Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast - EP 153.5: World Saving Awards Ceremony

Episode Date: January 4, 2022

An Awards Show in which our road worn hosts recollect their 3 month long fall tour to haphazardly bestow their deep appreciation upon the most deserving (in NIck's opinion) Follow us on Instagram @worldsavingpodcast For more information on Andy Frasco, the band and/or the blog, go to: AndyFrasco.com Check out Andy's new song, "Friends (A Song About Friends)" on iTunes, Spotify  Produced by Andy Frasco Joe Angelhow Chris Lorentz Audio mix by Chris Lorentz Featuring: Arno Bakker

bonus episode you know what day it is it's the award day here we go baby we have award music we are giving out awards for the 2021 year the 2021 andy frasco and the un fall tour awards brought to you by repsy brought to you by repsy hosted by nick gerlach yes andy frasco and the UN Fall Tour Awards. Brought to you by Repsy. Brought to you by Repsy. Hosted by Nick Gerlach and Andy Frasco. I picked the categories and nominated everyone and I picked the winners. It's lit.

We're still tired. It's been a week and we're still tired from tour. We're never going to recover. Please, someone donate. How epic is award music? I know. Isn't this amazing music? What if I just started and award music covered me

and I just played an hour of award show music every night? You need fiddle and violin and shit. Torth, that's 40-person orchestra. Oh, man. 40-person orchestra is like two Floyds. This music pumps me up, dude. I know. Wow. All right, man. 40-person orchestra is like two Floyds. This music pumps me up, dude. I know. Wow.

All right, Nick. So here's my question. Hold on. What do you think would be harder to tour with, 40-person orchestra or two Floyds? Two Floyds. Yeah, he's a lot. Shout out to Floyd.

Hell yeah. All right, so what is this award ceremony you want to do on the World Saving Podcast? It's like the Golden Globes, but only for our tour that we just did. Really? Yeah. I made categories.

You made categories? And we have nominations, and we're going to remember things together, too. Okay. You should pull up the posters so you can remember all the cities. You can at least have a visual, because you probably don't even remember half the shows. I don't remember. Yeah. I don't remember anything.

When did we start this tour? This is for having me around. It's good. We started on September 8th. Here it is. I don't remember. Yeah. I don't remember anything. When did we start this? This is for having me around. It's good. We started in September 8th. Here it is. Tulsa, Oklahoma. Yep. Then we went to, I wonder if I could go in order and name every show we did.

Do you think I can do it? You want to try? This is kind of a rip off of what Bert Kreischer does. Well, let's hear you. Okay. Ready? September 8th. We played Tulsa Then Houston Then Dallas

Then Austin We had two days off And then we stopped in El Paso And then we drove to Phoenix That's when the van broke down Yep Phoenix San Diego

Yes Las Vegas Holy shit LA San Francisco Holy shit Then we had a couple days off Nevada City

Where you taught me that mushrooms were illegal. Bend. Oh. Not Bend. Eugene. Sorry. I met Eugene in my head. The same thing.

I didn't even go to Bend. You know what I mean? Yeah. I just thought Eugene was Bend. Portland. Seattle. Break. Salt Lake.

Denver. Break. New Orleans. Holy shit. Little Rock. Fayetteville. Break. and then we went to michigan right exactly this is where it gets dicey because you i would want to say we went to detroit first but we didn't we went to grand rapids because we stayed halfway between them and we doubled back

yep and then we went to detroit and that no this is where you start fucking up no grand rapids and detroit grand rap oh ferndale yeah it's detroit yeah sorry yeah ferndale is detroit yep then what in my mind and then we go down under the lake and then we go to buffalo oh how do you know all this because i did it and i remember it okay buffalo and then buffalo oh this is where it gets dice iron city i know no that's what that was in buffalo buffalo pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, or Covington, Kentucky, which is Cincinnati. Cleveland.

What the fuck is wrong with you? Break. Yes. Rally. Wow. This is where it gets hard. Wilmington. Yes.

This is when Andy had COVID. Richmond. Yes. After Richmond was Charlottesville. Holy shit. Oh my God. Louisville. Yes.

This is where it gets real dicey. Madison. Yes. St. Paul. What the fuck? Yes. Chicago. Yes.

Champagne. Yes. What the fuck? Break. Okay. Champagne. We had two weeks off. Then what was our first date? That was Thanksgiving, right? Break. Okay. Champagne. We had two weeks off. Then what was our first date?

That was Thanksgiving, right? Right. Oh, yeah. Nope. And then we had two weeks off because we did another quick little south run. A little four-night south run. Birmingham, Asheville, Atlanta, Nashville. Break again for Thanksgiving.

And then we head all the way out to the East Coast and we do DC, Philly, Brooklyn, Boston, Break, Burlington, Woodstock, Rochester. I nailed it, didn't I?

What the fuck? Fuck yeah. Nicholas Gerlach. I told you I have a good memory. Oh my God. That's something I don't really, you know, you got have a good memory. Oh, my God. That's something I don't really, you know, you got to find out over time. Oh, my God. I am so impressed with that.

You couldn't have done that? You don't think? No fucking way in hell. How far do you think you could have gone back? Fucking two weeks. Yeah, Mexico, Cancun. You're like, Mexico, and then Rochester. That's all I remember.

Nick. All right. I am so impressed with you. That's right, people. I'm incredibly intelligent, too, on top of talented and hilarious. So you just named all the tour dates. So what are we doing with this awards ceremony? So now we're going to go through.

Okay, so let's do the first award. That way you can have a good sense for. So what are you doing? What do you theme it on? How did you build this? Well, there's like, I just themed it off about a typical awards show, like the MTV Music Awards. There's, you know, best venue, best green room, blah, best green room blah blah blah i said we just get started yeah let's

get started yeah hospitality award best green room all right hospitality award for best green room and the nominees are greenfield lake amphitheater lake amphitheater in wilmington because i had that nice lake and everything that's nice with the ice l. Yep. Another one is the Ogden Theater in Denver. Big. Nice. Nice room. I have my own room. I always like when I have my own little room.

And it's downstairs. And remember, it's big. It's got two rooms and the shower and everything. The Saturn in Birmingham. Love that room. And then. I really hope that wins. Bearsville Theater in Woodstock.

And the clear winner is Saturn. Hold on. You need to do the. All right. And the winner is? Saturn in Birmingham. Crazy. I did a video of it on my Instagram. Birmingham with the best green room. At gridlock27

scroll down. There's a great video of that green room. I go through and give a tour of it. It has toys. You can sleep there if you want. We should have stayed. Oh no, that was the night we stayed with your buddy. Shout out to Saturn. The one night we had stayed with friends to get in a hotel. We could have stayed there and just... Wow.

Having fun. Well, hanging out at Jamie's house is always fun. Dude, Jamie's the shit. I'm just saying it would have been better than getting a hotel. That's all. Wow. So the first award of the night goes to... Saturn in Birmingham.

Saturn in Birmingham. Shout out to Saturn. A Wednesday night show. That's Green Room. Won an award. Unbelievable. Wednesday night. All right. What's the next one's Green Room. Won an award. Unbelievable. Wednesday night. Alright. What's the next one?

Okay, the self-care award. Best day off city. We had four times that we hung out in a city on our day off, right? Like on breaks instead of going home, right? The nominees are the only five cities. San Francisco. Revere, Massachusetts. That was just me where I

holed up. Three, Raleigh, North Carolina. That was a fun Austin. Four, the middle of Michigan somewhere at Kevin's house. I have no clue where that is. That was fun too. Five, Austin, Texas. Ooh, that's actually Can I? I want you to

have input on this one because I wouldn't really know what to pick. I loved Austin and I loved San Francisco, but I also loved Kevin's house, tour manager of pigeons, because he cooked us a meal. That's what I was going to say. So who is the winner? But I don't think that's...

But we're talking about the best city and that was a meal, not a city. There is a category for best meal later. Well, who do you got? So I think my choice of best day off city for me personally was San Francisco. Let's go. I like San Francisco.

Austin, you're alright. But San Francisco's got that. I liked Austin because I had Hillary come out. Oh yeah. That was great. But that's not the city. That's a person that you were hanging out with. Anyway, congratulations to the city of San Francisco. Okay, ready?

Oh, this is a good award what is it the expectations versus reality award for the best show versus what i personally expected coming into it okay so like oh this show went way better than i thought it was going to yeah here are the six nominees i had just because i had thought of six nominees thought of a lot of them. Six nominees for this one. There was a lot of surprise shows on this tour. Okay, ready? Yeah. One, Phoenix. Two, Boston. Remember, that one was like crazy.

The crowd was crazy at that one. Yeah, the Boston. And all day we're like fucking Boston. Anyway, three, Asheville. I thought that was kind of a surprise. That was a lit. Four, Burlington, Vermont. That was lit.

Especially compared to what you thought, remember? Yeah. Five, Buffalo slash Rochester. Always lit. That was just so good that it was like, it's not going to win, but it had to be mentioned as just being... I'm counting Buffalo and Rochester, it's like a lot of the same people, you know? Right. And it was just like insane, even though we knew it was kind of sold out.

It was just the vibe was up. It's not going to win, but just deserves to be mentioned. And Dallas, because it was the first sellout. That was the first sellout. But I'm going to pick Phoenix. Hold on. Oh, yeah. I keep forgetting about that.

You got to do the drumroll. That's kind of the charm of the show, though, isn't it? Okay, do the drumroll. The winner is Phoenix, Arizona. A couple reasons. Tuesday. It was a sold out on a Tuesday. Yeah, it was nice.

And it was a terrible day going into it. Yeah, our van broke down. We were going 40 in fucking Texas. You know how we hate Texas. In New Mexico. Ugh. Like, I like Dallas. I like Austin.

But the other parts of Texas kind of scare the shit out of me. Yeah. Houston's not my kind of place either. So shout out to Phoenix for winning best show of the tour. Phoenix and San Francisco. We should send them awards to the mayor. We'll send them a letter saying thank you. Actually, I might do that. Draft a letter to the mayor of San Francisco. Thank you for a send them a letter saying, thank you. Actually, I might do that.

Draft a letter to the mayor of San Francisco. Thank you for a great day off from the blah, blah, blah. The world's same. Okay. Ready? Yeah.

