I am so grateful to have this extra Blank Check material in my life! Thank you for making it & sharing it with us. Happy holidays to all of you at Blank Check! Keep up the great work in 2025!
The Honourable Schoolboy YES! Westerby is such a terrific character. Would love for someone to try to adapt this instead of inventing another season of The Night Manager from whole cloth.
Tremendous. Thanks JJ!! I still think about that one tweet you did years ago that went something like “kids shouting JAYLEN and dribbling off their feet in the playground”, fuckin diamond cut perfect joke dude.
I know you don't do TV but a Ben's Choice on the movie theater conversion episode of grand designs would hit so hard. Those people are insane. Great pick Ben!
This Brit was blown away by the Grand Designs reference (I work in TV post production and saw Kevin McCloud on the way to record VO about ten years ago, that's unlocked a memory id forgotten), it's a proper institution here.
Re: Marie's Haribo...you don't have the ones with the marshmallow/foamy bottoms in the US?!? (We have them here in the UK, Haribo isn't even my favourite thing but those ones are definitely the best of the bunch and not exclusive to that particular pack in the picture)
I am so grateful to have this extra Blank Check material in my life! Thank you for making it & sharing it with us. Happy holidays to all of you at Blank Check! Keep up the great work in 2025!
Good Q&A JJ
Enjoyed this AND the article on The Contingent! Great newsletter this week, you guys!
The Honourable Schoolboy YES! Westerby is such a terrific character. Would love for someone to try to adapt this instead of inventing another season of The Night Manager from whole cloth.
Kicking myself for not including a sixth man in my q&a question…. But couldn’t be more pleased with the answer thanks JJ!
My sixth man is Brad Bird: dude came off the bench to make an American masterpiece—Ratatouille.
Tremendous. Thanks JJ!! I still think about that one tweet you did years ago that went something like “kids shouting JAYLEN and dribbling off their feet in the playground”, fuckin diamond cut perfect joke dude.
lmao
I know you don't do TV but a Ben's Choice on the movie theater conversion episode of grand designs would hit so hard. Those people are insane. Great pick Ben!
The episode in question: https://youtu.be/taxM2Uw0aoA
This Brit was blown away by the Grand Designs reference (I work in TV post production and saw Kevin McCloud on the way to record VO about ten years ago, that's unlocked a memory id forgotten), it's a proper institution here.
What's the name of that toilet book?
Re: Marie's Haribo...you don't have the ones with the marshmallow/foamy bottoms in the US?!? (We have them here in the UK, Haribo isn't even my favourite thing but those ones are definitely the best of the bunch and not exclusive to that particular pack in the picture)
we do, but not sour ones! they're either sour OR they have the marshmallow bottom
Vital information, good to know!
Tracy Letts on the Big Picture…everything I aspire to be