This episode is a feast of #CONTENT! Sh*t My Dad Says author Justin Halpern joins us to discuss Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, and the worst songs of the ’90s, and then Brendan returns for our fourth annual Name of the Year draft. Enjoy!

1:35 – Batman V Superman talk (no spoilers). As Bret says, “that is a long dawn, my friend.”
3:00 – Justin Halpern explains what Batman V Superman-mania looks like on the Warner lot.
13:00 – Our picks for the worst songs of the 1990s. But first, Justin has an incredible Papa Roach story.
17:10 – Brendan returns! 
29:00 – Matt Lieb has some thoughts on Korn. 
42:00- Back, by popular demand, it’s the Name of the Year Draft.
1:00:00 – We talk about Katt Williams almost getting choked out by a teen.

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Vince is back from SXSW, and joined by Bret and Jane Harrison (of Viceland’s Flophouse) to talk about how to deal with A-holes in a public situation, be they texting in movies or heckling at comedy shows. Seattle film critic Laremy Legel Skypes in to talk about Deadpool and other movie topics. Enjoy our #content

2:10 – Made it a whole two minutes without talking about Jane’s pussy worms from last week. Impressive!
4:00 – Janes makes fun of me for my shirt with a bear on it – we try to define what makes a silly shirt “ironic.”
10:45 – SXSW and GDC: Bret and I discuss the intense impulse to melvin nerds at tech conferences.
13:00 – Taking Skype calls on an airplane, this is the world we live in now.
15:39 – My first-hand account of Doug Benson forcibly removing a movie texter, and what that teaches us about how to deal with assholes and hecklers.
23:15 – North Korea’s super weird video of the college kid (Otto Warmbier) they sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for trying to steal a banner. 
32:00 – Jane experiments on chat roulette, which does still exist. 
34:19 – Laremy joins via Skype
36:15 – Would Queer Eye For The Straight Guy be allowed today?
37:38 – Laremy experiences San Francisco homeless. What city has the most aggressive homeless?
47:30 – Bret has no interest in Deadpool. Is he wrong? 
57:00 – Internet commenters HATE Flophouse on Viceland. Is that show a perfect storm of things internet commenters would hate?
1:06:00 – Unintentional sarcastiquotes in BBC headlines

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We go INSIDE THE COMEDIAN’S STUDIO this week, or inside the comedian’s flophouse, anyway, in honor of Matt Lieb and Jane Harrison’s television debuts on Viceland’s Flophouse (airs March 17th). Did you know they named the first episode after a Matt Lieb bit? He’s big time now. After that, we talk about Jane’s Bad Date with Rad Tad the Dog-Faced Bartender (and modern dating in general), discuss Chris Rock’s Oscars monologue, we try to get to the bottom of vocal anti-circumcisioners (with whom Matt recently publicly feuded), talk THE WITCH and answer your emails.

Enjoy our #Content. frotcast@gmail.com, 415 275 0030

00:00 – SHOWBIZ: We discuss the story behind Matt and Jane’s appearance on Viceland’s new series, Flophouse.
18:11 – MODERN LOVE: Jane explains her lame date with Rad Tad the Dog-Faced Bartender, who quickly becomes a character.
28:41 – THE OSCARS: We discuss Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett, and last week’s Oscars
36:50 – EL CHAPO drops by.
40:15 – CIRCUMCISION FLAME WAR: Matt describes his recent flame war with the anti-circumcision lobby. We try to get to the bottom of this particular interest group. Is it vaguely anti-semitic? Are they cousins of anti-vaxxers and people who are into crystals? Discuss.
1:06:28 – THE VVITCH. Bret and Jane saw The Witch, and we discuss. 

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This week, on the Frotcast, we’ve got lots of hot #OSCARSTALK #CONTENT. We discuss this year’s nominees, and choose our all-time favorite and least favorite Best Picture Oscar winners. After that, we talk Tyrese Gibson and Amber Rose talking slut-shaming, and run through a brief history of Tyrese being an idiot. Finally, we discuss police foiling a murder plot using a fake hitman named “Joanie Pepperoni,” an early front runner for news story of the year. Guests include Seattle film critic Laremy Legel, and comedian Joey Avery, along with Vince, Bret, and Matt Lieb.

