San Francisco comedian Jane Harrison joins us in the Frot-quarters to talk Gone Girl, as does Ben. In discussing Gone Girl, and crazy Amy, and how over-the-top the third act is, we remember the time Ben dated a girl who looked a lot like Amazin’ Amy and ended up lying about having inoperable brain cancer. Bret then reveals that before he found out she had been lying, he just didn’t hear about her for a while and assumed that she died. And never asked Ben about it, which to me says a lot about how guys deal with each other when one is going through a rough patch. The last act twist to Ben’s cancer-faking girlfriend story is that a year after they broke up, Ben actually got cancer himself. I will never get tired of this story. 
Other things on the Space Docket:- Dad stories, inspired by the ones collated by Mallory Ortberg, and including a few of our own. – Buzzfeed’s “women try whiskey for the first time” video. -Talking whiskey and answering your whiskey questions. – Ben tells us about his book. 
Gone Girl talk starts around 35 minutes. Ben’s cancer etc. story starts at 56 minutes. After that, we answer a few of your emails, and receive probably the best voicemail we’ve ever gotten. Great job! Ass pats all around! 

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If you’ve ever seen The Room, the biggest question on your mind is most likely: who is this Tommy Wiseau and where did he come from? Wiseau reportedly spent $6 million of his own money making the best/worst classic, and not only does no one really know where he made so much that he could afford this, they don’t know Tommy’s country of origin (a Redditor recently claimed Poland, which is entirely plausible). He has an Eastern European accent and seems to speak French, but claims to be from Louisiana. He says things like “As an American…” and his self-written critic blurbs for The Room raved “the new Tennessee Williams is a ragin’ cajun!”
I recently finished Greg Sestero’s wonderful book about the making of The Room and his relationship with Wiseau, The Disaster Artist. 300 or so pages later, I was still full of questions. As it happens, one of my friends from the SF comedy scene, Aaron Barrett, a comedian and rock drummer who moved to San Francisco in 1991, worked for Tommy Wiseau for 11 years (!!!!), making him one of the few people on Earth to have known Tommy Wiseau nearly as long as Greg Sestero. After taking away Bret’s The Room virginity, we invited Aaron Barrett into the Frotquarters to see if he could help fill in any of the gaps in Tommy Wiseau’s mysterious biography, and alternately torture him with bad “YOU ARE TEARING ME APART!” impressions. Enjoy.

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This week on the Frotcast, Matt Lieb, Bret, and Brendan are live with Vince in the Frotquarters (plus Laremy Legel on Skype) for a Frotcast about the great celebrity nude leak of 2014, aka The Fappening. We talk about the impulse to take nudes, as well as the impulse to criticize people when bad things happen to them. As usual, Bret thinks he can trace the cognitive roots of these impulses in his newly-named, Disturbed-inspired segment, “Down With The Thinkness.”
Before we get to that, we open the show with more of Lieb’s exuberant quotings from Red Dragon, some discussion of ‘The Trip’ and ‘The Trip To Italy’ (on the subject of Michael Caine impressions) and Schnitzel Bob’s incredible Matt Lieb fan-fiction. Matt Lieb talks about hanging with Jeff Ross, and the advice he gets from comedians he has to open for in general, including a great story about a friend of Gabriel Iglesias getting in a fist fight with an audience member in San Jose. 
At about 30 minutes, we bring Laremy on. He reads us an awesome new list, and we talk about The Fappening. There’s plenty to chew on there, and that occupies us until we get to your email questions. Enjoy! 

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This week, Ben returns from his Eat, Pray, Love trip in Asia for a Frotcast about Tom Hardy’s Locke. Well, it was *supposed* to be about Locke, anyway. We start out doing some Creed impressions, which, to be fair, are almost impossible to stop doing. From there we move into a story about my electric car, then we end up talking about Ferguson and cops and stuff for a while, until Bret gets even more nihilistic. We quickly need to find something to make fun of, which brings us to a New York Times trend piece about Hey, Isn’t It Crazy How Millennials Are In the News These Days? Eventually we bring on Ben, who explains what he’s been doing in Asia for four months and what he’s planning to do now. Then we talk about Locke, and some more Creed impressions ensue as Bret wonders if the internet was a mistake. Enjoy. 

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I really hope you are already feeling sad and hopeless!
Otherwise, we’re probably gonna make you feel sad and hopeless with this
new episode of the Frotcast. Not that we don’t try our best to inject
some humor into this cauldron of chaos that has been bubbling up all
around us and scalding our souls (i.e. Robin Williams suicide, cops
murdering Michael Brown, the new TMNT movie, etc.), but it’s honestly
really hard to make any of those subjects funny. But we try, oh my GOD
do we try.

This week, we have me, Vince Mancini, Brendan,
Bret, and Filmdrunk writer Heather Dockray aka Heather The Glib Lesbian live in the Frotquarters. We
start out talking about the shocking suicide of Robin Williams which
somehow segues into something less heavy. We then go on to talk about
The Guardians of the Galaxy and Bret explains how he thinks he doesn’t
like movies anymore. Heather gets into her review of Michael Bay’s
shitty TMNT reboot and how she was mistaken for a 14-year-old by other
14-year-olds. Then we get into the story of real-life Bond villain Vlad
Putin’s denial of stealing Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl ring. I just really
hope that Putin doesn’t this to this particular Frotcast, because the
last thing this podcast needs is to be banned in Russia. We need all the
listeners we can get!

Speaking
of which, please tell everyone that you know about the magic of the
FilmDrunk Frotcast. I realize that it’s hard to explain to first-time
listeners why we are the way that we are, but just keep reassuring them
that it’s worth it. It is worth it, right? RIGHT?!?! WHY DO WE KEEP
DOING THIS!?!??!

Enjoy!

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