Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 03/27/2015 – Mark Thompson

Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 03/27/2015 – Mark Thompson

A real time blog where Superfan Giovanni does recap and commentary on the show as it happens and opines on all things ACS

Guest Mark Thompson

Recorded 03-26-2015 – Release Date 03-27-2015

Production Number #1540

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Adam welcomes Gina to the show with her “I’m not really a newsperson” out of context clip as the #TopDrop courtesy of Bryan and the fans on twitter.

Adam is explaining his history with Mark form his years broadcasting in Los Angeles, he explains how important morning radio was when he was swinging a hammer.

Adam is now addressing people calling him a dick and he’s explaining he might be but he doesn’t work in customer service and is telling them about Roger Kraus Racing Tires and trying to get Siri to understand his request, Adam calls her some choice words.

 

Adam wants to know why a fat realtor popped up and Anna’s electrolysis instead of the tire place, Gina tells them about Siri suggesting Planned Parenthood to her on several occasions.

Adam is saying that being able to hit Mike August’s name and magically talk to him was enough, they would wait for these other technologies until they’re perfected.

Adam is telling them about dialing 411, Adam jokes about the operators being pre-perturbed when they pick up the phone, sitting back with cucumbers over their eyes.

 

Adam is now describing the unpleasant exchange with the woman and her super snarky “bitchy, cunty” tone, Adam is now delivering some further replies and BB asks if Adam asked her about her tone and he wants to know why everyone is so mean.

Gina makes sense of it about the entitlement and limited skillset embodied by most people doing jobs they don’t want to be doing.

Adam says that most likely you will end up doing a profession you don’t want to be doing, Adam says instead of chasing your dreams he would have kids tell him their top 3 jobs they absolutely do not want to do.

 

BB likes this idea and suggests it’s about avoiding nightmares instead of chasing dreams, Adam is now using girls who dream of becoming veterinarians vs. the actual number who do.

Adam is commenting on the reality of life and how it’s not necessarily your world, but you can get a 6 pack and beat off to internet porn after work.

Adam is now asking if it’s mean to be realistic, Adam jokes about the Doctor lying to BB about his diagnosis to protect his feelings, BB makes up a funny rhyme that Gina enjoys.

 

Adam is now sharing an anecdote about a guy named John who wanted to become a doctor but was floundering in Junior College, Adam says you’re just enabling him.

 

Adam is now doing an Advanced Auto Parts live read

Adam jokes about having auto parts shipped to your office, as a power move.

Adam is singing the praises of washing your own car, BB tells him about doing that when he moved into his new place and Adam has a killer lawn urination closer, very funny.

 

BB is telling them about being asked to throw at a first pitch at a San Diego Padres game, BB describes how it came about and he almost manifested it into happening.

Adam is talking about the experience of trying to throw a first pitch, Adam says he should be practicing for not having any warm ups.

I was with Adam when he threw out the pitch for a Cubs game in 2010, Adam was winding up when a camera man walked into him.

 

BB says he would rather throw it into the stands than any other possible embarrassing outcome.

BB is inviting the fans to show up on April 26th.

 

Q and Ace

1st Caller Travis, calling from Anchorage

He wants to quit his job and move to Los Angeles to write comedy, he tells them about his work as an industrial equipment mechanic, Adam comments on his own low bar of “Union Dry Waller” for a possible dream career when he was a young man.

Adam is telling people who have had their dreams dashed that they are fucking up his life, he tells them about writing an article.

 

Travis tells them about the cracked article he wrote, BB asks about why the urgency to move and he explains the pressures of freelance work while providing for a family.

Adam is asking Gary to read Travis article from 2008, Adam asks if he could use a funny inflection.

Gary is now reading the article, a little trouble with uterine but he’s rolling with it and Adam likes some of the tags.

 

Gary gets an assist on episiotomy thanks to Gina, BB plays the next story drop from Lynn and Alex.

Adam tells Travis there is some promise in the article, Adam is now trying to tell him about good at the college level vs. the guys who can get to the show.

