Jason Reitman

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Neal Brennan interviews Jason Reitman ('Saturday Night,' 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife,' 'Up in the Air,' 'Juno,' 'Thank You For Smoking' & more) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. ---------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 Intro 1:30 Fears Obituary Credits 3:00 Reason for Making 'Juno' 6:00 Ego After Making ‘Up In The Air’ 7:45 Being Ivan Reitman’s son 11:00 Ambition & Nepotism 14:22 Saturday Night 23:08 Sponsor: ZocDoc 24:50 Sponsor: BetterHelp 26:25 Anxiety 30:05 Writing about show business 32:23 What his movies are really about 36:33 Young Adult 37:40 Movies that Hurt 39:22 Ghostbusters: Afterlife 43:51 Sponsor: The Perfect Jean 45:07 Sponsor: Verso 46:26 Indie Director in Studio Director's Body 47:40 Movie Theaters vs. Streaming 55:15 Shame ---------------------------------------------------------- Follow Neal Brennan: https://www.instagram.com/nealbrennan https://twitter.com/nealbrennan https://www.tiktok.com/@mrnealbrennan Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557 Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ([email protected]) Sponsors: Visit https://www.zocdoc.com/NEAL to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://www.betterhelp.com/neal and get on your way to being your best self. F*%k your khakis and get The Perfect Jean 15% off with the code [NEAL15] at theperfectjean.nyc/[NEAL15] #theperfectjeanpod Visit https://ver.so/ and use coupon code NEAL at checkout to save 15% on your first order. Sponsor Blocks: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/blocks ---------------------------------------------------------- #podcast #comedy #mentalhealth #standup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Before you watch this thing, hit subscribe, would you?
0:02.4	Guys, my guest today, this is the Block's podcast, by the way, Neil Brennan.
0:07.8	My guest today is a filmmaker and writer and producer, and he's done the following movies.
0:15.1	He did, thank you for smoking, wrote it and directed it.
0:17.3	Juno wrote and directed it.
0:19.4	Up in the air.
0:20.2	Directed it, didn't write it, Diablo Cody wrote it. Shame on me. Up in the air. Co.
0:24.6	wrote and directed it. Young adult. Diablo Cody wrote that. You directed it. Labor Day. Men, women, and children. Tully, the frontrunner. Then he did Ghostbusters Afterlife. Co. wrote and directed. the new Saturday Night movie co-wrote and directed.
0:40.3	Shot it a couple months ago when it's out already somehow.
0:43.3	You know what's funny is having watched filmmakers my whole life where when someone goes over their filmography and you see where they're like, got to speed through this section.
0:52.3	No, I know.
0:53.3	Well, that's what, so looking at, so when I think of you, I just go, fucking up in the air,
1:01.1	Juneau.
1:02.1	And then I saw you doing Ghostbusters and I was like, all right, good.
1:05.0	Right, right.
1:06.1	And then I look on your IMDB and it's like 10 years.
1:09.5	Right.
1:09.8	Between those things.
1:10.5	Now, you live every one of those days.
1:12.8	Yes.
1:13.4	But as someone who's just a fan and aware of you, I'm like, ah, Jason's doing good somewhere.
1:19.1	This is, I mean, you've already gotten into a block that I probably didn't even giving you,
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