FilmDrunk Frotcast

We're back! This week, we listen to Ben Carson's campaign songs (country AND rap), go down the Todd Starnes rabbit hole, discuss Project Greenlight and The Leisure Class, and comedian Joe Sinclitico joins to discuss his own experience making independent film. Vince Mancini, comedian Matt Lieb, and co-host Bret are all in studio.00:00 - We decide Bret looks like either a '20s stockbroker who's been in an opium den for weeks or Howard Hughes, which leads us to a discussion of our favorite Scorsese movies.14:00 - We listen to Ben Carson's incredible new campaign songs and his beliefs about Joseph building the Egyptian Pyramids. Matt Lieb turns Ben Carson's campaign song into "Uptown Girl." 25:00 - We discover Fox News contributor Todd Starnes, aka Mama's Little Piss Boy. We read excerpts from his books, God Less and 'They Popped My Hood And Found Gravy On The Dipstick.' I swear to God that's a real book (with foreward by Mike Huckabee). 35:40 - Joe Sinclitico joins via Skype. He tells a story about his friend running into Roz from Game of Thrones at Astro Burger. 50:00 - We discuss Project Greenlight and the Project Greenlight movie, The Leisure Class. Whose fault is it that it's so bad? 1:16:00 - Joe tells us about his experience starring in a micro budget feature in El Paso, and we read your emails. Enjoy!

Bret and Brendan join FilmDrunk's Vince Mancini in the Frotquarters as we talk to 'Sad Bastard' author Lee Keeler, Justin Bieber's nudes, Playboy, the Steve Jobs movie, Greg Hardy and domestic violence, and how to get "dad woke."2:30 - Justin Bieber's penis pics, and the phenomenon of celebrity parents' saying super creepy things about their kids. 7:25 - The Tod Maffin Update! We still don't know for certain that #Content #Marketing expert Tod Maffin is a real person and not a robot, but we love him. Somehow all of his friends all sound like Tim Eric/Pynchon characters.9:30 - We try to sing Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" with our mouths for some reason.17:35 - Lee Keeler, comedian, writer, producer, joins us to talk about 'Sad Bastard: Practical Wisdom For the Modern A$$hole.' The first non-aspirational men's magazine.41:20 - Playboy drops nudes. We discuss how advertising is building us pigeonholes and the compartmentalization of desire. 52:00 - One of our favorite subjects, Bryant Gumbel sounding like an obnoxious douche.54:00 - Brendan leads us into a discussion of Greg Hardy and the NFL's trouble with domestic violence. Brendan coins the term "Dad Woke." 1:02:00 - 'Steve Jobs,' and Aaron Sorkin. Is there anyone else so simultaneously talented and infuriating? 1:19:15 - EMAILS. We advise a listener (probably badly) who wants to know how to hit on a girl in his film class.

Comedian Matt Lieb joins FilmDrunk's Vince Mancini and Bret to talk The Leftovers premiere, Commando's 30th anniversary, kayak lady, the worst Matt Damon editorial ever written, and how online marketing is trying to ruin English.  2:00 - Matt tries to defend John From Cincinnati 4:00 - Matt quits Talk 9, gets a farewell from Gary From Fremont. "Is all of life, just repeating the mantra 'This is what I wanted?'" 5:20 - Commando talk 10:49 - Bret and Matt try to guess how many people get killed in Commando.  14:00 - We finally talk about the Kayak Bear Lady, which hit just after we recorded last week's show. Matt provides the voice of the bear. 17:42 - WELCOME TO TECH HELL. Are online marketing "gurus" trying to destroy English? We go down the terrifying rabbit hole. Sample sentence: "Content marketing providers will focus on solutions partners." 38:27 - My story about how I put a couch on the street and accidentally created an artificial reef for hobos. 40:55 - We've discovered the world's hottest Matt Damon hot take, "Earth to Matt Damon, It's 2015." 54:00 - John From Cincinnatti. Turns out Matt Lieb was the one guy who liked this show. 55:00 - The Leftovers, and is it just going to Lost us? (It's a little spoilery, I suppose, but pretty vague).  1:00:00 - Bret's bizarre sex dreams, "where I'm pushing a little sea lion around in my palm."  1:08:10 - Your emails and voice mails. 

