In Between Marriages and Seasons

You made it to the end of another season of the world’s only Mad Men podcast. Light up a Lucky Strike and enjoy Matt & Vince’s conversation with comedian, writer, and five-time Pod Yourself a guest, Ashley Ray about season four episode thirteen, “Tomorrowland.”

Our boy Don loves the beginning of things doesn’t he? After Betty (racsitly?) fires Carla for letting Glen say goodbye to Sally ahead of their move, Don has no one to watch his kids on their trip to California. So, he hires the newest of his two office-based situationships to tend to the children. Megan does such a good job that Don proposes before they get home, and before he officially ends things with his older sex partner from work. Faye’s the one who theorizes that Don only likes beginnings, but it also could be that he likes hot, young, French Canadians who don’t scream at the kids when they spill a milkshake. 

On the Accounts side, the agency needs some damn accounts. Kenneth cares too much about his wife or whatever to get the partners on a golf course with his father-in-law, so Peggy bails everyone out by getting a meeting with Topaz Hosiery, leading to the first new account in 10 months. 

We’ll be back in a few weeks with new episodes, in the meantime, check out Ashley on Funny AF on Netflix, and if you’re in LA, go to her new weekly show Chida House Comedy at Casa Chida on Sunday nights. 

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This week on the Frotcast! As a special treat to you, the listener, Matt derails things extra early by claiming that people thought Nickelback was going to be the next Nirvana. You know what? Maybe that Brazilian guy who always emails me to complain about Matt is onto something.

Did you know they’re making an Anthony Bourdain biopic? It looks exactly as uninspired as every other biopic that has come out recently. Maybe we’ll do an episode when it‘s on TNT.

We decide that maybe we’ll check out the Springsteen biopic when it comes out, until we discover in real time that it already came and went from theaters. Must have been a real treat!

Our Big Boy President had another Mad Libs-Ass Oval Office meeting, this time describing Operation Epic Fury to school children who were there for an event about the Presidential Fitness test as Gary Player and Bryson DeChambeau look on in bemusement. Stay tuned for next week, when he’ll be telling South African refugees about the time in 1991 when Bebe Neuwirth refused to share a cab with him, while Scott Baio nods approvingly.

Next, Prominent Dweeb Marc Andreeeseeennn helpfully shared a custom AI prompt on social media. It’s longer and less entertaining than Finnegan’s Wake. Matt and Brendan check out due to boredom and also to pontificate on the folly of spending trillions of dollars on a technology so cutting edge that you have to write an entire goddamn manifesto in order to get it to work the way you want it to.

We all watched Sentimental Value, which is a good movie that we don’t really have much to say about. You can probably skip that part unless you want to hear us do bad Scandinavian accents. On the other hand, none of us watched the Michael Jackson biopic, but we have a lot to say about it. For some odd reason, it ends after Bad comes out. Maybe they’re just planning a sequel.