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

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

Nick Gerlach and Drew Birch take over hosting duties while Andy tours the East Coast. The duo breaks down the week's wildest stories and Andy's meteoric rise to family-friendly rock stardom. Topics Discussed: Dean Cain (aka Dean Tanaka) signing up as an ICE agent despite playing the ultimate illegal alien Andy Frasco's Levitt Pavilion show breaking all-time attendance records with 7,000 fans Ice Cube's new War of the Worlds movie achieving a perfect 0% on Rotten Tomatoes Why musicians need to stop complaining about having to pay for promotion The cringe factor of political merchandise and celebrity endorsements Flamingos' new album "De Estrada" dropping September 12th We're psyched to partner up with 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: [phone]  Check out our new album Growing Pains on all platforms 5/23/25!! Follow us on Instagram @worldsavingpodcast For all things Frasco, go to: AndyFrasco.com Check out our sponsor, Gardenista: https://drinkgardenista.com/

Dean Kane. You see this shit? Oh, yeah. I didn't even know who that was until you mentioned that. So he played Superman like 30 years ago. Yeah. And now he's like a Trump cut guy. He's like the new Scott Bayo. Yeah. He kind of looks like Scott Bayo was on steroids. He's like signing up for ice. He's like going to be an ice age. Yeah, I saw that. And his dad's an immigrant. His dad's like a Japanese immigrant. Oh, really? Look at his last name. Dean Kane's last name is Tanaka. Wow. Dean George Tanaka.

So. So he's an immigrant. And then also the irony of that is like, Superman is like the ultimate illegal alien. Yeah. He played an illegal alien, made all the money off of it. I don't know. It's so weird when like actors like cuck out for any politician, but especially Trump. Yeah.

What's wrong with you, dude? Yeah. I don't know anything about him. He's just like a handsome guy. It wasn't even called Superman. It was called Lois and Clark. He wasn't even the first. He wasn't even the first character listed in the show.

Boom. We're here. Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast. Andy's not here. he's here yeah he is here we should yeah we need to put a giant picture of him there don't we

there's gonna be one yeah it'll be great do you think we'll be able to find any embarrassing pictures of Andy on the worldwide internet I don't know speaking of Andy we had a show we opened for him last week

at the Leavitt Pavilion guess what I found out the other day my friend what's that I'm not gonna say her name because she's a good normal person with a real job but she's on the board there

over there at Leavitt Pavilion okay and she said that we that was the most tickets they've ever had there. Okay. Girllock Bump, still in effect. Here we go, baby.

It's because of you and me. Yeah, it's because of you and me. Frasco's band is getting really good. How much merch did you sell? I sold zero dollars, but I didn't lose any money because I didn't bring any. Yeah. So I think Andy sold about $3 million of merch. But his band's getting pretty wild, huh?

Yeah. This is insane. Remember they used to be like a bar blues band? Yeah. Used to come through Arkansas. Yeah. Didn't he live there for a while? I think so.

I think he lived in Fayetteville, but I'm not sure. Is he the first person in history to move from L.A. to Arkansas? Phalaetville. Falaetville. Who was that guy? He's a basketball player from Arkansas. Not, fuck.

I can't remember. It doesn't matter. Oh, you're talking about the white Kobe? No, they call it? Oh, no. He is dope, though. He's one of the cold-ass white boys of this year, right? Yeah.

But I'm talking about, I think he's been on the pot. It doesn't really matter. But the show was pretty dope. There was like 7,000 people there. a lot of kids there's children I'm trying to realize that Andy might be like

the 12 year old boys like dream yeah the band the whole band yeah but especially Andy did you see when he had that were you out there when he had that kid on stage or were you backstage

I was backstage singing piano songs yeah that was fun I walked in and you guys were just like singing I think Lion Richie or something or maybe that's what got me off the couch they were singing Dream on and when they got to the high part

Dream on to, I was, I was wanting to take a nap. It was a legendary hang because it was like all the home. Barbara was the one of three. That's the girl indie rock band they opened up. They were, they were actually rip. Yeah. They're getting better.

I always like their songs, but now they're getting better at playing live. Yeah. They had percussion. They had E-Man on the, on the guitar. Cushing. He left early to go to tech, he left that right after the set to go to two. He had a gig? No, he went to Tedeschi trucks.

Oh. It's hard to say. That sounds pretty sick, actually. But, yeah, it was killing. Andy's band is like, it's crazy how much. I mean, I used to kind of think they were just like a fine, you know, like 10 years ago. They were like a fun band, but now they're getting like good.

They're like tight. Yeah. And they're like real songs and it's like kind of hitting with people. But it is funny the way like 12 year old boys just look at him. Oh yeah. They look at him the way out of look like John Coltrane. Yeah. Well, that was like the moment when I was playing with Sean when I got up there.

Yeah. Because there was, uh, I was just kind of, I don't know. I couldn't hear myself. Yeah. Super quick tune. Very loud up there. Yeah. And I was like, oh man, I don't know if I have the energy for this.

And then. And look out in the crowd, there's just, like, two kids, like, 10-year-olds with, like, Oakley sunglot. Like, it's like, they just got off the lake or something. Yeah. And they're both just staring at me and Sean playing together. And they're like, yeah. Can you a man? And I was like, oh, that was like a drug.

I was like, okay. Dude, yeah, it is. Because, like, yeah, the crowd can give you that adrenaline. But it's also like. Especially children. I guess I just haven't. Exactly. There's something about children.

