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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:30Speaker 01

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• 1:00Speaker 02

  In here, we pour whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey.

• 1:05Speaker 03

  Oh, that creature in the ginger beard!

• 1:07Speaker 04

  Sturdy ginger. Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse. Ginger's a beautiful. You owe me $5 for the whiskey, and $75 for the horse. Ginger's, oh hell no. This whiskey is excellent. Ginger. I like gingers.

• 1:24Andrew Santino?

  What up, we see ginger fans. Welcome back to the show. If it's your first time joining the show, welcome to the show. My guest today is one of my least favorite people on earth. I say that for none of my guests, and I mean it today. It's a solo episode. It's me, it's your boy. I haven't done this, I don't even like saying it's your boy. I don't like that at all. That's so gross. That's such a gross. It's your boy. It's your 42-year-old boy.

• 1:45Speaker 06

  Quoting Jay-Z's "The Black Album".

• 1:47Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I have to. It's me, solo today with McConie Boney in the booth over there. And we did a solo today because we've been doing a long run of guests. And we've been doing this show for, I think, almost eight years. I have no idea what the calendar says. And for a while, we were gonna have to put it down because we were traveling too much. And I said, no, let's do a solo episode like we used to do from back in the day, day. I did one, I think I did a solo episode. In Salt Lake or something like that one time from my, from the condo that we were staying in. I don't remember the last time I did a solo. What was that? What's the year on that solo episode that we did that? It says what? That was episode 75 and when?

• 2:29Speaker 06

  March 27th, 2020.

• 2:31Andrew Santino?

  2020. Okay, so five years ago. Uh, we did it. I was sipping a little sap there, sitting in the old studio. That was the old studio that had cockroaches. You weren't around for that. You don't remember the cockroach studio. Man, that was a great studio. We're doing the solo up. We got some stuff to talk about this week. It's been a bummer week so far for me. Uh, in terms of, uh, Rhino died, uh, yesterday. This episode will come out in a couple of days, but, uh, Ryan Sandberg, one of the greatest Chicago Cubs of all time, who made me fall in love with the Chicago Cubs. I was a kid, uh, I was born when he joined the team, uh, shortly after and transformed Wrigley Field into a non-loser's palace. My dad sent me an article from the Chicago Tribune this morning, talking about his impact and what a, what a cool cat.

• 3:16Andrew Santino?

  Bring up a photo of this guy, like one of the most handsome. This is also back when ballplayers, were a little bit more like handsome and normal looking. And now I think you gotta have more flair. Ryan Sandberg. I know that's so sad. You don't even know who that is. And it's spelled R-Y-N-E. Ryan. Ryan. And they called him the Rhino. Handsome looking cat, huh? Apparently he was like a multi-tiered, multi-sport athlete when he was young. He could have done anything. Even as an older gentleman, but look at that. Look at how handsome he was back then. Handsome guy. Died tragically of cancer. Uh, so sad, like so unfortunate. So young too. I think he was, I want to say 65 or 67?

• 3:57Speaker 06

  65.

• 3:58Andrew Santino?

  65. I mean, that's such an awful, young way to go out. Cancer. When does it stop? My mom says, can't we fix that? No, mom, we can't fix that. Uh, my dad had cancer. Everyone we know is gonna get cancer. You just gotta hope for, which one do you hope you get, I guess? You hope for the least painful one. Uh, McCone, of course, will get. Some sort of lead cancer. McConaughey's been removed from his apartment because of lead poisoning. We should put up a little protest. Don't you think we should fight back? We should fight the man.

• 4:33Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 4:34Andrew Santino?

  Uh, McConaughey's in a building that's from the early 1900s. They removed some stuff and of course, lead leaked out. So the kid's been sleeping at the studio, showering at my house and at other people's houses. Which brings me back to the days of showering at strangers' homes. I've done this. I, what do you mean, as an adult, I did this. I showered at Neil Brennan's house one time before a gig. Cause I couldn't make it all the way back to the valley, so I had to do it, uh, somewhere in the city. And showering at other people's houses, it's interesting to figure out their configuration. Did you get my shower quickly?

• 5:03Speaker 06

  You have fantastic water pressure.

• 5:04Andrew Santino?

  I got a good water, good WP over there at the Santino household. I will say, we did pride that when we got that house. I wanted it, the hot to be hotter and the pressure to be stronger. And the guy that came over from LED WP to check everything out was like, you know, this water pressure's a little too high. It could bust a pipe or something. And I said, "Bust it." See, I'm getting my youth on today. Bust it, dog. There's a photo of McConaughey's lead on his counter. That, what, is that a grinder? What is that? That's your, that is it?

• 5:31Speaker 06

  Oh, that's for lenses.

• 5:33Andrew Santino?

  That's for lenses. Oh my God, there's a Zippo lighter, a lens cap and...

• 5:36Speaker 06

  An old charger.

• 5:37Andrew Santino?

  An old charger from back in the day. Is that USB? And then that's what? What is that?

• 5:41Speaker 06

  That's for a, a film reel.

• 5:43Andrew Santino?

  God, that's so gross. So look at how dirty that counter got, just from them ripping everything out.

• 5:47Speaker 06

  It got in my coffee.

• 5:49Andrew Santino?

  It got in your coffee? Did you drink the coffee?

• 5:50Speaker 06

  Of course I did.

• 5:51Andrew Santino?

  You have to finish it.

• 5:52Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 5:53Andrew Santino?

  You know, I hate that mentality of like my parents' generation from like the 50s where they're like, "It made us stronger. We, we drank puddle water." No, it didn't. You're all dying of cancer now. So no, it didn't make you stronger. It's sad. Look at all that. That's so bad for you.

• 6:07Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 6:08Andrew Santino?

  That reminds me, this is great. Bring up this picture of, uh, go to JCB, uh, England. JCB England. It's a golf course, uh, that I was just out there. And at JCB, see if you can get images, uh, look up old brick building, JCB. This is pretty impressive. We were going around the grounds at this golf course. And that's it. I think that's it. That's one of them. So this guy's taking me around the golf course and said, "Look at that beautiful historic building on the, on the grounds." He goes, "Yeah, mate, we can't rip it down." And I said, "Why not?" He goes, "It was filled with asbestos." So, you know that the environmental agency over there, they said, "It's better to leave it up than to rip it down because of the asbestos that would float around in the air." So, it's just an old asbestos building. It looks beautiful.

• 6:53Andrew Santino?

  And of course, the golf course had stored a lot of stuff in there, which means some of the younger employees are going to catch some asbestos poisoning by proxy. But really, who cares about the youth? And McConaughey is reminding me you're 26 years old. I'm older now. We started working together when you were 23 years old. It is crazy how fast our children grow up and how much you still have to take care of them. I feel that when I hear people talk about their kids. You're still living really under my roof. In a way, yes. No, no, literally, this is my roof, you're here. But this is what it is. That's the story of life. You're my kid. I feel like because I couldn't have kids, God blessed me with you. I have to take care of you. God bless, God love, God bless. But going backwards, shout out to Ryan Sandberg, the Rhino, one of the greatest of all time.

• 7:37Andrew Santino?

  Followed me on Instagram, made me feel, I mean, I don't even care, I don't even know who could have followed me on Instagram that would have made me feel the way it made me feel when he followed me. Because as a kid, he was so impactful. Because I loved baseball, but he really made me fall in love as a kid because he was clean and smooth, the sexiest second baseman I think I've ever seen. And that was the Mark Grace days. I mean, that entire, that entire crew of Chicago Cubs made me fall in love with the pinstripes and Wrigley. In a way that I just kind of, I don't know, it did something. And of course, that was the original number 23. Isn't that kind of crazy? He was the first 23 in Chicago, followed by the GOAT of basketball. What a childhood I was able to have. This is what's kind of messed up as I've grown older and moved to Los Angeles.

• 8:21Andrew Santino?

  And now I'm in the city of a lot of championships. It is kind of nice to live in a place like this where the sports teams are so good, but the people seem to not care. Nobody goes to hang out. Nobody tailgates. When I go back to the Midwest, you can go to, okay, the White Sox are having a mediocre season and you can still go to the South Side of Chicago, go to a bar, people will be watching the game and it's a communal thing. Nobody does that here. The Doyers have a fanbase of strong Latinos and then mid-whites. The whites come and they go. The whites go when they can get free tickets. That's when the whites go to baseball games. You give me free tickets, I'll go to the game. I've been buying tickets for the Dodgers for a long,

• 9:02Andrew Santino?

  long time. I'm not a mid-white. I'd say I'm a, I'm a, I'm an upper-middle white, you know, as far as, you know, I can touch all the bases. I can, I can dance amongst different classes. Mexicans being my favorite, I talked about them last night at the Comedy Store. Man, I love Mexicans. They know how to take a joke. They're not gonna get offended. You're never gonna get canceled by a Latino Dodger fan because they say some wild-ass shit. I mean, they were the ones that put that San Francisco Giant in a coma. Is that guy still alive, by the way? That's why we don't have tailgating out at Dodger Stadium anymore. They beat that guy into a coma. It was terrible. 12 years. Giants fan Brian Stow still battling long-term effects 12 years after the Dodger Stadium

• 9:43Andrew Santino?

  attack. 12 years. This guy got put in a coma in the Dodger parking lot. Insane. They beat him into a coma and because of this now, there's, there's 900 cops in Chavez Ravine before the game. You can't even have a beer by your car like the good old days. Did you grow up having, you went to Vikings games when you were a kid?

