Blank Check with Griffin & David: Raging Bull with David Krumholtz

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David” and the episode “Raging Bull with David Krumholtz”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: David Krumholtz.

Subject films: Raging Bull (1980).

On the transcript: Auto-transcribed, no speaker labels, with several ad reads (Video Game Town, Audible Dracula, fine wine, Mubi) skipped; host attribution is mostly uncertain. Some segments garbled, especially ad transitions and a few jokes.

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Claims (40)

unmapped (unlikeable protagonist): Raging Bull → Rupert Pupkin / The King of Comedy. The hosts compare how date-able Scorsese-De Niro characters are: LaMotta has some swagger, Pupkin is annoying, Jimmy Doyle is worst.
“But La Mata is similar, but I guess he has some swagger to him initially he sort of can, like, you can see.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:08:08 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (meta ending): Raging Bull → Inglourious Basterds. Raging Bull's ending where Scorsese says it is his masterpiece resembles Tarantino's closing line in Inglourious Basterds.
“It's it's akin to what Tarantino later did in inglorious Bastards.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:11:18 · David Krumholtz (0.60 sure it was them)
people (directed by): Mr. Irrelevant → Jonathan Levine. Krumholtz's sports film is directed by Jonathan Levine.
“Jonathan Levine directed.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:14:12 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
people (acting triumvirate): Robert De Niro → Al Pacino. De Niro, Pacino and Hoffman are the three rewriting the rules of acting as ethnic American leads.
“I think there's a triumvirate.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:19:39 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
people (Mount Rushmore of performances): Raging Bull → Scent of a Woman. Compared as top male leading performances; Raging Bull placed alongside Pacino's Godfather work and Scent of a Woman as a joke number one.
“No, I think I think it's like it's Raging Bull.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:21:02 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (Oscar rival): Raging Bull → Tess. Tess won cinematography over Raging Bull, which the speakers find shocking.
“What did Tess, the Polanski film, which I'm sure Jeffrey Unsworth?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:25:54 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (audience empathy): Raging Bull → Taxi Driver. Both make you find something to relate to in a despicable man.
“which is true taxi driver too.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:31:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (genre contrast): Raging Bull → Taxi Driver. Taxi Driver is a straight drama while Raging Bull is a brutal comedy and tragedy.
“Taxi driver is a straight drama.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:33:11 · David Krumholtz (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (borrowed scene): Martin Scorsese → American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince. The adrenaline-shot scene in Pulp Fiction was stolen from American Boy, a film Scorsese made in this period.
“And the adrenaline shot back from the dead from Pulp Fiction is stolen from that movie.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:40:53 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
people (acting lineage): Robert De Niro → Marlon Brando. Brando laid the groundwork for De Niro's natural yet acrobatic style, which De Niro then took to an infinite level.
“Brando now has laid the groundwork for De Niro to be as naturally simplistic, but also acrobatic.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:43:33 · David Krumholtz (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career crisis): New York, New York → Raging Bull. New York, New York's failure and bad reviews, with drugs and a collapsing marriage, pushed Scorsese toward making Raging Bull as a lifeline.
“New York, New York comes out to bad reviews.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:46:51 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (meta ending): Raging Bull → On the Waterfront. LaMotta recites the Waterfront monologue flat; the film swapped it in for Shakespeare, which Michael Powell vetoed.
“So they they instead go for the on the waterfront because that's kind of like that's his iconography.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:55:17 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (biopic structure): Raging Bull → Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback.
“Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (cut monologue): Jeremy Strong → Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Strong improvised a hole-in-the-floor monologue on set that was used in the trailer but cut from the film.
“The hole in the floor monologue is written by Jeremy Strong.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:04:20 · David Krumholtz (0.70 sure it was them)
unmapped (discovered in): Joe Pesci → The Death Collector. Pesci was out of acting since the 1960s until the 1976 TV movie The Death Collector, which De Niro saw.
“Hey, let's twist until 1976 is the Death Collector.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:06:19 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (discovery): Robert De Niro → Joe Pesci. De Niro saw Pesci in The Death Collector and felt they would have chemistry.
“De Niro had somehow seen the death collector on tape and was like, this guy's interesting.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:07:02 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (mentor advice): Michael Powell → Raging Bull. Powell noted the gloves would not have been red in that era and rejected Shakespeare for the ending.
“the gloves wouldn't be red back then, because he had, like, red boxing gloves.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:08:39 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (anti-genre): Raging Bull → Rocky. Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both.
“Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Martin Scorsese → Thelma Schoonmaker. Raging Bull is the reunion of Scorsese and editor Schoonmaker, who then cut nearly all his later films.
“this is the reunion of Marty and Thelma Skumaker, who will edit all the rest of his films, basically.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:14:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (Oscar rival): Raging Bull → Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back. Best Sound went to Empire rather than Raging Bull, with a joke about the high bar.
