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Jaguar: At Last. A Car That Can’t Kill YouThere’s a foul odor coming from your office and we can’t open the door. If you’re okay, let us know by playing this week’s episode as loud as you can. Brent Birnbaum & Troy Bond, co-hosts of the Secret Identity podcast join Matt & Vince to talk about Mad Men season five episode twelve, “Commissions and Fees.”RIP Lane. You were a weird little british creep that Matt Weiner loved to take a dump on. You had a good run. From helping Sterling, Cooper, & Draper step out on their own, to finding a chocolate bunny to call your own for a while, to trying to end your own life with an unreliable car, you provided much mirth and merriment, as your countrymen would presumably say. We wish you well on your journey to the great beans and toast in the sky. Sally, being her mother’s daughter after all, makes the day about herself by having her first period. A man is dead, Sally. Compose yourself. If you’ve been embezzling from your job, tell us in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. Email us at [email protected]; leave us a voicemail at 415-275-0030.  Support the Pod: become a patron at patreon.com/Frotcast and get more bonus content than you could ever want. Sign up for the Pod Yourself a Shoutout tier to hear Vince give you a shout out on the show, like this week's shoutouts for The Martini, Alphabet, Xena, & Drew Goo Gai Pan. -Description by Brent Flyberg  Our Sponsors:* Check out Uncommon Goods and use my code uncommongoods.com/PODYOURSELF for a great deal: https://www.uncommongoods.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Finally, a Car You Can Treat Like a Sex WorkerThere’s a disgusting man who wants to have sex with you, and it would really help us out if you do it. In return, we have for you a new episode of the podcast. Dave Manheim of Dopey Podcast (see him interview Hunter Biden live in December in NY) returns to talk to Matt & Vince about Mad Men season five episode eleven, “The Other Woman.”The titular other woman is a car. A sexy Jaguar car. Because a car is not always just a car, sometimes it’s also a metaphor for a woman you want to own and have sex with. The SCDP boys are so close to getting the Jaguar account, but it hinges on a truly gross man wanting to have sex with Joan. To sweeten the deal for Joan, they offer her a stake in the agency, completing her career arc from Secretary to sex partner to Junior Partner. Also taking the next step in her career, Peggy, fed up with Don treating her like a copywriting mule, takes Freddy Rumsen’s advice and accepts a job with Don’s nemesis, Ted Chaough. He offers her a lot of money and she’s not required to have sex with anyone. If you were a woman in an office in the 60’s who wanted to advance, there was a 50% chance you had to sleep with a ghoul. Tell us which of us you would sleep with for a 5% stake in the patreon in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. Email us at [email protected]; leave us a voicemail at 415-275-0030.  Support the Pod: become a patron at patreon.com/Frotcast and get more bonus content than you could ever want. Sign up for the Pod Yourself a Shoutout tier to hear Vince give you a shout out on the show, like this week's shoutouts for Robot Turkey & Brick House. -Description by Brent Flyberg  Our Sponsors:* Check out Uncommon Goods and use my code uncommongoods.com/PODYOURSELF for a great deal: https://www.uncommongoods.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hare Krishnas & Pearl HarborStop writing that Star Trek spec script. It’s bad and you have a new episode of the podcast to listen to. Writer, comedian, & contributor to The Greatest Year in Pop Culture on E!,  Ashley Ray returns to talk to Matt & Vince about Mad Men season five episode 10 “Christmas Waltz.”Sometimes a character leaves Mad Men and you hope he comes back, but you never see them again; like Sal. Sometimes a character leaves the show, and you don’t care what he’s up to, but he shows up again; like Paul. What’s Paul been up to? Becoming a Hare Krishna, possibly experimenting with gay stuff, and still writing weird, racially-charged fiction. Also doing some bad writing: Lane. He forges a Don’s signature to write himself a $7,500 check to pay off his British tax debts. He’ll be fine though, right? He’s not going to get caught and do anything drastic in response, right? I haven’t seen anything past this episode, so don’t tell me. Write your review of America Hurrah in a five-star review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Email us at [email protected]; leave us a voicemail at 415-275-0030.  