The Odyssey
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Who are the hosts and what's the podcast's playful 'podacy' intro?
Excuse me?
I am but a simple beggar. Is this the kingdom of the Czech Republic? I've heard that your co-host has been journeying on an odyssey across Europe, and there is an opening to co-host the podcast. And once again, I'm just a simple beggar and nothing more.
Unsheathed bling! I draw a bit into my bit bow.
The bit bow. Right, yeah. And then here's my bit bow. Your joke arrow.
Shh.
Defy the pods. Oh, that was defy the pods. That's funny. Defy the pods cast.
Wow.
That was so great.
That was really good.
Yay. And you have authentic facial hair, much like Matt Damon. I do. How would I describe this? I'm describing it as you look like Seth Bullock in Deadwood.
Yes.
I do. I've been saying conquistador, but you're right. I feel a little Don Quixote. It's a little maybe that's because I've been in Spain.
Well, we should explain for the listeners. Basically, Griffin, he's always been rocking a mustache, but now he's got a pretty full soul patch. He's got the patch.
I'll say this. So the mustache has become more and more of an emphasis in how I conduct my face. I'm a fellow stash man. Of course, we stash it up. We look great. We're secret stashers. Thank you. I'm filming a TV show. I'm working on a TV show, which I'm going to say, sometimes I think people should make.
And I'm going to say, Griffin, humblebrag.
Thank you. This TV show is very well run, but I am coming in late into a season and there's a big wall in the hair and makeup trailer of like the 70 speaking roles in this season. Yes. And I'm introduced like 60 out of 70. There you go. And they're like, you need to have a facial hair design that is different than what anyone else has. So it's like so many of the things have been claimed in variations. And I came in just sort of unshaved. I hadn't shaved anything in like a month or two going into this. And they were like, we're keeping the mustache and we're we're emphasizing the flavor saver.
Wow.
So even right now you're seeing me. I'm a couple days off from filming. The rest of my face has been squeaky clean. I got a little stubble back now, but I've been squeaky clean outside of mustache and flavor saver. He's squeaky. And you're right. I look exactly like Matt Damon in the Odyssey.
Well, I was going to ask you, like, how long of a beard can you grow?
Oh, like if allowed.
Matt Damon's beard, the length of it is really impressive.
I mean, if you can grow facial hair, you can grow a long beard. You can. It's about commitment.
It's about time. My problem is if I have too much beard, I start like picking at it as like a nervous tick. Exactly. Right. And then I start pulling out and futzing with it. So then I usually don't let it get past a certain point. I heard that Matt Damon grew for a year.
He said a year. He said he had a beard for a year, I guess is how he put it.
It's a full looking beard.
Yes, because in Greek antiquity, they didn't have fake beards, I guess. So no one was like, no fake beards.
Well, and we know that this is a movie that is 100% historically accurate, and that's why no one is angry about it.
Exactly. Wait, people are already angry about it? Oh, don't worry about them, Ben. Don't worry about those guys. We're here to celebrate. It's guys? You're saying it's angry guys?
What if it was all girls? Ben, if I told you that one multi, multi, multi-billionaire was angry about this movie, who would you guess it was? One very online. Well, let me think. Are they normal, though? The most normal. OK, then Elon Musk. Perfect sense of humor. Yes, exactly.
Exactly. OK.
What's this podcast called? This is called The Podacy. It's called Blank Check with Griffin and David. But today we're going on a podacy.
We are going on a podacy to Ithaca and, I guess, Troy and... A bunch of other unnamed islands with scary stuff on them. Upstate New York cities.
Yeah. Yeah, a bunch of other... That's so true.
Have you guys been to Ithaca?
Yeah.
Of course, my mother is a Cornell alum. The thing that's really scary about Ithaca, as far as walking around, is the gorges, and you have to go over these bridges, and you just look down, and it's just... It's quite hefty.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who are the hosts and what's the podcast's playful 'podacy' intro?
0:01–15:37
2
How did each of us see Nolan’s The Odyssey in different formats and cities?
15:37–1:04:54
3
Which scenes and cast performances stood out in the first half of the film?
1:04:54–1:17:17
4
Who is the mysterious uncredited Cyclops actor and how is the cave scene staged?
1:17:17–1:18:43
5
How does Nolan humanize the Cyclops and make the monster feel ambiguous?
1:18:43–1:23:39
6
How does the film update key Odyssey episodes (Circe, Trojan Horse, Sirens) for modern audiences?
1:23:39–1:52:13
7
What are the film’s production choices, IMAX format issues, and box-office expectations?
1:52:13–2:31:40