
This week at the Ginger Convention, comedian, podcaster, and surprising non-Bostonian Andrew Santino stops by for a chat! They unpack sibling dynamics and why Andrew might run off into the woods one day. Andrew opens up about sleeping on couches in Long Beach, getting arrested for public urination, and the unlikely chain of events that landed him his first big break. The duo roast their least favorite tour cities, talk rich friend green(?) flags, share horror stories from the early days of comedy, and run through a fiery list of ginger stereotypes. Then Grace puts Andrew through the ringer of Disgraceful Receipts and a golf quiz inspired by his new show 'No Bad Lies.' Have a day, much love, and enjoy the show!
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Grace O'Malley
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Andrew Santino
Coming at you live from a shady Manhattan studio, it's Disgraceful, featuring your gracious ginger host.
Grace O'Malley
Hey, watch yourself. Only I can say that. Okay, boss, whatever you say. You pay my bills.
Andrew Santino
Give it up for Grace o' Malley.
Grace O'Malley
Hi, guys. Welcome back to Disgraceful. I am a nervous wreck right now because I'm here with one of my favorite comedians of all time, the co host of Bad Friends podcast and Whiskey Ginger, my redheaded brother from another mother. Give it up for Andrew Santino, everybody.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. Thank you for clapping.
Grace O'Malley
Yep.
Andrew Santino
It's been. Your sister claps.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. You know, that's why I keep her around.
Andrew Santino
I like that you guys are together. I like that you root each other on. My age gap is so big with my sister. We only became friends as adults because it's a nine year difference.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, yeah. It is kind of crazy.
Andrew Santino
We didn't really. I graduated college before she got to high school, so it was a little. It was kind of.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, you're the older brother.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. We didn't really know. We didn't really like. I don't really remember her as A kid. Because we weren't.
Grace O'Malley
You weren't with her.
Andrew Santino
I just.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, cuz you. You weren't even in high school together.
Andrew Santino
I left college and then she started high school. But now she's a big girl now. She's a big grown girl now.
Grace O'Malley
She's the one with the kids.
Andrew Santino
She's the one who parties, dude. She's the one who leads the way. She's the. I love her to death. She lives in Chicago, which I miss. One day.
Grace O'Malley
One day. I mean, you've been here 18 years.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. It's sad.
Grace O'Malley
That's pretty crazy.
Andrew Santino
It's pathetic.
Grace O'Malley
I don't think I could ever be out here.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, you. You know, you can't. Look, when it's really nice, you, you. You get it right away.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
When it's like a. When you do like eight months of beautiful, perfect weather.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
You're like, oh, yeah, this is. I get it.
Grace O'Malley
I always come when it's shitty out.
Andrew Santino
It's like, really, what's going on? Right? I don't know. I bring you.
Grace O'Malley
I bring the dark cloud. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Did.
Grace O'Malley
I know.
Andrew Santino
But you're. But you're not a dark cloud. You're.
Grace O'Malley
No, I keep it light. I just. I just have bad luck, I think, is what it is.
Andrew Santino
I know, but it's going to turn. It's going to change if you stay here for one more week. Keep staying for another week and it'll show.
Grace O'Malley
Just never go back.
Andrew Santino
Just move in or get a place here. Are you getting a place?
Grace O'Malley
I don't think so.
Andrew Santino
Do it. Yeah, well, why not?
Grace O'Malley
All right, fuck it. I live in L. A now.
Andrew Santino
You do?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
You live in New York?
Grace O'Malley
I live in New York, yeah.
Andrew Santino
Where in New York do you live?
Grace O'Malley
I am like Murray Hill.
Andrew Santino
Oh, yeah. Murray Hill, Yeah. Young, young, hot, cool kids.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
I used to say that it's all like frat boys that have just finished college.
Andrew Santino
It was just NYU kids, right. Fresh out of college.
Grace O'Malley
And so I used to say it was part of the contract for Barstool. You had to live there.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, it was a part. It was part of it.
Grace O'Malley
And people. I would say that to people like, oh, really? Is that true? I'm like, you are you. That's crazy.
Andrew Santino
But it feels like it.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
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Grace O'Malley
Hola. Hey.
Andrew Santino
You speak Spanish, but do you speak liver?
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Andrew Santino
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Grace O'Malley
Whoa.
C
I could be at risk.
Grace O'Malley
I'll ask my doctor.
Andrew Santino
You're bilingual?
Grace O'Malley
No, I speak liver now. I'm trilingual.
Andrew Santino
Ask your doctor about your risk and if you should be screened for MASH. Learn more@speakliver.com Murray Hill. Do you guys live together in Murray Hill?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
That's the best.
Grace O'Malley
You're doing the. The New York dream kind of thing? She's on the couch right now. We're figuring it out.
Andrew Santino
Surfing?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
That's so sad.
Grace O'Malley
No, it's good stuff. I did it.
Andrew Santino
You have a bed.
Grace O'Malley
I.
Andrew Santino
Well, okay, so that's not.
Grace O'Malley
But I did it.
Andrew Santino
You're the dream, she's the nightmare. If it's a comfy couch, you can last. I did a La Z Boy for a while.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
A Lazy Boy in Long beach when I first moved to Southern California.
Grace O'Malley
What's a Lazy Boy?
Andrew Santino
Is your dad alive?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, he's kicking.
Andrew Santino
He is?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Is he a dad? Dad?
Grace O'Malley
Oh, he's.
Andrew Santino
Does he have a chair that he likes?
Grace O'Malley
No, he sleeps on the chair that he likes.
Andrew Santino
But is it a chair? That's a Lazy Boy? Yeah, that's a Lazy Boy.
Grace O'Malley
Yes, that's the Lazy Boy.
Andrew Santino
That's a Lazy Boy.
Grace O'Malley
Okay. So that's what my dad's been doing for 25 years of marriage.
Andrew Santino
Your dad is that guy?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, he's that guy. So we're built a little different from him.
Andrew Santino
You are?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I'd say.
Andrew Santino
Why?
Grace O'Malley
Because. I don't know, he doesn't. We don't even need like a couch. We could just sleep just about anywhere on the floor. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Was your dad a great dad?
Grace O'Malley
He's doing ketamine therapy.
Andrew Santino
Oh, that's cool.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Never believed in drugs, but now he's just. He's getting Kayed out.
Andrew Santino
Is Whitney giving him all this advice?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
No, that's probably Whitney's like, get seven horses, 14 dogs. Move to the middle of nowhere.
Grace O'Malley
Stay young.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. Drink the blood and start doing ketamine, dude.
Grace O'Malley
No. Dude, I. She wanted when. So I opened for her when I was in Boston. When she did her show in Boston, and she wanted my dad to do some time.
Andrew Santino
Did he?
Grace O'Malley
No.
Andrew Santino
Why not?
Grace O'Malley
Guilt of association. You don't know what the fuck he's.
Andrew Santino
Write him a couple minutes.
Grace O'Malley
Not it.
Andrew Santino
Where did you guys play in Boston? Wilbur.
Grace O'Malley
I mean, Wilbur. Sorry.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, Wilbur.
Grace O'Malley
Wilbur.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, Wilbur's such a great venue.
Grace O'Malley
Fucking say. You. You filmed a special day.
Andrew Santino
No, you know, I thought about it. It's funny. I thought for a long time I wanted to. And then, you know, I'm from Chicago, but everyone in the world says I'm from Boston, like, because of birds and red hair. And there's. Everyone's like, you're from Boston.
Grace O'Malley
You're not even Irish, are you?
Andrew Santino
Well, yeah, I mean, I am, but. But my last name's Italian. My dad's Italian. My mom is Irish. But every time there's guys I've known for a decade, 10 years, that I've been friends with, and they'll be like, well, are you going home to Boston? And I'm like, that's crazy. Fuck, dude, I've known you for so long. And they're like, oh, right. Yeah. No, but Boston will get a special out of me. But the last one I did in February, that comes out in September, I shot at Minneapolis.
Grace O'Malley
Why there?
Andrew Santino
Dude, I love. Have you been. Have you done Minneapolis? I have one of the best comedy cities, I think, in the country.
Grace O'Malley
Unless maybe you're doing it at the Mall of America.
Andrew Santino
Did not. Well, that's where you played at Comedy House. House Comedy, yeah. Yeah. That's a different story. When you buy the roller coasters and the Hooters. It's so sad when someone has to pass, like, Applebee's and a Spencer's Gifts to like, hear your shitty jokes.
Grace O'Malley
Or if it's worse, if you bomb and then you have to walk by those. Those same carnival rides. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
That has. Has a place in Edmonton at the West Ed Mall, which is another huge mall. That same couple. Well, not. Whatever. It's not. Not a couple that owns it anymore, but they had one there. And I had to walk to the West Edmonton mall, and little kids were playing, like, hockey at night inside the mall. It was like, such a sad. It was like Snoopy. It was Peanuts. And I was, like, dragging my feet and like, little families were excited and I was depressed. So sad. It was so sad. Just the ball of dust behind me, the stunt, the stench of bad comedy. But no, Minneapolis, It's. Honestly, it's one of my favorite cities in general.
Grace O'Malley
No shit.
Andrew Santino
The people are great. Yeah. Because you get A good mix of, like, Minneapolis is a pretty liberal city.
Grace O'Malley
Is it?
Andrew Santino
Yeah. But Minnesota can be also quite conservative because it's in the Midwest. So I like the. I like that you get both. I.
Grace O'Malley
That's what I say about Chicago.
Andrew Santino
I think Chicago, you do get both.
Grace O'Malley
You get Midwestern, nice people, but they still live in the city. So it's like a good. It's a good mix.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, you get good city people, but you're going to get. Yeah, you'll get a 50, 50 split of, like, conservatives and, like, if you tell a political joke in Chicago, you'll get like a dead. Pretty dead split.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
People liking it. And then some people are going, yeah, and getting mad about it.
Grace O'Malley
No, totally. 100.
Andrew Santino
Especially if my dad's in the crowd.
Grace O'Malley
Well, you got one of those dads, too.
Andrew Santino
What, that he's a righty. He's a righty.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
All the way, right?
Andrew Santino
Yeah, for sure.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
He's. Yeah. The way he ingests Fox News should be tracked and signed. Like, it should be seen. It's scary.
Grace O'Malley
I think my dad could be a correspondent at this point.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, he could be on the air.
Grace O'Malley
He could just say, like, riddle off whatever he wants to say. And they'd be like, yeah, that's actually.
Andrew Santino
He knows everything that comes out of their mouth. Dude, it's crazy. He'll repeat it back. It's like SportsCenter. He's watched, like, the. He's watched the one at noon. He'll watch the same broadcast at five.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
It's so sad.
Grace O'Malley
Doesn't even know it's a rerun. I mean, Shane Gillis has the best bit about that.
Andrew Santino
It's like, I better have a Fox News dad than a Fox News mom.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. Like, but you'll be. He says you'll be at dinner and he'll just be like, nancy Pelosi's a bitch. Where did they.
Andrew Santino
Why would it. Just give me the chicken.
Grace O'Malley
What the fuck?
Andrew Santino
Yeah, it's my. He's. He likes what he likes. They're old. He's old and white.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, my dad was always like that. But it's a little more enhanced with. With the zippity zap of it all.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. The new. The new administration's got people zip zapping a little bit heavier now. And your dad was shocked.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, Quite literally shocked. And we've caught him on a few message boards.
Andrew Santino
Oh, really? Is he like a Reddit dog? Yeah, he's out there.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. He's like. He's in the unfinished side of the basement. Riddling off. But it's not riddling. He's more like this.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. Finger packing. Yeah, yeah. Hunting, peck.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
As long as he doesn't go too deep. And he starts getting all cr. You know what I mean?
Grace O'Malley
Well, you know, he comes around sometimes. I don't know.
Andrew Santino
Let me tell you about Israel, Palestine. You're like, dad, shut it down. Yeah, shut down.
Grace O'Malley
He's got a whole plan.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
All right, well, that's. That's that. On fathers, I did have this question. Do you think where we could be.
Andrew Santino
Related, you and I?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. I mean, we look like siblings.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
We think the same. You've got a dark, twisted. Yeah. Dark sense of humor. I think I could be from the.
Grace O'Malley
Same brood, given that the world's population of redheads is 1 to 2%.
Andrew Santino
Oh, yeah, that's. Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
But you consider yourself. You're not really a red. You're like an Auburn. Yeah, you're Auburn. You got the good one. That's the one.
Grace O'Malley
It's decent.
Andrew Santino
No, that's a nice color.
Grace O'Malley
That's good.
Andrew Santino
You don't want to be orange, man.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, orange is tough.
Andrew Santino
This was tough.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, this was hard. Well, that's why you had to be funny, right?
Andrew Santino
It's. It's why I learned how to run fast. Because you could punch and run. If you could punch and run, I would. I'd punch and run, hit him as hard as I can, and run as fast as I could.