• 9:59Speaker 06

  Yeah, and some, I mean-

• 10:00Andrew Santino?

  Did your dad sit in the parking lot and have a drink and, and tailgate?

• 10:03Speaker 06

  We would more so go to like a, like a col-, we would, we'd go to Timber Wolf games more than anything, but that was the winter. So that was-

• 10:09Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, well, you can't, you're not tailgating. And nobody tailgates before basketball. Which, why though? Why don't you tailgate before basketball? So what? What are you talking about? It's cold. You tailgate before football games, they're also in the winter.

• 10:20Speaker 06

  I know, but fall versus, no, it's the fall.

• 10:22Andrew Santino?

  Nah, you, okay. Go, go tell that to Green Bay. Go tell that to Green Bay when it's snowing and it's 12 degrees. They're still out there drinking. I mean, we went to a Broncos game and it was 22 degrees. It was ice cold dude and we were still out there having a couple of soda pops, enjoying our lives. The Vikings don't make it that far in the season. God dude, this is why you're still around. So look at this poor, this poor guy, the Giant fan, this poor guy that they beat into a coma. 12 years later, he's still, what was the lawsuit that they ended up, look at, whoa, pause that. That's the, that's a police sketch. That's the police sketch of the people that they were looking for. God dude, I could have been, I could have been a police sketch artist. That is the most. Look at his head, I mean, they split his head open. The fact he's still alive is insane. That was, that's awful.

• 11:06Andrew Santino?

  That's a bad display of true, of true Dodger fans because these are wonderful, good people. You just had a couple of people that had too many Estrellas out there in right field. Estrella, the beer of the diaries. Oh, this guy can't even stand, I mean, this is terrible to watch. I don't want to see this anymore. What are we doing? No, it's terrible. I feel, I feel bad. It was an awful thing that happened to the poor guy. What's the amount of money he sought in that lawsuit? I remember it was a big deal back then. 12 years ago, man, so much time has changed since then too. What does it say? 5 million? 5 million to take care, it says Stow's family sued the Dodgers citing poor security in the parking lots. They were left with just over 5 million to take care of Stow. Just over 5 million, but they say the word left just over as if it was 30 bucks.

• 11:51Andrew Santino?

  5 million. I mean, look, 5 million to get put in a coma. No, thank you. How much would you get paid if I can put you in a coma? How much could I pay you to put you in a coma? Am I coming out of the coma? You're coming out, but you're, you're, you're having a tough go. 12 years later, you're still struggling. Maybe a milli a year. 12 milli. 12 million? Yeah. I won't, no, no thanks. Yeah. Let me just, let me just choke you out. And I'll give you free showers at my house. Okay, that's fair, that's fair. He had five cardiac arrests that night at the hospital. That's insane. Alright, let's move on. Yeah. Well, I was talking about how bad that is. It's bad fan, that's bad friendship. Yeah. And I will say. Dodgers are not like that. We have good fanship. They're good, solid people out there, the Dodger fans.

• 12:32Andrew Santino?

  And moving to a city with all these, with all these, this championship glory, having the LA Kings, you know, go through their run, the Lakers, which, you know, I'm not a big Laker guy, but, you know, one of the most historic basketball teams of all time. The Rams and the Raiders both touch and go out here. Now we have the Chargers, which, give them back to San Diego. Give them back. Can you return a team? Return to sender. Address unknown. I don't understand that. They moved up here. No one was a fan. I do not get that move, you know? I do understand the move of the Oakland Raiders going to Vegas and the Oakland A's moving to Vegas. I know Oakland's upset about it, but they, you're right across the bridge. You can go get whatever you need over there.

• 13:16Andrew Santino?

  You know, and I know they don't like that, but show more love and support. I did a show called Behind the Lights years and years ago where I went to some of the toughest jobs in sports and they showed us flipping the baseball to football. Look at that Behind the Lights day with, oh, that's day with the Padres. But I went to do Behind the Lights to Oakland. I watched them flip the stadium from baseball. Now that's mudding. I don't think you're gonna, I don't know. But I watched them flip the stadium from baseball to football and we'll show the outside of it. Go to maybe the outside. But, um, no, that's not, I don't care. Take it away.

• 13:57Andrew Santino?

  But, but the point is, uh,

• 14:00Andrew Santino?

  they said, the reason they, they didn't want to build them a new stadium is because it only cost them a million dollars every flip. Half a million each way. So the family intelligently said, well, how many times do we got to flip it in a season for football?

• 14:13Andrew Santino?

  How many times, do you know? Half of the games are home, half are away. So six to nine times now? Right? Six to eight times. I mean, come on. That's nothing. I mean, who cares? So six million bucks is all it cost them instead of building an entire new stadium? Which what does it cost now to build a brand new baseball stadium? The average cost. I would say, I'm gonna guess it's probably... A billion and some change, buck and a half. I wonder what AI thinks. 2.3, 1.2 to 2.3. I was close. I said a buck and a half. 2.3 billion to build a baseball stadium now. Yeah, so why would you do it? Why would you do it?

• 14:49Speaker 06

  Create jobs.

• 14:51Andrew Santino?

  Create Steve Jobs? He's dead, my friend.

• 14:53Speaker 06

  We have to create him a new then.

• 14:56Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, where's Steve Jobs? We need him. These iPhones are worthless. This is the same design it's been since it came out in 08. It's the same thing. Nothing really changed.

• 15:04Speaker 06

  Boy, yeah, he's been dead for... Wasn't that funny at the end of BlackBerry, though, when that just kind of ruins everything for them?

• 15:08Andrew Santino?

  The iPhone killer.

• 15:10Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 15:10Andrew Santino?

  It is pretty crazy. I remember how big of a deal it was. My roommate, my couch jumper roommate, a guy that kind of slept on our couch for a while, he had the iPhone. I was, that pissed me off. You know when your friends are as poor as you are and they get something worth a lot of money and you're like, haven't you not been paying rent? That really bummed me out.

• 15:27Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 15:27Andrew Santino?

  He got the new iPhone and the first gen, dude, that was expensive. That's 07, 08. And I think even then it was 600 bucks or 700 bucks. I don't remember. What was the cost of the first iPhone? But he had that and I thought, why are you living on my couch and you got an iPhone? You have the brand new iPhone. We couldn't afford that back then. $500, man. 600 for the 8 gig. Think about that, dude. The 8 gig, that was the highest they went was 8 gigs. $600 in 2007 is equivalent to 900 today, which is exactly what they are now. They're like $1,000. But think about that. Sick, 8 gigs? How many gigs is our phones now? 256 is the high, or no, 512 is the highest?

• 16:04Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 16:04Andrew Santino?

  Good God.

• 16:05Speaker 06

  I think they go up to a terabyte now.

• 16:07Andrew Santino?

  Do they?

• 16:08Speaker 06

  Yeah. Just because file sizes are exploding exponentially.

• 16:10Andrew Santino?

  But there's no reason you'd ever need a terabyte for the average user. That's crazy.

• 16:13Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 16:14Andrew Santino?

  That's the same thing that bothers me about MacBooks. I have Mac stuff. I'm a sucker. But everybody's like, why do you like Macs? And every idiot says the same thing. Dude, there's stuff you can do with it. Most people are checking email.

• 16:28Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 16:28Andrew Santino?

  They're not on Final Cut. They're not on Adobe Photoshop. They're not on any of those Premiere programs, which this thing is good for. So we're all just sheep and liars. We really all just sheep and liars. And I'm one of them. I got iPhone, iPad, MacBook, AirPods, uh, um...

• 16:49Andrew Santino?

  I had Beats, which Apple owns now. I had Beats over the ears headphones. I have so many devices. I have AirTags and everything. We AirTagged my dog. We AirTagged my dog. I should AirTag you. I want to know where you are most of the time. But we AirTagged my dog because it's better than putting a chip in your dog.

• 17:05Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 17:06Andrew Santino?

