24 Aug Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 08/22/2014 – Neal Brennan
A real time blog where Superfan Giovanni does recap and commentary on the show as it happens and opines on all things ACS
Guest – Neal Brennan
Recorded 08-21-2014 – Release Date 08-22-2014
Production Number #1395
Adam opens the show to a clever intro from Dawson and Lynch, Alison’s “Eat More Pussy” is the #TopDrop and Adam is now picking on the sharp angled features of certain people, how some people look good all the time.
Adam is getting to the people who have perfect angles for their faces from any direction, much like his wife Lynette, Adam jokes about needing scaffolding for his photographs, BB brings up Tom Hiddleston and Michael Fassbender as examples of the angelfish type that Adam is lamenting.
Adam wants Rick from Pawn Stars and George Wallace as his new cohosts for his face to look better in all photos.
Adam is doing a live read
Adam is now mocking a “World’s Greatest Dad” license plate frame he observed while in traffic and how he would handle this and he’s now assuming that this guy put the frame on himself and wants Alison’s and BB’s take about what this move means about a person.
Adam wants to know if we hate this guy or are jealous of him and his confidence and Adam is now getting to lame bracelets made by daughters and the freedom not to worry about these things, Adam is bringing up the guys he works with who rock bracelets.
Alison has a great realization about her world’s greatest dad mug and how he kept it for change, Adam has a killer Jewish guy hoarding pennies riff, in the cat being the best line, Ace Awards 2014 quality riffing.
BB is now saying the change mug is an important mug in a man’s life, trying to cushion Alison’s disappointment.
Adam is getting to how kids have no reverence for change in today’s world, unlike all past generations.
Adam is bringing up his own relationship to change and the inherent value of money, Adam brings his family returning bottles and going to the movies (he did that solo) and BB asks where change will be used in the future.
Adam says they agree on this license plate guy, Alison brings up Matt Fondiler’s license plate frame and “Underdog” frame, they call Matt Fondiler “OverDog” and Adam is joking about nothing on his car letting people know he likes interaction porn.
“I may be prejudice when it comes to social issues but when it comes to porn…” – Adam
Matt Fondiler is now mic commenting on his parents personalized license plates, Adam wants to show the “Matt and Beck” one to his parents to confuse them, he’s now riffing about their hypothetical and likely reactions.
Adam is bringing up Matt’s many vacations with his parents, he’s bringing up a restaurant with an anti-bullying message, Adam is now mocking the idea of “factory” being used in the title of a restaurant, and he has a killer whorehouse one liner.
Adam says that “Factory” is a cop out and makes your business sound of lesser quality, Matt is now reading the anti-bullying message and Adam is responding to the idea of “comforting” the bully.
Adam is now riffing about these bandwagon “pat yourself on the back” messages, the idea of putting this stuff on napkins.
Q and Ace
1st Caller Shawn, he wants to know about plane etiquette for reclining your chair, Adam is explaining the domino effect that solves itself, Adam says that there should be no chair on the plane that doesn’t recline, Adam is joking about becoming an impromptu dentist if you pick the last row on Southwest.
Adam is now riffing about the bib at the dentist’s office and the coly metallic chain that is totally unnecessary, Alison is weighing in and now Adam is back to the average southwest configuration.
Adam explains how you could engineer a plane for everyone to be able to recline, make it fair, Adam is now hating on the guy who stands in front of you during an entire concert and ruins it.
Adam brings up the European thank you signals done with blinkers he learned of a few years back, Alison brings up a driver’s ed. Memory and a recent guy changing lanes with a towel to signal.
2nd Caller Nate wants Adam’s take on the person who constantly is changing lanes through traffic, Alison has a great “Tetris” explanation and Adam is now riffing about a former NFL player, BB knows him well and they’re going off about his work in the 2-3yr zone.
Adam likes people who drive like this guy played football, (Ken Hall? Or Derrick Henry?)
Adam is now getting to Mike August driving like this and how he doesn’t like being in the car for that, how Mike tries to text and is very distracted while driving like a madman.
