Not just another bad movie podcast, Blank Check reviews directors' complete filmographies episode to episode. Specifically, the auteurs whose early successes afforded them the rare ‘blank check’ from Hollywood to produce passion projects. Each new miniseries, hosts Griffin Newman and David Sims delve into the works of film’s most outsized personalities in painstakingly hilarious detail. Produced by Ben Hosley.
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The Ghost Furnace Podcast is comprised of three friends who share an interest in the paranormal. We have roundtable discussions about encounters involving the unexplained entities and anomalies.
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Your client’s been wronged, and they want justice. Just wait for the wrongdoer to accept responsibility? Yeah, right. You need answers to questions like “What really happened?” and “Why did it happen?”. And whatever bad thing happened, you want to ensure it doesn’t happen again. It takes the right strategies, tactics, and grit to get the just outcomes your clients deserve. Hosted by Pennsylvania medical malpractice attorney Brendan Lupetin, a founder of Lupetin and Unatin, Attorneys at Law i ...
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From the deepest old growth forests to the cobblestone streets.
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DC Music 🎵 and Comedy Gold 🤪 with Pearie, Ben, Jacky 😏 Interviews and Music from the DC punk & indie music scene and a lot of complaining
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Artist Jeff Hein interviews some of the world’s most accomplished and gifted artists about their work, process, philosophy and experience. Tune in every Monday for a new episode.
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INSPIRATION and INFORMATION. It's these two commodities that we deal in here at The COMMERCIAL SUICIDE SONGWRITING PODCAST. Our goal is simple: to be THE resource for all things related to the art and craft of SONGWRITING.
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All the best, and sometimes more questionable, bits from Scott's weekday afternoon show on BBC Radio 2. Including the Music Police, Birthday Game and anything else that makes the cut.
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Welcome to Spilling the T, the podcast that takes you behind the scenes of the MBTA. Hosted by Andrew Cassidy of the MBTA’s Customer and Employee Experience department, each episode takes a deep dive into the inner workings and issues the T is facing. At the MBTA, we believe in transparency, open communication, and continuous improvement. That's why we've created this podcast—to give you a firsthand look at the challenges we face, the innovative solutions we're implementing, and the dedicate ...
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The Ghost Furnace - Episode 124 "Brinton Lodge" This week we have our latest edition to our unofficial "Haunted taverns of Pennsylvania" series. The Brinton Lodge has an impressive history regarding both its context in local affairs and as a seasoned paranormal hotspot. When you find a place like this that checks so many of the typical boxes, does …
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Blood Simple with Ray Tintori & Jordan Fish
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2:45:07Gather round, folks - it’s time to embark upon a journey through one of the most sterling filmographies in American cinema. Our Coen Brothers series - Pod Country for Old Cast - kicks off with Joel and Ethan’s remarkably assured 1984 debut Blood Simple. Coen experts and hosts of the To The White Sea podcast Ray Tintori and Jordan Fish join us to do…
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Trial Nugget: Arguing Punitive Damages - Mark Lanier's Approach
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11:44In the first of a two-part series about approaches to arguing punitives, host Brendan Lupetin focuses on Mark Lanier's $9 billion verdict against Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Brendan breaks down the three-part strategy that ensured Mark’s success: emphasizing the purpose of punitive damages beyond compensation, empowering jurors to understand their verd…
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The Ghost Furnace - Episode 123 - Ghost Lite No.9 "Infrasound" Do you ever just get a bad feeling in a place that, otherwise, seems perfectly normal? Well there are myriad reasons this feeling could be creeping into your bones, maybe there is a discarnate entity nearby, perhaps you're hanging out above a layline, or maybe there is a much more munda…
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Our Amy Heckerling series comes to an end with 2012’s Vamps, a film produced too late to have an appropriate budget, and too early to be a streaming series. However - we find it charming! Caroline Framke returns to the podcast after 6 years (an eternity for us, but probably a blink for a vampire), and we talk about the pitfalls and pleasures of ete…
