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Literally! With Rob Lowe

Matthew McConaughey: Put Up A Pretty Light (Re-Release)

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.812.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Alright, alright, alright, we're looking back at Rob's conversation with the great Matthew McConaughey! The two discuss Matthew’s memoir "Greenlights," making "Contact" together, auditioning for "Titanic," launchpad lines, Joel Schumacher, and we finally find out who coined the term “McConaissance." This episode originally aired in February 2021. Make sure to subscribe to the show on YouTube at YouTube.com/@LiterallyWithRobLowe! Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at 323-570-4551. Your question could get featured on the show!

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0:00.0

Yeah, all right. Where's Mr. Lowe?

0:03.0

Oh, okay. There's it. I got it. I got it. Stand off screen till the first we're talking to comes to sit down. First, make sure McConaughey's on set first before I come to set.

0:16.0

I'm not leaving my trailer to McConaughey. I don't care what number he is on the call sheet.

0:23.0

I remember that every time he went to set.

0:26.4

He's sitting right on the track one.

0:27.9

Make sure he's on his mark first. Hi, everybody.

0:42.6

It's literally with me, Roblo.

0:45.5

So this episode is exactly why I wanted to do this podcast.

0:52.6

To have somebody on like Matthew McConaughey who I know we've worked together, you know,

0:58.4

we've seen each other around, but, you know, I have an affinity for him, but I don't really

1:03.2

get to see him or talk to him.

1:04.5

And I, and he's accomplished so much in his life and his career and he's, you know, occupies

1:09.9

a real specific place in the zeitgeist

1:12.7

and has, you know, done it all. And everybody listening probably has an opinion on Matthew and

1:19.3

feels like they know him. And nobody ever knows anybody, really. And so doing a long-form

1:27.1

interview is how you get to know people.

1:31.4

And, you know, McConaughey is, he's a brand.

1:35.5

I mean, listen, when you think Matthew McConaughey, you know what you're thinking.

1:39.9

You're thinking something.

1:41.9

It may be Dallas Byers Club Oscar.

1:44.4

It may be what the fuck is those Lincoln commercials. I don't understand them. It may be Dallas Biers Club Oscar. It may be what the fuck is those Lincoln commercials?

1:47.0

I don't understand them.

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