do a project and then you look back and you\\u2019re like,\\xa0Ah, shit. I let some of myself get in the way of that.\\xa0It sucks, but it\\u2019s also a part of it. And there are so many times where you\\u2019re excited that the story did take off, the wind did catch the sail and it went off on its own. And that just feels so good that it far outweighs the times when you make a mistake, or let something go wrong, or too long, or hit the wrong tone. Which is going to happen. There\\u2019s no way around it. But those times when it all just catches perfectly\\u2014it\\u2019s just so exciting that you keep doing it.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to\\xa0Mailchimp\\xa0for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow notes:\\n@GhostPanther\\n00:00\\xa0Anchorman\\xa0(Dreamworks \\u2022 2004)\\n00:00\\xa0Stepbrothers\\xa0(Columbia Pictures \\u2022 2008)\\n00:00\\xa0The Big Short\\xa0(Paramount Pictures, New Regency Productions \\u2022 2015)\\n00:00\\xa0Vice\\xa0(Annapurna Pictures \\u2022 2018)\\n00:00\\xa0Succession\\xa0(Gary Sanchez Productions \\u2022 2018)\\n00:00\\xa0Death at the Wing\\xa0(Hyperobject Industries and Three Uncanny Four \\u2022 2021)\\n12:00\\xa0The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America\\xa0(George Packer \\u2022 Farrar, Straus and Giroux \\u2022 2014)\\n14:00\\xa0Don\\u2019t Look Up\\xa0(Hyperobject Industries \\u2022 2021)\\n29:00\\xa0David Grann on Longform Podcast\\n31:00\\xa0Anchorman 2\\xa0(Paramount Pictures \\u2022 2013)\\n36:00\\xa0The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine\\xa0(Michael Lewis \\u2022 W. W. Norton & Company \\u2022 2015)\\n39:00\\xa0Hustlers\\xa0(Lorene Scafaria \\u2022 Annapurna Pictures \\u2022 2019)\\n40:00\\xa0"The Hustlers at Scores"\\xa0(Jessica Pressler \\u2022 The Cut \\u2022 Dec 2015)\\n41:00\\xa0"Breslin: Digging JFK grave was his honor"\\xa0(Jimmy Breslin \\u2022 New York Herald Tribune \\u2022 Nov 1963)\\n43:00\\xa0Bad Blood\\xa0(Excellent Cadaver)\\n43:00\\xa0Bad Blood\\xa0(John Carreyrou \\u2022 Vintage \\u2022 2020)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'