Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast - EP 301: 2024 World Saving Award Ceremony

Episode Date: December 23, 2024

It's that special time of year again, in which our esteemed hosts, Andrew Mitchell Frasco & Nicholas Cornelius Gerlach III, present to you our dear listeners: The 3rd Annual, 2024 World Saving Award Ceremony! An awards show to END all inferior award shows... A truly star-studded event with special guests and startling revelations to make your head spin. Presented to you in stereophonic sound AND technicolor visuals, only viewable at Volume.com!  RIP Quincy Jones Call, leave a message, and tell us if you think that YOU deserve to get a 300th episode prize: [phone]  Check out our new album!, L'Optimist on all platforms Follow us on Instagram @worldsavingpodcast For more information on Andy Frasco, the band and/or the blog, go to: AndyFrasco.com Produced by Andy Frasco, Nick Gerlach, Joe Angelhow, & Chris Lorentz Audio mix by Chris Lorentz Featuring: Mara Davis

Programs usually seen at this time will not be shown tonight in order to bring you this special program. Andy Frasca's World Saving Podcast, the last episode of the year. I can't believe we made it to 300 episodes. We did. Pretty amazing. I'm your co-host, Nick Gerlach, and today's a very special day. It is the annual the annual world saving Award ceremony ladies and gentlemen, but we have the drum roll in there. Yeah. Okay. I think so No, that's not it. We might need to reload that I

Got it. Perfect. It's on the top. It's all right top We're very organized. It's been a, I slept all, fucking, I just slept. When I sleep, I feel good. Yeah, man. I don't know, I don't have anything to add to that. Very basic. It's a very basic part of living. Core principle of being alive.

If you sleep, you stay alive. If you drink water, you stay alive. If you don't torture your fucking body and your brain, you stay alive. If you drink water, you stay alive. If you don't torture your fucking body and your brain, you stay alive. And that's what it took me 36 years to realize. Fun to be hungover some days and then realize what you're missing though too. Yeah. Like when you have a cold and you really appreciate breathing more. You know what I'm talking about? When you're all stuffed up. When you're all stuffed up and you're like, man, I really took breathing for granted those other days. Yeah, exactly. So Nicholas, if you guys are new to the podcast,

we have an award ceremony that is curated by our co-host, Nicholas Gerlach. Me. And why don't you tell everyone about the award ceremony? So this is our third one. Third annual. So every year we do for the last year, I go through and I make a little list of awards, different categories, I think there's like 23 categories this year. Right. Usually around 20. And it's curated by me, I pick different awards, they're from culture, they're from society, they're from Andy's life, they're from Andy's tour, they're from the music industry and it's a broad swath.

And we just have a little fun and we pick our favorite thing from the year and it's a good way to look back at the year and remember some stuff like what why the fuck are we in the music industry yeah I'll tell you this year was a little tough with that I took out the conspiracy theory award this year because this is the election just nominated the news cycle too much this year and it was all just around the election I don't want to talk about the election for an hour no yeah so I took out the conspiracy theory one. If you have your favorite conspiracy theory, you can just think of that on your own. But this year is kind of boring, except for like maybe a little bit of the aliens, but that's every year. Yeah. And they're never coming, I guess. So whatever.

Yeah, they're never coming. So you're like, gotcha, bitch. Woo! They start to show up. I think we should just get right into it. Let's do it. All right. So I have the envelope here Chris play the award ceremony Music I have the envelope right here. If you'd like to do the honors and open it. Oh my god There you go. Hold on you made you know, I was sent to me That way it's never tampered with or interfered with the are selected. Wow, I'm honored. Thank you. What if it just explodes and you die?

Nick Gerlach's World Saving Podcast. I love that you put it in an envelope. First of all, I wanted to discuss one thing, actually, before we start the awards. Did you see the list of time person of the year yesterday? It's terrible. Was Trump on it? It's like him.

It's like four war criminals, a princess, Joe Rogan and the chairman of the feds. It's like the worst list of... I'm out on Time Magazine. I'm out on Time Magazine too. And there's a... When was the last time they put someone... Oh, but they did Athlete of the Year. They did... Caitlin Clark. We have Athlete of the Year. Let's not ruin it. Okay. That's our third thing. So I don't know. I think we're out on Time Person of the Year. This is going to... This is your new awards, guys. Forget Time magazine. Whoever bought Ad Space and that. Taylor Swift won it last year. We're looking for sponsors for next year's world. We might even do it at a place. That'd be cool. Like live? Yeah, hell yeah.

So I was thinking for the first award we're gonna go, we're gonna do an Andy Frasco one to kick it off. It's Andy Frasco Market of the year and i'll list my choices and then you add yeah i picked buffalo because buffalo's on there every year because you play there what eight times a year and it's always sold out and they love you there and there you'll play there and like two weeks later i'll see a post on your instagram like when you coming back to buffalo it's like i just played there chill out christ it's like you might be bigger than josh allen there second one brooklyn i love that uh rooftop show you did this year with the horror. And that went viral.

That went viral. Shout out to all the Jews making that viral. Is that two million views now? Yeah, shout out to the, that's every Jew, I think. And then the next one is. Every Jew saw that. The next one is Chicago. Yeah, I like Chicago.

You had two great shows this year. You had the Metro. The Metro. That sold out I like Chicago. You had two great shows this year. You had the Metro. The Metro. That sold out in February. I went through your whole thing this year. Wow. And then you did the Salt Shed opening for My Morning Jacket.

And that was a great show. Yeah. I think Chicago's been a growing market for you. It took you a little time to catch on there. Agree. Chicago's like that. Once they accept you, you're theirs. That Midwestern love, dude.

Denver, just got to throw Denver in there. Atlanta, that's your southern market, I think. And then I put St. Louis on there because I said this, here's what I'm gonna say, not your best market, but I said, I will switch the winner of this award to St. Louis if New Year's Eve sells out. Nick, you're on our side? I'm always on your side.

The more money you make, the more money I make. Okay, so great job by Andy so far. I wrote a fucking four page document and he's hitting the goddamn come button. Do you have any markets you'd like to add? Oh. Because you were actually there. Yeah, I would add Cleveland.

Ooh, I love Cleveland. It does rock too. Cleveland does rock. I would add Cleveland, Ohio. And I would Cleveland. It does rock to Cleveland does rock. I would add Cleveland, Ohio and I would add a Any like LA or No, still hating. Oh, you know what? I'd add San Diego. Oh, they've been popping off They've been popping off and they weren't that good before. Nope. Never. Alright, so we'll do those. Okay. Um, I'm gonna let you pick the winner of this one. Okay.

Because you were there. Go. I'm gonna say Cleveland, Ohio. Wow. Go Browns. Jameis Winston. Ohio. You really made my heart happy this year.

We should send them a plaque. We should. Cleveland doesn't win a lot of stuff. Cleveland doesn't. It's my favorite football team. Shout out. Shout out to Cleveland. You've been watching Hard Knocks. Oh yeah, James Winston's my guy. If I could be, if we could run for the mayor of Cleveland, I want, I want Winston to be, if there was a vice president, he'd be the CTE out there and I'd be

his VP for sure. Do you think Cleveland, do you think of it more as a Midwest or a Northeast city? Midwest. I know. Even though it's so Northeast. It does have a Northeast vibe and it's very old. I was watching Hard Knocks and like, I didn't realize all the AFC teams are so close together. I know it's cool, right? Yeah, that's like a cool vibe. It's historical and cool. Yeah, that's why everyone hates like if you're like, it's kind of like, it's a cool rivalry. Yeah, it's actually like regional. I got to say- NFC North Slickhead too. Pittsburgh is a great city too, but- I love Pittsburgh.

Cleveland's really been stepping up. All right, we'll give it to them, and they do rock. And they do rock. Shout out to Cleveland. Our next category is Athlete of the Year. Okay. Number one nominee, Bronnie James. Here's why, I have some reasons why.

