Blank Check — Patreon: Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free)

Published 2023-09-17; 3:04:27 by the feed.

As extracted (engineer-sonnet-2026-10-13)

The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims, Ben Hosley. Guests: Mike Mitchell, Nick Wiger.

Subject films: Se7en (1995).

On the transcript: Speaker labels are absent and the transcript is badly mangled around the opening (the show name 'Blank Check' appears as 'Black Jack' etc.); times_mentioned counts are line matches by pattern, and the Se7en count includes ordinary uses of '7' and 'seven' so it is approximate. Dossier-reading speaker (Griffin or David) could not be resolved from context.

Films that came up

Claims (35)

industry (release strategy): Seven → Kiss the Girls. Se7en was a September release sold as a nasty genre movie, like Kiss the Girls and later Freeman thrillers.
“in the same vein in terms of its release strategy is like, Kiss the girls.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:25:50 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career sequence): Alien 3 → Seven. After Alien 3, Fincher didn't want to make another movie and told reps not to send scripts, which is why Mank was all he was reading.
“Well, he also had the attitude post-alien 3 of like, I never want to make a movie again.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:32:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
what-if (swapped projects): Jeremiah Chechik → David Fincher. Chechik was first choice on Se7en and made The Avengers instead; Fincher was attached to The Avengers and made Se7en.
“But they did a full swap years apart.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:33:59 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (studio-ending era): Seven → The Scarlet Letter. In the era of grafted happy endings like The Scarlet Letter, Se7en's bleak ending is amazing for a studio film.
“Like they like they like put in a happy ending.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:38:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (casting method): The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo → Seven. Fincher's quote on Dragon Tattoo casting (find the essential quality that survives 100 takes) is applied to why Pitt works as Mills.
“I think the thing you want to find when you're casting your leads and casting your movie stars is like the essential quality they have in their being that no matter what is going to come through on camera”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:40:41 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
people (shared actor): Leland Orser → Alien Resurrection. Orser, the lust-victim actor in Se7en, is recognized as 'Alien Resurrection guy.'
“Alien resurrection guy?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:42:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (star leverage): The Shawshank Redemption → Seven. Freeman reportedly took Se7en because Shawshank showed he could carry the story.
“the fact that Shawshank, I was narrating and I got to carry the story.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:45:37 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (buddy-cop worry): Seven → Lethal Weapon. Studio saw an older Black detective and a young white one and worried it would read as Lethal Weapon.
“this people are just going to think it's lethal weapon”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:49:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (early seed): Seven → Zodiac. Fincher wanted Ned Beatty for John Doe because he looked like the Zodiac composite, showing Zodiac was on his mind early.
“So that's how early he's thinking about zodiac.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:51:50 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (worked with): R. Lee Ermey → Stanley Kubrick. Ermey worked with Kubrick, even more famously exacting than Fincher, yet trashed Fincher as controlling.
“But also he worked with Stanley Kubrick, who I consider even more famously exacting.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:55:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (unnamed city): Seven → Blade Runner. Se7en's rainy, never-named city is likened to Blade Runner's.
“It's like it's like Blade Runner.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:58:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (borrowing): Seven → Saw (film series). Rewatching the Saw movies, the speaker was struck by how much they lifted from Se7en.
“I forgot how much saw stole.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:59:00 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (schedule squeeze): 12 Monkeys → Seven. Pitt pre-committed to 12 Monkeys, which forced a rocket-speed Se7en shoot.
“Pitt had pre-committed to 12 monkeys.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:02:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career lever): Seven → Fight Club. Se7en's success is what let Fincher make the seemingly impossible Fight Club.
“But the fight club is him more being like, okay, guys, I know this seems impossible, but I made seven.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:05:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (borrowing): Seven → The Batman. The speaker had forgotten how indebted The Batman is to Fincher, mostly to Se7en.
“I had forgotten just how indebted the Batman is to...”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:28:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (detective comparison): The Batman → Seven. The Riddler is a bad serial killer next to John Doe; Batman a worse detective than Mills and Somerset.
“the Riddler is a bad serial killer in the Batman.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:30:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (reaction gag): Seven → Alien (chestburster). The sloth reveal is likened to the Alien chestburster because the actor wasn't warned.
