Frotcast Bonus: Top Chef World All-Stars Winner Buddha Lo

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Big news for fans of Top Chef Power Index: I interviewed Top Chef World All-Stars winner Buddha Lo. Buddha became the first back-to-back Top Chef champion in the show’s history. In terms of how dominant he was, all I need to say is that I had him ranked number one in the first episode of his first season, and then had him number one again after all but one of this season’s episodes (and don’t think he didn’t know that I snubbed him in my episode one recap this year — I had him at number two).

You expect a guy as exacting in his approach as Buddha is to be kind of dull or a dick, but Buddha is just too Australian for that. He retains his casual appeal, and has such a unique background that he always makes for a great interview. Who else could I ask such pointed questions about what a dugong tastes like and expect such specific (and weirdly mouth watering) answers?

Read the whole write-up over at GQ, or (AND) listen to it here.

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Teaser – Frotcast Watches HBO’s The Idol With Sam Haft

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The Frotcast reviews HBO’s ‘The Idol’ on this week’s podcast, with guest Sam Haft from The Living Tombstone. ‘The Idol’ stars Johnny Depp-spawn Lily Rose-Depp and pop star The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, whose actual house is the location for the show. It adds to the growing Sam Levinson oeuvre, the brainchild of Barry Levinson’s director son who seems to really love filming naked ladies with strobey visuals and bombastic scores. Bret called ‘The Idol’ “50 Shades of Entourage” on our text chain. We will defend Sam Levinson’s right to film other famous kids naked and horny art in general, even if we can’t entirely stand behind this show. Subscribe on Patreon for the full episode! Patreon dot com slash Frotcast!

Other topics include the British guy in hot water for his eggplant statement and the Jason Momoa/Vin Dieself beef.

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Frotcast 545: ‘Air’ With Joey Devine

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The Frotcast is back with another together-in-the-studio episode! It was just like old times this week, with Vince in LA to record live with Matt at Frot Studio South, and Roundball Rock host Joey Devine guesting, to talk about an actual movie.

This week we all saw Air, the heartwarming story of how Sonny Vaccaro got Michael Jordan to come to Nike starring Matt Damon as Vaccaro and Ben Affleck (who also directed) as Nike’s Phil Knight. Is Ben Affleck a good director? Do all 80s movies look the same now? Does Nike really need a puff piece? We answer all these questions and more.

If you don’t care about that, don’t worry, we have many other topics to discuss as well. We breakdown Johnny Depp’s deranged Q&A from Cannes, Mark Wahlberg’s incredible prayer video, and had Joey and Matt try to guess what movie analogy Elon Musk would reach for to try to explain his posting. Oh, and Jude Law had a perfume made from doo-doo because method acting! You’re going to love it. Also, there’s a video version on our YouTube page if you want also to see our dumb faces. Subscribe at Patreon.com/Frotcast for all of this content and more.

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Teaser – Matt Stans ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ With Joey Devine And James Fritz

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Get the full episode at https://www.patreon.com/frotcast!

All-time Frot favorites Joey Devine from the Roundball Rock Podcast and James Fritz from the Frankie Quiñones show are back in the Frotquarters this week talking all manner of things. Topics include, the inter-rightwing squabble over whether the Super Mario Brothers movie succeeded by not being woke or if it is indeed woke. Vince talking about his epic run of 16 years in media without a layoff finally coming to an end. Stories about the 90s Knicks and remembering the Uncle Drew movie. Matt loving Shakespeare in Love. Try it! You’ll like it! Join us on Patreon at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast for all this full episode, and all the bonus content you could ever want.

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[TEASER] ‘Babylon’, Joe Sinclitico Is Going To Be A Dad Soon

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Howdy, Frotcateers! Apparently Matt hasn’t uploaded a teaser to this feed for more than a month and I didn’t even notice. I’m so very sorry. Will you accept this premium episode in which we review ‘Babylon’ as my penance? It has Joe Sinclitico on it. You guys love that. Hear the full episode by subscribing at patreon.com/frotcast.

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Frotcast Bonus! ‘Borat 2’ Director Jason Woliner On ‘Paul T. Goldman’

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If you liked Borat or Nathan For You, I think you’re going to enjoy Paul T. Goldman. Director Jason Woliner directed Borat 2 and a few episodes of Nathan For You, but this time around says he was inspired by things like Grizzly Man and American Movie (I would stick Windy City Heat in there too). Basically 11 or 12 years ago this guy, Paul T. Goldman, starting tweeting at Jason Woliner (among many other directors) trying to get Jason interested in directed Paul’s life story. Paul had supposedly been taken advantage of by his ex-wife (his second, the first was a mail-order bride from the Ukraine) and had written not only a memoir about it, but a whole series of detective fiction starring himself, trying to stop human trafficking, which he believed this ex-wife was involved in.

Woliner did direct Paul’s life story, starring Paul as Paul, but he also shot a documentary about the making of said show, and also a documentary trying to get to the truth of Paul’s whole story. The show, produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, is this mix of all three — Paul’s show, the making of Paul’s show, and Jason’s story trying to figure out what the hell actually happened. I obviously enjoyed it, so I thought I’d share my two interviews with Jason Woliner here with you.

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UNLOCKED: Frotcast 529, Hitler? I Just Metler! With Joe Sinclitico (Kanye and The Fabelmans)

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Merry Christmas and Chappy Chanukah, Frot-sters! In honor of Jesus (and also the Maccabees)’s special day(s), I’m unlocking this Frotcast even for the free feed piggies. This one has me, Matt, and Joe Sinclitico, and we start off discussing Matt’s new child and his post-partum horniness. Then we get into Kanye on Alex Jones, where he discussed loving ALOOTTTTTTTA THINNNNNGS about Hitler (Ye’s words). Finally, we wrap things up with a discussion of Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale about becoming an acclaimed director thanks to his parents’ divorce and that time he got to score because some weird girl had a crush on Jesus. Also, his mom had a monkey.

Anyway, if you enjoy this kind of #content, you should definitely subscribe to the Frotcast at Patreon.com/frotcast. If you subscribe at the $5 tier, you will INSTANTANEOUSLY gain access to a veritable TREASURE TROVE of priceless Frot content. At the $8 tier, you will get that AND a corner nickname on Pod Yourself The Wire. How could you not want it? Anyway, Merry Christmukah!

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