Nick Gerlach & Drew Birch on Dean Cain Going ICE, Andy's Kid Fans & Ice Cube's 0% Movie

0:00 Dean Cain. Do you see this? Oh, yeah. I didn't even know who that was until you mentioned that. So he played Superman, like, 30 years ago? Yeah. And now he's like a Trump guy. He's like the new Scott Baio. Yeah. He kind of looks like Scott Baio. Yeah, it's like. He like, looks like if Scott Baio was on steroids, he's like, signing up for ice. He's like, going to be an Ice agent. Yeah, I saw that. And his dad's an immigrant. His dad's like a Japanese immigrant. His last name. His last name. Dean Cain's last name is Tanaka. Wow. Dean George tanaka. So? So he's an immigrant. And then also, the irony of that is, like, Superman is like the ultimate illegal alien. Yeah. He played an illegal alien. Made all the money off of it. I don't know, it's so weird when, like, actors, like, come out for any politician, but especially Trump, it's like, what's wrong with you, dude?

0:41 Yeah, I don't know anything about him. He's just like a handsome guy. It wasn't even called Superman. It was called Lois and Clark. He wasn't even the first. He wasn't even the first character listed in the show. Boom! We're here. Andy Fresco's world saving podcast. Andy's not here. He's here? Yeah, he is here. We should. Yeah. We need to put a giant picture of him there, don't we? There's gonna be one. It'll be great. Do you think we'll be able to find any embarrassing pictures of Andy on the worldwide internet? I don't know. I don't know. Probably. Speaking of Andy, we had a show we opened for him last week at the Levitt Pavilion. Guess what I found out the other day, my friend. What's that? I'm not gonna say her name because she's a good, normal person with a real job, but she's on the board there. Mhm.

1:25 Over there at Levitt Pavilion. Okay. And she said that we that was the most tickets they've ever had there. Okay. Gerlach bumps still in effect. Here we go baby. It's because of you and me. Yeah. It's because of you and me. Frescoes band is getting really good. How much merch did you sell? I sold $0, but I didn't lose any money because I didn't bring any. Yeah, so I think Andy sold about $3 million of merch. Um, but, uh, his band's getting pretty wild, huh? Yeah. Um. This is insane. I remember they used to be like a bar blues band. Yeah, they used to come through, uh, Arkansas. Yeah. Yeah. Didn't he live there for a while? I think so. I think he lived in Fayetteville, but I'm not sure. Is he the first person in history to move from LA to Arkansas? Fayetteville? Fayetteville? Who was that guy?

2:09 Uh, he's a basketball player from Arkansas. Not I can't remember. It doesn't matter. There's a couple. Are you talking about the white Kobe? Whatever they call it? No, not. Oh, no. He is dope, though. He's one of the cold ass white boys of this year, right? Yeah. But I'm talking about, uh, I think he's been on the pod. It doesn't really matter, but, uh, the show is pretty dope. Uh, there was, like, 7000 people there. Uh, a lot of kids. There's children. I'm trying to realize that Andy might be like the 12 year old boys. Like dream. Yeah, the band, the whole band, I think. Yeah, but especially Andy. Did you see when he had that? Were you out there when he had that kid on stage, or were you backstage? I was, I was backstage. Backstage singing piano songs. Yeah, that was fun.

2:49 I walked in and you guys were just, like, singing, uh, I think Lionel Richie or something. Or maybe that's what got me off the couch. They were singing Dream On. And when they got to the high part. Dream, I I was about to. I was wanting to take a nap. It was a legendary hang because it was like all the homies. Barbara was the one of three. That's the girl indie rock band. They opened up. They were. They were actually rip. Yeah, they're getting better. I always like their songs, but now they're getting better at playing live. Yeah, they had percussion. They had E man on the on the guitar crushing. He left early to go to tech. He left right after the set to. Go to a gig. No, he went to Tedeschi Trucks. Oh, over at Red rocks. That sounds pretty sick, actually. Yeah. But, yeah, it was killing. Andy's band is like. It's crazy how much. I mean, I used to kind of think they were just, like, a fine, you know, like ten years ago.

3:32 They were like a fun band. But now they're getting, like, good. They're like. They're like, tight. Yeah. And they have, like, real songs and it's like kind of hitting with people. But it is funny the way, like 12 year old boys just look at him like. Oh yeah. They look at him the way I look at like, John Coltrane. Yeah, well, that was like the moment when I was playing with Sean when I got up there. Yeah, because there was, uh, I was just kind of, I don't know, I couldn't hear myself. Yeah. Super quick tune. Very loud up. There. Yeah. And I was like, oh, man, I don't know if I have the energy for this. And then I look out in the crowd and there's just like two kids, like ten year olds with, like, Oakley sunglasses. Like, just like they just got off the lake or something. Yeah. And they're both just staring at me and Sean playing together and they're like, yeah, can you. And I was like, oh, that was like a drug. I was like, okay, dude. Yeah, it is.

4:12 Because, like, yeah, the crowd can give you that adrenaline. But it's also like. Especially children. I guess I just haven't. Yeah, exactly. There's something about children. Anyway. Uh uh, but there's like, it's like, kind of wild, like, because all the shows I've played with him usually are like at Mission Ballroom or whatever, like, or Ogden or some shit. And it's like, so it's like 18 or 21 and up. Yeah. So I never get to see I knew that he had a lot of kid fans because he has a lot of parent fans. And I was thinking, man, that is such a cash cow thing. Because if you get like the 12 year old boy to like you and then you have to both parents have to. It's like Sesame Street live basically. Yeah, with drugs and alcohol. But I mean, I wonder if he's gonna maybe he like whatever generation that is will start drinking again because they grew up going to Andy Frasco shows. I think it's cyclical.

