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Blank Check with Griffin & David

O Brother, Where Art Thou? with Emily St. James

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

Those Soggy Bottom Boys really know how to carry a tune! Emily St. James joins us to talk about O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a wonderful film whose reputation was ultimately eclipsed by its octuple-Platinum soundtrack of “old timey” bops. When we’re on track, we’re talking peak Clooney, digital color correction, T. Bone Burnett, and the history of Southern politics. When we’re off track in this episode? Expect some discussion around Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory and the Emmy-winning run of The Practice. “Blank Check Theme (Sirens version)” Performed by:Amy Irving Olivia Ellen Lloyd Maggie Feldman Recorded and Produced by Gabe BarretoMixed by Alan Smithee 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 Check with Griffin and Dave

0:11.0

Blank Check with Griffin and David

0:15.0

Don't know what to say or what to expect, but the name of the show is blank check.

0:28.9

I am the only podcast you got. I'm the damn Potter Familius.

0:33.8

But you ain't bonafide.

0:36.4

Damn.

0:37.5

Here's the thing I found. Potter Familius. Potter Familius. But I did podcast first and then Potter Familius. I don't want FOP. God damn it. I'm a podcast and, man. I don't know. Here's a thought I had while watching this movie last night. I don't want FOP. God damn it. The way he says FOP is the best line reading

0:55.5

of one million years of human history. This movie has... I won't back down from this day.

1:00.7

So many incredible lines of dialogue perfectly delivered, transcendently delivered, right? People just

1:08.1

fucking identifying the slightly off-kilter way to throw it out without

1:13.2

overselling the dialogue. And my big thought while watching this and all these lines coming up is,

1:18.7

I am so happy that somehow this movie has not gotten into the Big Lobowski territory. I have to hear these lines all the time.

1:29.1

Yeah.

1:29.5

Every time I put it on, it's a pleasure to hear these lines again.

1:34.5

Yeah.

1:35.1

I always like have a weird, when I start, I know I like this movie.

1:39.9

But when I started, I'm like, this is going to be the time when I get off it.

1:43.0

It's just not going to work for me anymore.

1:44.5

And every time I'm like, oh, right, this hasn't been so thoroughly seated into the culture that I, like, low-key resented. It's nice. It's a really nice feeling. And I'm not saying it's something that, like, works against Big Lobowski, but it is pleasant that every time you revisit this movie is actually a revisit. it.

2:00.9

You candy buttered car thief and so-and-so's a curse your name is one of my favorite undersung lines. There's so many good ones. In O Brother, we're out there. I've seen this movie like 40 times, so I am not. Like, it is not a new thing for every time I'm like, oh yeah, right, I of this movie like for I owned it on DVD So I just watched it too Hey, same, but I'm just saying you're not hearing it on the streets Yeah, it's not being mean to death Streets yeah you know I don't want fop god damn it I mean I was just in Sioux Falls Okay. We're just shouting things at each other in this movie.

2:36.0

It's all your coastal elitism showing right now.

2:39.9

It is fascinating that the movie has still kind of retained that status and even perhaps receded a little in the Cohen's canon, considering that its soundtrack was one of the most

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