Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast - EP 213: Nick & Andy

Episode Date: April 4, 2023

Watch this episode streaming now!! In which our resident mad-men, Andy & Nick, discuss the usual topics: phish fans, the space between all things, and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Listen in as they shower love upon the genius of Donald Glover. How is someone SO good at everything he touches? King Midas incarnate, yall. Also, why is Andy getting threats from internet trolls?! People: Chill out. We're here to spread love and occasionally some fake news about Mayor McCheese. Pour yourself a nice glass of chianti and dig into some fava beans as we spread the lotion of our jokes upon your ear holes. Ciao bella! Pre-save You Do You on apple music and/or Spotify! Call/text us and leave a message: [phone]  No topic is out of bounds... Psyched to partner up with our buddies at Volume.com! Check out their roster of upcoming live events and on-demand shows to enrich that sweet life of yours. And don't forget to catch the band in a town near you andyfrasco.com/tour Follow us on Instagram @worldsavingpodcast For more information on Andy Frasco, the band and/or the blog, go to: AndyFrasco.com Check out our good friends that help us unwind and sleep easy while on the road and at home: dialedingummies.com Check out Andy Frasco & The U.N. (Feat Little Stranger)'s new song, "Oh, What A Life" on iTunes, Spotify  Produced by Andy Frasco, Joe Angelhow, & Chris Lorentz Audio mix by Chris Lorentz Featuring: Brian Schwartz Nick Gerlach Arno Bakker

Hey, it's Schwartz. Good morning. Welcome home. Listen, it was fun being in L.A. Congrats on a great show at the Troubadour. I'm a little bumming about the fact that you had a chocolate bar on stage that probably had something in it. Maybe it didn't, and you're eating it, and the band is eating it. As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather your fans have great memories about your great band and your great song and your great music and your great voice.

I'm concerned. You look like you have been through the mill to burning the candle at both ends, and it's unnecessary. Please, really appreciate. Please use these days to recoup and recharge. Enough is enough. You don't need to drink every day off. A day off is not an excuse to day drink.

You don't need to do drugs. You don't need to eat mushrooms every day. And how about this? Weed is legal. Just smoke a little bit of weed and nothing else. You can't just be at peace with your own thoughts. Nothing else. No alcohol, no drugs, no mushrooms. And shower. eat like and nothing else if you can't just be at peace with your own thought nothing else no alcohol no drugs no mushrooms and shower wash your feet you're walking around the fucking

troubadour you know when people spit all over the place and you're walking around with bare feet no wonder you were number one wookiee or whatever it's finally clicking for me it's your fucking feet wash your feet. I'll talk to you soon. I love you. Please, just be easy on us. I'm the one that bears the brunt of everything, and I'm at peace.

I would like to stay that way. Bye. I love you. Wash your feet. We're live. All right. It's been a minute. I was trying to do it.

No look. And we're back. No look. And we're back. No look. No look. Clap. Andy Frasco's World's Favorite Podcast. I'm Andy Frasco. Finally back from my fucking tour.

Let's go. I am also Andy Frasco, and I have anxiety. The fantasy basketball world champion. No, I haven't won yet. We can't. We cannot. Even though this comes out after that, let's not make claims. Why?

Because I believe the only thing, the only superstitions. You're in the championship this week. Yeah, but you said I'm the champion. I have not. I'm down 50 points on day two right now. I don't want to jinx anything. It's the only time I'm superstitious

is about sports. At least you beat up that one. I'm winning money. That's Bozo the clown. Let's go. That's all I care about. I really wanted you and Ernie to be in the championship, but I like

Matt that Matt's in the championship. He's a good looking guy. He's hot. He lives in Denver now. I love it. I wanted to go to his residency gig. Oh yeah. We should go. I should. It's just started, so he'll be another three weeks. So how are we doing, everyone? How's our heads? How's our mentals? Are we staying out of the darkness?

You didn't say hearts. You said heads and mentals. How's our hearts as well? Yeah, come on. We got to get that in there. My mom came to the Troubadour show. She cried? She cried five times, she said.

Cry and hang out and cry. That's the Italian in you, I think. It's that neurotic, that neuroses. When we feel love, we want to cry. I think that's the Italian in you. Why Italian? Because your dad's Italian, I thought. Oh, no, your mom's not Italian, so it doesn't work.

I've seen my dad cry once. Rescind that. That's actually, I forgot. When my Uncle George died when I was 13. His brother? I saw him. He's like, I gotta go. Yeah, because we went to Madison, Wisconsin. No, because he got hit by a train.

What? Yeah. Was he in a car? He didn't know his car was on the train track when there was traffic. And he saw the things go down. And he didn't get out of the car. Well, whatever. I'm not going to question what he did.

But that's insane. And it's weird. That happens more than people realize. Be careful, guys. Pay attention. You're not in a hurry. You don't really have anywhere to be. That's my biggest fear now whenever I go through train tracks.

What, being hit by a train? Yeah, that's probably my biggest fear when I go over train tracks. What other fear would you have? I have these dreams where I can't get off the train track. Dude, you know what? Your dreams are about stuff sometimes. That could be your subconscious telling you something. I had a dream yesterday that

I bought a ticket to Italy and I was at the airplane. I was at the airport and I saw how small the plane was to fly nine hours, so I canceled my flight. Interesting. What do you think your subconscious is screaming into the void right now?

Saying that my anxiety can't handle a small-ass plane for nine hours. I think that's too literal. I think it's like more of a symbolism. What is the plane? Oh, like, oh, yeah. Maybe like.

Dreams aren't about what they're about. Maybe because how badly I want a vacation, but I'm too scared to have one. That's still, I think that's still too literal. What if it's like, what if Italy is your goal, your end point of your goal, of your dream, and you don't think what you have to work with right now is enough to get you there. Oh my God, that's so hot. Maybe I'm a psychologist. You know what I'm saying though?

Whatever your dream is, maybe you're thinking I don't have the tools it takes to get this dream and that's what the little plane is. Maybe because, oh, I got some... But you are also scared of flying. I got some exciting news. What?

If LeBron James does it, I will do it too. I closed on my house. Oh, you bought a home. I bought a home. I will be keeping my... What did LeBron say? Taking my talents to South Beach.

I will be keeping my talents in Denver, Colorado. I'm here. I'm here for the time being in Denver. You're stuck with me, baby. You're going to see me blacked out at Cervantes every weekend. So maybe the plane was just you being scared of flying then, since you got your house. Maybe because

now I can't do all those dreams. Maybe you're right on this. Maybe because I can't go to Europe anymore because I literally have no... I gave all my money. Yeah, but it's better to have a... Zero dollars in my bank account. It's better to have a home than your 18th trip to Europe in the last 10 years. Yeah, I respect that.

Of course. I mean, you're going to go to Europe again. Europe's not going anywhere. I was talking with my friend. Let's go on a vacation. Let's go to Netherlands or let's go to Greece or something. Indiana. Whatever. First off,

if we do that, we're just going to go on a bender and look at our phones. We have to promise ourselves not to drink and go out and do stuff. You drink a little bit. No. I want to go have fun. I'm addicted to little bit. I'm like, no. I want to go have fun.

I'm addicted to my phone. I'm going to be looking at my phone. I want to look at the phone. I want to look at the dumb memes. Oh, look at the stupid painting. Leonardo da Vinci, I'm in a painting. Oh, okay, no. Maybe I do need it. I do kind of want to throw my phone in the fucking river. You are addicted to your phone. I'm addicted to it.

It's bad, guys. No, you literally, before we started this, you said the words, I'm not on my phone in the fucking river. You are addicted to your phone. I'm addicted to it. It's bad, guys. Oh, yeah. No, you literally, before we started this, was like, you said the words, I'm not on my phone as you were scrolling

on your phone. You told me you're not on your phone. You were like, it was like, I'm not on my phone. You're like, I'm not on my phone.

You're just scrolling around on your phone. God damn it. That means you're not sending an email. It's that post tour Anxiety That's why I want to

We're going to get Brendan Bayless on Shouldn't you not have anxiety Since you completed the tour And nothing bad happened Yeah True Nothing bad happened right

No nothing bad And like We actually got along My band We communicated Yeah And like We're happy

It was just a long tour you know It's three weeks Andy You've done My band, we communicated. Yeah, you guys looked like you were happy. We were happy. It was just a long tour, you know. It's three weeks, Andy. You've done... It wasn't long at all. No, no, it's just like... Dramatic. No, like... No, no, the 8 a.m.s.

This is why we need a bus. So make it... It was more hard than it was long. It was harder than it was long. This is why I need to get a tour bus. Yeah, it's time, I think. It's time. I think you're about ready to afford it, I feel like. Yeah, but I'm so cheap.