4:54 Yeah. It's like Gen Z and. Gen Z's being a bunch of pussies about drinking. You've been reading about this? Yeah, I don't know. I see it, I went to the show. Oh, yeah. It was just. Everybody's just, like, kind of standing there. It was honestly nice. How sick was that show, though? I was it was incredible. Like, what? Was it sold out, right? Yeah. At where? Um. Fillmore. Fillmore. Yeah. So that's like, what, 4000 people, maybe. Yeah. So what? They probably did, like, $87 in sales at the bar? No, that's like one drink there. Yeah, the Live Nation. I've noticed the. 21 bucks for a single, uh, a single, like liquor. Yeah, that's why I like mission. The drinks are cheaper there. Yeah. AG, just so you guys know. AG cheaper drinks than Live Nation. Yeah. 21 bucks for a single is wild.

5:38 Yeah, that's basically a crime. Yeah. If I go to yacht club and I get a and I get a tequila soda, it shouldn't be less. Gonna have, like, grass from Japan. It shouldn't be $7 less than. Yeah. Some, like, guy that just got out of prison making me a drink at a Live Nation venue. And they're always bothered by you. Yeah, right. Whenever you get a drink at a concert, they act like they're doing you a favor. Which I guess they are. But it's like you're also at work. You know, I'm going to tip you. How much do you tip it? Like a place like Fillmore. If you got a $20 drink, it's hard. I got it. I just can't not tip 20%. Yeah. Sometimes I'll do 15. I'm not gonna lie. I mean, I ain't mad at you, but, like, my. $22. I got a service industry wife, so. I do. Too. That's true. And they get. She gets mad if I don't. Tip the same. Yeah. It's weird.

6:19 Well, maybe mine's a little bit rebellious. It depends on their race. I'm just kidding. Yeah, so Andy riffed. I mean, he's gonna blow up I think. I think he's he's starting. He's blown out. Have you seen his eyes blown out. It was pretty wild. The lightning storm kind of ruined soundcheck, but that's all right. We didn't need one. We only have two guys in the band. Yeah. We have. Yeah. And then we only got one guy in the band. We used all their gear and we had a rehearsal. Like, we literally rehearsed, like, five minutes away for half an hour, like, right. Before that doesn't, you know, doesn't need a lot of rehearsal. No. We're so sick. We don't. My favorite part was, uh, me telling Tommy I was like, you know, I just love this band. It's like, it's it's easy. The songs are easy, and Tommy's looking at me, you know, playing bass with his feet. Yeah, yeah. It's so easy.

7:01 Just know he was just like. What do you mean it's easy? I was like, I was like, ah, yeah. Sorry, I didn't read the room on that one. He's over there. Like he's contorting his face because he's trying to play a solo comp and play bass with his feet. And he's like. That's so funny. I'm like, yeah, man, it's so easy. It's so easy. By the way, Tommy, you get did you see that thing I posted the other day of me? Like looking at him on the organ? Oh, that was good. And loving him. I was. Like, I need. That when you only have to pay a. Guy. When you pay the guy the same to do two jobs. Yeah. Tommy's goaded. Not sure he even understands how money works anyway, so you can pretty much pay him whatever you. Want. Even if he did, I don't think he would care. No, he's he's great. He's the man. But yeah, that show was killing. I can't wait to, uh, play again with that band, but I don't know. Yeah. When's the. Next. I don't think Andy's show.

7:43 I don't know, I'm working on it. It's tough right now out there, man. It's a war zone trying to get jobs. Mhm. Um. Dunkirk. I don't think Andy's playing Denver for like a year. That's kind of how it goes huh. Yeah. Usually it's like. Didn't they just get off tour? Yeah, the last finishing tour right now. That's why we're doing this. Oh, Andy. Andy's not here. He's in like, they're playing all these, like, weird, like, towns you've never heard of in, like, Delaware and like Long Island because they were playing all these, like, beach. It's like the equivalent of doing, like, a mountain run, but. Okay. But on the beach. So more kids. Um, I don't know. Just rich people. Yeah, probably. But I don't know if they're like, in bars or like, or whatever, but they're probably crushing. I think they're like mostly sold out. I'm sure it's kind of annoying how successful he's getting. I know he just keeps winning every turn. Every time I talk to him, he's got some new success. He's probably like, you don't see all the losses, Nick. No. There was I mean, that's the thing with Andy. Like, he has a lot of, like, haters right now because he's successful. And that's how white dudes are.

8:38 Other musicians, you know, all they do is like to complain, and. That's how you know you're making it. Yeah, exactly. But like, you know, they just got the haters. And it's like weird when other musicians talk about him. But it's like, yeah, but he was also poor for 15 years. I mean he's been doing that again for, I don't know, it's like 20 something years. Yeah, like we said, like when you were in Arkansas. Like, how many times did you see him when there was 15 people? I mean, he would come to Fort Smith, the town I grew up in. Yeah, at least twice a year. You got to be poor to play in Fort Smith. I mean, you're not doing well if you're if you're playing Fort Smith twice a year, you're skipping Fort Wayne. Do you ever go through Fort Wayne? I mean, I grew up in Fort Wayne and I played there like three times. What's the venue there? It's called the Brass Rail. Well, now they have a couple cool venues because Sweetwater bought a couple. Okay. Sweetwater.

9:20 Yeah, they're based there. Yeah. The guy. That's Fort Wayne. He's a legendary guy. He does a lot for the community, I guess, but everybody kind of still hates him because he's rich. It's like one of those things. Okay, but he helps people. Um, the show was pretty. I don't know, it was like, it's kind of just surreal. Like I was saying, seeing, like, kids freak out about, I don't I don't know, man. I don't I didn't have that when I was little. Like, I feel like I didn't go to concerts like that. And there wasn't there wasn't a Andy Frasco when I was 12. No, I mean, the youngest. I mean, I saw Ringo Starr. I thought that was. That's pretty cool. But that he was like my first rock and like, rock star experience. Right. But he's like so famous and he's like, not like like it's just a little bit different than Frank Fresco's. Like a surreal thing. Yeah, I love that.

