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Blank Check with Griffin & David

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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2017

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

In the first episode of a new mini series focusing on the filmography of Christopher Nolan, Griffin and David discuss the 1998 debut feature, Following. But how have conmen or “confidence men” influenced the director’s later work? How was the burgeoning filmmaker received by festivals? Is the uncensored director’s cut of Nutty Professor II: The Klumps worth viewing? Together they examine the extended Nolan family, Kevin Bacon getting Bernie Madoff’d, Griffin’s auteur video rental store and David’s recent dance moves. Also, BRAAAMS.

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0:00.0

That's what it's all about, interrupting someone's life, making them see all the things they

0:25.4

took for granted. When they go back and buy all this stuff from the shelves with the insurance

0:29.8

money, they'll have to think for the first time in a long time why they wanted all this stuff.

0:34.6

But it's for you take it away and you show them what they podcasted.

0:41.0

That was that was a great impression of Alex Haw. That wasn't bad, right? It was excellent. A great

0:47.8

impression of someone no one's ever heard. Yeah. Griffin finally did a good impression, guys.

0:52.9

And it has no application outside of what I just did. Hello, ladies gentlemen, germs,

1:03.8

burglars, mine thieves. Sure.

1:08.6

Anarchus. Yeah.

1:11.4

Tarz robots. Magicians. Magicians. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. What else is the joy pants? Yeah.

1:20.1

Yep. Spoiler alert. We're going to put some pants on in this many series. We are. My name's

1:23.6

Griffin Newman. I am David Sims. This is a podcast called blank check with Griffin and David.

1:30.3

We're not going to be people we just met. Right. We're not going to do some crazy

1:33.4

Nolan-esque, fractured narrative where you don't find out who was hosting the show.

1:38.3

blank check with Griffin and Griffin. Oh, no, it was David all along.

1:42.8

Um, this is a podcast about filmmakers. Oh, tours. One could argue. Sure.

1:50.0

filmmakers who have massive success early on in their career and they were given a series of

1:53.2

blank checks to make whatever crazy passion projects they wanted. Sometimes those checks clear.

1:58.0

They do. Sometimes. Once in a while. Everyone's so while they do. With this guy,

2:03.0

we're off of the nut. This guy, I would argue, hold one of the craziest moves of all time,

2:07.4

which is what seems like his big blank check movie ended up being so big that it's the kind of

2:12.4

movie that would have given someone else a blank check. You're right. You're right. Check's on checks.

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