The King of Physical Media. Plus: The 10 Best Blu-rays of 2024.

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Sean is joined by longtime playwright, actor, screenwriter, and physical media collector Tracy Letts to discuss his career and how he became such a fervent collector of physical media. They discuss what got them into the lifestyle, the state of their collections, what it has taught them about being a cinephile, the best physical releases of 2024, and much more. Host: Sean Fennessey Guest: Tracy Letts Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Video Producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A restaurant's best dishes tell stories. Their flavors embed themselves in our memory like song
0:06.8	lyrics or lines from a movie. So much so that a little slice of a restaurant story can become
0:13.2	part of our own. I'm Danny Chow and this is ShiftMeal, a new video podcast from The Ringer where
0:19.6	we're sharing a bite and chopping it up with chefs and
0:22.1	restaurant people during their off hours.
0:24.5	All episodes of ShiftMeal are out now on Ringer Food.
0:36.4	I'm Sean Fennessey, and this is The Big Picture, a conversation show about physical media.
0:41.1	I am joined today by a legend in the game, the acclaimed playwright, actor, screenwriter, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a Tony Award winner, my friend, and perhaps more than anything.
0:51.9	The king of all physical media, Tracy Lest.
0:54.9	Hello, Tracy.
0:55.8	Hi, how are you?
0:56.7	It's such a goddamn pleasure to be on the big picture.
0:59.6	Such a pleasure.
1:00.5	It's such a pleasure to have you.
1:02.1	I've asked you here because we were connected by our mutual friend and absent brother in physical media,
1:08.9	Tim Simons, Timothy, not able to be with us today.
1:11.5	You know why?
1:12.2	Why is that?
1:12.9	He's too big.
1:14.1	He is getting a little big for his britches.
1:16.3	He's too big.
1:17.0	He's on this Netflix show, and it's a sensation, and he's blown us off.
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