23 Aug Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 08/19/2014 – Taleeb Starkes
A real time blog where Superfan Giovanni does recap and commentary on the show as it happens and opines on all things ACS
Guest – Taleeb Starkes
Recorded 08-18-2014 – Release Date 08-19-2014
Production Number #1392
Adam is announcing the show with some sad news, BB plays the Dave Dameshek wiener drop as his #TopDrop and now Adam is joking about his own sad news of being with several other large men in one hotel room.
Alison is now explaining what happened while she was on her Honeymoon, her voice sounds like she’s been through a rough couple of days.
Alison is now telling the audience what happened to her wonderful dog Oliver while she was out of town, Alison explains that an off leash Malamute attacked and mangled poor Oliver.
Adam is now asking her about how long after she landed in Hawaii they got the phone call about Oliver, she says she played out the possibilities in her head before even leaving town, I know exactly what she means.
Adam says that if it was someone else’s dog, he wouldn’t call them, he would let them enjoy their time, and Adam asks if there is a part of her that would have preferred not to know.
BB is now bringing up his diagnosis and how he didn’t want to call his parents and tell them, Adam says he would appreciate not knowing and wants to know what they think of him preferring not to know.
Adam is asking how Daniel was and Adam says how he would have reacted if he were in Daniel’s shoes, Alison explains they didn’t fly home until Thursday after finding out Tuesday night.
Adam is now commenting on people who have aggressive dogs and how the people insist that you break bread with their shitty angry dogs, BB has a killer one liner about peeing on the floor.
Alison brings up how big dogs that people claim are friendly who get very aggressive with smaller dogs, Adam is now using Ray and the breathing game as an example of the horrifying behavior that full size dogs are capable.
Adam is bringing up the full size Pitbull his buddy Tom owns that was kicking the shit out of his dog Molly.
Adam is getting Alison to explain why the dog was sans leash, Adam is saying that when you have an aggressive dog, you know it, they don’t suddenly become that way.
Alison explains that it’s illegal to have your dog off the leash and the owners demonstrated clear irresponsibility and now she’s explaining that Oliver had some health problems they didn’t know about.
Alison is bringing up the congenital kidney problems he had that would have taken him much earlier than 15 years, this all sounds very similar to Adam’s 1st dog Lotzi.
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Adam is bringing up how the owners are most likely going to react, it will all be ok and pleasantries until they offer to pay only half the vet bills.
Alison says they haven’t even attempted to make contact with her parents, Adam is now bringing up the guy who totaled his car and how he ran into the man recently at Home Depot.
Adam is bringing up the bartering and lack of acceptance of blame these guys pulls when guilty, Adam says that if this was your dog or 1984 Supra how would it change things.
Adam is basically describing the worst entitled human on earth who demands you expect nothing from them regardless of their actions and expect everything from you.
Alonso explains how a kidney transplant probably wouldn’t have been good for Oliver or for them and how they had to choose to put him to sleep.
Alison says that there was still life in Oliver and they put him down after he wagged his tail in the sun and then had a seizure.
Adam has an intense “Oh Boy” and Alison shares how the photos she kept that were quite ghoulish that she is glad she took to remind her of why they had to put him down.
The vet gave her a 95% answer and Adam says they should just man up and become the Grim Reaper and say there is no option.
Adam says that he would like to be a vet just to use the “No Guarantees” line for cleaning gutters and eating pussy, Adam is mocking their inability to take responsibility and declare certainties.
Alison says that seeing her dog being put down was the most awful thing she’s ever had to see, Adam is telling them about his kitty that used to follow him to school and jump the fence and how putting her down was tough, he didn’t’ stay in the room.
Alison was warned about the postmortem body movements and sounds that can happen, the botched lethal injection part of it as Alison puts it.
Alison described a horrific scene.
Adam is now doing a draft kings live read.
Adam is asking her what the plans are, new dog? Double down on the family planning?
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Alison says they are thinking about a new dog, she’s explaining the complicated feelings they have and her own upcoming fibroid surgery to remove what’s preventing her from becoming pregnant.
Adam says that as an owner of twins he knows that his puppy Lotzi was more work than taking care of infants.
Alison seems to know the detail of Lotzi, interesting.
Adam is explaining how crate training works, how their whimpering almost never ceases, Adam compliments the easy 1 year old dog route.
BB tells her to go the rescue route and tells her not to wait too long, how sweet.
Adam is plugging their live shows along with BB’s tumor walk.
Adam says that with the patent news he is legally bound not to say anything for 45 days, the suit against Adam has been dropped, no detail can be shared until 45 days have passed.
Adam says that it’s a victory but they’re still down a few duckets, he done worked his way back up to a 0, the quote from “The Fridge” William Perry during their Man Show fishing trip.
Adam says chill the champagne and enjoy a victory “we got away” and the thanks all of the fans.
Alison spots some pubes on the console, Adam is joking about the strays that Dr. Drew brings in as guests and remarks he’s like today’s “Father Murphy” but for Adults.
Adam is mocking the pube shedding folk trying to escape the sun that Drew calls podcast guests, hey!
Adam is telling them about the weekend of races, lots of crashes and mayhem and Chris of course went sick on the food.
Adam explains that he invited Skip Bedell to the races and told him to ride a motorcycle with his wife down the coast, Adam explains the incident that happened in right in front of the bleachers where Skip and his wife Alison were sitting, his tire flew off an almost hit Adam’s cohost he told to sit in a very specific area.
Adam is explaining how the wheel flew off and was sheered of by the weight of the turn and downforce.
Adam is now doing live commentary over his race footage and BB is jumping in adding to is nicely and helping Adam explain this further for those who can’t see it.