No, anyway. But there's like, it's like kind of wild. Like, because all the shows I've played with him usually are like at Mission Ballroom or whatever, like, or Ogden or something. some shit and it's like so it's 18 or 21 and up yeah so i never get to see i knew that he had a lot of kid fans because he has a lot of parent fans and i was thinking man that is such a cash cow thing because if you get like the 12 real boy to like you and then you have to both parents have it's like sesame street live basically yeah both drugs and alcohol but man i wonder if he's gonna maybe like whatever generation that is we'll start drinking again because they grew up going to

andy it's cyclical yeah it's like jen z and then jen z being a bunch of pussies about drinking You didn't even reading about this? Yeah, I don't know. I see it. I went to the McGee show. Oh, yeah? They was just, everybody's just like kind of standing there. It was honestly nice.

How sick was that McGee show, though? I was incredible. Like, what, was it sold out, right? Yeah. At where? Fillmore. Fillmore, yeah. So that's like, what, 4,000 people maybe?

4K, yeah. So what, they probably did like $87 and sales at the bar. No, that's like one drink there. Oh, that's true. Yeah, the Live Nation, I've noticed the... 21 bucks for a single. A single, like, liquor and coke. That's my, like, mission.

The drinks are cheaper there. Yeah. A.G. Just so you guys know, A.G. cheaper drinks than Live Nation. Yeah. 21 bucks for a single is wild. Yeah.

That's basically a crime. Yeah. If I go to Yacht Club and I get a tequila soda, it shouldn't be less. It's kind of have, like, grass from Japan. It shouldn't be $7 less than some, like, guy that just got out of prison making me a drink at a live nation venue. Then they're always bothered by it. you yeah right whenever you get a drink at a concert they act like they're doing you a favor which i guess they are but it's like you're also at work you know i'm gonna tip you how much do you tip it

um like a place like philmore if you got a 20 drink it's hard i got it i just can't not tip 20% yeah sometimes i'll do 15 i'm not gonna lie i mean i ain't mad at you but like my girlfriend it's 22 i got a service industry wife so it's like too that's true and they get she gets mad if i don't yeah same yeah it's weird well maybe mine's a little bit rebellious it depends on their race i'm just kidding yeah so and he ripped i mean he's gonna blow up yeah i I think, I think he's starting, he's starting. He's blown out. Have you seen his eyes?

He's blown out. It was pretty wild. The lightning storm kind of ruined sound check, but that's all right. We didn't need one. We only have two guys in the band. Yeah, we have, yeah, and we only got one guy in the band. We used all their gear, and we had a rehearsal. Like, we literally rehearsed, like, five minutes away for half an hour, like, right before.

Hope that doesn't, you know, doesn't need a lot of rehearsal. We're so sick. We don't have fucking. My favorite part was, uh, me telling Tommy, I was like, you know, I just love this band. It's like, it's, it's easy. the songs are easy and Tommy's looking at me you know playing bass with his feet yeah yeah so easy no he was just like what do you mean it's easy i was like i was like oh yeah sorry i didn't read the room on that one he's over there like he's contorting his face because he's trying to play a

solo comp and play bass with his feet he's like it's so funny i'm like oh man it's so easy it's so easy by the way Tommy you get but did you see that thing i posted the other day of me like looking at them on the organ oh that was good and loving them it's like when you only have to pay a guy oh yeah when you pay the guy the same to do two jobs yeah Tommy's goaded not sure he even understands how money works anyway so you can pretty much pay him whatever you want even if he did I don't think you'd care no he's

he's great he's the man but yeah that show was killing I can't wait to play again with that band but I don't know yeah when's the next big show I don't know I'm working on it it's tough right now out there man it's a war zone trying to get jobs Dunkirk I don't think Andy's playing Denver for like a year that's kind of how that goes huh

yeah usually it's like didn't they just get off tour yeah well at the last time he's finishing tour right now that's why we're doing this oh andy and he's not here he's in like they're playing all these like weird like towns you'd never heard of in like delaware and like long island because they're playing all these like beach it's like the equivalent of doing like a mountain run but oh okay but on the beach so more kids mm i don't know more just rich people yeah probably but i don't know if they're like in bars or like or whatever but they're probably crushing i think they're like mostly sold out i'm sure it's kind of annoying how successful he's getting i know he just keeps

winning. Every time I talk to him, he's got some new success he'd to tell me about. He's probably like you don't see all the losses, Nick. No. I mean, that's the thing with Andy. He has a lot of, like, haters right now because he's successful and that's how white dudes are, other musicians, you know? All they do is like to complain and fucking... That's how you know

you're making it. Yeah, exactly, but like you know, they've got the haters and it's like weird when other musicians talk about him, but it's like yeah, but he was also poor for 15 years. I mean, he's been doing that again for I don't know, it's like 20 something years. Yeah, like we said, like when you were in Arkansas all, like, how many times did you see him when there were 15 people?

I mean, he would come to Fort Smith, the town I grew up in, at least twice a year. You've got to be poor to playing Fort Smith. I mean, you're not doing well. If you're playing Fort Smith twice a year, you're skipping faith. Fort Wayne. Do you ever go through Fort Wayne? I played there. I mean, I grew up in Fort Wayne, and I played there like three times.

What's the venue there? It's called the Brass Rail. Well, now they have a couple cool venues because Sweetwater bought a couple. Oh, okay. Sweetwater is out of. Yeah, they're based there. Yeah, the guy that's a Fort Wayne. He's a legendary guy.