  But sometimes I hit the AirTag sound just to mess with her. You know, because when you do the and it goes blah blah blah blah blah. And she looks around and panics. My wife doesn't like that. But it is funny to watch her face. She freaks out for just a minute. She's about to be bummed. She's not going to get played with every day. My in-laws are at my house right now and they play with the dog. I'm not kidding. Sun up, sundown. Like they'll go in the backyard and throw the ball with her for six, seven hours. It's crazy, dude. I play with her two hours a day, I'd say. Two is enough.

• 17:33Speaker 06

  She needs a break.

• 17:35Andrew Santino?

  She does. I need a break, you know? She's so fast. She's so quick. She's eight. But she's still my little black dog. My little cute little black dog. I like the black ones better than the white ones. You wouldn't hear him say that, huh? Are we ever going to get the Epstein's list? No, probably not. We're never going to get that list, are we? Oh, so let me go back. So Ryan Sandberg, a loss of a legend for the Chicago Cubs. One of the greatest Cubs of all time. Rest in peace, Rhino. We love you so very much. You were pretty unbelievable, man. And before that,

• 18:10Andrew Santino?

  we lost Hulk Hogan, which

• 18:14Andrew Santino?

  tragedy to die. It's sad when people die. But man, his N-word tape to his daughter was wild, dude. What'd he say? If she's going to date an N-word, at least let it be a pro athlete? Is that what he said? I mean, that's maybe the most flagrant shit on earth. And is he on the phone to her or to somebody else? I think he was on the racist rant. Eight years ago, used offensive language to have a private conversation. It was unacceptable. Yeah, yeah, he acknowledged it. But he did say he was mad that she was dating a black guy. Right? Isn't that the whole case? And then he said, at least if she's going to date a black guy, he better be a multimillionaire, a hundred millionaire or something like that.

• 18:51Speaker 06

  I'm going to try to find the transcript.

• 18:52Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, please do. Please do. Find the transcript. Who recorded that phone call? I always think about that, like with the Mel Gibson call when his girlfriend recorded that. I was like, that's so funny. She knew. He must do it. By the way, you know, this is like drunk driving. My uncle, who's a cop, says, you know what they say when you get caught drunk driving? They didn't catch you on your first go. This guy probably said it a lot. A lot. Yeah, brother. You better not be dating an N-word, brother.

• 19:19Speaker 06

  He even said brother with a hard R.

• 19:20Andrew Santino?

  He said brother. You better not be dating a brother. Brother. Yeah, he did a bad, a little bad little thing. And that was after the sex tape with his friend's wife came out. That thing was so strange. His whole legacy is pretty muddied up. The whole time he was down there, he yeah. Yeah, racial tirade. And he sued Gawker for a hundred million dollars. Anyway, oh, there it is. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Sleeping with the son of a man who was funding her. I mean, I'd rather if she was going to F some N-word rather than have her marry an eight-foot-tall N-word worth a hundred million dollars, like a basketball player. I guess we're all a little racist effing N-word.

• 20:04Andrew Santino?

  Rest in peace, Hulk Hogan. What if they put that on his tombstone, dude? Put that quote on your tombstone? That's something to live by. By the way, this is one of those, that's one of those, that's one of those quotes where this wasn't a dude, you got me out of context. Dude, this is misunderstood. That's not, I didn't mean it the way that it's reading. Anyway, Hulk Hogan gone. Ryan Sandberg gone. And rest in peace, Ryan Sandberg, Hulk Hogan.

• 20:36Speaker 06

  Ozzy.

• 20:36Andrew Santino?

  Rest in peace, I guess. Unfortunate end to his legacy. And the most impactful of all of the three celebrity deaths that go back to back to back is Ozzy Osbourne. I was in, I was near his hometown when he passed away. How crazy was that? What's it called? His hometown was called, what's it called? And he died near there, right? So he was born in Moston Green, Warwickshire. I mean, everything sounds like it's Lord of the Rings. And he died in Jordan's Buckinghamshire. I was up there in Midlands, England. Midlands, England, when he passed away and

• 21:17Andrew Santino?

  What a wild run that guy had. I mean, the fact that he lasted till 76 is bananas. Think about that. 65 Ryan Sandberg, cancer. This guy bit bats, snorted heroin, like mainlined drugs for years, partied as hard as you could party, still got to 76. That's crazy, man. The guy was a legend. The guy was a total G. Black Sabbath, one of the greatest metal bands, probably in the history of music. Impactful stuff, dude. Really a powerful dude. So rest in peace to those guys. Tough little week, three celebrity deaths in a row. Although I never had an affinity for Hulk Hogan. I'm not saying this now because of the N-word conversation we just had. I just never liked wrestling as a kid. I'm of the generation that should have loved it. I liked it. But I didn't love it. I liked sports more.

• 22:03Speaker 06

  What, you're saying wrestling's not a sport?

• 22:06Andrew Santino?

  No, I'm saying I liked team sports more. I just like basketball and baseball, hockey, football. I know soccer really missed me, although I tried to play it when I was a kid. But I was like, man, you should be able to push people hard, punch, push. Thus rugby. Thus rugby. Because they do all that stuff.

• 22:26Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 22:27Andrew Santino?

  It is, it is a great game. Rugby is one of those games. I wish we had it here. We do. My buddy Ev from college, he plays and then coaches. But it's just not as popular. We just can't. Why do you think we can't get into this? We can't get into rugby or soccer?

• 22:40Speaker 06

  Because rugby is too similar to soccer and we have such a...

• 22:43Andrew Santino?

  We have such a hard-on to hate soccer, but it's, but people say, you know what the phrase is that I don't like? This is a cop-out when people go, oh, there's not enough scoring. There is, actually, in soccer. I think that's actually not true.

• 22:52Speaker 06

  Also hockey isn't very high-scoring at all, but it's...

• 22:55Andrew Santino?

  It's gotten better, right? Because of the change of rules, right? Hockey's a little bit more fast-paced now.

• 22:59Speaker 06

  Yeah, but it's still, it's like, it's similar to soccer where they're not putting up... NBA games are in triple digits.

• 23:05Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, but NBA games have gotten out of control.

• 23:06Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 23:07Andrew Santino?

  Now you watch an NBA game, and what's the average score now in the NBA? It's like 135 to 122. It's, that's... I remember as a kid, yeah, average NBA score is around 115 a game. That's, that's a lot. What was the average, look at this. What was the average NBA score in, oh, look, there's the, there's the graph. Pull up that chart.

• 23:28Andrew Santino?

  Look at the downtick there in the 90s. 1960 was higher. Do you know why? It was all, there was no, there was no black eyes to guard these white dorks. These white dorks were getting free reign. These white nerds were being, there was no one that could able to grab the ball out of the sky like Wilt the Stilt and snag your bullshit. Then it was a low scoring in the 70s. Late 70s to the 75. It went up a little bit, then went way down in the 90s. Interesting. So the highest peak of scoring in the NBA was actually in the 60s, 61, 62. Was all the way up to 120 a game. That's interesting because we've never seen, in my, in my lifetime, look at in the, in the 90s, it was all low. It was all pretty low. It was around 85 to, it was sub 100 a game. Everything was sub 100.

• 24:11Andrew Santino?

  So you think we're going to get back to going up to 120 a game on an average? Probably sooner than later. If they, if they institute a four point, you think a four point thing is good or no? No. You think it's stupid? Yeah. But they're shooting from half court at this point. Steph Curry is shooting. What's the average distance of a Steph Curry 3? I mean, the guy is shooting now so far beyond the arc. I mean, it's, it's, he's almost shooting from half court. That should be four points for fun.

• 24:38Andrew Santino?

  Typically- 27 feet. 27 feet away. Yeah. Significantly further than the standard three point line, which is 23 feet. Right? So on average, this guy is like four, sometimes four to six feet away from where he should be. That's so far away. So make 28 feet a four point line. But also you're being defended less when you're that far back. But then that makes it more interesting. Then people are going to get up on you knowing that there's another point on the line for that. Well, then you're just inventing a new game, you know? You're not inventing a new game. We're, no, that's not true. Because the, the three point line didn't always exist, my friend. When was the three point line instituted in the NBA? The three point line wasn't always a thing, so they didn't, why, why wouldn't, why wouldn't you just grow the game?

• 25:16Andrew Santino?

  So the, the, the three point line was added into the NBA in the 79, 80 season, dude. And look what happened to those stats. Plummeting. No, that's not true. They stayed pretty average at that. They went down in the 90s. I think his defense got a lot of stronger. Dude, look at this. In the 90s, this is when you had the dogs of defense. You had the Detroit Pistons that were absolute maniacs. I mean, they were fouled. This is when fouling was like, everything would have been a flagrant. I mean, they were slapping the shit out of each other. And I know they talk about that. Those old guys are like, nah, the NBA is too soft. I don't think it's soft, but I do think the fouls back then were significantly tougher. I mean, you would see them choke, I mean, literally rap a throat. You'd see them choke each other out.

