Jerry Bruckheimer

South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Meadowlark Media

Society & Culture, Sports, Comedy

4.9 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

"When we move you, when we give you a good emotional ride… and gave you something special. That's why they become successes, 'cause you want that feeling over and over again." Jerry Bruckheimer, the legendary producer of the world's biggest movie blockbusters in history, sits down with Dan Le Batard in Los Angeles to reveal everything that went behind bringing the "Best Film" Academy Award-nominated F1: The Movie from the track to the big screen (with some help from Lewis Hamilton and Brad Pitt). Jerry shares how his love of film began - taking photos with his uncle's camera, before starting off making commercials before making it all the way to Hollywood. Jerry also takes Dan through over five decades of making movies (from Top Gun and Bad Boys to Beverly Hills Cop and Remember The Titans) and tells never-before-told stories about some of your favorite movies of all time. The Academy Award-nominated F1: The Movie is available to stream today on Apple TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. thrilled to have an industry giant here with us today. You've done this a lot over 50 years,
0:33.0	but today we're going to crack open your soul, Jerry Bruckheimer. You've made a number of different blockbusters, five decades in the business.
0:40.6	Presently, you have out F1, the movie.
0:43.7	It's four Academy nominations.
0:46.8	Thank you for being with us.
0:47.8	It's a pleasure to be with you, Dan.
0:50.9	Do you enjoy this here, this process?
0:53.5	Do you enjoy somebody wanting to know the entirety of your life?
0:58.2	You've left quite the legacy here.
1:00.2	It depends on the interviewer.
1:01.8	Some of them are really good, and some of them you want to go home.
1:06.2	Okay.
1:06.7	We're not going to do that here, but I would like to go back to the beginning of where it is.
1:11.5	Like, how does somebody get from the mailroom in an advertising agency to the top of Hollywood?
1:16.2	Like, how does that happen?
1:18.0	It's hard work.
1:19.4	That's what it is.
1:20.0	Hard work and taking advantage of opportunities that present themselves with you.
1:25.2	And those are things that I did.
1:27.0	I never worried about the money
1:28.8	because I figured the money would come when you're successful and if you, I was bet on myself.
1:34.7	So when I moved to, first of all, New York, I wasn't paid very much money, lived in a small
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