[MAD MEN] 409: The Beautiful Girls, with David Roth

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🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Can We Interest You in a Hard Time?

The girls are beautiful, the men are mad, and the pod is cast. Co-owner and editor of Defector, and co-host of the It’s Christmastown podcast, David J. Roth returns to talk to Matt and Vince about Mad Men season four episode nine, “The Beautiful Girls.”

Pour one out for Ida Blankenship. She was an astronaut, a hellcat, and she died how she lived, surrounded by the people she answered phones for. Ida dropping dead at her desk is one of a handful of problems Don is dealing with in this episode. It’s a real sitcom for ol’ Dick Whitman. His daughter is showing up unannounced, his situationship can’t talk to kids, he needs to get his secretary’s body out of the office before the important business men see her, and he’s going on a date with two different women on the same night?!?!?

Ida was sort of Burt’s Joan, so he’s sad in a poignant way. Roger’s also sad, but Roger but in a horny way, so he does parlay this tragedy, along with a street mugging, into some hot sympathy sex with his Joan on a stoop in Harlem. If we’re ever unfortunate enough to get mugged, may we all be so lucky as to immediately have sex afterwards.

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1:01.1	Hi, I'm Matt Lieb.
1:02.4	And I'm Vince Mancini.
1:07.1	And this is Mad Yourself a Man.
1:12.9	A Mad Man podcast where Vince Mancini and I go through every single episode of The Mad Men.
1:28.2	And talk about it. Hell yeah, dude. So excited for us to do another episode of this show. So excited to watch another episode of Mad Men, a show about working at jobs.
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1:37.2	We really do. I, in fact, if you like rewatching shows, you've come to the right place. You've come to the right place where we will rewatch shows every week. And this week is no different because we're going to be talking about the beautiful girls, bad men season five episode nine. The beautiful girls. Don't you feel like you should be saying it? The beautiful girls. The beautiful guys. You know, Marilyn Manson. Yeah. If he like talked about girls. Yeah, if he was from Brooklyn in the 30s. Yeah, right.
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