Jordan Hoffman

2 sketches, 21 claims, and 27 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 1–2 of 2 sketches.

Blank Check — Patreon: 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) (guest)

A self-described scholar of sci-fi and a devoted Clarke reader who has read the sequels. Loves hard science fiction, 70mm screenings, and the film's mystery, and claims to be sober and a fish fanatic. A sucker for trivia about the making of the film and for the Michael Benson book.

Stances

  • 2001 is a bifurcated experience, diamond-hard sci-fi and psychedelia
  • The film is much funnier than people think
  • Believes the secrets of the universe are locked in it
  • Clarke's sequels are worth talking about, with 3001 as a gag

Humor: Deadpan, self-deprecating, and a teller of long anecdotes with bodily-function asides and fake hippie voices.

In their words

  • “I love sci-fi.” (0:22:18)
  • “Like, I believe the secrets of life are locked in this film.” (1:01:35)
  • “I am a Semitic man of Russian Ural stock and I am her suite, as they say.” (0:06:28)

Blank Check — Patreon: Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) (guest)

Loves New York texture and character actors like Ron Silver and Kevin Dunn; fond of Richard Lewis and Step Brothers. Dislikes ad-supported streaming and Mother!. A sucker for gun-fetish and penis symbolism readings.

Stances

  • Blue Steel is great and the dumb last third is part of the fun
  • Ron Silver was perfectly cast for a moment in time

Humor: Anecdotal storyteller with self-aware tangents and bawdy asides.

In their words

  • “You guys want to know a story about NYPD revolvers from my days as a union reporter?” (0:33:28)
  • “I was then at 14 what David Ehrlich is now.” (1:34:47)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

Their claims

Showing 1–21 of 21 claims.

