Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast - EP 222: Andy & Nick Catch Up

Episode Date: June 6, 2023

Andy debuts a new song from the upcoming record! Nick posits whether Andy is guilty of stolen valor. AND: the final say on whether texting 'k' is acceptable this day and age. Drink water at those festivals, y'all, and don't forget to check out andyfrasco.com/tour cuz Andy and the boys are hitting the road real soon, possibly in a town in and/or around your area! Watch this episode streaming now!! 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. Call, leave a message, and tell us how you really feel: [phone]  Check out our new single, You Do You streaming on Spotify and Apple Music now! And while you're at it, give a big middle finger to the bigots in your life 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 Produced by Andy Frasco, Joe Angelhow, & Chris Lorentz Audio mix by Chris Lorentz

Hey guys, hope you're kicking ass out there. Happy Tuesday. I'd like to premiere another song off our new record, La Optimus, coming out August 11th. This song's called Iowa Moon. It's a vulnerable song. It's just me and a guitar and a violin, and it's a really important song to me, actually. So I hope you enjoy it. Chris, play the flutes, baby. A little different side of me than party animal music. So I hope you. I'm city lights. Your farm star bright.

You're my even keel. My Iowa moon. Like sunny and shared. Like the rain in June. I'm thankful for you My Iowa moon Let's build a fort by the old job site Let's set the dogs free, yeah, they better not bite

Then we'll jump in a train, just you and me I wanna roll in the dirt, wanna wash up a tree I'm gonna let love loose, let it set me free This love is new, at least it's new for me I'm city lights, your forms are bright. You're my even keel, my high old moon. Like a sunny chair, like the rain in June. I'm thankful for you, my own I spend my days in a hotel lobby I don't need fancy and I don't need snobby

My favorite views are when I look at you I wanna change my tire and sleep in a car Underneath your moon like a real rock star We ain't got no shame shame Our love will change the game I'm city lights, your farm's star bright You're my even keel, my high old moon Like sunny shade, like the way that you I'm thankful for you, my eye will know I'm thankful for you, my eye will know I'm thankful for you My eye will move And we're back.

Denny's. Andy Frasco's World's Favorite Podcast. I'm Andy Frasco. Hot off a fucking summer camp weekend that I can't even... The Wook King. Speaking of the Wook King. Stolen Valor. I don't like the Wook King thing.

I'm out on it. Stolen Valor. Look at this. You're not a real Wook. Shut up, Nick. Give me my flowers for a second. You got a giant trophy, dude. You got your flowers. I am honored. I'd like to thank the Academy for this beautiful trophy. I flew home with it. There was drugs all over. I had to take them off

because I couldn't go through TSA. Stolen Valor. Stolen Valor? What the fuck are you talking about? You haven't even been to a fish show yet. That doesn't mean I'm a wook. Look how many doctors go to fish shows. Doctors can be wooks. Oh, yeah, you're right. So why can't I be

a wook? Well, you can. You just aren't. You're something. We got to get you a little bitook? Well, you can. You just aren't. You're something. We got to get you a little bit more. You got to get a little more clout. You got to go to a fish show. You got to, you know what I mean? You do like nitrous at least. Your house is a little nice.

I don't know. I guess you can be a rich Wook. I'm not rich. I mean, compared to Wooks you are. Okay, we need to change the statistics on Wooks. Someone's got to push back on this. It can't just be all, you know what I mean, compared to wooks you are. Okay, we need to change the statistics on wooks. Someone's got to push back on this. It can't just be all, you know what I mean? I get it, but I want you to argue this because why do you have to

be poor? Are you a true I don't think you have to be poor, but are you a true wook? You have to go to at least one fish show to be a wook. I think you do. Even if you don't like it, you have to go. No, I'm here for the people. I am here for the wook nation. I understand you're here for the people. I am here for the Wook Nation. I understand you're here for the people.

I like that it's a chess. I love how it was Illinois State Chess Championship and then turned it into Wook of the Year. Rook of the Year. Get it? Oh, so happy when I got it. I love trophies. I love a good bit. I love trophies.

Yeah. And I could finally put the trophies that I bought that weren't mine. I used to buy trophies. Do you know what it is? I buy trophies. Yeah. And I could finally put the trophies that I bought that weren't mine. I used to buy trophies. Do you know this? I buy trophies when I'm sad. I didn't know this, actually. Jesus Christ.

What is wrong with you? Not only do you need validation from your parents and who else? You need validation from Goodwill. I went to Goodwill. I spent eight bucks validating myself today. Summer camp. That's what you do when you buy trophies. Why the fuck do you do that?

I love trophies. Is it a write-off? I don't know. I always like when I lived in Brooklyn, there was this place called Marlowe and Sons that was right next to my house. It was like this nice hipster restaurant and they had all these trophies of all these things. You got jealous

of their trophies. I got jealous of their trophies. They started buying bowling champion of 1986 trophies and filling your home with them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bro, every day you get more and more psycho. Like every day I find something new about you. I feel like it's like we always talk about it's like the opposite.

People always think I'm crazier than I am. Why can't I pump myself up? I don't have a problem with it, but it's funny and weird and psycho. I don't mind it. It's psycho. You can keep doing it for all I care, but that's funny because in the email chain, we're talking about submitting for some awards thing, and you're like, I love trophies.

I thought you meant winning trophies, not just buying them at Goodwill. Any trophy. You guys want to give me a trophy? I will gladly put it in my house. Whatever makes you feel good, but it's still fucking weird. I know, it's a little weird. We all do weird shit.

That's weird. Well, you know. I mean, that's weirder than, I'm trying to decide. I think this is cooler than the Grammys. Oh, yeah, definitely. I would much rather get Wook of the Year at summer camp

than any Grammy. Winning a Grammy is almost embarrassing at this point. There's a great Simpsons bit about that Where like Homer wins a Grammy one episode He's in this barbershop quartet And like this cleaner of his hotel room He throws it out

And like the guy who goes to the dumpster He goes, oh, an award He goes, oh, it's just a Grammy And he throws it away He thought it was going to make an Oscar or something Just a dumb award So shout out to everyone who went to summer camp That was so fucking fun

I couldn't believe how big of the crowd was. It was just huge, bro. A lot of naked people. You would have been proud of me. Yep. I mean, I knew you were going to have a big crowd. I did. You're the Wook King.

I was up against like Moe and Jen Hartwick. I'm like, there's a lot of... Oh, you played the same time as her? That sucked. That sucked. I mean, not because of the crowd thing. I'm sure she still had a good crowd because she had her like crew, you know? We saw Jen at 9 a.m.

We had that 5 a.m. flight after Pittsburgh. Shout out to Pittsburgh. That was dope too. I love that city actually. It's such a beautiful underrated city. I think it's top five most underrated U.S. cities. It was so beautiful. We got to play with all these folk bands and they were scared shitless of us. They should be.

But it was awesome. We're coming for the folk scene too. That sucks that Jen Hartswood couldn't come sing her song with you. That's what I was going to say. So it was like 5 a.m. We get to Chicago on our layover, and then we're all hungover. We went to bed kind of early. Our show was at like 4 p.m., and then we said, if we black out now, like from 5 to 10,

we could go to bed by midnight and have four hours of sleep. So we went to the bar. That can be dangerous, though. It was. It didn't work. Yeah. It didn't work. I had a headache, and I was tired, and I was still wired from all the sugar from the Jameson.

Because part of your plan was, let's get drunk as fuck. So that's not good for the next day. You're right. So I regretted doing it, but it was fun to bond. It was Floyd's birthday. He was so drunk, he was just kissing me at the bar. I didnted doing it, but it was fun to bond. It was Floyd's birthday. He was so drunk, he was just kissing me at the bar. I didn't even have to say, Oh, I bet you hated that.

I think they saw me once. We're at the margarita place, and we're all just fucking hammered. I'm just like, I have my head on his shoulder, and I'm just like, with my mouth open, and he just gave me a big old kiss. Shout out to Floyd.