“we got a true alien of alien chess burster moment.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:32:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (idol): Jack Lemmon → Kevin Spacey. The speaker infers Spacey sees himself as Jack Lemmon, the star he always looked up to.
“That's the star that he's always looked up to, and now he's going on talk shows and he's doing all his impressions.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:03:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (shared actor): Seven → The Usual Suspects. Kevin Spacey is the scariest person in both worlds in the same breakout year.
“in both 7 and the usual suspects, in the worlds of those movies, he's the worst, scariest person.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:03:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (on-set tragedy): Michael Massee → The Crow. Massee is the actor who shot Brandon Lee on The Crow.
“He is the man who shot Brandon Lee on the set of the crow.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:07:50 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (set-safety lineage): The Crow → Rust. Gun-safety protocols on sets exist because of The Crow, which is why the Rust shooting is so shocking.
“they're like so crazy, like about you checking because of the crow, basically, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:09:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (restraint vs explicitness): Seven → Law & Order: SVU (TV). Reading a 2009 Fincher interview: Se7en keeps the horror offscreen, unlike SVU's graphic dialogue.
“Now you watch Law and Order SVU, and they're walking in a hallways and they say, we found semen in the eye socket.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:13:07 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (genre influence): Seven → later crime thrillers and crime TV (unnamed). As an adult the speaker is less shocked by Se7en because everyone since took a page out of its book.
“I'm not as shocked by 7 because everyone took a page out of its book, of course.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:15:39 · Mike Mitchell (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Seven → Zodiac. The speaker prefers Zodiac's derivative, dumb real killer to Se7en's super-villain John Doe.
“What I like about Zodiac is that it shows serial killers as we know them to actual actually be”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:16:36 · Nick Wiger (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (prop rumor): Seven → Contagion. An internet rumor says Contagion's autopsy reused the head made for Se7en.
“they were like, well, it was easy for them to do that because they had the leftover head from seven.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:26:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career pivot): Legends of the Fall → Seven. Pitt reportedly wanted a movie like Se7en to disrupt his heartthrob image.
“I need to do a movie like 7 to disrupt that image”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:27:30 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (parody): Seven → MTV Movie Awards Se7en parody. The MTV Movie Awards parodied the Se7en ending with William Shatner playing every role and the head in the box.
“And then Shatner's head is in the box and then he sings a song.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:34:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (sequel repurposing attempt): Seven → Eight Millimeter. New Line tried to repurpose Walker's 8MM script as a Se7en follow-up with Morgan Freeman as Somerset; it was made later as a stand-alone movie.
“But they initially wanted to try and repurpose that and have Morgan Freeman be in that movie as Somerset.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:35:45 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (sequel rewrite attempt): Solace → Seven. New Line bought Solace and asked for a rewrite into a Se7en sequel; all three leads refused.
“can we rewrite this to make it into a 7 sequel”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:36:46 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
people (shared writer): Andrew Kevin Walker → The Killer. Walker wrote Se7en and is the screenwriter of Fincher's new film The Killer.
“Also in Andrew Kevin Walker's script, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:38:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (visual inspiration): Klute → Seven. The speaker watched Klute because Fincher and DP Darius Khondji cited it as an inspiration for Se7en's dark look and flashlight-led framing.
“I watched Clute over the weekend because I know that both Fincher and Darius Conji, the DP, had cited that as an inspiration”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:38:58 · Nick Wiger or Mike Mitchell (unresolved) (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (tonal kin): The Game → Seven. The Game and Panic Room feel like movies chasing Se7en.
“the game and panic room, feel like movies that are kind of chasing seven.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:41:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
industry (opening-weekend rival): Seven → Showgirls. Showgirls opened against Se7en; the speakers joke about which has the bleaker view of humanity.
“Which film has a bleaker view of humanity?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:47:19 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
people (casting contrast): Seven → To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. Everyone fought to be in Wong Foo while everyone refused Se7en.
“the opposite of, um, of fucking 7 where they offered it to everyone”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:48:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (parody of a subgenre): Dangerous Minds → High School High. A speaker defends High School High as satirizing the mid-90s teacher-in-the-hood subgenre that Dangerous Minds belongs to.
“But I thought it was, it was skillfully satirizing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:49:44 · Nick Wiger or Mike Mitchell (unresolved) (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items (25)

