FilmDrunk Frotcast

Vince is back from SXSW, and joined by Bret and Jane Harrison (of Viceland's Flophouse) to talk about how to deal with A-holes in a public situation, be they texting in movies or heckling at comedy shows. Seattle film critic Laremy Legel Skypes in to talk about Deadpool and other movie topics. Enjoy our #content 2:10 - Made it a whole two minutes without talking about Jane's pussy worms from last week. Impressive! 4:00 - Janes makes fun of me for my shirt with a bear on it - we try to define what makes a silly shirt "ironic." 10:45 - SXSW and GDC: Bret and I discuss the intense impulse to melvin nerds at tech conferences. 13:00 - Taking Skype calls on an airplane, this is the world we live in now. 15:39 - My first-hand account of Doug Benson forcibly removing a movie texter, and what that teaches us about how to deal with assholes and hecklers. 23:15 - North Korea's super weird video of the college kid (Otto Warmbier) they sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for trying to steal a banner.  32:00 - Jane experiments on chat roulette, which does still exist.  34:19 - Laremy joins via Skype 36:15 - Would Queer Eye For The Straight Guy be allowed today? 37:38 - Laremy experiences San Francisco homeless. What city has the most aggressive homeless? 47:30 - Bret has no interest in Deadpool. Is he wrong?  57:00 - Internet commenters HATE Flophouse on Viceland. Is that show a perfect storm of things internet commenters would hate? 1:06:00 - Unintentional sarcastiquotes in BBC headlines

Vince is back from SXSW, and joined by Bret and Jane Harrison (of Viceland's Flophouse) to talk about how to deal with A-holes in a public situation, be they texting in movies or heckling at comedy shows. Seattle film critic Laremy Legel Skypes in to talk about Deadpool and other movie topics. Enjoy our #content 2:10 - Made it a whole two minutes without talking about Jane's pussy worms from last week. Impressive! 4:00 - Janes makes fun of me for my shirt with a bear on it - we try to define what makes a silly shirt "ironic." 10:45 - SXSW and GDC: Bret and I discuss the intense impulse to melvin nerds at tech conferences. 13:00 - Taking Skype calls on an airplane, this is the world we live in now. 15:39 - My first-hand account of Doug Benson forcibly removing a movie texter, and what that teaches us about how to deal with assholes and hecklers. 23:15 - North Korea's super weird video of the college kid (Otto Warmbier) they sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for trying to steal a banner.  32:00 - Jane experiments on chat roulette, which does still exist.  34:19 - Laremy joins via Skype 36:15 - Would Queer Eye For The Straight Guy be allowed today? 37:38 - Laremy experiences San Francisco homeless. What city has the most aggressive homeless? 47:30 - Bret has no interest in Deadpool. Is he wrong?  57:00 - Internet commenters HATE Flophouse on Viceland. Is that show a perfect storm of things internet commenters would hate? 1:06:00 - Unintentional sarcastiquotes in BBC headlines

We go INSIDE THE COMEDIAN'S STUDIO this week, or inside the comedian's flophouse, anyway, in honor of Matt Lieb and Jane Harrison's television debuts on Viceland's Flophouse (airs March 17th). Did you know they named the first episode after a Matt Lieb bit? He's big time now. After that, we talk about Jane's Bad Date with Rad Tad the Dog-Faced Bartender (and modern dating in general), discuss Chris Rock's Oscars monologue, we try to get to the bottom of vocal anti-circumcisioners (with whom Matt recently publicly feuded), talk THE WITCH and answer your emails. Enjoy our #Content. frotcast@gmail.com, 415 275 0030 00:00 - SHOWBIZ: We discuss the story behind Matt and Jane's appearance on Viceland's new series, Flophouse. 18:11 - MODERN LOVE: Jane explains her lame date with Rad Tad the Dog-Faced Bartender, who quickly becomes a character. 28:41 - THE OSCARS: We discuss Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett, and last week's Oscars 36:50 - EL CHAPO drops by. 40:15 - CIRCUMCISION FLAME WAR: Matt describes his recent flame war with the anti-circumcision lobby. We try to get to the bottom of this particular interest group. Is it vaguely anti-semitic? Are they cousins of anti-vaxxers and people who are into crystals? Discuss. 1:06:28 - THE VVITCH. Bret and Jane saw The Witch, and we discuss. 

