2024 March Madness Update 1
Added 2024-03-19 21:20:17 +0000 UTC
Now that we are in the Sweet 16, the BC gang recaps who edged whom and who beat out whom in Round 1 of the Main Feed bracket. They also discuss the second round matchups on the main feed and Patreon bracket.
Topics include: Major David lore, The Queen’s second birthday, Marie’s Griffin and David impression and Chip Smith returns.
Oooooh, if the superhero series happens, maybe you also include Up Up And Away. My boy Robert Townsend taking another bite at the superhero apple for Disney.
FOLARIN AKINMADE
2024-03-22 18:06:25 +0000 UTC
Love a good Ceefax reference!
James Stayte
2024-03-22 14:27:14 +0000 UTC
Weird to me to hear that demographics for the listeners leans so male. This is one of the most “female friendly” movie podcasts I’ve listened to.
Savannah
2024-03-21 17:08:40 +0000 UTC
I wonder does David remember Digitiser, the surreal video games magazine on Channel 4 teletext - https://www.superpage58.com/what-is-digitiser-guide-to-teletext-phenomenon.htm
Seán Óg Murphy
2024-03-21 16:21:58 +0000 UTC
Fun fact: when I worked for the Met Office (British Weather Service) I was stationed in Germany for a time and one of my jobs was to update the Ceefax pages that listed the snow conditions at various ski resorts around Europe for the military personnel stationed there. It was incredibly convoluted and counter intuitive to update even the simplest piece of text.
Garry L
2024-03-21 11:55:51 +0000 UTC
I liked Streisand! Didnt love Buster, but I also didn’t drag you guys about it either. It’s important cinematic history, relevant to the theme of a blank check, and I know Griffin truly loves the stuff.
God, people on the internet are just absolute crumb bums
Tyler Duggan
2024-03-21 02:58:08 +0000 UTC
Seconded!
Kate
2024-03-20 22:53:58 +0000 UTC
It makes me so sad to hear that people were giving you shit about the Streisand miniseries — it was one of my favorites! I had only heard of Yentl as a butt of a joke and watched it for the podcast and now it’s one of my favorite movies!
Anyway, hope you feel that there’s a lot of people who enjoy all the work you all are doing ❤️
Kate
2024-03-20 22:50:59 +0000 UTC
Voted Pakula. Would love to see it.
Chris Fyvie
2024-03-20 21:12:22 +0000 UTC
It's perhaps the purest example of David trying to keep things on track and moving swiftly along and then, himself, getting completely sidetracked on a 10-minute tangent. The best.
Janine Liberty
2024-03-20 17:10:00 +0000 UTC
True. But it's also telling, imo, how those projects he didn't direct are largely superior and more enduring.
Brian Blake
2024-03-20 16:48:39 +0000 UTC
If someone wanted to pay for shipping, could one acquire a Chip Coin…
Shawn Barney
2024-03-20 16:42:42 +0000 UTC
I never had that one!
Omeed
2024-03-20 16:35:38 +0000 UTC
The thing is, Late Night Snack was even better!
I don't know who came up with the idea of "chocolate-covered potato chip pieces" as an ice cream topping, but they are an evil genius and must create at least 10 more ice creams.
Douglas Wykstra
2024-03-20 16:30:04 +0000 UTC
What if there was a girl Blankie? We’re out here! 💖🙌
Joanna Patterson
2024-03-20 16:28:11 +0000 UTC
The problem with a Judd Apatow producer-only series is that he's touched roughly 85% of comedy that came out from 1990-2015. That'll happen when your career goes from writing for Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey to writing for Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen.
Douglas Wykstra
2024-03-20 16:27:12 +0000 UTC
What! Those people need to get a life.
Or better yet, take their money: Superdelegate Patreon Tier. $1000/month, you register your IP address, you get to vote 100 times on each match. I would give up some of my voting power if I knew people were being soaked at $10/vote for it.
Douglas Wykstra
2024-03-20 16:24:29 +0000 UTC
In Ireland we had Aertel for Irish channels and Ceefax for UK import channels. It's how I first read that Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn and Luke Wilson were gonna be in old school
Terry Toner
2024-03-20 16:19:37 +0000 UTC
I always love these March Madness episodes, really captures the spirit of the season.
Begemott
2024-03-20 16:12:58 +0000 UTC
It’s ok to to be a huge fan of Boomer art.
JC
2024-03-20 15:31:13 +0000 UTC
Marie saying "What?" about the Queen's two birthdays over and over again is pretty much my whole personality.
Janine Liberty
2024-03-20 14:56:00 +0000 UTC
one or two duplicate votes aren't gonna move the needle, don't worry! but people have been voting HUNDREDS of times.
Blank Check with Griffin & David
2024-03-20 13:55:22 +0000 UTC
as you should
Blank Check with Griffin & David
2024-03-20 13:53:57 +0000 UTC
I never thought I'd be so anxiously awaiting an episode on the worst Terminator movie.
Chase Janak
2024-03-20 13:38:31 +0000 UTC
Tonight Dough is so good and I hate myself every time I get it
Omeed
2024-03-20 13:27:21 +0000 UTC
At least one more, eh?
Abe Something
2024-03-20 13:08:50 +0000 UTC
🎵 976-1234, it’s the lotto line 🎵
Matthew O'Reilly
2024-03-20 12:59:23 +0000 UTC
I’ll be putting my Chip Coin into the frame for the poster I bought.
