25 Sep Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 09/17/2014 – Alexis Ohanian
A real time blog where Superfan Giovanni does recap and commentary on the show as it happens and opines on all things ACS
Guest – Alexis Ohanian
Recorded 09-16-2014 – Release Date 09-17-2014
Production Number #1412
Adam opens the show to an “I’ve done some of those” misuse of Reddit/AMA’s, confusing the AMA for the site itself.
BB has an old Jewish “This soup is dry” #TopDrop and Adam is telling them about his day in Whittier, Alison has some funny quips about the Waze app as Adam talks about the increase in heat of just 10 feet of ladder, he doesn’t get how 92 million miles away feels closer when you’re only 9 ½ feet above your previous position.
Adam is telling them about how plywood roofs even experience this despite their thermal properties being better than concrete or metal.
Adam refers to birds as “Beak or Beaked Freaks” and BB offers up his own theory, Alison takes Adam’s side about being physically closer increasing the relative experience, “it all adds up, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely” –Adam on how three absolutely’s or “Good For You’s” mean the person doesn’t agree nor respect you.
BB has Adam clarify that only the first good for you is genuine, he’s now telling them about the sting house portion of his filming day, the first time they had to use a translator, hilarious Finland joke.
Adam brings up the “what do you expect?” reaction from one of the crew who probably regretted that after the makeup lady arrived, Adam brings up the quiet racism of their reaction to the notion of a Mexican craigslist.
Adam is now bringing up aerosol sunscreen and Alison tells him that they recommend they don’t use spray on sun screen on kids, Adam shares his aqua net cloud theory on the brain damage experienced by hairdresser.
“All hairdressers are insane” – Adam on the weaponized aqua net, Alison tells them about her new volumizer and has a hilarious “put your boners away” one liner that will surely be a drop.
Adam is back to the aerosol sunscreen and how unhealthy it could be, this topic came up on For Crying Out Loud with Lynette and Stephanie talking about how they use sunscreen with the kids.
Adam brings up re-watching ‘No Country for Old Men’ and BB cited Adam’s first book where he proclaimed ‘Raising Arizona’ and No Country as both of the greatest Coen brothers’ movies.
Alison reveals she’s never seen it, Adam tells her that it’s not “us good” but good in her world as well, what a Complisult, Adam is now setting up the clip with Javier Bardem interrogating the woman who runs the trailer park.
Adam says she looks like the pig about to be put on the spit and how she gets away do to a possible witness, Adam breaks down the cinematic thinking process on display by Javier.
Alison calls back her ‘Some Kind Of Wonderful’ reference with some new observations about Emilio Estevez’s character in the movie, Adam is now in the mix and giving his take and perfectly remembering some key scenes, including the one in the French restaurant.
Adam is doing a live read for Reverie bed.
Adam is using his digital timer math he does to set his clock for how much sleep he gets, he tells them about going for 7 hours and overshooting his clock, his call time was then moved and it worked out perfectly.
Adam says this was a great victory for the Aceman and mocks his own sad situation that he roots for an extra 10min to sip coffee he pays for in the kitchen he pays for.
Q and Ace
1st Caller Zack, he wants to know the story of the “Powder-puff Game” at his high school and how he pissed off Mrs. Tawny and why she hated him, Adam teases “Here We Come a Trucking In” and is now doing it off mic and you can see the video via the show page link above.
Adam tells them about the school making the mistake of giving him am microphone and BB has a cool Fake Jack Silver one liner, nice!
Adam is telling the story in full with great details, he’s now sharing the story of his hilarious emergency card in high school, referencing his dad’s work at ‘5 Acres’ and riffs with BB about being able to dial 411 to find him.
Alison is telling them about meeting someone whose coworker’s son went to school with Adam ‘Garret Cushing Murray’ and Adam talks about how cool the nickname of ‘Cush’ is.
Adam is now bringing up how people like to connect themselves to Adam despite being 6 years apart, the celebrity and time makes people think they were in your group.
2nd Caller Matt, he thinks he’s on the same page as Adam when it comes to the notion of luck, he wants to know about bizarre coincidences and is basically describing ‘The Great Magnet’ and Adam demands to know what the noise was going on over his left shoulder, the noise clears up the second that Adam asks what the noise was.
Adam wants to know why the line clears up when you are going to callback due to a bad connection, Alison asks if this makes him believe in some greater power.
Matt references their phone trouble at Carolla Digital and Adam tells him to internalize it, don’t blame them for that shit.
Adam says that with the multitude of events in life if these coincidences didn’t occur it would be weirder, he’s going on about luck and now is sharing the story of driving home with Chris and August, how he ordered them to change lanes after seeing a BMW 7 series in Sunland on the way home.
Adam has Maxipada now get on mic to give his take of the events, Adam doesn’t recall what happened to the guy and now Chris is being vague too, he just heard a noise.
Alison asks Adam if he always trusts his gut and he says yes, Alison shares her own troubles with intellectualizing her gut feelings, Adam says his are one and the same, it’s nice to connect your gut to your way of thinking.
Adam is now sharing his “you will dictate that to him” regarding how he thinks about people and what relationship they have.
BB plays the KLSX ACS drop of Will Arnett doing the ‘Man You’ve got a real problem” that rarely pops up nowadays.
