The Podcast Awakens

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2015

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

One day after the release opening of Episode VII: The Force Awakens (SPOILER ALERT!), Griffin and David discussed their impressions on the first installment of the newly revamped franchise. Together, they examine the film’s similar story structure to A New Hope, who would take new characters Resistance pilot Poe Dameron and protagonist Rey out on a classy dinner date, Kylo Ren being an evil nerd and why director J.J. Abrams accomplished where George Lucas had failed with the prequels: making an actual Star Wars movie.

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0:00.0	There's been an awakening in the podcast.
0:26.3	Hi, Griffin. Hi, David. You didn't sleep well last night. I didn't. I, because I had a lot of thoughts. My mind was racing.
0:35.2	This is a Griffin David present the podcast Awakens. I'm Griffin Newman. I'm David Sims.
0:44.3	With us as always is producer Ben Hossley. He's the right there. Hello, panel. Hey, guys.
0:51.0	Um, so did not see this movie. Sorry, Ben. I'm fine with it. I mean, I'm going to see it eventually. I'm not in a rush.
1:03.0	But hopefully you guys have something to say about. I have a lot to say. Uh, we're going to be talking today. I don't have any real talk. You can take this one.
1:12.4	Oh, we'll swing. I'll say some stuff. And if you feel like anything pops up, uh, I know you're not a man to really, uh, I don't dwell on film. No, you don't think on media. Um, no, here we are, guys.
1:26.1	We heard talk about Star Wars Episode 7, the Force Awakens. You and I saw it together last night. Now for a little perspective, we started this podcast in March.
1:36.5	We want to talk about one thing. It was Star Wars Episode 1, the Phantom Man.
1:40.9	And one by one, we went through every film in this series. Yeah, sequentially. Yeah.
1:46.4	Focused on the, um, Phantom Astrology, Phantom Ast Attack, the Clones, the Venge of the Sith. Yeah.
1:53.6	They did like 10, 11 episodes in each of those and have sort of breeze past, um, the original function 70s.
1:59.4	80s because, you know, I felt like it's been chewed up by other people. You know, there's there's less to say there because everyone has that.
2:06.4	Of course. Um, this is kind of the moment that that we've been. It's true. Almost at first and inadvertently, but recently we've been leading up to this.
2:15.5	Yeah. And I feel like, um, I don't know, everything's viewed through the prism of this movie. You know, yeah.
2:23.6	In culture and like, where it places itself. No, no, Ben hasn't seen it.
2:29.1	We're going to get into spoiler territory. I mean, we just, we have to discuss the whole thing.
2:33.9	If you don't want to know about this movie, if you haven't seen it yet, really, just don't listen.
2:38.0	Don't listen. And wait until you've seen the film. So that I assume most of you have.
2:41.2	Yeah. So that applies to Ben as well. Um, so you're, you're just, you can't be in the room.
2:49.1	No, I'm, I'm going to leave. And I'm not listening or cutting out any of this.
2:55.4	Yeah. So this is just going to be it's raw. Is it?
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