• 25:59Andrew Santino?

  But I do think that if you institute a four pointer. Look, dude, you have to grow the game to make young people get interested in these games. They added a three-point line for a reason. Add a four-point spot. How about a spot, not a line? You gotta shoot from that spot. They do that on, I don't know what that was, the big three or whatever maybe does not. I don't think they do that. Somebody, there was a league that instituted it for a long time. Maybe it's and one. I'm just thinking about and one. Oh, baby!

• 26:28Andrew Santino?

  And one also shaped my youth. That got a lot of young people who didn't really care much about basketball into basketball. And one. Skip to my Lou, Rafer Alston, the video game. There's my buddy Professor on the cover of that. He used to work out at the same gym as me at LA Fitness off of, off of La Cienega. Down in, La Cienega on the freeway. He used to work out down there. I used to see him. And then years later, I hit him up on Instagram. I never connected with that guy. I always wanted to just go watch him play ball live because those guys would go to Venice. They'd play the Venice Courts. Oh, it was so cool to watch. I don't know if Venice is like that anymore. It's just needles.

• 27:05Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 27:06Andrew Santino?

  That's the new and one, hypodermic needles. You have to dodge needles. People throwing hypodermics at you while you hoop. I went, this, you can't see the scar. There's a scar right under my pointer finger here. It's pretty big. And this is because on Venice Beach, when I was 23 or 24, I used to go down there and play basketball. And the backboards are rusted because of the sea air, the salt air, sea air. It's an ocean, Andrew. Because of the salt, so it rusts all those backboards. And I went up to block a ball. And uh, my hand hit the backboard. Yeah, I got up, so I'll show you photos. And uh, I used to dunk in college. People don't believe that, but we have pictures of that. Um, and my hand hit the backboard. And um, it sliced through my hand like a knife.

• 27:52Andrew Santino?

  Like a knife through butter. That was me yoking in college. Can you believe that? How incredible is that? That's me dunking in college. My buddy Colin taking pictures. Look at my face. I look like I'm squeezing out of shit. But that was me yoking. There's a, there should be one parallel to that. That was at Arizona State. I could get up. The kid could get up. There's another one with two hands.

• 28:12Speaker 06

  I cut my hand yesterday too.

• 28:14Andrew Santino?

  What'd you cut your hand doing? Not touching the backboard? I'll tell you that.

• 28:16Speaker 06

  No, I was, I was going to my friend's house to watch a movie and I didn't want to ask for their gate code and I guessed. I could probably jump that. And I could, but I cut my hand in the process.

• 28:25Andrew Santino?

  You do stuff like that and that key, that reminds me that you're 26. Don't jump the gate.

• 28:29Speaker 06

  Just because I, I, I wanted to see if I could.

• 28:31Andrew Santino?

  Go to the picture right next to it with two hands. There's gotta be one right next to it. I did. Oh, it's not up there.

• 28:35Speaker 06

  No, they're all the same.

• 28:37Speaker 00

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• 29:07Speaker 01

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• 29:38Andrew Santino?

  I could yoke back in the day when I was a young lad. I'm turning 42 this year. What does that mean for me, McCone?

• 29:44Speaker 06

  Time's up.

• 29:46Andrew Santino?

  It is, dude. "You lack the minerals and vitamins, ions and the niacin. Fuck who did I offend? Rap a sip back. I'm bout to..." You don't know that song? "Time's up."

• 29:55Speaker 06

  Yeah, no, that's sampled in something. "The fuck would I offend?"

• 29:59Andrew Santino?

  That's right. Big L.

• 30:01Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 30:01Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 30:02Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 30:03Andrew Santino?

  But that lyric is from "Time's Up" by OC. I believe that's, uh, "Time's Up." "Fuck who did I offend? Rap a sip back. I'm bout to begin..." "Time's Up" by OC, I was, I was right. Buck original. "Time's Up." It's a great album. Phenomenal album. By the way, I was listening this morning before you came over to the house to shower. I was listening to Ann Peebles. Ann Peebles might be the most sampled soul artist in the history. I'm telling I, I can't, the internet's gotta know. Look how many times, type in how many times hip hop artists have sampled Ann Peebles. It's shocking how many times I listen to her stuff. And it is a litany of songs. And sometimes in one song. I'll hear 10 songs in one song. I mean, "I Can't Stand the Rain" is the most notorious.

• 30:45Andrew Santino?

  Uh, but "Trouble, Heartache and Sadness" was sampled by, by, uh, Jizza, by Earl Sweatshirt, by Raekwon. She's been sampled so many times. Look at all those. Uh, uh, Grammatic, shout out to Grammatic, my dog. I love that guy. Prodigy, Wu-Tang, Benny the Butcher, The Regiment. Dude, phonics. I mean, look at all these people.

• 31:06Andrew Santino?

  Isn't that crazy how many times she's, that one song's been sampled? There's three more pages to that.

• 31:10Speaker 06

  Is that the "No Way" on Shadowbox?

• 31:12Andrew Santino?

  That is one of it. Yes, that is one of them from there. "That's heartache." Oh, that's such a good song. And for people that wanna know, uh, if you're a hip hop fan, if you really wanna dig in the crates, so to speak, go ahead and, and listen to some Ann Peebles. If you're a fan of hip hop music and, and the history of hip hop, you wanna hear where a lot of those great song loops came from, those samples were from Ann Peebles. Um, she's incredible. I could listen to her all day long. She's got such a, a wealth of, of, of music where it's happy and sad.

• 31:45Andrew Santino?

  And beautiful and, and so melodic. I really like her. I've been on a little bit of a old soul kick for some reason. We go through these little, I think they're kind of reflective of the time. Of whatever I'm going through, you know?

• 31:58Speaker 06

  See the most sampled song of all time. I feel like it was like, I thought I heard it was like impeach the president or something.

• 32:03Andrew Santino?

  That's the most sampled song of all time. Amen Brother by the Winstons. The Amen Brother break? Oh, the Amen break. The most sampled song of all time. Wish we could play it without YouTube smushing us. It's fine. But the most sampled funky president. Impeach the president is number three. Bring the noise, fight the power.

• 32:25Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 32:25Andrew Santino?

  Fight the power for sure.

• 32:27Speaker 06

  All those are early hip hop.

• 32:28Andrew Santino?

  Eric B is president, right?

• 32:30Speaker 06

  That's the best.

• 32:31Andrew Santino?

  And F the police. Now what is that about?

• 32:36Speaker 06

  The bridge.

• 32:37Andrew Santino?

  How funny is that? That NWA's. Fuck the police is 1988.

• 32:45Andrew Santino?

  And it's still a relevant song today. It's just like, uh, Eddie of Carlin's bits. They're still relevant today. You know when they say that comedy is a, is a sign of the times, so is music, but sometimes the times just, uh. The times just keep rotating. You come right back to where we were. We circle, we come back. What's our future, McCone? What's your future? I'll be dead by the time the world, uh. Changes again and then you'll have to deal with whatever bullshit we left behind. I'm excited dude, I'm excited. I'm excited for you to go through more pain as you get older.

• 33:19Speaker 06

  Well, there's more where that came from.

• 33:20Andrew Santino?

  Are you in love right now?

• 33:21Speaker 06

  No.

• 33:22Andrew Santino?

  Good. Good. I don't want you in love. I want you focused on work.

• 33:26Speaker 06

  I'm in love with the work right now.

• 33:27Andrew Santino?

  Now that'll go away too. You'll get sick of that.

• 33:30Speaker 06

  I actually do feel like I'm in a good creative stride right now.

• 33:32Andrew Santino?

  You really? You're moving? We're about to do some videos. We're gonna shoot some stuff and get into a little bit of a creative stride.

• 33:37Speaker 06

  Yeah, I wanna, if you're ever, if you're around, I wanna get you do that short film sketch show at the store.

• 33:43Andrew Santino?

  Not gonna do it. Not gonna do it, not because I don't want to, but because you just asked me now on camera. And I feel like it's a principle. I just can't do things that are not a principle.

• 33:53Speaker 06

  How was Goop's show?

• 33:54Andrew Santino?

  We'd had a fun show last night, me and Robert E. Lee, me and Bobby Lee, my boy, and also Dax Flame was on it. Tiffany Haddish was on it, Dane Cook was on it.

• 34:02Speaker 06

  Arsenio?

• 34:03Andrew Santino?

  Huh?

• 34:04Speaker 06

  Was Arsenio on?

