Pod Yourself A Gun - A Rewatch Podcast

Hare Krishnas & Pearl Harbor

Stop 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. 

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The Sno Ball is the Sin that Gets You into Hell

Comedian, 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." 

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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.

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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. 

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At the Codfish BARS

Don’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. 

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