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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2022

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

Alright, maggots, listen up! We’ve got the Action Boy himself - Jon Gabrus - back on the podcast to talk about Kubrick’s bifurcated Vietnam War classic FULL METAL JACKET. We’re retiring the “retired bit” in order to talk about Matthew Modine as Private Joker. We’re getting into the etymology of “poontang.” We’re attempting to articulate what makes a movie feel like an “80s movie” and why this film absolutely doesn’t. And - we’re gonna end up on a very long tangent about the talking head comedy shows of the mid-aughts. Do we make ourselves clear? SIR, YES, SIR.

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0:00.0

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0:22.0

Freedom? You better flush out your head new guy. This isn't about freedom. This is a slaughter.

0:28.0

If I'm going to get my balls blown off for a word, my word is podcast.

0:32.0

He really waits to say Poon Tang though. He like he really takes a beat before he says Poon Tang.

0:41.0

And you're like, ah, Poon Tang. I didn't think I'd be able to say that. Right.

0:45.0

You got surprised. That's the concept. You're surprised. That's the word he chose to describe it.

0:51.0

Poon Tang. Okay. Sure. Yeah. Here we are in Vietnam. Thanks for saying Poon Tang to me.

0:55.0

Like we talked about. Just a front-load this. We talked about this in a previous episode or guest was on.

1:01.0

In in heat where Al Pacino talks about the concept of balling his wife.

1:06.0

And it's like that's never a term you should use to define what you do with your wife. Right.

1:12.0

And similarly, it's like if you're talking about dying for something, I don't think you should call it Poon Tang.

1:17.0

I think you want to pick one of your. You know what? That shows you're not ready to die for pussy if you're calling it Poon Tang.

1:23.0

You're just not ready. You're not ready. You're not mature enough. Right. A real man dies for pussy.

1:28.0

And this is a film of course about defining what a real man is.

1:31.0

Something we will litigate for the next two hours on this podcast as four experts on masculinity.

1:38.0

But I think that's a great point. And I think let's let's get this engraved above our door. A real man die for pussy.

1:48.0

Boys die for Poon Tang. Finally, my lower back tattoo makes sense.

1:53.0

The context has been created.

1:58.0

You guys are the connoisseurs. I appreciate it. The connoisseurs of context one could say this is a podcast called blank check with Griffin and David. I'm Griffin.

2:07.0

I'm David. Did you know that Poon Tang is a like corruption of the French word Poutine, which means prostitute?

2:15.0

Oh, no. I just looked that up. Wow. Well, now you're lower back tattoo. Yeah.

2:21.0

Yeah. David. Probably. Exactly. Probably originated in New Orleans is thinking. And Poutine's also just used as like an exclamation.

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