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Trial Nugget: Chorus, Not Clutter: What to Repeat at Trial
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8:25Host Brendan Lupetin tackles the strategic paradox every trial lawyer faces: how to emphasize your strongest evidence through repetition without annoying jurors who hate lawyers who "say the same thing over and over." Drawing extensively from David Ball's "Theater Tips and Strategies for Jury Trials," Brendan explains the critical distinction betwe…
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The Ghost Furnace - Episode 122 "The Albatwitch" On this episode of the Ghost Furnace we head out to the eastern part of the commonwealth to a beautiful ridge called Chickies Rock to take a closer look at recent sightings of one of the strangest denizens in a place full of weirdness. The albatwitch often gets categorized as juvenile bigfoot, a curi…
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I Could Never Be Your Woman with Karen Chee
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2:22:36Michelle Pfeiffer stars as Amy Heckerling and Paul Rudd stars as ????? in a totally normal movie that might actually be a voodoo curse made against Amy’s enemies. Oh, also Saorise Ronan makes her FILM DEBUT. What a picture! The incomparable Karen Chee joins us to talk about 2007’s I Could Never Be Your Woman, a movie that was financed by a French s…
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On this episode of Spilling the T, we’re joined by Pari Kim, one of the stars of Netflix’s "Love on the Spectrum". Long before Pari was featured on the show, she was the MBTA’s biggest fan and a passionate rail enthusiast. In this episode, we chat with Pari about her newfound fame, how she’s using her platform to advocate for public transit, what h…
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David v. Goliath: Solo Practitioner’s $25.9M Victory against Temple University, with Jordan Strokovsky
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1:09:47When Jordan Strokovsky received a call about a 27-year-old medical assistant who lost his leg at Temple University Hospital, he knew within minutes something wasn't right. In this breakdown of his career-defining $25.9 million verdict in Parks v. Temple University Hospital, Jordan reveals to host Brendan Lupetin how he transformed a damages-only ca…
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Blank Check is going back to the British Isles with Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, and one extraordinarily well-endowed zombie this week as they discuss 28 Years Later. This movie has so much to love in it – wet bones, third-act Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer doing a thing, the Angel of the North, Teletubbies, the aforementioned well-endowed zombies, mind-…
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The Ghost Furnace - Episode 121 "Beechwood Farms" On this week's episode Bond shares a story of a weird occurrence while on a hike with friends. For how much time we spend in the woods and reportedly creepy places, it's funny how little seems to actually happen when we are looking for it. This is an example of a very likely mundane, yet perplexing …
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The song. The hat. The…casual date rape?!!? In what should have been Amy Heckerling’s “blank check” after the success of Clueless, 2000’s Loser is a real LOSER. Filmmaker Chandler Levack joins us to chat about this technically-not-a-remake-of-The-Apartment “comedy” that gets college surprisingly wrong. Come for the Wheatus talk, stay for the in-dep…
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Exposing a Scam Medical Helpline and Winning $4.2M, with Helen Lawless
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52:57While representing a client who lost his foot after relying on his employer’s medical helpline, Helen Lawless and the trial team realized that the helpline did “exactly what it was supposed to do.” And their strategy was born. In this case breakdown with host Brendan Lupetin, Helen explains that the helpline was actually a lucrative business model …
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Okay, so you’re probably going, “Is this like a Noxzema commercial or what?” But seriously, this is actually a way normal podcast about one of David Sims’ favorite movies! SNL’s Heidi Gardner (a total betty) joins us to talk about Amy Heckerling’s beloved Jane Austen adaptation, and we’re rolling with the homies. Join us for Alicia Silverstone and …
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Trial Nugget: Focus on the Framing Effect
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10:36Host Brendan Lupetin breaks down two powerful psychological principles that can transform your trial strategy: the focusing illusion and the framing effect. Drawing from cognitive research and courtroom experience, Brendan explains that jurors focus on what's presented as most important – and lawyers who don’t control the jurors’ focus leave their …
