Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

Very excited to bring you this conversation this week with superstar director, producer,

actor, writer, John Favreau, who has had such a fascinating career in Hollywood.

For me, and I think for a lot of people, you got to know him first with swingers in 1996,

where he and Vince Vaughn started that movie that was sort of very of its time about young Hollywood

actors or 20-somethings trying to find their way through life and trying to find their way in Los Angeles.

And it became such a hit. He wrote that movie that was after he'd been in the film Rudy,

the Notre Dame football movie, the true story. And he decided he's getting some parts and he wanted

to kind of control his own destiny. So he wrote swingers was in swingers and that sort of launched

everything for him. But then turns his focus to directing and my goodness did he do some directing.

He directed Elf, of course the Will Ferrell Christmas classic. That was his first big hit.

Then comes a little film called Iron Man. He directed Iron Man and then he directed Iron Man

too, launching the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which didn't exist in any significant way until Iron

Man. Those become huge hits. He's also an executive producer on all the Avengers movies.

And guess what? He's a director of the Mandalorian, the new Star Wars world. He created with his

filmmaking idol George Lucas. So my goodness has he done so much that just scratches the surface

of the movies he's made. And such a fascinating life and career growing up in New York, not

knowing exactly who he wanted to be, trying improv, becoming an actor or writer. And now this super

star director and just a smart guy and fun to sit with. We got together at the Natural History

Museum of Los Angeles. So we're in LA together. Set the scene for you. We are sitting in front of

you can picture it. If you've been in any museum of natural history, huge, huge,

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