Betty’s Dad is Strokin’ and Gropin’

Say wazzzzzup to this week’s guest. Joining Matt & Vince is the funniest female comedian in the world, Alison Stevenson, to discuss Mad Men season two episode 10, “The Inheritance.”

You likely remember the Budweiser ad that inspired millions to ask “what’s up?” in a merged, while drawn-out, fashion, but do you remember the Obama campaign ad that brought those guys back to your screen (all the way from Iraq!) to ask wazzzzzzup with America? It’s Alison’s favorite ad. She’s likely seen it more times than she’s seen an episode of Mad Men, but don’t be weird about it. It’s another A+ edition of the podcast. 

The Mad Men episode is fine too (solid B+). Betty’s dad makes a pass at her, Pete finds out his once old money family has become nouveau pauvre, and Paul’s girlfriend learns he only cares about her rights if he’s not getting a free trip to California. 

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Prepare your snouts, Piggies! This week we're filling your trough with even more bonus #content! Joey Devine from Roundball Rock/our Top Chef podcast returns to the Frotquarters this week to talk Thunderbolts*! Joey liked it more than I did (not saying much!) but agrees about there being way too much banter. He likes Marvel soy banter even less than I do, but hates the therapy speak slightly less. Something for everyone, I guess.

After we finish discussing Thunderbolts, aka The New Avengers, we move onto our thoughts on the new Mission Impossible, and how many movies ago we believe this franchise jumped the shark (if at all!). I briefly digress into Hurry Up Tomorrow being one of the worst movies I've ever seen in a theater (review forthcoming), plus a little talk about A Working Man and me trying to convince Joey to see The Accountant 2, the latest installment of the best action franchise of the last 10 years. If you love movies, there's at least a 50/50 chance you'll love this podcast! If you like some movies and love the sound of two guys talking, you will LOVE the Frotcast Bonus movie talk starring Joey Devine! Enjoy, and as always, no refunds.

The One Where Freddie “Faints”

We know you’re drinking because your daughter has had a string of bad beaus, but we have a good man on this week’s episode, writer of Spaceman and the Hollyweird newsletter, Colby Day, joins Matt and Vince to talk about Mad Men season two episode nine, “Six Month Leave."

According to Wikipedia, this is the episode in which beloved office lush Freddy Rumsen “faints” just before a pitch meeting, but don’t worry this is not a Mandela effect, you remember it correctly. He doesn’t faint, he goes pee pee in his damn trousers. Roger and Don agree it’s pretty funny, but even a white man can’tpiss in his damn pants at work and expect to keep his job in 1962. It was the dawn of woke culture. 

They take ol’ Freddy out for one last bender before sending off to pasture in the hopes he can learn to just drink beer. In the process, they say some anti-semitic stuff, meet a heavyweight champ, punch a comedian, get thrown out of an underground casino, and Don unwittingly convinces Roger to leave his wife. It’s a reminder to be careful what you say to your boys who hate their wives. You don’t want a divorce hanging over your head. 

Describe, but don’t actually tell us, your favorite racist street joke in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. 

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This week we are pausing the Mad Men talk and rewinding to back when this was a Sopranos podcast. We have a special episode all about the life of actor James Gandolfini, where we talk to Jason Bailey who just released an amazing biography called Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend.

It's a joy of an episode. A true throwback. And we will return with more Mad Men next week!

-Matt Lieb (who is now 40)

White smoke is billowing from the Frotquarter chimney this week (which is encased in a giant rubber butt) to indicate that a new Pope has been crowned. He's crowning! Yes, it's an American Pope, from Chicago. But luckily for you, all of the deep dish, Malort, and Superfans jokes were mostly exhausted by the time we started recording. Instead we discuss the phenomenon of all these mid-life Catholic converts in the conservative movement now bitching about the "woke" Pope. Shut up and take it, losers! You're the ones who willingly submitted to Papal rule!

In addition to that, we're discussing the latest "ins and outs" of the infamous "Delco Pooper." Did you know she's also an OnlyFans feet model? Good for her. Of the car-pooping incident, she famously claimed "it was a clean poop. I didn't even need to wipe."

Ma'am. We've seen clean poops. We aspire to clean poops. Our phones are filled with pictures of beautiful clean poops. That was not a clean poop and you need to re-wipe yourself right now.

