Bo McGuire

Sound accompaniment: a dog barking, a motorcycle backfiring outside, a beer tab being flicked, perhaps ghost accompaniment but we didn’t hear them

Drinks: a Bloody Mary because vodka is the only liquor left in the house, and a Coors Light

Bo McGuire

Some things that joined us in the conversation: Tribeca Film Festival, Bo being surprised receiving the Best Documentary award with Chris Pine (at 11:05), Beyonce’s Lemonade, S-Town podcast, Kitty Green, Meryl Streep quoting Carrie Fischer “take your broken heart, make it into art,” Real Housewives’ NeNe Leakes, Max Allman, Lady Gaga & Beyonce’s Telephone, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Sherman’s March, Errol Morris’ Vernon Florida, Casting JonBenet, Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace, #heathenbiblestudy, Life is but a Dream (Beyonce documentary), Stranded in Canton, actress screen tests to play Scarlett O’Hara, Frank Stanford & his poetry collection The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, The Cabal and Other Stories by Ellen Gilchrist, The Coal Miner’s Daughter, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, My Life So Far by Jane Fonda, Mariah Carey docuseries, The Judds, My All, It was all in your mind, Ryan Heffington live dance class, Reba Douglas, (The Queen, Bo wrote after our conversation to ask me to add it)

Bo’s documentary Socks on Fire won Tribeca’s Best Documentary, 2020