Blank Check — Patreon: Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free)

Published 2018-10-28; 2:12:30 by the feed.

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

The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Bobby Finger, Ben Hosley (producer, in the room, brief interjections).

Subject films: Something's Gotta Give (2003).

On the transcript: The transcript is auto-generated with no speaker labels and frequent word errors, especially names. Most attributions between Griffin and David are guesses, so confidences are low. Romley Newman's kitchen segment is a recorded insert.

Added from the extractor's memory, not said

Jon Turteltaub identified as 'Turtle Tob/Turtle Top' from the mangled name; the transcript never gives the full name or says he directed National Treasure, only that Jon Voight called him a good 'turtle top guy'.
Kal Penn, Kaya Scodelario, Ed Zwick, Wendy Wasserstein, Ralph Fiennes, Leonardo DiCaprio, Rachel Ticotin, Toni Erdmann, Hallie, Kazaam, and Vondie Curtis-Hall are name-corrections from memory of the mangled transcript spelling, not things the speakers said.
Cher is attached to Stuck on You on the strength of a mangled exchange ('and Meryl Streep. Cher?' 'Yep.'); the speakers do not clearly say who is in the film beyond Damon and Kinnear.
times_mentioned counts transcript lines that match a pattern, so it is approximate and can overcount short titles like Honey and Transformers.

Films that came up

Claims (53)