Adam is now doing a live read for Go to Meeting.
Adam is sharing his take on what happened at KLSX with Bonaduce and how he staged his sick out and what could have happened.
BB is sharing some advice given to him by a former Fox network executive/president.
Adam and BB are now doing a Draft Kings live read.
They’re now heading to break.
They’re back from break.
Alexis is now making his ACS debut and they have a solid ‘Definitely Not a Jew’ intro from Dawson and Mike Lynch.
Adam is asking Alexis about Reddit, he once again says “I’ve done a few of them” and Alexis tactfully gets the term AMA into the mix, correcting Adam without being a dick.
Adam is plugging the new podcast hosted by Alexis and his involvement with an investment company, Adam is asking him about selling Reddit back in 2006 and he tells them about upgrading his dad’s season tickets after getting paid.
Adam is now mocking the Waffle House logo and joking about signaling for help using waffles on a deserted island, this is in response to Alexis telling him about choose waffles over a school final.
Alison is asking him further about how they founded Reddit, he tells them about their first funding and how they came up with the name, Adam names WHFS, where he used to attend HFStival at RFK stadium, Alexis was a listener to Classic Loveline.
Adam shares the food poising from soft shell crab story, knowing at noon he had to be on stage bringing out Beck to 5k people.
Adam is telling him about some drinks with Andy Dick and seeing Ben Folds at ‘The 930 Club’ and Alexis reveals he saw System of a down there, he tries to redeem some credit for not being able to name the club.
Adam tells them about running into Dicky and the Bosstones and crashing out with Gatorade in their area, they’re joking about Dicky thinking Adam was a party guy but he was just sick on crab.
Adam is now bringing up women being into geeks instead of the typical jocks, he’s explaining the easy math of jocks ending up as losers in life, he references the “women aren’t funny trap” by that terrible hack excuse for a journalist.
Adam is back to women turning the corner on nerds, this is all in response to Alexis bringing up LAN parties, they’re joking about women investing and seeding pussy to the nerds.
Alexis now praises how the internet gives everyone access to all the information in the universe, he’s got a great vintage car “fix a carburetor” analogy, Adam praises him.
Adam explains his disdain for people who don’t have a TV but how he accepts people skipping out on smartphones.
Adam is now doing a live read for Blinds Galore.
Alison has a great melt your cassettes one liner that really only applies to me in today’s world, Alexis compliments the Brosé he is now enjoying.
Alison’s News
1st Story Is on the free U2 album gifted to all iTunes users and Sharon Osbourne’s reaction to it on twitter, Alison quotes her tweets.
Adam is now in defense of U2 and the good they do in the world, Alison is surprised and he reiterates his take on their “bucka bucka” music.
Adam brings up his sympathy for Larry Mullin Jr. and he’s now telling people to reserve their true vitriol for ISIS and the people who took those girls, mocking the failure of the hashtag.
BB says that it’s hypocritical of her to critique U2 and says she’s the prototype for Kris Jenner, Alison is now asking Alexis about his take on the music.
He calls back Adam’s liberated lumberjack, living free without a smartphone.
Alexis predicts we’ll be seeing more of this, Adam is having a nice back and forth with Alexis and he’s giving his take on the celebrity world and how the next U2 will have an even more direct connection to fans, not needing to use iTunes.
Adam brings up the ‘Radiohead’ pay what you want model, he is also sharing his send Bob Seger to Ireland plan, to repay Bono for his involvement in our politics.
Adam is sharing why he softened on Bono after witnessing him giver a speech on parental responsibility and jokes about putting his tip inside the man with Alison, wow!
Adam is now doing a live read for Stamps.com
Adam calls back cassette tapes and the idea of shipping a U2 mix tape to a friend in Nebraska
2nd Story is on the best position for men to have sex in if they have a bad back, Adam cites his former bad back and how it went away when he started doing what he wanted for a living.
Alexis is now sharing how he has been working in something he wants to do, noting to never get the anchovies on the ‘Pizza Hut’ pizza, he says they don’t move very often, describing an awful scene form his pre-Reddit days.
Adam goes in depth on how he kept doing hard labor after achieving fame and it’s all psychological, excluding those people “with real problems” and Alison brings up the Doggy Style position, Adam jokes about a prescription for it and bringing it home to the wife.
They’re talking to Alexis about his preference to the be little spoon while sleeping, his large size and lack of football history, he shares how he lost weight and ended up getting one sack the time he wasn’t siting on the bench.
Adam laments his 10th grade year sitting on the bench and how much it sucked, especially after the intense practice.
Adam and BB are now describing the painful exercises done in football practice, Adam says everything they did would get the coaches put in prison now, and Adam shares how Ray and Chris would prank people running backwards being tortured in the heat.
Alison proclaims she wouldn’t last on a football team and they’re all waxing poetic on the high after a football workout.
Alison wraps the news to a new drop about her sleeping with drummers.
Adam is now doing a live read for Simply Safe home security systems.
Adam is wrapping up with Alexis and he’s giving out some love for ‘Catch a Contractor’ and Adam says that the one good contractor from season 1, might pay them a visit during season 2, oooooooooh!
Adam has a medium quality “A’s V” closer, that was a T bit, it feels like it needs to be retired, you just going to name every female coworkers vagina until the end of time?