He does a lot for the community, I guess. but everybody kind of still hates him because he's rich. It's like one of those things. Okay. But he helps people. The show was pretty, I don't know. It was like, it's kind of just surreal, like I was saying, seeing, like, kids freak out about, I don't, I don't know, man. I didn't have that when I was little.

Like, I feel like I didn't go to concerts like that. There wasn't, there wasn't an Andy Frasco when I was 12. No. I mean, the youngest, I mean, I saw Ringo Star. I thought that was. That's pretty cool. But that was, like, my first rock and, like, rock star experience. Right.

But he's, like, so famous. miss and he's like not like it's just a little bit different than frasc frasco's like a surreal thing yeah i love that we're just talking about andy on its own podcast he's not here he's gonna love it miss you miss you we miss you and we love you no but it was sick thanks andy for having us on the show yada yada yada yada yada you're band's good now now you're always good but you're really good now did you did you like the violin edition yeah she's fucking she's amazing yeah she'll be everyone down to georgia just went down to georgia just went hard. That song goes hard no matter what. No, she rules kind of tired, man. I have not been

sleeping well lately. What happened? I don't know. Sometimes I have insomnia. That was funny. You sent me that weird voicemail like to this message at two in the morning. I don't even remember it. And I liked it and you're like, sorry, I was on that. What's a Lou Nesta? It's just a sleep aid. I take them every now and then. Is it like Xanax? No. No, it's more like, um, what's the, um, the sleep aid that's kind of dangerous people party on it? Ambien. It's kind of like an ambient a little bit. Oh, so it is prescription. Yeah, it's prescription. So is it a barbiturate or Xanax?

No, it's like some GABA inhibitor. I don't really know. But it makes you feel really nice and you'll get on Amazon and. Does it work? Yeah. Like how long does it take you to knock out? I don't, like 30 minutes. You can't drive on it.

No, you can hang out on it. That's the problem. Oh, that's why people like to like drink on it a little bit. Yeah, I don't know about, and I don't know about Lunesta, but Ambien for sure. Oh, yeah, I've heard about. That's what Tiger Woods got, remember Tiger Woods? Oh, yeah. What do you do?

He like got caught cheating and like, He's, like, wrecked his car on it. Yeah. He had a bad thing. He has a problem sleeping, I guess, from all the money. It does help you sleep. I was up watching, like, TikTok. Like, whenever I can't sleep, you know, I just, like, look at the internet.

Oh, it's brutal. It's because you get in, like, a fucking, like, a vortex of where you can't stop watching the TikTok. So, like, they keep you up. Yeah. I get really bad when I start to get tired. I'll put it on my chest, and then I'll just scroll. I'll listen to it. And I'm like, is this long form?

Yeah. It's this long, murder mystery. There's an ad I know that guy He's a music instructor And I'm just not looking at anything And that's what I know You're like a cyborg

Or it's like a musician complaining About Spotify or something Or how the music industry I'm like I'm kind of Like I said earlier I'm sick of the complaining musicians It's literally the best time It's ever been in history

To be a musician right now Well yeah I mean it's definitely over Yeah I don't think it's ever been amazing But it's like all the people I see complaining It's all I'll listen to their music

And I'm like Oh Yeah Maybe it's not Spotify but like their take will be like you have to pay to get on stuff now you gotta yeah like it's kind of always been like that yeah you just have more of an opportunity I mean you can make an entire record in your yeah room in your yeah basement yeah Daniel Alck is a monster but like also the platform does kind of help people I don't know but I was watching and I was watching

stuff about movies and I was watching this thing about this new world of world's movie with ice cube in it it's got a zero on rotten tomatoes right now oh wow rotten tomatoes I feel like kind of I mean, I don't doubt that. I lost a little bit of credibility over the last few years. I feel like they got bought out a little bit. I like the audience score. Audience score is good, yeah. Yeah, so it's getting fat zeros, but actually I kind of am like...

Fat zeros. I'm like more interested in seeing like a movie that gets zero stars than a movie that gets like 30 stars or 30 out of 100. You know what I'm saying? Like, just be so bad that like, I don't know. It's like kind of like how I like Lindpiscuit more than like train. Yeah, true. Although Limbiscuit kind of slaps, but like some of. equivalent of like people do think they suck but they actually rule but like yeah it's like at least

it's something but apparently the whole movie is like just ice cube on zoom on zoom yeah and there's like a ton of zoom meetings or a new drug like like that's how he is he's just like sitting in a computer the whole time and it's just like stacked with product placements okay and like there's one part where like an amazon driver's the only person that can save okay save the situation oh wait i heard about this yeah so it got a zero got a fat fucking big goose egg man it's like a no it threw got thrown a no-hitter against it. Wow. But imagine, like, I don't know, but I...

Oh, wait, I saw the... Yes. There's a snippet of him. Did you see the snippet of him, like, reading... Basically, reading a script? Mm-mm. It's some, like, backstory where they're, like, zooming into these cameras, and he's legitimately just reading off a script.

He's like, I don't know, you have to watch it. It's very good. I will watch it. It's, like, sounds very... It's very bad acting. The best were people like, oh, Ice Cube's so screwed. His career's over. It's like, he's got $300 million, probably.