What's the next one? Weirdest person I met on tour. There's only one nominee and it's my Uber driver in Austin, Texas on Sunday night and her day off. Dude was fucking insane. What happened? He, the whole time. okay, it was like

an eight minute ride and we got into Alex Jones being right about everything. He got into anti-vax stuff like almost 30 seconds into an Uber ride. Ready? And the winner of, he's only won a nominee, but he still has to announce it. Weirdest person I met on tour. My Uber driver in Austin, Texas.

I don't have his name. I don't have his name. I don't have his name. Shout out to that driver. Fucking creep. I hope you're not a driver anymore. You're fucking weird, dude. Okay.

Keep your opinions to yourself. All right. Ready? What's the next one? Break the ice award for best opener on tour. Now I know what you're thinking. I'm just going to pick myself. What do you mean?

What's his opener? But listen, there was more openers than you think on this tour, actually. Ready? Nick Gerlach's Cole is a nominee. Number two, Kyle Ayers. Number three, The Suffers. Number four, Graham Gooden, The Painters. And number five, Andy Frasco in the UN.

When did I open? In Wilmington. Oh, yeah. So, and the winner, I have picked this, the winner of the best, the Break the Ice Award for best opener, Andy Frasco in the UN. Honored.

You have to be. I mean, you had won the whole tour, so you got to be the best opener, right? I am fucking honored to even win an award. Wow. Can I say a speech? Yes.

Go ahead. I like to thank, I like to thank Wilmington, North Carolina. I like to thank Big Something for letting me open my own headline show. Yeah. I like to thank Nick for appreciating my contribution to the show as an opener. Yeah. And I like to thank Nick Gerlach for just acknowledging that I was a good opener.

You were a good opener. Thank you. Thank you. And you have to acknowledge me for not picking myself, which would have been a very—. You were a good opener. Thank you. Thank you. And you have to acknowledge me for not picking myself, which would have been a very... And I'm going to respect that, too. Because that's a very Nick Gerlach thing to do. Okay.

That's a good one. I'm honored. Let's do the best... Let's do... I'm honored, Nick. I named this award after myself. What is it? Because it's about best sit-in,

and I'm known for my sit-ins, right? The Nick Gerlach Award for best sit-in of the tour. We have six nominees. Ready? Mary Corso in San Diego. That was a good one. Mary killed it. Big Sam in New Orleans. Oh, God. He was a monster. He kills it. Just fuck. I don't know how he blows

so hard on the trombone. That guy's not real. Matt Jaubert in Brooklyn. That was dope. Jaubert on the guitar. That was the moment we found out that he was actually one of the hottest guys in the scene. He's up there. Him and Gator. Gator is hotter. Is he?

Gator's got swag. It's the car. And he's got a Porsche. Three or four or whatever. Maggie Rose. Two of them from the same show in Nashville, actually. Marcus King. And Craig Broadhead in Cleveland.

Remember? Yeah, we had a lot of nice sit-ins. And the winner is... Maggie Rose, because you did a special song. Yeah. I like the Maggie call-out. It wasn't just someone coming in, dick around your song. You guys learned something, and she came up and sang the hell out of it.

Maggie Rose. And I respect a sit-in who tells us what song she wants to do. She wanted to do Alanis Morissette. Oh, she picked that. She picked Alanis Morissette. That makes it even cooler, actually. So shout out to Maggie. Maggie wins.

Maggie wins it. It was a good one. It was something different for you guys. It was. It was a vibe, and we learned it, and shout out to Sean for learning it. Is she singing the hell out of it, because that's what she does? Yeah. Ooh, I like this.

This is fun. I know. This is a fun idea. This is fun. Okay. Nick Gerlach Award. We already did that one. Oh, man.

We're getting to that. Okay. HGTV Award for Best Looking Venue. HGTV Award? Yeah, like, you know, interior design, whatever. Okay. Four nominees. If you have one to add, you can add it.

This is what I remember, though. Warsaw in Brooklyn was my first number I love that Polish dance room, that was the shit Thalia Hall in Chicago, gorgeous room I gotta pick Thalia, man What else you got? The Chapel in San Francisco Ooh, tough, I love that room too

And Greenfield Lake Amphitheater Man, you can't, wow, this one's gonna be tough Here's what I picked, but you can argue with me Here's what I picked, go And the winner of the HGTV award for best looking venue, I picked Warsaw. Ooh, I like that. Remember those two big ass paintings I had?

I do like that. The two paintings really sold me on it. I did. It was really weird. We've been playing a lot of like, like Masonic rooms in Polish dance halls. No, there's an award show coming up.

Really? We'll do that right now, actually. I did like the Warsaw. I think that's one of my favorite rooms Besides the Brooklyn Bowl in Brooklyn It's so cool I wouldn't recommend it for every band It's not the perfect thing for any band

It's good for punk bands What a nice award Shout out to Warsaw Beautiful place All those other places are gorgeous too Let's do a fun one Best regional fast food place that I tried on tour. I love regional fast food.

I picked Zaxby's, Cookout, Whataburger, or In-N-Out. Okay. All right, so explain each one just in case. Zaxby's, all these are from the southeast because it's just where I've been the least. And Whataburger's Texas burger place. Zaxby's is chicken, basically. Yeah. It's basically chicken.

