[MAD MEN] 405: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, with Cullen Crawford
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
The Chrysanthelumlum and the Bum Bum
You better go to the store and grab a cantaloupe. We have a guest who expects gifts. Creator of Strip Law on Netflix, Cullen Crawford, joins Matt & Vince to talk about Mad Men season four episode five, “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.”
Mad Men is, if nothing else, a television show, which means there has to be at least one episode in which important Japanese businessmen need to be impressed. Honda’s motorcycle men are shopping for a new ad agency and if you thought Roger was racist before, you’ve never seen him interact with people from the country whose servicemen killed his buddies in Dubya Dubya II. He does his best to verbally A-bomb the deal, but Don hatches a plan to impress Honda while dunking on Ted Chaough.
You don’t get to be that good at your job without also neglecting your kids, so on his one night with Sally and Bobby, he leaves them with his neighbor Phoebe so he can go on a date. While he’s gone, Sally cuts her own hair. Betty is pissed because she lacks the foresight to understand her new do would be very chic in Silver Lake today.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Matt Leeb. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Vince Mancini. |
| 0:08.4 | And this is Mad Yourself a man. |
| 0:13.1 | A madman podcast where Vince Mancany and I go through every single episode of the Madman. |
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