  1. lineage (sequel): 2001: A Space Odyssey → 2010: The Year We Make Contact. The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels.
    “Obviously, the sequel exists.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (prefigures): The Sands of Mars (novel) → 2001: A Space Odyssey. In Sands of Mars the Clarke proxy is famous for a runaway bestseller much like 2001, written years earlier than the film.
    “wrote a phenomenal runaway bestseller, much like 2001 of Space Odyssey, which came out in 68”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:13:24 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (owns print): Steven Spielberg → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Spielberg owns a print and has a screening room but still went alone to see Nolan's version.
    “he owns a print of 2001 and he's got a screening room”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:20:47 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (parody): 2001: A Space Odyssey → History of the World, Part I. Monty Python and History of the World Part I did 2001 parodies.
    “they did 2001 of Space Odyssey parodies. History of the World Part one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:28:00 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (look and Hal voice): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Sleeper. Sleeper has the voice of HAL and a lot of the look of 2001.
    “Sleeper, Woody Allen Sleeper, has, I mean, Hal, the voice of Hal is in Sleeper, and a lot of the look is 2001.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:28:10 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (influence): 2001: A Space Odyssey → 2069: A Sex Odyssey. The porn parody is said to be very influenced by 2001.
    “actually is actually very influenced by this film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:42:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (making-of book): Arthur C. Clarke → 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Clarke wrote The Odyssey File about making 2010, including email correspondence with director Peter Hyams.
    “wrote a really fun book called a 2010 Odyssey File, about the making of 2010”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:46:29 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70 sure it was them)
  8. programming (recommendation): Artie Shaw → Arthur C. Clarke. Artie Shaw told Kubrick to read Clarke's books, after which Kubrick read Childhood's End.
    “Why don't you read Arthur C. Clark's books?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:50:05 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (admired film): Stanley Kubrick → Ikarie XB-1. Kubrick admired the Czech film Ikarie XB-1 among the science fiction films he screened.
    “He admired the Czech film Ickery XB1, which people have got to see.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:51:34 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. craft (shot echo): 2001: A Space Odyssey → The Shining. Bowman about to kill HAL is shot from below, handheld, like a Shining shot.
    “He's about to kill Hal, and it's a shining shot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:57:45 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (shared voice): Universe (short film) → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Douglas Rain had been in a short film called Universe before voicing HAL.
    “had apparently done a voice or had been in a short film called Universe.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:14:03 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. theme (plot comparison): 3001: The Final Odyssey (novel) → Ready Player One. 3001's brain-implanted virtual reality is compared to Ready Player One.
    “They screw in what's basically, it's like Ready player one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:30:12 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. unmapped (cover version used): Eumir Deodato → Being There. The Zarathustra cover in Being There is the Deodato version.
    “They do the cover of the version by Emir Diodado that was in being there, your seller.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:36:17 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. people (director): Hal Ashby → Being There. Being There is Hal Ashby's final film and a favorite of the speaker.
    “so being there, Hal Ashby's final film, one of my favorite movies of all time.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:37:12 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. people (collaborator): Peter Sellers → Stanley Kubrick. Sellers is called a Kubrick collaborator and tied to Being There.
    “Sellers, of course, has a tremendous Kuber connection.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:37:20 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. theme (theme reused): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Being There. Being There used a funky version of 2001's Zarathustra theme for its big moment.
    “they were going to play the also Sprack Zarathustra, but they did the funky version instead”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:37:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. craft (music borrowed): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Elvis Presley. Elvis took the Zarathustra overture from the film almost immediately and opened his concerts with it.
    “Almost immediately after the movie took this took the music.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:38:21 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. contrast (contrast): Blue Steel → Salt. Salt was written for a man and barely changed for a woman; Blue Steel is specific to its heroine.
    “And the whole shtick was like, it was written for a guy, but then a woman stepped in and didn't change the movie at all.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:08:27 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. craft (craft): Blue Steel → Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The opening fake-out is almost as good as the Kobayashi Maru reveal in Star Trek II.
    “I would say it's almost as good as Star Trek 2, the way they pull it back.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:41:34 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. craft (craft): Blue Steel → Transformers. The same cinematographer, Amir Mokri, shot Blue Steel and Transformers 3 and 4, which the speaker calls a great-looking movie.
    “Emir Mokri, who shot this movie, shot Transformers 3 and four.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:59:03 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. programming (programming): Blue Steel → Joe Versus the Volcano. Number two that weekend was Joe Versus the Volcano, a critical bomb for Tom Hanks.
    “Oh, Joe versus the volcano?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:28:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–27 of 27 fun items.