Cookout is like everything. Yeah, I love Cookout. Whataburger is obviously burgers. In-N-Out is, if you don't know what In-N-Out is. Not my favorite Whataburger, to be honest. See, I don't like In-N-Out very much. Doesn't do it for me. But here's who I picked.

The winner of best regional fast food place is... Cookout. You can't beat the variety. You can't beat the variety. There's just too many options. I mean, I agree. You can't beat the variety. Here's the thing.

Burgers. I mean, there's good burgers. How hard does it make a good burger? Cookout. You can literally spend $11 and have nine different places of cuisine. I agree. I agree. Shout out to Cookout.

Wait a way. Shout out to Cookout. Okay. I got another regional award. I agree. Shout out to Cookout. Wait a way. Shout out to Cookout. Okay. I got another regional award. I'm not going to do the nominees. Best regional soda. Best regional soda. The winner is...

Cheerwine. What the fuck is that? It's that drink in North Carolina I had. Oh, that shit was gross. I love that shit. I love Cheerwine. Shout out to North Carolina. Cheerwine. Wow. Really? had. Oh, that shit was gross. I love that shit. I love Cheerwine. Shout out to North Carolina.

Cheerwine. Wow, really? Yeah, well, I got my sweet. Best regional soda you're going to give to Cheerwine? Well, that's the only one I tried on tour. Oh, so this is just being biased. But I like Cheerwine. It's refreshing when you're hungover. Shout out to Cheerwine.

Everyone who wins, I'm not going to... This is your night, Cheerwine. Okay, here's a good one. The Road Trip night. It's your wine. Okay. Here's a good one. The Road Trip Award, sponsored by the movie Road Trip. Hold on. What is this award about? Worst drive of the tour.

Ooh. Three nominees came to mind. I don't know if you have one. Okay. El Paso to Phoenix. That was fucking horrible. LA to San Francisco. Three hours of sleep.

Eight hour drive. Going up. Very boring. Weirdly, that's a boring drive. But weren't we in like a truck? We were in a U-Haul truck. That was Phoenix. That was like the end of the Phoenix,

El Paso one. So do we have a van? So remember in LA, we had to do all that shit all day where we like switched cars and got a different trailer and we got this rental and the trailer hitch wasn't on it and then we finally had one vehicle again

from LA to San Francisco. But that drive was brutal. That was pretty bad. And the third one is Austin Del Paso just because it's across Texas. I'm going to say the Phoenix one. And the award for worst drive of the tour goes to... El Paso to Phoenix.

It ain't close, honestly. See, I knew it. I knew it. If you're going 40 miles up hills, it was 95 degrees. I knew it. It was a nine-hour drive, and then Phoenix saved the day. We almost canceled that show, remember? I mean, that's the reason why you gave-

We almost canceled me opening. Yeah, that's the reason why you gave Phoenix the award, because it was such a fucking hard day. Part of it, but it was also a raging show on a Tuesday. Oh, yeah, it was so fun. It was sold show on a Tuesday. Oh yeah. It was so fun. Phoenix sold out on a Tuesday. Yeah. Shout out to Phoenix one more time.

I mean, those people came to party, dude. They sure did. Wow. See, I'm sure you glad you have me around. Remember all this shit for you?

Oh my God. You are like a, you're like a money elephant. Money elephant. That's what people used to call me. Cause I know exactly how much people owe me. Really? That's the only thing you can remember.

That's the only thing I can remember is how much money people owe me. Don't say anything anti-Semitic. Don't say anything anti-Semitic. Okay, Expectations Reality. What's the next? I'm trying to pick the next. Best opening crowd. So you have no say here. This is just from my

perspective. It's not how big they were. It's like, how were they did they interact were they fun were they supportive you know okay ready here's my five nominees louisville oh i know you didn't see that one coming but they were hilarious they got they were the funniest really yeah they like i tried to start a dance competition they were laughing they got on my inside they even got someone like i made an inside in from pre-joke and they got it i knew it was some people in my scene kind of so it worked philly just because they were laughing. They got on my inside. They even got someone like, I made an inside in-pumpery joke and they got it. I knew it was some people

in my scene, kind of, so it worked. Philly, just because they were raging their balls off. I know. Philly is always so fucking insane. Oh, my God. They were hype, like,

at doors, dude. Dallas was a good one and it was also my first good opening set, so that was... Portland. I just liked that show. Dude, that was a fun show.

You kind of forget that show because it's at the end of that first tail run, but actually crushed. Yeah, Portland and Seattle. Everybody's very good looking up there, too. It's like a bunch of hot people just being hot and in shape. Yeah, yeah.

It was nice after Texas. Hot hipsters. It was just nice after that Texas to see some hot people be hot. You know what I mean? That was just some hot girls. Yeah, I know, but you know what I'm saying. I get what you're saying. I don't need, yeah.

And then fifth is Denver because there's a lot of people there and it's Denver. And that's our family out there. I had Denver. All right, and the winner for best opening crowd. what you said. I don't need, yeah. And then fifth is Denver because there's a lot of people there and it's Denver. And it's our family out there. I had Denver too. All right, and the winner for best opening crowd. Louisville. Hey, I like it. They're fun.