Grace O'Malley
Some people would say that's cowardly, but I respect it.
Andrew Santino
No, but it was to the face. It wasn't to the back of the head. I would hit you in the face. Yeah, but I didn't want to. I didn't feel like fighting.
Grace O'Malley
I got jumped a lot. You ever been. Have you ever been jumped?
Andrew Santino
Yeah. Well, I put myself in a situation where I got. It was my fault. Like, a friend was in a fight in college, being an. And we elected to help him, and we were severely outnumbered, so I didn't really get jumped. I got what I deserved.
Grace O'Malley
No, that's true.
Andrew Santino
We got the shit beat out of us because we thought we were. It was stupid. We should just broke up the whole thing. But we thought we were tough guys.
Grace O'Malley
No, you got to do it. You got to give it at least a whirl. That's.
Andrew Santino
That's your boy worked, man. You get jumped. You got jumped?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, a few times.
Andrew Santino
Why? I don't know.
Grace O'Malley
I just had like one of those faces.
Andrew Santino
I think that people wanted to fight you.
Grace O'Malley
I mean, There was one time. 21 Savage concert. We were trying to get to the front, just two white girls. I mean, obviously, that's a. We shouldn't have been doing that.
Andrew Santino
And you elbowing people on your. Were you up, too?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Well, no, That's a given. Four locos.
Andrew Santino
That's what happens, yo. You're loco and. Loco and gross.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
That's dangerous, dude. You don't do that anymore, right?
Grace O'Malley
No. There was something you would have. I could drink 20, 22 beers and be all right.
Andrew Santino
You can drink 22 beers?
Grace O'Malley
I could. I could drink 22.
Andrew Santino
22 beers?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
And still be functioning.
Grace O'Malley
I'd be. I'd be pretty decent. I'd have to call it a night at 22, but I think I'm good.
Andrew Santino
22.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Lights, though. Like a middle light, Bud light.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Nothing crazy.
Andrew Santino
Could you do 22 IPAs?
Grace O'Malley
I just. I Just starting to sip on those. That's like a.
Andrew Santino
You do 10 of those, you'll be in space.
Grace O'Malley
Well, I just. I mean, the plan is to last all night.
Andrew Santino
I know, but, see, not. Not for me. See, I'm 41. It's over. I'm. I'm trying to get as annihilated as I can.
Grace O'Malley
You're still drinking?
Andrew Santino
Oh, yeah.
Grace O'Malley
I haven't met. I mean, it seems like everyone's gone fucking sober.
Andrew Santino
Most people are. I take big breaks. I go through the thing where I have to, like, clean out. Once you hit 40, you kind of. It hurts a lot. Yeah, I'm sure my pee changes. That's a dead giveaway.
Grace O'Malley
You're talking, like, scent or extreme?
Andrew Santino
The scent. The color. Yeah. And when that changes, your body's going, hey, dude, it's over. Chill out. Yeah, yeah, chill out. So I had to learn how to chill out a little bit. I'll go through big breaks, but, like, last night, we had some friends over and we just. We didn't get. You know. But, like, have a couple drinks, sit on the patio, smoke a joint. Like, that's my life now.
Grace O'Malley
I'll do that. Good. I like that.
Andrew Santino
That I won't go. I'm not going out to the bar and getting wrecked anymore. No, can't.
Grace O'Malley
You can't be doing that.
Andrew Santino
I wish, though, it would be fun. I see it. It looks fun.
Grace O'Malley
Do you get. Do you drink for your shows or. No?
Andrew Santino
No. You know, I used to. I used to drink. I used to have a drink on stage, but now I just don't like the way. Especially if I'm doing two shows a night, I just don't like, I'm like, I'm tired by the second one. So now I'll have a cocktail with Zach, this Zach Townsend who usually comes with me. We'll have a drink or two after.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, just wait till. Because now you can't. But when I was 26. Dude, come on.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I mean, well, I, I had to learn the hard way is I was. I was having like seven or eight before I went on stage.
Andrew Santino
Sure, whatever makes you loose, baby.
Grace O'Malley
No, it was too loose.
Andrew Santino
It was too loose. Yeah, you're sloppy.
Grace O'Malley
Not good.
Andrew Santino
And then sloppy.
Grace O'Malley
I look back, I'm like, oh, yeah, no, I'm totally better when I'm not drinking.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, well, no, you inherently. I don't know any. The only people that are better on substances are musicians.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
I've never seen a comedian be better when they're like completely gone. I mean, Stan Hope is an anomaly. Stan Hope could be shit faced and still perform well, but he's like our. He's like comedy's Hunter S. Thompson.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
He can ride the fucking lightning. He can be just cooked and keep riding all night long. He's got that in him.
Grace O'Malley
Well, that's something fantastic.
Andrew Santino
I mean, it's, it's. He's a special breed. But I don't know. Most comics that get to. You see them get all sloppy on st. And it's fun for like a couple minutes and then you're like, oh, this is tough. But musicians, man, I have some friends that they could be off their rocker and play perfect music.
Grace O'Malley
It's wild. You have a lot of famous friends.
Andrew Santino
No, no.
Grace O'Malley
You don't know any country. But we were talking off.
Andrew Santino
No country. I don't know any country artists.
Grace O'Malley
Country artists at all.
Andrew Santino
Name a country artist.
Grace O'Malley
Shania Twain.
Andrew Santino
I know her though.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, because she's a pop princess.
Andrew Santino
Give me someone new.
Grace O'Malley
Let me. Now. Now you got me.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, see, I don't, I don't.
Grace O'Malley
Morgan Wallen.
Andrew Santino
Nope. Don't know who that is.
Grace O'Malley
Jelly Roll.
Andrew Santino
I know Jelly Roll. I met him.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Andrew Santino
I met him.
Grace O'Malley
I was gonna say I met him one time. He runs around with some of your pal.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, no, he's a. He's a. He's around comedy. I know him.
Grace O'Malley
He's a good guy.
Andrew Santino
But he's not traditional country, is he?
Grace O'Malley
No, I wouldn't. I would.
Andrew Santino
He's like. He's like soul, country, rock. He's like every. He's like a bunch. Yeah, like who's the. The who's like the country star.
Grace O'Malley
Now I'm.
Andrew Santino
You don't like. Do you not like. You don't like country?
Grace O'Malley
I don't really like country. I like country. If I'm trying to, like. I'm trying to impress, like, someone who owns a boat or something.
Andrew Santino
Oh, yeah. Like, that kind of thing.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. I'll wave a flag around for.
Andrew Santino
Are you single?
Grace O'Malley
I am.
Andrew Santino
You having fun?
Grace O'Malley
No.
Andrew Santino
No.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, no. I. It's funny. Like, every time that gets brought up, I get all weird. I went on Theo Von's pod, and he's like, yeah. So, you know.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, dude. You got to be single. Moving about, dude.
Grace O'Malley
So I hit him with, like, an.
Andrew Santino
Eel through time and space, man. Just trying to slither in there, man.
Grace O'Malley
Well, so you sound just like him, because that's kind of what he said.
Andrew Santino
It's so used to him a little different. I said.
Grace O'Malley
I just. I really. I just don't. And he said, oh, wow. I bet you're gonna get, like, a lot of, like, sperm coming your way this year, Gracie girl. Yeah. So it was like a. You know, I.
Andrew Santino
That's a Theo Vaughn. That's what. He willed it to the universe.
Grace O'Malley
That's a classic. They wrote it up.
Andrew Santino
When you say you, don't you mean you. You're not interested in it or you.
Grace O'Malley
I'm just. I'm just not getting it.
Andrew Santino
Know you're not getting it, but you. Not getting it, but you want it.
Grace O'Malley
Well, so that's what I. I leaned into it with him and I said, well, I would love to be a. If I could. It's just not there.
Andrew Santino
Well, hey, audience.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I know.
Andrew Santino
Step it up, dude. Start sucking on these titties.
Grace O'Malley
Well, it's every week, dude. And all my fans are all women.
Andrew Santino
You don't get hit up at all by guys online.
Grace O'Malley
No. Unless they've got, like a. Like a. Like, they look like a twisted sister of a clone made in a lab or something. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
I should send you my DMs. It's all guys.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
It's almost 100% men. What up, dog? You're the fucking man. Or you. Or tell Bobby I said what's up? Or eat shit.
Grace O'Malley
Or tell Bobby I said what's up?
Andrew Santino
That's what's up. And then a lot of times I get. I'll get dicks, too. I get dicks.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
I get a good amount of dicks. I've never had one in that way. What's that?
Grace O'Malley
You think people are thinking you lean in that way maybe once.
Andrew Santino
No, I don't put off gay. I don't give out gay.
Grace O'Malley
You give. You give.
Andrew Santino
Boston Irish boss. Yeah. See, I don't put out gay. I would put out if I was gay, but I don't put gay out to the world.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
But I do think a lot of gay guys try. I have. Have got, like, if I have, like, Mateo on my show or, like, a handsome gay guy, then a group of. A small group of, like, cool gays will hit me up to see if they can bait me. And, you know, I'll open the. I'll open the photo.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, no, of course. You gotta peak. It piques your interest.
Andrew Santino
I want to see. Dude, you just gotta see it. I check it out, I compare, I contrast, I take notes. And then I close it in an album. I put it in, I print it out. I put it on my wall. My wallpaper's all dicks. I've never gotten one, like, tit. No, no, no. After all these years.
Grace O'Malley
Well, because it's mostly met at your shows, correct?
Andrew Santino
No, no, no. It's actually a really good split now. I think, like, Bad Friends has opened up the world of, like. A lot of couples will listen to us together. Like, a guy will introduce it to his wife or girlfriend and vice versa. We'll have a girl who's, like, loves the show and then brings her boyfriend in.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, you know, shit.
Andrew Santino
We've gotten that a lot. Our numbers have skewed better as time has gone on to being pretty good. Like, our audience is now. You see them. I'm proud of it that I'm like, oh, fuck. Yeah. It's like, couple.
Grace O'Malley
It's like, yeah, because that's what you want. You want a 50. 50 split?
Andrew Santino
Yeah. It's almost never, like, all bros or. Or a group of chicks. It's almost always like, hey, this is me and my husband, and this is. This is another cup. They bring, like, five couples.
Grace O'Malley
It's their big night.
Andrew Santino
This is their dinner night. Yeah, I actually. I actually love it. Our fans are. My fans are slowly getting older, so. When we were younger. Yeah, it's bros. Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
I mean, I have all girls right now.
Andrew Santino
That's good.
Grace O'Malley
After shows, the butch lesbians are like, you sure? I'm like, I'm sure.
Andrew Santino
Testing the water.
Grace O'Malley
They're always trying to turn me.
Andrew Santino
You've never tried it. You never tried it.
Grace O'Malley
I never tried it.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. You know, maybe. Maybe one day. Who's to say?
Andrew Santino
No, you're not. It's not you.
Grace O'Malley
Not really there. I just, like. I give off. I give it off. I get that. But it's just. It's Not.
Andrew Santino
It's not you.
Grace O'Malley
I'm not ready to catch some dick. Yeah, man.
Andrew Santino
Well, while you're in LA LA out there, if you're ever.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
If you're listening and you're free and you really want to.
Grace O'Malley
I do this.
Andrew Santino
Slam the G. Where are you, Jaden?
Grace O'Malley
I should. I should.
Andrew Santino
I'm married.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, you're married?
Andrew Santino
Yeah, married to a guy.
Grace O'Malley
Well, good.
Andrew Santino
No, I'm married to a woman.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Andrew Santino
I'm married to a woman for now. I got to tell you, thinking about just running away and losing my mind. Alone in the woods.
Grace O'Malley
Well, that's what. That's what they say touring does to someone.
Andrew Santino
Now, see, touring wouldn't do it to me. I just think it's the business. The business itself makes you lose your fucking. Touring is kind of fucking great because you get to, like, get away, see new shit. You feel like you're kind of on a mini vacation sometimes.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, it is nice.
Andrew Santino
I mean, it's a drag sometimes, but a lot. When you go to certain cities. Let's talk shit. Yeah, let's name our worst cities.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, shit.
Andrew Santino
Bury yourself. Fuck up your future somewhere.
Grace O'Malley
Nashville kind of fucked me.
Andrew Santino
Really?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
That's wild, because Nashville is not on my bad list. That's on a good list.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
No Zanies.
Grace O'Malley
I love Zany's. Yeah, but it was. It was the crowd. It was a New Year's Eve crowd.
Andrew Santino
At Zany, and it was like one.
Grace O'Malley
Of my first shows on the tour.
Andrew Santino
Dude, New Year's Eve fucking sucks.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. I was like, damn, God, this is.
