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Zack Chapaloni takes time out from his busy improv schedule to join us for a robust “yes-and” of Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry’s new madcap shooting spree comedy The Union. That’s not really a joke; in between witty bon mots, Halle Hal and Marky Mark rack up a body count on par with Legionnaire’s Disease. Brendan forgets JK Simmons’ name and decides to refer to him thenceforth as JK Rowling. Matt watched about half the movie and we come to the conclusion that he really didn’t miss that much. This is an AI-ass movie, y’all. We also discuss the baffling end credits sequence and whether or not this is simply the logical result of stan culture vs. “wanting to see a good movie” (spoiler: it is).

Vince wanted to save his takes on ‘Reagan,’ the new biopic about our most AI-ass president, until the rest of us could see it, but he had to take his shirt off and go in anyway. We challenge some fundamental assumptions of the movie such as: since when does he get credit for ending the Cold War, and why should any American particularly give a shit? Plus! A helpful guide to recognizing Gorbachev in the movie if you don’t have a helpful geriatric to loudly whisper THAT’S GORBACHEV in your theater.

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Welcome to this week’s Frotcast, where we decide to re-evaluate the case of Scott Peterson. Not his guilt (he totally did that shit), but his place in the esteemed pantheon of Extremely Dumb Guys. We welcome back Desi and Rachel from Hollywood Crime Scene to discuss not only his dim wits, but also his poor lying skills, off-putting demeanor, and creepy voice. Form an orderly queue, ladies! We mostly discuss the Netflix doc, but also touch on the Peacock and Hulu series as well, if you’d like to waste several more hours of your life learning about this weirdo. 

You’ll be devastated to learn that Matt got a new car, which may well end our multi-episode saga of vehicular assault on Matt’s life. Perhaps an enterprising listener can sabotage his car in order to give us more precious #content. He also describes his own Hollywood Crime Scene involving sexual assault of a Big Mouth Billy Bass. We’d love to see that story get the Scott Pelley treatment. Other topics include large adult Chicagoans, which Gallagher brother goes down on his right fit bird, and Deep Dish Diarrhea.

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“What is a Shrek Slurpee?” -Alice Fraser

We found the only person in the world impervious to the Stringer Bell charm. Writer, comedian, host of Tea with Alice and The Gargle podcast, beams in all the way from London to talk to Matt & Vince about season three episode seven of The Wire, “Back Burners.”

Right off the bat, Alice reveals that she listened to Pod Yourself A Gun and the Jack Reacher novels while breastfeeding because they are both just engaging enough to distract, but not too stimulating to put down when the baby is full. Finally someone recognizes that this is the Jack Reacher of podcasts. This pod is 6’6,” jacked as hell, and idolized by guys with punisher stickers on their Dodge Chargers. 

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This week Matt and Vince welcome master documentarians Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman from Rakontur Productions to the Frot to discuss the latest in Florida F*ckery. Billy and Alfred have become the documentarians laureate of South Florida with their films 537 Votes, Screwball, Dawg Fight, Cocaine Cowboys, The U, and God Forbid (et. al). These days, they're working on From Russia With Lev, a feature doc about shady Trump/Giuliani associate turned turncoat Lev Parnas, and A Sunny Place for Shady People, a series of mini documentaries with Dan Le Batard that will look at scandals around the Miami area. More importantly, they're great talkers, so we pick their brains about Florida scandals, the documentary-industrial complex, and something that in four previous interviews I've always forgotten to ask Billy about, his past as a child actor. 

Plus, Vince and Matt discuss The Curious Case Of Natalia Grace, the most messed up, infuriating docuseries ever made.

“Eggy Mule, Peacock, Shorty Boy? All unavailable for muscle work right now. -Will Menaker

The price of the steel is up, but Matt & Vince have writer, and host of Chapo Traphouse and The Movie Mindset podcasts, Will Menaker on the pod to break down season three episode six of The Wire, “Homecoming.”

Cutty’s brief but memorable return to the game ends with surprisingly little conflict, and the boys agree it’s touching to see the boys in the heroin-selling crew dissolve their business relationship amicably. Even dudes hardened by the game of selling rock can still rock. What the potential candidates to replace Cutty’s muscle lack in availability, they make up for in fun names, leading to Vince learning us all about the origin of Eggy Mule, nephew of Baltimore’s first woman arabber. As racist as the term sounds, it’s just a type of street vendor. We think. Don’t look too deep into it. 

Will also reminds us that 44th president of the United States Barak Hussein Obama was on record as saying that Entourage was one of his favorite shows of all time. Barack OH YEAH-AHHHHH!

