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Who’s Our Lead??
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A podcast about people you see in movies. Current miniseries: the career of Matt Damon!

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We are BACK in Boston for Matt Damon’s darkest and perhaps most impressive performance yet in our miniseries running down his career: THE DEPARTED (2006) Link here: spotify.link/tHz1oJwQFXb
October 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
In which we finally arrive at Matt Damon’s first franchise, and a now VERY underrated film:

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The Bourne Identity (2002)
Podcast Episode · Who's Our Lead?? · 10/08/2025 · 2h 12m
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October 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Welcome to THE END TIMES, as we talk about our boy Matt Damon’s origins in the 90s indie movie scene through one of it’s most . . . unique offerings.

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Dogma (1999)
Podcast Episode · Who's Our Lead?? · 09/24/2025 · 1h 36m
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September 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Two films into our Matt Damon miniseries and BOTH are named after his character. We go long and get complicated on SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, perhaps the most enduring and *complicated* American war film ever made. Listen below!! open.spotify.com/episode/63OW...
September 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Kevin Feige just off screen, whispering to Matt: “We need a new Kang”
she looks nothing like him
August 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Our second episode dives into our first overall pick in the Matt Damon draft. We’re starting off his career (almost) how he did, with the enduring classic of Bahstan cinema: Good Will Hunting! Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/3mOV...
August 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Our second episode dives into our first overall pick in the Matt Damon draft. We’re starting off his career (almost) how he did, with the enduring classic of Bahstan cinema: Good Will Hunting! Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/3mOV...
August 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
An almost certain future LEAD on our show
Amy Adams in Arrival. One of the most nuanced, compelling performances I’ve ever seen.
August 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Current "top" or fave Matt Damon appearances or movies of ones seen + at all remembered may be

The Martian + Downsizing
AIR
JBs
Talented Mr Ripley
The Adjustment Bureau 🫰
Ocean's 13
Stuck on You
Good Will Hunting

No idea of their ⬇️ criteria, I never listen to things/not the audience for pod ppl. 🤷‍♀️
The RESULTS of our first Lead draft. We’ll be covering the whole career of Matt Damon through these ten movies. Who won? What did we miss? Only our listeners have the right to scream at us about it. Listen to the draft here: tinyurl.com/ya9dmyyp
August 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A fantastic list (Talented Mr. Ripley probably being out biggest miss) but cannot emphasize just how *good* our boy is as an evil empty scumbag in The Departed
Current "top" or fave Matt Damon appearances or movies of ones seen + at all remembered may be

The Martian + Downsizing
AIR
JBs
Talented Mr Ripley
The Adjustment Bureau 🫰
Ocean's 13
Stuck on You
Good Will Hunting

No idea of their ⬇️ criteria, I never listen to things/not the audience for pod ppl. 🤷‍♀️
The RESULTS of our first Lead draft. We’ll be covering the whole career of Matt Damon through these ten movies. Who won? What did we miss? Only our listeners have the right to scream at us about it. Listen to the draft here: tinyurl.com/ya9dmyyp
August 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We appreciate Michael trying to get movie discussions going on this site, and must say, people sleep on just how good Matt Damon is in The Bourne Identity. That role is close to disastrous - or boringly impersonal - on paper; it only works because of his skill with playing confusion and desperation
what are your favorite acting performances? doesn't have to be a big role, doesn't have to be a killer movie, just a particular performance that sticks with you. some of mine:

Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis
Alicia Vikander (as Essel) in The Green Knight
Juliette Binoche in 3 Colors: Blue
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Five episodes before we get here, but some well written thoughts on what we hope to be a hidden Damon gem.
August 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Pakula was the king (Parallax View and All the President’s Men are both perfect) and Zodiac (2007) and Shutter Island (2010) scratch a similar itch for me
okay new movie prompt, what are some great paranoid thrillers? just watched klute and really enjoyed it. the first modern one that comes to mind is martha marcy may marlene, which was stunning
August 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Damon Fever sweeping the nation folks, Green Zone reclamation starts here on Who’s Our Lead
August 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The RESULTS of our first Lead draft. We’ll be covering the whole career of Matt Damon through these ten movies. Who won? What did we miss? Only our listeners have the right to scream at us about it. Listen to the draft here: tinyurl.com/ya9dmyyp
August 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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AV Club is so good again! I’m back to visiting it daily!
It's really impossible to overstate what a gift it is to have the AV Club back. Like it's this one bright spot in our stupid timeline--as everything else gets wrecked by VCs and enshittified, something free and beautiful and for the people rose from the dead.

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo got lost in translation after its 2005 release
Tweaking the title of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was the first of several changes that affected far more than just the marketing.
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August 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The response has been overwhelming. Calls from all over the world. Damon’s agent is in touch. It’s all going to plan; listen to us pick the ten most important films in his career below!!
The FIRST EPISODE of Who’s Our Lead?? is up. Jordan and Jarrod draft ten films to cover and sum up the career of our first lead: American Sweetheart, Jimmy Kimmel hater, MATT DAMON

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Matt Damon Draft
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August 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The FIRST EPISODE of Who’s Our Lead?? is up. Jordan and Jarrod draft ten films to cover and sum up the career of our first lead: American Sweetheart, Jimmy Kimmel hater, MATT DAMON

open.spotify.com/episode/3dpo...
Matt Damon Draft
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August 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Our FIRST EPISODE drops next Wednesday, August 13th. Crucial decisions will be made as Jordan and Jarrod pick ten films to cover and define the career of our first lead. American Sweetheart, Will Hunting, Jason Bourne, star of the biggest movie of next year: MATT DAMON
August 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Welcome to WHO’S OUR LEAD??

A podcast about people you see in movies, hosted by @mayoresquire.bsky.social and @jpetersenkamp.bsky.social. We try and figure out the appeal, or failure, of silver screen stars by watching their biggest hits and flops, one film at a time.
August 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM