Fancy Boys Club

Analog podcasting: Matt answers Brandon’s questions about the Grammys

January 30, 2026January 30, 2026by Matt DrufkeLeave a Comment

The Grammys are upon us! The third most popular music awards show every year, behind only the I Heart Radio Music Awards and every single person revealing their Spotify Wrapped and pretending that their taste in music is kooky and eccentric and that listening to Taylor Swift for the time equivalent of 33 days over the course of a calendar year is normal.

With that in mind, we have enlisted our resident pop culture gadfly Matt Drufke to come and answer questions for people who don’t pay attention to music that gets selected for these awards, or me, who is too old to care and still carries a chip on his shoulder for Johnny Cash not winning music video of the year in 2003 at the MTV Music Awards.

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baseball, Sports

The Most Random Cubs All Stars of All Time

January 27, 2026January 26, 2026by Brandon AndreasenLeave a Comment

Fancy Boys Club founder Brandon Andeasen is slowly losing his mind as the ice cold of the Midwest stagnates. With the Bears season over, he is leaning into one of his favorite obsessions: random sports facts. Until morale improves, he will be posting stories about random sporting events, sports stadium architecture, and the stars that play on the field. Today, he looks at the most random Chicago Cubs to make the annual MLB All Star Game.

It started this morning. I woke up and saw that Chicago Bears cornerback Nashone Wright had made the Pro Bowl (this was somehow only the second most ridiculous Pro Bowl addition on this day, thanks to Shedeur Sanders) and I thought to myself “well, that has to be one of the most random all star selections in Bears history…” and then I had a second thought, “wait, that’s not the most ridiculous honor in Chicago history, though. There was that one guy. He played first base in the early 2010’s. The hell was his name? Micah Hoffpauir! Wait. No. That can’t be right. Who the hell am I thinking of…”

Instead of letting that thought go like a normal person would, I proceeded to start google spamming references that would help me figure it out. I happened upon Baseball Reference, and found my answer: Bryan LaHair!

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NFL, Sports

NFL Championship Round Mailbag

January 23, 2026January 22, 2026by Brandon AndreasenLeave a Comment

Matt: Well, it is fare thee well for the Chicago Bears, who lost to the Rams this week. I feel the thought of this team back when the season started was that they were going to be a better team than last year, but not THIS good. Caleb Williams took strides as a quarterback and the Bears defense always seemed to be good enough to keep them in games. What do the Bears need to do in the offseason to take the step to title contender? Or are they already there?

Brandon: It’s hard to believe that any team is a title contender from one year to another. The Eagles won last year, brought back most of their team, and got bounced in the first round of the playoffs. The Chiefs run gave an outsized image of what a perennial contender can look like, but the fact of the matter is, there is less certainty in football than any other sport. Every year, nearly half of the playoff teams will not return the next season.

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Music/Movies, Oscars

FBC 2026 Oscars Coverage, Part IV: Oscars Mailbag (with FBC founder Brandon Andreasen)!!!

January 22, 2026by Matt DrufkeLeave a Comment

FBC co-founder/editor-in-chief Brandon Andreasen is a football expert, and I love asking him questions about the NFL. He manages to be smart and funny and insightful while nerd-ing out on the gridiron. Today, as the Oscar nominations come out, he turns the tables on me and asks some questions about what happened this morning. Let’s get fancy!!!

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politics

Help me understand Republicans: Not paying taxes, immigration laws, and abject racism…

January 20, 2026by Matt DrufkeLeave a Comment

There is this weird trend going around in conservative social media. I mean, pretty much anything those dorks do is weird. But this one really has me confounded. So I am asking you for your help.

Maybe you are a conservative and can help me make sense of this. Maybe you know someone who is a conservative and can ask them. Maybe you are pen pals with Roger Stone. Who knows? The world is a complicated place.

Anyways, back to this trend…

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Music/Movies, Oscars

FBC 2026 Oscars Coverage, Part III: Predicting the nominations…

January 20, 2026by Matt DrufkeLeave a Comment

On Thursday, the Oscar nominations will be revealed to the world. All the guilds and AMPAS members will finally have their say and we will see who will be in the running for movies biggest night. I usually can predict the Oscars with about 80% accuracy. Any less than 70% and I’m just gonna drink my way through January. Any more than 90% and… well, about the same. It’s cold in the midwest and there isn’t a lot to do.

I should point out that this is who I think will be nominated and not who should be nominated. So, with that said, let’s get into nominees from the major categories.

And the nominees will be…

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Music/Movies, Oscars

FBC 2026 Oscars Coverage, part II: Paul Thomas Anderson’s battles for Oscar dominance

January 19, 2026by Matt DrufkeLeave a Comment

When a movie is expected to dominate the Oscars in January, it can go one of two ways: It can keep the bright light shone upon it and have a very big night (Oppenheimer, Everything Everywhere All At Once) or can be weighed down under all of the expectations and sink to the bottom (The Power Of The Dog, 1917). Heavy is the head that is expected to wear the crown, and this year, that head is firmly on the shoulders of Paul Thomas Anderson, the 55-year old bespectacled weirdo whose film, One Battle After Another, is expected to have a very big March. The film, telling the story of Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) trying to get him and his daughter to safety, has all of the PTA benchmarks: a star-studded cast, a razor-tight script, a Jonny Greenwood score, and a lot of hype. One Battle will be Anderson’s fourth film making a run at Oscars’ biggest prize and he will almost be certainly be nominated for Best Director for the fourth time.

But something about this film and this nomination feels bigger. Because One Battle may have to win Best Picture in order to be considered a success. And, if you are a fan of movies, you need the film to succeed.

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Music/Movies, Oscars

FBC 2026 Oscars Coverage, Part 1: The five big questions leading into the nominations

January 17, 2026by Matt DrufkeLeave a Comment

This Thursday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) will release the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards. I, as always, am fucking psyched. You’ve heard me talk about the Oscars before so you know how I feel about them. They’re amazing and they try to get it right and, lately, they’ve been doing ok. No, I am not counting Green Book winning Best Picture. Or CODA.

This year, the big question seems to be if any movie will be able to stop the momentum that One Battle After Another has been, seemingly, building since its release. While Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie seems to currently be on pace to have a big Thursday as the front-runner for the top prize, there are some storylines which have popped up in the last few weeks.

This Thursday, we will learn the answers to these questions:

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NFL, Sports

Fancy Boys Club NFL Mailbag 1/15/2026

January 15, 2026by Brandon AndreasenLeave a Comment

In honor of the the NFL playoffs, Brandon and Matt have taken time out of their various erotic fan fiction ventures to talk a little football.

Matt: I feel like we need to start in the city we both live closest to and talk about the Chicago Bears. All but left for dead, the Bears pulled off a comeback to beat Green Bay this weekend. This seems to be a team that plays its best when down in the second half. Why is that? And what do the Bears need to do in order to be winning for the whole game?

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Comedy

My two weirdest New Years Eve shows…

December 31, 2025December 31, 2025by Matt Drufke1 Comment

It’s December 21, 2012 and I am hosting an event at the O’Hare Hilton. As a comedian, New Years Eve can be kind of a mixed bag. While you can usually guarantee a full audience, they can be drunk or distracted or just looking for someone to make out with at midnight. All of those things are not great for an artform which, for the most part, requires an audience to sit politely and listen.

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