20 May Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 05/11/2016 – Heather McDonald 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 – Heather McDonald and Matt Atchity
Recorded 05-10-2016 – Release Date 05-11-2016
Production Number #1819
Adam opens the show to a funny trans people bathroom intro, he thanks the fans for spreading the news and BB has a low-key #TopDrop from Richard Schiff.
Adam welcomes Matt Atchity and the gang to the show, he explains that today is the end to the long odyssey of Lynette’s Tesla Mirror.
Gary is on mic, he drove it over to the Tesla dealer and got it confirmed for Adam, it was exactly what he said from the word go.
Adam is pissed as we no longer have experts, we have self-entitled douchebag idiots with patches and buttons of their company’s brand but who can’t simply answer a question, even at Tesla.
Gar compliments the guy at the dealership who answered his question in 90sec.
Q and Ace
1st Caller Steve, he works at Tesla and wants to offer Adam to come in and test drive a new Tesla Model X, Adam jokes about them whoring out Joel McHale’s Model X.
Adam is talking about Joel McHale’s deal with Audi and how he thought of buying the Tesla off of Joel, Adam is now joking about his daughter noticing the multiple Model X’s dropping kids off at her school, a 90k car is too inexpensive, it’s embarrassing, funny sarcasm.
Adam is now asking about the lead time, he wants to know about the models that Steve is describing and Adam comments on the 3.2sec 0-60mph time for the fully tricked out Model X.
Adam is explaining how this is Ferrari level speed and torque, Dodge Viper even, this is super car and hyper car world, Adam finds out the Dodge Viper is 3.3sec and Adam takes Steve up on his generous offer.
Adam is sharing his appreciation for electric vehicles and he explains how few miles’ people actually travel.
Adam shares his “rent a Denali” for a family road trip idea but says soon even that won’t be needed as they expand the charging stations.
Gary is on mic and he’s explaining how he got the mirror situation solved, Adam jokes about Gary’s time being worth the same as a dung beetle, how rude.
Adam is now talking to Gina about the mirror and mirrors on cars in general, Adam is bringing up performance cars and the modern lower slung design with larger air dams.
Matt is chiming in and Adam is joking about Sonny shitting on their walk and holding a sack of his shit, hilarious!
Adam is describing witnessing two guys parking in a lot walking away from the BMW M4 that the deriver just pulled too far forward over a parking block.
Adam says the buddy was begging the guy to not go look, he heard the pop and knows it’s bad, but he wanted to go enjoy their meal and have a couple pops (drinks) and enjoy their evening without the buddy obsessing about his ruined car.
Adam is now ranting about the mother-f’er who left the rebar exposed for just a quarter inch and that was just enough to rip the air dam under the car.
Adam suggests carriage bolts that could be uniform and safe, he comments on the danger of rusty rebar and Gary cites Tom and the guys on the job sites who have sports cars for the weekends so presumably the guys putting the parking blocks in do as well.
Adam is now joking about going to Ethiopia and he’s got a “gourds down, grab a knee, if you don’t have legs just plant your fanny on the sand, gourds not a chair” comment as he is in character trying to share his first world problems with the poor people starving to death.
Adam is now doing a Carbonite Live Read
Adam has Matt tease the game’s theme today, he says George Clooney and Adam is now weigh in on Clooney, he says he has “it” and says that he’s met him two times in person and the guy hugged him both times, Adam says he’s not going to let people leave a party thinking he’s standoffish.
2nd Caller Clayton, he’s a huge fan and tells them about his buddies who remind him of Ray, he describes a dog lying spread eagle with its butthole exposed, Clayton sums it up and wants to know about things “going gay” and Adam is riffing about things being so gay they become straight again.
Adam is describing the musk that comes off a man as he describes a 300’esque motif.
Adam does a crazy humiliate/titillate Johnny Cochrane impression after BB says that Jackass 3 was the gayest film he’s ever seen.
3rd Caller Chris, he tells them about an offer to be a Gainesville financial planner, Adam jokes about this sounding like an SNL character and BB is now playing a Floridian, nice accent work.
Adam is the financial planner, hilarious truck nuts and disability comments.
Adam is trying to explain college to BB’s Floridian hillbilly, Adam asks Chris about the scene they just enacted and Chris explains his concerns about the expectations from the guy who runs the business.
4th Caller David, his friend has an elitist attitude about movies and Gina comments on Jason Bateman being in the cast of ‘Necessary Roughness’ as she said before being shot down by everyone else on ACS #1817, eagle eye Gina!
David says his pal is getting really pretentious and intolerable, Adam comments on people being snobby about things they don’t create, he says it’s a wasteful calorie burner.
