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Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Thing with Emily St. James

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2021

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Here’s the thing about THE THING - it might be the best movie we’ve ever covered? Emily St. James joins us (and joins the five-timers club!) to discuss Carpenter’s Arctic paranoia classic, which was unfairly maligned upon release. Topics covered include the “Brimley COCOON Line,” the film as a trans allegory, and dogs getting their faces peeled back like bananas. Checkout Emily’s podcast What to Watch on the Vox Quick Hits feed or the scripted series Arden! 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

Clank Jack with Griffin and David.

0:05.0

Clank Jack with Griffin and David.

0:06.0

Clank 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

0:15.5

native to show is a blank check.

0:22.0

I know you gentlemen have been through a lot but when you find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter tied to this

0:30.1

podcast

0:40.0

That guy's I I could ride him all the way home.

0:46.0

You what you want to go on an eyebrow ride? I would would happily go on an eyebrow

0:52.0

eyebrow. Is he the president in clear and present danger?

0:55.5

I think he is, or is he the Secretary of Defense

0:58.3

or something?

0:59.1

Let's see.

0:59.7

He's the president.

1:00.9

He's the president.

1:01.8

It's at the end end Harrison Ford's like,

1:03.7

here you've been a bad man mister and he's like, how dare you? And then he's like,

1:08.3

you're bad. And he's like, fine, I'll resign. He's also, he's he's Linda B Johnson in the right stuff. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yes. I feel like he is always

1:19.4

perpetually playing an evil old man who also possesses a lot of power which is like a very specific

1:26.4

typecasting but also one where there's a surprising number of times you can pop up as

1:30.1

evil old man with a lot of power. Well let's acknowledge his single most evil character

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