True underdog story, he overcame heart surgery to become the 55th pick in the NBA draft against all odds to one of the premier franchises in the NBA. Second nominee, Ray Gun. Ray Gun? The dancer from Australia? Yeah, see, it's a nice, we're going through the year here. Made the Olympics, despite being objectively terrible at what she does. A true underdog story. Three, Caitlin Clark. Despite being objectively terrible at what she does. A true underdog story. Three

Caitlin Clark, okay Completely changed the media narrative on the WNBA selling out arenas at her games Also made it so the WNBA only lost 40 million dollars last year Wow, she did all this despite not making the Olympic team or winning her league's MVP award. Very impressive. Wow for Steph Curry. Just because he went crazy in that fucking gold medal game. That was so... That was that was the most American, that was the most nationalism I felt for the whole country. Very basketball heavy. That was like the most I felt like a patriot since, I

don't know. It's all basketball and one break dancer from Australia from Indiana And 49 49 other states. It's just basketball and the winner of the India the world's every podcast after the year is Brawny James yeah Imagine your heart gives out so much about nepotism? What do you mean nepotism? Nepotism. What? That he got in because of his dad.

Who's his dad? LeBron James. Oh, fuck. I thought he... Shit. Well, I already picked it. All right. Shout out.

We don't judge winners, we accept winners. So shout out to Bronnie James. Yes. And there's, this is one of those awards, some of these awards are just, I'm just going to pick the winner, they don't have a list of nominees, okay? So it's an award and we're just giving it out. This is the thing that secretly ruled this year, but no one will admit it. And the winner is...

Oh, sorry, hold on. Two for three. The Republican National Convention. Look, everybody wanted to hate it and I get why you hate it, but Hulk Hogan, Kid Rock, it was arguably the funniest thing that you could watch all year. The worst celebrities saying the worst things in the middle of where were they Milwaukee this year it was over there in Cleveland. I don't know either way It was like it felt like something it felt like sort of like a mega church sponsored by Monster Energy drink

I gotta admit I watched the whole thing. It was hilarious. I'm not saying you have to agree with them It was hilarious. Everyone wants to say it sucked. No, it was one of the best watches of the year. This is America. I'd watch it for the entertainment purpose. It was so, I watched the whole thing. It was so entertaining. I gotta watch it. I'm gonna Google it.

The Democratic National Convention on the other hand was just a sad, sad thing. Okay. Do you think that's why the Republicans are winning? Cause it's just like more fun. They just know how to connect with like people who go to work every day. We're going, we brought this monster truck driver into the...

Yeah, Republicans get vibes, Democrats don't understand vibes. Here's a song, God Bless America by Kid Rock. Basically, it worked. I mean he dominated, he won the popular vote. He's the first Republican to do it in like 40 years. Yeah. The Floyd, oh here's a repeating, it's an award that we do every year. The Floyd, get your ass to work, you lazy piece of shit award. For best sub.

Yeah, get your ass to fucking work Floyd. I need help with two last names on this one. Nick, Nick the bass player. Nick Chamion. Richie Derbyshire. Richie Derbyshire, those are the two bass players that sub for Floyd that I could think of. Then me, I'm one of the nominees, because I subbed for Ernie when he, when he, I don't know where he was, who cares? And then Sam Kelly. The other saxophone player. Yep, so we've got two bass

players and two sax players. Two guys who don't want to go to work. Awesome. Out of five guys in my band, that's really awesome. And then the final nominee, the lobster and seafood sub from Quiznos. Eww! Anytime you can get shellfish from a restaurant within 500 feet of a highway exit. Hold on, hold on. There's a lobster seafood sub at Quiznos? Yeah, disgusting, right? Oh, God, vomit.

We should make a list of things you'd rather eat than that and see how long before you get to that. Ugh. So, yeah, that's disgusting, right? I mean, who gets seafood by the highway? Anyway, the winner is... Me. I win. It was down to me and Sam Kelly. First of all, bass, easy, whatever. It's down to me and Sam Kelly. The reason I gave it to myself

is because I had to go play in Iowa and he got to play at Hula Ween. Yeah, that's true. So, fuck you. Respect. I'll give it to you. I'll give it to you. Yeah, yeah, I need an award. The most embarrassing celebrity incident.

I had to play in Iowa, same, you had to play in Hula Ween, fuck you. And I had to drive, remember I had to ride in the van too. Yeah, you had to drive in the van. So it's you. And I had to drive, remember I had to ride in the van too. Yeah, you had to drive in the van. So it's fair. And it was like at some like- Weird festival thing. Yeah.

Cool. Most embarrassing celebrity incident of 2024. Ooh. Number one, the Justin Timberlake DUI. Remember that? That was embarrassing. Got a DUI even though he's rich, right before a world tour.

Also even more embarrassing, the cop didn't know who he was He's getting old. He's getting old. He was hot man. I love Justin. Yeah, he's alright a little corny for me But number two Lizzo Quitting music and coming back in the same weekend because people got mad at her for fat shaming on her Amazon Prime dancing show She quit and then came back in two days. Yeah, she she tweeted that she's quitting music and then like two days later she's like no I'm back. Kind of respected. She's had a rough year. Three, Nelly for having ecstasy but not car insurance on him when he got pulled over. Oh I remember that. Yeah a bunch of ecstasy. I'm like you're 55 bro. Well that's cool but you gotta have car

insurance. How you gonna be that rich? You can afford that much ecstasy but you don't have car insurance on what I consume? I didn't even realize that. He didn't have car insurance at all? That was part of the charges. He didn't have car insurance, which is kind of badass too, because he's like so rich, you can just pay for it. Number four.

Morgan- Maybe he just never could drive. Probably not. Yeah, he's probably just picking up the ecstasy actually. Number four, Morgan Wallen throwing a chair through a bar window in Nashville that's actually pretty hilarious yeah it's not gonna win there's one more okay Jojo you know Jojo see was no she's like that kitty thing that tried to she tried to rebound brain herself as edgy and cool this year

and came out came off about as edgy and cool as a community theater production of music Jojo see what who's that it that? I'm just kind of good you don't know. She's not going to win anyway. The winner is... ... Gotta be Justin Timberlake. I agree. Getting a DUI post-Uber

and then the cop doesn't even know who you are. That had to be a rough day for him. His mugshot was hilarious. I like, I would have gone with Nelly too. Nelly was close. With the ecstasy driving with no car insurance. But he wasn't driving drunk. He wasn't inebriated. That's embarrassing. So how did he get pulled over?

He just had that shit on. He's probably speeding or something. They're just pulling over black guys maybe at St. Louis or whatever. Cops are kind of racist sometimes. Getting a DUI when you're rich post-Uber. That's embarrassing. I'm sorry. Guy doesn't know who you are. I get that you're trying to get home to Jessica Biel as fast as you can. I've seen pictures. She's great. She's beautiful. But come on, dude. Call a driver. Come on. Shame on you, Justin. Okay. Here's one of everybody's favorite categories every year. Ooh. Hottest guy we had on the pod this year. I love this one. I want to clap pre-crap. Good year. I love this one. Good year for hot guys. Good year for hot guys. I have six nominees. Six nominees

for hot guys. And I don't know who to pick so you're gonna have to help me. Number one, Jacob Noll. Oh he was hot. He might be too young though. He's 29. I know but Mark White Mark Weistrich Mike Ward from Midland. Ooh Mark was hot too. Nick Hexham. Hold on, hold on. Let's let me just think. Nick's okay. I know you think while I say them. Nick. Slow it down here. I want to think. Okay Mark Weistrack or Weistrack. I can't remember how to pronounce it. Weisland. I know it's ACH at the end. Nick Hexham. Ooh he is fucking hot. Number four Evan Hohner. Hohner was hot. Divers body too. We didn't see his body, but I know what's going on. Call hot. Can do a flip.

Ooh. Number five, maybe my favorite, a swampy Florida man named JJ Gray. Lot of Dilfs in this area. Also his attitude's very hot. Yeah. And the last one is Gavin Rossdale of Bush fame. Oh God.

