Blank Check — Patreon: Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia

Published 2020-07-11; 1:39:27 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Sonia Saraiya.

Subject films: Hanging Up (2000).

On the transcript: No speaker labels; attributions are inferred from context and are often low-confidence since Griffin and David swap monologues. Ben Hosley does not appear to be present; only three voices (Griffin, David, Sonia). The transcript runs about 1:39, shorter than the stated 1.7 hours.

Films that came up

subject (1)

Hanging Up

passing (46)

Star Wars · Annie Hall · Top Gun · The Opposite of Sex · Clockwatchers · Romy and Michele's High School Reunion · Analyze This · Marci X · Father of the Bride · The First Wives Club · Something's Gotta Give · Because I Said So · China Beach (TV series) · Elephant · Pasadena (TV pilot) · Elizabeth · Shine · Dennis the Menace · Grumpy Old Men · IQ · Grumpier Old Men · The Odd Couple II · Out to Sea · The Shining · Proof of Life · Kate & Leopold · The Net · Titanic · Seabiscuit · Spy Kids 3-D · Tomb Raider 2 · The Whole Ten Yards · The Adventures of Pete & Pete (TV series) · Mission to Mars · Equilibrium · The Thirteenth Floor · Frequency · The Chronicles of Riddick · The Tigger Movie · Scream 3 · The Beach · Boiler Room · American Beauty · The Cider House Rules · The Green Mile · The Hurricane

anecdote (8)

Mixed Nuts · The Fast and the Furious · Heaven (1987 documentary) · The Girl with the Crazy Brother · Wildflower · Braveheart · Devs (TV series) · Shakespeare in Love

compared (12)

You've Got Mail · Lucky Numbers · Birds of Prey · Manhattan · Twin Peaks (TV series) · Unstrung Heroes · Tuesdays with Morrie (TV film) · Sleepless in Seattle · When Harry Met Sally · Funny People · Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan · One Fine Day

recommended (3)

The Whole Nine Yards · Snow Day · Pitch Black

Claims (45)

