Successful director and screenwriter Peter Berg joins Alex & Bryan to discuss what drives the characters in his films, fatherhood, risk, freedom, self-driving cars, boxing, and the greatest WWII movie that has never been made. Fresh off his first experience in an autonomous vehicle, the director of “Friday Night Lights,” “Patriots Day,” “Very Bad Things” and “Deepwater Horizon” breaks down his approach to storytelling, how to raise hundreds of millions for a crazy idea, and gives us the low-down on the Hollywood Blacklist.

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