They're $2,000 a day. I thought they were like, oh, they got more expensive. Yeah, because of inflation. $2,000 a day. I think you could swing it, though. I do. I think the benefits will outweigh the cost on that. I know. I'll be so much happier because I'm driving a lot of it.

You don't need to be driving. You're the star. You're the show pony, like you said. I know. But I need to help Bo. He needs help. He's working his ass off. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, too.

What'd you say? I know. They didn't do shit. Yeah, Jason just slept the whole time. And then Skippy, I hate to ask Skippy for things. Why? Because his name is Skippy. I fucking love Skippy. I love Jason too. That wasn't a dig at Jason.

Who's Skippy? Skippy was our merch guy. Oh yeah, yeah, that guy. But he's in Little Stranger and he was just bringing good vibes. Yeah, his name's Skippy. Yeah, we did hire another guy for driving and I ended up driving the whole fucking, that's me, that's my anxiety. Yeah, get a bus. Get a professional. You have a professional driver behind the wheel.

That's what they do. I know, but like I am cheap. It's worth it for the sleep. It's worth it for just like the... You have a home on the road kind of. Yeah. I think it's better. I also don't like... I have a fear of showering in venue bathrooms.

It's gross as fuck. Is it any grosser than the fucking hotels we've stayed in? I don't think so. I just don't like showering after people. If the floor's wet, I'm grossed out. That is kind of gross. Yeah, like I can't shower to loves. No.

It's gross. But you can. One of my friend's bands said that they were hearing, like while they were showering, they were hearing really loud, rapey sex in the bathroom. Oh, that sounds terrible. I hate to hear that while I'm taking a shower.

Oh, man, I don't want to hear really loud sex in the shower in a public place. I just hear all these horror stories of cum. All the truckers are beating off in there. Oh, yeah, I definitely wouldn't want to hear that. Because they're getting rid of the trucker speed that they're on. I don't want trucker cum in my shower at all.

Ooh, hot. I felt like a trucker. I do feel like a trucker. Because I was driving. I drove 12 hours. Here we go. Blue collar Andy. I drove 12 hours to get back to Denver.

I've kind of been stalling the drives. Yeah, I noticed that. I've been flying everywhere. So, it's my turn. So, I did that. I've been flying everywhere. So I'm like, it's my turn. So I did it. And I fucking loved it. The open road? I love driving.

I'm probably not the safest driver, right? I'm a bad driver. Let me guess. Let me go ahead and guess why you're not the safest driver. You might look at your phone while you're driving. Well, let's get Bo in here. He probably knows exactly. Bo Balinski, our tour manager.

Podcast producer. Podcast editor. Bo. My fucking right tour manager. Podcast producer. Podcast editor. Bo. My fucking right hand man these days. This guy is my fucking anchor. My rock. Bo, how scary am I of a driver? Terrifying. Really?

Dude, when we were going into Tempe the other day and you just fucking slammed on the brakes. Oh yeah. No, it was LA. Was it going into LA? It was going to... All of a sudden it It was traffic and I was trying to promote a show. This is why you need a bus. This is why I need a bus. Or just let other people drive.

No one else drives or I'll strung out. Between me, Jason, or Skip, one of the three of us could have driven. Between me, Jason, or Skip, one of the three of us could have driven. I hate asking Jason because he's loaded in the gear. He's doing all that other shit. You know he doesn't have a problem with it, though.

No? No. Yeah. I got to do that. Just a couple hours here and there. He just wakes up in the morning and jumps in the front seat. But I do. I mean, I like driving.

It keeps my mind. It kind of like zends me out for the day. I get that. I totally get that. I do like it. It does help me out. Yeah. I got to help you. It keeps my mind. It kind of like zends me out for the day. I get that. I totally get that. It does help me out. I got to help you. You're my boy. I can't have Bo. If Bo quits, I'd probably kill myself. Just give up.

Well, now I feel like I can't leave. The toxic relationship. Me and Bo are toxic. The only thing holding you together is Bo being your tour manager? The only thing holding this band together is Bo being my tour manager. Yeah, God forbid. I'm so nervous because Brody

is going to Japan for two weeks. And she's like completely off the grid. And I have to deal with Schwartz now. Like on a day-to-day basis. I'm like, oh, fuck. We are going to kill each other. So when that happens,

I just need a little more from you, Bo. Just to calm you down a little bit? Just if I'm fucking high after he's yelling at me some shit, you just got to Andy, he's neurotic like you are. You both are very neurotic.

I also got the post-tour blues depression right now. Yeah. Yesterday in the van on the drive back, we're both just like deadpan, just like staring at the road. Yeah. We didn't even talk. We were listening to Billy Joel. She's always a woman to me.

A woman. Mike, we're just not even talking. We're just looking at the open road. I like, it is better driving when there's not a bunch of people in the backseat. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Bo, thank you. But I am trying to help you, brother. We're in this together because I know how much you've...

Because the Troubadour show was dope, right? It was dope. Was that like a dream come true for you? Yes. I've always've... Because the Troubadour show was dope, right? It was dope. Was that like a dream come true for you? Yes. I've always wanted to play the Troubadour. That's like the most prestigious venue in LA. Elton John played his first American show there. Leon Russell. All those guys. It's like... Donny Hathaway live at the Troubadour. Oh, I love

him, man. Everyone's played there. Jealous guy. But I'll be honest. I forgot how big of a dick all these la venues are what do you mean i haven't i've only played la like a couple times they're just so just like oh everyone's i'm like we sold this out can you let us like at least be a little nice like everyone sells out city of posers like people that's all you know everyone there has pretty much failed at something else but once they heard our show Their attitude changed completely

Like oh I'm so sorry Here's five vodka sodas Why? I don't know Because your show Wasn't pretentious? Yeah because we weren't Like being that LA bullshit

Oh my dad Was an accountant For Guns N' Roses We got Atlantic Records Coming in They want a They want a Petri dish

And a fruit plate Just for their VIP area Yeah that's cool Atlantic Records Would have been so cool in 1987. It's 2023. The year of independence. Yeah, exactly. Let's go.

We're taking over. How weird if you're a band and you're like, there's labels coming out. I'm like, cool. I'm going to give half your money to someone who's not going to help you at all. Great. I'd give all my money to when I'm this hungover. Down in gummies. Dialed in gummies, y'all.

They're the best. I've always been waiting for you to do the pitch because I have been fucking up the pitch a little bit. I did a control experiment on dialed in gummies while you were away. What'd you do? I didn't re-up. I ran out and I was like, I want to see if this is really the reason I get a full night of sleep every night. And it is

because I have not been sleeping for shit lately because I haven't been eating them. Oh, because you miss me, babe. Nope. Everything doesn't have to relate to you. You've been texting me a lot more. Did I? Normal I have on tour. You're like, hey, what are you doing? I'm like, oh, babe, yeah. I just want to make sure I still have a job.

So, yeah, they are helping me there. So, I did a control because sometimes you have to make sure It isn't just you're sleeping better No it's the gummies Because they Here's the thing Here's the thing about dialed in gummies

First of all Every dispenser I go to They tell me they're the best gummies they have Push Club The one by my house Another one Because here's why They taste better than all the other ones

Yep That's the most important thing right They do taste the best out of all of them They come on They don't come on too strong. Some of those gummies taste like glue. Some of them taste like glue because of the solvents in them. Dowden gummies are solventless.

Clean. The cleanest gummy you can get. Here's another thing about Dowden gummies. What? They're not very expensive, and they have cool artwork. With a QR code, they're all strain-specific. You can see what the strain is. You can get your favorite strain in a gummy. And you know what I like about them the best?

I've noticed. What? They don't all hit at once like other gummies. You kind of slide into it. You know what I mean? Like Pete Rose going into third base. All this weed talk is getting me fucking jacked up. Hell yeah.

So Dialed and Gummies, man. Shout out to Dialing Gummies. Thanks for being our sponsor for the show. By the way, just Nick and I for an hour or so. Yeah, so. And we might call in some friends. Yeah. And we got some voicemails.

We got a lot to do, but. Voce male. Speaking of Pete Rose. Yeah. I listened to Reggie Jackson. Oh, the baseball star. He did an interview with Howard Stern. And it was so fascinating how racist baseball was in the 70s.

It was crazy. I mean, I'm not surprised. He was the first guy to actually really start free agency because the owners owned the teams, owned the players until they were sick of them. So players had no power. Right. So Reggie was, because I think the Mets or the Angels were sick of them. So like, players had no power. So,

Reggie was, because I think the Mets or the Angels were holding him hostage. Athletics, I think. The Athletics. It was the Athletics and then he went to the Angels. Then he went to the Yankees.

Then he went to the Yankees. And that was when, that was the first year Steinbrenner gave him like $25 million or $30 million. Free agency is a relatively new concept in sports.

