Blank Check — Patreon: March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Ben Hosley, Marie (producer; surname not stated).

Subject films: none named.

On the transcript: Auto transcript with no speakers; Marie and Ben are present; names garbled often.

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Saw · The Blair Witch Project · Beyond Therapy · A.I. Artificial Intelligence · Mangrove · Lovers Rock · Red, White and Blue · Alex Wheatle · Education · 12 Years a Slave · Widows · Shame · 2046 · In the Mood for Love · Sunshine · Yesterday · Trash Humpers · Surviving the Game · Scent of a Woman · Beverly Hills Cop · Kids · Ken Park · The Decline of Western Civilization · Black Sheep · Senseless · Adaptation · Where the Wild Things Are · Cure for Wellness · The Lone Ranger · Natural Born Killers · Police Story · High School Musical · Muppets (franchise) · Twilight (franchise) · Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 · Final Destination (franchise) · A Nightmare on Elm Street (Freddy franchise) · Halloween (franchise) · Vacation (franchise) · Austin Powers (franchise) · Men in Black (franchise) · Rugrats movies · Superman (franchise) · The Lego Movie (franchise) · The Mummy (Fraser films) · Dracula Untold / Luke Evans Dracula film · Bill & Ted Face the Music · Monty Python films · Cheech and Chong films · Resident Evil (franchise) · The Mighty Ducks (franchise) · The Karate Kid · D2: The Mighty Ducks · Rocky (franchise) · Rocky IV · Dirty Harry

recommended (1)

Fool for Love

anecdote (2)

Gigli · Hunger

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Her · Lost in Translation

Claims (50)