career (career): Anger Management → Something's Gotta Give. After a bad run and time off, Nicholson came back to light comedy: Anger Management, then this.
“He came back with anger management, something's got to give.”
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programming (programming): Meet the Parents → Something's Gotta Give. Nicholson may have seen Meet the Parents and wanted a piece of that audience.
“Do you think he saw meet the parents and was like, I can do that too?”
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industry (industry): Meet the Parents → Something's Gotta Give. The two comedies are aimed at the same viewer.
“that's what these movies, they're they're aimed at the same viewer.”
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theme (theme): Something's Gotta Give → Jack Nicholson. The film is a deconstruction of Nicholson's own star persona.
“It's very much a deconstruction of his star persona.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Diane Keaton → Nancy Meyers. Keaton is Meyers's stand-in on screen.
“Diane Keaton is like her perfect representation on screen.”
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verdict (verdict): Something's Gotta Give → The Intern. Saying it is Meyers's best movie.
“it's her best movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:09:48 · Bobby Finger (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): National Treasure: Book of Secrets → The Rock. Both end on Kennedy-assassination secrets with Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris.
“there are 2 fucking Nick Cage, Ed Harris movies”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:13:22 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
industry (industry): National Treasure → The Sorcerer's Apprentice. National Treasure 3 was slowed because the studio prioritized Sorcerer's Apprentice.
“The movie got slowed down because Sorcerer's Apprentice, which they prioritized.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:13:54 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): Jon Turteltaub → The Meg. The director's success with The Meg may get National Treasure 3 moving.
“Turtle Tob might have a bit of a bunch of check after the Meg.”
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industry (industry): Mandy → National Treasure. Mandy has not convinced Disney that Cage can carry National Treasure 3.
“I don't think Disney's like, Mandy really convinced us the National Treasure 3 is a good play.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:14:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales → Transformers. Pirates 5 fits the Transformers pattern of diminishing returns.
“It sort of falls into the Transformers category”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:19:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Bumblebee → The Iron Giant. Bumblebee looks like a small Iron Giant-style film.
“It looks fairy iron giant-y.”
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lineage (lineage): Bumblebee → Transformers. The Bumblebee trailer is the first act of the first Transformers movie extended.
“the big move is the 1st movie, that's the 1st 30 minutes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:21:23 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
people (people): Frances McDormand → Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Dark of the Moon shares McDormand with this film.
“Transformers 3, Dark of the Moon, shares an actor with this film, Francis McDormand.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:23:17 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → It's Complicated. The same trick: a strong supporting character is big in the first half hour and then drops out.
“This movie does the exact same thing that it's complicated does”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:23:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → Jerry Maguire. Its time-jumping structure of long scenes then skips is like Jerry Maguire.
“It's very, it's very Jerry Maguire in that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:24:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → Nancy Meyers. The film's structure is Meyers's own and unlike her Meyers-Shyer collaborations.
“this is Nancy Meyers storytelling style and is distinctly different than the Meyers shire collaborations.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:24:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Parent Trap → Something's Gotta Give. Parent Trap may be her favorite directed film, but this is the Nancy Meyers movie.
“oh, Parent Trap might be your favorite movie that she directed, but someone's got to give is the Nancy Myers movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:27:02 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
people (people): Baby Boom → Charles Shyer. Baby Boom is the Meyers-Shyer film that got her voice most.
“That's the one that sort of got her voice the most.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:31:12 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
industry (industry): The Intern → Something's Gotta Give. The Intern's press story gave people permission to revisit all of Meyers's movies.
“it gave them permission to revisit all of her movies with that eye”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:40:48 · Bobby Finger (0.55 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Terms of Endearment → Jack Nicholson. Nicholson is unusually unvain and vulnerable, as discussed on the Terms of Endearment episode.
“he's so good at letting himself be like vulnerable and like foolish.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:46:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Something's Gotta Give → Orange County. Butterfly was already a running joke in Orange County, so it was stale for this film's opening.
“And Orange County makes the running joke of everyone's listening to butterfly.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:48:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): It's Complicated → Something's Gotta Give. Meyers's idea of how children process divorce is drawn from her own children.
“I think Nancy Meyers perception of how children process a divorce is entirely based on her children.”
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theme (theme): Jack Nicholson → Mel Gibson. Nicholson, Gibson and Baldwin are Meyers's sleazy-but-appealing leading men.
“Baldwin, Gibson, Baldwin, Gibson, and Nicholson are a trifactor.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:51:39 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Michael → Something's Gotta Give. Keanu as a possible angel prompts a question whether it remakes Michael.
“Is this a remake of Michael?”
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theme (theme): Something's Gotta Give → Defending Your Life. The white, bleached look makes the film read like a heaven set, like Defending Your Life.
“It looks like defending your life or something.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:03:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Holiday → Nancy Meyers. Meyers uses a lot of CGI backgrounds; The Holiday reportedly had heavy CGI work.
“I heard from reliable sources that the holiday costs $100 million and 20 plus CGI.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:04:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → David Fincher. Her perfectionism is compared to Fincher and Kubrick.
“it's in it, like, to a David Fincher Kubrick degree.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:05:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Stanley Kubrick. Same comparison: perfectionist takes.
“it's in it, like, to a David Fincher Kubrick degree.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:05:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Diane Keaton → Woody Allen. Keaton had long relationships with Allen, Beatty and Pacino.
“she dated Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Al Pacino.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:07:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Toni Erdmann → Jack Nicholson. A wish that Nicholson do the Toni Erdmann remake.
“God, I want him to do like that Tony Irbman remake or something.”
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contrast (contrast): Jack Nicholson → Warren Beatty. The two were Hollywood's great lovers; Beatty settled down, Nicholson never slowed.
“those were like the 2 major Hollywood lovers of their time, and then Beatty like settles down hard”
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career (career): Something's Gotta Give → The Departed. Nicholson in this film is partway toward his Departed performance.
“He's like 40% of the way to his departed performance.”
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contrast (contrast): About Schmidt → Something's Gotta Give. Nicholson was nominated for About Schmidt because he played against type; critics punished him for doing Jack elsewhere.
“the only modern one he gets the nomination for is about Schmidt, because he played so thoroughly against hype.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:11:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Grumpy Old Men → Eddie Murphy. A reported Grumpy Old Men remake with Eddie Murphy.
“they announce he's going to make a fucking grumpy old men remake.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:13:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): What Women Want → Something's Gotta Give. What Women Want has no Nancy-surrogate character, unlike this film.
“Helen Hunt is not Nancy Myers at all.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:18:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): The Intern → Nancy Meyers. Anne Hathaway plays young Nancy in The Intern.
“Hathaway's like the adventures of young Nancy.”
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contrast (contrast): Something's Gotta Give → It's Complicated. It has aged much better than It's Complicated, which people wrongly rank above it.
“it has aged so much better than it's complicated.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:25:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Alec Baldwin → Jack Nicholson. Baldwin is one-tenth of Nicholson in the casting of the two films.
“The hire Alec Baldwin is like one tenth of Nicholson.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:26:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): It's Complicated → Something's Gotta Give. It's Complicated is the sketch-comedy version of this film.
“it's complicated, feels like the sketch comedy version of this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:26:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): It's Complicated → Something's Gotta Give. The daughter here has more grace than Lake Bell's character in It's Complicated.
“there's more grace in this to her versus like the Lake Bell character”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:28:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → La La Land. Keaton's character's play, with its mirror staging, recalls Emma Stone's one-woman show in La La Land.
“it reminds me a lot of Emma Stone's one woman show in La La Land.”
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theme (theme): Something's Gotta Give → The Grand Budapest Hotel. Like Grand Budapest, the film explains why its maker is so fussy: to build a fantasy world people can escape to.
“the Ray Fines character explained to the audience why Wes Anderson is so fussy about these things”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:31:56 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → National Treasure. Griffin ties Jon Voight's soufflé line about National Treasure to Meyers: light, airy films that collapse if one element is wrong.
“I feel like Nancy is like a souffle filmmaker”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:33:22 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
craft (craft): It's Complicated → Suicide Squad. Meyers's many makeup tests for Steve Martin are compared to Killer Croc's makeup tests.
“that's what they do with like killer croc and suicide squad.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:33:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Nancy Meyers → Charles Shyer. With this film she separates herself from the Shyer filmography and goes deeper.
“this is Nancy, like, separating herself from the Shire filmography and being like, I'm gonna go deeper.”
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craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → Ratatouille. The Paris shot with the Eiffel Tower looks like Ratatouille, and the speaker starts to say the music does too.
“the shot when he steps out and the Eiffel Towers behind him is one of the ones that looks like Ratatouille. The music also sounds like...”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:43:29 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Nancy Meyers → Hans Zimmer. The speakers treat Zimmer's sweeping orchestral score as a fixture of Meyers's films.
“Hans Zimmer again. Nancy's reliable sweeping score.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:43:39 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → Nancy Meyers. A speaker says Meyers's signature score sound, including the delicate Spanish guitar, begins with this film.
“This is where her like, you know, her like delicate like Spanish guitar comes in for the 1st time.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:43:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Hans Zimmer. A joke that Meyers hands Zimmer the name of a spa-waiting-room track and tells him to replicate it for 90 minutes.
“She goes to the receptionist and goes, can you give me the name of the track, sends it to Hans Zimmer and says, replicate this for 90 minutes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:44:01 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Stuck on You → Something's Gotta Give. Stuck on You opened the same week as the film and ranked number three.
“Big broad comedy, high concept.”
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career (career): Billy Woodruff → Honey. Woodruff directed the Honey sequels.
“Billy Woodruff also did all the direct to video Honey Sequels”
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industry (industry): Bringing Down the House → Something's Gotta Give. Steve Martin's two 2003 hits made a second wave of him.
“this weird 2nd wave of Steve Martin”
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Fun items (24)

