Commentary with Connor Ratliff - The Phantom Podcast

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Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.7 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2015

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Joining Griffin and David this week is host of the George Lucas Talk Show, Connor Ratliff, to discuss the commentary special feature included with the initial DVD release of the Phantom Menace. Together they review what members of the production crew (including director George Lucas, producer Rick McCallum, sound designer Ben Burtt, animation director Rob Coleman and more) have to say about the filming of this movie and discover new evidence of what went wrong. Do we agree Phantom is like the act one of a play or should the focus have been on making a better stand alone movie? Why is revealing that 85% of the dialogue had to be ADR or reshooting 45 more minutes of footage a year later after principal photography not embarrassing? Could Phantom hold up as a silent film? Also, Griffin talks merch where he spotlights Pepsi collectable soda cans and the golden Yoda, Connor’s fake Phantom Menace rumors that make it to Spin magazine and what is the best joke in the film. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Instagram, Threads, Facebook and X! 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	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:22.5	Uh, hello, all you jetties out there. This is Kriffin Newman.
0:27.1	Uh, I'm David Sims.
0:29.0	Very tall, man. And welcome to, uh, episode four of the Phantom Podcast.
0:35.0	Episode four is usually a really good.
0:36.9	Really good. Yeah.
0:38.0	That's what I've heard. If you get lucky enough to make it to four,
0:41.5	yeah, that's when the money starts rolling in. Uh, this is an exciting episode
0:44.6	because we have our first ever guest on the podcast.
0:48.0	Hello. We packed him in. We packed him in. Uh, he is an incredible, uh,
0:53.9	comedian and actor and comedic actor. All three.
0:57.4	Yep. Proper titles. It's a triple threat.
0:59.8	Yeah, get all those hyphens in there.
1:01.6	Uh, you may know him as a member of the stepfathers.
1:04.4	The famous improv team at the UCB Theatre in New York City.
1:07.5	You may know him from his work on the Chris Gathered Show.
1:09.8	Or you may know him for his long running.
1:12.9	Right? Is that fair say it's been long running at this point?
1:14.8	I think a year. A year? That's long running?
1:17.0	If we're talking about what, I mean, it can be time it's long running.
1:20.5	Talk about your life. His long running gym membership.
1:24.2	No, his long running, uh, uh, late night talk show we host called the George Lucas talk show,
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