Blank Check — Patreon: The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free)

Published 2018-07-29; 1:51:23 by the feed.

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

The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Emily Yoshida.

Subject films: The Ice Storm (1997).

On the transcript: No speaker labels; the transcript is lively and mangled in many names. Producer Ben Hosley is in the room and addressed several times but has essentially no recorded lines. Also: a long intro riff and a closing aside about Ready Player One recorded months earlier.

Films that came up

subject (1)

The Ice Storm

compared (14)

Fantastic Four · Annihilation · Do the Right Thing · Freaks and Geeks · Landline · American Pie · The Opposite of Sex · The Full Monty · Hulk · Swingtown (TV) · Pan Am (TV) · American Beauty · Ghost World · Starship Troopers

passing (48)

The Incredibles · Sense and Sensibility · Titanic · Speed Racer · Wednesday Addams / Addams Family · Casper · Ocean's 13 · Friends (TV) · The Night They Raided Minsky's · Harry and Walter Go to New York · Molly's Game · This Boy's Life · Deconstructing Harry · The Cider House Rules · Pleasantville · Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas · Addams Family Values · Buffalo 66 · A Fish Called Wanda · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · Little Man Tate · Jumanji · Dawson's Creek (TV) · Wonder Boys · Batman Begins · The Gift · Flipper · North · The Faculty · Pride and Prejudice · Mad Men (TV) · Z: The Beginning of Everything (TV) · The Hero of Color City · Lizzy Borden (TV movie/series) · The Smurfs · Prozac Nation · Ride with the Devil · The Peacemaker · Batman & Robin · My Fair Lady · Tortilla Soup · Eat Drink Man Woman · What's Cooking? · Big Night · Soul Food · The Edge · Liar Liar · The Game

anecdote (7)

The Long Goodbye · Mulaney (unaired pilot) · In & Out · Oliver Twist (TV) · A Midsummer Night's Dream · Twelfth Night · Ready Player One

recommended (1)

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Claims (46)