fun, about R. Lee Ermey: Ermey originally read for John Doe, then was cast as the quiet police captain.
“Arli Ermy, I guess, read for John Doe, which is insane to think about.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:30:09 · Nick Wiger or Mike Mitchell (unresolved) (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Andrew Kevin Walker: Walker wrote the spec while working at Tower Records.
“He worked at Tower Records.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:34:24 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Seven: Fincher was sent the unsanitized script with the head in the box instead of the softened draft, and insisted on it.
“They had sent him the unsanitized version and they meant to send him the no head version.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:36:34 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Seven: Fincher's argument for the head in the box: the kids-in-a-schoolyard test.
“imagine a couple kids in a schoolyard 20 years from now being like, have you ever seen this fucked up movie that ends with a woman's head in a box?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:37:42 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Morgan Freeman: Freeman asked to cut a large share of his own dialogue, preferring to play it with a look.
“And Morgan Freeman comes in and he's like cut like 40% of my dialogue.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:41:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Brad Pitt: Fincher on how Pitt's clout won arguments with the studio.
“the power of being blonde is astonishing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:51:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Ned Beatty: Beatty was wanted for John Doe because he looked like the Zodiac composite.
“Because he looked like the composite drawing of the Zodiac Killer?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:51:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Kevin Spacey: A running joke that Spacey's audition tape was a reading of 'Let Me Be Frank'.
“His audition tape was just the original reading of Let Me Be Frank.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:52:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Seven: Rewatch fact: the sloth victim's license says he was born in 1931.
“you see that the sloth victim was born in 1931, did you notice this?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:59:32 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about David Fincher: A speaker calls Fincher an unreliable narrator of his own artistry: the rain was practical, and also a choice.
“Fincher is actually an unreliable narrator in a way because he will often downplay, I think, his own artistry.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about David Fincher: Fincher on his crew once the shoot began.
“because now I have to get what's in my head out to all of you Cretans.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:03:32 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Seven: Somerset goes to sleep with a metronome and loses it at the end.
“And I go to sleep with a fucking metronome.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:09:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Seven: The gluttony actor was 380 pounds and was padded with prosthetics toward 700.
“but he said he was 380 on set and they added £300 visually.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:16:42 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Seven: The gluttony victim was covered in real cockroaches.
“They covered him in real cockroaches.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:16:53 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Seven: The killer changed the screws on the painting so it would hang the right way up.
“changed the screws so that it would hang up in the, in the correct way.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:27:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about John C. McGinley: The Scrubs pilot script said 'a John C. McGinley type' while he was not given an audition.
“when they wrote the pilot script for scrubs, his character in the script said, think a John C. McGinley type.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:34:50 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Brad Pitt: Pitt really broke his arm in the rain chase, and they wrote it into the movie.
“Genuinely broke his arm.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:57:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Kevin Spacey: Spacey is the crime scene photographer earlier in the film, in a wig doing a voice.
“it is Spacey wearing a wig doing a voice, it's like Spacey doing a mad TV audition.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:58:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Kevin Spacey: Spacey's contract demand: no billing at all, so audiences wait the whole film for the star to appear.
“And his contractual demand is, don't credit me in the movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:59:23 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Michael Massee: The actor forced at gunpoint in Se7en is the man who shot Brandon Lee on The Crow.
“He is the man who shot Brandon Lee on the set of the crow.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:07:50 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about David Fincher: Reading a 2009 Fincher interview: you don't need to see it, imagination does the work.
“the imagination, if properly primed, can do more than any army of makeup artists, that was always my thing, get people to fear, get them to see it in their heads.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:13:32 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Saw (film series): Saw 1 is incredibly restrained; by Saw 5 everything is shown.
“saw one, you watch it and you're like, wow, this is incredibly restrained.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:20:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Seven: The MTV Movie Awards parody ends with William Shatner's head in the box.
“And then Shatner's head is in the box and then he sings a song.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:34:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Eight Millimeter: New Line wanted Walker's 8MM repurposed as a Se7en sequel with Freeman.
“But they initially wanted to try and repurpose that and have Morgan Freeman be in that movie as Somerset.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:35:45 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Seven: On the podcast Ben shows up in a wig with a box and a note signed John Doe, and a Gwyneth Paltrow figure.
“surprisingly hard to find a Gwyneth Paltrow action figure.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:43:53 · Ben Hosley (0.40 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Loves grim, well-made thrillers and obsessive craft detail; reads the dossier and revels in production lore. Teases guests about their bits. Has a Tisch background and some gun-safety training from a film shoot.
David Sims (host): A critic who champions Fincher and wants the series done on the show; prefers the later half of Fincher's career. Grew up partly in England, where his dad described Se7en to him.
Ben Hosley (host): The producer, in the room; tends to favor ruder, fun movies (Mortal Kombat, Twisted Metal) and views Se7en as a very rewatchable fucked-up movie.
Nick Wiger (guest): Zodiac is his favorite Fincher and he prefers its derivative, dumb, real killers to Se7en's super-villain. Saw Se7en on VHS after kids at school described it. Calls Fincher fandom 'the Finchman'.
Mike Mitchell (guest): Saw Se7en on VHS at about 13 and loved the dark side; thinks Fight Club and The Social Network are more hopeless. Likes Pitt's performance the most in Se7en. Likes the look and the Gravity Kills song.

