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Death on the Lot

A weekly Society, Culture and Documentary podcast featuring Adam McKay
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Death on the Lot

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Death on the Lot

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Death on the Lot

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Death on the Lot

A weekly Society, Culture and Documentary podcast featuring Adam McKay
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Adam sits down with editor Jody Avirgan and writers Brian Steele and Hadley Meares to discuss crafting the series.Learn more about the wonderful books, movies, and articles that made this season possible at dotlnotes.blog.Looking to get
Episode 8 | The fall of the studio system, the rise of the nuclear age, and the lives caught in the fallout. John Wayne and the staggering production of The Conqueror close us out. Learn more about the wonderful books, movies, and articles
Episode 7 | The wild story of Errol Flynn, who just kept hanging around as a symbol of Hollywood’s misogynistic past as it tried to navigate its future.Learn more about the wonderful books, movies, and articles that made this season possibl
Episode 6 | How Hollywood’s use of Black actors clashed with the rising Civil Rights movement, and how the first black Oscar winner, Hattie McDaniel, was caught in the middle.Learn more about the wonderful books, movies, and articles that m
Episode 5 | As television transformed American life, George Reeves became a star, only to get trapped inside the part that made him famous: Superman.Learn more about the wonderful books, movies, and articles that made this season possible a
Episode 4 | The life of James Dean, a restless man-child desperate to express himself in uptight post-World War II America. The original Rebel Without a Cause, and the prototype for a new kind of American teenager who longed to escape Mayberry.
Episode 3 | A new generation of actors questioned the status quo; a rattled establishment fought back; dire consequences ensued. We’re talking John Garfield, Hollywood’s first method actor.Learn more about the wonderful books, movies, and a
Episode 2 | The Life and Death of Willie Bioff, a gangster who bled American unions dry right just as labor was starting to deliver real results for workers.Learn more about the wonderful books, movies, and articles that made this season po
Episode 1 | As post war Hollywood strives to define itself, it mirrors the divide happening in America. A rising right wing seeks to create conformity and fear, while a left wing fights for Civil Rights and a more equitable future.Learn mor
This season, we’re getting into 1950s Hollywood, ground zero for a cultural transformation that would upend every aspect of Americans’ lives. A movie theater in every city, a TV in every living room, and a Post-war America determined to be happ
Adam McKay talks with host Daniel Duane about our new show Réunion: Shark Attacks in Paradise. Plus an update on season 2 of Death at the Wing.Listen to Réunion on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.Learn more about
Adam McKay and the “Death at the Wing” team reflect on the scope of the series, and discuss some of the other story lines of how the NBA and politics intersected in the 80s and 90s, from Magic Johnson’s HIV announcement to Ronald Reagan’s perso
Last episode, we left off with one big question: If the NBA has been able to learn from its mistakes and start to engage with the world in a more humane way, can America do the same? Adam sits down with legendary MC, activist, and basketball fa
As the 1980s turn to the 1990s, the Jordan-led NBA is big business. Amidst it all, two players try to use their platform to speak out about police violence, racism, and American imperialism. In turn, their careers are cut short.Want to get
Thanks to the 1992 “Dream Team,” basketball becomes a truly global brand. Overseas stars begin to make it in the United States, the land of opportunity, even as US foreign policy leads many parts of the world to fracture.Want to get in touc
A shooting guard considered 'Reggie Miller with a handle' commits suicide, at a time when the country is ill-equipped to talk about mental health.Want to get in touch? Email us [email protected] At The Wing is hosted b
The ‘next Magic Johnson’ gets murdered after an argument outside a Chicago High School. Chicago residents had been scapegoated by politicians and cut off from social services for decades, leaving a vacuum for a flood of guns and violence in the
A cocaine overdose claims the life of collegiate superstar and ‘can’t miss prospect’ Len Bias before he ever plays in the NBA for the Boston Celtics. This causes a moral and political panic. Weeks after his death, the Reagan administration, wit
Flint native Terry Furlow, a Michigan State legend, was a mentor to Magic Johnson, and was primed to make it in the new run-and-gun NBA. But Furlow struggled to adjust to the league, and bounced around from team to team, just at the same moment
In the late 70s, basketball was changing rapidly, as was the country. The ABA, a start-up basketball league showcased a faster style of play that captivates fans and introduced a 3-point line to professional basketball. But it was struggling fi
Death at the Wing tells the story of a generation of rising basketball stars who fell victim to the forces that defined Ronald Reagan’s America.Hosted by Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice, Succession), the first two episodes of DEATH AT THE W
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