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406: Everybody Hurts, with Sofiya Alexandra from 420 Day Fiancee
24 maart 2021 · 1 uur 36 min
The toxicity of Tony Soprano and Armagnac
Qu’est-ce que c'est? Hope your podcast machine isn’t broken, because on the latest episode of Pod Yourself A Gun, Sofiya Alexandra from the 420 Day Fiance and Private Parts Unknown podcasts joins Matt and Vince to talk about The Sopranos season four episode six, Everybody Hurts.
The suicide of a former goomar has Tony wondering if he's toxic, and doing nice things to convince the people around him he’s actually a good person. He buys Janice a nice bone to suck on and loans Artie some cash to use to impress the new hot French hostess at Vesuvio. As Sofiya points out, Artie has big incel energy and possibly the trashest dick of all time, so of course this ends with Artie getting beat up by a French man and attempting a suicide of his own.
Meanwhile, AJ is trying so hard to smash, but instead of the butt of his young paramour, what gets smashed is AJ’s conception of his family’s wealth. HIs mom might have a three thousand dollar knick knack, but she does not have any Picassos in her living room like Devin Pilsbury's dad. AJ's biggest mistake was trying to use wealth and power to get sex, when all he needed was a sexy ska playlist. Two of the three people on this podcast lost their virginity to ska music, we learn. Maybe you could lose your virginity to this podcast.
I'll let you use my dorm room for sex if you promise to leave a five star review on Apple Podcasts.
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405: Pie-o-My, with Stavros Halkias from Cum Town
17 maart 2021 · 1 uur 36 min
Tony Soprano is a horse boy on the latest Pod Yourself A Gun. Lees meer
Stavros Halkias from the Cum Town and Pod Don’t Lie podcasts joins Matt and Vince to talk about The Sopranos season four, episode five, Pie-O-My.
Before we get too far, if you’re worried about spoilers, maybe don’t listen to this episode just yet. Put it on and leave the room so we can still wet our beaks a little bit, but some future events are mentioned. There — you were warned. If you listen to this episode and hear some stuff you didn’t want to hear, that's on you. You had 20 years to prevent this. What were you waiting for, by the way? The show saved Stav’s life twice already. Meanwhile you were watching what? House of Cards? Louie? That Workaholics episode where Chris D’Elia plays himself? You're sick in the head.
Anyways for all the cool, normal folks who already saw it or won’t get mad because they understand how time, television and the internet work, this is a fun episode. The guys talk about the shady origins of Stav and Vince’s surnames, the audacity of Janice Soprano, and some excuses to do heroin. They also listen to a couple voicemails and Stav offers his thoughts on who did 9/11.
If you love the podcast as much as David Chase loves fat jokes, take a seat, then get off the floor because you broke another chair, and leave a five star review on Apple Podcasts.
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404: The Weight, with Patrick Monahan From What A Time To Be Alive
11 maart 2021 · 1 uur 21 min
Johnny Sack Loves His Curvy Wife Lees meer
As a teenager, Johnny Sack was often teased by his friends for his attraction to girls on the thicker side, ones who were shorter and curvier, girls that the average (basic) stunad might refer to as “chubby” or even “fat.” Then, as he became a made man and started to educate himself on issues such as feminism and how the mafia marginalizes women by portraying a very narrow and very specific standard of beauty (thin, tall, no 90lb moles on their ass), he realized Ralphie Cifaretto needed to die. Hear all about it on the latest episode of Pod Yourself A Gun. Matt and Vince are joined by Patrick Monahan from the What A Time To Be Alive podcast to discuss season 4 episode 4 of the Sopranos, "The Weight."
We are officially at the halfway point, folks. This is episode 43 of 86, and as discussed on the podcast, maybe a low point for the series. Still a watch-worthy episode with a great Furio shirt and the introduction of some hitmen who have a real elderly McPoyles vibe, but as Patrick points out, it’s the closest the Sopranos comes to making a Frasier-style farce where everyone is saved by their own grace. It doesn’t make sense for these sociopaths. For these reasons, the episode receives the lowest grade the podcast has ever handed out - a solid B+.
Stop snarfing up candy on your hands and knees for long enough to leave a five-star review on Apple Podcasts.
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403: Christopher, with Will Menaker From Chapo Trap House
4 maart 2021 · 1 uur 15 min
In this house, we believe Columbus was a hero. Lees meer
Put down your stinky cheeses and your cold wines, it’s time to talk about season 4 episode 3 of the Sopranos, Christopher, with Will Menaker from the Chapo Trap House podcast. Will joins Matt and Vince from Clinton Hill Brooklyn, home to Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace. But on this podcast, the only Christopher we acknowledge is Moltisanti.
Written by Michael Imperioli, the actor who plays Chrissy, the episode is divisive even among Sopranos super fans due to its focus on identity politics and a ripped-from-the-headlines plot. Originally written for Paulie, the story focuses on Sylvio’s desire to see that Columbus, and by extension all hard working Italian-Americans hanging around pork stores, get the respect they deserve.
The woke mob came for Columbus, and all he did was cause enough pain and suffering to be disavowed by the psychos responsible for the Spanish Inquisition. The PC police are sure to come for Matt and Vince soon, so listen to this episode while you still can.
When you get back from the Columbus day protest counter-protest, give us a five star review on Apple Podcasts.
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402: No Show, with Amelia Cady
19 februari 2021 · 1 uur 21 min
How’s it gonna be when Stephen Jenkins sues this podcast? Lees meer
I hope you liked last week’s parody songs and Third Eye Blind frontman anecdotes, because the newest episode of Pod Yourself A Gun has more of both. Amelia Cady joins Matt & Vince to talk about The Sopranos Season four episode two, No Show.
Listen to the podcast to hear Amelia describe Matt on Heroin, Stephen Jenkins prancing away from an argument, and how Tony Soprano’s raw animal magnetism drives her desire to exhume Gandolfini’s body so she can doo doo doo, doo doo-doo do him.
Some other topics covered are Meadow Soprano's gap year ambitions, Carmela's sick Mary Higgins Clark related burn, a gay mafioso named Don Purple, Young Vince's encounter with Anthony Kiedis, and how Matt was just a little too poor to join the fingering cult. Even in their reductionism, Amelia, Matt, and Vince have quite interesting things to say about death and loss.
Just getting what you want is for babies. We want five star reviews on Apple Podcasts. If you're an adult you can do that for us.
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401: For All Debts Public and Private with Max Collins of Eve 6
14 februari 2021 · 1 uur 31 min
It’s no longer the nineties on the latest Pod Yourself a Gun. Lees meer
Matt and Vince are joined by Max Collins of Eve 6 and the @eve6 twitter account, to discuss the first episode of Season 4 of the Sopranos, For All Debts Public and Private.
Before getting into the episode, Max and Matt swap stories about their run-ins with Third Eye Blind frontman, and possibly world’s most confident man, Stephen Jenkins. The consensus is Jenkins is abrasive, but mostly a good hang. You could say people are semi-charmed by him.
This is the first post 9/11 Sopranos, meaning we have officially left the nineties, so please pause here for a moment of silence to remember Matt’s mashup of Butterfly by Crazytown and Meadow Soprano saying “it’s the nineties."
Thank you for respecting the moment of silence. We’re sad to see it go, but the good lord taketh and giveth because we lost that song, but we get a new song on today’s episode that is the early frontrunner for PYAG season 4’s song of the season award. Season 3’s went to Bread Pies, of course.
Give it a listen, and hey, don't worry about us. We're just chipping. We've got it under control, but if you want to help us out, leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts. That will help us get straight.
And feel free to purchase merch to help support our under control habit here at Teespring.
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LIVESTREAM ANNOUCEMENT! Subscribe to Frotcast on YouTube now!