Finally, we round things off with the topic to which we devote the majority of the show, Sinners, Ryan Coogler's rightfully successful original epic about juke joints, twin gangsters, Delta Blues, Jim Crow, vampires, and cunnilingus. It was fantastic and there should be more movies like it.

Don’s Trip Around the World and Out the Door

Don’t come home. We don’t care what you do, as long as you listen to the latest MYAM with returning guest Bobby Bigwheel joining Matt and Vince to talk about Mad Men season two episode eight “A Night to Remember.”

Don’s officially in the dog house. All his slutting around finally catches up to him when Betty confronts him about Bobbie Barrett after their dinner party. The final straw that broke Betty’s back? Don tricked her into buying Heinekin to impress his work friends. The lesson being, If you care about your marriage, drink domestic.

Meanwhile Harry’s dumb ass finally makes a good decision, enlisting Joan to read TV scripts to make sure nothing in the shows agitates the advertisers. And how does this dumbass reward Joan for her good work? By hiring some gormless dweeb to replace her. What a dumbass.

Drop your best Warren roast in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. 

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Cadillac Puke De Ville

Shake off that picnic blanket and leave your garbage for someone else to pick up, there’s a new episode of MYAM to listen to. YouTuber and creator of Manufacturing a Dream: A Mad Men Retrospective, José, joins Matt & Vince to talk about Mad Men season two episode seven, “The Gold Violin.”

Don buys a new Cadillac because everything is coming up Draper. He’s a rich, successful white guy in the 60s. He can do whatever he wants without any fear of repercussions, unless of course he leaves his wife alone for ten minutes with the man he’s been cucking. 

Back at the office, Jane gets fired for sneaking into Bert Cooper’s office to appreciate some art, but Roger promises to get her job back if he can just get her address. He’s a rich, successful white guy in the 60s, so this would have been seen as a romantic story. 

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This week, we welcome Adam Johnson from the Citations Needed podcast and The Column, to discuss all the important news of the week. But first! We have toddler stories we absolutely must tell each other for some reason! After that we dive into Andrew Schulz's new hot take about how Donald Trump is cool because he "gets pussy," which leads us to ask important questions about when we think the last time Donald Trump actually had sex was. We also couldn't not discuss the Pete Hegseth doom cycle, from embarrassing his kids on Easter, to showing up with wildly uneven sideburns, to do act-outs so elaborate they would embarrass an off-brand Youtuber.

Finally we round things off with a trip to Australia, to discuss the week's weirdest news clip and our own belated discovery of "The Twinnies." Luckily we were already well familiar with another strange Australian, Bob Katter, who we knew thought gay marriage was a distraction from crocodile attacks, but this week also learned that he once egged the Beatles.

After that, Adam has to leave and so Matt and Vince take the opportunity to try to discuss the latest Kanye revelation, that he "sucked off" his cousin until he was 14 and wrote a whole song about it. It's a rich tapestry.

Nothing Fits Both Sides of Woman Better Than Podcast

You wanted it, and you got it, and it’s better than they said. It’s the latest episode of MYAM with writer and TrueAnon podcast host Liz Franczak joining Matt & Vince to talk about Mad Men season two episode six, “Maidenform.”

A new campaign for Playtex has all the boys excluding Peggy to talk about what types of women there are, and how they correlate to bras and public figures. This culminates with Peggy dressing like a harlot and sitting on some dude’s lap, but in a cool, empowering way, probably. 

While the men of Sterling Cooper are talking about cups and straps and first ladies and whatnot, Don learns that the women of New York are talking about what he can make that dick do. Bobbie informs him he has a reputation as a good sex-haver. Sounds cool to me, but it makes Don wanna put his tender heart in a blender and watch it spin around to a beautiful oblivion, so he ties her to the bedpoooooost.

Are you a Marilyn, a Jackie, an Irene, a Gertrude, or a Chauncey? Tell us in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. 