He was in... He's in our... we there yet? You know how much money that made? Yeah, he's fine. I don't think at a certain point you probably just don't care. He's kind of one of my favorite. He's sort of like an underrated rapper now at this point. Like Ice Cube, like, he's like, yeah. He like, it's kind of

because he's like, was so early. Yeah. The people kind of forget about him from NWA, but he was kind of a badass. And then he kind of went like to doing like dad movies. He sort of turned into like Chevy Chase for a minute. Whatever that movie, we just wearing the life jacket. What is that one? Are we there yet, right? I don't know. I don't even know what that is. It's like from that whole, like Robin Williams

did the RV movie, and then there's, like, the vacation. It's like, there's a bunch of road trip movies like that, like, where the Millers. But, yeah, he, he, like, does that, and then, I don't know. He must have got a bag to do The War of the Worlds. Yeah. But I wonder why they remade that. The Spielberg, I think it's Spielberg, the Tom Cruise one. Oh, yeah.

I don't know. From, like, 06. That was hitting. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. It's not my bag. No? Yeah.

You're like, I like good movies. My favorite movie is were World War II documentaries. It used to be. I like to watch Germans die. What was I going to talk about that was pissing me off today? Oh, yeah, Dean Kane. You see this shit? Oh, yeah.

I didn't even know who that was until you mentioned that. So he played Superman, like, 30 years ago. Yeah. And now he's like a Trump cut guy. He's like the new Scott Bayo. Yeah. He kind of looks like Scott Bayo. Yeah, he looks like if Scott Bayo was on steroids, like if Scott Bayo was like an alpha.

He's like signing up for ice. He's like going to be an ice agent. Yeah, I saw that. And his dad's an immigrant. I saw that. Everybody's dad, you know what I mean? Well, I know, but like his dad's like a Japanese immigrant. Oh, really?

Look at his last name. His real last name is like something. Yes. My phone's going to die if I hear that. But that's actually makes it even funnier, but, you know, they're not going after. They're not going after Asians, are they? No. They don't, there's a certain kind of immigrant they're going after.

What's his name? Dean Kane. Dean Kane. He's from, so he hasn't done anything. He related to Herman? I don't think so. No. Remember Herman Yell?

Was he the guy that was, no, that was Howard Dean. Howard Dean. And he, like, was, yeah, he won the Iowa primary. That was so good. We didn't do him last week on what jam band he would like, the politician. Oh, Dean Cain's last name is Tanaka. Wow. Dean George Tanaka.

So. So he's an immigrant. And then also the irony of that is, like, Superman is, like, the ultimate illegal alien. Yeah. He played an illegal alien, made all the money off of it. I don't know. It's so weird when, like, actors, like, tuck out for any politician, but especially Trump. Yeah.

What's wrong with you, dude? like you I don't know it's like what and I was thinking like ice agents have you seen this new ad they're trying to get people to sign up uh like the ones on Twitter and stuff well no they're like yeah they're like trying to get people to be ice agents and they're given all these incentives like you make 85k you make more than a third grade teacher and like an inner city public school you get like a 50,000 dollar sign on bonus and like 60,000 dollars off your student loans so here's my idea I want every person with student loans to sign up to be an ice agent do nothing until they get their student loans

for re whatever what is it called reimbursed or whatever yeah do nothing until their student law forgiven do nothing until they get their student loans forgiven and then everybody just quit yeah it's basically what most cops do or everybody join ice and then just be like

hey I don't know you got anything to eat in there can I borrow a cup of sugar exactly that'd be funny I don't know man it's just he was on like Jesse Waters today

It's like, it's weird how smug they all are about it. Like, you don't have it figured out. You're fucking, I looked it up. He actually went to Princeton. Oh, wow. You wouldn't think so. He's kind of a dumbass. Yeah, I don't know anything about him.

He's just like a handsome guy. It wasn't even called Superman. It was called Lois and Clark. He wasn't even the first. Yeah, exactly. He wasn't like the first, he wasn't even the first character listed in the show. Oh.

I don't know. He does kind of look like, what did you say he looked like? He said a little more alpha. Scott Beo, if he worked out. What happened to him? Remember? He also trumped out. Remember, during, like, the primary Republican National Convention?

He was like, yeah, Scott Beaux's from Happy Days. Scotty B. Charles in charge. Yeah. Charles in charge of our, yeah, of our votes. Of our votes and our taxes. I think you were talking about, you said Scott Bayo and I went Mario Lopez. Oh, no, but I think he also kind of trumped out a little bit, too.

Yeah, that's why I thought about that. Which is even funnier because he's obviously. Remember, he used to do. the, um, does he still do the, um, beauty pageant? Remember that famous clip, the, the, the girl who was, uh, what did he do again? I don't know, just interviewed that girl on stage. Yeah, but didn't he ask her something weird or something? I think he asked her something pretty normal.

Oh, and she freaked out. Yeah, she could, yeah, she like couldn't talk right. Yeah. And now she's called it the Iraq and such as. The Iraq and such as. She's probably just nervous. She's super nervous. She's probably married to a, I think she held it down pretty, it was okay.

It was actually one of the worst videos on the internet for four years. She's probably a Republican, congresswoman now or something yeah yeah that all that shit all works she's in the senate now well a lot of politics in such as politics this week so here's yeah everybody sign up for ice get your bonus i wonder i wonder how long it takes to get the bonus i don't know usually they don't just give it to you the first day usually have to work there for six months or something yeah maybe they take it make it take as long as uh takes to get citizenship here so it could be like 12 years yeah it's like impossible

now actually yeah my whole family's immigrants and they all it took them forever yeah really my mom is just kidding

not my whole family but a lot of them were they from Ireland but I was thinking Germany Scotland England France yeah that tracks

yeah yeah honky the honky nations Crackersburg Crackeronia born and raised I was born and raised in Cracketown

and Crackistonia yeah but like 80K a year to go around. I don't know. Is that really worth, like, ruining your entire reputation? I don't know. But I was thinking, like, that Lois and Clark show. Ruin your reputation. It's more about ruining other people's lives, but yeah. Well, yeah, but I'm thinking from an actor. Yeah, you're right, though. Yeah. It's so stupid. But I was thinking, like, Lois and Clark hasn't been, this might be the first time he's made 80K a year in like 25 years.

