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The Eighth Blank Check Mailbag
🕑 Added 2024-01-11 05:00:03 +0000 UTCIt's January 11th, so that can only mean one thing! THE 8th BLANK CHECK MAILBAG! The gang answers listener submitted questions, as well as some voicemails from friends of the show. Topics include: Ben earring updates, physical media pickups of 2023, the quintessential Blank Check Episode and so much more!
Special thanks to Tim Simons, Karen Han, David Ehrlich and Asa Ehrlich-Maezono, Hayes McKeon and Katey Rich + Charlie.
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Vegan Police
So hard to cry while eating chicken alfredo pasta
Vegan Police
Crying @ this young man giving his top 10 list ❤️
Vegan Police
Maybe Elrich is scared that The Cars franchise is a gateway to Planes: Fire and Rescue (is there a train in that??)
Jef Saunders
Producer Ben! I’m a piercer! I do a piercing Patreon and co-wrote a book on piercing. Get in touch I can help you out!
PJ Gaughan
Listening to the Sesame Street question I would definitely want to hear Gonger talk about Burnt and Chef as a food truck owner himself. Plus the off mic takes on Cookie Monster would be out of control
Jane
Ben: if you haven’t, contact your piercer and they will triage you, bestie!! Longer post, surgical steel, saline soaks, etc. may be needed. Thoughts & prayers.
Josh Hehner
Just listening to the mailbag now and heard about Ben's earing travails. I, too, had similar issues when I got an earring and found out it was because my lobes were too large (my ear started growing around it). I had to replace my standard stud with a longer one and that did the trick. Best of luck on your earring adventures!!!
Erin
Ben, I'm back with a follow up Q!! Is your earring surgical steel? If not, you might have a mild allergy to nickel or something else and that could be keeping it from healing!
Tyler
Was not expecting a Rat Saw God drop! Amazing album, great music taste Ben!
Samuel McGuire
What is the best Babs film to hook someone (willing, just ignorant) in to the fandom?
Frog Dimples (Jesse)
100%!!!! Skip the Michael Bay movies if you have to. No one likes them.
aya and ariel
used to cat sit for joe rohde… what a house
Krista
PLEASE do the 2022 Rise of the Teenage Mutuant Ninja Turtles movie that was done for Netflix!! 😭 The 2d animation in it is incredibly anime and it’s characterization so wildly different that I’d love to hear your commentary! 🐢🐢🐢🐢
Matt F
Waiting for the Doughboys to cover Ralph’s House of Shit
Adam Butterworth
David not listing Jess Knappett as a member of his Taskmaster Mount Crushmore is the closest I have come to cancelling my subscription.
Abigail Brennan
i would very legitimately watch a twitch stream of david playing bg3 on his fancy new pc
Matt
Hey. Savion Glover is the coolest.
Adam Truelove
Thanks for answering my question guys, would never have expected Fight Club as an answer, this is why Ben is our finest film critic!! All the love for 2024 from the Love Guru's original client
Drew Schultz
Can we get a full Patreon episode where Griffin and David talk about Kitchen Nightmares but call it Hell’s Kitchen?
Annie
Taskmaster chat ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ezra Kowo
hearing david talk about taskmaster was amazing, i would die to hear you guys talk about it more!! charlotte ritchie is my taskmaster crush also, i think about her every 60 seconds or so
Bailey scieszka
They were talking about what are the best episodes… I have listened to the big fish one many times lolll def one of my favorites
Emily Varley
When I say I stopped in my tracks when I heard that sweet child ask why doesn’t my daddy let me watch Cars 💀 I am 6 months pregnant and pretending Cara doesn’t exist has always been the plan. Griffin saying “We live in a society, Cars is omnipresent” fucking killed me
Jared Gambrel
Ohhhhh! Thank you
fartinscorcese
Love the shout out to Mulaney hosting (presumably) before he rocked the house at the Governors’ Awards
Dan Donnelly
My dream job is the camera operator who does the slow slight zoom on Steve Harvey’s face when he is looking befuddled by an answer
Chris Damen
You guys…stop mumbling on mic. *grabs ruler*
Ross
I really should’ve asked more about “ways to introduce kids to movies” because they have a lot of ideas and I wasted my shot on a dumb question that they didn’t answer.