Yeah, and they said all like the best baseball players, if you're black, they'd get paid way less and they were way better baseball players. Yeah, I mean, that's how America works. That's bullshit. Women didn't make any money playing Major League Baseball back then.

That's how I feel about the jam scene. Go on. Oh, you're going to roast the jam scene? No, I was going to compliment them. Oh, they're pretty good about it. We're really good musicians in the jam scene? No, I was going to combo. They're pretty good about it. We're really good musicians in the jam scene, and we get paid the least. Yeah, we do.

Some indie folk star. Oh, man, don't. Like the Yellowstone backup bands or something? Like a backing band in Yellowstone? Don't go there. I'm just kidding. Don't even go there. You're going there.

You said indie folk song. That's Americana. Oh, go there. I'm just kidding. Don't even go there. You're going there. You said it. I didn't say that. You said indie folk song. That's Americana. Oh, that's true. That's true. Yeah, I mean, they barely know, but it's all about, to be fair, they're hotter. Yeah. And that's what's more important. So that's what I've been working on.

I'm working on her being hot. It is more important than being talented. I mean, all you have to do is look at the entire history of the music industry as soon as TV came around. Have you ever looked at how this is a pretty common trope, like all these famous great singer-songwriters of the 70s, and then MTV came in the 80s, and they went from being not very hot to very hot? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because talent's pretty easy to replace. Yeah, there were some ugly motherfuckers in the 70s just rocking. Just some absolute gremlins out there. I saw a couple of these promos. These white dudes just had the George Costanza with the buck teeth. But the motherfucker was like, ah! Yeah, but he's singing his ass off. And it's like, oh, yeah.

I'm not going to name any names of who's ugly. No. Because they're very talented people. There were some ugly ass motherfuckers. Some ugly motherfuckers. I mean, they wouldn't even be in someone's backing band today like they wouldn't like nashville but can you please move back to arkansas wherever you're from you know what i mean get out of here this is nashville this is the new la white people la nashville's funny you like it there i do i've had i had a situation there

kind of rubbed me the wrong way what um i I don't know. Just with some of the people. There's a little bit of an LA... It's got a little bit of an LA vibe. I just don't like the snooty, fucking competitive, dorky, passive-aggressive shit. If you're going to be competitive, fucking own it. Yeah. Own it. Be like, I'm better than everybody. I would love to see that.

I'm trying to get... I was talking to trivia, the bar owners at Yacht Club, and I'm trying to get an article in Westward about my trivia that night. I think I'm going to do a character talking to trivia The bar owners at Yacht Club And they're gonna I'm trying to get an article In Westward about my trivia That night Yeah And I think I'm gonna do a character The whole interview I do it

Where it's like Almost like a world wrestling Like I'm the best trivia Like it's such a corny thing To be talking about You know what I mean Yeah So just like

Be like I'm the You know what I mean Fuck geeks who drink You know what I mean I had a fucking weird experience Of that where I was like Kinda I was being a sad boy

You know Low dopamine Like 14th show in a row Right And I'm like looking at myself In the mirror I was like kind of I was being a sad boy low dopamine like 14th show in a row and I'm like looking at myself in the mirror I'm like I am fucking good I am good at this I am really good at this and I overlooked in the mirror and there's like some random fan

behind me in the bathroom I didn't even know that I didn't know the doors were open so I thought we just still had the venue I'm like I'm fucking good at this. This is low dopamine. This is low dopamine. I'm better than this. I'm a fucking great entertainer.

I'm like pumping myself up like Rocky up in here. And then I see a fan on the mic. This guy's fucking crazy. I'm like, I'm so sorry, dude. I didn't mean to. I mean, I'm not like this. I'm very tired and hungover. Can I get you a drink? Sometimes you just got to pump yourself up.

Do you have any mushrooms? That's what I kind of want to call Bayless. Let's get Bayless up here. Bay-bay. Fashe-she. Let's get Brennan Bayless. If you don't know, he's the lead singer slash backup guitarist in Humphreys McGee. Backup guitarist.

Oh, he'll kill you. No, he loves it. He'll fucking kill you. No, Bayless can take it. Hop on. Hop on the Zoom. Hop on, brother. Yeah. I want to talk about this because he really

does the post-tour. He understands the post-tour blues. I just made a bunch of money. Doing something people only dream of. Doing the cool cities on the west coast. And I'm the saddest I've ever been. I closed on a very nice house in a great market. Shut the fuck up, Nick.

Things are going great. Getting paid a bunch of money to emcee some weird music thing this month. Then I'm going to New Orleans for free. A whole day dedicated to me. Nick, shut the fuck up. Let me just marinate in shit for a second, okay? You told me to be positive today. Oh, you're right.

Yeah. Let's call Bayless. A lot more organic that way. Of course, his phone's on silent. What the fuck? He hates... Oh, here we go. We just said we're calling him. Hello? Hey. Hey, Bayless.

What's up, buddy? How we doing? Good. Will you hold this phone on the mic so we can talk to Bayless for a second? Yep. Bayless, how do you deal with post-tour depression? Oh, I just get depressed. What on hell? The what?

I just... depressed Hold on, Al, the what? I just I embrace it I take it out on my poor family Oh, man That's what I'm trying not to do But my poor family is my manager And he wants to quit They're not poor, he just got back from tour

Well, yeah He's getting paid, though. Oh, you're right. You're right. My family's trapped. What'd you do? Give me an experience of what happened. Oh, well, I mean, I got home two weeks ago and then maybe like

three or four days after that, I just got as sick as I've been since years. What happened? I think I got one of everything. Like Mr. Burns and that one Simpsons. Remember that? Did you feel it on tour? Did you like finally get to the house

and then it was just, you just like broke down? I think my body was just like, okay, dude, it's been nine weeks. Stop. It just made me stop. And then the first night I started to feel sick. I think my body was just like, okay, dude, it's been nine weeks. Stop. It just made me stop.

And then the first night I started to feel sick. My oldest kid puked in the middle of the night three times. And then the second time was in my eyeball. What? Gross. Because I was trying to help him. Right. So then I got the flu.

What the fuck? That has to be connected in some way, that you getting the flu and your kid barfing into your eyeball. Yeah, you would think. So I don't know. The last couple of days I started to feel better, but about a week ago, man, I was worth a terrible arm. What do you do? Do you chill out?

How do you chill out? You're a dad, so you have to still be a dad Because you haven't been a dad for nine weeks Yeah, I mean I would get up to help get the kids to school And then between nine and three I would just like I tried to sleep Jesus

Took a couple days off drinking Didn't feel any better Yeah That never works Was Andy pissed that you're like, you finally got home and then you're just

like a piece of shit? No, honestly, she was like, she kept, every time I tried to do something, she was like,

go, go rest. Like you, you know, and I'd say I felt guilty about it. She was like, shut the fuck up.

You just worked for nine, eight weeks, bro. So go, don't do anything. She's like, if I could up. You just worked for eight weeks in a row, so don't do anything. She's like, if I could sit in bed and watch TV and not do anything, believe me, I would.

Yeah, that seemed like the longest tour. I haven't seen you guys hit a tour like that hard for a while. We haven't since way before COVID. Fuck. How did it feel? Was it hard to adjust? Yeah, it was weird, you know,

just being gone that much and then trying, you know, because we fly home every Monday, Tuesday, so it's like trying to flip schedules back and forth and we're going out west with time changes. It was weird because then finally by the time I was able to like wind down I was so used to being gone

That I would like come home And I'd start packing and I was like Wait a minute I don't have to go anywhere What are you like what are you packing Just like a t-shirt I'm going on vacation by myself You know I pack what I pack every time It's four black t-shirts

Four boxers four socks Sick fuck Do you have one pair of jeans I pack what I pack every time. It's four black t-shirts, four boxers, four socks. Right. Sick fuck. Do you have one pair of jeans? I've got a couple. I've got one on the truck. So I have a bag of shoes and jeans that I can show up in my shits there. Nice.

Yeah. Yeah. That's good. And your framed picture of Ryan Sandberg. Oh, yeah, but that's got Velcro on the back. Okay, cool. You just That's good. And your framed picture of Ryan Sandberg. Oh yeah. But that's got Velcro on the back. Okay, cool. You just stick it there.

Yeah. And just in case he fucks up in the bunk. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of the Cubs, what are you, how are you feeling about this year?

Uh, dude, today's like the best day because opening day is tomorrow. Oh yeah. Are you going today? Uh, I might, I might, I'm waiting to see how the weather plays out. Are you going? I might.

I'm waiting to see how the weather plays out. Is it bad? But right now, we're undefeated. Let's go. I'll clap to that. Go Cubs! I'm not sure if I can say that tomorrow. Today is the best day of the baseball season. I love it. Who are they opening against?

