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Top 3: Adam McKay

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Adam McKay (director of Anchorman, The Big Short and Don't Look Up) joins Paul & Amy to discuss his Top 3 films, including a gonzo comedy classic and an early masterpiece from an Italian legend. Listen to Adam's new podcast Death On The Lot, premiering today! Next week, Paul & Amy are watching Labyrinth! You can join the conversation for this series on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

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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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