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“Not a lot of money in birds.” -Caleb aka Bird Respecter

Hamsterdam is open for business and Matt & Vince invited podcaster and Bird Respecter Caleb from the Western Kabuki Podcast to discuss The Wire season three episode five, “Homecoming.”

The titular homecoming is Avon’s. He’s back and so freakin’ horny. Almost as horny as Jimmy is for Stringer Bell, but being horny for Stringer is a major theme on both the show and the pod so who can blame him?

During the pod we also learned that the actor who plays officer Colicchio (he’s the one with the white supremacist haircut and the cop face) is a Vassar educated Marine. Some guys really do contain multitudes, but rarely the guys you expect.

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“Stringer’s so smooth…he could tell me to betray my country, I’d be like okay, when?” -Sofiya Alexandra

Comedian and podcaster from the 420 Day Fiance podcast, the blunt and bawdy Sofiya Alexandra joins Matt & Vince to remind us what all media is for, to distract you long enough to keep that gun out of your mouth. Listen as they break down The Wire season three, episode four, “Amsterdam.”

Alternate title for the episode, “Gash Hounds,” because it introduces us to the term, and every one of these sickos has their nose to the ground, trying to sniff their way into some pursey. Jimmy and Bunk we expect this from, but Daniels is parked outside Ronnie’s apartment? That dirty dawg. You think Cutty might turn his life around? Not yet anyways. He does one day cutting grass and decides he’d rather be back in the game, having sex in front of his boys at a wild party right after taking a hit of a blunt shotgun-style from Slim Charles. Shotgunning that blunt looked really intimate. Surprising that these two hard asses were cool with basically kissing instead of just passing the blunt, but hey everyone is horny as hell around here this episode.

This episode also features one of The Wire’s funniest scenes, in which Colvin rounds up all the corner boys in a gym and tries to maintain order in a big room full of Poot-type guys. Good luck, buddy.

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Vince and Joey are back talking the latest episode of Top Chef, part one of the finale in Curacao. This week, part one of Top Chef’s season 21 finale took the chefs to the Caribbean nation of Curacao, where the final four competed in a battle to combine gouda and lionfish, and then in an eight-course fish tasting menu on a Holland America Cruise Line with fresh fish ambassador, Morimoto! As promised last week, host of the Roundball Rock podcast and Top Chef superfan, comedian Joey Devine is helping me, Vince Mancini from The #Content Report/Frotcast, break down the latest Top Chef ‘sode. Enjoy, share, subscribe, and check out our sponsor, Blackwood Distilling.

“I’m embarrassed that I ever related to him [McNulty] in any way.” -Brent Flyberg

It’s me, I’m the guest. Comedian and producer of this here podcast, Brent Flyberg, joining Matt & Vince to pod ourselves a bro troika and talk about The Wire season three, episode three, “Dead Soldiers.”

For an episode that features a shootout resulting in a friendly fire face shot, it also feels like a transitional episode where nothing really happens. Cutty tries to adjust to the outside, Bunny goes Office Space mode, Marlo acts menacing, and Carcetti is charming but hollow. It’s a road map for the season to come, but I want to hit the friggin’ road already. I want Hamsterdam. I want to see Cutty hook up with his boxing students’ moms, but instead we get this forty-degree-day of an episode.

Look I can’t explain it, but I do think Frankie Fasion, the actor who plays Burell, based on his speaking voice, sounds like, if he were to sing, he would sound like the Neville Brothers do in the season three theme. If you agree please confirm in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts.

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“Bodie is the one my heart goes out to the most.” -Mike Duncan

This week’s guest is host and creator of the Revolutions, History of Rome, and the upcoming Duncan & Coe History Show podcasts, Mike Duncan. He joins Matt & Vince to talk about The Wire season three, episode two, “All Due Respect.”

The guys get together to remember some guys and some girls. Remember Gus Triandos? The catcher for the Orioles in the 50s & 60s? He’s who Herc would have sex with if it meant he could then have sex with the Olsen twins. Remember the Olsen twins? Remember that brief window when all the creeps like Herc were stoked for them to turn 18, and then they turned 18 and the creeps moved on to the next almost 18-year-old girl? Such a fun time in American culture. 

Remember that old smoke hound who put his beer in a paper bag for the first time? Bunny Colvin sure does, and he’s using it as a metaphor for how he’s going to clean up the streets of Baltimore by letting drug dealers and users do their dealing and using in a figurative paper bag, setting the plan for Hamsterdam in motion. 