Adam is doing a live read for Reverie Bed
Adam is telling the gang about a lunch with his cohosts on ‘Catch a Contractor’ and how they had to lay down paper to protect the cast and crew from the floor and the not the other way around.
Adam gets a message that they don’t want him talking about this as they haven’t busted the guy yet, it’s a case in progress.
Adam is now bringing up the huge vats of lunch food for the cast and crew, Adam says that it’s just hot enough and shitty enough that there are flies surrounding the food, ruining the lunch.
Adam is bringing up the mesh tent fly umbrellas his grandmother used to use and Adam is sharing his frustration trying to get the production to adopt this modification for the lunch setups.
Adam is yelling “I don’t know” and lamenting the log of shit that the lunch tray became today, Adam is further yelling about the problem with flies they have and echoing what he said on set.
Gary reveals you can get a set of 3 for under 20 bucks, Adam is now saying that Gary must order them and nobody else will intervene.
Adam is taking back to Reverie Bed, how he recommended this on set to Alison Bedell and she told him of her daily massages for Skip Bedell each morning, Adam is now describing the gloves Alison uses on skip, he wraps up the live read.
Adam is now describing how he was greeted on set by the ball bearing gloves Alison uses on Skip and she had even more questions about the mobile massages, Adam wants Matt Fondiler’s parents, his parents and Lynette all in the same room with them and it’s going to get ugly.
Adam is on his “you didn’t want the mule breaking down” way of treating the breadwinner, he’s taking it to literal racehorses and how they are treated, he’s working that into the demands for shitty school recitals and the strange guilt that make it seem like the work is less important.
Adam says we left behind the coal dust and the cash, now it’s all plastic and ethereal and doesn’t seem like work or suffering.
BB and Alison both have some solid comments and contributions to Adam’s explanation, he’s saying that he thinks Alison views her husband Skip as the show pony and how much she loves him, Adam doesn’t think they’ll still be doing this 10 years in, he told them to send him a postcard the day it stop and has a funny scene he paints of himself in the future, wow!
BB is arguing the economists point of view, Adam is bringing up his conversation with Mark McGrath about when did earning everything count for nothing.
Adam is doing a live read for Life lock and claims his kids have it, Alison is doing her part.
3rd Caller Alex, he’s asking Adam about Classic Loveline #192 – Jim Carolla 06/24/1996 and the reveal that his dad once had his own radio character.
Adam says they never discussed it again off air, he’s now bringing up the classic ‘Crank Yankers’ Call of Adam as Birchum applying for a security job, Alison has great reactions.
They’re heading to break
They’re back from break.
Neal is now joining the show for his 2nd appearance, he was first on for ACS #1050 in 2013, and Adam is asking him about his new show on the Sundance channel.
He’s telling them about how he booked the elusive Jon Stewart and their discussion about Donald Sterling and now Adam and Neal are going super in depth on their similar thoughts about the issue and the way the information was obtained.
Adam is sharing his take on how he doesn’t want to police people who have bad thoughts or feelings, only actions, he wants assholes and douches to have the right to be just that.
Neal has some insights of his own and Adam is back to the notion of Donald Sterling influencing any one earth let alone young people.
BB then cracks a jokes mocking Adam as one of these very assholes he’s defending, Neal has a nice comparison to Al Capone getting busted for Tax Evasion.
Adam is bringing up everyone’s horrible actions in high school and Neal is sharing some anecdotes from his interview with Jon Stewart.
“When we show the footage of you on the toilet all of the pussies act like they don’t shit…” – Adam
Adam is in full agreement with Neal and they’re both making some great points.
“You go to Kramer Island” – Neal on the punishment for being busted by these gotcha sound bites, BB is now playing some clips of Alison to frame her and describing the snake eating its own tail of roundtable shows trying to condemn the actions of others.
Neal has some points about Don Imus and Alison is asking him about the Anthony Cumia situation and Neal has a funny one liner about who he must hate most.
Adam is now arguing in favor of freestyle rap artists and their rights to freeform thoughts.
Adam is saying he doesn’t mind someone being genuinely upset, he does mind people using these events for their own hypocritical purposes, and Neal references Natasha Leggero’s comments about the backlash to her tweets.
