Welcome
Blank Check with Griffin and David (@blankcheckpod on Twitter and @blankcheckpod on Threads) is a film podcast where #TheTwoFriends, Griffin Newman and David Sims, examine the filmographies of famous directors and determine the moment when they got a "Blank Check". This is a wiki for information on the hosts, producers, Benducers, inside jokes, director discussions and featured guests. The official website is blankcheckpod.com for all of your official nerdy sh*t.
- The show has been featured in articles at the AV Club, Buzzfeed, TIME Magazine, and many other publications. See About The Show for more.
- Blank Check Merch is available! Check out the latest designs on teepublic. They also have a new shop through shopify, with a hat, a limited-edition 5th Anniversary t-shirt, and comedy points coinage.
- Patreon: the supplemental series Blank Check: Special Features is up and running. Subscriber patrons have access to a new podcast feed with extra episodes every 10 days, including commentary tracks and discussion of long-requested franchise films. Plus, whenever they hit a new total goal they do weird stuff like record episodes live on tape at basketball games and amusem*nt parks. You can find their sign-up page here.
- Odds and Ends pages: the Card System, slate of Blank Check Pictures, types of Comedy Points, March Madness concept, Podcast Records, Five-Timers Club
March Madness 2024 and Special Features March Madness 2024 have finished! Voting on the New Blood bracket took place on the Blank Check Website! Patreon voting took place, well, on Patreon. Track David Lynch and Tabletop Games on their paths to victory and stay tuned for both upcoming series.
Index
Current Miniseries Podverly Hills Cast THE FILMS OF MARTIN BREST
Current Commentary Miniseries Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Guests | Episodes | Patreon |
Griffin Newman tangents ahead | David Sims (chimes ring in the distance) | Ben Hosley the pro-doer |
AboutThe Show | Glossary ofIn-Jokes | LinksAnd Resources |
Featured Article
Podward Scissorcast is a miniseries on the films of Tim Burton.
Tim Burton: alumnus of the animation program at CalArts, goth-y fellow, filmmaker, Johnny Depp collaborator, blockbuster director.
So how in the world did Burton go from moody disaffected California suburbia kid, to Disney animator in the trenches, to directing the progenitor of modern superhero blockbusters which basically guaranteed him a blank check for the next twenty-five years of filmmaking? How have his series of muses on screen (Michael Keaton, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter) shaped Burton's own career in Hollywood? How about Danny Elfman's scores? Burton hasn't shown a lot of diversity in his casting... but was that all his doing, or do #TheTwoFriends have a couple of completely bonkers anecdotes about how some of his efforts on that front were thwarted?
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Miniseries
| Star Wars | Beginning date | |
|---|---|---|
| The Phantom Podcast | Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace | March 2015 |
| Attack Of The Podcast | Star Wars Ep. II: Attack Of The Clones | June 2015 |
| Revenge Of The Podcast | Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge Of The Sith | September 2015 |
| All Other Star Wars | The OT, Holiday Special, sequels, etc. | December 2015 |
| Directors' filmographies | Beginning date | |
| Pod Night Shyamacast | M. Night Shyamalan | January 2016 |
| The Podchowski Casters | the Wachowski siblings | April 2016 |
| We Pod A Cast | Cameron Crowe | June 2016 |
| Podinator: Judgment Cast | James Cameron | September 2016 |
| Pod Me If You Cast | Steven Spielberg: post-Oscar | January 2017 |
| The Pod Knight Casts | Christopher Nolan | June 2017 |
| Pod-19: The Widowcaster | Kathryn Bigelow | September 2017 |
| Podship Casters | Paul Verhoeven: the Hollywood years | January 2018 |
| Podcast News | James L. Brooks | March 2018 |
| The Podcastibles | Brad Bird | May 2018 |
| Podback Mountcast | Ang Lee | July 2018 |
| Something's Podda Cast | Nancy Meyers | October 2018 |
| Podward Scissorcast | Tim Burton | December 2018 |
| Cast of the Podhicans | Michael Mann | May 2019 |
| Howl's Moving Podcastle | Hayao Miyazaki | August 2019 |
| Stop Making Podcasts | Jonathan Demme | November 2019 |
| Mad Pod: Fury Cast | George Miller | March 2020 |
| You've Got Podcast | Nora Ephron | June 2020 |
| Gina Prince-Bythewood | August 2020 | |
| Podcast Away | Robert Zemeckis | September 2020 |
| The Poddle Mercast | Musker & Clements | February 2021 |
| The Podbreak Cast | Elaine May | April 2021 |
| Podz n the Cast | John Singleton | May 2021 |
| They Podcast | John Carpenter | August 2021 |
| The Podcastiano | Jane Campion | January 2022 |
| Podcast Me to Hell | Sam Raimi | March 2022 |
| Pod That Jazzcast | Bob Fosse | July 2022 |
| Pods Wide Cast | Stanley Kubrick | August 2022 |
| The Podmare Before Castmas | Henry Selick | November 2022 |
| Trainspodcasting | Danny Boyle | January 2023 |
| Podcast Jr. | Buster Keaton | May 2023 |
| I'm a Podcast, But That's OK | Park Chan-wook | June 2023 |
| The Curious Pod of Benjamin Buttcast | David Fincher | September 2023 |
| Podcastl | Barbra Streisand | January 2024 |
| Pod Hard with a Vengecast | John McTiernan | February 2024 |
| Podprikast | Satoshi Kon | May 2024 |
| Podverly Hills Cast | Martin Brest | June 2024 |
| Other / Palate Cleansers | Beginning date | |
| The PodDCEU Cast | DC Extended Universe films | |
| Ben's Choice/Guest's Choice | selections by Producer Ben & guests | |
| Standalones/Miscellaneous | one-offs, mailbags, 'Blankie' awards, & more | |
Podcast Credits
- Griffin Newman, Co-host
- David Sims, Co-host
- Ben Hosley, Pro-doer
- Layne Montgomery, Theme Songs
- Joe Bowen and Pat Reynolds, Artwork
- Marie Bardi-Salinas, Executive Producer & Social Media
- AJ McKeon, Production Coordinator
- Alex Barron, Editing
- JJ Bersch, Research
- Angela Ferraguto, Co-Producer & Social Media — Emerita
- Rachel Jacobs, Producer — Emerita
- Nick Laureano, Researcher — Emeritus
Wiki Credits
This wiki was developed as an initiative of the Blankies community on Reddit.
Primary contributors are antlersantlers, Ceiling99, Ilaughalone, Armyofmeee, and Puercster. You can see all contributors listed here. We document real nerdy sh*t.
If you would like to help, a great place to start is with one of these article stubs!
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