Monthly Archives: September 2017

345: Dave Lozo on The Accountant

comedy, movies, politics, pop culture

With Allison Mick stuck in traffic, we’ve got Dave Lozo joining Vince and Matt Lieb on the Frotcast this week, to discuss the Tomb Raider remake, JJ Abrams, Sean Spicer at the Emmys, Hillary Clinton’s terrible book, THE ACCOUNTANT, and Lawrence O’Donnel’s Bill O’Reilly’style freakout. And of course, we finish things off with a round of the Royalty Freestyle, with Matt improvising songs for Patreon donors Jon G and Dan L. Enjoy, and Frot on! Donate at Patreon.com/Frotcast

6:52 – The Dave Lozo career arc
10:00 – A TOMB RAIDER remake! Sure, why not.
15:33 – JJ Abrams directing STAR WARS EPISODE IX
19:30 – Sean Spicer at the Emmys-gate
38:10 – Matt and Dave have terrible opinions about BABY DRIVER
40:09 – Hillary Clinton loves Goldfish crackers! So relatable.
47:30 – An important update about “Doughp”, San Francisco’s first hip hop themed cookie dough restaurant
1:12:52 – Lawrence O’Donnell freak out

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344: Bodega, Ted Cruz And Charlie Sheen’s Respective 9/11s

comedy, movies

Matt Lieb and Joey Avery are in the Frotquarters this week, to discuss the “new” Bodega app, the Charlie Sheen ‘9/11’ movie, and of course, Ted Cruz cranking his hog. There’s also San Francisco’s “hip hop themed cookie dough kiosk,” and the return of “millennial comedian”/fascinating sociopath Dan Nainan. We also do a call-in with Frotcast Hurricane Correspondent Ashley Burns, who gives us a first-hand account of his brush with Hurricane Irma, and the five racist signs you meet in Florida. It’s a double episode loaded with #Content! Enjoy, frot on, and donate at patreon.com/frotcast.

1:30 – Ted Cruz cranking his hog
4:39 – Discussing BODEGA, the start up that’s going to make mom-and-pop stores obsolute by re-inventing the vending machine.
11:13 – This week’s first character, Chapstick Robot
17:34 – Far worse than Bodega, it’s Doughp, San Francisco’s hip hop cookie dough shop.
28:10 – I’m leaving Chicago
46:33 – Discussing Charlie Sheen’s ‘9/11,
59:00 – Hurricane Correspondent Ashley Burns with his first-hand report on Florida livin’.
1:12:40 – The return of “Millennial Comedian” Dan Nainan!
1:40:11 – Matt Lieb’s advice for a listener trying to get a brother to quit heroin.

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343: The Unified Theory Of Taylor Swift

books, comedy, movies

This week on the Frotcast, Justin Halpern joins for a quick story about his friend farting in Anne C0ulter’s drink one time. Then comedians Joey Avery and Allison Mick join Vince Mancini in the studio, to interview Steve Bramucci about dragging Vince to Oregon Eclipse Festival/Symbiosis/Burning Man lite, as well as his new book, Danger Gang and the Pirates of Borneo, and the time he hitchhiked through Australia and almost got murdered by a drug dealer during a shark dive. Then, official Frotcast Taylor Swift correspondent Allison gives us her unified theory of Taylor Swift. Donate at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast.

00:00 – Justin Halpern’s story about his friend farting in Anne C0ulter’s drink
9:30 – MOVIE NEWS! The all-female Lord of the Flies remake, Ed Skrein dropping out of Hellboy because of white washing
20:00 – Uproxx Life editor and author of Danger Gang and the Pirates of Borneo Steve Bramucci joins us
34:28 – Steve’s story about thinking he was going to get murdered by an Australian drug kingpin
47:17 – Allison Mick’s Unified Theory of Taylor Swift
1:10:10 – The Black Bloc vs Neo-Nazis, and not feeding the trolls vs. zero tolerance.

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