Chewing Gum on His Pubis 

As soon as we start this podcast, we warn you, it will be too late to run. Writer, podcaster, and Defector.com editor and co-founder, David J. Roth returns to chat with Matt & Vince about Mad Men season five episode five, “Signal 30.”

Pete’s a lot like Rodney Dangerfield in this episode. He gets no respect and he’s going back to school. He’s taking driver’s ed with a bunch of teens, and one of them has feet that catch his eye, but he gets mogged by a high school quarterback-looking-ass teen, because as much as he wants to be like Don, he has the social skills of coxswain-looking-ass teen.

For a brief moment, Pete has a shred of Don’s respect after Trudy finally tricks the Drapers into visiting the Campbell’s suburban home, giving Don a glimpse of Pete's seemingly happy wife and happy life, but he pisses it away when he indulges in some sex work to impress Lane’s friend at Jaguar. After Mr. Jaguar’s wife finds chewing gum on his pubis, SCDP loses the account, resulting in a conference room donnybrook between Pete “grimy little pimp” and Lane “Mr. Toad” Price. Pete loses and he gets no respect at all I tell ya. 

Tell us why Wilt Chamberlain might want to lie down in Pete’s record cabinet in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. 

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Murder? I Hardly Know Her

If you need something to listen to while you hide under your bed, put on this week’s episode with comedian Allen Strickland Williams, whose album, Ran Through, is available now, joining Matt & Vince to talk about Mad Men season five episode four, “Mystery Date.”

The offices of SCDP are abuzz after Joyce brings some grizzly photos of the Speck Murders for everyone to gawk at. The images clearly get into Don’s head, because he goes home and has a dream about murdering a former fling he encountered earlier in the day. He doesn’t really want to kill her, of course. He wants to have sex with her, but he knows he shouldn’t, and choking her to death is the best solution his subconscious can come up with. 

Sally is freaked out by the news of the nursing students getting murked, but luckily, her stepgrandmother is there to posit that maybe those young women deserved to get murdered because they were sluts. I think technically this scene passes the Bechdel Test. 

Tell us why you’re going back to Vietnam in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. 

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Rolling Stones and Betty’s Big Bones

Eat first. That’s our advice. Then put on this week’s episode of the pod with Comedian and cohost of the What a Time to be Alive and Lie Cheat and Steal podcasts, Kath Barbadoro, talking to Matt and Vince about Mad Men season five episode three, “Tea Leaves.”

Poor Betty is really going through it in this episode. Her second worst nightmare, cancer, might be coming true, but her absolute worst nightmare, getting kind of fat, is all too real. Keep her in your prayers. 

SCDP needs a new guy who sleeps all day, is disrespectful of authority, drunk half the time, and smells like pee to help write copy for Mohawk, so Peggy hires Michael Ginsberg, because every ad agency has one jew now. 

Don and Harry meet some teens backstage at a Rolling Stones concert, and Harry is such a lecherous little pig he makes Don look like a boy scout. Rock and roll brings out the worst in some people. 

Write a Heinz themed parody of a Rolling Stones song and put it in a five star review on Apple Podcasts. 

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Zooby Zooby Backlash

Where’s Harry Crane? Who cares? There’s a new episode of the podcast. Comedian, co-host of the Oh Hell Yeah podcast, handsome iconoclast, and MYAM producer, Brent Flyberg, returns to talk to Matt & Vince about part two of Mad Men’s season five premiere, “A Little Kiss.”

The whole office is still talking about Don’s birthday party, and it did have the effect Megan intended (“everyone is going to go home and have sex.”) for at least one department head, but no one wants to hear about that. 

Joan visits the office, Don & Megan leave early to have some very weird sex, Pete upgrades his workspace, and Lane is a horny little freak with money problems. Should be relatable for most of our listeners. 

Are you more of a virgin Lane or a Chad Don? Tell us in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. 

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Birthday Zou Bisou Bisou Blues

Surprise! The fifth season of Mad Yourself a Man begins now! We’ve invited Harry Crane into your home to celebrate. You like that right? Matt & Vince also invited comedian, co-host of the Oh Hell Yeah podcast, muscular genius, and MYAM producer, Brent Flyberg, to talk about part one of Mad Men’s season five premiere, “A Little Kiss.”

To celebrate Don’s 40th birthday, Megan invites all Don’s coworkers and acquaintances into his home to surprise him with a party. She thinks he will enjoy this, because she possesses a level of confidence only attained by the supernaturally beautiful. It’s the same kind of confidence that would lead someone to sing a sexy little rendition of “Zou Bissou Bissou” for her husband in front of all his officemates. After Megan’s performance, Roger gives a toast that implies he wants to have sex with Don’s wife, which was the highest compliment you could give a man in 1966.

Would you have gone home and had sex after that party? Tell us how in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. 