This week, on the Frotcast, we've got lots of hot #OSCARSTALK #CONTENT. We discuss this year's nominees, and choose our all-time favorite and least favorite Best Picture Oscar winners. After that, we talk Tyrese Gibson and Amber Rose talking slut-shaming, and run through a brief history of Tyrese being an idiot. Finally, we discuss police foiling a murder plot using a fake hitman named "Joanie Pepperoni," an early front runner for news story of the year. Guests include Seattle film critic Laremy Legel, and comedian Joey Avery, along with Vince, Bret, and Matt Lieb. 00:00 - We open the show calling out other movie podcasts, and bring on Laremy, who tells us about How To Be Single.  5:15 - Laremy and I talk Hail, Caesar, which somehow leads Matt Lieb to reveal his white-hot hatred for Wes Anderson. We then debate the merits of Wes Anderson. 10:00 - Guest Joey Avery arrives in the Frotquarters. 12:17 - Laremy gets interrupted by his dog, Bugsy, who has mental problems and bites people. 17:08 - #OSCARSTALK. This week in #HOTCONTENT. We choose our all-time favorite Best Picture winner, and all-time least favorite Best Picture winners. 25:15 - Talking the OJ show brings about a brief appearance by Brandon from Fremont. 47:28 - We get rid of Laremy so we can talk about Terry Crews' porn addiction. I was all set to make fun of him, but nope, he's still a charming man. Matt Lieb also made a commercial with Terry Crews this week (not Chobani).  56:00 - Tyrese Gibson is the Paternalistic Derek Zoolander Who Doesn't Make Jokes. We discuss the Amber Rose slut-shaming clip from his new show, then go back through some of the past dumb things he's said and wonder why anyone gave him a show.  1:16:19 - The Ballad Of Joanie Pepperoni. Yes, a police department invented an informant known as "Joanie Pepperoni."

This week, on the Frotcast, we've got lots of hot #OSCARSTALK #CONTENT. We discuss this year's nominees, and choose our all-time favorite and least favorite Best Picture Oscar winners. After that, we talk Tyrese Gibson and Amber Rose talking slut-shaming, and run through a brief history of Tyrese being an idiot. Finally, we discuss police foiling a murder plot using a fake hitman named "Joanie Pepperoni," an early front runner for news story of the year. Guests include Seattle film critic Laremy Legel, and comedian Joey Avery, along with Vince, Bret, and Matt Lieb. 00:00 - We open the show calling out other movie podcasts, and bring on Laremy, who tells us about How To Be Single.  5:15 - Laremy and I talk Hail, Caesar, which somehow leads Matt Lieb to reveal his white-hot hatred for Wes Anderson. We then debate the merits of Wes Anderson. 10:00 - Guest Joey Avery arrives in the Frotquarters. 12:17 - Laremy gets interrupted by his dog, Bugsy, who has mental problems and bites people. 17:08 - #OSCARSTALK. This week in #HOTCONTENT. We choose our all-time favorite Best Picture winner, and all-time least favorite Best Picture winners. 25:15 - Talking the OJ show brings about a brief appearance by Brandon from Fremont. 47:28 - We get rid of Laremy so we can talk about Terry Crews' porn addiction. I was all set to make fun of him, but nope, he's still a charming man. Matt Lieb also made a commercial with Terry Crews this week (not Chobani).  56:00 - Tyrese Gibson is the Paternalistic Derek Zoolander Who Doesn't Make Jokes. We discuss the Amber Rose slut-shaming clip from his new show, then go back through some of the past dumb things he's said and wonder why anyone gave him a show.  1:16:19 - The Ballad Of Joanie Pepperoni. Yes, a police department invented an informant known as "Joanie Pepperoni."

Comedian Jane Harrison joins Matt, Vince, and Bret this week, to talk Donald Trump, a whiny startup founder's crybaby letter to San Francisco mayor Ed Lee, the Grammies and Johnny Depp's "Hollywood Vampires," Vinyl, and Chelsea Peretti at the Crunchies. Also, the sound should be better this week, I think I finally got my compression settings worked out. Hooray for #Content! 00:00 - Donald Trump's incredible stump speeches, which are like a comedian who doesn't try to be funny and only does crowd work.  12:15 - Understanding Trump's appeal vis a vis political correctness. 15:40 - Whiny crybaby San Francisco start-up founder writes crappy open letter to the mayor about the homelessness problem.  27:53 - Vince's devil's advocate theory, finding 2% of common ground with even the assholiest a-holes. 42:08 - Grammy talk. Sub-question, why does everyone suddenly know what Hamilton is?  48:40 - Matt Lieb raps about Alexander Hamilton 51:30 - Is Kendrick Lamar and other rap over as soon as we discover it? Discuss. 59:13 - Talking Johnny Depp and the Hollywood Vampires. 1:10:35 - Irish accents, for some reason. 1:12:42 - We talk Vinyl, on HBO. Should Andrew Dice Clay always have just been an actor? 1:18:50 - A visit from the Queen (I am sorry). 