Happy birthday, Floyd. Yeah, happy birthday, weirdo. Psycho. So we saw Jen at like, you know, 7 a.m. She was landing too or something? She was coming from New York. She said she had some awesome gig at Cap Theater with like her old school band, which was tight.

And she was riding a cloud because, you know, her show had ended at was tight and she was riding a cloud because you know her show had ended at 2 and she had that 6am we all had that you know everyone had the 6am flight to get to summer camp it can be fun actually

it was fun and definitely fun that's when I found out I'm like fuck we have we're competing against Jen I hate that

because I love Jen I wanted to sit in well also she can't come sing your hit song together no that was Kanika I thought Jen had it sang on one of your tracks. Jen sang on Spill the Beans. She was the backup vocalist for Spill the Beans.

And a couple other scenes. Into the Blue and shit. She's a fuck... She's like... You don't realize how fucking good of a singer Jen Hartwick is. Oh, I realize exactly how good of a singer she is. You keep forgetting because she's so good at trumpet. She just kills it.

Everything she does just kills it. I've done a lot of gigs with her. She's incredible to stand next to when she sings. Yeah. And I heard she was like, thank you for everyone who didn't show up to the Frasco show to hang out. I probably would have went to her set. We love you, Jen.

I would have been there too. If I hadn't played, I would have been right there, front middle, staring at you. I've seen plenty. I'm good to see her that much. And she dyed her hair blonde a little bit. She looks so cute. She's just such an amazing person.

I love Jen. Yeah, she's a special one. I'm bummed that we had to compete against a lot of those bands. That's how it is at that festival. There's just too many bands. There's a thousand bands that play that festival. Yeah, but there's a lot of people there, so it works. It was nice, and it was a nice coming home.

It was dusty as fuck. I didn't realize how dusty summer camp is, but the weather was amazing. Yeah, that's good. I was there the year they had a tornado. Really? 2013, they had to abandon the whole thing, cancel. It wasn't a tornado.

It was a super bad thunderstorm. They had a tornado a couple years before that. I remember when it's just been fucking muddy as shit out there. It was like Vietnam. Yeah, it was like Vietnam. But yeah, everyone was happy. It was kind of like a... It was kind of sad. It was like waiting to get shit in Da Nang, man.

Anastasia was playing. Bullets were flying over my head. I had my rosary in my hand and I just started praying and I made it back to my geo tracker and drove to the hotel. I think people just don't want to camp anymore. Was you? I mean, but I'm older.

I think that's not camping. What? If you watch a picture of people walking into like, okay, for example, I saw a tick tock today of like Shakedown Street, Dead & Co, Atlanta shows. If you put that next to a refugee camp in Texas and you said, guess which one's the Grateful Dead show? I would probably get it right, but I'd have to look at it for a good

minute or two. That's what I'm saying. Is that really a vacation? I don't know. Some people. To me, camping is like a solitude sort of escape. It's still fun as shit to get fucked up. I wonder if camping festivals

are going to go obsolete. I don't know about obsolete, but they're definitely going to be reduced. A lot of them are going away. It has to make your insurance more if you have camping, right? It has to. And I think it's a matter of a lot of things.

Although maybe it could make it less because people aren't going to be drinking and driving. You know what I mean? So maybe they're... I don't know how that works, but... I don't know, but whatever it was, Summer Camp was fucking amazing. I came to Summer Camp. Wonder Works was amazing.

The first year I played there. Yeah, it was just like bittersweet because Summer Camp really was one of the festivals that built my career. They were the first festival that... Them and Waka Russo were the first two festivals who believed in me when I was a fucking psychopath drug addict. Summer Camp has done that for, that's like a lot of people, especially in the Midwest, that's how you do it. Yeah.

Walker Russo, I never really played that one. I kind of missed it. It like ended. But it was amazing. We had like, I mean, when Jay Blakesburg texts you and say, I have something set up for you, and then he brought like 30 naked people on stage. And then we had all,

it was just like a big family gathering. They knew that our set was going to be like the hometown show. All the musicians were there on side stage. Shout out to Ben from Goose. He was there. You didn't get the Goose photo op in? I didn't.

No. Oh my God. Chill, chill, chill, chill, chill. It was just a meme. I saw that meme too. It's so funny. But it was nice. But yeah, we had Eggie sit in.

We had Sierra Hull sit in, who is amazing. Yeah, she's like one of the best players ever. Oh my God. And then... Mandolin's the coolest bluegrass instrument. I think so too. Yeah. And then we had...

Who else did we have? We had Boogie T, Brock, who's amazing. I didn't realize how good a guitar player he was. Great. And then we had the Titty Brigade and Dolov crowd surfed to a basketball slam dunk. It was just wild.

So shout out to everyone who came to my summer camp show. That was fucking awesome. Did Dolov stay in your room? No, he got his own room. Got laid. No, he didn't. He had sex with a woman. I know exactly. What do you mean you know exactly what?

His hotel room was right next to mine. I'm hearing moans and Doloff going, oh! I bet he's so loud when he has sex. Oh my god. He's loud when he's quiet. The woman he was with was also very loud, and I know her very well.

She's one of my close friends. What's her name? I'm not saying. I'm not calling out nobody besides Dolov because he calls me out all the fucking time. But it was just like, it felt like two Neanderthals having sex. It was like, whoo! I mean, we all... Kind of what sex is.

It kind of brings you back to your primitive thing. And then, why don't do it? A couple of the highlights was seeing Willie Nelson. Yeah, William Nelson. He's a very good singer. No, but he was just 90. Does he still have it? What?

Yeah, he does. He was just old, man. He always kind of had an old-sounding voice. You have it? What? Yeah, he does. He was just old, man. He always kind of had an old sounding voice. You know what I mean? Yeah, he sounded great. I could see in his eyes that shit's going about. How much longer is he going to... I'm afraid that might be the last time I ever see him.

Is he still paying off the IRS? Is that why he's doing shows? What's up with that? I don't know. Remember that whole thing? No, I think as you get older... That was a thing though. I know.

I remember he had to pay the IRS for... A lot of money. Like some older. That was a thing though. I know. Yeah. I remember like he had like pay the IRS for like- A lot of money. Like some golf courses or some shit. I don't know. Yeah. They'll get you. Yeah. But I think the shows keep him alive.

And it was so nice. I cried heavy, dude. They did Georgia on my mind. In public? Yeah. I was kind of on drugs too. It was like a little bit of mushrooms and- Yeah.

And I was just sitting there on the side and I was like, because they wouldn't let anyone on the side and i was like because they wouldn't let anyone on the side stage unless you took a covid test because he's 90 you know yeah that's fair that's totally fair i bet you just not let anyone side stage because it's goddamn willie nelson get the fuck out of here you poor idiot this isn't goddamn never mind yeah i mean he's a i don't need to bring any other bands into it i didn't even want to go backstage because i was hanging out with like the wooks and hanging out with everyone at the festival and hugging them. I'm like, I don't know. Maybe I... What if I killed Willie Nelson?

Put that in the book. Jesus Christ. I'm going to find this manuscript of yours. Speaking of books. Yeah, one of these days. It's got to be somewhere you just deep cleaned. I know. I know. I bet it's so bad.

It's horrible. It's like 15 or 18 pages. Just you writing. I can't. I've never seen you type a paragraph. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was crying because I saw like

Brett and Bayless sitting in and Mo sitting in with Willie and Sierra Hall. I'm like, all my friends are fucking doing shit. And like, just made me feel good. And then I saw Lucas Nelson just sitting right next to his dad. Isn't that your homie kind of? Yeah, we know him pretty well. I mean, Sean's brother. There's some sort of connection.

Sean's brother is their sound man. Sound man, engineer. I had to start bawling. I was like, God, this is so beautiful. I was looking at him as he was singing these songs about death and I could really feel like he realizes he's getting older. I think at 90 you start to realize you're getting older. I'm like, God, I fucking love Willie. I think at 90,

you start to realize you're getting older. He looked great for 90. How many people, how many people are gigging at 90? You gotta be rich when you're like 50. Right.

