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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Ishtar with Clint McElroy

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2021

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Summary

Telling the truth is a dangerous business - but movies and podcasts can go hand-in-hand! We conclude our Elaine May series with one of the biggest bounces in Hollywood history - the unfairly maligned Ishtar. Clint McElroy (The Adventure Zone) joins us as we discuss blind camels and the “liberal feminist” Warren Beatty.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Music

0:20.0

Podcasting can be bad, podcasting can be bad, new podcast, podcasting can be good, news,

0:28.4

podcasting is a bad idea. Podcasting is a difficult podcast, podcasting is a scary,

0:37.4

is a scary, no, it's a podcasting is a bitter herb. Podcasting is a dangerous tunnel.

0:46.8

When tunnel, when you get out of that tunnel, you've got bitter herbs.

0:52.4

It's good. Forget a herb, David. I never heard a hit podcast that had the word herb in it.

1:01.4

herb. You know, I say, you know, I say herb sometimes because that's what the

1:07.4

Brits say. Yeah. And that I get raked over the colds anytime I accidentally say herb.

1:14.4

That one really amuses people. Anyway, that was great Griffin.

1:18.4

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I practice it with even more stammering and I got,

1:24.4

I got nervous. I didn't want to get too self-indulgent. But this is for me.

1:28.4

Get ready. I'm not going to argue this is a perfect film. It is hard to argue this is a perfect film.

1:34.4

But this is a movie I would be that that's your no one's no one needs to be saying that.

1:39.4

You can love the movie. Right. Yes. This is a movie I adore so deeply in so many ways.

1:44.4

And one thing I will say about a hyper-raulic statement right off the bat.

1:48.4

I think this is one of the funniest openings of any movie ever.

1:51.4

I don't think there is another movie that arguably gets this many laughs in the open

1:56.4

and credits. Here's my only problem with the opening. It's so good.

2:01.4

I agree. That you're like, what do you mean people don't like this thing?

2:05.4

And then like by the middle, you're like, okay, well, I can see how maybe this movie through people

2:09.4

a little bit. Yes. No, you know, I'm not, I like the movie. But you know what I mean?

2:12.4

Like the opening you're just like, oh, baby. It made me think of stripes.

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