If Blank Check with Griffin and David

Blank Jack with Griffin and David

Don't know what to say or to expect

All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Check

If we'd podcasted last night, I'd have to stay or you'd have to leave. That is the line of the movie for me. It's maybe a low energy way to start the podcast. It's the line of the movie. It's the tagline. You should have just done the tagline. Well, let me do the techline now as an alternate. Let me do the tagline now as an alternate. I just really wanted to do that line. Go ahead. Mm-hmm. Do it. Harrison Ford is John Book, period. That's the biggest font. Exactly. Okay? Yep. And then right down underneath it, almost like small print on the back of a fucking aspirin bottle.

A big city cop, a small country boy.

They have nothing in common but a podcast.

Exactly.

That's why it's perfect.

Do you think putting Harrison Ford is John book that big was them being like, we need to fucking Indiana Jones this thing?

We need to sell.

It's a good question. He's playing another iconic character. Can we gabbo them into thinking, I'm supposed to know who John Book is? I would like to talk about the name John Book. It's one of the great names. It's an incredible name, so maybe they're just so proud of the name. And it does feel like they picked the name John Book for that, like, franchise ability, right?

The Indiana Jones of it all.

It's Mr. Book or just book, you know, as Samuel calls him throughout the thing.

Yes.

So I do, yes, I think that it's sort of like a big, bold Madlib's attempt, right?

You know, we have Harrison Ford. We have John Book. Yeah. A name you know, a name you're going to know. Yeah. And the guy had had a track record at this point of already creating two fucking beyond iconic franchise characters. Right. What were you going to say, David? I'd like to know. I'd love to, you know, sit in on whatever meeting this was back when. Because it's like, yeah, how do you automatically sell this? Right. You know, like, it's not, this is not, oh, we know what to do. It's about an Amish boy who witnesses a crime at a train station. And then, of course, the cop has to hide it. You know, like, you can't do that. Giant. Right, you can't, you can't set that up in a poster. Beautiful painting of Harrison Ford's face.

Right. and then, of course, the cop has to hide it. You can't do that. Giant. You can't set that up in a poster.

Beautiful painting of Harrison Ford's face. And if you look closely, you're like, is that an Amish boy? But even the tagline. It's just a little... Yeah, it looks like children of the corn. Like, if you just look at the boy. But it's dark... In darkness. Yeah, exactly. It's a little abstract.

I think you, look, he had just been to the Temple of Doom.

And before that, he had just been to the temple of doom

and before that he had returned with the Jedi he'd run with the blades he'd raided the lost

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