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TV recaps with no indoor voice.
Pod Yourself A Gun runs on rewatch energy, loose banter, and comedy that keeps interrupting the recap before circling back to the episode. Recent installments focus on Mad Men, with side roads through listener reviews, Patreon bits, lawsuits, and guests who match the hosts' speed.
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Pod Yourself A Gun is a comedy rewatch show that treats television as both text and trampoline. Recent episodes operate under the Mad Yourself a Man banner, with Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini moving through Mad Men episode by episode. The structure is simple. The execution is anything but. A discussion of The Beautiful Girls, The Summer Man, The Suitcase, Waldorf Stories, Christmas Comes But Once a Year, Out of Town, or The Inheritance can start with the premise of recap and immediately spill into songs, listener scolding, Patreon patter, and insults aimed mostly at themselves. Then the show snaps back to the episode. The pair notice the oddness of Glenn, the strained family scenes around Sally and Betty, the rituals of office life, and the way Mad Men characters can make ordinary small talk feel unsettling. Their criticism is informal but not empty. They tend to find the human weirdness inside a scene, then exaggerate it until it becomes a bit. Guests help keep that rhythm volatile. David Roth, Will Weldon, Dave Manheim, Sam Seder, Emily Fleming, Dave Schilling, and Alison Stevenson appear in recent titles, while Brendan turns up around Frotcast material as another source of conversational disruption. The feed also makes room for unlocked Frotcast episodes that move away from Mad Men entirely. Those segments lean into internet stories, legal disputes, misheard lyrics, and deliberately unruly group banter. It is not a clean recap desk. It is a comedy room with a television obsession. The show is most useful to listeners who already enjoy Mad Men, rewatch culture, or podcasts where the hosts' rapport is as important as the subject. It is candid and frequently coarse. It can be sharp about a scene without pretending to be definitive. What distinguishes it is the combination of actual rewatch commitment and a refusal to behave like the episode is sacred. The result is a recap show that feels loose, combative, affectionate, and built for people who enjoy a little disorder with their close watching.
Made for: For Mad Men and rewatch-podcast listeners who want comic chemistry, messy tangents, and irreverent scene talk more than polished criticism. It also fits fans of Frotcast-style banter and guest-driven comedy conversations.
What sets it apart: The show pairs episode-by-episode rewatch discipline with deliberately unstable comic pacing: Patreon bits, listener-review feuds, character riffs, and guest detours all compete with the recap. That disorder is the format's signature, not a failure of focus.
Comedians Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini watch every episode of The Sopranos and discuss it with friends, fans, actors, writers, TV critics, and anyone who loves The Sopranos as much as they do.
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Comedians Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini are joined by guest Rachel Fisher to analyze Mad Men season 1, episode 12, 'Nixon vs.
Matt and Vince discuss Mad Men season 3 episode 11 'The Gypsy and the Hobo' with guest David J.
Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini introduce their Mad Men recap podcast, discussing the show's first episode with guest David J Roth.
Frotcast 697 opens with Pod Yourself A Gun's hosts riffing on Beatles-style pee parodies, including "Magical McDuration Tour," before reading a Futurism article on a 45,000-member Facebook urine therapy group.
Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini discuss Mad Men season 5 episode 9 'The Beautiful Girls' with guest David Roth.
The Frotcast crew discusses a comedian being sued for misinterpreting song lyrics, mixed with crude humor and banter.
Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini introduce their Mad Men podcast episode covering season 4, episode 8, with banter about Patreon and reviews.
Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini review Mad Men season four, episode seven, The Suitcase, with Dopey host Dave Manheim.
Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini discuss Mad Men season 4, episode 6, "Waldorf Stories," with Sam Seder of The Majority Report.
Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini review Mad Men season four, episode two, “Christmas Comes But Once a Year,” with Emily Fleming, co-host of Free With Ads.
Vince Mancini, Matt Lieb, Brandon, and Brett Flyberg review Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia, comparing its biotech-CEO kidnapping plot with Anaconda, Eddington, and internet conspiracy culture.
Frotcast 657 features Vince Mancini, Matt Lieb, and Brandon discussing Ryan Lizza’s paid Substack account of his relationship with Olivia Nuzzi and the reported texts involving Robert Kennedy Jr.
Katrina Davis connects Sterling Cooper's survival plan to modern private equity and short-term corporate flipping.
Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini return for Season 3 of their Mad Men recap podcast, discussing the episode 'Out of Town' with guest Dave Schilling.
Matt and Vince recap Mad Men season 2 episode 10 'The Inheritance' with guest Alison Stevenson.
Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini discuss the Mad Men episode 'Nixon vs.