20 Apr Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 04/16/2015 – Billy Corben and Matt Atchity
A real time blog where Superfan Giovanni does recap and commentary on the show as it happens and opines on all things ACS
Guest – Billy Corben and Matt Atchity
Recorded 04-15-2015 – Release Date 04-16-2015
Production Number #1554
Adam is opening the show explaining that the event with the cars is sold out, Adam jokes about his son being his version of a low jack for the Newman cars.
Adam welcomes Gina and BB to the show, BB has a drop from Iliza Shlesinger for #TopDrop that is met with a puzzled and delayed reaction which can only lead one to assume it wasn’t clear who the drop was of or it sounded like a former cast mate and Adam was confused as to why BB would play it?
BB is now explaining the context of the drop from ACS #1496.
Adam welcomes Matt Atchity to the show, Adam’s very excited for today’s game and now Adam is singing the praises of ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ and the “killed in the airport” demands of Griselda Blanco.
Adam is riffing up a storm about being one of her henchmen, Adam says there has been lots of great responses to the mash up of Dennis Quaid yesterday.
Adam is now playing the Christian Bale mashup with ‘Having My Baby’ by Paul Anka, apparently complied by Dawson, Adam did credit the first one to Gary though.
They’re now playing it and Adam is doing some live commentary.
Adam is talking to Dawson about the alternate ones they have.
Adam is now doing a stamps.com live read
They’re now playing ‘Same Old Lang Syne’ mashed up with the Bale rant, this is fucking insane.
Adam gives it up for Dawson, he says it was the most fun he had all day, BB has them clarify that Gary did the first one, Dawson did the last one.
Q and Ace
1st Caller Shannon, she says that she’s sure Adam doesn’t do a lot of grocery shopping today, he says now just underwriter grocery shopping.
She brings up the charity requests every time she checks out, Adam says that like Ivy we’ve figured out that there is a certain segment of people with money and instead of just taking that in taxes, now everyone is taxing you, every company.
Adam is on a “this guy has money” tangent, BB brings up the homeless pet charity requests at Petco, Adam says it’s all part of the greater “have and have not” arguments.
Adam says that guys like Matt Atchity need to pay their fair share, he then asks Adam for a dollar, very clever.
Adam tells Shannon only he can judge her, to alleviate her from grocery store guilt.
Gina explains how the store requires the employees to ask, they don’t work for the charity and aren’t invested in it.
Adam is doing a Draft Kings live read
2nd Caller Michael, he wants to know if there are any celebrities who have limited talent and have gotten ahead due to work ethic, Adam says that Tom Cruise has immense talent and strong motor and the opposite would be a Ryan Seacrest type.
Adam is saying that the guys with the least comedic ability who have made the most money are guys in radio, he brings up how Kevin from Kevin and Bean wouldn’t call himself a comedian.
Adam is saying that Norm MacDonald is the opposite end of the spectrum and you can fuck anything up.
3rd Caller Darren, he recently got engaged and says you have to talk about your wife in various settings before marriage as your fiancé.
Adam jokes about the use of “lady friend” by older gentlemen with younger women, Darren is saying there is now cool way to say fiancé.
Adam tells him to go with “cock ashtray” and now Adam is riffing an improv scene, Darren nails it and uses the real name of his fiancé, BB loves that!
Adam heard Gordon, but it was Courtney.
4th Caller Rob he finished BB’s book and recommends it, Rob tells them about his parents desire for him to join them on a weeklong vacation, he would rather go hang out with his friends over this.
Adam is now asking about the relative plans, Adam says that hiking is a default hobby, it’s not enough, Adam doesn’t like hiking, reading, super passive hobbies he would rather them raise fighting cocks.
Rob says his friends want to go to Austin and get drunk, BB says he should go for the parents, Gina disagrees and says he will never gather this group again.
Adam asks about the drive between Austin and Dallas, Adam says you don’t want a vacation where you head to somewhere more people are leaving from.
Gina tells him he will really regret it if he doesn’t go with his parents, BB has a good point about gathering with his friends and how a year of work only strengthens that bond and makes the good times more enjoyable.
Adam agrees with BB, go with your parents dude!
Rotten or Fresh – The Rotten Tomatoes Game
“This fucking cock ashtray has won two times in a row” – Adam
Adam is bringing up the Newman documentary trailer, he’s asking about the ratio of thumbs up vs. thumbs down, it’s 814 to 3.
BB is now telling Adam that YouTube is the worst, Gary chimes in and confirms it and Matt backs him up too.
Comedy Blockbuster Sequels
1st Movie Beverley Hills Cop II (1987)
Adam asks about the amusement park, that’s the 3rd movie.
Adam goes with 51, BB picks 70 and Gina goes with 48, the actual percentage is 46% and BB is declaring himself out of the game already.
2nd Movie Back to the Future II (1989) and Adam asks about the plot of the 3rd movie, Adam is going with 63, BB says 80 and Gina goes with 58, Adam is 1 point off.
3rd Movie Ace Ventura When Nature Calls (1995)
Adam goes with 44, BB says 22 and Gina nails it with 33.
4th Movie The Hangover Part II (2011)
Adam says 31, BB says 70 and Gina goes with 27. It’s 34%.
5th Movie Anchorman 2 (2013)
Adam goes with 44, BB says 60 and Gina says 37. It’s got 75%.
Gina is shocked, Matt doesn’t know what happened that the original is ranked far lower.
Adam is doing a Dollar Shave Club live read
Gina won again, BB in last place and Adam misses the win by 2 points.
Adam says that he and BB need to meet after the show, Adam teases the arrival of Bill making his ACS debut and plugs his new movie.
They head to break.
They’re back from break.
They play a ‘Great moment in Local News’ and now Adam is having BB play his daughter trying to have him embrace a “meatless Monday” and he has a killer series of replies, oh my god.
