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.

The penguin meme- Where does it come from? What does it mean? What message is the Trump administration trying to convey by sharing it? Is electing a president whose brain has been turned to beef stew by the internet good? Answers to one or two of these questions, and MORE…on this week’s Frotcast!

Vince shows us why Up**xx made him expendable: so they could use that money to hire Will.I.Am. The erstwhile Black Eyed Pea was recently seen lecturing Arizona State students on why they need to buy an Nvidia processor to host their own AI that will work [citation needed] for them so they can at least profit from being replaced by AI. Well well well, looks like Mr. Fancy Pants Mancini did himself a fat lot of good going Ivy League, he could have been banging strippers (present and future) and programming a digital slave in Tempe!

Ilhan Omar got sprayed with apple cider vinegar by some weird old dude and she almost beat his ass lol. Dude’s brother also called him a piece of shit in the newspaper and everything. Let’s just ignore what this may say about our current state of affairs in America or what it portends, and just enjoy one of life’s simple pleasures, pointing and laughing at a buffoon.

Finally, cuck ethics- watch us turn into right wing influencers in real time as we discuss a true cuckolding situation that plays out in the pages of the failing New York Times. That will be 400,000 dollars, comrades.

Matt also tells a story about taking an injured Loon to an animal rescue, but I’m not sure what the point was.

Live from the World Economic Forum at Davos, it’s the Frotcast! We’re very proud today to be Americans, because if it wasn’t for us, the Swiss would be speaking German. Which is something we don’t do despite our prodigious intake of scat porn. Laremy Legel joins us once again, and folks, this time he has a game. It doesn’t make very much sense. Buy it now!

Grok takes a break from generating synthetic child p**n in order to get to the bottom of whether or not Anne Hathaway is Jewish. She’s not, but we all agree that we’d hide her anyway. In our basements.

Next, Jestermaxxing. What is it? Why is it the hot new trend? Why can’t women resist it? And is it just early-aughts PUA tactics repackaged with Gen Z slang? A new study says, yes. More with Clavicular at eleven.

Finally, we wrap up by discussing the new Game of Thrones spinoff, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and Netflix’s newly released The Rip. I had to leave, so I wasn’t involved in this and can’t say what happened. Solid B-pluses all around.

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Welcome to 2026: this shit sucks! We kick things off with a riff that’s for the old-school frotters; Matt has to interrupt us to inform us that we are inadvertently repeating a bit from nine years ago. Listen man, you try keeping this show fresh for a decade and a half! A Jew dressed in a gorilla suit to hide from Nazis is GOLD I tell ya!! At least we’re not talking about Olivia Nuzzi anymore.

In this week’s How Are They This Bad At Their Jobs segment, Democrat Richie Torres introduces legislation that would require ICE agents to display a QR code that you can scan to get their information, so you can make a report with your new phone that you have to buy after they steal yours and sell it. This is a great idea, there really should be legislation that any law enforcement officer is required to display some type of insignia (or badge, maybe?)  in order to detain someone, and surely if this were to pass, ICE would follow this law to the letter so as to avoid future negative consequences. You think these guys want a strongly worded letter from Chuck “Damp Underpants” Schumer???

Speaking of Democrats, our old pal mayor Eric Adams is back, and he comes bearing the gift of worthless digital currency. Is there a rug pull involved in all this? You bet. Is the kicker on this whole thing that buyers were defrauded of their money by a coin that according to Adams, is for fighting antisemitism? Who can truly say?

Finally, why don’t you have a seat? Put your clothes back on and give me the puppy. Set down the Zima. Remove the Xbox controller from your crotch. We’re talking Predators, the documentary about the infamous show To Catch A Predator. Our verdict: dumb guys LOVE the letter X. Solid B+ of a doc.

Read Vince’s interview with David Osit, the director of Predators, here. See you next week unless we get murdered by ICE!

Apologies and congratulations if you already subscribe to The #Content Report, but in case you didn't catch it, I didn't want anyone to miss this interview with Predators director David Osit. We talk about his new documentary, Chris Hansen, To Catch A Predator, its copycats, and more!

