Great American Dream Show with Josh Safdie & Sean Baker
The A24 Podcast
A24
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Topics covered include:
Voice memos as audio documentaries, the difficulty of keeping things small, Sean seeing Marty Supreme three times in theaters, maximalist territory, swimming in bigger lakes, moviemaking as time travel, Jack Fisk set stories, directors’ knee health, Jennifer Venditti’s wildly original casting process, feeling afraid of the script, Sean perfectly timing his edible intake at the Oscars, Darius Khondji as the “Prince of Darkness,” hunting down period accurate Cinemascope lenses, Ronnie Bronstein’s love of Shark Tank, and Marty Supreme’s epic alternate ending.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Josh Safdi and I'm Sean Baker and I'm here to talk to Josh about the wonderful Marty Supreme |
| 0:07.8 | on the 824 podcast. It's great to do this with you man. I love Marty so much. |
| 0:14.3 | Thank you. Truly. I'm so happy for you and the whole team. Congrats on all the accolades so far you know what it means to me |
| 0:23.3 | when when I get your voice memos I just luckily you saw the movie in person so I got like the |
| 0:31.8 | you know real live yeah I've seen it three times now wow and it keeps revealing new things each time. Well, more than, more than me, my crazy respect for your taste in movies as filmmaker. You know what that means for me. Well, yeah, and I know that we love the same stuff. We have the same sensibility. And I think most of the time. Most of the time, most of the time. Sometimes, sometimes we disagree. |
| 0:55.3 | But yes, it's true. |
| 0:59.1 | I do leave you very long and annoying audio text. I love them. |
| 0:59.9 | It's actually like a little savior. |
| 1:01.2 | I'll say, oh, wow, I got a... |
| 1:02.9 | And then I'll bring it back. |
| 1:03.8 | You're the only person I do it with, you know that? |
| 1:05.2 | Oh, that's hilarious. |
| 1:06.2 | And I like giving you a little audio documentaries too. What I'm doing is I'm on the train. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear New York behind you. |
| 1:12.6 | I know, you miss it. |
| 1:14.6 | So I want to read a text that you actually texted me back in 2020. |
| 1:21.6 | I think I was right off of, from what I can tell, this was October of 2020. |
| 1:26.6 | So I was right off a Red Rocket. I think I was |
| 1:29.7 | bemoaning something. I was, I think I was talking about how hard it is to keep things small. |
| 1:36.5 | Yeah. And, and we were just talking about the size of, you had just made Red Rocket? I think so. |
| 1:42.0 | And I was a little frustrated with, with things the way they went, even though |
| 1:46.0 | I loved the final outcome. |
| 1:47.0 | Oh, thank you. |
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