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This week on the Frotcast, we brought on Matt Ufford for a special, extended Thanksgiving drive-time episode. We actually hadn’t planned on it being extended when we started, but we were having such a good time keeping it rolling that we just kept on recording. Topics include:

• SB Nation’s Troll Tuesday, and the dangers of writing about the dangers of living ironically.

• The man who got arrested for pretending a taser was his penis.

• Steve-O’s karaoke show, and how it makes us think the world turning into Idiocracy might not be so bad after all

• Speaking of trolls, we have more clips of Bernie Goldberg’s epic trolling interview questions from HBO Real Sports

• The nature of book-to-movie adaptations, as it relates to World War Z, The Watchmen, Life of Pi

• The statutory Elmo drama

• Stories of the worst jobs we’ve ever had, and trying to decide whether to swallow all your dreams or live in poverty forever

• Our favorite Coen brothers movies and trying to explain the enduring popularity of The Big Lebowski

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I’ve already gotten two compliments on this week’s Frotcast, and it’s only been up for a few hours, so it must be good. First things first: there are no Dark Knight Rises spoilers in this week’s Frotcast. Repeat, THERE ARE NO DARK KNIGHT RISES SPOILERS IN THIS WEEK’S FROTCAST. I promise.

Anyway, this week we bring on everyone’s favorite Dark Knight Rises review troll, Film.com’s Eric D. Snider, who talks about kicked off the Tomatometer, the irony of him getting kicked off and me being allowed in on the same day, and reads us his most hilarious death threats. We don’t have Newsroom clips this week, so instead we play some clips from HBO Real Sports, the last, greatest bastion of the oldest, whitest sports journalism that used to rule the land. Specifically, Bernie Goldberg and is hilarious Devil’s Advocate interview style. Other topics include Brendan’s new dog, cutting a turd from your dog’s butt, your emails, and a return of our old segment, Vince’s Comedy Journal Roulette.

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