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Blank Check with Griffin and David (@blankcheckpod on Twitter) 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 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. Their shop is at www.teepublic.com/stores/blank-check. They also have a new shop at https://shopblankcheckpod.myshopify.com/ 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. The signup page is at www.patreon.com/blankcheck.
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 2021 and Special Features March Madness 2021 have crowned this year's champions! Check the pages to see how John Carpenter and The Twilight Saga, respectively, charted their paths to victory during an entire month of battles royale.

Index

Current Miniseries:

They Podcast

THE FILMS OF JOHN CARPENTER

Guests Guide

Episode Guide

Griffin Newman

tangents ahead

David Sims

(chimes ring in the distance)

Ben Hosley

the pro-doer

About
The Show

Glossary of
In-Jokes

Links
And Resources

Miniseries


Star Wars		Beginning date
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

Other / Palate Cleansers		Beginning date
The PodDCEU Cast	DC Extended Universe films	7 episodes
Ben's Choice/Guest's Choice	selections by Producer Ben & guests	12 episodes
Standalones/Miscellaneous	one-offs, mailbags, 'Blankie' awards, & more	19 episodes

Podcast Credits

The zoomed-out logo by Joe Bowen. Every completed miniseries through 2018 has a totem in there.

Griffin Newman, Co-host
David Sims, Co-host
Ben Hosley, Pro-doer
Layne Montgomery, Theme Songs
Joe Bowen and Pat Reynolds, Artwork
Marie Bardi, Social Media
Rachel Jacobs, Producer
AJ McKeon, Editor
Alex Barron, Editor
Angela Ferraguto, Co-Producer & Social Media — Emerita

Wiki Credits

This wiki was developed as an initiative of the Blankies community on Reddit.

Primary contributors are 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!

Polls have been closed down but past poll results of Blankies can still be viewed!