  1. contrast (contrast): Robert Altman → John Cassavetes. Altman beat Cassavetes in round 1; Altman is imagined winning a real-life fight against him.
    “He was folding Castavetti's like laundry”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:04:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming): Robert Altman → Robert Altman. If 70s Altman wins, Griffin promises the remaining Altman (80s-2000s) the next year.
    “if 70 Saltman wins, we can make the promise that the following year we will do the remainder of Altman”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:05:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Martin Brest → Terrence Malick. Sweet 16 matchup; speakers hope Brest takes it though Malick is easier to talk about.
    “I think breast takes that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:06:46 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. programming (programming): Martin Brest → Joe Dante. Griffin expects Brest vs Dante, his two favorites, in the regional final.
    “I do feel like this is going to end up with Brest versus Dante”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:08:09 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. verdict (verdict): Joe Dante → Chris Sturgis. Dante beat Sturgis two years running in the bracket.
    “Dante kicks Sturgis's ass.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:09:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. programming (programming): Karyn Kusama → Jane Campion. Sweet 16 matchup; Campion may have won round 1 because voters thought she had the best shot at Kusama.
    “a lot of people voted for Campion over the archers because they thought she had the best chance to beat Kusama.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:11:42 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. verdict (verdict): Jane Campion → Jane Campion. Griffin would be thrilled if Campion sneakily won it all; she is among his all-time favorites.
    “Campion is one of my all time favorite filmmakers.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:12:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. programming (programming): Wong Kar-wai → Steve McQueen. Wong Kar-wai beat McQueen 55-45; voters worried McQueen's films are heavy for the podcast.
    “I think a lot of people were hesitant to vote McQueen because the episodes on 12 years of slave and hunger.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:15:02 · Ben Hosley (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. programming (programming): Steve McQueen → Lynne Ramsay. Both were met with worry that the bleak films would be too heavy for the show.
    “there was a similar thing thrown against Lynn Ramsey”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:15:38 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. craft (craft): Wong Kar-wai → George Lucas. Wong's recolorizing of his own films is compared to George Lucas special editions.
    “He's going George Lucas, maybe.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:16:33 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. verdict (verdict): Wong Kar-wai → Danny Boyle. Wong could win it all but may lose to Boyle in sweet 16.
    “I think he might lose to Danny Boyle”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:16:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. contrast (contrast): Danny Boyle → Mike Leigh. Boyle beat Mike Leigh despite a Leigh groundswell.
    “there was a real Mike Lee ground swell.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:16:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. craft (craft): Mike Leigh → Mike Leigh. Leigh's unique process yields movies unlike anyone else's yet recognizably his across genres and periods.
    “they do all have, uh, a certain definable mic-y quality to them.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:18:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. people (people): Danny Boyle → Martin Brest. Griffin calls Boyle his version of Brest: the one he has yelled about forever.
    “He's my Martin Brest, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:18:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. programming (programming): Robert Zemeckis → Nancy Meyers. Eclectic careers (Zemeckis) tend to help in March Madness, while Meyers is more consistent.
    “I think people vote for a weird eclectic career to a certain degree”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:19:04 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  16. programming (programming): Danny Boyle → Sunshine. Boyle's win is attributed to desire for the Sunshine and cheap-jobs episodes.
    “We always talk up sunshine.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:19:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. programming (programming): Danny Boyle → Yesterday. Listeners were intrigued by a Yesterday episode.
    “people people were very intrigued by the prospect of a yesterday episode.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:20:06 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. verdict (verdict): Ernest Dickerson → Harmony Korine. Dickerson upset Korine 51-49 as voters discovered his 90s output.
    “Ernest Dickerson snuck out a 2% win over Harmony Korean, 51 to 49.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:20:37 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. career (career): Ernest Dickerson → Surviving the Game. Dickerson had a run in the 90s including Surviving the Game.
    “He kind of had a little run there.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:21:31 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. people (people): Martin Brest → Scent of a Woman. Brest is unified as the G League guy, the Scent of a Woman guy and the Beverly Hills Cop guy.
    “you have to unify that the G League guy is also the scent of a woman guy is also the Beverly Hills cop guy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:21:56 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. programming (programming): Richard Linklater → Ernest Dickerson. Ben dropped Linklater from his eight for being less Ben than DeVito, Spheeris, Dickerson.
    “DeVito and Sphereus, Dickerson, like all these people have to be represented by you.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:23:20 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. programming (programming): Larry Clark → Ken Park. Larry Clark's filmography including Ken Park would be less appealing than Kids.
    “You don't want to do Ken Park.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:24:04 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. programming (programming): Harmony Korine → Nora Ephron. Proposal to cover Korine like Ephron: start with the screenplay (Kids) as the defining work.
    “treat harmony like Nora Efron and be like, you start out with the screenplay.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:24:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. people (people): Harmony Korine → Kids. Whether Kids gets a bonus episode; Korine's screenplay got him on the map.
    “that screenplay was what got him on the map”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:24:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. verdict (verdict): John Carpenter → Danny DeVito. Carpenter, the presumed front-runner, faces DeVito, the toughest opponent he could draw.
    “DeVito is arguably one of the toughest people he could go up against.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  26. theme (theme): Danny DeVito → Nancy Meyers. DeVito is said to have Nancy Meyers energy with voters.