Andrew Santino
Going to be a long. Everyone's drunk. They're annoying.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
No. And you're not. Your background music for their fun. You don't even exist. They didn't go to see comedy. I've done those before. They suck. Nashville as a whole, good comedy town. I don't like the bachelorette parties on the bike. You know, when they bike around the. They. They bicycle the van or whatever.
Grace O'Malley
Woohoo city. That's it. That's all they got.
Andrew Santino
They're screaming and they're bumping some song and I don't like that.
Grace O'Malley
And it's always like. It's like, oh, my God, look at her.
Andrew Santino
Look at her.
Grace O'Malley
Look at her.
Andrew Santino
She's craz crazy. Like, she's crazy. That's all you hear.
Grace O'Malley
She's wearing heels. She usually wears flats. That's what's crazy.
Andrew Santino
Not that big of a deal.
Grace O'Malley
Going nuts for that.
Andrew Santino
No, I. I don't like that part of Nashville. Like, that strip of like. Also to be Fair. I don't like country music. So every time we go out down there and someone's like, dude, you got to go to this bar and listen to this band. And we walk in, there's a bleeding. I do not want to hear this.
Grace O'Malley
But if you get lucky, you could see Kid Rock acted a fool. That's always fun.
Andrew Santino
You know, it was. Found out that it was really funny. We went to his bar after all that, the Bud Light trans stuff happened, you know, and. Oh, yeah, like, shot a case of it in his backyard. Yeah, he was like, anti fucking Bud Light.
Grace O'Malley
You know who also quit drinking bud light after 40 years? My father.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, he was done.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, no, he's better now. He's. He's came.
Andrew Santino
I don't want my dick to fall off.
Grace O'Malley
I was like, are you. I'm like, explain it to me. He's like, I. You just don't get it.
Andrew Santino
It's so weird to me.
Grace O'Malley
It's so.
Andrew Santino
Kid Rock's bar was still serving Bud Light, though, which I thought was so fun.
Grace O'Malley
That is pretty ironic. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
That's so funny.
Grace O'Malley
Like, yeah, Sales are good, though.
Andrew Santino
That's. It's. That I cannot. That is a moment in our history where you're like, wow, how fucking dumb. How dumb were people that they were like, oh, you're trying to market for trans. They gave a can of beer to a trans person as, like, a cool marketing promo.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
They didn't make, like, a fucking line of trans be. It's like, what are you talking about? They did a marketing promo that you didn't like.
Grace O'Malley
It's so crazy.
Andrew Santino
It's the weirdest shit I never get. People amaze me at how fucking one line they are that you're like, that's. That you. That bothers you that much? That's not even a real thing in your world. You don't even know it exists. Yeah, like, what do you care about?
Grace O'Malley
It wasn't for you.
Andrew Santino
No, I know. It's so weird.
Grace O'Malley
And then I just couldn't believe my dad. So my dad did, like, the most ironic thing of like, I'm done drinking Bud Light. And he's always been American made beer. American guy, Bud Light guy switches to Coronas.
Andrew Santino
Whoa. I'm like, dude, made in Mexico, dog.
Grace O'Malley
What are you doing, my man?
Andrew Santino
It's the Gulf of America now. Coronas are okay to have.
Grace O'Malley
No, that's. That's the way he thinks, I'm sure.
Andrew Santino
You know what I did. I. I didn't drink Bud Light only because I think it's shit I think it's poo. Poo shit, beer. Give me a Miller Light any day of the week, I'm gonna take a Miller.
Grace O'Malley
That's a divorcee kind of.
Andrew Santino
Well, dude, I'm from Chicago, and Miller is. Is Milwaukee, so it's right there. Yeah, I'd rather have. I think the order, the pecking order goes Miller, Bud, Coors Light, but Coors heavy, Coors Banquet. Oof. It's tough because champagne of beers, Miller High life is pretty good, but heavy is up there. But I think Coors Original, the best.
Grace O'Malley
I think. I think those banquets, you know, they're like, in that bottle.
Andrew Santino
Oh, yeah.
Grace O'Malley
I think people are trying too hard to be cool.
Andrew Santino
You think it's like a. It's like a hipster thing. Yeah, yeah.
Grace O'Malley
It's like. It's like musicians thinking they're the shit.
Andrew Santino
Right?
Grace O'Malley
You're like, oh, I only drink these because, you know, they're classic.
Andrew Santino
Right? Right.
Grace O'Malley
It's like, fuck off.
Andrew Santino
What's your mick? What's your alcohol?
Grace O'Malley
I go. I go, Bud Light. I go, mcultra.
Andrew Santino
I go, cider booze. You don't drink any alcohol? No. Like whiskey or tequila?
Grace O'Malley
No, I try not to.
Andrew Santino
That's what we got to get you to do. You want some dick, you got to get on that stuff. You'll be fishing for dick with that stuff.
Grace O'Malley
I mean, you saw me the other day. I only had a couple beers in me, and that's it. I ransacked you.
Andrew Santino
You look like you were having a fun time.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I was having a blast.
Andrew Santino
You were humming, dude.
Grace O'Malley
I had myself. Yeah, no, that was really. I left there being like, geez. Well, I woke up the next morning. I didn't leave there thinking, crazy, dude.
Andrew Santino
That was.
Grace O'Malley
Until the next morning.
Andrew Santino
I was like, you didn't do anything wrong. There's no regret there.
Grace O'Malley
I think. I think I just yelled at you. Aren't you supposed to be in fucking Siberia or some shit?
Andrew Santino
Yeah, yeah, Korea. Hi.
Grace O'Malley
Nice to meet you is what I meant to say.
Andrew Santino
I was supposed to be in Korea.
Grace O'Malley
Korea.
Andrew Santino
But I canceled Korea for really for you. I thought I should stay.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I know.
Andrew Santino
That's really sweet, but I did want to go to Korea for the first time. I was really sad. We were supposed to go to Korea, and I was supposed to bring Bob. Bobby and I were going to go, and privately, unfortunately, I can't say why, but the company that we were going to do it with, they didn't. Blah, blah, blah. And I was super butthurt because I was like, think about how fun that would be if me and him got to spend five days in Korea.
Grace O'Malley
That's sick. Oh, would you have done it and, like, just gone together and not recorded anything or.
Andrew Santino
You know, sadly, we have to film something. It's like, that's so gross. Do I want to not do that?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, yeah, of course.
Andrew Santino
But, like, in this day and age, we. What we do is we're pretty good. Like, we don't. We don't flood the Internet with stuff other than our show. The Internet kind of does it for us. But like, on social. I'm not good on social. Like, I don't know. I don't know. People post like, six times a day and clips. I don't. I'm not good at it.
Grace O'Malley
I.
Andrew Santino
So we don't do that. Bob and I both are the same, where we're not really, like. We're not really good at it, but we would have had one camera person film some fun stuff. Like if we went and did something just to have it, just in case.
Grace O'Malley
Just to put on the some.
Andrew Santino
But see, no, but the thing with us is sometimes we'll shoot stuff just to see if there's something there. And if we don't use it, we don't fucking use it. If we're like, that sucked. We didn't like that. Yeah, we're not like the Paul brother. We don't need the thing. You know what I mean?
Grace O'Malley
Don't even get me started.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, I'm not. I don't, like, need it. I'm not even taking a shot at him. I just mean, like, got people. There's certain people that, like, their whole day has to be captured. They try to find a way to use it, which is clever. That's good money on them. But every time we record something, either me or Bob or both, we end up filming and then being like, that was fucking awful. That was in the trash. Yeah, because we don't like public stuff. We like the studio stuff. And then that's it.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. No, that's fair.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, I just. I'll do the show. The other stuff is like, can we just be.
Grace O'Malley
Have you seen the signs for that. That Paul American show?
Andrew Santino
Who's that?
Grace O'Malley
The Paul brothers. They have a. They have, like.
Andrew Santino
I saw a clip on TikTok that their dad was on a plane. Did their dad beat the shit out of them? Right, that's right. That's nice.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, he's a. He's a good guy.
Andrew Santino
But. But I heard he was on a plane and they were going to do ayahuasca and he. And they were like, no drinks. He ordered drinks on the jet and they're like, no drinks before ayahuasca. And he's like, buddy, I've done coke, ketamine, whatever the he named Acid. He's like, I'm gonna be. I never obeyed the rules. I was like, this guy is built for. He's built for reality tv.
Grace O'Malley
Well, people were commenting like, damn, like now we know where the. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. All this. That's just every guy from Boston.
Andrew Santino
That's my opinion. It's like, that's just Boston.
Grace O'Malley
It's just. It is what it is.
Andrew Santino
What part of Boston are you guys from?
Grace O'Malley
I'm not. I'm. I'm from like the suburbs of bo.
Andrew Santino
Sure.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. I just.
Andrew Santino
I love Boston so much. That's like my second favorite city.
Grace O'Malley
And so first has to be Chicago, right?
Andrew Santino
It is, yeah. But I love Boston. There's something about that city. It's always been good to me touring wise. Every time I go, I have like.
Grace O'Malley
They think you're one of us.
Andrew Santino
I know. They do they? No, they do. But also I just. It's like the nooks. Yeah. I go, I walk around and I turn into Burr. Yeah, dude, the north end. Take me to Nicos. I know. I love Boston. I don't know what it is or something about. And I haven't been far in Boston. Like, it's not like I've explored a lot.
Grace O'Malley
I only know in. And you're.
Andrew Santino
I only know the nook that I know. But I do love walking the commons when it's nice out.
Grace O'Malley
No, it's good stuff.
Andrew Santino
It's like the prettiest shit on earth. And what's it north of the park there is Beacon Hill.
Grace O'Malley
Oh yeah. Where Tom Brady lives.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, right.
Grace O'Malley
Do plumbing over there.
Andrew Santino
Did he?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, over there.
Andrew Santino
Beacon Hill. Yeah, I'll do it. Plumbing at Beacon Hill would be fucking late for dinner. Leave the door open.
Grace O'Malley
Quite literally. They're living the dream over there. I'm like. He's like, yeah, they make me take my shoes off. I'm trying to. I'm trying to do plumbing. I got steel toes.
Andrew Santino
That's how you know that does. They're rich. They make you take your shoes off.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
That's interesting. That is a. That is a. When people get enough money at a certain level and you go to a friend's house and they go, could you take your shoes off? You're like, oh, fuck, they're rich. Yeah, that's like, the dead giveaway.
Grace O'Malley
Has that ever happened to you where, like, it was your. Your buddy, and they've. They've flipped a switch a little bit.
Andrew Santino
Oh, my God.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
I've seen so many people. Yeah. I've seen a lot of.
Grace O'Malley
Well, when do they flip? Like, what. What does. It changes. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Not. I'm not saying it negatively. I just say, like, sometimes you see people get ice. You've seen friends get, like, a lot of success, like, little stuff. They just, you know, they're not goofing anymore.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. You know, you're trying not to be specific here.
Andrew Santino
It's hard.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Well, it's so funny, but I've seen a lot of guys get successful that I'm proud of, that I'm happy that, like, I'll give you the. A good example is, like, Adam Ray and I started. We. I mean, not started together, but we kind of came up together.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
You know, and our class or whatever. And he's been working like a dog for a long time, and to see, like, the Dr. Phil thing for him and what. What's going on for him, like, I'm so happy for him.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. It's fucking awesome.
Andrew Santino
Because it's cool to see one of your friends. Like, I don't know. It's cool. There's something about it. After working so fucking hard, you're like, good shit, dude.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. But I'm glad.
Andrew Santino
Fuck, yeah, I'm glad. And then there's. Sometimes you see people that continue to succeed and you fucking can't stand them, and you're like, man, why can't that crash?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I know.
Andrew Santino
Why can't that plane just fucking crash? You know I'm talking about Whitney. Okay. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Grace O'Malley
Not too much on my girl. That's why I'm here.
Andrew Santino
No, no, no, no, no. She knows. She knows. I give her a big hug and a kiss. I love. I love Whitney. She. I got coveted at her house. I got coveted one at her crib.
Grace O'Malley
Sounds like a lot of people did.
Andrew Santino
Oh, Whitney. Yeah. Let me tell you something. Yeah, dude. Yeah. When he handed out Covid.
Grace O'Malley
She's having covered parties.
Andrew Santino
You don't still work with her, do you?
Grace O'Malley
We haven't in a while. I was opening for it, but no more. Not right now.
Andrew Santino
You're flying free. You got to fly solo.
Grace O'Malley
I got my. My tour.
Andrew Santino
That's what I'm saying. You got to fly solo. You can do the other ones, but you got to. Anybody that's ever worked with me that's open for me, I'm like, you might get a year. You'll get one full tour.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
And then maybe if I tour again, like later in the year, you might do a couple of dates, but then I cut. I cut them off.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, like, to their benefit.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. Because I want them to fly free. Like, my hope is that I can introduce them to enough clubs or people in context that they can get one nighters.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Like solos and then slowly grow because I don't want them to get comfortable. And you see some people that, like, are on with someone for a long time and you're like, dude, you gotta go. Like, yeah, that's the only way.
