Mad Yourself A Man 213: Meditations in an Emergency, with David J Roth

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🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Meditations on a Finale

As is customary for the last episode of a season, we brought in the closer and honorary Pod Yourself a Third Chair. From Defector, The Distraction, and It’s Christmastown podcasts, David J. Roth joins Matt and Vince for the Mad Men season two finale, “Meditations in an Emergency.”

We know they’re not going to get blown up by Russia, but the characters don’t know that yet. There’s a missile crisis in, or around, Cuba, and on Madison Avenue, they’re living like there’s no tomorrow. Pete tries to get one last we’re-gonna-die shag from Peggy, who then confesses that she gave away his baby. He looks sad, but you just know he still would have hit if she let him.

Betty decides she too can play at the philandering game, and has her one last we’re-gonna-die shag with a strange man in what appears to be a bartender’s dressing room? Manhattan cocktail bars in the sixties seem cool. You could smoke inside, bartenders had dressing rooms you could have sex in, and oh wait right they didn’t let black people in. Nevermind, the sixties were bad. The podcast is good. Just enjoy the podcast. We’ll be back soon with season three.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Matt Lee.
0:07.3	And I'm Vince Mancini.
0:08.6	And this is Mad.
0:10.5	Mad Yourself a man.
0:14.4	A madman podcast where Vince Mancini and I go through every single episode of The Mad Men.
0:40.4	And talk about it. So excited for you all to be listening to the season two finale of this podcast. Give us five stars and a review on all of the podcast apps everywhere. You can leave comments on individual episodes on Spotify now, so that's fun. Also, you may notice that a
0:46.5	I love getting that, getting those comments a year and a half late that are like, actually
0:51.3	when Sylvia went to the bathroom, he was uh that was right that was
0:57.1	his uh sense of mortality right and i i have to like go in there and say like i've forgotten that we
1:04.2	talked about this show okay i don't need to hear your you know, Johnny come lately comments about fucking Sopranos lore.
1:13.8	But if you feel like doing it, it's fine. It actually helps us.
1:17.0	We're also glad to have you.
1:18.2	Yeah, we're very happy to have you. Each and everyone, we cherish all of the things that you think and say.
1:23.1	It doesn't matter. You can say whatever you want to say people you know sometimes have trouble with that
1:29.4	like we had one comment that uh said i don't know what to say and you know let me tell you there's lots
1:36.0	of things you can say you can say random stuff like i'm the president you can call yourself the president
1:42.0	if you want um and you know or you can be mad at us and you can just say you could go to hell yeah you can call yourself the president if you want um and you know or you can be mad at us
1:45.6	and you can go to hell yeah you can go to hell and that's fine you go to hell though fuck you
1:51.4	point is is please do uh comment on stuff and Matt don't let him off the hook that guy that
1:59.8	you just made up right now you got've got to give him what for?
2:02.6	That's...
2:03.1	Yeah.
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