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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Assault on Precinct 13 with April Wolfe

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2021

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

John Carpenter puts his own spin on Howard Hawks’ iconic western RIO BRAVO and Griffin learns about “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” - it’s our ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 episode! Screenwriter and film critic April Wolfe (2019’s BLACK CHRISTMAS) joins us as we discuss the most dramatic vanilla ice cream cone of all time. Is this one of Carpenter’s best musical scores? Gonna go ahead and say YES.

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0:00.0

music

0:21.7

You want to be a podcast your first night out, Lieutenant?

0:24.8

Yes, sir.

0:25.3

There are no podcasts anymore, Bishop. Just menu follow orders.

0:31.5

That was worth it.

0:33.5

I had to do some digging because I only had the first line, so then I had to

0:37.3

scrub through the movie with captions on to figure out getting the lead in line right.

0:42.0

I thought that was worth it.

0:43.2

This movie has a lot of great lines, but a lot of them don't make sense.

0:49.3

It's got a lot of good, a lot of good, a lot of good,

0:50.2

but crammed the word podcast in them. Yes, yes, but like you look like someone spit in your sock.

0:57.6

That's a good line, but how you put podcasts, I'm not going to say you look like someone spit

1:00.7

in your podcast. That doesn't mean anything. You take the specifics out of that line.

1:04.2

You've done so many stupid openings to this show. I think you're not a part doing that.

1:08.3

I disagree. I disagree. I disagree. I disagree. I think every opening I've ever done has been

1:12.8

very, very smart. That's what I would say. Very smart and very clever and very natural,

1:18.3

because this is a podcast. You see, that's what I, when I put the word podcast in the line

1:25.6

from the movie, it was because I wanted people to know that the thing they're listening to is a podcast.

1:30.2

It's called Blank Check with Griffin and David. I'm Griffin. I'm David.

1:34.0

And it is a podcast about filmography's directors who have massive success early on in their careers

1:39.7

are given a series of blank checks to make whatever crazy pattern projects they want.

1:43.7

And sometimes those checks clear. And sometimes they execute an assault on pre-sick 13, baby.

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