Evita
Added 2024-11-21 05:00:08 +0000 UTC😢😢😢🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷I wanna be a part of B.C., Special Features, Big Nice!!! (RIP). Continuing our ALW commentary series we head to Argentina between 1934 and 1952 as we discuss and try and focus on Alan Parker’s 1996 Madonna-led film Evita. 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷😢😢😢
Topics include: Retiring a bit, A NON-GRIFFIN vomit, philatelists, Madonna V. Gaga, world politics, public memorial recaps and more!
Movie starts at 4:04
Comments
Will get to do Pat Roach in the next mini-series at least
Jon Ryves
2024-12-29 19:20:46 +0000 UTCSup?
films
2024-12-24 01:40:46 +0000 UTCHow does he know so much
AgeofWalnut
2024-12-02 23:09:15 +0000 UTCI’m 61, never saw Evita and whenever I come to a balcony or leading edge on a jobsite, I’m singing don’t cry for me
Chris L Kendall
2024-11-30 22:32:55 +0000 UTCtheir job is to talk about movies
ian
2024-11-29 18:08:29 +0000 UTCPro-Doer Ben! On a recent episode you were talking to the guest about your annual Slow Christmas project and the idea of an anti-Chipmonks band, Sloths or Hippos perhaps. This is extremely my bag, baby, and a lot like some work I've been on recently. I just wanted to share for you to enjoy. Thanks! https://youtu.be/NwmG4T84RlU?si=8nrHn7uUggPUJiJ4 https://youtu.be/E0iHVMGBDi0?si=9PVq0lNXg_v9VOWz
Joy Wyr
2024-11-29 02:18:45 +0000 UTCI don't know. Did you read my comment or just jump at an opportunity to say what exactly? If you don't remember it, then what? Are you just replying to my comment to what end? Same as Zach Zweifler... Saying nothing on topics you don't know anything about is good. I would actually appreciate that, but that's not what happened. Asking communicators to be minimally responsible when doing their jobs doesn't feel like the craziest thing in the world to me.
Belen Battaglini
2024-11-26 19:00:22 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure that was mostly the patriarchy reacting to a woman being both a challenging overt sex object and a powerful person at the same time. "Ego-driven and unpleasant" is a pretty vile thing to say about a person who you probably mostly know from tabloids who had their knives out for decades. But perhaps you know her privately?
Johannes Wiberg
2024-11-25 14:48:40 +0000 UTCDavid was iirc the only one mentioning it at all. Saying "I don't know" is ignorant but what would you have them say? They came for ALW not Argentinian complex politics.
Johannes Wiberg
2024-11-25 07:03:58 +0000 UTCJanet erasure
Steven
2024-11-25 03:40:21 +0000 UTC♪ Nails, dimples, ears, scrunchie ♪ ♪ Purse, lunch box, teeth, Milhouse... ♪
Mike Ostrov
2024-11-25 02:25:20 +0000 UTCMarie was the Madonna expert. What are you referring to?
Zach Zweifler
2024-11-24 03:30:54 +0000 UTCAs an Argentinian listener with knowledge and love for politics and history, this was not surprising, but still quite disappointing. David at least has a bit more nuance, but some of the comments, especially from Marie, felt extremely ignorant. I'm not asking for much, but a min. amount of understanding on certain topics feels like the minimum if you put content out there for many people to hear.
Belen Battaglini
2024-11-23 23:14:58 +0000 UTCGoodnight and thank you Griffaldi You've podded your cast, what more could we ask of you now?
Matt Skoufalos
2024-11-23 18:17:34 +0000 UTCTruly, he worked it like a wookie
Matt Skoufalos
2024-11-23 18:16:49 +0000 UTCSeveral weeks in December. It’s on the schedule.
Anthony Regina
2024-11-23 14:37:24 +0000 UTCAlso, B&B I had to watch with the sound down to sneak it. I grew up with The Simpsons as my primary obsession , but there was a very brief period where, after a joke about Grandpa patronizing a sex worker in the Unkie Herb episode, I was not allowed to watch it for a few months. That didn’t last.
Anthony Regina
2024-11-23 14:34:29 +0000 UTCIt rang so so true. And when you’d ask your parents they wouldn’t even have a real reason. It was just weird disgust because the person had been around a lot. My mom’s big one was Bruce Willis. She didn’t think he could act and just groaned when he was starring in a movie. Demi Moore being linked with him at the time kind of dragged her along as well.
Anthony Regina
2024-11-23 14:32:37 +0000 UTCDavid just saying 1,000 global sociopolitical things that none of us dumpy-ass podcast listeners know the first thing about: “I don’t know anything! I’m just a dilettante!” Brother, own your expertise. I’m sure half the listener base has to look up “dilettante”.