10:00 We're just talking about Andy on his own podcast. He's not here. He's gonna love it. Miss you, miss you. We miss you, Andy. And we love you. No, but it was sick. Thanks, Andy, for having us on the show. Yada yada yada. Your band's good now. No, you're always good. But you're really good now. How did you. Did you like the violin edition? Yeah. She's fucking badass. Amazing. Yeah, she showed me. We went down to Georgia. Just went hard. I know that song goes hard no matter what. No, she was kind of tired. Man. I have not been sleeping well lately. What happened? I don't know, I just sometimes I have insomnia. That was funny. You sent me that weird voicemail, like, to this message at two. I don't even remember it. And I liked it. And you're like, sorry. I was on the. What's Lunesta? It's just a sleep aid.

10:42 I take them every now and then. Is it like Xanax? No, no, it's more like, um, what's the, um, the sleep aid? That's, uh, kind of dangerous. People party on it. Ambient. It's kind of like an ambient a little bit. So it is prescription? Yeah. It's prescription. Is it a so is it a barbiturate or Xanax? No, it's like some Gaba inhibitor. I don't really know. But it it makes you feel really nice. And you'll get on Amazon. And does. It. Work? Yeah. Like how long does it take you to knock out. Uh, I don't know, like 30 minutes. You can't drive on it. No, you can hang out on it. That's the problem. Oh, that's why people like to, like, drink on it a little bit. Yeah. I don't know about that. I don't know about Lunesta, but Ambien for sure. Oh, yeah, I've heard about. That's what Tiger Woods got. Remember Tiger Woods. Oh yeah. He. He like got caught cheating and like. Wrecked. His. Car on it.

11:24 Yeah he had like. A bad thing. He hasn't problem sleeping I guess from all the money. Uh, but it. Does help you sleep. I was. I was up watching like, tick tock, like, whenever I can't sleep, you know, I just, like, look at the internet. Oh. It's brutal. It's because you get in like a fucking, like, uh, a vortex of where you can't stop watching the the tick tock. So, like, they keep you up. Yeah. I get really bad at when I start to get tired. I'll put it on my chest and then I'll just scroll. I'll listen to it. And I'm like, is this long form? Yeah, it's this long murder mystery. There's an ad. I know that guy. He's a music instructor, and I'm just not looking at anything. And that's when I know you're that's you're like a cyborg. Or it's like a musician complaining about Spotify or something. Or how the music industry. Yeah. I'm like, I'm kind of like I said earlier, I'm sick of the complaining musicians.

12:08 It's literally the best time it's ever been in history to be a musician right now. Well, yeah, I mean, it's definitely sucks. Yeah. I don't think it's ever been amazing. But it's like all the people I see complaining. It's all go listen to their music. And I'm like, oh yeah, okay, maybe it's not Spotify. Yeah. But like, their take will be like, you have to pay to get on stuff now. You gotta. Yeah. Like you have to pay to get on. Average always been like that. Yeah. You just have more of an opportunity. I mean, you can make an entire record in your in your room. In your basement. Yeah. Daniel Oak is a monster. But like, also the platform does kind of help people. I don't know, but I was watching and I was watching stuff about movies, and I was watching this thing about this new World of Worlds movie with Ice Cube in it. It's got a zero on Rotten Tomatoes right now. Oh wow.

12:51 Rotten tomatoes I feel like kind of lost its. I mean, I don't doubt that I lost a little bit of credibility over the last few years. I feel like they got bought out a little bit. I like the audience score. Audience score is good. Yeah, yeah. So it's getting fat zeros. But actually I kind of like fat zeros. I'm like more interested in seeing like a movie that gets zero stars than a movie that gets like 30 stars or 30 out of 100, you know what I'm saying? Like, just be so bad that, like, I don't know, it's like kind of like how I like Limp Bizkit more than, like, train. Yeah, true. Although Limp Bizkit kind of slaps, but like some equivalent of like, people do think they suck, but they actually rule. But like, yeah, it's like at least it's something. But apparently the whole movie is like just Ice cube on zoom. On zoom. Yeah. And there's like.

13:31 A ton of zoom meetings or a new drug. Like, like that's how he is. He's just like sitting in a computer the whole time. And it's and it's just like stacked with product placements. And like, there's one part where, like, an Amazon driver is the only person that can save. Okay. Save the situation. Oh, wait, I heard about this. Yeah. So I got a zero. Got a fat fucking big goose egg, man. It's like a no hit. It threw it, got thrown a no hitter against it. Wow. But imagine like I don't know but I. Oh wait, I saw the, um. Yes. Uh, there's a snippet of him. Did you see the snippet of him? Like reading basically reading a script. It's some like backstory where they're like, zooming into these cameras and he's legitimately just reading off a script. He's like, you have to watch it. It's very good. I will watch it.

14:12 It sounds very it's very bad acting. The best were people like, oh, Ice Cube's so screwed, his career is over. It's like he's got $300 million. Probably. He was in. He's in. Are we there yet? You know how much money that made? Yeah. He's fine. I don't think at a certain point you probably just don't care. He's kind of one of my favorite. He's sort of like an underrated rapper now at this point. Like Ice Cube's like maybe it's. Oh yeah. He like is kind of because he's like was so early. Yeah. The people kind of forget about him from NWA, but he was kind of a badass. And then he kind of went like to doing like dad movies. He sort of turned into like Chevy Chase for a minute. Mhm. Whatever. That movie was wearing the life jacket. What is that one? Are we there yet? Right. I don't know, I don't even know what that is. It's like from that whole, like, Robin Williams did the RV movie, and then there's, like the vacation. It's like there's a bunch of road trip movies like that, like we're the Millers.

14:57 But yeah, he like, does that. And then, I don't know, he must have got a bag to do The War of the worlds. Yeah, but I wonder why they remade that. The the Spielberg. I think it's Spielberg, the Tom cruise one. Oh yeah. From like oh six. That was hitting. Yeah I don't. Know I don't know. It's not my bag. No, no. I like good movies. My favorite movie is War War World War two documentaries. It used to be. I like to watch Germans die. Mhm. Um what was I going to talk about that was really. That was pissing me off today. Oh yeah. Dean Cain, you see this shit? Oh, yeah. I didn't even know who that was until you mentioned that. So he played Superman like 30 years ago. Yeah. And now he's like a Trump guy.

