2025 MARCH MADNESS PREVIEW
🕑 Added 2025-02-28 05:00:07 +0000 UTCJoin us (and definitely NOT Chip Smith) as we preview this year’s MARCH MADNESS Tournament!
Topics include: the status of Roundball Rock! Should David be embarrassed about something?? NBA broadcast/streaming rights machinations, a checklist of atrocities, and more!! Oh, and we’ll also go through the matchups!
Main-feed voting will take place each day in March starting tomorrow (3/1/2025) at 12 PM ET on blankcheckpod.com/march-madness.
Patreon voting will happen on this very site each day at 2 PM ET, starting tomorrow.
Our Patreon Bracket:
Let the campaigning begin!!
Comments
Rad Rodge
Beauteous
Colleen Gaw
Okay I’m not here to act like Welcome to Raccoon City is some masterpiece but to watch 6 arguable pieces of shit in a row but draw the line at like …the one(1) other attempt at the source material that doesn’t have any sequels is so mean! Might as well just call it “Resident Evil (Anderson Films)”
Scott Carberry
It’s kind of amazing that Marie just watched the Conversation for the first time and Gene Hackman just passed!
Champagne and Gummy bears
With the Chip Smith intro I must ask: Hosley noise album when?
Chas
Can’t believe me and Marie both took an edible and watched the pilot of the Baldwins
Madi
can't believe this is how i'm finding out that the NBA has a John Kruk
Filip Boratyn
Amy Heckerling
Scott Sawtell
95% of the enjoyment listening to the Austin Power episode was her laugh.
Jason Baxter
Re: the Patreon match-ups...is '90s indie comic adaptations not including Mystery Men?
John Thomas Glenn Lowery
Poor Lean.
BENJAMIN SHULTZ
Wright! I need to hear whatever these feelings on Hot Fuzz are already.
Riley Johnson
https://youtu.be/RFtRq6t3jOo?si=0IwRWfZjzddd7xyv
Jayce Newton
Wait so who’s the next director??
Emily Scott
Villeneuve vs. Cuaron in the first round??? Breaking my heart right out of the gate!
Douglas Wykstra
Pulling the faded, tattered Guillermo Del Toro banner out of storage and once more preparing to go to war in a Normal fashion. Nothing in the Patreon bracket inspires the same level of passion, but I would like pretty much all of these options. Also, something the Blank Check Brain Trust may want to keep in mind, in the future, is how silent films are extremely well-suited for a running digressive commentary, and would likely receive a warmer response among the diehards here than they have on main feed episodes past.
Samuel Ramos
Do Bay!!
Ben Dudden
I realize it would probably have to be on Patreon and not Main since they didn’t stick with any one director, but I would love to see a Marx Brothers mini at some point.
Brian Duffy
Somehow I once again forgot how hard the Chip Report Theme goes, what a friggin banger.
Evan Donnellan
Petition to include Muppets Wizard of Oz.
George Wishart
Thank you!! I was wishing I could’ve interrupted the show to mention that lol
Patrick Davis Jr
I wonder if the boys will ever do the Harry Potter series?
Kenneth Chambers
Genuinely spoiled for choice here. Both brackets have 10-12 options that I would be so hyped for. Don't even know which flavour of patreon I'm rooting for, because there are some great classics and some movies like Sony spider man that would just be blast to watch along
Tobey
Lots of choices are going to sting on main feed, but the only Sophie’s Choice for me on Patreon is Predator vs Alan Moore. Also would just like to see Alan Moore fight a Predator.
Jeffrey Malone
"Roundball Rock" has been the theme song to FOX's college basketball coverage the past few years!
Eileen Tierney
Don't think Coen's solo should stay on Patreon, it's kinda like how only Lana directed Matrix Ressurections
UnEdukatid
Elmore Leonard, Philip K Dick and Pulp Heroes are great picks! Given the recent news regarding Gene Hackman does Harry Moseby from Night Moves count in Pulp Heroes?
Isaac Kelley
The video on the website promoting March Madness is amazing, as well as a subtle vote for Wong Kar Wai, which is where my heart lives. Hats of to Marie or whoever made it. This bracket is stuffed with great freaking movies.
