Adam McKay - Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #249
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 249 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! We are BLESSING you this week with a full power bonus episode - oh you thought the week was over? Nah, not even close. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the director of surely some of your favourite films, it’s ADAM McKAY!
His new film ‘Vice’, which features Christian Bale as Dick Cheney alongside a star-studded cast, should be well and truly released at this point. Whether you have already seen it (lucky you) or you’re gearing up for a viewing in the near future, here’s your chance to get properly acquainted with the director himself, and get a very insightful glimpse into so many aspects of how he gets films made. Check his IMDB page for a full filmography (including Stepbrothers, The Big Short, Anchorman, The Other Guys to name a couple) and you’ll realise what insanely great company we’re in for this episode! In not a lot of time, hear Pip delve in on topics like the divisiveness of US politics, the ‘ghost’ version of what you make, history repeating itself, chopping out sections of films which don’t work even if he loves them, the process of getting films made from the beginning, casting and getting the right crew for a film based on real people, how he worked up to ‘cracking’ Christian Bale, and how hiring really good people is the key. Awesomeness at every turn. Enjoy!
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• VICE!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a paid advertisement from Better Help. I've got a really clear memory when I first got a |
| 0:06.6 | dog of being really focused on how important all the things I have to do for this cute little guy |
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| 0:21.1 | day, eating good food. And it becomes such a kind of a focus and a drive because you want to do all |
| 0:28.0 | you can for this little creature that you love. But we don't always put that much time and |
| 0:32.8 | attention into what we need for ourselves. Like what are our basic requirements to get through |
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| 1:09.5 | B-E-T-T-E-R-H-E-L-P.com slash distraction pod. Welcome, welcome, welcome. That's six |
| 1:19.6 | welcomes this week. Because this is the second podcast of the week, a little bonus. I thought |
| 1:24.0 | would kick January off hard this episode 249. And I'm joined by the wonderful Adam McKay. |
| 1:31.6 | Really enjoyed this chat. I'm going to keep the intro brief because this is a bonus episode. So |
| 1:35.4 | whilst it's a little bit shorter, I think you're happy with that. There's a lot of podcasts out. |
| 1:40.5 | Even on the distraction pieces network, if you're a film fan, you will have on Wednesday had me |
| 1:45.9 | me talking to Mark Miller. And then on Thursday, you would have had Brett Goldstein's films to be |
| 1:51.5 | buried with. And then today is another one. You've also got off the beaten track today. You had |
| 1:55.3 | hard call listing on Monday. I'm choosing like Joe, I'm recording this in advance, but they |
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| 2:06.6 | So a lot of you to listen to. So I won't ramble on too much. The usual plug supply head over |
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