Anthony Regina
2024-11-23 14:29:11 +0000 UTCOh, absolutely. I grew up in a house very much like that. Madonna, The Simpsons, Beavis and Butthead, all the classic 90s parent-hate things
Michael Henley
2024-11-23 14:03:00 +0000 UTCLike real revulsion, not even like dismissive laughing
Rad Rodge
2024-11-23 07:13:20 +0000 UTCTruly the most accurate thing in the world is that parents hate Madonna, one of the few post-1980 music figures that I’ve ever really heard them express much of an opinion about and their opinion is disgust
Rad Rodge
2024-11-23 07:10:49 +0000 UTCOne of my grandfathers collected stamps and I have STILL not heard anyone try to say “philatelist”
Rad Rodge
2024-11-23 06:06:36 +0000 UTCWhen Griffin is like “whenever the word is said,” I was discombobulated because I have NEVER heard someone attempt to say the word until this episode, not ever in my life, I’ve read the word many times but have never heard anyone try to actually say it ever before, where was Griffin hearing people say “philatelist”??!?!
Rad Rodge
2024-11-23 06:05:12 +0000 UTC“Don’t cry for me, Special Features” brought me great joy
Rad Rodge
2024-11-23 05:54:03 +0000 UTCMy mom loved this movie and we listened to the soundtrack all the time for a year. I still remember seeing it at the Arclight Dome. The songs still pop in my head frequently.
Chauncey Telese
2024-11-22 21:58:09 +0000 UTCJimmy Nail's singing career was launched after he shot to British TV fame in "Auf Weidersehen, Pet". The show also gave us Pat Roach who was the Nazi who takes a propeller to the face in Raiders, the head goon in Temple of Doom who gets crashed to death, and was deleted from the Last Crusade (Rude). Perhaps most significantly it gave the world Timothy Spall. The show was written and created by Franc Roddam who would go on create the popular cooking show MasterChef.
Norman Normalperson
2024-11-22 21:18:27 +0000 UTCTo this day my sister and I say “YES GREG.” from A Very Brady Sequel
Laura Bee
2024-11-22 21:18:15 +0000 UTCMike Duncan's Revolutions podcast is live again in a shift to a fictitious lore podcast about a future Martian Revolution.
Darnon
2024-11-22 20:15:52 +0000 UTCAntonio Banderas plays a riverboat captain in Paddington in Peru, no? Is he a boats guy now? A navalophile?
fartinscorcese
2024-11-22 15:55:35 +0000 UTCLeft out of the Madonna v. Gaga critical reception to their acting: Gaga off-stage presents as friendly and altruistic, Madonna is relentlessly ego-driven and unpleasant.
Zwoozy
2024-11-22 14:59:02 +0000 UTC🙌
Buzzy Jackson
2024-11-22 14:37:48 +0000 UTCMe relating to Marie at the discovery that David and Griffin were raised in anti Madonna homes totally forgetting that I was also raised by gay men
Lobo
2024-11-22 14:01:14 +0000 UTCNice Glasslands mentioned, Marie.
FiddlersGreenDay
2024-11-22 13:08:14 +0000 UTCDavid is so knowledgeable about things on this episode!
Nicholas Ewers
2024-11-22 05:31:51 +0000 UTCI believe Che being explicitly Guevara is a Hal Prince idea so it is not like written into the score but was a directorial concept that some people continue to use.
Andy Germuga
2024-11-22 03:10:58 +0000 UTCSo where’s the link to that cover
Anthony Regina
2024-11-22 02:41:43 +0000 UTCGreat little play on words that Griff made that I don’t even think he realized. When they were trying to figure out the Sandra Bully movie and Bardi says “28 Days?” Then Griff just says, “Later.” Haha.
Dankmeister
2024-11-22 01:50:27 +0000 UTCI'm Australian, is it wrong to say you couldn't tell if he was a singer guest starring on a TV show or a TV star doing a song?
Christopher Teuma
2024-11-22 01:23:02 +0000 UTCVase vase, forehead forehead.
Christopher Teuma
2024-11-22 01:20:49 +0000 UTCThat was a "today years old". I'm actually disappointed I've now in 2024 finally seen Evita but have still not seen In Bed With Madonna
Christopher Teuma
2024-11-22 01:20:04 +0000 UTCIt was mostly on in the late evenings.
Christopher Teuma
2024-11-22 01:19:18 +0000 UTC2017
Christopher Teuma
2024-11-22 01:16:58 +0000 UTCSo what you're saying is he's not Che Part I, he's Che Part II?
Christopher Teuma
2024-11-22 01:16:34 +0000 UTCI was listening to the I Wanna Hold Your Hand episode, and I think it's important that Ben stumps for the The Beatles are your parents music crowd while David lives in the real world with the rest of us. U2 on the other hand require a further discussion. Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and Flood are integral to what you're hearing, but think of it like those crazy LED light shows they've been doing, that's a U2 move right? But it's not like they designed the lights or the lighting sequence. But it's a U2 artistic decision. Brian Eno doesn't always sound as Brian Eno as he does on Apollo with Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois. And Depeche Mode don't sound always sound as Depeche Mode as they do with Flood. Smashing Pumpkins never got that 1979 sound again. Where maybe Nitzer Ebb are fine with or without him.