22 januari 2021 · 3 min
Hey everyone! This is just a brief plug for Matt and Vince's brand spanking new Frotcast livestream happening on Wednesday January 27th at 6pm PST. Go to YouTube and subscribe to our new channel to watch us talk movies, sports, butt stuff, and all of your favorite Frotcast subjects live and in technicolor. We will have guest Jason Webb from the "He Is Risen" episode of PYAG. Trust us, you don't wanna miss it. Lees meer
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314: THE BEST OF SEASON 3
1 januari 2021 · 1 uur 49 min
Surprise gidruls! Lees meer
What a terrible year it's been. Solid B+ of a year, at best. And in order to celebrate our mass exodus out of this year, we have complied a Pod Yourself A Gun season 3 BEST OF! It's got all your favorite clips, mash ups, shitty theories, and bad art analysis. It took a long long time to make so if you enjoy it please consider subscribing to our Patreon.com/frotcast, or just give us 5 stars and review if you hated it but appreciate the effort.
From Vince Mancini, Matt Lieb, Brent Flyberg and everyone at the PYAG family, we thank you for listening to our Sopranos podcast. Not that you have a choice.
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Track List:
-Intro Song
-"Truly The Best Sopranos Song" with Brendan from the Frotcast
-Matt Christman from Chapo Trap House explains John From Cincinnati
-Alan Sepinwall from Rolling Stone calls us the lowest form of discourse
-"I Don't Wanna Suck My Daddy's Dick No More"
-Gigi dies on a toilet with comedian Jason Webb
-Chrissy is high at Livia's wake with comedian Brodie Reed
-Livia's final scene mash up
-Remember When John Phillips Died? with Francesca Fiorentini from The Bitchuation Room
-Remember When Tiger Woods was a beloved figure? with Mike Isaac of The New York Times
-Remember When Tucker Carlson merely leaned right wing?
-Remember Gary Condit?
-Remember Shaggy? with Jay Gordon from FSCKD Pod
-Matt needs to be coddled in order to talk about Melfi being attacked
-Pine Barrens with Jack O'Brien from The Daily Zeitgeist
-Vince get geo-political with the Russian
-Matt is sick of David Chase's shit
-Alan tells Matt and Vince that David Chase may have listened to the pod
-Saved By The Bell/Killed By The Boss
-Sunshine deserved to die featuring Matt Christman
-Jackie Jr. talks about fashion and cream
-Paulie is doing proto-twitter discourse, with Rachel Fisher from the Hollywood Crime Scene podcast
-Noah Tannenbaum meets Barenaked Ladies, with Brodie Reed
-Meadow and Noah pretend to adult, with Carey O'Donnell from Se…
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[UNLOCKED] Frotcast 458 – Cruise Rant and The Undoing w Jessica Sele
27 december 2020 · 1 uur 30 min
Hey Pod Yourself A Gun listeners! Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini here, wishing you all a happy holidays and giving you the gift of an unlocked episode of our other podcast the Frotcast in hopes of enticing you to become a Patreon subscriber at www.patreon.com/frotcast. Please help us help you through this dark lonely winter by becoming our patron and getting your weekly fix until we start season 4 of Pod Yourself A Gun. Lees meer
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It's the most lumderful time of the year and we are so happy that you are spending some of that time with the Frotcast. This week we are joined by comedian and Frotcast favorite Jessica Sele, live from an undisclosed quarantine location in Los Angeles, where she joins Matt and Vince in discussing Tom Cruise's COVID rant, HBO's The Undoing, and an update on Matt's hatred of the FX/Hulu series A Teacher.
Plus, Matt brings back Royalty Freestyle just in time for the holidays.
Merry Christmas from the whole frot family!
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313: Army Of One, With Alan Sepinwall
17 december 2020 · 1 uur 25 min
Dreaming about lo mein on the season finale of Pod Yourself A Gun. Lees meer
On the latest episode, Rolling Stone chief television critic and co-author of The Sopranos Sessions, Alan Sepinwall, returns to talk to Matt and Vince about the final episode of The Sopranos season 3, "Army of One."
In the last pre-9/11 Sopranos episode, everyone’s favorite fail-stunad is at it again. The principal has a DNA match on AJ's peepee, and Tony thinks military school will straighten the little piss bandit out. He'll never get to be Donald Trump’s helicopter pilot if he doesn't learn some discipline.
During their talk, the guys decide when it’s okay to hit your kids, and try to find out if David Chase has heard the show. Let’s hope not!
If you’ve been hiding out in the projects in Boonton, you might not know that there’s now a PYAG Patreon tier. Give us money and you too can hear your name on a podcast!
We work hard all day to provide content and all kinds of scooters and bicycles. The least you could do is leave a five star review on Apple Podcasts. (-written by Brent Flyberg)
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312: Amour Fou, With Matt Christman From Chapo Trap House
4 december 2020 · 1 uur 14 min
Tony Soprano finally realizes he’s a mofo in this week’s Pod Yourself A Gun. Lees meer
Matt and Vince are joined by Matt Christman from Chapo Trap House to talk about The Sopranos season 3 episode 12, "Amour Fou." Alternate title: "Suicide by Capo."
Jackie Jr. makes a move in an attempt to show he’s got balls big enough to get the respect like Scarface, but he should have stayed in watching Basic Instinct with his bro. Listen to the podcast for a non-exhaustive list of all the movies that feature a Sharon Stone nude scene. There are a lot. As far as I know, she’s never done a seductive dance to a song by Little Steven and the Lost Boys (with lead singer Steve Van Zandt aka Silvio Dante), but Annabella Sciorra does in this episode. She deserves some kind of award for convincingly pretending to love that song. Did Tony's mom ever dance like that? Is that how realized he was hooking up with his mom?
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311: Pine Barrens, With Jack O’Brien From Daily Zeitgeist
27 november 2020 · 1 uur 28 min
On the latest Pod Yourself A Gun, Gloria throws things, the Russian gets away, and "the poo ass was dog." This week Matt and Vince are thankful for their guest, Jack O’Brien from the Daily Zeitgeist, and season 3 episode 11 of The Sopranos, Pine Barrens. Lees meer
This episode is so good, it’s a cliché to bring it up. As Jack points out during the podcast, saying "Pine Barrens" is your favorite Sopranos episode is like saying Michael Jordan is your favorite basketball player. It’s not a bad choice but come on - try to surprise me.
If you haven’t seen it in a while, you might remember this Steve Buscemi directed episode as the one where Paulie and Chris get lost in the woods. What you might not remember are Gloria’s London broil toss and Jackie Jr.’s Scrabble prowess. If last week’s episode was a reminder that The Sopranos is a soap opera, this week’s episode is a reminder that it is also a sitcom, because it’s got jokes.
Are some of the jokes too sitcom-y? Vince says yes. I say VA FANGOOL, Vince. What happened to Valery? Don’t ask David Chase. What is the geopolitical significance of Paulie’s satin finish manicure? Listen now to find out.
If you’re not going to share your Tic Tacs, at least share a five star review on Apple Podcasts. (-written by Brent Flyberg)
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310: To Save Us All From Satan’s Power, With Rachel Fisher From Hollywood Crime Scene
20 november 2020 · 1 uur 27 min
Tony’s got a list and he’s checking it twice on a very Sopranos Christmas episode. Lees meer
On this week’s Pod Yourself A Gun, Rachel Fisher, host of the Hollywood Crime Scene podcast, joins Matt and & Vince to talk about The Sopranos season 3 episode 10, "…To Save Us All From Satan’s Power."
That Jesus guy - he was the real gangster. He had wisemen wandering all across the desert to bring him frankincense, myrrh, and gold, just for being born. Marone! That’s a good earner.
Meanwhile, before the Satriale’s Christmas party, Tony has to schlep all over town finding a new Santa to replace the snitch friend he murdered, taking care of his good-for-nothing sister’s Russian, and transferring some “cannolis.”
