Today, on a special episode of the Frotcast, Vince has an important announcement vis a vis his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. Namely, that there is none. Please disregard any other information on said subject, those are simply fake news media narratives from so-called journalists who are doing a clickbait. We ask that you respect his privacy at this time. TOTALLY EXONERATED!

JD Vance continues his hot streak of being a loser, as not only did Trump send him straight to voicemail while Vance was at a rally in Hungary (as covered by us last week), but now the candidate he was there to stump for also got tossed on his ass. Then, after converting to Catholicism like last year or something, he has to take Trump’s side in his beef with The Pope (who is soft on crime!!!!) just like the good little worm he is. He also got his ass kicked trying to stop us from bombing Iran and blockading the Strait of Hormuz…blockade. Say it with me everybody, “humiliation fetish”. This guy really puts the Ls in HiLLbLLy ELegy, am I right folks?

And where was Trump during all this? He was marveling at Big Beautiful Paulo Costa at a UFC event in Miami, and then posted an AI image of himself as Jesus on his Make-A-Wish-ass social network. Stop making us like you so much, dude! He later claimed the image was “doctored”, which then leads to a long discussion of our president’s rich history of being unable to understand even the most basic metaphor.

We all watched Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice and actually kinda liked it. Solid B+. This segues into a conversation about how the original Road House (which Matt watched and didn’t even tell us, like a real asshole) had great fight scenes, and old man (us) yells at cloud (they don’t make fight scenes like they used to). We all agree that Road House is pretty sweet, and that we should watch that for the next episode. Too bad we’ll probably forget. Thanks for listening!

Can We Interest You in a Hard Time?

The girls are beautiful, the men are mad, and the pod is cast. Co-owner and editor of Defector, and co-host of the It’s Christmastown podcast, David J. Roth returns to talk to Matt and Vince about Mad Men season four episode nine, “The Beautiful Girls.”

Pour one out for Ida Blankenship. She was an astronaut, a hellcat, and she died how she lived, surrounded by the people she answered phones for. Ida dropping dead at her desk is one of a handful of problems Don is dealing with in this episode. It’s a real sitcom for ol’ Dick Whitman. His daughter is showing up unannounced, his situationship can’t talk to kids, he needs to get his secretary’s body out of the office before the important business men see her, and he’s going on a date with two different women on the same night?!?!?

Ida was sort of Burt’s Joan, so he’s sad in a poignant way. Roger’s also sad, but Roger but in a horny way, so he does parlay this tragedy, along with a street mugging, into some hot sympathy sex with his Joan on a stoop in Harlem. If we’re ever unfortunate enough to get mugged, may we all be so lucky as to immediately have sex afterwards. 

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Welcome back to this week’s Frotcast, the second dumbest podcast on the internet after the All-In.

First up, a landmark legal case we will all be following intently: can someone be sued for a podcast bit? HEY GROK DELETE THE ENTIRE BACKLOG OF THE FROTCAST! A comedian is being sued for jokingly alleging (notice the ass-covering legalese from us) that the famous Lion King song translated to a warning about a lion, possibly a royal one. It’s going to be wild when Afroman is cited as legal precedent in this one. How do you say “because I got high” in Zulu?

Next, we listen as JD Vance gets sent to voice mail by Donald Trump while addressing the crowd at a rally in Hungary. Men will literally humiliate themselves voluntarily in front of a crowd at a former Soviet satellite instead of going to therapy. At this point, reasonable minds can only conclude that all these weirdos have a humiliation fetish.

Trump does, however, show up to tell us about what he got up to after the Village People show.

And finally, the tragic story of Jonathan, the world’s oldest tortoise, becoming ensnared in a crypto fraud scheme. I can assure you he’s alive, well, and hates it here every bit as much as you do.

Vince and Brendan peer into the dark heart of the American dream of home ownership. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get ready to foster a burning resentment over the course of decades. Could it eventually culminate in grievous bodily harm or death? Only the voices in your head can tell you that.

Harrison Fishman and Dylan Redford join the pod to discuss their outstanding HBO series, Neighbors. We discuss what it was like to be a fly on the wall with folks like Bruce, and nude Danny, freak show allegations, and what that smell like. Finally, we wrap things up with a nice teaser about when to expect season 2.

Additionally, you can read Vince’s spectacular piece on the spectacular finale here.