That was a very surprising, I didn't know, you threw a curveball there. I like to throw curveballs. It was kind of a milder crowd. Yeah, but they were funny as shit. They knew my in-voice gag. I talked about my Humphreys shit.

They knew all that. It was good. I saw a couple of Humphreys hats in the crowd. Is that kind of like home turf? It's like two hours from Indy. It's definitely like I've probably played for them before. That helps. Wow. So it was kind of fun. I was like, oh, I know some of these hats. So if I do my Facebook shit, they'll know it. You know what I mean? Well, shout out one more

time to Louisville. Louisville. Best sub. What do you mean? Best sub? Well, here's the three nominees. Ready? Best sub. What do you mean? Best sub? Well, here's the three nominees. Ready? Hold on. What is a sub?

I'm just going to self-save the cat. The nominee. You know what a sub a sub is? Like substitute? Yeah. Oh, like filling in when Beats had COVID and shit? Oh, yes. That's a sub.

Three nominees. Alex. Big Al. Big Al. I got to say Big Al. Smith, right? What's his last name? Big Smith. Al Smith. I gotta say Big Al. Smith, right? What's his last name? Big Smith. Al Smith.

I never got his last name. He filled in when Beats had COVID. Two, the Subway sandwich I had in West Virginia. Why? And three, the USS Connecticut, the submarine recently brought home to San Diego to have damages repaired in the news last week. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

They're all subs. I swear to God, if Al doesn't get this award, they're all subs. I swear to God, if Al doesn't get this award, I'm going to be so embarrassed. And the winner is... Big Al, obviously. Big Al, saving the day. I just need to fill it out. You know what I mean? Fucking Al had to learn 25 songs.

He learned them in like... When Beats got COVID, we drove. Luckily, your songs are easy to learn. Shut the fuck up, Nick. I don't like things fucking up here. Wow. That's beautiful. drove. Luckily, your songs are easy to learn. Shut the fuck up, Nick. Oh, everything's fucking up here. Wow. That's beautiful. What's going on over here?

You know how computers be. Man, yeah. I got to talk about Al one more time. Al Smith saved the fucking day there. Yeah, we don't talk about him enough, actually. We should because he deserves all the credit. I feel like he didn't get enough love, so here's your time. Yeah. Al, we love you. I'm going to do a speech for Al. Al, thank you.

You deserve this award. It's not hard. It's not hard. It's very hard to learn 23 of my songs. And it's even harder when I'm yelling at you on stage telling you to pick up the fucking pace. Andy always wants it a little faster. Always a little faster.

So for me to acknowledge this, it's well-deserved, and you well-deserve this award. So shout out to Al. Shout out to Al. I love Al. He's a good hang, too. He's never a bitch.

He never complained. He never... That's true. Best opening. We're his person. Okay. What's the next award? Best meal.

Best meal? Okay. Best meal we had. Nost person. Okay. What's the next award? Best meal. Best meal? Okay. Oh, like green meal? Best meal we had. No, just in general. We had a day off meals, you know. Okay. One, that steakhouse in Raleigh.

That shit was fire. That shit was bomb as fuck. Most expensive meal to tour. So you got to throw it. Yeah. It better be good. It was like 200 bucks a man. 120 bucks a man.

Breakfast spot in Raleigh. The day after the show. That place was fire. Why is all the food so good in Raleigh? North Carolina. You know, they be cooking down there, bro. You know what I mean? They be cooking.

Three, the meal Kevin and his wife made us in Michigan. That was bomb. Like the pasta zucchini thing. She made all kinds of stuff. Yeah, that was fire. And it was just like nice after driving. That was fire. Four, green room sandwiches.

Just because of just the consistency and the volume. You love that when you get green room sandwiches. Just because of this consistency and the volume. You love that when you get green room sandwiches. I never had one the whole tour either. But, you know, I like it. It's a smart thing to get,

I think. A lot of the venue owners, like, people always ask for green room sandwiches and never order them. Never, like, eat them. We always ate the sandwiches.

Oh, that's the first thing Shane hits when he gets there. Oh, yeah, Shane. Sean, I mean. That's Sean. 4 p.m. at Sean. It's 4 p.m. at Sean, not there. Oh, yeah. Sean, I mean. That's Sean. 4 p.m. It's Sean. It's 4 p.m. It's Sean, not Shane.

So. Yeah. Winner. Best meal. Kevin and his wife. I can't remember her name. I agree. What is her name, dude?

I feel like an asshole. I can't remember either. Sorry. It's nothing personal. It's just been a long time. Former manager of Pigeons playing ping pong. Had a stay at his house. I think we stayed there two nights. In Lansing. Or can't remember either. Sorry. It's nothing personal. It's just been a long time. Tour manager of Pigeons playing ping pong. Had us stay at his house. I think we stayed there two nights.

In Lansing. Or like in the middle. It's like between Detroit and Grand Rapids. Yeah, that was a really great vibe. I feel so bad. I don't remember her name. I have a good guess, but I don't want to be. I'd rather just not guess than be wrong.

But they were totally cool. She was super nice. There was already a picture of me on their wall when I got there. Remember? Yeah. From another picture. Yeah. I just happened to be in it.

Yeah. With some talk guys. You're born to have dinner at their house. Anyway, you can't pick anything over the home-cooked meal. That'd be absolute. Everyone needs a home-cooked meal sometimes. Exactly. Okay.