In a truly delightful moment on the pod, Rachel explains to Matt and Vince that the cannolis Tony was transferring were not food. We also listen to some voicemails and discuss Jackie Jr's motorboating technique. It’s a great mother-jumping episode.
Stop writing that contemporary Christian rock album and start writing a five star review on Apple Podcasts. (-written by Brent Flyberg)
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309: The Telltale Moozadell, With Samer Kalaf From Defector Media
13 november 2020 · 1 uur 15 min
AJ Soprano has never seen a gutter but he has seen The Matrix. Lees meer
This week on Pod Yourself A Gun, Samer Kalaf, Managing Editor of Defector Media, joins Matt and Vince to talk about one of their favorite subjects: beautiful little idiot AJ Soprano. Samer sets the bar high for future guests by not only taking notes for episode 3 season 9, "The Telltale Moozadell," but he’s actually seen all of The Sopranos.
The episode itself is near perfect (solid B+), and features a young Lady Gaga as one of the girls AJ is trying to impress when he goes all Fred Durst and breaks stuff in the school late at night (on his mother's birthday?!?). The fellas learn from Vince’s wife that unlike young men, not all young women go through a needless destruction phase. Good for them, I guess, but everyone should get to break one window in their life just to feel that power.
Speaking of power, Gloria can’t resist the power of Tony’s raw, animal sexuality, even at the zoo, when he’s surrounded by gorillas with the exact same posture and body type. Can Tony resist the urge to recognize his mother’s traits in Gloria?
Resist the urge to break stuff long enough to listen and leave a five star review on Apple Podcasts. (-written by Brent Flyberg)
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308: He Is Risen, With Comedian Jason Webb
6 november 2020 · 1 uur 15 min
Thanksgiving and Jackie Jr are cancelled in the latest Pod Yourself A Gun. Lees meer
Matt and Vince invite comedian Jason Webb to discuss a conveniently-timed Thanksgiving episode of The Sopranos, and Janice invites a narcoleptic Christian with a ponytail to dinner on episode 3 of season 8 - "He Is Risen."
The episode reminds us that being in the mob is just as much about petty social slights as it is about doing crimes. There's lots of gossiping, someone gets their feelings hurt over a declined drink invitation, and someone else gets uninvited from Thanksgiving dinner. So, it’s kind of like Thanksgiving with your family, until someone shits himself to death, and then it's just like your family.
Naturally, watching the episode led to some conversations about how families in Jason's neighborhood settle disputes with their stepdads, the chainsaw bear carvings industry, how to get someone so horny they turn into a dairy product, and a Saved by the Bell Mashup song.
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307: Second Opinion, With Mike Isaac, Author Of ‘Super Pumped’
29 oktober 2020 · 1 uur 10 min
Paulie Wets his Beak and Tony Doesn't Trust Jack Kennedy in episode 307 of The Sopranos Lees meer
In this week’s Pod Yourself a Gun, author of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, and New York Times journalist Mike Isaac (@mikeisaac) joins Matt and Vince to provide a third opinion of "Second Opinion," the seventh episode of season three of The Sopranos. You may know it as the one where Paulie sniffs Adriana’s panties, but that’s because you’re a nasty little freak just like Paulie. As pointed out on this week’s podcast, The Sopranos writers really missed an opportunity to name the episode "Paulie Wets His Beak."
In another episode that emphasizes that The Sopranos is primarily a comedy, Junior is easily impressed by a surgeon because he has a president’s name, and Carmela’s search for a psychotherapist of her own ends with the therapist rejecting her “blood money” for payment.
The appearance of a Big Mouth Billy Bass leads to a discussion of the death of ubiquitous American novelty gifts, and a retelling of Matt’s sordid affair with a Billy of his own. “The skeleton was still singing,” is a phrase that will haunt me for years.
Rewatching this episode inspired Mike to rewatch The Sopranos, which should inspire you to leave a five star review on Apple Podcasts. (-Brent Flyberg)
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306: University, With Brendan From The Frotcast
22 oktober 2020 · 1 uur 18 min
Are You Not Bread Pies Now? Pod Yourself a Gun covers The Sopranos season 3 episode 6, "University" Lees meer
On this week’s episode of Pod Yourself a Gun, one of the surviving co-founders of the Filmdrunk Frotcast joins Matt and Vince to talk about The Sopranos season 3 episode 6, "University." Brendan is on the show and Marone! He’s a big-a meatball!
The episode features one of the best one-episode characters in The Sopranos' run, Tracee. Poor, sweet Tracee. Ralphie could never love her as much as he loved the movie Gladiator (remember when that guy gets hit with the spike thing and chunks of his head go flying? That was so phat). Really there are a lot of examples of men and boys being bad in their own unique ways in this episode. Ralphie is an absolute psycho, Georgie at the Bada Bing is making the girls do him personal favors to get into the VIP room, and we learn Noah is a limo-liberal f*ckboi.
Come to this week’s podcast for the titties and meat analysis you know and love, but stay for the premiere of what will be remembered as the Western canon’s most influential Sopranos-inspired Kinks parody song. Write the next verse and put it in a five star review on iTunes.
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305: “Another Toothpick” with Jay Gordon
15 oktober 2020 · 1 uur 15 min
Matt and Vince are joined by Sopranos twitter luminary and fsckd podcast host Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) to talk about one of his favorite episodes of the Sopranos, season 3 episode 5, Another Toothpick. Not only did Jay watch the episode in preparation for the show, he took notes and he’s not afraid to refer to them. Jay understands rule #1 of Pod Yourself a Gun: when you want respect from the pod, you give respect to the pod. Lees meer
Like an Am/Pm on the Jersey turnpike, this episode has too much good stuff and a bunch of guidos. Carmela and Dr. Melfi finally meet face-to-face during a couples counseling session, Tony is bad in a familiar way (racism), good in an unexpected way (gives a dying man a sense of purpose), and Bobby Bacala Sr. takes Mustang Sally for one last ride with a Marb Red. On top of all that, we get Artie Buco’s disastrous friendzone-cementing dinner with Adriana. The scene is discussed at length in 2020 without a single utterance of the word simp, and someone deserves a Whitman’s Sampler for that restraint.
The star of the episode is a toss-up between Burt Young as Bobby Bacala Sr. and Artie Buco’s divorced-guy earring (he’s had it for years - he just doesn’t wear it a lot). Tell us your choice in a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts.
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304: “Employee Of The Month,” With Francesca Fiorentini
8 oktober 2020 · 1 uur 15 min
In this week's episode of Pod Yourself a Gun, Matt and Vince are joined by Francesca Fiorentini (@franfio) from MSNBC, AJ+, and the Bitchuation Room podcast to try to find an entertaining but still respectful way to discuss Dr. Melfi's rape scene in Season 3, episode 4 of the Sopranos, "Employee of the Month." Lees meer
It's a polarizing episode from the gabagoolden age of the Sopranos with enough psychotherapy talk to really piss Vince off. The episode also features Ralphie Cifaretto and Jackie Aprile Jr. bonding over a beating, Janice's definitely real plans to make a documentary about Livia's generation and their music, Melfi's Roman dog dreams, and Furio's sensitive side. "We donna have-a the pope joke. Donna translate."
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303: “Fortunate Son” With Carey O’Donnell
1 oktober 2020 · 1 uur 13 min
This week on Pod Yourself A Gun, Matt and Vince welcome television writer and co-host of the Sexy Unique Podcast Carey O'Donnell (@ecareyo) to the pod to discuss episode 3 of season 3 of the Sopranos "Fortunate Son" - an episode in which Chris gets made. Lees meer
"Fortunate Son" marks the beginning of what I would consider to be the gabbagool age of the Sopranos, which is the same as a golden age but better. In this episode, Chris gets made and struggles with the increased responsibilities, Tony discovers that much of his panic attacks are meat-based, AJ struggles with feelings of being a real dumdum, and Janice straight up steals Svetlana's prosthetic leg in order to get back musical theater records. It's a fantastic episode in the middle of a monumental season. See, sometimes we actually LIKE the Sopranos. Oh and Chrissy robs a Jewel concert in a Scream mask. Fucking epic.
