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Everybody's got podcasts. My podcasts have names. The demons.

We're a couple of demons. That's the opening line of the film, right? Or the opening voiceover.

The opening voiceover. The title rushes towards us or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. We're a couple.

We're like the Wendell and Wild of podcasting. Sure. And that we're like annoying little guys. Yeah.

Yeah. Demonic. Who live in someone's hair. Right. Yeah. We're going to talk about this right before we start recording.

Just the way scheduling stuff shakes out and you releases and what have you like at first we thought, oh, we'll do select the end of the year and we'll like time it out around

when Wendell Mild's coming out and then things chipped around and you're like, oh, this episode's going to come out three months after the movie comes out. Well, that be annoying that we're like getting to it so late.

And it does feel like this movie came out in October. We're recording right now in December. The episode will drop in January.

I would say this movie has already been forgotten. I don't think most people are aware that it existed in the first. Yeah. Forgotten is almost the wrong word. How can you forget something you never knew existed? Right.

Our episode coming out three months after this movie was released on Netflix. It was on the very popular streaming service.

I think ultimately might function as a reclamation project. Yeah. I don't want to point to any fingers at anybody because I don't know who made this decision. Yeah.

But it felt like it was almost illegal to reference that this film was coming out. It was bizarre. Like that it was like some kind of like guarded secret.

And not only that, but it was like it does feel like Selik did the rounds. Selik went and did a lot of live. There was stuff. It had a festival premiere.

It did a lot of interviews. And most of those interviews seem to be buttressing more. It's the anniversary of night before Christmas.

Yeah. And look, I'm among the I'm among the culprits here. I didn't write about this movie partly because of the problem of like keep running into it.

Like I'm like, when do I cover this? Right. Like it's out, but it's like barely out.

And then does that. Yeah. Sure. They wait for the streaming release. Then the streaming release comes around and you're kind of like, is this too late? No one's talking about it. Like such a weird situation.

It also it played a Toronto, but was one of those movies that feels like even though you liked it. All our other friends who saw it with you. Like, yeah. And I did. I forgot about that. I did include it in my Toronto writing.

But you were like, that's one of five movies you saw that day. You see 20 movies in five days. Well, we're going to talk to David. I'm laying you up here. You are setting me up. Welcome. Introduce our show.

It's called blank check with Griffin and David. I'm Griffin. I'm David. It's a podcast about filmography. It's directors who experience massive success early on in their careers.

They're given a series of blank checks to make whatever crazy passion projects they want. Sometimes those checks clear. Sometimes they bounce. Maybe here's a phone board. I don't even know how to define where this film exists.

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