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But no one was asking, ‘okay but why a drug war?’” -David J. Roth

The most 38-year-old people alive are back with another thrilling season of rewatching a very good show that began twenty years ago, when we were voting weird old New England Dracula, John Kerry. Transitioning from closer to starter like a reverse John Smoltz, Vince and Matt’s guest for season three episode one of The Wire, “Time After Time” is writer, podcaster, and Defector capo, David J. Roth.

You might notice things are a little different around here. You are, after all, reading this on either a Youtube page or Vince’s substack. After sixteen years, Vince’s former employer told him to kick roxx, but we’re on to bigger and better things. For instance, we weren’t supposed to use swears in our episode descriptions before, but here in the ‘Stack, we can say whatever the hell we want. We’re going to live like damn hell ass kings.

Season three starts kinda slow, as The Wire is wont to do, but we get some characters who will be important moving forward, like everyone’s favorite cop, Bunny Colvin, and prom king politician, Tommy Carcetti. Why is the episode called “Time After Time?” Stop asking questions and leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts already, you fuckin’ nerd.

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Hey everyone, the frot is back and once again Vince came to LA to frot (and to take Joey Devine out to a Top Chef dinner event.) In this episode we talk Ben Affleck's Air and Johnny Depp's McDonalds analogy. Watch it or listen, we don't care.

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“When characters die on this show, the feeling of loss is frightening.” -Max Collins

Put season two of The Wire in a blender and listen as this week’s guest Max Collins from Eve6 spins it around into a beautiful oblivion with Matt & Vince as they discuss the twelfth and final episode, “Port in a Storm.”

Before saying farewell to the docks, the Sobotkas, and the not-Greek Greeks, Matt, Vince, and Max compare when they first started hearing the kids say “hella.” For Max it was age 13 at skateboarding camp in Visalia, which sounds hella rad. After that, really just tying up loose ends and seeing that, as always, the police work is only about getting your stats and not being the sh*tbird of the day on any given day. 

Season two detractors rejoice. Ziggy is gone, and next season we return to the streets. See you on the other side, you sickos. 

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“Neither of them can do a Baltimore accent.” -Leah Carroll.

Writer and pod yourself a favorite, Leah Carroll returns, bearing gifts, to talk to Matt & Vince about The Wire season two episode eleven, “Bad Dreams.”

In an act of preparation that would put the producer of this pod to shame, Leah dug up a clip from a Dominic West and Micheal K. Williams’ audio commentary on episode six of this season, in which you hear, in rapid succession, Dominic West compliment his own looks, then the two of them reverently assess Nicky’s girlfriends “beautiful knockers.” The death of the DVD commentary is the worst thing to happen to media in our lifetime.

This episode of The Wire, if you can even believe it, is a bit of a bummer. Frank is walking directly into his almost certain death to try to help his dumbass son Ziggy out of another mess, Omar is hoodwinked and oopsie shoots the wrong guy, and Daniels realizes Landsmen bungled his Sobotka connection. It’s almost like these guys don’t really care about solving problems and just want to not get yelled at, cash a check, and hang out at a bar with no wives. 

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“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a Greek guy with a gun.” -James Fritz

On the latest PYTW, comedian and writer from The Frankie Quinones Show, James Fritz, joins Matt & Vince to discuss The Wire season two episode nine, “Storm Warnings.”

Well Ziggy’s really done it now hasn’t he? Congratulations to all the Ziggy haters out there, you got what you wanted, two dead greeks. Ziggy and his huge hog burned too damn bright for the Bawlmer ports, and while he lives to tell his own heartless tale to Jay Landsman, there will be no more Zig on The Wire.

During the episode, there is a conversation about the actor who plays Lamar (Brother Mouzzone’s valet), and how he, like too many cast members, is no longer with us. The recording took place the day before we also lost the actor who played Daniels, Lance Reddick. RIP to another real one. Here’s an interview he did after the third season and before the show really took off.

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“I couldn’t imagine a more perfect show to watch… high on heroin.” -Dave Mannheim 

The block is hot and the pod is hotter as Dave Mannheim from the Dopey Podcast joins Matt & Vince to break down The Wire season two episode nine, “Stray Rounds.”

This episode has a fun little cold open in which we are introduced to a child who is shortly thereafter killed by a stray bullet from a territory dispute between a Barksdale crew and a Prop Joe crew. It makes sense that Dave & Matt bond over watching the show while on heroin, because opiates might be the only way to maintain a positive attitude while watching this show. 

We lose one favorite character, Ziggy’s duck (couldn’t handle his liquor), but gain another notable character in Brother Mouzone, leading to debate about whether he is a cool, interesting, Omar-of-New-York type of character, or a corny ass Fargo on FX quirky villain guy. Either way, his valet Lamar needs to find him a Harper’s Bazaar, ASAP. 