Support the Pod: become a patron at patreon.com/Frotcast and get more bonus content than you could ever want. Sign up for the Pod Yourself a Shoutout tier to hear Vince give you a shout out on the show, like this week's shoutouts for The Herb, Water Sports, & The Mountaineer. -Description by Brent Flyberg  Our Sponsors:* Check out Uncommon Goods and use my code uncommongoods.com/PODYOURSELF for a great deal: https://www.uncommongoods.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Sno Ball is the Sin that Gets You into HellComedian, podcaster, and co-host of Pod Damn America, Jake Flores, joins Matt & Vince to discuss Mad Men season five episode nine, “Dark Shadows.”This week’s Draper-D story is a parody of “Eleanor Rigby,” (which was Sisqo’s inspiration for “The Thong Song,” in case you hadn’t noticed) but it could have easily been a song by The Heartbreakers and their leader Tom, because everyone is being so petty. Betty is trying to turn Sally against Megan because she’s a sad, fat, divorced woman who just squirts whipped cream in her mouth and thinks about her ex-husband. Those are Vince’s words, but to be fair, that is how the show depicts her. Don’t be mad at Vince because Matthew Weiner made her this way. Don realizes Ginsberg has better ideas for the Sno Ball account so he attempts to bury his new rival’s pitch in favor of his own. Then we get the famous scene where Don says he doesn’t think about Ginsberg at all, and if your understanding of that scene were entirely based on memes, you might think he meant it. Lucky for you, you have this podcast to explain the art to you between parody songs that recap the episode in terms that rhyme with "poopoo." Tell us what you're thankful for this Thanksgiving in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. Email us at [email protected]; leave us a voicemail at 415-275-0030.Support the Pod: become a patron at patreon.com/Frotcast and get more bonus content than you could ever want. Sign up for the Pod Yourself a Shoutout tier to hear Vince give you a shout out on the show, like this week's shoutouts for El Conquistador & V Squared. -Description by Brent Flyberg  Our Sponsors:* Check out Uncommon Goods and use my code uncommongoods.com/PODYOURSELF for a great deal: https://www.uncommongoods.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In brief: Guest Will Poole, aka Wapplehouse, aka Kristi Yamaguccimane, from Jortscenter pod. News discussion: urine enthusiasts trying to trick AI. Movie discussion: Unabomber on Netflix.Will aka Kristi Yamaguccimane joins the Frot this week, and folks this one has it all: dumb guys singing about drinking pee, dumb guys using AI to drink pee, dumb guys who aren’t drinking pee but had they done so would have been less embarrassing than what they actually did, and the Unabomber. AI-wielding pee drinkers are using their favorite LLMs to justify drinking pee. For your health. Said pee-drinkers, with their insatiable thirst for…knowledge, are here to give you all the hot tips on how to bully AI into telling you exactly what you want to hear (in this case, that drinking pee is part of a balanced breakfast). That would seem to defeat the purpose of consulting with a machine that purports to be the sum of all human knowledge, but that hasn’t stopped pretty much any one of these AI-poisoned idiots yet. HEY GROK CREATE A METAPHOR FOR THE FOLLY OF MAN BUT PUT IT IN A MODERN CONTEXT AND MAKE IT STUPID. HEY GROK MAKE IT STUPIDER!Next, we cover the viral moment in the Jack Smith Congressional hearing where Missouri senator Eric Schmitt showed his entire ass by not knowing ball. He thought he had Smith dead to rights and revealed his Perry Mason moment, only to discover he had the wrong sport and city. Amy Klobuchar had to step in to explain the difference between the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA and the Iowa Hawkeyes of the NCAA. Imagine not being able to win an election against these guys. You would have to be a real fucking loser!Who will stand up for the grandparents? Certainly not them, that chair is comfy, the heat is set at 85 degrees, and they have arthritis! We go to Florida, where we hear the harrowing story of one gamgam’s quest to see her grandson after being cut off by her daughter, who by the way could have done much better than Darrell and is too hippy for those slacks.Finally, this week we watched Unabomber, wherein a fictional character played by Shailene Woodley fights the laws of the United States and apparently physics to apprehend the non-fictional Unabomber. It’s kind of a sci-fi. The Fault in our Star Wars. Anyway, it’s a movie about posting, both in the online and British uses of the word. Solid B+. You can read Ian K Duncan’s breakdown of the AI doomer sex cult here.Our Sponsors:* Check out Uncommon Goods and use my code uncommongoods.com/PODYOURSELF for a great deal: https://www.uncommongoods.