Anyway, please leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts and/or wherever you get your podcasts.
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302: “Proshai, Livushka” With Brodie Reed
25 september 2020 · 1 uur 9 min
Sopranos season three continues on Pod Yourself A Gun this week with a discussion of "Proshai, Livushka," episode 302 and the second part of a two-episode premiere that originally aired March 4th, 2001. Our guest this week is Brodie Reed (named a "best up-and-coming comedian" by Vulture), host of the Dark Weeb and Male Gaze podcasts. Lees meer
Brodie joins your regular hosts Matt Lieb from Newsbroke/AJ+ and Vince Mancini from Uproxx/FilmDrunk to discuss arguably the greatest Sopranos episode there is. In this episode (SPOILERS TO FOLLOW, DO NOT @ ME) Livia dies, we meet both Svetlana the gruff nurse and Noah Tenenbaum, Meadow's film buff pseudo boyfriend, help AJ with his Robert Frost assignment, and try to understand Christopher's position on fingerprints at a truly epic funeral for Livia (where Janice, against all odds, once again monopolizes the conversation). We tend to love the funny episodes and this one is surely one of the funniest.
I absolutely love this episode of the Sopranos (whaddya gonna do? ...at least she didn't suffer) and I hope you love this Pod Yourself A Gun episode just as much. Nay, twice as much. In fact if you don't love it, maybe you should get some therapy.
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301: “Mr. Ruggiero’s Neighborhood”
17 september 2020 · 1 uur 17 min
We open season three of Pod Yourself A Gun discussing the season three premiere of The Sopranos. Mr. Ruggiero's Neighborhood, the 27th episode of The Sopranos, originally premiered on March 4, 2001, as the first part of a two-part season premiere, directed by Allen Coulter and written by series creator David Chase.
In the Season Three premiere, Agent Harris and his team concoct an elaborate new plan to wiretap the Soprano home now that Pussy is singing with the fishes instead of for the feds.
This episode is a bit of a meta look at the FBI as they, essentially, watch The Sopranos. Ay, da FBI is just like us! It includes the introduction of a braless tennis instructor from Iceland and a mash-up of The Police and Henry Mancini that, curiously, seems to be the main character of the entire episode. It's full of extremely on-the-nose music throughout. Lees meerBADA B STORIES
-The FBI is buggin'
-Patty Parisi is chuggin'
-Tony is thuggin'
-Meadows roommate needs a huggin'
-AJ is shruggin'
-Waterheater is fuggin'… upTRIVIA
The actor who plays Patsy Parisi teaches math and computer science at a community college now.
"Ruggerio" is a shout out to Angelo Ruggerio, who had his house bugged by the FBI and accidentally brought down the mafia
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213: SEASON FINALE “Funhouse” with Nelini Stamp
21 mei 2020 · 1 uur 24 min
Hello my dear podsiglieries. The season finale of Pod Yourself A Gun season 2 is here, which means Matt and Vince watched the season finale of Sopranos season 2. Curious how that works, isn't it? This week, Matt and Vince welcome activist and Working Families Party organizer Nelini Stamp to the virtual Bada Bing (a zoom call) to discuss the end of Big Pussy, food poisoning, and much more. Hope you enjoy and we'll see you in season 3! GABAGOOL! Lees meer
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EPISODE NOTES--
S2E13 Funhouse
Premiered April 9, 2000
SYNOPSIS
In the Season Two finale, Tony has a series of 'fever dreams' that help to shed light on some of his problems--particularly his troubles over Big Pussy.
BADA B STORIES
-Pussy sleeps with the fishes
-Tony sick from two dishes
-Artie Defends his delicious
-Jersey sells phony minutes
-Carm wears mink from the riches
-Livia flies with her sis’s
-FBI creep cuz their vicious
-Meadow graduates high school
BADA C STORIES (AKA THE LAST 14 GODDAMN MINUTES)
-Livia gets caught
-Tony gets arrested
-Tony gets out
-Melfi gets real w Tony
-Meadow gets a degree
-Chris gets his button
-Scatino says bye
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212: Knights In White Satin Armor, With Dave Schilling
13 mei 2020 · 1 uur 12 min
Back when we started this crazy Sopranos rewatch podcast all those year ago, "Knights In White Satin" was exactly the kind of episode we had in mind. Episode 12 of season two, this one really is one of the greatest Sopranos episodes ever, easily a top fiver. It introduces all sorts of new and interesting characters, from Jackie Aprile's son Jackie Jr. to Irina's cousin, the one-legged chain-smoking Svetlana (one of my favorite characters in all the Sopranos canon) whose boyfriend romantically picked her up off the floor at the Gap store. But for the most part, episode 212 is an entirely self-contained miniature movie, with fully developed plotlines, complete character arcs, big twists, and satisfying resolutions. I bet you didn't think Richie and Janice's wedding was going to turn out like that, did you! If you're a Sopranos virgin looking for one episode to get you hooked, check out this one, I'm friggin' tellin' you over heah. Lees meer
As always we have your hosts, comedian Matt Lieb from Newsbroke and film and culture critic Vince Mancini from Uproxx, and we also welcome sportswriter Dave Schilling (ESPN, Bleacher Report, The Ringer, The Guardian), currently of the Full Court Chat podcast. We go through every plotline in Bada B Stories, countdown our favorite scenes, and explain those bits you may have missed. We hope you enjoy it, but in case you don't, va fongool.
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211: House Arrest, With Bobby Bigwheel
5 mei 2020 · 1 uur 16 min
In season 2, episode 11 of The Sopranos (aka episode 211) everyone is trapped. Junior is trapped in house arrest and trapped in his old body, Dr. Melfi is trapped in a spiral of alcoholism, and Tony is trapped with Richie Aprile in his family and in being the boss. It's both probably the most Scorsese episode and the first episode where Dr. Melfi's storyline is one of the better ones. Dr. Melfi's son, the intellectual Napoleon Dynamite, even makes a brief appearance, in a scene that is an absolute masterpiece of classic Sopranos comedy, where every character is equally terrible. Lees meer
Joining us this week is Twitter-lebrity (*dodges tomato*) and huge Soprano-head Bobby Bigwheel, helping us talk through all your favorite Pod Yourself A Gun segments, from Bada B Stories, Da Real Gangsta, It's The 90s, Malapropism Corner, and Gabba Va Vongool. We also answer your listener voicemails.
As always, your Pod Yourself A Gun hosts are Matt Lieb from Newsbroke and Vince Mancini from Uproxx. You can leave us an email at frotcast@gmail.com or a voicemail at 415 275 0030. Don't forget to leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. We hope you love every minute of it, and until next week, don't stop believin'.
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210: Bust Out, With Nando Vila From The Young Turks
20 april 2020 · 1 uur 16 min
Episode 210 (season 2, episode 10) of The Sopranos originally aired on HBO on March 19th, 2000, when Julia Roberts was burning up the screen in Erin Brockovich and Vladimir Putin was just a week away from his first election. "Bust Out" saw Tony and his crew running a classic "bust-out scam" on Tony's high school pal turned degenerate gambler, David Scatino, played by Terminator 2's Robert Patrick. The plan involved the gang running up huge debts on Davey's sporting goods store's lines of credit with no intention of paying them back. It's a smaller-scale version of the same basic business model currently employed, fully legally, by private equity companies. Lees meer
Almost 20 years and one month to the day since it first aired, Matt and Vince are joined by producer and TV personality Nando Vila (The Naked Truth, Happy Ending, The Young Turks) to discuss this episode in Pod Yourself A Gun 210. We provide the cultural context in The Wayback Machine, run through storylines in Bada-B Stories, translate slang with Stevie B in Gabba Vafongool, identify cultural reference points in It's The 90s, and figure out who "Da Real Gangsta" is. Along the way, we discuss our favorite and least favorite scenes and try, desperately, unsuccessfully, to get Matt to stop saying "tiddies." It's fine, The Sopranos was an R-rated show, why shouldn't our Sopranos rewatch podcast be an R-rated show?
