Blank Check — Patreon: Eraserhead (Ad-Free)

Published 2024-08-25; 2:16:31 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “Eraserhead (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Ben Hosley.

Subject films: Eraserhead (1977).

On the transcript: No speaker labels and heavy cross-talk; most speaker attributions are low confidence. Ad insertions are removed, with repeated music cue lines around 0:33:39 and 2:09.

Added from the extractor's memory, not said

Entries with year omitted: only Eraserhead's year was given in the brief or said in the episode.
Corrected titles for mangled names (e.g. THX 1138, Hotel Transylvania, Say Anything...) are guesses from the transcript's mangled text.

Films that came up

Claims (52)

lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Devo. Devo covered the Eraserhead song and played it live for a while.
“Devo covered that song?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Modest Mouse. Modest Mouse is named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song.
“Modest mouse. Modest mouse.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → The Meteors. The Meteors are named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song.
“The meteors would do it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:47 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → The Pixies. The Pixies covered the Eraserhead song, on one of the John Peel records.
“Yeah, the pixies, it's on one of the John Peel records, I think.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:53 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Mad Max. Mad Max is a debut where the director had all the tools right away, though not called a masterpiece, unlike Eraserhead which is.
“Like that, that's where it's just like, yes, he had all the tools right away.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:10:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Piranha II: The Spawning. Piranha II is a classic rough-draft debut, unlike Eraserhead.
“That's a classic rough draft.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:10:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Thief. Thief is an example of a debut where the director arrives fully formed, in the same bucket as Eraserhead.
“But I'm like, thief, guy arrives fully formed.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:10:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Parent Trap → Eraserhead. Parent Trap is argued as a masterpiece on the debut list, though the other host calls it merely good and Nancy Meyers' easiest film to dub a masterpiece.
“Easiest film to dub a masterpiece.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:11:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Dark Star. Dark Star is hard to place: important, but arguably a rough draft.
“I think Dark Star, you could call a rough draft even though it...”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:13:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Dances with Wolves. Dances with Wolves is argued to be a rough draft of what Costner figured out later despite winning Best Picture.
“this is a rough draft for what he fucking figured out later, even though the world responded to it at the time as masterpiece.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:14:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Shallow Grave. Shallow Grave sits in a middle bucket.
“That's a 3rd bucket.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:15:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Alien 3. Alien 3 resists categorizing because of its complicated production.
“I think it's got to be a middle bucket just because of how complicated the birthing process.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:15:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Eraserhead → Martin. Eraserhead is impeccably shot, while Romero's Martin, shot on 16mm reversal, only gets the best scan of a rough image.
“It's on a 4K disk, but like you're basically looking at the most high quality scan of a terrible raw image versus this movie is like impeccably shocked.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:24:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Eraserhead → The Cremaster Cycle. At 14 the speaker took Eraserhead for something as hermetic as the Cremaster Cycle, though it is actually coherent.
“No, when I was 14, I processed this as if it was the cremaster cycle.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:25:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → Edward Scissorhands. Eraserhead is the same outsider idea as Edward Scissorhands in raw form, where Burton's film was reworked into a presentable studio picture.
“And this is him just doing the pure raw expression version of basically the same idea.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:26:19 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): David Lynch → Henry Mancini. Lynch as a child liked the music of Henry Mancini; the speaker then jokes none of these influences show in his work.
“He liked Henry Mancini and Sandra D.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:29:34 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
people (people): David Lynch → Jack Fisk. Fisk, the production designer who plays the Man in the Planet, is the other big friend Lynch made in high school.
“Uh, the other big uh, friend that he makes in high school. Jack Fisk.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:33:40 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Jack Fisk → Killers of the Flower Moon. Fisk's latest Oscar nomination was for building a town for Flower Moon, but he lost to Poor Things.
“Which is he built a fucking town.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:34:07 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Eraserhead → Poor Things. Poor Things beat Jack Fisk's Flower Moon nomination at the Oscars.
“Yeah, but they had to give it to poor things.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:34:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Jack Fisk → The Thin Red Line. After years away, Terrence Malick brought Fisk back for The Thin Red Line.
“And then it's like, he's gone until Malik resuscitates him for a thin red line.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:36:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Jason Clarke → David Lynch. Jason Clarke should play Lynch in a biopic.
“And he should be played by Jason Clark in the film.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:40:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (people): Caleb Deschanel → Gardenback. Deschanel wanted to shoot Lynch's Gardenback script at AFI.
“The cinematographer wants to shoot this film.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:43:23 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Eraserhead → The Philadelphia Story. Lynch calls Eraserhead his Philadelphia story, minus Jimmy Stewart.
“It just doesn't have Jimmy Stewart in it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:47:50 · David Lynch (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Eraserhead → Following. Nolan's debut was made like Eraserhead, piecemeal with day-job actors, and Lynch became a guy for people with limited resources.
“made his film in a similar way, and I don't know if he's ever cited Lynch being the inspiration”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:49:25 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
people (people): Jack Fisk → Terrence Malick. Fisk, who plays in Eraserhead, worked with Malick, who was friends with a man Lynch showed footage to.
“Obviously, Jack Fisk has worked with Terrence Malik.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:51:09 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Frederick Elmes → Blue Velvet. Elmes replaced the first cinematographer on Eraserhead and later shot Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and worked with Ang Lee.