The Lummer Man

You don’t need a drink. You need to listen to this week’s episode of the pod. Comedian and host of the I Hate Bill Maher podcast, Will Weldon joins Matt & Vince to talk about Mad Men season four episode eight, “The Summer Man.”

Don’s been so drunk lately that Betty doesn’t want him at his son’s birthday party, so in this episode, tries to chill out with the boozing by replacing it with swimming, journaling, and narrating. There is some question about whether the narration is supposed to make Don sound cool and smart, but the podcast’s official position is that saying things like “I looked up at The Barbizon, and thought of all the women in there—one in every room, touching themselves to sleep,” makes him sound like a weird old dork. 

Back at the office, Joey goes full mask-off misogynist when Joan asks him to clean up after himself, because Joan is just like his mom. His mom who was always trying to make everyone look at her big knockers. I’m paraphrasing, but he does say that. He probably should have been fired on the spot for saying something so sus, but his last straw was drawing some erotic art featuring Joan. Peggy has no choice but to go full girlboss and show him the door. If Joey were a modern guy he would start a podcast so terrible he’d meet Louis Theroux. 

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Welcome back to the Frotcast, where we really have to hand it to the weird annoying guys who think we’re living in a simulation, because this week’s news stories appear to prove that this shit is glitching out.

First, Charlie Kirk’s mentor (?), who was also a “cheerleading tycoon” (??), died during a freak pickleball accident (???). Does anyone smell burnt toast?

Next up, a quadruple amputee professional cornhole player (????) shot and killed (?????) a passenger in the car he was driving (??????). His inevitable biopic is sure to be a must-see, but it’s really a shame that If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is already taken. Boy it sure smells like natural gas in here.

Next in Headlines We Wrote While on Mushrooms, Google suspended the advertising account of an Atlanta-based influencer following the exposure of a months-long, international ad campaign attempting to recruit family members of Iranian government officials as agents of Israel’s foreign intelligence service, the Mossad (???????). Looking forward to the sequel to Munich, Atlanta, where Iranian double agents enact swift retribution upon those who knock the Sigma Hustle Grindset. MK Ultra never ended.

Finally, we watched the new Kevin James movie, O Solo Mio, about a charming schlub who is charmingly and schlubbily stood up at his wedding in Italy, and then charmingly schlubs around the country eating, praying and Blarting. Tired: reading the Wikipedia article of a movie instead of seeing it. Wired: reading the Wikipedia article of a movie instead of listening to a podcast about it because Matt reads it out loud after he admits he couldn’t be bothered to watch it. We promise to maybe try harder next time, or possibly the time after that.

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That’s What the Podcast’s For

You give us money, and we make podcasts for you. That’s the job. We have another banger for you this week. Dave Manheim of Dopey Podcast returns to talk to Matt & Vince about Mad Men season four episode seven, “The Suitcase.”

Is this the best episode of Mad Men? There’s certainly a lot to unpack. Get it? Suitcase?  Unpack? Whatever, that joke is at least as funny as Peggy’s idea for a Samsonite ad. Mad Men would literally rather work all night (and drink a whole bottle of Canadian Club) than go to therapy, so instead of talking to someone about the grief he’s feeling about his dying California cool girl wife, Anna, Don makes Peggy stay late to keep working the Samsonite ad with him. He ruins Peggy’s birthday surprise in the process, and he never even says thank you, but as he notes, that is what the money's for.

That could be a whole episode right there, but there’s also a Liston vs. Ali fight, Roger making fun of recovering alcoholics, Ida Blankenship saying racist stuff, drunk Duck Phillips trying to poach Peggy, and full on fisticuffs between Don and Duck. Who wins? The guy who killed seventeen men in Okinawa, that’s who. 

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In brief: Matt's spicy bottom, the Afroman trial, Lyin' Markwayne Mullin, and we all watched War Machine on Netflix. Brent Flyberg (producer of Pod Yourself, host of Oh Hell Yeah!) fills in for Brendan.

Matt Lieb is very tired this week. If you assumed that's because toddler kept him awake all night, as toddlers are wont to do... you would be wrong! Matt being Matt, it turns out that he just ate a very hot chicken sandwich the day before and was up all night going doo-doo. He also claims the spicy poops heat up his prostate and make his balls hurt. Can any medical experts out there confirm that this is a thing? Or is Matt Lieb just BUILT DIFFERNT (with the balls to close to the ass)?

After that, oh baby it's time to discuss the Afroman trial and God bless this man for giving us something good to talk about. In short, an Ohio Sheriff's department raided Afroman's house and found nothing illegal, but broke a lot of his stuff, and, he claims, stole $400. And so naturally he released like 20 different music videos clowning them in increasingly petty ways -- including one based on an overweight Sheriff glancing longingly at Afroman's Lemon Pound Cake. The Sheriffs sued Afroman for defamation, and as per the law of unintended outcomes, the trial has since turned into a self-staged public humiliation ritual for them. Glorious. Afroman for President. The news that Afroman had won said trial dropped after we finished recording, but let's be honest, we all knew that's what was going to happen.

What else is in the news... oh right, Markwayne Mullin, in true Trump cabinet fashion, is apparently an even worse liar than Matt's childhood friend Nick the Bitch, who once claimed his dad was the coach of the Dodgers. In fairness, Nick the Bitch was a child, whereas Markwayne (pick a name, asshole!) was a full adult when he reportedly claimed, to a jiu-jitsu coach, that he (Markwayne) had once beaten a Gracie so badly that they asked him to move to Brazil and train them in wrestling. And no, he could not remember which Gracie he had beaten. Obviously!

Finally, we all watched War Machine, and no not the Netflix movie from 2017 starring Brad Pitt (which was good) or something based on the Marvel character, but an entirely DIFFERENT War Machine, in which Alan "Jack Reacher on Prime" Ritchson plays an aspiring Army Ranger with trauma. It starts off as a Troop Movie and then veers a hard left into being an alien movie about 30 minutes in, with an insane amount of slapstick falling. Very entertaining, but if anyone could tell us what the hell was going on with this movie or why it was ever made at all or called "War Machine" that would be great.

"Don't talk! Do not say a word! I hate it when guys talk to me while I jack them off!"

The Cure for the Common Podcast

Roll out the red carpet. We have an award-worthy guest for this week’s pod. Host of The Majority Report, Sam Seder joins Matt and Vince to talk about Mad Men season four episode six, “Waldorf Stories.”

It’s the advertising industry’s biggest night, and all the stars are in attendance, including Ned Elliot, Ted Chaough, General Rufus T. Bullshit, Ken Cosgrove, Herman “Duck” Phillips, and the night's big winner for Best Cleansers, Waxes, & Polishes, Don Draper of SCDP. 

Riding the high of being crowned the new king of Madison Avenue, Don returns to the office in the beginning stage of what he’ll later recognize as a bender to riff taglines for Life Cereal off the dome and blurt out Roger’s wife’s cousin’s only copywriting idea. You may remember the scene, as it is responsible for Mad Men’s widest reaching cultural impact, the drunk Don meme.

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Welcome back to another episode of The Frotcast; on this podcast we hold space for opera singers and ballerinas. Dave Weigel joins us this week to talk current events and Marty Supreme.

To kick things off, we take advantage of having a real-deal reporter on the show to talk about current events. Dave takes us through the latest on the Iran War and what it means: nothing! We’re still trying to figure out if we’d like to get drafted and die in Iran, or stay here and die of Measles. Choices, choices.

Because this is now a looksmaxxing podcast, we discuss Clavicular. More importantly, Brendan has a bone to pick with the fellas for not appreciating his one-word message in the group chat: cloacular. These philistines don’t understand true art when they see it. Chatmogged.

We are unfortunately discussing Glenn Beck again, and his good pal AI George Washington. General Sloppington makes some very interesting insights into the current situ-haha just kidding. He makes a bunch of mouth sounds that resemble coherent sentences as Beck drools in awe. As they say online “this must hit so hard if you’re a dumbass”.

Finally, we discuss Marty Supreme. Once again, Josh Safdie brings us a tense, grimy NYC thriller with stunt casting and parts that have no business working, yet do anyway. Case in point: Mr Wonderful from Shark Tank plays a major role and knocks it out of the park. May we humbly suggest a starring role for Senor Wonderful in a Harry S Truman biopic? Finally, we round things up with some Oscar prognosticating. Please do not bet on our favorites, unless you win and then you have to give us a cut. By reading this sentence you have agreed to the above terms. Thank you.

The Chrysanthelumlum and the Bum Bum

You better go to the store and grab a cantaloupe. We have a guest who expects gifts. Creator of Strip Law on Netflix, Cullen Crawford, joins Matt & Vince to talk about Mad Men season four episode five, “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.”

