Blank Check — Patreon: You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free)

Published 2020-07-12; 2:06:12 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Bobby Finger, Lindsey Weber.

Subject films: You've Got Mail (1998).

On the transcript: Auto-transcript with no speaker labels and many mishearings of names; Ben Hosley is not mentioned or audible as present, so he is omitted. Film mention counts are regex tallies and approximate (the subject-film count includes 'this movie').

Added from the extractor's memory, not said

Guesses at corrected names in transcript_quality.mangled_names (e.g. Doom Generation, House of Yes, Mission Impossible) come from memory, not from the transcript.
The 'Michael' film year 1996 and 'Addicted to Love' 1997 in films are from memory; the speakers give no year.
Roles for Nora Ephron on Heartburn (writer), Mixed Nuts, Lucky Numbers, Bewitched (director) follow the speakers' loose phrasing plus memory.

Films that came up

Claims (65)

contrast (contrast): You've Got Mail → When Harry Met Sally. This film's quotes are longer and less snappy than When Harry Met Sally's.
“This movie doesn't have like something like when Harry Met Sally is so snappy.”
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craft (craft): Nora Ephron → Seinfeld (TV series). An Ephron one-liner dropped into dialogue is like Seinfeld lifting Jerry's stand-up bits into an episode.
“Whenever Nora Efron puts in like a Noraism, it reminds me of watching Seinfeld where like they just fully put one of Jerry's stand-up lines in the dialogue for no reason.”
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theme (theme): You've Got Mail → Julie & Julia. Ephron's last film is her overt food movie, though food runs through all her films.
“And obviously her last movie is her like overt food movie.”
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theme (theme): You've Got Mail → Sleepless in Seattle. Another memorable Ephron food moment: the apple in Sleepless in Seattle.
“The Apple and sleepless in Seattle.”
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theme (theme): You've Got Mail → When Harry Met Sally. Food scenes recur across Ephron's films: Katz's deli, the garnish here, the pie in Heartburn.
“And even obviously, like Cats's deli in... When Harry Met Sally and the Garnish here, like, and the pie in heartburn.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:04:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Dabney Coleman → Boardwalk Empire (TV series). The speaker last remembers Coleman in Boardwalk Empire as Nucky's old mentor.
“The last time I remember seeing him was, remember he was in Boardwalk Empire?”
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contrast (contrast): You've Got Mail → Sleepless in Seattle. Sleepless in Seattle has a more convoluted plot yet runs an hour 45; You've Got Mail runs too long.
“Like sleepless in Seattle, which has a more convoluted plot than this, is an hour 45.”
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career (career): John Randolph → Seinfeld (TV series). Randolph is the actor Jerry Stiller replaced as Frank Costanza.
“I know him as, as the, as the man that Jerry Stiller replaced as Frank Costanza.”
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lineage (lineage): You've Got Mail → When Harry Met Sally. The party scene where someone says they read the writer's piece is lifted from When Harry Met Sally.
“Which is also, which is a scene that's ultimately like lifted from when Harry met Sally.”
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career (career): Greg Kinnear → Mystery Men. Kinnear's next year he plays the Baxter of superheroes, continuing the guy-who-gets-dumped type.
“The next year is mystery men where he's like the Baxter of superheroes.”
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career (career): Greg Kinnear → As Good as It Gets. Ephron and Delia wanted the actor after his As Good as It Gets notices and he was about to blow up.
“Uh, it's Delia Nora Efron, go see as good as it gets.”
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industry (industry): Greg Kinnear → You've Got Mail. Kinnear agreed to take the part on condition that his character's exit be the softer restaurant scene.
“Kinnear said, I'll do the movie if this is how my character line ends.”
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industry (industry): Nora Ephron → Amy Pascal. Ephron's films usually began with a powerful woman producer or executive: Pascal, Obst, here Schuler Donner.
“So like so much of her career is like Amy Pascal and Linda Opst, and this one is Lauren Schuler Donner.”
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career (career): Lauren Schuler Donner → X-Men. Her producing career leans masculine and she got tied to X-Men.
“even if you look at her career prior to like X-Men and everything, it's mostly pretty masculine films.”
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career (career): Lauren Schuler Donner → Free Willy. Her earlier credits include Free Willy, Dave, Assassins, Lethal Weapon.
“she did Dave? Oh, I love it. But I'm also looking here like Assassins, Lethal Weapon movies, any given Sunday.”
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industry (industry): Warner Bros. → The Shop Around the Corner. Warner merged with Turner and inherited its library, then looked for remakes.
“They've merged with Turner, so they've just inherited a lot of the Turner library, which includes so many classics.”
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lineage (lineage): You've Got Mail → The Shop Around the Corner. Warner Brothers inherited the Turner library and the producer picked The Shop Around the Corner to remake.