Grace O'Malley
It's gotta fly.
Andrew Santino
You gotta do it. It sucks, dude. It sucks. I hate doing it. Especially if it's like a really good friend. I'm like, oh, why do I feel like you just.
Grace O'Malley
You just stop answering them.
Andrew Santino
No, no, no, no, dude. Oh. Chris o' Connor's doping for me for a long time. Like, I met him on the road in Indianapolis and he. He's part of Gillis's group, you know, Tommy Pope and those guys. And I met him and we became instant best friends.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
And I said at some point, I was like, you do. I gotta. You know, we can't. We can't keep doing it because I want you to go do your own headlining.
Grace O'Malley
It's like a breakup.
Andrew Santino
He died. Is. Dude. But then he did good. Him and Tommy Pope created a show and they did well. And then now he's on tires with Shane, so. And he's doing awesome.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
You just want to see your baby birds fly.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, totally.
Andrew Santino
You don't want to keep them in the nest?
Grace O'Malley
No, I mean, that's. That's a good thing you did.
Andrew Santino
I know. Well, I'm trying. There's a new. I'm start. I'm going to start taking out. Well, maybe when I tour, when I. When I go back out again. Is Devontra Coleman. Do you know him?
Grace O'Malley
No.
Andrew Santino
Oh, he's fantastic. He's so funny, dude. Certain people you, like, click with right away and you, they're. You're like, oh, that. I like that. I don't even know what that is. But he's a young guy that just moved down here at the store now and he's great, man. He's the only hiccup is that he's black. Outside of that, I really like him.
Grace O'Malley
I think you can get over it.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, we'll see.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, we'll see. We'll see.
Grace O'Malley
We'll see how it goes. Yeah. Just make sure he's on time, huh?
Andrew Santino
He won't be. I tell him the show's at 4. Yeah, 4pm show man, you know, it's Milwaukee.
Grace O'Malley
It's a little different.
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Grace O'Malley
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Andrew Santino
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Grace O'Malley
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Grace O'Malley
I do. I do this silly segment on here where I'm looking for a new co host.
Andrew Santino
All right, it's me.
Grace O'Malley
So I. I'm. I'm gonna see if you. If you'd pass a test.
Andrew Santino
Oh, thank you. Let me see.
Grace O'Malley
I'm gonna give you a list of situations and I want you to tell me who you're calling first. If you need help, either me or Bobby.
Andrew Santino
Okay. Oh my gosh.
Grace O'Malley
All right. So you need a ride home from the airport? I don't have a license. You all right asking for a ride to the hospital?
Andrew Santino
You?
Grace O'Malley
I don't have a license. Trusting with your passwords or for safekeeping. You okay letting babysit your firstborn child? Bobby hiring a hitman. You Boston going in on a timeshare in Barbados.
Andrew Santino
Bobby and I actually have a timeshare in Cabo. No, no, we don't. No, I'm kidding.
Grace O'Malley
I was gonna say it's really funny.
Andrew Santino
No, no, no, no. But you know what's so funny? The only one that I did say him yeah. Was baby yeah. And the only reason why is because Bobby with kids blow will blow your mind.
Grace O'Malley
Really?
Andrew Santino
He's the sweetest dude it's insane. When he sees babies, he gets like, he. He morphs into the. He's already a child. He's a 52 year old child.
Grace O'Malley
I just did Trash Tuesday. They were talking about how they would always clean up Bobby's shit.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Everywhere. I'm like, are you guys allowed to say this is you just guys, you just talk about this?
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
He's a podcast.
Andrew Santino
He's a big baby. But when he sees kids and when he, like, when, when kids come around, like our friends that have kids that come around, he's a magic man dude.
Grace O'Malley
Wow.
Andrew Santino
He like embodies this. Sweet. He's. Well, first of all, he' thinks, like, they think he's on the same wavelength.
Grace O'Malley
That's what. That's always like that weird, creepy uncle. He was wicked cool when you were young, right? And then you get older, you're like, you never developed Uncle Mark. He's a little different.
Andrew Santino
Is he chewing on the couch again? Yeah. Did you have a. Did you guys have a creepy uncle?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, but it was funny.
Andrew Santino
We got lucky. We didn't have a creepy uncle. We had a creepy neighbor. My sister didn't like our neighbor. He would say, wild. Like he'd come to the house and I never really noticed it because I, you know, I didn't pay attention.
Grace O'Malley
Well, also again, for her, you know.
Andrew Santino
I know I was kind of offended. He didn't want to hit me, but he would say stuff, he'd be like, oh, you're, you're. You're growing up fast. You know that kind of really filling.
Grace O'Malley
Up that bathing suit.
Andrew Santino
You guys have heard that foul your whole life. There's always like a creepy guy and you're like one of your parents friends that's like, oh, you're gonna be a big grown woman soon.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. Nasty. Dude, that guy sucks.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
That's so creepo. When you and my sister would tell me some of the stuff he would say, and I was like, damn, dude, I can't believe I never. I never heard it. Like, he would say some shit like, I like it better when your hair's up. Oh, fucking gross.
Grace O'Malley
Some weird shit. You want to see them shoulders? That's why you gotta wear sweaters.
Andrew Santino
And then she was like, I didn't even know what to say. I'd be like, oh, you should have. I mean, you should. On him. Just say some. You know, we know so many secrets about him.
Grace O'Malley
The more, the more I think about it. I think, actually, I think our dad. I think our dad was the creepy uncle.
Andrew Santino
Your dad said Creepy?
Grace O'Malley
He didn't say creepy, but he did creepy things. Like he would threaten my cousins with the blowtorch.
Andrew Santino
No, no, that's standard, dad.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Andrew Santino
If they're getting out of line, you gotta. You gotta let them know.
Grace O'Malley
They would chase them around.
Andrew Santino
No, that's standard, dad. That's cool.
Grace O'Malley
I mean. I mean, they. They're like. They're kind of. They say they still talk about it in therapy. I don't know.
Andrew Santino
They probably don't. Did your dad ever hit you guys?
Grace O'Malley
You know.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, it's. You know. You know, the noise said everything.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. How about you?
Andrew Santino
Yeah, he slept around a little bit, but I deserved. Every time I got hit. I know that sounds cliche.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
When I got smacked in the back of the head, it's cause I was a fuck up.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, you'll shit.
Andrew Santino
It's not cause I was doing the right thing or being a. I was being a smartass. I probably said some dumb shit. You deserve a crack. It was rude.
Grace O'Malley
My dad found me in a parked car at an apartment when he couldn't find me for a whole night.
Andrew Santino
What were you doing?
Grace O'Malley
I got kicked out of a concert. Found my way home in a limo with some freshmen and just kind of slept in my car.
Andrew Santino
You slept in your car?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Why don't you just go home?
Grace O'Malley
Because I. I knew enough. I couldn't drive.
Andrew Santino
Oh, you were fucked up.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
That's actually very smart.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
So he was not mad. He was like, this is good. I'm glad you didn't drive.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, a little bit. He was like, you could have. You could have got arrested. He knows from past experience.
Andrew Santino
You know what I mean? How many times you've been arrested?
Grace O'Malley
Oh, me. Not fake id, but. Doesn't really count.
Andrew Santino
No, no, I got arrested.
Grace O'Malley
What'd you get arrested for?
Andrew Santino
I got arrested for public intoxication. Banger urinating in public.
Grace O'Malley
That sex pension.
Andrew Santino
Isn't that weird? No, it's not. You know what it was though? I had it reduced to disorderly conduct in public or whatever. But what's crazy is because I was peeing outside behind my buddy's bar and the cop was like. He said, go ahead and finish. And then we're going to jail or whatever. And I was like, oh, dude, I had to pee. The bathrooms were stuffed. It's outside. It's tucked behind a bar. I don't even know how he would. Why he was back there.
Grace O'Malley
He was waiting.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, I was like. He was probably pissing too. But then they made me do alcohol classes, so. I didn't get like one of those. Like, you don't get like a sexual charge for that.
Grace O'Malley
That's good. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. I'm peeing outside. I'm not exposing myself to somebody. It's like behind a bar in an alley. But they made me go to alcohol, whatever classes and dude the stories because I was in there with like, bonafide alcoholics. Like guys who had some wild shit go down.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
And they'd be like, and what about you? You know, Share your story. I was like, I was just pissing behind a bar. I'm in college.
Grace O'Malley
Like, I'm.
Andrew Santino
I'm supposed to be doing this.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
This is legit. Everyone hated the fact. They were like, why is this kid in here? I'm like, this is so I don't have to go to jail.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
That was my community service. And I had to do classes and. And pay a fine for peeing outside. You never peed outside.
Grace O'Malley
I did it last night.
Andrew Santino
That's what I'm saying. I was.
Grace O'Malley
A little bit, but I did that. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Squatting truck.
Grace O'Malley
I was like. I was. Excuse me, guys, one second.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. You know, you have to go. You have to go.
Grace O'Malley
I'm a lady.
Andrew Santino
You're a woman of the night.
Grace O'Malley
Well, actually, you're in my. My favorite show of all time, dying up here. Seriously, My favorite show of all time. I love that show.
Andrew Santino
Really?
Grace O'Malley
I was bullshit that they canceled it.
Andrew Santino
Well, that's very nice. Yeah. Well, American TV watchers didn't. Didn't like it.
Grace O'Malley
Really.
Andrew Santino
The critics fucked us up, man.
Grace O'Malley
Really?
Andrew Santino
Yeah. They didn't like us. You know, I think it was hard. It was a period piece, so that also fudgeing annoys people. I think people are like. With stuff like that. I don't think it's their flavor. I mean, some people liked it a lot.
Grace O'Malley
I loved it.
Andrew Santino
That's why I loved it.
Grace O'Malley
It was actually the last time me and my dad actually sat down and.
Andrew Santino
And watched it together.
Grace O'Malley
Watched it and like, had a good moment together.
Andrew Santino
Did you ever see the scene where it was with my dad.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
And we pee on his dead dog's grave?
Grace O'Malley
Yep.
Andrew Santino
That is one of my. When we shot that scene, we shot it at like 4 or 5 in the morning and. And we were. We knew we were late and last up. So like, I said to Al Madrigal, I said, well, let's go get dinner late in. In Silver Lake, because my house was in Silver Lake in the show. And so we go out to, like. I think we're a fat cat or Something like that and black cat. And then afterwards, he's like, damn, dude, aren't we supposed to be, like, up for this? Like, we were supposed to be so up, like, blacked out and high. I was like, oh, yeah, that's right. We're, like, coming home and we're all fucked up. He's like, should we have a couple cocktails to, like, cruise into it?
Grace O'Malley
It's method acting.
Andrew Santino
And I was like, yeah, let's have a couple. By the way, we also had, like, three hours till we were up. So we have a cocktail, you have another one. We go to a bar. One more. He knows somebody there. We see someone. We go. We go to another bar. Now we're getting calls like, hey, you guys are coming to set? Like, you know, we're about to shoot, we're ready. The lights are up. We go. We get to that house, and I was fucking smoked. And. And the guy who played my dad knew. And he's an. He's an extremely talented, very serious actor. And I went up to him and I was like, dude, I'm not going to fuck up the scene. I promise. I'm just saying, you know, I'm fucked up, but I'm supposed to be fucked up in the scene. But I'm being honest with you. But we had some drinks, and he was like, use it, use it. And I was like, oh, he's the fucking man. He didn't complain. He didn't get upset. Because I thought, oh, he's.
Grace O'Malley
I thought that was going a different way.
Andrew Santino
Well, he's a real actor. He's like a theater actor. Like a legit I'm. And I was like, he's gonna hate me. He's gonna be, like, unprofessional. You. You fire this kid.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
And he was so good. And then we did that scene, and he was so much better because he was, like, supposed to be mad that we were fucked up. And he was kind of upset that it was late and we had run around all night. It worked. That was. It was so fun. Man, that show was good. I appreciate you saying that. It was fun to do, but it was just, you know, it was tough, I think. Cause people criticized the fuck out of it and.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, so, like, a win for you ended up being, like something that, like, kind of sucks.
Andrew Santino
It just. It was just one of those moments where, like, I loved it, but I was shocked that, like, people didn't like it the way I thought it was going to be received. I didn't think it was going to be, like, the show of the century. But I did think it was gonna get more, like, more love. But instead we got. We got cooked. I think people just didn't. They just wanted to call. Also, I think doing stand up on tv because you're doing fake stand up.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. So that was one of my questions, like, so hard. Did you. Did someone write for you for those jokes or. And, like.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, because we're supposed to write in character. So we would. We would have, like, a set list of jokes that we would write, work on with the writers, and then we could come up with our own if we wanted. They told us, you know. Cause we would improv a fuckload when we were filming. But you're filming those set days when you're on stage, you're doing, you know, six hours.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
So you're just kind of riffing a lot, and then a lot of times you're finding new shit and then you're doing jokes that are of the time. It has to be the 70s, you know, so we would write jokes for that and we'd get them approved to see if they were, like, the rhythm of this character.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
But it was tough. It's tough for someone to be like, these jokes aren't funny. You're like, yeah, yeah. Fucking 1979.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. This isn't going to be material.