Isaac Kelley
I wait every year for Chip Smith. Chip Smith is my Santa. The joy used to be in how great Chip Smith was. Now, the joy is in how fucking sick of Chip Smith David is.
Rad Rodge
Yeah the true triumph of that movie really is the father-son relationship
Josh Burcham
Vote for Freddy, bitch!!
Jonathan Nichols
Bay is definitely a longshot, but he does make me want to indulge in guest wishcasting for the first time: - Jamelle on 13 Hours feels like a gimme - Lindsay Ellis for A transformers movie if not THE transformers movie would be great because of her youtube series on them
Kevin Potter
Also Luka may still Zion himself, David. You act as though there is no precedent for big boys who can’t stay healthy….
JC
I think Ben (and all other cool Blankies) would vibe with the group HEILUNG-They are shaman and don’t do concerts-they perform rituals. there’s a Live album at Red Rocks Amphitheater called ‘Lifa lotungard’.
Kevin Potter
There can be only one!!! Vote Highlander!
Teddy K
I'm listening to this while packing my oldest kids lunch as the toddler follows me around asking for chips for breakfast. "Chip? Chip!? Chiiiiiiiip!!!!" My thoughts exactly.
David Dein
They wouldn't technically be Back To Back. Usually it takes a few months to get to the March Madness winner. Table Top games didn't start until August 1st.
Matt Skoufalos
You must confront the Muppets ARTISTICALLY
Christopher Teuma
You think that Nexus was safe? YOU THINK THE BORG IS SAFE?
Crispy
Marie Bardi, amongst her many other qualities, has hands-down the best laugh in showbusiness
Crispy
This will destroy me, because About Time is secretly the best movie about father-son relationships I've ever seen and I lost the old man last year. Going to be a wild ride
Christopher Teuma
I've been catching up on the Peter Weir movies along with the Spielbergs!
Rad Rodge
This is of course a lot like how I kinda want to be able to vote for Joe Wright again so we can hear people talk about Domhnall Gleeson in Anna Karenina
Rad Rodge
I’m not saying I really want Richard Curtis to win but I just want so badly to get a whole episode of Blank Check analysis of Domhnall Gleeson as romcom lead, I feel like the friends of the program on This Had Oscar Buzz incl. Katey Rich are like the only people who have made a proper investigation of this interesting road that is seemingly never to be taken again haha
LS
We all know Megatron was instrumental to the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey and the foundation of the Church of England.
Tom
I see your point, I agree with that. We'll see what happens.
Rad Rodge
I mean, I’m gonna really like saying this from now on
Good
God, I hope not. I love, love the Muppets, but we’re doing Star Trek right now. It just feels like a lot. Star Trek, then the Muppets back to back. 😭 It’s so safe and boring.
Good
FUCK!!! They got rid of the American Pie franchise. Decade of dream my ass. Jk, jk, but damn 😭😭😭 I was hoping for some early 2000s deep dives and laughter. I blame myself, I pushed too hard all last year. Legit bummed out. I guess I’ll be rooting and voting for Highlander. Ben was so close last year. Let’s go! The Scream trilogy would make for amazing commentary.
Olivia Haidar
Resident Evil should absolutely include Welcome To Raccoon City! That movie is hilariously awful.
Bill Fitzmaurice
Elmore Leonard!!!
Carolyn
Phillip K SICK , lettss gooooooo
Rad Rodge
“Who goes to a John Tesh show, is my question—” [correcting an obvious mistake] “US!”
Rad Rodge
100%, I’ve relistened to the 20th century bracket preview cause I just loved that episode
Jordan B. Anderson
Great news, everyone! The website confirms it is "HOT".
Jordan B. Anderson
I need clarification on whether that 8-seed says "Sony Not Monsters" or "Sony Hot Monsters"
Jordan Gibson
So intrigued by "Three Colors"
Zach Walls
It's the most wonderful time of the year!
ian
Always one of my favorite eps of the year
Tom
MUPPETS!!!
sheabobay
Yoooo so HYPE!