Matt Damon thinks gays should stay in the closet!? Tyrese thinks Vin Diesel should direct Furious 8?! The Blackberry CEO had an aneurysm? All this and more in this week's #Frotcast #Content. Film.com's Laremy Legel joins FilmDrunk's Vince Mancini, with veteran Frotcasters Bret and Brendan this week.Opening - Brendan rants about Draft Kings, and also NFL. 7:19 - Song of the week, the slow cover of Smash Mouth's "All Star."8:33 - The CEO of Blackberry wins the all-time prize for terrible tech speak.11:00 - We try to figure out how tech speak got so bad. 13:45 - Brendan discovers Slack. We discuss the phenomenon of one tech company that does the exact same thing as another one being worth a billion dollars. 18:08 - Laremy's articulate thoughts on 'Everest.' 22:37 - This week in misleading thinkpiece headlines: Matt Damon thinks gays should stay in the closet (or does he?)32:05 - Danger Guerrero's pitch for "Zoo Heist." 37:20 - My encounter with a "social media expert," and her expertise regarding #Brands. We invent a new social media job - Doggregator. It's someone who's an aggregator of dog Instagrams. 42:00 - Brendan experiences Soul Cycle and other milennial exercise trends.45:30 - An emailer explains the origin of Coors Light's ad campaign (note: I'm not going to fact check this). 50:00 - Laremy reads his list about Everest.56:37 - Yet another listener with a smug bidet story. 1:00:00 - The fascinating existence of Tyrese Gibson1:14:00 - People naming their children "Katniss Everdeen." We scour the best seller list to find out who we could've been named after.1:16:00 - What caused this week's Brendan's laughing jag? Tyrese calling himself "Voltron Chairman."

Bret and Laremy (from Film.com) join FilmDrunk's Vince Mancini for another #Content-filled Frotcast, from Mr. Robot and Show Me A Hero, to pharma bro villain Martin Shkreli and internet anti-hero Nicole Arbour. We also talk the 2015 Oscar race and Johnny Depp burying his baubles. Enjoy.1:00 - Laremy explains why Brad Laremy on Movies no longer exists and why his dog is always biting people.3:45 - Mr. Robot Talk7:30 - Mr. Robot vs. Fight Club8:20 - Spoilery dicussion of Show Me A Hero. "Oscar Isaac, I am in his teenage fan club." -Bret. (ends around the 11-minute mark)19:00 - The new Last Witch Hunter trailer. 23:00 - The Boston guys on the boat who have discovered A BABY FACKIN WHALE, MAN. Everyone sent us this clip today, but SUPRISE, we already heard and talked about it.28:00 - Johnny Depp's burying-my-baubles commercial. 30:25 - Martin Shkreli, the AIDS drug-price-raising pharma bro, plus, my controversial theory that people hate his face more than anything he has said or done. 34:00 - I PREDICTED a pro-Martin Shkreli thinkpiece, which came to pass before we'd even edited.35:00 - The DirecTV commercials, and have they taken a weird, quasi-homophobic turn?40:00 - Coors Light ads. 43:20 - Nicole Arbour and her latest video. Our hypothesis: Nicole Armour is the monster that internet celebrity has created. Bret worries that he is Nicole Arbour. 1:03:55 - Oscar contenders. What will they be?? Our predictions.1:10:18 - Your emails, including how to deal with your terrible film school classmates. Bret and I swap college film class stories.

Did you miss the core Frot crew? Close to a full house this week with Vince, Bret, Brendan, and Matt Lieb all back in the Frotquarters to talk Steve Rannazzisi on 9/11, bad festival QA questions, Terrence Howard, and Draft Kings.com, the official sponsor of everything repetitive and terrible.1:12 - We introduce our new fake sponsor, Draft Kings.com5:00 - Brendan and Bret review the Lightning Elemental Pilsner I got for BeerDrunk last week.8:20 - Brendan is still angry how often he has had to see that Draft Kings ad. 8:54 - The Tech Awfulness Update: Remember Leap, the fancy San Franciso bus company? Wellll, they're bankrupt. That was fast, wasn't it? 16:00 - We read our favorite parts of the Australian Monday Night Football live blog. 22:56 - Brendan finally gets to weigh in about Straight Outta Compton.27:30 - A lengthy discussion of bad movie QAs: why are they so terrible? Are terrible questions peculiar to movies, or does this happen at any question and answer session? People who ask terrible questions: do they ask them everywhere, or just about movies? Discuss.41:13 - An example of a bad Q A question that nearly kills Brendan.51:50 - Matt Lieb shows up and we talk about his visit to Kink.com, and the complicated politics of BDSM. 1:02:45 - We talk about Steve Rannazzisi's fake 9/11 story, with Bret dubbing him a "9/11 Non-Truther." We decide Draft Kings.com is the official sponsor of 9/11.1:13:15 - We accidentally discover a new character, "Truther Jerry Seinfeld," and it almost kills Brendan. We have to take a recess while he composes himself.1:14:23 - Terrence Howard and his controversial math theory.1:24:00 - We finish off with your emails, including a strangely heartwarming success story about anal sex. The power of the frotcast is real!