“Lauren Schuler Donner looks at the library and goes, huh, shop around the corner.”
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lineage (lineage): Nora Ephron → The Shop Around the Corner. Ephron said she and Delia loved the original film and its musical version.
“Nor Efron goes, oh, Delia and I, that's one of our favorite movies ever and one of our favorite musicals ever.”
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lineage (lineage): You've Got Mail → She Loves Me (stage musical). Griffin lists the earlier versions the story had been through, including the musical.
“She loves me shop around the corner and in the summertime.”
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contrast (contrast): You've Got Mail → The Shop Around the Corner. In every earlier version the rivals are coworkers whose jobs are at stake; here they run rival businesses and she is not poor.
“So so much of the rivalry between the 2 characters is they're fighting for who becomes the most valuable employee of this store because if one of them nudges out the other, their entire life might be ruined.”
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lineage (lineage): You've Got Mail → Ninotchka. Ephron borrowed the idea of rivals who are two sides of one coin from a Lubitsch picture.
“I mean she's pulling from like a different Lubich movie, which is here are 2 people who are opposite sides of the coin, don't realize they get along that way.”
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contrast (contrast): You've Got Mail → The Net. You've Got Mail has aged far better than The Net, which claimed to understand the internet.
“Like it has aged so much better than a movie like the net.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:42:03 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Julie & Julia → Nora Ephron. Ephron grasped early how blogs worked and translated a personal weblog into narrative.
“I mean, even just making Julie and Julia into a movie from start to finish, like how cool blogs were and how important they were and how to translate the idea of a personal weblog into narrative or whatever.”
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career (career): Heather Burns → Miss Congeniality. Burns keeps turning up in Sandra Bullock movies.
“she's in so many Sandra Bullock movies, right.”
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career (career): Dave Chappelle → A Star Is Born. Watching Chappelle here made the speaker think of his good work in A Star Is Born.
“Dave Chappelle, like so good in a Star is Born, just incredible.”
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career (career): Dave Chappelle → Half Baked. One of his early movies came out around the same time as Half Baked.
“this and half baked or the same year, maybe?”
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craft (craft): Tom Hanks → Dave Chappelle. Hanks creates friend chemistry with nearly any actor he works with.
“I also got a sense that Tom Hanks is very good at creating friend chemistry with almost any person he's ever worked with on film.”
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verdict (verdict): Mixed Nuts → Nora Ephron. The acidic Ephron films, Mixed Nuts, Lucky Numbers, Bewitched, are the ones people think of as her bombs.
“bomb are the ones where she tries to go kind of acidic and like mix nuts, lucky numbers, bewitch, you know.”
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craft (craft): You've Got Mail → The Shop Around the Corner. Three scenes appear almost verbatim in all three screen versions, including the friend's line about her coloring.
“3 scenes that exist almost verbatim in all 3 movie versions, which are the scene with the friend, the Dave Chappelle scene where he takes a look at her.”
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theme (theme): You've Got Mail → Sleepless in Seattle. Ryan's loneliness is only hinted at in Sleepless but is the persistent subject here.
“This movie's so much more honest about how sad she is.”
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craft (craft): You've Got Mail → The Godfather. Ephron habitually references movies that men love, such as The Godfather (going to the mattresses), Casablanca, and The Dirty Dozen.
“There's also the godfather, you know, the, which is a classic Efron thing, like Casablanca, um, Harry Metzali, and the Dirty Dozen”
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career (career): Steve Zahn → Out of Sight. Zahn made Out of Sight the same year.
“This is the same year as out of sight, which is awesome in.”
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people (people): Parker Posey → Mixed Nuts. Posey had worked with Ephron before as the rollerblader in Mixed Nuts.
“And Parker Posey is, of course, in mixed nuts.”
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career (career): Parker Posey → Kicking and Screaming. Posey was the queen of indie cinema, and a mainstream role was still a novelty.
“This is when she's in this, I feel like she's just fully the queen of indie cinema, right?”
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lineage (lineage): Parker Posey → High Fidelity (TV series). A Posey episode of the High Fidelity series felt like Patricia grown older.
“I always think of that five fidelity woman as the future Patricia, like that is just what she became, you know, that woman.”
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contrast (contrast): Nancy Meyers → You've Got Mail. Meyers was starting then and would have paired everyone off at the end; Ephron did not.
“Nancy Myers is starting, you know, around the same time as this movie's coming out and she's like, yeah, baby, everyone's going to be together at the end.”
