Welcome
Blank Check with Griffin and David (@blankcheckpod on Twitter and @blankcheckpod on Threads) is a film podcast where #TheTwoFriends, Griffin Newman and David Sims, examine the filmographies of famous directors and determine the moment when they got a "Blank Check". This is a wiki for information on the hosts, producers, Benducers, inside jokes, director discussions and featured guests. The official website is blankcheckpod.com for all of your official nerdy shit.
- The show has been featured in articles at the AV Club, Buzzfeed, TIME Magazine, and many other publications. See About The Show for more.
- Blank Check Merch is available! Check out the latest designs on teepublic. They also have a new shop through shopify, with a hat, a limited-edition 5th Anniversary t-shirt, and comedy points coinage.
- Patreon: the supplemental series Blank Check: Special Features is up and running. Subscriber patrons have access to a new podcast feed with extra episodes every 10 days, including commentary tracks and discussion of long-requested franchise films. Plus, whenever they hit a new total goal they do weird stuff like record episodes live on tape at basketball games and amusement parks. You can find their sign-up page here.
- Odds and Ends pages: the Card System, slate of Blank Check Pictures, types of Comedy Points, March Madness concept, Podcast Records, Five-Timers Club
March Madness 2025 and Special Features March Madness 2025 have ended! Voting on the Dream Team bracket took place on the Blank Check Website! Patreon voting took place, well, on Patreon. Track how the Coen Brothers and 90's Indie Comics carved their paths to victory and check out both series.
Index
Current Miniseries
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Current Commentary Miniseries
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Griffin Newman  tangents ahead
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Ben Hosley  the pro-doer
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Featured Article
Avatar: The Way of Water (also known as Podatar: The Cast of Water) is episode 406 focusing on the 2022 film of the same name as part of Podinator: Judgment Cast miniseries on the films of James Cameron. It is the first revisit Cameron since the completion of the original miniseries. Posted December 18, 2022.
Summary
The gang went to see AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER and we all got soaking wet. Fully submerged. Drenched! We’re communing with space whales, chugging coffees with Edie Falco, and learning how to hold our breath for long stretches of time to commemorate the release of James Cameron’s long-awaited sequel to the biggest movie of all time. ...
Miniseries
| Star Wars | Beginning date | |
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| The Phantom Podcast | Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace | March 2015 |
| Attack Of The Podcast | Star Wars Ep. II: Attack Of The Clones | June 2015 |
| Revenge Of The Podcast | Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge Of The Sith | September 2015 |
| All Other Star Wars | The OT, Holiday Special, sequels, etc. | December 2015 |
| Directors' filmographies | Beginning date | |
| Pod Night Shyamacast | M. Night Shyamalan | January 2016 |
| The Podchowski Casters | the Wachowski siblings | April 2016 |
| We Pod A Cast | Cameron Crowe | June 2016 |
| Podinator: Judgment Cast | James Cameron | September 2016 |
| Pod Me If You Cast | Steven Spielberg: post-Oscar | January 2017 |
| The Pod Knight Casts | Christopher Nolan | June 2017 |
| Pod-19: The Widowcaster | Kathryn Bigelow | September 2017 |
| Podship Casters | Paul Verhoeven: the Hollywood years | January 2018 |
| Podcast News | James L. Brooks | March 2018 |
| The Podcastibles | Brad Bird | May 2018 |
| Podback Mountcast | Ang Lee | July 2018 |
| Something's Podda Cast | Nancy Meyers | October 2018 |
| Podward Scissorcast | Tim Burton | December 2018 |
| Cast of the Podhicans | Michael Mann | May 2019 |
| Howl's Moving Podcastle | Hayao Miyazaki | August 2019 |
| Stop Making Podcasts | Jonathan Demme | November 2019 |
| Mad Pod: Fury Cast | George Miller | March 2020 |
| You've Got Podcast | Nora Ephron | June 2020 |
| Pod & Basketcast | Gina Prince-Bythewood | August 2020 |
| Podcast Away | Robert Zemeckis | September 2020 |
| The Poddle Mercast | Musker & Clements | February 2021 |
| The Podbreak Cast | Elaine May | April 2021 |
| Podz n the Cast | John Singleton | May 2021 |
| They Podcast | John Carpenter | August 2021 |
| The Podcastiano | Jane Campion | January 2022 |
| Podcast Me to Hell | Sam Raimi | March 2022 |
| Pod That Jazzcast | Bob Fosse | July 2022 |
| Pods Wide Cast | Stanley Kubrick | August 2022 |
| The Podmare Before Castmas | Henry Selick | November 2022 |
| Trainspodcasting | Danny Boyle | January 2023 |
| Podcast Jr. | Buster Keaton | May 2023 |
| I'm a Podcast, But That's OK | Park Chan-wook | June 2023 |
| The Curious Pod of Benjamin Buttcast | David Fincher | September 2023 |
| Podcastl | Barbra Streisand | January 2024 |
| Pod Hard with a Vengecast | John McTiernan | February 2024 |
| Podprikast | Satoshi Kon | May 2024 |
| Podverly Hills Cast | Martin Brest | June 2024 |
| Podcasts with Wolves | Kevin Costner | July 2024 |
| Twin Pods: Fire Cast With Me | David Lynch | August 2024 |
| Podrassic Cast | Early Steven Spielberg | January 2025 |
| Pod Times at Ridgemont Cast | Amy Heckerling | April 2025 |
| Pod Country for Old Cast | Coen Brothers | July 2025 |
| Other / Palate Cleansers | Beginning date | |
| The PodDCEU Cast | DC Extended Universe films | |
| Ben's Choice/Guest's Choice | selections by Producer Ben & guests | |
| Standalones/Miscellaneous | one-offs, mailbags, 'Blankie' awards, & more | |
Podcast Credits
The updated 2025 art by Olly Moss
- Griffin Newman, Co-host
- David Sims, Co-host
- Ben Hosley, Pro-doer
- Layne Montgomery, Theme Songs
- Joe Bowen, Pat Reynolds, & Olly Moss, Artwork
- Marie Bardi-Salinas, Executive Producer & Social Media
- AJ McKeon, Production Coordinator
- Alex Barron, Editing
- JJ Bersch, Research
- Angela Ferraguto, Co-Producer & Social Media — Emerita
- Rachel Jacobs, Producer — Emerita
- Nick Laureano, Researcher — Emeritus
Wiki Credits
This wiki was developed as an initiative of the Blankies community on Reddit.
Primary contributors are Puercster, antlersantlers, Ceiling99, Ilaughalone, and Armyofmeee. You can see all contributors listed here. We document real nerdy shit.
If you would like to help, a great place to start is with one of these article stubs!
