11 May Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 05/10/2016 – Richard Schiff
A real time blog where Superfan Giovanni does recap and commentary on the show as it happens and opines on all things ACS
Guest – Richard Schiff
Recorded 05-09-2016 – Release Date 05-10-2016
Production Number #1818
Adam opens the show with a funny high pitched intro about having no choice but to get it on, BB has a nice “Mohaymen” #TopDrop from Kira on yesterday’s show.
Adam talks about his tweets that tell him he’s right about the new thing du jour and BB comments on the confirmation bias at play.
Adam is now talking about the coolest dude in the world, he’s schooling people in basketball and he’s wearing loafers or vans, kicking ass in the wrong shoes makes a guy a badass.
Gary is sharing an example of his buddy Richard from his Fraternity days, he talks about how Richard would dress like a doofus and was hitting bombs, just bombs! While playing a pickup game of softball.
Adam talks about the guys driving in tennis shoes or golfing in two toned vans.
BB asks about wearing fun shoes to your wedding, the vans or the Chuck Taylors and Adam shares how the classic style converse got fucked out, Adam says he doesn’t mind someone wearing a tucker’s hat if they wear it, if it has tattered fringe it’s because you wore it out not because you paid some Indonesian guy to drive around in it.
Adam’s hilarious description got an Indonesian kid wearing your trucker’s hat breaking it in while driving in a circle.
BB mentions Matt again and Adam chimes in as they talk about his wide feet.
Adam is now riffing about Matt earning his way into his father in law’s closet and getting access to double the amount of shoes, BB is now playing Matt’s wife on their first date and Adam is Matt Fondiler.
Funny Brannock device comedy and Adam steps out of the improv scene and BB as Matt Fondiler’s wife demands to know who Gary is, holy shit this is great!
Adam is now mixing up realities and says there is a loose calculation he makes based on the daughter’s foot to then gauge the father’s shoe size, to see if there is some potential there, not trying to waste anyone’s time.
Adam is crushing this as Matt Fondiler and BB is great as his wife, Adam reveals he has herpes, even anal ones, wow!
“You Matt Fondiler have anal herpes!?” – BB
Adam and BB are sitting over the dinner table in the scene and Matt chimes in to confirm how realistic that scene was and BB mentions not knowing what a Brannock device, dude Adam has talked about them in front of you for like 15yrs on at least a dozen occasions.
Adam is doing a Blue Apron Live Read
Greek Pizza appetizers for BB’s houseguests, fancy man edition
Adam has a secret drawer filled with his black box of recipes that he keeps.
Q and Ace
1st Caller Tim, he asks them about the woman he’s dating who he thinks is making about 4-5 times the amount he makes, Tim is bringing home about 65k a year and she’s a partner in a law firm, he mentions how weird it is to be paying for everything while she’s spending money appropriate to her income.
Adam is bringing up his old theory about women and muscle, if they were built like men, how much domestic violence would occur, he says maybe things have changed but then goes back into the idea and riffs about Lynette beating him up about 4 times per year, he would have it coming, he knew better…
Adam talks about guys being used to the traditional role of breadwinning and Adam talks about his life and how he feels about money and spending.
Adam talks about the abundance of men he knows who work 60+ hrs. per week, with wives who chillax all day and have a nanny.
Gina has a funny “you could do better Cheryl” line and Adam reverses it and brings up women who do the breadwinning with a spouse who is chasing his nutty cheese based dreams.
Adam says it’s not exactly apples to apples yet, we’re getting there!
Adam mocks women for heading towards this realm of equality, he brings up Pam Adlon paying alimony and Gina now presents another angle about Tim being upset about her being frivolous with cash, Adam tells him to get knocked up pronto and BB asks about the wealth, BB loves money topics.
Adam is sharing the symbolism at play and explains how the person doing the grinding it’s mostly all symbolic and he explains how simply acting busy when she comes home might go a long way.
Adam says it makes a difference when someone is beleaguered and BB is now telling Tim that this is a concern for him this must not be a real worry, he’s conscious of it and will probably not be the guy playing video games when the lady gets home.