  1. theme (theme): The Ice Storm → Annihilation. Emily says her teenage Ice Storm essay and her recent Annihilation essay reach the same conclusion.
    “So now I'm, I'm, I'm riding the, the ice storm is annihilation chip”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:10:11 · Emily Yoshida (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): The Ice Storm → Annihilation. Emily and a host independently landed on the two films as the best visualizations of depression.
    “I think they're 2 of the films that best visualized depression.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:10:40 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): The Ice Storm → Do the Right Thing. The Ice Storm gets cold weather as right as Do the Right Thing gets hot weather, trading rage for malaise.
    “I think this movie gets cold weather as right as do the right thing gets hot weather.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:10:53 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): The Ice Storm → Freaks and Geeks. Recognizing the Ice Storm as a 40-something's nostalgia piece led to the same realization with Freaks and Geeks.
    “the next thing I remember thinking that about and having that realization about was, uh, was freaks and geeks.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:14:22 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): The Ice Storm → Landline. The nostalgia wave moves a decade at a time: Landline is our generation's Ice Storm.
    “You get landline, which is our generation, the ice storm.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:14:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): The Ice Storm → American Pie. Seen at 13 next to American Pie, the two give wildly different messages about sex.
    “Those are very different messages about sex in America.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:15:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Christina Ricci → The Opposite of Sex. The year after The Ice Storm, Ricci went from awkward 14-year-old to femme fatale.
    “Yeah, it's weird that the next year she made the opposite of sex.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:17:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. people (people): James Schamus → The Ice Storm. Schamus (as named James Seamus) read the novel before publication and brought it to Lee.
    “he James Seamus read this book, like, I think even before it was published, the book's published in 94, and he brings it to Angley”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:20:59 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. career (career): The Ice Storm → Sense and Sensibility. Lee wanted to make The Ice Storm first, but got hired onto Sense and Sensibility, delaying it.
    “So he wants to make it, and then he gets hired onto Sense and Sensibility.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:21:23 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. industry (industry): The Ice Storm → Sense and Sensibility. They were shooting The Ice Storm when Sense and Sensibility got its Oscar nominations.
    “But they said they were filming this when Sense and Sensibility got the Oscar nominations.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:21:31 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. industry (industry): The Ice Storm → Titanic. Fox had The Ice Storm and Titanic and The Full Monty in the same fall.
    “by Titanic and Falmonte, because Fox had those 2 films that fall.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:22:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. industry (industry): The Ice Storm → The Full Monty. Fox's Oscar push for The Ice Storm got boxed out when they platformed The Full Monty the same way.
    “I think the thing they really got boned by was the full Monte.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:22:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. career (career): David Krumholtz → Oscar Isaac. The riff holds that Krumholtz's career was taken by Oscar Isaac, who was 5% less Jewish.
    “And Oscar Isa was like, what if 5% less Jewish?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:25:51 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  14. lineage (lineage): The Ice Storm → Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. Emily watched Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as a companion piece to The Ice Storm.
    “this relates to another movie I watched kind of as a companion piece to Ice Storm”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:26:19 · Emily Yoshida (0.75 sure it was them)
  15. career (career): Tobey Maguire → Molly's Game. Maguire's wolf-in-sheep's-clothing persona, as Molly's Game illustrated, is read back onto his Ice Storm sad sack.
    “I think that McGuire's whole thing at the time, as Molly's game sort of illustrated was being the wolf in sheep's clothing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:30:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. people (people): Tobey Maguire → This Boy's Life. Maguire already knew Leo from This Boy's Life, so they were in the same circle.
    “he makes this boy's life with Leo in 93.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:31:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. career (career): Joan Allen → Pleasantville. Joan Allen and Maguire were the draw for a viewer who loved Pleasantville.
    “it starred Toby McGuard and Joan Allen from Pleasantville”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:31:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  18. theme (theme): Christina Ricci → Addams Family Values. Ricci is crowned queen of Thanksgiving for her Thanksgiving scenes in this and Addams Family Values.
    “She's the queen of Thanksgiving.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:32:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. career (career): Kevin Kline → A Fish Called Wanda. The one Kevin Kline film Emily knew before this was A Fish Called Wanda.
    “I like Kevin Klein because I loved a fish called Wanda.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:32:28 · Emily Yoshida (0.60 sure it was them)
  20. career (career): Kevin Kline → In & Out. In & Out, released the same year, is how a host first knew Kline.
    “I saw that in theaters.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:32:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  21. lineage (lineage): The Ice Storm → Hulk. After loving Hulk, a host went back to the Lee filmography and read The Ice Storm as the family psychodrama behind it.
    “And then this movie is like, oh, here's all the weird family psychodrama, which is already contextualized through the Marvel Comics prism.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:35:56 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
  22. theme (theme): The Ice Storm → Fantastic Four. The Ice Storm's families map onto the Fantastic Four, with Joan Allen as Invisible Woman and Kevin Kline as Mr. Fantastic.
    “No, yeah, no, Joan Allen is Invisible Woman, and Kevin Klein is fucking Mr. Fate Desk.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:38:07 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  23. career (career): Katie Holmes → Dawson's Creek (TV). The Ice Storm was Holmes's first screen role, just before Dawson's Creek.
