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TEASER: Frotcast 520 – ‘House Of The Dragon’ And Awful New Startups, With Jessica Sele

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This week on the Frotcast, comedian Jessica Sele joins Matt and Vince to discuss oh so many things. Things such as House Of The Dragon, the new HBO prequel for Game Of Thrones about House Targaryen. It opened with a dragon and I went “ugh” inside and then I watched the entire thing. Does that mean I have to apologize to all the Baby Yoda people I made fun of because I’ve proved that I’m just as much of a piggie? We also discuss the rottweiler that may or may not have caused Sylvester Stallone’s divorce, as well as the bull mastiff that Sylvester Stallone got tattooed on his arm over his wife’s face. Which is a normal thing that everyone does. Finally, we talk about a new startup that promises to make any user sound white and American over the phone, regardless of their actual voice. Technology, is there anything it can’t do?

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Frotcast Bonus: BJ Novak On ‘Vengeance’

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Hey, Frotcasters. Nice little treat for the free feed this week: I got to talk to BJ Novak for his new movie, Vengeance. You most likely know BJ Novak as Ryan from The Office, and that was about all I knew about Vengeance before I put it on. It turned out to be a funny riff on NPR and the podcast world, and making fun of NPR is of course very much up our alley here on the Frotcast (staaaaaged). BJ plays a wannabe Ira Glass type who goes to West Texas to do a podcast about the death of some girl he was hooking up with but doesn’t remember that well. It sort of evolves from a fish-out-of-water, Doc-Hollywood-with-a-podcaster type comedy to something almost resembling a thriller. It has Boyd Holbrook from Narcos and Ashton Kutcher, both doing some of their best work. It should be playing in a theater not too far from you right now. Anyway, I talked up BJ about NPR, working on Punk’d, and that quote about him saying going to Harvard made it harder that went around last week.

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[TEASER] Meatspace Matt And Fran Talk Woodstock 99, Love Is Blind, And Matt’s Soberversary

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Hey all,

Special treat for you this week as Matt and Matt’s wife Francesca went to Fresno to visit Vince and recorded a pod! It’s a great episode! Listen to the whole thing now on Patreon!

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For the first time in what seems like years, the Frotcast is all back under the same roof. This week, Matt and wife/guest Francesca Fiorentini headed to the magical land of Fresno, CA to visit Vince and his wife and his beautiful new born baby. We all watched the new Netflix doc series about Woodstock 99 “Clusterf**k: Woodstock ’99” and talked endlessly about how it’s a lot better than the HBO Max documentary from a year earlier, but also dissect what makes Woodstock 99 so fascinating, and whether boomers trying to blame Fred Durst for telling people to break stuff rather than own up to gouging kids for water is an eerie harbinger for the current political era. We discuss some super annoying criticism of the reality series “Love is Blind,” with an appearance from Matt’s newest character, “Crying Buzzfeed Reporter.” Finally, it’s Matt’s 13th year of sobriety, so we kinda talk about that but not really. Enjoy hearing us all in the same room!

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[Unlocked] Frotcast 505 – The Pursuit Of Slappyness, With Joe And Laremy

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Hey, remember ‘The Slap?’ When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars? It was such a huge deal that we called an emergency pod about it the morning after it happened. And now YOU, the non-subscribing Frotcast enthusiast, can finally enjoy Vince, Matt, and special guests Joe Sinclitico and Laremy Legel’s takes on it.

If you enjoy grade A, prime USDA choice takes like this, you should consider subscribing to the Frotcast on Patreon, at Patreon Dot Com Slash Frotcast, so that you can enjoy takes like this while they’re still fresh from the #content ether. This Frotcast was actually about 10 Frotcasts ago, so if you become a good piggy now, you will INSTANTLY gain access to a good 15+ hours of HOT CONTENT just waiting to be horked into your eager snout. Doesn’t it sound delicious?? Join now and feast on this aural cornucopia, so that Matt and I’s families can feast on actual food. Please? Don’t say we haven’t begged.

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[UNLOCKED] Frotcast 504 – Turning Red And Green, With Jessica Sele

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It’s St. Paddy’s Day in the middle of July for the non-Patreon subscribers, as we’re unlocking this special St. Patrick’s Day episode of the Frotcast, featuring our review of Turning Red with guest Jessica Sele. But if you go to Patreon.com/Frotcast and subscribe RIGHT NOW, you can live in the present again! Yay!