By the time, you know what I mean? You gotta be rich going into it. Right. No one blows up at 90. Right. And poor, and then I saw,

I saw Humphries who fucking killed it too. Honestly, if I was a record label, that's what I, I just had a great idea. You need to blow up like an 88 year old songwriter.

Here's why. Because they're going to die soon, right? So you can get all their publishing. You don't have to pay anybody. Jesus Christ. What in the contract? Why am I not, why am I not like running Sony records?

Oh my God, stop. I should be running Sony records with that idea. No, stop. Start signing old people. Then you don't have to pay them as long. It's very simple math. Oh my God. Then you got to just deal with their like estate, stop. Start signing old people. Then you don't have to pay them as long. It's very simple math. Oh my god. Then you gotta just deal with their

estate. Whatever. Lawyer up. You're insane. It's a good idea. It is a good idea. I didn't say it was not evil. But they're record labels. That's what they're into. All record labels are evil. Not all, but yeah. I have a good record label,

soundly. By the way, the bigger they are, the worse labels are evil Not all but yeah I have a good record label Soundly By the way The bigger they are The worse they are It's just like Walmart Or fucking You know There's like local Mom and pop record labels Yeah Soundly is great

They've been really good Shout out to everyone Who's been listening to UDU It's been Now it's on like 25 radio stations And I just Today I released

An early release Of a new single Called Iowa Moon And thank you for listening to that Iowa Moon Iowa Moon What's that about? Do to that. Iowa Moon? Iowa Moon. What's that about? Do you want to go there?

No, I know what it's about. It's about my ex-girlfriend, Jill. Obviously. She's from Iowa. I know. Write next girlfriend songs. We got to get you in a better mood. The other day, you were like,

can we write me some happy dance chords at the baseball game? All these new songs I've been writing with Sean and Andrew Cooney. They're pretty depressing. But that's depressing in right now. Every time I drive by the Ogden Marquis, it's some solo artist with a rancher hat on that's sad about their parents' divorce.

Making 30k. It's like, you're 40. You're not allowed to be... You know what I mean? This summer, I've been emailing. I've been interviewing. It's so, you're 40. You're not allowed to be... You know what I mean? This summer, I've been emailing... I mean, I've been emailing. I've been interviewing. It's always some guy. I've been interviewing a lot of folk singers. And I just interviewed BJ Barham from American Aquarium.

That dude, I can't wait for you guys to hear that. I could tell you liked him because I was downstairs thinking we'd hear your side. Whenever you're really getting along with somebody, you're like, let's be friends. Text me. Text me. Can we be friends? Let's hang out. He gave me his number, so shout out to him. No, I believe that. Shout out to BJ.

Not a lot of people give me the number. I'm not going to. Remember that one guy that didn't text you back? Oh, yeah. I was pissed. One of the guests on here, he was like, yes, I'm friends with him now. Or her. Yeah.

And then he texted me, just fucking left you undelivered, bro. Like, damn! Cold-blooded! That was kind of mean of him. You can't be friends with everyone. He could at least text you back and be like, I can't. I'm busy.

Yeah. I don't like the dry... Yeah. I don't fuck with that either. No, it's kind of shady But maybe he had something going on too But I probably do it all the time too You hardly ever text me back

K yeah K yeah You text like a 26 year old girl K I hate K I know Schwartz says It comes off passive aggressive I know I learned thatine. Schwartz says I'm working on my content.

But I'm not trying to. I know. I learned that's not that, so I just let it go now. But at first I was like, fucking bitch, I'm going to murder him. Like in Indiana, you know, if you send a K text to one of your bros, you're going to get murdered. You're going to make him beat up. I will be more direct with my text. No, I don't mind it. Now that I know, you're just like, don't have time

for me. You know what I mean? Oh, that's sad. It's important enough to put the O before the K. You know what I mean? Oh, that's sad. I'm not important enough to put the O before the K. You know what I mean? That does take a lot of work. Shut the fuck up. Let me cook. You're cooking. I didn't get to go to summer camp.

I'm cooked. I know. Are you pissed? No, it's fine. I've been 15 times. I know what it is. I know, but it's the last one. Yeah, I'm sure.

It's kind of like your hometown festival. Maybe next time I'll go when they do something else. All these bands are going on a hiatus. We're like, why don't we just say we're quitting for a year? Dude. Cash up. Get all the merch money. Sell out all the shows. String cheese. String cheese did that like

seven years ago. Oh, really? It helped them a lot. Then they came back and did Electric Forest. Fish did that. Twiddle did that. Yeah, exactly. I mean, fish and string cheese and Twiddle are kind of different tiers. No, but it's still the same. It did that. Twiddle did that. Yeah, exactly. I mean, fish and string cheese and twiddle are kind of different tiers. No, but it's still the same.

It did work. But Dovah Fahd has definitely taken a hiatus and they've come back and they're like a better band now. You know, stuff like that. It's good to take a break. And then when you do the reunion tour, you make even more money.

Let's go. And you can focus on this goddamn podcast like you should be. Yeah, shout out to all the podcast fans Our numbers have been insane We charted last week again Oh you know what was so nice Did I tell you that

His mom sent me a message saying Thank you so much for showing Good light to depression And bipolar And then his brother J-Mac's brother was there He's like man I appreciate you He's like, man, I appreciate you. He's like, I don't think my brother's ever said

anything about me. That's a true brother would be. I mean, if my brother was my manager, I don't want to kill him. You don't know the dynamics of a brother. You don't have one. I know, but I have a sister. It's different. I have a sister too. That shit's passive aggressive as fuck.

Totally different thing. Brothers are better. There's less drama. Oh, my sister's chill. She's a lesbian too That shit's passive aggressive Totally different thing Brothers are better Right There's less Like less drama Oh my sister's chill She's a lesbian So she's not so like I told I told my sister last week

Like why does my little cousin Have like a trump Uh oh Not cousin Nephew Nephew is like I'm the uncle right Yes

That's what a nephew is 35 year old man Sorry I mean You're so fucking And I was like How are you so smart, but you don't know anything? I just can't figure this out.

Because I just focused my energy on two things. Okay, fair enough. Anyway, your nephew is a Trump supporter? No. Nine-year-old Trump supporter? I was like,

why does he have the Trump haircut? He's like, don't you fucking be me. And then she wouldn't talk to me for like three days. Trump haircut? He's got a kind of like the old Justin Bieber

bowl cut. Oh, I thought you meant like the actual Trump comb-over. His hair, when it gets windy, kind of like the old Justin Bieber bowl cut. But like his hair, when it gets windy, it looks like the comb over Trump thing. I'm like, yo. Is he blonde? Yeah. How is he blonde? Is his dad blonde or something? I mean, I was blonde when I was a kid.

Oh, really? My sisters are blonde. I thought you were Sephardic. Yeah, but my dad. Well, yeah, Italian Sephardic because you're down there. Spaniard Jews and Italian Jews, Sephardic because they're sat there. You're down there. Spaniard Jews and Italian Jews, Sephardic Jews. There's Jews everywhere, man. But she wasn't having it.

I think you can talk shit about your nieces and nephews, but not other people. You can't make fun of Bayless' kids, really. No, I wouldn't make fun of Bayless' kids. No, because you're not a dick. Because they love me more than my niece and nephew. They do, actually. What did I do? I don, actually. What did I do? I don't know.

What did I do to get this pain? It could be your sister's fault. It could be my sister's fault. I feel like you're scary as an uncle. I am. I have big hair. How old are they? Are they old enough to...

Four and eight. Okay, so that makes a lot more sense why they're scared of you. Like a four-year-old? But he's playing music and they got a piano in the house and he's like... Well, my kid was trying to learn piano. You might be the last person I wanted learn piano. I don't know. You might be the last person I wanted them around. I'm just kidding.

