01 May Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 05/01/2015 – Sir Ken Robinson and Taleeb Starkes
A real time blog where Superfan Giovanni does recap and commentary on the show as it happens and opines on all things ACS
Guest – Sir Ken Robinson and Taleeb Starkes
Recorded 04-30-2015 – Release Date 05-01-2015
Production Number #1566
Hilarious ‘Sir Ron Jeremy’ and “Of Jizzington” topper from Ace, Adam shares his excitement for Sir Ken and explains his wife’s best friend’s connection to the man and how he’s been hearing about him for years.
BB plays a select clip of Matt Atchity from yesterday’s show, Adam is telling them about his son’s mandated counseling due to his lack of interest in his studies.
Gina is sharing her experience of never having a window in a classroom while goring up, Adam and BB think it must be due to the likelihood of tornados.
Adam is explaining how he can stand back and observe and doesn’t necessarily have bias towards his own interests, BB brings up the missing 800$ and how it must have been Drew’s guest as there has never been another infraction and no evidence of him spending it.
BB once again bringing up a topic recently addressed on Reddit, interesting.
Adam is now painting this against the backdrop of the haves and have not’s and comments on the mother beating her son in the now infamous photo form Baltimore, Adam comments on how physical violence only begets more violence and is part of an endless cycle as long as it’s allowed to continue.
Adam’s Loveline expertise, Gina asks about the therapy and Adam wraps up hilarious riff to explain how the school is mandating it.
Adam is bringing up his observations on Purell, therapy dogs etc. and how he’s always 5-10 years ahead of everyone else.
Adam says that someone tweeted him about him eluding to Bruce Jenner changing his gender in 1998 on Classic Loveline, very interesting!
Adam is now ranting against therapists, he loves the notion of therapy and therapists while still questioning the science of their diagnosis.
Adam jokes about talking to Tom Cruise about this, mocking his own comments for being perhaps to emphatic.
Adam is now saying it’s insane the amount of time that is wasted on everyone’s kids and the various arguments and discussions about how to raise them.
Adam says his kids are so many millions of light years ahead of the game it’s insane, BB asks if it perhaps is not doing more harm than good, Adam has a killer “village pedophile” riff with threat of digit dropping.
Adam plugs ‘Winning’ his Paul Newman documentary.
Adam is now setting up a clip of ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ and shares the sad letters for a teacher, Adam jokes and says “what’d you write that with bitch” and mocks the idea of pencils being unavailable.
Adam says if you are so destitute that you cannot have an instrument for writing and then stops short but implies that if that was true then you are unfit to raise kids.
Adam is now offering up some realistic complaints about overwhelming circumstances. Adam is commenting on rich vs. poor in America and now asks for another example from around the globe where the poor people are fatter than the wealthy people.
Gina is now quoting some data about the 250k required to raise a child, Adam is now moving on.
Adam is doing a Pro Flowers Live Read
Adam predicts that if he went to the home of that letter writer he would find out that one of the people in the household smokes and makes a point about that money being available but not pencil cash.
Q and Ace
1st Caller Brian, he loves ‘Road Hard’ but wants to know how Adam can reconcile that ‘Sharknado’ has a higher ranking on Rotten Tomatoes.
Adam is now asking for the scores, BB mocks Brian for his Complisult delivery, Adam says he cares about the people’s score and now Gary gets him the stats.
Brian brings up his Newman doc that didn’t make it into any of the big festivals, while a movie about a man who loves a dolphin did.
Adam says that ‘Winning’ is too much of a movie and too uplifting to be in the same category, he brings up the guy who ran Sundance refusing to admit ‘The Hammer’ in 2008 due to Adam’s “politics” and there is a horrible background noise, from the caller’s line?
This is awful, pot him down!
Finally.
Adam is going on a jag about movie critics being an almost self-selecting profession and they move on to Taleeb Starkes.
Adam brings up how he was watching Dr. Drew’s show and quotes Taleeb’s book title.
Taleeb was last on the show for ACS #1392 and he’s going right into the real issues at the heart of Baltimore, he name checks Mike August and is giving his take on the use of the term “thug.”
Adam is talking about how he was watching Drew try to walk down that race line while on his HLN show, Adam has a medical professional analogy, Taleeb is sharing his idea for “guilt be gone” and Adam is now bringing up his interview with Gavin Newsom on ACS #1025.
Adam is bringing up the “predatory” check cashing argument from that episode and brings up the lip service element of white guys who want to get elected.
Adam is now asking Taleeb what he would say to the people in Baltimore, he explains the lack of diversity in voices for black people in American media.
Adam is riffing about names for black children, he plugs Taleeb’s book and they wrap up.
Taleeb has a solid “I’ve met a lot of jokers but only one Ace” and now Gary is telling him he listened to a clip from Classic Loveline #795 – THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1998 – GUEST: GOO GOO DOLLS • HOST: ADAM, DR. DREW and they will play it after the live read.
Adam is now doing an impassioned ZClip live Read
They’re now playing the Loveline clip, I actually transferred this tape several years ago, at the time fearing it would be the last one I would ever get to do, ha!
Gina, BB and Adam all comment on Adam eyeballing the changes in Bruce Jenner 17 years ago, holy shit!
Adam is explaining how Sir Ken had the most popular Ted Talk and they move on to the next caller.
2nd Caller Scott, he is looking forward to seeing Winning and wants to get some advice from Adam on manscaping, Adam tells him he will be a woman in 2031, Adam comments on Sofía Vergara’s teeth that are now “too white” and how knowing that something was augmented ruins the effect.
Gina has him clarify about pubic hair and Adam is clarifying his take, BB is now asking him about his problem areas, Adam is bringing up his rant about children and adding this to it, men needing to be bald.