fun, about Something's Gotta Give: Fox turned the film down because the leads were too old, per IMDb trivia.
“Fox turned this down because they said the leads were too old.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:03:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Jack Nicholson: After 9/11 Nicholson said he only wanted to make fun movies, telling Billy Crystal during an Oscar telecast.
“He was saying this to Billy Crystal during an Oscar telecast.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:04:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Nancy Meyers: Meyers wrote the film for Nicholson and Keaton.
“She wrote it for the 2 of them.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Nancy Meyers: Pictures of Meyers look like Keaton in this film, down to the turtlenecks.
“when you look at pictures of Nancy Meyers, she looks like Diane Keaton in this movie down to the turtlenecks”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:06:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about The Intern: Bobby auditioned for The Intern about 17 times and emailed the script to Griffin.
“I intern I auditioned for the intern like 17 times.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:09:52 · Bobby Finger (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about The Intern: Griffin says getting the script from Bobby felt like the Pentagon Papers.
“it felt like I had gotten the Pentagon papers.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:10:14 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about National Treasure: Book of Secrets: The second film ends on page 27 of the Book of Secrets, implied to be about the Kennedy assassination.
“they imply that page 27 is about the Kennedy assassination.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:13:16 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about National Treasure: Someone at Bruckheimer's office dropped pages of the unmade third film and a friend photographed the first three in a closet.
“a couple of the pages fell off and this friend like ran into like a closet and took photos of the 1st 3 pages”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:14:04 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Transformers: Transformers 5 features Cogman, a robot who calls himself a psychopath and sings opera from the rafters.
“Transformers 5 features Cogman, who is a robot who self-identifies as a psychopath.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:22:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Jumping Jack Flash: Bobby watched it because the paper gave it one star; he ended up liking it.
“I was like, I got to watch this bad movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:29:55 · Bobby Finger (0.75 sure it was them)
fun, about Jumping Jack Flash: Siskel and Ebert scolded Whoopi Goldberg for riding a motorcycle and wearing black in such movies.
“she keeps on making these movies where she rides a motorcycle and wears black.”
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fun, about Charles Shyer: Mike Ryan called some director a three-star general; the hosts apply it to Shyer as the video-store rental.
“if you popped into a blockbuster and you rented a shire, that 3 stars.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:32:13 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Something's Gotta Give: The script as written in 2002 named Ja Rule's Living It Up for the opening; the film used Crazy Town's Butterfly.
“Nancy Myers penned the words, Ja Rule, living it up.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:47:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Something's Gotta Give: Romley Newman: this is the most kitchen-heavy Meyers movie, with an amazing Viking range and huge island.
“this is the most kitchen heavy movie out of any Nancy Myers movie, probably any movie ever.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:58:35 · Romley Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Keanu Reeves: Everyone who has worked with Keanu says he is the greatest guy.
“Every story I have heard from everyone who has worked with Keanu”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:01:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Something's Gotta Give: A reading: Nicholson is in a heavenly afterlife after his heart attack, hence the all-white look.
“there are very few movies that commit so hard to their color palette being white.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:03:12 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about The Intern: Meyers was barred from set during insert shots and approved each one by FaceTime from an assistant's iPad.
“she insisted on sending her assistant over the set with an iPad and she FaceTimed in to approve every detail on the insert shot.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:16:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Something's Gotta Give: The characters say 'me too' to each other constantly, which jumps out now.
“how many times in this movie they say, me too.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:20:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Something's Gotta Give: Keaton wears turtlenecks until she is bare-necked; the neck insecurity pays off visually.
“And then for the rest of the movie, she's wearing V-neck.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:25:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about It's Complicated: Meyers made Steve Martin do about ten makeup tests.
“Steve Martin do like 10 makeup tests.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:33:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Spider-Man 2: Joke: the major conflict of Spider-Man 2 is that you cannot enter a Broadway show after it started.
“It's literally the major conflict of Spider-Man 2 is that you can't enter a Broadway show after it started.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:39:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Hans Zimmer: Joke: Meyers asks a spa receptionist for the track name and tells Hans Zimmer to replicate it for 90 minutes.
“can you give me the name of the track, sends it to Hans Zimmer and says, replicate this for 90 minutes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:44:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Nancy Meyers: In a press cycle she was annoyed by questions about her houses and said she keeps a Pinterest board.
“I keep a Pinterest board.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:44:39 · Bobby Finger (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Nancy Meyers: Meyers on why she cares about costume details.
“which sweater a character wears can say as much if you choose it correctly as any other element of a film?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:45:12 · Bobby Finger (0.55 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Obsessive about National Treasure and the minutiae of movie culture, and a Nancy Meyers admirer who frames her as a souffle filmmaker. Cares about Oscar-season lore and montages. Likes that Nicholson is vulnerable and unvain in this film.
David Sims (host): Attributions to David are low confidence because the transcript has no speaker labels. He argues about Nicholson's box office record, tracks the Oscar races of the era, and has a Transformers opinion (3 is a masterpiece, per a speaker who may be him). He is skeptical of Haunted Mansion.
Bobby Finger (guest): Self-described huge Nancy Meyers fan whose taste was shaped by cable reruns: Baby Boom, Parent Trap, Father of the Bride Part 2, Jumping Jack Flash. Prefers the Parent Trap in his heart and Something's Gotta Give as her best. Defends guilty pleasures.