Just Vince and Laremy talking movies, sports, and the VMAs this week! Topics include the VMAs, Hard Knocks, Idris Elba/James Bond-gate, The Danish Girl, and more. #Content! 2:00 - We get deep about Laremy's Bell's Palsy6:00 - Laremy wants to know about my trip to Montana9:00 - I tell Laremy about the German lady crashing her ATV.17:40 - Laremy gives us his long-awaited thoughts on Straight Outta Compton. 23:00 - Laremy and I argue about Southpaw.29:50 - The great "is Iris Elba too street to play James Bond" debate.37:54 - Laremy has discovered the new most asinine NFL column ever written. 43:30 - Hard Knocks talk48:50 - The VMAs and Miley Cyrus (did you guys know she f*cks now?). 52:35 - Laremy tries to sell me on Josh Gad.54:35 - I read Josh Gad's brilliant treatise on why Mike Nichols and Bill Cosby are different people. 1:11:00 - We pour one out for the now-defunct Brad and Laremy on movies :-(1:13:45 - I pose the question: what's more potentially Oscar-baity, Cate Blanchett playing Lucille Ball in an Aaron Sorkin movie or Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl.

This week, we're joined by video game champion/comedian/podcaster/documentarian Jason Dove, who tells us about his documentary about Dread Zeppelin, and his long journey into novelty music. The mash-up concept fits perfectly with the film I saw this week, We Are Your Friends. Other topics include the Suge Knight-Eazy E AIDS conspiracy, and the random "I'm Leaving You" essay generator. Enjoy!00 - Bret's new job. "Same old trash, brand new dumpster."5:30 - Fun with "Leaving Everywhere," Darius Kazemi's bot that automatically generates "Why I'm Leaving _____" essays for every city using the 2013 American Community Survey.13:30 - I discuss the Most San Francisco Street incident that I witnessed the other day, where a wannabe hall monitor waiting for the bus tried to drought shame a guy using a hose to clean the sidewalk, at which point he became indignant and called her a "snitch ass twat." All while I live tweeted it from my fire escape. 26:15 - Matt Lieb turns Korn into Uptown Girl27:30 - I play the trailer for We Are Your Friends for the gang and then we discuss We Are Your Friends.41:00 - We talk about our new favorite conspiracy theory, that Suge Knight killed Eazy E by injecting him with AIDs.48:38 - Jason Dove talks about the documentary he's making about Dread Zeppelin, a group that turns Zeppelin tunes into reggae songs with a 300-pound Elvis impersonator for a lead singer. 49:00 - Brief interlude with Matt Lieb's new character, "Kevin the guy in the office no one really likes."1:21:00 - We talk about Bret and I's favorite musical games, including out-of-order Tom Petty lyrics, and new lines for "Thank God I'm a Country Boy." (Try it at home!)1:25:00 - Your emails.

Jane Harrison joins Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini in the Frotquarters for an all-comedian Frotcast about The Fat Jew, the Ashley Madison hack, heckler videos, and YouTube prank videos. Plus, your emails, and the return of "Jewish John Lennon." 2:17 - We talk about that "comedian destroys heckler!" video that was going around and why it's kind of bullsh*t.14:45 - We talk about the pogrom against the Fat Jew (Matt agrees with the outrage but worries people are pronouncing Fat Jew's name with a hard J). Jane brings up an interesting Tosh comparison.32:10 - Child actors with speech impediments! I brought a few clips for Jane and Matt to see if they find this phenomenon as terrible as I do. I find it patronizing and infuriating.44:34 - Matt Lieb reads us his tweets he thinks should've gotten more retweets. 49:18 - The return of "Jewish John Lennon."55:50 - The Ashley Madison hack, Josh Duggar, and the viral miscarriage couple getting hacked1:00:15 - The strange, awful phenomenon of YouTube prank videos, including the Russian guy who call random black people the N-word, and all the idiots who ask people a dumb sex pun. 1:16:00 - We answer your emails, including a follow-up from the guy who was worried his girlfriend was going to bang some guy in Europe, a story about gay Aussie sex mishaps, and a request for herpes advice.

