09 Sep Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 09/08/2014 – Ben Gleib
A real time blog where Superfan Giovanni does recap and commentary on the show as it happens and opines on all things ACS
Guest – Ben Gleib
Recorded 09-07-2014 – Release Date 09-08-2014
Production Number #1405
Adam is now asking for the end of the song “Nights in White Satin” in response to the intro from Dawson and Lynch, Adam says you couldn’t get away with that part today.
BB has some “sloppy drop seconds” and explains that the Andrew Dice Clay drop was provided by a listener.
Adam talks about filming ‘Catch a Contractor’ and reuniting in the kitchen where the two marines duked it out, so it was super comfy for him.
Adam is now on a “back to even” brain analogy about drug addiction and home repairs left undone, he’s using he loss of limbs and loved ones as a further example of how humans adapt always.
This is akin to his “wallpaper sample at his mom’s house” example for the passage of time and how things become a life.
Adam brings up the friends that his mom hangs on to that have ended up on ‘Hoarders’, he calls her “Molly” and has a great J-Lo “Jenny from the block” back and forth with BB.
Adam is bringing up the other bad times stories of past acquaintances from his mother who keeps tabs on all of the neighborhood losers.
Adam has a great wedding gift back up analogy, the window of 5 working days after a wedding, Adam jokes about Nazi war criminals inventing the 1 year rule for a gift.
One the first week passes that ends up being your life and it’s just a low grade depression, Alison brings up how she put a drawer on her bed after college and coped with it.
Adam says people need to be like a “Polaris” pool cleaning deice, beautifully worded statement about constant movement and Adam is telling them about the “reveal day” he took part in.
Adam has a great “NFL highlights” tangent about the crawl at the bottom of the screen, the ticker during the highlights segment, Adam wants to know which is it, why the crawl and scores at the same time that Chris Berman is speaking.
Adam says he now finds himself watching TV, like watching his dad fuck his hypothetical hot stepmom, wow!
Alison has a funny smaller TV one liner and Adam is now inventing a cardboard strip for blocking the ticker, BB had a friend who did that.
Adam is working every weekend and is now on a TiVo riff about not wanting to be spoiled on his NFL games.
Q and Ace
1st Caller Adam, he has a knowing fan intro and laments with Ace, Adam wants to know what inspired Adam to open up other businesses while in a good place already, if you have a great job, how do you branch out and why do you choose to do so?
Adam says he comes from non-working lazy stock and nobody has ever worked OT nor burnt any midnight oil, unless that was a 1970’s strain of pot his mom enjoyed.
Adam is explaining how is Grandma worked at the V.A. and took every day off she could, he brings up his mom’s welfare, food stamps and Junior college record.
Adam brings it back to his mom and how she picked Chicano studies, to make it non obvious that they don’t want to do anything, he is explaining how we allow people to hide behind the claim of school to avoid working and progress.
Adam is now bringing up the wives of the men who have lame entrepreneur activities in an attempt to hide out from trying and working hard.
Adam is now sharing his “I gotta have some results/End Game” rule for people going back to school, he is now listing off the rest of his family, how nobody ever worked on the weekends.
Adam has a solid Richard Branson at 17 example and now he is talking about the skill of managing your time, how you need to know when you need to be there and when you don’t.
Adam uses his foreman work on his homes and how he will step in for 1-2hrs and then leave and get everything else done, Adam says he was tested for Dyslexia and doesn’t have it.
Adam is bringing up the racism of dyslexia/school system let you down for white and black people.
Adam is back to Adam the caller and tells him he shall know when it’s time to drop one job for another.
Adam is doing a Blue Apron live read.
Adam has a great inflatable sex doll, picture on the box looks wildly different than the object on the inside, wow what a live read!
Adam says that the folks at Blue Apron walk up to the high Falutin edge but don’t go over, Adam and BB are praising he quality of meats and fish, BB calls it “above average.”
2nd Caller Ryan wants to know about pre-cooked ribs and if it’s a cop out over making your own stuff, Adam is praising the stuff his wife brings home, not bad for fried chicken and ribs.
Adam says he would fuck up fried chicken at home, BB tells him to challenge himself and Adam is now listing the ways you can look at cooking and BBQ.
