FilmDrunk Frotcast

It’s here! After another year of the Frotcast in the books, listener Schnitzel Bob edited up a compilation of this year’s best bits from the Frotcast (or Schnitzel Bob’s favorites, anyway). It’s hard to say whether this is more of a greatest hits or a blooper reel. Or whether those things are different on the Frotcast. This has everything, from Royalty Freestyle songs to terrible accents to strange characters to celebrity stories and more terrible accents. Matt’s Alex Jones impression, Vince’s new butthole, it’s all here. As always, you can donate at Patreon dot come slash Frotcast. Frot on and Happy New Year from your Frot fam. Check out the full track listing on Filmdrunk.

TO AVOID STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI SPOILERS, SKIP MINUTE 14 TO MINUTE 55. That’s right, this week we’re talking Star Wars: The Last Jedi, with guests Matt Lieb from The Star Wars Show, PR man and author Ed Zitron, and comedian Jacob Sirof (joining me, Vince Mancini from FilmDrunk). But first, we discuss Wyatt Koch, heir to the Koch Brothers’ fortune, and his fascinating line of horrendously ugly shirts (failsons being relevant to the Star Wars universe). After that we’ve got a HEATED Star Wars: The Last Jedi discussion, and we finish things off with the worst take of the week, regarding the famous short story “Cat Person.” Enjoy and Frot on, donate at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast.  3:35 – Wyatt Koch’s ugly ass shirts 14:00 – Star Wars The Last Jedi 55:44 – End of Star Wars Discussion 56:40 – I’m forced to describe Three Billboards so I can complain about it. 1:01:40 – The Worst Take Of The Week

In a special Hannukkah episode, we’ve invited three of our favorite Jewishes (read this with a soft J to denote respect) on the Frotcast, comedians Matt Lieb and Alison Stevenson, and showrunner Justin Halpern to join Vince and Brendan. We discuss whether Roy Moore losing was a Ben miracle (RIP), talk Inside Lacrosse’s All-Name Team, and comb through the recently discovered Daily Stormer Nazi style guide. Alison Stevenson comes on to discuss her recent trip Tindering her way through Seoul, and Justin Halpern joins to talk about his Harley Quinn show, I Tonya and Ladybird. We finish things off with your emails. 3 minutes – Roy Moore’s campaign manager malfunctions on live TV 7 minutes – A rundown of this year’s All Name Team from Inside Lacrosse 17 minutes – Matt remembers/reenact Blood Diamond 19 minutes – Coming through the recently discovered Daily Stormer style guide 26 minutes – Alison Stevenson joins 36 minutes – Alison Tinders through South Korea. 50 minutes – Justin Halpern on his new Harley Quinn show. 54 minutes – I, Tonya 56 minutes – Armond White, Cole Smithey, and Ladybird/RottenTomato-gate 1 hour 10 minutes – The Disaster Artist 1 hour 26 minutes – Omarosa trapped in the walls 1 hour 31 – Emails

Greg Sestero is perhaps best known for playing Mark in The Room (“Oh, hi, Mark.”). He’s also the co-author of The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made. Michael Rousselet is co-director of Dude Bro Party Massacre III, which also stars Greg Sestero. Rousselet also happens to be one of the first people to discover The Room, helping to make it a cult hit, who’s credited for starting many of The Room’s now familiar audience participation trends, like throwing spoons at the screen. I got them together 12 years almost to the day after the first The Room screening, to ask Greg what it was like being Tommy Wiseau’s producing partner and roommate, his teenage modeling days in Europe, and what it’s like having had his life inexorably tied to Tommy Wiseau’s for close to 20 years now. And to ask Mike about the first time he saw The Room, and what possessed him to force everyone he knew to watch it. How old is Tommy Wiseau? Where is Tommy Wiseau actually from? How did Tommy Wiseau get so rich, and how could afford to blow $6 million on The Room? What does it all mean? We answer all or none of these questions on this week’s BookDrunk Radio. 