15:38 He's like the new Scott Baio. Yeah, he kind of looks like Scott Baio. Yeah, it's like he like, looks like if Scott Baio was on steroids. Like if Scott Baio was an like an alpha. He's like signing up for ice. He's like going to be an Ice agent. Yeah, I saw that. And his dad's an immigrant, I saw that. Everybody's dad, you know what I mean? I know, but like, his dad's like a Japanese immigrant. His last name? Look at his last name. His real last name is like, something. Yeah, my phone's gonna die if I do that, but that's actually makes it even funnier. But, you know, they're not going after. They're not going after Asians, are they? No they don't. There's a certain kind of immigrant they're going after. What's his. Name? Dean Cain. Dean Cain. He's from. So he hasn't done anything. This is related to Herman? I don't think so. No. Remember Herman. Remember Herman? Was he the guy that was.

16:18 No, that was Howard Dean. Howard Dean. And he, like, was. Yeah. He won the Iowa primary, and he. That was so good. We didn't do him last week on what jam band he would like. The politician. Dean Cain's last name is Tanaka. Wow. Dean George Tanaka. So? So he's an immigrant. And then also the irony of that is, like, Superman is like the ultimate illegal alien. Yeah, he played an illegal alien. Made all the money off of it. I don't know, it's so weird when, like, actors, like, Huck out for any politician, but especially Trump. It's like, what's wrong with you, dude? Like you, I don't know. It's like, what? And I was thinking, like, uh, Ice agents. Have you seen this new ad? They're trying to get people to sign up. Uh, like the ones on Twitter and stuff. Well, no, they're like, yeah, they're, like, trying to get people to be Ice agents, and they're giving all these incentives like, you make 85 K, you make more than a third grade teacher in like an inner city public school, you get like a $50,000 sign on bonus and like $60,000 off your student loans. So here's my idea. I want every person with student loans to sign up to be an Ice agent. Do nothing until they get their student loans or whatever. What is it called?

17:24 Uh, reimbursed or whatever. Yeah. Do nothing until their student loans forgiven. Do nothing until they get their student loans forgiven, and then everybody just quit. Yeah, it's basically what most cops do. Or everybody join Ice and then just be like, hey, I don't know. You got anything to eat in there? What? Can I borrow a cup of sugar? Yeah. That'd be funny. I don't know, man. It's just, uh. He was on, like, Jesse Watters today. Just like. It's weird how smug they all are about it. Like, you don't have it figured out. You're fucking. I looked it up. He actually went to Princeton. Oh, wow. You wouldn't think so. He's kind of a dumbass. Yeah, I don't know anything about him. He's just like a handsome guy. It wasn't even called Superman. It was called Lois and Clark. He wasn't even the first hombre.

18:05 Yeah, exactly. He wasn't like the first. He wasn't even the first character listed in the show. Oh. I don't. Know. He does kind of look like, uh. What? What did you say he looked like? You said a little more alpha. Scott Baio with if he worked. Out. What happened to him? Remember? He also trumped out, remember during, like, the premier, uh, Republican National Convention, he was like, yeah, Scott Baio from, uh, happy Days. Scotty B Charles in charge. Yeah. Charles in charge of. Yeah. Of fart votes. Of our votes and our taxes. I thought you were talking about you said Scott Baio, and I went, Mario Lopez. Oh, no. But he. I think he also kind of jumped out a little bit. That's what I thought. Which is even funnier because he's obviously.

18:47 Remember he used to do the, um, does he still do the, um, beauty pageants? You remember that famous clip, the. Oh, yeah. The girl who was, uh. What did he do again? I don't know, just interviewed that girl on stage. Yeah, but what did he ask her? Something weird or something? I think he asked her something pretty normal. Oh, and she. Oh, she freaked out. She. Yeah. She, like, couldn't talk, right? Yeah. And now. She's called it the Iraq and such as. The Iraq and such as. She's probably just nervous. She's super nervous. She's probably married. To. I think she held it down pretty. It was okay. It was actually one of the worst videos on the internet for four years. She's probably a Republican congresswoman now or something. Yeah. Yeah, that's how that works. She's in the Senate now. Well, a lot of. Things, such as. Politics this week. So here's. Yeah. Everybody sign up for ice.

19:30 Get your bonus, I wonder I wonder how long it takes to get the bonus. I don't know. Usually they don't just give it to you the first day. You usually have to work there for six months or something. Yeah, maybe they take it, make it take as long as, uh, takes to get citizenship here. So it could. Be like. 12 years. Yeah. It's like impossible now, actually. Yeah. My whole family's immigrants, and, uh, they all. It took them forever. Yeah. Really? My mom is. Just. Kidding. Not my whole family, but a lot of them. Are they from Ireland? But I was thinking Germany. Uh, Scotland. England. France. Yeah. That tracks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Honky. The honky nations. Honks. Crackers. Berg. Cracker on you. Born and raised. I was born and raised in Krakow town in Krakow, Estonia. Um, yeah. Uh, but like 80 k a year to go around, I don't know. Is that really worth, like, ruining your entire reputation? I don't know. I was thinking like that.

20:23 Lois and Clark show. Ruined your reputation. It's more about ruining other people's lives, but. Yeah. Well, yeah, but I'm thinking, like, from an actor. Hollywood. Yeah. You're right though. Yeah. It's so stupid. But, uh, it's like. But I was thinking, like Lois and Clark hasn't been. This might be the first time he's made 80 k a year in, like, 25 years. Yeah. He's like, that's actually a lot of money for me. Yeah, I don't think he's done anything. I don't know. He goes on news shows. That's what those people do though. Like you'll notice that like there's a certain side where the celebrities, I mean, the other side is dumb and annoying too, but they're like, they have their own version of, you know, signaling or whatever, but it's it's never like very famous people supporting the right, you know. No. 80 K a year.

