Drive Away Dolls with mxmtoon

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2025

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

Two gals and a briefcase full of dicks. What more could an 84 minute caper need? mxmtoon joins us to chat about Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s lesbian road trip movie Drive Away Dolls, and brings with her the fascinating perspective of someone whose first Coen movie was…Drive Away Dolls! We’re chatting about Ethan and Tricia’s unconventional relationship, the legacy of Cynthia PlasterCaster, and the unlikely leading man trajectory of Pedro Pascal. Plus, we’re mourning the dearth of lesbian bars and Geraldine Viswanathan vehicles in our current cultural climate. Check out mxmtoon’s YouTube Channel Read Ethan’s Collection of short stories Support The Lipstick Lounge if you are in Nashville Or Sugar and Spice Bar, The Cattyshack, The Cubby Hole, Gingers Check out Demon Slayer Follow mxmtoon on Twitch 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	Blank Jack with Griffin and David
0:04.7	Blank Jack with Griffin and David
0:08.7	Don't know what to say or to expect
0:11.7	All you need to know is that the name of the show is Black Check
0:17.7	Marion, you have got to have a good, steamy podcast.
0:25.7	Now, what I wanted to do originally was...
0:27.9	Is the word fuck?
0:29.1	Yeah, correct.
0:29.8	Yeah.
0:30.2	What I wanted to do originally was, and then I realized I don't think the context clues
0:33.7	are quite strong enough, was,
0:36.7	won't it anybody podcast, Curly podcast curly yes that's my favorite line in
0:40.9	the movie but i think if i put the word podcast in for save it sounds like i'm saying fuck that's what's
0:46.6	weird anyone won't anybody podcast podcast curly but you can't say won't anyone save podcast that
0:52.4	david that's nonsense you're right And this is a serious movie with no nonsense. This is one of the most serious
0:59.8	films we have ever covered on this podcast. Such a heavy, weighty film. We've talked in the past
1:06.7	the many times we've covered the films of Holly Hunter, someone who has come up in this miniseries,
1:11.7	my struggle to do a Holly Hunter impression. And you think that Margo Quali is struggling throughout this
1:16.4	film to do a Holly Hunter impression? I think I'm pretty well teed up to do a Margo Quali in
1:21.9	Driveaway Doll's impression because it's very close to my bad Holly Hunter. Now, Margar
1:27.0	Qualie.
1:27.8	And I'm not saying that as a slam against the performance.
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