Milwaukee Brewers. They're solid, right? They have been. They have a chip on their Ooh, they're solid, right? They have been. Yeah, they are. You know, they have a chip on their shoulder because they're Milwaukee. Yeah. Yeah. True. What do I got to do, Bay? Bay, what do I got to do? Should I go to some baseball?

Should I distract myself from music? Or do I get back to work? I get back to work, man. Yeah. Yeah. You ain't got no kids. No, you don't. And then, I get back to work, man. Yeah. You ain't got no kids. No, you don't. And then go outside, get some sunlight. Get some sweat. Sweat some shit out.

Yeah, you're right. We'll go to some Rockies games. I'm down. They don't come until... They start on the road. They start next Thursday. Oh, fuck. When are you going out again? You got a couple weeks off. I saw something you're doing with Hartzwig or something. I'm doing a solo gig next week in St. Louis. Where?

City Winery. They have a City Winery in St. Louis? It just opened, yeah. Damn, you're hot on that fucking City Winery tip. You're on all those. They like me. I sell a fair amount of tickets on Mondays and Tuesdays.

I don't do them on weekends. I think they like that. Honestly, I sell a fair amount of tickets on Mondays and Tuesdays. I don't do them on weekends. Right. So I think they like that. And honestly, I wasn't really going to do this one, but it's a Tuesday, and my wife was going to come with me. So I was like, man, I can have hotel sex. Oh, my God. Let's go.

We're going four for four this week, baby. Four for four. You might have a fourth kid by the end of this St. Louis trip. Question about vasectomy. Should I get snipped? You know, that's a good question. I never did. I had the meeting

and went. Did I even tell you this story? No. So you have to go for like a screening, right? Right. And it was a beautiful day and I was like, fuck it, I'll just walk. And it was like a 30-minute walk. And by the time I got there, I had sweaty balls. I wasn't thinking. I just assumed it was going to be a dude.

And this beautiful woman doctor walks in. And my heart dropped. I was like, oh, man. Here we go. Stop the package so she's like drop them she's like cupping cupping me and like fingering me and figuring things out and i can i know it's you know and she's she's like so what do you do oh no what's the name of the band and i'm just sitting there this this is terrible. Mo! I'm in the disco biz.

Yeah, exactly. My name is Mark Brownstein. So then I had it scheduled to be in December. This is right before COVID. And somebody mentioned to me that I should consider waiting until January 1st because my deductible would flip over. Ooh. So then I canceled it and then COVID hit. Damn.

Oh. I just haven't had the balls to go back. I know. Literally. Actually, you do literally. He wants the balls to go back. Yeah, yeah. You literally have them. That's kind of scary.

I'm thinking about it, but can't you just reverse it, or is it really painful? Yeah, I don't want to say who it is, but we have a mutual friend who got divorced, got snipped, then fell in love, got unsnipped, had a kid, and now he's going to get snipped again.

Wow. What? And so, yeah. It's like the Olive Garden. It's like the Olive Garden. It's like the Olive Garden. An unlimited bread stick. I think it's like way more expensive to get it reversed, though. Is it? Just so I know you're a cheap ass. How much is it? I think it's more painful

because you gotta go through scar tissue. Yes. Oh, fuck. But to get it, my friend got it, just got one last last year and he said it was like with his insurance, it was $150. Okay, so what about... Okay, so all you have to do is pay the deductible or you have to pay the deductible and more? No, deductible. That's it.

I mean, it depends. There's intrusive. Now they have like laser surgery where there's small incision. Yeah, there's all kinds of different ways. I've got a couple friends that have terrible horror stories that have kind of scared me away. Like got like bled out? Yeah. Oh my God.

I'm choosing abstinence. I'm not married. I'm just going to pull out. Yeah. Yeah, sure you are, Andy. I choose pulling out. You could choose a condom once in a while. Everyone dogs condoms, man.

I think they buy you a little extra time. I couldn't agree with you more, Brennan Bayless. Yeah, I should. Okay. Hold on. Hey, Bo, will you buy me some condoms? Let's get Andy some condoms for... Is there like a Jewish holiday coming up? Yeah, Passover. There you go. I'll get you some condoms. I'm passing over a baby.

I assume we don't need to get magnums. No, no. You can get the regular old small dick ones. No, regular dick. Frasco size. Bayless, I appreciate you. I know you have a busy life being a dad. Are you writing any more music? What's going on?

Oh, we're live. Great. We're live. I actually was working on a tune this morning What is it about? Oh, right now it's just instrumental I put a drum track down and two guitar parts So nothing

Right now it's going to be about a vasectomy I love it Can I help write the lyrics? We're splitting apart It's a breakup song I'm empty, I'm empty Something's missing I'm shooting a blank.

There we go. Shooting blanks again. Hey, I got one question about the last tour. When you were playing that Jeff Austin song, were people realizing it was about Jeff Austin? We won't say which one it is. I don't know, man. I feel like I might have told you In some interview in the past

No I don't think you have We just talked about it Okay good I don't want to be like Hey this next song is about That's corny I don't know I don't really

Talk about that stuff Unless It's with my friends. Because he's a fucking poet, Nick. He's a poet. And he's a good friend. I have known Bayless longer than you have. He doesn't like to keep anything public, okay?

He wants the conversations we have between each other. You're talking to yourself right now. I'm just letting you know this, Nick. You're talking to yourself right now. This is how good a friend Bayless is. I could tell him anything. He won't tell a fucking word, okay? Why are you yelling at me?

He's evolved. Why am I being yelled at right now? I have never told one of your weird secrets. Well, I just love you. I'm too embarrassed to tell people what I know about you. I know Nick knows this, but Nick went to a rival high school of mine. What?

In Indiana? We went to competing Catholic rival high schools. Bishop Dwanger. Now everybody knows where I went to high school. Who passed out more guilt? Well, he's older than me. He's much older than me, so we weren't in high school at the same time.

Bayless, are you that old where they used to slap rulers on your wrist and shit? Yeah, but that was grade school What were the You used to get your ass kicked in grade school Just a slap A ruler slap Sister Agnesine We had sister Therese at mine

But back to my earlier point Nick went to Fort Wayne Dwanger And when his football team played my football team We in our stands we used to chant Suck Wayne Dwanger, and when his football team played my football team, we, in our stands, we used to chant suck my Dwanger. A little cute little Christian joke. I love that. Catholic joke. Well, I guess they're Christians,

but they're slightly better. My final question before we let you go is do you think the aliens are going to attack planet Earth? And where? That's a good Do you think the aliens are going to attack planet Earth? And where? I think... Ooh.

That's a good question. I think that they're probably looking and they're like, these guys are fucking idiots. Let's back and watch them destroy themselves. Yeah, they're just going to blow each other up. I think it's like when a dad's driving through a bad neighborhood and he locks all the car doors and tries to get out of there as quick as he can. That's what aliens are doing when they drive by Earth.

Or maybe they're at the bottom of the when they drive by Earth. Or maybe they're at the bottom of the ocean, just already there. Yeah, maybe they're just waiting. Yeah. But what are they waiting for? I wouldn't want any part of this. If I flew by, if I was an alien, I'd be like, dude, this is gross. They could be spring cheese incident.

We don't know that they're not aliens. Yeah, Jason Hong kind of looks like a fucking alien Okay Alright we'll let you go We don't want you in this tea We love you I just want to say thank you

I'll FaceTime you later tonight So we can have a powwow Suck my dwinger Larry buddy Brennan Bayless I fucking love him Why were you yelling at me there? I didn't understand that

I was just hyping my friend up That was you projecting I was projecting I was projecting myself because I'm a yenta I don't tell you shit Yeah you're starting to start to open up I'll tell you things here and there I don't repeat it to nobody.

Well, that's a double negative, so that means you do repeat it to somebody, doesn't it? Grammar cop over here. That was fun. I love Brendan. I love him, too. We've known each other for a long time, me and Brendan, now. Really? I think the first time I sat in with them was in 2011.

Really? Yeah, in Detroit, at the Fillmore Theater. Damn, you're that old? Yeah. I'm old. In Detroit Theater? I'm so old that I'm slightly older than you. The Fillmore.

You know that theater? Oh, yeah. That's a great room. My old, old band was opening for them. Cosby Sweater? No, before that. What band?

They were called the Twin Cats. Twin Cats? We were like a regional jam band thing. Jam band names are so weird. So there's a reason they were called that. They were twins.

It was two guys that were twins. Their last name was Catron. So it wasn't like that. Oh, that's good. It wasn't like too goofy. But jam band names are... Can you guys think for more than 10 seconds before you name your next band?

Speaking of Fort Wayne, we got to give a shout out to... Speaking of Fort Wayne? Yeah. We got to give a shout out to our world-saving athletes, the D3. Oh, yes. They made it to the championship of the D3, which is unbelievable.

