Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 04/08/2015 – Art Alexakis, Graham Parker, and David Wild

Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 04/08/2015 – Art Alexakis, Graham Parker, and David Wild

A real time blog where Superfan Giovanni does recap and commentary on the show as it happens and opines on all things ACS

Guest Art Alexakis, Graham Parker, and David Wild

Recorded 04-07-2015 – Release Date 04-08-2015

Production Number #1548

Show Page

Adam opens the show with a thanks intro, he works Amazon Prime into it and BB plays the “Young Money, Cash Money” clip of Gary as #TopDrop.

Adam is now having BB compare Gary to their old producer Jimmy Brusca in 2006, to see who the most disinterested producer was.

Adam welcomes David Wild to the show for somewhere near his 75th visit, I’ll have an official update soon.

 

Adam is telling them about his SONOS system and the “done” button that makes things confusing, Adam was listening to Graham Parker with his son.

David prompts him and Adam reveals that Graham is on the line and Adam shares the ‘Stupefaction’ anecdote about his kids again.

Adam shares the “Grahm Parker Rules” story where he spelled Graham’s name incorrectly while vandalizing a desk.

 

Adam is asking Graham about his fan base in the states vs. in the U.K.

Graham is sharing the realities of his career and fan base, he is telling them about going back on tour with The Rumor.

Adam is telling them about seeing Graham Parker fully acoustic in the mid 80’s at a venue called ‘The Palace’ and Graham has a story about getting a gun pulled on him.

 

David plugs ‘This is 40’ and Adam is asking Graham what’s coming up for his tour dates, he tells them about the reality of breaking even or losing money via touring with a large band flying to gigs.

BB compliments David’s unnecessary name drop and Adam wraps up with Graham.

 

David is now setting up a clip of a new Graham Parker song, they’re playing it and it sounds great.

Adam is telling them to look up ‘You Can’t Be Too Strong’ and compliments a good abortion song, he explains the feeling he had when Ben Folds told him it was about that topic on Loveline presuming everyone else felt the same when they learned the story of it.

David fills them in on the reality about the song and its reception vs. intent.

 

Adam is now joking about an abortion playlist, aking to my abortion mixtape idea and he’s trying to conjure other songs and nobody mentions ‘Last Caress’ by the Misfits.

Adam is saying there is nothing creepier than the 70’s and David is referencing “Young Girl” the “Countdown to statutory rape” songs of guys like Gary Puckett but nobody is saying him by name.

David suggests that INTO THE NIGHT by BENNY MARDONES is perhaps the creepiest, Adam jokes about the lyrics implying forest rape and Adam this being Benny’s only hit song which he now has to modify when he plays various fairs across the country.

David finally mentions Gary Puckett and Adam jokes about Dire Straits having to work LGBT into their hit song in place of the now dated f bomb.

 

They’re all riffing about whether or not Benny changes up the lyrics at state fair performances and BB is dropping the new Gary clip like crazy.

Adam is joking about them frosting funnel cakes with Jizz.

 

Adam is doing a Vegas.com live read and mentions March Madness, out of date copy!

Adam jokes about the drop watch tool sounding like the way children prepared for nuclear holocaust in classrooms in the 1950s and 60s.

 

Adam says that as recent as august of 2013 he was still using “16” and David shares his complex feelings about the song.

 

Adam is plugging the Newman Doc premier, Gary plays a live clip of the song from 2011.

Adam is letting the song play out, Adam is joking about Hymen popping time and what would be happening if Benny was flying around the country.

Adam is showing the poster for ‘Winning’ and BB can’t recall if the title has ever been revealed, BB asks about the movie titled ‘Winning’ and acts ignorant of many things Adam has brought up before, either trying to be interested or genuinely interested as he forgot.

 

Adam is now debuting the audio of the trailer, Adam is doing some live commentary over the footage.

Adam is naming all of the guys from the trailer, the talking heads.

The trailer wraps up and they all give their reactions, BB says it looks incredible and compliments the archival footage, ass kissing aside it actually looks good according to BB.

 

Gina says she had no idea he was a race driver and Adam has a great Benny callback, joking about him starting with 13 years old and moving up due to the urging of his producers.

Adam jokes about him meeting them in the middle with 16, BB is working the improv with him and they’re dropping great one liners.

Adam says the great things about banging 16 years olds is their moms are still fuckable.

 

Adam is doing a Stamps.com live read

Adam talks about iTunes featuring ‘Road Hard’ prominently.

 

Q and Ace

1st Caller Evan, he wants to know about the obligation to go to bed when your spouse does, Adam says the biggest problem is when someone watches TV from bed.

BB tells Adam about going to bed with his wife when she has an early morning, Gina comments on the nice bit of alone time one gets when their spouse is sleeping.

Adam is talking about wireless headsets and says that his deal with his wife, he does eyeshade and earplugs, Gina is amazed that he does that at home too.