    “Danny DeVito has Nancy Myers energy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:25:54 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  27. programming (programming): John Carpenter → Danny DeVito. Carpenter win means 18 weeks of scheduling; DeVito means about 6 weeks, leaving room for more miniseries.
    “Some people want someone like Carpenter to win so they can control 18 weeks of our scheduling.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:26:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  28. verdict (verdict): Spike Jonze → Penelope Spheeris. Jonze beat Spheeris 57-43.
    “Spike Jones, who beat Penelope Spheres.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:26:22 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. industry (industry): Penelope Spheeris → Harvey Weinstein. Spheeris's career stalled after Senseless, made for Weinstein, after fights and a flop.
    “she did that movie for Weinstein.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:27:47 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  30. verdict (verdict): Spike Jonze → Her. Her was the critics' top film of its year; Griffin now fears it has an incel quality.
    “I think it has like an incel quality to it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:29:36 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  31. theme (theme): Her → Lost in Translation. A Spike Jonze episode would involve the he-said-she-said around Coppola's Lost in Translation.
    “he said, she said quality of her with lost in translation”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:30:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  32. programming (programming): Spike Jonze → Sofia Coppola. Short filmographies make a Spike-then-Sofia back-to-back run possible.
    “It'd be kind of cool to do Spike and Sophia back to back.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:30:56 · Ben Hosley (0.40 sure it was them)
  33. career (career): Spike Jonze → Spike Jonze. Jonze's gaps between films, then a Vice TV detour as head programmer, explain his absence.
    “I'm gonna run a cable network.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:31:54 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. programming (programming): Gore Verbinski → Wolfgang Petersen. Sweet 16 pairing; guest Karen Han expected to rally Gore's fans.
    “I think Karen Hahn's going to activate Gore Hive.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:33:29 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. programming (programming): Gore Verbinski → A Cure for Wellness. Han's own pick of episode would have been A Cure for Wellness.
    “Karen's pick was cure for wellness”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:34:18 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  36. programming (programming): Gore Verbinski → The Lone Ranger. If Verbinski wins, guest Karen Han must do The Lone Ranger episode as penance.
    “if you push Gorbinsky up the hill, then you got to take the bullet on Lone Ranger.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:34:28 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  37. lineage (lineage): Oliver Stone → Robert Zemeckis. Alex Ross Perry views Stone as the only real successor to Zemeckis in bracket terms.
    “who I view as the only real successor to Demi and Zameckis.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:34:34 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  38. programming (programming): Jackie Chan → Alfonso Cuaron. Sweet 16 matchup, Chan against Cuaron or Reichardt winner.
    “Jackie Chan versus the winner of Caron, Reichhart”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:34:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. unmapped (fun): Oliver Stone → Natural Born Killers. Griffin promised to be shirtless in vest and purple wraps for Natural Born Killers.
    “for natural born killers I would be shirtless with just a vest and some purple round sunglasses.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:36:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  40. theme (theme): Oliver Stone → Robert Zemeckis. Stone's reclamation might be coming like Zemeckis's late-career surge, but too early.
    “Stone might be due for a reclamation at some point”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:36:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  41. contrast (contrast): Oliver Stone → Jackie Chan. Both have thorny personal politics that would enter episode discussion.
    “Both Jackie Chan and Oliver Stone have thorny personal politics.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:39:16 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  42. programming (programming): Twilight (franchise) → Muppets (franchise). Twilight is rich in commentary fodder; Muppets would let hosts rest.
    “Twilight is just a perfect situation for us as commentaries.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:42:10 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  43. verdict (verdict): Final Destination (franchise) → A Nightmare on Elm Street (Freddy franchise). Final Destination beat the Freddy franchise in the Patreon bracket.
    “But they beat Freddy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:43:13 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  44. theme (theme): Final Destination (franchise) → Vacation (franchise). Both are groups narrowly avoiding catastrophe on trips, with a reboot each; one deadly, one funny.
    “both both franchises about groups of people trying to narrowly avoid catastrophe, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:43:51 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  45. theme (theme): The Mummy (Fraser films) → Men in Black (franchise). Both carry 90s kid energy.
    “The mummy and men in black both have that 90s kid energy”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:46:41 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  46. industry (industry): The Mummy (Fraser films) → Bill & Ted Face the Music. A fresh Bill & Ted release likely hurt it, since voters had just revisited the films.
    “the release of Bill and Ted face the music hurts Bill and Ted in this bracket”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:46:58 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  47. lineage (lineage): Austin Powers (franchise) → Monty Python films. Myers would acknowledge Monty Python as a huge comedy influence.
    “Mike Myers, I'm sure, would acknowledge Monty Python is a huge comedy influence.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:47:19 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  48. verdict (verdict): The Mighty Ducks (franchise) → The Karate Kid. Mighty Ducks beat Karate Kid because the audience skews 90s kids.
    “Our demographic of our listeners, I think, is more of a mighty ducks generation than a karate generation.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:49:37 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  49. contrast (contrast): Rocky (franchise) → Saw. Rocky is at home in meat lockers, a Saw staple, but not a puzzle solver.
    “he does spend a lot of time in meat lockers”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:50:48 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  50. programming (programming): Rocky (franchise) → Dirty Harry. Stallone voices are suggested as a funnier alternative to Eastwood voices.
    “a series of Stallone voices is actually better.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:52:34 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items (25)