But four-year-old, you would freak me out if I was four. You're like purple and your hair's everywhere and you're like crowd surfing. Yeah, yeah. You got a giant trophy with you for some reason on the airplane. You know what I mean? I did realize because I had to bring the trophy on the airplane and I couldn't check it or anything. I was just holding it around. I got a lot of love.

Oh, man, what's that trophy for? I'm a drug addict. Jesus fucking Christ. Well, my parents didn't give me enough attention growing up. And now I'm this. I was so excited. I was holding that trophy around like I fucking won the Oscar, dude. I would rather have that than an Oscar. It's got purple things

on it. Yeah. It had a joint on there. A little bit of stolen on the plane. It had some mushrooms on it. I had to pull all that shit out because I couldn't just like... But when it was... When I got the thing from... I think they're called Camp Wow. They made it because the Wookery still hasn't sent me my trophy.

Wookery! We gave you a lot of promo. I want my goddamn trophy, okay? Ponzi scheme. That was a Ponzi scheme. That was a Facebook clicks Ponzi scheme. No, don't give him my trophy. Ponzi scheme. They're from Buffalo.

Oh, you're saying Buffalo people are slow and dumb? Okay. Jesus Christ. We can't even... Bo's from Buffalo, Rochester. Oh, yeah. I don't like him. No, he's from Rochester.

That's two different places. No, I just think they... Bo and Kodak. They're on their own time. They're on Tulsa time. Yeah don't like him. No, he's from Rochester. That's two different places. No, I just think they... Bo and Kodak. They're on their own time. They're on Tulsa time. Yeah, Tulsa time. I do love Buffalo. I can't wait to come back.

We're playing Cobblestone in a couple weeks. Oh, that looks cool. Cobblestone live. Yeah, with Dogs in a Pile, Twiddle. Oh, they're doing it at Jam Bands this year. Mm-hmm. Oh, Little Stranger, too. Oh, man.

I wonder if their crowd's going to be bigger than yours. I think we should do... Oh, there's a lot of crowds. Red Rocks? They're getting bigger than us. They're not Red Rocks, but if you're at a reggae festival... Buffalo's my turf, though. Yeah, but if you were at a reggae festival kind of thing, they would probably dunk on you.

Oh, yeah. They've been dunking all summer, dude. Yeah, I don't like it. Why? I'm just kidding. I like them a lot. I think it's really cool that they're fucking just blowing up. I can tell they're blowing up because

we've been doing a lot of these reggae fests and a lot of the guys are kind of getting jealous of them. They're like, oh yeah, Little Stranger. At least they're doing something a little different. No, I like the reggae scene. They're way nice in the jam scene. I just can't stand the show part of it. Or the people or the vibe in general.

This one reggae band that played, they were fucking good. Tropadelic was good, right? Oh yeah, they're from Ohio reggae band that played, they were fucking good. Tropadelic was good, right? Oh, yeah. They're from Ohio, I think. Yeah, they're fucking good. But it was really funny. It's like the same competition.

You know, it's like... Yeah, musicians are weird. Musicians are so weird. Hey, we're all best friends. Then you get in the van and it's just fucking shit talk. Yeah, I support a lot of people and give them an outlet to do their thing.

And then once... A couple of them that I won't name, but they talk shit now they have a big crowd. Yeah, whatever. They're losers. give them an outlet to do their thing. And then once a couple of them that I won't name, but you know, they, they talk shit now that I have a big crowd, whatever they're losers. What's up with you today? Nothing.

You feeling good? It's just like some loser would do, right? Yeah. I would never hate on that shit. I don't do that to people. Even though Brian thinks I'm like the biggest hater. How?

I mean, you're, you get a little, I don't think you're a hater per se. I get a little jealous with his other bands. Yeah, but who doesn't? Yeah. I don't think I'm... It's perfectly human to be jealous of people. I like his bands. Sure.

The only band I don't like is one band. The one? Don't like them. We'll bleep that out. We will. I just don't like that kind of music. That's nothing personal against them. It's like... No, he can't be talking to you about... Because we have a lot of... I'm just defending my home country

from Mumford & Sons right now. Defending your home country? You're from Indiana. I'm from England, actually. I know, but no. My mom is from England. My grandparents have accents. Do you have a green card?

No, but I can get dual citizenship. Well, until you do, you're not from England. But I'm saying I have a little... I am culturally British. I can make fun of them. Get out of here with that. You're not with the Americana, Mumford and Sons. Speaking of green cards, dialed in gummies.

Hey, Abbott brothers have us covered. They're sick. They're actually sick. I think Mumford is sick too. You don't like it. If you're shopping at Old Navy, I guess. Jesus fucking. What a week.

What an episode. Oh, by the way, it's just me and Nick all episode. I think they're picking up on that by now. Oh, man. But the camaraderie of our scene, our band scene, like Luke from The Special. He's cool, dude.

Brock from Boogie T. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we got... Our turf, our crew of bands... Chain bands are less catty, I think, than some bands. They are still catty, but like...

Maybe not. I don't know. It's hard to say. A couple of them are a little catty, but all the big bands, like the Moes and the Umphreys. They're cool because they... They fucking love us.

They have nothing to prove, so they're good. And they're sweet. They have our back. They're not jealous of you. No. But yeah, whatever. My point is they don't have anything to prove.

Yeah. The people that are jealous of you are the ones hating, but let them hate. Let them hate themselves to the grave. Yes. A lot of these guys... It's really bad for your band

when you start getting jealous. You start writing music like jealous people. You start copying shit. It's bad. Yeah, it is. You don't want to chase. Speaking of someone who isn't jealous is Dialed and Gummies. Dialed and Gummies.

When I say Dialed and Gummies, I don't have any resentment. I'm just no. You should be jealous of them if you're another gummy company. Yeah, because they're kicking your ass. So shout out to Dialed and Gummies. Yeah, they're like a main stage gummy. If you're in the Colorado area, go grab out to Dialed and Gummies. Yeah, they're like a main stage gummy. If you're in the Colorado area, go grab yourself some Dialed and Gummies.

If you're going to a festival, Dialed and Main Stage, 9 p.m. Saturday night. Yeah. Take one before the show. No, I'm just saying that. Yeah, they're the headliner. You're right over there. That Chipotle is coming up. Here we go, baby. He's got heartburn. I wonder why.

Why do I have heartburn? Anyway, dialed in. They would be like the headlining band. All the other ones would be like, you know, 4 p.m. on the side stage, campground, campfire, where I started out. So if you're in the Denver area, go buy some, sell some dialed in gummies. Oh, they're so delicious. They're delicious or homogenized. Homogenized.

And I've been seeing a lot of people tag me with them eating dialed in gummies, and it's really cool. They're clean. I think we're really spreading the word for the dialing gummies. I get every time I get more comments about that almost than I do about you. Speaking of that, can we put out a press release that I'm not in your band? It's hurting me. Really?

People think I'm in your band. So they're like not, I think they're like not calling me as much because I think I'm out with you. I'm not in his band guys. He can't afford me. Hold on. Hold on. Just kidding. You can afford me, but Hold on. Hold on. I'm just kidding. He can afford me. Hold on. Hold on.

Just fucking call me. Nick Garlic. Nick Garlic. Book Nick Garlic. Gerlach. I can't talk today. That's an honor to think I'm in the UN. I'm not embarrassed by that. But I'm not in the UN. And I'm very available.

Get this man some gigs. If you need a saxophone player for hire. Or just anything, really. Yeah, no podcast stuff. You're not hiring him for podcasts. He's my guy. Okay. I got a number, people.