This morning I posted my interview with Bobcat Goldthwait about Call Me Lucky (my review), which hits more theaters this weekend. Just for fun (or in case you want to hear it in your car), here's the audio from that interview. Bobcat talks about his relationship with Barry Crimmins (the subject of Call Me Lucky), and with Robin Williams and Rowdy Roddy Piper. We talked about his early days of stand-up, and I asked him about performing at the Gathering of the Juggalos, since I knew we'd both been there. It was the first time since the Gathering that an interview subject has said "whoop whoop" to me. Enjoy.

Joshua Oppenheimer has spent 14 years in Indonesia, interviewing survivors of a 1965 purge of alleged communists that killed up to a million people. He co-directed the 2012 film 'Act of Killing,' which focused on commandos and militia leaders who bragged about the killings. Oppenheimer got them to open up under the guise of helping them make a film about their "heroic" actions. His latest, 'Look of Silence' is a companion piece, if much different, tonally, focusing on the victims. If 'Act of Killing' was lurid and macabre, even freewheeling, 'The Look of Silence' is somber, weighed down by ghosts of the past. It's heavy, even oppressive. As Oppenheimer says, it's "a film about memory and oblivion."

This week's FilmDrunk Frotcast really has everything: big name guests, insightful interviews, original bits, clever pop culture analysis, engaging hosts, and really just a lot of heart. Comedian Matt Lieb joins FilmDrunk's Vince Mancini and Brendan in the Frotquarters, with Shit My Dad Says/I Suck At Girls author Justin Halpern joining via Skype. 2:35 - Matt refuses to believe that Al Pacino is in Jack Jill. Brendan and Matt do dueling Al Pacino/Adam Sandler impressions3:45 - The "Uptown Girl" talent redux, where Matt Lieb can turn any song into "Uptown Girl." Brendan hadn't played before. 8:05 - I attempt to get Matt Lieb to "Uptown Girl" the top 100 songs, before quickly realizing we only know about three of them. 8:42 - Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" gets Uptown Girl'd.9:40 - "Uptown Funk" gets Uptown Girl'd13:00 - Justin Halpern joins us via Skype.17:15 - Big question for Justin as someone who has worked on multiple sitcoms: Have multi-cam sitcoms started mixing the studio audience louder? Why are studio audiences so much more present in multi-cam comedies?23:00 - The phenomenon of studio audience members saying weird things during shows and how much time it takes to mix them out.26:50 - The strange phenomenon of laugh-track shows being so much more popular than non in syndication.33:30 - Justin's story about Robert Downey Jr. on the set of Due Date.37:30 - Justin's Mark Wahlberg encounter, about how Wahlberg initially hated 'The Departed,' and called it 'Gayfellas.'46:19 - We read some of Nikki Finke's hard-boiled Hollywood insider fiction.54:00 - Brendan describes Michael Jordan getting owned by middle schoolers, and how that's Brendan's greatest fear.1:00:00 - We discuss Miles Teller's Esquire profile. Is Miles Teller the new Shia Labeouf? Discuss.1:06:18 - We read your emails and play your voicemails, including a listener who wonders about shoplifting the pootie from a single mother that's a stripper, and another about Dave Matthews Band, which leads us into a discussion about music nerd rock.

Great show this week, as our guest, comedian Joe Sinclitico either makes or ruins my show with his audible vaping. Matt Lieb and Bret were also in the Frotquarters to talk Cecil the Lion, Woody Allen, True Detective, and horrible press tour interviews. Also, Matt Lieb introduces his new segment, the "Uptown Girl Game."2:34 - Matt Lieb's incredible "Uptown Girl" talent. Matt Lieb can turn ANY SONG into Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl." It's really quite something.9:16 - Cecil the Lion and the cyber lynch mob. "Yeah, but somebody has to go in the wicker man, and I'm glad it's this guy." -Bret23:30 - Ave Maria becomes Uptown Girl. Matt Lieb has the voice of an angel.24:18 - I try to explain Woody Allen's "Irrational Man" to the frot crew. 33:40 - Joe Sinclitico calls in. We listen to him vaping.37:37 - We talk about this season of True Detective and how much we like it and how people that keep whining about it can suck it.38:50 - Joe Sinclitico was apparently making tea.53:00 - Joe also has some thoughts about Cecil the Lion. 1:05:00 - Cara Delavigne's awful interviewers and the trouble with trying to keep up with psychotically caffeinated morning show hosts on awkward press tours.1:12:20 - My OTHER favorite awkward press tour interview, the Australian Amy Schumer interview that feels like a Christopher Guest sketch. 1:15:28 - We bring Joe back. It was a mistake.1:17:47 - We talk about Southpaw and the trouble with boxing movies.1:20:00 - We answer a question from the emails about hooking up at weddings. 