Adam is using F1 as another example for the next step in comedy, Adam says every writer’s room is a sea of 7’s and 1 funny person.

 

Adam is telling him that being a 7 or a 7 ½ means he has to earn it to get a job, he explains he’s evolved steadily over the past 7 years.

Adam is telling him to think up another good bit and callback at the end of the show, he will base his decision on Trav’s fate after that bit.

 

Adam is doing a live read for Smart Mouth

Adam talks about the fear of being trapped in traffic with coffee mouth and no water to be found, nice assists from Gina and BB.

 

2nd Caller Ralph, he wants to know if Adam is going to include some of the standup filmed but not used for the final cut.

Adam has a crazy outburst about having to repeat the same conversation with Mike August re: “Next Wednesday” and Adam laughs spiritedly when BB suggests Mike might change his ways.

Adam is explaining that he relies on the fans to tell a friend, you’re not pimping for a friend you’re sharing with your friends.

 

3rd Caller Jonathan he thanks Adam for his advice, he called into Ace on the House and is telling them about the huge drill bit, Adam jokes about him sounding shorter, gold!

Adam asks him what he thought he was going to be doing in high school upon learning of his current line of work in aerospace.

BB now asks Gina what she wanted to be while in high school, Adam asks BB too.

 

Jonathan wants to know the best hotel Adam has ever stayed at and the shittiest place, Adam is talking about getting the captains suite and how his schedule can sometimes preclude him from enjoying any part of the amenities, it goes to waste.

Adam is quoting Carol Shelby about cubic inches, Adam brings up the hotel in San Antonio and Adam says it’s never good when you go from inside to outside to access your room.

Adam is commenting on how Mike got him a speaking engagement in Mansfield Pennsylvania at a college, Adam is explaining the circumstances and the “Whatever Tree Inn” where they stayed, the same hotel as the “fracking” crews.

 

Adam explains that the guy bringing him out went over Adam’s 9 pages of credits, despite Adam telling him to give a truncated version.

Dawson is now on mic responding about the song cue stuff, Adam is explaining how the endless series of credits sent Adam into a depression spiral, Adam is now asking for other people to be honest and upfront when they plan on doing the exact opposite of what he asked them to do.

 

4th Caller Fernando, he needs advice on how to deal with his girlfriend who expects him to spend his time with her.

Adam is saying that his gal needs a muse, a passion.

Adam is asking BB about writing the proverbial book and references Christie’s good blog, Adam uses the term ‘Sacksket” or “Sacket” combining sack and basket.

 

Adam is doing a stamps.com live read and heading to break.

 

Adam is back from break with Mark Thompson making his ACS debut, Adam is giving out the plugs and asks him how much time 4hrs cuts down to without commercials and music, he says just shy of 2hrs when Adam did the KLSX ACS it was nearly 3hrs, whoa.

Adam is talking about the way local morning radio evolved, he says listened religiously to him and Brian religiously, Adam is telling him about sending in a comedy tape for their show.

Adam is talking to Mark about the homemade comedy competition, Adam is recalling the deadline and how he literally drove the tape into the station in order not to miss it.

 

Adam is describing how he was waiting for them to play his tape, Adam says they have a digitized copy of it somewhere at the shop and tells Gary to dig it up (email Giovanni).

Mark is commenting on how the first 10 seconds dictated whether anyone would listen to the rest of your tape, Adam brings up the Mark and Brian mobile bit and Mark shares a solid anecdote about Ed McMahon.

Adam is now bringing up the “Petticoat Junction” (parody?) song and quotes it line and verse, Mark is now sharing how when they first came to the airwaves they were being compared to Rick Dees.

 

Adam is mocking the comedy concept of changing degrees to “Dee’s grees” and asks Mark about the amount of time he and Brian had been partnered before taking over the Los Angeles mornings in 1987.

Adam jokes about a guy named “Ron Celsius” from Atlanta, gold.

Adam is further discussing Mark and Brian’s partnership.

