15 Feb Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 02/01/2016 – Matt Besser
A real time blog where Superfan Giovanni does recap and commentary on the show as it happens and opines on all things ACS
Guest – Matt Besser
Recorded 01-31-2016 – Release Date 02-01-2016
Production Number #1747
Adam opens the show to a funny Bette Davis Eyebrows, he talks about the upcoming 7th anniversary of the show and how people reacted when he was first launching the show.
BB plays a Churros drop from Richard Martin as today’s #TopDrop and Gina says she’s been saying it all weekend.
Adam is recalling their conversation with Cliff “Cuzzi” from last week and how even a makeshift basketball hoop can keep kids busy, Adam talks about wanting a waterdog and the enjoyment of building a new pool with Phil there waiting to use it.
Adam talks about Phil holding his head up to drink rain water and how putting a towel over a dog covering it up is one of the most fun things for all kids.
Adam talks about catching Sonny holding a brick and when asked about it he explained how Jerry Rice’s father was a mason and would toss him bricks to train him.
Adam jokes about tossing the brick into Natalia’s bikini next time she’s in the pool.
Adam is talking about his daughter being ill and BB brings up Adam’s “X” idea where men and women cross in terms of status, while describing the axis of actual illness vs. milking it.
Adam shares the details of his own head cold, he says you can’t count it as a sick day unless he misses work.
Adam is talking about the experience of someone cleaning up and how you always find one item left behind, he talks about the football Sunday parties at the other warehouse.
Adam is sharing the lone tall boy of Mountain Dew Code Red he spotted and then had to dump out, it turned out to be chew spit from
“Oh fuck please tell me I haven’t hired a retarded person to work for me on my staff” – Adam on the thought of one of his employees drinking mountain dew, let alone mountain dew code red.
Adam is further describing how he was breaking down who would’ve done this, Adam mocks his other Bryan with a Y that he employs.
Adam says never own a boat, have a best friend who owns a boat then fuck on the boat, jizz on a sofa pillow, then you leave.
Adam is describing the particles in the leftover liquid.
Adam says it was Brad, he left his dip can, BB doesn’t know which Brad and asks if it’s Brad Williams, they joke about him not being able to handle a tall boy, hilarious riff.
Adam says to all who dip you cannot leave that can behind, Adam talks about guys with chain wallets and Big Tad and his lame life and how nobody less needed to hold onto their wallet than him.
They mock his net worth and Adam is talking about Brad the weird dude, he a sober guy, this is not booze related, Adam says the dip can needs to be chained to the guy who chews tobacco.
Adam wants a wrist tether, Gina asks why all of BB’s suggestions are so disgusting and Adam shares his reaction to the disgusting dip cup.
BB mishears them and Adam once again explains what’s going, Adam says he must have been editing something, a clip, Gina has a funny “alcohol fueled” one liner mocking VBB for getting confused twice in the same story.
Adam teases the upcoming Workaholics clips and discussion and praises the cast of the show.
Adam is doing a Bet DSI Live Read
Gina things that gambling would make her learn football rules in a hurry
Adam has the 3 clips from the show, actually 4 utterances of Mangria in the episode of Workaholics.
Adam is now talking about ‘Modern Family’ and how Adam Devine plays a character named Manny on the show, while he was trying to describe him to Lynette.
Q and Ace
1st Caller Danny, wants to know why Adam doesn’t get as dog whistle to freak out dogs on flights, he jokes about Spanish fly and dog whistles while asking if they really work.
He has a killer line about not being near any pussy growing up and jokes about being able to fuck a dog with a whistle and Spanish fly, huge reaction from the guys in the booth, nice!
Adam describes Danny’s plan and Adam responds to his idea, he thinks it would get you in trouble and doesn’t want dog chaos.
2nd Caller Mark, he’s calling form my hometown of Kirkland Washington.