Andrew Santino
Is very different from now.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
So I think, like, that also threw people that were like, stand up. Isn't the. Stand up isn't good? You're like, it's 40, 50 years old.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
No, it's not what you like. Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
And so you didn't care. Writing for it because it's not like you're going to take those jokes and you can't.
Andrew Santino
You couldn't. And also, like, some of the jokes, I will say, like, the. The irony was sometimes you would, like, write a joke with a writer and you could still use it today because that's how. That's how little we progress as a society.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Like, we were writing jokes about. There was a Roe v. Wade thing. You know what I mean? But it is so funny that you're like, oh, yeah. Half of that shit that we talked about is still, you know, like, we talked about how weed is illegal and comically enough, weed still illegal in a lot of states. It is so funny. It's like some of the things were interesting that a writer would write them and I'd be like, dude, this is so that we could. You could do the exact same today.
Grace O'Malley
That is wild.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, we know. We're not. We We. I think we. We progress as society in very, very tiny little steps. We think we make huge leaps, but we really don't.
Grace O'Malley
Nothing. Nothing's all that different from that.
Andrew Santino
Same, same. Just new spin.
Grace O'Malley
I just. I. I was as a watcher that it got canceled because we left on a cliffhanger.
Andrew Santino
I love you guys.
Grace O'Malley
It was. I mean, it was.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, well, yeah, that's right. We did. Yeah. Same thing when they canceled Dave. When we are. Well, they didn't cancel Dave, but when we stopped doing Dave, people wanted to know what the next season was. We. We know, but no one knows.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, really? You can never share that, right?
Andrew Santino
Well, no, because if he ever wants to do it, he may do it again, or we won't. We wouldn't do it again. But if he wants to take it and, like, do a spin on whatever the.
Grace O'Malley
He wants it, and that's on him.
Andrew Santino
It's all on him. Yeah, it's all on Dave.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I was working on that.
Andrew Santino
Fun. You know, it was. It was cool. I mean, that show was a hit in the sense of, like, people liked it, the critics liked it, and the audience liked it. So that was fun. But.
Grace O'Malley
And it was like one of Hulu's first, like, good shows.
Andrew Santino
I'd say it was the largest viewed comedy in fx' history. Because of the Hulu deal.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, no. Okay.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, so that was kind of like a weird moment for us. Like, we were like, largest FX comedy. I was like, well, Hulu.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Like, it's because the Hulu numbers, like fx, you know, still always Sunny, is the largest numbered comedy they've ever had. Yeah, but I'm friends with Charlie Dayton. I like to talk about that. Then I'm like, you like your little FX show? Yeah, because we got the numbers, man.
Grace O'Malley
The upper hand there.
Andrew Santino
Oh, he's doing 19 seasons. I think they won't.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, they've been on. I. I just said the other day, it's always Sunny. The Simpsons and Grey's Anatomy.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Like. Like Longest Running.
Andrew Santino
And it's got to be one of the other one of the soap operas. It's got to be like Days of Our Lives.
Grace O'Malley
Would you ever do a soap opera?
Andrew Santino
I do one episode for fun. I think that'd be. I do like a pop in.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
As long as it's really dramatic and, like, someone's super mad at me, you know, I just want one scene where the woman's like, get the out of here, Mark. I want that, you know, that.
Grace O'Malley
Play a piece of shit.
Andrew Santino
I know what you did, you piece of shit. You'll never see your kids again. I want that. That's what I want. Yeah, I want that shit. And I want it to be like a. You know.
Grace O'Malley
What would be your ideal role? Like, in a soap opera? Oh, no, in general.
Andrew Santino
You know, we're out with a show right now. I've done this my, like a third time making the rounds, trying to go out with this other show that I wanted to make. But I just want to go back to, like, old school buddy comedies, group theory comedies. Like. Like what Sonny did, you know, like what workaholics did. I want that again.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
You know, I think we're missing Pride did. Yeah, I want that again. And I. And it's hard for networks or companies to do those because a lot of the successful shows in the comedy space are not traditional comedy. They're like. Like Seth's show, like the studio on Apple.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
It's not like a true comedy, but it's comedy.
Grace O'Malley
It's. It's tough to watch. Like, it's so. It's so good.
Andrew Santino
But it's anxiety induced.
Grace O'Malley
It's anxiety. Like.
Andrew Santino
And the jazz in the background doesn't help.
Grace O'Malley
Dude. Totally. Like, I was. I was just watching in the latest episode, and it's. It's all of them trying to figure out the cast for Kool Aid.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, Kool Aid, man. Yeah. It's a great episode.
Grace O'Malley
It's a great episode. And it's like, exactly what's probably going on. It's like, well, we need them to all be black, right? And then. Then it goes up to Ice Cube.
Andrew Santino
Well, if she's Asian, how Asian is she? Yeah, that.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, it's fucking wild.
Andrew Santino
No, it's genius. But at that. But that's what I mean is like, I think old school comedy. Comedy is hard to find on TV now. I think it's a hard sell. I don't know. I don't know if people want it. I mean, we want to. I want to do them.
Grace O'Malley
I like shows that get canceled.
Andrew Santino
So I know everything I've ever liked gets canceled or it's under watched. Like, I thought Galvan actors. I thought Baskets is one of the best shows I've ever seen and no one really watched. I mean, comedy nerds watched it. But outside of that, if I told someone, like back home, that's the reference. It's. If you ever want to know if something's actually popular, I call back home.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Talk to someone from Boston or Chicago and go, do you guys and people you work with know about this?
Grace O'Malley
That's the most out of touch guy talking about to anybody who's just like one of his pals that he grew up with.
Andrew Santino
I always go, hey, do you guys know about this in your office?
Grace O'Malley
People watching this stuff?
Andrew Santino
No, because we get up from the business, you think you'll be living in LA or New York and you'll think everybody likes something, but go talk to someone in the real world. Then you're like, no one likes that.
Grace O'Malley
I live in a bubble in New.
Andrew Santino
York, but these cities are bubble we live in. You know, it's like, it's like girls. Every. The business love the show Girls and I'm not taking a shot at girls. But it was like 300,000 people watched it. HBO made it feel like it was a billion people. No one watched that show.
Grace O'Malley
It's had a resurgence.
Andrew Santino
We loved the show business. People in the industry love the show, but it was not a high viewed show for hbo.
Grace O'Malley
And now there's a podcast, pick it apart.
Andrew Santino
Every episode, which is of Girls.
Grace O'Malley
Yes.
Andrew Santino
That's so funny.
Grace O'Malley
Rewatching Girls.
Andrew Santino
I think that's what it's called, rewatching Girls.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
There's a great podcast I love and they break down. They're these two funny guys, they're comics and they do breakdowns of other people's shows. Like that.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, yeah, no, the talking. Talk to her.
Andrew Santino
Talking. Talk to him.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Those guys are.
Andrew Santino
Buddy, those guys are so funny. I, I think that kid is like, he'll swirl wine.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
What do you think she really meant by that?
Grace O'Malley
If I were those guys, I'd be so pumped. You just said that.
Andrew Santino
They're so brilliant. Shout out to those guys who they're so funny. I've seen clips and that makes me laugh so hard.
Grace O'Malley
It came full circle. They, they, they went on the show.
Andrew Santino
Oh, they did.
Grace O'Malley
They did.
Andrew Santino
Oh, wow.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
That girl's not done. Didn't she get in trouble? Didn't she people over or something?
Grace O'Malley
Ye. Crypto. Crypto scam, you know, Classic.
Andrew Santino
I should have got in on that. Dude, I wish I didn't scam anybody. I'm still waiting for my time to scam. Well, yeah, I'm looking to scam. Dude, I'm out here. I want to scam.
Grace O'Malley
You might as well scam.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, get your scam on.
Grace O'Malley
You know, shows aren't getting picked up. You got to scam.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, dude, trust me. I know.
Grace O'Malley
I know nothing about that. I bet. That's brutal. I'm sorry.
Andrew Santino
The executives are like, get back out there and start scamming buddy.
Grace O'Malley
Start punking again.
Andrew Santino
I'll start punking again. I might as well.
Grace O'Malley
All these kids, they just stole your.
Andrew Santino
They did. They took a lot of our stuff. Well, everybody's begging and borrowing from someone else. But I like, we did so much wild on that show that never made the air.
Grace O'Malley
Look, I always thought it was crazy that anyone would sign off on that. Like after you just turn. Like after you were just like a. You're like, yeah, run it.
Andrew Santino
Well, you know what it was? The Saving grace was like the, the, the property. Right. Like the IP was saying, like punked. People know it was a brand to be associated with because they were like, oh, it makes me look cool.
Grace O'Malley
Because you got the.
Andrew Santino
Like, as long as I looked. As long as they looked cool, they were cool. We had some people not sign. Yeah, we had a couple people that didn't sign and they weren't cool and they know who they are. They like, even though the bits weren't crazy, they were mad about something. But like, yeah, we do. We made Drake. We, we put him at the Skirball Center. We told him he was going to meet with Biden when he was the vice president.
Grace O'Malley
What'd you tell him Biden wanted from him?
Andrew Santino
No, no. We had his team internally say that he's going to go meet with the vice president at the Skirball center for like a non profit event.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Andrew Santino
And we drove him in all these armored cars and I played Secret Service and we went to the basement of the Skirball center and we put these weights on the bottom of his car kind of like, you know, like inside of a watch. There's. I can't remember the name because I'm stupid, but there's a. There's a. It's a lopsided weight and when it winds, the inertia will keep it spinning faster and faster. So it's a heavy weight that just whips around. So they build these things and we put them underneath a car so it feels like it's fucking shaking.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, shit.
Andrew Santino
He thought he was in an earthquake.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, no way.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. And he's from Canada, so you know.
Grace O'Malley
He'S never experienced that.
Andrew Santino
No. And he. Dude and it on camera. I can't believe he signed off on that to this day. Because he was like grabbing his boy. He was like, yo, yo. It was so funny, dude. It was so fucking mean to like watch this guy go. Doug is gonna be okay, dog. It was so good, man. And what works great was we put those on our car.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Even though we couldn't shake the building. We shook just our car, but we made it so he couldn't get out. We child locked all the doors. So he. All he sees is he feels a car shaking. And we have lights breaking on purpose and other cars with the motor shaking. So from your visual, you just think the whole world is shaking.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, my God. And he's 25, sitting on 25 mil at the time.
Andrew Santino
That's exactly right, dude. He's how you feel, how you feel in that earthquake. Yeah. I told him I was a big fan and he was like in the bit and he was like, God damn, I gotta call my mom and tell the Secret Service likes my shit. We had fun on that show. And then we, we. We peeled out some bits that I think, like, yeah, they got reused by YouTube. But that, that's fucking.
Grace O'Malley
That's just kind of how it goes.
Andrew Santino
That's how it goes.
Grace O'Malley
What was your favorite, like, character you played on that? Because you usually played like a very, like, stern, down to earth guy.
Andrew Santino
Unpunked. I think the best character or the best, best bit we ever did was with Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift as we made her think.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, that was.
Andrew Santino
We made her think she lit a wedding on fire with a firework.
Grace O'Malley
And the whole boat was on fire.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. And then we came to shore and I was like a disgruntled groom. And. And my wife kept saying to Taylor Swift's like, thank you, Taylor Swift. This is an omen. I shouldn't be marrying this guy.
Grace O'Malley
That's so good.
Andrew Santino
And I. And I was just like this guy who's just like, so out of his element, losing it, being like, like, thanks a lot, Taylor Swift. I'm not gonna marry the love of my life because of you. It was so stupid, dude. And she was heartbroken.
Grace O'Malley
Do you know how. How you probably would be fully canceled, no career, if it was now with the Swifties.
Andrew Santino
Well, dude. Yeah, that's kind of funny. Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
That. To our girl.
Andrew Santino
It's kind of crazy how they protect her. Like, crazy. And then I met her now as a grown adult, which is very strange, and apologized profusely. I was like, I'm sorry. We did that when I was young and you were much young. I mean, her and Bieber were young at the time. I think they were like, God, I don't know.
Grace O'Malley
They were like the 13.
Andrew Santino
I don't. It's got to be because what. This was 2011.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, okay.
Andrew Santino
10. Maybe 2010. 10 or 11. I don't even know. She was probably 20 years old.
Grace O'Malley
You're not with kids. That's good.