Yeah. He's like, that's actually a lot of money for me. Yeah, I don't think he's done anything. I don't know. He goes on news shows. That's what those people do, though. Like, you'll Notice that, like, there's a certain side where the celebrities, I mean, the other side's dumb and annoying, too, but they're like, they have their own version of, you know, signaling or whatever, but it's never, like, very famous people supporting the right, you know? No. ADK a year, pretty good for Dean Kane. It's not bad.

Like, what? I can't imagine how down bad you'd have to be to be an ICE agent. There you can be a cop. I'd rather be a roadie for Metallica or something like that. I would do that. That sounds fun. I'd rather be Lars Ulrich's person. I don't know.

I heard Lars is kind of a dick, though. I'd rather be his personal assistant that work for ICE. Oof. Yeah. I guess, yeah, that's the right choice there. Would you rather be a janitor at a nursing home or be an ICE agent? Yeah. I mean, we're going janitor.

They might make just as much. Yeah, 80K a year. Like that, did you see that? A little poop and pee. Did you see that WMBA quote of the lady? She's like, I think Staley, she was like, the janitor was making more than me.

I was like, I don't think that's true. Oh, yeah. It's like, well, let me be the jander, I guess. Yeah. People be lying. Anything pissing you off this week? It's a good question. I don't think so.

I'm pretty content. Yeah? You've just been making shit with your little camcorders? Mm-hmm. There's one looking at us right now. That's fine. Camcorder, everybody. What a loser.

Yeah, you got a lot of shit down here, man. Every time I come it's a little bit Now you have a whole new computer Every time I come It's a little bit more sad down here Isn't it? It's like a goodwill kind of at this point Yeah, by Goodwill where you could resell everything

And maybe make your money back Yeah, true Um She What else is going on? I don't know, just kind of getting ready I'm going to Oklahoma later this month Or not early next month, yeah

I'm going to Norman I'm going to go to the Oklahoma versus Michigan football game. Okay. Just by yourself? No, I'm with my best friend Kit. I know, but that sounds more fun.

I'm just going by myself for no reason. I've spent six. I love Oklahoma this time of year. Oh my God. Oklahoma around Labor Day. 95 degrees. 95, no wins. Cigarettes.

Low education. They have like one of the worst. I was looking up their shit. They have like one of the worst education systems. Arkansas is up there too. It's right next to Arkansas, isn't it? It is. Yeah.

Does it touch there? Really? Really? Yeah, from where I'm from. Fort Smith. Originally. Fort Smith is that close to the border? Oh, yeah. It's a border town?

It's a border town. There's border agents in Oklahoma. I wonder if it was like a fort from... How big a boy are you? I wonder if it was like a fort from like the Arkansas, Oklahoma War in 1865. I mean, it is, yeah. Like what was it a ford of? That's a good question.

I forgot. Fort Wayne's French. Civil War, something. Oh, yeah. Something there. It was right on the river. What side of the Civil War was your state on? We should start judging people more for that, actually.

Yeah. Fort Wayne, their fort is a French and Indian War. Oh, okay. Very old. Yeah, I should know that, but I don't. It's right on the Arkansas River, though. Fighting over raccoon pelts. Yeah.

Pelt of raccoon. We used to have real wars in this country. Yeah. And we just drone strike for people. Raccoons. It's just too easy now. It's so easy. It's just basically IT guys.

Yeah. The military is just IT guys Nobody's working from home now Wake up late and do a drone strike Oh shit my bad Military working looking And yeah ICE is the only thing of the government It's not remote work anymore

It's all military Everybody's working from home now This is considered working from home I think I mean we're in your house Yeah Yeah It's embarrassing Yeah we don't have a lot going on

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bourbon cocktail, but it's bourbon whiskey and green herbs, lime juice, ginger, and jalapagia. It's got a little spice to it, but you put some ice in it and it's actually cocktail and like I'm not really good at proportions so it's already made for you look at this it's cute too you could be on your table you're like oh look at you're sophisticated do you want pop off on your on your kitchen table or do you want something that's pretty gardenista vodka cocktail grab it tell them frasco sent you how many people were in the chat in volume some some people in there was like 30 or no more than that because there's also people there's part people in there that weren't chatting too

oh people are just playing silently people had a lot of fun the next one's about oj simpson so i think that'll do well yeah and then i have around in like episode four where i i read a quote and then it's like you got to guess whether it's donald trump o j simpson or taylor swift that said it yeah that's a good one it's way harder than people think it's going to be actually yeah i remember doing that one at yacht club that was a tough one oh yeah you were there for that you've been what three times it's just weird four times yeah it's just where you were randomly there for that That one. Yeah.

That was one of the first ones, a few years ago, I think, wasn't it? Yeah, you always go when your girlfriend's in town. Yes, shout out Yanni. Shout out Yanni. I just don't make it over there. Mondays, you know. It's far. It's 25 minutes.

That's pretty far on a Monday. Also Monday. That's far. To have a couple drinks and then drive home? Yeah. Or like seven. And you don't really know who's going to be there. You don't have like a crew to go with.