 

Gina is quizzing Adam about his level of awareness and he tells her how he tries to knock himself out and can’t simply doze off.

Adam jokes about Jimmy Kimmel and his super power of sleeping on a flight before the wheels go up, Adam shares his proclamations about training his kids to sleep on their back.

Gina says you can’t quite do that and references ‘Mommy Dearest’ and Adam jokes about his coat hanger.

Adam tells them about finding his son eating his Easter candy this morning, awake before Adam.

 

Adam is now asking David about his marital sleep situation, he asks him about his late night writing which he has now shifted to 5-7am.

Adam is describing his change in life from 7am roll out times for construction vs. call times for his various shows now.

Adam talks about Loveline and morning radio, Gina tells them about being up early with her morning radio gig, they congratulate her while doing that thing where they lament the hours in front of her that Adam always talks about “I’d kill myself.”

 

2nd Caller Paul, he brings up the PO’dcast and the topic/theory on Stevie Wonder not really being blind.

Paul tells them about how blind people can avoid hitting things and navigate around objects, Adam says he can feel stuff and already do some of this.

Adam is talking about the other senses becoming keener and is now using the voices on Loveline to make a point about being swayed from the visual world and how you can eventually hear what someone does for a living.

 

Adam is calling the visual element lazy and tells them about watching the fight scene from Rocky with and without sound, saying that it looks silly minus the sound.

Adam has a killer “Pull up Ray Rice” one liner and now Gina is sharing an example of the brain experiencing sound vs. seeing something.

 

3rd Caller Zach, he wants Adam to get to a statuary rape rock collection and now Adam is bringing up ‘Chevy Van’ and David names Sammy Johns and they hear the hit while Adam peppers some crazy “cum on it” commentary over the lyrics.

Adam is now adding alternate creepy lyrics and commenting on the barefoot line but not in the ways he has in the past where he read more into that lyric/detail of the story.

Adam is now getting to the barefoot part with some funny lines, pretty good.

 

Zach wants to share his commute with Adam, Adam is now riffing about Chatsworth and he describes the town as “a huge stucco box with Mexicans walking a circle praying to die with a sliding door…” and jokes about it being in an ugliest dog contest for cities, there are dicier places but no more architecturally devoid regions.

Adam is mocking the “lock it, hide it, keep it” campaign and having BB back him up with an improv scene, Adam is the cop and BB the victim of laptop theft.

Adam is the most realistic cop ever depicted in media, Adam is now doing what they should do and being super supportive and thanking BB the “citizen” and yells for Bert the Swat captain to help Mr. Bishop.

 

BB has an “I’m still on the line” twist as Adam addresses the cops saying he was kidding and now they do another lap, this is gold!

Adam is telling the guys to stop playing foosball, Zach describes the motorcycle cops that hide at the bottom of hills and Adam basically guesses where he lives.

Zach is telling them about another cruel detail of his commute and BB asks why they don’t just call it a bill instead of ticketing people.

 

Adam is talking about the city employees who don’t work on the weekend in offices or any way to help people, but they’re on it 24/7 monitoring for ticket opportunities.

Adam is joking about the motivation of money and Adam gives some plugs for David Wild who then plugs ‘Take a Knee’ and Adam is now asking for a clip from the episode.

Adam is setting it up.

 

BB keeps riffing about Natrone Means and Adam plugs the latest ‘TAK’ with Kevin Hench and Nick Santora.

They head to break

 

They’re back from break

Adam welcomes Art to the show with some of the latest music from ‘Everclear’ and Adam plugs the album and upcoming live dates.

Adam is explaining that Art is in the pimping stage of promotion and tells him about calling a guy who backed the movie ‘Road Hard’ but couldn’t make the Los Angeles premier.

Adam is now asking him as a guy whose dad abandoned the family and growing up never using a shower and then tangents off and brings up his own early family life and Art sides with Adam when BB calls him out for saying they’re similar situations and Adam reveals he’s getting to the stage of life where people are paying thousands to spend time with them.

Adam is asking how weird that must be for him, like it is for Adam.

 

Adam is now setting up the clips of his mom from the KLSX morning show where he quizzed his mother about his radio show.

Art responds to the apathy in Adam’s mother’s voice and talks about his mom and her ever present love despite her varying mental stability.

Art asks if Adam takes care of his mom regardless of her disinterest and he says at best he sends a minion over to work on her house.

 

Adam is asking Art about the new music, he tells them about tending his career garden as Adam puts it and Adam calls back the “crazy as a shithouse rat” line Art used to describe his mom’s sanity.

Art is singing the praises of the current state of the business and the hustle for less money which actually puts you more hands on with your own career.

Art says he likes to know what people are doing with his name, his band’s name.

 

Art talks about the way the business used to be and the advent of file sharing, they all agree it’s stealing.

Art is talking about buying his wife a new BMW while he’s driving a ford and Adam talks about Art’s TAK episode, Art says he needs to come back for a part 2.