“shot blue velvety, shot wild at heart, works with Ang Li.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:54:25 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): David Lynch → Herbert Cardwell. Lynch says the original cinematographer was a genius who helped him understand making movies and lighting.
“Lynch says he was a genius who helped him understand everything about making movies, like he knew how to light what he did”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:54:40 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Buster Keaton. Henry is a nightmare version of a Keaton-style put-upon silent comedy hero.
“He's like a nightmare version of like a Buster Keaton character, whatever.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:01:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Judith Roberts → Dead Silence. The actress who plays the girl across the hall is the villain in Dead Silence.
“played by Judith Roberts, um, who is, uh, the villain in Dead Silence”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:03:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Eraserhead → Twin Peaks. Lynch still relates emotions through images the way Eraserhead does, which the speaker saw again in Twin Peaks: The Return.
“He's still doing this stuff.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:15:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Judith Roberts → You Were Never Really Here. The neighbor actress is the mother in You Were Never Really Here and has had an interesting old-lady career.
“I also just remember that she's the mother in my beloved, you are never really here.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:21:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Eraserhead → Twin Peaks. The apartment's repeated floor patterns and curtain staging resemble the red room in Twin Peaks.
“the styling of this building is very similar to a lot of the red room stuff in Twin Peaks”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:23:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Eraserhead → Blue Velvet. Both films come from Lynch's formative sense of darkness under the surface of suburbia and the unspoken, city life, women and fatherhood.
“Eraserhead is clearly dealing with the same things, the idea of people living in a city, but also the relationships, like, with women, adult sexuality, being a father”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:24:47 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Roy Orbison. The 50s-60s weepy ballad style, Roy Orbison type music, recurs through Lynch's work.
“Obviously, the sort of Roy Orbison type music recurs throughout his”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:25:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Eraserhead → Pleasantville. A deadpan Lynchian-sounding plot summary of Pleasantville prompted the comparison; Pleasantville is praised but called too on the nose.
“That movie is, I think, incredibly good.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:26:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Pleasantville → Randy Newman. Pleasantville is described with a tree catching fire under the swelling strings of Randy Newman, who scored it.
“It teaches his mom how to masturbate and then a tree catches on fire to the swelling strings of Randy Newman.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:27:12 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Eraserhead → Old Dogs. Suddenly discovering a child you didn't know about is the existential terror Old Dogs is built on, and Eraserhead has it too.
“Of course, the kind of existential terror that an entire movie, like old dogs is built off of times two.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:28:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Alien. The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead.
“I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): H.R. Giger → Eraserhead. Giger called Eraserhead one of his big eye-opening moments, and Lynch later accused him of stealing his ideas.
“H.R. Gigger, loves this movie, says it's one of his, like, you know, big eye-opening moments in his life”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:28 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → The Thing. Alien, Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's work belong to a 70s-80s peak of gooey rubber and robotics that Eraserhead may have first synthesized.
“We don't exactly know, but I feel like things like alien and the carpenter film, certainly the thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Eraserhead → Wild at Heart. Eraserhead is argued to be Lynch's funniest film, or at least tied with Wild at Heart.
“It's probably this or Wild at Heart.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:31:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → The Elephant Man. The Elephant Man is a deeply tragic, not funny film, unlike Eraserhead.
“Watching the elephant man's a deeply trapped film. It's quite beautiful, but it's not really funny.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:31:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Jack Nance → Twin Peaks. Nance is amazing in Twin Peaks and says the 'wrapped in plastic' line from the pilot.
“He's the one who says wrapped in plastic.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:41:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Ben Barenholtz → Pink Flamingos. Barenholtz of Libra Films, a midnight-movie distributor, had already handled Pink Flamingos before he bought Eraserhead.
“He had distributed like pink flamingos, the John Waters movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:44:28 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Ben Barenholtz → Eraserhead. Barenholtz phoned to buy the film halfway through a screening and it played 15 to 20 cities by word of mouth.
“Halfway through the screening, he gets on the phone and is like, by this movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:44:31 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Eraserhead → Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In the box office game, Close Encounters was the number one film in the Eraserhead period.
“Number one of the box office is a film that came out in 1977.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:45:48 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Eraserhead → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Star Wars was only number nine in the box-office game for the Eraserhead release period.
“Not Star Wars, which is number 9 at the box.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:46:00 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): Henry Winkler → Night Shift. Winkler's star power let Ron Howard get Night Shift made even though the studio balked at Michael Keaton.
“when he got Winkler, they were like, we are so thrilled that you've nabbed Winkler that you can hire anyone else.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:50:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Henry Winkler → Scream. The next film Winkler acted in after Night Shift was Scream.
“Obviously, he, uh, like, directed a couple movies, but the next one he acted after Night Shift was Scream.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:50:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): High Anxiety → Alfred Hitchcock. High Anxiety is Mel Brooks' parody of Hitchcock, including a copied shower scene.
“he's copying the shower scene down to the editing style”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:54:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Mel Brooks → Gene Wilder. Brooks works better with someone like Gene Wilder at the center than as the lead himself.
“Mel's kind of good as a side dish.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:55:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Eraserhead → Mulholland Drive. One speaker came to Lynch through Mulholland Drive rather than Eraserhead.
“It's not like Mulholland Drive was the Lynch movie that got me into David Lynch.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:59:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