  1. fun, about Fool for Love: Altman's Fool for Love is about to get a Blu-ray, with Shepard, Quaid, Stanton.
    “It's got Sam Shepard, the world's biggest hottie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:06:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Gigli: Griffin learns Ben Affleck's character is named Larry Gigli and is saving Gigli for a Brest win.
    “I literally just learned that Ben Affleck's character in Jeely is named Larry Jeely.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:07:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Joe Dante: Dante has said he would appear on the show if covered.
    “I've communicated with Joe Dante himself and his team, and they had offered that he would come on the show”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:08:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Robert Altman: Griffin's father drank with both Altman and Cassavetes on the same night, and thinks Altman would win a fight.
    “My father drank with both of them once.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:09:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Karyn Kusama / Jane Campion: Pun about rounding up mecca-like opponents, riffing on Brendan Gleeson in A.I.
    “we're going to be like Brendan Gleason and AI artificial intelligence.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:12:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Steve McQueen: Small Axe films: Alex Wheatle and Education are an hour long, could be combined.
    “maybe you could combine uh, Alex Wheedle in education”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:14:01 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Wong Kar-wai: He is recolorizing his films for Criterion editions.
    “him doing all the special editions has like pushed him into the forefront”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:16:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Mike Leigh: Fans petitioned outside the blank check sphere for Mike Leigh.
    “people are petitioning people outside of the blank check sphere”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:17:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Danny Boyle: The Beatles-less world prompts a joke about a Yesterday episode.
    “what if the Beatles didn't exist?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:19:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Ernest Dickerson: Directors needing an IMDb lookup tend to underperform in March Madness.
    “If they require, you have to go to IMDb”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:21:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Larry Clark: Fans want to do Ken Park; hosts joke about it.
    “We're hungry for Kent Park, actually.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:24:10 · Ben Hosley (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Penelope Spheeris: Spheeris's decline: Senseless flop, Weinstein fights, called too old.
    “I got pegged with being difficult”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:28:19 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Her: Critics' top choice: five of six Film Spotting panelists named it number one.
    “Five out of the 6 had her as their number one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:30:17 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Spike Jonze: Jonze ran Vice TV as artistic director, and later made a Beastie Boys documentary.
    “I'm the head programmer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:31:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Gore Verbinski: Lone Ranger described as one of the most cursed movies.
    “It's cursed as fuck.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:34:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Oliver Stone: Stone defined the 80s and 90s; Alex Ross Perry campaigned but is not on Twitter.
    “the man defines the 80s in so many ways.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:35:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Jackie Chan: Jamel campaigned: hashtag Fund the Police Story.
    “hashtag Fund, the police story”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:37:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Harmony Korine: Joke that Korine would be the most trustworthy babysitter.
    “Harmony Current would be the best.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:40:18 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2's end credits praised as a favorite of the 2010s.
    “one of your favorite movies of the 2010s, of course, is the end credits to Twilight”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:42:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Final Destination / Vacation: Death and Chevy Chase called spiritual embodiments of darkness.
    “Death and Chevy Chase.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:44:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about The Mummy: Mummy episode would cover the three Fraser films plus the Cruise one.
    “we would cover the 3 Frasers and the cruise.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:45:34 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Cheech and Chong: Meme: Cheech and Chong as blank check during paternity leave.
    “Dave's not here.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:48:40 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Saw / Rocky: Rocky waking in a meat freezer would punch the traps.
    “He's going to start punching the traps.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:51:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Rocky IV: The robot given to Paulie is a favorite character; Paulie keeps trying to find a way to be intimate with it.
    “The robot Rocky 4 is one of my favorite characters in the history of cinema”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:51:52 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Saw: Billy the puppet would beat Rocky because he is too small to reach.
    “I just imagined like the puppet's bicycling around him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:52:26 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

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