The show's recurring bits

Names the transcriber got wrong

'Black Jack' / 'Black Trek' / 'blank trek' = Blank Check
'Dark Nancy' / 'Goth Nancy' = a bit about Nancy Meyers dressing in black (not a name)
'Incor Management' = Anger Management
'INDB' = IMDb
'Francis McDormand' = Frances McDormand
'Turtle Tob' / 'Turtle Top' / 'Turtle Tub Cage' = likely Jon Turteltaub (and 'Bruckheimer, Nicolas Cage' for the last)
'Matthew Reese' = a friend named Reese (spelling unknown)
'Derek Simon' = Griffin's oldest friend; spelling unknown
'Edswick' = Ed Zwick
'Marilyn Alec' = Meryl (Streep) and Alec (Baldwin)
'Dr. Rachel Takota / Takoten' = Rachel Ticotin
'Tony Irbman' / 'Tony Irman' = Toni Erdmann
'Ray Fines' = Ralph Fiennes
'Wendy Wasser scene' = Wendy Wasserstein
'Kimbo' = likely Ken Bone (same speaker mid-sentence)
'Romley' / 'Bromley' = Romley Newman
'Starsky who also directed Kazam' = Paul Michael Glaser (Kazaam)
'Vondy Curtis homemade glitter' = Vondie Curtis-Hall made Glitter
'Billy Woodrift' = Billy Woodruff
'Farley Brothers' / 'fairly brothers' = Farrelly brothers
'Leonard DiCaprio' = Leonardo DiCaprio
'Ben Her' = Ben-Hur; 'Boys in the hood' = Boyz n the Hood
'Cal Penn' = Kal Penn
'Shire' / 'Meyers shire' = Charles Shyer
'Hallie' / 'Halle' = Nancy Meyers's daughter Hallie (first name only said)
'Kaya Scolodaros' = Kaya Scodelario
'Muppet Baby Sean Connery' impression, 'Brandon Thwaites' = Brenton Thwaites

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