He wants to know why he doesn’t relocate to Kirkland, Adam brings up the crosswalk flags and Mark does an admirable job of pitching him on the state, bringing up the lack of state taxes.
Adam is saying that moving to the new neighborhood helped immensely, Adam says he’s still in the business and he needs to be there for this, it’s not quite the same to try and do this stuff remotely.
Adam is talking about his old warehouse near Leno’s place, about 4 miles away but too far for Adam to go there, Adam talks about workout out at home vs. going to a gym
Adam says Kirkland would be near the top of his list of places to go if he was to move.
Adam is talking about how he would move if he was just doing the podcast.
Adam thinks the documentary crew and cars thing won’t be possible in Kirkland and pledges to head there in 10 years, Adam thanks him and it’s a wonderful wrap up to a great call.
Adam is talking about meeting in Hollywood and how you need to be there and local for this business.
Hooray for Baldywood
BB saw the movie ‘Brooklyn’ and he explains the plot and writer behind the original novel.
Adam praises the movie ‘Fever Pitch’ and talks about the way they were present to film the Red Sox finally winning the World Series and how perfect it worked out, Adam says it’s no ‘Taxi’ when it comes to Jimmy Fallon’s filmography.
BB is describing the plot of the movie and explains how the world is presented in the era depicted, including 10 day trips on ships between America and Ireland.
BB has them play a clip from the film, he shares what he liked about the acting and the performances for which he credits the director and his theater background.
Gina saw this and loved it, she says she might be projecting and says she found the Italian boyfriend super creepy and BB comments on the way they turned some characterization on their head.
BB asks if she watched it with her boyfriend, Adam is talking about trying to insert PC politics into historical dreams, hilarious “the good old days” comment from Ace.
Adam is asking BGB about the score on Rotten Tomatoes, Gina is now sharing a great quote from the movie and BB shares the Bet DSI odds for this winning best picture.
BB wraps the segment and Adam says it averages 4.2 on Rotten Tomatoes.
Adam is now talking about why the UFC is the fastest growing sport and it’s because of how decisive it is and how speculation can’t take away victory, it’s as clear and plain as can be.
Adam is talking about the Academy Awards and he compares Breaking Away to Little Miss Sunshine.
Adam is talking about the one white guy and ten black guys and the purity of sports when it comes to team composition and race, the best play.
3rd Caller Jance, BB objects to it and Adam brings up his pal Jance Fitzgerald that he played football with for years and he talks about his dad coach Fitzgerald and how he would line up the kids and have them go at it to see who started.
Adam is telling the gang about his son’s plan for getting into football, he talks about flag practice and then the clinics they offer, Adam jokes and compares it to the guy jacking off in line waiting for the gang bang.
Hilarious torn perineum one liner from Adam, Adam is sharing how he was trying to tell his son how great pads are and how much they protect you from trauma.
BB is talking about the joy of a shock collar; Adam is sharing how Sonny said he thinks he might be ready for it someday.
Adam is recalling his worst ever injury and his busted shoulder, Gina asks about competitive flag football and they go back to Jance and he shares a quick anecdote form childhood football.
He is bringing up the OJ Simpson story and the dramatic recap on the new series American Crime Story, Adam shares the wisdom of Geragos about the case and how they tried it in the wrong jurisdiction.
Adam explains how he thinks that Johnnie Cochran was able to manipulate the jury and cites the same racial politics he hates that dictates people vote for people who resemble them and remind them of people they know.
BB is now talking about firefighter hiring practices and Adam is sharing his own logic about it, Adam is joking about recruiting UFC fighters based on racial and physical quotas.
Hilarious stranger in the pastel cardigan improv, with BB playing the stranger and Adam his coach telling him to sprawl when the guy shoots on him, so he doesn’t end up on his back eating fists.
Adam is killing this!
Ace Awards 2016 material, best improv!
Adam jokes about BB googling Joe Rogan’s name and says we want people who want to be firefighters to be firefighters he doesn’t want the standards tweaked to accommodate people who normally aren’t fit enough to complete all of the duties required.