Spike Lee's Chi-Raq, about a women's movement to withhold sex to stop gang violence, is now free on Amazon Prime. And now, comedian Kaseem Bentley talking about it is free on the FilmDrunk Frotcast. Matt Lieb and Bret are also in the studio with me, Vince Mancini, for possibly the most #content-filled Frotcast ever recorded.  3:40 - Matt Lieb tells us about what hot new jokes the comedians in LA are telling.  15:00 - Kaseem Bentley arrives, and immediately roasts Matt for not acknowledging him in McDonald's (allegedly).  19:15 - Kaseem starts roasting everyone in earnest. 25:30 - False start on Chi-raq talk, Kaseem gets distracted and starts laying into me about what a pussy I am.  31:30 - Beyonce's alleged Red Lobster conspiracy, according to Kaseem. 34:45 - The story of Stevie Wonder buying some cocaine from one of Kaseem's friends. 43:57 - We actually start talking about Chi-raq. 1:01:05 - Kaseem and Matt reprise Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase, the first appearance of Matt Lieb's new character, "Jefferson from San Rafael." 1:05:10 - More terrifying stories about Matt Lieb's dad. 1:25:20 - Kaseem may have convinced Bret that he's been wrong about Bamboozled all of these years. 

Matt Lieb, Bret, and Brendan are all back together for a Frotcast about Matt Lieb returning from the AVNs, R. Kelly's amazing sex metaphors, Josef Stalin's secret poop lab, Kevin Smith's Yoga Hosers, and Vin Diesel at the toy fair. #Content! Enjoy our #Brand! 1:00 - Matt Lieb gets back from the AVNs. 3:45 - The story of the porn star who could only express appreciation sexually, which made him have sex with a horse. 15:30 - Matt Lieb tells us about his sad break up. 18:08 - Brendan discovers R. Kelly's "Buffet," and we have our minds blown. 34:55 - Is Russell Wilson a robot? We discuss the recent discovery that he complimented his girlfriend by googling "how to describe a beautiful woman" and plagiarizing the first result. 40:20 - Stalin spied on Mao by stealing his poop and having it inspected in a secret lab. Brendan obviously loved this story. 51:40 - "Kiss the ring, eat the pizza," and other life lessons. 1:03:00 - Our most "old white guy" of segments, "Why can't I understand what the rappers are saying anymore?" 1:07:30 - The mind-blowing plot of Kevin Smith's 'Yoga Hosers.' 1:16:30 - Dueling terrible British accents, starring Matt Lieb, and Brendan, as Michael Caine.

Fresh off being named one of Podbean's TOP 10 COMEDY PODCASTS OF 2015 (second year in a row), the Frotcast is back, to discuss Sean Penn's El Chapo interview, The Revenant/Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar hunt, and What We Do In the Shadows. Guests include comedians Matt Lieb and Jane Harrison, joining Bret and Vince in the studio. 0:55 - Matt Lieb tries out a new catch phrase, with debatable success. 4:00 - Matt loved The Revenant and hated The Hateful Eight. No spoilers here. 6:50 - Does Leonardo DiCaprio want an Oscar as much as everyone assumes he does? 8:10 - Matt Lieb explains "the Pussy Posse" to Bret, much to Bret's chagrin. 14:45 - I read my favorite bits of Sean Penn's El Chapo interview. Matt debuts his new El Chapo character. 21:21 - "Do you think Sean Penn is really into Waking Life?" -Bret 40:00 - Charlie Sheen goes off his HIV meds. 48:33 - Smash Mouth's incredible cover of David Bowie/Queen's "Under Pressure." A heated argument ensues over whether "Under Pressure" is one of Queen or David Bowie's best songs. 1:01:00 - The shortlist of actors for Han Solo, debating the merits. 1:06:00 - Oh right, What We Do In the Shadows.