Which was in Fort Wayne. Which was in Fort Wayne this year. Our boys fucking almost won. They said they got fucked. I'm sure. I believe them because that team, I was like reading up on it, you know, because I'm a nerd. They look good. They had this guard that was like killing it.

Yeah. So congratulations to the world-saving athletes. Senior year. This look good. They had a really... They had this guard that was killing it. So congratulations to the world-saving athletes. Senior year. This is it. That was their last hurrah that they made to the championship. You should be proud of yourself. I think one of them got a job working for the Cavaliers in sales. Yeah, he's really smart. So if you need Cavs tickets... So that means

our world-saving athletes are graduating. So we are looking for more world-saving athletes. So if you're in college, what contest? Like send him a video saying why you should be the next world-saving athletes. So if you're in college, what contest? Like send him videos saying why you should be the next world-saving athlete or a voicemail or something. I'm down. I'm not going to go.

We can't go around finding people. No. We don't have time for that. We don't have time for that. Or if you have a friend that deserves it. Yeah, if you know a homie who's a really good athlete, fuck it. We'll even sponsor intramural old people playing sports. Well, let's not go too far.

We'll even do women's sports. Shut the fuck up. Fuck's not go too far. We'll even do women's sports. Shut the fuck up. No, the women's final four has been crazy. Oh yeah, dude. And that, that girl from LSU.

Oh, uh, holy shit. She has like Iowa. No LSU. The tall one. Who's just like, she's got like 80 like last four points.

Triple double. Yeah. No, that's Caitlin Clark from Iowa. Well, who's the girl from LSU? I don't know. I only know about her

and the girl from Louisville. She got chippy with the girl from Texas in the line. That was funny. Did you see that? It's way more interesting than the men's

March Madness this year. Well, it's a different kind of interesting. So the men's interesting because it's just been like a bloodbath. Yeah. Parody.

Because of all the NIL stuff, right? Yeah. And the women's has more stars. It's like some more clear-cut stars. I think WNBA is going to be fucking fire in the next five years. There's a lot of great

basketball players. It just keeps getting better. Shout out to the ladies out there fucking balling. To be fair, they do have next. But to be fair, they do have next. Yeah. You know what I was thinking about? Speaking of fan bases, then we'll talk about the volume. Actually, let's do that first. Let's do volume.

Volume.com, our presenter. My shoulder hurts from holding that phone up for so long. Volume.com, everyone. If you want to watch our video of us having technical difficulties and having bailouts on the phone and whatnot, head to volume.com. The podcast is on volume.com. But also, volume is a live streaming programming, a network.com. The podcast is on volume.com. But also,

volume is a live streaming programming. A network. And this is what they do. You want to talk to them a little bit about this? And I'll tell them about the shows. Because they're doing a whole week of Jazz Fest shows. Well, first of all, there's our Jazz Fest show. A day of Andy Frasco.

A day of Andy Frasco. A full day dedicated to Andy Frasco But guess what that means That means you're doing the podcast live We're doing the podcast live in NOLA At Republic On April 28th April 28th

And you're doing a show And are you doing the dance party too? No I lied about that We're not doing the dance party anymore But we're doing the podcast and you're doing the Andy Fresco show We're going to have some crazy It's going to be very New Orleans centered

Which means it's going to be good We have our first guest Anders Osborn is going to be interviewed on it And Jen Hartswick Is going to be there We have Kanika Moore And we might get Mahali. Z Mahali?

Z Mahali. The artist formerly known as Zion Lyon. Okay. He's a reggae star now. You better watch making for those reggae bands. I saw your Red Rocks poster. Yes, we are playing Red Rocks. With 18 reggae bands.

With 18 reggae bands Zion Cal State I'm going to wear a Cal State Fullerton t-shirt to your show, I got to So, guys, check out Volume.com slash Nala Funk Just get on there You'll see the whole lineup

Let me tell them about some other shows they're doing They're doing a Daniel Donato show That'll be live streamed. Also live streamed. Cosmic Nala. What's that? That's what he's called. Oh, okay.

He just puts cosmic over everything. Oh, that's right. That's his bag. That's his thing, yeah. Cosmic Country. Cosmic Country. Cosmic Nala. Cosmic Rufio.

That's the 28th. Ours is the 29th. Your thing's the 29th. But anyway, just buy them all and you'll be fine. Here's some of the people on the Daniel Donato stuff. Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Also, Kanika Moore. I mean, there's just, you know. Yeah. Preservation. If you have Preservation Hall

Jazz Band, it's going to be a good show. Yep. Also, you can be a creator. Yes. On there. Volume.com. Backslash become a creator. There's a Voodoo Dad. Steve Kimmock. George Porter Jr. I mean, there.com. Mm-hmm. Backslash become a creator. There's a voodoo dad. Steve Kimmock, George Porter Jr.

I mean, there's just a ton of stuff. March 4th, too. This one looks good. Dead Feet. Anders Osborn. Fred Tackett and Kenny from Little Feet. Jackie Green. Oh, man.

Jason Crosby. Chad Cromwell. You love Little Feet. I fucking love Little Feet. And here's my favorite one. This happens a lot. Almost every year on their stream this year. It's the Earth, Wind, and Fire trivia. This one looks dope. Just look at the musicians on it. O And here's my favorite one. This happens a lot almost every year on their stream this year. It's the Earth, Wind & Fire tribute.

This one looks dope. Just look at the musicians on it. O'Teal is the bass player. Arguably the greatest bass player on Earth. Krasno. I saw him this weekend. I went to his show.

We talked for a minute. I was pretty... I don't feel he is. I heard it was dope. I had mushrooms and I hugged him. You hugged him? It was so fucking weird. What?

You don't even give me a thing to say like that. I don't even know him that well. Wait a second. I ate some of that goo. No, backtrack. Before we talk about this show. Do not cut this out. I want him to hear this. I'm sorry I hugged you. You don't even give me intimacy like that. I don't even know him that well. Wait a second. I ate some of that goo. No, backtrack. Before we talk about this show. Do not cut this out.

I want him to hear this. I'm sorry. You don't even give me that type of intimacy. And I'm your best friend. I'm number three best friend. You ever see that meme where it's like, that was not my best performance in a social situation? It wasn't that bad.

He's a nice guy. So he probably didn't mind it. He's on that. Nigel Hall, Dumpster Funkhorns, Nate Worth, Skarik. You know, that's also a Republic. I like this one too. Oh, you already said the Voodoo Dead one. Yeah, Voodoo Dead. Steve Kimmock. So, if you want to watch any of these live streams,

go to volume.com slash NOLA Funk. But also buy tickets to our NOLA Funk. Oh, that's why I got confused. You said NOLA and said NOLA earlier. Also buy tickets to our NOLA show. I know there's a lot of things going on, but fucking ours is going to be awesome too. After party, right? You're playing Saturday. Yeah. We're going to do the live

podcast and then we have... Your band. My band's playing. You're doing like a... With a bunch of New Orleans sit-ins and... Yeah, it's going to be wild. It'll be wild. I'll be there. Yeah. Yeah, you are. Oh yeah, so if you guys need a saxophone at one of your after party gigs... This isn't a way to propaganda your saxophone. Only everyone else but me. Just jokes

here. Only everyone else but me. You jokes here. Only everyone else but me. I'm not a musician on this podcast. Just straight jokes. Listen, Nick. Everyone can promote something on here except for you. And I should also talk about we are... I am the MC of the Music Conference. Master of Ceremony.

For the Relics Music Conference in Nashville. So I will be there for a week getting down. I'm going to be fucking... That's like a private thing, right? I'm going there for a week getting down. I'm going to be fucking... That's like a private thing, right? I'm going to pick these guys' brains. I'm going to make sure. I'm going to contest them and let them see if they really know about the music.

It's all the headwinks, top agents, top record labels, top magazines. Your manager. My manager is going to be there as well. And I'm going to rip all... I'm going to make sure they have concrete details of why the music industry is going where it's at and how we're going to fix it because I'm sick and tired

of how this music industry is running. At first I was like, Andy, now that you're talking about it like this, I'm excited for you to do this. Oh, I'm ready to start. I'm ready to hear what they have to say and see how they're going to fix this bullshit. I kind of want to go and watch. I'm excited also about how Brian is extremely nervous about you doing this.

He has to be the most nervous he's ever been. And I love that he's on it. And I already emailed Relics. I'm like, let me introduce Brian. I want to introduce Brian. What do you mean? Like bring him out? Like I'm bringing him out. Oh, he's doing like... And I'm going to be the moderator when he's talking. Is he doing like a thing? Like a speech? A Todd Ted talk?

No, it's like a Ted talk where like a moderator... They have a moderator. Panels. And then he's one of the panelists. But I want to be the pre-moderator. Pre-com. Pre-com. Pre-commerator. I'm going to get him.