21:05 Pretty good for Dean Cain. It's not bad. Like what? I can't imagine how down bad you'd have to be to be an Ice agent or even be a cop. I'd rather be a roadie for Metallica or something like that. I would do that. I'd rather be. That sounds fun. I'd rather be Lars Ulrich's person. I don't know, I heard Lars is kind of a dick, though. I'd rather be his personal assistant. That worked for. Ice. Oh, yeah, I guess. Yeah, that's the right choice there. Would you rather be a janitor at a nursing home or be an Ice agent? Yeah, I mean, we're going janitor. They might make just as much. Yeah. 80 k a year like that. Uh, did you see. That little poop and pee? Did you see that WNBA quote of the lady? She's like, uh, I think Staley, she was like, the janitor was making more than me.

21:49 I was like, I don't think that's true. Oh, yeah. It's like, well, I'll be the janitor, I guess. Yeah. People be lying. Anything pissing you off this week? Um, it's a good question. I don't think so. I'm pretty content. Yeah. You've just been making shit with your little camcorders. Mhm. Just one looking at us right now. That's fine. Camcorder, everybody. What a loser. Yeah. You got a lot of shit down here, man. Every time I come it's a little bit. Now you have a whole new computer. Mhm. Yeah. Every time I come it's a little bit more sad down here isn't it. Like a goodwill kind of at this point. Yeah. But goodwill where you could resell everything and maybe make your money back. Yeah. True.

22:32 Um, she. What else is going on? I don't know, just kind of getting ready. I'm going to Oklahoma later this month or early next month. Yeah. Um, I'm going to Norman. I'm going to go to the Oklahoma versus Michigan football game. Okay. Just by yourself? No, I'm with my best friend Kit from girl. That sounds more. Fun. Yeah, I'm just going by myself for no reason. I spent. Six Oklahoma this time of. Year. Oh my God. Oklahoma! Oklahoma around Labor Day. 95 degrees 95, no wind. Cigarettes, low education. They have like one of the worst. I was looking up their shit. They have like one of the worst education systems. Arkansas is up there too. It's kind of it's right next to Arkansas, isn't it? It is. Yeah. Does it touch there? Really?

23:16 Yeah. From. From where? I'm from Fort Smith originally. Fort Smith's that close to the border. Oh, yeah. It's a border town. It's a border. You're from a border town. There's border agents in Oklahoma. I wonder if it was. Like a fort. Big a boy. Are you? I wonder if it was like a fort from, like the Arkansas Oklahoma war in 1865. It is? Yeah. That's like, what was it, a fort of. Uh. Uh, that's a good question. I forgot. Fort Wayne's French. Civil War. Something. Oh, yeah. Something there. It was right on the river. What side of the Civil War was your state on? We should start judging people more for that, actually. Yeah. Fort Wayne, their fort is a French and Indian war. Oh, okay. Very old. Yeah, I should know that, but I don't. Right on the Arkansas River, though. Fighting over raccoon pelts.

23:58 Yeah, the pelt of raccoon. We used to have real wars in this country. Yeah. Now we just drone strike poor people. Raccoons. It's just too easy now. It's so easy. It's just basically it. Guys. Yeah. The military is just it, guys, no one's gonna. Everybody's working from home now. We just wake up late and do a drone strike. Oh, shit. My bad. Military working. Looking. And, yeah, ice is the only thing of the government that's not remote work anymore. It's all military. He's working from home now. This is considered working from home, I think. I mean, we're in your house. Yeah. Yeah. Mm. It's embarrassing.

24:41 Yeah. We don't have a lot going on. Uh, I hope you guys are doing good there. Too. Large man in a small room. Yeah. What'd you think of the. Did you watch the first trivia episode? It went pretty good. Oh, yeah. Look, great. Just so people know, I want you to go. Go watch my, uh, Ron trivia. The show. It's on volume. It's on YouTube. Go to volume first. There are tier one sponsor here. Put the ad here for volume. This is a call to action. You guys love this podcast. This is your way to support us. Head over to volume and support the podcast. It's five bucks a month. You're gonna get an extra podcast episodes, extra episodes, Monday morning motivations, the whole nine. Keep this podcast going because, uh, I love doing it and I want to just be part of this forever. We just need your help.

25:25 So head over to. Go subscribe to our podcast. Because, uh, without you, Nick will be on the street. And do you want Nick to be on the street? No, I don't want him to move into my house either. Okay. So you either subscribe to this, or Nick will be on the street. All right. Bye. Hello, everyone. It's Andy Frasco, your local drunk. We're here to support Gardenista. Gardenista our sponsors. I've been substituting this from Jameson because I like the idea that there's, uh, ginger lime juice and green herbs in this, so I kind of feel healthy drinking this. And they got all these different ones. Like, I was kind of nervous about this bourbon cocktail, but it's bourbon whiskey, green herbs, lime juice, ginger and jalapenos. Got a little spice to it, but you put some ice in it and it's actually a cocktail.

26:13 And like, I'm not really good at proportions, so it's already made for you. Look at this. It's cute too. You could be on your table and be like, oh, look at you're sophisticated. You want pop up on your on your kitchen table or do you want something that's pretty gardenista? Vodka cocktail. Grab it. Tell em Frasco sent you. How many people are in the chat in volume? Some. Some people in there. I think there's like 30 or something. No more than that because there's also people there's people in there that weren't chatting to, oh, people had. A lot of playing silently. People had a lot of fun. The next one's about O.J. Simpson, so I think that'll do well. Yeah. And then I have a round in like episode four where I read a quote, and then it's like, you got to guess whether it's Donald Trump, OJ Simpson or Taylor Swift that said it. Yeah, that was a good one.

