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Obsessed: The Podcast
The Daily Beast
4.5 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast and welcome to Obsessed, the podcast, where we talk about everything that's unmissable in TV, movies, and pop culture. |
| 0:12.9 | Today on the show, I'm going to be talking to our entertainment critic, Nick Shager, about my unmissable show of the week, The Chair Company, starring Tim Robinson and |
| 0:22.3 | Lake Bell. And a little bit later, I'm going to be talking to The Lake Bell about her role |
| 0:27.2 | on that show, along with that time she auditioned for Woody Allen, and a very deeply |
| 0:33.1 | embarrassing story about her and Merrill Streep. So now let's get into it. This is Obsessed the podcast. |
| 0:41.6 | All right. Now we are going to be joined by my friend, The Daily Beast Obsessed, Chief Entertainment |
| 0:47.4 | Critic, Nick Schager. Nick, are you chief entertainment critic, or did I give you an extra title there? |
| 0:53.2 | Hey, Matt, you have given me an extra title, but I'm happy to take any and all titles that make me sound even more important. |
| 1:00.9 | So chief, lead, whatever you got for me. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, you are very important, Nick. |
| 1:05.7 | You know, first of all, you see everything. |
| 1:07.3 | So, you know, you've seen everything that there is to see as far as I know. So maybe before we get into our conversation today about what I want to talk about, what's the last great thing you've seen, Nick? Is there anything that you've seen that you just, that you want to shout out or recommend? I do, although it's not out yet. It's coming out in a couple of weeks. So this is a... |
| 1:27.8 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:28.1 | You get to see everything before everybody else. |
| 1:30.3 | This is a sneak preview, which is, you know, |
| 1:33.9 | Baz Luhrman made Elvis a couple of years ago in the biopic, |
| 1:37.9 | and he has an IMAX documentary coming out, a concert film called Epic, |
| 1:43.6 | which is an acronym for Elvis Presley in |
| 1:45.9 | concert, which is out in February, and it is unbelievably good. I am not, I am not the biggest |
| 1:54.1 | Elvis fan in the world. I like Elvis. I'm not even the biggest Baz Luhrman fan in the world, |
| 1:59.6 | but the concert film is fantastic. |
| 2:02.2 | It just is an overwhelming experience, especially in IMAX. |
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