SB Nation video (and text!) personality Matt Ufford guest stars this week (with Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini) as we talk about Pixels/Adam Sandler, and this week in pop culture, including Gawker's Geithner drama, getting to the bottom of Taylor Swift's latest beef, and our Pistol Drone for President campaign. Plus, your emails.00:00 - Matt Lieb's wonderful comedy bit about electric skateboards.2:00 - PIXELS. I describe the plot for Ufford. "I would not have come on this week if I knew this was what I was in for."6:30 - We talk about Ufford's tweet about Adam Sandler's 'Fart Vacation,' and what it says about Adam Sandler movies that some people thought this was a real movie.8:43 - GAWKER DRAMA. We talk about Max Read and Tommy Craggs resigning from Gawker after Gawker took down the Geithner post, and what would have to happen for us to resign in protest from a job we otherwise liked (this from a current Vox employee and an Uproxx employee).19:30 - The way the current advertising system creates an environment that produces the kinds of shitty, click-bait content everyone hates, even the people writing it. 20:50 - Matt Lieb finds his new least favorite Gawker post, "the bravery of Judd Apatow knows no bounds," a snarky takedown of Judd Apatow's Cosby impression. Ufford and I explain the inside-baseball factors that cause a post like that to get written, and Lieb and I discuss the viability of Cosby jokes.33:36 - We breakdown my new favorite Amy Schumer thinkpiece, from the Guardian, about how Amy Schumer is now *too* successful, and how that could be "potentially problematic" for her. And society. Or something.44:22 - PISTOL DRONE FOR PRESIDENT! Ufford and Bret's new social media campaign48:30 - THE TAYLOR SWIFT BEEFDOWN. We try to parse Katy Perry's incredibly obtuse tweet, and the Matts help us get to the root of the now-legendary Katy Perry/Taylor Swift/Nicki Minaj beef triangle. "I used to know calculus!" sighs Ufford. 58:26 - Your emails. Starting with the guy whose friend named his son "Revin," continuing with the guy whose on-again-off-again girlfriend is banging her platonic friend on a European island somewhere and how he should feel about that.

Brendan, Bret, and Matt Lieb are out this week (illnesses and extenuating circumstances, couldn't be helped), but in their place we've got Laremy Legel and Ashley Burns joining via Skype. As well as SO MUCH #CONTENT. Turns out, when Matt isn't around to discuss his sex life, you go deep into the actual Issues of the Day. I'm on the fence about whether this is a good thing. The Ant-Man spoilers are very light, but if you want to avoid them completely, skip from the 27-minutes mark to 34 and you'll miss everything.TIME STAMPED #CONTENT4:44: This week's fanboy cry sesh: Comic-Con exclusives! Are they exclusive enough anymore? 5:25: Hey, what ever happened to Nikki Finke?19:46: Suicide Squad trailer23:00: C-Tates helping Stan Lee offstage at Comic-Con, and the future of Stan Lee cameos. Like if Stan Lee dies, will Andy Serkis help digitally recreate a Stan Lee cameo?26:43: First mention of Ant-Man27:26: Ant-Man end-credits scene spoiler!28:08: Another Ant-Man end-credits scene spoiler. (sort of. ends about about 28:40)33:09 - 33:45 Very vague Ant-Man spoilers.34:50 - 35:30 More slight, vague Ant-Man spoilers.37:33: Burnsy has a story about meeting a guy from O-Town who is also named Ashley.38:57: Trainwreck and Judd Apatow. Does he add Melissa-McCarthy-shitting-in-the-street scenes into lady-centric movies to sell them to dudes, or is he just getting blamed for something that's someone else's doing? 45:35: Peter Berg and Caitlyn Jenner50:05: We try to parse my new favorite RottenTomatoes pull quote. "I'm not sure who's most responsible for Trainwreck's ultimate timidity, for the mordant ribaldry evinced in the first half hour or so inexorably oozing into couple-y goo."1:09:35: Question from the emails: What is the most 90s movie?