Matthew McConaughey

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Neal Brennan interviews Matthew McConaughey (New book! 'Poems & Prayers) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. 00:00 A Time To Kill 00:58 Intro 3:05 Musical Talking 4:40 Seems Resolved 7:06 Significance 12:27 Violence of childhood 16:00 Parenting 20:39 Dating two prom queens 21:45 Charisma 24:41 Heartbreak 29:42 Marriage 33:57 Sponsor: BetterHelp 36:02 Sponsor: CookUnity 38:00 Nice Guys vs. Good Men 46:00 Serving vs. Leading the Family 51:44 Rom Coms 1:04:39 Jealousy 1:05:55 Prep for Dazed & Confused 1:10:27 His approach to films 1:12:30 True Detective 1:17:22 What is a movie star? 1:20:18 Choosing Parts 1:24:44 Dazed & Confused Ending 1:27:24 Meeting expectations 1:31:32 Personal standards 1:37:12 Sponsor: Mando 1:38:39 God 1:43:08 Egotistical Utilitarian 1:54:55 Matthew Reads From His Book ---------------------------------------------------------- Follow Neal Brennan: https://www.instagram.com/nealbrennan https://twitter.com/nealbrennan https://www.tiktok.com/@mrnealbrennan Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557 Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ([email protected]) Sponsors: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://www.betterhelp.com/neal and get on your way to being your best self. Go to https://www.cookunity.com/nealfree for free premium meals for life. Thanks to CookUnity for supporting the show! Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with Mando and get 20% off + free shipping with promo code [NEAL] at https://www.shopmando.com! #mandopod Sponsor Blocks: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/blocks ---------------------------------------------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're good. Everything's rolling recording.
0:01.7	What's this?
0:02.8	Let me pull in this just before we do that. We kind of give it a time to kill feel. Extra sweat on that baby. Yeah, a little sweaty. Josh Joe Schumacher, if we like, said, Joe, he since passed away. I said, Joe, what's the secret? Like, give me one common denominator in all your movies. He stood up and he goes,
0:21.1	uh, went to a chalkboard,
0:23.0	pulled a piece of chalk,
0:23.8	goes S-A-S-Y,
0:26.4	baby.
0:28.6	Yeah,
0:29.3	but that was a extra
0:30.5	extra spritz from jail.
0:32.7	It's the southern law scene.
0:34.9	We're going to do one.
0:37.1	Let's do it. Fucking roll his sleeves up. Do we have suspenders? Let's get the fucking guys some suspenders. Yeah. And fucking let's do a southern, fucking, are we doing a southern lawyer scene or what? Come on. Put a ceiling fan up there. Yeah, fucking get me a ceiling fan Can't a fucking cutaway to a guy in a, in a hat?
0:55.6	All right, well, let me do an intro. Hey, guys, it's Neil Brennan. It's the blocks podcast. I'm as surprised as you are about this guest. He was, uh, he was a hand model. I just wrote his book. So I know, I have a lot of fresh information. He's a hand model. He only references two musicians in his books and his new book.
1:14.6	And he's regular.
1:15.9	He mentioned Zizi Top and John Mellencamp.
1:18.6	He's exactly who you think he is, from what I can tell.
1:21.5	He was in a time to kill.
1:22.6	Do you think the jury should convict Carl Lee Haley?
1:25.1	Interstellar.
1:25.6	We used to look up in the sky and wonder at our place in the stars.
1:31.1	He was in, remember how they used to do True Detective season two? He was in season one,
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