“Look, it did go to the Empire Strikes Back, which does have pretty good sound.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:14:48 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (Oscar rival): Raging Bull → Ordinary People. Ordinary People won best picture over Raging Bull; it was a new kind of film that ended in catharsis, while Raging Bull was subversive and funny.
“This is the ordinary people year, obviously.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:15:52 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (emotion Scorsese wants): Raging Bull → Cape Fear. Speaker lists Cape Fear alongside panic and embarrassment as the visceral feelings Scorsese is after.
“Feel something so visceral, panic, you know, fear, cape fear, embarrassment”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:29:15 · David Krumholtz (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (thematic): Martin Scorsese → Stanley Kubrick. The speaker says Kubrick's films are all about the fight between humanity's consciousness and animal instinct, which Raging Bull also tackles.
“which is the fight between the consciousness, uh, of humanity and the subconscious nature of animal instinct, and that that inherent battle.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:30:14 · David Krumholtz (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (repetition and improv): Raging Bull → New York, New York. Both lean on repeated improvised dialogue, but Raging Bull's repetition is funny and drives the brothers, while New York, New York's is punishing.
“New York has the same very repetitive or cursive improvs, but it's not funny.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:31:42 · David Sims or Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (zeitgeist precedent): Raging Bull → Annie Hall. Annie Hall established the late-70s map for human-frailty stories with comedy and fragile men, which Scorsese then exploited to horrify.
“part of that map is is Annie Hall.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:32:35 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (anti-hero structure): Raging Bull → Midnight Cowboy. Midnight Cowboy has an innocent at the center to balance Ratso; Raging Bull is the Rizzo movie with no such cushion.
“But this is the Razzo Rizzo movie, sort of, and again, another reason, they don't they can't make this today.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:33:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (post-Oscar star vehicles): Joe Pesci → My Cousin Vinny. After the Goodfellas Oscar Pesci got starring vehicles like My Cousin Vinny, something Hollywood no longer does for odd-looking leads.
“My cousin Vinny.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:34:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (joke counter-reference): Raging Bull → Grudge Match. Trump's complaint that De Niro made one too many boxing pictures is corrected: De Niro made Raging Bull and Grudge Match, versus Stallone.
“He made Raging Bull.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:42:08 · unknown host (0.30 sure it was them)
verdict (Scorsese repeats himself better): Raging Bull → Goodfellas. Frank Vincent keeps getting beaten in Scorsese movies, and Goodfellas does the same thing a second time better.
“Scorsese going, I can do this twice and no one's, and it'll be better the 2nd time.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:49:34 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
lineage (spiritual sequel): The King of Comedy → Raging Bull. King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver.
“There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (character study trilogy): Raging Bull → Taxi Driver. The speaker groups Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy as De Niro plumbing damaged psychologies.
“It's part of a trilogy with Taxi Driver.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:55:47 · unknown host (0.30 sure it was them)
people (director in love with a star): Raging Bull → Mean Streets. Mean Streets feels like a director falling in love with De Niro, which carries through to this film.
“Well, you watch Mean Streets and it feels like watching a director fall in love.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:56:08 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (dialogue rhythm source): Raging Bull → Italianamerican. Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes.
“And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
people (producer): Irwin Winkler → Rocky. Winkler produced the Rocky movies and New York, New York, then signed off on an anti-Rocky.
“Like he's he's willingly signing off to make an anti-rocky.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:00:31 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (misunderstood at release): Raging Bull → Citizen Kane. Critics like Pauline Kael panning Raging Bull is compared to audiences not getting Citizen Kane at the time.
“Yeah, people didn't get Citizen Kane at the time.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:02:33 · unknown host (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Thelma Schoonmaker → Martin Scorsese. Schoonmaker said her editing Oscar felt like Scorsese's because he designed the fight sequences she cut.
“I felt like I was winning for the fight sequences, and those fight weekend sequences were designed by him.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:03:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (next Scorsese film): Raging Bull → The King of Comedy. King of Comedy follows Raging Bull and is when Marty starts sweating about box office again.
“The next one, king of comedy, that's the one where I feel like Marty, again, is starting to sweat”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:05:42 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (same box-office weekend): Private Benjamin → Raging Bull. Private Benjamin was number one while Raging Bull limped to number 10 in its opening release.
“Is it Private Benjamin?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:06:48 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (studio-game film): Gloria → John Cassavetes. Gloria was Cassavetes trying to play the studio game with a sellable premise, though it still has people screaming near the camera.
“Gloria is like, you know, him being like, it was him trying to play the studio game.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:13:08 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (studio-China pairing): Seven Years in Tibet → Kundun. Both films angered the Chinese government and were released by Hollywood around the same time.
“Oh, 2 films that angered the Chinese government that were released by Hollywood.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:19:00 · unknown host (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items (24)