Andrew Santino
No, but they're so, they were so young in their career, you know, like, they were still. Yeah. 19 is young. 20. She was young. But like also they were, they were young. Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
I mean, completely. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
It was just. There's something else that was young because they were so, like, they started so.
Grace O'Malley
Young that they started so. A little delayed.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, you're super delayed. Yeah, yeah. Musicians and gymnasts, you know, I mean, you get. It's like they're delayed in a way where they're not childish, but their world is so protected.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
They're not allowed to just be a normal kid.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
You know, there's like 30 people around them at all times being like, eat this, don't do that. You have to leave. Seeing people tell a young famous person, we have to go is the creepiest shit ever.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. That's weird.
Andrew Santino
Well, because they don't have any control, you know, then you, you. When you see that in Hollywood and it's not creepy. I don't mean in a gross way. I just. Handlers are like, we have to get you home.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
It's like, damn, dude, that sucks. They can't just like be. They're not allowed to be.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
They're on like a timetable and they have to like, we have to go to this interview and then you got to go see Ryan Seacrest and then you need to sign this thing. We're making your sneaker deal it. And there's no way. It's always a sneaker deal, dude. Reebok. Reebok called and. And there's no way that they can like live in the moment because it's so. When someone's like, when people criticize Bieber years ago and they were like, what a punk ass kid. Blah, blah, blah. It's like, dude, you give you 10 million when you're 16, you. You'd lose your mind.
Grace O'Malley
You'd be dead.
Andrew Santino
Yes. You'd be dead.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Dead. You do some dumb. It's you. I would have done so much worse than whatever that kid did.
Grace O'Malley
He pissed in a bucket.
Andrew Santino
Big deal.
Grace O'Malley
In a bucket.
Andrew Santino
I was broke and I did way worse shit.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
You know what I mean? Imagine If I had 10 million. I'd have. We did so. We did so much dumb when we were 15 and 16. But anyway, he would. They were, they were fun to work with, but it was wild to watch them kind of like, you know, explode into. Watch Bieber grow. It was wild to see.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, that's pretty nice.
Andrew Santino
In front of our face. I mean, he was already famous, but it just. We watch it all kind of continue as a trip.
Grace O'Malley
What, what age did you move out here?
Andrew Santino
I moved here when I was 22 years old. The moment I graduated college, I got into a car.
Grace O'Malley
You just.
Andrew Santino
I got the out. Yeah, you're just a Long beach with a dream.
Grace O'Malley
One car in a dream?
Andrew Santino
No, no dreams. A lot of nightmares, actually. Yeah, a lot of. It's not gonna work out. You're gonna have to move back home. No, I moved here from Arizona State. I went straight here because I knew if I went back to Chicago, I probably would never try anything.
Grace O'Malley
That's fair.
Andrew Santino
And so I moved here with some friends that were from California.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, that's huge.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
You weren't just like solo dollar.
Andrew Santino
It was like three guys that I. Well, one guy, my buddy Colin, who was from the Bay, he was going to move to San. To Southern California, because we knew a bunch of guys that lived in Long beach. And my goal was to get to la. And so we met a couple of dudes down there. I slept on a Lazy Boy for a little while and then we scrounged enough money, I got a day job to get my own apartment and then. Or my apartment with him. And then I didn't have a car, so he. He loved to gamble. Shout out Miller, he would say, drop me off at the office and you could take the car. So I drop him to the casino, drop him off. That was his office. And then I would drive to LA and do shows, do open mics, and a lot of times not get on. Just like bounce around town.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
And then drive back at like midnight, one in the morning, pick him up from the casino and then we go home and get up and then do it all over again every day.
Grace O'Malley
And if he wanted, it was. It was a great night.
Andrew Santino
He won a lot, man. He was really good. He was able to pay his rent. I was fine. Scared. I was struggling. Bouncing from shitty job and working at. I was an assistant at a physical therapy office.
Grace O'Malley
What do you do there?
Andrew Santino
I was. I started. I started hanging with this chick. This chick was very nice to me and we kind of were. We were seeing each other a little bit and she was like. I was like, I need money. I'm so broke. So if you hear of anything. And she's like. Well, at the PT office that. She was becoming a pt, she was going to school.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Andrew Santino
She's like, they need someone to, like, clean up. And I was like, I'll clean, I'll do anything. Yeah, but Then when I got there, the guy who ran it, like, kind of had a crush on me. He, like, liked me. We always goofed around because I didn't take it serious. So he like, gave me way. He just gave me way more responsibility than like, I would. He would, like, make me check in on patients. He'd like, go see how that guy's movement is.
Grace O'Malley
I wasn't even in school for playing a doctor.
Andrew Santino
I would just go up to him and fake it. I'd be like, let me see your. And dude, can you have this range of motion? And I would give them little workouts that they would tell me to give them. Is probably definitely illegal.
Grace O'Malley
Bad stuff.
Andrew Santino
100% is 100% illegal. But no, that was. That was like my first job. Like, job job. And then made my way up to la. Finally I met a bunch of guys on a grad school website for UCLA of guys looking for off campus housing. So I lived with a bunch of grad students.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, okay.
Andrew Santino
Or two graduates in one gr. And then it was three guys in. In one bathroom. Three dudes, one bathroom. Gross.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, that's a lot of pubes in the sink.
Andrew Santino
So many pubes.
Grace O'Malley
It's like, it's out of control.
Andrew Santino
And then we had a pube sink. And we call it a pube sink sink.
Grace O'Malley
And everyone knows which ones are yours?
Andrew Santino
Yeah, no, but I eat them, so no one knows, you know, I mean, I clean up my mess.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, no, it's good.
Andrew Santino
Everybody knows. Three dudes in one bathroom. I did. Remember how agonizing. We all had day jobs, so we'd have to plan it.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, like who gets to shower before work?
Andrew Santino
Yeah, because we all had day gigs, so it was like we had to get up at the exact same time. And it was like, who would get in then. Then it became a routine of knowing who was gonna go. But you couldn't poop in the morning before shower.
Grace O'Malley
No, you gotta fuck everyone's day up.
Andrew Santino
Suck, dude. Sometimes you wake up and you're like, fuck, dude. What am I gonna shit in a bag or ruin everyone's day? You can't. Yeah, but by the time I got to the office, it was far away. It's tough, right?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
We lived a good life.
Grace O'Malley
That's good stuff.
Andrew Santino
And then what happened? And you know the world.
Grace O'Malley
What was your first big gig doing?
Andrew Santino
I. Doing punks was like. Well, my first, like, did punk too, right? She did, yeah. Before me. That old. My first paid gig was I did a show. I. I did a show called Big on the Web. And then it was called the surf report. MSN.com had like a daily web update. Like, what's big on the web? What's the big numbers? So I hosted that for a year.
Grace O'Malley
That's like a nuanced podcast. That was like the first.
Andrew Santino
It was. Dude, it was kind of a trip. And that was. That's how I got to quit my job, my day job. Because that's when you see money. Yeah. Because that one year of money, I knew I could. It would last me enough where I could go get small gigs here and there and then be able to pay rent. But then after a year of being free, I did things. Think, dude, did I make a big mistake?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Like, I quit. I was like, I should probably get a job.
Grace O'Malley
I think. I think I quit a little too early.
Andrew Santino
I got lucky and then this other thing lined up and then Punked happened because I. My buddy Sean was dating a girl who worked in a manager's office, and they needed young writers for a Comedy Central pilot and they didn't want to pay. So every writer that went in the budget was so shit that they were like, I'm not doing that fucking gig. There's no money. And I was like, they'll always find someone. I'm it. I was like, pay me nothing. I'll do it.
Grace O'Malley
They'll fuck you no matter what, because someone will always take it.
Andrew Santino
I'll take it. Take the money. Well, back then, too, I needed anything, so I took it. And then I wrote a Comedy Central pilot with Ian Edwards. The great Ian Edwards.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Who I idolized, then got to work with. It was so weird. And the pilot was dog, but the studio liked it so much that that's how I got hired to do Punk'd that. They were like, will you write on the next season? Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, no way.
Andrew Santino
It was kind of a trip.
Grace O'Malley
I had been a fun writers room.
Andrew Santino
Oh, my God, it was so much fun.
Grace O'Malley
Like, how to fuck with people.
Andrew Santino
And then that's all it was. It was a bunch of, like, smart comedy. It was a bunch of improv and then stand ups and then traditional writers, and it was just lunatics. It was a nightmare. Every day was like, how much up can you come up with? And then someone across a line and then people get in an argument, and.
Grace O'Malley
Then you look at someone a little different.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Jesus Christ.
Andrew Santino
Like you're comfortable with that. And they're like, look, dude, I think I grew up on Different Cities, man. But that was my. That was my. That's my bio.
Grace O'Malley
Thank you Very much.
Andrew Santino
You got my story.
Grace O'Malley
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. I've only told that to you. And you. That's it.
Grace O'Malley
And. And a thousand other people. I'm so sorry.
Andrew Santino
Just some. But I don't give it all to everyone. I really like you. That's why I gave it to you.
Grace O'Malley
Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
Andrew Santino
That's right.
Grace O'Malley
You've been. So you've done your podcast since 2018.
Andrew Santino
I started Whiskey Ginger. Oh, God. Maybe eight years ago. Maybe. I think it is. I think it might be eight. Seven or eight. Yeah. One of those two.
Grace O'Malley
And then you and Bobby started Bad Friends.
Andrew Santino
Pandemic.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, that was pandemic.
Andrew Santino
Beginning of the pandy. We started it when the pand. It was an accident. We started it when he got out of rehab. When his dad died within three months of us recording the pandemic hit.
Grace O'Malley
How do you do both and not run out of shit to say?
Andrew Santino
I do. I do it just. Well, no, that's. It's just like. But my show is me interviewing one person, and it's me one on one. Ing and having a chum fest like this.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
And him and I. It's playtime. It's different. It's like a different. There's a different portion of my brain. My niece said one time, I love this. She ate dinner and then she didn't finish. And her mom was like, well, you don't get dessert. And she was like, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's a different part of the stomach. Dessert is a different part of the stomach. I'm full from regular food. But there is a different. There's a dessert part. And I was like, that's so fucking clever. Give that kid the dessert. You know, but that's how I feel with comedy. With, like, Bobby and I is a different part of my brain. Literally. It's a different function of my brain when I do, like, podcasts and other shit. Like, it fun, playful. But with Bob, it's like. I don't know, it's like two little bad boys meeting up in the woods.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Poking something with a stick.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
See if it.
Andrew Santino
See if it's still breathing. You want to taste it? Yeah, it's that.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
It's just two little dumb kids. He makes me feel like a kid. I don't think I'll ever get tired of doing that show.
Grace O'Malley
I was just gonna ask. Does it ever get.
Andrew Santino
We'll do that. We'll. We'll quit that show when. Tell people stop watching it. Yeah, but. But I mean, we'll do it until the wheels fall off. I don't give a. I'll do it even if people aren't watching it. But until it needs to die. Yeah, we'll keep doing it because we have so much. It's the most fun. We're gonna do it Tuesday night, and I'm excited because we've got some bits planned and he doesn't know about it.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, yeah, it's my favorite.
Andrew Santino
Dude. He gets so mad when he doesn't know.
Grace O'Malley
I just. I just met both of you for.
Andrew Santino
The first time the other day in the lot. He was in the lot too.
Grace O'Malley
In the law. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
He just got a brand new car. He's the only guy I know he'll get a brand new car and he'll hit something within a week.
Grace O'Malley
Is that what happened?
Andrew Santino
Just got it.
Grace O'Malley
Nice. Ye. Just got it like. Like one of. Like a real spiffy car.
Andrew Santino
He. No, he get. He. He. It's not. He doesn't ever do, like, fancy. He has, like, a Hyundai something. I have a Ferrari and a Lamborghini.
Grace O'Malley
Okay, good for you.
Andrew Santino
And I have a. I have a Bentley and I have a Rolls Royce. I have four Rolls Royces and I'm being punked. You're being punked.
Grace O'Malley
Bring out Ashton Kutcher.
Andrew Santino
Your sister just rips her face off. She's. She's Ashton.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, wait, so who's. Who's been your favorite guest on your part? God. They're both yours. But on Whiskey Ginger.
Andrew Santino
No. Yeah. Because we don't have a lot of guests on Bad. We don't do bad. We don't love having guests on because it throws our rhythm off, you know? Like, I think on Whiskey. When I did it in Australia with John Cena, it was probably one of the most fun I've ever had.
Grace O'Malley
It sounds like a mad lib.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
You know, when I did my John.
Andrew Santino
Cena down under, it was. He's just the man. John's like an insightful, thoughtful, funny person. He's just like a. He's everything I would want. You'd want him to be. He's like, as cool as he is nice, as talented as he is, hard working, smart. He's very smart. Dude. He's really.
Grace O'Malley
That blows my mind.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, he's very. I mean, like, I think, like, people may think of him in a type of way because he's big. Big, big, big, you know, big break.
