SB Nation’s Matt Ufford joins the Frot-fun this week, to talk the United incident (we couldn’t help ourselves!), celebrity encounters, and the Big Little Lies finale. The rest of the Frot crew includes Vince Mancini, Matt Lieb, and Joey Avery. Donate at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast, and frot on!
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Leah Carroll’s mom was murdered when she was four by a man who would go on to receive protection from the Rhode Island Police, until he died himself just a few years later of a heart attack during a road rage incident on his way to go skydiving while carrying a pocket full of cocaine. And that’s not even the craziest part of the story. We hear the tale first hand from Leah, who just published Down City: A Daughter’s Story of Love, Memory, and Murder. This week’s Frot-crew includes Vince, Brendan, and comedians Joey Avery and Matt Lieb. We also try to cast the inevitable S-Town movie, and talk Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi ad. Donate at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast.
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Anyone see that meme going around about Paul Ryan driving off listening to Papa Roach the other day? Justin Halpern made that, as a joke, as a callback to an old story he told on the Frotcast, but everyone wanted to believe it so much that it quickly went viral. This week on the Frotcast, we talk to Justin about the origin and the aftermath, and what it’s like having your dumb joke critiqued by the New York Times and the Washington Post, and being cussed out online by an ethics professor. Comedians Allison Mick and Matt Lieb join Vince Mancini from FilmDrunk in studio. Other topics include Chappelle’s specials (and possible problematicness), public shaming, and remembering Chuck Barris by watching Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Enjoy and Frot on, donate at Patreon.com/Frotcast
Intro – Matt discusses his slot machine app addiction and how it’s related to his heroin addiction.
3:00 – Is Dave Chappelle problematic now?
25:00 – Enforcing the social contract and the ups and downs of public shaming
39:20 – Justin Halpern joins us to update us on the Paul Ryan/Papa Roach meme, and what happens when you tweet a funny fake thing and it goes viral.
1:28:00 – Talking Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
1:48:01 – Emails
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This week, it’s everyone’s favorite Frotcast of the year, the Name of the Year Draft! Matt Ufford from SB Nation joins Vince, Matt Lieb, and Brendan, to choose our team of the silliest names (all real names of real people). We also talk a little Trainspotting, Jeremy Renner’s iPhone app, the wildest local news from Australia, and of course, the Royalty Freestyle. Donate at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast.
2:00 – A Texas woman wakes up with foreign accent syndrome. “U wot, mate?”
8:00 – Talking Trainspotting and Trainspotting 2
10:00 – Is Artie Lange the Rasputin of comedy?
14:54 – We begin this year’s Name Of The Year Draft
1:05:05 – This week’s Alex Jones montage
1:11:05 – We download Jeremy Renner’s iPhone app
1:21:10 – The Royalty Freestyle, song one, for Charlie P.
1:24:13 – Royalty Freestyle #2, for Greg M.
1:29:13 – Royalty Freestyle #3, for Aymeric
1:33:43 – Local News Corner from Australia
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Big show this week! Matt Lieb was accepted into the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Vince is back from Dubai, and Powerless Executive Producer Justin Halpern guests. Comedian Joey Avery is also in the Frotquarters, where we talk the Matrix reboot, Beauty and the Beast’s gay character controversy, that BBC interview guy trying to steal Halpern’s thunder, and Jenna Elfman’s new imaginary friend show. Enjoy, or go Frot yourself! Donate at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast.
2:50 – The Matrix reboot, and the internet’s most lukewarm takes about it.
15:30 – Matt Lieb on ‘Get Out’
21:00 – Comedy: what we think is funny vs what the audience thinks is funny, and the compromise.
42:00 – Matt has a story about identical twins dating the same guy
43:30 – Justin Halpern joins the pod (to hear the end of Matt’s twin story)
57:13 – Justin refuses to be outdone by the BBC interview guy with his own baby interruptions
1:00:00 – Some of this year’s most Mormon Mormon names, from ByCommonConsent
1:07:30 – Justin has a Tommy Lee Jones story.
