The Man Who Wasn't There with Jordan Hoffman

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2025

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

This one’s a real enigma - is The Man Who Wasn’t There a film about the alienation of a man who is deeply closeted and searching for connection in a tightly wound post-war world? Is it about a wife guy who doesn’t know how to express his feelings? Is it somehow about how Beethoven was not only deaf but suffered from horrific diarrhea at the end of his life? No? Well, that’s Jordan Hoffman’s theory! Join us for a very silly episode where we go long on Billy Bob, coin a new term for a Shalhoub appearance, and decide that all Austin-based podcasters are just Salacious B. Crumb. Read Jordan’s Article about the collapse of “The Messenger” Subscribe to Jordan’s SubStack THE Billy Bob Interview Watch the ITYSL Sketch with the great Biff Wiff 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	He said.
0:02.0	Black 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.
0:12.0	All you need to know is that the name of the show is Black Jack.
0:25.6	He told them to look not at the podcast, but at the meaning of the podcast.
0:28.7	And then he said the podcast had no meaning.
0:30.9	Pretty good speech.
0:36.6	Last night, I was like, I almost have a Billy Bob and I lost it today. Well, it's but he's, he's in a specific
0:39.4	he's in a very specific moat.
0:41.7	Yeah. He wasn't usually doing
0:43.5	this. Usually he'd be talking about French
0:45.2	fried pertators. Right. Or as
0:47.5	Andy Sandberg likes to do
0:49.3	his impression, talk about Kangol
0:51.1	caps. He doesn't, he doesn't
0:53.2	have much of a southern accent. No, but there's the slightest lips. There's the little, I was, like, I was getting, I was trying to pick up on which syllables he'll like, but I couldn't, I don't know. He just kind of throws it all away. I mean, look, this is, in many ways, this is the ultimate power of the movie.
1:11.8	This guy's one of one.
1:14.5	David, you love to mount the argument. I'm going to say it again.
1:16.0	Yes.
1:16.6	From 1996 to about 2003 or four, I would say, there's the argument that he's Hollywood's
1:24.6	best working actor.
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