Who’s Our Lead??

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

The Bourne Identity (2002) Podcast Episode · Who's Our Lead?? · 10/08/2025 · 2h 12m

In which we finally arrive at Matt Damon’s first franchise, and a now VERY underrated film:

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It’s Damon in Dogma folks, the most famous movie that doesn’t exist.

Dogma (1999) Podcast Episode · Who's Our Lead?? · 09/24/2025 · 1h 36m

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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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...

Kevin Feige just off screen, whispering to Matt: “We need a new Kang”

it’s more of a Bicentennial Man episode if we’re being honest

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...

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...

Our ep on this will be out in a few weeks but we spend at least a tight five just talking about that moment lol

An almost certain future LEAD on our show

Which gotten flattened into boring competence over time. Part of what works in Identity is how *surprised* and *terrified* he is at what he can do!

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. 🤷‍♀️

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

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

Five episodes before we get here, but some well written thoughts on what we hope to be a hidden Damon gem.

A ★★★★ review of Green Zone (2010) A too-pat ending mars this surprisingly great paranoid Iraq War thriller. Set in the weeks following the US Invasion of Iraq, GREEN ZONE follows Matt Damon's elite Army unit tracking down Iraqi chemic...

my full thoughts on it boxd.it/ai7VHx

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

Matt Damon Draft

Jordan’s dulcet tones let you know why he picked Green Zone here: open.spotify.com/episode/3dpo...

Damon Fever sweeping the nation folks, Green Zone reclamation starts here on Who’s Our Lead

We are maybe the first podcast that will ever cover Green Zone and are thrilled to hear it has at least one fan

Season 7 of the Valley foreshadowed

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

Yes and it ruled

AV Club is so good again! I’m back to visiting it daily!

The amount of Guys in this movie is staggering

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!!

Matt Damon Draft Who's Our Lead?? · Episode

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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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

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.