The Hudsucker Proxy with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2025

⏱️ 224 minutes

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Summary

(Gestures at a circle) You know, for kids! Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger of the Doughboys join us for a freewheeling, gut-busting episode about the time Joel Silver gave the Coens a bunch of money to make a “commercial film” and then it ended up being 1994’s The Hudsucker Proxy. A sampling of topics discussed: Paul Newman being hot up until the day he died (and possibly after), whether or not this movie has a Sturges protagonist in a Capra film or vice versa, whether or not the previous question even matters, the fact that Griffin has never seen The Wire yet has watched every episode of Greg the Bunny, the amount of baby wipes David has to buy in a month, the extent to which the style of humor in Hudsucker overlaps with that of The Simpsons, and a whole bunch of Yaddle talk for some reason. Read Caity Weaver’s Mozzarella Sticks piece from 2014 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	You're playing check with Griffin and David
0:04.7	Blackjack with Griffin and David
0:08.7	Don't know what to say or to expect
0:11.7	All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blackjack
0:17.7	You're punching at 8.30 every morning Except you're punching at 7.30 following a business holiday.
0:25.4	Unless it's Monday, then you punch in at 8 o'clock. Punch in late, and they podcast you.
0:29.7	Incoming articles get a voucher. Outgoing articles, provide a voucher. Move any article without a voucher,
0:34.2	and they podcast you. Let a size without a voucher, letter size of green voucher, oversized a yellow voucher,
0:40.4	parcel size of maroon voucher, wrong color voucher, and they podcast you.
0:44.2	678704.9a slash 6. That is your employee number. It will not be repeated. Without your
0:49.8	employee number, you cannot get your paycheck. Interoffice mail code is 37. Interoffice mail
0:54.2	37 slash three. Outside mail is three slash 37. Code it wrong and they podcast you. This has been
1:01.0	your orientation. Is there anything you do not understand? Is there anything you understand only partially?
1:05.7	If you have not been fully oriented, you must file a complaint with personnel. File a faulty complaint
1:10.3	and they podcast you.
1:12.5	And then in brackets underneath that line of dialogue, spoken at 160 words per minute.
1:18.7	You know, when you watch a screwball comedy on your modern television and you have the subtitles on, you know, it's a screwball comedy when the subtitles can't include all the dialogue.
1:30.8	They have to cut out lines.
1:32.1	They're editing.
1:33.0	And just a note.
1:34.0	Yeah.
1:34.2	If you're going to scream.
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