Adam jokes about telling ISIS to end war and how that will work out, Neal says that internet outrage is less than nothing, it is worse than nothing.
Adam is doing a Draft Kings Live Read.
Adam is sharing his theory on the meritocracy of football and why people like ‘Hard Knocks’ so much, Adam is getting nothing but agreement from Neal, he’s now adding a funny NBA caveat.
Adam brings up Jerry and his routine for getting back up to his feet, Adam is bringing up the ‘Man Show” piece they filmed and his expert level throwing and they’re now watching some footage of said bit.
Adam is sharing how difficult even he found kicking a football after over a decade in the game, they’re now watching footage of Jerry doing this move and Adam is ordering Neal to try and do it on the ground of the studio, he says it can’t be done despite being in such good shape himself.
Neal shares his love for the workout montages of Floyd Mayweather and Adam has some funny homoerotic innuendos.
Alison’s News
1st Story Is on the Ice Bucket challenge success and how much it’s raised for the ALS cause, Adam is now bringing up how these charities need a celebrity face.
Adam wants diseases treated in order of priority based on the “soul claiming” ranking and Neal brings up the Doug Stanhope bit about raising awareness.
Adam wants a ranking of diseases and wants to know where ALS charts, Neal has a funny “slip and fall” accidents awareness campaign he’s doing.
Adam is now riffing about the “nana died” car where your friend is suddenly driving a mint car that’s “totally cherry and boss” but 17 years old.
Adam is making a point about the older generation preserving that car and how the kid who inherited could total it so fast, citing his old roommate, a rare personal anecdote that’s almost ever brought up.
Neal says that the inventor of the “Ice Bucket Challenge” died last week, via drowning according to Neal.
Adam is doing a live read for World of Tanks.
Adam shits on Super Mario and the “magic pickles” in the game.
2nd Story Is on the uneasy peace in Ferguson Missouri, Adam has a killer “they all look alike” one liner and now Neal is condemning what Adam just said, they’re having a funny back and forth and Neal suggests “backsies” for adults who misspeak.
3rd Story Is on the end of the relationship between Meg Ryan and John Mellencamp, Adam riffs about them just sitting around and talking about the hot people they used to fuck.
Adam is now waxing poetic on why distance only makes the heart grow fonder and why their public reason must be bullshit.
Adam is mistaking Dan Finnerty’s birthday party in Las Vegas for the one where he met Meg Ryan, she doesn’t seem to be in the photo, perhaps she was there and not in the picture?
Alison wisely reminds Adam he met Helen Hunt at that party and the nice compliment she gave him about his movie “The Hammer” which she saw in the theater.
Adam is now joking about her hypothetical horrible actions that still wouldn’t make him stop defending her and her life choices, he’s totally down with Helen Hunt.
Adam is now looking at the insane “Purgatory Dinner” of women in the photo from Dan’s birthday party and they’re naming them off.
4th Story Is on a study that shows people eat more than half of their meals alone, Alison is reading the reasoning found in the study.
Adam is now bringing up the way you can consume food while on the phone, the emptiest of calories and how the slice of pie vanishes while you waste your life on the phone with your mom.
Adam is now taking it to the wonderful brisket and caterer from ‘Catch a Contractor’ and how he choked down the meal in 8mins so he could call into a radio show where they didn’t end pick up.
Alison is sharing why girls don’t eat on dates, BB is now asking everyone how they feel about eating alone and seeing movies alone.
Adam is now sharing how much he likes seeing movies alone on Tuesday at 11am and did it for work when he would review movies as Mr. Birchum for KROQ.
Adam reveals he only watches movies alone while at home, Alison wraps the news.
Adam is doing a Tommy John Wear live read.
They’re going super in depth on this live read, Adam is riffing about the acceptance of sweatpants as outdoor attire as the era of when we all became obese.
Adam reference Ditto jeans and Neal brings up how they no longer make small clothes for his frame, Adam is using XL clothes and large pizza pricing to make the same point from different angles, consumption and the effect of said consumption.
Adam is plugging some live music from Chris and Dawson, with an appearance from Assistant Jay too perhaps!