Gina says this friend who likes metal seems like he needs to attach himself to an identity, Adam is commenting on metal and the lion’s share of it sucking.
Adam says what metal says is semi unemployable and really bad hair, Gary is saying “marvel” and then you don’t hear him.
David is listing off his pal’s top 3 movies ‘Captain America Civil War’, ‘Requiem for a Dream’ and ‘Prometheus’ and Adam is now confused and wonders if this guy shouldn’t be hanging out with David, so they have David list his top 3 ‘Eraserhead’, The Red Balloon’ and ‘Jackie Brown’.
BB declares David the hipster and is clamoring for them to comment on the reveal that David is the bad friend with bad taste.
Adam is now breaking down David’s list of movies and Matt says the first two that David mentioned are pretty impenetrable.
Matt and BB weigh in on ‘Eraserhead’ and how it doesn’t stand up to multiple viewings, Adam’s never seen it as he realized it was mostly hype.
5th Caller Wilmer, he wants to know about the “white voice” character that black comedians used to do, Adam shares his theory it all devolved or evolved from Richard Pryor, that Eddie Murphy then did and was replicated by even Dave Chappelle.
Wilmer wants to know if that white guy personality still exists in society, Adam is commenting on the white guy becoming the man and evil.
Adam is joking about the other white guy stereotype, the one burning and ruining breakfast, Matt says it’s the premise of ‘Mr. Mom’ and Adam has a killer leaf blower one liner.
Adam is commenting on the gas commercial he saw and he comments on the black person who witnesses a white person doing something crazy cliché, he describes the commercial.
Gina asks if perhaps that doofus white guy reached its apex with George W. Bush and SNL.
6th Caller Andy, he’s got a new Rich Man Poor Man idea, he shares Austin Rivers comments about not knowing his father, Adam jokes about the NBA and fathers.
Adam is telling them about his kid’s basketball games, his son scored 0 points in 3 consecutive games, he’s fine with it but it is hard to hear him explain his plans for the NBA or NFL as a career path.
Gina asks if Adam ever dashes his dreams, Adam explains why he never says anything and how sports will weed out who doesn’t belong, the coach who cuts him eventually will do all the talking that you needn’t do now, it’s meaningless now.
Adam is doing a SimpliSafe Live Read
Rotten or Fresh The Rotten Tomatoes Game
George Clooney Movies Edition
1st Movie ‘From Dusk till Dawn’ (1996)
Matt describes the plot and BB chimes in with an assist, Adam asks about the new movie ‘Money Monster’ which Matt hasn’t seen yet.
They all make their guesses and Adam declares the critics are being snobby with his one, it’s rated too low.
2nd Movie ‘The Peacemaker’ (1997)
Nobody remembers it, Gary loves it and says not because it’s a great movie, Adam mocks him for not paying for movies and if his non money was worth it.
Everyone makes their guesses and they move on.
3rd Movie ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
This is one of Gina’s all-time favorite movies, Adam recognizes it as great art but says doesn’t feel like he ever needs to see it again.
4th Movie ‘Michael Clayton’ (2007)
Adam says he likes this movie and BB agrees, Adam thinks the audience has this one ranked too low.
5th Movie ‘Return of the Killer Tomatoes’ (1988)
Gina had no idea he made this movie, Adam and BB are theorizing if they would get an artificially low score due to what they were attempting to do.
BB takes the win, Adam comments on the game as a whole and how close their scores were.
Adam is now doing a Trunk Club Live Read
Adam gives out the plugs for Matt and they head to break.
They’re back from break with a listener voicemail about Adam’s musical tastes and John Hiatt in particular, he also weighed in on country music.
Heather is making her 3rd appearance on the show, each time she’s guested Matt Atchity has also been on the show oddly enough, must be a certain day of the week she has free or something.
She was previously on ACS #1647 and ACS #1731.
Adam gives his take on country music, he likes the dusting of country that John Hiatt will embrace but doesn’t like going too deep into the country music woods.
Adam says it’s like seeing David Hasselhoff in real life, it’s too much, Heather shares her reaction to meeting him in person.
Adam comments on seeing David Hasselhoff at the L.A. Auto Show and how he presumed it must be an impersonator, Adam quotes Dr. Drew talking about Pamela Anderson being almost a “female, female impersonator” and Heather is chiming in about a lack of self-awareness.
Adam jokes about women having a tally of the number of times another human being has beat off to them, Heather would like to know and she comments about the creepy guys on twitter who she will discover to be trolls sending their love all over town.
Adam finds Ann Curry attractive and Adam jokes about men’s facial hair and selfie sticks being used to disguise 2nd and 3rd chins.