1:11:50 – Justin talks Powerless, and explains why network shows have such a polished “look” to them.
1:17:26 – I talk Dubai for a bit while Justin tends to his child
1:28:44 – We talk ‘Imaginary Mary,’ Jenna Elfman’s imaginary friend show, which quickly transitions into Matt’s irrational hatred for Laura Linney.
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Was this the craziest Oscars ever, or what? We relive the insanity, with Seattle film critic Laremy Legel, joining comedian Joey Avery, Vince, and Brendan in the Frotquarters. Was it Warren Beatty’s fault? Will those Price Waterhouse Cooper accountants commit seppuku in penance? What if it had been Moonlight that had their award taken away mid-speech? We discuss that, Fifty Shades Darker, Jason Whitlock’s terrible JFK take, and Mike Pence looking like a Lego man. Enjoy and Frot on. Patreon.com/Frotcast
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It’s Oscars week, and the Frotcast is breaking down the nominees, the history, the betting odds… haha just kidding, we’re helping you plan your drinking games and breaking down the last movies we saw. Joining hosts Vince Mancini from FilmDrunk and Brendan are Matt Lieb from AJ+/The Star Wars Show and SB Nation’s Matt Ufford. We discuss whether liking La La Land makes you super white, the possible Anti-Semitism-washing of Cinderella Man, and whether Brendan was wrong for loving Braveheart. Finally, we answer your emails about life choices and baldness. Enjoy and Frot on! Patreon.com/Frotcast
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This week on the Frotcast, comedian Joe Sinclitico (Adam Devine’s House Party) joins hosts Vince Mancini (FilmDrunk) and Brendan (former NFL practice squad member) to discuss North Korean assassinations, Taboo, and the genius Norm MacDonald. Later, we’re joined by Lee Keeler of Devastator Press, who’s publishing a memoir written in the style of a trading card price guide. Enjoy and frot on! Patreon.com/Frotcast
1:53 – Donald Trump’s epic non-answer to the two-state solution.
6:00 – Joe Sinclitico joins the party.
7:00 – North Korea’s assassination of Kim Jong-nam and how it’d make a great movie.
23:00 – Talking Taboo, aka The Tom Hardy Telly Program
32:00 – Bald guys who wear hats: at what point do you take the hat off?
55:15 – The genius of Norm MacDonald
1:04:00 – We’re joined by Lee Keeler of Devastator Press, to promote Ryan Bartoski’s Emotionally Relevant Trading Card Guide
1:27:30 – Emails!
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This week we have a special edition Frotcast, recorded at the Sundance Film Festival, in which I, Vince Mancini, am joined by Jeff Bayer from Movie BS, with Bayer and Snider, and Dan Mecca, from The Film Stage. We chat about the Oscars and about Sundance — namely, what’s it like when 100,000 assholes from the coast cram into a tiny mountain town for a week? After that, I have some excerpts from my interviews with Jack Black, who stars in The Polka King, and Brett Gelman, who stars in Lemon. Back to regular Frotcasting next week! Patreon.com/Frotcast
Intro
4:00 – Are we good with Mel Gibson now? Is all forgiven?
9:30 – We rate the free food and hors d’ouvres we gorged on at after parties for movies we may or may not have seen.
14:30 – Our bus encounter with David Arquette
36:00 – Jack Black interview
50:15 – Brett Gelman interview
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The Frotcast rings in 2017 with a spirited breakdown of Donald Trump and urine-gate, Meryl Streep’s sports-dissing Golden Globe speech, Dan Nainan the 52-year-old millennial comedian, the year’s best lacrosse names, La La Land, and of course, the Royalty Freestyle. Comedian Jane Harrison guests, joining Matt Lieb from Viceland/AJ+/The Star Wars Show, FilmDrunk’s Vince Mancini, and Frotcast co-star Brendan. Laugh hard, Frot on.
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