The Eighth Blank Check Mailbag
Added 2024-01-11 05:00:03 +0000 UTCIt's January 11th, so that can only mean one thing! THE 8th BLANK CHECK MAILBAG! The gang answers listener submitted questions, as well as some voicemails from friends of the show. Topics include: Ben earring updates, physical media pickups of 2023, the quintessential Blank Check Episode and so much more!
Special thanks to Tim Simons, Karen Han, David Ehrlich and Asa Ehrlich-Maezono, Hayes McKeon and Katey Rich + Charlie.
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So hard to cry while eating chicken alfredo pasta
Vegan Police
2024-02-01 23:57:17 +0000 UTCCrying @ this young man giving his top 10 list ❤️
Vegan Police
2024-02-01 23:55:37 +0000 UTCMaybe Elrich is scared that The Cars franchise is a gateway to Planes: Fire and Rescue (is there a train in that??)
Vegan Police
2024-02-01 21:32:54 +0000 UTCProducer Ben! I’m a piercer! I do a piercing Patreon and co-wrote a book on piercing. Get in touch I can help you out!
Jef Saunders
2024-01-20 21:02:45 +0000 UTCListening to the Sesame Street question I would definitely want to hear Gonger talk about Burnt and Chef as a food truck owner himself. Plus the off mic takes on Cookie Monster would be out of control
PJ Gaughan
2024-01-19 04:48:24 +0000 UTCBen: if you haven’t, contact your piercer and they will triage you, bestie!! Longer post, surgical steel, saline soaks, etc. may be needed. Thoughts & prayers.
Jane
2024-01-19 00:07:29 +0000 UTCJust listening to the mailbag now and heard about Ben's earing travails. I, too, had similar issues when I got an earring and found out it was because my lobes were too large (my ear started growing around it). I had to replace my standard stud with a longer one and that did the trick. Best of luck on your earring adventures!!!
Josh Hehner
2024-01-18 15:25:19 +0000 UTCBen, I'm back with a follow up Q!! Is your earring surgical steel? If not, you might have a mild allergy to nickel or something else and that could be keeping it from healing!
Erin
2024-01-17 22:14:36 +0000 UTCWas not expecting a Rat Saw God drop! Amazing album, great music taste Ben!
Tyler
2024-01-17 00:57:04 +0000 UTCWhat is the best Babs film to hook someone (willing, just ignorant) in to the fandom?
Samuel McGuire
2024-01-16 22:45:29 +0000 UTC100%!!!! Skip the Michael Bay movies if you have to. No one likes them.
Frog Dimples (Jesse)
2024-01-16 21:06:59 +0000 UTCused to cat sit for joe rohde… what a house
aya and ariel
2024-01-16 07:31:03 +0000 UTCPLEASE do the 2022 Rise of the Teenage Mutuant Ninja Turtles movie that was done for Netflix!! 😭 The 2d animation in it is incredibly anime and it’s characterization so wildly different that I’d love to hear your commentary! 🐢🐢🐢🐢
Krista
2024-01-15 08:41:29 +0000 UTCWaiting for the Doughboys to cover Ralph’s House of Shit
Matt F
2024-01-14 22:37:58 +0000 UTCDavid not listing Jess Knappett as a member of his Taskmaster Mount Crushmore is the closest I have come to cancelling my subscription.
Adam Butterworth
2024-01-14 22:24:48 +0000 UTCi would very legitimately watch a twitch stream of david playing bg3 on his fancy new pc
Abigail Brennan
2024-01-14 03:29:13 +0000 UTCHey. Savion Glover is the coolest.
Matt
2024-01-13 20:35:49 +0000 UTCThanks for answering my question guys, would never have expected Fight Club as an answer, this is why Ben is our finest film critic!! All the love for 2024 from the Love Guru's original client
Adam Truelove
2024-01-13 20:25:39 +0000 UTCCan we get a full Patreon episode where Griffin and David talk about Kitchen Nightmares but call it Hell’s Kitchen?
Drew Schultz
2024-01-13 19:51:23 +0000 UTCTaskmaster chat ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Annie
2024-01-13 06:28:09 +0000 UTChearing david talk about taskmaster was amazing, i would die to hear you guys talk about it more!! charlotte ritchie is my taskmaster crush also, i think about her every 60 seconds or so
Ezra Kowo
2024-01-13 05:17:17 +0000 UTCThey were talking about what are the best episodes… I have listened to the big fish one many times lolll def one of my favorites
Bailey scieszka
2024-01-13 03:09:37 +0000 UTCWhen I say I stopped in my tracks when I heard that sweet child ask why doesn’t my daddy let me watch Cars 💀 I am 6 months pregnant and pretending Cara doesn’t exist has always been the plan. Griffin saying “We live in a society, Cars is omnipresent” fucking killed me
Emily Varley
2024-01-13 02:58:11 +0000 UTCOhhhhh! Thank you
Jared Gambrel
2024-01-13 02:22:29 +0000 UTCLove the shout out to Mulaney hosting (presumably) before he rocked the house at the Governors’ Awards
fartinscorcese
2024-01-12 21:16:32 +0000 UTCMy dream job is the camera operator who does the slow slight zoom on Steve Harvey’s face when he is looking befuddled by an answer
Dan Donnelly
2024-01-12 18:56:55 +0000 UTCYou guys…stop mumbling on mic. *grabs ruler*
Chris Damen
2024-01-12 16:07:49 +0000 UTCI really should’ve asked more about “ways to introduce kids to movies” because they have a lot of ideas and I wasted my shot on a dumb question that they didn’t answer.
Ross
2024-01-12 14:22:25 +0000 UTCWhen?