Adam is doing a True Car Live Read
2nd Caller Sandra, she wants Adam’s worst hangover story, he says it’s not the hangover it’s the schedule you have that day.
Adam jokes about a hangover that is connected to a day off of sleeping, that’s nothing, that’s like going to Vietnam shooting yourself in the foot and just fucking prostitutes, wow!
Sandra is now sharing her worst hangover story and Adam has a killer Limonecello Danny DeVito on ‘The view’ reference.
Adam is now asking Sandra about their house for the upcoming races, he wants to know about the house and if they can clear out for a few days in August.
Adam seems to know her and is steamrolling her as he takes over her property and promises to send her the rider Adam jokes about the sad ceiling fan.
Adam is now describing his worst hangover ever; he shares his wishes he could have taken the day off instead of digging ditches while feeling that awful.
BB shares how he had to drive to college while hungover with his parents on the way to college, Gina says she’s never had a real hangover.
Gary gets on mic as they tease the arrival of the great Richard Schiff.
3rd Caller JD, calling from Manchester England and he asks about the upcoming live tour, Adam says he’s too cheap to pay for the tickets for Gina and BB to join them.
JD is sharing two ideas for online advertising with them, Adam recalls doing JD’s podcast and he says he’ll send the advertising idea to Lynch to “punch it up” and Adam asks some follow up questions about his idea Rugby related event.
Adam is joking about a Rugby ball and says if a football raped a soccer ball it would give birth to a Rugby ball, Adam jokes about using the word rape more than 18 times in one advertisement and cracks that the football would be on top of the soccer ball, football is a top.
Adam is now coming up with some more ad campaigns and they solved his dilemma.
4th Caller no longer on the line, wanted to know about Adam’s Israeli contractor and Adam shares their new working dynamic and go over how they marveled at his building genius.
5th Caller Zoltan, he is calling about the travel trailer that his wife wants them to buy. Adam likes that his wife is championing this idea, Adam is now starting to worry and wonders if she is going to be fucking strangers in the trailer.
Adam and BB are now Zoltan and his wife going over this scene, great improv!
Adam is Zoltan’s wife and BB is Zoltan and Adam is now trying to arrange secret Rendezvous with his buddy Kurt.
This is still going; Adam is doing a little bit of the “Subliminal Man” that Kevin Nealon is famous for.
Zoltan is back on the line and asks if Adam is trying to tell him that his wife is having an affair, funny response.
Adam talks about people being aware of their limitations and why he and his wife wouldn’t be buying one of these, be realistic about your needs and what you do in life.
They head to break.
They return from break with a ‘Great Moment in Local News’ about man-bun hair styles.
Adam is mocking the local news and says they should just run images of missing kids when they have nothing newsworthy just like Charles Schulz should have ran a missing kid photos in place of a bad or poorly thought out cartoon.
Richard Schiff is making his return to the ACS, he was last on ACS #752 back in 2012.
Richard has a nice response to the news segment and Adam’s riff.
Adam talks about Richard now being in multiple shows at the same time, he asks him if he thinks the new outlets allow for his career to blossom with more roles.
Adam asks him about working on ‘Ballers’ with The Rock, Richard shares what a great guy he is and how lovely he is to know.
Adam says he loves the movie ‘Se7en’ and cites Richard’s role, Richard shares his perspective on the movie and Adam talks about needing to be in the right mood to experience ‘Se7en’ and BB comments on it as well.
They all agree it’s a masterpiece.
Adam asks him about his upcoming projects and about working in independent film, he says he gets better roles when working with small budgets and new directors and writers.
Adam has a “least favored nations” comment about big stars not taking big checks for projects forcing everyone else to not get paid in solidarity, he makes a dual point about the big stars being the ones who can afford to do that.
Adam is asking Richard about Broadway and he brings up ‘Hamilton’ and Adam jokes about not supporting cultural diversity nor the arts.
Adam likes when things cool off, he doesn’t want to see the movie on opening day and comments on how the production won’t slow down and everyone loves it, Richard says ‘Hamilton’ is the best thing he’s ever seen live.