Make sure to check out the next Carcast or two for more insights, Adam is now explaining the history of the Nissan Skyline (and Sylvia) while describing the great cars that overseas manufacturers send over here, Adam says it’s a fuck you for WWII and is explaining his reasoning.
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Adam is asking an off mic Chris Maxipada (Laxamana) about the 6 person arrangement they had for 1 hotel room, Adam is explaining why he likes it that way, he prefers the hotel room hang out.
Adam is now playing a clip of Dave’s snoring, Dave invited himself to stay in their room and they recorded his awful snoring, Adam is describing this scene much like the race he was just getting into.
Adam now has Jeff Fox on mic to explain his 3 levels of ear protection to overcome the horrible snoring of his travelling companions, Adam explains how he pissed into a paper cup thinking Jeff was in the bathroom, unaware he was sleeping closer to the front door, funny piss comedy with Jeff, good stuff.
Adam says that Dave’s snoring is that of an enabler, like a man smoking crack who gives you the permission to light up your doobie.
Adam has a funny intro regarding suing Dave for this Legal zoom live read.
They’re now heading to break.
They’re back from break and Adam plugs their upcoming guest Taleeb, saying the full title even.
Great Definitely Not a Jew intro and Jumps right into a Go To Meeting live read.
Adam is now asking Taleeb about his book and welcoming him to the show, Taleeb says that desperate times have called for desperate actions, re: his book?
Taleeb is sharing how works with young black men and Adam is explaining how whitey can’t say shit about this stuff even though he does give his take.
Adam is asking Taleeb about his own experience and if he’s excluded from his home community based on his book.
Taleeb is sharing his take on the black underclass being the face of the black race in America, Alison picks up on how interesting that is, Taleeb explains it further and Adam sums it up nicely with Honey Boo Boo and “Man-Ayze” his rap name references.
Adam is now asking Taleeb about why everyone turned on Bill Cosby so harshly in the black community and Adam asks him what he would do with a magic wand to change things.
Now they’re both going very far into racial issues and how black people view themselves and are viewed in society, Great points about white democratic hypocrisy that Taleeb leads Adam to and agrees with strongly.
Adam shares his “whitey doesn’t want you to be poor” theory and has a funny Armenian riff to argue about race and racism.
Adam is now asking Taleeb about his time out in the country, much like Mike Tyson out in the Catskills, hilarious Owl one liner.
Adam says he speaks for all white people and wants to know if we’re all heading in the wrong direction when it comes to race and the discussion about it, Taleeb says that white people are inherently racist and references his “NegroGeddon” theory on white people being targets and how even white teachers can even be just one move or step away from being labeled as a racist.
Adam and BB have a funny “Racism is not a buffet” riff and Adam shares his personal connection theory about rooting for someone, race is trumped by any remote personal connection, Taleeb says that’s true except for white people.
Adam is now giving his take on profiling and police actions, they are into self-preservation first before racism, even if racism is their number 2 priority.
Taleeb says blacks can’t be racist, tongue in cheek I assume (hope) and has a funny Robocop idea, Adam riffs “Robo-Klan” and BB has a killer reply.
Now Taleeb is sharing the murder rate data regarding black males and how much murder they were responsible, Adam brings up the humanitarian issue of black kids killing other black kids, Taleeb talks about the 2-3% of black men committing all of these homicides and has a decent airline metaphor to prove his point.
Taleeb has a long path to a “Denial” (The Nile) joke.
Adam does a stamps.com live read.
Alison’s News
1st Story is on the death of Robbin Williams and Adam shares the “I wish comedians could love themselves as much as everyone else loves them” wisdom from Mike August.
Adam is now using divorces at 25 years into marriage and suicide post high school to make a point about the changing society and now they’re getting to his Parkinson’s diagnosis.
Taleeb is bringing up the alimony, Adam is now saying that when you kill yourself at 16 it’s always over a chick, at 63 it’s an accumulation of things, not just one thing that made you do it.
Adam is sharing how people wanted him to comment on Robbin’s death but he didn’t even remember meeting him and it turns out he did after Loveline on MTV at Hollywood center Studios.
Alison is asking Adam about his take on the man after Adam explains he didn’t want to try to latch onto a man he never met and be disrespectful to his memory, fans and family.
Adam is now explaining that his experience with sketch comedy when someone was better at characters, impressions and facial work they often didn’t have too much of “them” inside beneath the character, the Sacha Baron Cohen’s of the world, Alison asks about Meryl Streep and their take on her.
Alison is now giving her take on Robbin Williams and why people reacted so strongly to his death, Adam is sharing his take on pure talent and why when someone like John Candy or Phil Hartman dies it strikes a larger chord, Adam wants to know how much more of you, how many more metaphorical tissues do you have left in your box for Adam to pull out and enjoy.
Adam now has a great Corey Haim vs. Phil Hartman duality of reactions and Adam has a funny Jim Belushi bit with a hypothetical Woody Allen died at 31 tangential universe absent of his movies closing thought.
Adam has a funny closing remark about a dialogue we need to start about clinical depression and alimony reform.
Adam is now doing a hilarious live read for “World of Tanks” a mobile video game, Adam is riffing about shooting a pistol into a tank, great live read!
2nd Story is on a promo for Downton Abbey featuring a modern water bottle in the background, Adam blames it on the hyper hydration culture and Taleeb asks about them photoshopping their ads.
Adam is joking about them ruining a show that he’ll never watch, he shares his Downtown Abbey mix-up and then Adam floats his Star Trek/Trak theory and Alison gets Taleeb to reveal he’s a trekkie/trekker.
Adam and BB share their mutual love of ignoring quality television.
Alison wraps up the news.
Adam is doing an E-Voice live read.
Adam is wrapping up the show with a funny George Wallace/Jimmy Kimmel prank anecdote and some plugs for Alison’s show and Taleeb’s book along with social media accounts.