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dad Men (New Podcast Name)Just taste it. The podcast. Go ahead. Lick the phone. Writer, filmmaker, and one of this podcast’s top-three Daves, Dave Schilling, returns to chat with Matt and Vince about Mad Men season five episode eight, “Lady Lazarus.”Recession indicator: Pete’s hairline is climbing up his forehead. It’s been discussed on the pod before, but that was not natural. They were shaving his head to make him look balder than he was. Can you imagine? I don’t think I have met any man in my entire life who would be willing to look even a little bit balder for any reason. They always talk about method actors who are just being assholes offscreen, but Kartheiser is doing the real method shit.Megan doesn’t want to be a mad (wo)man anymore and quits just before Peggy and Don embarrass themselves in front of the Head of Desserts at Cool Whip (Mr. Belding). Don then listens to The Beatles and it makes him mad. He does not understand youth, and yet he married one. Tell us your first act of business as Head of Desserts in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. Email us at [email protected]; leave us a voicemail at 415-275-0030.Support the Pod: become a patron at patreon.com/Frotcast and get more bonus content than you could ever want. Sign up for the Pod Yourself a Shoutout tier to hear Vince give you a shout out on the show, like this week's shoutouts for Selleck & Decker. -Description by Brent Flyberg  Our Sponsors:* Check out Uncommon Goods and use my code uncommongoods.com/PODYOURSELF for a great deal: https://www.uncommongoods.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

At the Codfish BARSDon’t go in that room. Your dad’s co-worker might be getting dome in there. Just stay here and put on this week’s episode with comedian, co-host of the Oh Hell Yeah podcast, jacked thought leader, and MYAM producer, Brent Flyberg, returning to talk to Matt & Vince about Mad Men season five episode seven, “At the Codfish Ball.”Yes, yes, Brent Flyberg, the author of this and all other episode descriptions, is back for a third episode this season as an emergency fill-in for a guest who lost power due to the advancing consequences of climate change denial, so it’s sort of a good news, bad news situation that we’re making the best of. This episode has BARS. From Pete’s “That’s what I do,” to Peggy’s mom’s “Get a cat,” to Don’s “Lots of people who haven’t taken LSD know that, Roger,” this episode is stacked with great lines. You’ll need more context to understand what makes those bon mots memorable, but you’re watching the show, right? We’re not here to spoon feed you. What are you? Some kind of baby who needs us to explain everything to you? Grow up. Watch Mad Men on HBO Max, you little f*ckin baby. What’s your favorite era for beans? Tell us in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. Email us at [email protected]; leave us a voicemail at 415-275-0030.Support the Pod: become a patron at patreon.com/Frotcast and get more bonus content than you could ever want. Sign up for the Pod Yourself a Shoutout tier to hear Vince give you a shout out on the show, like this week's shoutouts for Beetle Bailey, Star Trek, Honk, & K-Mart. -Description by Brent Flyberg  Our Sponsors:* Check out Uncommon Goods and use my code uncommongoods.com/PODYOURSELF for a great deal: https://www.uncommongoods.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Orange Sherbet & LSDGet in the car. We’re going to a Howard Johnson’s to eat orange sherbet. On the way, you can listen to this week’s episode with comedian and author of First Time, Long Time, Amy Silverberg, talking to Matt & Vince about Mad Men season five episode six, “Far Away Places.”The episode is broken into three vignettes focused on Don, Roger, and Peggy. Each goes to a far away place and finds self-discovery. Probably could have stayed home to do that, but then it wouldn’t be art.Don goes to a Hojo’s upstate with Megan and tries to force feed her orange sherbet. Not in like a kinky, feeder fetish way, so keep it in your pants, sickos. No, it’s more of a classic controlling husband sort of