Yeah. Your trivia squad. Yeah, if you show up trivia alone and like people play alone, though. Yeah, I know. Well, that's unfortunate. We've had two solo winners in the last month. I should give them extra treat if they win. A treat?

A dog bone? They've got this little metal I have on right now. Oh, okay. Where's that from? I found it today. It's from high school. I got first place in the state solo, saxophone solo competition.

Oh, wow. I like how they made it very, um... I can't believe my dad... Nationalistic. Yeah, well, it's first place. First place, USA. Yeah, very much American to be first place. But, um...

My dad sent me like this, like, for any pack he found a bunch of my shit there was a bunch of 50 cent coins I actually sold them all on eBay I got like 300 bucks Oh really? Just recently? Yeah like a month ago or something two months ago He's like here's something that's been passed down For no it's my shit from when I was a kid

Yeah he found it in some safe he has probably a gun safe And then he uh He sent it all to me and it was like I opened it up and there's like a bunch of fucking 50 cents I forgot I used to kind of getting to I got into collecting coins for like six months When I was like 16 And I looked it up and they were all worth like 30 bucks a piece I was like, I don't want a bunch of coins.

Yeah, I threw them on eBay, and some guy bought them, and I sent them to it. Very easy to ship coins. Yeah. $7. But I had some of my state champion saxophone soloist metal. You should wear that, yeah. Should I wear it more often?

Yeah. Let me show who you are. I give it instead of ID, instead of ID at the bar. They're like, okay, you can come over here, Nick. I'm 21. See, look how old this is. This is actually a silver medal.

That's how old it is. It's gotten terrible. You should have thrown that. in there for the guy who bought all your coins. No. I don't want to give them a sense. What do you think that's going to be worth one day? Probably $0 and zero cents, most like everything else I own. Yeah. Negative money.

It cost you money to throw it away. It cost me $30 to throw it away, actually. I didn't want it anymore. I didn't want to think about high school anymore. I'm getting old. Yeah. That's a long time ago now. Yeah, it was back in the early 70s. I think Carter was actually pregnant. president, pregnant.

I don't think he's ever been pregnant. He's dead now. No, he's dead. Well, maybe he's been reincarnated, car-derinated. Carter would definitely would have been a panic fan. Probably. What makes you say that? Because he's from Georgia.

Oh, okay, that tracks. That's basically all I need is, like, one thing to make it work. Yeah, I was going to say, I couldn't, I couldn't picture it. He's dead now. Yeah. He lives to be a hundred. Maybe that's what makes him a panic fan. He'll live to be 100.

Yeah, I saw his, oof, his last moments in the backyard, the barbecue, where he kind of looked like the barbecue. Yeah. He was just in the chair. It looked like they were taking down a statue and laying it down to put another statue up. I don't think I want to live. I was going to say, I don't know. Do you want to live to be 100?

No. I mean, unless there's some cool advancement where I can actually be cognizant. I do not want to be in a chair basking in the brightness. I've known two or three people that have lived to be 100, and it seems absolutely awful. It just seems sore. Soar. It's hurt pain. You don't know what's going.

on around you. No, I'm down to be here a little bit longer. You can't just, you know. You can't crank hog anymore. Yeah, true. Hopefully. I mean, maybe you can.

Take the catheter out. Take your blue two, man. How old do you want to live? How old do I want to live? 48. 38. How old are you now? $1.1, Bob.

38 going on zero. I don't know. You know, a good. a solid life into the late 70s sounds good. Depends on what happens to me. I mean, I know people, you know, 20 and they get dementia or... The first three years of dementia,

I had a couple of family members get it. It was pretty funny for a minute, and then it gets real sad. Yeah. It's pretty funny when they kind of just get kind of loopy, and they're just like, it's like they've had two beers all the time. Yeah. But then it gets real sad at the end. Who are you? You used to be funny. You weren't racist before. Why did you get racist from dementia?

Yeah, that can happen. It does happen. And then people are a hard reset on your brain You got to take out the thing and blow in it I need a new cartridge Damn, what do you got? You got any shows coming up? Yeah, playing with Flamingoses

Oh, doing our new record that comes out in September at Levitt and then... Oh, you're playing Levitt? Yeah, Flemingoses. With who else? Who else is on that show? It's a good question. When is it?

That's also a good point of. August 12th, I think. Nope. August 12th? Yeah. Like this is this weekend? September 12th. Yeah, there we go.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. September 12th. Are you, is he doing live? The full band? Or 16th, maybe. Yeah, it's just, it's just, uh, Gilly and I. Deastra. Yeah.

Deastrata. Keys and guitar, we're going to play the full record. It comes out also that same day. The six, August 16th, I believe. I think I'm going to, I might come to that. I might be out of town. We're doing like. I think that might be flusies and, um, at Red Rocks?

No, a Dylan. I think it might be flusies, somebody else. I'm not going to Dylan for flusies. I mean, I love those guys. We'll be there. I'd rather go see Famingo. We'll be there. Oh, you just said you're playing Levitt.

You're doing Levitt? Dylan and, yeah, both. Okay. Yeah. Wow. Back to back. What are we going to do? It's so hot out.

I don't know. We're under a heat advisory, which is. We are? Yeah, which it's like 90, which is kind of weird for here. No, it's 99 right now. Oh, is it? Yeah, dude. Wow.

It's brutally oppressive hot. A plus. Oppressive hot. Well, it's 96 now. It's starting to go down because it's 4 p.m. But, you know, Julie's working Rufus to Soul all weekend. That being, they rip. It's a three guys.

