12 Sep Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 09/12/2016 – Joel Stein
A real time blog where Superfan Giovanni does recap and commentary on the show as it happens and opines on all things ACS
Guest – Joel Stein
Recorded 09-11-2016 – Release Date 09-12-2016
Production Number #1899
Adam opens the show with a “basket of deplorables” intro that mocks his family for being too cheap to buy baskets, Adam thanks the fans for coming out with their families and introducing themselves, it warms his heart.
BB has a “back those panties up ma’am” #TopDrop and he’s got a baby update, Adam asks about the doula and BB is now telling Adam what the bar method is.
Adam is joking about the ballet bars as portrayed in movies, you never see a sparsely used bar with only 3 ladies not competing for space unlike in the movies with the ballerina related tropes.
Adam is now talking about sitcom humor and compares how people repurposed the “Got Milk” campaign for their own industry or business, saying you can’t do that while making a larger point about how they used to recycle premises and jokes from sitcoms.
Adam is now riffing about the trope of the couple preparing their birth plan and having it go awry, including the typical cop from central casting.
Adam brings up the anniversary of 9/11 and he asks the gang where they were when it happened, Gina was living in NYC and describes the experience in great detail.
Adam clarifies that her dad was doing news and Gina says she is disconnected from her feelings regarding the events and her own experience, Adam jokes about her not causing it per se.
BB shares his story and how he was required to tape ‘Beat The Geeks’ the next day, he even got a call from the producer to ensure he was still coming.
Adam is now talking about the awkward conversations where business had to continue in spite of the tragedy unfolding around us, guys gotta plumb pipes and you gotta get your car fixed.
Gina is now sharing how the rubble was spread around, Adam talks about how the human remains were in the air, you can find DNA in clothing that first responders wore.
BB asks Adam about his experience, Adam comments on his family and how they never talk about current events, Adam was awoken by a message waiting for him from his step mother, the only normal person in the group.
Adam was slated to fly out to NYC the next week and he presumes she was aware of that or that he knew someone in the city.
Adam jokes about turning on Animal Planet for 5 hours and he was pissed, Adam is now breaking down his gradual realization of the terrorism.
Adam recalls how he was imbued with the freedom to speed on the freeway, he opened up his M3 and predicted that there was no cop ready to write a ticket on that day, Adam did it for America.
Adam recalls being at Ivan Reitman’s massive estate just a week after the events, he quotes Ivan bragging about his house being nicer than Oprah’s compound.
Gary has the numbers from both of Oprah’s Montecito estates, Adam says Ivan’s wife gathered all of the workers and they took a moment of silence before having lunch.
Adam is now recalling his trip to NYC where he was going to meet James Babydoll Dixon in the city, he talks about touring the monument that memorialized 9/11 and Adam says they knocked it out of the park, he describes how majestic it was.
Adam says he walked up on the panel while in the city, he says you can’t get natural stone in the lengths they have displayed, these granite panels.
Adam walked up to the first panel and he has Gary show the photo, Adam was reading the names and realizes how many different kinds of names there were, not just American names.
Adam says the diversity is what makes this country great and this was 15 years ago that such a mixed bag of people were all in the same place.
Gina has some details about what it was like to stand on the observation deck of the twin towers, Adam was up there once as well when he was travelling with Kevin and Bean in 1994.
Adam jokes about “New York, New York” and why they say the name twice.
Draft Kings
Sonny is so pumped he had a dream featuring the ghost of football past.
Adam is now sharing his other thought, an offshoot of his 9/11 memorial experience.
Adam says the TSA employees at JFK couldn’t have been cuntier, he is describing how the TSA Precheck gate often results in you being turned away to the general pop line.
Adam is talking about the invisible line, the space you give someone at an ATM or when waiting to approach the TSA employee, Adam describes someone being forced to step back.
Gary is now on mic quoting the TSA woman who screamed at him, he does a nice bit of accent work to emulate her tone and lack of verbal clarity.
Adam is now trying to recall the TSA woman in Seattle or Detroit (NYC, it was at JFK, earlier this year) as he described back in February right after it happened on ACS #1738.
Adam briefly recounts the “Fine! Just git!” story and everyone laughed about it.