By the way, a lot of people says you've been slacking on the voicemails. They said they've been trying to voicemail us. No, I have them all in here. And they're all the most boring voice. Like, send an interesting voicemail and I'll put it on the voicemails. They said they've been trying to voicemail us. No, I have them all in here and they're all the most boring voice. Like, send an interesting voicemail and I'll put it on the show, but it's all just like, I saw you last week and it was good. I can't put it on podcast. Guys, you gotta give me some content. Yeah. I'm not slacking

on it. They're just not worth bringing to you. Yeah. My king doesn't have time for these voicemails. I do. I like when people say nice things. Oh, I'll send you those, but we can't use them on the show. Okay. Yeah, okay. I just didn't want

to waste your time with another person telling you how great you are. You got a fucking trophy right there. What the fuck else do you need, man? So anyway,

I'm not in his band. Ernie's in his band. He's had a sax player for 15 years, guys. Yeah, so go give Nick some work. Maybe we need to get Ernie to start promoting

that he's in your band more. Ernie, get more active on Instagram. Not just wife pictures. A lot of pressure having a wife. I don't like paperwork. They have to come to the shows. You got to get their arrangements. It took me 10 months to renew my driver's license after it expired.

I'm not going to get married. I didn't want to do that paperwork. It's $30. Why the government need to know I have a girlfriend? You know what I mean? I don't need to tell Joe Biden I got a girlfriend. I finally like being okay being single. Being single is fun. It's fun. A lot of freedom in it.

A lot of freedom. A lot of freedom. A lot of, you know, a lot of sluts. Not sluts. I've been hooking up delicious little babies. Shut the fuck up. No, I'm too old to slut out. Not sluts I've been hooking up Delicious little babies No it's I'm too old to slut out We talked about this

I really have been thinking about I want to hoe out But I can't Are you? I don't know I'm too old I can't hoe out It just seems like society

Putting pressure on people To not be hoes And I don't like that Yeah But it's not like It also is sad When an ugly person You're not ugly yet

When you get ugly I'll tell you Then you can stop you. Nick, what's going on with you today? Attractiveness. Just on one. I don't know. How attractive you are should definitely

guideline what your line is for what's acceptable in your actions in society. Hot people should get away with more. Do you hate ugly people? No. I don't think I'm even all that attractive. I'm not even including myself in the hot people. Just saying hot people should get a little more leeway.

I think that we've got thousands of centuries of evidence to say that it's going that way. And now the ugly people want their piece of the pie, and it's not going well. Because they've been bullied their whole lives, so they're going to take it out on you. Hot people should be in charge. Jesus fucking... Wow. charge. Jesus fucking God. Wow. I just can't believe what's going on here. You like it, though. I do.

You never would have thought of that on your own. Who was your old co-host? Yeti. He never would have said something like that. No. He was like a... Would that be part of your campaign for 2024? Yes. I'm not going to have, like, am I mayor of Indianapolis in 10 years. 2034. Yeah.

But the election's in 2033. You know what I mean? Then you get inaugurated and have the new presidents. So my thing is, first of all, I decided I'm doing it remote. When I win, I'm going to stay in Denver. I'm just going to do it over Zoom or whatever they have by then. It might be something else.

I don't need to live in Indy. I know what's going on there. First of all, will my cabinet and my employees include all race, colors, creeds, sexualities, whatever, disabilities? Yes. But they will all be attractive. I don't care what you are.

It's very Trump of you. No, because he wouldn't have a trans person in his cabinet. He wouldn't have... You know what I mean? But I will, as long as they're hot. What's wrong with that? All right. You heard it first. Campaign, Nick Gerlach. Just be attractive.

If you're hot, you'll get the job. First thing, you know, it might be illegal, but whatever. I'm the mayor. I'll change the laws. Right. I really wish, you know wish trading subjects here for a second because speaking of hot guys, Bo Balinski jumped the fence to go to see Mastodon.

What do you mean jump the fence? He had a path. We're in the VIP. I hopped the fence too to get into the pit for Mastodon. I like jam band pits because they're kind of friendly. You're not going to get destroyed like a slayer. He jumped the pit and then I guess someone elbowed get destroyed like a slayer. Yeah, no. And so he jumped the pit,

and then I guess someone elbowed you. Come here, Bo. It looks great. Get over here. Bo Balinski, everybody. Our guy. Our guy, our show pony. Go sit in the front here.

What happened? You got a big old fucking scar on your head. Yeah, I got that. It chipped my tooth, too. Oh, my God. This is like a... But this is your moment. You love hardcore music. It's fucking fun, man. Oh, my God. This is like a... But this is your moment. You love hardcore music.

It's fucking fun, man. Just jumped in. Massed on was the shit. Started going at it. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody, I don't know. Not really sure what happened.

My head hit somebody else's head. And yeah, it was like one of those moments. We both hit each other. We were like, dude, are you okay? Yeah, I'm okay. All right. And then we just went back to hitting each other again. See, that's what I love about the Jam City.

Everyone's so goddamn friendly. It was fun. How do you think our set was? I thought it was killer. Was it a little chaotic? A little. Yeah, dude, I was running back and forth the stage like the entire fucking time.

I was like, all right, you're up next. And then you go trying to get all those people off the stage too. I heard the stage was going to collapse. So when they brought up all the naked people, like for a while it was alright, you know, and then more and more people just kept coming and Otter, the fucking stage manager, comes up to me

he's like, dude, we got to get these people off. Like the legs under the stage were like starting to bend and like sink into the ground. Yeah. Oh fuck. So that's why you were like, no, keep them up. And I'm like, dude, no, we got to get these people the fuck off the stage right now. But it was cool. It was a lot of fun. lot of fun yeah killed it had people like from all the other stages like just bail on theirs and come to our set yeah there was so many there was like 11

photographers everyone was like it was incredible it was showing the ruckus but um we played do we play all right yeah that was killer that was good because i kind of curveballed the set didn't really yeah but i mean we all knew that was going to happen anyways. Yeah. Our sets are weird for me because it's like, I feel like I have to like... It's too... I got to go, go, go. You know?

Yeah. I don't know. I thought it was solid. You definitely, you know, didn't talk as much as you normally do. Yeah. Which I thought was good. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I normally talk. You got to crank out all those songs so quickly. Yeah. Eggie was sick. What? those songs so quickly. Eggie was sick. What?

I did kind of like a thank you summer camp for making how important you are in my life, but I didn't really do the keep on keeping on speech. Not really. Did I? He did one with Sack Squatch. He also did the Teenagers solo.

I got to take that out. Sacks on Teenagers. I don't know. I kind of like it. Yeah, it's different. I just like the song in general. Yeah. I think it's been hit. Yeah. My Chemical Romance teenagers

is fucking slapping. Yeah. Even at a jam festival, it's like all these old emo kids who are just jam band fans now. And everybody was getting into it. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you got to see

Massadon. You're going to go see LCD Sound System tonight. Yeah. That's going to be a blast. Have fun. Thank you for everything. Thanks for putting up with me.

I hope I wasn't too big of a pain in the ass this weekend. Oh, no. No, not at all. Okay, cool. Nothing that I'm not used to. Yeah, you're right. Sometimes I get frustrated, and I put it out on you. It was good, man.

All right, cool. Shout out to Bo Blinsky. Thank you, buddy. Go get out there. Go out there. Go make some love tonight. Go find some fucking LCD sound system groupies And go get a handjob They don't give handjobs they're hipsters

Why I think getting a handjob is hip right It's very hip and in But yeah other than that It was great It looked good on camera Oh my god it was a blowout. Did Sean have fun?

I'm bummed I didn't get to see Big Something or Doom Flamingo. They played the night before, but everyone's on this three festivals a weekend run. So everyone flies out at 6am. What's up with Doom? Are they opening for you on your tour? Yeah, they're doing Five Nights.

With Ryan? Yeah, Stasisic's on that. Isn't he sometimes not in it? Yeah. Speaking of that, we have summer dates. Summer dates. I might as well talk about it. We have a bunch of shows coming up. You're doing a

mountain run? We're doing a mountain run. We just added 10th Mountain Division to the mountain run which who I love, Colorado band. But all right, let me tell you what's going on here. They've been around for a while. I'm leaving for Charleston tomorrow. And I'll be there for a week.

And then, yeah, I won't see you for a month, bro. Damn. We should do a Zoom opening. You want to fly out to Charleston and go get drunk with me? That sounds kind of fun, actually. Come on. You need to get out of Denver. I'll think about it.