Adam says nobody ever holds a selfie stick like the guy at the border looking under your car, They’re all now talking about fans posing for photos where they duck to get a better angle, Adam says “you’re not in the batter’s box” and Heather tells fans to Photoshop everyone else too if they’re going to augment their own appearance in the after show meet and greet pics.
Adam says he makes everyone uglier with his Photoshop skills to make himself as a 6 look like the bell of the ball.
Heather shares how she joked about the woman who posted the meme about her post pregnancy mid-section and how she did that with her hand veins.
Adam brings up Cecil the Lion and Heather McDonald brings up a horrible dictator and Adam replies with Kony, he explains why he knew that answer he says that KONY also manufactures auto parts.
Adam is talking about the charity leader who ran outside nude which quickly led to the end of the social media crusade, Adam says this why he never gets his panties in a bunch over this stuff.
Adam is doing a Stamps.com Live Read
Gina’s News
1st Story is on Steph Curry’s triumphant return; Adam has BB share how Adam talked him off the ledge on their drive home from Seattle.
Gina has the details of his MVP award and BB helps describe the legendary game.
Gary is now on mic sharing some images of the Portland players and coach.
2nd Story is on Paul Ryan’s comments about Donald Trump as the republican nominee, Adam asks what we need to get to know about Trump, don’t we all know him already?
Heather is now sharing the details of a pyramid scheme that Donald Trump was involved with, Gina knows about it too and Heather says she gets approached to join Christian churches and for pyramid schemes.
Adam is now riffing about the possible confusion surrounding the construction of the Luxor hotel and he riffs an improv scene with BB where he comes up with Ponzi Pool, BB loves it and changes it to Ponzi Pond.
Adam says that life is kind of a pyramid scheme, he describes a scam from around 1983, a 100$ chain which led to 1k for the person who originated the chain.
Heather is bringing up crowd funding and Adam says he gets the “two weeks off work” ones he gets hit up for, usually in the name of charity.
Adam says he would be surprised if he found out that Trump wasn’t involved in multiple pyramid schemes.
Gina asks Adam to share his joke about Don King, Adam is telling a story from the taping of ‘The Apprentice’ and he describes how Trump was up at the front of the stage eyeballing him during the roast.
Heather asks about Adam’s surprise of Trump becoming the nominee, Adam says he actually predicted it in 2008, he picked a date and doesn’t even know policy or election years.
Adam thinks po0litics are fully game on and suggests that Caitlyn Jenner might become president, it doesn’t sound impossible, Heather agrees.
3rd Story is on further fallout from the new North Carolina bathroom bill, Gina has the details of the lawsuits traded back and forth between the state and justice department.
Adam explains how Geragos feels about this, Adam asks how cares and says the simple solution is to allow people who have changed their gender legally to use that bathroom.
Adam says if we could trust human beings to follow the rules and do what’s right we could allow people who say they identify as a particular gender to use that restroom.
Adam is now listing all of the ways people scam things, he mentions handicapped plates and predicts how people would abuse this.
Adam shares how he feels about the “driver’s license” theory and Heather is now weighing in and she explains “gender neutrality” to Adam.
Adam says they don’t want to neutral they want to be a pain in the goddamn ass, he brings up various ways the left loves to correct language, to somehow take power by being the more informed person.
Adam talks about the invisible and retarded power, Heather asks him not to say retarded, ha!
Adam is saying you get power by having a building with your name on it not by correcting people, Heather is crushing her reply about doing someone a favor, funny “curvy” example.
Adam tells people to have fun living a life of self-imposed victimhood, he wraps up his feelings about the North Carolina bathroom bill.
Heather has a funny service dog shitting in a bathroom reply and Gina shares some stats about trans people and abuse, Adam says it’s not about them, they’re not hurting anyone.
Adam is explaining he’s worrying about the weakness of society and how shitty humans are.
Gina is doing a Life Lock Live Read with Adam
Adam would like an attaboy from the IRS edition
American’s are too fat for burglaries, that’s why they commit cybercrime edition
4th Story is on NYC ruling that bartenders cannot refuse service to pregnant women, Adam says good and calls the woman who ordered a glass of wine while pregnant a hero.
Adam comments on BB’s wife sipping some champagne over the evening during Matt’s wedding, BB explains things and Adam has a funny joke at BB’s expense.
Heather shares her rule of thumb for drinking while pregnant and tells them about acting as the designated driver while she was pregnant and would go out with her husband.
Adam brings up the airplane phone rule and how if there was an actual danger they would confiscate phones upon take off to prevent damage.
Gina wraps the news with a great new drop of Heather in character as angry plus size cover model who doesn’t want to be seen as curvy.
Adam jokes about BB’s brain tumor and Christie drinking while pregnant and how they must be treated at the airport and in the lounges.
Adam give out a plug for PodcastOne and wraps up the show.