Actor, Writer, Producer, Musician & Sketch Comedy Icon from MTV's The State | David Wain
The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs
Nick Lamagna
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with his guest, David Wain. He and his NYU classmates co-created and starred in the hit sketch show, MTV's The State. He also is credited with an impressive list of acting, directing, writing and producing in movies such as Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models, Wanderlust and A Futile and Stupid Gesture among many others. Among the list of his television credits include the hilarious Medical Police, Children's Hospital, Party Down and Stella!
Wain has created projects where today’s stars got their big break in acting including Bradley Cooper, Elizabeth Banks and worked alongside Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston and more as well as his core crew from NYU to this day In many projects. His Instagram and social media shows his many talents in art, music and magic for a true Renaissance Man!
By the end of this episode, you will realize how difficult it can be to be in this entertainment industry. It takes a lot of hard work, patience, and dedication because you will face a lot of rejections. We go deep into the mindset of a creator, we discuss time management, focus and persistence among other great topics in this outstanding interview with the always impressive David Wain. Wain shares his pieces of advice, regrets, updates on his current projects, and more. There’s a lot to unpack, you don’t want to miss this!
Connect with David:
Website: https://davidwain.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidwain?ref_src=twsrc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidwain/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8hExk7QXj1tP-jGxcMU1xg
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@davidwain
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the A-Game Podcast with Nick Lemanya, digging into the minds and experiences |
| 0:19.3 | of some of today's brightest entrepreneurs in real estate and business, along with Hollywood |
| 0:24.4 | stars, UFC fighters and your favorite rock fans. People that have figured out how to overcome obstacles, |
| 0:31.1 | take chances, live boldly, and no matter what they do, they always bring their A-Game. |
| 0:54.4 | Hope everybody's having a fantastic Memorial Day weekend so far and definitely |
| 0:59.2 | love and respect to all the people that gave their lives for this country that allowed us to |
| 1:05.2 | have this day to remember them. So I hope everybody's remembering the reason we have off. |
| 1:09.9 | Anybody who's served or lost people serving, I definitely thought some prayers and enjoy your |
| 1:15.2 | time with your family, barbecue and do whatever you need to do today, take the day off, enjoy |
| 1:20.2 | yourselves, but I wanted to put it up a so-to-out today. David Wayne, like this was a guy I got |
| 1:26.4 | to have back on. If you're not familiar with him, he is a legend in comedy and just entertainment. |
| 1:30.9 | If you follow his Instagram and all this stuff, he does like magic tricks. He's got a band now that |
| 1:35.2 | he's been playing with like Kim Reno and Weird Al and he wrote What How to America in summer. |
| 1:39.6 | He was one of the main writers on MTV. He's the state. He's done, I mean, countless stuff that |
| 1:45.2 | you could look up that he's been behind even if you don't know his face. You'll know his works |
| 1:49.9 | for sure, but I've been a big fan of him in the whole cast forever. There was a little run there |
| 1:53.2 | that we had almost a whole cast. I still going to get a couple more on. I think I need two more |
| 1:57.6 | and then we've had the whole state cast. So if you want to go back and listen to some of the past |
| 2:00.9 | episodes with like Joel and Julio and Kerry Casey, so roomically and black and Kevin Allyson and |
| 2:06.4 | that whole group over there, Kim Reno. Definitely awesome people and amazing experience. |
| 2:11.1 | To me, I grew up on that show and I love them and I still love all the stuff that they do from |
| 2:14.5 | What How to America in summer to Reno. I won't want a lot of stuff. You see a lot of these guys |
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