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Documentarian Lance Oppenheim last hung out with us just a few months ago to talk about Spermworld, his Hulu documentary about unlicensed sperm donors. At the time he teased us with news of his next project, Ren Faire, a documentary series about the eccentric owner of the Texas Renaissance Festival, one of the largest renaissance festivals in the world. Well now that documentary is here. Ren Faire, produced by the Safdie Brothers and Ronald Bronstein (Uncut Gems, Good Time, etc.) follows George Coulam, an eccentric octogenerian ex-Mormon who dresses in a self-designed military-inspired uniform who everyone calls "King George." King George is the capricious ruler of the TRF, who says he wants to retire while his long-suffering employees scramble around trying to please him while plotting against each other and trying to set themselves up to become the heir apparent.

Ren Faire's main characters include Jeff Baldwin, the portly theater kid entertainment director who has recently become general manager, Louie Migliaccio, a steampunk energy drink addict who runs the festival's kettle corn empire (but dreams of more), and Darla Smith, an elephant trainer-turned renaissance faire capitalist. Lance opens up about how he shot Ren Faire, what all the Ren Faire characters are doing now -- big scoop on Jeff Baldwin and the rest of the staff in there -- and how many energy drinks Louie Migliaccio consumes in a day. Oh, and about how King George's sugar daddy dates at the Olive Garden actually went down, and whether George asked them any questions beyond whether their breasts are real.

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“[McNulty]’s got the kind of alcoholism you think you can work with.” —Rachel Fisher

Ziggy’s got a duck and we have writer, co-host of the Hollywood Crime Scene Podcast & recent The Wire binger Rachel Fisher returning to the pod to talk to Matt & Vince about season two, episode eight, “Duck and Cover.” 

The episode starts with an extended McNulty rock-bottom-hitting scene. Dominic West is proving he is our generation’s finest drunk actor. He’s puffy, red, sweaty, and ready to bone.  Then, the show gets as lolrandom as David Simon is capable of.  Ziggy brings the titular duck to the Polish Dudes Rock bar so he can make it drink booze and finally get some of the respect he wants so badly. And it works! Acting like a silly goose is what these people want from him. If Ziggy had taken some improv classes instead of doing crime, he’d still be alive today (but think of how female improvisers he would have sexually harassed - maybe for the best).

Rachel started watching The Wire when she heard we were doing the pod, further proof that we are industry tastemakers, and she and Matt agree that the AA meetings in The Wire are the only realistic depictions of AA meetings on TV. According to these two, there is no cross talking in AA meetings. You’re telling me they’re better organized and more respectful than this podcast? Seems unlikely. 

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“If you have any sort of sentimentality in this shitty rotten system, you’re going to lose.” -Nando Villa

Writer, host of the new podcast Shoot The Messenger, and returning guest Nando Vila joins Matt & Vince to break down season two episode seven of The Wire, “Backwash.” 

Nando raises an interesting point about Herc & Carver. They are yet another in a long line of comedy duos featuring a dumbass and his even dumber sidekick (Harry & Lloyd, Abbot & Costello, Matt & Vince, etc.), but also they are like a pair of Benny Hills. “Yakety Sax” would not sound out of place over scenes of these goobers running around trying to put the proverbial toothpaste back in the tube. In this episode, they go to the spy store, which is definitely a place where the dumbest men max out their credit cards, to buy a listening device to fit into a tennis ball. Hilarity ensues, but it’s The Wire, so the subtext of that hilarity is that the institutions Americans rely on are rotting all the way to their thick-skulled core. 

A trip in The Back In The Day Machine reminds us of the time George W. saw some elephants fornicate, and that catcalling is an Ancient Roman tradition. The next time you see a man harassing a woman on the street, ask yourself, is he a pervert or a historian? 

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“There is no happy show about Baltimore “ -Trevor Joyner

Why do white people love The Wire? This week’s guest, Stand up comedian and writer Trevor Joyner, joins Matt and Vince to ask the important questions while discussing season two episode six of The Wire, “All Prologue.”

Before getting into the episode, which could be a pilot for a sitcom called Everybody Loves Omar, they fire up the Back In the Day Machine to remember SARS and smoking in restaurants, then learn about Iranian conjoined twins, and struggle to understand the concept of deflation. It’s like inflation, but backwards? Money would be worth less, and that would be bad? Let’s just assume if it happened now, your uncles would be so pissed at Joe Biden for causing it. 

In a milestone for the show, D’angelo makes his last appearance (RIP D), and in a milestone for the podcast, we have our first guest who has a firsthand story about a cast member. Listen to find out who Trevor saw popping and locking at a club. 