• 34:04Andrew Santino?

  I think was on, is on the next one.

• 34:06Speaker 06

  He's normally on those.

• 34:07Andrew Santino?

  One of the best, by the way, one of the best dudes and comics.

• 34:10Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 34:10Andrew Santino?

  Working, Arsenio Hall. A legend, that only some people may know as, "Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh." But, Arsenio's way more than that. Great writer, and also, uh, a guy that's somehow still putting in the work. Because he doesn't have to, I'm sure he's got plenty of money in the bank that he could just sit back and say, "You know, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go to the house and watch Love Island." My in-laws got hooked on, uh, they're watching Schitt's Creek now.

• 34:40Andrew Santino?

  Schitt's Creek, I never watched it. I heard it was really good.

• 34:43Speaker 06

  No, me neither.

• 34:44Andrew Santino?

  I, I, I just never, uh... "I don't like when the lead character's gay." No, I just didn't, I had no, I, no, I had no interest in the show for some reason. I really, I really wanted to watch it, because I like Dan, he's, I think he's very funny and talented. And I met him years ago. You know what's so funny? I met him through a friend of mine, and before I knew who, I didn't know who he was, I didn't know his name, you know? And, uh, I was like, "Oh, you know, uh, what do you do?" He's like, "I'm an actor." And I was like, "Oh, cool, that's awesome." Yeah, and he's like, "I'm working on this show right now. I'm trying to get in development with this show with my dad." And I was like, "Oh, that's rad, you're gonna put your dad in the show?" He's like, "No, my dad, my dad is an actor." And I was like, "Oh, cool, who's your dad?" He's like, "Oh, Eugene Levy," and I was like, "Oh." "I think that'll go."

• 35:29Andrew Santino?

  I was like, "I think that show will get picked up." Whenever I hear that kinda stuff, and he earned it, by the way, he's a, he's a great writer and a great actor, so it's not, you can't take anything away from... Sometimes nepotism in Hollywood, people get this weird thing where they're like, "They just got that because of X, Y, Z." Sometime, sometimes it's because they're talented, okay? You know, not always, but I think a lot of times, right?

• 35:52Andrew Santino?

  I mean, but Hollywood's so rife with it, it's crazy, man. I can't believe I'm just a young loser from Chicago with no ties in Hollywood and I was able to even get, even in the door. Emma Roberts, Lily Collins, Dakota Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Zoe Kravitz, Drew Barrymore, Ben Stiller, Kaia Gerber, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Carrie Fisher, Charlie Sheen, George Clooney, John David Washington, Hailey Bieber, Gigi Hadid, Lily Rose Depp, Maud Apatow, Tracee Ellis Ross, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bryce Dallas Howard, Billy Lourd, Jack Quaid, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson. So it's everybody!

• 36:21Speaker 06

  Even like Maya Rudolph, Minnie Riperton.

• 36:24Andrew Santino?

  Yeah. It is crazy. It is. So many people have some sort of connection to this whole thing. There is. What's George Clooney's? I thought he was a dog. He has somebody? Who's his? Who's his parent? Who's his mommy and daddy? Nick Clooney, his father. He is a American journalist, anchorman, politician, television host. God, dude. Everybody's got somebody.

• 36:49Speaker 06

  The Nick Clooney Show out of Ohio.

• 36:51Andrew Santino?

  The Nick Clooney Show from Columbus, Ohio for WLWC. Here we are, WLWC, television 1968, Cincinnati's WCPTO-TV.

• 37:02Andrew Santino?

  Today in the news, you can officially hit your wife in front of your house, not just inside your house.

• 37:07Andrew Santino?

  Did she not make the coffee that you wanted? Go ahead and give her a crack-a-dack-a-doodle. Your neighbors can't say anything.

• 37:15Andrew Santino?

  Back in the good old days. I hate that. That's such an annoying... Back in the good old days.

• 37:21Andrew Santino?

  When you could redline.

• 37:24Andrew Santino?

  What are you talking about? What do you mean the good old days? What are you even referring to?

• 37:27Speaker 06

  When you could redline neighborhoods.

• 37:29Andrew Santino?

  And divorces were way lower back then. You know why? They couldn't leave.

• 37:32Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 37:33Andrew Santino?

  We didn't let them go. A judge smoking a cigar, say you want a divorce, huh? What did he do to you? Hit you? Grow up. Next. Case dismissed.

• 37:44Andrew Santino?

  I think about that a lot because my mother got a divorce from my father. And my dad, you know, had some troubles in life and he's fixed his life years later. He's gotten his life much together, you know, but he was a young foolish lad. He had some troubles. My parents split up and the shame my mother felt from the divorce. Uh, because of the church, you know? Because of the way that the church made people feel about it and local. Uh, local opinion, you know, the, the court of public opinion about it. It was really sad. I think she felt shame and bummed about, I mean, she had to do what she had to do clearly. She had to, no woman wants to go, I wouldn't, I need to be a single mom. Like no woman wants that as their future. They do that if they have to, if they don't have any other choice.

• 38:27Andrew Santino?

  No woman wants to be a single mother without a partner to help. The stress of life is particularly if you don't, if you come from no money and you've got to work all day and you don't get to see your kid at all and it's a tough life. I give my mom so much credit, man. My mother's like one of the greatest forces in my entire life. Who I saw work my whole life up until five years ago. And I'm a grown man. She worked my entire life and still was able to raise me. And, you know, I don't know, single moms, if you're a single mom out there, shout out to you. You're a badass and you're dope and I hope you don't have to do it all alone. I hope you get some form of help, whether it's family or a partner. But I know how hard that is. I, I saw my mom go through it a little bit. I know it was really hard. My mom, one time she came to pick me up from daycare and she had all my presents,

• 39:12Andrew Santino?

  my Christmas presents in the trunk of her old shitty, I think it was an Oldsmobile. It was a piece of shit. It had no hubcaps on it. They had stolen those and someone stole the car right before Christmas.

• 39:23Speaker 06

  Damn.

• 39:23Andrew Santino?

  And I didn't know as a child, but my mom had said she had called, you know, my grandpa and was just, was so sad and hurt and, and was like, I lost my car and all my kids, he's not going to have a Christmas now. And then luckily, uh, old poppy came through and they helped get me some more Christmas gifts. Cause every single gift my mother had purchased was in the trunk of my mom's car. Cause we lived in an apartment, she couldn't keep in the apartment. Where would you keep it? There was no room in the apartment. The coat closet was, I mean, I'm not even kidding. The coat closet in the front hallway of our apartment, I think, because I used to hide in it as a kid. And I got big enough as a kid where I started running out of room. That's how small the coat closet was. It was like four coats and an old, and an old suitcase. But my mom got the car stolen and it was snowy night.

• 40:06Andrew Santino?

  And I do remember this. I don't have a lot of great memories as a kid because my memory's bad. But I do remember she picked me up and I was dilly-dallying. I was taking my time and I do feel like a part of it was my fault. I do remember feeling that was my fault. The car got stolen. Because we were watching a movie. And I didn't want to leave and I remember then going outside and the car was gone and my mom in sheer panic. And then I think like less than a week later, the Chicago police called my mom. And were like, "Mrs. Santino, we found your car. It's off to Dan Ryan. Do you want it?" And she was like, "What condition is it in? What does it look like?" And they're like, "Well, two of the tires are missing. It's on blocks. They ripped out the center console. It's been lit on fire.

• 40:51Andrew Santino?

  And it's undrivable. Do you want it?" My mom was like, "No, dude." Scrap it. Scrap the car. And then I was able to get a Christmas together because of, I think, my grandfather helped out. My grandfather, one of the coolest cats of all time. A firefighter for Chicago. Raised 10 kids. An absolute dog. One of the greatest dudes to ever walk the earth. Funny. Look, this is the kind of guy too. He was Irish and I think the way that Irish deal with sadness or tragedy or being poor is they have to make fun of everything. So like, he was of the mindset of the Willy Wonka quote that I love, which is, "I bet the gold makes the chocolate taste terrible." It's like one of my favorite quotes of all time.

• 41:36Andrew Santino?

  "Don't worry, Charlie. I bet the gold makes the chocolate taste terrible." Or was it Charlie that said that? Was it Grandpa Joe that said that? Who said that? But what a great, what a great quote. "I bet the gold makes the chocolate taste terrible." I think Charlie might have said that. In an effort to like- To console his grandfather. To console how, yeah, yeah, Charlie does say that. Yeah, "I bet the gold makes the chocolate taste terrible." Yeah, because he said, "Don't worry, grandpa." Because Grandpa Joe, bedridden Grandpa Joe. By the way, popped right up when he had an opportunity. Didn't mind jumping out of bed when he could go to the chocolate factory. Were you really, are you really bedridden, grandpa? You floated around, you stole fizzy lifting drink just fine. All right? You were trolling around all day. He was on his feet for like 10 hours. You're a liar, Grandpa Joe and Grandma Georgina. You didn't do shit either. Knitting, she's out there knitting all day.

• 42:20Andrew Santino?

  In the bed, that was a weird bed scene. They're like, they're like, uh, sitting, sitting in bed on the other side of a double-headed bedboard. Both, both grandparents, right? Mm-hmm. How weird. Feet to feet. Where would this have been normal? Where would this have been normal? Also, where was this movie, what country did this supposed to take place in? They spoke English, but it was like a Germanic. I think it was in England. They all spoke American. None of them had a British accent. It just seems like industrial. I know, but then say it's Cleveland.

• 42:56Andrew Santino?

  But isn't that funny? They made that movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, they made it feel like it was... Where was it supposed to take place? Cause I remember thinking, this feels like it's in Europe. But surely not, cause all them have American accents. And Grandpa Joe talked like this, he talked like an old radio host. Filmed in Munich, Germany. So I was, I said Germany, Germanic, I was right on that. But the only German was, uh, the fat German kid. You know? Yeah, Augustus. "I'm starving." He was almost like a young Arnold. "Get off me, I'm starving." "Get to the chocolate river." "Get to the chocolate." "Get to the river."

• 43:36Andrew Santino?

  What did he say? "Don't eat that?" He was like, "Don't tr-" But that's the best part about how he acted in this. Um, how Gene Wilder acted. So passive and beautiful, the way he was like, "Don't drink that, don't do that." It was so good. Maybe one of the greatest comedic actors, Gene Wilder, that we've ever seen, and underrated. Underrated in terms of my generation of youth, cause we grew up with him in our latter years, obviously, right? He was done by the time, but I mean, like, we grew up with those movies when I became like a you know, a teen and, uh, and man, was he so fantastic. So brilliant. I mean, they're leaving off the best, my favorite movie of his of all these, of Young Frankenstein and Willy Wonka Blazing Saddles. You know what my favorite movie is of his? Come on.

• 44:21Andrew Santino?

  Stir Crazy. God, look at all the, keep going, do more.

• 44:26Speaker 06

  What about his filmography?

• 44:27Andrew Santino?

  So many good films.

• 44:28Speaker 06

  I mean Bonnie and Clyde, one of the most important movies ever released.

• 44:31Andrew Santino?

  But go down, go down, the best of the best. There, right there, there we go. Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, and Stir Crazy. Wait, go up a little bit.

• 44:47Andrew Santino?

  The Producers.

• 44:49Speaker 06

  Oh, that's your favorite?

• 44:51Andrew Santino?

  Of his?

• 44:51Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 44:52Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 44:52Speaker 06

  Wow, I didn't know that.

• 44:53Andrew Santino?

  So good.

• 44:54Speaker 06

  I love The Producers.

• 44:55Andrew Santino?

  1967, why, I feel like that was, maybe I'm wrong about it, I just thought that was for sure in the mid 70s or something.

• 45:01Speaker 06

  I didn't, I forgot he was in this one too.

• 45:03Andrew Santino?

  Everything you know, everything you always wanted to know about sex.

• 45:07Andrew Santino?

  I, I would, what's the word, implore people to go watch a bunch of Jim Wilder movies, so good.

• 45:14Speaker 06

  Crazy, The Producers and Bonnie and Clyde were the same year.

• 45:16Andrew Santino?

  Same year.

• 45:17Speaker 06

  Two very...

• 45:18Andrew Santino?

  Guys are back to back, he's like Jim Carrey.

• 45:20Speaker 06

  Different flicks.

• 45:20Andrew Santino?

  He's like, Jim Carrey is like our Gene Wilder.

• 45:22Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 45:23Andrew Santino?

  Who could make like five great movies in the span of two years.

• 45:26Speaker 06

  Dumb and Dumber and Ventura.

• 45:27Andrew Santino?

  Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura, by the way, what was the separation of years between?

• 45:31Speaker 06

  That was both 94.

• 45:32Andrew Santino?

  Cable Guy and, dude, between The Mask? Look at, look up Jim Carrey's run. I don't think, we're never gonna get this again, by the way, in film, as far as comedy goes. Go down to his, his filmography. This is what's even more impressive to me, is like, here, here's a guy who banged out so much in such a short span of time, and, and still, you know, to this day, what a brilliant, I mean, look at, okay, so zoom in on this. Cable Guy and Liar Liar were, okay, it went like this, look at, look at, watch this. 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, now listen to that, 94 to 98, ready? Ace Ventura, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber, all 94, 95, Batman Forever, Ace Ventura,

• 46:16Andrew Santino?

  96, Cable Guy, 97, Liar Liar, 98, Truman Show, 99, Man on the Moon, Me, Myself and Irene. I mean, good lord.

• 46:25Andrew Santino?

  Good lord, he's un- I mean, what a hero. I Love You Philip Morris, one of the most underrated films ever. Do you know that movie?

• 46:32Speaker 06

  No.

• 46:33Andrew Santino?

  What? Him and Ewan McGregor, right, right, Ewan McGregor and him, spoiler alert. It was based on a book, right? It was a real life story of a con artist. Him and Ewan McGregor, um, they are, well, I don't want to give anything away in case some of the fans want to watch it. I just, please watch this movie. He is one of the greatest con men of all time. And my favorite quote from this movie is, "Nobody tells you this, but being gay is expensive." That's one of my favorite lines from the movie. It's so good. It's such a, it's such a brilliant movie. I gotta get back, we need to have movie night. We need to start doing movie night.

• 47:11Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 47:11Andrew Santino?

  I'm serious. We need to start doing like a summer movie night now. Cause I want everybody to get together and watch. When I was watching that, the movie, the, the BlackBerry movie, I keep referencing it. But when I was watching it, they had a movie night at-

• 47:22Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 47:22Andrew Santino?

  And I was like, oh man, I, I miss movie nights. We used to do those all the time when we were young. But now all my friends are married or divorced, or they have kids, or they've moved.

• 47:32Speaker 06

  I did, I did a movie night last night with my buddies. We watched Brazil.

• 47:35Andrew Santino?

  I don't know Brazil.

• 47:36Speaker 06

  Brazil, the Terry Gilliam, uh, Gilliam movie.

• 47:38Andrew Santino?

  I don't know that movie.

• 47:40Speaker 06

  With Jonathan Pryce, come out in the eighties.

• 47:43Andrew Santino?

  Brazil, Brasilia.

• 47:45Speaker 06

  It's like-

• 47:45Andrew Santino?

  I never been to Brazil, but my buddy, Shaunie, Shaunie Malto just got back and he was like, "You never been to Sao Paulo?" I said, "No," and he goes, "Don't worry about it." I think that's kinda crazy. I thought Brazil would be kinda dope. Wow, that, that looks like, uh, uh, Squid Games.

• 47:58Speaker 06

  It's the same guy that did, uh, directors Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

• 48:02Andrew Santino?

  Oh wow, what a movie.

• 48:03Speaker 06

  So it's like, it's like 1984, but funnier and like just shot in that weird style.

• 48:08Andrew Santino?

  You know what, you know what Fear and Loathing did though? A detriment to our generation. My generation.

• 48:13Speaker 06

  What?

• 48:14Andrew Santino?

  Then every dickhead around my age wanted to go to Vegas and live that exact same experience. And that is so dumb.

• 48:21Speaker 06

  It's not the point of the movie.

• 48:23Andrew Santino?

  But also it's like, hey, I live in Los Angeles. You are not, and I mean, you are not gonna drop acid and drive to Vegas. It's four and a half hours, you will be fucked.

• 48:34Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 48:34Andrew Santino?

  You will die on the way. You're not flying down the, the 15 going 90 on acid. I mean, good Christ, with the top down? I mean, I'm thinking SPF. But what a nightmare. I, I, I knew people that tried to emulate this world of like going there and tripping balls for a few days in Vegas. It's not fun. It's not a, I think it's a fantasy that people think they're gonna be able to live. You're not, I promise. You know what you do? You go to Vegas? You wanna go to Vegas like an adult? You go to Vegas, you get in, depending on where you live in the country, when you can get in, get in, take a flight, you're headed westbound, obviously because everyone's east of here, except for us. Take a flight in and land in Vegas around noon.

• 49:17Andrew Santino?