This week on the Frotcast, Matt Lieb and Jane Harrison join Vince and Brendan to discuss Donald Trump’s McDonald’s order, deliver our holiday movie guide, and talk about the Netflix documentary Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond. Method actors, right? With only a tiny bit of sexual harassment news this week! Thanks, Bryan Singer. Enjoy and Frot on, donate at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast. 

This week, former Film.com head critic Laremy Legel joins us to talk about the curious phenomenon of trailer reaction videos — specifically as it relates to Avengers: Infinity Wars — and, because it’s inescapable, the latest round of sexual harassment firings. We go deep on Matt Lauer interviews to see if there were red flags we should’ve seen all along. We have a Tales From NPR, answer your emails, and even digress into football. Enjoy, and Frot on! Donate at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast.  2:15 – Kevin Smith cries about the new Avengers trailer 21:00 – This week in sexual harasser scandals! 25:00 – Keith Olbermann and the curious phenomenon of “smug elevator pictures” 31:50 – Matt Lauer’s super gross Anne Hathaway interview 41:00 Garrison Keillor 51:00 – Tales from NPR

This week on the Frotcast, the Frot-crew is all traveling, but I do have this phone interview I did with author/journalist/screenwriter Jon Ronson. Ronson is the author of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, a book about internet shaming, Men Who Stare At Goats, and the co-writer of the movie Okja, and more recently he produced a multi-part podcast called The Butterfly Effect. The Butterfly Effect traces the rise of free porn and its effect on porn and wider society. The way tech has affected porn seems like a useful (and possibly scary) analogy for the “disruption” of other industries. Enjoy and Frot on!

Columnist Drew Magary wrote in GQ this week, “Why are all the comedy men so awful?” And was immediately deluged with indignant comedy men, averring that they were not defensive. “I am not mad, I am actually laughing.” Questions remain. Is comedy especially bad or just a symptom of society? Did comedians screw up or did we screw up pretending they were sage truth tellers? Is a laugh an endorsement of a higher truth, or the teller’s personal life? And hey, what’s the deal with airline food? Comedians Matt Lieb and Joe Sinclitico also join, to talk Louis CK, the season finale of Nathan for You, the latest creepo allegations — against Sylvester Stallone — and answer your emails. Donate at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast, email us at frotcast at g mail dot com. Frot on!  4:36 – Drew’s article and the blowback 8:35 – Matt Lieb joins 39:27 – Talking the Nathan For Your Season Finale 46:00 – Email questions 1:08:00 – Joe runs down the Sylvester Stallone allegations

This week on the Frotcast, SB Nation’s Matt Ufford joins us to recap the week in movies, discuss Rand Paul’s BRUTAL NEIGHBOR FEUD (as well as recap some past celebrity neighbor feuds), get Orange County PTSD with the Dirty John podcast (“a Californians sketch on Klonopin), and finish things off with some Royalty Freestyle. Matt Lieb and Brendan join Vince in the studio. Donate at Patreon dot slash frotcast.

From The Fat Jew on the TRL reboot to Thor: Ragnarok (my 110% spoiler-free review), this week on the Frotcast, we ponder a future (or a present, really) where repping for the big #brands is the only way to eat. Matt Lieb and Joey Avery join Vince Mancini this week, where, naturally, there’s also lots of news to discuss on the Hollywood Sexual Harassment front. Kevin Spacey, Andy Dick, Jeremy Piven… who’s the next Hollywood personality to screw up? Should we start a pool? All that, plus a Sebastian Gorka update, on this week’s Frotcast. Donate at Patreon dot com slash Frotcast. 2:00 – Reeling from the TRL reboot 13:00 – An extremely non-spoilery review of Thor: Ragnarok 22:00 – The Hollywood sexual harassment update, first up, Kevin Spacey 36:19 – Sebastian Gorka can’t park 45:00 – Matt feels bad for Osama Bin Laden 52:07 – Hollywood harassment part 2: Andy Dick edition 1:15:30 – Hollywood harassment update part 3: Jeremy Piven edition