00:00 – We open the show calling out other movie podcasts, and bring on Laremy, who tells us about How To Be Single. 
5:15 – Laremy and I talk Hail, Caesar, which somehow leads Matt Lieb to reveal his white-hot hatred for Wes Anderson. We then debate the merits of Wes Anderson.
10:00 – Guest Joey Avery arrives in the Frotquarters.
12:17 – Laremy gets interrupted by his dog, Bugsy, who has mental problems and bites people.
17:08 – #OSCARSTALK. This week in #HOTCONTENT. We choose our all-time favorite Best Picture winner, and all-time least favorite Best Picture winners.
25:15 – Talking the OJ show brings about a brief appearance by Brandon from Fremont.
47:28 – We get rid of Laremy so we can talk about Terry Crews’ porn addiction. I was all set to make fun of him, but nope, he’s still a charming man. Matt Lieb also made a commercial with Terry Crews this week (not Chobani). 
56:00 – Tyrese Gibson is the Paternalistic Derek Zoolander Who Doesn’t Make Jokes. We discuss the Amber Rose slut-shaming clip from his new show, then go back through some of the past dumb things he’s said and wonder why anyone gave him a show. 
1:16:19 – The Ballad Of Joanie Pepperoni. Yes, a police department invented an informant known as “Joanie Pepperoni.”

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Comedian Jane Harrison joins Matt, Vince, and Bret this week, to talk Donald Trump, a whiny startup founder’s crybaby letter to San Francisco mayor Ed Lee, the Grammies and Johnny Depp’s “Hollywood Vampires,” Vinyl, and Chelsea Peretti at the Crunchies. Also, the sound should be better this week, I think I finally got my compression settings worked out. Hooray for #Content!
00:00 – Donald Trump’s incredible stump speeches, which are like a comedian who doesn’t try to be funny and only does crowd work. 12:15 – Understanding Trump’s appeal vis a vis political correctness.15:40 – Whiny crybaby San Francisco start-up founder writes crappy open letter to the mayor about the homelessness problem. 27:53 – Vince’s devil’s advocate theory, finding 2% of common ground with even the assholiest a-holes.42:08 – Grammy talk. Sub-question, why does everyone suddenly know what Hamilton is? 48:40 – Matt Lieb raps about Alexander Hamilton51:30 – Is Kendrick Lamar and other rap over as soon as we discover it? Discuss.59:13 – Talking Johnny Depp and the Hollywood Vampires.1:10:35 – Irish accents, for some reason.1:12:42 – We talk Vinyl, on HBO. Should Andrew Dice Clay always have just been an actor?1:18:50 – A visit from the Queen (I am sorry). 

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Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq, about a women’s movement to withhold sex to stop gang violence, is now free on Amazon Prime. And now, comedian Kaseem Bentley talking about it is free on the FilmDrunk Frotcast. Matt Lieb and Bret are also in the studio with me, Vince Mancini, for possibly the most #content-filled Frotcast ever recorded. 
3:40 – Matt Lieb tells us about what hot new jokes the comedians in LA are telling. 15:00 – Kaseem Bentley arrives, and immediately roasts Matt for not acknowledging him in McDonald’s (allegedly). 19:15 – Kaseem starts roasting everyone in earnest.25:30 – False start on Chi-raq talk, Kaseem gets distracted and starts laying into me about what a pussy I am. 31:30 – Beyonce’s alleged Red Lobster conspiracy, according to Kaseem.34:45 – The story of Stevie Wonder buying some cocaine from one of Kaseem’s friends.43:57 – We actually start talking about Chi-raq.1:01:05 – Kaseem and Matt reprise Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase, the first appearance of Matt Lieb’s new character, “Jefferson from San Rafael.”1:05:10 – More terrifying stories about Matt Lieb’s dad.1:25:20 – Kaseem may have convinced Bret that he’s been wrong about Bamboozled all of these years. 

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Award-winning sports personality Matt Ufford (SB Nation, The Inactives podcast) joins IN STUDIO this week, to talk Hail, Caesar! (almost no spoilers) our favorite Coen Bros movies in general, and of course all the media hoopla surrounding this week’s Super Bowl, live from Super Bowl city.

