Fargo with Zach Cregger

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 182 minutes

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Summary

Did we get the director of Weapons, another “true story,” on our Fargo episode? You betcha. Zach Cregger joins the Blank Check crew to discuss the Coens’ 1996 masterpiece and we’re going SCENE BY SCENE dissecting this perfect movie. “Minnesota nice,” “Dark Marge,” the Mike Yanagita scene, the origins of Jerry’s overwhelming debt, the inner life of Gaear Grimsrud, and the operatic score are just a few of the topics discussed. Did you know that Ben Hosley’s first car was an Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera? YOOU BETCHA. Note: This episode was recorded before we saw Weapons, so no spoilers here. 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	So blank check with Griffin and David
0:04.7	So that was Mr. So that was Mrs. Lundeguard and the floor in there.
0:24.0	So that was Mrs. Lundegarde in the floor in there.
0:27.0	And I guess that was your accomplice in the Woodchipper.
0:29.4	And those three people in Brainerd.
0:30.9	And for what?
0:33.9	For a little bit of podcasting?
0:37.5	There's more to life than a little podcast, you know.
0:41.1	I feel like I went a little to Dennis Farino.
0:42.3	Sure, yeah.
0:45.7	Well, yeah, you were about to order a deep dish there. I was going to dip my beef sandwich.
0:49.1	Yeah.
0:50.8	Too many lines I can think of.
0:58.0	I am at the point with this movie, and our guest can speak up if he agrees. Please just start talking.
0:59.0	It's very kind of you to give him permission to talk.
1:01.0	Where there's lines where I'm like iconic line from Fargo that I think are just normal expository lines.
1:08.0	But like I've watched the movie so many times at this point that, like,
1:11.7	prowler needs a jump is one of my favorite lines from Fargo. Yeah. Does that make sense? Oh, absolutely. I'm not going to say we need to, like, fully... Han? Yeah. Prouler needs a jump. I just, like, that's funny to me. I mean, and it's supposed to be funny, but like, to me, that's like fucking, you know, Dalton Trumbo wrote that.
1:12.1	So to this point, mean, and it's supposed to be funny, but, like, to me, that's, like, fucking, you know, Dalton Trumbo wrote that. So to this point, well, let's check to see if the key is on the typewriter or wet or not. Let's not accuse Dalton Trumbo. He's been accused of a lot of things in his time. I'm not looking to build the canon here.
1:46.1	We've covered a lot of great movies on the show.
1:47.6	Ten years, a decade of dreams.
1:53.1	I do think there is a pretty limited canon of, like, perfect movies.
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