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Welcome to another episode of The Frotcast, where we got more jokes than Elon’s got babies! We also got more jokes than Elon’s got jokes, according to Miles Klee (former Frotcast guest!) and three other Rolling Stone reporters. It sounds like his act is wearing thin and he needs some new material, or else he’s gonna get the ol’ hook (probably by Steven Miller, who will put him on the next plane to El Salvador, he typed hopefully). While it may not exactly be shocking to hear that Elon is deeply unfunny and annoying, it truly boggles the mind to imagine hanging around the mutant convention that is a Trump cabinet meeting and being THE ANNOYING ONE.

But first, Brendan correctly clocks Mark McGrath as being from Orange County solely by watching how he acts when threatening to kick someone’s ass, and gets called racist by Matt for his troubles/sheer genius.

Next up, are you too busy to tell your parents you’re too busy to call them? Then do we have a cutting edge AI solution for you! Well, that’s pretty much it. It calls your parents, doesn’t even pretend to be you, then chats with them in an incredibly stilted fashion, ostensibly so they’ll kill themselves and you can get your inheritance faster? It’s unclear tbh. Surely all of this AI that is being forced on consumers that works worse than whatever it replaced and has unclear utility and addressable market will be a strong counterbalance to the chaos the tariffs are bringing, he once again typed hopefully.

We round things out by listening to a self-proclaimed British aristocrat, who is basically Matt’s Bri’ish accent personified. It’s almost as eerie as listening to an AI designed to talk to lonely old people, but not quite. That’s a high bar to clear though, this bloke’s accent is bone-chilling. Is he posh? Is he cockney? Is he on the chube? Is he a barrister? Is there bread pie now????

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Pick a Pod and Become the Person Who Casts it

Tell your husband you're at a fat farm and throw on this week’s pod with host of the Dopey Podcast, Dave Mannheim, joining Matt and Vince to talk about Mad Men season two episode five, “The New Girl”

The titular new girl could be any number of girls. Bobbie Barrett is Don’s new girl on the side, Jane is the new girl on Don’s desk, engaged Joan is a new girl celebrating (relatively) young love, Peggy feels like a new girl after asserting her place as Don’s peer, and Pete finds out his seed is strong enough to potentially produce a new girl.

Don might have a new girl but he’s the same old mad man. He’s driving drunk with a mistress he sort of hates when he crashes his car so bad he has to call Peggy to bail him out and hide his sidepiece at her apartment until the bruises heal. If anybody asks, it was the blood pressure medicine that caused the accident, not the booze. Feel free to try that as an excuse the next time you do something dumb when you’re drunk.

Tell us in detail if you are familiar with the principles of conception in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. 

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The boys are back, and if the boys wanna talk tariffs you’d better let ‘em. First we check in on the status of Matt’s ten shares of Yahoo before we break the news that Trump blinked on his economic master plan. Then we make some ass eating jokes. What podcast is this, Planet FUNNY??? Oh brother!!!!!

We take an ol’ ear gander at the new Kanye banger. Let’s just say you will nazi where he’s going with this one! 

The newly radicalized Frotbois then talk about the big White Lotus finale. Furtive glances, unaired grievances, tasteful B-roll shots, ominously foreshadowed events occurring…this one’s got it all! We agree that Walton Goggins rules,Carrie Coon rules, and we would watch an entire show about Parker Posey as a pilled-out idle rich lady. 

To round things out, Matt gets personal by talking about the feud between his dick and balls that is TEARING HIS GOOCH APART.

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This week on the Frotcast, we welcome to the show Nick Stargu, aka DJ Real, and Joey Devine from the Roundball Rock podcast to discuss all the news of the week, from Matt Lieb's beef with a YouTuber who is trying to get him fired, to his wife Francesca's beef with a different YouTuber who fired her. Jesus, is there ANYONE in that house that a YouTuber hasn't recorded an angry 30-minute video about???

After that, we get into this week's main discussion topic, the 2021 musical, Dear Evan Hansen. But first! We explain WHY we decided to discuss Dear Evan Hansen, which involves the Snow White movie bombing, a Variety hit piece about Snow White star Rachel Zegler, and an anecdote about Snow White producer Marc Platt "leaving his family" to fly across the country to convince her to take down a tweet saying "Free Palestine."

All the while, Nick keeps showing Matt his own text message saying "I promise we won't talk about Israel."

