Blood Simple with Ray Tintori & Jordan Fish

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 165 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Gather round, folks - it’s time to embark upon a journey through one of the most sterling filmographies in American cinema. Our Coen Brothers series - Pod Country for Old Cast - kicks off with Joel and Ethan’s remarkably assured 1984 debut Blood Simple. Coen experts and hosts of the To The White Sea podcast Ray Tintori and Jordan Fish join us to do some serious tablesetting for the odyssey ahead, offering some context that JJ didn’t even manage to dig up. Speaking of digging - Ben Hosley has some thoughts on the subject. Listen to the To the White Sea Podcast 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Blank Jack with Griffin and David.
0:05.0	Black Jack with Griffin and David.
0:09.0	Don't know what to say or to expect.
0:13.0	All you need to know is that the name of the show is blank check. The world is full of complainers
0:23.0	and the fact is nothing comes with a guarantee
0:25.4	I don't care if you're the Pope of Rome
0:28.1	President of the United States or man of the year
0:30.5	someone can go all wrong
0:32.0	Now go on ahead, you know, complain
0:34.1	Tell your problems to your neighbor ask for help
0:35.9	Watch them fly
0:37.3	Now in Russia they got a mapped out So everyone pulls for everyone else That's the theory head, you know, complain, tell your problems to your neighbor, ask for help. Watch them fly.
0:40.9	Now, in Russia, they got it mapped out so everyone pulls for everyone else.
0:42.1	That's the theory anyway.
0:44.8	But what I know about is podcasting.
0:47.6	And down here, you're on your own.
0:49.5	It's a very hard voice to do.
0:50.9	M.M. at Walsh, yes.
0:52.1	He was just, look quiet.
0:55.3	I feel like Eminem at Walsh, yes, he was just a little quiet. I feel like M. M. M. Walsh is loud. I think he's quiet in this.
0:59.3	Well, maybe I'm thinking of the ending, obviously, where he is loud.
1:00.7	But maybe he is quiet. He's got this kind of. Yeah.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.