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contrast (contrast): Tom Hanks → The Bonfire of the Vanities. In Bonfire he cannot be unsavory because his likability shows through; here the charm works against Ryan's character.
“even when he's playing his most unsavory, there's still something kind of charming and likable about Tom Hanks, and he cannot dim.”
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craft (craft): Marielle Heller → A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Heller said she cracked the film by realizing Mr. Rogers is the antagonist.
“I couldn't make sense of how to tackle this movie, and then I reread the script, and I realized Mr. Rogers is the antagonist of the...”
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career (career): Tom Hanks → A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Hanks as Mr. Rogers works because both are iconic nice men nobody knows.
“Tom Hanks is the same character in our culture as Mr. Rogers is in people who have Mr. Rogers in their culture.”
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career (career): Tom Hanks → Road to Perdition. Perdition plays the murderer-gangster against Hanks's innate warmth.
“something like, um, a road to perdition, which is sort of like the most villainous character.”
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career (career): Tom Hanks → The Circle. Hanks plays a very bad Mark Zuckerberg type in a poor movie.
“He plays the Mark Zuckerberg character in the circle, a very bad guy.”
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career (career): Tom Hanks → The Ladykillers. The speakers name The Ladykillers as the last time he played a pure villain.
“He's also, of course, the villain, the Lady Coast.”
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career (career): Meg Ryan → Addicted to Love. Ryan can play dark and unhinged, as in Addicted to Love; Hanks cannot.
“Meg Ryan has more character actor versatility than Hanks does in terms of how she can play with the persona.”
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career (career): Tom Hanks → Turner & Hooch. Turner & Hooch is offered as Hanks's weird rom-com.
“Yeah, Turner on Hooch. That's his weird rom-com.”
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career (career): Meg Ryan → City of Angels. The same year Ryan also made City of Angels, dismissed as a chick flick.
“This year she has, you've got Mail, and she has City of Angels, which, despite being a remake of a German masterpiece, is roundly just dismisses like, eh, Chick Flick, right?”
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what-if (what-if): City of Angels → Face/Off. The speaker proposes an angel swap in the spirit of Face/Off.
“I think Nicholas Cage and John Travolta should have done a face off south swap.”
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what-if (what-if): Nicolas Cage → Michael. Swap Cage and Travolta: Cage in Michael, Travolta in City of Angels, since Cage is weirder and Travolta the better romantic lead.
“I think Nicholas Cage should have played Michael and John Travolta should have been in City of Angels with Meg Ryan.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:24:12 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Meg Ryan → Hanging Up. The Meg Ryan film Hanging Up will get a Patreon bonus episode.
“hanging up, which, Griffin, we're going to discuss on Patreon.”
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career (career): Meg Ryan → Kate & Leopold. After the scandal she makes Kate and Leopold, her last decent hit.
“Kate and Leopold, which I love is, you know, decent hit and is a great movie, and that's more her just being like, I'll do a rom-com.”
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career (career): Meg Ryan → Russell Crowe. The scandal around Russell Crowe is blamed for wrecking Ryan's career, a sexist outcome.
“The Russell Crowe thing totally ruins her.”
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people (people): Jack Quaid → Meg Ryan. Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid's son has no ego and chooses good projects.
“He is also one of those dudes who, for being the son of 2 massive movie stars, has no fucking ego, no entitlement whatsoever.”
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craft (craft): You've Got Mail → Sleepless in Seattle. Both Hanks-Ryan films are experiments on the rom-com: one withholds the couple until the last scene, the other puts them together and makes them unpleasant.
“sleepless in Seattle is obviously like, can you create a rom-com with chemistry between the 2 actors without them ever actually communicating until the last scene of the movie.”
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verdict (verdict): Enough Said → You've Got Mail. Enough Said is Bobby's favorite rom-com since You've Got Mail, with the same messy, deceitful lovers.
“the brom-com that I think is my favorite, since you've got mail, is probably enough said, which I think captures this dynamic pretty closely”
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industry (industry): The Lovebirds → Long Shot. Both are mid-budget star-driven comedies, the kind that struggles now.
“the lovebirds, that movie that just came out that's on Netflix is one of those types of movies.”
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verdict (verdict): Sleeping with Other People → (modern rom-coms). The speaker names it as the best modern rom-com.
“what's my model for the best rom-com of the last 10 years, like modern, is sleeping with other people, which I love.”
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lineage (lineage): Leslie Headland → Nora Ephron. Headland could have an Ephron/Meyers/Crowe/Brooks type career.
