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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Meet Joe Black with Richard Lawson

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2024

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

He’s hot. He’s got frosted tips. He loves peanut butter. His lil swimmers may or may not look like skulls. He’s death, baby! And we’re meeting him this week! Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson returns to the pod to chat about 1998’s three hour long “symphonic metaphysical romance” MEET JOE BLACK. How does this film play in a post-Succession, “eat the rich” context? How do we feel about the infamous Jamaican patois scenes? What are our memories of the weekend the Phantom Menace trailer came out in theaters? All that and more awaits you on the other side of the bridge.

Read Chad Hartigan’s article on Meet Joe Black

Read Richard’s work at Vanity Fair
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0:00.0

Like Jack with Griffin and David.

0:05.0

Black Jack with Griffin and David

0:09.0

Don't know what to say or to expect.

0:12.0

All you need to know is that the name of the show is Frank Jack.

0:18.0

Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say fall head over heels.

0:26.7

Find someone who can love like crazy and who will love you the same way back.

0:31.5

How do you find him? Well you forget your head and you listen to your heart and I'm not hearing any heart because the truth is honey there's no sense living your life without this.

0:40.0

To make the journey and not fall deeply in love while you you haven't lived a life at all

0:44.6

But you have to try because if you haven't try if you don't

0:48.9

Just like you have to try

0:50.9

Because if you haven't tried you haven't podcasted

0:54.8

That whole time I was staring at Griffin Dewey-eyed like Claire Falani

0:58.6

I thought you were gonna hum the score underneath I think I would have embarrassed myself. I think he would have nailed it.

1:03.7

Yeah. It's hard to do Hopkins doing 50% of an American accent. I don't think it's easy to do Hopkins

1:09.8

period. He's supposed to be from Newfoundland in this, right?

1:13.2

He's got this mode that I feel like we all just accept, where he's like, I just, I sound

1:19.6

like Anthony Hopkins.

1:20.9

I'm not full Welsh. Right. I was about to ask that what is the most American he's ever like had to play?

1:28.6

Richard Nixon. Right? Am I wrong? I guess so, but that right. He played that is like like,

1:36.0

and not greatest American. Richard, 10 comedy points.

1:40.0

But Nixon, he kind of like,

1:42.0

Lark, yeah, you know, I'm, yeah, I'm from California,

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