Adam wants to know what everything his geared towards prepubescent girls when it comes to all life decisions, anything that would gross out a teenage girl is a no go for a 40 year old dude?
Gina shares her love of chest hair and has some practical advice for managing hair, apparently body stubble is bad.
Adam is now doing a Fresh Breath Live Read
They’re now heading to break.
They’re back from break
Adam welcomes Sir Ken to the show and he explains how they have a mutual friend in Jodi, Adam is asking Sir Ken about his work, in a nutshell.
Sir Ken is explaining how he views childhood education and Adam shares his experiences growing up and being told to shut up.
Sir Ken and Adam are having a great back and forth about standardized testing and Adam brings up the Shabbos goy analogy for trying to skate around the rules, he even cites his wife driving the company car for tax purposes etc.
Sir Ken is addressing ‘No Child Left Behind’ and how these extraneous tests are ruining education in this country, Adam is mocking how Americans love retarded slogans.
BB asks Sir Ken about high fiving in the UK…
Adam brings up how his kids have hours of work to take home after homework, Adam asks what’s creating the greater chasm between the haves and the have not’s than this extra work that only certain families can accomplish.
Adam brings up his conversation with Dr. Drew about the homework and his theory about places like China having to bootleg our ideas, Adam thinks our #1 export is creativity.
Sir Ken is explaining his time going to school in the 1950’s and 60’s.
He says that education is now viewed as competition and explains why, he then quotes Wayne Gretzky about going to where the puck is going to be rather than where the puck currently is.
Sir Ken is explaining how effective teaching is Finland relative to the states and goes back to standardized testing.
Adam is asking him for his utopian Sir Ken approved school, he’s explaining the arbitrary nature of dividing people by age groups, he is now describing how they would put ideas into practice and have more hands on learning.
Adam is commenting on his kids “walk for charity” in 1st grade, where running was prohibited and Adam describes the buffoon who would shout about the walk ending and then tell the kids to slow down.
Gina brings up the ‘Common Core’ and asking Sir Ken why it’s so controversial and he seems to know all about it, he explains how it’s connected to the standardized testing and Sir Ken is telling Adam about how these tests are a business, not some benevolent program.
Sir Ken is asking them about the annual revenue for relative big industries and tells them about shocking amount for the private education testing companies.
Adam plugs Sir Ken’s book and either almost mistakenly gives out Taleeb’s book title or is even quicker witted than thought possible, either way it was hilarious.
Adam gives out the actual plug.
Gina’s News
1st Story is on the interview with the young man who was smacked by his mom in the infamous photo, Gina has a clip.
Adam is telling people to stop hitting their kids, it only makes them more likely to hit other people later in life, BB quotes Dr. Drew on Loveline and Adam is once again talking about the endless cycle of physical violence.
Sir Ken is giving his take, Adam is now getting to the black community jokes about the type of physical violence perpetrated by parents on their children via beatings with switches and belts.
Adam is telling commentators to stop calling her “supermom” and compliments her motor while questioning her 6 kids with no fathers around and the multiple tattoos.
2nd Story is on the Budweiser advertisement campaign about “removing the word no from your vocabulary” and Adam is joking about the various departments that passed this tagline.
Adam jokes about “What can Brown Do For You’ and mocks the WB TV slogan, BB comments on that being so long ago and Adam says it’s burned into his psyche.
BB brings up how his wife works in a similar industry and lends some insider perspective to it and how a slogan can get rolling and how anyone who questions it can get their head chopped off.
Adam is saying he’s tried of beer commercials showing things he can’t do in California, smoking on the beach with a bonfire etc.
3rd Story is on Justin Bieber carrying Floyd Mayweather’s belt and Gina has a clip of a man objecting to it.
Gina is now playing a clip of Manny Pacquiáo’s song and Adam says this about money, BB is now playing Gary’s drop over and over.
Adam says they’re trying to wring any penny they can out of the American public.
Gary is breaking down the hundreds of millions and Adam is now asking who the greatest winner is in all of this, the federal government and he goes off on the revenue.
Adam says we must be exceeding the financial expectations of the fight already which dictates there must be a 2nd fight within the next 6 months.
Gina tells them about her birthday plans and Adam jokes about her being devoured by a bear, Adam is now sharing his ‘Achievement Day” idea to replace meaningless birthdays.
Gina tells Adam there are African cultures who do such things, Adam then gets deflated and says they should move on, hahahahaha!
4th Story is on a North Dakota legislator and his record of voting against gay marriage legislation, Adam is now mentioning his tow truck escape, somehow discerning that Bruce Jenner was transitioning and his Toyota Grand prix win(s).
Gina has the twits in the story about the legislator being outed after using a dating app, Adam is explaining that concentrated energy towards something that has nothing to do with you always has something hidden behind it, pushing the person.
Adam is doing a Vegas.com live read
5th Story is on a Colorado mom who’s been “Lunch Shamed” by her child’s school regarding the Oreo cookies she included in her daughter’s meal.
Adam says this feels illegal and is now citing his childhood lunch options, he describes the nearly rotten green beans that would dissolve on your Spork.
Sir Ken is weighing in on school lunches and he is now saying that America’s creativity is being stifled by laws and lawyers, Adam is now riffing about the legal system in UK.
Adam talks about the one fat kid per rule that we all used to live by, Adam says the novelty of seeing a big fat person would cause kids to gather and secretly look on in novelty.
Adam and Sir Ken are talking about how kids were far more active and more removed from snacks and electrolytes via sports drinks back in the day.
Gina wraps the news.
Adam is doing a Pro Flowers live read
Adam thanks Sir Ken and welcomes him back any time, he plugs all of his stuff and wraps up the show, very interesting stuff.