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209: From Where To Eternity, With Emily Fleming From Good Mythical Morning
10 april 2020 · 1 uur 15 min
This week on Pod Yourself A Gun, the internet's first and only Sopranos rewatch podcast [citation needed], we're going back 20 years and one month to March 12, 2000, the premiere of "From Where To Eternity," episode 9 of season 2 (209) of the Sopranos. Helping us discuss, we have Emily Fleming from Good Mythical Morning. Lees meer
Written by Michael Imperioli, "From Where To Eternity" sees Christopher waking up from his coma after being shot by Sean Gismonte and Matt Bevilacqua, having been clinically dead for an entire minute. Chrissy claims to have seen a vision of hell, which is actually an Irish bar called "The Emerald Piper," where every day is St. Patrick's Day and the Irish win every bet. Meanwhile, Carmela hears about Ralphie Rutoldo's Brazilian goomad and wants Tony to get a vasectomy, and Pauly has his own run-in with the supernatural, thanks to a psychic and later a priest. Later, Tony and Big Pussy decide what to do with Matt Bevilacqua.
In a bit of life imitating art, Lillo Brancato Jr., who played Matt Bevilacqua, was later involved in a botched burglary of his own in which an off-duty police officer was killed. Brancato spent four years in prison and is apparently back to acting.
Anyway, we play all your favorite segments, from Bada B Stories to It's The 90s, and Malapropism Corner to Da Real Gangsta. We hope you enjoy it, and as always, if you don't, va fongool. Please don't forget to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts, you make a you mama so a proud.
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208: Full Leather Jacket, with Karl Hess
6 april 2020 · 1 uur 2 min
Hey, everyone, it's time for your favorite Sopranos podcast ever, Pod Yourself A Gun. The world's ONLY Sopranos podcast (that's not hosted by a former cast member nor by people who respect prestige TV). This week Vince and Matt are joined by comedian, podcaster, Cooking Channel TV show host and huge Sopranos fan Karl Hess as they discuss Sopranos season 2 episode 8 (208) "Full Leather Jacket." AKA the most Seinfeld-ass episode of the Sopranos of all time. It's mostly about how Richie Aprile gives Tony a jacket as a gift and Tony insults him by not wearing the jacket. Seriously, that's like the biggest storyline in the episode. It's bizarre and forgettable and a pleasure to talk about with Karl. Here is a bit more info on the episode. Lees meer
SYNOPSIS:
"Although Richie is miffed at Tony for forcing him to build a ramp for the pizza-parlor owner he paralyzed, he decides to make a peace offering. Unhappy with their lowly status as Christopher's lackeys, Sean and Matt decide to pledge their allegiance to Richie--through a violent, unexpected act."
BADA B STORIES
-Richie wants to give Tony a jacket
-Meadow wants to go to Berkeley
-Carm wants a letter of rec to Georgetown for Meadow
-Matt and Shawn want respect
-Chris wants to marry Adrianna
-Tony wants Richie to build a ramp for BeansyWe hope you enjoy it! And please remember to give us a review and 5 stars on the Apple podcast app.
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207: D-Girl, with Brandie Posey
30 maart 2020 · 1 uur 9 min
Hey everyone! Another week into the Coronavirus quarantine and your boys Matt and Vince have nothing but time to Zoom chat about The Sopranos with all of their friends. Lucky you! This week our guest is comedian Brandie Posey of the podcast Lady 2 Lady. This is the first time she has ever watched an episode of the Sopranos to completion and boy did Matt and Vince pick a perfect one. From season 2, episode 7, "D-Girl," which originally premiered February 27th, 2000. Lees meer
This episode isn't just one of the funniest episodes of The Sopranos so far, it's incredibly relevant to both Brandie and Matt's life mired in the drab realities of Hollywood and the entertainment industry. Whom amongst us hasn't had the fate of our careers decided by a 20-something executive with no creative bone in their body and who name drops constantly? Very relatable.
SYNOPSIS
With Anthony Jr.'s confirmation approaching, Tony and Carmela find their son's growing apathy a cause for concern. Meanwhile, Christopher's interest in show biz is reignited when he meets a well-known filmmaker through his cousin's girlfriend.BADA B STORIES
-Chris meets Amy Safir, his cousin Gregory’s fiancee
-AJ’s existential buffoonery
-Chris meets Jon Favraeu and llearns what it means to be used by Hollywood
-Big Pussy is forced to wear a wire to AJ's confirmationHope this makes your quarantine a little bit more tolerable. Enjoy! Don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe to bonus content at Patreon.
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Check Out ‘Made Women,’ Now Available
30 maart 2020 · 6 min
Good morning, Podsiglieres. We know how much you love Pod Yourself A Gun, for the laugh-out-loud comedy, the intense drama, and the staggering insights Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini lay out each week. But this week we're drawing your attention to Made Women: A Sopranos Rewatch Podcast. Lees meer
Hosted by Sopranos cast members Drea De Matteo who played Adriana La Cerva, and her best friend, entrepreneur and New Jersey native Chris Kushner, Made Women is taking listeners straight back to the New Jersey Turnpike for a deep dive into the iconic mafioso world that truly changed the course of television. Each week, Drea and Chris will unpack a different episode from the series, exploring themes and ideas from the show while also relating those themes back to their current lives. Made Women will feature lively discussions, special guests, exclusive insider input, stories from behind the scenes, and so much more. So, after you check out this clip that we’re about to play, go ahead and click the link in this episode description or search Made Women on Apple Podcasts or wherever you stream audio content to subscribe for free and be sure to catch new episodes every Monday!
Click here to Listen: Made Women
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206: The Happy Wanderer, with Sean Keane
21 maart 2020 · 1 uur 5 min
Hey everyone, hope you are having a great time locked in quarantine for the foreseeable future. Luckily for you, this means you get to enjoy some more of your favorite Sopranos podcast. This week, we invited Sean Keane (Roundball Rock podcast) to watch season 2, episode 6 "The Happy Wanderer" - which is Tony's succinct little pet name describing all the obliviously joyful people he wants to murder. Lees meer
This episode introduces us to David Scatino, the father of Meadow's friend Eric and a local sporting good store proprietor who went to high school with Tony Soprano. David uses his high school connections with Tony in order to get a seat at the "executive game" where he ends up 45 boxes of ziti in the hole. Meanwhile, Meadow and Eric are rehearsing for cabaret night at their school and Meadow desperately wants to sing a solo rather than a duet.
Other Bada B-stories include:
-Tony is taking JRs executive card game
-Tony learns he had a retarded uncle name Hercules
-Chris cheats the fish market
-Richie gets put in his place by Tony
-Janice is pulling a Livia w Richie
It's a fantastic episode of the Sopranos and an even more fantastic episode of Pod Yourself A Gun.
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205: Big Girls Don’t Cry, With Rafael Shimunov
25 februari 2020 · 1 uur 10 min
Hot off "Commendatori" last week, in which the gang traveled to Italy, the show introduced Furio, and we were treated to arguably the best Paulie Walnuts episode of the show, this week brings us an incredible Christopher episode. Lees meer
In "Big Girls Don't Cry," originally aired February 13, 2000, Chris Moltisante has been signed up (by his girlfriend, Adriana) for a class called "acting for writers," in which the teacher immediately informs the class that "the actor is an instrument for conveying ideas."