The show's recurring bits

Names the transcriber got wrong

'Black Jack' / 'blank jack' / 'blank track' = Blank Check
'Weiger' / 'Wykes' = Nick Wiger ('Wags')
'Doughboys' is correct, 'Dough boy text thread' etc.
'Josh Hartner' = Josh Hartnett
'Mink' / 'Manck' / 'men' (as in 'considering men') = Mank
'Jeremiah Cheshick' / 'Cheshik' / 'Jeremiah Trek' = Jeremiah Chechik
'Phil Juneau' = Phil Joanou
'Kinga Usher' / 'Joe Pitkas' = Kinka Usher / Joe Pytka
'Arli Ermy' / 'Arly Army' = R. Lee Ermey
'Leland Dorsers' / 'Orster' / 'Orester' = Leland Orser
'Michael Massey' = Michael Massee
'Reggie Caffey' = Reg E. Cathey
'Richard Rountree' = Richard Roundtree
'Darius Conji' = Darius Khondji
'Arnold Copelson' = Arnold Kopelson
'Mike DeLuca' = Michael De Luca
'Hart Bachner' = Hart Bochner
'Clute' = Klute (my guess from context)
'Wang Fu' = To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
'Tommy Bull' = Tommy Boy; 'Brush hour' = Rush Hour; 'Mechai Pfeiffer' = Mekhi Phifer
'Penta Film' is probably Pentamerica (not certain)
'Michael Con' / 'Michael Kahn' = the AD as the speakers say it (unconfirmed)
'Bob Mac' = the gluttony actor as said; the speaker later says the real-estate Bob Mac they found was a different person
'Shaw Shake' = Shawshank (Redemption)
'Mr. Creus thing' = Monty Python's Mr. Creosote (unconfirmed)

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Who's talking

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Names the transcriber got wrong