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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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TEASER – Frotcast 503, The Batman with Joe and Laremy

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New Frotcast available now to subscribers at Patreon.com/Frotcast!

Comedian Joe Sinclitico and ex-film critic/Whoop Dreams star Laremy Legel drop by the virtual Frot studios to talk about Daniel Kaluuya’s (ALLEGED) new crystal guru manager, fatherhood, the planned Jackie-Jormp Jomp Billy Joel musical that will be made without any of the rights to Billy Joel’s likeness or songs, and of course, The Batman, the longest Batman movie ever made. Subscribe now and become a glorious piggy. You won’t regret it. Probably.

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[UNLOCKED] – Frotcast 499: ‘Pig’ Is For The Piggies

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We’re going to have a brand new Frotcast about The Batman for the subscribers going up real soon, but in the meantime, it’s been a while since we unlocked some content for the free feed. Wouldn’t want our piggies to go hungry!

We’re unlocked Frotcast 499, the first of 2022, guest starring Pod Yourself A Gun producer Brent Flyberg featuring such evergreen content as the boys reviewing ‘Pig’ starring Nicolas Cage, and talking about ColorStar, an NFT-adjacent metaverse-peddling disaster of a company that apparently pivoted from selling concrete. It’s hard to explain in a sentence or two, but that’s what makes it great frot fodder. Enjoy this, and sign your ass up for the bonus content to get more! Patreon.com/Frotcast.

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Bonus: Party Boy, AKA Chris Pontius From Jackass

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It’s Party Boy! Who doesn’t love Party Boy? That’s right, I got to interview Chris Pontius from Jackass this week for the Jackass Forever movie tour, and I figured you’d probably want to hear his voice and not just read his words. Jackass is obviously one of my greatest joys in life, and if they would’ve let this interview go one for an hour and a half I never would’ve run out of questions. It’s only about 20, but we had fun nonetheless, asking Pontius all about his early days at Big Brother Magazine, getting fired from that and becoming a Charles Schwab intern before returning to the Jackass fold and becoming the go-to guy for all things penis-related. Here Pontius explains his worst penis injuries, the most painful Jackass stunts, why nudity is a comedy superpower, and the time he got cornered by a fan and found out it was Leonardo DiCaprio. I had a fantastic time and I hope you will too. How often do you get to ask someone how horse cum tastes?

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[UNLOCKED] Frotcast 498 – Spidermatrix with Bobby and Joe

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Hey all,

No podding ourselves a gun this week, but not to worry, we got a new years frotcast for you. It’s the full episode to keep you satiated til next week. And you can get even more episodes by subscribing to frotcast on Patreon. DO IT NOW! Enjoy!

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The Frotcast is bringing in the new year with Matt and Vince’s text thread buddies Joe Sinclitico and Bobby Hacker. The boys talk about Don’t Look Up, The Matrix 4, and Spider-Man: Now Way Home. And a bunch of other stuff.

Goodbye 2021. It’s been fucked.

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Frotcast Bonus: Alex Gibney On ‘The Forever Prisoner’

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What’s up, Frot fans. This week I’m talking to Alex Gibney, who you may know from one of his million documentaries. He won an Oscar for Taxi the Dark Side, he made the Enron movie, and a whole bunch of them since then. He makes like one or two documentaries every year, it’s insane. Anyway, his latest is out on HBO this week, and it’s called The Forever Prisoner.
It’s mostly about the CIA’s torture program and what a comedy of errors it was. (One of the main interview subjects in it is actually Daniel Jones, the character Adam Driver plays in The Report. Remember when I demanded you all watch that one? Yeah). It all started with this prisoner, Abu Zubaydah, who was taken to Thailand for interrogation and was actually giving up good information to the FBI handlers talking to him, one being Ali Soufani, just based on regular interrogation work — building rapport, showing the guy what they knew, and all the normal stuff police and prosecutors usually do. But then the CIA got involved, and they used these kooky contractors who had this crazy torture plan, and everything kind of went sideways from there. Anyway, I think that’s mostly all you need to know in order to understand the interview. 
ALSO, we’re going to be doing a live episode of Pod Yourself A Gun in San Francisco at SF Sketchfest in January. It’s going to be January 15th at Pianofight theater. Here’s the link to buy tickets! Come see Matt sing songs on stage or whatever! 

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Teaser: Frotcast 495, Will Smith’s Weird Sex Life, With Laremy And Joey Avery

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This is just a teaser! For the full episode, become a $5 Patron at patreon.com/frotcast!

This week on the Frot, Matt Lieb is in Costa Rica dropping acid with spider monkeys, changing his whole perspective on shit, but in order to fill the mustache-shaped void, we’ve got comedian Joey Avery and Whoop Dreams star Laremy Legel filling in. As for discussion topics, it turns out Steven Seagal isn’t the only celebrity with the unique physiological reaction to arousal. That’s right, we’re talking about Will Smith and his latest weird story about how he once had so much sex it started to make him puke. And hey, did his family adopt his girlfriend when he was a teen? Also, we’re comparing Will Smith’s performance as Richard Williams in King Richard to the actual Richard Williams. There’s also Joey’s trip to Jacksonville, Laremy’s experience growing up in Florida, and Thanksgiving food. I hope you enjoy it super duper hard.

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[UNLOCKED] Frotcast 492 – Pete Davidson Did 911 with Dan Ozzi

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Here is some unlocked content from our Patreon! Last week’s interview with Dan Ozzi plus a prolonged discussion about Pete Davidson’s magic dick.

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It’s time for your weekly pour of content slop from your favorite podcast The Filmdrunk Frotcast. This week, Matt and Vince welcome Dan Ozzi back to the pod. Last time you heard from Dan, he was writing a book about pop punk rock in the 90’s and now he is making his triumphant return to talk about his BRAND NEW BOOK “Sellout: The Major Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007)” which you can purchase here at https://www.danozzi.com/books We talk about punk rock, Papa John, Pete Davidson’s magic dick, and how Machine Gun Kelly looks like he loves turtles. Enjoy!

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Interview: Bobcat Goldthwait And Dana Gould On Their New Comedy Doc, ‘Joy Ride,’ And All Of Their Showbiz Beefs

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Hey, Frotcast fans. Here’s another fun interview: Bobcat Goldthwait directed a concert slash road trip movie where he and Dana Gould go on the road and do stand-up together. Like… they get onstage together and do it as a duo, not just one dude at a time (just the way your mother likes it). Regular listeners will note: Matt and I are normally pretty averse to comedy specials, which oftentimes just feel like doing homework. BUT, and I can’t stress this enough, this one was great. It’s hard to even call it a “comedy special,” mixing as it does, footage of Bobcat and Dana onstage, them on the road, and even some historical footage of them as younger comedians. It’s more like a brand of loose storytelling. It doesn’t feel like having to sit through a comedy special.

Once again, the movie is called Joy Ride, and it will be out as a streaming rental this weekend. It should be available for pre-order now. Remember the name, JOY RIDE: just like your mom’s nickname in junior high.

Aaaaanyway, I think that’s all you need to know. Just listen! At the beginning here there’s a part that gets cut off, I was asking Bobcat about the poster he has of Barry Crimmins behind him. I got to interview Bobcat about his Barry Crimmins documentary a few years back, and then I interviewed Barry for his special when that came out a bit later. Barry died in 2018 (RIP to a real one, for real), that’s why Bobcat calls him “a drunk ghost.” I still don’t really understand who the Duffy twins are, but maybe some bright listener out there can fill me in? We love our obscure references, don’t we folks? Anyway, I always love talking to Bobcat, and Dana Gould was a delight as well, so… enjoy!

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