The Cars That Ate Paris

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2026

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Bonjour! Erm...we mean...G'day mates! Our Peter Weir series PODNIC AT HANGING CAST kicks off with Weir's 1974 feature debut The Cars That Ate Paris, a film about the guy who plays Napoleon in the Bill & Ted movies getting stranded in a quirky and murderous Australian town. We're getting into the origins of the Australian New Wave, the various "calling card" projects that Weir made in the beginning of his career, and this film's spiky car which Ben has a lot of affection for, obviously. Check out the Steve Martin Cold Open - Saturday Night Live Listen to Griff on Comedy Bang!Bang! Check out Dirty Laundry on Dropout 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 Jack with Griffin and David.
0:05.0	Black Jack with Griffin and David.
0:09.0	Don't know what to say or to expect.
0:13.0	All you need to know is that the name of the show is blank check.
0:24.6	148 people live in the township of podcast, and every one of them
0:26.6	is a murderer. Where exactly
0:28.5	is podcast? What kind of
0:30.6	people live there? What are
0:32.7	they trying to hide? Why do
0:34.7	cars mean so much to them?
0:36.8	What are these cars? They're the cars that ate podcast.
0:42.0	So the town's podcast, but the people are also podcasts at the end of the day. What? I mean,
0:49.4	what I just said? Yeah. You're wrong. I, in fact, kept the word people.
0:58.7	No, but you said it's the Cars the Day podcast, I guess, instead of Paris.
1:02.3	Yeah. The only word I was subbing out was Paris. Good job. Thank you.
1:05.4	Damn it. All right. It was clean as hell. I, all right.
1:08.8	Trying to fucking logic police me. My logic's airtight.
1:12.7	I said this before we started recording. I showed up very late to today's recording session
1:14.2	and I check with Griffin,
1:15.4	David and this is Ben and I just don't
1:16.8	introduce the show! I just didn't
1:18.5	what is happening! Well that's what I'm saying
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