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Matt Lieb, Bret, and Brendan are all back together for a Frotcast about Matt Lieb returning from the AVNs, R. Kelly’s amazing sex metaphors, Josef Stalin’s secret poop lab, Kevin Smith’s Yoga Hosers, and Vin Diesel at the toy fair. #Content! Enjoy our #Brand!

1:00 – Matt Lieb gets back from the AVNs.
3:45 – The story of the porn star who could only express appreciation sexually, which made him have sex with a horse.
15:30 – Matt Lieb tells us about his sad break up.
18:08 – Brendan discovers R. Kelly’s “Buffet,” and we have our minds blown.
34:55 – Is Russell Wilson a robot? We discuss the recent discovery that he complimented his girlfriend by googling “how to describe a beautiful woman” and plagiarizing the first result.
40:20 – Stalin spied on Mao by stealing his poop and having it inspected in a secret lab. Brendan obviously loved this story.
51:40 – “Kiss the ring, eat the pizza,” and other life lessons.
1:03:00 – Our most “old white guy” of segments, “Why can’t I understand what the rappers are saying anymore?”
1:07:30 – The mind-blowing plot of Kevin Smith’s ‘Yoga Hosers.’
1:16:30 – Dueling terrible British accents, starring Matt Lieb, and Brendan, as Michael Caine.

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The regular crew is out this week, but in their place I have Justin Halpern from Surviving Jack/Sh*t My Dad Says, and Whoop Dreams star and Seattle’s finest film critic, Laremy Legel, not to mention a boat load of #Content. We talk The Revenant, Amy Schumer, Lights Camera Jackson, the #OscarsSoWhite and Oscars boycott, the Deadpool trailer, and make fun of the Oregon militia dudes’ list of supplies. Enjoy!  

2:14 – The new paradigm of Distracted TV Watching. What shows do you watch we’re you’re actually not looking at your phone? 
4:25 – How the internet is making advertising even more terrible than before.
10:40 – We break down the “Amy Schumer Is A Joke Thief” video. 
14:50 – We discuss Lights Camera Jackson, his Amy Schumer joke, and him doing the same shtick for the last five years.
25:00 – Justin tells us about going to Kevin Bacon’s house.
31:40 – The Revenant. The bear attack and the Indian attack: when something’s badass enough that you stop caring about realism.
38:26 – Justin and I talk ‘The Witch.’ Can a period movie be *too* realistic? 
50:20 – #OscarsSoWhite. Specifically, how un self-aware do you have to be as a white person to write and “Actually” thinkpiece about which black people didn’t actually get snubbed?
56:40 – I make a case for crapping on certain movies without seeing them. 
1:01:00 – The Deadpool trailer, and the phenomenon of nailing a jokey tone without making jokes. Also, the “fantasy studio exec” phenomenon among TV and comic fans. 
1:11:00 – The Oregon militia dudes’ list of requested supplies, such as “hay” and “money.” 
1:18:00 – I finally catch up on Fargo season two, so I have a few raves, and lots of minor issues I need to bitch about. 

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Fresh off being named one of Podbean’s TOP 10 COMEDY PODCASTS OF 2015 (second year in a row), the Frotcast is back, to discuss Sean Penn’s El Chapo interview, The Revenant/Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar hunt, and What We Do In the Shadows. Guests include comedians Matt Lieb and Jane Harrison, joining Bret and Vince in the studio.

0:55 – Matt Lieb tries out a new catch phrase, with debatable success.
4:00 – Matt loved The Revenant and hated The Hateful Eight. No spoilers here.
6:50 – Does Leonardo DiCaprio want an Oscar as much as everyone assumes he does?
8:10 – Matt Lieb explains “the Pussy Posse” to Bret, much to Bret’s chagrin.
14:45 – I read my favorite bits of Sean Penn’s El Chapo interview. Matt debuts his new El Chapo character.
21:21 – “Do you think Sean Penn is really into Waking Life?” -Bret
40:00 – Charlie Sheen goes off his HIV meds.
48:33 – Smash Mouth’s incredible cover of David Bowie/Queen’s “Under Pressure.” A heated argument ensues over whether “Under Pressure” is one of Queen or David Bowie’s best songs.
1:01:00 – The shortlist of actors for Han Solo, debating the merits.
1:06:00 – Oh right, What We Do In the Shadows.

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