Grace O'Malley
I thought he'd be like Gronk.
Andrew Santino
No, no, dude, he's smart. No, he knows multiple languages. He would Play piano in the middle of the day.
Grace O'Malley
What?
Andrew Santino
Yeah. He's better than you and I. Yeah. Yeah, he's the fucking man. He was probably one of the best I've had on the show. I was trying to think of what's more fun is who is the worst I've ever had on the show.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. I'm trying to stay away from who tanked being clickbaity, but. Yeah, that'd be great.
Andrew Santino
No. Yeah, well, I'm trying to think of who tanked the and who didn't do great or who wanted to give it.
Grace O'Malley
Not air an episode.
Andrew Santino
Absolutely.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. That's pretty.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, that could be pretty. There's been a few that I had to not air. Yeah. I'll tell you one that was funny. Hannah Burner thought I didn't want her to air. She was like. I was like, the card up. And she's like, yeah, I'm sure it did.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, well, that is a classic line.
Andrew Santino
And she held it against me for a while, and then she ended up coming back and doing it again anyway. But I was like, no, I'm serious. The card up also, because I was running it by myself. I did that. I did that whole show by myself.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, really?
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Damn.
Andrew Santino
I still. I mean, I have McCone, who's on bad Friends, help me, but I taught myself all this when I started eight years ago because no, it. Relatively no one was doing it.
Grace O'Malley
That was the gold mine. That was like the time to get in.
Andrew Santino
So I just started doing it and taught myself everything. I learned how to do the. Every camera and I learned how to edit. And then I found editors to help sometimes.
Grace O'Malley
That's. That's. I. That's what I did to try to get into my. My last job. I just told them I knew how to do everything. And I bought Adobe for Dummies.
Andrew Santino
Adobe for Dummies.
Grace O'Malley
And I. I learned it.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. I learned highlighting pages.
Andrew Santino
That's. But you have to do it. You have to, like, learn all that on your own. Otherwise, I. I just feel like you. You have to be resourceful because if you're left alone and people quit or someone. Someone. You have to figure it the out.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
And so we did it.
Grace O'Malley
Like, good to know. Like, if. If you don't know how someone else does their job, but you're working together, you have like. I feel like you're a little bit of an. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
You get more respect when you learn how shitty things are, how hard things are to do.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Like.
Grace O'Malley
Like some people are like, well, why can't you get that out sooner, Like. Well, no, because it takes time, you know, like, just don't be a piece of.
Andrew Santino
Don't be a piece of.
Grace O'Malley
Don't be a piece of. It's as easy as that.
Andrew Santino
I'm trying to think of who's the worst guest I had on my show. I don't really know. There's people that. That I feel like they didn't have a good time. Like, that's a. You ever had someone on. On here where you're like, my last plot?
Grace O'Malley
I did. I. I was hungover and I thought it was gonna be really funny. We both did. To have Jordan Belfort on, like, the actual Wall Street.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
And he just was trying to sell his book and he wasn't telling it. Yeah. It's the second one, by the way.
Andrew Santino
Who wrote it, though?
Grace O'Malley
I know. I mean, that guy's out of his fucking mind. He's saying he doesn't do blow anymore. He's totally blowed up.
Andrew Santino
Sure.
Grace O'Malley
Like, I was like. Like he. He was running circles around me, and then I. I just asked. I'm like, can you go to the bank and ask for a stock? He goes, are you stupid?
Andrew Santino
Like, oh, okay, sweetheart. He was a nice guy.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. No, it was. It was brutal.
Andrew Santino
Dick, dude.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. And I was like, you know what?
Andrew Santino
I didn't even.
Grace O'Malley
I wanted you to tell funny stories.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, he.
Grace O'Malley
He was like, sell. Doing. Sell me this pen all over again.
Andrew Santino
Sell me this pen, dude.
Grace O'Malley
I was like.
Andrew Santino
He's like, I would have liked that. Yeah, that would have been fun.
Grace O'Malley
That be. Would have been fun.
Andrew Santino
I heard that was him. I think Makan made that whole thing up. Right? That was.
Grace O'Malley
No, he. Did he improv. That. That was a green light for him.
Andrew Santino
Is that the name of. That's the name of his book. Green Lights. That's all I see, man.
Grace O'Malley
A green light.
Andrew Santino
When you look at it, you see red lights, it's cuz you're looking the wrong way. It's like, don't people tell people that they'll get into a car accident?
Grace O'Malley
I just did Adam's Dr. Phil.
Andrew Santino
Oh, where'd you guys do it?
Grace O'Malley
We did it in Texas, in Austin.
Andrew Santino
Nice.
Grace O'Malley
And I found out right as I was about to go on that McConaughey was in the audio.
Andrew Santino
Oh, really?
Grace O'Malley
And I think I joked.
Andrew Santino
I was like, man, no, I bet you did great.
Grace O'Malley
I never had someone in the audience like that.
Andrew Santino
I was like, jesus, Someone big like that.
Grace O'Malley
I've never.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, I do. I get that it can get in your head that you're like, oh, you want to do good in front of him? But then the less you think about it, the harder you crush.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, that was true.
Andrew Santino
If you just get it out of. If you're like, if it's just like a. Who cares that they're here? If you don't let that little piece inside of you because the little kid inside you, when someone you like is in there, you're like, I want to do something.
Grace O'Malley
They're like, we're not even going to tell Adam. I'm like, well, I'm gonna blurt it on stage because I. I like. I get word vomit like that. I'm like, have you ever performed in front of someone like that?
Andrew Santino
Not at that. Not. McConaughey. McConaughey. Well, I got. Mine's like, mine. I didn't know. Which was kind of cool.
Grace O'Malley
That's good.
Andrew Santino
There's been a bunch of, like, cool ones, but the one I think was.
Grace O'Malley
Like, so you ever got, like, nervous for it?
Andrew Santino
Yeah. Christopher Guest. If you. If you don't know who that. You know who that is. I don't want to.
Grace O'Malley
I to. Don't want to. You.
Andrew Santino
No, I don't. Okay, great. He. He did a series of movies. He did Waiting for Guman. He did A Mighty Wind. He did Spinal Tap. Jersey. Spinal Tap.
Grace O'Malley
This sounds like this is before your time.
Andrew Santino
I know. I know it's probably before your time.
Grace O'Malley
Sorry.
Andrew Santino
No, no, he was. He's like, the king of, like, improv casted films. Eugene Levy, Catherine o' Hara, Parker Posey.
Grace O'Malley
I've got these names. These names.
Andrew Santino
Fred Willard. Yeah. All these guys are, like, a part of it. That's, like, a part of his world of, like, pure, amazing improv films. Best in show. One of the best. It's like. It's about a dog show.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I know.
Andrew Santino
That's him.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Andrew Santino
Christopher Guest casted this show called Family Tree or some, and he's brilliant. And he then he, like, made me audition, but it was all improv. And then he sent. Or. I don't know how it happened, but Catherine o' Hara. You know who that is, right? Yep. He sent her to come see me at the Improv, but didn't tell me.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Andrew Santino
Or then I heard rumors that people were coming, and I was like, oh. And then I went up, had a really good set, and I went to the sound guy, and he was like, oh, dude. Fucking Catherine o' Hara sat in the comics booth and just watching was like, dying laughing. And I was like, what the fuck? Where'd she Go. And he goes, the moment she was outside, the moment you got called on, she came in the room and watched. And the moment you were done, she picked up her purse and thanked us and then walked out. I was like, that's so sick. Sick.
Grace O'Malley
That is so.
Andrew Santino
So she came just to watch me.
Grace O'Malley
It was kind of so cool.
Andrew Santino
I know. It kind of made me feel. Made me feel special. And then nervous. Then on the drive home, I was like, what did I say? Did I say anything that was annoying?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Is she gonna think I'm a loser? But I had a good set, so it. It felt good. But I never. I'm trying to think of if there was somebody famous that I got nervous in front of.
Grace O'Malley
When you telling that story, I thought she. I thought she picked up her stuff and left because she was, like, offended or something.
Andrew Santino
No, no. He's like, she waited just to see you. She didn't want. She didn't want to watch the show. So he must have told her, go watch. Yeah, yeah, and go see if you like him or something. That might have been a part of his process to be like, see if he sucks.
Grace O'Malley
But she seems. She seems satisfied.
Andrew Santino
She was. I guess she liked it, the song. I was like, dude, she was cracking up. It was wild. And he's like. I was staring at her the whole time. I was like, well, that's weird.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. You shouldn't have been doing that.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, that's probably why she left.
Grace O'Malley
They can be. They can be kind of strange.
Andrew Santino
It's a lot of them.
Grace O'Malley
The guys that laugh you up, they're. They're a little different.
Andrew Santino
They say some things, but also, you got to be friends with them because they've got.
Grace O'Malley
They can hear you.
Andrew Santino
I know they can hear you. Scratch your chest.
Grace O'Malley
Chest.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. I always befriend the sound guy. I'm always like, you're. You're. You're not up when we're not up, right? Meaning, like, if cameras aren't up, sound is off. And they're always like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm always like, no, they love it. Let me see. Yeah, prove it to me, dude.
Grace O'Malley
Like, I don't. I don't trust you for a second.
Andrew Santino
I just said the nword nine times back there. Do you have that?
Grace O'Malley
Did you catch that? Yeah, I was with you.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, we're just joking, dude. I knew you could hear me. That's why.
Grace O'Malley
That's why I said it.
Andrew Santino
Hey, I befriend the sound guys, dude. They're like the first people that you're like, they're listening. And if they don't, like you do. They wouldn't. But how easily if they were like, so easy. I'll just hand this card off to somebody.
Grace O'Malley
I mean, I put a lot of trust into people. I know I'll be talking a lot of like, yeah, this is off camera, though, right?
Andrew Santino
They're like, yeah, we're not going to use this. I hate when the people say, we won't use this. You're like, oh, no.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, but I think it's gonna end up somewhere.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, yeah, it's gonna end up somewhere sad, scary.
Grace O'Malley
I got a little game here. I asked Chat GBT because, you know, that's how all podcasts are made now to curate a list of redheaded stereotypes. And I want. I want you to give a rapid fire, one worded response to each. Fiery temper. Me, mischievous or bratty. You, soulless. Us, witches or cursed.
Andrew Santino
Witches or cursed.
Grace O'Malley
That's what. That's what Chad's saying. Whitney, evil or untrustworthy?
Andrew Santino
ChatGPT's got Elon Musk. That's two words.
Grace O'Malley
I can't believe this is number six for redheads, but we've got pale and freckles.
Andrew Santino
Me. I mean, these are all me ages poorly. That's really sad.
Grace O'Malley
I don't think that's even true.
Andrew Santino
No, we do age pretty, but redheads have a tough. Our skin is. Well, I mean, not you. You're not us, dude. You're only a half breed. All right, well, you don't look like.
Grace O'Malley
I mean, full inbred. I've done 23andMe.
Andrew Santino
Oh, seriously? Mama's dad and dad is their sister.
Grace O'Malley
It's just like more like they're from the same counties.
Andrew Santino
Oh.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. It's kind of gross.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. But you guys don't look like you're in bread. You're good. You're both fine.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, we're gonna be all right, I think.
Andrew Santino
No, no, you will.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
You know right away, dude, when you see an inbred, you're like, damn, dude.
Grace O'Malley
You can tell it's good stuff.
Andrew Santino
You can tell right away, looking at you. Yeah, they rub their teeth, their tongue like they want to eat you. You ever seen that? The world. The wonderful whites of West Virginia lookers.
Grace O'Malley
Or whatever they're called.
Andrew Santino
The wild and wonderful whites of West Virginia. I think that's the name of this. Right?
Grace O'Malley
So that came out. And then my sister, we watched that, and then we shipped her off to West Virginia University.
Andrew Santino
God bless.
Grace O'Malley
I said, good luck.
Andrew Santino
Good luck. Get out there with the Jesco Jesco White and all them people I love.
Grace O'Malley
Used to say that's the one place we could do a. A personal terrorism, a terrorist attack. I think we could drop a bomb.
Andrew Santino
There in West Virginia.
Grace O'Malley
And then Whitney said, it's like years worth of poverty and it's not their fault. It's tough.
Andrew Santino
She's right. Oh, look at that. Yeah, she got.
Grace O'Malley
Say that anymore. Yeah, yeah.
Andrew Santino
She got a big heart.
Grace O'Malley
Burns instantly in the sun.
Andrew Santino
God. Do you put on SPF every. Every day?
Grace O'Malley
Every day. I wear tinted tinted sunscreen as makeup.
Andrew Santino
That's what's cool. Yeah, because when I put on zinc on my nose and people are like, we're in fucking makeup. It's like, well, I'm trying to not die.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
But, yeah, I guess I'm wearing fucking makeup.
