26 Feb Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 02/19/2016 – William Shatner
A real time blog where Superfan Giovanni does recap and commentary on the show as it happens and opines on all things ACS
Guest – William Shatner
Recorded 02-18-2016 – Release Date 02-19-2016
Production Number #1762
Adam opens the show with a funny “Beat off to TJ Hooker” intro from Dawson and Lynch, Adam explains that Philly Cheesesteak is in studio and BB has a #TopDrop of Gina Grad saying “Cunt Bumper” and BB explains it’s good that Adam hasn’t made his kids or pets part of the show as Adam does acknowledge how annoying that can be.
Adam explains that Lynette had a bunch of stuff and they didn’t want to leave Phil out in the rain today, BB has a funny quick song rendition.
Adam is now telling the gang how he puts Phil in bed with Natalia each night after letting him out to pee one final time before he heads to bed.
Adam explains that Natalia was in the other room making a strange noise, he explains that she comes from a long line of loudmouths and he now impersonates his late Grandmother Helen and her screams upon arriving home from work.
Adam says it’s akin to the person who gives a “yoo-hoo” and a quick knock only to open the bathroom door into you mid poop.
Adam is explaining why you knock, like why you name streets differently and don’t just use Blue jay a bunch of times in the same area.
Adam is explaining how Lotzi would be in the kitchen and he would run to the front door like Tom Cruise with the weird karate chop hands to greet her, Adam says she would act as if he was supposed to materialize in front of her.
Adam is mocking Helen’s “Yoo-hoo” and cites Lynette’s late mom and her shouting about Jesus and her faith, hilarious “Where’s Sonny?” “He’s behind you, he’s been there for 3 days” exchange reenacted by Adam where he played both him and Lynette.
Adam explains how Phil heard Natali’s possible scream distress and how he got up and went to check on things, Gina says she’s very “Sooie” and he shares a cute anecdote of a hardware store run with Natalia who bonded with Adam over their “motors” and BB shares a cute Phil anecdote.
Adam tells Gary that the monitor is not on, BB says yeah the screens in case they thought studio monitors like cans?
Adam is now sharing a story of Lynette’s brother sending a troubling message about some possible bad news and now they presumed it was about Lynette’s aging father.
Adam says it turns out it was to announce the death of Lynette’s late mother’s former martial arts instructor who Lynette never met.
Adam is talking about the grip of old age and Adam is trying to think of a name, he’s saying Joel over and over again.
Gina says Joel Grey and Adam says that is it, he’s talking about him playing a sensei in ‘Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins’ to which Adam confuses, very funny alternate title.
Adam says it was the tail end of old Jewish guys getting to play Asian characters in feature films.
Adam shares the awkward moment of Lynette looking at him about the dread of her father’s death she was pre-mourning before calling her brother.
Adam shares how Lynette’s phone cut out after the obligatory small talk while Adam paced back and forth outside the door, chambering his own needs to be emotionally available for his wife.
Adam talks about the people who have the nefarious gene and like having someone dangle out there.
BB says that sounds like the lie someone uses in a sitcom to cover up for something else, the dead martial arts instructor.
Adam calls Remo Williams a young Mike August and they move on.
Adam is doing a live read for the Hyundai Tucson
Adam says you can’t call a motor an engine, but an engine is a form of a motor.
Ada mash a hilarious riff about people telling him he can just plug in an electric car at work
Lord of The Jungle
#LOTJ
Adam loves to rearrange dog’s paws while they’re sleeping, almost like a test, like piling cigarette butts upon your drunken and now sleeping buddie’s forehead while at the beach.
Winner: Joe, he works from home and Adam asks him about it and tells him about what Jodi his wife’s best pal told him about her experience with, in her bathrobe until noon and going to Starbucks in her pajamas, she needs an office to go to.
Adam thinks he is pretty disciplined and it wouldn’t be that regimented with lunch and cracking beers midday.
Adam is asking him what he bought, he got a copy of Vinnie’s book and Joe is touching on Vinnie’s great story and the 500 mile races, Adam talks about breaking and mastering one’s self and the bizarre era we’re in, contrasting it against Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in ‘The Revenant’ and how we now must envy ourselves what we enjoy most to not become overweight.
Adam talks about trying to break and master oneself and how it’s not about getting exercise as much as it’s about breaking and mastery of one’s own discipline.
