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Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs with Paul Scheer & Jason Mantzoukas

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 220 minutes

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Summary

Six segments. Four legendary movie podcasters. Three and a half hours of keeping David Sims away from his family. Welcome to our Ballad of Buster Scruggs episode! How Did This Get Made’s Paul Scheer and Jason Mantzoukas join the Two Friends to talk about the Coens’ final film together (as of this recording), a grab bag of western vignettes that could have been titled “A Million Ways to Die in the West” if Seth MacFarlane hadn’t already claimed it. We’re picking our favorite segments, chatting about the “wild west” of Netflix projects back when Scruggs was greenlit, and ranking the Coens’ filmography before we cover their solo directorial efforts. Oh, and Jason has a few bones to pick with Griffin and David about a certain section of the True Grit episode. Listen to How Did This Get Made - Grizzly II: Revenge w/ Jake Johnson Listen to the Coens on Fresh Air Check out the Parker Novels Check out the Darwyn Cook Parker novels graphic novel adaptation Listen to Telly Savalas’ Album Listen to Tim Blake Nelson on WTF Read Joshua Pease piece on Buster Scruggs 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

There's

0:01.0

Blank Jack with Griffin and David

0:05.0

Black Jack with Griffin and David

0:08.0

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 Blackjack

0:18.0

There's just got to be a place up ahead where men ain't low down and poker's played fair.

0:26.9

And if there weren't, what were all the podcasts about.

0:30.3

I'll see you there.

0:31.7

And we can podcast together and shake our heads over all the meanness and the used to be.

0:37.3

I mean, that's nice i thought very sweet

0:39.6

yeah it kind of speaks to this not being like the most like you know zingy quotable movie i think

0:46.2

the language in this movie is incredible but you look at the quotes page and everything is a

0:49.4

fucking unbroken paragraph of dense old west it felt like i was walking into a walt dis ride. Like, you know, it has that kind of like, well, how old there. Yeah, yeah. 100%. I mean, that might be part of why I find this movie so pleasant to watch. Oh, what a delight in this was. I find it so comforting to watch this movie. And yet the most famous line from this movie is first time, which is a perfect pithy to the point crushes has become a meme in its own right, which is funny.

1:15.7

And despite this being a film that is only, what, seven years old?

1:19.8

Yeah, there you go.

1:20.8

I do feel like the first time meme is almost like the Jeremiah Johnson meme where 99% of people who use it could not tell you what movie

1:29.3

it's right. I'm going to be honest. I did not know it was a meme. Oh yeah. It's a good. I don't know the Jeremiah Johnson meme. Okay. So that's a big one. Oh, boy. But you know what I'm pin it on the board. Half an hour of discussion. No, but Jason is also not on social media.

1:42.8

It's simply a fact of that I'm not in this world.

1:45.3

You've never been on any of the thing No, but Jason is also not on social media. It's simply a fact of that I'm not in this world.

1:45.3

You've never been on any of the things that would present to you as sort of a graphical image format.

1:51.9

History has really proven you right on your abstinence.

1:56.4

Oh, boy.

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