Love Among the Goons

If you don’t like what’s being said, put on this week’s episode of the podcast. We have host of the Finding My Audience podcast and comedian Allen Strickland Williams, whose album, Ran Through, is available now, joining Matt & Vince to talk about Mad Men season three episode two, “Love Among the Ruins.”

Limey Lane is settling into his new life in New York by taking his wife out to dinner with Don & Betty, but the Mrs. is still acclimating. She has some complaints about the bugs and the Africans. Have you noticed that these white people in the 60’s say a lot racist stuff? 

At the office, Paul pisses everyone off by taking the Madison Square Garden account to task for tearing down Beaux-Arts masterpiece Pennsylvania Station. Like, okay Paul, where do you expect Jermey Lin to drop 38 on Kobe and induce a national case of Linsanity?

In the Draper household, a new roommate moves in when the family decides Betty’s dad can’t be trusted to take care of himself if he’s buying sandwiches for women who have left him. If the figurative lemon is witnessing a loved one's mind slowly decay, the lemonade is… an extra sandwich up for grabs?

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Sound the Gay Alarm, MYAM is Back

Please don’t cut our dicks off and boil them in hog fat for taking a break between seasons. MYAM is back with Dave Schilling, author of Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse, to help Matt and Vince kick off season three with episode one, “Out of Town.”

The Sterling Cooper offices are experiencing a British Invasion of their own after being purchased by Putnam, Powell, & Lowe. Meet Burt Peterson, head of accounts. Now forget him. He’s fired. The new head of accounts? Much to his delight, Pete Campbell. Much to Pete’s chagrin, Ken Cosgrove is also named head of accounts. Two blue-blooded waspy boys being asked to share? What is this, some kind of budget polo summer camp?

On a business trip to Baltimore to meet with London Fog, the hotel the fire alarm goes off the second a bellboy reaches into Sal’s pants, implying either God is punishing him, or hotels in the 60’s had gay alarms. In the ensuing evacuation, Don learns Sal’s big secret. He is chill about it, but you can tell he thinks it’s icky. 

Are you a virgin if you’re a closeted gay man who has only had sex with women? Tell us your thoughts in a five-star review on  Apple Podcasts. 

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We are serving cunt on the Frotcast and we cannot. Even. Stop!

This week we serve up our listeners a cunt named Brian Abrams, a guy who’s seen way more movies than Vince and author of “You Talkin' to Me?" The Definitive Guide to Iconic Movie Quotes. Brian joins us for the main subject of this week’s episode, Ari Aster’s latest film Eddington. Unfortunately, we drag him into some very stupid topics before we get there. Sorry Brian.

We get down to brass tacks right away- every man has a price, and Matt’s is $20,000. That’s right folks, he’s run plum out of royalty freestyle ideas, so now he has to whore out that sweet, sweet man-ass of his.

Next up, the 46-year-old French guy who got humiliated to death while streaming. That’s right folks, GERARD DEPARDIEU IS DEAD (pause for Kevin Eubanks to stop laughing).

Now throw in Cuomo’s swagless social media, Jordan Peterson’s mold problem, and important news from the President of Space, Kevin Spacey (we beg you, don't overthink the bits), and you got yourself a B+ of a pod, baby.

Find Brian on his website, Letterboxd, and TikTok.

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This week on the frotcast, Matt and Brendan are replaced with David J Roth and Jeb Lund, talking about Epstein's special relationship with Trump and the sequel to Happy Gilmore.

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This week we welcome comedienne Jessica Sele to the show to discuss bidet usage. But first, we kick things off talking about steamy hot cat sex. We bring up dogs briefly as well, but let’s face it, we know what our audience wants to hear about.

Speaking of which, we all watched Trainwreck: Poop Cruise which kinda felt like it was made for us but unfortunately (predictably, tbh) was a paint-by-numbers streaming doc. Props for minimizing usage of “typing things into a google search bar” shots, though. There’s a number of great stories to be told about it, but they focus on a small number of people and gloss over some major parts, such as, why anyone thought it was a good idea to make drinks free. There is a book’s worth of sociological insights to be gleaned from the poop cruise earning its name because everyone interviewed talks about refusing to poop in a bag, which of course exacerbates the issue and degrades the quality of life for everyone on board, but you aren’t going to hear about it on this podcast. I mean, come on. 