Ross
When?
Stan
Hell yeah came in under the wire with the music q hahaha Also I didn’t know what I expected bens answer to be but Wednesday definitely hits it
Harrison Stanley
David quietly saying dislington and waiting for Griffin to yell DISLINGTON!from the bathroom is absolutely hilarious.He just knew it was coming
KS
SUCH a great ep!
ExciteMike64
Thanks for answering my question!! the Blank Check team is the best
Katie
The oft undermined Charlie Rich contribution to Blank Check, FITW, and Little Gold Men shan’t be most on me
Rad Rodge
[nodding]
Rad Rodge
That format is right up there with “He go fast in airplane” for my favorite Blank Check bits. “The Lion Queen,” another iconic David pitch
Rad Rodge
I lost my shit at “Frontdraft” hahahaha
Chauncey Telese
Griffin and David missed the obvious answer to the Sesame Street question. Baby Bear is best suited for Blank Check. He's pleasant, dryly funny, and based on him quoting cool hand Luke is a cinephile.
Tobey
Count von Count would LOVE the Box Office game! “This movie made ONE Blackhat TWO Blackhats…”
ryan mcgrath
So we all agree that it was Batman the animated series and they were talking about?
Anthony Pierre Coco
Ayy beaming at my both my question being answered and my name being specifically called out as “phenomenal”. For the record (REAL nerdy shit name alert) its a sort of erstatz take on “Anthony Peter Coleman”, Bill Hader’s character in the puppet class SNL sketch, one of my favorite things ever.
Christopher Maldonado
@David: they might bring the two Tron movies to 4K to help promote that new Jared Leto Tron movie they’re threatening us with! Silver lining!
Caroline Pruett
Céline Sciamna, director 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'
Jacob Bowman
Rocketman(1997) recorded IN SPACE!
Jared Gambrel
Time stamp 1:28:52
Jared Gambrel
Who is the director David mentions as be an interesting Zelda choice? Sounds like Selen Schma but google doesn’t think so.
Caroline Pruett
I hate to be this person but when they were talking about Hells Kitchen I think they meant Kitchen Nightmares...unless UK hell's Kitchen is really different?
Lobo
The answer to what feature would I add to improve the movie going experience is captioning. On the screen captioning NOT those annoying devices
Chet Kazalski
I am a former competitive rower, and even I have no interest in Boys In The Boat
Ian
[Whispering to date while watching Hotel Transylvania: Transformania when the MRC logo first appears on the screen] That's Chappie
Aaron Abolt
Not sure it'll pan out this way, but would love if Jane Schoenbrun got to have a blank check career. Highly anticipating their next one!
Den
Ben, re: your earring, please wash only with hot water and dab a little neosporin on the piercing after cleaning about 1-2 a day for a few weeks and please don’t give up we need the pirate earring !!!
Jack R
Wednesday is cool, Ben have you heard Ratboys?
Dustin
not mentioning the brokeback episode while listing the best blank check episodes is ERASURE
Zachary Stein
Love hearing about Griffin buying those special edition Umbrella Blu-ray releases. He needs to get on that Razorback box set.
Andrew Newbury
#releasetheintercomcut
corndair
Incredible drink choices, everyone (and AJ!). Thank you for the answer!
Mireille C
So Griffin is a tie tie boy?
Dan
Co-sign
Mike Ostrov
Applegate is the best performance in Anchorman. My best actress winner.
David Rosenblatt
Was in the middle of My shift at fancy LA restaurant and this update pinged on my watch and literally made my night and I also I may have squealed
Daniel Johnson
Loving the use of the theme from New York, New York recently
Storm chaser Jay
Dizzlington!!!!! It's izzlington you fool!
Robert Carroll
Or, Mail!
Robert Carroll
Hail!
Peter M
You win this round, insomnia.