27:01 It's way harder than people think it's going to be actually. Yeah, I remember doing that one at Yacht Club. That was a tough one. Oh yeah. You were there for that. You've been, what, three times? That's just. 3 or 4 times. Yeah. It's where you were randomly there for that one. Yeah. That was one of the first ones a few years ago I think, wasn't it? Yeah. You always go when your girlfriend's in town. Yes. Shout out. Shout out. Jani. I just don't make it over there on Mondays. It's far. It's. It's 25 minutes. That's pretty far on a Monday. Also Monday. That's far to have a couple drinks and then drive home. Yeah. Or like seven. And you like, don't really know who's going to be there. You don't have like a crew to go with. Yeah. Your trivia squad. Yeah. If you show up trivia alone and, like. People play alone. Though. Yeah I know. Well that's unfortunate. We've had two solo winners in the last month. I should give them an extra treat if they win a treat. Yeah. Dog bone. They got this little metal I have on right now. Oh, okay. Where's that from? I found it today.

27:53 It's from high school. I got first place in the state solo saxophone solo competition. Oh, wow. I like how they made it. Very, um. I can't believe my dad. Nationalistic. Yeah, well, it's first place. So first place USA. Yeah, very much American to be first place, but, um, um, my dad sent me like this, like fanny pack. He found a bunch of my shit. There was a bunch of 50 cent coins. I actually sold them on eBay. I got, like, 300 bucks. Oh, really? Just recently. Yeah, like a month ago or something. Two months ago. It was like, here's something that's been passed down for generations. My shit from when I was a kid. Yeah, he found it in some safe. He has probably a gun safe. And then he, uh, he sent it all to me, and it was like I opened it up, and there's, like, a bunch of fucking 50 cent I forgot I used to kind of get into.

28:33 I got into collecting coins for like six months when. I was like, okay. 16. I looked it up and they were all worth like 30 bucks a piece. I was like, I don't want a bunch of coins. So I threw them on eBay and some guy bought them and I sent him to very easy to ship coins. Yeah. $7. But I had some of my state champion saxophone soloist medals. In there. Too. Should I wear it more often? Yeah. I mean, show who you are. I give it instead of a D instead of ID at the bar. Yeah. They're like, okay, you can come over here. Nick. I'm 21. See, look how old this is. This is actually a silver medal. That's how old it is. It's gotten terrible. Hmm. You should have thrown that in there for the guy who bought all your coins. No, I don't want to give him. Anything that's going to be worth one day. Um, probably $0.00. Most like everything else I own.

29:19 Yeah. Negative money. It costs you money to throw it away. Yeah. Cost me 30 bucks to throw it away, actually. But, uh, I didn't want it anymore. Don't want to think about high school anymore. I'm getting old. Yeah, that's a long time ago now. Yeah, that was back in the early 70s. I think Carter was actually pregnant. Pregnant? Pregnant. I don't think he's ever been pregnant. He's dead now. Yeah. He's dead. Well, maybe he's been reincarnated. Carter. Carter definitely would have been a panic fan. Yeah, probably. What? What makes you say that? Because he's from Georgia. Oh, okay. That's. That's basically all I need is, like, one thing to make it work. Yeah, I was gonna say I couldn't. I couldn't picture it. He's dead now. Yeah, he lived to be 100. That's what makes him a panic fan.

30:01 He lived to be a hundred. Yeah, I saw his his last moments in the backyard. The barbecue where he kind of looked like the barbecue. Yeah, he was just in the chair, and. It looked like they were taking down a statue and laying it down to put another statue up. I don't think I want to live. I was gonna say, I don't know. Do you want to live to be 100? No. I mean, unless there's some some cool advancements where I can actually be cognizant, I do not want to be in a chair basking in the in the brightness. I've known 2 or 3 people that have lived to be 100, and it's seems absolutely awful. It just seems saw. Saw. Hurt, pain. You don't know what's going on around. You know, I'm down to be here a little bit longer. You can't just. Yeah. You can't crank hog anymore.

30:45 Yeah. True. Hopefully. I mean, maybe you. Can catheter out. Take your bluechew, man. How old do you want to live? How old do I want to live? Um. 48. 38. 38. How old are you now? $31 bob. 38 going on zero. Um, I don't know. You know, a good, solid life into the late 70s. Sounds good. Depends on what happens to me. I mean, I know people that, you know, turn 50 and they get dementia or dementia. The first three years of dementia, I had a couple family members get it. It was pretty funny for a minute. And then it gets real sad. Yeah, it's pretty funny when they kind of just get kind of loopy and they're just like, it's like they've had two beers all the time. Yeah, but then it gets real sad at the end. Who are you? Yeah. You used to be funny.

31:32 You weren't racist before. Why did you get racist from dementia? Yeah, that can happen. It does happen. And then people reset on your brain. You gotta take out the thing and blow in it and put. It back in. I need a new cartridge. Yeah. Damn. What have you got? You got any shows coming up? Uh, yeah. Playing with, um. Flamingos. Oh, doing, um, doing our new record that comes out in September at, um, Levitt and then. Oh, you are. You're playing Levitt? Yeah. Flamingos. With who else? Um, who else is on that show? It's a good question. Who? When is it? Um, that's also a good question. Uh, August 12th, I think. Nope. August 12th. Yeah. Like this. This weekend. September 12th.

32:13 Yeah. Excuse me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. September 12th. Are you. Is he doing live? The full band? 16th, maybe. Uh, yeah. It's just it's just, uh, Gilly and I. So. Yeah. Keys and guitar. We're gonna play the full record comes out also that same day, the 6th August 16th, I believe. I think I'm gonna. I might come to that. I might be out of town. We're doing like. I think that might be fluss. And, um. At Red. Rocks. No, at Dillon, I think it might be fluss somebody else. I'm not going to Dillon for Fluss. I mean, I love those guys. We'll be there. I'd rather go see Flamingo. We'll be there. Well, you just said you're playing Levitt. You're doing. Levitt. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Wow. Back to back. What are we gonna do? It's so hot out. I don't know. We're under a heat advisory. Which we are. Yeah, which? It's like 90, which is kind of weird for here. No, it's 99 right now. Oh. Is it? Yeah, dude. Wow.