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“Dillon Brooks is definitely the Cheese of the NBA” -Big Wos

Writer and NBA analyst from The Ringer, Wosny “Big Wos” Lambry, takes some time out of his definitely busy day (we recorded the day after the NBA trade deadline) to talk to Matt and Vince about season two episode five of The Wire, “Under Tow.”

A conversation about an episode from 2003 and its showdown between Ziggy and Cheese, the drug dealer played by the Wu Tang Clan’s finest actor – Method Man, might not seem relevant to the current zeitgeist, but as Wos points out, they’re both nepo babies. Ziggy is, of course, the son of Frank Sobotka, the treasurer for the International Brotherhood of Stevedores, and we learn in this episode that Cheese is East Baltimore drug kingpin Prop Joe’s nephew. Further proof that when not in our own butts, our fingers are firmly on the pulse. Their powerful relatives explain why Ziggy continues to get opportunities despite showing complete incompetence in whatever he does, and why Cheese has a leadership position despite making poor business decisions like burning Ziggy’s car instead of selling it. More nepo babies should fight for our entertainment. Imagine if Jack Quaid burned Ben Platt’s car. That would be sick as hell.

Meanwhile the police crew from the original detail continues to reassemble because this is  the same show that made you wait five episodes for the titular wire. They start looking into Baltimore’s whitest drug dealers, leading Wos to introduce the term “White Mikes” to the pod. 

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“I’m bummed that my episode didn’t feature more Omar.” -Shereen Lani Younes

The band continues to get back together and Matt & Vince welcome writer, filmmaker, co-host of the Ethnically Ambiguous podcast, and fellow Idris Elba appreciator, Shereen Lani Younes breakdown The Wire season two episode four, “Hard Cases.” 

This episode is sort of like that scene in T2, after they shatter the T-1000 and all the blobs start wiggling back together, but instead of little liquid metal orbs globbing into one big orb, it’s Jimmy blackmailing Bubbles to get a line on Omar, Herc and Prezbo reuniting out in an offsite, and Kima & Daniels telling their wives they’re going back to a detail. In a show of unified anger, the wives light angry dinner candles. Jimmy is doing his darndest to try to convince his wife he’s worth sticking with, playing the part of a good little Irish boy who will sign any custody agreement she wants. As Shereen points out, the little scamp thinks he’s playing his wife, when really she’s playing him. He managed to piss off everyone from season one so bad that no one wants him in their band or their liquid metal blob. His options are to quit or drown, and Irish men like him will literally drown before they quit or go to therapy. 

On the docks, Ziggy invents the unsolicited dick pic, and, in the HBO crossover event of the century, buys the same leather jacket Richie Aprille tried to give to Tony Soprano.

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“When I’m king, it’s you against the wall.” — Adam Tod Brown (not Radiohead)

Buy stock in Omar, sell stock in Motorola, and listen as writer, podcaster and founder of the Unpops Podcast Network, Adam Tod Brown joins Matt and Vince to share his opinions, both pop and unpop, of The Wire season two episode three, “Hot Shots.”

Big brain business genius Stringer Bell is bearish on telecom stocks and bullish on D’angelo’s girl, Donnette. Bearish on phones because if Poot is already in full Kevin Gates two-phone mode, the market must be saturated. Little does he know that in the future everyone will have two phones. One to listen to this pod, and the other to listen to the Frotcast. He’s bullish on Donnette because a bull is what you call the guy who’s boinking your wife while you’re in prison. 

Meanwhile Jimmy does a feminism, Bunk and Freeman do racisms, Avon does a conspiracy to commit murder, Clay does a grift, Frank does a corruption, Nicky does a homophobia, and Omar does a crime because while they may all contain multitudes, they are often exactly what you expect. 

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“Does anyone else think, Ziggy: the original Roman Roy?” -Anna Hossnieh

Writer, co-host of the Ethnically Ambiguous podcast, and season two skeptic, Anna Hosnnieh joins Matt and Vince to dissect The Wire season two episode two, “Collateral Damage.”

Often, The Wire is about the lengths to which normal people will go to avoid doing work, or getting yelled at. Some episodes, like this one, are about just how much work those same people will do just to be petty to someone who yelled at them. Valchek and Frank get locked into a portside petty Polish pissing contest, and the only winner is a Catholic church looking at two new stained glass windows. 

Even Jimmy would rather do hours of research on tide patterns to stick Rawls with fourteen murders to solve, drink fourteen shots of Jameson to celebrate, then disappoint Rhonda Perlman sexually and emotionally, than learn how to tie a knot (or go to therapy).

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