BB brings up Art’s acting work in the movie ‘Wild’ and Adam has yet to see it, BB compliments the film and Art is now telling them all about his connection to a member of the production, which led to him needing to audition 3 times.

 

Art talks about his role being reduced to six lines, he didn’t get the final script revision.

Adam wants to know about the auditioning process.

 

Adam is doing a Legal Zoom live read

 

Art compliments Dawson’s voice, he’s now playing along with it and it sounds amazing, Dawson has a hilarious closing line, wow!

Art is telling them about his former agency that tried to take credit for his role in ‘Wild’ and now Adam is talking about rehearsing for an award show.

Adam is saying that completely empty auditoriums with Teleprompters is far more nerve wracking for him, Adam says he’s terrible at auditions and he finds it too intimate or weird.

 

Adam is explaining why he would rather have a large crowd and feels more confident with more people, Art is telling them about how an audition didn’t go in his favor.

Adam says he would tell young actors to get good at auditioning above performing.

Art suggest Adam teach an acting class.

 

Gina’s News

1st Story is on the female full time NFL referee being hired for the 2015 season, Gina brings up the history she has listed in her bio.

Adam and BB nitpick and try to explain the “major league teams” terminology vs. NFL.

Adam is explaining how fat guys burn like whale oil, he’s commenting on them not changing the rules and being fine with it.

 

Adam is commenting on the things that involve gender that need to make sense, he’s fine with a female firefighter as long as she can carry him, carry him with a boner, fine.

Gold!

 

Art is now presuming she’s going to be clocked by a player, Gina is bringing up Art’s implication that someone will do it on purpose, Adam jokes about a bounty on her head and BB brings up the throat slashing motion.

 

Adam has a killer Señor Wences reference while discussing the most recent Duke vs. Wisconsin championship game and the finger manipulation in HD replay that the refs didn’t consider.

Adam asks why have replay if they’re not going to use it, Adam thinks some fallopian tubing in that Powwow would’ve helped that call.

 

2nd Story is on a Texas firefighter training “hazing ritual” that resulted in multiple arrests, Gina has all of the details and Adam jokes about a super somber dark background audio to the video that was recovered.

Adam says that our society now gets to hear about this stuff that’s been going on in locker rooms and places like this for decades.

Gina asks how you then befriend the guys who sodomized you, Adam jokes about ben-wah cocktail weenies after BB suggests breaking Gina in as a full time cast member, Adam is now working up to a Dodger Dog.

 

BB jokes about their lack of an HR department, Adam says if the victim of this was black this would be a hate crime, if it was anything other than a big polish dude this would be hate, bigotry etc.

Adam is trying to make a point this is just hazing and these are just assholes.

Art talks about what jackasses men are and how everything turns into a fart battle, even professional musicians on a million dollar tour bus.

 

Adam is asking if that video tape is going to show up anywhere, Art comments on the perpetrators who all probably had this done to them, he asks what they probably did to the gal videotaping and Gina responds to the deep throating option which Art makes note of.

 

Adam is doing a Draft Kings live read.

 

3rd Story are on the ‘Fast and Furious 8’ rumors and details revealed by Vin Diesel on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Adam is now giving his take on Eva Mendes who is on the short list of hot chicks that women wish men were more interested in.

Gina is now asking for more examples, Adam says that women and men can agree on Charlize Theron and BB brings up Jennifer Love Hewitt as a counter point.

Art is trying to conjure a name and Adam is saying “please say me” over and over fishing for a compliment.

 

Adam says that Charlize is out of most men’s league, Adam is joking about his cock revolting to him trying to jack off to her.

Gina brings up 2002 Jennifer Anniston and BB brings up Scarlett Johannsson and Jennifer Lawrence, Adam suggest Kate Upton is the gal men like that women don’t appreciate them having interest in.

Adam says they got to keep going or he has to beat off.

 

4th Story is on a new study about how half of all Americans have not been happy with their job at some point.

Adam brings up ‘Top Five’ and thinks that Eva was in that, he was mixing up Rosario Dawson and her huge cock dwarfing mouth.

Adam jokes about her mouth-raping a zebra.

 

Adam has Gina wrap up the news.

 

Adam is talking about the weird bizarre gay detour in the movie ‘Top Five’ and how if he put that in his film he would’ve been crucified.

BB is commenting on the juvenile “he wants things up his ass=Gay” subplot and brings up his own book and says that overall Chris is proud of his movie much like BB and his book but there are some things he might want to do differently.

Adam says that Chris got a cultural pass and jokes about the guys asshole in the movie being like the plant in ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ and Gina reacts nicely.

 

Adam is doing a Dollar Shave Club live read

 

Adam is giving out the plugs and says they might add a 2nd bus to the Mangria bar crawl.

Adam gives out the plugs and wraps up the show, he apologized to Art for the Mangria plugs and BB plays a clip of Art asking about deep throating fuckers.