I'm going to get him so good. So go to the Broken Bowl in Nashville if you want to hear. It's actually a really... Oh, it's public. I've done it five years in a row. Oh, I didn't realize it was like a public event people could go to. Yeah, this is the first time I'm emceeing, but I'm normally just a house band for it. Oh. But it's really informative.

They have like, Don, everyone's there, like the head of Rolling Stones. It's just a lot of, it's like you learn a lot. If you're like an upcoming band and you really want to know how these guys are thinking about growing the music industry in the next couple years, you should go. Or recovering it.

Back to where it was five years ago. Exactly. So that's what I'm doing too. Brian's so nervous about it. He is a little nervous. I was saying one thing. I watched this show, Swarm. It's a show, not a movie? It's a show.

By the way, Donald Glover is a fucking talent. He's like Eddie Murphy or something. Just like a fucking three-point threat. I think he's got more than that. He's the first black man to ever win Best Director of Comedy. I love it. Wild. He wrote for 30 Rock.

Yeah. He was on Community. Andy's hilarious on it. One of the funniest shows ever. He has Childish Gambino. He created Atlanta, which is one of the best shows on TV right now. And he is in charge of that, it seems like. Well, Swarm is great, too.

That's why I was like... There's one more thing about him. He's also really good at stand-up comedy. He has a stand-up special. It's pretty good. I mean, considering he does a hundred million other things. Yeah. Shout out to Glover. Dude. But I was thinking about this. Because Swarm is about... It's basically about the Beyonce

fan base, but they changed the name. I guess one of her fans did some crazy shit. But I was thinking, it's a horror. So one of the fans, if anyone talks shit about Beyonce

or they call her Nija on the show, she kills them. So she finds all these people on Twitter are talking shit and she finds their house and kills like, what's your favorite artist?

And like kills them. So I was thinking like, who's intense? What fan base is this intense? Taylor Swift. No, no, in our scene. Oh, in our scene.

I was like, that's easy. But they're really, the thing about the Swifties is they're pretty positive about her and stuff. Anyway, our scene. I was thinking Bluegrass. I was thinking Bluegrass, too, because they are so...

I was thinking, like, Billy String fans are, like, fucking... Yeah, because Bluegrass fans... Fish, too. Yeah, but they're not as, like, traditionalist as Bluegrass fans. They're, like, very gatekeep-y and weird about Bluegrass. You know what I mean? Like, it has to be a certain way. Yeah.

And they freak out if it's not a certain way. I think with Fish... Also, Fish, like... The thing about Fish fans is they make fun of Phish a lot. You don't see Bluegrass fans making memes about their own band. So who's, like, completely obsessed? I think it's the Billy fans. It's got to be some Bluegrass fan.

Like, they would kill for Billy. Like, what if I was, like, talking shit about Billy? Like, fuck Billy. I would probably, like, not put your address online. I would probably go into hiding if I did that. Yeah, you're right. Like, the Bluegrass fans are just clearly having trouble processing what's going on

because they like Bluegrass. I've had death threats because of this Mary McCheese bullshit. Have I been telling you about this? I haven't heard one thing about this. Bro, this whole tour I've been getting death threats from the leftover salmon and the Bluegrass, Jamgrass community about me stealing

McCheese. Here's me looking at the bluegrass community. Like, come on. Since 2006, I haven't liked bluegrass, okay? You don't even have drums. Anyway. Don't make fun of the music. I'm talking about the fanbase. The fanbase is fucking intense. Yeah, because of the music. They're low-key mean people. Yes.

Yes. I saw this one guy in the drug band group like, Andy Baskin's a word for me, and I looked it up. He's like in some local band. Yeah, in Denver. I's like, Andy Baskin's a word for him. And I looked it up. He's in some local band. Yeah, in Denver. I was like, my gigs start after yours end, dude. Yeah. But anyway, this Mayor McCheese thing, I need background on it because I don't even know.

So me and Vince are just joking around like, hey, let's get the Mayor McCheese in the news. But what is that? It's just their fan, like, so he left it at my house when we did the mushrooms with, you know, so I just had it at my house. They never asked for it.

It's like a leftover salmon thing? Yeah, it's like a leftover salmon, like a, I don't know, it's a McDonald's, it looks like a McDonald's fucking character. That band's actually good, by the way. I love leftover salmon. I mean, I'm not dogging on the bands. Some of the fan base, some of these, like, even some of, like, the fan base is even someone like the K.O. fan base is a little intense. Really? Yeah, they're talking shit too.

What are they mad about? Well, it's more of I think they're taking the side of my... Beep, beep. But the leftover salmon people have been harassing me on the message. One guy said he was like, called me like a kike.

Send it to me, bitches. I blocked a couple of these guys because it was like getting out of like, called me like a kike. Send it to me, bitches. I blocked a couple of these guys because it was like getting out of hand. He called you a kike? He called me a kike. He said he wants to kill me with a gun. Yeah, that's on brand for bluegrass people if you know what I mean. Fuck that guy. I'm mad now. A few of them were like just blowing up

my fucking feed like, you're a piece of shit. You stole the mayor. I'm like, he gave it to you. You gave it to me. It's the internet. Relax. Death threats? Any kind of threat you have for Andy, just send it to me first. I'll respond for you. Because I've been

chipping away a lot. Chip away though. If they're calling you that. But like the problem is when they talk all this shit and then I finally go after them with like, you know, because I'm good at shit talking too. You are good at, you're very good at comebacks. I'm good at comebacks.

The problem is you're more successful than all of them. I know. But enough of like, I mean, I haven't even seen this with like the fish fans with the goose

and like, those are my friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I've been talking shit to those guys backing up the goose. But that's a little more friendly than the bluegrass one.

It's like, the bluegrass is like malicious. Yes. The fish, the jam being one is like a little, they still go to each other's shows. It's a little more of just a fungrass one. The bluegrass is like malicious. Yes. The jam band one is like a little, they still go to each other's shows. It's a little more of just a fun repartee. Yeah.

And like sometimes it goes too far, but like the bluegrass people are like on a war path. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. They like belittle my set. And like when they comment about it. Right.

Because I beat Billy Strings in that, in that jam band music thing. That's stupid like, yeah. Let's go Frasco fans. In your face, William. In your face, William. He's cool, though.

I like him. Yeah, well, it's cool. I mean, Billy's cool. I'm not talking shit. It's the fan bases. I don't like the music, though. But the bands are cool. The music is attracting to.

Right, so there must be something there. Why are they so angry? You didn't hear about this thing about the Twiddle fan? Maybe it's because they didn't get the chance to storm the Capitol on January 6th. Oh, Jesus Christ. Chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill. Anyway, what were you going into? Was I getting death threats?

Because I beat Billy Strings. I got a death threat that said, like, hey, kike, I will hang you up to dry. And then he deleted it. And he said, and then he posted something. Oh, I wish you saw what I just wrote. I'm like, I just literally just saw it. I'm never off my phone, bitch. Yeah, I'm never off my phone, bitch.

Yeah, exactly. You talked shit to the wrong... Yeah, I'm fired up today. Well, just don't send any death threats Like death threats like really Over just have fun on social media I'm trying to make social media less fucking boring Than it's been

It's been so fucking boring social media God you people Vince is in on the bit guys He's more fun than all of you combined Yeah We took mushrooms at my house Just to look at a monkfish tripping. That sounds awesome.

It was awesome. Obtain a personality. Acquire a hobby. Stop taking things so fucking seriously. Have sex. Yeah. Have more than just missionary sex. Or just have sex at all.

These guys don't get laid. Listen to some, instead of listening to like, you know, and while you're having sex, listen to some D'Angelo. Come big. For God's sake, do not delete this. I need this. I need me saying this in the world. Yeah, put on some D'Angelo, but you might not like it.

All right. All right. We're done. We're not done. We have like 10 minutes left. Yeah, we got like 20 more minutes. Anyway, this is Beyonce's show. Well, that's what I'm talking about. It's about fans who take,

who take like, like if you don't like their band, they want to kill you. Here's the thing. I have a friend from home that's like, you get over it. My friend, you know, I go out on a limb sometimes online.

He's like, I feel like, he's like, you're going to get killed someday by some crazy person. I'm like, I feel like that too. Like, I feel like I'd be honored if that happened to me. If I said something so powerful that someone murdered me, I think that would be an honor for me,

but don't do it. Yeah. I don't want to die. I don't want to be like a John Lennon gets shot in the street. No. Vulnerable. Yeah. That's fucked up.

Yeah. Over music. Come on guys. It's just music. It's, you know, I've been hearing too, going to sports.

