FilmDrunk Frotcast

Film critic Jeff Bayer from Movie BS and FilmSchoolRejects joins FilmDrunk’s Vince Mancini, comedian Joey Avery, and Frotcast co-host Bret to review Game Of Thrones, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Alice Through The Looking Glass. Plus our new segment, Crystal Corner, where we talk about which celebrities are into magical healing crystals this week. Then it’s onto your email questions, which, as usual, are all about relationships and pooping. frotcast@gmail.com, 415 275 0030. Review us on iTunes!  3:23 – Game of Thrones Talk. Hodor! Zombies! Boobies! Wieners! The Iron Born! Children of the Forest!  16:44 – Joey Avery and Jeff Bayer arrive. 25:29 – Jeff tells us about Alice Through The Looking Glass 31:00 – Bret polls us on how we don’t kill ourselves, being film critics and all.  45:00 – X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Captain America: Civil War, with Vince and Jeff. 48:20 – Anthony Weiner, and trying to remember why people were mad at him. 56:30 – CRYSTAL CORNER! This week’s believers in the healing power of magic crystals include Alanis Morisette and a guy from 10 Things I Hate About You. (Bret loves crystals) 1:11:07 – Jeff tells us about his child, who one day decided that he wasn’t going to poop anymore.  1:23:00 – Charlie Daniels’ NRA video, in which he calls Obama a “fresh-faced flower child.”  1:30:00 – Answering email question, AND our BRAND NEW EMAILS THEME SONG! 

“Film Critic” author Laremy Legel and comedian Joey Avery join the Frotcast this week, as we talk Laremy’s trip to Australia, Neighbors 2, “feminism” as a selling point, doing acid at Coachella, and of course, Spencer Pratt’s love of magic crystals. It’s a “cask strength” podcast this week, as I’m drinking Maker’s 46 cask strength (Bret is sipping a double-oaked Woodford Reserve). Help us monetize our #friendship, and be part of our #brand.  4:26 – “Previously on the Frotcast…” 6:36 – Laremy bloops in via Skype, fresh from Australia, where Garry the Goat lives. He went to a shark museum and the world’s largest IMAX screen. 14:00 – Some Neighbors 2 talk, including whether a movie written by five dudes can be called “feminist.” Also, the new Ghostbusters, and whether we have to cheer something solely because whiny sexist nerds hate it. Does not contain any real spoilers. Except that Laremy has a black friend named Brad. 21:15 – Joey Avery has some great ideas for Frat party themes 23:30 – Why do sororities have so many more rules than fraternities? Is it a substitute for physical hazing? 28:45 – Laremy talks about having the same name as Laremy Tunsil and being off the grid when Laremy Tunsil got caught with his bong video. 35:47 – We talk Captain America: Civil War (SOME LIGHT SPOILERS UNTIL 38 MINUTES)  42:00 – Does the media market allow critics, pundits, writers whose opinions don’t easily fit into a category anymore? Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone piece about safe spaces

We dedicated an entire Frotcast to one movie this week — Captain America: Civil War! Comedian Matt Lieb (Flophouse) and TV writer Patrick Schumacker (Sh*t My Dad Says, Surviving Jack, iZombie) join Vince Mancini to talk Cap, the superhero genre in general, Marvel vs DC and everything else. Afterwards, we talk about Beyonce and Jay-Z for some reason, cheating, and the usual dose of weird sex talk with Matt Lieb. 

Everyone needs things to hate to distract them from the grim specter of death, and this week we have a perfect target: Further Future, the Burning Man of the 1%. Other topics include a first-hand account of Guns N Roses at Coachella, and Matt Lieb singing fully improvised, royalty-free music jams for our Patreon donors. Enjoy!  5:20 – Email question: What movies do a great job nailing the setting?  9:45 – Matt Lieb solves the mystery of what he did in my bed last week. 15:00 – Matt denies that living in LA has changed him.  23:08 – HATE BAIT: Further Future, the Burning Man for the 1%. “Ahh, stuff to hate, the pussy of the lonely.” -Bret 35:25 – Tales from Salesforce, and their Hawaiian-themed nightmare workplace 45:47 – El Chapo flaps in for a visit. Oh how we’ve missed you, El Chapo, our favorite bird bat.  47:40 – El Chapo sings a song about his impending marriage.  48:48 – Joey Avery joins, to regale us with stories of Coachella as we try to feast on his youth like aphids. Also, he saw a Guns N Roses show where Axl had to sing while sitting in a chair. 1:02:16 – Royalty-free jams, with Matt Lieb, as reward for Patreon donors.  1:08:32 – Matt Lieb sings a royalty-free “sea shanty” 

Jane Harrison and Kaseem Bentley (named one of San Francisco’s best comedians by SF Weekly) join the FilmDrunk Frotcast to discuss Game Of Thrones, Ted Cruz, and Beyonce’s Lemonade. Also, we take our first live calls listeners. Patreon.com/Frotcast, Our #Brand Is #Content. 3:50 – The mystery of Matt Lieb being in my house. 9:06 – Game of Thrones talk begins (fairly light on spoilers, but if you want to skip, the segment is five minutes) 14:00 – Jane and Bret watched The Guest. 17:03 – The Ted Cruz soup story is a continuing source of fascination for us. 25:00 – Are we going to watch Captain America: Civil War? Bret and Jane talk Daredevil. 31:00 – Kaseem shows up. 43:30 – Our first live phone call! Listener calls in while watching Fathers and Daughters, starring Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried. 53:00 – Life advice for a listener who has just lost his virginity at 26 but is now hooking up with a girl who has a boyfriend. 1:09:59 – We talk about Beyonce’s Lemonade, in a classic, let’s-only-get-serious-in-the-last-third-of-the-Frotcast moment. Is the story real?! Did Jay-Z really cheat on Beyoncé or is she just a marketing genius?

