Book · recommended on 4 episodes
Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey ISBN 9781472290694
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Matthew McConaughey ISBN 9781472290694
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This book by Matthew McConaughey has come up 4 times across 3 different shows: Diary of a CEO, Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, Matthew McConaughey, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-10-20 and the most recent from 2025-09-18. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“I got a great story in green lights of them fighting and my mom bashing and breaking my dad's nose with the phone”— Matthew McConaughey
The guest here is Matthew McConaughey: Oscar-winning actor (Dallas Buyers Club) known for True Detective, Mud and his romcom era, and bestselling author of Greenlights. He joins to discuss his new book Poems & Prayers. Matthew McConaughey unpacks resistance, faith, fatherhood and why he turned down $14.5M to escape romcoms and reinvent his career.
“the number one New York Times bestselling author of green lights and just because you can find Matthew on Instagram”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler: Matthew McConaughey is an Academy Award-winning actor (Dallas Buyers Club, Interstellar, True Detective) and number-one New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights. Aisha Tyler is a comedian, actor (Criminal Minds), Whose Line Is It Anyway host, director of the film Axis, author, and co-founder of margarita brand Loop. A 10-year anniversary 'super combo' episode pairing Matthew McConaughey and Aisha Tyler on risk, failure, identity, and creative courage.
“his words carry wisdom and power in his book called green lights and his new video course called road trip”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Matthew McConaughey: Oscar-winning American actor (Dallas Buyers Club, Interstellar, True Detective, Mud) and Texan. Author of the memoir Greenlights and creator of the Road Trip video course. Matthew McConaughey and Lex Fridman roam across love, death, fatherhood, denial, acting, AI, and the meaning of life.
“i've been keeping a lot of short stories in my diaries and a lot of them which are in this in this book green lights”— Matthew McConaughey
The guest here is Matthew McConaughey: Academy Award-winning actor (Dallas Buyers Club), producer, and University of Texas professor whose career began with Dazed and Confused. He is the author of the memoir-playbook Greenlights and a decades-long diarist. Matthew McConaughey unpacks the philosophy behind Greenlights: family lessons, journaling, taking risks, and the sabbatical that reinvented his career.
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