Ready for the next one? Yeah. Funniest moment of tour. Ooh. I like this one. I had a couple of the guys chime in. You didn't chime in with anything. I have six nominations of guys chime in. You didn't chime in with anything. I have

six nominations. Ready? One. When Casey from Big Something fell through the table. He thought he forgot it was the fake wrestling shit Sheetrock. What was that? The video is so funny.

It's in actually your new music video. I put it in there. He falls forward thinking it's going actually your new music video. I put it in there. Yeah, so he falls forward through it thinking it's going to be something like to balance himself, but he just goes right through it. So funny. Right during the encore. Oh, I love it. Okay. Number two is in New York when Brian took your

bag of mushrooms and you immediately like Super Mario to second bag of mushrooms. It was so cartoony. Three. Everything I said to Floyd in the van for like three months. Pretty funny. Pretty shit. Pretty funny.

I yelled at Floyd constantly. Floyd said, this is his nomination, the group chat. He said the group chat was the funniest thing of tour. It was pretty good. He said in retrospect, we should have just had the group chat and skipped the tour. Because we were always just telling him to kiss his boss. Yeah, Floyd's a ridiculous person, guys. I don't know if you ever get a chance to be around Floyd.

It's like he's not. He's just, I don't know. But also he does have his shit together, but he's just like, I can't figure him out. I can't even describe what it is. Yeah. Gotta be around the guy. Floyd taking the karaoke mic in the bathroom in San Diego. Wow.

Remember that one? Yeah. That's a good one. That was pretty good. And six when I accidentally ate a 50 milligram edible before my set in Buffalo. Hell yeah. I don't know what to pick. Oh my God.

That was one of my funniest moments. That's good, right? Because I didn't know. I thought you were just like bumming out. I thought you were just burnt out. No, I was burnt up. I was burning up. I don't know what to pick.

So what are the nominees? Casey phones the table, you the mushrooms, the group chat, everything I said to Floyd for three months, Floyd taking the karaoke mic in the bathroom. So I think it's between 50 milligram edible. Can I pick this one? Yeah, you can pick this one. And the winner is?

I got to say me pulling out the mushrooms. Me too. I think it is too. It's just a moment. Because Schwartz shows up after he shows up once a year.

Yeah, or three times a tour. Or three times a tour. Yeah, this is the most times I've seen Schwartz show up to a tour. Well,

all his other bands aren't touring right now. I think I'm getting more famous and he's watching his back. He doesn't want you to leave him for someone hotter. I know. I know.

I'm looking at this new guy. He's 6'1". I'm looking at this dude, man. He doesn't have any connections, but he's 6'1". Oh, God. That was a pretty magical moment when he pulled up. All those were funny, though. All those were really good.

All right, ready? I'll shout out to the whole tour for that. Okay. Weirdest vibes of a show. And I don't mean in a bad way. Just the show is just like, that's weird. I've had two shows. Vegas and Asheville.

They both had like a... Hold on. So weirdest vibes of the... This is weird. This is weird. But like in a good way. Like just not typical. I thought Vegas was super weird right

right we played like a fashion show for that sick tie-dye company like a legitimate tie-dye company right he does like famous people it was like outside kind of and it was just like hippies and it was fucking fun as shit but it's definitely weird right right and then two is ashville just because it's sort of inside outside there's a's like a bonfire. Our green room is in a shipping container. But I got to say, the winner of weirdest in a good way vibes is... Vegas. Easily, right? Yeah.

Did you think of any show weirder than Vegas? Vegas was weird. We played outside of a construction park. It was like a tie-dye shop yeah um it was fun yeah but it was outside

and also we were I was bad vibes because I was that's the night I cried you were in a bad mood that night about something I cried that night because it was just like

I was losing money that was when the whole van was breaking down I thought I was going to win like 20 grand on the van turned out I told you it was going

to get better too yeah and the tour just kept on getting better yep because I was right again okay so shout out to vegas for being weird like always hell yeah i mean that's the point right hell yeah you don't go to vegas to load in and play a show yeah exactly venue that felt most like an eastern european community center hold on there's three nominees, actually. What is it?

The venue that feels most like an Eastern European dance hall, community center, you know, VFW kind of vibe, right? Mm-hmm. Three nominations. One, Spirit Hall in Pittsburgh. You remember that one? Oh, that's definitely Eastern Europe. It had the bar below it, and remember Floyd, like, disappeared for the entire loadout down there? Right. Oh, how convenient.

Two, Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland. Masonic. That's very Masonic, too. But it feels like Eastern. It's definitely Eastern European vibes. All those blue-collar cities have these Eastern... They go hang out with the people and drink that they work with all day. Yeah.

And then the Warsaw in Brooklyn. God, I'm praying it's the Warsaw because they had all those Polish people just fucking screaming. And then the Warsaw in Brooklyn. You know, I'm praying it's the Warsaw because they had all those Polish people just fucking screaming. And the winner. Hold on. The venue

that felt most like a great Eastern European community center is Warsaw. It's not even close. That place is amazing. Also, the staff was... Damn.

Warsaw coming off of two awards on the... Okay, one last category before we get to the top 10. Oh. Best Kiss. Warsaw coming off of two awards on the award show today. One last category before we get to the top ten. Oh. Best kiss. Best kiss?

