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

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

Got a great one for you this week and a repeat customer in Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey.

Matthew and I got together just over a year ago over Zoom to talk about his memoir Green

Lights.

Since that time it became a runaway bestseller, something like a phenomenon was on the

New York Times bestseller list for 50 weeks, almost a full calendar year.

Matthew and I talked about the book, but also about Sing 2, the new animated movie in

which he stars as a koala bear.

Name Buster Moon.

He was in the original of course in 2016, playing the same character.

It clocked more than $600 million at the box office and he said it finally won him some

new fans, his own three children.

So we get into Sing 2, we get into the book and we get into his decision not to run for

Governor of the state of Texas.

Remember the last few months he'd been encouraged by a lot of people to run for Governor of

his home state and had been thinking about it pretty seriously.

He tells us why ultimately he decided not to do it, but how he intends to stay involved

and what he sees now as the future of the country.

How do we stitch this thing back together?

Do a lot to talk with and he's always great, right? The wisdom of McConaughey, it's

all in here.

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