Monthly Archives: November 2020

UNLOCKED – Frotcast 452: ‘Cuties,’ AKA Q-Ties

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Frot-fans! We have a brand new Frotcast for the Patrons at Patreon.com/Frotcast. We’d love it if you became a Patron and listened to our newest one! But all piggies are loved in their own special way, so we’re also unlocking Frotcast 452 from a few months ago. Enjoy!

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Hey everyone, long time no Frot! Sorry about the delay, we are full steam ahead with season 3 of Pod Yourself A Gun so the frot had to take a slight back seat. But we just had to give our patreon piggies something to nosh on and figured we should watch the movie that literally everyone is talking about. That’s right, we watch the controversial French film Cuties from director Maïmouna Doucouré. Cuties a coming-of-age art house flick that Netflix decided to promote as if it were Bring It On for pretweens. Depending on who you ask, it’s either a movie about French/Senegalese 11 year old girls who form a dance troop and discover their sexuality, or it’s about making pedos horny. The right wing has decided this movie is softcore porn and simultaneously urging people to see it. Weird time to be alive.
Vince and Matt talk Cuties as well as the new JK Rowling book about a serial killer posing as a transgender to kill women, plus Vince reads the best Mormon names from BYU’s 2020 roster. It’s a great episode. Enjoy and eat the beans.

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TEASER: Frotcast 455 – Hillbilly Smellegy with Jason Webb

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THE FULL VERSION of this podcast, like all other bonus content, is available to our subscribers, at Patreon.com/Frotcast. You should subscribe! You won’t regret it! No refunds.

Hey everybody, long time no pod. Well that’s not entirely true. Vince and I have been hard at work doing episodes of our Sopranos podcast Pod Yourself A Gun so we haven’t had as much time as usual to do a Frot. But after many letters of complaint and a few death threats we finally decided to get it together and talk about movies again.

This week, me and Vince invited Jason Webb to the frotquarters to have him play the token hillbilly during our discussion of Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy, a Ron Howard adaptation of JD Vance’s 2016 memoir of the same name. Having actually read the book, Vince was able to give some key insights into where the film and book diverge. And having been a hill person, Jason Webb was able to give some key insights into living life as someone who regularly gets in fist fights with his family. Also, I was there just talmbout lumming.

We also discuss Jeffrey Toobin’s firing, Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Dean Brownings gay black alt twitter account, and much more! It’s a great episode and I can’t wait for you to listen.

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UNLOCKED: Frotcast 454: Toobin On Sorkin In ‘Trial Of The Chicago 7’

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Hey all, this episode is from our Patreon bonus episodes but we feel like you piggies needed a free one. Here it is:

This week on the Frot, we’re talking about the hot new Sacha Baron Cohen project currently setting the internet wags on fire. That’s right, I’m talking about The Trial Of The Chicago 7, Aaron Sorkin’s new Netflix joint about hippies, protests, the radical left, broads who need a good talking to, brave men in uniform, and courtrooms (you’re free until next week, Rudy Giuliani). We discuss Sacha Baron Cohen’s bonkers  Boston accent (so strange coming from a guy who has spent his life doing weird accents in real-life situation) and the filmography of Aaron Sorkin in general. Sorkin had it all with this project — Boomer heroes, courtroom drama, a packed cast, a premise generally far less obnoxious than The Newsroom, and best of all, NO WOMEN. His whole wheelhouse. After years of giving him a hard time, we were so ready to finally give him his due. And yet he even managed to make this one kind of annoying at the end.

Before that, we discuss this week’s top story. That’s right, I’m talking about Jeffrey Toobin cranking his hog on a Zoom call. You’d think that would be the perfect joke for at least a week, but no, the internet had to quickly separate into warring camps of which teachable moment this incident best represented. We were going to debate that one in earnest, but you remember the Frotcast rule: no hugging, no learning. Only lumming. Finally, it’s an episode worth paying a premium for. No refunds.

 

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TEASER – Kirsten Johnson From ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’

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I normally avoid any movies about dementia like the plague, but one I loved is Dick Johnson Is Dead, in which documentarian Kirsten Johnson imagines all kinds of death scenarios for her father, Dick, who has recently been diagnosed with dementia, and has him help her reenact them on film. Dick Johnson is delightful and a great sport, and the movie is not only delightful and funny, but dare I say it, weirdly uplifting and life-affirming. I highly recommend it. I got to speak with Kirsten Johnson via Zoom this past week and I found her to be almost as good an interview as she is a filmmaker. She gave me the lowdown on some questions I had about the film, like how she filmed the surreal funeral sequence, and some questions about her life, like her kids and growing up  Seventh Day Adventist. I hope you enjoy it!

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