Top 3: Adam McKay
Unspooled
Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson
4.5 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to unspilled top three. |
| 0:29.8 | I'm so excited for our guest today. |
| 0:34.5 | He's someone that we've talked about here on the show and we dissected Teledig |
| 0:39.3 | and Knights. |
| 0:40.3 | He's also been a guest on the show talking about his favorite movie of the last year. |
| 0:45.3 | We haven't had a chance to really sit down and chat with this person, a person who calls |
| 0:50.7 | himself a film nerd. |
| 0:52.9 | He is a writer who started at Second City, went through Sedanette Live, created iconic sketches, |
| 0:59.4 | and then launched into the feature world with classic movies like Anchorman and Stepbrothers, |
| 1:04.0 | of course, Teledig and Knights, which we did talk about, like I just said. |
| 1:08.2 | And now more recently has gotten into the world of podcasting and writing and directing |
| 1:12.8 | some of the biggest, busiest films of the last couple of years, like the big short, don't |
| 1:18.0 | look up and vice. |
| 1:20.0 | I am so excited to chat with Adam McKay, who's going to talk to us a little bit about his |
| 1:25.3 | follow up podcast to Death at the Wing. |
| 1:29.5 | This is called Death on the Lot. |
| 1:32.1 | And it's a podcast about what was going on in Hollywood post World War II. |
| 1:38.3 | We got a chance to listen to a couple of the episodes and they are fantastic. |
| 1:42.8 | They are absolutely fantastic. |
| 1:44.9 | I have been looking forward to the show forever because it was a huge fan of Death at the Wing. |
| 1:49.3 | Death at the Wing being his like basketball show about the deaths of basketball players |
| 1:52.3 | in the 80s, how it tied into Reagan. |
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