33:00 It's brutally oppressive. Hot, A+. Oppressive. Well, it's 96 now. It's starting to go down because it's 4 p.m.. But, yeah, Julie's working Rufus to Seoul all weekend. That being they rep. It's a three guys. I didn't know that. Yeah. Is it like a band? I mean, yeah, I think I mean, not a band, but. It's like a DJ band. It's like DJ band. Yeah, those are kind of dying off, remember? Like, every band had, like, a guitar player and a drummer and a guy in Ableton. Yeah. Well, funds went down. Now it's been. Yeah. I think people either want to hear a band or they want to hear the. Yeah, flamingos. This will work with that. But like if you're making bangers, it's like the drums are already kind of hitting. I think that that's kind of the drummers can kind of kind of ruin the vibe there.

33:41 I know, but they don't want to hear it. And because they always bitch about it too. Yeah, because I think some people think that leveling up their show. No, not always. It can work. But leveling up your show doesn't always, you know, need to have a drummer. Sometimes it can take it takes the show away a little bit. I 100% agree because especially if they like, they bitch. Because like the the like the original drums are in there too. Yeah, but it can crack for sure. But the real drums or the like, the recorded drums crack way harder than the live drums. And then when you try to mix them over each other, you get this big wall of sound. It's got to be like Adam Deitch. It's got to be like someone on that level or it doesn't work. You know what I mean? It can't be like, whatever. Guy just graduated from CU Boulder. Yeah, with his sonar drum set.

34:22 Sonar, sonar sonar. Sonar. Yeah. They still make those, I think. um, should we get high and watch War of the worlds after this and laugh at it? I'm down. Amazon Prime. What if we just started promoting Amazon Prime? We should watch it. It's I it's one of those ones. It's only like an hour and a half. It has. To be. Yeah. There's no way. 3.5 hours. Like Waterworld or something. They don't make three hour movies anymore. We'll do, uh, Oppenheimer into, uh, World of Worlds with Ice Cube. Ice cube. Not tea. Iced teas. The Law and Order one. Yeah. That's right. You got law and order. He's a little better actor, maybe. I think he is. Well, he's just been doing it, I don't know. Is he? I think they're both bad. Ice Cube's son, also an actor famous for playing Ice Cube.

35:05 Oh, that's right, I forgot about that. I remember that. Yeah, yeah. What was that? Compton? No, it was like. Yeah, straight outta Compton. Straight outta Compton. I actually kind of like that movie. It was okay. I mean, I like N.W.A. I watched it front row. You did? No, I didn't. I don't really go to the theaters anymore. I don't either. I get scared, if you know what I mean. Weird things happen. Yeah. I don't really like it. I definitely look for exits when I do go though. Dude, there's that one. And then there's. Like those corny TikToks about guys who, like, my husband, always has to sit facing the door when we go out to eat at the local Hacienda restaurant. Man, he has trauma. In case anything pops off. It's like, well, no, he's just like, secretly. Yeah, he has trauma, basically. I don't want to say what I actually say. He's scared of his father, unfortunately. Unfortunately, his father hit him for 30 years. He got beat well into his 30s, came home from college, and his dad called him a pussy.

35:56 Or he was just in the military, which is his own set of trauma. I don't know, I kind of want I want to give. Next time I'm on the pod with Andy, I might try to see if he'll let me call ice out live on the air and ask about the job. Can you just call them like it's a. There's gotta be a phone number. I mean, they want people bad right now. What if they have, like, the operators? I thought the guys. I thought the government was broke. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I don't either. Actually, I don't. I don't. Know, I hardly care about that stuff. It's hard. I don't like to think about it. I care about human rights and stuff, but I just don't. get the politics. Shit is getting so cringe. Cringe. Good word for it. It's just like. Politics is cringe. It is cringe. Like caring about human rights and all that shit. It's cool, but like like just like if you, like, have a politicians merch. Yeah, that one's a weird one.

36:42 Joe Biden T-shirt. Grown man's like, yeah. I hardly want to wear band t shirts. Yeah. And I'm not talking about just the Trump shit. I'm talking about, like, if Joe Biden t shirt whoever, it doesn't matter. It's like. That's a weird hill to die on. How can you a flag to just a flag outside of your house? Yeah. I mean, there's American flag. There's like a line with. I'm talking about like, somebody's name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, anything but the American. You know what you should do? Nick Gerlach flags. Oh, my God, that'd be good. I would fly one fly. Just sell a couple of them. I'm just picturing two giant like those boats they have, like the like. Oh, yeah. In Florida with just. Like, huge ass. Pictures of my face. And this would actually be pretty good. Anybody out there make flags. Wearing the hat? I didn't notice that.

37:22 Well, they're both black. Yeah. Anybody out there make flags? Hit me up. What would what would a flag maker be called? There's got to be a name for it. Some type of flag maker, a flag maker. Oh, wow. Very creative. Guys. Wait. The study of flags is called vexillology. Flags or just. Vexillology. And a person who designs flags is a lexicographer. Lexicographer? That's cool. That is pretty cool. Betsy Ross was that. Yeah, that's the only one I know. Name? That would be a trivia name, a famous lexicographer. It's gotta be Betsy Ross. And that's. It. I can't name one other person that's ever made a flag. Yeah, I have no idea. Have you ever purchased a flag? I don't think so. Like, I wouldn't even know where to buy a flag. I don't know. You have to.

38:06 I think, truly, you have to stand for something pretty heavy to purchase a flag. I guess you could probably just Google it and just find 1 in 5 minutes. Yeah, eBay probably has lots of flags. Walmart probably is loaded with flags. Walmart has American flags you could probably buy like a avalanche flag. You could probably buy. Yeah, down at the Colorado Stadium. Yeah. The Colorado Avalanche stadium. Won't be the new thing, though. All the homies get flags. Yeah. We all have a flag. Why isn't Frisco a flag? I feel like maybe he does. He has so much merch and flags. Go. There you go. His flag company. Boom! Don't. He's already. He already just made the. If he's listening to this LLC, he's already made. Um, yeah.