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Western Maryland Folklore w/ Susan Fair
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1:13:25The Ghost Furnace - Episode 120 “Western Maryland Folklore w/ Susan Fair” This week we sit down with author and researcher Susan Fair to talk about some of Western Maryland's most interesting stories. Focusing mainly on a few of the stranger creatures reported we are able to highlight both some familiar elements along with some new perspectives. As…
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
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3:00:09Griffin, David, Ben, and Marie accepted the mission. They live and pod in the shadows, for those they hold close, and for those they never meet. They also have a few notes for Tom Cruise and Chris McQuarrie with regards to Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Join the crew as they break down all the problems of this latest (and final???) inst…
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Portrait Society of America 2025 Recap (AUDIO)
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Portrait Society of America 2025 Recap (VIDEO)
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The Ghost Furnace - Episode 119 "Grumblethorpe" On this episode we are back in historic Philadelphia, with a house that saw six generations of one family, many historical events, countless visitors and supposedly a few ghosts. This Wister family is well known and documented in the commonwealth's history but this story was new to us. It's exciting t…
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Look Who's Talking Too with Max Minghella
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2:35:32The Ubriacco family are back and - can you believe it? - they’re still talking! Actor and filmmaker Max Minghella joins us to talk about Look Who’s Talking Too, the contractually-obligated, quickly produced sequel to Amy Heckerling’s surprise hit. We’re talking about Mr. Toilet Man (he eats your pee pee and poo poo), Elias Koteas’ Mr. Scary Uncle M…
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The Surprising Trial Tactics That Won $25 Million, with Katie Bertram and Kieran Murphy
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1:21:33A $25 million medical malpractice verdict came from strategies most attorneys would reject: omitting economic damages entirely, using minimal medical literature, and framing informed consent to transcend political divides. Katie Bertram and Kieran Murphy of Bertram & Murphy dissect their victory with host Brendan Lupetin. The attorneys reveal how f…
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In this episode of Spilling the T, we’re joined by David Perry, Director of Ferry Operations at the MBTA. David shares the story of how his role came to be, what his day to day duties are and how far the ferry system has come in recent years. He also gives us a rundown on what riders can expect for ferry schedule and frequency as the T works to con…
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The Ghost Furnace - Episode 118 "Hairy Hands of Dartmouth" On this week's episode, we head back across the pond for more UK folklore. This time to a very specific region of Dartmouth along B3212 near Postbridge. This story has been the subject of many newspaper articles, books and conjectures going back over 100 years. In many ways, it has familiar…
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Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis
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2:25:04In perhaps the spermiest film we’ve ever covered, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley hang out with a baby voiced by Bruce Willis and Amy Heckerling gets revenge on Harold Ramis. As David Sims says early in this episode - Look Who’s Talking is a VERY RICH text. Vanity Fair’s Hillary Busis joins us to talk about this 1989 “forgotbuster,” a film that mad…
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Brendan Canty 🎵 Messthetics & Fugazi & More!
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49:25Featuring: Brendan Canty Music: Messthetics "That Thang" Discussing The Ants Movie 🐝 Bruce Springsteen 🪕 and Bands Changing Their Sound 🌝 https://themessthetics.bandcamp.com/album/the-messthetics-and-james-brandon-lewis Email us with questions and suggestions - [email protected] https://wigglyworld.buzzsprout.com/ Help keep us on air! Don…
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Featuring: Mable Canty Music: Birthday Girl "Run the Bath" Discussing Splinters 🪵 Substitute Teachers 👩🏫 and Jacky's Takes on What NOT to Wear 🙅♀️🙅♀️🙅♀️ Mable audio is a little shaky for the first few minutes when she calls in, but it improves. She's got a lot of good things to say, so definitely listen through! https://birthdaygirlmusic.bandca…
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