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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Trainspotting with Charles Rogers

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Summary

The UK’s answer to PULP FICTION, Danny Boyle’s TRAINSPOTTING exploded into theaters and became a global phenomenon, thanks to an iconic marketing campaign. Who *didn’t* have this poster up in their dorm room? “Search Party” creator Charles Rogers returns to the pod to talk about how his own dorm TRAINSPOTTING poster contributed to his coming out at college, and how Danny Boyle’s radical empathy and fearlessness makes this film so much more than a movie-of-the-week cautionary tale.

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0:00.0

Climb Jack with Britain and David Climb Jack with Britain and David

0:09.3

Don't know what to say or to explain

0:12.8

All you need to know is that the aim of the shot is by Jack

0:22.1

Choose life, choose a job, choose a career, choose a family, choose a fucking big television

0:27.7

Choose washing machines, cause compact display as an electrical tin openness, choose good health,

0:32.5

low cholesterol, dental insurance, choose fixed interest mortgage repayments, choose a start at home,

0:37.9

choose your friends, choose leisureware and matching luggage, choose a three-piece suit on higher

0:42.5

purchase in a range of fucking fabrics, choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning,

0:48.9

choose sitting on that couch watching mind numbing spirit crushing game shows,

0:52.4

stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth, choose running away at the end of it all, pissing your

0:56.7

last miserable home, nothing more than embarrassment to the selfish fucked up brats you spawn to replace

1:02.1

yourselves, choose your future, choose life, but what I want to do a thing like that, I choose not to

1:08.9

choose life, I choose something else and the reasons there are no reasons, who needs reasons when you've

1:16.1

got podcasts. Now when I was online too you started nodding because I had McGregor down,

1:21.7

it was hard to maintain, I'm not going to say you had him down, but it was getting close,

1:26.7

that you were in the ballpark, I was in the ballpark, and then very quickly it was gone.

1:31.1

It's a lot, and then it kind of came back at the end, a little bit I recovered at the end,

1:35.3

choose life, I can't choose life, choose life, choose life, choose life, choose life,

1:39.7

little Colin Farrell, little Colin Farrell, I guess, there's that boyish quality to his voice that

1:44.9

he still has, still has it, yeah, that's why hello there is funny, hello there, because when he says

1:50.6

hello there in Star Wars, he is that, oh, goodness says that, right? And so clearly they're like,

1:57.7

oh it's no, we're referencing, but the way he says that you're like, he's like a little kid,

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