Adam wants a reporter to address why we need racially diverse fire departments, Adam asks about fishermen, guys on the crab, why no black crab fishermen, why not!?
Adam asks about the way the mayor and the fire chief finger each other over these hiring statistics, BB is now offering a fair take and Adam says Matt has arrived.
Adam is going to Match.com
Caelan and Nick are both using it, BB says run! Edition
Adam is asking them to bring Matt in, he plugs Alonzo Boden on an upcoming live show and they joke about Alonzo being a firefighter.
Matt is making his return to the ACS, he was last on ACS #813 in 2012, his wife guest hosted an episode in 2010 on ACS #271 Guest Hosted (feat. Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Danielle Schneider & James Pumphrey)
Matt also guested on Classic Loveline once as well on TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2001
GUEST: MATT BESSER, IAN ROBERTS & MATT WALSH • HOST: ADAM, DR. DREW
Adam plugs Matt’s latest special and work with SeeSo, he’s asking him about his journey and first experiences with comedy.
Matt is telling them about trying to win tickets to Jamaica during an open mic competition and how he was so nervous he was stuttering during his first set.
Adam is talking about audiences speeding things up, every song on the CD is slight slower than live in front of an audience.
Matt is talking about the Quiet Riot documentary, Adam talks about being shamed by messing up song titles, not knowing when they start or end and he uses ‘Come on Feel the Noise’ to make his point, BB misunderstands because of his Quiet Riot expertise, Adam should have chosen another song.
Matt is talking about getting nervous and Adam talks about the two extreme reactions to a live crowd, you either get overwhelmed and dry mouth or you rise to the occasion, Adam says it would be amazing to find out if your kids possessed which reaction.
Matt is asking Adam about going to large audiences from smaller ones, he talks about riding a unicycle on Dancing with The Stars and how he was stressed about falling on live TV and didn’t want his inner gyroscope to fail him now (then.)
Matt talks about not liking to preach to the converted, he likes non familiar audiences and Adam is asking about people who like having friends and family in the crowd.
Matt references the movie ‘Punchline’ and he agrees with Adam he doesn’t want family in the crowd either, Adam jokes about his dad texting and Matt misses the joke, wow.
Adam is talking about the new world order of comedy and how there are so many avenues to perform and succeed, Adam is talking about them banning the Lord Jeff mascot from Matt’s college.
Matt forgot that Dr. Drew is a Lord Jeff as well.
Matt is telling them about his college experience, he was only good at smoking pot and collecting CD’s at that point.
Adam asks him about his mother motivating his academic achievement and he tells them how deeply she was involved in his academic career and he shares his rude awakening regarding college level soccer.
Matt shares how intimidated he was and how he wasn’t even good enough to sit on the bench in varsity, Adam talks about athletics and sports weeding out the people who can’t do it, unlike acting or music.
You can always be thinking about moving to Nashville, Adam is explaining how brutal and final sports are, Matt brings up Peyton Manning and his “old man of football” designation.
Adam is now talking about getting old and being pulled over by young men who are now cops, he says that is the first realization that you’re aging.
BB talks about young doctors and nurses.
Adam misses what Adam is saying about pitching comedy to people younger than you who are executives, he gets it and agrees and they both talk about life and learning lessons to learn the way comedy truly works.
Gina’s News
Adam does a Mohr Stories Live read for Podcast One
1st Story is an update on the three prison escapees, Gina shares how the prison ESL teacher may have played a role in the escape.
Matt jokes about it and Adam is now asking how vulnerable a woman must be to sign up to work at the prison, like the guy too eager to take the kids camping over the weekend.
Adam is explaining how easily manipulated these women are and how they’re setup to be used and abused this way, Gina is now doing an improv scene with Adam.