Adam talks about being able to avoid pecan pie while on a diet, BB shares his theory and Adam takes it back to Joe so he can get a sip of water, CAN THE PILOT TAKE A PISS!?
Adam is talking about sliding and diets, how proclamations and strict rules only lead to your own self destruction.
Gina talks about her own yoyo dieting and weight loss, Adam is bringing up how people always put off what they can’t bear today, he says you need to wean yourself off of cigarettes, not pick a meaningless date to stop.
Adam is talking about people who don’t pay the IRS debt they owe and end up accruing interest.
Adam is commenting on how you can slip, like sobriety and not need to snowball down the hill.
Adam is saying have one piece of pie and then stop, don’t flog yourself into eating the whole tin.
Q and Ace
1st Caller Tom, he noticed a booger in the nose after talking to a coworker for 10min, Adam says the rules have changed and people seem to point things out immediately, Adam likes being alerted and appreciates be told about some gross shirt going on his face.
Adam says the key is to not let it fester and to organically just address it immediately, Adam is saying the era of the broccoli in your tooth joke is over.
2nd Caller Brandon wants to know how to instill work ethic in his kids without making them hate him or develop an eating disorder.
Adam is telling the gang about his son asking him to tag along to the live show and he told him about meeting mayors while on the road with him, Adam says when you’re a kid it’s all about mayors before you learn they’re powerless and worthless.
Adam says taking his kids with him as much as he possibly can seems to help them see what work is, he doesn’t need to give a tutorial, his kids learn through osmosis and Gina talks about tagging along to radio stations as a kid.
3rd Caller Scott, he wants to know how Adam deals with watching his kids having fun on his dime while he’s out earning, Adam is talking about being out in a bathroom in Compton while his wife and kids were zip lining in Catalina.
Adam says part of a reason he became a dad was to give his kids such a great life, he doesn’t have to hold their fanny packs and be there to witness it.
Adam picks up on Scott’s depression and BB cracks Gina up with a nice shotgun drop, Adam is trying to quote “set your phaser to stun” and jokes about not setting your phaser to fun, satisfaction instead.
Adam talks about the 50/50 crowd reaction in Irvine, funny “is he always like this!?” from BB as a random attendee brought with a friend to see the show.
He’s giving them an example of a sink full of dishes, Adam tells him to not let it build up nor let it fester.
Adam is doing a Wix.com Live Read
William Shatner is making his 3rd appearance on the ACS, he was previously on ACS #1383 and ACS #1607.
Adam tells William he looks very dapper, Adam does not and he tells him he’s always amazed at how spry and with it William is in his twilight years.
Adam is talking about the book that’s about his friendship with Leonard Nimoy and William is trying to describe the type of friendship he’s getting at.
William talks about the motorcycle drive he did across country and the two sets of brothers riding with them and their relative bonds, cute story.
William is telling them about the role of oxytocin and friendship that’s not conducive among men, Adam talks about lone wolves and the lack of female example, unless she’s lost her cubs and is looking for them.
Adam is asking him about his relationship with Leonard, William tells them about the marriages, divorces and now even death they went through together.
Adam talks about Leonard’s privacy and William references the two books he wrote about himself.
Adam talks about William’s versatility in acting and the limited roles given to Leonard and how he suffered from the short attention spans of the public who weren’t’ willing to allow him to be much more.
Adam is asking William about the career trajectories of him and Leonard, William is giving them a thumbnail sketch of Leonard’s background and Jewish upbringing.
Adam says he had no idea he was Jewish or even practiced the faith.
Gina has a key question about the live long and prosper gesture and how it comes from the Jewish faith, Adam is asking William about Leonard’s youth and if he was into sports.
William says he swam, he describes him as gangly yet charming, not a ladies’ man but he had something.
Adam says he never thought about Leonard as anything, William is telling them about Leonard’s look that led to him playing heavies and henchmen in various projects.
Adam is talking to William about the first Star Trek pilot where everyone was recast except for Leonard.
Adam is asking William about their years apart and what led to them not getting along.
William is talking about the makeup application process and how Leonard was forced to go through something the rest of the cast were not.
William is being very honest about makeup applications and how stressful it is on an actor.
William is talking about raising a fuss in front of photographer doing a piece on Leonard, Adam asks about a time they spent not speaking.