way, and when she’s not receptive to it, he drives off without her. His self-discovery: he’s been too horny to work hard.Peggy goes to Mars, sort of. Ginsberg tells her he was born there, and definitely not in a concentration camp. Her self-discovery: She has been working too hard to be horny. Roger’s far away place is the depths of his own mind, man. He drops acid with Jane and a bunch of her intellectual friends. His self-discovery: he’s no longer horny for being married to Jane. Tell us when you liked us, if you ever did, in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. Email us at [email protected]; leave us a voicemail at 415-275-0030.Support the Pod: become a patron at patreon.com/Frotcast and get more bonus content than you could ever want. Sign up for the Pod Yourself a Shoutout tier to hear Vince give you a shout out on the show, like this week's shoutouts for Jodie & Consonant. -Description by Brent Flyberg  Our Sponsors:* Check out Uncommon Goods and use my code uncommongoods.com/PODYOURSELF for a great deal: https://www.uncommongoods.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Chewing Gum on His Pubis As soon as we start this podcast, we warn you, it will be too late to run. Writer, podcaster, and Defector.com editor and co-founder, David J. Roth returns to chat with Matt & Vince about Mad Men season five episode five, “Signal 30.”Pete’s a lot like Rodney Dangerfield in this episode. He gets no respect and he’s going back to school. He’s taking driver’s ed with a bunch of teens, and one of them has feet that catch his eye, but he gets mogged by a high school quarterback-looking-ass teen, because as much as he wants to be like Don, he has the social skills of coxswain-looking-ass teen.For a brief moment, Pete has a shred of Don’s respect after Trudy finally tricks the Drapers into visiting the Campbell’s suburban home, giving Don a glimpse of Pete's seemingly happy wife and happy life, but he pisses it away when he indulges in some sex work to impress Lane’s friend at Jaguar. After Mr. Jaguar’s wife finds chewing gum on his pubis, SCDP loses the account, resulting in a conference room donnybrook between Pete “grimy little pimp” and Lane “Mr. Toad” Price. Pete loses and he gets no respect at all I tell ya. Tell us why Wilt Chamberlain might want to lie down in Pete’s record cabinet in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. Email us at [email protected]; leave us a voicemail at 415-275-0030.Support the Pod: become a patron at patreon.com/Frotcast and get more bonus content than you could ever want. Sign up for the Pod Yourself a Shoutout tier to hear Vince give you a shout out on the show, like this week's shoutouts for Linoleum & The Rancher. -Description by Brent Flyberg  Our Sponsors:* Check out Uncommon Goods and use my code uncommongoods.com/PODYOURSELF for a great deal: https://www.uncommongoods.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Murder? I Hardly Know HerIf you need something to listen to while you hide under your bed, put on this week’s episode with comedian Allen Strickland Williams, whose album, Ran Through, is available now, joining Matt & Vince to talk about Mad Men season five episode four, “Mystery Date.”The offices of SCDP are abuzz after Joyce brings some grizzly photos of the Speck Murders for everyone to gawk at. The images clearly get into Don’s head, because he goes home and has a dream about murdering a former fling he encountered earlier in the day. He doesn’t really want to kill her, of course. He wants to have sex with her, but he knows he shouldn’t, and choking her to death is the best solution his subconscious can come up with. Sally is freaked out by the news of the nursing students getting murked, but luckily, her stepgrandmother is there to posit that maybe those young women deserved to get murdered because they were sluts. I think technically this scene passes the Bechdel Test. Tell us why you’re going back to Vietnam in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. Email us at [email protected]; leave us a voicemail at 415-275-0030.Support the Pod: become a patron at patreon.com/Frotcast and get more bonus content than you could ever want. Sign up for the Pod Yourself a Shoutout tier to hear Vince give you a shout out on the show, like this week's shoutouts for UTI, The Corpse, Loose Lips, & Her Way. -Description by Brent Flyberg  Our Sponsors:* Check out Uncommon Goods and use my code uncommongoods.com/PODYOURSELF for a great deal: https://www.uncommongoods.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy