Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 04/21/2015 – Greg Proops and Jo Koy

Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 04/21/2015 – Greg Proops and Jo Koy

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

Guest Greg Proops and Jo Koy

Recorded 04-20-2015 – Release Date 04-21-2015

Production Number #1558

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Adam opens the show to a solid intro from Dawson, BB has a #TopDrop from Dawson about his indulging in marijuana laced foodstuffs.

Adam welcomes Gina to the show and Jo Koy as well, BB tells them about practicing for his first pitch with Gary and shares that a video will be available on AdamCarolla.com

Adam is talking about the ‘Catch a Contractor’ sting house experience he had, he’s describing the horrific shape the contractors show up in, and including stained shirts.

 

Adam talks about how far away the contractor was, they ended up having to wait for him to commute from Riverside, Adam jokes that Riverside is so far from everywhere it’s even far from the river.

They have an 8am call time the next morning in Riverside and Adam pointed that out to the staff, Adam talks about the pontificating they did in the control room while waiting.

They are a captive audience and they got into the topic of ‘Magnum P.I.’ and the bizarre ending for the show, Adam is asking for the beats about the series.

 

Adam says they had to do a season 8, because of the disappointing ending of season 7.

Adam jokes about the ending of season 8 being Magnum blowing a dude and then get shot gunned to death by the guy’s partner with narration threatening what would happen if fans demanded a season 9.

 

Adam is now sharing why he preferred to watch ‘Sanford and Son’ over things like Magnum P.I. and other shows with lavish setting and plots, his old ‘Hart to Hart’ riff.

Adam is yelling at Gary about the beat sheet he put together, Adam is now having Gina read the details.

Gina jumps ahead and Adam has her backtrack, Adam is reading some of the details, trying to figure out the connections between the cast and their Vietnam history.

 

Adam is now wondering if he’s mixing up that show with ‘The A-Team’ and Adam asks if there was an episode with flashbacks to Vietnam.

 

Gina asks about the actual season 8 ending, he only knows about his gay tryst gone wrong, Adam apologizes to Gary.

Dawson is now on mic, Adam is explaining the rant mashup thing they’ve been doing on the show, catching everyone up to speed.

‘Father and Son’ with the ESPN lady’s rant.

 

Adam asks Jo about him making the mistake of telling his wife about things he didn’t do that end up making them mad at you.

Adam is bringing up the way they got their third roommate kicked out at one of his apartments, he’s telling them about his daughter who’s got a friend and they wanted to go to Pink berry to get some FroYo.

Adam wanted to give them 20$ to walk there on their own, Adam wants to know why they can’t go on their own, he thinks it’s insane he would be crucified for doing this.

 

Adam says his daughter would definitely talk, Adam says he wants to let them do it as it’s a safe neighborhood and they know all of the neighbors.

Jo is now breaking out a new character who drives a primered van, he’s trying to pick up Adam’s daughter as played by Adam.

Adam is asking him about the tin foil on his back windows, this is hilarious!

 

“That’s a lot of FroYo” – Adam

Adam is killing this and Jo is creepy as he’s ever been, fucking hilarious!

Adam jokes that this is what his wife thinks his going to happen, Adam says he hates the fact they live in a society where they can’t do this.

 

Jo is now saying that Adam deep down inside he doesn’t want his daughter to walk on her own, it is the fear of getting caught and the other family freaking out on him.

Adam jokes about how his wife freaked out on him as if he has let them walk there, not thought of it and decided against it.

Gina asks when the kids will be able to go on their own, Jo brings up his son going to public restrooms alone, Adam says he got overt that a while ago.

 

Q and Ace

1st Caller Bret, he’s bringing up The Hollies and wants to know if there are any cover songs that Adam prefers over the originals.

 

Adam is now doing an Advanced Auto Parts live read

 

Adam says that ‘Sam and Dave’ is his pick with “I Take What I Want”, a lot of people don’t even know the original version.

Adam says the cover version flows better done by ‘Fabulous Thunderbirds’.

Everyone is now weighing in, Adam is adamant in his defense.

 

He asks them for their picks and Gina says ‘Hazy Shade of Winter’ by ‘The Bangles’

 

Jo says ‘Lean on me’ and now Bung Lu Su is rapping over a cover of the song, this is great.

Adam says he cannot believe that Jo chose that version over the original from Bill Withers.

 

BB plays some ‘Black Crows’ for Dawson of them covering Otis Redding.

Jo prefers the Run DMC version of ‘Walk This Way’ and now Gina says it shouldn’t be allowed to get famous from a cover song, BB says the ‘Alien Ant Farm’ rule forgetting about their masterful 2006 ACS visit where they played live in studio and sounded amazing and told a great story about a horrific bus accident.

July 18th 2006.

 

Adam says you can play ‘Smooth Criminal’ live on tour, or as a b side on your 3rd album, both are actually true of Alien Ant Farm, their first EP didn’t have the track, nor did their follow up, it was their 3rd album and first studio album that had that track, radio made it popular.

Adam says that’s also his Natalie Imbruglia rule, Dawson wisely brings up that being recorded by someone else first, Gary takes a minute and gets them the name Ednaswap and Adam brings up their appearances on Loveline.

They played live in studio and we have the high quality copies of it, they’re now playing the studio version of the song instead of the live version from LL.

 

Adam is now sharing an example of ‘The Jayhawks’ covering ‘Grand Funk Railroad’ and he calls it a tie, this is great!

Adam always gives the original a few extra points and even nerfs his score due to the limits of production values of bygone eras.

