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Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Downfall Of Anakin Skywalker - Revenge Of The Podcast

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.76.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2015

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

This week Griffin and David, whilst yelling into microphones, dive right into the river of ham that is Anakin’s origin story and the main crux of the Phantom Menace series: turning to the dark side and becoming Darth Vader. Also, the MANY mistakes the Jedi council make, killing children, a space holocaust, and choking your wife because your trying to save her from your dreams where she dies. And of course, as always, fuck George Lucas. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Instagram, Threads, Facebook and X! 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

Music

0:22.0

Okay, let's just do this. We just have to we just have to rip this off like this. There's no way to do it

0:26.6

We just have to fucking do this. I'm griffin. There's no way in I'm David Simpson. That's the first way in as we just say our names. Okay, let's just take this one step at a time

0:35.7

I'm griffin. I mean your David. Yeah, this is griffin day present revenge of the podcast. That's what this is. Yeah, okay talking about revenge of the system. That's what this is the epic conclusion to the tragedy that began with the Phantom Menace tragedy in every sense

0:50.2

Yeah, yeah, that's that's what we're fucking tackling today. You know, we were trying to see how thin we can slice the balloons. We have enough stuff to cover for 10 episodes. I like thick baloney myself. You're talking about in a sandwich. This yeah, go on. Yeah, I know. I met a four-acole baloney David. You're taste aside. This movie's baloney. This movie is a ball. It's a bunch of baloney. We were gonna have a guest today. He got sick. I'm

1:20.2

often we will present to the guest a couple options of like, oh, here. Oh, sure. What do you want to talk about? Yeah, yeah, but since I cancel today

1:27.8

We just went let's just fucking tackle the big thing because there's an unavoidable thing in this movie that that is essentially the main crux of the film. Totally

1:34.6

If not the entirety of the movie right and reveals the main crux of the entire steer. That's the thing. Yeah, it totally recolors the last two movies in

1:43.0

the way that is I'm having a very hard time comprehending. I guess so. Yeah, you could argue this entire movie is a twist. Sure. It's not. Yeah. When you watch Phantom

1:54.6

Attack of the Clone, you could predict this. You could. I mean, I'm just 2020. Yeah, I'm saying 2020. But before against this, a little house keeping. Oh, okay. Housekeeping.

2:05.8

Just want to quickly remind everyone to please continue subscribing, rating, reviewing on iTunes helps us. Yeah, helps you see

2:12.5

comedy in general.

2:14.0

Proo sir Ben Hossley aka producer Ben aka the bend user aka hello, Fennel aka Mr. Positive aka the haze.

2:20.7

Sing to my right. Hello, gentlemen. You've been.

2:25.6

Yes fans. Come on guys. Written review. So easy. Ben has done a misfe by allowing us to do this podcast. We need to we need to help

2:35.6

line the coffers. That's right. Metaphorically. There's no money to be made, but we're lining the metaphorical. There's no money to be made.

2:42.6

Oh, I mean, you thought it's up. I'm out of here. You thought the the checks were just eight months late. What is just a classic Sims bit?

2:51.2

One of my patented Sims bit. I want to make it clear. We don't do bits like that on the show. We don't pretend that

2:55.2

movie. This show doesn't like bits. No, pretend we thought we were getting.

2:58.8

A serious talk. Yeah. I mean, I'm thinking about changing the genre from comedy to just like TV and movies.

3:05.3

It's like this is a culture show. It's very least dromity. I think there's a dromity. We're the nurse Jackie of podcasts. We are.

3:12.5

This this fucking more than actually got this one. That's really funny. That's really. Yeah. All right. Tragedy of

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