The Tragedy of Macbeth with Dana Schwartz

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 174 minutes

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Summary

You can’t say “Macbeth” in a theater, but you can certainly say it on a podcast! Dana Schwartz joins us (in her third Blank Check appearance on a witch-centered film) to talk about Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, the first solo-directorial effort from a Coen Brother after their amicable split. We’re debating the success of Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington’s performances, learning about the history of Scottish kings, and discovering Ben Hosley’s family crest in the first Blank Check episode devoted to a work of Shakespeare. Trust us, this isn’t homework. It’s fun! Listen to Noble Blood Listen to Hoax Read Anatomy A Love Story Pre-order The Arcane Arts Read If Roast Beef Could Fly Check out Forbidden Planet Watch Jefferson Mays’ A Christmas Carol 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	Blank Jack with Griffin and David
0:05.0	Blank 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 Blank Jack
0:19.0	By the pricking of my thums
0:24.4	Something Wicked this way
0:27.1	Podcasts
0:28.3	That's a pretty good Catherine Hunter
0:30.7	Thank you.
0:31.2	That's why I wanted to do it.
0:32.9	I don't, I think my Hunter's better than my Denzel.
0:36.9	We were just joking. Maybe you should do it Denzel. Denzel Macbeth. better than my Denzel. We were just joking.
0:54.1	Maybe you should do a Denzel. Denzel Macbeth. Maybe you should do it. We were just joking that this is a quotable movie. And I made the joke weird. There's no quotes page. And then I open up the quotes page. There are only five quotes on the quote. Nobody bothered. That's just administrative failing. Right. Yeah. No one was like Someone did sit down here and write the tomorrow and tomorrow's speech
0:57.9	Someone comes to Nobody bothered. That's just administrative failing. Right. Yeah. No one was like, someone did sit down here and write the tomorrow and tomorrow's speech. Someone copy paste. But I'm saying, like, someone was like, oh, fuck. Come on. It should be on IMDB. It's good writing. You have to imagine the logic is who's coming to the tragedy of Macbeth page for IMDB page for Mac Macbeth quotes right if someone wants Mcbeth quotes there
1:11.3	are many places there is like one or two lines that they did tweak give them to me I I don't
1:16.6	have them off the top of my head okay and we'll get to this because I think it's like a bigger
1:19.6	not issue but like concern of the play but something about Lady Macbeth having children
1:24.2	oh sure right they shifted a tense that I was like, ah, they're making a choice.
1:30.3	Yeah, right, right. But that's fun to do. It's something to make a little choice.
1:33.0	There's also that scene about the one-cent stamps that they add. Right.
1:37.3	Where Macbeth is in bed with Lady Macbeth and he's feeling really down because his stamp art wasn't chosen.
1:42.2	What was a really popular song in 2021? Oh, here we go. Right? I don't, uh, yeah, fuck. Did anything exist in 2021? Uh, uh, most popular song of 2021 was still, uh, uh, a feel like I do by Vin Diesel. I'm like, do I remember any, did Taylor release an album in 2020? Driver's license is the most popular song.
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