Do you want me to hire you? That's a good way to get me to go. No, yeah. You don't go nowhere without getting paid. I do. I go to the cool, like, electronic, funky shows, you know?

Oh, good to know. I have to pay you to fucking hang out with me. I should just start a service where I'll hang out with you for 40 bucks an hour. I mean, technically, that's what it is. No, I'm talking in general. Anybody.

Okay. June 16th, we are in Swansea, New Hampshire for Northlands. It's going to be fun. We got pigeons playing. We got Twiddle, all the homies. Is that a festival? Yeah, that's a Twiddle's festival, I believe. Oh, I thought it was called something else.

And then we're at Cape Cod on the 17th. Then 18th and 19th. We're going back to Nantucket. I can't wait to see Packy after that. They've been talking so much shit about the Celtics and they fucking finally lost. Suck it from the back, Boston. Who is Packy? Packy owns the chicken box.

You love that. What's up with that place? I fucking love Nantucket. I don't know. I just love the vibe. It's like a mountain town kind of? No, it's an island. Yeah, but it's like a people don't live there year-round kind of thing. The locals do. They're all my friends. But yeah, like the all the rage. Definitely, it's more banging in the summer. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. You don't play there in like November. So come on, see us play.

That show's almost sold out. Is it close to Martha's Vineyard? Yeah. Okay. And then June 21st, we're in Charlotte, North Carolina. 22nd, we are back in Charleston, Isle of Plums, where fucking Paul Cawthon got arrested. You hear about that? Who?

Paul Cawthon. Who's that? Paul Cawthon's that song, cocaine, country dancing with you. Oh, a little bit. I know that, but why'd he get arrested for? He had some drugs on his tour van.

I mean, yeah, you're supposed to. I know, but the cops are being assholes, and they think they've... Norcac, a lackey cop. And then all these fucking trolls are after him. Like, fuck these trolls. Don't go after Paul. What are they at him about?

I don't know. They're just... Now they're belittling his songwriting and shit. So I'm like, I've been barking back at these... What do you mean belittling his songwriting So I'm like I've been What do you mean belittling his songwriting Anyway And then the 23rd we're in Asheville North Carolina In Black Mountain at Piscot Burry Oh sick

That's gonna be awesome Then we're at Two Nights at Kill Devil Hills North Carolina that's the Outer Banks You're just doing North Carolina A lot of it 27th Row in Noca, Virginia That's almost sold out This is all June, right?

This is all June I'll just do the June dates Dewey Beach on the 28th At Bottle and Cork Bigger venue I'm sad that we're not At the fucking Starboard Wait, where's that?

Dewey Beach That's where Biden lives How sick Sometimes his His His granddaughters Come out to the show Beautiful, beautiful granddaughters

Yeah, there's like Security guards and shit Or like Secret service It was pretty awesome. They're worth a lot of money. Felt really cool. It's so cool to have someone else have security around you. Yeah, like the people who

are coming to my show had their own security. That's pretty cool. It is kind of cool. The 29th, Virginia Beach. That's almost sold out. The 30th, Frederick, Maryland. I think that's Baltimore. Is that Baltimore, Frederick, Maryland? I think it's like a suburb of D.C. between Baltimore. Baltimore always packs out. And 30th, Frederick, Maryland. I think that's Baltimore. Is that Baltimore, Frederick, Maryland? I think it's like a suburb of D.C. between Baltimore. Baltimore always packs out.

And then Peach Fest, July 1st. And then we go to the Hamptons. It's a lot of rich people shows. Why the fuck are you guys in the Hamptons? I don't know, but they're charging like $150 a ticket. You guys are just like literally doing rich people shit in June. Yeah. You're just going to rich people's resort towns.

I'm going to try to find Sugar Mama. I ain't mad at you. I'm going to find a trust fund Sugar Mama. Yeah, who's 10 years younger than you. No, you like older women. I like older women. I want a Sugar Mama. That'd be sick.

Yeah. So come on out to the June. Buy tickets. Now that it's like getting closer, now they're selling way more. So grab them before they sell out and then might as well promote because we love Buffalo and Rochester. Are you going to stream any of them on volume?

Yes, we are. We'll talk about volume in a second. Yeah, we are. We're doing two of them. Rochester, New York. Party in the Park. That'll be fun on July 13th and then July 14th. Buffalo, New York. Party in the Park sounds like one of those things where you're not allowed to do drugs on stage because it's like a city thing.

Yeah, I had to kind of tell them I'm not doing any of that shit. But we did it with Twitter like three or four years ago and it was a fucking party. Rochester and Buffalo are so fucking funny. Yeah, Rochester people don't care about drugs. It's what they do. It's not more about the drugs. I think they just drink a shit ton.

It's not everyone's ripping coke and going out to the park. I bet they just drink a shit ton. Yeah. It's not everyone's ripping coke and going out to the park. I bet you could find some coke in Rochester. Yeah. So grab your tickets. Speaking of shows, like you were saying, my co-host of the year. That was a pretty good segue.

Volume.com. If you don't want to listen to us, if you want to see our faces, you want to see how happy and joyous I am after a fucking killer weekend of festivals, head to volume.com. Volume.com slash Andy Frasca. All the podcasts are stockpiled on there. So if you want to see your favorite artists

that I've interviewed, you want to see their facial expressions when we're asking them the tough questions. Like what? Like how many times do you jerk off in a day? There it is. Head to volume.com. Also, they're becoming one of the leaders

in live streaming concerts. So yeah, they're getting popping. Yeah, they are. They're getting big. I'm really proud of them. It's been amazing to watch volume grow, and I'm very excited to be part of the family. So head to volume.com.

You're like the Jamaican bobsled team. Yeah, cool runnings. Oh, my God. Are we cool runnings? No, they are. They're cool runnings. We're the weights in the front of the sled. So shout out to volume.com.

Ben, I love you. I've been really proud of us. Like, you know, we're normally kind of space cadets, and we normally put the episodes out on Monday, right when it finished, but we've been ahead of the game, and I think volume.com is making us more professional. So shout out to volume.com for making this a real legit podcast.

And they have a good production staff for live streams. That was my favorite thing about them. What have you been up to? What do you mean? What have you been doing? I feel like we haven't talked a lot. I've been doing a lot of trivia-related kind of shit. I've been working on some music.

I've been doing some recording sessions. Not as many gigs. It's summertime in Denver. No one's booking. I've been kind of starting. Yeah, but people are making albums and shit. And I've been doing... I've been starting this little organ trio.

We've been doing kind of some local gigs. Just kind of getting it together. I'm going to try to maybe do like a hard ticket thing at Ophelia's with that. Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah. It's cool. I got a really good organist. I'm just working out the drummer part.

And maybe I'll add another guy for the Ophelia show. I met a great drummer. He's in this band called Squeaky Feet. Squeaky Feet. They're kind of like an Umphreys vibe. Dude, that drummer, he recorded on a couple tracks. I was there. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Dude, he's amazing. Oh, yeah, you did. Well, you're a great musician. That's why I hired Nick Gerlach. That's not to sound too desperate here. I mean, you do kind of sound desperate. I'm not desperate. I just don't want people to think I'm in your band. That's why I hired Nick Gerlach. That's not to sound too desperate here. I mean, you do kind of sound desperate. I'm not desperate. I just don't want people to think I'm in your band.

That's the only part of it. If you don't want to hire me, but you don't think I'm in your band... I ain't going to lie. You sound a little desperate. Okay. Trophy guy. If you don't want to book me, and you don't think I'm in Andy's band, or you don't want to hire me for your band, that's fine.

I just don't want you to think that I'm not available. I want you to stare at this. It's fine. I want you to stare at this. You're basically like those guys that put on the veteran hat and go to the grocery store and ask for money. Yo, yo, Bo, zoom in on me. Zoom in on me.

Never give up on your dreams, people. Woke of the year. Never give up on your dreams. You want trophies in your life? You can get them. Just work hard. Name six Phish songs. No.