Imagine you’ve dedicated more than half your life to something, forgoing comfort and taking a vow of poverty only to toil in obscurity, and then one day, all your dreams come true! That’s what happened to our guest Joe Sinclitico, who’s been doing comedy for 20 years – no agent, no development deals, no sitcom guest appearances – but now, tonight, on Adam Devine’s House Party on Comedy Central, he makes his national television debut. Other topics include Billy Corgan’s appearance on conspiracy pimp Alex Jones’ radio show, in which they discuss “SJWs” (social justice warriors). A little segment we like to call “Siamese Beams.” We also talk HBO’s Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill movie, Confirmation, and answer your relationship questions. Enjoy, Frot on, and write us an iTunes review! Patreon.com/frotcast 4:05 – Billy Corgan on Alex Jones, aka “Siamese Beams.”  20:10 – Joe Sinclitico shows up.  30:55 – Joe’s pitch for an untitled buddy comedy starring Osama Bin Laden and Pat Sajak. Or Pat Morita, hard to say.  45:00 – I talk about bringing Joe to Phil Rosenthal’s house for pizza.  1:02:40 – We talk about HBO’s new Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill movie, Confirmation. 1:15:20 – Name Of The Year Draft Update 1:19:04 – Local news story of the week: The “alcoholocaust” drinking game, a Jews v. Nazis version of beer pong.  1:24:10 – Listener relationship question about a making a platonic friend on Tinder. Cool or not cool?  1:36:26 – Strong voicemail in which a listener may have inadvertantly put himself on a watch list. 

Vince is in Kentucky this week, so we couldn’t record a normal Frotcast, but on the off chance that you really enjoy the actual-movie-discussions part of the Frotcast, this one should be a treat. Recorded back in September, this is a discussion with Jeremy Saulnier, writer/director of Green Room, and Macon Blair, his old friend and star of Blue Ruin who also plays a supporting role in Green Room. We talk all about getting the film made, what it’s like getting Patrick Stewart to be in your movie, Jeremy’s history in the DC hardcore punk scene (fun fact: he was later into breakdancing), and neo-Nazis using heavy music as a recruitment tool. Enjoy! 

This week, we talk about the legend of LaDasha (the apocryphal little girl named La-a), the Crying Jordan meme, and welcome GQ/Deadspin columnist Drew Magary, who tells us about his Chopped win, thumb dance, his new book, and whether I can blame him for the rise of Donald Trump. Hey! Leave us reviews on iTunes! We need them to leave! Our #Brand is #Content 2:05 – The peculiarly pervasive legend of LaDasha.  4:00 – We asked our listeners for a “previously on the Frotcast” montage, and they came through. 7:15 – Back to LaDasha. Did Key & Peele try to pass off LaDasha as real thing that happened, or was it a knowing reference to the dumb legend they were making fun of? Discuss. 13:20 – Drew Magary of GQ and Deadspin joins us via Skype. We discuss the Crying Jordan meme, Drew’s now-famous Chopped win (and accompanying thumb dance), and his new book, The Hike (you can order now on Amazon!). 49:16 – Batman Returns, and the guy who played Lattimer in The Program doing an incredible Christopher Walken impression the entire movie.  1:05:15 – The story of the six-year-olds writing the Zootopia critic about ruining the Tomatometer 1:16:06 – The story of the scientists who discovered that people are turned on by robot privates.

So much #Content this week! We talk about Batman V Superman and the movie trend of “climactic hair cutting.” Using actual Mormon names from 2015, we play the Mormon Name Spelling Game. We break down the SFSU fight over white guy dreads and cultural appropriation. But mostly we let Matt Lieb digress into weird sex stuff.  6:50 – The “climactic hair cutting” movie cliche, and Jesse Eisenberg actually getting asked what it’s like to have to cut his hair. 14:15 – What a “previously on the Frotcast” montage might sound like.  15:00 – Matt Lieb saw Batman V Superman (brief spoilers, we warn you before) 27:10 – The Year in Mormon Names, including the Mormon name spelling bee 41:00 – The Name Of the Year draft update and early results 52:00 – A lengthy digression about squirting and why Matt Lieb needs to watch videos of people dying after he watches porn. 1:00:00 – Emily Ratajkowski and Kim Kardashian getting topless together.  1:10:36 – We go deep on the viral video out of SF State in which a black student confronts a white student with dreadlocks for culturally appropriating. 

This episode is a feast of #CONTENT! Sh*t My Dad Says author Justin Halpern joins us to discuss Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, and the worst songs of the ’90s, and then Brendan returns for our fourth annual Name of the Year draft. Enjoy! 1:35 – Batman V Superman talk (no spoilers). As Bret says, “that is a long dawn, my friend.” 3:00 – Justin Halpern explains what Batman V Superman-mania looks like on the Warner lot. 13:00 – Our picks for the worst songs of the 1990s. But first, Justin has an incredible Papa Roach story. 17:10 – Brendan returns!  29:00 – Matt Lieb has some thoughts on Korn.  42:00- Back, by popular demand, it’s the Name of the Year Draft. 1:00:00 – We talk about Katt Williams almost getting choked out by a teen.