As funny as Paulie in Italy was, Christopher in acting class might be even funnier, whether it's crushing at improv, expanding his range with James Dean, or getting offended by the mere sight of one of his classmates' dumb faces (could you blame him? Mitch from Hartsdale is the worst). Is David Chase better at making fun of therapy or at making fun of the arts? Meanwhile, Furio has come to America, Big Pussy has been passed over, and Richie Aprile has moved into Tony's mom's house with his sister, Janice. Once again, this is one of my favorite episodes and it ends with an all-time great tracking shot scene of Furio unleashing strangely humorous ultra-violence.
To help us discuss it all, we have this week's guest, Rafael Shimunov, from JFREJ (Jews for Racial and Economic Justice) and The Jewish Vote. I hope he loves our dumb theme song! As always, you can email us at Frotcast@Gmail.com, leave us a voicemail at (+1) 415 275 0030, and support the show by becoming a patron at Patreon.com/Frotcast.
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204: Commendatori, With Drew Magary Formerly Of Deadspin
14 februari 2020 · 1 uur 9 min
And we're back! Pod Yourself A Gun: A Sopranos Podcast has returned from our self-imposed hiatus to discuss episode four of season two (204), "Commendatori." Or, as it's known in It's Always Sunny naming convention, "The Gang Goes To Italy." Lees meer
Joining us for this episode is columnist/writer/author Drew Magary, formerly of Deadspin, currently of GenMag and Vice. Drew was a semi-regular guest on our other podcast, the FilmDrunk Frotcast, though this is the first time we've had him on since his brain exploded and he almost died, and since his company got bought by private equity ghouls and the entire staff quit in protest.
2019 was an eventful year for Drew! But mostly he's just here to discuss "Commendatori," one of my personal favorite episodes of Sopranos. Reportedly this episode was one of David Chase's least favorite (even though he wrote it) and in fact it was the first (and only) episode Chase brought up in this 2019 interview when asked if there were any episodes he wishes he could do over. Apparently he thought Sofia Milos was too sexy as the mob boss.
Whatever the case, I love this episode (I made an entire dish based on it for this cooking challenge), partly because the episode is peak Pauly Walnuts. Here he's been basing basically his entire life and persona on this idea of coming from Italy and being Italian and then he finally goes there and the food is weird and the people are kind of rude and everyone thinks he's a dumb asshole.
When he sees the old man on the waterfront and says, "Commendatori, buongiorno!" and the old man asks "Are you with NATO? You cut our ski lift cable," (in Italian, which Pauly can't really understand) it's one of the best moments in the entire series.
It's also the first time we meet Furio, and it opens with a car jacking scene in which the actor who plays the annoying rich kid went on to write Pan and Wonder Woman.
As always, if you like the show, leave us a review, and maybe even throw us a few bucks on Patreon. If you do…
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203: Toodle-Fucking-Oo, With Shereen Younes
6 december 2019 · 1 uur 9 min
Pod Yourself A Gun, the world's only Sopranos rewatch podcast, is back with another fresh and wholly original hour of thoughtful Sopranos critique/offensive impressions of Italian-Americans and jokes about dick sucking lips. This week Matt and Vince watched season 2, episode 3 "Toodle-Fucking-Oo" or as Vince titled it "Hey We're Old School, Right?" This episode introduces Richie Aprile and Beansy into Sopranos lore and we see three generations of Soprano women (Meadow, Janice and Livia) flex their manipulation muscle. General themes include: -Old school vs new age -Dr. Melfi vs Jennifer Melfi -Lips vs tits -Can you beat a woman if she's not your wife? -You can't even beat your kids anymore! Matt and Vince welcome the hilarious Shereen Younes (of the Ethnically Ambiguous podcast) who offers a MIND BLOWING theory regarding the relationship between Beansy and Richie. It honestly will change the way you watch the rest of season 2. Enjoy this episode you worthless bookyaks. GABAGOOOOOL! Lees meer
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202: Do Not Resuscitate, With Alison Stevenson
7 november 2019 · 1 uur 7 min
Pod Yourself A Gun's Sopranos rewatch continues with episode 15 (season 2, episode 2), "Do Not Resuscitate." First aired January 23rd, 2000, this episode sees Tony deal with a race strike at one of his construction sites, Livia dealing with Janice, and Livia being caught in the web of one of her own manipulations (or is she??). Oh, and we also get the first appearance of Tony's long-suffering punching bag, Bobby Baccalá, and find out that Big Pussy Bonpensiero actually is working with the Feds after all. I watch all the episodes at least twice for this show, and this one probably gained the most so far from the second viewing. "Do Not Resuscitate" is easily the most subtle Sopranos episode up until this point and arguably one of the most subtle of any episode. As such, there's lots to debate and discuss! Do we believe, for instance, as Matt Zoller-Seitz speculates, that it was Livia who told Junior that the director of the Green Grove Retirement Community was spreading Sopranos secrets? And that when Junior told Tony and got the guy whacked, which became an excuse for Livia not to go back there, did she become the victim of her own plans, and thus the choking sequence when she found out about it? This is by far the most complex "fan theory" I will ever engage with but in this case I think it actually might be true. Our guest this week is Alison Stevenson, wonderful comedian and long-time friend of the pod who also has her own podcast about relationships and a Wednesday night gig on Adult Swim. As always, please enjoy this episode, and if you don't, va fongool. Lees meer
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201: Guy Walks Into A Psychiatrist’s Office
22 oktober 2019 · 1 uur 4 min
In episode 14, season one of The Sopranos is over and season 2 begins! "Season Two opens with the aftermath of the federal crackdown: Junior's in jail, Melfi refuses to see Tony, Christopher's expanding into new business ventures, Pussy is still missing...and Tony's adjusting to life as the new boss. To complicate matters even more, Tony's free-spirited sister Janice arrives to take care of Livia." In "Guy Walks Into A Psychiatrist's Office," which originally premiered January 16th, 2000, sees Tony making nice with Big Pussy, Christopher running a pump and dump scheme while getting deeper into heroin, and the first appearance of Aida Turturro as Tony's sister Janice, one of the all-time great TV characters and very triggering according to Matt. I think we all know at least one Janice. It's also the first time we meet Matt Bevilaqua, played by Lillo Brancato Jr., previously of A Bronx Tale, who would go on to do eight years in prison for his part in a botched burglary during which an off-duty police officer was killed. That's pretty dark, but the important thing to remember is that this episode is full of important trivia, some of which we remember. Give it a listen or va fongool. Lees meer
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113: I Dream Of Jeannie Cusamano, With Laremy Legel
2 oktober 2019 · 1 uur 9 min
This week on Pod Yourself A Gun, we're discussing episode 13, "I Dream Of Jeannie Cusamano," the season one finale of the Sopranos and thus the season one finale of Pod Yourself A Gun. In this episode, all of the Sopranos biggest season one storylines come to a head, and many to a resolution. Tony finds out his mother and uncle conspired to try to have him whacked. Carmela realizes Father Phil is a fuckboi. Dr. Melfi puts her cards on the table and tells Tony what she suspects about his mother. Tony becomes a physical threat to Dr. Melfi. Tony removes a suspected snitch from his crew and comes clean to his remaining guys about seeing a shrink. In one of season one's best episodes and arguably one of the best season finales of any show, we get a culmination of the themes introduced with a few intriguing questions left to explore. It seems to come from a time when prestige TV seemed to think it owed us more in terms of catharsis and closure. It ranges from dramatic and thrilling (Jimmy Altieri's death, Tony flipping the table on Dr. Melfi) to introspective and psychological (Carmela calling out Father Phil, Livia's psychosomatic dementia) to the kind of comedy that really only the Sopranos could do and maybe hasn't been done the same since (Mikey Palmice's death scene, one of the greatest in TV history, and one of the best lines in the show, "cunnilingus and psychiatry brought us to this!"). To discuss this week's episode, our guest is Laremy Legel, former critic at Film.com, author of Film Critic, long time friend of the pod and Matt and Vince's co-star in Whoop Dreams, a documentary about the Gathering Of The Juggalos. He joins your regular hosts, Matt Lieb from Good Mythical Morning, The Star Wars Show, and Newsbroke on AJ+ and Vince Mancini, Senior Film And Culture writer at Uproxx. Please enjoy, but if you don't, as always, va fongool. Lees meer