Christopher Teuma
2024-11-22 01:15:01 +0000 UTCI can’t be the only person who finds it hilarious that this was developed by “Stone and Parker”
Stephen David Miller
2024-11-21 23:34:13 +0000 UTCWhat ever this, please more. The intimacies of seeing movies and the background is so great
Richard
2024-11-21 23:26:35 +0000 UTCU2 rant good. U2 also good thank you David
Blake Anderson
2024-11-21 23:14:29 +0000 UTCA lot of people don't realize that Guevara was born in Argentina. Perón came to power when he was an 18-year-old student at the University of Buenos Aires, and he left Argentina to become a revolutionary shortly after Eva Perón's death. It's one of those historical coincidences I'm sure Webber and Rice were pumping their fists over discovering--the failed revolutionary promise of Peronism escaping to other lands by other names as it dies in Argentina.
Douglas Wykstra
2024-11-21 22:13:37 +0000 UTCActually in the show Che IS Che Guevara. In the movie version they changed it to just be like “Che-Everyman”.
Ralph
2024-11-21 20:13:52 +0000 UTCMichael Cerveris should have been the guest on this episode. (He played Juan Peron in the most recent Broadway revival, and was the best received part of the production).
MoCoSwede
2024-11-21 19:57:16 +0000 UTCNot me screaming, “Selena!”
Steven Ray Morris
2024-11-21 19:28:08 +0000 UTCtwin peaks season 3 when?
michael clarke
2024-11-21 19:19:52 +0000 UTCThis is perfect timing even if it is going to bring back strange ‘90s flashbacks …Like me just casually pointing out some minor historical facts the musical gets wrong to my then boyfriend and his failed film student brother flew into tirade about how nitpicky I was being (I wasn’t angry I was just making polite conversation). Mind you this was a guy who had just gone into LENGTHY DETAIL about the Star Wars rerelease correcting the shadow on the Emperor’s face… Anywho film bros SUCK and I’m thrilled to hang out and listen to y’all talk over this movie!
The Mad Jay Woman
2024-11-21 16:09:27 +0000 UTCU talkin’ U2 to me?
Cale Woods
2024-11-21 16:05:05 +0000 UTCCan't believe that while David was recapping the 1997 MTV Movie Awards he neglected to mention that they gave the Lifetime Achievement Award to Chewbacca.
Chris
2024-11-21 15:58:51 +0000 UTCWho’s That Girl is so slept on as a movie.
Danielle
2024-11-21 15:45:12 +0000 UTCThat Vanilla Ice story is… wow. Someone who runs the wiki page, get typing.
Tyler Duggan
2024-11-21 15:04:28 +0000 UTCReturn is on main feed broken up. See schedule here: https://www.blankcheckpod.com/
Blank Check with Griffin & David
2024-11-21 14:59:28 +0000 UTCFixed
AJ McKeon
2024-11-21 14:05:44 +0000 UTCI love this show so much, thank you.
Deren Ney
2024-11-21 13:30:03 +0000 UTCI literally did a spit take at the Vanilla Ice story
David Michael Perez
2024-11-21 12:49:54 +0000 UTCWell of course philatalist sounds weird if you say it like that! It's 'lat' as in 'flat', not 'late'. Still an unusual word either way.
HappyCroc
2024-11-21 08:27:47 +0000 UTCNachos were definitely in theaters in 96. I know this because I could never afford most times 😂 always had to get a small popcorn.
Peter Klaven
2024-11-21 07:40:12 +0000 UTCA favourite bit of the podcast continues to be David explaining very specific British Guys to the rest of the crew. Now that Jimmy Nail's been covered, can't wait for David to work his way through the rest of the Auf Wiedersehen, Pet cast.
Seán Lynch
2024-11-21 07:38:13 +0000 UTCThe Angela’s ashes boy was very frightening to me as a child
Gwen “Zootown” Nicholson
2024-11-21 07:34:49 +0000 UTCMadonna-*led*, surely.
Douglas Wykstra
2024-11-21 07:07:39 +0000 UTCWhen is the return
Andre Barrera
2024-11-21 05:47:50 +0000 UTCI haven’t seen this movie since the 90s, didn’t care for it 😂
Peter Klaven
2024-11-21 05:25:18 +0000 UTCLet’s goooo
Steven Ray Morris
2024-11-21 05:19:03 +0000 UTCA non-Griffin vomit uh oh
Olivia Haidar
2024-11-21 05:12:58 +0000 UTCshoulda been patti lupone
Jordan B. Anderson
2024-11-21 05:12:02 +0000 UTC