Richard says he went backstage and hugged Lin-Manuel Miranda who told him that ‘The West Wing’ inspired ‘Hamilton’ and Adam jokes about him telling him it was ‘The Man Show’ when he was hugging him backstage.
Adam asks Richard about the secret speakeasy where all of the Broadway actors go to blow off steam and Adam talks about being the +1 and BB mocks him for revealing the secret location on air.
Adam plugs ‘Ballers’, ‘Rogue’, ‘House of Lies’ and ‘The Affair Is Over’ with an assist from Richard.
Adam is doing a Reverie Bed Live Read
The bed has a light under the bed edition
Adam on sleep hygiene and he comments on Arianna Huffington on ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ talking about sleeping.
Gina’s News
BB tells Richard about Gina’s past in ‘Hair’ and he regrets not seeing her perform, Gina reminisces about her young body and they move onto the news stories.
1st Story is on Ozzy Osbourne being reported missing after Sharon has accused him of an affair, Adam says that hairstylists are the #1 affair profession and Richard says personal trainer, they all agree with a knowing “ah” and Adam riffs about Ozzy trying to proposition people.
“Between the Cockney accent and the brain damage” – Adam on Ozzy
Richard says “specifically pussy” repeating what Adam said as they talk about affairs on the road among rock stars and Adam jokes about Gene Simmons carrying a vial of pussy juice in the Denali that he puts on his cock when going home, like he inflates his affairs to keep a narrative going with his wife.
Adam is now sharing the vague details of how Billy Idol was caught cheating via a baby monitor, Gary has the key details before Adam describes a horrific scene.
Adam is now referencing the 2008 appearance of Norm MacDonald on the KLSX morning show where he told the story of an anal encounter with his buddy’s wife who was mowing the lawn.
2nd Story is on David Ortiz being ejected from the game in the 9th inning, Adam mocks his idiosyncratic batting glove moves and says this is why baseball is a horrible game, too much time on your hands.
Richard is weighing in and they watch the footage from the game.
Adam is talking about the bad calls that are inherent to the game and Richard disagrees with his logic as Adam mocks the current league standings, hilarious sarcasm and repetition of “every pitch counts.”
3rd Story is on a bizarre food contamination case out of Michigan, Gina has the details of the Ann Arbor man who would spray rat poison on food.
Adam says the hand sanitizer ingredient must have been what the rat poison was put in.
Adam asks for an island of broken toys, instead of killing this guy, just send him to this island.
Adam is talking about these types of criminals who can’t be helped, he gets motivated crimes and if this guy worked for Gelson’s and was competing against Whole Foods then we can work this out and send him to prison.
Adam is now joking about his wife wasting money on veggie wash and he tells them about unscrewing the bottle and topping it off in the sink, to stretch out the bottles lifespan.
Adam has a funny “it couldn’t hurt” deliver and references Richard’s father as BB plays the drop of Kira doing a similar accent yesterday.
4th Story is on Eric Striker not being drafted by the NFL, Adam is now talking about white players getting drafted vs. black players and why it’s more entertaining to see the black families as they have huge gatherings, it’s not some lame dude and his dad and stepmom in a quiet room, uncreatable.
Adam riffs about this differences and they get into a live read.
Adam is doing a Castrol Live read
Gina asks about adding oil
Gina has the video of Eric not getting drafted, she shares the clip of him thanking people for coming to share this with him.
Adam feels like black people have better sectional sofas than white people, he describes the differences between the mouse hair color and scotch guard boring model white people pick vs. the fancy sectionals with cup holders.
Gina has the remaining details about Eric and Adam talks about how you can work your way up form special teams, Adam comments on the 6ft which might be inflated like a woman’s driver’s license and their weight, just add a couple 0’s.
Adam teasers the arrival of Christopher Darden and Adam jokes about getting into sectional sofa conversations with him on the next Reasonable Doubt episode airing this Saturday.
They wrap the news.
Adam plugs PodcastOne and they wrap up the show.