Proving that celebrity podcasts are so 2024, Matthew McConaughey will be getting into the blogging game (alright, technically the newsletter game) in 2025.
Lyrics of Livin' will find McConaughey dispensing thoughts and words of wisdom, with the actor describing it as “five minutes with McConaughey as you end your week and head into your weekend” (via People). The free weekly missive will debut Jan. 3, with new installments arriving every Friday at 5 pm ET. McConaughey will also record and release an audio version of the newsletter every week.
In explaining his decision to launch Lyrics of Livin', McConaughey said, “I've journaled and scribbled down good times, bad times, turn-offs and turn-ons for more than four decades now, and as you may know, many of those journal entries were what inspired my book Greenlights. Which got me thinking, what if I didn't wait 40 more years to share my thoughts, prescribes, tips, truths and inspirations: Things I've seen, said, stole and heard along my way that can help us find more Greenlights in our life and put a little rhyme to our reason.”
He even had a very specific reason for deciding to drop it on Friday, his favorite day of the week. “A true parlay day, the first half of Friday's about responsibility and WORK, and the second half is about freedom and PLAY — and Friday also comes with a 48-hour runway — before we get back to Monday,” McConaughey said.
The actor offered a bit of a preview of the newsletter in a short video shared on social media. It found him typing away at his laptop while musing about the lyrics to Kool and the Gang's “Get Down On It”: “How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance/By standing on the wall?/Get your backs up off the wall.”
McConaughey then adds: “A few minutes after Kool and the Gang told us to do just that, we got reminded to get our hearts off the ground, our spirits in flight day and night, telling gravity to have a bit of a fuck off. So, let's get our hips a swiggin' above the holes the moles be digging. Time to go to work, break a sweat. Time for me, you, and all the nations to get us some elevation. A roof is a man made thing, let's fly.”
