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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Hercules with Larry Owens

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 28 February 2021

ā±ļø 109 minutes

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Summary

BC welcomes multi-hyphenate Larry Owens (A Strange Loop) for a discussion on 1997's Hercules! Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod onĀ Instagram,Ā Threads,Ā FacebookĀ andĀ X! Buy some real nerdy merch. Connect with other Blankies on ourĀ RedditĀ orĀ Discord For anything else, check outĀ BlankCheckPod.comĀ  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Clang Jack with rhythm and David! Clang Jack with rhythm and David!

0:09.1

Don't know what to say or to explain!

0:12.6

All you need to know is that the end of the show is Clang Jack!

0:20.4

Though a kid of Zeus is asking me to jump into the fray,

0:24.9

my answer is two words, podcast!

0:31.4

The two words, podcast.

0:32.6

But the joke, David, you understand is that in the song, it feels like he is winding up to say

0:37.5

new way, no way, right? He's got the arms, he's going no way, and then Zeus hits him with the

0:42.8

lightning, and then he says okay, and it's a reversal, okay, it's also not two words, podcast, not two words.

0:50.6

Right. Also, I just went through every other song in this movie, and they're either too hard to sing,

0:54.9

or too lyrically hard to put podcast into or both, so I decide to do the one that day, Davido

1:00.0

kind of quote unquote sings. You were drawn to Davido, that's fair.

1:03.9

Yeah, yeah, that's my vocal range is Davido.

1:08.1

Hey kid! You know, we'll talk about it, but you know that someone who they auditioned for that

1:15.6

role was like you're just going to hire Davido, right? In 1993, when this was like in the

1:23.0

Gong Show period of Disney animation where like anyone could pitch any movie, someone pitched

1:28.9

hercules, it like developed a little, it laid dormant, and the key part of that pitch was the

1:34.6

sidekick is Danny DeVito. Like everyone was in such a like, romancing the stone, you got to have

1:39.5

Danny DeVito chasing the heroes, helping them out kind of mode. That was part of the pitch.

1:44.0

Then Muscoor and Clements pick it up a couple years later, they redeveloped pretty much the entire

1:48.8

thing, and they're like, it should be Danny DeVito as the sidekick, right? They go to Danny DeVito,

1:53.3

Danny DeVito is like, hard pass, no, go fuck yourself. They auditioned. Everyone else in Hollywood,

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