That same Marc Platt happens to be the producer of Dear Evan Hansen, starring his son, Ben Platt. It's a strange film, and Matt was put off, as many reviewers were, by the sight of a 27-year-old playing a high schooler. Personally I was fine with his age, it was his styling and above all his haircut that I couldn't get past. You cannot put that haircut on a teenager, let alone a grown man.

Anyway, you get why we're discussing Dear Evan Hansen now. Give it a listen and maybe even a share, just make sure to take your SSRIs.

Bless Me Horny Father For I Have Chased

Shel Keneely is out, but political commentator and co-host of the Majority Report, Emma Vigeland, is in. She joins Matt & Vince to talk about Mad Men season two episode four “Three Sundays.”

Don and the gang are chasing American Airlines, even coming in on Good Friday in their casual wear to workshop a pitch that doesn’t remind everyone of the horrible plane crash. While they’re all hard at work, Sally is drinking her dad’s booze, chasing that perfect feeling you only get from the right amount of rye. 

There’s also a new horny priest in town, and he’s maybe chasing Peggy? Colin Hanks is the new holy man in the Olsen family’s life, and as Emma points out, him and Peggy have sort of a Father Intentola/ Carmella Soprano will they/won’t they thing going on. He never brings Peggy any DVDS to watch, but he also doesn’t bust in his pants in her living room. So it’s a toss-up for best horny priest in Pod Yourself history. 

Tell us if your mom has big ones in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. 

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Grab ‘em by the Utzy

Wash that mistress stink off your hand and listen to this week’s pod with author and co-host of Bad Hasbara podcast, Daniel Maté joining Matt and Vince to talk about Mad Men season two episode three, “The Benefactor.”

RIP Jimmy Barrett, you would have loved posting crowdwork clips. During a commercial shoot for an Utz chips campaign, the comedian hired by Sterling Cooper goes full Friar’s Club mode on the Utz CEO’s unsuspecting wife. Don has to clean up Jimmy’s mess, but gets back at him by going third base mode on Jimmy’s wife. 

Back at the office, Harry learns “that mannequin” Cosgrove is has a higher salary, setting off a chain of events that involves a desperate search for an envelope with a window, a call to his wife, a bitch session with Salvatore, and ends with a raise and  a new position as the head of the new Sterling Cooper television department. 

Write your best roast for Mrs. Utz in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. 

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In case you missed the news, Biff Wiff, a character actor and professional Santa Claus probably best known from his Detective Crashmore and Shirt Brother sketches on I Think You Should Leave, died last month after battling cancer for a few years prior. Wiff, born Gary Crotty (though he told me no one called him that except for his mother and the police) got his name while performing in a song parody troupe in San Diego. Yes, he was what you would call "a character."

He would go on to memorable cameos in Dave, Everything Everywhere, and Brooklyn 99, but in 2021 he was just becoming a phenomenon. I was obsessed with the Detective Crashmore sketch and so I reached out, Biff said yes pretty quickly, and it turned out that this was his first ever interview about his acting career. I've interviewed tons of people over the course of my career, including childhood heroes (Jack Black, Joe Montana) and half the cast of this season of White Lotus. Biff still stands out as one of the most enjoyable talks I've ever had. I didn't even remember I still had the audio until I was looking for a different file the other day and saw this one. Now that it feels like a genuine historical artifact, I couldn't just keep it to myself.

Relistening to it put a big smile on my face, and I hope it puts one on yours. Biff wasn't just a brilliant actor, a funny guy, and a total character, I also got the sense that he was a genuinely sweet person. Hearing him ask about ME at the end of the interview, and seem like he did it because he was genuinely curious, touched me deeply. I can't pretend to have known him well enough to say "that was Biff," but it certainly sums up the impression he left on me. What a cool guy. RIP, Biff Wiff.

Jamaican Me Dad Die

Don’t think about the president gutting the FAA, just listen to the latest edition of MYAM with Comedian and co-host of the Roundball Rock podcast, Sean Keane joining Matt and Vince to discuss Mad Men season two episode two, “Flight 1.”

RIPete’s dad. In this episode, the Campbell paterfamilias dies in the American Airlines plane crash that everyone in the Sterling Cooper office is joking about. The tragic aviation accident that killed one of their peers is not just laughing matter to these mad men, no, it’s also a business opportunity. Duck thinks American Airlines might want to make some new ads. You know, some print ads that draw attention away from the 95 bodies at the bottom of Jamaica Bay, and towards the skirts on the stewardesses. 

