The Last Wave with BenDavid Grabinski

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2026

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Summary

Peter Weir's follow up to Picnic at Hanging Rock - 1978's The Last Wave - deals with similar themes, with colonialism butting against the wild mysticism of Australia's land and people. However, this time...it's WET AS HELL. BenDavid Grabinski - the filmmaker behind the upcoming Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice - joins us to talk about this beguiling film, apocalyptic thinking, Richard Chamberlain's status as the king of TV miniseries, and Tom Shadyac's Dragonfly, weirdly enough. Watch BenDavid's new movie Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice If you're in New York, be sure to go to Sunken Harbor Club or Nitehawk Trivia 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	We're playing check 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.
0:19.0	We've lost our podcasts.
0:23.2	Then they come back and we don't even know what they mean.
0:26.7	Now, it's hard to, I'm good at neither a South African nor an Australian accent.
0:32.7	Okay.
0:33.2	It is hard to impersonate South African in a movie where everyone's speaking Australian
0:37.9	and not just fuck up both.
0:41.4	Where are you getting South African?
0:43.0	Richard Chamberlain's character.
0:44.6	Is he South African?
0:45.4	They say that in the movie.
0:46.8	Wait, I missed that.
0:48.3	He says he said, I caught that.
0:50.1	Thank you.
0:51.2	But I thought it was South American.
0:54.0	I think he says he is of South African origin.
0:57.9	I heard something like that.
0:59.3	Like when he talks about his background,
1:02.5	that there's some discussion of like family.
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