  1. craft (craft): Hanging Up → Nora Ephron. The Nixon smoking-gun phone joke is the moment that feels most like Ephron comedic balance.
    “That is also, that is the thing that feels the most effronny.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:05:09 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Hanging Up → Mixed Nuts. Like a movie a guest watched alone as a child, Hanging Up is a household movie in the speaker's sibling relationship.
    “movies that are like, this is a household movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:07:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Hanging Up → The Fast and the Furious. The house in Hanging Up is the same house used in The Fast and the Furious.
    “that's the house that's in the fast and the furious, but in my mind, that's the hanging up house.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:08:35 · Sonia Saraiya (0.55 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Hanging Up → You've Got Mail. Hanging Up is the phone/cell-phone sibling of the Ephron sisters' earlier email movie.
    “isn't it funny that there's a Nora Efron project to, like, in the infancy of email that's like an email movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:14:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. verdict (verdict): Delia Ephron → Diane Keaton. Delia Ephron reportedly said Keaton ruined the best thing she would ever write.
    “She ruined the best thing I'll ever write.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:15:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. verdict (verdict): Sonia Saraiya → Hanging Up. Saraiya did not like it in the theater and found it anticlimactic, yet cried at the last scene.
    “I didn't actually like it when I saw it in the theater”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:20:53 · Sonia Saraiya (0.90 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Lisa Kudrow → Lucky Numbers. Kudrow had two Nora Ephron films in 2000, both flops, and is arguably the best performer in each.
    “I'm in 2 Nora Efron movies this year.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:24:11 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Lisa Kudrow → The Opposite of Sex. Kudrow had an earlier run of indie supporting roles that marked her as a good supporting actress.
    “she's like a good supporting actress where she has opposite of sex.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:24:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. career (career): Lisa Kudrow → Marci X. Kudrow's film career largely stops after these, with Marci X shot around the same time but delayed.
    “her film career kind of stops after this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:25:13 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  10. theme (theme): Hanging Up → Birds of Prey. Both make you wish the final act, where the characters finally share scenes, had been the whole movie.
    “you go, I wish this had been the entire movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:27:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. career (career): Diane Keaton → Father of the Bride. Keaton is in her 1990s comedy zone here, as in Father of the Bride and First Wives Club.
    “is doing in like father of the bride and um, uh, 1st wives club and whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:30:33 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  12. contrast (contrast): Diane Keaton → Manhattan. Keaton plays the off-putting-but-winning woman as in Manhattan, but here the humanity is missing.
    “Like the thing that a movie like Manhattan is trying to unpack”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:31:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. theme (theme): Hanging Up → Unstrung Heroes. Keaton's earlier film about a boy and his difficult family sounds similar to Hanging Up.
    “There are changes, it gets closer to his uncles, sounds similar to hanging up.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:36:11 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  14. career (career): Diane Keaton → Hanging Up. Hanging Up was Keaton's biggest directing project and nearly the end of her directing career.
    “And after that, she directs the pilot episode of Mike White's Pasadena for Fox and never directs ever again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:36:22 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  15. career (career): Diane Keaton → Twin Peaks (TV series). Keaton directed a Twin Peaks episode, which helps explain the strange energy of Hanging Up.
    “this does feel like a Nora and Delia Efron script directed by someone who did an episode of Twin Peaks.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:36:41 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  16. craft (craft): Diane Keaton → Hanging Up. Keaton says she leaves actors alone, yet the film's big choices came in the editing room with gauzy crossfades.
    “her biggest decisions are being made in the editing room at this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:38:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. craft (craft): Hanging Up → Elizabeth. The score comes from the composer of Elizabeth and Shine and is more conventional or weighty than expected.
    “the score from this movie is done by the man who did the score, his 2 previous, like, big scores before this, his 2 Oscar nominations were Elizabeth, and Shine.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:38:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. craft (craft): Hanging Up → Twin Peaks (TV series). Dream-state moments in Hanging Up read as Lynchian, beyond the Keaton Twin Peaks connection.
    “Yes, it felt lynchian to me and not just because of the twin peaks connection.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:39:54 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  19. contrast (contrast): Walter Matthau → Dennis the Menace. Matthau's grump in Dennis the Menace was a polished act; in Hanging Up it feels real and raw.
    “And here you're like, oh, this is this feels very real and very raw.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:41:18 · Sonia Saraiya (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. career (career): Walter Matthau → Grumpy Old Men. Matthau reinvented himself as a 1990s box office star by doubling down on being a crank.
    “completely reinventing himself as a movie star just by doubling down on being a fucking crank.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:41:43 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. career (career): Walter Matthau → IQ. Matthau played Einstein in IQ, one of his two collaborations with Meg Ryan.
    “One of his 2 Meg Ryan collaborations.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:42:13 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  22. career (career): Walter Matthau → Jack Lemmon. Matthau and Lemmon made four movies together in the 1990s after earlier decades of pairings.
    “They made 4 movies together in the 90s.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:42:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. verdict (verdict): Walter Matthau → Hanging Up. Matthau's performance was good enough that a better-liked film might have brought an Oscar nomination.
    “if this movie had been 10% more liked, it feels like he would have gotten an Oscar nomination.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:43:39 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. contrast (contrast): Jack Lemmon → Tuesdays with Morrie (TV film). Lemmon's sentimental farewell in Tuesdays with Morrie is set against Matthau's rawer final role.