Like the MTV Movie Awards. Okay. And it has to be you and Floyd, right? You finally kissed him. Yeah, I did. In Woodstock? I started kissing him every night at the end of the tour. I think I only saw the one.

Where was the first kiss? First kiss? Philly? What was the first kiss? First kiss? What kind of first kiss? I just ironically asked you when your first kiss was. Oh, my God. Okay, anyway, it's Floyd and Andy. I don't know.

We don't need to drumroll that shit. We're not drumrolling you kissing Floyd. Go on. I want to cut. Okay, the winner of best kiss is... Floyd and Andy. I don't know what city though you can pick the city what was the night where you got my favorite one was philly you got him good or what he looked in my eyes like he wanted it no i swear maybe i was just like hoping he wanted it i think it's more like the hope thing because he wasn't sweaty yet so he's sweaty he smells so bad he smells it's like an hour after he showers and he smells like shit yeah floyd there's something inside you wrong or

something you need to stop drinking so much you think his semen smells like metal it's the only floyd also is the only person i don't want to talk about that at all floyd is the only person on tour i did not share a room with the whole time. Really? Floyd. I don't share a room with Floyd either. I just, I don't even. I think we. I swear to God, after 1 a.m., it's like Floyd disappears and I just see him with a van the next day.

Yep. Where does he go? Who knows? You're the only one I share a room with or I get my own room. Yep. Yeah. But three points of time. Sharing with me is like basically like having your own room almost.

I feel like I'm easy too. Yeah. And you're not snoring your fucking face off. Sometimes I get drunk. Yeah, points of time. Sharing with me is like basically having your own room almost. I feel like I'm easy too. Yeah. And you're not snoring your fucking face off. Sometimes I get drunk. Yeah, it's fine. Sometimes, yeah. Every once in a while Andy gets drunk. Five minutes a week.

Okay. This is the final award? No, it's not final award. I'm just doing my top 10 shows. Oh. You can tell me and then you can tell me maybe if you have any. Okay. And the top 10 shows of the tour,

should I go from 10 to one? Yes. Number 10. This was a great show on a Thursday night. We rolled in thinking we had 90 pre-sales or something. We roll up. We were in the small room instead of the big room, but it was sold out.

And these motherfuckers were raging. And I did not expect that in this wintry, cold Northeast town of Burlington, Vermont. Congratulations congratulations you made the top 10 burlington that was a slamming show nice you're gonna notice this is weighted more towards the end of the tour but that's because the show that the tour was better at the end i'm sorry number nine this was our first i feel like good show tour we were where we were like, things are going to go well here. I got my first good reaction. It was just a good night.

There were some bras thrown on you on stage. Remember? Dallas? It was pretty much sold out. Number nine, Dallas. Let's go. I'm going to go with Dallas, right? That was a good one.

I love Dallas. You got to go back there. They liked you there. Yeah, I will. That was my first. That was the first show where the promoter came up to me and was like, I like your shit too. That's when I first started getting my shit.

That was only the third show. Number eight. Kind of a surprising one. Great market, I think. Raging crowd. Also a good podcast crowd. I was surprised it was such a good turnout because it was the day before Halloween. Number eight.

Richmond, Virginia. Ooh, I liked Richmond. I know, but you wouldn't have thought of that. You probably wouldn't have thought of Richmond. No, because I was stressed out. That was a day before Halloween. Number eight, Richmond, Virginia. Ooh, I liked Richmond. I know, but you wouldn't have thought of that. You probably wouldn't have thought of Richmond. No, because I was stressed out. It was a stressy day. You slept in the van, if you don't remember. I did.

It was one of those nights where the first time you napped through sound check. Yep. And it was kind of a cold and dreary day, if you remember. Right. And we'd just come from Wilmington, which was a rager. That was a party. And then we were like, oh, Richmond, it'll be a blow-by show, no offense, but it's like the day before Halloween,

and they fucking raged. Yeah, it blew up. I love it. Shout out to Richmond. Yes. Number seven. It's part of our first leg. We talked about it earlier.

Just good-looking hipsters getting down. It was sold out. Beautiful venue. It didn't get mentioned in most beautiful venues because it's not quite as historic. Talking about Portland, Oregon, Mississippi Studios. That was a banging show. It was good.

Beautiful people. They almost kicked me out for smoking cigs in the venue. Yeah, that's understandable. Yeah, I get it. Cigarettes are different, man. Number six. This is a great show. One of the biggest turnouts of the tour.

It was at a beautiful venue called the Ogden. Woo! Hometown! Denver. That was a great show. One of the biggest turnouts of the tour. It was at a beautiful venue called the Ogden. Hometown. Denver. That was a great show. Hometown. I respect that. I like that they're top six. Yeah, because you would forget about Denver because you just expect Denver to be good.

But it was good. It was a great show. You can't fault Denver for being good every time. That's dumb. You shouldn't punish them for being consistently great. It was a great show. Denver, you show up constantly. You're a great crowd.

I think we sold over 1,000 tickets. If not, it was close enough. 1,100. Okay, there you go. I love the Ogden. I had a great show. I could have a drummer. It was great.

