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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Finding Nemo with Rebecca Alter

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.76.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2026

⏱️ 205 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to PODD-C, our series on the films of Pixar stalwart Andrew Stanton! This week, we're kicking off with 2003's Finding Nemo, a film that ushered in nearly two decades of Ellen DeGeneres supremacy and made millions of children remember the exact address of one "P. Sherman." Writer Rebecca Alter joins us to chat about Nemo's immaculate screenplay, the Finding Nemo attractions within Disney Parks, and the under-the-sea craze that had Nemo, Spongebob, and Shark Tale all hitting at the same time. Pixar obsessives - rejoice! Griffin really gets to nerd out 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

Blank Jack with 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 check

0:24.0

Hey, guess what?

0:25.9

Podcasts?

0:30.0

I recorded one, and it was three and a half hours long.

0:31.3

Three and a half hours long?

0:31.7

Yep.

0:35.1

Oh, because Sandy Plankton said they only run two hours tops.

0:36.3

Sandy Plankton?

0:56.8

You think I would do an entire podcast and not know as much as Sandy Plankton? It was three and a half hours, not two. Very good. So it's the end of the movie. Yeah, it's one of the last lines. One of the emotional lines. It does. Makes me cry too. There's like five different moments in this film that at very least get me right up onto the edge on the brink of the tier to me the big moment is just crashing his age that that's the moment that's the one yes interesting

1:02.2

beautiful moment it's so beautiful this movie this movie is just filled with these little grace notes

1:07.8

that are uh i i just think so, that are, like, funny and

1:12.6

charming and don't feel like they're hitting too hard.

1:14.5

I agree.

1:15.1

It is, in my opinion, this is, like, one of those movies that should be taught in every kind

1:21.7

of, like, conventional Hollywood.

1:23.9

Sort of storytelling lab or whatever.

1:26.1

Yeah, because it's just, it is an incredible set up payoff

1:29.0

movie uh another thing that's filled with grace notes is the notebook of the character the main

1:34.4

character from project hail mary oh because his name is riland grace i think there's not enough

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