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Hey all,

Mad Yourself A Man season 5 will post episode 501 Friday of next week! Apologies for the delay. We had a very busy summer that took us in all different directions plus a lot of family stuff. But we are now back in production with season 5 of Mad Men, a few episodes in the can and a bunch of recording dates scheduled.

In the meantime, here are all the Draper D-Stories from seasons 1-4 of Mad Yourself A Man. Every song all in one place!

See you all next week!

-Matt and Vince

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Here's a little clip from our Frotcast episode about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. You can listen to the full episode on Patreon. You should definitely join Patreon because you get to listen to Mad Yourself A Man a week before everyone else does.

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Hey everyone,

This teaser begins with a PYAG (or MYAM) announcement. We will be back on August 7th! Sorry for the delay, we have had a busy summer. And as always, get every episode a week early by going to Patreon.com/frotcast and joining today!

Anyway, here's a little teaser from this weeks Justin Halpern episode of the Frotcast.

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WE HAVE STARTED RECORDING NEW EPISODES OF MAD YOURSELF A MAN! SO DON'T YOU WORRRY!

In the meantime, here's this weeks Frotcast.

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In Brief: We watched 'Obsession!' Plus, joining the dead-dad club, Trump re-blockading the Strait of Hormuz blockade, Mitch McConnell joins live for 20 minutes, and the World Cup.

In Detail:

Welcome to A Very Special Frotcast. Vince’s dad sadly passed away this week, so Vince and the fellas reminisce about the man himself. Did he get to honk a boob before he shuffled off his mortal coil? You betcha. What higher compliment can you give a man than to say he died as he lived, watching The Big Bang Theory. 

Also dead, the Iran cease fire agreement. The blockade we were blockading was previously un-blockaded but is now being re-blockaded. So the deal is off, after previously being on and off, prior to it also being on and then off. I’m starting to think this Donald Trump guy isn’t totally forthcoming in his communications!

Not dead, however (maybe), is Schrodinger’s Wildcat, Kentucky’s own Mitch McConnell. He’s in the hospital after a reported cardiac arrest at his home. Fortunately, the GOP is on the case; they’ve all apparently spoken with him in suspiciously consistent 20-minute blocks of time, but his comms team is being cagey about his current condition. Fortunately we’ve secured an exclusive interview with him, where he opens up to us about life, love, loss, and Andy Dufresne.

Next up, the lads talk World Cup. Cheers for Egypt-Argentina, jeers for Switzerland-Colombia. Apparently the Swiss and Colombians watched the wall-to-wall action that was Egypt-Argentina and said “fuck that noise”. What proceeded was what can only be described as a home run derby with soccer balls. And did they ever send ‘em to the upper deck! This was a crime against fútbol and we will be boycotting the sport for four years, starting after this tournament.

Finally, this week we watched the new obsession everyone’s obsessing over, Obsession. It really brought Matt back to the days of having an unhealthy relationship with a different person that is not his current wife. Vince wanted to see the protagonist act more assertively due to no longer having a strong male figure in his life, but Matt and Brendan thought it was one of the best horror movies to come out recently. Run, don’t walk, to go see this B+ of a movie. 

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Inside of you are two Hitlers. At least, that's the basic premise of Max (2002), a movie about a young Hitler just trying to find his voice as an artist, before all the... well, you know. We watched it for the Frotcast this week, because last week, Matt made a joke about "why don't they make a movie about Hitler, without all the Holocaust stuff?" We had been talking about Michael, a movie that depicts the life of Michael Jackson but ends before Bad. A few of our listeners (shout out to Zach Johnston) pointed out that, actually, Matt's Hitler-but-without-the-Holocaust-stuff-movie had already been made -- in 2002, starring Noah Taylor as young Adolf and John Cusack as his (fictional) friend, Max Rothman. And at least in this case, it was genuinely an artistic choice, not a concession that the filmmakers had to make in order to get the rights to Hitler's paintings from the Hitler estate.

Naturally, we had to watch it. It turned out to be endlessly funny, hearing one character constantly refer to another as "Hitler" in casual conversation. Such as in the iconic lines "Hitler, come on, I'll buy you a glass of lemonade," and "ever consider the future, Hitler?"

Anyway, if you ever wanted to see a movie that asks "What if young Hitler was being played by a goth McLovin and he made a friend who was Jim from The Office," then Max (2002) is definitely the movie for you. I think I liked it more than Jojo Rabbit.

After that, we discuss the California governor's race, and how we have like 17 different candidates, none of whom can give a straightforward answer to the very simple question "Is Israel doing a genocide?"

And the Dems still can't figure out why people might vote for Graham Platner. Gosh, who could say??? Maybe if they paid a consulting firm made up of discount Free Press writers six or seven hundred thousand dollars they could figure it out.

In conclusion, "you know Hitler, you're not an easy guy to like. ...But I'm trying."

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