“And I feel like Leslie Hedland is someone who is kind of an heir apparent too.”
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industry (industry): Nora Ephron → Nancy Meyers. Four rom-com filmmakers covered on Blank Check; two of the men got Oscar nominations, the women did not.
“they're Cameron Crowe, James L. Brooks, Nora Efron, and Nancy Myers, and 2 of those 4 guys got best picture nominations of best director nominations.”
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craft (craft): Nora Ephron → Sidney Lumet. Ephron rehearsed her casts in a taped-out black-box theater, a method the speaker links to Sidney Lumet.
“Did extensive rehearsals for all of her movies in a way that the only other person I know who did this in the last 30 or 40 years was Sidney Lametz”
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career (career): Tom Hanks → Nora Ephron. Hanks did a Broadway play partly as tribute to the dying Ephron.
“I think he almost pointedly did that play because he knew she was dying.”
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industry (industry): Patch Adams → Little Voice. Patch Adams reached the Globes' top category while Little Voice, with two acting winners, did not.
“Patch Adams made it to the big category, but this little voice that got both of those performances did not even get the nod for itself.”
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industry (industry): Brenda Blethyn → Secrets & Lies. Her Little Voice nomination was helped by the earlier Secrets and Lies nomination.
“And she snuck in because they had just given her the nom for secrets and lies, which she's good in.”
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verdict (verdict): The Prince of Egypt → Disney animation (unnamed). The speaker rates Prince of Egypt above many Disney films of the era.
“One of the best is better than so many, so many Disney movies from that time period.”
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lineage (lineage): Star Trek: Insurrection → Star Trek: First Contact. Insurrection was a big Christmas release only because First Contact had been a hit.
“Where they're like, okay, 1st contact, huge hit. Let's do one where it's like, F. Murray Abraham is a villain”
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what-if (what-if): George Clooney → Jack Frost. The Jack Frost snowman was built on George Clooney's likeness before he dropped out, and Keaton took the role.
“That is pointedly snowman George Clooney. It is meant to be George Clooney.”
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career (career): Michael Keaton → Jackie Brown. Keaton's leading-man bloom was already off: he was about the sixth lead in Jackie Brown.
“he's kind of like the 6th lead in Jackie Brown.”
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fun, about You've Got Mail: The garnish caviar scene is pure Ephron etiquette advice, slipped into a movie.
“She even puts it in a freaking movie that says, the caviar is a garnish.”
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fun, about You've Got Mail: Lindsey and Bobby ran an annotated, pop-up-video style screening at Housing Works with a raffle of items Ephron donated; Bobby met his husband there.
“Because it's the day I met my husband?”
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fun, about Nora Ephron: Ephron's assistant left the donated items with the doorman, in an orthopedic shoe store bag, before anyone knew she was sick.
“bag that the that the assistant gave it to me in was for was from an orthopedic shoe store.”
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fun, about You've Got Mail: To fit a hard out the screening cut the Dabney Coleman and father subplot and nobody noticed.
“And we cut the Dabney Coleman subplot.”
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fun, about Dabney Coleman: The hosts all shared a false memory that Coleman had died; he was alive, 88 years old.
“You can't fuck with Buffalo Bill.”
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fun, about John Randolph: Randolph was the first actor to play Frank Costanza on Seinfeld; Jerry Stiller replaced him and the episode was reshot for syndication.
“They reshot it for syndication.”
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fun, about You've Got Mail: A cut serial-killer-on-rooftops subplot survives in fragments; the final reference explains why he ghosted her.
“they caught the rooftop killer and they're like, well, that explains it, and then they're done.”
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fun, about Greg Kinnear: Kinnear's pitch gave the restaurant breakup scene its soft ending.
“Kinnear said, I'll do the movie if this is how my character line ends.”
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fun, about You've Got Mail: AOL let the filmmakers use the title free; two years on it was overplayed and three years on AOL was bombing.
“And then AOL let them use it free.”
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fun, about Nora Ephron: Ephron blogged on Huffington Post about divorce, and the speaker marvels that a writer at her level embraced the internet.
“A lot of writers at her level would have really looked down on the fact that they would be able to block her and she embraced it.”
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fun, about Alec Baldwin: Gossip that co-op boards kept rejecting Alec Baldwin's family after his punch-ups outside the front door.
“they kept on getting rejected by different co-op boards because they'd be like, we don't want him fucking punching a guy”
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fun, about You've Got Mail: The fall leaves in the movie are CGI because they shot in the summer, per the commentary track by Ephron and Schuler Donner.