    “Jack Lemon's last performance, basically, was Tuesdays with Mari”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:44:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → Tuesdays with Morrie (TV film). Matthau's menacing last role is set against Lemmon's sappy farewell.
    “in my final role, I play Hollywood's Toxic Masculinity”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:45:00 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  26. industry (industry): Tracee Ellis Ross → Hanging Up. Tracee Ellis Ross in a thankless assistant role is offered as an example of women of color in service roles in 90s rom-coms.
    “you see a lot of like women of color showing up in thankless roles either as like service workers or personal assistants”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:49:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  27. craft (craft): Hanging Up → The Shining. The film feels like re-edited footage cut into a different genre, like trailer recuts of The Shining.
    “The movie almost feels like one of those like trailer re-edits that used to be so popular”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:57:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  28. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → Sleepless in Seattle. Ephron made chemistry between leads who never share a room in Sleepless; Hanging Up's phone-separated sisters lack it.
    “Nora Efron made a fucking movie, Sleepless in Seattle, where your 2 leads have chemistry together, despite not actually speaking until the last 10 minutes of the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:58:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → When Harry Met Sally. When Harry Met Sally is also built on phone conversations yet has chemistry.
    “so much of that movie is phone conversations, and it does feel like there's chemistry between those people.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:59:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. theme (theme): Diane Keaton → Oprah Winfrey. Georgia's magazine is described as Oprah launching O magazine after a lifetime of being Oprah.
    “the only analog to what Diane Keaton is in this movie is like Oprah starting O magazine.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:05:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  31. career (career): Meg Ryan → Proof of Life. Hanging Up marks the start of the end of Meg Ryan's run, the same year as Proof of Life.
    “this certainly is sort of the beginning of the end because this is the year of proof of life.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:07:18 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  32. industry (industry): Hanging Up → Funny People. Rich-person movies cost more because the locations must be rented and filled, as Apatow said of Funny People.
    “it costs a lot of money to make a movie about a rich person.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:08:01 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  33. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Space can be faked cheaply as in Wrath of Khan, but rich LA cannot.
    “You can't fake rich LA, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:09:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. theme (theme): Hanging Up → One Fine Day. Both are dated early cell-phone Hollywood films whose phone problems no longer exist.
    “It's the same thing about one fine day, another classic of early cell phone Hollywood filmmaking”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:10:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  35. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → You've Got Mail. You've Got Mail still holds up because it understood email's psychology; Hanging Up's phone premise has aged out.
    “you've got mail and you're like, they understood the psychological and sociological impact of email, even if the technology changed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:11:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  36. industry (industry): Hanging Up → Titanic. The podcast format lets it cover films like Hanging Up alongside Titanic or Star Wars.
    “a podcast that could also cover things like Titanic or Star Wars”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:12:09 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  37. lineage (lineage): The Whole Nine Yards → The Whole Ten Yards. The Whole Nine Yards was a hit big enough to earn an ill-advised sequel.
    “a big enough hit that they made an ill-advised sequel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:19:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  38. people (people): The Whole Ten Yards → Kevin Pollak. The sequel's hook was Kevin Pollak playing multiple characters under makeup.
    “the big hook to the sequel is like, uh, uh, what's his name? Kevin Pollock is going to play multiple characters under extensive makeup.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:19:30 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  39. programming (programming): Hanging Up → The Whole Nine Yards. The Whole Nine Yards was the comedy for the boys; Hanging Up opened with the same money as the female-led comedy.
    “That's like the comedy for the boys and hanging up, which is opening with the exact same amount of money, is more of a female lead comedy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:19:54 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  40. people (people): Chris Elliott → Snow Day. Chris Elliott, the villain of Snow Day, made it a great antagonist performance for the speaker as a kid.
    “I remember dragging my father to see it a 2nd time because I was like, you have to see this Chris Elliott performance.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:21:25 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  41. lineage (lineage): Snow Day → The Adventures of Pete & Pete (TV series). Snow Day was originally written to be the Pete and Pete movie, and its two siblings track Big Pete and Little Pete.
    “Do you know that Snow Day was written to be the Pete and Pete movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:21:46 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  42. lineage (lineage): Pitch Black → The Chronicles of Riddick. Chronicles of Riddick is the big-budget sequel, and home video retitled Pitch Black as Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black.
    “And on the home video releases, they then retitled it, the Chronicles of Riddick, colon pitch black.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:26:19 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  43. programming (programming): Hanging Up → Pitch Black. Pitch Black opened fourth the same weekend as Hanging Up and has aged far better.
    “It's just wild to think that that came out the same weekend as hanging up.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:27:08 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  44. programming (programming): The Tigger Movie → Walt Disney Company. Disney was releasing Pooh movies meant for direct-to-video in theaters outside its summer and holiday windows.
    “the only movies they weren't dropping in summer or holiday season were those poo movies”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:27:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  45. theme (theme): Hanging Up → American Beauty. Early 2000 cinema, Hanging Up included, reflected pre-9/11 confidence that would not last.
    “And like, you're not going to make a movie like this a few years later.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:35:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items (25)