  Alright, noon. Check into your room about one or two because that's when it'll be ready. If it's not ready, go play a table or two. Midday tables are way more fun, they're not that packed. Alright, and the numbers are gonna be lower. You're gonna get $10 tables and, and instead of, you know, $100 tables that are at night and on the weekends. So get there and play a table right away. Then get to the room, have a cocktail, hang out with your friends, goof off, go to the pool, right? And when you're done with the pool, while you're there, make a dinner reservation somewhere. Go get a nice dinner and go see a show if you can. Go see one of these shows. And you don't have to go to one of the big, uh, what do you call them, Cirque du Soleil? There's a lot of smaller shows that are really fun and cool around town you can go see. Take a trip to old Las Vegas, alright, and then at night, then deep at night,

• 50:00Andrew Santino?

  go to a strip club, go to a strip club and bring only $100. Bring $100 and get it in singles, uh, and spend none of it. Okay, pay the door fee, but spend none of the $100. Keep it, pretend like you're gonna, keep breaching in your pocket every time you're sitting by the stage, get a couple of free drinks, and get out of there. Don't get a dance, don't tip any, no, I'm kidding. Tip the girls, give the girls the money. Give the girls the money. But do that with your friends. Play during the day. You play at night tables, I think that's a big mistake. I like day tables. And strip clubs are burnt out. I don't, I don't think I'll ever wanna go to a strip club ever again. Uh, they're, they're weird, I never liked them, I don't wanna get a dance, I'm not interested. It's not fun. I don't wanna get boners with buddies.

• 50:46Andrew Santino?

  I don't wanna get boners with buddies. I did when I was a kid, we had sleepovers, we all got boners at a sleepover. But, you know, you don't wanna do it when you're, when you're older. It feels weird and gross and uncomfortable. Go to a show. Go to a show, get a nice dinner, get high, have a couple of drinks, go to a show. And I'm not advocating for the use of drugs and/or alcohol unless, of course, you already do it. And in that case, party on, Wayne. Party on Wayne. My mom and I's favorite quote to say to each other. My mom and I used to watch Wayne's World all the time. And my mom would say, she'd always go, like if somebody dropped something, you know, or something broke or fumbled something, my mom would go, "She's okay." Because when that girl hits the car, "She's okay." I love that movie, man. Good God.

• 51:29Andrew Santino?

  Oh, just reminiscing about the, when they sit under the plane. You know, and I asked Dana on this show about that. That was all improv when they sat, well, it was supposed to be O'Hare Airport and they watched planes go over. And my favorite scene in that, and I'm gonna go do Fly on the Wall Dana and David Spade's show here in a month, I think. And I want to ask him more stuff about it because I never got enough out. But he did say that that line about Bugs Bunny was improv. And you can tell because Mike Myers' laugh is so organic. It's not an inch of it was fabricated. As a comedian, we used to watch back stuff when we were kids, me and my best friend Sean. And I'd watch it back over and over and over and over to see if I could see where people are breaking or laughing and they leave it in. You know, that's one of my favorite things. And you can tell when he goes,

• 52:14Andrew Santino?

  "Hey Wayne, did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when you put on a dress and act like a girl?" And the way that he goes, "No." No. Why? Neither did I. I was just asking. It's one of the best. Dana Carvey's just a living genius, a god of characters. His character work is unmatched. The only one I think between, you know, that's close to him as far as transforming beyond Mike Myers would be, probably, uh, ooh, I would say close to the transformation is probably gotta be Martin Short. Because I think Jiminy Glick

• 52:58Andrew Santino?

  did something to me as a kid. I didn't even see Martin Short anymore when I saw Jiminy Glick. Sometimes you see a guy play a character and you're like, well, I still see the guy. Like Farley was a genius, but you'd still see Farley in everything. Jiminy Glick, you didn't even know that that was Martin Short. If you never saw it before, you would have never known. Yeah, Ed Grimley was very funny too. But Clifford Daniels, another, the little eccentric, weird little waiter. But I'm telling you, man, that Jiminy Glick was so transformative as far as comedy characters goes. It made me wish I could do characters. And I don't know if I could. I've never had the opportunity, but I think it'd be cool to transform. Maybe we should start a new show where I transform.

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• 55:00Andrew Santino?

  It's like a little Chicago guy. Hey. Hey, it's Bill Blasky. I work over there in Tinley Park. My mom and dad. A Chicago character would be great. You know, my dad's the guy that made the Chicago River go backwards. You know, they changed the flow of the river? That was my dad. A lot of people take the architecture tour on the Chicago River and they like, they are admiring all that stuff, but they don't know that that river was poop. We flipped it to make all the sewage go the other way. Everyone in Chicago has a connection to some bullshit. Like, my dad would tell me stories. I don't even know if any of those were real.

• 55:46Andrew Santino?

  No, you know, uh, you remember Marcus's son? Remember that guy? You know, he was Al Capone's, uh, cobbler. He made shoes for Al Capone. What? Isn't he like 48? When he was nine, he was making fucking shoes for Al. You don't believe me? That's just, my dad would have stories like that. He would tell, I mean, the amount of people you would hear. No, he's the one, he's the first one that opened that restaurant. When Harry Carrys, when they, when they even put that downtown, they got the meat from a guy who was stealing off of a truck. I, I know the guy that used to drive a truck. They break him off a couple hundred bucks. They flipped on me. Harry Carey, he didn't pay for steak for like nine months. You know that? Everyone in Chicago has one of these bullshit stories.

• 56:30Andrew Santino?

  Like that's where they got, that's where like getting free cable. My aunt got, got her cable hot, hot, and she got hot cable, you know? Where they'd wire it. No, yeah, she's got her cousin works, he works for Comcast. He can do it. He can rig it. You'll get free cable. Steal it from the fucking neighbors. Everyone in Chicago runs out of breath when they're telling you a story. No, he's gonna go down. We'll go to the boat. We'll gamble for a little while at the boat. And then when we're done, we'll probably wanna go get some, something to eat. There's gotta be a Golden Nugget open late night 'cause we'll wanna go there and have a couple cigarettes. I remember smoking at the Golden Nugget. I remember my dad smoking at the Golden Nugget. Bring up the Golden Nugget. There's no way they're around in Chicago anymore. I think there's a couple maybe left. Golden Nugget, one of the best restaurants. Oh, there are a couple. Golden Nugget Pancake House.

• 57:15Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah, I've been here.

• 57:16Andrew Santino?

  Andrew, go to the Golden Nugget. Go get me, I used to get my dad cigarettes. Go get me cigarettes. I'd go get cigarettes from the corner. They'd sell me, I'd be 12, they'd sell me cigarettes.

• 57:28Andrew Santino?

  The Golden Nugget was great. They had cigarette machines by the bathroom. Go get me a pack of Winstons. Go get me, Andrew, go get me a pack of Winstons. I'll get you another stack of pancakes. My dad used to take me there in the middle of the night. I'd eat pancakes at 11:30 at night. I thought that was the coolest shit on earth.

• 57:45Andrew Santino?

  I thought that was such a rad thing. You want to go get pancakes? It's like dude, I'm supposed to be in bed, but yeah, I mean, I want to have a stomach ache. You know, remember that late eating late night, having a stomach ache, you're falling asleep in pain? Now available Kathy. 773-450-4691. Call it Pancake House. The Golden Nugget. Kathy, everyone has Kathy. My, you know, I have an Aunt Kathy. Everyone in Chicago has at least one Aunt Kathy. Call Kathy. Is Barb over there? Where did, what happened to Barb? She died. That's it. Everyone died and nobody knows. What happened to her husband? He got gout. He was gout ridden. He tripped down the stairs. His gout, he broke his fucking neck, that guy. Edward died.

• 58:29Andrew Santino?

  Jesus Christ, Kathy, what is she doing now? Well, you know, she's been on disability since she was 36. They're all on disability. Dude, they are. I saw the wealth of stories. Go down there to Maywood, go to the Maywood Dog Track. Put a bet, will you put a bet on me on Santa's Little Helper? That's my, dude, that's my dog. I used to go with my dad to the, to the dog track. There's a racetrack and a dog track. Arlington is a horse track. We used to go to Maywood Dog Track where my grandfather worked. We wrote a pilot about it. I wrote it, the pilot, the track and it got bought. And it never got made. When I had a deal. When I had a deal with NBC after I tested for SNL, I wrote that pilot with Christ and they loved it.

• 59:11Andrew Santino?

  And then hands change as they do in corporate world. A new executive came in. And he was like. I don't, I don't know if I like the setting at a dog track. And I was like, well, that's the whole fucking show.

• 59:22Speaker 06

  I think that was the vibe that you just gotta shoot it.

• 59:24Andrew Santino?

  We should just make it.

• 59:25Speaker 06

  Yeah, shoot it indie like.

• 59:26Andrew Santino?

  The track was great.

• 59:27Speaker 06

  Tires, they did that.