Lastly, we dive into the New York Times’ hit piece on Zohran’s college application, which was only uncovered due to a hack of applicant data at Columbia, and provided to them by a “race science academic”. We asked Dave Weigel how exactly the ratfucking of Zohran would occur, but none of us had this on the bingo card. At least we still have Wordle.

You can find Jessica on Instagram and Twitter. Buy her album.

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This week we had journalist Dave Weigel on the frotcast to talk about Zohran Mamdani winning the democratic nomination for mayor of New York City. You can listen to the full episode by subscribing to the Patreon.

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Meditations on a Finale

As is customary for the last episode of a season, we brought in the closer and honorary Pod Yourself a Third Chair. From Defector, The Distraction, and It’s Christmastown podcasts, David J. Roth joins Matt and Vince for the Mad Men season two finale, “Meditations in an Emergency.”

We know they’re not going to get blown up by Russia, but the characters don’t know that yet. There’s a missile crisis in, or around, Cuba, and on Madison Avenue, they’re living like there’s no tomorrow. Pete tries to get one last we’re-gonna-die shag from Peggy, who then confesses that she gave away his baby. He looks sad, but you just know he still would have hit if she let him. 

Betty decides she too can play at the philandering game, and has her one last we’re-gonna-die shag with a strange man in what appears to be a bartender’s dressing room? Manhattan cocktail bars in the sixties seem cool. You could smoke inside, bartenders had dressing rooms you could have sex in, and oh wait right they didn’t let black people in. Nevermind, the sixties were bad. The podcast is good. Just enjoy the podcast. We’ll be back soon with season three. 

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The Mounting Kings

Matt & Vince are joined by comedian, co-host of the Oh Hell Yeah podcast, handsome devil, and producer of this podcast, Brent Flyberg. Listen as we discuss Mad Men season two episode twelve, “The Mountain King”

Fellas, is your nag wife always hounding you about your philanderous lifestyle? Have you tried bailing to Long Beach and getting free therapy and tarot readings from the widow of the man whose identity you stole to escape the Korean War?  Works for Don, but his dead commanding officer’s wife is the ultimate cool girl, and yours probably isn’t.

Back in New York, Pete throws a chicken off the balcony, Peggy earns her own office after nailing the popsicle account pitch, Joan tries a sex act considered obscene in 1962 (girl on top?!?!?) and Roger pushes for a merger with Putney Powell & Lowe so he can fund his divorce and keep his child bride happy. 

If you need to confess to disrespecting the Xerox machine, do it in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. 

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Chile Relleno in Palm Springs and Tony Curtis in the Bathroom

Pack your bags. For this week’s episode of the pod we’re going to California with the Senior Culture Editor at GQ and co-author of Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan. Alex Pappademas joins Matt & Vince to talk about Mad Men season two episode eleven, “The Jet Set.”

Pete & Don go to the sunshine state to scout new clients at an aeronautics convention and have wildly different, but both quintessentially LA, experiences. Like most New Yorkers, Pete hates everything until he sees a celebrity. “Everybody here is late for everything… Oh! I just saw Tony Curtis in the restroom,” he says before getting ignored by beautiful women at the pool. Don, however, is beautiful, so he gets taken in by a gang of beautiful, wealthy people who don’t seem to have jobs. One of them wants Don to sleep with his daughter, which is somehow a story that Vince can relate to. 

Back at the office, the creative team learns that Kurt is a homosexual who makes love with the men, not the women. (his words). The reaction is as homophobic as you would expect for 1962, and poor Sal has to hear it all. 

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Betty’s Dad is Strokin’ and Gropin’

Say wazzzzzup to this week’s guest. Joining Matt & Vince is the funniest female comedian in the world, Alison Stevenson, to discuss Mad Men season two episode 10, “The Inheritance.”

You likely remember the Budweiser ad that inspired millions to ask “what’s up?” in a merged, while drawn-out, fashion, but do you remember the Obama campaign ad that brought those guys back to your screen (all the way from Iraq!) to ask wazzzzzzup with America? It’s Alison’s favorite ad. She’s likely seen it more times than she’s seen an episode of Mad Men, but don’t be weird about it. It’s another A+ edition of the podcast. 

The Mad Men episode is fine too (solid B+). Betty’s dad makes a pass at her, Pete finds out his once old money family has become nouveau pauvre, and Paul’s girlfriend learns he only cares about her rights if he’s not getting a free trip to California. 

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