Adam asks if he has evidence of a fissure in their friendship as Leonard was approaching his death.
William doesn’t know if Leonard read the final letter he sent him.
Adam asks if there is an element of him pushing people away as he was getting closer to death, he cites how Paul Newman pushed everyone out and that was due to his construct of not wanting to be pitied.
William would like to think so; he tells them about interviewing Leonard Nimoy’s son who was also annexed from his father’s life for a period of time.
Adam asks if Leonard was a weird guy, William tells him about interviewing Leonard on ‘Mind Meld’ and his alcoholism.
Leonard warned William about living with an alcoholic and he talks about raising horses and giving and receiving love and how he thought he could change a person with is love and make her not an alcoholic with love and care, codependency.
Adam is asking William about his late wife, they were together for 9 years and he talks about her death in candid detail.
William explains how Leonard was helping him through this time dealing with his wife and her rehab, William describes the creeping snake of addiction.
Adam is now talking about William’s ex-wife and trying to save her life and the resentment being pushed back at him while he’s trying to help her.
Adam talks about the resentment of helping family and the ones you love most.
William talks about lending money to friends and Adam says he needs him to explain to people who want to borrow money what it could mean for their friendship.
Adam is talking to William about his wife and Al-Anon Family Groups and going in depth, he says if this helps people’s he’s ok talking about it even though they were on the topic of Leonard.
Adam is talking about the genetic predisposition to addiction and William says that might be true, perhaps Leonard didn’t have the genetic disposition for addiction.
William is talking about oxytocin and the lack of it in a human brain which then needs to be compensated for/assuaged with a substance.
Adam is asking him about the relief involved in watching a loved one pass from a disease like addiction.
He describes his wife’s devolution like a horror film and explains how he told her he was going to divorce her if she couldn’t get clean.
Adam is now asking him about what inspired him to write the book about Leonard, he jokes about not speaking to Kimmel, only through their managers.
William is talking about going to battle with a fellow by your side, citing their time working on ‘Star Trek’ and how death can remove validation from the things you did together.
William says the specifics are beginning to fade and the book is a desire to permanently memorialize the things he still remembers vividly.
Adam is asking about William having to introduce himself at a meeting, or did everyone know who he was.
Adam is talking about the role of empathy in Leonard’s life and Adam wants to know if he would feel the cathartic need to write this book if he was still close to Leonard when he passed.
William is making some great points about legacy and what we leave behind after our short stints on this planet together.
William is talking about a Red Cross gig he was set to do the same day as Leonard’s funeral and why he chose to do good deeds in his name instead of going to the funeral.
William shares his dilemma about death, do you mourn the death or celebrate the life of the person who is gone.
Adam asks William how he would like us to celebrate his life, he says to be brought back to life, Adam jokes about reanimating him with a straw instead of mouth to mouth.
Adam ask if there is part of him that feels it was selfish for Leonard to push him out of his life towards the end of his life.
William is telling them about the last 4 phone calls they had over a year before he passed and how he would never get an answer about the distance between them.
BB has a question about Leonard’s directing work and William has a funny Star Trek 5 joke in response, nice self-deprecation.
Adam says Leonard seemed like a legitimate artist to him and Adam says he respects it when someone steps away from directing or acting.
Gina brings up Leonard’s late in life hobby of photographing nude women, he talks about the artwork and his process.
Adam gives out a closing plug and wraps up with William, he thanks him for coming by the show again and offers to guest on anything he needs anytime.
Adam is doing a Legal Zoom Live Read
Estate planning bundles, staying on point edition
Adam asks the gang if they love Shatner as much as him, Adam wants Fondiler to queue up the clip of William explaining why he can’t lend friends money into his iPhone 6.
BB talks about Phil straddling BB’s legs the whole show while he sleeps, Adam talks about why people love sports and dogs/puppies, all we want is a little reality.
Adam is now joking about Hillary Clinton and Al Sharpton pretending to be human beings next to each other at photo ops.
Adam is mocking the “we’re the only humans who drink another animal’s milk” people and the people who say we’re not meant to eat meat based on our teeth.
Adam talks about the lack of affirmative action in sports and how you can never take that away from them, it’s pure talent and work to get there.
Adam loves the genuine nature of puppies and how they are 100% purely what they are, finally something pure.