38:46 I'll come to your show at love. I think we, I think me and Andy might be out of town. There's a rumor we're going to go. I don't want to say it on here in case it doesn't happen, but we're going to be like the official. Yeah, the official pod for, like, this big festival of country people. Oh. I guess I get to be around some actual stars for once instead of jam band zeros. Yeah, who go online and complain about how Spotify makes them pay and how. They'll be complaining about anything. I'm so over musicians complaining. It's kind of starting to drive me crazy. It's always like the white dudes and it's always like. Yeah. It's always a complaint that people have had. Like, they act like they discovered this. Like you have to pay to advertise these days. It's like that's been a thing since the Stone age. Probably. You know what I mean?

39:28 Like, it's called a. You want people just to help you out for free, right? It's also just like, yeah, sorry. You're super nuanced. Yeah, I don't know, poetry with music is hard to sell. I don't know. Yeah. How about you just be glad, like you're healthy enough and alive enough and have enough free time to even make a song. Yeah. People should be just more stoked if they get to exist in some type of circuit in general. I just love when people are like, guess what? Did you know this? I swear to God, this is true. Rich people have a distinct advantage in this country. Yeah. That's happened. That's been I think that's literally been. In. The Bible. Gold was found. It's like in the fucking Old Testament of the Bible. Yeah, yeah. There was a pharaoh. You know what I mean? Yeah.

40:09 We used to pharaohs. Now we just have presidents. Yeah, well, now at least there's a, you know, the middle class is dying, but at least there was some sort of middle bridge there. I used to be pharaohs, and then people who, people who like lifted rocks. Yeah, that's going to be that again pretty soon. Yeah. It's diminishing. Speaking of Amazon delivery drivers, we're all going to be doing that in three years. We're all going to be delivering each other's stuff with the money we make working at Amazon. And then we buy it back. I mean, three years, I don't really know. I mean, either be automated. Yeah, it'll be bots. It'll basically be like coal mine when they have company towns, you know. Oh yeah. But for the company towns. But the whole country. She lives in the company town. He lives over there in West Virginia in the holler. And he works in the company town. Yeah, we're going to be a company country. I heard that, uh, Amazon factories where the humans work.

40:51 The humans, the humans work. They, uh, they keep the AC off there, but the fans at the one where the bots and the robots work are full blast. They got to keep them cool, like they really do, is they have to keep the robots cool. Yeah. They overheat. Yeah. So people are like, damn, dude. Okay, that's actually wild. Yeah. Because people also overheat. Mhm. Damn. I wonder if they have it like set to a certain. They know if, like if we just keep it right here at this degree. Yeah. They won't die. No. They probably have it dialed into a science where if it's like 72 it's just enough to piss you off to make you work harder. Yeah, just enough sweat to make you like. I can't wait to get out of here. If they make it too cozy, they might be like. Yeah, it could be good for, like, how we're all fat, though. Yeah, that's how I run this house, though. Keep it 72. Make sure everybody know.

41:34 Oh, I was gonna. Say no, actually, 74, because the basement stays at a constant 60 something, you know? Well, as soon as I walk into a hotel room I like in Asheville, I was in Asheville. You just go. Down, down, down. 52. Sometimes I'm like, where? How? Where do we go? I just get as cold as I can. And then if I get too cold, I bring it back up. Yeah. I also am a constant fan. Constant fans on. Constant fan of Andy Frasco. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah. I can't really sleep without, like, the fan noise. Yeah, you have ADHD. I need I have never been diagnosed with anything in my life. It's like I'm. Definitely totally normal. Yeah, I mean, it's not that I just never try. It's like I was in. It wasn't that ADHD was, like kind of a thing when I was in school. But yeah, now everyone has it.

42:17 I'm obviously I have something wrong with me, But like, I'm in my 40s, they don't. It's too late. Yeah, it's too late. What am I gonna do? Start taking Adderall? I mean, fun. Do you hear about Nick? He became a stockbroker last week. Yeah. He just, like, turned his whole life. Around three months from now, I'm like. Selling flags. You have thousands of flags. Number one, I tech bro in the flag industry. Oh my God. So when's that? Flamingos. This record come out, promote it. Um, then we'll wrap. Up September 16th September 16th. Hot 40. Let me double check. September 16th. No, let me get it right. Uh, September 12th is when the record drops, and then, uh, August 15th is the next single, Artificial Love, which is kind of an ode to AI and the state of the world. And artificial. Yep.

43:07 And, um, what else? The full record comes out. It's got like eight tracks on it. Flamingos de Estrada. So it's, um, it's a it's a unique. I believe I'm on one of the tracks. You are? Yeah. You got a solo and a vibe on iwi. A little. Oh. Yeah. Oh yeah. The solos. I'm proud of that solo. It's one of my better solos. It was a good one. I rinsed it so many times. I don't like it anymore. Oh it sucks. Yeah, I liked it a lot, but that's. That's not my fault. No it's not. No, it's still a great solo. It's like, cool because it's like I didn't have to go ham on it. No, I got to play some, like, nice yacht rock licks. We could play it right now. Yeah, I'm still pretty good at saxophone. I'm doing like a bunch of weddings coming up. I kind of like. Keep the chops. Up, take a bunch of private gigs.

43:49 They just pay so much money. Yeah. It's like hard to do that. It's like, do I want. To weddings crush. Dude? It's like, I know all the tunes. So just from being old and doing them for so long, I don't have to like, like me and Gabe are doing this weekend. He messaged me and he goes, we got the set list. I showed you that, remember? It was a joke. And he's. Like. Yeah, he's like, cool. We have every chart because we have like a shared folder of charts. Oh yeah. And you're like, okay, work's done sick. See you at 430. Yeah. All right, that's enough of this. All right. Goodbye, everybody. Bye bye.