Alison has a rib question and wants to know about BBQ sauce homemade or store bought, BB is one upping her with his dry rub and Adam says the answer is all of the above.
Adam has a magic food box analogy and says you wouldn’t enjoy the food as much without putting in the effort.
Adam jokes about his magic fleshy wand for brisket and ribs.
Adam is now bringing up the Blu-Ray of ‘The Grinch Who Stole Christmas’ being watched in July, his classic riff about appreciating things that are rare.
Adam is now calling for a photo of a sex doll and the outer box, after Alison calls it back.
3rd Caller Matt, he is calling from London, he wants to talk about the week of comfort foods, he’s bringing up Adam’s love of “Fish and Chips” and where he discovered a love for it, he calls it the U.K. tempura.
Alison has a funny reaction to the doll and the box photo, she says it doesn’t even look like a woman and Adam is bringing up being quietly annoyed with Dawson the other day.
Adam brings up the “newspaper” tidbit Dawson shared with him about how they’re served in the U.K. and Dawson praises the wonderful taste.
Adam brings up “H Salt fish and chips” and the fake newspaper wrappers they used, Matt shares a saying and Adam has a killer Jizz rag one liner and Alison tops it with a “beat off into a birdcage” joke and Adam is now asking Matt about how expensive it is in London and he brings up his trip in 2002 or 2004.
Adam is asking about taxes in London and Adam asks about people moving from the U.K. to avoid taxes, Matt tells them about the 1960’s increase and Adam now makes a point about a corner of a dollar vs. 2/3rds and how most people will move to keep more of their money.
Adam is bringing up the flight of productions in Los Angeles and Bryan Cranston shooting ‘Breaking Bad’ in Mexico.
Alison says she feels like she hasn’t seen notes on money in a long time, Adam is now riffing about messages in a bottle and the concept of that, BB references the movie and Alison has a killer one liner that is seemingly missed.
Adam and BB are now listing all of the bottles messages in pop culture over the past 3 years, Adam is sharing dollar boomerang theory about people marking things hoping to get them back.
Adam is doing a live read for Draft Kings.
Hooray for Baldywood
BB is reviewing a DVD/Netflix pick, in honor of the Late Joan Rivers he’s sharing his take on her documentary ‘A Piece of Work’ and he shares the history of the film and background of who made it.
Adam is asking what’s not to like and mentions the emptiness and loneliness while working 24/7 and BB tells him he encapsulated the whole premise and heart of the film.
Adam is now sharing the two kinds of people to feel sorry for and uses the African kids starving against the guy who won at Augusta and spends that night hitting balls at the range, never stopping.
Adam says it’s a guiled cage vs. refrigerator box situation, BB brings up Kathy Griffin and how Joan viewed her as competition.
Adam brings up the Thanksgiving party and then says the message we should gather is not to repeat her life of running scared, you should sit back and drink in your success.
Adam twists it and says it’s time to reflect on all that he has done instead.
They’re heading to break.
They’re back from break
Ben is making his ACS debut and is already hilarious, joking about Matt Fondiler seeming like a dick as Adam is about to lean into him for his birthday festivities that coincided with some calendar work he needed done for his very tight schedule.
Adam mentions Gary’s half birthday and Lynch’s love of the band ‘Phish’ mocking them as the kids he works with.
Adam is now explaining that things used to work where you would work a full shift and then get dinner after, also citing someone flying in to LAX and how you offer them to take a cab, because you can’t leave work to pick them up.
Adam has a great “31st birthday in the old west” example and Ben is contributing nicely, which he came into the episode sooner.
Alison brings up the difficulty in relocating and Adam gives the examples of the two writers who relocated and needed 4 months to find a car and apartment, Ben is now in defense of the unnamed writers.
Adam brings up Jordan Rueben’s turkey sub demands and how he needed to pick up his sub while they were all eating the same shit, Adam is now getting some advice from Ben and Adam jokes about Gary only getting full and half birthdays and no more quarter birthdays, Gary is on mic with some killer comedy chops, wow!
Adam says that everything used to revolve around work and not the other way around, Adam is asking Ben about his game show app (?) after Ben laughs at BB’s brain tumor.
