Matt Damon thinks gays should stay in the closet!? Tyrese thinks Vin Diesel should direct Furious 8?! The Blackberry CEO had an aneurysm? All this and more in this week’s #Frotcast #Content. Film.com’s Laremy Legel joins FilmDrunk’s Vince Mancini, with veteran Frotcasters Bret and Brendan this week.
Opening – Brendan rants about Draft Kings, and also NFL. 7:19 – Song of the week, the slow cover of Smash Mouth’s “All Star.”8:33 – The CEO of Blackberry wins the all-time prize for terrible tech speak.11:00 – We try to figure out how tech speak got so bad. 13:45 – Brendan discovers Slack. We discuss the phenomenon of one tech company that does the exact same thing as another one being worth a billion dollars. 18:08 – Laremy’s articulate thoughts on ‘Everest.’ 22:37 – This week in misleading thinkpiece headlines: Matt Damon thinks gays should stay in the closet (or does he?)32:05 – Danger Guerrero’s pitch for “Zoo Heist.” 37:20 – My encounter with a “social media expert,” and her expertise regarding #Brands. We invent a new social media job – Doggregator. It’s someone who’s an aggregator of dog Instagrams. 42:00 – Brendan experiences Soul Cycle and other milennial exercise trends.45:30 – An emailer explains the origin of Coors Light’s ad campaign (note: I’m not going to fact check this). 50:00 – Laremy reads his list about Everest.56:37 – Yet another listener with a smug bidet story. 1:00:00 – The fascinating existence of Tyrese Gibson1:14:00 – People naming their children “Katniss Everdeen.” We scour the best seller list to find out who we could’ve been named after.1:16:00 – What caused this week’s Brendan’s laughing jag? Tyrese calling himself “Voltron Chairman.”
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