Denver. Number five. This is our last show before Thanksgiving. We're at the top five now. Top five. This is top five. We had some great famous people come sit in. Maggie Rose, Marcus King. I know exactly.

It was sold out. It was sold out. No, it wasn't. It was sold out enough. It was sold out. It was, you know, ballpark. It was like 350, 400 people. Okay, whatever. It was a packed show. They were rowdy, which is not typical for me in my past with this town of Nashville.

Number five show. I Generally when you go to Nashville you think, oh, it's going to be a bunch of other musicians like side-eyeing. No, this was raging fans. Yeah, it was raging. Raging. Nashville, top five. Congratulations. Welcome, Nashville. Top five show of the tour. Number four. This was a Thursday night

show. One of our first, it wasn't our first sellout, but it's the first sellout we had had and like, because we had some of the first leg and then remember it got kind of shitty yeah and then okay so buffalo number four yeah that was a yeah that's got to be top five that show raged that was one of the best shows the tour rage and i think this was actually even though phoenix won the award for biggest surprise in some ways boston was the biggest surprise and that's why there were the in different ways that phoenix wasn't a lot of phoenix's had to do, Boston was the biggest surprise. In different ways that Phoenix wasn't. A lot of Phoenix's had to do with

it was the worst day ever. Whoa, you're putting Boston top three? I'm putting Boston number three. Wow. Shout out to Boston. Don't you think that crowd was raging though? They were raging. They had that Boston anger simmering inside of them. Yeah, they were throwing Celtic jerseys at me. There was some anger shit going on that night and I really respected the anger.

Give it to me. Number two. One of the biggest probably the biggest sales to date. Like Denver doesn't count because it's Denver and then like Wilmington doesn't count because it's a co-bill. So Rochester's number two I think. Yes.

Crazy to say that. And at the end of the tour when I've already played at that market like around that area three times. Buffalo number four, Rochester number two. Shout out to the Northeast. That's fucked. Shout out to New York. You guys are... I mean, that's crazy. Number one show of the tour for me, Philadelphia.

Oh, hold on. You're supposed to give it suspense. Nah. Okay. Hold on. Do it again. Just kidding. And the number one show of the whole fucking tour for me was Philadelphia. Sold out. Thursday night. Absolutely rowdy. show the whole fucking tour for me was Philadelphia sold out Thursday night absolutely rowdy fucking kind of crowd

where like they're each going to bring two people next time like I saw this shit crushed you know Mel and you know Mel the beer spit yeah yeah where Floyd spit beer into her mouth like bring it yeah those yeah they're fun I love them.

I thought it was, do you think it was the best show tour? Philly, Rochester, Buffalo. See, you're on stage for it, so you have a different. What else was rowdy that was unexpected? I guess Wilmington. I should have put in there, but it was like a co-bill. It was a co-bill. That was a good one. Yeah. Didn't feel like it should be on this list.

It was like us and Big Something. Biggest letdown? That's a good one. Should I say't feel like it should be on this list. It was like us and Big Something. Biggest letdown? Ooh. That's a good one. Should I say it? For me? It was Atlanta. You guys were boring.

Really? They just stood there and kind of stared. I liked Atlanta. It was a little weird. It was a lot of people there. It was a lot of people, but they weren't going around. It was very low. It was like low energy.

Low T. Wow. You guys need to get your testosterone checked out, guys. We had a bunch of cougars there was like low energy. Low T. Wow. You guys need to get your testosterone checked out, guys. We had a bunch of Cougars there, too, though. I know, but usually the Cougars go hard. Yeah. Those are some of my favorite Frasco fans. They are.

I do love the Frasco Cougars. I mean, they were fun. I don't know. I just feel like Nashville was... I hear you. I hear you on the line. I thought it would have been like... I thought the Atlanta crowd acted more like a Nashville crowd,

and the Nashville crowd acted more like an Atlanta crowd. Oh, that's a good point. You think like Nashville would be more potential. Energy levels and just the kind of like, wow,

the pure. What? Is there anything, was there any shows I didn't mention that you thought maybe, I thought about throwing Seattle in there.

Phoenix. You didn't put Phoenix in there. I know because it, even though it was like a surprise, I don't think it was one of the top 10 best shows on the tour. Yeah.

Wow. What a beautiful award ceremony to close out this. Yep. There's nothing. Seattle could have been up there, but Portland, I feel like they were kind of like the same vibe to me. I get it. Well, that's it, right?

That's the whole award ceremony? That's the award. It's a good 40 minutes. Wow. We did it. Nick Gerlach, putting in the effort. And this is why you'll never have my job. That's why. Yeah. Watch out co-host.

You guys, if you're going to shoot for a guy's job, here's a little advice. Don't do it right in front of him. Nick, thank you. What a great year. We did it. Great season. We did it. Yeah. Thank you for being there for me. Thank you for being there for the thank you for being there for the world

saving podcast fans and um are you ready for season five hell yeah we're gonna dial up a notch next season it seems like hell yeah we are we're gonna have a video yep now when i bring keno to hang out it'll be even funnier because it'll just be a dog in the corner all of a sudden just on yeah she's the one of the weirdest looking dogs you've ever seen, right? I know, she's sweet. All right. We're done. And we're done. Thank you, guys.

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