Shoot, maybe that isn’t the best pitch. But think of all the bonus content! You’ll get so much of it! Please subscribe, Matt Lieb is going to be a father soon and he still wakes up after 10 am, he needs all the help he can get. Go subscribe right now, there is literally hundreds of hours of content.

 

 

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[Unlocked] Frotcast 500 – Joey Devine On MoviePass, Jack Reacher

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As always, you can hear the latest Frotcast episodes by subscribing at Patreon.com/Frotcast. And you can always get more Matt and Vince in your life for free on Pod Yourself A Gun. But our indigent piggies are piggies too, so we’re unlocking this episode for the free feed. Enjoy! And seriously, subscribe. We love you.

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This week Matt and Vince celebrate 500 episodes of the Frotcast (well, way more but who’s counting) by having just another regular ass episode of the show with guest Joey Devine of Roundball Rock. We talk about the return of Moviepass, Reacher, and some other stuff. It’s great.

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Frotcast 510 (Teaser): Matt Gets Married, Top Gun, And Seth Green’s Stolen Apes

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What’s up, Frotcast fans. It’s a huge week, in that Matt Lieb just got married. He’s currently in Mexico, so it’s a good thing that we recorded this Frotcast just before he left. We brought back Joe Sinclitico, comedy extraordinaire and current winery food truck proprietor, with whom we discuss all things weddings, the movie Top Gun, Joe’s Jessica Alba Story, Seth Green’s stolen Bored Ape NFTs and more. We hope you all enjoy at LEAST enough to subscribe on the Patreon, where for the low low price of $5 you can obtain access to the full episode as well as all manner of past full episodes. Tumescent episodes. Turgid episodes, with which to fill your ear holes with content cream. Oops I have to go, got too horny.

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Bonus Frotcast: Pauly Shore Talks ‘Encino Man’ 30th Anniversary

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Last week I got to talk to Pauly Shore for the 30th anniversary of Encino Man, and now I’m sharing the audio version for you earholes. This was a pretty cool interview, because as you can hear, I wore out quite a few Pauly Shore movies back when I was a kid. I also think he’s a really interesting character, who sort of got unfairly punished just for getting famous right at the tail end of the hair metal era. Not to mention having had an interesting life, being the son of the owners of the Comedy Store and becoming basically a superstar in his early twenties. As you can hear, he’s still a pretty funny dude. One of my favorite things about this was Pauly effortlessly shutting down my attempts to riff with him, which to me ended up being way funnier than if he’d actually played along and yes-anded me. “What? Yeah, whatever, anyway..”

Like I said, I think Pauly is a super interesting guy and I hope you guys enjoy listening to this interview as much as I enjoyed doing it. Frot on.

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Bonus Frot: ‘Dual’ Director Riley Stearns

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This week I (Vince) got to talk to Riley Stearns, the director of Dual, so I’m sharing the audio version with you guys here. Riley previously directed The Art of Self-Defense, which I didn’t like nearly as much as I liked his new one, Dual, starring Karen Gillan and Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad, which is a sort of light sci-fi set in a world where you can clone people, and sometimes you have to fight your own clone for the right to your identity. Riley shot this one in Finland because of COVID, so all the extras are Finnish, which actually gives it a weird effect that adds to the film. We also talk about jiu-jitsu (which we both practice) and an incident during Sundance when Riley objected to a film critic who had previously made fun of him over his divorce (to Mary Elizabeth Winstead) reviewing his new movie. There was kind of a thing about it, but unless you’re extremely online and follow “film twitter” closely you probably didn’t hear about it (and are probably better off). Anyway, check it out, and see if Dual is playing near you go see it.

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Bonus Frotcast: Daniels, Directors Of ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’

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Recently Vince (that’s me) interviewed Daniels, aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the directors of the new (great) movie Everything Everywhere All At Once for Uproxx. It’s a great movie and a good talk, maybe you already read the text version on Uproxx. Or maybe you didn’t! Who knows! Either way, now you can listen to it with your ears, the way it was originally intended. Okay maybe not intended, but certainly recorded. We used our voices for that, man. Anyway, we got to talkin’ all about how this was like their version of The Matrix and shit and they turned down an offer to direct Loki for it and the rest is history. Super tight. The Dalai Lama joke was from a famous Australian morning TV blooper. I think it went over about as well when I told it.

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