They can't even name Phish songs. The Phish trolls have been coming out of the woodwork to try to belittle money. Really? They still know how to get on the internet? They can't rotate a PDF. Boom. Got them.

Boasted. I like Phish, actually. They're pretty good. I do, too. They're a good band. Their fans are... Speaking of Phish, we're doing a live stream at the Phish concert. Hell yeah. My first Phish concert, guys, are going to be at Phish, actually. They're pretty good. They're a good band. Their fans are... Speaking of Phish, we're doing a live stream

at the Phish concert. My first Phish concert, guys, are going to be at Phish's Dicks. I was trying to set that up the whole time. You're never seen Phish. We are playing at Ophelia's the Wednesday before Phish Dicks. We announced that? Yeah.

Live podcast, not your band. Not my band. We're going to do a whole podcast. We have a special guest. We can't tell you who it is, but it a special guest. We can't tell you yet. We can't tell you who it is, but it's really big. We can't tell you who it is because we don't know who it is.

Yeah, because... But they are going to be big. We got a good budget. We got a good budget to get a big guest, so until someone says yes, we're going to keep you in suspense like we already have it. Yeah, the amount of money we'll give them

for like half an hour, that's... Right. Seems like we should get someone pretty good. Woo! Keep it. I clapped that, too. Let's make some money.

This is the summer of making money. If it sells really well, we just won't get a guest. Yeah, we'll just say... Yeah, our guest is Shawn Eccles. Play a parody song, Shawn. Speaking of Shawn Eccles, I got to give my band some love. They were the rhythm section for Death Kings. The whole thing?

Yeah. They had to learn 22... Mikey was in it. But I guess... Oh, Karub was out. And the other guitar player was out too. Oh, really? Andy Avila was born to play punk.

And Sean just bleeds punk. He's a Mexican from LA. They rock. They fucking rock down there, dude. East Los. Yeah. And I just got to give shout out to Stace. A good call on getting the boys up there. East LA, man. Dancer killed it. They invented a lot of that shit. It was a lot of fun watching my band play

the punk music, because they love that shit. Lemmy. He's like, Lemmy, dude. Did Floyd? I thought I saw a video. Floyd was in it. I got to do Killing the Natives. God, he'd be Stasek should replace himself With Floyd in the neighborhood Man I love our fucking community Our community is so fresh

God we are the We fuck We fuck This community fucks This community Shout out to Humphries Shout out to Pigeons Shout out to Twiddle

Shout out to Pigeons was there Dogs in a pile Pigeons weren't there But Greg's been in there Shout out to Aggie Shout out to the whole crew Someone was on your Pigeons weren't there, but Greg's been in here. Shout out to Aggie.

Shout out to the whole crew. Someone was on your Facebook group the other day showing a picture of Greg like, we should see who's more crazy, Greg or Andy or something. I was like, Andy is a thousand times crazier. Greg's a dad. Greg's like a normal guy. And he's looking buff and hot. I've been seeing pictures of Greg lately

and he's looking buff and hot. I'm not sure I agree with all these jam band guys getting in shape. Why? It doesn't work. You know what I mean? If you're a real jam band singer. Chill out. Chill out.

No. What is wrong with you? I'm just having fun here. I do miss you. I'm having fun. I like to talk shit. Do you really want to come to Charleston? I have trivia to host.

You're going to cancel hanging out with your friend because you have to do trivia. It's fun as shit. It is. And it's been blowing up. Yeah. It's actually a good time. Oh, speaking of that, if you guys are trivia hosts in your local communities... You should buy my fucking book.

I've sold 30 copies so far. That's good. Pretty good for a week. Yeah. And it's only five bucks. Five American dollars. Go on my website, NickGorloxCold.com. Buy it.

And if you are, you're officially considered hot, I have a promo code. I am hot. It doesn't get you a discount or anything, but you put it in and then the system knows that you're hot. Oh my God.

I really did do that, by the way. Are you serious? I made a promo code with a 0% discount. Why don't you, if they buy the book, give them 15% off of an I am hot t-shirt? No. I think I'll just use the I Am Hot.

I can't with you. I just can't. You don't listen. I know. I can do that, but let's just... You don't listen. I don't need to do that. I'm trying to make you money so you don't have to rely on playing fucking saxophone for some... I like playing saxophone. I'm really good at it.

I know, but... No, I do have other... This is depressing. I do have a promo code for my merch site, too. That's also... I am very hot. It actually does get you a discount of 20%. Don't worry. I made everything 20% more expensive before I did that. Like what companies do, you know what I mean?

They'll be like 25% off, but they raise the price 25%. Right. Hey, man. It's America. What we do here. That's what they do. We tell you you're getting a discount when you're paying the same price.

So are we going to have a good week? Mm-hmm. Do you want to give them motivation, Mr. Fucking Optimistic? We should. We've only gone 50 minutes. Speaking of trivia, the host of Jeopardy!

graced us with some amazing content. I think you're going to really love this. He was actually like very way more down to earth. Yeah, and he was funny. He had a wit to him. I think you're going to really love this. He was actually very way more down to earth. Yeah, and he was funny. He had a wit to him. I mean, I guess he's super smart, so the witty thing.

Jeopardy's basically wit, right? It's the quickest one to get the answer. Yeah. I mean, I thought he was incredible. We asked him about groupies. I can't believe Disney let him on our show. If Jeopardy gets groupies. He said, yeah.

He said, yes. We won't tell you what they are. He said they're Disney let him on our show. If Jeopardy gets groupies. He said yeah. He said yes. We won't tell you what they are. He said they're all 70-year-olds. Andy's dream. I love older women. Just imagine 10, 60-year-old, 80-year-old women side stage. Go, Ken, go! Aunt Cor. Oh, man.

What are you going to do the rest of this week? When do you leave? Friday? I got asked to go to Vegas to go to the Stanley Cup Finals. Two classic hockey towns in the finals this year. Miami and Vegas. Oh, is the Florida team from Miami? Yeah.

Yeah, they're in Miami. But it's also kind of weird. They're both newer teams. So I don't understand this. Florida's from 93. They've been in 30 years. Florida? No, I thought they were a transplant team. They came in the same this. Florida's from 93. They've been in 30 years. Florida? I thought, no, I thought they were a transplant team. They came in the same year as the Avalanche.

All right, cool. Well, shout out to Miami. Shout out to Vegas. I'm going to be there. I think I'm going to go to game one or two. You don't know Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup finals since like, I think, 92 or so? Yeah, because America rules. Exactly. Thank you. We're even better at you. I think you're better than us at losers. Yeah, Canada. Anyway, Indy Thank you. We're even better at you. I think you're better than us at it. Losers.

Yeah, Canada. Anyway, Indy's Canadian tour next fall. Anyway, we're going to Canada next... You don't play Canada that much. We play Canada once every couple years. So much taxes up there. Why do you guys tax everything so much? I know.

I think I had to pay a lot, or they withheld a lot of our money. Yeah, it's weird. They're weird up there. They keep track of everything. It's very... I got a money. Yeah, it's weird. They're like weird up there. They keep track of everything. It's very communist. I got a new record out, guys, also. August 11th, it comes out. Optimist. Pre-order it.

People have been buying the vinyls. People have been buying all the pre-order merch. Let's keep it popping. How many vinyls are there available to be pre-ordered? Can you only do a certain amount? Anyone could do it. It's like getting back to where people can print them easily again. It's not like a big...

Yeah, it's not. Because COVID, it's been three years. Remember two years ago, you couldn't get vinyl, basically? No, it's like you're on delay for seven months. You had to get records in a year before. Who did the artwork for your vinyl? Oh, Justin Folk. He's a killer.

Yeah? Does he do your other stuff? Yeah. He did my last rec. He did my last... One record was a photograph. Yeah, Justin Folk. He's killer. Yeah, does he do your other stuff? Yeah. He did my last rec. He did my last... One record was a photograph. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, we're going to have a great week.