I didn't know that. Yeah. Is it like a band? I mean, yeah. I think, I mean, not a band. It's like a DJ band. It's like DJ band. Those are kind of dying off.

Remember, like, every band had like a guitar player and a drummer and a guy on Ableton? Yeah. Well, funds went down. Now it's been, yeah, I think people either want to hear a band or they want to hear the. Yeah. Flaming Goses will work with that. But, like, if you're making bangers, it's like, the drums are already kind of hitting.

I think that that's kind of the... Drummers can kind of ruin the vibe there. I know, but they don't want to hear it. Because they always bitch about it, too. Yeah. I think some people think that leveling up their show... Now, not always it can work, but leveling up your show doesn't always, you know,

need to have a drummer. Sometimes it can take the show away a little bit. I 100% agree. Especially if they, like... They can bitch because, like, the original drums are in there, too. Yeah. I mean, it can crack, for sure. But the real drums, like the recorded drums, crack way harder than the live drums.

And then when you try to mix them over each other, you get this big wall of sound. It's got to be like Adam Deich. It's got to be like someone on that level or it doesn't work. You know what I mean? It can't be like whatever guy just graduated from CU Boulder. Yeah. With his sonar drum set. Sonar.

Sooner. Yeah, they still make those, I think. Should we get high and watch World of Worlds after this and laugh at it? I'm done. Amazon Prime. What if we just started promoting Amazon Prime? We should watch it. Hopefully it's one of those ones that's only like an hour and a half.

It has to be. There's no way. We look at it three and a half hour. Like Waterworld or something. They don't make three-hour movies anymore. We'll do Oppenheimer into World of Worlds with Ice Cube. Ice Cube, not T. Ice T's a law and order one.

Yeah, that's right. You got Law and Order? He's a little better actor, maybe. I think he is. Well, he's just been doing it long. I don't know, is he? They're both bad. Ice Cube's son.

Also an actor famous for playing Ice Cube. Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. Yeah, yeah. What was that? Compton? No, it's like, yeah, straight out of Compton. Straight out of Compton.

I actually kind of like that movie. It was okay. I mean, I like NWA. I watched it front row. You did? No, I didn't. I don't really go to the theaters anymore. I don't either.

I got scared. Weird things happen. Yeah, I don't really like it. I definitely look for exits when I do go, though. Dude. Oh, there's that one, and then there's... Like those corny TikToks about guys who like, My husband always has to sit face in the door when we go out to eat at the local hacienda restaurant.

Ma'am, he has trauma. In case anything pops off. It's like, well, no, he's just like secretly. Yeah, he has trauma, basically. I don't want to say what I would. He's scared of his father, unfortunately. Unfortunately, his father hit him for 30 years. He got beat well into his 30s, came home from college, and his dad called him a pussy.

Or he was just in the military, which has his own set of trauma. I don't know. I kind of, I want to give, next time I'm on the pod with Andy, I might try to see if he'll let me call ICE alive on the air and ask about the job. Can you just call them like it's a, there's got to be a phone number. I mean, they want people bad right now. What if they have like the operators? I thought the, I thought the government was broke. Yeah, I don't know.

Yeah, I don't either, actually. I don't, I hardly care about that stuff. I don't like to think about it. I care about human rights and stuff. I just don't, the politics shit is getting so cringe. Crunch, good word for it. It's just like. Politics is cringe.

It is cringe. Like, caring about human rights and all that shit, it's cool. But, like, just, like, if you, like, have a politician's merch. Yeah, that one's a weird one. If you had a Joe Biden t-shirt. But, like, yeah, I hardly want to wear band t-shirts. Yeah. And I'm not talking about just the Trump shit.

I'm talking about, like, Joe Biden T-shirt. Whoever, it doesn't matter. It's like, I don't know. It's a weird hill to die on. Or a flag, too. Just a flag outside of your house. Yeah. I mean, there's American flag.

There's, like, a line with that. I'm talking about, like, somebody's name. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything but the American flag. You know, you should do Nick Gerlark, Colette Flags. Oh, my God, that'd be good. I would fly one. Fly high.

Just sell a couple of them. I'm just picturing two giant, like, those boats they have, like the, like, the, like, Florida with just a huge-ass. Massive, yeah. Pictures of my face in this being. That would actually be pretty good. Anybody out there make flags? We're wearing the hat.

Yeah. Well, they're both black. Yeah. Anybody out there make flags, hit me up. What would a flagmaker be called? There's got to be a name for it. some type of a flag maker. A flag maker.

Oh, wow. Very creative, guys. Wait, the study of flags is called vexilogy. Flachsylogy or just? Vexillogy and a person who designs flags is a vexilographer. Vexillographer. That's cool. That's pretty cool.

Bessie Ross was that? Yeah. That's the only one I know. You have to be a trivia. Name a famous vexillographer. It's got to be Betsy Ross and that's it. I can't name one of the person that's ever made a flag. Yeah.

I have no idea. Have you ever purchased a flag? I don't think so. Like, I wouldn't even know where to buy a flag. I don't know. You have to, I think, truly, you have to stand for something pretty heavy to purchase a flag. I guess you could probably just Google it and it's a fine one in five minutes. Yeah, eBay pretty has lots of flags.

Walmart probably is loaded with flags. Walmart has American flags. You could probably buy, like, an avalanche flag. You could probably buy it. Yeah, down at the Colorado Stadium. Yeah. The Colorado Avalanche Stadium. Maybe that'll be the new thing, though.

All the homies get flags. Yeah. No, we don't have a flag. Why isn't Frascoe? I feel like maybe he does. He has so much merch. Andy Flagsco. There you go.

