Category Archives: movies

Grinding Tape: College Frotball w Spencer Hall – ‘Necessary Roughness’ (1991)

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The first installment of our new miniseries on college football movies takes on Necessary Roughness (1991)! Vince and Brendan are joined by Spencer Hall, from Channel 6/the Shutdown Fullcast. This series was of course the brainchild of Brendan, our resident ex-college football player and former NFL superstar (*practice squad and NFL Europe). We all thought a miniseries on college football movies was a great idea, but it also could just be that Brendan is really big and might have CTE so we didn’t want to make him angry.

For our first episode, we’re discussing 1991’s Necessary Roughness, starring Hector Elizondo and Robert Loggia as the coaches of the Texas State Fighting Armadillos, and their 34-year-old freshman quarterback, Paul Blake, played by Scott Bakula. Does it still hold up? Is it basically the same movie as Major League? All your questions answered, and more.

 

 

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Teaser – Frotcast 576: Tracy Keith’s I Love This Fast Car & Grill, with Alison Stevenson

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Description: Alison Stevenson, comedian and Thick Strip impresario (comediENNE and impresARIA??) joins the podcast this week to talk about Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” being suddenly cool again, and we mourn the death of Toby Keith, and along with him the George W Bush era, which was maybe an even crappier era than the current one. Holy crap, I just realized George W. Bush was president when I started blogging, I’m circling the freakin’ drain over here. We also discuss Peter Thiel financing the “Enhanced Olympics,” an Olympics for steroid users which compares PED users to historically oppressed classes. It’s a great show!

Also, go see Matt at the Sacramento Punchline on March 17th, and check out Alison’s strip show on Valentine’s Day at the Morroccan Lounge in LA. frotcast@gmail.com, 415 275 0030

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Frotcast 575 – A Very Special Episode of the Frotcast also Saltburn, with Frotcast Brendan

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Aaaaanyway, banger of an episode this week. Future NFL Hall of Famer Brendan (a founding Frotcast father) is back from a sojourn with some important things to say about mental health. He even brings tidings from Bret, such as “no contracts are final” and “you’ve built your own coffin made of paper.” Wise and weirdly uplifting, as always.

Oh, we also discussed Saltburn. It’s a cool movie about cool guys doing cool stuff.

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Teaser: Frotcast 571, Maestro with Laremy and Sean Keane

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Laremy Legel and co-host of the Roundball Rock podcast Sean Keane join the Frotcast this week to discuss Bradley Cooper’s ABSOLUTELY SUMPTUOUS biopic of composer (or is he a conductor???) Leonard Bernstein. He liked women, but also men! That brings us to all manner of related topics, such as, how you can tell when a conductor is good or bad? Our review makes up the last half of the show, and in the first half we discuss Barack Obama’s favorite movies of 2023, and compare notes on living with Bell’s Palsy. Enjoy.

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TEASER – Frotcast 466: All My Apes Blind, with James Fritz and Jessica Sele

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This week we are joined by comedians Jessica Sele and James Fritz to talk about the Bored Apes NFT blinding event and more! Subscribe at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast for the full episode and get HUNDREDS more pods just like these! Instantly!

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UNLOCKED: Frotcast 560 – Inside of Us There Are Two Drews, with Justin Halpern and James Fritz

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Now unlocked for the non-pay piggies, it’s Frotcast 560, with Justin Halpern celebrating the end of the writer’s strike and James Fritz. For more incredible content like this, be sure to subscribe at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast!

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Interview: Killers of the Flower Moon Author David Grann (from 2017)

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As loyal Frotcast listeners may have already known, I interviewed David Grann, author of the best-selling book on which the new Martin Scorsese movie was based, back in 2017. We got deep into what the book meant, the  characters involved, why he wanted to write it, what it means, and how  he reported it. At the very least, it’s a nice little  background/companion piece for the film (which is much different than  the book, even if most of the facts are the same).

Here’s how I described the book in my review that I haven’t finished writing:

Flower Moon the book is a lot of things,  but mostly it’s the story of a genocide told through the structure of a  true crime tale. Grann delivers a barn burner of a murder mystery about a  greedy landowner, his cat’s-paw nephew, his nephew’s Osage wife, and  the FBI agent who uncovers it all, before zooming out to reveal that it  was all part of a larger-scale plan of dispossession and erasure in  which virtually the entire state of Oklahoma was complicit.

Anyway, enjoy the interview, I certainly did.

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Teaser – Frotcast 558: The 800-Dollar Listicle

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This week on the Frotcast, Pod Yourself A Gun producer Brent Flyberg joins us for a pod about thievery and robots. There’s a bit about Karina Longworth, getting pitched on a pay-for-play listicle to be posted in the publication she used to work for. Then we read an article about “10 Sci-Fi Movies That Aged Poorly” and try to figure out if it was written by a person or AI. Finally we discuss Telemarketers, about sketchy telemarketing firms, who are now using dead people’s voices to solicit money under the guise of police, cancer patients, and the troops. It’s a brave new world! Also, there are jokes.

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Teaser – Frotcast 557: You Are So Not Invited To My Butt Mitsvah, with Jessica Sele

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This week on the Frotcast, Matt & Vince review the new Adam Sandler movie, You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitsvah, plus Jessica Sele drops by to discuss her experiences at the theater. We talk about David Zaslav’s brilliant new plans for “CNN Max,” plus Mitch McConnell suffering from “dehydration.”

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