Legendary attractive man. I've been, I've think he was hot for it. Don't let's look. I'll let you pick. Okay. But those are the nominees for hottest guy we had on the pod. Jacob Noor. He was hot. Great hair. 29 not bad. Mark from Midland. That's a man. Alpha male. That is a man. Drank on the podcast. He drank. He showed us his Rolex. He was talking about his near-death experiences with motorcycles.

Yeah, and other things. Very hot. Nick Hexham. Just hot. Oh, God. Nick Hexham. He's a millennial woman's dream, man. He was on Men's Health. We have to put all the accolades. Holy shit, I forgot about that. Yeah. He was on the cover of Men's Health.

And he's in a band with a number of her name. Evan Hohner, Diver Body. I'm taking him out of the mix. Too young? Too young. It's like two on the nose. Two on the nose, it's too young. But he is hot. He's hot. Yeah, but it's not for this. This is a different kind of hot. Yeah. And J.J. Gray. His attitude to his attitude makes his life. It's very hot. And like his lifestyle and the Florida thing and the wife beater thing, he wears a wife beater. It's pretty. I am going to say Gavin Rastel's Gavin.

I mean, he's Gavin's OG hot. Yes. Been hot. Stay hot. Not much to say there. Not much to say that I'm going to fuck. Tough one. This one's a really hot. Stay hot. Not much to say there. Um, not much to say there. I'm gonna... fuck. Tough one. This one's a really tough one, Nick. I think I'm going to say hottest man... I think I'm gonna have to give it to...

The type of man I think is hot. I think the guy from Midland, Mark. Whoa! Mark Weistrich, everybody! That's not bad. I kind of agree. Hold on. Should we do it again? You're the winner. The winner is Mark Weistrach.

Really? You thought so too? Good cut. You thought so too? It was between him and me. For me, J.J. Gray, close second. J.J. Gray, for sure. J.J. Gray, for sure. Yep. Hexen was high, but it's just not quite there. He's just something.

Yeah, it wasn't as high. It's not salt of the earth enough or something. By the way, we'll be on the 311 crew, so we'll discuss it. He's still top six. No, everyone can't win the award. Everyone can't be hottest. Yeah, he'd probably agree.

Shout out to Mark. Oh, yeah. Now back to a Andy Fresco related board. Best opener. I only have four nominations for this. Number one, Dogs in a Pile. Of course, my boys. Number two, Kyle Gass. He was both open for you and was the center of a storyline

in the assassination attempt on Donald Trump this year. Andy's more famous than you. Shout out Sounds a coward thing about you. Melt. Melt. They have girls in their band. That's very impressive. Very impressive to have women in your band. Yeah. Fourth, 10th Mountain Division. They open your Ogden show. Yeah. Then they quit. Then they quit. I respect that. Whenever a band quits, I'm like respect. Yeah, no hiatus bullshit now the waiting like peace We're done the hiatus is getting out of hand And then we come back in two years, let's stop let's stop the hiatus string cheese in benefit Let's stop the hiatus it works for string cheese and now everybody's copying it's not working

It's don't say anything cuz like then you're gonna say hey, we're going on tour. It's like the dead Grateful Dead did that recently yeah they said we're done and then it's the 60th year we're going back to the sphere for another 20 million 40 million dollars i do want to go to that enough with the hiatus thing but can i think about this before you decide but yeah but are there any other openers you want to mention um caleb holly oh yeah okay and i didn't have a ton of openers you want to mention? Caleb, Holly, oh yeah okay and I didn't have a ton of openers, just a lot of dogs. Because you did that dogs in a pile tour. Oh pigeons? But you they kind of weren't the opener though. Yeah yeah. They weren't like a traditional opener. Okay I think I you know how can I not I've had such a build a great relationship and we've built such a bond I think I'm gonna pick from this is my boys from Asbury Park, New Jersey dogs in the motherfucking

That is not who won. Give me the drummer The winner is Kyle gas, you know, I respect yeah. Yeah, he's too famous. Sorry famous. He's just more famous He got a whole story in the assassination attempt He had a great year. That's true. Yeah, you'd have a great year big thing the news Big in the news this year. Mm-hmm Damn next award. Okay, the Nick girl lock award for best city. Okay. I love this one You love the Nick girl. I'm gonna clap to it cuz it's such a great It's a great award

I really do love this award. I love it. I really do love this award. OK. This award is great. There's four nominees. OK. One, me, for sitting in at the Shed in Chicago on July 4, 45 minutes after my plane landed.

Second nominee. You weren't on the sit-in last year. I don't think I was, no. Last year you weren't. I don't think I sat in. Number two, Holly Bowling's son, sitting him on that tiny guitar at Red Rocks that was the cutest shit ever yes He wasn't actually playing so it kind of knocks him a little bit, but he should get a mention I agree three Cal gas finally sitting in the end of your tour last spring after you begged him and begged him and begged him and

begged him I Did beg him you begged him beg and did beg him. You begged and begged. And at the end of the tour, he finally said, all right, I'll give you, I'll fill you up. And then he wished death upon the president. Four surprise nomination here. Annie Bayless. Ooh. When she sang Island's in the Stream and that John Bryan song. What's it called again?

Yeah, In spite of ourselves. Yeah, she sang those two songs on that tour and it was pretty fun and everybody loved it. The winner for the Nick Gerlach Award 2024 for Best Sit-In is... Annie Bayless. I like it. Yep, it's just so out of the field. It's out of the field. Yeah, it's not just the guitar player sitting in. She got there, she sang pretty, you know, pretty damn good for someone who's not been singing all the time. She, and she owned it. She didn't, she knows she's not a singer. Yeah. And she fucking owned it. Well she technically is, she is a singer. She sang. That's true. Yeah. I'm going to give another clap. So congratulations, Annie. Way to go, Annie. Also Also possibly the best wife slash girlfriend experience

I've ever had in the van with a wife girlfriend in the van. Agreed. Zero annoying. Agreed. Which is very rare. Agreed. First time ever. Less annoying than most musicians I've toured with. First time ever having a girlfriend in the van and one is the most annoying fucking thing on the planet. That did go into my choice. Very agreed. Here's another great year award. Yes, yes give it to me. There's three nominees. It's best kiss. We're pounding through this. How much time we got? I mean, it's only 20 minutes. Oh, we still got a good chunk left. Okay, cool. Let's slow it down. Let's digest it. Okay, cool. Okay, best kiss. Oh, best kiss. One of your favorites. Yeah, I like, god, Nick, you're pickin' There's three nominations. We got to talk about this a little bit. weren't you're not kissing as much as you used to I'm not I had to go through your Instagram

I had to do some searching and I had to include one celebrity one one is a last year in Utah or Where was it Tahoe you pinned down Floyd while he was playing bass on the organ and forced him to kiss you I'm not sure what's consensual, but you've already kissed a thousand times and it wasn't not consensual. Well I'm getting my kisses are getting a little more angry and angry. He shows up less and less. Yeah they're not as yeah they're getting a little more... With him I just like you know it's like you know like when you're you're about to divorce. Yeah. And like you're just like kissing the kiss. Yeah you're kissing pretty hard aren't you?

The video is insane. He's like laying there. You just like It's like that it's like you're throwing up in his mouth like a mother bird and a baby bird Yeah, it's like that. We got either like go to therapy or divorce Yeah Here's my second nominee. It technically happened Last year on the 31st, but it happened after the award ceremony, so it's in. It's when me, you, and the whole crowd at the LivePod at New Year's, we made Bo and Lil Stranger, Dan Snels. That was a great kiss.

Lil Stranger's tour manager. We all chanted, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, and then they kissed. I love that kiss. That's actually one of my favorite kisses. Like I said, it technically happened in 2023, but it was on New Year's Eve and it happened post this award show. That's the rules. If the Grammys can do whatever fucking dates they want. Like I said, it technically happened in 2023, but it was on New Year's Eve and it happened post this award show. That's the rules. If the Grammys can do whatever the fucking dates they want. So can our award ceremony.

Exactly. Yes. So there's a third nominee. Sabrina Carpenter kissing that oddly, that oddly sexy alien during the MTV VMA Awards. Oh my God. I'm hot. Dude, the whole thing was fucking hot. But that alien kind of weirdly turned on by that alien.

Can I think about, can I give my, I know, I was too. I had a fucking nice body. What if aliens get here and they're just way hotter than us? Oh my God, just like, just ripped. You know, they're so hot we can't even bite them. Just hot body. Yeah. Damn.

I'd fucking alien. Oh, why not? You fucked worse. You've been to Kansas City. Shut the fuck up, Nick. I heard a story. If you touch an alien, it's like it'll like kill your nervous system and shit. And like, this is what Dempsey said. Should we call Dempsey? No. No, we should not call Dempsey said. Should we call Dempsey? No. No. No, we should not call Dempsey.

And hear the story. OK, let me think about this. Oh, well, whatever Dempsey says is probably true, so that makes sense. Because me and Floyd are fighting, I would. I'm going to have to say. You and Floyd have already won, too, I think. I'm going to say Snell and Bo, because tour manager

to tour manager kissing each other. Oh, Bo's here. Bo? Ladies and gentlemen, Bo Poliski. Bo's down. You might win an award. You might win an award right in front place. Holy shit.

Bo. He's going to hit the drum roll and I'm going to announce. All right, hold on. Best Kiss. Best Kiss. Okay, go. And the winner for Best Kiss of 2024, I picked Bo and Dan Snell. Let's go, baby.

It had everything. It had a crowd chant. Let's go baby. It had everything. It had a crowd chant. Both bands were there. It was kind of a good kiss. It was a good kiss. It was better than my parents used to kiss. Do you have an acceptance speech, Bo Balinski? I'd like to thank the Academy, both of you guys.

Dan obviously couldn't be here without him, accepting this award on his behalf. Oh wow. And I can't wait till Janis to do it again. Let's fucking go. Bo Balinski won the award. Go get him Bo. You might want to get a kiss in. Go get him baby.

Good morning. Hey very rarely. We're going to have a great day, but I'm fucking pumped up. We're going to have a great working day today. Very rarely do we have back to back winners. You might want to kiss pretty good at Janis. I know. You might want to kiss again.

You might want to do a big kiss. We never had a back-to-back kiss of the year. So I have another award that... Wow. Usually there's multiple awards. First time ever someone's ever accepted award on their behalf. I know. I can't wait till this gets so big that we're doing at Paramount Theater downtown and there's people in tuxes. God, that'd be amazing, right? Oh, shit. Somebody have us do this live next year. It'll be so, this'll be so good. Come on, Pete Shapiro. Bring it back. The jammies.

It'll be our version. Let's go. I know you listen to this, Pete. You listen every week. Does he? Yeah. Oh. Hi.

Hey, Pete. If you didn't have any, anyway. So here's my next award. And you know what? This is a tough award this year. It's an award I do most years, I think. And there wasn't enough hate this year in the music the music people weren't there wasn't like the goose I want shit on people this you don't even like shooting on goose like they used to so

Band that pisses people off for some reason there's only one nominee even though they're fine Hit it, and then we'll discuss it the winner is of band that pisses people off Nickelback Wow remember we watched that that pisses the people off. Nickelback. Wow. Remember we watched that documentary and it was so boring. Yeah. There's nothing to hate about that band. They're neither bad nor good. Right. They're just a band that exists and will fill three hours of time at a concert. The crowd's filled with like guys from your work who you've never met. You don't know their name. I thought you were going to say, I thought you were going say I thought you're gonna say a band who? We should bleep it out. Yo

Yeah, but they're not big enough Are people hating on them? Yeah Like the biggest thing that was boring about Nickelback or hateable is like one guy was an alcoholic, but that's fucking every band That's like tea like public schools have that like they just aren't interesting. That's the problem But like they're not worth hating. There's nothing to hate. I Agree, they're not some stop hating like the Nickelback jokes like they're so corny that the jokes about them being bad have become corny, right? It's just they're not bad enough to be bad. They're not good enough to be good. I agree 100% They just exist or like who cares? I mean

The 90s were weird. They're crackers. The music was fucking weird. Like... Limp Bizkit saved us, okay? Yeah. People were talking shit about Limp Bizkit five years ago, seven years ago, before they had the resurgence.

Yeah, now they're the best band on earth. Now they're the best band on earth. Wow. Next category. Well, shout out to Nickelback. We're sorry if you listened to the podcast. No, I'm saying don't hate them so much. Oh yeah.

Well, yeah, we're here for you. But you're not that good good. We still gave him the work. I mean, you're not very good I mean who cares they have 300 million dollars, but you're not good Chad You're not bad Chad Hey, thanks Chad for Christ's sake. I know everything about him is just like it's like you can't you got isn't your names Chad Your band's called Nickel. Yeah, it's like an eighth grader wrote a story about a rock band. Damn, you out beat Black Cherry, or not Black Cherry. Buck Cherry. Buck Cherry. He's a crazy bitch, he's a crazy bitch.

Yeah, I mean, it's like an eighth grader wrote a short story about a band becoming famous. Most annoying actor trying to be a musician of 2024. Two nominees. We all know who won last year. It was Jared Leto. Yeah. Number one. You hate Jared Leto. Yeah. Well, I'm normal. Number one, Tom Sandoval from Vanderpump Rules. Do you know about him? What band is he in? He has a cover band he started called Tom Sandoval and the... I don't even remember. You're gonna put your band name as your name and the... and you're just playing covers?

Do you know about him? Yes. So basically, he got in trouble for cheating on Vanderpump Rules, and it became scandival. And to escape everyone, he started going on the road. He's a clear narcissist. He has a lot of problems. He is an attractive guy.

He used to be an actor slash model. Now he's trying to be a musician. He's terrible at singing. His band is one of the corniest things I've ever seen in my life. They are selling tickets because he was on Vanderpump Rules and it's ending now, but it was one of the biggest reality shows ever. Tom, if you're watching this and I know you are, quit!

Here's the other nominee. Jared Leto. Every year. And the winner for most annoying actor being a musician of 2024 Jared Leto I hate you stop it So because you climbed a fucking skyscraper doesn't mean you're still gonna give this shit And he does that like three something global not three times a week your music sucks. You're starting a weird cult Google Google Jared Leto Croatia. just google it people okay yo well before we start this uh

john bonjourno wants he never asked me to asian of the year john bonjourno hold on we should we should do that for him if he answers he might not he might not. He texted me. He's like quick cue, but you know, that means you have to call him like you have to call him back right in like in two seconds. He's already calling Crongbin. What? No, John, you're on the podcast. Don't worry.

You're with Nick. You are. And it's a, we there's, it's an award ceremony and we have, you're with Nick. Am I absolutely on the podcast? You are, and it's an award ceremony, and we have, you actually won an award. I won an award. Do you wanna tell them the award? You won Jam Band Agent of the Year. Let's fucking go, baby.

Yeah. Well, I think it's a biased committee of people. What do you mean, committee of people? It's just me. But thanks, I'm honored. No. You gave me Krungman tickets. Nick, it's the award ceremonies today and we said who you just out beat or no, the first the award before this was worst. What is it?

Most annoying actor trying to become a musician or being a musician in 2024. And Jared Leto. So you're the next award ceremony was perfect. I thought it was the guy from Six Feet Under and Dexter. butterfly kills the mod squad. That's a pretty good one. Yeah, he's not famous enough for me to care though. Do you want me to call you later? It's regarding dates. I wanted to talk to you about something I definitely don't want to talk about. I'll call you after the after we record. He's firing you. Give it up for John Bon Giorno, our agent. Go Mets! Juan Soto.

The two greatest Mets fans ever. The two greatest things that ever happened to the Mets. Juan Soto and John Bon Giorno. Have a great day. Let's go Mets! Juan Bon Giorno. We love you. I'll talk to you later.

I'm calling him Juan Bon Giorno from now on. Juan Bon Giorno. Okay, back to something a little more serious. Okay, shout out to John Bon Giorno, our agent. Music. This is the music. Juan Bon Join. Okay back to something a little more serious. Okay shout out to John Bon Join, our agent. Music, this is the music, back to the music. Best venue. Best venue. Here's my four nominees. Number one, The Sphere. It's a modern marvel. They did a great move this year by replacing U2 with Fish, the Grateful Dead, and the Eagles. Great. Anytime you don't have U2 in your venue, moving up, I'm gonna like you more because fuck that man. Number two, Cervantes. It's the best independent venue in the country.

And they hired me twice this year, so that's pretty good. I play with my own band. I even got asked to go to the company party and I haven't played there once this year. I didn't even get invited to the company party. Fuck them. Fuck yeah, Cervantes. Never mind. I'm just kidding. Three, Moon Tower in Whitetown, Indiana. Here's why. Ooh, that was a fun one. I know, but here's the main reason is I can't believe a venue that cool exists in Whitetown, Indiana. I thought only cops lived there until like two weeks ago.

I liked it. Whitetown was cool. Well, to us. We were just only at that venue, but it's a suburban hellscape. It's called Whitetown. That's all. It's not called Jewsburg's a you know suburban hellscape. It's called Whitetown That's all it's not called Jewsburg or you know black not called. It's right next to Oshawitz Indiana Oshawitz, Delphia I just thought only cops and like I don't know Office workers live there for that trio of the Fillmore Brooklyn Bowl foundry in Philadelphia Hold on say again like that thing in Philadelphia where it's like the film or Brooklyn Bowl foundry in Philadelphia. Hold on, say that again? Like that thing in Philadelphia where it's like the Fillmore, Brooklyn Bowl...

Oh, oh, Foundry. The Foundry, yeah. That place is dope. It's all called the Foundry? It's called... yeah, oh, oh yeah. One of them is the Foundry in there too. Yeah, Fillmore, Foundry, and Brooklyn Bowl. I just like that place. It's all in one place. They're kind of keeping jam bands alive out there a little bit.

Yeah, I fucking love the Brooklyn Bowl. Do you have any you want to add to this? They're kind of keeping jam bands alive out there a little bit. Yeah, do you have any you want to add to this? um, I would say I Do love a Greenfield amphitheater in Wilmington, North Carolina. Oh, that's a great one. Yeah, it's a nice room I would also say Devil's Backbone. Whoa, where's that? And then Pier 17, New York. Oh good. Yeah, I've just never been there That's why that's why I'm consulting with you a little bit Yeah, so who would you pick?

The winner for best venue of 2024 even though I'm not invited to the holiday party is Cervantes We're gonna soon have to do the Cervantes award for best I know I think maybe they can't win next year. We're changing it for the Cervantes award for best I know I think maybe they can't win next year We're changing it for the survive. I think we should give them the should we call Scott to let them know? Yeah, and tell me I want to go to the Christmas party. All right, cool. Hold on. Let's call Scott. Where is it? No pride at Cervantes Oh, man Let's see if he answers. It's a little early for him to answer it is it's like It's 6 p.m. No, it's getting it's like in to answer. It is. It's like, it's 6 p.m. I was kidding.

It's like in the morning. Hold on. We'll call Scott. Hello? Yo. Scott, you're on the podcast, just FYI. We wanted to congratulate you. This is the world ceremony and you won, tell them what they won, Nick. You won the 2024 world saving podcast Podcast Award for Best Venue. Cervantes, congratulations buddy. Best venue in the world. Wow. I'm honored. Do you have an award speech? Well, yeah. I mean, I'd like to like to thank all the little people along the way to help make this happen. And the committee, I'd like to thank the committee. It's just me, so that's good. It's just Nick. That was going to be my next question, who the committee is.

Ask him if I can come to the Christmas party. I'm very thankful to the committee. Because Nick gave you the award, can he come to the Christmas party as well? I think that's approved. Yeah, let's go. Plus I played there way more than any this year. I saw Scott in the green room at the party. He's like, I was just like laying down. He's like, so you're making yourself real comfortable here for not fucking playing ever. Yeah, exactly.

Scott, I'll see you this week. I'll see you tomorrow for the Casimir sweater party. Same. What are you doing? We'll talk about, we don't have to talk about our personal plans today or tomorrow, but you got any plans tonight? Yeah, I'm DJing a Western art exhibit at National Western. You know what I did?

I did hear that. What? Bridget told me that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, let me know if you want to swing through it. I'm coming for sure without doubt. Western art. One last thing Scott, one last thing. We'd also like to tell you that because Cervantes has won now three years in a row that

the award... You can't win anymore. You can't win anymore because, tell them Nick, We are changing the name of the award to the Cervantes Best Venue Award so you are gonna be an icon forever so thank you so I expect an invite to that Christmas party every fucking year okay every year I want actually I want my name to be on the couch. Andy Frasco. You don't even play there! Cervantes couch. I love it. I love it. Consider it done. Alright. Hell yeah. Congratulations for the award. Three years in a row and have a great day. Thank you. Bye. Should we call Bayless and tell him his wife won an award? We should. But he's, we should tell him. We can cut that back to where it was maybe or I don't know. We'll just do it now. Who gives a fuck? No one cares. Let's do it. No one cares. We got plenty of time still two pages left.

He uh, he, hold on, call me. Yeah I can call you. Um, all right cool. Um, all right. Oh it's five pages. All right. All right so we we are now where we at we are saddest Page we're at third page out of five great. Oh, we're doing great. We're saddest celebrity death of the year Saddest celebrity death you with me here. Yep. Okay saddest celebrity death of 2024 number one Phil Lesh Oh, yeah member of the greatest in my opinion American rock and roll band of all time huge advocate for organ donors ship Uh-huh to Quincy Jones Quincy one. Yeah, Quincy. Yeah, I forgot he died one I know one of the greatest musical geniuses the 20th century made some of the best pop albums also a jazz icon three Pete Rose

Sadly will never get to see himself in the Hall of Fame even though gambling is pretty much legal now, right for Richard Simmons, man Least problematic weight loss celebrity in history forgot he died That's why everyone wants me to be him for Halloween this year. That'd be good next year But yeah next year least problematic weight loss celebrity in history hilarious guy And I like that he faded into obscurity instead of milking every last drop of celebrity on TikTok that he could to make more money you know what I mean I love that he kind of disappeared for last 10 years in his life and I respect it very respectable and the final one is OJ Simpson whoo your guy I

don't know if I mean also this is how biased this thing is if well, yes And the winner of status celebrity death OJ Simpson and here's why Congrats OJ. I know he has the robbery thing and there's a lot of That stuff, you know a lot of weird stuff about him But it's so sad that he will die without ever finding out who killed Nicole Brown Simpson without ever finding out who killed Nicole Brown Simpson in wrong goal. And that's why he won. Nick, what's wrong with you? Nick, that's fucked up.

You think he still believes he didn't kill her? He's dead, so he doesn't believe anything, so... But probably. I don't know. I think he convinced himself. This is the best day of the year! I love this game. This is the best day of the year. We should do this every week. You want to do tour of the year next or Fast Food Restaurant of the Year next?

Ooh, because I'm hungry, Fast Food Restaurant. Okay, that's only one nominee, so. Okay. It can only be one. The winner of Fast Food Restaurant of the Year 2024 is McDonald's, and here's why. Obviously. How the fuck? How the fuck was McDonald's basically at the center of the entire election debate as

Kamala and her husband talking about how they worked there when they're 15 years old or whatever Donald Trump goes and works there for 45 minutes McDonald's is like basically sponsored the election and then The biggest news story of the year the assassination of that Guy he gets caught in a McDonald's. Every big time there's a big news story, McDonald's is in there. Plus they got that new $5 meal deal that looks pretty good. Which one is it? I don't know. You get like the sandwiches. That sounds bomb. But also isn't like RFK Jr. like weren't they all eating McDonald's together?

Oh yeah. I mean McDonald's, every time you flip through some of McDonald's, Burger King's got to get their game up. They got to assassinate somebody or do something. Set a coup at Burger King's got to get their game up. Yeah. They got to assassinate somebody or do something. Set a coup at Burger King. They tattled on the assassin. They let Donald Trump work there for an hour. They really did tattle on the assassin. Yeah, they're tattletales, but they're still fast food restaurant of the year. They're just in the center of every story.

All right. We got to respect it. Congrats, McDonald's. We got to respect it. And that $5 meal deal's a pretty good offer. If you guys want to throw us some money for that, that'd be great. Tour of the Year. Ooh. One, Taylor Swift, Era's Tour, Second Leg. Second leg? Why second leg? Because the first leg was last year. Okay.

Two, the Create Your Own Tour of Italy by Olive Garden, where you get to choose three of nine specialties, a signature pasta, and a stuffed pasta. I like that. Three. I went to Olive Garden with the band first time. Terrible. Terrible. It's so bad dude. It was fucking horrible. It's like probably the worst chain restaurant to me. It is. You can't have, the thing about Italian food is it's like kind of basic you know what I mean? It's just like if it's bad it's terrible. Right. Yeah. Number three, the Pigeons Frasco Dogs in a Pile Tour. First leg. Let's go. I like the first leg had a little more heat in the second leg. First leg had some heat. It was new, it was fresh. Yeah.

For the final nomination, the No Refunds Tour featuring Nicholas Gerlach. That was the three day tour. The three day tour. Bayless, Frasco, Gerlach, and Bayless. Yeah, and Annie. And Sudden. And Annie. And Bob. And Bob. God, that was, God, I loved that tour.

There was no fucking, it was the best. It was the easiest thing I've ever done in my life. I think it was one of my, oh God. It was easier than being at home. I had my own hotel room every night. Yeah. God. There's nothing like having your own hotel room.

And Bayless with his wife, so like they, he was was like, like they're having intimacy and like, you know. Yeah, you got to watch a real couple interact so you can learn something. Oh, okay. So he listens when she talks. Oh, why isn't he looking at his phone? I learned a lot. And the winner for 2024 Tour of the Year is... The No Refunds Tour featuring Nicholas Kurilov. It was too easy! Too fun. And the best part about it is we had to cancel one show so we had to give refunds out. Yeah. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that. Shout out to Moly in Illinois. Yeah, I forgot about that.

Sorry about that. I was going to mention that. No Refunds Tour which featured a night of refunds a night one night of refunds 33% refunds to 3% That was still profitable about that. That was a great tour We had so much fun. Yeah, it was easy and it went like Halloween with Bayless and it was so I learned umphrey songs And yeah, kind of I mean, you know, you looked at him. I looked at'm free songs and yeah kind of I mean you know you looked at him I looked at him he had a piece of paper I mean I learned I'm free song someone someone gave me the chord sheets that's my boy Nick Gerlach I got

paid someone gave me the chord sheets and someone built out help me you know I appreciate that I got paid again internet personality of the year there he is Bayless speaking to that speaking the no refunds, perfect timing. Bayless, perfect timing. You're on the podcast, FYI. Is he with Annie? Ask him. Thank you. Thank you for telling me I'm alive. I tell you that now, you know. Now you do, yes. Brendan Bayless. Don't say that word, you say. The Bayless family has won two awards. We've already announced them. And Nicholas, tell them what they've won, Annie Bayless won best sit-in of the year. Oh yeah. Is she with you right now? No, she's not. I'd love to hear an acceptance speech, but that's okay. You're her husband. You give us a- Have her send in a video of an acceptance speech if she has a little time. I know she's got a couple kids. Actually, what is your acceptance speech for your wife? Yeah, there you go. I would like to say on behalf of my wife that you are welcome. And God willing, you'll be lucky enough to see it happening.

Wow, that is amazing. And for the next one, give the award for the next one. The No Refunds Tour, featuring 33% refunds won 2024 Tour of the Year. Let's go, Bayless. That's us, buddy. Should I tell him who he beat? Yeah, who'd he outbeat? You beat the Pigeon's Frasco Dogs in a Pile Tour, you beat Taylor Swift, Ares Tour's Second Leg, and you beat the Create Your Own Tour of Italy by Olive Garden, where you get to

choose three of nine specialties, a signature pasta, and a stuffed pasta. Oh, I do the Alfredo, lasagna, and a stuffed pasta. Oh, I do the Alfredo lasagna and a chick's arm. Yeah, you know that white trash piece of shit loves Olive Garden. Can we do a co-acceptance for this speech? Go for it. You go first. I'll go first. I like to thank the Academy for letting us win this award because I got to hang out with one of my close friends and his wife and his crew. And I didn't have to, I had no stress at all. It was the best. And I went trick or treating. I got to smoke cigarettes in front of kids. And I like to appreciate that. I like to accept that. I like to set my award for that as well. Bayliss, what would you like?

I would like to thank the Academy for considering the No Refund Tour and calling it a tour because we only did two shows and yes, we refunded a third of it. No, we did three shows and refunded a third of it. And yes, my neighbors also got to see Andy Frasco smoke cigarettes on Halloween Well on it well your neighbors children tell your neighbors to get used to it because I'm coming back in two days, baby

Alright buddy, I'll call you I'll call you when I'm done with the word send me to catch up I got a bunch of things. I got us tickets. I Got us tickets to a couple things. I want to see which ones you want to go to. All right, cool. Bulls, blackhawks, and bears. Oh boy, it's cold. I know. So I think we should do, we got, we got bulls will be inside. We got cord side for bears, or for bulls and blackhawks again. So cool. I think I'll talk about it. I'll'll call it it's not being recorded all right goodbye hello girl hi yeah i'll see you on new year i love you miss you bye happy holidays goodbye um that's cool you get to do all that fun stuff on christmas i have to

go see my mom in new mexico and none of my other siblings are going so it's me and my mom bummer it's me and my mom well the reason why i I'm going to Chicago is because my friend has cancer. Oh shit. And we're trying to cheer her up and we got all these tickets. And I'm just fucking with you. I know but I have to say that because I'm also canceling Christmas to go see my parents. Oh well you just saw them at Thanksgiving. I know but.

How many times a year you guys? I don't want them to think that I'm going to Chicago. Party. I'm partying. Right, right, right. No, we're here to cheer up a cancer. All right, speaking of cheering up, internet personality of the year.

Okay, ooh, internet personality of the year. Number one, the Costco gentlemen. Those guys are fucking douchebags. You like them? I mean, they might be the internet personality of the year. They're huge. I don't want to call a kid a douchebag, but the son. The dad.

The dad's a douchebag. I like them. I think the Rizzler is going to be the breakout star. I do too. Also, I'm just praying in my heart that there's not going to be a documentary about those people in 15 years. No, there will.

Double-dub-chick-coke. But I just hope there's not one of those bad Nickelodeon style. Number two, Hawktoogirl. I mean, with this whole fucking stock thing now? That's what I'm getting at! Crazy! She went for making a joke and I don't know like right here's the one first thing she survived a presidential assassination okay her spitting on the dick thing happened before the assassination attempt and she still remained famous through that starts a podcast six months later she's being

one of the greatest names, Talk Toa.. She's being investigated by the SEC for a pump and dump scheme. She went from a blow job. Imagine being that interviewer. What did he start? He got nothing out of it. They got nothing. He got what she showed. He just asked her.

He just going to ask people questions. She's the star here. But he started a whole revolution. He, he went around asking people questions in Nashville and that led to six months later people losing thousands of dollars in the crypto market. What a weird fucking timeline. Number three, I'm going to say Andy Frasco. You're on there. I've never been on this one. You're on there. You're on there a lot. I don't think I, it's like, I understand at at I'm even taking my ego away from this

I understand not winning this you're not gonna win, but you should be mentioned I appreciate you're getting in the millions on a lot of videos. You're pissing off I'm pissing off people both Jews and non-jews with your horror. Everyone's mad for different reasons about the horror videos I like you know, I like a little argument. Yeah and the winner Is the best of the internet personality of the year is This is the best. The internet personality of the year is, now I'm going to change it a little bit, it's the Costco guys, but only the Rizlor gets it. You know the Rizlor is?

You're going to give it to the Costco guy over hot tour? They're too big and they're too non-problematic. They didn't scan people on a thousand dollars and it's only the Rizlor gets it because he's going to be the only one in 20 years that still exists. Fuck, I respect that. I mean, I got, you know, we gotta respect a win. That kid's got staying power. 2025, we gotta respect wins.

He's too talented. He's got too much staying power. The dad's weird. He doesn't get it. You don't get the fucking award, weirdo. No. And you see him on WWE too? Yeah, he's been trying to, the whole thing, he's acting like he hasn't been trying to

do this for 10 years, but he has. Rizler, come on the pod sometime, right? Okay back to the jam band industry Rising star on the jam band steam, you know what? There wasn't a lot of rising stars this year We're on a two-year cycle usually with this shit, but here's my Nominees number one Karina Reichman Number two this band has been getting a little more talk this year Even girls are starting to like them even though they're kind of a rock band, a

little special. Ooh, you put a little special in there. They've got a little more buzz this year. Okay. Three, Eggy. Yes. Four, Dogs in a Pile. Yes. Five, Daniel Donato. Whoo! And the winner. Nope! Can I go first? Yeah, go ahead. Okay. You want to add one? No. I already know who I'm picking. I know and you're, I mean you're, you're God. This is your award ceremony. God. I mean those are very good. Karina had a buzz. Le Special had a buzz. I'm just mentioning Le Special. I don't think they're quite the rising star. They're not there yet, but it's good to be honorary mentioning in a big award ceremony. I like the world saving award ceremony.

Because I like that they have girl fans. Eggy. They might have already risen too much. You know, I want to give it to Dogs in a Pile. Also might have already risen too much. But I think who you're going to give it to, and I kind of agree on it, is Mr. Daniel Donato. Let's see what you say. The winner for Rising Star on the Jaman scene, Corina Reichman. Whoa! Stolen!

She's smaller than them. I think her rise is too, Daniel Donato is already too established. We've got to call Corina. I just like her vibe. I think she's going places. Everyone likes her everywhere she goes. I agree. Yeah. Let's see if she answers. She has the same same agency as you that's a good one. Yeah, that's a good one She came in the pod and she was awesome on the pod. Yes. She's the best on the pod of all these bands

I agree. Well, I don't say agree, but you know, she was it's fine. They weren't bad. She was just better We'll see well, she's in New York. She might... What's going on? It's screaming, right? It sounded like her. That's so weird. Now I thought she was going to answer. Anyway, you get my argument? I agree. Because part of it is she has the most to rise of these bands, I think.

Daniel Donnell is already selling out Sirmanti's Big Room sometimes. He's out there. Dogs in a Pile and Eggy, they're doing the Capitol Theater. I think Karina's... Most up and coming... Okay, that's the thing. They've already... Up and coming. I think we gave it to Dogs in a Pile last year. I they're doing the Capitol Theater. I think Karina's... Most up and com... Okay, that's the thing. They've already... Up and coming.

I think we gave it to Dogs in a Pile last year. I think one of those bands won last year. And I think she's... Some of these bands have come a little bit too much already. She's still coming. You know what I mean? Like, she's still got some room to come some more. She's going to keep coming.

You know what I mean? I think next year she's going to really come along and come. Oh, is that her? My sister. Damn it. Can she do Karina's voice? No. So congratulations, Karina. We were just talking, dude. It's like some subliminal shit. We just talked about not going to Christmas. Oh, weird. Shout out to Karina. We gotta give it to her. Hell yeah, dude. Good job, Karina. I love that. I love that. I love that too. She's just a great

person. I just really like her. I hope she needs a sax player someday. Yeah. Best story of the music industry 2024. Number one, Billy Strings giving back all the money because he had to leave when his wife was having a kid and he needed to be there too for some reason. That's a great fucking story. Also he... Great headline. Also, he borrowed Ringo Starr's private jet to do it and told everyone in a very not arrogant way. I really like how he slipped it in there. Yeah. Number two, an instrumental band, Krungbens, selling out an entire tour and two nights at Red Rocks without having to do desperate attention grabbing covers like Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden or something. Like you did. Yes. That's another Jon Bon Joino band. Shout out to John. Just killing it this year. Agent of the Year.

Number three, Andy Frasco. Finally getting a fucking record deal at a real label so I don't have to fucking hear about it any fucking more. A clap to myself. Number four. I'm not going to win this one because I'm against a bunch of great competition but... Number four. I'm glad I'm in the mentions.

Taylor Swift, bonusing her crew hundreds of millions of dollars, setting the standard for band leaders and podcast hosts everywhere to bonus the shit out of their employees this holiday season. Especially if they write really good episodes all by themselves. Well, you're on your way to getting a bonus this year, buddy. This is a pretty good episode, huh? It is amazing. Andy Winner!

Hold on. Can I pick one first? Okay. Actually, I'm, okay. Actually I'm not. It ruins the surprise. I'm in it, I can't pick my own. The winner for best stories in music industry is Andy Frasco finally getting a goddamn record deal at a real label. Really? Yeah! You do want that bonus. I think he had to give back the money anyway legally. Plus, he doesn't need any more awards. He's got like six Rolexes. I out beat Crungbill and Billy. Anytime I don't have to hear about something anymore, I'm happy about it. Did you like how I made fun of myself? That's true. I've been bitching less about my self-worth. Yeah, you've been really less annoying lately.

The Taylor Swift bonus one was probably second. I thought that was gonna win to be honest. No, Taylor Swift, I'm not giving her any fucking awards. She has enough going on. Nick, call her, call her. Call Taylor Swift. Let's see if she'll... This is Taylor Swift. I can't come for the phone right now. I'm honored. I'm getting railed by a 6'6 Greek Adonis. Can I give an award speech? Yeah, that's of course that one's important. No, it's more give an award speech I like to thank everyone who's believed in this band for 15 years. I know we didn't get a record We've gotten all these distribution deals all these fucking bullshit distribution deals that helped us to get to this point

I just want to say from the bottom of heart. Thanks for believing this band of fucking psychopaths Oh, yeah, we work hard. We play hard and we care about you. Mm-hmm. We're out there every night I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, thanks for believing in this band of fucking psychopaths. Oh yeah. We work hard, we play hard, and we care about you. We're out there every night talking, wrap it up. No, I'm not playing you off, this is, keep going. We're out there every night talking to fans, we're out there hanging out with the fans. Play him off, Chris, play him off. And I just want to say thank you so much.

I'd like to thank everyone. I'd like to thank my band for keeping up with me I like to thank Shawn Echols. I like to thank Andy Avila. I'd like to thank Everyone else who comes to every single show. I like to thank Bo Balinski, Ernie, Jason Burdette, Ernie and Ernie And me I'm on the record. I like to thank the guy who's about to get a bonus for letting me win that award And me, I'm on the record that they heard that helped you get the next one Thank you, Nick Gerlach and And thanks to everyone else. I'd like to thank Brian Schwartz, because without you I wouldn't have gone this far. I'd like to thank

Brody Miller, too. Okay, I'm done. And I'd like to thank my new management, Regine. Oh yeah, your new management, too. Don't forget about them anybody else That's it, okay This is fucking so fun. All right, so got some awards left The Andy Frasco award for self-care the Andy Frasco self-care award Andy Frasco self-care You won for a solo trip to Italy I did this year the nominees are and there was one for me member There's you did that and I did something else. Yeah,, Andy Frasco, trip to Italy with three other men. The second nominee, Andy, understanding and learning the power of watching TV for six hours and sleeping.

And I didn't do any self-care this year, so I didn't nominate myself for any kind of self-care, because I didn't do any self-care this year. I'm not rich enough to deserve it yet. The winner for Andy Frasco, self-care award for this year. Back to back winner for Andy, he wins it for learning the power of watching TV for six hours and sleeping. At the age of 36, well into his life. Wow.

Wow, you're winning two awards, man. Dude, I feel like these aren't biased awards either. I feel like I deserved them. No, I'm pretty reasonable. You are. Thank you, Nick. I won't say an award for that one, because I don't think it's embarrassing to learn

the art of chilling at 36. So I'm going to appreciate that. I'm going to put my head down. And to be fair, the other person you beat was also yourself. And the award's named after you. Very true. So what are we going to do? Are we going to watch more TV next year?

Yeah. I'm going to watch more TV. I'm going to sleep more. I'm going to say no to more gigs. I say that, then I just looked at John Bonjorn. I was like, we got a couple more offers in. Marathon Sish, man, we're going to do it big time. Okay, another one nominee award.

Comeback Jam Band of the Year. Comeback Jam Band? Ooh, I think I know who it is and I fucking respect it. You ready? Yep. So, what does this award entail? It's like Comeback Player of the Year in sports. It's like somebody who might have been, you know, they've just had the best year they've had in a while.

They've reinvigorated their brand. They have the most buzz they've probably had since 2009 around their band. All right, you know what band it is. Yep. Here we go. The winner for Comeback Jam Band of the Year, 2024, the Disco Biscuits. Respect. Congratulations.

Congratulations. I believe they'll be here in February or so. They're playing wherever the fuck they play, the Mission and Boulder Theater. I don't know, who gives a fuck. Yeah, so congratulations, Barbara, Brownstein, Allen, and Magner. Congratulations, boys.

I would call you, but we're running out of time. Yeah, we'd call you, but who cares a fuck. Number 20, 2024, Jam Band of the Year, full on jam band. Wow. Here are the nominees. Number one, Dead and Co. Whole Sphere run. Yeah, I mean, that's amazing.

Fish, because they're fish. Yeah. They have to be nominated every year. It's like Steven Spielberg. I agree. They also had a good good run at Sphere. And they played their ass off when I saw them this summer at Dick's.

Three, here's a surprise one, Dopapod. Ooh. They had the balls to quit. I fucking respect when a band has the balls. No hiatus, just quitting. Just say we're out. And their tour's doing great, actually. I give it three years.

And the final nominee is Goose. They established themselves as the first new. They're the first new tier one jam band in years, I think. They're the first one to get it. They can sell it at Amphitheater or whatever in years. Agreed. The winner is 2024 Jam Band of the Year, Dead and Co. I respect it. Selling out that many of the sphere takes a lot of balls. It

takes a lot of work. Call John Mayer. Let me call John. Siri, call John. Call Jay. Oh, Siri's under JM. Call JM. We're on our last category, but before we do that, I want to do a couple of stats. I looked up some of those words, you know, on our last category, but before we do that, I want to do a couple of stats I looked up some of those words, you know on our transcripts to see what we talk about Yeah, you mentioned chlamydia or STDs 26 times last year You said condom 34 times. Are you serious? Yeah, so you're talking about STDs Only a slightly less than you talk about condoms. Hold on. Are you serious? I said chlamydia 36 times or STDs Yeah, so it's like 26 for chlamydia and 8 for STDs or something. But you only said condoms 34. So maybe mention condoms more.

And you'll be mentioning STDs less. You got a great fucking point. I'm going to clap for that statistic. Here's a good one. You mentioned being single 200 times. Are you serious? You mentioned intimacy 45 times. Hold on. I said me being single 200 times. You mentioned, talked about being single and just lonely 200 times. You only talked about intimacy 45 times. So gotta be a link there. Gotta be a link there. And here's the final funny stat I found. Mental health was said 118 times.

Drugs over 200 times. We're in the 225 range for drugs. So we're talking about drugs almost twice as much as we're bringing up mental health. Gotta be a link there. Damn, this has become therapy right after all these laughs. So we're talking about drugs almost twice as much as we're bringing up mental health Damn this become therapy right after all these laughs, I know Okay, so maybe my mental health is because I take drugs. Yeah No, I just thought they were interesting. We got time for one more award here. Yeah, we're I'm improving in my Worker an hour already. Yeah, Holy shit. Great. We killed it.

It's awesome. Perfect. It's exactly how long I wanted to be. So the final award is obviously the World Saving Podcast Musician of the Year for 2024. I like it. Number one, I nominated a personal favorite of mine, McGee.

Here's why I like him. He's breaking in the mainstream. He's one of the first guys to do this. First of all, he's a guitar player, which is very... He's like, that hasn't happened since John Mayer, basically. He's got in the mainstream. He's one of the first guys to do this. Well, first of all, he's a guitar player, which is very, he's like, that hasn't happened since John Mayer. Right. He's got his own sound.

Okay. Very rare. And it's connecting with people. Okay. To Chapelrone, most artistic pop star, most artistic pop star we've had in years. Right. Sabrina Carpenter. Wow.

She's the top streamer last year. Right. Three, Andy Frasco. I have to, it's my job. Check out his new album 2025. What's it called again? Try Not To Die? It's called Growing Pains.

Oh, that's right. Growing Pains. 37 years old, Growing Pains. Shut the fuck up, Nick. So you're nominated. Four, Creed. Honor to be part of the list. Creed.

Creed? Summer of 99 Tour. They're reinvigorating the sound that shaped the George Bush presidency What a perfect timing for the Donald Trump presidency and four or five Six, I guess. Yep, Billy strings William strings. Here's why he gave all that money back Even though he needs it for diapers and formula and stuff He managed to develop a band into playing arenas with no drummer a seemingly impossible feat

He managed to develop a band into playing arenas with no drummer a seemingly impossible feat Also, he casually dropped that he borrowed Ringo Starr's private jet when he left to be there for the birth of his child And it didn't even come off cringe also. He's not a nepo baby true the winner for world saving podcast 2024 musician of the year is 2024 Musician of the Year is... Billy Strings. I agree. I got to give it to him. Way to go, Bill. Oh yeah, Siri, call Billy Strings. Yeah, Siri, I would, but I don't want to...

That's good. Maybe send him the clip. All right, we will. Congratulations, Bill. I'm giving to a fucking bluegrass artist. I know. That's very... That's how objective I am. Yeah, that's how... Yeah, you hate bluegrass. So that means I don't hate it, but I just, you know... But I like Billy Strings. But, uh... That makes all the other awards seem more...

less lying. Congratulations to all the winners, and that makes me actually feel better about my award winnings. Yeah, I couldn't give you Musician of the Year this year. You didn't even put an album out this year, did you? No. I wouldn't want Musician of the Year right this year. You won it last year, didn't you? No. I thought you did. Oh, did I?

I don't know. I can't remember. I'm going to make a chart for all three of these we can post. Thank you for listening to the World Saving Awards Ceremony, brought to you by Nick Gerlach, sponsored by Nick Gerlach, endorsed by Nick Gerlach, and presented by Nick Gerlach. And written by Nick Gerlach. It was a great year for the podcast.

Hell yeah. We had a great, it was a great year. It was a hard one. We had a lot of trials and tribulations with like... Just different stuff. Different stuff. Figuring out a new format. Figuring out, you know, how to do this by, we're basically recording things by ourselves

now. Yeah, we're good at it. I think we're doing pretty good. There's no one here over there going, huh? Yeah. Do you have any things that you want to see in the music industry in 2025? We kind of did that last year, but I want to see more people have each other's backs Okay pussy

What about I also want to see people? I also want to see ticket sales or ticket how much the cost of ticks go down Oh man, because fees fees everything Everything's getting a little too expensive and the only way we're gonna change the industry is if we all work together by changing Yeah, we're not saying assassinate the live nation CEO or anything before you guys jump any conclusions. Don't don't look him up Don't find out where don't do that. We just have to play ball cuz we don't Ascinate the CEO of ticketmaster though, you know what I mean true and finally I would like to add one thing I like to see some Sunday matinee shows what are you looking at oh we lost one of the two of

the cameras that's fine that's weird all right finally I like to see some Sunday matinee shows let's do it yeah all right guys enjoy the year and we're gonna take two weeks off. Bye. Bye. You've just tuned into the World Saving Podcast with Andy Frasco, produced by Andy Frasco, Joe Angelhowe, and Chris Lorenz. Please help us save the world by subscribing and rating the show on volume.com, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you're listening so we can spread the word and save

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