The best moments of the FilmDrunk Frotcast from 2015! Edited by Token, donate a few bucks for his time at https://www.paypal.me/TokenAudio. Guests featured: Laremy Legel, OJ Patterson, Jane Harrison, Steve Post, Kaseem Bentley, Torio Van Grol, Jason Dove, and Matt Ufford. 00:10 - All the times we told Laremy to shut up. 02:25 - Bret's Face-Turn, in which he decides to become a shill. 03:14 - Mama's Little Piss Boy (Ep 269) 10:39 - Brandon Fromfreemont (Ep 244) 15:11 - Corporate Birthday (Ep 270) 18:09 - Bret hates Viral Marketing (Ep 241) 23:06 - Startup Castle Closes/Lieb's Brain Feed (Ep 255) 27:29 - Uptown Girl Game (Ep 259) 33:59 - The Lieb Brother's Shoplift (Ep 271) 44:22 - Idaho Tinder Names (Ep 256) 54:12 - Slut Shaming the Black Widow (Ep 248) 1:04:41 - The Elusive Female Urethra/Italian Fathers, Irish Mothers (Ep 272) 1:14:21 - Jaden Smith and Aerosmith (Ep 272) 1:23:21 - Office Kevin (Ep 262) 1:28:49 - 50 Shades of Lieb (Ep 238) 1:32:53 - Name of the Year Draft Bios (Ep 243) 1:36:00 - Jack White Pens a Letter/Jupiter Ascending's Beeus Ex Machina (Ep 239) 1:40:10 - Oliver Stone's Snowden (Ep 255) 1:48:00 - Technology of Future Past (Ep 273) 1:55:10 - The Game's Instagram Erotic Fiction 2:05:17 - Lieb's Brother (Ep 271)

It's a special edition FilmDrunk Frotcast! Where we actually discuss and review a movie! Justin Halpern and Pat Schumacker from Shit My Dad Says, Laremy Legel from Film.com, and comedian Matt Lieb join (Vince Mancini from FilmDrunk) to talk about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Obviously, there will be Star Wars spoilers. Topics include: Hey, whats up with the Force? Who is Rey's father? Does Luke Skywalker ever use the force to jerk off? Why is Kylo Ren so bad at being a bad guy? And finally, Adam Driver: Surprisingly not Jewish. Enjoy, and we'll be back with a best-of next week.

Is Creed the first boxing movie about a black boxer? The fact that none of us can think of another one says enough. This week we talk Creed, and about Hoodslam, the pro wrestling event we went to in Oakland, play the royalty-free music freestyle challenge, discuss The Big Short, and get an update from Ben, now that he's back in the country. This week's Frotcrew: Vince Mancini, Matt Lieb, and SF comedian by way of Somerville, Massachusetts, Stevie Post. 6:32 - Talking Creed. Is Sylvester Stallone actually a good actor? Vince takes pro, Stevie Post takes the con. 24:15 - The Royalty-Free Music Freestyle Challenge. Matt Lieb debuts his Randy Newman impression. 28:20 - HOODSLAM. Matt and I discuss attending our first live pro wrestling event since making Whoop Dreams at the Gathering of the Juggalos. 39:58 - Ben joins us via Skype. 44:24 - Matt talks about his time in terrestrial radio, and this week's meme: "If radio had been invented after the internet, it would be the biggest thing ever." 51:35 - Donald Trump. Do we should try to shout him down, or stop feeding the troll? 1:03:40 - Ben discusses his travels through Europe. 1:10:50 - Matt becomes extremely adamant about preferring the "perfect woman, but with a penis" over a masculine man, but with a vagina. "I'm not attracted to men, but I am not un-attracted to dicks." 1:25:00 - The Big Short. Remembering the mortgage crisis, and the idea of the open-source true story movie. 

This week's show: Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer. Superhero movie fatigue. The Night Before. Brooklyn. The Leftovers (plus Damon Lindelof, Lost, Prometheus). Fargo. Jaden Smith. Old-timey renditions of classic rock songs. Enjoy! 3:30 - Breaking down the Batman v Superman trailer.12:00 - We talk superhero movie fatigue, and why all the superheroes have to fight each other now. Can't they just be friends?!16:30 - Personal stories with Matt Lieb: Making out with his RA to the sound of Tracy Chapman and Maroon 5, and "The Ghosts of Boners Past." 20:45 - Matt has some conspiracy theories about the female anatomy vis a vis where the pee comes from. 29:54 - Matt Lieb saw The Night Before, which we discuss briefly, before launching into Brooklyn, which he also saw.42:15 - We rank Thanksgiving side dishes. 53:00 - The Leftovers. Is it so good that everyone has to take back all the crap they talked on Damon Lindelof?1:04:00 - Brendan and Matt plug Fargo.1:09:00 - Jaden Smith's book of "modern day philosophy" in which he plans to discuss "string theory and chaos theory, but more mystical." This leads us to "Jaden Smith Bingo," to determine if we can anticipate the life cycle of a psuedo-celebrity meltdown/evolution into ersatz guru. Discuss.1:19:30 - Lots of singing for some reason.1:21:45 - Brendan tests his theory about a 30s phonograph version of Aerosmith's "Rag Doll." It was very silly. Sadly, we learned of Scott Weiland's death five minutes after we finished recording.