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112: Isabella
30 augustus 2019 · 56 min
This week on Pod Yourself A Gun, we discuss episode 12 from season 1 of the Sopranos, "Isabella" - where Tony is deep in depression about the disappearance of his friend (and possible snitch) Big Pussy. As we near the end of the first season of the Sopranos, and the first season of Pod Yourself A Gun, Matt and Vince have decided that all of you listeners out there deserve an episode of this show with NO GUEST and just the pure, unadulterated analysis of your loyal PYAG hosts. Just the raw shit, no filler. And what better episode to do this than Isabella, which has zero nudity. That's right, ZERO. Bada B-stories: -Tony is depressed -JR puts a hit out on Tony -Livia is losing her mind -Tony meets Isabella, who may or may not be Tyler Durden Enjoy, please review and comment, email us at frotcast@gmail.com, voicemail 415 275 0030, and donate at Patreon.com/frotcast. We love you, and don't stop believin. Lees meer
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111: Nobody Knows Anything, With Joey Devine
22 augustus 2019 · 1 uur 8 min
It's time for another hilarious, informative, and not-nearly-frequent-enough episode of the world's premier Sopranos podcast, Pod Yourself A Gun. This week Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini are talking season one, episode 11, "Nobody Knows Anything." Our guest is Joey Devine from the world famous NBA podcast, Roundball Rock. In episode 11, which premiered March 21st, 1999, Pussy has a bad back and might be a snitch, dirty detective Vin Makazian is sick of the way Tony has been treating him, Junior learns new secrets from Livia, and we meet a smattering of new characters -- including Debbie, the madame with a heart of gold, Mikey Palmice's wife, the mysterious and wonderful bordello doctor known only as "Dr. Mop and Glow," and a reference to "the Jonas Salk of backs." This episode also marks the first time we hear Pauly Walnuts' Godfather theme car horn. So many things to discuss! Download it now and tell all of your friends. Lees meer
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110: A Hit Is A Hit, With Miles Gray
25 juli 2019 · 1 uur 2 min
Miles Gray from The Daily Zeitgeist podcast joins Matt and Vince this week to discuss Sopranos episode 10, "A Hit Is A Hit," released March 14th (Pi Day!), 1999. In this episode, Pauly, Pussy, and Christopher kill a drug dealer for a big score, and everyone has their own ideas what to do with the money. Tony wants to fund an IPO, Carmella wants to play the stock market, and Christopher bankrolls Adriana's music producing ambitions. Meanwhile, "gangsta rapper" Massive Genius (played by Bokeem Woodbine) finagles a sitdown with Hesh, who Massive G believes owes royalties to a distant relative. Adriana signs up an old friend for some studio time, and Tony decides to play golf with his neighbor, Dr. Bruce Cusamano, an Amerigan, or a Wonderbread Wop, hoping for some hot stock tips but instead becoming a dance bear for the country club squares. A lot people have said this is one of the Sopranos worst episodes, but notwithstanding some poor writing of the black characters, I (Vince) think this is actually one of the better episodes of this season. I read it as foreshadowing all the dumb bullshit people blew their money on in the early aughts, when everyone suddenly decided they were a stock picker and real estate speculator. It also, yet again, is unsparing towards all the characters, gangster or straight, Wonderbread Wop or goombah. Everyone is their on distinctive flavor of A-hole, and isn't that just like life? We finish things off discussing which of the Sopranos characters, if any, wouldn't have voted for Trump. If you like the show, give us a review! Donate at Patreon.com/Frotcast. Email us at frotcast@gmail.com, leave us a voicemail at 415 275 0030. Lees meer
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109: Boca, With Anna Hossnieh From Daily Zeitgeist
21 juni 2019 · 1 uur 5 min
For episode nine, Anna Hossnieh from The Daily Zeitgeist and Ethnically Ambiguous podcasts joins Pod Yourself A Gun to talk "Boca," episode nine of The Sopranos. Released March 7, 1999, "Boca" is allegedly a double meaning title, referring both to Uncle Junior's trip to Boca Raton with his girlfriend Bobbi Sanfilipo, and as in Italian/Spanish for mouth, since this episode is all about loose lips. Junior's loose lips because he likes to perform cunnilingus, and Bobbi's because she loves cunnilingus and loves to gab to all her friends about Junior's cunnilingus skills. Which is a problem for Junior because apparently in the mafia, doing oral sex on a lady makes you gay. Doing the last thing any gay man would want to do is one of the gayest things you can do, as we know. Eventually he pulls a modified Cagney on her which seems extremely rude. Other plotlines include Meadow's soccer coach abandoning the team to coach at Rhode Island, and Meadow's soccer coach having sex with one of the players, which leads her to slit her wrists on the swingset, which is where everyone loves to slit their wrists, obviously. Meanwhile Artie and Charmaine bicker over what to do about Tony, and Artie and Tony bicker over what to do with the soccer coach, and Junior and Mikey Palmice bicker over what to do about the feds. Silvio just nods a lot. Supposedly he wore his own golf hat for this episode. Incredible. If you love us, leave us a review, or even better pay us for our time over on Patreon. Email us at frotcast@gmail.com, voicemails at 415 275 0030. We love you, don't stop believin. Lees meer
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108: El-P From Run The Jewels On ‘The Legend Of Tennessee Moltisanti’
19 mei 2019 · 1 uur
Episode eight of The Sopranos, "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti," premiered on February 28th, 1999. More than 20 years later, we're discussing it with El-P, rap veteran and one half of Run The Jewels. And, as it turns out, a huge Sopranos fan. This episode is that perfect combination of great guest and great episode to discuss. Perhaps remembered as "the one where Christopher tries to write a screenplay," episode eight is one of the best episodes of season one and certainly one that hits on all cylinders -- comedy, drama, character psychology, and moving the story forward. It has the best dream sequence of any Sopranos thus far, the funniest AJ moments, amazing malapropism, delightful racism against the Irish from Livia, and takedowns of intellectuals and stand-up comics as brutal as any comment on the mafia. Some of the firsts in this episode include our first glimpses of Dr. Melfi's family, including her self-hating Italian ex-husband and her insufferable son, who "just moved into a smoke-free dorm room at Bard." In a show full of vicious thieves and murderers, Melfi's son manages to stand out as the least likable. It's also the first time we see Joseph R. Gannascoli as Gino, later to be recast as Vito Spatafore, who starred in one of the all-time great Sopranos episodes, "Johnnycakes," which was incidentally directed by the same director as this episode, Tim Van Patten, brother of Dick. Enjoy, and if you like the show, rate us on iTunes and wherever you get your podcasts. You can help keep the show ad free by subscribing to our other show on Patreon, at Patreon.com/Frotcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAkWJmoL8KQ Lees meer
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107: Down Neck, With Justin Halpern
26 april 2019 · 1 uur 6 min