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fun, about Eraserhead: Lynch sold the DVD himself off the Absurda website; it arrived in a weird square box with a loose sleeve.
“Lynch sold it himself off of the Absurda website, and it came in a weirdly shaped box.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:17:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Eraserhead: TLA Video, a Philadelphia chain, had a Lynch shelf; Eraserhead was the VHS movie the cool older teens had seen.
“They had a lynch shelf.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:18:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about David Lynch: Lynch's mother refused him coloring books so he wouldn't learn to stay in the lines; the host jokes about the Dune coloring book.
“Beautiful dramatic irony when Dune the coloring book came around.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:29:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about David Lynch: Lynch was an Eagle Scout and Little League first baseman and always insists he's normal and boring.
“Yeah, he basically always is just like, I'm normal and boring.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:30:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Jack Fisk: Fisk, Lynch's high school friend and production designer, plays the Man in the Planet in Eraserhead.
“plays as we all know, plays the man in the planet in Eraserhead.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:33:48 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Six Men Getting Sick: Lynch's first proper short is a one-minute film of casts of Jack Fisk's head throwing up; it earned him a $1000 grant.
“It's a one minute film of these like weird casts of Jack Fisk's head throwing up.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:40:41 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Gardenback: Fox offered $50,000 to expand Lynch's 45-page script; Lynch asked what people would say to each other to fill it out.
“Fox is like, we'll give you 50 grand if you want to turn this into a feature.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:43:30 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Grimace: Grimace started as a villainous milkshake thief with forearms and a mean face; Grimacey is the green Shamrock Shake cousin.
“Grimace was always purple, but he originally had forearms and a mean face.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:47:58 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Eraserhead: The 21-page script read like a short, so Lynch snuck a long shoot past the AFI.
“He kind of snuck it past people in a way.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:48:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Eraserhead: Shot on weekends over years, the production cost Lynch his first marriage within the first year.
“So his 1st marriage does not survive the 1st year production on Eraserhead.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:50:03 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Eraserhead: A financier friend of Malick watched scenes, stood up trembling and screamed that people don't act like that.
“People don't talk like that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:51:26 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Jack Nance: Lynch hired Nance after Nance admired the wooden rack Lynch built on his Volkswagen.
“And Lynch said, thank you, Jack, I did that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:52:18 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Eraserhead: Lynch told Nance to play Henry as a blank; the more expression emptied out, the closer they got.
“The more you can empty out the closer we're getting.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:52:56 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Lady in the Radiator: She wasn't in the script; Lynch drew her sitting in the food room and then saw the radiator in his head.
“I drew a picture of her and I didn't know where it came from, and then I saw the radiator in my head.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:55:41 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Eraserhead: Lynch never says how the baby was made; guess is organs from the butcher.
“he won't really talk about how they made the baby or what it's made of.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:56:15 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Eraserhead: The group's recurring idea of the 'dang-ass freak canon': the film is the key text.