Some of these Laker fans are like, giving Malik Beasley death threats because he's 30% on three-pointers. That's what I'm fucking saying. People are taking this shit too crazy. It's called a streak, dude. He might go back up to 40. You know what I mean? No, but it's all this shit, dude.

Everyone needs something to do. It's projection, man. They're all a bunch of projectors. It's like when the substitute wheels it in. I blame reality television. Yeah, definitely part of it. It's bullshit. Projectors, man. Let's just have fun, man. What the fuck?

Why are we taking everything so goddamn seriously? Everybody takes everything so seriously. Ugh, it's sad. All you guys do is bitch online. Life is already serious. Life is hard. It's fucking hard. We're all beat up from life.

Can we just have a little bit of fun? Can we just enjoy some shit, talk a little shit, blah, blah, blah. No death threats. Death threats? Suck it. You're using that word in 2023 and you think you're in the right? Like, that's your angle? You open with that word on a death threat.

Yeah. Oh, I'll take this guy seriously. Like, no. It's like, come on. What's going on with you, man? It's scary. Betterhelp.com, bro. Like, hop on.

Come on. Log in. I'm trying to attack your band. Having fun. I'll attack the band. I'm just kidding. Speaking of that, let's go to voicemails. I'm heated. I like it.

Fucking A. We got three ones. What? Normal fan? Normal fan is the guy that sat by your family at the show. It's actually a good segue into something. By the way, what's the number for the voicemail? Is this too intense, Bo?

Alright. You think the Bluegrass fans are going to be pissed? Who cares? Yeah, we'll blow some bleeps in there. Yeah. That just heats me up. We're all having fun, and you're just trying to belittle the fun.

I can't believe I beat Billy Strings in a voting contest, and I'm stoked about it. Everyone's like, fucking belittling. Yeah, but sometimes the less famous band wins that just contest, and I'm stoked about it. Everyone's like fucking belittling me. Yeah, but sometimes the less famous man wins that just because people... It's a thing. Thunderdog. It's fun. It's fun.

Okay, if you're mad... Stop taking it so seriously. Step back and look at yourself and think, I'm mad at a Facebook poll. Not even an Instagram poll. Not even a TikTok poll. First of all, you're on Facebook. Yeah, right.

All right. Here's the number, though. Right. 720-996-2403. Yes, if you want to send us voicemails, I know we've been talking a little bit of shit. If you want to protect...

So mad. I love being mad. I do, too. I never feel anything. It's so funny. Send us some voicemails. We'll answer your questions. Yeah, get heated.

Get heated. Yeah, yeah. We'll play your death threat. We'll play your fucking death threat. Yeah, send me death threats through the voicemail and we'll show you what type of fucking asshole you are. You want to bring out the serial killer in me, do it.

What's up, Andy? This is Chris Mosey. Got to see you at the Troubadour. Fucking awesome show. Stupid fun time. Stupid fun time. Hey, we got a chance to sit next to your family up on the terrace there. Really nice people. Seem really normal. What the fuck

happened to you? First of all, they're not. They're not normal. No family is normal. My sister believes in lizard people. My mom is a neurotic, but she has the biggest heart, and my dad's a workaholic, so that's how that's what happened. All those things combined.

Like Captain Planet turned into me. With these powers combined. I love my mom. She cried like five times. It was so sweet. There's no such thing as a normal family. No. Well, shout out.

Thank you for... But what happened to him was... I'm just kidding. In high school... That was a great show. That was a really monumental show. Did you cry? I did.

I cried. On stage? Yeah, because I played some days for my show. That was a really monumental show. Did you cry? I did. I cried. On stage? Yeah, because I played some days for my mom. She's dealing with leukemia. And I didn't want to say she was dealing with leukemia when she was there. So I'm like, she's sick right now. And I'm going to play this song every day until she gets better. Oh, that's cool.

She started crying. That's a good cry. And I pointed at her like fucking Cuba Gooding Jr. What a hero moment. You're such a hero. You're definitely her favorite kid. I hope so. I mean, not even close.

First of all, you're the only boy. That's mommy's special baby. You're the youngest. Yeah, I don't fucking... You write songs about her. You don't think that she's made by the lizard. I do write a lot of songs about her. And she's not a lizard person.

Like my sister thinks. My sister didn't even show up to my shows in San Diego. Weird. Did they text you or anything? No, they like bailed last second. One of them didn't even text me. She just didn't even show up to my shows in San Diego. Weird. Did they text you or anything? No, they like bailed last second. One of them didn't even text me. She just didn't even show up. If I had a famous, super hot, famous brother,

I'd probably keep in contact with him. I'm like, whatever. My family's so broken. I love my mom and dad. They helped me out, helped me with this house. They did? Yeah, they gave me a little... Your family's not broken at all, actually.

No, they gave me a little money to help me with this house. They did? Your family's not broken at all, actually. They gave me a little money to help me buy out Scott. Yeah, you saved him a lot of money. Think all that money you saved him on college. What's the next one? Here's Shorgasm. Andy Westby also came out to my San Diego show. My family came out.

He's part of your family. He's part of my family. My sister's so selfish He's the brother you never had Because I always fly out to all these family events You too I go to all of them when I'm fucking tired You might be the most dedicated child somehow

I try to glue the family together Even like all the family members in my family That don't talk to each other But they still come to my shows I always try to connect You are kind of like that actually Let's hear Andy Westby He showed up in San Diego family members in my family that don't talk to each other, but they still come to my shows. I always try to connect. You are kind of like that, actually. Let's hear Andy Westby. He showed up in San Diego.

Also known as Shoregasm. He's one of our besties. Hey, guys. It's your buddy, Clark W.W. Bridgewater. He talks so funny. Some might know me as Shoregasm. This one's for all the ladies with style and grace. My question for Nick is

how hard is it to work with Andy on a daily basis? Knowing that he's kind of getting a little popular, but still kind of our favorite one-trick pony. Fuck you. Two tricks.

I got two tricks. Yeah. And what's your favorite kind of candy bar, guys? Ooh. Do you want to do candy bars first? Let's fuck some shit up. He sent that on Friday. I love Wesby.

Go green. Go green. Oh, yeah. They lost. I watched the game with him. The Michigan State guy? Yeah. He's from Michigan State.

I hate that team. It's just, you know, I'm from Indiana. We're born to not like them. It's fine working with Andy every day. And him getting more famous is good for me. So I want that to happen. Daddy makes more money. Daddy makes more money when his little neph makes more money.

When nephew Andy makes more money. Nephew Andy. You're my nephew and I'm your dad. Yeah. No, Andy's great to work with. By the way, I bought 10 bucks. He never does anything stupid. He's never drunk. He's very attentive when you're in the room with him.

Even when I'm drunk, I'm attentive. You're more attentive when you're drunk. You're on your phone less when you're drunk. Yeah, I know. Sorry for telling you something. On a podcast. You're good to work with. You're a hard worker.

You're not late ever. I'm never late. Never late. You know what's... Yeah. You're good at communicating. I never bail. You don't bail, but if you do, it's like you had to.

Yeah. I don't think you ever really have... What would you bail on? No, you never bail. You're pretty easy to communicate with. I think we're both good to work with, actually. That's why this podcast is incredible. Yeah.

I'm thankful that... I'm thankful that I have a guy like Nick to always just keep me down. People don't know that I'm very reliable. Keep me down on the ground. Good down. Like leveling me. Level you out a little bit. One time I caught Jason, your town guy, talking about me. He didn't realize I was in the room.

It was at your Red Rock show. Yeah. Somebody was saying something. He was sitting. There was a couple people. Do you remember this, Bo? You might not have been in the room, but there's a couple people in between us

and somebody was talking about me and he goes, you know, Nick, he has this way of just bringing you down in the most gentle way possible or something like that. And I go, yeah. And he goes, oh my God, he's in the room.

So I almost caught him talking shit about me, but it ended up being nice. Yeah. Jason would never say anything mean about anybody though. Jason's on tour with Little Stranger for a month. Cheating on his daddy. No, we did a mid-season trade.

They gave us Skippy. Oh, that's true. Jason. So, like, we're just... It's like, you know, they're only 20-day contracts. It's a... What's it called when they're back and forth? Oh, shit. I can't remember. From G League to... Although, they're getting as big as you. They're getting big. I'm really proud of the boys. Yeah. Proud. Go. Oh, shit. I can't remember. From G League to... Yeah. Although they're getting as big as you. They're getting big.

Yeah. I'm really proud of the boys. Yeah. Proud. Go get them, boys. Proud. They're about to do their first headline tour. And like half the tour's already sold out.

You're not even a little jealous? No, I'm really proud of them. And just a little bit. Because that's what friends are. Yeah, but just a little... The biggest jealousy thing I got from them... They're hot? John's hot. No, but when they got... They're opening for Bone Thugs. I got from them. They're hot? John's hot.