Did you do terrible things to a sibling or have one do terrible things done to you? Comedian Matt Lieb recounts the saga of his Machiavellian brother, who ridiculed his genitals, made him steal, and ruined his sketch comedy show. As an only child, I drink the pathos and schadenfreude of him and the many listeners who submitted their stories. Other topics include The Night Before (quickly diverted into a diatribe about Anthony Mackie), the Ronda Rousey fight, and our personal spam bots, which Bret has created using our Twitter archives. Spooky. Comedian Kaseem Bentley joins, back by popular demand, to go on lengthy diatribes against Terrence Howard and Hawaiian barbecue, among other things. Enjoy.2:20 - We relive last weeks's greatest hit, "Corporate Birthday." 7:40 - I ask Matt and Kaseem about 'The Night Before,' which leads Kaseem into a long jag about Anthony Mackie being "the number one black douchebag." 10:10 - I distract Kaseem with a question about Terrence Howard, which brings us to the story about Terrence Howard's father killing a guy and Terrence Howard's controversial theories about crystals and universal math.17:05 - Kaseem outlines his theory that Terrence Howard is actually an alien who was sent through "a Negro Stargate." 20:39 - We talk about the Rousey fight. No, Ronda Rousey did not get "exposed," you dolts.26:15 - Kaseem goes in hard on Hawaiian BBQ. I ask about the Nation Of Islam's dietary restrictions.30:52 - The Rousey fight reminded Matt of Million Dollar Baby. 39:00 - Introducing the topic of Sibling Abuse, starting with listener emails.44:00 - Probably the most diabolical sibling torture email we received, about a brother almost drowning his younger brother, using him as bait for a pedophile, and covering him in dog poop. 48:22 - The lengthy saga of Matt Lieb's Machiavellian brother begins.1:03:00 - Personal Spam Bots: Following up on last week's discussion of predictive text and Markov chains, Bret has used our Twitter archives to build us personal spam bots. 1:15:00 - Matt Lieb tells an epic story about sketch comedy and his evil brother, culminating in "Spedackle."1:22:55 - Matt's story about the last time his brother punched him (while he was watching Taken), and once again diabolically neutralized his counter attack. 1:33:00 Finishing off with a few of your emails

It's the James Bond episode! After seeing Spectre, I asked around to find out which were the "can't miss" James Bond movies, and more than one person suggested The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), starring Roger Moore. We invited back fan favorite Jane Harrison, to try to see classic '70s sexism through the eyes of an actual millennial female. That was the idea, anyway. The undisputed highlight of this week's episode was the return of "Matt Lieb Adds Lyrics To Royalty-Free Music." 1:45 - Matt and Jane have the same therapist, who apparently sees half the San Francisco comedy community. 5:00 - Matt Lieb tells us all about the comedic stylings of famous anti-Semitic French comedian, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala.11:30 - Bond discussion begins. Matt Lieb reveals The Spy Who Loved Me is his second ever Bond movie. Jane explains to the dudes why Daniel Craig is sexy.13:15 - Matt Lieb claims women didn't find him attractive until Adam Driver. 15:10 - We get an update from Ben! Or try to, until we realize his message has been horribly garbled. 29:13 - Matt and I admit to not "getting" Drake (shocking, I know). Jane explains "Hotline Bling." 34:44 - Bret shows up, and the return of "Matt Lieb Improvises Lyrics To Royalty-Free Songs." 39:06 - Matt improvises "It's Your Corporate Birthday," easily the best song in the history of Matt Lieb singing royalty-free music. 46:45 - We let autocorrect compose texts for us, just to see what kind of personal spam our individual word clouds produce.50:00 - Autocorrect composes lyrics to royalty-free music.53:00 - Matt reads The Game's erotic eggplant Friday fiction. #PunchinThatMonkey58:00 - Back to The Spy Who Loved Me in earnest.1:04:00 - We bring Spectre into the mix. Not too spoilery. 1:07:00 - Is Bond creepy or rapey?1:12:30 - Matt Lieb talks about his brother stealing his food and spitting on his sandwiches. LISTENER ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT WEEK: Send me your stories of horrible sibling torture. frotcast@gmail.com. 415 275 00301:20:00 - Answering listeners' relationship questions. (No poop stories this week, shockingly).1:29:00 - We go deep with Jane Harrison, all about her parents and cocaine, which leads into an earnest discussion of The Male Gaze. (See? Matt leaves and we immediately get serious).