TV and book writer Justin Halpern (Shit My Dad Says, I Suck At Girls, Powerless, iZombie, Surviving Jack, the upcoming Harley Quinn series) joins Vince and Matt this week to discuss episode seven of the Sopranos, "Down Neck," released February 21, 1999. Among other things, this episode was the only episode of the Sopranos directed by a woman and was the first ever screen credit for future Creed star Michael B. Jordan. It also consists partly of flashbacks to Newark in 1967, the reported setting of the Sopranos prequel movie, The Many Saints Of Newark. Tony will be played by his son, Michael Gandolfini in the film, which is interesting considering Gandolfini is 19, and in this episode, with the flashbacks set in the same year, the actor who plays Tony is about 10. Marone, talk about a discrepanzool, am I right?? Incidentally, the actor who plays Tony in this episode, Bobby Boriello, also played young Howard Stern in Private Parts and young Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon. We dive into all the episode's themes, including your favorite recurring segments, Bada B Stories, Gabba Vafongool, Malapropism Corner, It's the 90s, and the Wayback Machine, where we travel back to 1999 and see how mean people were to Monica Lewinsky. Enjoy, and don't stop believin! Lees meer
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106: Pax Soprana, With Sopranos Sessions Co-Author Matt Zoller Seitz
18 april 2019 · 1 uur
In this episode of Pod Yourself A Gun, we're talking episode six of The Sopranos, "Pax Soprana," released February 14th, 1999 (happy belated Valentine's Day to all the lovers out there). At Tony's suggestion, Junior is made acting boss after Jackie dies. In therapy, Tony surprises Dr. Melfi with an admission. Carmela and Irina (Tony's mistress) both suffer as Tony's libido takes a nosedive. Lots of topics to dive into in this episode, including Tony's most overt come on to Dr. Melfi to date (ever?), and some of his creepiest interactions with his poor goomar, Irina. Meanwhile, Junior is torn between being a Godfather and being a grumpy ass Fox News grandpa, Livia is manipulating Junior, Junior is taxing Hesh, Carmella is sweating Tony, Mikey Palmice is throwing people off of the bridge at Patterson Falls to make it look like a suicide, and Father Phil even gets a brief bit of screentime, reprising his role as the king of all f*ckboys. Our guest this week is New York Magazine television critic and RogerEbert.com editor at large Matt Zoller Seitz, who co-authored The Sopranos Sessions with Alan Sepinwall and originally covered the series for the Newark Star-Ledger. Enjoy and please give us a review and rating on iTunes! (Unless you hate it, in which case don't do that). Lees meer
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105: College, With Francesca Fiorentini
31 maart 2019 · 1 uur 4 min
In "College," The Sopranos basically became the critically acclaimed blueprint for future prestige TV dramas that makes it worth doing a whole podcast about. It's when the show first came into its own. After a series of sitcommy, lighter-but-solid episodes, Tony takes Meadow to tour colleges in Maine, where he sees an infamous snitch. Meanwhile, Carmella tries to come to terms with the guilt of being a mob wife during her emotional one-night stand with Father Phil. Francesca Fiorentini from The Bitchuation Room and The Young Turks joins Vince Mancini and Matt Lieb in the studio this week to discuss the episode, with all your favorite segments: the Wayback Machine, It's the 90s, Bada B-Stories, and Gabba Va Fongool. We get an explanation of "Ugotz" from Stevie B, and for the first time ever on Pod Yourself A Gun, your voicemails. You can leave us a voicemail at 415 275 0030, support us at Patreon.com/Frotcast, and don't forget to rate and review on iTunes! It really helps our visibility. Thank you all for listening, and as always, va fongool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7q1phGcChI Lees meer
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104: Meadowlands, With Felix Biederman From Chapo Trap House
17 maart 2019 · 1 uur 10 min
Felix Biederman (@ByYourLogic), Chapo Trap House's premiere Sopranos enthusiast, joins Pod Yourself A Gun this week to discuss Sopranos episode 4, Meadowlands. The Sopranos is still finding its voice in this episode, though there are glimpses of what it would eventually become. Our discussion brings us to such topics as the Three 6 Mafia, the size of polo shirts in the late 90s, the coolest Jewish kid in middle school, AJ's taste in Gnu Metal, the merits of the N64 controller, and the first appearance of crooked detective Vin Makazian. There's also pager pranks, 90s websites, the ouvre of Ulver, a real-life mafia hit this week, and the question of whether today's gangsters are modeling themselves on The Sopranos the way the Sopranos characters modeled themselves on The Godfather. Oh, also, it's 16 minutes of riffing before we actually start discussing thE episode. You all should probably know that going in. They were pretty good riffs though. Lees meer
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103: Denial, Anger, Acceptance, with Adam Tod Brown from Unpopular Opinion
22 februari 2019 · 59 min
Hey all you Sopranos fans out there who are also fans of the Frotcast. It’s time for your third exciting episode of Pod Yourself A Gun, a Sopranos podcast where Vince Mancini and Matt Lieb discuss every single episode of the Sopranos. This week we talk Sopranos episode 3, “Denial, Anger, Acceptance,” with Adam Tod Brown of the Unpopular Opinion podcast. We discuss anything and everything about this episode from Jackie’s cancer, to Meadow’s meth problem, to a very Anti-Semitic storyline involving Hasidic Jews jewing each other out of money and then jewing Tony down in a depiction that would make Jerry Lewis cringe. It’s very possible that Italians hate Jews more than I suspected. Anyway, listen to this episode immediately and please give us 5 stars and a review on iTunes. We will love you forever if you do. Lees meer
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102: 46 Long, With Julia Prescott
1 februari 2019 · 1 uur 1 min
This week on Pod Yourself A Gun, our guest is Julia Prescott, television writer and co-host of Everything's Coming Up Simpsons, on MaxFun. We're all discussing Sopranos episode two, "46 Long." In episode two, we see some of the growing pains of the show. It's the first episode that's truly a TV episode, David Chase having originally envisioned The Sopranos as a movie, and we see the show finding its voice. This episode is a bit broad. They telegraph the jokes and ham it up more than they would in future episodes. Television was still a broad, hammy medium in 1999, and episode two has some writing that feels much more sitcommy than it The Sopranos would eventually come to -- creating the sort of "prestige TV" format that's now so ingrained. Despite its slight shtickiness, it's also an important episode in establishing that these mobsters are operating in a world where their conception of what it is to be a mafia guy (and just a man in general) has been influenced by depictions of mafia guys in pop culture. Mafia figures became movie characters, movie characters influenced later mafia figures (like John Gotty, referenced in the opening scene of this episode), and then Tony and his crew come along at a moment when the movie mafia guy has already sort of eaten the real mafia guy and spat him back out again, to the point that they're sort of indistinguishable. Plenty of references to the Godfather and Scorsese movies ensue, including a cameo by "Marty" himself. We also talk about Tony's mom, toxic masculinity, how hard it is to find good help in the mafia, and whether the racism of the characters actually turns into racism of the show itself a little bit in this episode. We revisit our segments, Malapropism Corner and Gabbavafongool, and introduce a brand new one (complete with bumper music), "It's The 90s." Enjoy it, like and subscribe, and leave us a (positive) review on iTunes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrHzm9Xvp_0 Lees meer
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101: Pod Yourself A Gun "Pilot," with Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone
17 januari 2019 · 57 min
Welcome to Pod Yourself A Gun - A Sopranos Podcast, where every week comedians Vince Mancini and Matt Lieb (of the Filmdrunk Frotcast) take you through each episode of the most important TV show ever made. In this pilot episode of Pod Yourself A Gun, we discuss the pilot episode of The Sopranos with TV critic Alan Sepinwall who has written multiple books about the Sopranos, most recently "The Sopranos Sessions" available now at book stores everywhere. We dissect every facet of the pilot, from the original Father Phil Intintola, to the objectively terrible Sopranos theme song. It's just plain awful. It's barely music. What does "born under a bad sign with a blue moon in your eyes" even mean? Anyway, hope you enjoy the episode as much as we enjoyed making it. And if you don't enjoy it, va fangool. Lees meer
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