Dead Poets Society with Nia DaCosta

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Summary

Boys and girls, please open your textbooks. Rip out the pages. Carpe Diem. We're seizing the day and talking about 1989's Dead Poets Society with filmmaker Nia DaCosta in this episode, but don't get too wild and change your name to Nuwanda or anything! This week, we discuss House MD, prep schools, the fact that David Sims played Puck in a high school production, and Robin Williams' Oscar legacy. O Podcast, my podcast! Read about Franny's weirder cut Check out Jack Black's YouTube 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	We don't know what Griffin and David.
0:05.0	Blank Jack with Griffin and David.
0:09.0	Don't know what to say or to expect.
0:12.0	All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Jack.
0:18.0	We don't listen to and record podcasts because it's cute.
0:25.8	We listen to and record podcasts because we are members of the human race.
0:29.8	And the human race is filled with passion and medicine, law, business, engineering.
0:33.6	These are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life.
0:37.0	But podcasts, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. These are noble pursuits And necessary to sustain life But podcast
0:37.7	Beauty, romance, love
0:39.8	These are what we stay alive for
0:41.3	Huh
0:42.1	Ho Ho ho
0:43.2	I did that as vocal warmups
0:45.1	Now look
0:46.4	He's not really doing
0:47.6	Huh
0:47.8	You know he's not really doing that
0:49.2	No but he still need to do it to get into the quiet
0:51.1	Ho
0:51.4	Ho
0:51.5	But then when he does like the Brando impression You, right, he needed just five minutes to just be silly guy. Let's just get straight into this, okay? Okay. It is kind of astonishing. I know this has been much discussed. Okay. But it's the first time we've tackled any of the movies in this set, okay? that Robin Williams has four Oscar nominations. He wins his fourth, right?
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