6b04: Chasing It, with Will Menaker of Chapo Trap House
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🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
A lot to chew on in season 6b episode 4 of The Sopranos. Including, but not limited to, Tony’s compulsive gambling, AJ’s disastrous engagement, Hesh’s deadly farts, and the two giant ice cream sundaes purchased for Vito Jr. that will need to be fully chewed up before you even think about getting in Phil Leotardo’s car. Returning to discuss “Chasing It” with Matt and Vince is writer and co-host of the Chapo Trap House podcast, Will Menaker.
During a scene dubbed by Will as “The Vito Jr./Phil Leotardo Silo Summit,” Vito appears to be eating an ice cream sundae at the Applegate Farms Ice Cream stand in Montclair, New Jersey. When Phil calls it a sundae, Vito corrects him, preferring the name as it’s written on the cold treat’s cup, “The Silo.” Currently, neither the Applegate Farms’ website, their Yelp page, nor their Doordash menu mentions The Silo as an option. Is this a deprecated gluttonous treat gone the way of the supersized meal? A Sopranos prop department fabrication? A locals-only, in-person menu option that non-New Jerseyans can only fantasize about? We may never know, but what we can say for certain is that while eating his two Silos, this son of Tony Soprano’s deceased best earner looks like a Puerta Rican whoo-er.
The guys also delve into Tony’s misguided gambling strategies, the way he trades homophobia for antisemitism, and Matt brings an appropriately NuMetal bada-b song in honor of North Jersey’s shower shittingest grave vandalizer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, Matt Leib here. Before we get started on today's episode, I just need to let all of our San Francisco Bay Area listeners know that on October 17th at 8 p.m. |
| 0:12.1 | My wife, my wife, Francesca, if you aren't teeny and I are going to be co-headlining the Punchline Comedy Club in San Francisco. Once again, that is Tuesday, October 17th at 8 p.m. |
| 0:24.7 | We're going to be co-headlining the Punchline Comedy Club in San Francisco. It's going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be myself, Francesca, if you aren't teeny who is also voice my wife, and a few other comics. It's going to be great. You should come at the very least, you know, you'll get to see Francesca and I kiss on stage. It's a sex show. |
| 0:48.7 | Anyways, please buy your tickets immediately. The link will be in the show notes or you can go to www.punchlinecomedyclub.com to get tickets. Once again, that is www.punchlinecomedyclub.com to get tickets. It's Tuesday, October 17th at 8 p.m. Punchline San Francisco. Come see me. Come see my wife. Come see some guests. |
| 1:17.7 | Get your tickets now. Okay. On with the show. Hi, I'm Matt Lee and I'm Vince Mancini. And this is pod yourself a gun. A soprano's podcast where Vince Mancini and I go through every single episode of the sopranos and to talk about it. Thank you guys so much. I missed it. I know you completely missed it that time. |
| 1:46.7 | Thanks for listening. Once again, a reminder, please give us five stars in a review. I see a few of you listened to my scolding last week about how you're not doing it enough. But most of you didn't. So listen out, fuckers. Get to it because I'm tired of begging at the top of the of every show. You know what I mean? Right Vince? |
| 2:10.7 | I like it when you beg. So, you know, you guys do what you got to do. And we'll do what you can. You can write one of those weird reviews where, you know, you're like, oh, Matt Lee keeps talking about feet. I don't care. Just as long as there's five stars. All right. I'm done begging. Let's get to our guest. So today, the episode that we're going to talk about is from season six B episode for chasing it. And our guest is |
| 2:40.7 | another returning champion of pot yourself a gun. You've heard him on such podcasts as Chapo, trap house. Ladies and gentlemen, I guess today is Will Menecker. Gentlemen, enjoy to be happy to have you back, man. Thanks for coming back to talk. Surprise with us. It will be a pleasure to be chasing it with you today. I'm glad. I'm glad. So last time you came on. It was the famous Christopher |
| 3:10.6 | Columbus episode. Oh, yeah. And that one is just that's a solid banger. I mean, throughout you got some of the some of the greatest scenes, I think, in sopranos history, arguably the most |
| 3:22.2 | memed or maybe screen capped episode of the soprano. I think so. It's, you know, it's got the Italian American discrimination shit. And it's got |
| 3:33.0 | fucking, you know, an entire treatise on Christopher Columbus. And so it's, it's good. But this one, I feel like, is a, this is a close |
| 3:44.2 | second, at least in my opinion, for one of my favorite episodes. This is the famous Vito Jr. is a goth episode of the sopranos. |
| 3:54.2 | I mean, I don't know if this is like the second most memed sopranos episode, but it certainly deserves to be high up there in the |
| 4:01.0 | main rankings, just basically for for one scene and one scene alone. Yeah, I want to see a screen cap. We will get to that. Oh, we will. We will. But first, we must, of course, ask you a quick soprano's interview |
| 4:15.6 | question. Um, you a fan of the sopranos? Uh, don't really care for it. No. Yeah, very enough. Uh, who's your favourite sopranos character? |
| 4:26.3 | Uh, it's got to be Richie a preel. Richie a preel. Yeah. Yeah. Why? What makes him so great? Um, just his violent sociopathie and just sort of, um, seething madness and instability. It's the jacket. It's got to be the jacket, right? |
| 4:45.2 | Yeah. It's his love for that jacket was really, I think, what endeared me to him, uh, more than anything. Like close second to him running over beans. |
| 4:55.3 | He for not visiting him in prison. Um, and he's also, uh, you know, he stands up for, um, like stands up for women. It does. He's a feminist. He's a, he's a, he's a male ally and a feminist. He's sex positive. Yeah. |
| 5:08.9 | He's very sex positive. Yeah. He's not afraid. Not afraid to, like, live out his kinks openly in a relationship. Yeah. And, you know, uh, like, I sort of a socially progressive force, um, in Northern, Northern New Jersey. |
| 5:22.1 | Uh, yeah. Most socially liberal Italian man from New Jersey ever. Yeah. She a preel. Never kinked shame, Janice. That was what I liked about. Yeah. Yeah. You point that gun at my head. He was like, I'll do it happily, happily. So in fact, he was really kind of murdered for no real reason. I mean, you know, he slips up one time, you know, and hits Janice. And then all of a sudden he's fucking what he's canceled. That's fucking cancel culture right there. |
| 5:51.4 | Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Janice canceled him pretty thoroughly. No, come back from that one. No, coming back one minute, the role plan. And then all of a sudden, you know, he does one thing wrong. And, uh, and that's the end. That doesn't seem fair. |
| 6:03.8 | You know, Sprout says some of like, I think the most memorable, uh, kinks of, um, I think any TV show, uh, in recent memory, like you've got, you know, obviously the gun play that he does. But also, I would say my favorite kink. |
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