Meanwhile, Paul and Joan get in a fight because Paul is a phony and Joan is both racist and 31. Paul puts her on blast by revealing her age to everyone in the office, because in 1960s America it was much worse to be a 31-year-old woman than to be racist. Don’t think about which is more socially acceptable in 2025 America. Just focus on the pod. 

Give us your best plane crash zinger in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. 

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We’re back after a week off spent celebrating the joys of homeownership. The American Dream baby! 

The real reason we’re here is because it’s Martin March (Mart Madness?)! Today we discuss 1997’s Nothing To Lose, a classic buddy crime caper that we all forgot existed. Tim Robbins co-stars as the stuffy white foil to Martin’s zany brand of 90s “urban” antics. I hope we’re not starting to sound repetitive here, but this movie starring Martin Lawrence is both not great and eminently watchable. Top shelf TNT banger, this one. Also, Brendan calls Giancarlo Esposito “Giancarlo Stanton”.

Snow White premiered this week, and because Matt Lieb is on the show he has to make it alllllll about Israel. He even goes on to make it about himself by reading a death threat he received on X. Anyway, Disney finds themselves sitting on a box office dud while standing astride two angry mobs like Larry David at the Palestinian Chicken restaurant. In fact, there are at least three angry mobs, what with the Nazis being angry about the Snow White actress being half Colombian and probably some other exhausting bullshit.

We also break down Airport Theory, which posits: show up 15 minutes before your flight and still make it. Why, that doesn’t sound like a theory at all! Shouldn’t a theory be an explanation of  something, backed by empirical data? Not if you’re a TikTok dipshit! Anyway, for a good time, search Airport Theory on TikTok to laugh at all the people who missed their flights. This leads to discussions of other theories dumb guys made up during the pandemic. 

I have a theory that this post is over.

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It’s frot time motherfuckers, and that means we’re gonna recycle some jokes that we made a few months ago about holding space for Defying Gravity. We identified pretty quickly that we’d covered this, which means… we just keep riffing anyway. You knew what this was when you signed up for it, OK?

More importantly, we discuss Hollywood’s biggest night; the glitz, the glamour, the impossibly grandiose speeches, that’s right folks, we have an outbreak of Measles! People forget, Oscar Fever and Measles have similar symptoms. Our secretary of health and human services recommends drinking bleach, which is what watching the Oscars made me want to do anyway. Heyoo!

A Palestinian won an Oscar, and everybody’s mad I guess. Hey, an Israeli won too! Why are you still mad?! Don’t boo me, boo your elected officials!!!

On the positive side, Conan rules and we got some vintage 90s Sandler voice, complete with gibberish. Chalamet! Zoe Saldana had the best speech of the night with her authentic expression of overwhelming joy, and Adrien Brody had the worst with his authentic expression of overwhelming smugness. It’s not great when Night Ranger is playing you off. 

You can fast forward the first few minutes unless you need potty training advice. You’re welcome!

It’s Frotcast 623 and we’re back to serenade you with our favorite ass-eating parody songs. Let’s see you pull that off, Weird Al! Catch us on tour this year as Weird A(ni)l(ingus).

Mr Beast. What’s his whole deal? How is he so popular? Why is his face like that? Does he have Bell’s Palsy? Stay tuned to hear the answers to none of these questions.

If you are looking for answers though, you’ll love to hear our discussion of The Curious Case of Bam Margera. It turns out that the case isn’t so curious, he’s just a raging alcoholic who desperately needs help. Guess we can close the book on that one! Watch out for the thick PA accent though, it can really get you if you’re not expecting to hear it.

Finally, we dive into an actual curious case, the native New Yorker who got catfished into flying to Pakistan, then instead of IRL deleting her account, she IRL posted through it and is now demanding a stipend from the Pakistani government despite it appearing that most Pakistanis would just prefer she leaves. So many questions, so few answers. Look, if you liked podcasts with answers, you’d be listening to PJ Vogt doing a sped-up Butthead laugh right now, okay?

Oh, and necessary shoutout to Nick Lutsko's absolute banger of a Dan Bongino song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Nan-uARF4

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