“They're like, all of the fall stuff is CGI, baby.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:46:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Steve Zahn: A throwaway line: a six-bedroom for 450 a month.
“Steve Zahn says that he has a 6 bedroom for 450 a month.”
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fun, about Dave Chappelle: Chappelle delivers the odd line 'she has the same coloring as' that was written for an older Eastern European actor in the original.
“if you look up the actor who played the best friend role and shop around the corner, it's like an older Eastern European man with a mustache.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:58:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Greg Kinnear / Steve Zahn / Heather Burns: The hosts all misremember Zahn and Burns ending up together, so declare it canon.
“I had I had a false kazam like memory that Zahn and Burns ended up together at the end of this movie”
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fun, about You've Got Mail: The Zabar's scene was shot overnight from 10 PM to 5 AM; Hanks used the store PA to keep the extras happy.
“So they filmed the entire thing from like 10 PM until 5 AM.”
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fun, about Tom Hanks: Hanks's PA announcement at Zabar's, quoted by Ephron.
“ladies and gentlemen, shoppers at Zabars, want to announce that Meg Ryan is appetizing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:13:07 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Nicolas Cage: Griffin's pitch: Cage and Travolta swap roles so Cage is Michael and Travolta is in City of Angels.
“Nicholas Cage should have played Michael and John Travolta should have been in City of Angels with Meg Ryan.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:24:12 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Chet Hanks: The day Tom Hanks had coronavirus, Chet Hanks became an online voice of reason.
“Chet Hayes became a voice of reason online”
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fun, about Tom Hanks: Hanks called the Cafe Lalo scene, a 12-page, four-night shoot, the hardest of his career.
“It was a 4 night shoot.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:39:22 · Griffin Newman (0.65 sure it was them)
fun, about Nora Ephron: Ephron rehearsed her casts for weeks in a taped-out black-box theater with fake props.
“tape out the sets and give them fake props and run every scene with full blocking weeks in advance”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:39:31 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Tom Hanks: Hanks's own line on the Lalo scene.
“I think it is the most sophisticated scene I have ever seen in a movie that is not supposed to be viewed as sophisticated.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:40:13 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Tom Hanks: The script supervisor fixed Hanks's block on the Lalo scene: he stays because he is trying to build the courage to say it is him.
“Your motivation, this scene, is you think if you stay longer, you'll finally build the courage to say it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:42:15 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about 1998 Golden Globes: David's guessing game: name the five best comedy actor nominees; Michael Caine won for Little Voice.
“Did Michael Cain win best actor in a comedy for Little Voice?”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:47:29 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about You've Got Mail: The box office for December 18, 1998: You've Got Mail at number one, ahead of Prince of Egypt, A Bug's Life, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Jack Frost.
“So number one, though, it's you've got mail, $18 million.”
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fun, about Jack Frost: The animatronic Jack Frost snowman was built from the likeness of George Clooney, who dropped out late; Michael Keaton replaced him.
“But they built it off of the likeness of the actor who was supposed to play the title role who dropped out very late.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:54:19 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Michael Keaton: Keaton jokingly should be paying Clooney a monthly salary for getting him out of the movie.
“that's how Michael Keaton survived without making a film for the next 10 years.”
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fun, about Podcast: Closing gag: the episode ends on 'That podcast is a garnish.'
“That podcast is a garnish.”
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Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Loves digging through the Blu-ray extras and commentaries for a movie and reporting back. Fond of rom-com construction and the industry backstory of how a film got made. Grew up downtown, and his mother's anti-chain-store politics shaped how he saw this movie as a kid.
David Sims (host): A native Upper West Sider (also raised partly in England) who knows the neighborhood the film is set in. Loves Meg Ryan's weirder rom-coms (Addicted to Love, Practical Magic) and award-season history. Likes to run quizzes and box-office games.
Bobby Finger (guest): Calls You've Got Mail his favorite movie and watches it a few times a year. Loves the elevator scene and the hospitality and New Yorkiness of Ephron's writing. Misses Ephron-style rom-coms, not rom-coms in general; Enough Said is his favorite since.
Lindsey Weber (guest): A co-creator of the Housing Works annotated screening. Defends Ephron's influence on how all rom-coms look now, and loves the film's casting. Likes how Ephron blends sweetness with real sadness.

