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This week on the Frot, Laremy Legel pops in to read us some lists and we complain about The Hobbit, as well as attempt to explain the look of 48 fps. Other topics include: Christopher Walken, Bob Costas’s gun control speech, the Buzzfeed/Oatmeal feud, the lacrosse all-name team and the babycenter’s list of unusual names, and answering your questions about choosing a favorite movie and the finer points of work-dump protocol. ENJOY. (Time-stamped notes below, courtesy of Adam).
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This week we bring on Frotcast favorite Laremy Legel. Vince and Laremy share a dislike for The Hobbit, we read this year’s Lacrosse Names, talk about the Oatmeal/ Buzzfeed beef, read listener emails, and other standard Frotcast jackassery. Drunk on!
- 00:02:38 – Vince goes into detail of what glorious things he had to eat the previous night. Brendan went to a metal concert sober. The guys start to talk about the Buzzfeed/Oatmeal feud over a rape joke that winds its way into a discussion about gun control.
- 00:20:55 – A listener clarifies a question the guys had about moonshine from a previous episode. There’s talk about the use of Porky Pigging vs Donald Ducking. Vince plays a clip that embodies the Christopher Walken School of Acting. Vince likes pot roast.
- 00:32:05 – Laremy joins the Frotcast starting off with some football talk before getting into The Hobbit with Vince. Both of them had issues with the film besides the running time, and they get into the 48 fps “soap opera” effect. The gang talks about some of Peter Jackson’s past non-Tolkien films.
- 00:57:55 – As usual, Laremy comes prepared with a list: Rejected Bermanisms. The guys read off the Lacrosse All-Name Team and a list unusual baby names. Vince brings up a recent Kevin Smith post on FilmDrunk that created some outrage in the comments section. Brendan gets into the hit and miss ratio of Key and Peele skits, which leads to Bret going on a rant about comedy writing in the internet age.
- 01:37:05 – Time for some more emails. One listener asks if there have ever been a negative side to being recognized out in public. Brendan reveals some nightmares he’s had due to involvement with the Frotcast. A listener asks about the protocol of naked dumps at work, and the guys get into stories about that one kid everyone went to school with who peed at the urinal with his pants around his ankles. The topic of favorite film versus the best film you’ve ever seen gets brought, and how some people use that to show how sophisticated they are. A new Paul Blart Presents is introduced, and one listener tries to breakdown who would win in a fight between the four Frotcast members.
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I also saw The Sword live sober and managed to have a good time, awesome band.
POTroast
Correction: a group of Kevin Smith fans are called a JORT.
Kinda bummed to hear The Hobbit isn’t great. I’m taking your opinions with a grain of salt, though, since it’s non-nerds talking about nerd things. I’m not really a Lord of the Rings nerd, but The Hobbit was my favorite book as a child.
Yeah. Unlike Vince, I’m a huge dork who LOVED Lord of the Rings. Own them all on bluray, dvd, vinyl, coloring book, etc. and I like Martin Freeman, but I don’t have a good gut feeling about this one. Keeping expectations low. Hope I wind up digging it.
I’ll lay it out for you as a non-LOTR fan, and you can decide whether to agree or disagree. For the record, I actually really liked The Hobbit the book (my enthusiasm for Tolkien decreases with each successive book, and fizzled out about halfway through Return of the King). Though I do get annoyed with every separate fantasy or sci-fi things being some kind of “fan” litmus test.
Yeah, I hear ya. Once upon a time I was the angry Star Wars nerd who thought you weren’t a true fan if you liked the new movies, but I grew out of that pretty quickly. Either someone likes something or they don’t. Why give a fuck beyond that?
My reason for saying what I said was more about how I find I agree with the Frotcast’s opinions on pretty much every movie you guys talk about as long as it isn’t nerd-related. It’s like a Venn diagram where my dorkness lies outside of the intersection.
RockFlagNEagle and Slappy, if you loved the LOTR movies, you’ll love The Hobbit.
Just watch it in 2D though – it looks great there except the parts in the beginning where they intentionally pan horizontally to show off the 48 FPS in the HFR version.
The movie is Anti-Cynical – it’s not made for the frotcast crowd, it’s pure fan service celebrating the imagination of Tolkien.
This pic sort of highlights why fans love Tolkien where the normal people who just walk in for the fight scenes will just make dismissive wank motions, roll their eyes and check their watches waiting for the movie to be over:
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I’m enjoying these longer Frotcasts, but what the Hell was wrong with the sound on this one? I hope you get it fixed for 131.
One thing I want to mention is that everything about Brendan is so much clearer after he admitted that his first real memory is watching another kid publicly take a perfectly-coiled shit.
Yeah, I thought I was having a stroke or something.
Was something wrong with my phone, or Stitcher or was that on your end?
I’m also enjoying the longer, drunker format. Can you guys continue to keep Bret drunk? When he’s more drunk he’s less likely to do that thing, right? Where he makes some crazy statement about human nature or some institution he’s not really qualified to comment on, right? And then he tries to force you into agreeing with pieces of his argument by saying right, right? And then BOOM he finishes with a conclusion not at all supported by the previous statements.
I might also up the drunkeness just a tad and each Frotmaster should include their drink for the evening during their introduction.
Somethings going on with the interface between my computer and the mixer. It sucks, because we can’t hear any of that while we’re recording. I don’t know what to do besides maybe buy new cables.
Other way around. More drunk = more verbal ticks. Was it a particular rant that got your panties all twisted, or just in general? I thought I would catch shit for this one, but I am genuinely trying to work on my listenability.
As for qualifications, I’ll happily mail you a copy of my degree from Who The Fuck Cares Community College. I majored in Who The Fuck Cares. Head of my class.
Bret
I dunno. You sounded nice and toasty the week prior with Louv and that episode was a blast.
No. No general twisting of the panties. Specific twisting during the bit about whether sketch comedy shows/troupes structure their stuff specifically with the internet/viral entertainment in mind. I’m unfamiliar with WTFC3. 2 or 4 year?
2 year, bro. I didn’t sign up to be no doctor.
People naked dump at work? Where does this guy work and are they hiring? I am guilty of dump jealousy, like when you know the guy in the next stall is having a better dump than you are. It chaps my ass.