 

Adam is now doing a live for Life Lock Ultimate Plus

They’re bringing Greg Proops in studio, Jo is telling them a story about Mr. T as discussed on the ‘Resume’ podcast with Chris Laxamana.

Jo is now describing the scene with him working at a hotel and Mr. T coming for him, totally pissed about the room key for his girlfriend.

 

They’re talking about Greg’s book and Jo is busting out some ‘Bill Cosby’ and Adam asks about how it’s for him to write a book, he cites the last time they talked about it, good memory stone man!

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Adam shares his schedule for the hours remaining on his audiobook, he tells Greg about chipping away at it and how his books ends up containing new riffs based on what happened to him that day, sometimes not containing the full book.

There will be 7hrs but it might not be the same, Greg is telling them about the process and Adam shares the picture of the desk at the publishers’ office for his signed copies.

Greg is telling them the about the theme of the book.

 

Gina’s News

1st Story is on the leaked Sony emails where they asked about censoring out slave owning ancestors from the Ben Affleck episode of ‘Finding my Roots’.

Jo is killing this, Adam says this is one of those cases where the cover up is definitely worse than the crime, BB is now in defense of Barbara Streisand and Adam jokes about Jew Ray.

Adam is bringing up the NPR interview he did that was scrapped, he says that all networks hide things that make them look bad.

 

Adam is now telling Greg about the interview, Adam is asking for Matt to come in and help explain the events.

Adam describes how they viewed him as one of O‘Reilly’s henchman, Adam says it was the Brian Lehrer Show and Greg’s reaction is priceless.

Adam shares his sneaking suspicion about needing to know when it was going to air and how he predicted they wouldn’t ever release it. He brings up the pledge drive excuse.

 

BB even calls it horseshit and says that if Adam wanted something removed they would’ve told him no way, Jo has a great point about their flawed logic and larger racial implications regarding them not taking as much offense to him doing the voice over a white person.

Gina has a theory about the motivation for censoring the slave owner ancestry portion of Bens’ episode and Adam likes it, BB brings up the Chelsea Handler episode where her relatives were at least Nazi sympathizers.

Greg connects Adam to Columbus, Adam jokes about how one can be a Nazi sympathizer, hilarious riff.

 

2nd Story is on a teen getting a new laptop from ‘Pornhub’ and Adam asks about a guy being named Denzel in the UK.

They all comment on it.

 

3rd Story is on a transitioning person who was given bad plastic surgery, Adam is asking when the big asses came into popularity.

Gina asks Adam if he’s not into big asses, Adam wants to know who the guy is who is injecting harmful products into patients, isn’t it bad for business, you don’t cut coke with arsenic.

Adam says that he feels like the gents who are attracted to a woman’s ass could only lead to negativity in a woman’s life, Jo is trying to make this a race thing.

Adam says the Jews don’t like big asses but tough shit they get them anyway, Gina’s reaction is killer!

 

Adam and Jo are riffing as an old Jewish guy and a black dude, hilarious Tukis riffing.

Jo is sharing his lack of interest in a flat ass and need for pretty feet, Adam says they could actually hang as he wants the chick with the huge tits and the grodie feet and Jo will take the b cups with the big ass and pedicures, and they won’t be competing for the same women.

 

Adam is doing a Draft Kings live read

 

4th Story is on sewage water brewed beer in Oregon, Adam is talking about the bubbling fountains in Portland and how they can never deal with conservation while wasting all of that water every day.

Adam jokes about “shit through a tube sock water” and is now ranting as the brewer about the shitty water mandate and how he would react.

Adam is saying his kids will never experience the pleasure of drinking from a garden hose, Adam is talking about the plastic water bottles.

 

Gary is talking about the water used by the bubbler, Adam is now saying they should stop it, who cares how little, and it’s billions of wasted gallons.

Adam is now placing himself at the city council meeting, BB is playing the other guy objecting, and Jo is in jumping and shouting over them all.

Greg is killing it with “Let the man talk!” and Jo says he saw the whole scene, pretty good.

 

Gary tells them tried to install handles and they ended up stolen, Adam jokes about what they would do if people were stealing stop signs.

 

5th Story is on the Cruffin, she tells them about burglars who broke in and stole the recipe as the demand is so great.

Adam says that now we’re doing with food what rock stars were doing with roadie bitches, hilarious exotic sex riffing, wow!

Adam says he sort of blames Tony Hawk for doing that 900, it all started getting amped up from there, Adam is bringing up his love for donuts and how you can’t do better than apple pie with vanilla ice cream, you can go lateral but not greater.

 

Greg is now riffing and working Puffin into the mix, Adam says it’s all been done and Greg is riffing about a new Scramble 9000.

Jo is now doing some weird voice and quoting Oprah giving away free cars.

Greg talks about the 25$ hotdog he saw at a stadium and Adam is talking about taco’ing NY style pizza to keep your pimp hand free, unlike the overloaded pizza that has to be fed to you by a guy with a snow shovel.

 

Gina brings up the 19$ bloody Mary, Jo has a killer “bleed in this cup” line and Adam brings spent tampons into the mix.

Gina describes the actual ingredients.

Adam says we’re just trying to piss off the terrorists at this point, he does some great Middle Eastern accent out of nowhere “goat’s milk and tears” and Jo is downgrading the Cronut.

 

Adam is now sharing his new invention of BakChurro which combines a Churro with Baklava, like going down on Ron Jeremy.

Gina wraps the news.

 

Adam is doing a live read for Vegas.com

 

Adam is giving out the plugs and they all seem to be having fun, Adam wraps up the show.