No, but when they got... They're opening for Bone Thugs. I got a little jealous about that. Because I love Bone Thugs. But you never know what Bone Thug is going to be there. I've opened for Bone Thugs. It's like, you know... It's not like ever been...

I'm not going to say anything. It's awesome. But it's not like, you know, 1999. But anyway, I mean, they were cool. Okay, we're done. You're not jealous. Let's say you're not jealous, but you'd like to see But anyway, they are cool. Okay, we're done. You're not jealous. Let's say you're not jealous, but you'd like to see some numbers. I'm jealous. Who am I jealous of? The Yenta and you would like to see some...

Apparently, Billy Strings. You'd like to see some numbers. I'm a little jealous of Billy Strings. I'm a little jealous of Goose. Yeah, I like them, though. They're not arrogant. Yeah, they're nice boys. That's why I protect them on Twitter

Andy's not jealous, he'd like to see some numbers Know who I like also who's getting famous? Kitchen Dwellers I'm thankful for them, they're cool I like that Dogs in the Pile's getting famous What about Grizz? I love Grizz He's been famous

Oh by the way, we have Grizz next week He's coming over to the house tomorrow I call him Grant because we're friends. Yeah. I call him Grizz. Should I call him Grant? Call him Grant. Yeah.

I don't think I've ever... You want to talk about a nice guy that... I only met him once when we were bowling. We bowled together. Trivia. Oh, trivia. Yeah. But this is the first time he's come over the house.

Should I clean it? No, he's a great guy. He's one of my favorite famous people. He's just so down to earth. He appreciates his fan base as much as any artist. He's one of my favorite famous people. He's just so down to earth. He appreciates his fan base as much as any artist. He appreciates what he has. He's just a good person.

When he talks to people, he's obviously way more successful. He doesn't feel like that. Other people talk to you like that. I'm looking forward to that. We got a lot of good ones. We got a lot of interviews I'm in town for like two months

So don't get sick of me We should have a riff off man On the way out Now I'll destroy you We haven't done thank you for being a friend in a while though I know where is it I don't know you had that one I think I still have it

Nope that's not it I love the end of podcasts where they go losing coming is you know as having sex

with a woman coming oh that's in the fish this is Andy's entire sound bank why do you have so many come ones

I love coming fair enough I love coming I love coming I love coming because you were going to say I love coming what happened was there is what happened there is you were going enough. I love cumming. I love cumming. Because you were going to say I love cumming. What happened there is you were going to say I love cum, but halfway through your mind says,

oh, wait, I'm going to say I love cum. I love cum-ing. Thank you. Should I just go full-on homo? No. Oh, yeah. I have some bad news for the person that said you're going to have a kid this year. What?

It is the end of March. Therefore, there's no way you could have a child by now because... Don't jinx it. Well, no, because if they're not pregnant by now, you can't have a kid this year. Mathematically impossible. I don't like that. I don't want any type of kid. Fair enough. Fair enough. Oh, man. I heard some tea about

bleep. And it pissed me off. About bleep, bleep. I'll bleep it myself. Beep, beep, beep, beep. And then she beep, beep. And that's why a bunch of beep.

And then they called me a beep. What do I do? I think you should do as little as possible for like three days. I'm drinking the tea you just gave me.

Should I just start dating again? Yeah, but don't hoe out. It's embarrassing. It's like sad. I'm not going to hoe out. You're too old, man. I've been really good. How about a series of two-month relationships?

What? That's the ideal way to be single is like a series of like eight to 12-week relationships. I'm too old to hoe out. All right. Yeah. It's just, come on. It's just weird.

If you're 35 and you're hoeing out. Your eyes are too sad for that. To hoe out? Nobody wants to roll over and see those sad eyes first thing in the morning on their phone looking,

checking their email on Brian about numbers. People want to sleep around and have one night stands with guys who are happy and want to go take them to brunch and shit.

They think they still have a shot of being Channing Tatum someday or something. You know what I mean? I have no shot of being Channing Tatum. Yeah. I can't imagine waking up.

I'm just going to cut my dick off. That's not what a vasectomy is. You know that, right? Why? It's just the connection between the balls. Oh, like you don't cut the balls off completely? Don't cut your dick off. You need it.

Why? Oh, it wouldn't take much. I'm retiring. The dick is retired. Please, sir. May I please rest? Please, sir. The dick is retired. Please, sir. May I please rest? Please, sir. It's Christmas Eve.

Please stop this show. I have shit to do. No, this is your penis. Please, sir. It's Christmas Eve. Don't make me work tonight. Let me go home. If I cut my dick off, can I finger it?

Oh, my God. My child is sick. It's Christmas Eve. Please don't make me work tonight. I'm not Jewish. You're the Jewish one. Your penis is a hardcore right-wing Christian. I haven't even watched porn. Okay. Cool.

Do you watch a lot of porn? I mean... Oh, did I tell you what happened? We have to go a little long because of that Brendan thing. Did I tell you what happened at Jam Cruise? No. I was on the mental health panel. I was on the mental health panel. I was on the mental health panel with two therapists,

Mark Brownstein and Mimi Najah. I know Sheridan. Mimi is sober. Brownstein is kind of sober. Then me and then two therapists. They're like, what do you do? The therapist is like,

what do you do after a show to wind down? Everyone's like, meditation. Did you go last. You're last. Did you go last? I was last. Well, I watch porn and beat off until I go to bed. I drink and drink until there's nothing there anymore. I don't want the moaning. I wanted to clap for myself because I was being honest.

I drink and drink. Well, I drink until I fall asleep. And if I can't fall asleep from drinking, I watch porn What do I do after a show to wind down? I drink and drink until I go to my bye-bye place Until I go to my forgotten, forgotten bye-bye place Then I wake up and drive the van For eight hours

While texting Brian the whole way Okay, we're done Have a great week, thanks for being here Shout out to volume.com Go buy tickets to our New Orleans Jazz Fest Especial. It'll be the first time we do a live podcast that's in a seated place other than summer camp.

So that'd be good. And then also shout out to Dialed and Gummy. Shout out to Bo for putting up with my ass. Shout out to you for dealing with my ass for two more months. I'm going to be on you like a hawk. I like it. I'm ready. We're going to go dogs in a pile tonight. Tomorrow we're going to watch Nathaniel Reit hawk. I like it. We're going to go to Dogs in a Pile tonight. I'm fucking... Tomorrow, we're going to watch Nathaniel Reitliff and Dan Auerbach do DJ.

That's cool. Hopefully, we get Dan in the house and we interview him, but I doubt it's going to happen. He's from the Black Keys. He's from the Black Keys. And then, Ali Kral is going to come into the house.

A lot of people are coming. We're trying to get a few other ones. Black Keys are the second most famous. A lot of bands are coming to town in the next two weeks. One person, two of them are super famous and we have hooks on them. We do?

It might happen, but don't get your hopes up. I won't tell you. Grizz is pretty famous and he's for sure coming. He's fucking huge. If you don't know, he is a legit borderline... He's super famous. The show is getting famous

Yeah This isn't like I know you guys If you're not in EM You've heard of him Like the man sells out stadiums Yeah like When he goes to a festival

It's like he's the headliner Right No matter what it is Correct Alright guys Do you want to do some motivation Or do you want me to do it You go ahead and do it

I feel good today I'll do it Yeah Guys Get some rest Take care of your mental, like I said. You know, you work hard. It's awesome to work hard, but also

take a step back and enjoy it. I've been enjoying all the hard work. Did you just laugh at yourself when he said that? I think you just laughed at yourself when he said, you fucking lying piece of shit. I'm going to send you a death threat. Don't send me a death threat. That'd be so funny. Start a death threat no more death threats either

let's write happy letters to people like dear Mr. Frasco or dear Bluegrass Community I love you I'll send some of that but guys be nicer to yourself I know you work hard and you take care of everyone else all the time but don't forget to take care of yourself

because if we can't take care of ourselves we're lying about taking care of everyone else because you're just giving them advice that you don't forget to take care of yourself. Yeah. Because that's, if we can't take care of ourselves, we're lying about taking care of everyone else because you're just giving them advice that you don't even take. Look, if everybody puts themselves first, we'll all be in a good position because you'll all be taking care of yourself.

Fucking be selfish. Put yourself first and then you'll take care. It's like when you're on a plane, you put your own mask on and then you help other people. Damn, that's a good analogy.

God, you are fucking great at this. Woo! Woo! Next time I'm going to have my pit vibes when I do, that's going to be. God, you are fucking great at this. Woo! Woo! Next time I'm going to have my pit vibes. That's going to be my ad read. When we interview Grizz, I want to get that Israel hat too.

Stupid. We're done. We're done. I'll get that. That's for that. Goodbye. Bye. You tuned in to the World's Health Podcast

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