Past Poll Results

Logo Artwork, by Joe Bowen

Latest wiki Activity

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 =='''Welcome'''==
 '''Blank Check with Griffin and David''' ([https://twitter.com/blankcheckpod @blankcheckpod on Twitter]) 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 show has been featured in articles at the AV Club, Buzzfeed, TIME Magazine, and many other publications. See [[About|About The Show]] for more.
-* '''Blank Check Merch''' is... brace yourselves... actually, really, finally available! More new designs are out. Their shop is at [https://www.teepublic.com/stores/blank-check www.teepublic.com/stores/blank-check].
-* '''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. The signup page is at [https://www.patreon.com/blankcheck www.patreon.com/blankcheck].
-* Odds and Ends pages: the [[Card System]], slate of [[Blank Check Pictures]], types of [[Comedy Points]], [[March Madness]] concept
+*The show has been featured in articles at the AV Club, Buzzfeed, TIME Magazine, and many other publications. See [[About|About The Show]] for more.
-=== [[March Madness 2019|'''March Madness 2019''']] has crowned this year's champion! ===
+*'''Blank Check Merch''' is available! Check out the latest designs. Their shop is at [https://www.teepublic.com/stores/blank-check www.teepublic.com/stores/blank-check]. They also have a new shop at https://shopblankcheckpod.myshopify.com/ 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. The signup page is at [https://www.patreon.com/blankcheck www.patreon.com/blankcheck].
+*Odds and Ends pages: the [[Card System]], slate of [[Blank Check Pictures]], types of [[Comedy Points]], [[March Madness]] concept, [[Podcast Records]], [[Five-Timers Club]]
+{| class="article-table" width="100%" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left"
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+'''[[March Madness 2021]]''' and [[Special Features March Madness 2021]] have crowned this year's champions! Check the pages to see how [[John Carpenter]] and [[The Twilight Saga]], respectively, charted their paths to victory during an entire month of battles royale.
+|}
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-! colspan="3" |
+! colspan="2" | <u>'''Star Wars'''</u>
-==== <u>Star Wars</u> ====
+!<u>'''Beginning date'''</u>
-!''<u>beginning date</u>''
 |-
-|
 |[[The Phantom Podcast|'''The Phantom Podcast''']]
 |''Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace''
 |March 2015
 |-
-|
 |[[Attack of the Podcast|'''Attack Of The Podcast''']]
 |''Star Wars Ep. II: Attack Of The Clones''
 |June 2015
 |-
-|
 |[[Revenge of The Podcast|'''Revenge Of The Podcast''']]
 |''Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge Of The Sith''
 |September 2015
 |-
-|
 |[[The Star Wars Sequels|'''All Other Star Wars''']]
 |The OT, Holiday Special, sequels, etc.
 |December 2015
 |-
-| colspan="4" style="background-color: black;" |
+| colspan="3" style="background-color: purple;" |
 |-
-! colspan="3" |
+! colspan="2" | <u>'''Directors' filmographies'''</u>
+!<u>'''Beginning date'''</u>
-==== <u>Directors' filmographies</u> ====
-!''<u>beginning date</u>''
 |-
+|'''[[Pod Night Shyamacast]]'''
-|
-|[[Pod Night Shyamacast|'''Pod Night Shyamacast''']]
 |M. Night Shyamalan
 |January 2016
 |-
+|'''[[The Podchowski Casters]]'''
-|
-|[[The Podchowski Casters|'''The Podchowski Casters''']]
 |the Wachowski siblings
 |April 2016
 |-
+|'''[[We Pod A Cast]]'''
-|
-|[[We Pod A Cast|'''We Pod A Cast''']]
 |Cameron Crowe
 |June 2016
 |-
+|'''[[Podinator: Judgment Cast]]'''
-|
-|[[Podinator: Judgment Cast|'''Podinator: Judgment Cast''']]
 |James Cameron
 |September 2016
 |-
+|'''[[Pod Me If You Cast]]'''
-|
-|[[Pod Me If You Cast|'''Pod Me If You Cast''']]
 |Steven Spielberg: post-Oscar
 |January 2017
 |-
+|'''[[The Pod Knight Casts]]'''
-|
-|[[The Pod Knight Casts|'''The Pod Knight Casts''']]
 |Christopher Nolan
 |June 2017
 |-
+|'''[[Pod-19: The Widowcaster]]'''
-|
-|[[Pod-19: The Widowcaster|'''Pod-19: The Widowcaster''']]
 |Kathryn Bigelow
 |September 2017
 |-
+|'''[[Podship Casters]]'''
-|
-|[[Podship Casters|'''Podship Casters''']]
 |Paul Verhoeven: the Hollywood years
 |January 2018
 |-
+|'''[[Podcast News]]'''
-|
-|[[Podcast News|'''Podcast News''']]
 |James L. Brooks
 |March 2018
 |-
+|'''[[The Podcastibles]]'''
-|
-|[[The Podcastibles|'''The Podcastibles''']]
 |Brad Bird
 |May 2018
 |-
+|'''[[Podback Mountcast]]'''
-|
-|[[Podback Mountcast|'''Podback Mountcast''']]
 |Ang Lee
 |July 2018
 |-
+|'''[[Something's Podda Cast]]'''
-|
-|[[Something's Podda Cast|'''Something's Podda Cast''']]
 |Nancy Meyers
 |October 2018
 |-
+|'''[[Podward Scissorcast]]'''
-|
-|[[Podward Scissorcast|'''Podward Scissorcast''']]
 |Tim Burton
 |December 2018
 |-
+|'''[[Cast of the Podhicans]]'''
-|
-|[[Michael Mannsplaining|'''Michael Mannsplaining''']]
 |Michael Mann
 |May 2019
 |-
+|'''[[Howl's Moving Podcastle]]'''
-|
+|Hayao Miyazaki
-|tbd
+|August 2019
-|tbd
-|tbd
 |-
+|'''[[Stop Making Podcasts]]'''
-|
-|tbd
 |Jonathan Demme
-|October 2019
+|November 2019
 |-
+|'''[[Mad Pod: Fury Cast]]'''
-|
+|George Miller
-|
+|March 2020
-|
-|
+|-
+|'''[[You've Got Podcast]]'''
+|Nora Ephron
+|June 2020
 |-
+|'''[[Pod & Basketcast]]'''
-| colspan="4" style="background-color: black;" |
+|Gina Prince-Bythewood
+|August 2020
 |-
+|'''[[Podcast Away]]'''
-! colspan="3" |
+|Robert Zemeckis
-==== <u>Other / Palate Cleansers</u> ====
+|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
+|-
+| colspan="3" style="background-color: purple;" |
+|-
+! colspan="2" | <u>'''Other / Palate Cleansers'''</u>
+!<u>'''Beginning date'''</u>
 |-
-|
 |[[The (Unofficial) DCEU Cast|'''The PodDCEU Cast''']]
 |DC Extended Universe films
-|5 episodes
+|7 episodes
 |-
-|
 |[[Standalones#Ben's Choice|'''Ben's Choice/Guest's Choice''']]
 |selections by Producer Ben & guests
-|10 episodes
+|12 episodes
 |-
-|
 |[[Standalones#The Annual Blank Check Awards|'''Standalones/Miscellaneous''']]
 |one-offs, mailbags, 'Blankie' awards, & more
-|15 episodes
+|19 episodes
 |-
-| colspan="4" style="background-color: black;" |
+| colspan="3" style="background-color: purple;" |
 |}
-== '''Podcast Credits''' ==
+=='''Podcast Credits'''==
-[[File:Blank Check logo props.jpg|thumb|360x360px|The zoomed-out logo by [[Joe Bowen]]. Every completed miniseries through 2018 has a totem in there.]]
+[[File:Blank Check logo props.jpg|thumb|The zoomed-out logo by [[Joe Bowen]]. Every completed miniseries through 2018 has a totem in there.]]
-* [[Griffin Newman]], Co-host
-* [[David Sims]], Co-host
-* [[Ben Hosley]], Producer
-* [[Layne Montgomery]], Theme Songs
-* [[Joe Bowen]] and [[Pat Reynolds]], Artwork
-* [[Angela Ferraguto]], Associate Producer, Social Media
+*[[Griffin Newman]], Co-host
-== '''Wiki Credits''' ==
+*[[David Sims]], Co-host
+*[[Ben Hosley]], Pro-doer
+*[[Layne Montgomery]], Theme Songs
+*[[Joe Bowen]] and [[Pat Reynolds]], Artwork
+*[[Marie Bardi]], Social Media
+*[[Rachel Jacobs]], Producer
+*[[AJ McKeon]], Editor
+*[[Alex Barron]], Editor
+*[[Angela Ferraguto]], Co-Producer & Social Media — Emerita
+=='''Wiki Credits'''==
 This wiki was developed as an initiative of the [[R/blankies|Blankies community on Reddit]].
 [[Special:ListUsers|Primary contributors are listed here]]. We document real nerdy shit.
+If you would like to help, a great place to start is with one of [https://blank-check.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Stub these article stubs]!
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