Gina’s News
1st Story is on Kanye West’s backstage rant about the SNL staging and Taylor Swift, Gina plays the clips from backstage.
Adam is now talking about his appearance on SNL that was comically horrifically bad, he says he likes many young black performers and sings the praises of Gary Clark Jr. and he gets to the “he’s a producer” defense people use for his shitty rapping as of late.
Gina has another clip of Kanye screaming about how influential he is, Adam chuckles and Gina name drops some more people he mentions.
Adam says maybe he has syphilis and its eating his brain, Adam says he thinks of Kim Kardashian as simple and wants to know what they talk about when together.
Adam is talking about the Ray J lyrics in the rap that Gina brought up and he explains how weird it is to bring up for most husbands.
Adam says he can testify that going on the radio show or podcast and making a crack about his wife can lead to a frosty evening, BB has never experienced that…
Adam is now asking what Kanye expects from his wife, no repercussions?
Gina talks about his insane tweets from the night before his SNL performance, Adam is asking why he’s giving shit to Taylor Swift and he explains he recalls him rushing the stage and fucking up her acceptance speech.
Adam talks about the weird obsession he has with Taylor and says some kind things about her.
They’re now playing the clip of Kanye singing about Ray J fucking his wife.
Gary is telling Adam that he’s been speaking about him for 31min this week, so it must be working and Adam argues against that point.
Gary is sharing how Kanye’s longtime cowriter stepped away from him and tweeted about his concerns.
2nd Story is on Rihanna bailing on the Grammy’s and the controversy behind it.
Gina has a clip of her singing just a few hours before she bailed, Adam is saying that 24yr olds don’t get sick before performing and if they do a B12 shot is enough to power though.
Adam is doing a SimpliSafe Live Read
Maybe Mike Tamarillo mispronounces his own name because he’s Mike
Adam talks about the Bianchi family wineries and how Mike refuses to get it right and doesn’t care about feelings.
3rd Story is on cellulose used in Parmesan Cheese, the cheap stuff on the shelf.
Adam is talking about a bag of Doritos that Sonny left on the car seat, Mike instinctively opened up the bag and polished them off like they were an offering meant for him.
Adam is talking about wedges of parmesan cheese and how they’re the same cost of buying a shitty tube of cellulose.
Adam is now talking about being poor his whole life and still being aware of quality and the extra effort to make time for better quality.
Gina has an example of something delicious a restraint and now Adam is talking about Kraft macaroni and shares how his grandpa Lotzi would put Kraft macaroni on top of matzah and heat it up.
Adam is talking about Dennis Prager lamenting hardboiled egg in meatloaf.
Adam says there is something satisfying in getting to the hardboiled egg in the center of the meatloaf.
Adam says ketchup on eggs is good along with meatloaf.
Adam is doing a Scott’s roundup Live Read
Adam says Natalia messes up his car seats and makes them contort into unnatural positions edition.
4th Story is on Gwyneth Paltrow’s stalker not guilty verdict, she has all of the details and Adam now argues as his attorney, saying stalking Rosie O’Donnell is insane.
Adam says once you join the stalker club we can now do with you what we please, Adam is trying to recall the death of ‘My Sister Sam’ actress Rebecca Schaeffer at the hands of her stalker when he came to her front door and executed her in cold blood.
Adam is now brining up mandatory laws regarding sentencing for pot, Adam argues his maybe I like a lot of pot argument, the Costco example.
Adam is asking which is it, he thinks that everyone hates Gwyneth Paltrow and that’s why the jury let him off and Gary is now on mic and Gina has a great point about how someone must assault you before the cops can intervene.
Adam is talking about his wife being told to go investigate the drunk driver crashed into their house, hilarious “hark who goes there” riff from Adam.
Adam is now talking about cops being animated when it comes to extracting money but not protecting young women.
Gina wraps the news.
Adam is telling them about hanging out with Mickey the guy doing his Kitchen, he’s from Israel and told Adam about pulling permits in La Cañada Flintridge and compared it to Van Nuys.
They’re trying to get a cute photo of Phil for the website and Adam, riffs about the department of building and safety treating him like he’s Lex Luthor, hilarious!
Adam does a live read for The Big Podcast with Shaq
Adam is now giving out the plugs and wrapping up the show.
BB plays the new “all dumb people stop talking to me” drop from Adam.