The show's recurring bits

Names the transcriber got wrong

Efron/Afron/Enora Efron = Nora Ephron; 'Delia Nora Efron' = Delia and Nora Ephron; 'Efron sisters' = Ephron sisters
'Black Jack, Griffin and David' and 'my chat' in the opening = Blank Check with Griffin and David / Blank Check
Lindsay = Lindsey Weber; 'Who Weekly' = Who? Weekly
Sarah Ramirez (Zabar's cashier) probably Sara Ramirez; 'Sarah Amir'
Gene Stapleton = Jean Stapleton; Vian Cox = probably Veanne Cox; Katie Finneran correct
'Lubich' = Lubitsch; 'Anotchka/Nanotchka' = Ninotchka; 'Lametz' = Lumet
'Mario Heller/Meryel Heller' = Marielle Heller; 'Matthew Reese' = Matthew Rhys
'Chet Hayes' = Chet Hanks; 'Rita's son' = Rita Wilson's son; 'Emmy Rawson' = Emmy Rossum; 'Aussie and Harriet' = Ozzie and Harriet
'Griffin Dunn' = Griffin Dunne; 'Hedland' = Leslie Headland; 'Nancy Myers' = Nancy Meyers; 'Linda Opst' = Linda Obst; 'Schuller Donner' = Schuler Donner
'Great Funds' = Ralph Fiennes; 'Jeff Tilbum' = Jeff Goldblum; 'Benini' = Benigni; 'McCellen' = McKellen; 'Nolty' = Nolte; 'Cudrow' = Kudrow; 'Boyegas' = Boyega
'game generation' (indie list) probably The Doom Generation; 'house' probably The House of Yes; 'five fidelity' = High Fidelity; 'the Martianist' unclear (perhaps a Golden Globes title); 'Cats's deli' = Katz's deli; 'Jackie' etc fine
'Dimension Impossible' at the close = Mission Impossible (Blank Check Special Features series); 'Little boys' = Little Voice; 'Bullwark' = Bulworth; 'Lady Coast' = The Ladykillers; 'Trucho' = Truman Show; 'Dapney' = Dabney
'Maskazorro' = Mask of Zorro; 'Garnish/cab' bits in the intro are speech-to-text noise
Speaker labels are absent; many attributions are guesses

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Who's talking

The show's recurring bits

Names the transcriber got wrong