Nick, you're going to have a great week. Yeah. I'm going to put all this good energy into your body right now. I'm in a good mood. You're going to get hired. You're going to get that fucking big B-level jam band fucking gig.

I want to be in the Harry Styles band. I'm just kidding. Yeah, why don't you ask your homie Paris? I'm just kidding. That's sick, though. He's on tour with Harry Styles right now. They're in Europe. Sick. Did you see he set the record for biggest crowd in the history of Scotland? Oh, no. Over the weekend, 65,000 people.

Oh, my God. He's huge. Yeah, he seems pretty cool. Paris said he's real nice to everybody. You think I have a chance with Taylor Swift? No Why not? I don't think she'd like you very much

I work hard, she works hard Yeah, you're both songwriters I feel like I could be the guy that dates Taylor Swift That'd be cool I kind of find her likable I like her too Everything in my body Seems like you wouldn't like her

She's nice to people Yeah I mean do I like her music She loves her fans Music is fine I love my fans She loves working She's a workaholic

I'm a workaholic I mean it'd be a perfect relationship We won't know each other at all Can you date someone more successful than you Yes Okay that's good I can She's definitely more successful than anyone

And she'll always be There's no way anyone we know I mean she she might... Like, maybe no one ever might catch up to this the way the music industry is now. It would be tight to, like, date a, like, field lacrosse girl. Field hockey?

Field hockey. Have you seen the Dutch team? Lacrosse is field lacrosse. Are they hot or something? Oh, my God. They're hot. It's like, it's insane. My grandma used to coach field hockey.

If you haven't looked at this Dutch national team field hockey team, go pull them up. I'm sure Bo will probably find this one. Yeah, I think it's already in your bookmark probably. I know Bo likes to use that. He likes field hockey women. Field hockey Dutch. Dutch field hockey team.

Dutch? These women are so beautiful. And they're fast and they're athletes. Look at this. Field hockey is pretty wild. Oh my God. Beautiful. My grandma started

the field hockey program at my mom's house. Shout out to the Netherlands. We're about to announce our Europe tour here pretty soon. Are you going there? We're going,

oh my God. Oh, you are going there? We're doing, it's only a five-day tour. Utrecht or what? I can't say yet. But we're also going to London. London.

And we're coming back to Bomberg. That's the bomb, too. Yeah. Yeah, they didn't get bombed, actually. That's why it's so nice there now. We didn't destroy it. Yeah. You deserved it.

Oh, my God. Okay, I got to get out of here. But they were killing your people in droves. I know, I know. Back me up. I know, you're right. They arrested you for no reason. I know.

I still love Germans. Yeah, Germans are cool. Jesus. Oh, God. I'm so German, too. Do people listen to us? Yeah, they definitely do. I get tons of messages.

I got people that are making memes of the mayor thing. Oh, really? Yeah, it's funny. I get tons of messages. People have been making memes of the mayor thing. Oh, really? Yeah, I saw that on our fan page. Oh, you can't be my deputy mayor anymore, I decided. I need a minority woman. I'm going to have my friend Lede do it. You're too busy. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

No, no. No, no, no. You can play my inauguration. I'll get you a nice check. Nope. I don't want it. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.

It's like a... No, no, no. I'll get you a... This is about winning, okay? I need a minority. Woman is my deputy. You need me. You're not a minority.

Yes, I am. You're a woman, like, emotionally, yes, but... Jesus fucking Christ. No. I need my friend Lade. This feels like secession. Fine. I guess... Okay, then you're Kendall.

If you haven't seen the ending yet, you'll see why that's funny. Okay. Lade is going to be my deputy mayor. She's black. She's worked in education and into your old life. She's a female. She just got inducted into the Hall of Fame

at her college for basketball I'm not going to be like the Bruce Springsteen Of the fucking Nick Gerlach We're done promoting this If I don't get a piece of the cup No, you're my Bruce Springsteen I'm Obama, you're Bruce Springsteen No, no, no, no

Fine I like to put my name in the hat I will be running for the Indianapolis mayor I can't wait for the firstapolis mayor. Right on, bitch. I can't wait for the first debate. Frasco versus Gerlach. Okay, let's get a real debate. I'll debate you. Okay.

I'm actually kind of scared. I'm a master debater. Ooh, hot. Get it? Yeah. I want some great debate. I will absolutely annihilate you Trump-style in any debate. I won't even bring up one goddamn political topic.

It'll be personal attack, personal attack, personal attack, personal attack, personal attack, until you wither in any debate. I won't even bring up one goddamn political topic. It'll be personal attack, personal attack, personal attack, personal attack, personal attack, until you wither away and die. So let's go. You run against me. And meanwhile, we both get like seven and eight votes, and then some guy beats us like 400,000 votes. But did you see Trump starting to talk shit to him?

Trump's got him so beat. He had his goddamn, he announced his candidacy last week on Twitter. First of all, it didn't work. It was glitching out the whole time. It was a thing with Elon Musk, who owns the company. Only 300,000 people watched it. Which is less than one of your goddamn dance party streams. Almost.

I'll clap. Shout out to the dance party. That's why I think I got you in this election. I am running... I'm putting my name in the hat as well. Here's the problem. Fuck you, Nick. the hat as well. Here's the problem. Fuck you, Nick. No, fuck you.

Here's the problem with that. Andy Frasco, 2034 versus Nick Gerlach. Mayor of Indianapolis. Mayor of Indianapolis. Listen, you really want him to be your mayor? And also, those people can't all legally vote in Indiana. What, four of them can? You know, what do you want, a strict guy?

You want someone to let you, you know? I'm strict? Hell yeah. It's going to be like fucking 1986 over there. The 80s were incredible, so the economy was booming. It was right before it all. Okay, Reagan. Yeah. No. You don't think me being Reagan's going to

help me in Indiana? You've already lost. I will still put my name in the hat. I am nobody's Bruce Springsteen. After I give you the outlet, I give you our fan base to promote your campaign. I want to be your fucking right hand man. You don't want to play arenas and have a 50-year career?

You don't want to be my Bruce Springsteen? I want to be your right hand man. I want to change what's going on in that city of Indiana. I need a right hand woman. Fine. I want to be the third one. I want to be board of education. Give me... I want to be board of education. Give me board of education.

You probably were board of education. Okay, we're done. Thanks for being on the show today, Nick. B-O-R-E-D, board. We love you. Shout out to volume.com. Shout out to Dialed and Gummies. Shout out to everyone who's been showing up to all these festivals. We've got 11 more to go, people. Don't get sick of us yet

because we're everywhere. I feel like that's less than you did last year. Yeah, we did 22 festivals last year. That means next year you're going to be on 40 if Brian lets you. Every other year you get the big fest. When are you going to open for... Shut the fuck up.

You brought them up earlier, not me. I know, but I'm bleeping that out too. I will not ever do that. I probably will if they ask me. I'm bleeping that out too. Bleep it. I will not ever do that. I probably will if they ask me. I'll never do that. Unless they ask. No, you won't. That wouldn't be ever.

No, I don't think I would. You don't open. You can't open. You're too high something, energy. We've been talking to a couple bands that we might open for. Who, Aerosmith? No. Aerosmith? No. Aerosmith.

Yeah, that'd be tight. Yeah, that'd be sick. I said that because they're doing a big tour. Yeah. But you know who is opening some Black Crows? Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Anyway, love yourself.

Be who you want to be. Love yourself. And Nick, like always. Thank you for being a friend. We're late. Oh, yeah. And Nick, like always. We're late. You do that part. Have a good night, everyone. Thank you so much for being on the show.

Watching the show every week. Next week, we got Ken Jennings. Then we got DJ Barum. Then we got DJ Barum. Then we got Bob Moses. And the tallest man on earth. And everyone else that's going to be on the show this summer. Swedish. We'll see you everywhere. I'm afraid.

Alright. Love yourself. Because you deserve love too. Hallelujah. Goodbye. I love too. Hallelujah. Goodbye. I love singing that shit. You tuned in to the World Saving Podcast with Andy Fresco. Thank you for listening to this episode.

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