Adam is now back to the line from this past week’s trip and he asks Gary about the business traveler who was forced to remove his shoes and belt as the Precheck rules weren’t being observed.
Adam is now commenting on the TSA training for sexual harassment that must exist, how about training on how not to be so much of a cunt.
Gary says that Adam scared him so much on this trip, Gary was finally flying in 1st class and Adam jokes about him having to beat off in the bathroom, the bad news was really just Adam needing a photo of the Asian gentleman who was being forced to undergo a rigorous secondary screening.
BB says “maybe half Asian” and everyone loses their shit in the booth, you can hear it on mic as the sound reverberates and Adam is back to the story of how he got Gary to take the photo and Adam shares his fear about being apprehended at the airport as happened a few years back.
Adam is now having Gina describe the Asian gent from the photo, he’s missing limbs and now BB’s joke makes more sense and Adam is unaware how the guy powers his wheelchair, Adam has a killer “blower” bit of comedy and Gary things the joystick is in the man’s armpit.
Adam talks about how the guy didn’t seem to appreciate being the beacon of sadness at the airport, Adam is trying to figure out how the man get aboard the plane and he predicts the chair must be over 150 pounds in weight.
Adam doesn’t get what danger or threat this man possesses, Gary says they spent well over a minute going over the man, Gina has some wise comments about privacy and dignity and how out of line this search was, let alone it being done at the gate.
Adam says this is the TSA pulling the 3-year-old out of line times 10, Adam is not besmirching this guy who is the victim here, he’s making a point about the cruelty and lack of professionalism of TSA agents.
Adam teases the arrival of Joel and a call about radon.
Stamps.com
Adam passed a post office sign, why go to one in 2016, it’s insane edition
Q and Ace
1st Caller David, he bought a house and it came back with a high concentration of radon and he wants Adam’s opinion the gas, he equates it to mold and Adam jokes about mold being urbanized with
“black” added to the name.
Adam is commenting on mold and how long it’s been among us, Adam says you can choose your relationship with mold and he contrasts BB against Ed McMahon.
Adam says the same chicks who talk about toxic mold are the same ones with the botched plastic surgery, Adam jokes about people moving to a motel, now you have cum, mold and cum!
Hilarious!
Adam is saying pussies that are allergic to mold shouldn’t reproduce, Adam is talking about radon and he says it’s naturally occurring and Adam says he’s never checked for radon in his various houses.
Adam says he could wake up every day on Krypton and still feel like shit, it’s not some mysterious gas.
Adam comments on the plastic and toxic gases that come of the cars we drive, whatever your first breath is when you get into a hot car, that outdoes any amount of time in Ed McMahon’s house.
Adman has a clip of Joel’s coworker reading some of the YouTube comments about her, they listen to the clip ala Jimmy Kimmel’s “Mean Tweets” and they’re now joking about the clip and they go to break.
They’re back from break with a new ‘Deficiently Not a Jew’ and Joel Stein is making his 4th appearance on the ACS, he was previously on ACS #385 in 2010, then ACS #480 in 2011 and his last appearance was on ACS #823 in 2012.
Joel had not yet heard the clip of Belinda reading the comments aimed at her, Joel is now explaining how trolls have ruined the internet, he says it’s angry white dudes and Adam says he doesn’t get a ton of negativity, he mostly gets things aimed to make him get pissed off.
Joel is getting over a cold and he once again says it’s angry white dudes, Adam is talking about the couples who show up at his events and live shows.
Gina says guys use fake avatars and hide behind fake identities to abuse people, Joel brings up 4Chan and Reddit, he says Twitter and YouTube come next.
Gina says the mora accountability the less hate and Joel agrees and now Adam is asking about humans evolving for social media and how it affects us as a species.
Adam shares his lack of interest in gossip regardless if it’s about Jeff and Janet, he doesn’t need to know.
Adam talks about people forwarding him articles about himself and Joel brings up David Cross and his need to respond to shitty comments, Adam only cares about inaccuracies not aggression or rude comments.
Joel talks about spending two days with Milo Yiannopoulos and Adam brings up meeting Joel at The Man Show, he comments on how he was stuck in Los Angeles waiting to interview Craig Kilborn, Adam and Jimmy were scheduled to record a practice interview for ‘The Late Late show’ and Adam talks about young men and the IV of douche they get put in them.