Mad Men is, if nothing else, a television show, which means there has to be at least one episode in which important Japanese businessmen need to be impressed. Honda’s motorcycle men are shopping for a new ad agency and if you thought Roger was racist before, you’ve never seen him interact with people from the country whose servicemen killed his buddies in Dubya Dubya II. He does his best to verbally A-bomb the deal, but Don hatches a plan to impress Honda while dunking on Ted Chaough.

You don’t get to be that good at your job without also neglecting your kids, so on his one night with Sally and Bobby, he leaves them with his neighbor Phoebe so he can go on a date. While he’s gone, Sally cuts her own hair. Betty is pissed because she lacks the foresight to understand her new do would be very chic in Silver Lake today. 

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Returning champion Joe Sinclitico joins us this week to discuss current events, both geopolitical and celebrity, plus The Housemaid. Will he come up with a pithy name for Mein Kampf 3? Tune in!

But first, we invite three enormous dumbasses to discuss the world’s HOTTEST new war with Iran. Incidentally, it’s the same three dumbasses on the rest of the show, too. While it’s too early to determine who will take over in Iran, Reza Pahlavi appears to be in the driver’s seat, abandoning his cushy life in the DC burbs to potentially return to the country that deposed his dad almost half a century ago. Let’s see how this plays out.

Meanwhile, Pete Buttigieg is back and he’s trying on a new persona like he’s in a glow-up montage. Personally, I think “guy who is insanely horny for military vehicles” looks a bit strange on him, probably because he’s an autumn. USED TO HAVE HIGH HIGH HOPES FOR A LIVIN NOW IM JACKIN OFF WHEN THE MISSILES START KILLIN. Oh wait this bit was about Pete Hegseth, not Buttigieg, but I don’t feel like writing another joke.

At long last, Shia LaBeouf’s reign of terror in the city of New Orleans is over. He sits down with Andrew Callaghan to talk about his hatred of Mike Piazza, and kissing Jesus. We simply must shut the Disney Channel down before it ruins all of our favorite child stars.

Finally, we all watched Housemaid, starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried. It’s a schlocky thriller about a young woman (Sweeney) who goes to live as a maid with a seemingly perfect family, but below the surface, things may be exactly as weird as you’d expect for people with this much money. Spare a moment for poor Sydney, an excellent actress who would likely be taken more seriously if not for her notoriously well-endowed chest. Anyway, we gave it three awoogas and a homina homina.

Return of the Rat King 

Pete’s gonna have a baby soon, but you’ve got a podcast right now. Once and future rat king and tech reporter for the New York Times, Mike Isaac, joins Matt & Vince to break down Mad Men season four episode four, “The Rejected.”

The title of the episode is definitely not in reference to Pete’s sperm, because Trudy’s egg has accepted one of them with open coronae radiatae. He’s excited to have a little Pete running around, presumably a little freak like his father, but he’s even more excited to immediately leverage his progeny for a business opportunity. He’s some kind of high WASP alright.

This episode is really about two of the very different possible outcomes of sexual intercourse. Trudy is with child, but after having sex with Don, Allison is bawling in focus groups and throwing paperweights around. Don, you ol’ rascal, you’ve done it again (driven a woman insane with your carelessness).

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This week we welcome Chandler Dean from Abolish Everything! to shoot the shit and talk about Predator: Badlands.

But first….DISCOURSE. Somebody yelled the n-word at Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo during the BAFTAs. No, it wasn’t Yeezy (pause for laughter). The slur-hurler in question is a white guy (GASP!) from the UK (DOUBLE GASP!)...who suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome and advocates for wider acceptance across the world (Home Improvement sound). Are there takes? There are takes. Are they tedious? You’d better believe it. Does that stop us from talking about it for at least 30 minutes? Subscribe to find out!

Secretary of Homeland Security/dog murderer/bad plastic surgery haver Kristi Noem is in the news again, as it turns out her story about deporting a cannibal who began to eat himself on the plane….didn’t have any meat on the bone. Who needs ICE when you got this stone cold liar around, am I right? Sorry for the dad jokes, sometimes you gotta laugh to keep from being murdered by the secret police.

Next, we take a trip into the dark heart of San Francisco to see what the tech bros are up to. To no one’s surprise, the answer is “a bunch of weird shit that normal people find completely repellent”. I’m sorry, my AI-powered glasses told me to say that.

