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This week on the Frotcast, our old friend, San Francisco comedian Matt Louv (The Museum of Comedy) drops by to read us more of his award-winning Rejected OKCupid Emails, and, even better, a concerned letter he received from his mom following his last appearance. It’s pretty great. In addition, we discuss some of the ol’ movie news, including John Travolta’s new music video, and Matt’s take on Beasts of the Southern Wild. Then Ben explains the plot of all those awards-season movies that you may have missed.

We answer your listener questions about marriage proposals and you friends who won’t play video games with you anymore (keep the questions coming!), and rank the ideal poop. Enjoy. And come see me and Matt riff on Invaders from Mars next Friday at Lost Weekend Video.

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My grandfather turns 95 this Sunday. Every time I see him, he asks me again what I do for a living. He once asked, “The internet… now that’s on computers?” Anyway, I was at his birthday party this past weekend, and I discovered that he carries around a cheat sheet in his wallet to remember what I do. This is that cheat sheet.

MORNING LINKS
The Honest Trailer for Dark Knight Rises |Film Drunk|

Never Forget Fat Betty: 20 TV GIFs That Defined 2012 |Warming Glow|

The Nominees For ‘Best Original Song’ At The Adult Video News Awards Are Amazing |UPROXX|

Reddit Users Really Love The L.A. Lakers |With Leather|

Time To Amend Your Christmas Lists: A Burger Making Robot Has Been Invented |Gamma Squad|

In San Francisco this Friday? Come see me and Matt Louv riff on bad movies. You’ll also get some stand up from Jordan Morris from Jordan-Jesse Go. |FreshLikeACadaver|

Gruden Talk: Jon Gruden Discusses The Fiscal Cliff With Former OMB Director David Stockman |Kissing Suzy Kolber|

You can find beauty in the strangest places |theChive|

30 Most Disturbing Face Swaps Of 2012 |Buzzfeed|

Am I Looking At Ke$ha From The Front Or Back? |The Superficial|

If Kate Has Twins, Who Ascends The Throne? |Mental Floss|

The Perfect Crime: Teen Posts Video About Robbing A Bank After Robbing A Bank |Videogum|

Mr. Burns Explains The Fiscal Cliff |HuffPost|

Rob Kardashian Wants Women To Respect Themselves That’s All |IDLYITW|

Now THAT’S how you promote your Tolkien books |Fark|

7 Sci-Fi Remakes With Vastly Improved Special Effects |Screen Junkies|

If Your Awkward Sex Life Were a Romance Novel |College Humor|

The 12 Douchiest Movie Boyfriends |Pajiba|

5 Reasons Why Burton’s Wonka Movie is Better than That Other One |Unreality|

The 10 Greatest Prank Videos of 2012 |Brobible|

The Science of Plan B Emergency Contraception |High Definite|

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This week on the Frotcast, Matt Louv, the Museum of Comedy, returns to the Frotquarters to read us his favorite OKCupid email come ons and subsequent rejection emails. This leads to a discussion of Mystery and the pick-up artist phenomenon, and finally, we have a fairly heated discussion about Aaron Sorkin’s new show, News Night. The Newsroom. Whatever. That starts at the 53-minute mark, and leads to some heated debate about idealizing the past, hearing your parents scream about Twitter, Baby Boomers, the liberal elite, the state of journalism, and smarm in general. Oh, and of course, we update the status of the Fantasy Summer Box Office game.

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More detailed notes after the jump, courtesy of Adam.

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This week on the Frotcast, we have local comic and theater manager Matt Louv live in the Frotquarters to discuss Carnage, The Iron Lady, the worst things he’s seen as a theater manager, Marky Mark preventing 9/11, Brendan’s impersonations, listener calls, listener emails, other jackassery, and Bret’s bag o’ bones.

• 00:02:02 – Flashback to the incident during Vince’s stand-up where Brendan confronted a heckler, and Matt was there to witness it.
• 00:05:15 – We take a listen to some voicemails: one fan with a pulse on the humanity vents about Fake Bret, the real Bret receives a backhanded compliment, Ben gets called a c*nt, and the Mighty Feklhr sends in a koi call.
• 00:17:44 – We have a brief talk about the exciting Niners’ win from this past weekend. Vince had an interesting viewing of the Maggie Thatcher biopic, Iron Lady. Matt and Vince discuss Carnage, Roman Polanski’s newest film, and we play a fun little guessing game dealing with the film. Vince plays a new clip from MANswers that leads us to Robert Palmer’s Simply Irresistible, Matt shares some stories about running a theater, and Brendan adds some more impersonations to his repertoire.
• 01:02:13 – We talk about Marky Mark hypothetically stopping 9/11 (never forget), his wicked childhood, and him no longer needing to wank it.
• 01:11:14 – Justin Halpern sent in an email to follow up from episode 81, we answer a relationship question, and the issue of Vince losing his virginity comes up.

Drunk On! -Adam

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And thanks to listener Matt for this week’s listener-art submission:

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