  1. fun, about Hanging Up: IMDb carrot-costume quote: Maddie's demand to fight, answered by "fine" in unison.
    “Ever since I was 7 years old for Halloween, I dressed up as a carrot and you 2 snuck off without me.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:02:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Hanging Up: The Nixon smoking-gun phone call is the favorite joke and feels most Ephron.
    “My favorite joke in the movie is when Meg Ryan picks up the phone and it's Nixon, the smoking gun call”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:04:56 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Hanging Up: The house is the one from The Fast and the Furious; for Saraiya it stays the Hanging Up house.
    “that's the house that's in the fast and the furious, but in my mind, that's the hanging up house.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:08:35 · Sonia Saraiya (0.55 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Hanging Up: Delia Ephron, overheard in a theater, said Keaton ruined the best thing she would write (told by Bobby on the You've Got Mail episode).
    “She ruined the best thing I'll ever write.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:15:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Cloris Leachman: Leachman's 20-second scene as the abandoning mother is called the Thanos of parenting.
    “She is like the Thanos of parenting.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:20:37 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Sonia Saraiya: Saraiya identifies as Georgia, the self-obsessed magazine sister who moved away; her sister answers the phone for the parents.
    “I am the Georgia character.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:22:51 · Sonia Saraiya (0.90 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Sonia Saraiya: The running bit is "Sonia magazine" with a giant banner behind her.
    “You do have hanging behind you a giant Sonia banner.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:23:37 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Meg Ryan: The film has Meg Ryan hit by cars repeatedly; her family notes it is the third time this year.
    “And then later, her husband and kid are like, what's that, like, the 3rd time this year?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:29:54 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Hanging Up: Lisa Kudrow's subplot features a dog the size of a mountain.
    “she has this dog, the size of a mountain.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:31:12 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Diane Keaton: Keaton's directing career before Hanging Up: Belinda Carlisle videos, a documentary, and a CBS special with a very sensitive title.
    “it has the very, very sensitive title of the girl with the crazy brother.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:34:54 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Diane Keaton: Her quoted philosophy: leave actors alone, talk is cheap.
    “I try to sit quietly, I try to leave the actors alone as much as possible.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:37:17 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Walter Matthau: Matthau died roughly two months after the film came out; this is his only film of the 2000s.
    “He died, I think. Two months after the movie came out.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:40:35 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Walter Matthau: Matthau's scene crashes a child's birthday party and calls the guests names and screams.
    “I have a scene where I break into a child's birthday party, call them all midgets and scream and cause violets.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:45:16 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Hanging Up: The Halloween birthday party for a five-year-old looks like it cost more than a wedding.
    “probably cost more than my wedding.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:46:14 · Sonia Saraiya (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Hanging Up: The runtime joke: a 90-minute film where the dad is in a coma around minute 82.
    “dad's going to be in a coma around 82 mins and then we're going to do some flashbacks.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:56:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Hanging Up: The film is like a trailer recut that turns a movie into another genre.
    “The movie almost feels like one of those like trailer re-edits that used to be so popular”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:57:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Nora Ephron: The mother's dictum "everything is copy" shaped the four writer sisters.
    “There's the famous, like, everything is copy thing that their mother would always say to them”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:01:55 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Nora Ephron: The famous vinaigrette recipe shows up in the plot as the sisters' fight over ownership.
    “There is this vinaigrette recipe that Nora Efron did that is like famous, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:02:35 · Sonia Saraiya (0.55 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Hanging Up: Georgia's cynical speech swells with "Georgia on My Mind" as the crowd stands.
    “Georgia on my mind swells and people rise to their feet.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:06:25 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Hanging Up: Technology dates the film at once: multiple phone lines and a fax machine.
    “there's like a fax machine and I was just like, this is quaint.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:09:52 · Sonia Saraiya (0.80 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Hanging Up: The phrase "blank check" is said 4 or 5 times in the film while they try to get Matthau to sign one.
    “The term blank check is uttered 4 or 5 times”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:13:30 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Hanging Up: Streaming on Tubi: ads timed every 14 minutes, interrupting scenes.
    “we're just gonna have an ad every 14 minutes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:15:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Snow Day: Snow Day was written as the Pete and Pete movie and is promoted by Griffin as a must-see.
    “you motherfuckers should be watching Snow Day.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:23:33 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Hanging Up: Griffin's own Hanging Up memory is seeing it in Harvard Square with an algebra teacher he disliked.
    “It was with this algebra teacher that I didn't like.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:30:09 · Griffin Newman (0.75 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about American Beauty: American Beauty was so ubiquitous it was "nearly elected president."
    “That movie was nearly elected president.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:36:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

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