Adam is trying to work Google Earth into the scene, he’s now looking at the ducting vents and fooling her, Adam is joking about only speaking complimentary English, Adam is back to the explanation of these super vulnerable women who get preyed on.
Adam says only women in super committed relationships for prison employment, Adam talks about the woman in the other recent prison escape, Gina has a funny closing line.
Matt says he thinks he would be able to not be found, Adam says it’s always the vehicle and he has a funny Vietnamese guy one liner.
Adam suggests mountain bikes and the right apparel, steal a mountain bike and you’re home free.
2nd Story is on a deputy who lost an AR15 yesterday, she explains how it was misplaced and Adam says that people are not that good, not that smart.
Adam talks about how there is always something that happens that distracts you, you’re not that good, don’t set anything on your car.
Adam is now recalling a race up at Laguna Seca, a track time race with loose rules and more of just track time.
Adam is talking about going out there with his group of idiots, they are fun to hang with and not that great at their jobs, Adam says he saw a huge tire pressure gauge on the track, in the middle.
Adam assumed it must be his guys and says it wasn’t there the first lap, it must’ve been someone else, he observed another car destroy it and came back to tell his guys that there must be someone dumber than them.
Adam says it was Les’s new tire pressure gauge and Adam explains how the gauge got stuck on his rear spoiler/fin.
Adam asks Chris to find that, he says it was a rich white guy race from 2011 or 2012.
Gina comments on this not being reported missing for 7 hours and Adam talks about the sea of black that leads to things being lost, black on black.
3rd Story is on the Golden Globe winners, Adam asks Gina about ‘Beasts of No Nation’ and they react to Michael Keaton’s blowhard speech, Gina points out the comment about offering to be hanged and Matt asks why we would with those comments.
Adam is now setting up the clip of the gauge, he describes the middle of the track and Matt asks how Adam saw it that well at such high speeds.
Gary has the footage of Adam knocking it loose, due to a “tank slapper” and Gina asks if he did that on purpose and he explains, no, no he did not.
Adam is explaining how there is not much road debris on these track for these races.
4th Story is on the latest RNC debate, she sets up a clip of Ted Cruz and Adam predicts that in the future all of the presidents will have graduated from the Groundlings.
Adam says we only like a talker, Adam thinks he could win based on his mouth alone and he comments on how Trump is winning based on his “funny for a rich gold course developer” or compared to Jeb Bush, he’s a laugh riot.
Adam thinks Alec Baldwin would win easily, Adam says that in the future this will be a currency unlike previous eras where a sense of humor.
They’re all talking about presidential candidates and Gina brings up the Bernie Sanders folk album, Adam wants to know if he knew it was for a goof.
Adam is talking about people who don’t know they’re bad singers, Adam says “Maxipada you’re in a band” and asks him about singing prowess, he thinks people can be fooled into thinking they’re good.
Adam is doing a Texture.com Live Read
What what what? Edition
5th Story is on Michael Phelps stealing the show at the Arizona game, for their curtain of distraction.
Adam mocks his 18gold medal wins, he calls them a fluke and BB riffs with him.
Gina plays them a clip of the “skit” that made the crowd go mad.
Adam is talking about distracting the shooter and compares it to golf and doesn’t know how it can be legal, Adam thinks this will go away due to racial or gender based goof.
They’re going to keep ratcheting it up, again and again, something racially driven…
They are now listening to Bernie sing ‘This Land Is Your Land’ and providing some light commentary.
Adam says he knows he can’t sing, Gina says he didn’t look like he was in on the goof, Adam says Jewish people invented comedy and says he would’ve gone on tour had he actually thought he had some talent.
Adam is now saying Bernie didn’t get much pussy in high school, Adam bets he was long distance runner when they find out he was top of the track team.
Gina wraps the news
Adam and BB are doing a True Car Live Read
BB got a new BMW X3
BB gives a nice closing plug for Improv 4 Humans, a podcast both Adam and BB are fit to guest on should Matt ever expand his booking horizons.