Ross
2024-01-12 14:21:06 +0000 UTCHell yeah came in under the wire with the music q hahaha Also I didn’t know what I expected bens answer to be but Wednesday definitely hits it
Stan
2024-01-12 13:35:13 +0000 UTCDavid quietly saying dislington and waiting for Griffin to yell DISLINGTON!from the bathroom is absolutely hilarious.He just knew it was coming
Harrison Stanley
2024-01-12 13:19:42 +0000 UTCSUCH a great ep!
KS
2024-01-12 09:52:42 +0000 UTCThanks for answering my question!! the Blank Check team is the best
ExciteMike64
2024-01-12 09:24:36 +0000 UTCThe oft undermined Charlie Rich contribution to Blank Check, FITW, and Little Gold Men shan’t be most on me
Katie
2024-01-12 07:13:11 +0000 UTC[nodding]
Rad Rodge
2024-01-12 05:46:05 +0000 UTCThat format is right up there with “He go fast in airplane” for my favorite Blank Check bits. “The Lion Queen,” another iconic David pitch
Rad Rodge
2024-01-12 05:44:51 +0000 UTCI lost my shit at “Frontdraft” hahahaha
Rad Rodge
2024-01-12 05:43:31 +0000 UTCGriffin and David missed the obvious answer to the Sesame Street question. Baby Bear is best suited for Blank Check. He's pleasant, dryly funny, and based on him quoting cool hand Luke is a cinephile.
Chauncey Telese
2024-01-12 04:26:56 +0000 UTCCount von Count would LOVE the Box Office game! “This movie made ONE Blackhat TWO Blackhats…”
Tobey
2024-01-12 04:10:09 +0000 UTCSo we all agree that it was Batman the animated series and they were talking about?
ryan mcgrath
2024-01-12 00:45:34 +0000 UTCAyy beaming at my both my question being answered and my name being specifically called out as “phenomenal”. For the record (REAL nerdy shit name alert) its a sort of erstatz take on “Anthony Peter Coleman”, Bill Hader’s character in the puppet class SNL sketch, one of my favorite things ever.
Anthony Pierre Coco
2024-01-11 23:42:36 +0000 UTC@David: they might bring the two Tron movies to 4K to help promote that new Jared Leto Tron movie they’re threatening us with! Silver lining!
Christopher Maldonado
2024-01-11 22:27:51 +0000 UTCCéline Sciamna, director 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'
Caroline Pruett
2024-01-11 21:33:25 +0000 UTCRocketman(1997) recorded IN SPACE!
Jacob Bowman
2024-01-11 20:37:16 +0000 UTCTime stamp 1:28:52
Jared Gambrel
2024-01-11 20:07:13 +0000 UTCWho is the director David mentions as be an interesting Zelda choice? Sounds like Selen Schma but google doesn’t think so.
Jared Gambrel
2024-01-11 20:05:22 +0000 UTCI hate to be this person but when they were talking about Hells Kitchen I think they meant Kitchen Nightmares...unless UK hell's Kitchen is really different?
Caroline Pruett
2024-01-11 19:28:23 +0000 UTCThe answer to what feature would I add to improve the movie going experience is captioning. On the screen captioning NOT those annoying devices
Lobo
2024-01-11 19:19:47 +0000 UTCI am a former competitive rower, and even I have no interest in Boys In The Boat
Chet Kazalski
2024-01-11 19:05:07 +0000 UTC[Whispering to date while watching Hotel Transylvania: Transformania when the MRC logo first appears on the screen] That's Chappie
Ian
2024-01-11 18:47:36 +0000 UTCNot sure it'll pan out this way, but would love if Jane Schoenbrun got to have a blank check career. Highly anticipating their next one!
Aaron Abolt
2024-01-11 18:36:31 +0000 UTCBen, re: your earring, please wash only with hot water and dab a little neosporin on the piercing after cleaning about 1-2 a day for a few weeks and please don’t give up we need the pirate earring !!!
Den
2024-01-11 18:30:13 +0000 UTCWednesday is cool, Ben have you heard Ratboys?
Jack R
2024-01-11 17:44:56 +0000 UTCnot mentioning the brokeback episode while listing the best blank check episodes is ERASURE
Dustin
2024-01-11 17:21:08 +0000 UTCLove hearing about Griffin buying those special edition Umbrella Blu-ray releases. He needs to get on that Razorback box set.
Zachary Stein
2024-01-11 17:18:28 +0000 UTC#releasetheintercomcut
Andrew Newbury
2024-01-11 16:55:16 +0000 UTCIncredible drink choices, everyone (and AJ!). Thank you for the answer!
corndair
2024-01-11 15:00:44 +0000 UTCSo Griffin is a tie tie boy?
Mireille C
2024-01-11 14:37:18 +0000 UTCCo-sign
Dan
2024-01-11 12:51:59 +0000 UTCApplegate is the best performance in Anchorman. My best actress winner.
Mike Ostrov
2024-01-11 11:01:02 +0000 UTCWas in the middle of My shift at fancy LA restaurant and this update pinged on my watch and literally made my night and I also I may have squealed
David Rosenblatt
2024-01-11 09:03:34 +0000 UTCLoving the use of the theme from New York, New York recently
Daniel Johnson
2024-01-11 06:51:22 +0000 UTCDizzlington!!!!! It's izzlington you fool!
Storm chaser Jay
2024-01-11 06:20:03 +0000 UTCOr, Mail!
Robert Carroll
2024-01-11 05:55:52 +0000 UTCHail!
Robert Carroll
2024-01-11 05:54:36 +0000 UTCYou win this round, insomnia.
Peter M
2024-01-11 05:04:27 +0000 UTC