Well it looks like our wish a few weeks back for things to suck less shit really blew up in our faces. Sorry about that, everyone. It turns out that the largest donor to the party that is actively obstructing the investigation into the Michael Jordan of pedophiles because our current president was best friends with said prolific pedophile owns a website that generates nudes of minors on demand. HEY GROK SHOW ME A TEN YEAR OLD’S GENITALS

To distract ourselves from the crackpot conspiracy-pilled eldritch horror of this current administration we watched Bugonia, a movie about a schlub who suffered an overdose of podcasts and youtube and is now convinced he’s the victim of a vast cosmic alien plot. We get into spoiler territory early on, so consider yourself warned. In the non-spoiler department, we all liked it. Jesse P Lemmons and Emma Stone are great as always, and former Pod Yourself guest Stavros Halkias is a delight.

Did I mention Producer Brent is here? Producer Brent is here. He watched Anaconda, and let me tell you, this man has takes on snakes. Solid B+.

Tony Dookiepill, who was hand-picked by Bari Weiss to read the news, reads the news like a person who was hand-picked by Bari Weiss to read the news. This man apparently has had two circumcisions as an adult? There has never been a better time in history to be an absolute freak.

Finally, we all watched the Chevy Chase documentary and then forgot to talk about it. Solid B+.

ICE executed a nonviolent citizen in the street yesterday. Fuck ICE. Sorry, we don’t have any jokes about that. If you are angry and able, please donate to Renee Good’s gofundme.

Wocka wocka!

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This week, Matt is unhappily parenting, or maybe just looking for parking, in Sedona, Arizona, and Brendan is fixing an exploding pool pump, but that's no reason to fret, because we're ringing in the year with Sean Keane, from the Roundball Rock podcast and soon to be playing Cobb's Comedy Club this January 7th in San Francisco.

We're discussing New Year's Eve, and how it's by far the most overrated holiday, but also mourning the death of a true poster, Mike Fossey, aka Mike F, by reading a few of his greatest posts. Then we mourn our dead The Wire actors, Ziggy and Clay Davis, and I tell the story of my one Isiah Whitlock Jr. encounter, which Matt rudely interrupts to call in from Sedona, Arizona while he's in the middle of pooping. He tells us all about the crystal vortex and why he hates vacation parenting and thinks everyone in Sedona is actually on drugs.

After that, we discuss Gwyneth Paltrow's journey from actress to Goop CEO and back to actress again (Sean read a book!), and since it's year-end list season, we review the one awards season film that Sean has seen, which happens to be Jay Kelly. Didja ever notice that Jay Kelly would've been much better if it had been about Adam Sandler's character? Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? That leads into a bunch of related discussions, about American Beauty, Ben Affleck's greatest roles and how well he lays pipe. And also Is This Thing On? and movies about stand-up comedy just generally.

The regular Frot boys will be back next week, but in the meantime hope you like Sean and I just bullshitting about movies for a while. As always, no refunds.

Returning frotchamp Allison Mick re- joins the Frotcast this week to discuss her upcoming book Humboldt Cut, plus the standard farts n’ doo doo-type stuff you’ve come to expect from this deeply stupid podcast.

Vanity Fair got an up-close look at the key members of the current White House cabinet. And boy, was it ever up and close. Close enough to see the lip injection marks on Karoline Leavitt’s face, in fact. The photos are so bad, and the subjects are so stupid, that we’ve blown past “the article that directly quoted me is a hit piece” and moved onto “the article that directly photo’d me is a hit piece”. There has truly never been a better time in human history to be the dumbest person you went to high school with. 

Staying in the West Wing, we talk about the completely deranged “Presidential Walk Of Fame” that Trump had placed in the White House colonnade. What does it mean when the leader of the free world needs more than one metal plaque to air the grievances of a guy who was last in office a decade ago? Buddy, you don’t have enough plaques for the answer.

Sadly, we have to talk about the big Hollywood news this week, the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife. His son is due to be arraigned on murder charges in January, and if convicted, he could quite possibly become the 2nd most notorious fatal stabber in the history of Brentwood. Nice job, idiot.

In honor of Reiner’s prolific film career, we discussed his incredible run of hits that spanned the 1980s, and we watched the newly released Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. It’s a misleading title due to the fact that the movie does in fact end. Just like this summary! Solid B+

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