    “This is Katie Holmes's 1st screen roll.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:44:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. career (career): Katie Holmes → Wonder Boys. Holmes is joked to play the same character in Wonder Boys, Batman Begins, and The Gift.
    “Isn't she play the exact same character in Wonder Boys?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:45:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. craft (craft): The Ice Storm → Pride and Prejudice. A host says Lee learned to weaponize his English-language bluntness, maybe from Pride and Prejudice.
    “maybe this is something he learned doing Pride and Prejudice because people still talk about this today.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:59:14 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  26. programming (programming): Swingtown (TV) → The Ice Storm. CBS's Swingtown was a third of the way to interesting and watered the key-party era down.
    “Wasn't that good, but it was sort of like a 3rd of the way to being interesting.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:07:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  27. programming (programming): Pan Am (TV) → Swingtown (TV). Pan Am, the Ricci show, is another version of Swingtown's period-swing idea.
    “Which is Pan M, the Christina Ricci show is another version of the same.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:08:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  28. contrast (contrast): The Ice Storm → Swingtown (TV). A host calls the key-party era a West Coast thing the Ice Storm characters only half understand.
    “It's a weird West Coast thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:11:54 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  29. lineage (lineage): The Ice Storm → American Beauty. The Ice Storm teens read as younger versions of Thora Birch and Wes Bentley in American Beauty.
    “these characters are like just the younger versions of Thorpe, Birch, and West Bentley and American beauty.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:17:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  30. what-if (what-if): Christina Ricci → Ghost World. Ricci was supposed to do Ghost World, an alternate-timeline moment.
    “Christina Ricci was supposed to do Ghost World.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:17:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  31. career (career): Christina Ricci → Prozac Nation. Prozac Nation, shelved for years, is named as the movie that broke Ricci.
    “The movie that broke Ricci was Prozac Nation, weirdly, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:18:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  32. industry (industry): Ghost World → Scarlett Johansson. Ghost World marks the year the Ricci-type teen girl gets replaced by Scarlett Johansson.
    “That sort of archetype of the teen girl is going out the window and is being replaced by Scarlett Johann.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:18:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  33. contrast (contrast): Aubrey Plaza → Christina Ricci. Plaza is called Ricci stripped of dimensions, a Tumblr version.
    “she's Christina Ricci stripped of dimensions.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:19:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. craft (craft): The Ice Storm → Annihilation. Emily reads the ice storm as the Shimmer: you go in or you go out, and Mikey goes in.
    “if you think about, if you think about the ice store being the shimmer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:23:48 · Emily Yoshida (0.85 sure it was them)
  35. craft (craft): The Ice Storm → Annihilation. Mikey's look of wonder at his death is likened to Natalie Portman's at the end of Annihilation.
    “much like Natalie Portman at the end of annihilation.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:26:04 · Emily Yoshida (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. career (career): The Ice Storm → Ride with the Devil. Lee made two straight films about outsiders looking in on America at a crisis point, both starring Maguire.
    “I think it's very interesting that Angley made 2 movies in a row about America at a crisis point”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:34:09 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  37. what-if (what-if): The Ice Storm → Fantastic Four. Griffin wishes Ang Lee had been able to make a sad Fantastic Four movie.
    “this movie does make me wish that he gotten the chance to make a sad, fantastic four movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:34:30 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  38. industry (industry): Peacemaker → DreamWorks. The Peacemaker was the first DreamWorks release.
    “First DreamWorks.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:36:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  39. verdict (verdict): Kevin Kline → The Ice Storm. Kline's last good year in the movies is 1997.
    “This is his last good year.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:36:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  40. lineage (lineage): Soul Food → Eat Drink Man Woman. While guessing box office number 3, a host suspects it is a remake of an Ang Lee movie.
    “I want to triple check this, but I'm almost certain that it is a remake of an Ang Li movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:38:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  41. lineage (lineage): Tortilla Soup → Eat Drink Man Woman. Tortilla Soup is the remake of Eat Drink Man Woman.
    “Tortilla soup's the one that's the remake of the drink, my woman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:39:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  42. theme (theme): Soul Food → What's Cooking?. Soul Food belongs with What's Cooking? and Tortilla Soup as ensemble food-and-family pictures of that era.
    “Because there's what's cooking, the Gurinda Chada movie, and there's tortilla soup, but then there's also this one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:39:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  43. people (people): Soul Food → George Tillman Jr.. Soul Food's director is George Tillman Jr., who later made Men of Honor.
    “Who's like, you know, he like made men of honor, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:40:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  44. people (people): The Edge → Lee Tamahori. The 1997 cold-weather action thriller with the guitarist name is Lee Tamahori's.
    “Yeah. Lee Tamahori.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:40:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  45. people (people): The Game → Jumanji. The Game's mansion is recognized as the Jumanji house.
    “That was the Jumanji's house.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:42:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  46. contrast (contrast): Ready Player One → Starship Troopers. Ready Player One will be competent Spielberg but is no Starship Troopers.
    “It's no Starship Troopers.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:43:14 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Fun items (27)