This improv is nuts.
Bill is now joining them to plug his new movie, he says he was worried about the shitty sequel talk from the last segment and how they might have been talking about Cocaine Cowboys 2.
Adam is now asking about Griselda Blanco and joking about ranking Columbia when it comes to their regard for human life.
Billy is sounding like an apologist and Adam is making some key points about the amount of innocent people killed because of the sloppy killings of various drug figures.
Adam is asking about the early business model for the backyard fighting done throughout Miami, Billy is sharing how this is the real Miami and how Kimbo Slice inspired all of these young guys to try fighting.
Billy is telling them about Dada who organizes the fights, Billy explains the dangers of these fights, and he’s got some really interesting bits of information about what they saw while filming.
Adam is talking about the Real Sports expose on bare knuckle fighting, Adam talks about the legality of these types of fights.
Adam and Billy are going in depth on Dada and the subject of the documentary, Billy shares the unfortunate deaths of individuals featured in the movie.
“In heaven or?” –Adam’s killer one liner after learning the two deceased men fought each other by coincidence.
Gina is asking about the kids in attendance and Billy once again uses the “best culinary day of my month” line he used on another podcast, must have been great food.
Adam is asking about the rules for these fights, Billy quotes Dada 5000 the organizer of these bouts.
Billy talks about the income disparity and third world conditions found in parts of Florida, Adam talks about using ‘The Waze’ app and comments on Gary’s distaste with him adding “The” to the title.
Adam jokes about throwing impoverished kids in potholes to solve the problems in Dade county, hilarious riff!
Adam brings up ‘Django Unchained’ and wraps up the chat.
Adam is doing a Legal Zoom live read
“Almost none in Dade county” – Adam
Adam is now asking Gary for the street he got off on while using ‘Waze’ while en route to “the Black Beverly Hills’ and Adam jokes about this street being so dicey that Tijuana back alleys would want nothing to do with it.
Adam finds out it was MLK Blvd. and asks if we can’t just give his name to a better a street, Adam jokes about time travelling to get Martin Luther King and show him the state of most of his Blvd.’s across the country.
Gina’s News
1st Story is on the Dennis Quaid rant being confirmed as a hoax, they’re now playing a clip of the ‘Funny or Die’ reveal.
Adam lets BB take the victory and now gets that its little joke, BB comments on Adam’s ability to analyze voices and BB connects that to his years spent screening bogus calls and how he can detect vocal cues that Adam clearly missed.
2nd Story is on two TSA agents who’ve been fired after triggering pat downs for attractive men, Adam jokes about the TSA folk being barely employable, when every dream has been dashes this is what you end up doing for a living.
Adam says do not fuck around when this is all you have, Adam says this is the last stop for these people.
Adam is ranting about this being their own personal GM plant in Flint Michigan in 1959, they should be happy to be so privileged to have such a Cush gig.
Adam is telling them they have the options of fast food and fake security, this rant is oddly striking a chord in me as I listen to this, holy shit.
3rd Story is on an officer in Arizona who used his vehicle to stop a suspect, Adam jokes about the suspect kicking a cat on the way to all of his other various crimes as Gina read the “errands list” of the perpetrator.
Gina shares the video of the incident, Adam says he doesn’t mind seeing footage of horrible people being run over.
BB is now asking how fast that must have been to go through the wall, Adam likes the cop’s decision to take him out and Adam says it’s well over 30mph.
Gina has the details on the controversy about the officer not stopping to negotiate with the suspect he ran over, Adam says that with each cop interaction you face two possible outcomes.
Adam has a great wheel of destiny example for jumping over your neighbor’s fence and steeling their 30$ hibachi, you don’t deserve to be mauled by dogs but it could happen, so don’t risk it.
Billy has a solid point and Gina is commenting further, Adam is now riffing about doing a ride along with the officer who ran the guy over, hilarious.
4th Story is on the CEO of Gravity Payments lowering his pay to fairly compensate his employees to a minimum of 70k per year, Gina has all of the details including the office cap for payroll.
Adam says he will never fairly compensate his employees as once you do get the magic amount of cash you’re just as miserable as you ever were, marginally more.
Adam says that when you’re poor you can use the proverbial carrot of money and success to motivate you.
Gina has the information about how 70k covers the basic necessities of life.
5th Story is on Kim Kardashian’s coffee table book, Adam says it’s always weird when people look at you while driving a vintage car, he says someone at the shop observed he never drives his classics.
Adam says that selfie thing is uncomfortable to him, he asks if Kanye is asking her to reel it in or if he wants to encourage her to stay in the spotlight, even nude.
Billy is giving his take, Gina shares how she’s been ruined by the selfie trend, BB gets an honest “fuck you” in reply for his comment.
Billy talks about the lack of a sink in the men’s room, Adam shares how he took himself out of the Paul Newman documentary and was told it was a TV show with him in it, a movie with him excised.
BB and Billy are talking about celebrity documentarians and Billy brings up their first movie and how they tried to get an interview with the district attorney, he never put himself in his doc after that ambush attempt.
Adam is doing a True Car live read
Adam jokes about Billy growing up in a less exciting locale and his 7 documentaries on ice fishing, Gina has a funny reply.
6th Story is on the reduction in boys named Gary, Adam explains he was put in a very uncomfortable Gary situation.
Adam had to say “the better looking one” according to Gary, Adam recalls it was “the older one” as he couldn’t use the term “full tard” in front of the other Gary.
Gina and Billy comment further and Gina wraps the news.
Adam is doing a Life Lock Ultimate plus live read
Adam is giving out the plugs and wraps the show by mistakenly calling his show “Grab a Knee” what I argue should have been the original title, I blame Bill Cosby for that one.