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

podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

Got a big one and I mean a big one for you this week with one of the biggest stars

currently striding the planet.

He is Academy Award winner Matt Damon. Where do you begin, Matt Damon.

Where do you begin with Matt Damon?

You can go all the way back to Cambridge, Massachusetts

where he and a young Ben Affleck, two years apart,

living two blocks apart, bonded over their shared love of writing and acting, went on eventually, famously, of course, to write Goodwill Hunting, star in the movie, win an Oscar for the movie, and the rest is history.

They got to work together again this year

on the movie Air which became a hit. Matt Damon starred in it along with Ben Affleck who

also directed that movie

movie business works, and we talk about that.

I'm not going to give you a big wind up here.

You know Matt Damon, if I started to list his movies, we'd be here all day.

Just go down his page when he get a chance and it's just hit after hit after hit.

The guy doesn't miss and you know if you see his name attached to a movie it's going to be good.

His latest is called Oppenheimer.

Perhaps you've heard about it.

Jay Robert Oppenheimer of course was the scientists who led the movement, the Manhattan Project, as it was known, to build the

world's first atomic bomb, which was then used twice over Japan in August of 1945,

precipitating the end of World War II.

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