• 59:28Andrew Santino?

  I know. They had amateur boxing nights at Maywood, but the dog track, they, they run the Greyhounds. And they would have a rabbit on the rail. They would say, there goes that rabbit. That's what my dad would say. There goes that rabbit. And the announcer.

• 59:44Andrew Santino?

  I used to sit there and watch that. I thought that was crazy. Little did I know, people were losing their lives around me. Adults were like literally losing all of their financial, although the financial stability was going up in smoke. But I used to go to the Golden Nugget. My dad, one time my grandfather hit us with his car on the way. That was one of the funny. My grandfather was so past being able to drive. And he still would drive far when he should have been, shouldn't have been driving. And we're pulling out of the Nugget and we're going to make a left. So we're obviously waiting for cross traffic. And smokes us. My dad gets out. Dad, what are you doing? He goes, fucking go. He made it seem as if we fucked up. Like we were screwing up. No, he just wanted to hit us. The Golden Nugget. I should do a show about the Nugget, man. That's what that.

• 1:00:26Andrew Santino?

  This, the Golden Nugget to Chicagoland people is like, um, what IHOP means to people in other parts. You know what I mean? It's the same kind of idea, but it was Chicago only. I don't know if it ever made it out of Chicago. But boy, I loved it. And things change now. Portillo's is everywhere. Everything is different now. The Chicago only spots are few and far between. Oh, they got a Nugget in Vegas? No, they did. They located at the Golden Nugget. The Golden Nugget Den is likely the one. No, no, that's, those are two different things. That's Golden Nugget, the casino. No, that was only in Chicago. The Golden Nugget Pancake House. Can you do a Minnesota accent? Yeah, Minnesota. Yeah, Minnesota's more, it's more softer. You sound like Jordan Peterson.

• 1:01:08Andrew Santino?

  Oh yeah, that, well, that's Canada. That's up there. But Minnesota. Minnesota's close. You guys are close to Canadians. You're, you're right. I mean, you fucking your neighbors. But you guys have, uh. Oh, we're going fishing up at the lake. Fishing up there, but you're much more quiet. Minnesotans are much more quiet. Canadians are a little bit more brash. Jordan Peterson. You can't have men turning into women. You can't. That's not the, that's not the reality that I want to live in. Then a minute later, he's bawling crying. It's so funny to have a guy wanting to be like an alpha male and then just like, and it's not that men can't cry. But it's just like, you have this fucking guy who professes all this like, this is the way the world's supposed to be. But then gets so emotional, he's like. And my daughter is just not.

• 1:01:53Andrew Santino?

  She's not, we're not connecting. And it's like, well, dude, maybe it's because you're fucking unstable. Maybe because you need to get some stability. Is that the future you want in America? I didn't move here so men could turn into women.

• 1:02:09Speaker 08

  They're throwing cocks out the window.

• 1:02:12Andrew Santino?

  They're just tossing cocks out the window. You'll be driving on Sunset Boulevard and you'll be ba-ba-da-ba-ba-da-ba-ba-bumpin' on cocks. Because everyone is transitioning in Los Angeles. Everyone. Dude, the bullshit they throw out to the world is so fucking funny. Everyone's trans. Yeah dude, everyone's trans. Everyone in LA's trans. It's the, the, the, the way that they profess that it's a rea- Look, if you don't like it, if you don't like it, fine. Hate whatever you wanna hate, man. That's on you. But the, when they throw this shit out as if like the world is this like... You know what the fucked up thing, the more I travel dude, the more I realize? People are actually fucking great.

• 1:02:56Andrew Santino?

  People are great. I meet so many people. Yes, a lot of people suck ass. But if you, but if you change your vision, kinda like the, what is it, the blue car theory? When you say like, "I've never seen any blue cars," then you'll notice them all day? If you're looking for fucking dickheads, you're gonna find them. If you're looking for good people, I think you're gonna find them. I believe that. The more I travel, the more people I meet, the more fans I meet, and this is a time for me to say. I, I am so appreciative of the fans, of the fanship that we've gotten from Bad Friends, from this show. You guys have been along, people that are original Whiskey Ginger listeners for eight, nine years, whatever we are, eight years? I don't know, seven or eight years? I thank you for changing my life. I thank you for making my life, uh, more fun. To be able to give you guys stuff on the internet every week and for you guys to like wanna be involved

• 1:03:41Andrew Santino?

  and pass it around and enjoy this ride with me. It's been truly a blessing. Like, I mean it. I don't even know how to say that without sounding like I, I'm being, you know, you know, facetious or disingenuous, but, um, two big words I just learned. But I, I really just mean, I mean it. I really mean it, man. I really appreciate the fans so much. It's hard for me to emote it sometimes when I see you in public. So if I see you and you come up and you ask for a photo or wanna say hi, you know, I wanna say hi and, and I, sometimes it's hard for me to tell fans like, "Thank you for the fanship." It's weird. I don't know how to do it. I've never really been good at it. And a lot of people are like, you know, I, I might look unapproachable because I'm kind of in my own space all the time, uh, but I always do love to say hi to the fans and I do appreciate the love.

• 1:04:26Andrew Santino?

  Um, don't yell at me when I'm at dinner. That's weird. That I don't love. But I do appreciate the fanship. It does mean the absolute world to me. It does something to me to be able to do the world- Our way, you know, because Hollywood, me and Bobby joke a lot about it. Hollywood is such a fickle weird beast. And, uh, we're not nipple babies. So we don't have some of those advantages of, uh, we just kinda have to grind for what we've got. Whether it looks easy to you or not, we've had to grind. We're overnight sensations, 20 years in the business. And I do, I cannot thank the fans enough for being along for the ride and giving me what you guys have given me in terms of the love and the live shows. And, uh, it means the world, without saying it, uh, ad nauseam, but it does mean the world

• 1:05:11Andrew Santino?

  to me that you guys have come along for this fucking ride and helped me build something and give a career to many people. I've helped a lot of people along the, along the way, you know, I'm, uh, you know, Chris O'Connor and I kind of, uh, we were starting to rise together and I'm glad he got off on tires and Zach Townsend, who's one of my dogs that opened for me and Jet Ski, who opened for us, and then Laura Peak, who's got a star, who's become a star of her own, and then Devontre Coleman, the guy who's opening for me now, who I think is a fucking brilliant comedian. The more people I can help because of you guys, the better off this world becomes in the world of comedy. We keep passing it down and growing the space, because there's no other reason to be doing this if I can't give McCona a place to eat, sleep and shower every day. And it means the world that we've been able to create a staff and environment, a world

• 1:05:52Andrew Santino?

  of, of, of fans, and that's all thanks to you guys, um, that we're able to do this kind of our own way on, on our own terms and time. So, thank you for that. And, uh, on that note, um, I'm gonna be signing off here. We'll have more guests to come. I might do more solos, because this seems fun to do with Coney. It'll depends on how much the fans like it or hate it. Um, I'm gonna be touring a little bit, uh, coming up. I think I'm gonna drop dates. I'm doing San Francisco, I think Halloween weekend, which should be fun. I'm going down to Hammond, Illinois in November around Thanksgiving to play a casino down there in, I mean Hammond, Indiana, sorry. Uh, I'm also gonna be doing Tempe Improv. For the first time in my life, dude, I'm, I, I went to school in Arizona. I never played the Tempe Improv. I only played different clubs and then we played theaters down there. But I've never done the Tempe Improv, and so I wanna go back to my roots.

• 1:06:35Andrew Santino?

  And so I'm gonna do that, Tempe Improv, San Francisco Punch Line, not Cobb's this time. I'm doing the punch. I wanna smaller environment. I wanna work out some stuff and have some fun with you guys. Um, that Hammond show, and then in the new year, I'm doing a ton, I think I'm going to Borgata again. I'm going back to Atlantic City. I'm going to Bethlehem, PA. Um, I'll put all the dates up on andrewsantino.com, but, once again, thank you so much for all the love and support. Um, and, uh, we're gonna end the episode, uh, the way we always do. One word or one phrase into the camera. McCona and I are gonna say our one word, uh, at the exact...

• 1:07:08Andrew Santino?

  A phrase, I mean. We're gonna say a phrase at the exact same time. You ready? One, two, three. Aunt Kathy.

• 1:07:15Speaker 02

  In here, we pour whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey.

• 1:07:21Speaker 03

  Oh, that creature in the ginger beard!

• 1:07:23Speaker 04

  Sturdy ginger.

• 1:07:25Speaker 03

  Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse.

• 1:07:27Speaker 04

  Ginger's a beauty. You owe me $5 for the whiskey, and $75 for the horse. Ginger's, oh hell no! This whiskey is excellent. Ginger, I like gingers.