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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC-2Kkz7ia8