“is this the key text?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:59:23 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Curb Your Enthusiasm: Larry David and John McEnroe look at a book of Coney Island freaks and laugh, to everyone's anger.
“there's an amazing episode of Kirby enthusiasm where Larry goes over to John McElroy's house”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:00:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Eraserhead: The chicken-carving scene: the host says the movie heightens ordinary dinner discomfort by 10 percent; Griffin is not an egg fan.
“I'm heightening this thing by 10%.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:05:52 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Pleasantville: The hosts' deadpan plot summary of Pleasantville (mom, tree, Randy Newman) sounds like alternate reality to Ben.
“It teaches his mom how to masturbate and then a tree catches on fire to the swelling strings of Randy Newman.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:27:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about H.R. Giger: Giger tried to work with Lynch once and Lynch told him he'd stolen all his ideas.
“tried to work with Lynch once and Lynch was like you stole all my ideas.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:28 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Eraserhead: The hosts note the character's hair stands up like a pencil eraser, the literal source of the title.
“His hair is the eraser.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:38:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Eraserhead: After rejections from Cannes' Directors' Fortnight and the New York Film Festival, a bad Variety review at Filmex led Lynch to cut about 20 minutes.
“Lynch then cuts about 20 minutes out of the movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:43:34 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Eraserhead: Its release strategy mirrored its making: a roaming roadshow of midnight screenings rather than a single premiere.
“Its release strategy was very similar to the way in which it was made.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:45:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Henry Winkler: Ron Howard wanted unknown Michael Keaton for Night Shift; the studio refused until Winkler's name covered the budget.
“But the story was that he had seen Michael Keaton for that movie early, loved Keaton”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:50:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Mel Brooks: Brooks ranked about number six in a top-box-office-stars poll though he'd never led his own movie.
“He was so big as a figure.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:56:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Ben Hosley: Ben plays with a metal slinky in front of the microphone while the show wraps; the editor will have to clean it up.
“Ben says as he plays with the slunky directly in front of the microphone.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 2:07:47 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): A Lynch fan who loves Eraserhead as a pure raw expression of an outsider and calls it a fully arrived masterpiece. Loves the bit-work of generating nicknames and sorting debut films into buckets. Can't stand eggs and gets queasy at the chicken-carving idea.
David Sims (host): Reads the dossier and runs the box office game, with a film-historian's interest in distribution and Oscar history. Skeptical of calling things masterpieces. Has less Lynch background than Griffin and Ben, and is mostly seeing the filmography fresh.
Ben Hosley (guest): The producer in the room, a big Lynch devotee who's ready to go on this ride. Feels deep wavelength compatibility with Lynch and likes the film's weirdness. Fidgets with a slinky during the outro.

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Names the transcriber got wrong

Eraserhead often 'racer head'/'raser head'
'Herbert Caldwell' is probably Herbert Cardwell
'Peggy Revy' is probably Peggy Reavey
'Terrence Malik' is Terrence Malick
'Park Jenwick movie' unknown, near line 0:14:40
'Teenage Chicks won 1138' is probably THX 1138
'Oh, for Transylvania' is probably Hotel Transylvania
'Michael Sarah' is Michael Cera
'Porsha Dorousi' is Portia de Rossi
'Ben Baronholtz' is Ben Barenholtz
'JJ Birch' dossier writer, not present
'the man who neutral' near 0:03:52 unclear
'John Badams' is John Badham
'See anything' is Say Anything
'Jonathan Demi' is Jonathan Demme
'Efron' is Nora Ephron
'McTurnan' is John McTiernan
'Kirby enthusiasm' is Curb Your Enthusiasm

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