A Serious Man with Marc Maron

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2025

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

The time has come for us to lock the gates. On the occasion of the end of WTF, Marc Maron joins us to talk about chaos, God, mathematics, and Jewish identity as we dive into 2009’s A Serious Man. Highlights of this episode include Marc asking, “Is this a bit?” when David opens the dossier, Marc’s discussion of his audition to play Larry Gopnik, and Marc telling Griffin that he’s proud of him. Not a dry eye in the house, folks. This is a special one. Listen to WTF Sign up for Check Book, the Blank Check newsletter featuring even more “real nerdy shit” to feed your pop culture obsession. Dossier excerpts, film biz AND burger reports, and even more exclusive content you won’t want to miss out on. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Twitter, Instagram, Threads and Facebook! Buy some real nerdy merch Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Lock the gates.
0:11.0	Hello, this is Blank Check with Griffin and David.
0:15.3	I'm Griffin Newman.
0:18.7	Welcome to the pod. Blankies. Blankstables. Blankers. Blanker-U-Pye Wall Streeters.
0:30.9	Blankericans. Blankadians. This is the pod. This is me.
0:37.7	This is Griffin.
0:40.0	Big show today.
0:42.3	Serious man.
0:43.3	Mark Marin.
0:45.6	Serious man's the name of the movie.
0:46.7	He is a serious man.
0:47.6	And a funny guy.
0:48.2	He's a nice guy.
0:48.7	He's a good guy.
0:50.1	We had a good talk, good chat, good episode, long time.
0:54.0	In the making, we time in the making.
0:54.8	We'll get to that.
0:55.6	But I think you guys are going to like that one.
1:01.5	Ah.
1:03.6	Pow!
1:04.4	Just shit my pants.
1:06.5	Dunkin' donuts.
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