fun, about David Krumholtz: Father was a degenerate gambler whose favorite bar was Jimmy's Corner; the owner, a former boxer, trained young Krumholtz, who hated it. His brother, begging to box, balanced out and nearly went pro.
“my father was talked about before, a degenerate gambling addict whose favorite bar was Jimmy's corner.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:02:05 · David Krumholtz (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about Raging Bull: Sound editing: Scorsese insisted every punch and flashbulb be a unique sound. Foley man Frank Warner fired rifles into melons. See the Miami photo scene where the first flash makes a child scream.
“Marty drove everyone crazy because he insisted that every punch, every flashbulb be a unique sound”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:24:40 · David Krumholtz (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Martin Scorsese: Krumholtz's only exchange with Scorsese at a lunch: Scorsese declared Szechuan the best Chinese food, Krumholtz said Cantonese, and Scorsese looked at him like a moron and changed the subject.
“That's the whole, my whole interaction with Martin Scorsese is that we disagreed on the best Chinese food style.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:49:47 · David Krumholtz (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about Raging Bull: Paul Schrader wrote a 3-page prison masturbation monologue for LaMotta that Scorsese and De Niro cut; Schrader says it was among his best writing.
“Schrader had written a long, like 3 page masturbation monologue in which La Mata is in prison trying to jerk off and failing”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:52:48 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Raging Bull: Robert De Niro ate his way through Northern Italy and France for four months between shoots to gain the weight for older LaMotta, a pasta tour.
“He just goes to Northern Italy and France for 4 months stuffing his face to get the weight to play later, J. Cole.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:54:38 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Raging Bull: Scorsese reportedly conceived of the Raging Bull ending as a plea: I deserve to make films. The hosts call it a pat on the back and a bold meta statement.
“I'm making more than just a film about a boxer.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:56:48 · David Krumholtz (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Raging Bull: The ending Bible passage, Once I was blind but now I can see, is a tribute to Scorsese's film teacher Haig Manoogian, who died shortly after; Schrader reportedly asked what the verse was about.
“It is also, you know, a tribute to his film teacher, a Hague, P. Manugian.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:59:09 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere: Krumholtz feared Jeremy Strong staying in character, but Strong was sweet; he then improvised a hole-in-the-floor monologue over several takes. Krumholtz joked that Sean Penn told him to fight for it. The monologue was in the trailer but not the movie.
“Jeremy Strong, God love him, does not take no for an answer.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:02:58 · David Krumholtz (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about Joe Pesci: Pesci was washed out of acting since the early 60s, running a Bronx restaurant for friends, when De Niro saw him in The Death Collector and pulled him in.
“I'm running a restaurant in the Bronx for some friends of mine.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:06:42 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Cathy Moriarty: Moriarty was 19 and had never acted; Pesci saw her picture in a club. She is as convincing as a 30-year-old at the start and a decade older at the end.
“She never acted.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:07:29 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Raging Bull: Black and white was chosen to differ from the bright Rocky-era boxing movies, because color stock was fading, and to look like old Daily News photos. Black and white also softens the violence and comedy.
“if this movie were in color, it would be talked about as one of the most violent movies of all time.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:10:44 · David Krumholtz (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Raging Bull: Frank Warner shot rifles into melons for punch sounds; Ben is told he'd have made a good Foley artist.
“Frank Warner, the Foley guy, the sound effects guy, used Melons, he would fire rifles into them and stuff.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:13:42 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Raging Bull: The one scene a speaker dislikes: the mini-golf date, a lost ball foreshadowing that he will lose everything. The one he loves: the champagne-glass balance, the goriest moment in a movie filled with blood.
“The only scene I don't like in this movie because it's a little on the nose foreshadowing is them at, you know, on their 1st date, mini golf.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:16:44 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Raging Bull: Comedy in the film is behavioral and improvised, like Pesci falling when De Niro just puts his hands up, and the Mamluk line. A trainer says: Don't fight ever again. It's a free country.
“Don't fight ever again.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:25:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Robert De Niro: At the SAG Awards for Oppenheimer, Krumholtz found De Niro posing for fans outside the bathroom like a Disney mascot and saying cheese reflexively.
“With every fan picture, he reflexively says cheese.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:39:11 · David Krumholtz (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about Robert De Niro: Trump slammed De Niro as punch drunk for making one too many boxing pictures, to which the hosts reply with Raging Bull and Grudge Match.
“His slam on him was, oh, he's punch drunk.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:41:59 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Raging Bull: John Turturro is an uncredited-line extra in the first club scene, his first credit; Nicholas Colasanto, Coach from Cheers, has his last movie role.
“They sit down at the table and who's sitting there, a very young John Teturo.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:57:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Jake LaMotta: LaMotta was on set for boxing scenes and later took small acting roles in Hangman, Maniac Cop and Mob War; the hosts could not find him in Raging Bull.
“He's in a movie called Mob War.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:59:51 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Raging Bull: In final edit, Scorsese threatened to take his name off the film because you cannot hear Cutty Sark, ordered by his father; Winkler said fine, but it was going to the lab.
“And he says, I'm gonna take my name off the film.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:01:37 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Raging Bull: Scorsese walked into the Oscars with bodyguards dressed as tuxedoed entourage, after the Reagan shooting postponed the ceremony.
“He dressed them up and just fancy tuxedos and acted like they were just his entourage.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:02:59 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Cathy Moriarty: After Raging Bull and Neighbors, a bad car accident sidelined Moriarty for about five years; she later owned Mulberry Street Pizza in Beverly Hills.
“She owns, uh, I don't know if it's still open, but she owned a very popular pizza.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:05:08 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Raging Bull: Ordinary People beat Raging Bull for best picture; Raging Bull was the most nominated film that year, tied with The Elephant Man, and opened at number 10 with a huge per-screen average.
“It was the most nominated film that year.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:05:31 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Martin Scorsese: The 1980 box office game ranks It's My Turn, The Elephant Man, Gloria, Fade to Black, The Idolmaker, The Stunt Man and Kill or Be Killed above Raging Bull at number 10.
“And number 10 of the bucks up is Raging Bull.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:15:26 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about David Krumholtz: Krumholtz plays bongos in a Grateful Dead cover band, Golden String Fiddle, at the Orange Lantern in Paramus, NJ.
“I'm playing at the Orange Lantern in Paramus, New Jersey.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:16:43 · David Krumholtz (0.90 sure it was them)