Adam recalls the last conversation he ever had with Craig about playing some basketball at the party house, Craig brought up his celebrity game with Garry Shandling that was superior to this pickup game without celebrities.
Adam says he knew Craig was a douche as he didn’t even pretend to be interested, Adam is sharing how we all pretend to try and make time in our schedules.
Joel makes a point about people who fall when their career goes away, Adam talks about David Letterman having the choice of Craig or Jon Stewart following him, he makes a point about why David chose to avoid having Jon behind him.
Adam once again plugs the article and he asks Joel what wisdom he would share with his kids to help them put their best foot forward in life, Adam is having him tease his answer, hold on, hold on!
Life Lock
Medicare and ID theft edition
Joel jokes about having advice for the radon guy and Adam shares his experience with Jack Gilardi at the 1999 Celebrity Dodger game.
Gary is now searching for the name of the agent, Adam is sharing how the guy was being a prick to him and he explains how Stephen Baldwin was going for his 2nd at bat and Adam still hadn’t even got to play yet.
Adam realized they had an exchange earlier in the game that must have pissed him off and Adam explains how the coach started going nuts as if he’d never been told to fuck off in the past 30 years, they go into full Saddam Hussein mode.
Adam recalls the name Jack Gilardi and Joel says don’t think the computer and the internet is real life, Gary is now reading Jack’s background and trying to find out if he’s the right guy, he is.
Gina’s News
1st Story is on the death of Alexis Arquette, Adam is trying to recall the history of Alexis and her surgery.
BB recalls her appearance on the KLSX morning show and Adam says she was mean, Joel asks if Adam will say mean things about him once he’s dead like this former guest, Adam says no, he will say accurate things about him when he’s dead, just like this.
Gina wants to know if Adman recalls why they didn’t get along when Alexis guested on February 26th 2007, the same day they got a call from Shirley Phelps-Roeper.
Adam only remembers Alexis having a chip on her shoulder, BB recalls her getting up and walking out early, Joel wants to know how Adam feels in the moment when someone walks out, he doesn’t care.
Adam says he knows it sounds insanely convenient but he goes over the “you will be 100% in charge of how he feels about you and your relationship to him” and he uses Jo Koy to make a point about why people like him so much.
Adam says he’s not going to try and overcome someone’s hostility and Adman recalls the 1999 Pennywise incident, LoveLine – 1999-06-07 (Pennywise) Security Videotape.
BB recalls that was Anderson’s first night and Adam says the interviews will go the way most guests want them to go, Adam says he has a “good” and “negative” column for guests, he can’t recall the name Riff Raff and calls him “Hand Job” while recalling Richard O’Brien’s lost appearance on Classic LoveLine where he was a dick, he’s not sure what about or the details but he remembers it being a negative show.
2nd Story is on a double amputee playing football for his school with carbon fiber legs, Gina has some clips form the coach and the young man.
Adam says this kid can do anything and one day he will be shooting his girlfriend through a bathroom door, hilarious!
Adam is now talking about the opposing team and their options when opposing him, Adam brings up the kids who didn’t make the team while this kid did and BB is now chiming in.
Joel now brings up the TSA agent and wonders if they were examining the amputee to not appear as ableists, Adam is bringing up the decision making process being removed from society and he says you need the ability to make a decision, we don’t need robots writing tickets we need a human to make a decision on the fly.
Adam talks about walking to liquor stores, Joel is from back east and is unaware they sold candy at liquor stores, Adam means “convenience stores” and Gary has Jack Gilardi’s background.
Gina comments on the name of the agency and Adam shares the ‘Violence Fight’ arcade game anecdote with the gang, Gina wraps the news and Adam gets to a live read.
Bet DSI
Trump vs. Clinton, UFC, Gary bet on CM Punk and lost it edition
Joel is asking about the misspelling of Milo Yiannopoulos’s name; Adam explains he has the staff write it out phonetically for him.
Adam forgot to call Joel out on ‘The Man Show’ article where forgot to relay the detail that Natalie Maines has asked Adam to be her date before the stalking prank begun.
BB has a clip of Gary impersonating the woman at TSA screaming “Take It Out!” to close the show!