Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sitdown podcast.

I think you're going to love this one.

It's a long one because it got deep, it got interesting.

We went through the entire catalog with Ben Stiller, actor, producer, director.

You know, he's been the front for three of the biggest franchises in the history of movies.

Meet the parents, Knight of the Museum, Madagascar.

Then you sprinkle in a little, there's something about Mary, a little zoo lander, a little

royal tenon bombs, traffic thunder.

And now his latest project, he's not even in it.

He's not acting in it.

And it's definitely not a comedy.

He is the director of the new Showtime series Escape at Danimora, which is the story you

might remember it from 2015 of that love triangle.

You had the two inmates at this correctional facility in upstate New York.

And then you had the prison employee, a woman who was caught in the love triangle with

them.

He got her to help them escape from the prison and then led authorities on this long manhunt

for almost a month.

Incredible story.

He's the man behind it.

It's a bleak story, but it's a riveting really cool series on Showtime.

We also get into his childhood, you know, growing up the son of Jerry Stiller and Anne

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