Who's talking

David Krumholtz (guest): Reveres Raging Bull as one of a small handful of films he bows to, alongside some Spike Lee, Spielberg, Kubrick and Scorsese. Worships De Niro as the actor nobody will ever be better than, and loves Pacino, Hoffman and Denzel as peers. Distrusts AI and metrics-driven Hollywood and likes sacrifice and humanity on screen.
Griffin Newman (host): A film completist who loves the weird 1980 corners of the box office and the Scorsese-De Niro dynamic. Cannot stand Jimmy Doyle as a date and worries about Hollywood executives. A sucker for obscure titles and good trivia and for Casavetes.
David Sims (host): Loves The Elephant Man and Popeye and cites Altman and Casavetes as favorite directors. Interested in the history, box office and Oscar context around the film. Admires Raging Bull's sound and picture.

The show's recurring bits

The box office game: Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against.
The sung theme: "Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it.

Names the transcriber got wrong

J. Clamada / La Mata / Lamont / La Mada = Jake LaMotta
Crummy / Krumholz / Crumholes / Kremlins = Krumholtz
Rupert Pumpkin = Rupert Pupkin
Cuano = probable mishearing for Jimmy Glenn / Jimmy's Corner
Sugar Ray Robbins = Sugar Ray Robinson
Chapman = Michael Chapman
Scumaker / Skumaker = Thelma Schoonmaker
Hague P. Manugian = Haig Manoogian
Teturo = John Turturro
Bottolucho = Joseph Bottolucco (guess)
Colosanto = Nicholas Colasanto
Kingley = John Hinckley
bike check = Blank Check
Sensible Woman / sent of a woman = Scent of a Woman
Pasci = Pesci
Shears = Cheers
Mama Luke / Mamelucca = Mameluke
Ben Hossley = Ben Hosley
Marie Barti Salinas = Marie Barty Salinas (guess)
Derek C in France = Derek Cianfrance (guess)

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