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Mad Yourself A Man 311: The Gypsy and the Hobo, with David J. Roth
🕑 Added 2025-11-07 17:10:00 +0000 UTCThe Mistress and the Car
Retrieve your horsemeat gabbagool, you’ll want something to nosh on while you listen to this week’s episode with David J. Roth from Defector, The Distraction, and It’s Christmastown podcasts, joining Matt and Vince to talk about Mad Men season three episode eleven, “The Gypsy and the Hobo.”
In America, horses are our friends. At least that’s what David told some nice Italian folks who tried to serve him cured horse meat. In 1962, horses were both our friends, and our dog’s food, and Americans were struggling with this dichotomy. Enter Annabelle Mathis, CEO of a horsemeaty dog food company, and Roger’s old flame. She wants Sterling Cooper’s help to convince people that it’s fine for Lassie to eat Secretariat. She also wants one more roll in the hay with Roger, but he’s more interested in telling her she’s an ugly old hag who blew it when she left him. In his defense, when he drinks, he gets really funny.
Back at the Draper residence, Betty confronts Don about his box full of secrets, and spills the beans. He admits everything. Everything other than the fact that he left his daughter’s teacher in the car down the street to sit and wait while he finally gets (mostly) honest with his wife. In his defense, the teacher is really pretty.
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Mr. Pie
Need more excuses for Matt to do a Bahsten accent
ImGonnaCuomoAllOverYourFredo
roman alfredo aka real alfredo is butter, parm, and pasta water..the starch from the pasta water attaches to the fat in the butter thickening the sauce..its easy to make, and easy to break..and its fucking delicious..american alfredo is garbage
Matt McClure
Just came here to say that I would follow Roth into hell.
Johnathan Grace
And then Don, Betty, Sally and Bobby have to hide the body and cover up the death. Along the way, Glen finds out and blackmails Betty into a twisted psychosexual relationship. The whole Draper family all go mad with all the guilt, the secrecy, the lies and the shame of it all. More murders happen as the series goes on. It would have been bold of Matthew Weiner to give the show a 180 like that. It might not have worked, but I would have respected him for it.
You Fuck Like My Dad
Those scientists were actually ahead of the curve on the concept of "elite panic," even if they framed it a bit differently.
Jon Smith
I thought you said I don't want to be sexually assaulted Spider? Dr. Greg looks like Brandon Flowers right?
Brian Betz
A few months ago I came across an article talking about Ms. Farrell in this episode, and her whole car predicament that you guys were riffing on. Matthew Weiner—maniac that he is—apparently intended for her to fucking *die* in the hot car, having fallen asleep waiting for him to return. He claims that that was very much a thing that happened in the 60s in these kinds of scenarios. Which, I guess, but my god that would’ve been an insane way to close out that character.