Finally, we talk about Predator: Badlands. It’s a great movie about family, trauma, family trauma, and having a badass plasma sword. Our verdict? He went to the death planet in search of a trophy, and came back with the greatest trophy of all: friendship.

They’re not Homosexuals, They’re Divorced

Great news, it’s a Don in California episode of Mad Men and a banger episode of the pod. Head of video at Yahoo Sports and OG friend of the Frot, Matt Ufford, joins Matt and Vince to talk about season four episode three, “The Good News.”

It’s too bad Anna Draper has to die. Don really couldn’t ask for a cooler, chiller girl to be the wife of the guy whose identity he stole. All she wants from him is to hang out, smoke grass, nail her teenage niece, and keep paying her mortgage. It’s a sweet deal for everyone involved, but all sweet deals must come to end. Anna’s got (leg?) cancer. She’s gonna die, and Don is sad about it. 

The good news for you the viewer is that Mad Men is often funniest when the mad men are sad men. Back in New York, one of Mad Men’s saddest men, Lane Pryce, is feeling very divorced and ready to hang, so they catch a Godzilla flick, get crowd worked by Finn DeTrolio, and end the night with some sex workers. It sounds pathetic, but feeling so pathetic is what motivates a man to pretend his steak is a big ol’ Texas belt buckle.

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This week on the Frotcast, we are pleased to announce that we do not appear in the Epstein files! TOTALLY EXONERATED

We start with the heartwarming story of one handsome paisano’s battle against the American health insurance racket. No ladies and gentlemen, we’re not talking about Luigi Mangione, at least not yet. Also, instead of “heartwarming” that was supposed to say “Kafkaesque”. Vince finds out that his health insurance apparently does not cover his feet, much like Vince himself after he saw The Hobbit too many times. Tell ten of your friends to subscribe to the Frotcast now so that Vince doesn’t have to sell pics of his feet online just to afford insurance for them. Maybe we should set up a toefundme?

Next up, we discuss Clay Parikh, his big boy haircut (interested Vince McMahon face), his commitment to secrecy that nonetheless resulted in a two hour-long interview with Talking Points Memo (titillated Vince McMahon face), his insistence on sanitizing his soda with alcohol (busting ropes Vince McMahon face), and Ron Swanson as his inspiration for subverting federal elections (laser eyes Vince McMahon face). These people are fucking weird man! Seems like the kind of campaign slogan that could win Democrats some votes if they weren’t so enamored with fucking losing all the time.

Elsewhere in Trumpworld, we meet an actual relatable person, in that she would rather go to jail than have to fulfill an impossible workload being placed on her by dimwitted reactionaries. Honestly man that sounds tight. Lock me up too, and can one of you take my daughter to soccer practice and organize the garage? (holds fist up) DON’T FREE JULIE LE!!!

Finally, we watched the latest show from the Safdie brothers, Neighbors. Nothing more American than fat ugly weirdos fighting over property lines with a feckless (ostensible) authority figure who’s just there to strike a cool pose while leaning on his Harley. In all fairness, I’d probably act weird too if my neighbor was a Lord of the Rings influencer. When will we reckon with the damage JRR Tolkien hath wrought?

Christmas Lums Butt Once a Year

It might be a balmy 82 degrees here in Los Angeles, but this week’s episode is feeling a bit like Christmas. Our gift to you, co-host of the Free With Ads podcast, Emily Fleming, joins Matt and Vince to talk about Mad Men season four episode two, “Christmas Comes But Once a Year.”

Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is throwing a Christmas party! Why? Is it because they love and respect our lord and savior Jesus Christ? They want their employees to feel appreciated? They just love the Christmas spirit? No! It’s because one of the worst guys in the world is stopping by, and they need his money. Sort of like how you put on a sweater and see your Dad every December. Lee Garner Jr. is your dad in this analogy (cuz they’re both closeted).

Freddy Rumsen is back with dry pants and a new account, weird little Glen’s back with a lanyard for Sally, and regretfully, Don and his secretary are back in the office the day after he clumsily introduces her to his rye-pickled member. Don’t worry though, he gives her cash. That should make her feel good and not at all like a sex worker.

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Bad Bunny rapped in Spanish and wafted his Puerto Rican penis very lasciviously at us over the weekend, which has us questioning both our marriages and our sexuality. Crotchmaxxing? Anyway, Brendan had a spa emergency this week (one downside of living all our dreams by reinventing himself as a blue collar worker) but not to fear, Sean Keane from Roundball Rock is here.