 

Adam is doing a Lifelock live read with Gina Grad

 

Adam wants to know the point at which Mark and Brian became tired of staring at each other, Adam is now using a “bestest buddy” example for how you can lose interest in someone’s presence after years of showing up at 530am together.

Mark says their heyday was 1991 when they got the NBC TV show and that’s prior to when Howard Stern got to town and came after them and their market share.

Adam is commenting on Mark and Brian’s southern gentleman type of comedy, they says they had never heard Howard’s show so they couldn’t have been ripping it off.

 

BB comments on their 20+years on air, he says the money was there but the creative freedom and inspiration was draining.

Adam is commenting on what a sweet gig morning radio is, Adam is talking about the idea of losing your fastball and how people eventually move along and don’t stay in your audience pool forever.

Mark is making a point about something he told Gina recently, Adam is going in depth on taking a step backwards in your career and shares his scramble to generate cash after the end of his radio show.

 

BB is talking to Mark about his upcoming first pitch, Mark is sharing his worries for BB bounding or lobbing the ball and the amount of abuse he’s going to endure for fucking up.

Mark is clearly unaware that Adam has had a bad pitch or two, Adam comments on it.

Adam is now joking about the Padres being men of the cloth, good riff.

 

Adam is setting up a clip of the Mark Geragos episode of Take a Knee

 

Adam and BB are now commenting on Entertainment Weekly writing to completely different things about the same guy, Jimmy Kimmel.

What does it matter what people write or say if the hypocrisy is that evident.

Mark is now sharing his impressions of Adam as a man and Adam has a killer reply, very funny.

 

Adam and Mark are talking about the elements of life you can control vs. what you can’t.

Mark is sharing his process to refine his process and improve it each day, Mark is sharing his only story of Adam Carolla pounding beers while waiting for a flight.

Mark is describing how Adam reacted, hilarious noise impression from Mark and Adam is addressing the noise accusation, asking for more details.

 

Adam is talking about how Jimmy Kimmel is a radio guy at heart, Mark says that Ryan Seacrest is a radio guy in his bones as well.

 

5th Caller Travis, he has a bit “Greater Than/Less Than” (> or <)

Travis has a series of examples for the gang to guess on, Mark comments on Adam letting the listeners carry a large portion of the show content, and Adam is mocking Mark and Brian using listener tapes to take up air time.

Mark is telling Adam about using him as a model upon leaving morning radio, BB has a funny “Ironically thank you” reply.

Mark shares his disadvantage as his audience tends to be in their 50’s and 60’s and it’s hard to get them to migrate to podcast listening.

 

Adam is commenting on the old people you see rocking a tablet and how they’re able to move along, Adam is talking about old people coming around and uses the numbers about podcast awareness to make his point.

 

Adam is doing a future advisor live read

 

Gina’s News

Gina skipped the story on the German Wings crash as it’s too depressing, I was interested in hearing Adam’s further take on the crash…

 

1st Story is on the newfound efforts to squeeze bio solids out of human waste, mining our own minerals from human excretions.

Mark says this doesn’t sound feasible, Adam jokes about some old guy and his mule yelling eureka and trying to pan through his feces to find gold.

BB is helping him with this riff, Mark and Gina are losing their shit in reaction.

Adam is now trying to conjure up the name Thomas Kinkade.

 

2nd Story is on the job of ‘Brothel Tester’ and Gina explains bukake to Mark who is unfamiliar, Adam is now having BB do an improv scene, Mark too.

Adam says they are going to ‘Hunt for Red October’ the accents and it’ll be post conversion, BB taste tests ice cream, Mark does laboratory coke and Adam is the brothel tester.

Adam’s one liners are gold “rusty load” and fucking runaways, this is fucking insanely hilarious.

 

Adam is joking about going backdoor and declares this job the ultimate “one upper.”

Gina wraps the news.

 

Adam is doing a live read for Tri-Calm

“We put it on my boyfriend’s Cockapoo” – Gina

 

Adam gives out the plugs and wraps up the show, solid interview, great improv bits, all together a very fine episode.