He could be his flag company. Boom. Don't. He's already just made the L. As he's listening, this LLC is already made. Yeah, I'll come to your show at Levin. I think me and Andy might be out of town. There's a rumor we're going to go, I don't want to say it on here in case it doesn't happen,

but we're going to be like the official pod. Yeah, official pod for like this big festival of country people. Oh. It might get to be around some actual stars for once instead of Jam band zeros. Yeah. Who go online and complain about how Spotify makes them pay

and how they... People will be complaining about anything. I'm so over musicians complaining. It's kind of starting to drive me crazy. It's always like the white dudes. And it's always like... Yeah. It's always a complaint that people have had, like they act like they discovered this. Like, you have to pay to advertise these days. It's like,

that's been a thing since the Stone Age probably. You know what I mean? I mean, like, it's called a, you want people just to help you out for free. Right. It's also just like, yeah, sorry, you're super nuanced. Yeah, I don't know, poetry with music is hard to sell. I don't know. Yeah, how about you just be glad, like, you're healthy enough and alive enough

and have enough free time to even make a song? Yeah, people should be just more stoked if they get to exist in some type of circuit in general. I just love them. People are like, guess what? Did you know this? I swear to God, this is true. rich people have a distinct advantage in this country

it's like yeah I think that's literally been since it's in the Bible gold was found it's like in the fucking old testament of the Bible yeah yeah there was a pharaoh

you know what I mean yeah we used to pharaohs now we just have presidents yeah well now at least there's a you know the middle class is dying but at least there was some sort of middle bridge there

I know used to be pharaohs and then people who like lifted rocks yeah it's going to be that again pretty soon yeah it's diminishing speaking on Amazon delivery drivers. We're all going to be doing that in three

years. We're all just going to be delivering each other's stuff with the money we make working at Amazon and then we buy it back. I mean, in three years, I don't really know. I mean, they either be automated. Yeah, it'll be bots. It'll basically be like coal mine when they have company towns, you know? Oh, yeah. But for the company town. But the whole country. She lives in the company town.

He lives over there in West Virginia in the holler and he works in a company town. Yeah, we're going to be a company country. I heard that Amazon factories where the humans work, the fans, the humans work, they keep the AC off there. But the fans at the one where the bots and the robots work are full blasts. They got to keep them cool. Like they really do is.

They have to keep the robots cool. Yeah, they overheat. Yeah. So people are like, damn, dude. Okay. That's actually wild. Yeah. Because people also overheat.

Damn. I wonder if they have it like set to a certain. They know if like if we just keep it right here at this degree. Yeah. They won't die. No, they probably have it dialed into a science where if it's like 72, it's just enough to piss you off to make you work harder. Yeah.

Just enough sweat to make you like, I can't wait to get out of here. If they make it too cozy, They might be like... Yeah, it could be good for, like, how we're all fat, though. Yeah. That's how I run this house, though. Keep it 72 and make sure everybody... No.

Oh, I was going to say. No, actually, 74, because the basement stays at a constant 60-something, you know. As soon as I walk into a hotel room, I hit... Like, in Nashville, I was in Nashville. You just go... Down, down, down, down. So, sometimes I'm like, where do we go? I just get as cold as I can, and then if I get too cold, I bring it back up.

Yeah. I also am a constant fan. Constant fans on. Constant fan of Andy for half. No. Just kidding. Yeah, I can't really sleep without like the fan noise. Yeah, you have ADHD.

I need, I don't never been diagnosed with anything in my life. It's like I'm definitely totally normal. I mean, yeah, but I mean, it's not that I just never try. It's like, I was in, it wasn't, ADHD was like kind of a thing when I was in school. But yeah, now everyone has. I'm obviously, I'm just have something wrong with me, but like I'm in my 40s. It's too late. Yeah, it's too late.

What I'm going to do, start taking Adderall. I mean, fun. Do you hear about Nikki became a stock broker last week? You just like turned his whole life around three months from now

I'm like selling flags You have thousands of flags Number one AI tech bro In the flag industry Oh my god So when's that

Flamingosis record Come out promote it And then we'll wrap up September 16th We just did a hot 40 Hot 40 Let me double check September 16th

No let me get it right September 12th is when the record drops and then August 15th is the next single Artificial Love, which is kind of an ode to AI and the state of the world. AI Artificial Love. Yep. And what else?

The full record comes out. It's got like eight tracks on it. Flamingosis diastrata. So it's a unique. I believe I'm on one of the tracks. You are? Yeah. You got a solo and a vibe on Iwi, a little.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The solos, I'm proud of that solo. It's one of my better solos. It was a good one. I rinsed it so many times. I don't like it anymore. Oh, that sucks.

Yeah, I liked it a lot. But that's not my fault. No, it's not. No, it's still a great solo. It's like cool because it's like I didn't have to go ham on it. No. I got to play some like nice yacht rock licks. We could play it right now.

You know, I'm still pretty good at saxophone. I'm doing like a bunch of weddings coming up. I kind of like just the chops up. Took a bunch of private gigs. They just pay so much money. Yeah. It's like hard to do that. It's like, do I want to go.

The weddings crush. dude and it's like i know all the tunes so just from being old and doing them for so long and i don't have to like like me and gave are doing this weekend he messaged me and he goes we got the set list i showed you that remember as a joke and he's like it's like cool we have every chart because we have like a shared folder of the charts oh yeah and they're like okay works done sick see at 430 yeah all right that's enough of this all right goodbye everybody bye bye