[MAD MEN] 412: Blowing Smoke, with Eliza Skinner
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Blowing Bean Smoke
Is this podcast beans-funny or pickles-funny? Find out on the latest episode with comedian, writer, and ceramicist Eliza Skinner joining Matt & Vince to chat about Mad Men season four episode twelve, “Blowing Smoke.”
In the wake of Lucky Strike’s departure, Don’s trying to land another big fish, but he’ll settle for beans, vinegars, and/or sauces. Faye gets him a meeting with Heinz, and he learns that he can’t make an ad about how beans make you fart, but does not lock down a new client.
Remember Midge? Don’s first mistress? You never forget your first. She’s back and she’s selling paintings to fund her true passion, doing heroin. Which she describes as feeling like, “drinking a hundred bottles of whiskey while someone licks your tits.” She makes it seem like that’s good and cool and good, but on paper, sounds icky. Don’t do heroin. It’s icky.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Matt Lee. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Vince Mancini. |
| 0:08.3 | And this is Mad Yourself a man. |
| 0:13.5 | A madman podcast where Vince Mancini and I go through every single episode of The Mad Men. |
| 0:20.2 | And talk about it. Hell yeah. Thank you for listening to another |
| 0:26.6 | episode of the world's only show about madmen. Please give us five stars in a review on all of the |
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| 0:39.0 | And, you know, if your friends haven't seen Mad Men, tell them, no big deal. |
| 0:43.9 | The show doesn't really matter if you've seen it or not. |
| 0:47.5 | You can watch it through listening to the episode. |
| 0:50.3 | No, just hop in any episode. |
| 0:51.9 | Doesn't matter. |
| 0:52.6 | That's the thing. |
| 0:53.1 | What do you need to know? |
| 0:54.0 | Listen. People wearing suits. Other people are wearing dresses. |
| 0:58.7 | Some people got hats on and they're trying to sell stuff. It doesn't matter. Was it a smart idea to do a podcast in which it is a prerequisite that you watch another thing for an hour? |
| 1:12.8 | Not a smart idea, but it doesn't matter because you're here, I think, and I thank you for that. |
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| 1:34.4 | it like listening to the frotcast. And I usually tell them this. |
| 1:38.3 | Drinking a hundred bottles of whiskey while someone licks your tits. It is like that. |
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