Ben is now giving a test for them, Adam has a “white” response to the race and Adam is now riffing about superior races with Ben, Adam then goes to black and Ben jokes about his blanket racial stereotypes and how he enjoys them in his private life
Gary pops in and kills it with an answer, Adam is now sharing his parking lot race assignment idea, where people labeled the cars by the race of the people who own them.
Ben wants to know the other racial stereotype cars for races besides Asian stereotypes, Adam brings up the brothers and sisters he sees in Pontiacs, he doesn’t see a lot of Hispanics driving Honda elements and now Ben is adding more to the idea, sharing the details of his Pontiac sun fire and Adam mocks his redundancy.
“The Pontiac pointy arrow” – Adam
Alison’s News
Adam mocks the ‘Fiero’
1st Story Is on Joan Rivers’ funeral and Adam says you can just say “men’s choir” and leave out the gay part, we’ll all do the math.
Alison shares all of the details of the proceedings and Adam brings up how much more love she got than Robin in her death, Adam is postulating that perhaps his death was viewed negatively in comparison to Joan.
Ben says Adam is overvaluing Hugh Jackman singing at your funeral, Alison shares all of the people who attended her funeral.
Alison cites her book and request for a bigtime Hollywood affair for her funeral.
Adam is bringing up Robin Williams and BB is the first one to call out the suicide and the stigma with that, Adam brings up his desire for a blowjob from Bernadette Peters and how girthy his cock would seem while in her mouth.
Adam is now using Sandra Bernhard as a counter point, killer riff and Ben is adding to it nicely, this is hilarious!
Ben is now requesting song to emerge with every penis thrust out of her mouth, Adam is now saying she has a quietly killer body and says she’s basically the first person to have Scarlett Johannsson’s body and Adam is explaining how Playboy has cover models who didn’t pose, much like celebrities of today too.
Ben is mocking her blonde afro and possible downstairs bouffant fro, Ben is now sharing his own ‘There’s something about Mary’ style incident and BB kills it with an outrageous comment.
Alison asks how Ben feels about Adam’s hair and he says he wouldn’t want to come in it, Ben reveals his show is on ‘GSN’ and Adam jokes about Bernadette’s mouth being missed.
Adam is now doing a live read for Untuckit.com
2nd Story is on Martina Navratilova proposing to her longtime partner and Ben mocks her taste in women, Adam jokes about men and women being wired the same way, they go for the younger hotter partner, old rich dudes, old rich ladies, they’re more alike than we often think.
Alison is now sharing the current Florida position on possible ban on gay marriage and Adam brings up all the athletes who move to Florida for tax reasons and Adam now cites the day to day schedule for NBA players.
Adam is back to the story and Ben is adding to this very nicely, he’s really in the mix what a solid guest.
Adam is now calling for pot and gay marriage to be legal everywhere so we can all get on with our lives, how much time should be spent on pot and gay marriage, Alison references gay stoners.
Adam is now doing a live read for Lifelock.
Back to the Sandra Bernhard oral riff, gold!
Adam speaks out in defense of the celebrity women whose pictures were leaked on line, showing he’s sympathetic to them, no creepy comments that most non-fans would assume would come from him.
3rd Story Is on the decline in blue jeans sales, Alison says it’s theorized it’s the “athleisure” trend of Yoga pants and Adam is now bringing up the dad’s on his show that are wearing flip flops and cargo shorts on TV, Ben laments the flip flops on adult males.
Adam is now bringing up how these adults are unfazed by the camera crew and won’t adjust their clothing accordingly.
Ben is now riffing about pedophile contractors and the premise of Adam’s show after some pan flute riffing and now Adam is saying he doesn’t know what these folks do in the privacy of their own homes, Ben is telling him to add a funny Myspace transcript log to it.
Adam and Ben are asking about the changing fashions and Adam jokes about women showing us the shape of their ass and pussy, Alison is surprised it’s a porn genre and Alison brings up see through they can be when people ben over.
Ben jokes about the unnecessary math you can choose to do but don’t need to when observing a woman in said pants, Adam brings up how uncomfortable he is with underage girls wearing them and how it essentially mimics what they would look like nude, Adam adds grace jones to the list of women you don’t want to get BJ’s from.
They’re wrapping up the news and Adam is wrapping up the show with some plugs, he mixes up Alison’s guests name and BB has a killer drop from A-rose.