Matthew Park
2024-03-20 12:01:12 +0000 UTC
(I’m not sure of the wisdom of putting this kind of a lock onto a bracket in the first place, I had a similar feeling about Kubrick that year, making this bracket seems like just making a schedule announcement. If it’s helped inspire the fellas to commit to Curtis Hanson too, though, that IS pretty cool)
Rad Rodge
2024-03-20 06:42:03 +0000 UTC
In bathroom parlance, “Dune 2” means taking a poo.
Tom Lowery
2024-03-20 06:19:03 +0000 UTC
Female Blankie who appeared in a Harold Ramis movie here – extremely bummed to watch him get mowed down today! I hope he’s still in consideration for the future 🤞
KS
2024-03-20 06:18:20 +0000 UTC
Yes! I would be so excited to hear a Curtis Hanson series, but never thought it could happen. <3
ElectricGayhem
2024-03-20 03:03:50 +0000 UTC
Except that this old millennial is a huge Lynch fan, and the co-host who’s a fan is younger than me. So maybe think out your lazy insults a bit better.
Cory McCasland
2024-03-20 03:00:06 +0000 UTC
More Bardi! Laugh every time she is on the pod.
Patrick Gorman
2024-03-20 02:49:35 +0000 UTC
Thank you #thefourfriends for always brightening my day 💜
Bairbre
2024-03-20 02:16:44 +0000 UTC
This episode is hilarious. I laughed so much at the bits. Please do another one before the last one.
Christopher Kennedy
2024-03-20 01:53:02 +0000 UTC
Hancock, muthafuckas, and please devote 90% of the episode to the original screenplay.
Aaron Summers
2024-03-20 01:46:43 +0000 UTC
Embarrassed to say the accidental ballot stuffing has absolutely happened to me as well, I need to stop going to the ballot via Instagram, I think that's the solution
Rad Rodge
2024-03-20 01:46:00 +0000 UTC
My read on Blankie demographics is still that Lynch was guaranteed to win as soon as he was put on any bracket that didn't already have Kubrick on it, so I do wish to strenuously urge management to deeply consider the eventual runner-up as well
Rad Rodge
2024-03-20 01:43:31 +0000 UTC
Dark Crystal, dark horse
Ben_Grimm_13
2024-03-20 01:04:07 +0000 UTC
I am a fan of his work, but Wes Craven’s career at times, a lot like the Sideshow Bob steps on a rake bit
Douglas “Scoop” Reinhardt
2024-03-20 01:00:13 +0000 UTC
OM FUCKING G! Marie, I LOVED that deep cut!
Aaron Summers
2024-03-20 00:59:37 +0000 UTC
As a fellow female BC listener—yes! 🥂
Chas
2024-03-20 00:46:23 +0000 UTC
Every sports fan in the country knew 900-976-1313 because they had this awesome jingle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_HpM5eqZuA
Betty
2024-03-20 00:32:32 +0000 UTC
As a rare female Blank Check listener, I think my votes for a Frank Oz miniseries should be proportionately weighted for equity
Karly Quadros
2024-03-20 00:12:41 +0000 UTC
Yet the other option lets you pick from funny Adam McKay, The Cable Guy, Bridesmaids, Begin Again, Wanderlust, Pee Wee's Big Holiday, Popstar, The Big Sick, Bros. All in addition to the two rewatch classics you named.
Brian Blake
2024-03-19 23:34:57 +0000 UTC
I know it won’t happen but a Wes Craven series would be the perfect excuse to rewatch every Scream movie (again)
Cahtah
2024-03-19 23:34:39 +0000 UTC
In Australia we get the Queens Birthday off. Even though it's not her bithday.
Elliot Cowan
2024-03-19 23:29:24 +0000 UTC
"What do they call shoes there?" off to the races
Anthony Pierre Coco
2024-03-19 23:10:57 +0000 UTC
I'd actually disagree. There are probably better movies in that mix - I adore Walk Hard and Superbad - but Knocked Up & Funny People being released when they were and the swing they made, as they said, into a more James L Brooks tone than the standard raunch flick of the time feels like more interesting discussion fodder
Anthony Pierre Coco
2024-03-19 23:10:42 +0000 UTC
Judd Apatow -- take all the feature films he produced and didn't direct. That's the banger and better, more interesting series of movies.
Brian Blake
2024-03-19 23:02:53 +0000 UTC
I’m all in on Alex Garland, but I do have to admit that it’s 100% due to the one film he isn’t credited with directing.
Donald W Pratt
2024-03-19 22:56:39 +0000 UTC
I also thought you had to press your vote again to see the results for a while.
Donald W Pratt
2024-03-19 22:54:43 +0000 UTC
I’m laughing at them keeping track of ballot stuffing because I’ve embarrassingly voted twice a few times because I completely forgot that I had already voted 🤦🏻♀️
Lobo
2024-03-19 22:35:28 +0000 UTC
David Lynch is the patron saint of Boomer art
JC
2024-03-19 22:32:53 +0000 UTC
Peter Jennings lore: his favorite drink was Diet Fresca. Source: my father who worked for ABC News
fartinscorcese
2024-03-19 22:07:44 +0000 UTC
Lisan Al Gaib!!!
Jackson Thornton
2024-03-19 22:05:50 +0000 UTC