  1. fun, about Emily Yoshida: Her UCLA re-application essay on The Ice Storm helped her get in, and she found its climax matched a recent Annihilation essay.
    “I wrote a an essay, my critical essay to, for my 2nd shot, getting into the UCLA school film and television”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:08:56 · Emily Yoshida (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about The Ice Storm: The sound design sells the cold, down to flexing frozen boots.
    “And also, this movie does not get enough credit for how good the sound is.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:11:33 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about The Ice Storm: Most of the ice was plastic or gel; hairspray was used for frosting; they shot it in spring.
    “most of when you see ice in the film, it's like plastic or when it's wet, it's gel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:12:00 · Emily Yoshida (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about The Ice Storm: Boots crunch detail: Elijah Wood's steps.
    “not just the crunch of the ice under the boots, but the crunch of the boots are so frozen that flexing the boots.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:12:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Christina Ricci: A 17 magazine blurb promised a hot on-screen smooching scene.
    “I was like, they have a hot on-screen smooching scene and I was like, oh my god, this is going to be the biggest thing in the world.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:17:12 · Emily Yoshida (0.80 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Christina Ricci: Lee reshaped the written femme-fatale role around Ricci's awkward stage.
    “she felt like she was very much in her awkward stage and he molded the character around her current person”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:17:53 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Kevin Kline: Kline's story: he saw Joan Allen intensely preparing on location and went to the craft service table.
    “Kevin Klein tells this story on like one of the retrospective criterion documentaries where he walked by Joan Allen and she was sitting somewhere around location”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:19:32 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Joan Allen: She was disappointed by the response and still calls it her best film.
    “She still thinks it's the best film she's ever been in.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:20:38 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Tobey Maguire: On set the day Sense and Sensibility got its Oscar nominations, Maguire's congratulations got a blank what?
    “Tob McGuire said he went up to him on set that day, and said, congratulations, and he said, what?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:21:42 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about The Ice Storm: The DVD trailer sold it as everyone sleeping with everyone.
    “There's a trailer that's on the DVD that's like, uh, it's it's very like everyone can't stop sleeping with everyone else.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:23:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about The Ice Storm: Weaver won the BAFTA for a small role.
    “She won the BAFTA, which is bizarre.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:24:29 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about David Krumholtz: The Krumholtz-to-Oscar-Isaac riff.
    “And Oscar Isa was like, what if 5% less Jewish?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:25:51 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Elliott Gould: Griffin's story: Gould put a hand on his shoulder, said you're family, and later wrote him an Einstein quote.
    “He put his hand on my shoulder and he went, you're family.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:29:17 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about The Ice Storm: A film-ratings chart in a magazine described the Ice Storm's genitalia scene.
    “They said 2 children show each other, go into a bathroom and show each other their genitalia.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:34:02 · Emily Yoshida (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about The Ice Storm: The film opens with Paul reading Fantastic Four on the stalled train.
    “Because the movie fucking opens with the Fantastic Four.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:36:04 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Katie Holmes: Her first screen role, weeks before Dawson's Creek.
    “This is Katie Holmes's 1st screen roll.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:44:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Ang Lee: Lee weaponizes his English for blunt lines.
    “The thing Lee would, would do that apparently he still does is weaponize his seeming lack of handle on the American”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:59:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Sigourney Weaver: Lee told her to skip looking in on the kids: too ashamed.
    “no, no, no, too ashamed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:00:51 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about The Ice Storm: Lee found a funnier cut, then heard the score and went sadder.
    “there's a funnier version of this movie that's maybe a little more heightened.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:02:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about The Ice Storm: The cut ran 2.5 hours for a long time.
    “apparently this movie was 2.5 hours for a long time.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:02:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Allison Janney: A portrait of Allison Janney hangs over the fireplace.
    “I noticed that there is a painting, a portrait of Alison Janney hanging over the fireplace”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:05:56 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Christina Ricci: Hosts wish Ricci a second win.
    “I just wish she'd have like a 2nd win.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:08:58 · Emily Yoshida (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about The Ice Storm: Kline threw his back out, so the Nixon-mask carry became a forward piggyback.
    “Kevin Klein had thrown his back out like the day before.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:16:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about David Krumholtz: His character is named Francis Davenport.
    “Crumholtz's character is called Francis Davenport, which is like the worst match for a Crumholtz ever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:20:47 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about The Ice Storm: Kline's bird-and-bees talk skips straight to self-abuse.
    “just don't jerk off in the shower because we expect you to.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:28:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about Ang Lee: Preface to his screenplay: ice reads as water that freezes.
    “When I think of the ice storm, I think 1st of water and rain, how it falls everywhere, seeps into everything”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:32:26 · Emily Yoshida (0.70 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about Ready Player One: Griffin's capsule verdict on Spielberg: it's not going to be incompetent.
    “It's a Spielberg movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:43:05 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

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