  1. fun, about Arthur C. Clarke: Clarke's first novel, The Sands of Mars, stars a Clarke proxy famous for a bestseller like 2001, written years before 2001 existed.
    “So Arthur C. Clark is writing ostensibly about himself.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:13:13 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Arthur C. Clarke: Clarke beamed into the Oscars near the end of his life from Sri Lanka and looked like Dr. Evil.
    “He just beamed into the Oscars late and very near his death.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:14:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: A focus problem at a 70mm screening made the monolith shudder, the best Jordan has ever seen the film.
    “It was like the monolist was freaking out, man.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:19:15 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Steven Spielberg: At the Village East Nolan screening, Jordan watched Spielberg arrive alone by town car, despite owning a print.
    “he owns a print of 2001 and he's got a screening room, but he was like, you know what?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:20:47 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Jordan Hoffman: Jordan's first panic attack came at age eight, watching the ending of 2001 on VHS.
    “and then it got to the ending and I had my baby's 1st panic attack.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:26:55 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Arthur C. Clarke: The 2010 Odyssey File opens with Clarke explaining email to readers, including pages of a forwarded chain letter.
    “1st I will explain to you, email.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:46:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: The ending room is actually meant by the aliens to be a hotel room for Bowman.
    “The van, the aliens created it for him thinking that it was supposed to be a hotel room.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:55:24 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: The film is documentary-handheld for 90 seconds when the astronauts walk down to the monolith on the moon, breaking Kubrick's locked-off rules.
    “Everything is locked off, square, very symmetrical, you know, hyperstylized, and then it's documentary style for like 90 seconds, and then that weird sound happens.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:56:54 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: The Dawn of Man to space cut: those first orbiting objects are nuclear weapons, with flags on them, a detail Jordan learned decades later.
    “But specifically, those 1st images you see in space, those are nuclear weapons.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:58:48 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Jordan Hoffman: Jordan believes the secrets of life are locked in the film, wackos from Room 237 notwithstanding.
    “Like, I believe the secrets of life are locked in this film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:01:35 · Jordan Hoffman (0.80 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: MGM marketing found the hippies; a Christian Science Monitor review called it the ultimate trip, and the poster used it.
    “referred to it as the ultimate trip, but didn't mean it in a psychedelic way.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:17:39 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: The watering-hole reading: Americans and Russians in orbit gather in a circle with drinks like the apes at the pond, same instincts with new technology.
    “The Kubrick thing of like, we evolved to a point where we think we've evolved.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:26:25 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about 2061: Odyssey Three (novel): Third Clarke book: monolith site on Ganymede yields diamonds and the diamond market collapses.
    “2061 is they discover a cache of diamonds, they have to keep it secret, but then it leaks and the diamond market collapses.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:29:20 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about 3001: The Final Odyssey (novel): In 3001 Poole is resurrected and learns life with brain-installed VR.
    “So 3001, the final Odyssey, is just a story about like what would life be like with really good VR.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:30:22 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about HAL 9000: See the chess scene: HAL claims mate in three and does not describe his moves properly, the first sign something is up.
    “And by the way, Hal cheats at chess.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:48:05 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Douglas Rain: The two 'just a moment' lines may be the same take spliced, per the speaker.
    “Kubrick recorded Douglas Raines saying just a moment once and they spliced it”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:53:13 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Arthur C. Clarke: Clarke quote read from the dossier that Kubrick said hit him: both possibilities are terrifying.
    “Either we are alone in the universe or we are not.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:04:05 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Super 7: Kubrick protected his merchandise, but now Super 7 makes the first American 2001 figures: Moon-Watcher with monolith, Bowman with HAL.
    “has made a series of figures that are 1st American toys based on 2001.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:26:04 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Richard Jenkins: At the Toronto Shape of Water premiere, David Sims cooed at Jenkins like an infant, then bolted upright: he is a god.
    “he just bolted up right and said, he is a god.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:21:30 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Pete's Dragon: A tweet joking it was cruel not to tell Robert Redford he was in a movie.
    “it was a little cruel of the filmmakers not to tell Robert Redford that he was in a movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:29:53 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Sloan's: A defunct Manhattan chain halfway between a convenience store and a supermarket, like the one in the Blue Steel robbery.
    “Sloan's was a mini chain in Manhattan that was halfway between a convenience store and a supermarket.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:30:53 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about New York police: The NYPD carried six-shooters long after semi-autos existed, until transit cops got 15-round Glocks and everyone protested.
    “You guys want to know a story about NYPD revolvers from my days as a union reporter?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:33:28 · Jordan Hoffman (0.90 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Blue Steel: The 22nd precinct on her collar is a fake precinct, since renamed for Central Park.
    “It's on her collar, the 22nd precinct, which is the fake precinct.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:46:21 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Glory: As a 14-year-old snob he wanted to see Glory, it was sold out, so he saw House Party.
    “I wanted to see Glory and it was sold out.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:30:41 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Robin Harris: In House Party the one line the speaker remembers is Robin Harris shouting this ain't Soul Train.
    “That's the only thing I remember from House Party is him shouting, this ain't Soul Train.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:32:16 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about Jordan Hoffman: He was 14 and a foreign-film snob: then what David Ehrlich is now.
    “I was then at 14 what David Ehrlich is now.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:34:47 · Jordan Hoffman (0.80 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about Born on the Fourth of July: The wheelchair-genitals scene freaked him out at 15.
    “he whips out his genitals to show that he is unable to he's unable to achieve an erection.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:35:12 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)