Dead Poets Society with Nia DaCosta
4/26/20262 hr 36 min
Boys and girls, please open your textbooks. Rip out the pages. Carpe Diem. We're seizing the day and talking about 1989's Dead Poets Society with filmmaker Nia DaCosta in this episode, but don't get too wild and change your name to Nuwanda or anything! This week, we discuss House MD, prep schools, the fact that David Sims played Puck in a high school production, and Robin Williams' Oscar legacy. O Podcast, my podcast! Read about Franny's weirder cut Check out Jack Black's YouTube Sign up for Check Book, the Blank Check newsletter featuring even more “real nerdy shit” to feed your pop culture obsession. Dossier excerpts, film biz AND burger reports, and even more exclusive content you won’t want to miss out on. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Twitter, Instagram, Threads and Facebook! Buy some real nerdy merch Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
[upbeat music] Blank Check with Griffin and David. Blank Check with Griffin and David. Don't know what to say or to expect. All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Check.
Griffin Newman· Host0:18
We don't listen to and record podcasts because it's cute. We listen to and record podcasts because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion and medicine, law, business, engineering. These are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But podcasts, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Huh.
Speaker 2· Host0:42
Huh.
Griffin Newman· Host0:42
Ho.
Speaker 2· Host0:43
Ho.
Griffin Newman· Host0:43
Ho.
Speaker 2· Host0:43
Ho.
Griffin Newman· Host0:43
Ho. I did that as vocal warmups. [laughs] Now, look, there are- He's not really doing ho.
Speaker 2· Host0:47
You know, he's not really doing that.
Griffin Newman· Host0:49
No, but you still need to do it to get into the quiet.
Speaker 2· Host0:51
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
Griffin Newman· Host0:51
Ho, ho, and then it's ho, ho.
Speaker 2· Host0:52
But then when he does, like, the Brando impression, you're like, "Right, he needed just five minutes to just be silly guy."
Griffin Newman· Host0:58
Let me g- I g- let's just get straight into this, okay?
Speaker 2· Host1:00
Okay.
Griffin Newman· Host1:01
It is kind of astonishing. I know this has been much discussed.
Speaker 2· Host1:04
Okay.
Griffin Newman· Host1:05
But it's the first time we've tackled any of the movies in this set, okay? That Robin Williams has four Oscar nominations.
Speaker 2· Host1:12
Sure.
Griffin Newman· Host1:12
He wins his fourth, right?
Speaker 2· Host1:14
He wins the fourth time, yeah.
Griffin Newman· Host1:15
Supporting.
Speaker 2· Host1:15
Oh, I was gonna say his fourth Oscar. Okay, yeah.
Griffin Newman· Host1:17
He won, he won his fourth nomination for supporting actor. He had three- For Good Will Hunting ... best actor nominations.
Speaker 2· Host1:22
Right, right.
Griffin Newman· Host1:22
By the time he gets Good Will Hunting, it's like, is he overdue, right?
Speaker 2· Host1:26
Mm-hmm.
Griffin Newman· Host1:26
The three movies all