Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as

always for clicking and listening along. It is always a good day when I can tell you I have a

conversation with Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey. This is the third time he's been on

our show.

The first time was back in 2020, right at the height of COVID when he came out with his

memoir, Green Lights, which went on to sit on the New York Times bestseller list for

almost two years. Incredible. Now he's out with another book called Poems and Prayers, which kind of gets at a conversation around the soul of who we are, who we want to be right now, how divided we may feel, but the common ground that Matthew sees and kind of the way out of this predicament we find ourselves in. It's a really good conversation about staying engaged,

staying hopeful, staying optimistic, and kind of getting together on some things in the way that

only Matthew McConaughey can describe. That's a great part of the conversation. The other part

is about his new film. It's called The Lost Bus on Apple TV Plus. It is a movie based on a true story around the

2018 campfire, which was California's largest ever wildfire. And it focuses on the story of a real

life school bus driver in Paradise, California, the town that was devastated by the wildfire. His name is

Kevin McKay. He was picked up the dispatch, go pick up a group of kids who are stranded at their

school, basically go save their lives. He made the decision to answer that call, went and picked up

these kids, and then spends an entire day driving around trying to get away from these flames, trying to find a way to safety for all these kids, along with a teacher on the bus played by America Ferreira.

It is a harrowing movie.

And when you think that it was based on a true story, it's all the more incredible. So he's great in that. We talk about his career, of course. You know it by now. In 93, he starts with days and confused. All right, all right, all right, all right, and all of that. And the rest is history. He has a great run of romantic comedies before kind of taken a couple of years away from the spotlight to

sort of, I don't know, think about who he wanted to be in Hollywood, rebrand a little bit and come

back as a dramatic actor and have this great, great run. You think about true detective and

interstellar and then the movie for which he won the Academy awarded 2013 movie called Dallas

Byers Club.

He's had a great career.

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