What's on our minds this week, you ask? Besides Bad Bunny's lasciviously wafted penis? Well, there's the charming account from the guy who played the bush in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show (Dearest Lucretia...), but also the unhinged reactions of all the most stalwart Republicans in congress. Who are CONVINCED that Bad Bunny should be INVESTIGATED for his CRIMINAL SPEECH over the public's airwaves, which they will DEFINITELY DO once they find one person to actually TRANSLATE it for them. ("Like the Navajo code talkers but it's just a guy speaking Spanish," -some guy).

What else is in the news... Oh, LOTS of stuff. Like the Norwegian biathlete (heterosexual biathlete, that is) who devoted his Bronze Medal speech to apologizing to his girlfriend for cheating on her six months ago. Seems like an absolutely doomed effort and thoroughly embarrassing for all parties, but who knows, maybe things are different in Norway.

Elsewhere in Olympics news, some Czech ice dancers asked AI to write them a 90s song to dance to, and the AI just plagiarized the lyrics to "You Get What You Give" by the New Radicals. "Sir, I think I see the problem here. Looks like your computer has the Dreamer's Disease."

Shoulda ran that through a plagiarism Czech before you danced to it, you ask me. Sean tries to teach Matt how to looksmaxx (you have to hit yourself in the face with hammers, but on the plus side jestermogging is probably superior for attracting foids) and he spends much of the subsequent show mewing. (I dunno, man, I'm just stringing syllables together at this point).

Finally, we round things off with some Epstein stuff, like commerce secretary Howard Lutnick's glorious defense of his Epstein lunch ("Well sure I had lunch with him, but I didn't give him any of my children") and Katie Couric (!!) complimenting Ol Jeff on a "rockin lasagna."

Spare a thought for the rockin lasagna? It's the rockin' lasagna, and the Bad Bunny too

Getting in on the Second Floor of our Podcast Empire

Welcome to the new golden era of Mad Men rewatch podcasting. HBO Max, likely in response to the popularity of this podcast, is now streaming every episode of America’s favorite Matthew Weiner joint. Join Matt & Vince as they celebrate their newfound cultural relevance by inviting  the host of the Bad Faith podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, to kick off season four with episode one, “Public Relations.”

It’s a new era for the men on Madison Ave as well. Sterling Cooper is dead. Long live Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. They might not have a second floor, but they do have Lucky Strike, Don Draper, and jai alai– wait... they lost jai alai because Don is too set on trying to convince everyone his aloofness is concealing multitudes to give a good interview to the one-legged reporter. 

How will this gang of plucky upstart ad men and women get out of this jam? You’ll have to watch the episode, which is much easier to do now that it’s on HBO Max. Gotta give it up to Zaslav on this one. It’s almost enough to regret saying I think someone should [REDACTED] him. 

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Returning champion David Farrier (Webworm, Flightless Bird) joins us to talk about Melania, The Documentary, the Melania documentary. It’s a documentary about Melania, and boy is it ever a documentary about Melania. David went to the Americana to check it out, and he mistook Francesca (Matt’s wife) for a right-wing influencer. That and the woman at Vince’s screening dying of emphysema were the most exciting things about Melania, despite being directed by (starring?) noted sex pest Brett Ratner.

Did you know you can fuck a shoe? Jeffrey Epstein knew, and now Matt does too. We dive into a rare moment of comedy from the Epstein files, where he calls attention to the curious case of Marla Maples’ ex-publicist, who stole dozens of pairs of her shoes in order to have sex with them. Now if you’ll excuse Matt, he’s got a lot of work to do.

Elsewhere in the Eps Files, the veil is lifted on a secret society. The Zodiac Club has many rich and powerful members that get together to shape geopolitical events to nefarious ends. Actually, Jeff has to clarify that the guys are all really old so they mostly just get dinner together. Tom Brokaw is there. If you get dementia you go on some kind of double secret probation. These guys are fucking weird man, just go join a local pickleball club or something.

Finally, we are faced with overwhelming evidence that Trump shidded himself in the Oval Office during a news conference. Or as they call it in Congress, “Tuesday”. Tuesday is also what they call Thursday now after terrified staffers were too scared to correct Mitch McConnell. When reached for comment, Senator McConnell fell down and broke his hip.

You can read David’s work about the illegal federal occupation of Minneapolis here.