Grace O'Malley
I just had. I just had a really bad burn. There were people were like so pissed off in the comments. I'm like, why are you mad? I'm the one here. I don't know what the problem is.
Andrew Santino
I got burnt on my birthday vacation. My wife and I went on like a vacation for my birthday and the first fucking day I got burned like a moron.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
A fucking idiot.
Grace O'Malley
You're not cooler than the sun.
Andrew Santino
No, but you know what's so funny is like, I put on sunscreen. We were outside, then we drank champagne to like celebrate and I was. I got fucked up. And then I'm just. Cause we were drinking.
Grace O'Malley
It's the first night you fucked up. You ruin the second night and you get sunburned. It's all in the same.
Andrew Santino
And then having sex hurts so much with sunburn. When you're hooking up and you're like, oh, ooh, my leg. Ooh, ooh. Yeah. It was so annoying. And like, even rubbing against the sheets, like, hurt. I was like, the sheets are uncomfortable. I turn into Mort from fucking Family Guy. The sheets are uncomfortable.
Grace O'Malley
I think a blowjob would be fine.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Just tug me and then. Oh, the last one. I like this undesirable.
Andrew Santino
I don't think. You know, I'm not going to take on the heat of undesirable. But. But redheads are. I will say this many redheads are unfortunate looking. Yeah, yeah. Many. I would say. I would say. I would say the high majority of redheaded men and women are not the best lookers.
Grace O'Malley
It's unfortunate.
Andrew Santino
It's just a fact of genetics. We just don't. We don't have any fucking melanin. So our skin looks see through and weird. We look transparent.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
It just looks strange. No. No one wants to see the blue in your actual veins.
Grace O'Malley
No. Especially on boobs. It's brutal. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
On your tits. Yeah. But your nipples are what color?
Grace O'Malley
Can't see them.
Andrew Santino
They don't. It's like rice paper.
Grace O'Malley
You can see the. The blood cells moving around.
Andrew Santino
You see your blood flow.
Grace O'Malley
It's like rice paper. Correct.
Andrew Santino
It's kind of nice, though. No, See, there's something cool about that. Yeah. You know, someone has a flavor for everybody.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure of it. I do it to myself. Okay. Oh, you were on. You were on Adam's YouTube sketches.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
And you played Duncan Rocks, where you kind of resemble an autistic guy who'd be prone. You'd be prone for a run in with Chris Hansen, I think.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. He lived in his stepdad's basement. That was a character I made up in response to vlogging. That was when, like, vlogging was hot and I thought it was fascinating that people would sit in their room and just talk to cameras. And we do it.
Grace O'Malley
Look where we are now. Yeah. It's insane.
Andrew Santino
But it was like, that was a long time ago. And I started doing that character because I thought it was cool that someone would just talk to a camera in the privacy. Their own little. It was like their own little private Idaho.
Grace O'Malley
So it's like a diary.
Andrew Santino
It is.
Grace O'Malley
It was close. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
It was kind of an interesting time in YouTube where you were like, oh, yeah. These people are just kind of like vomiting out their reality.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
And now it's literally what everybody does.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Back then it was groundbreaking, though. People were doing it and it was fascinating.
Grace O'Malley
It wild.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Do you. Do you enjoy doing sketch comedy?
Andrew Santino
I like it. I'm not. I'm not. I would never even call myself a sketch comic or whatever because I think real sketch comics would be like, no, I'm a stand up, but I don't.
Grace O'Malley
Did a skit the other day. They lost their mind.
Andrew Santino
Skits key. I can't do that.
Grace O'Malley
You can't. It's.
Andrew Santino
I like it. When I get off stage, someone's like, I love your skit. Like, well, that hurts.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, that's tough.
Andrew Santino
No, but I. I'm a true stand up, but I like dabbling in those worlds. I would kill to do more. I would love to do more sketch, but it's not my lane. So I kind of like, I watch. I. I watch a lot of it online.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Like, you know who I really like is. I don't know her last name. Veronica is cool.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, she rocks.
Andrew Santino
She's so funny, man.
Grace O'Malley
Her.
Andrew Santino
The other day, and she's so talented. I think she and her. And her. And. And her boyfriend. Who. I don't know if it's her boyfriend, but.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I don't. I don't know.
Andrew Santino
I think so.
Grace O'Malley
She's doing tires.
Andrew Santino
Oh, is she?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Good for her.
Grace O'Malley
She. I auditioned for the role. She got.
Andrew Santino
Really? Then her.
Grace O'Malley
No, I'm pumped for it. I. I'm. That's my thing.
Andrew Santino
I. You and her, very different people.
Grace O'Malley
It was. Between.
Andrew Santino
You guys were the same role. What was the character.
Grace O'Malley
And then she auditions. And also Sarah from Sherman. Sherman.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
SNL audition.
Andrew Santino
Love her.
Grace O'Malley
I couldn't think of three more different people.
Andrew Santino
That's. That's actually a good thing.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
That does mean they're trying to find out. They want you to, like, embody the character and they'll. They want it to just be like a aha moment.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. And I didn't have the ha.
Andrew Santino
But it's better than when you go up against somebody and they're a lot like you, and so then, you know, it's down to, like, who put in more work or, you know, in terms of like. Or who kissed the right ass.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Talent is similar, but if you look nothing alike, you're like, this is great. They're just trying to figure out what's gonna work.
Grace O'Malley
Totally.
Andrew Santino
Like, when I beat a few people out with roles in it, I beat one guy twice.
Grace O'Malley
How do you know? Just from shooting the. Or.
Andrew Santino
No, you'll see each other in the audition, in the test room. You know, I beat a guy. This isn't even funny, but I beat him once. And then for the next thing I knew, they were giving it to me. They told me to my face, like, we'll give it to you. This is just. We have to go. This is like, oh, okay. And I went out in the. In the hallway, and he was there too. And the look on his face was like, not again.
Grace O'Malley
You're. You're like the evil guy in his story, dude.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Do you know him personally?
Andrew Santino
No, no, no. He's. But he's a talented actor. He's a New York actor. But I mean, like, we don't know each other, but. Yeah, but I know I beat him twice.
Grace O'Malley
Like, you. He. You coming around.
Andrew Santino
He's like, I'm sure he hates me, dude. I'm sure he's like, that guy can kiss my ass. I beat him twice. But it is weird when you see people. No, but we've all been Beaten. I've been beaten a thousand times.
Grace O'Malley
I'm new to all this. I don't. I don't know what.
Andrew Santino
When you see your competition, it's in. It's weird. We used to have to wait in rooms and just sit there and stare at your sho shoes and not say anything because you're like, if the tension's weird. But now no one auditions in, I mean not rooms. Now people are putting in tapes and zooms.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, that's what it seems like it is.
Andrew Santino
This used to be the. Right down the street. Used to be one of the biggest auditioning a casting director used to be right there. It was like one of the. If you got in there, it was like, that's the one.
Grace O'Malley
You got it.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, well, because she did. She put me on the Office Arrested Development curb. Like she casted everything. Oh no, it's not like a secret. Alison Jones, Allison Jones is her name. She was. She used to be right there.
Grace O'Malley
There.
Andrew Santino
And I remember like driving past that thinking like, man, I would love to get in that room. And then when I got my first audition, I was so nervous.
Grace O'Malley
So once you're in, you're in kind of thing.
Andrew Santino
If you do a good read, then they'll bring you back for other reads.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Andrew Santino
If you're good, they'll be like, yeah, that was good. Yeah, you're not going to get this role, but we'll see you for something else.
Grace O'Malley
And that's not, that's not the same anymore.
Andrew Santino
I mean, for me it's not because I. There's not a lot. I don't get put up for a lot of stuff now. It's almost like, like pretty specific if they want me or not.
Grace O'Malley
For Dave, did they ask you to do that or did you audition?
Andrew Santino
The.
Grace O'Malley
That just seemed like it was.
Andrew Santino
The casting director brought me in and him and I had met like once before, but the casting director brought me in to. She was like, you gotta, you gotta do this for me.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Like you gotta come in and. And do this play with. With him because it'll be, it'll work. And the moment I started reading it with him, I was like, oh yeah, this is fucking. It was kind of a no brainer.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Yeah, that's good.
Andrew Santino
We knew, we. We bounced off each other very well. And that was. Yeah, that was because that cast director was fantastic too. She was. She had keen eye for stuff anyway. But no, I don't go in anymore. Now it's like they want you just do a tape from your fucking kitchen.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
And it's the weirdest shit. They're like, don't come in. Just tape.
Grace O'Malley
You have your. Your wife run lines with you.
Andrew Santino
She. She would leave me before she would do that. Like, if I even asked her, if I was like, would you do these lines? She'd be like, you can get four. You can go outside and go yourself. No, I have to just either get a buddy to do it.
Grace O'Malley
It's a thankless job.
Andrew Santino
It's a thankless job.
Grace O'Malley
It's like, it's. You get nothing out of it. It's like, my sister's been doing it with me. It's pretty brutal.
Andrew Santino
It sucks, right? It's so annoying. Especially if she gives you notes. She's like, can you read it like this? And you're like, you know what, dude? I don't want to do this anyway.
Grace O'Malley
She. She can memorize the lines better than I can.
Andrew Santino
You should audition. Watch. She starts getting. Yeah, dude, be so funny if she's landing more roles than you are.
Grace O'Malley
She's. She's. I'm that guy, and she's. You. She's just gonna start getting all the roles.
Andrew Santino
You're just gonna get all the roles. She's like, dude, I'm in this new Scorsese movie. I guess. I don't know. Whatever.
Grace O'Malley
I don't know. I follow. I follow. His daughter on TikTok. She hooked it up.
Andrew Santino
She hooked it up.
Grace O'Malley
Dude.
Andrew Santino
We're homies, me and Marty.
Grace O'Malley
So you've got a new show.
Andrew Santino
New show.
Grace O'Malley
No Bad Lies.
Andrew Santino
No Bad Lies. Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Where you interview professional golfers, athletes, entertainers, and influencers. In this segment, I'm gonna quiz you, and I'm gonna ask you if you know these golf terms.
Andrew Santino
Oh, okay. That's easy.
Grace O'Malley
And what you doing? All right. Fade.
Andrew Santino
A fade is when you hit a ball. Well, it depends on if you're a righty or lefty, but if I'm. I'm a righty, a fade goes off up to the right. That's like a push or a fade. You don't even know that. Even say that on there?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, it's like a hook.
Andrew Santino
A hook, if I'm a righty, means it goes left. It. It. It turns left.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, that's exactly what it says. Uppercut.
Andrew Santino
That's a boxing term.
Grace O'Malley
Very good. Lie.
Andrew Santino
Lie. Lie means where the ball ends up. Like what. What position the ball is in. So that's where the show's no bad lies. Because we. I give them terrible lies to hit out of, like in mud or behind a rock or.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, that's a Good concept. I like that.
Andrew Santino
And then all the meanwhile they tell me a time where life gave them a bad lie. Meaning like when were they dealt kind of a shitty hand? And oh, how they get out of it.
Grace O'Malley
A little poetic.
Andrew Santino
I'm crossing philosophy in life. Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Damn, I thought I was gonna stump you. It's literally your whole concept. Scrum, scrummy.
Andrew Santino
Scrummy is what a pirate says when they go down on somebody in the.
Grace O'Malley
Name of our imaginary cat. Scramble.
Andrew Santino
A scramble is when you're playing with a group of guys. A scramble is you hit. You hit the best ball every single time.
Grace O'Malley
It's like word for word, like you studied handicap.
Andrew Santino
It's what your sister says about you when people say, what's her deal? They say handicap. A handicap is your. That is your stroke index of your average of average scores. Right? So they take all your average of scores and then your handicap is how many over par you shoot or under par.
Grace O'Malley
You're right for both. She used to, she went to school for. To help special needs kids.
Andrew Santino
Did you really? I'm gonna, I'm gonna announce it now. I don't have a date yet, but in this fall I'm doing a big thing for Special Olympics. I'm doing like a home run derby. Celebrity Home run derby in the Valley. So come support it. I'll post about it more, but I'm working with Special Olympics Olympics to do like a, you know, it was going to be in the summer, it was going to be a summertime smash, but it's going to be in the fall. You have, if you're out here, you should come.
Grace O'Malley
I would love to.
Andrew Santino
And it's. You're going to be able to hit home runs off of like celebrities and you give cash and there's prizes and there's going to be guest games and. And it's all going to Special Olympics.
Grace O'Malley
Oh no.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, I think.
Grace O'Malley
Is that like, why is that a special Special.
Andrew Santino
Why is it special?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, why? Why Special Olympics?
Andrew Santino
Why did I do special?
Grace O'Malley
Why Special Olympics for you? You.
Andrew Santino
Oh, my buddy, a buddy of mine works for Special Olympics putting on their new, like their new marketing and promotional team. And he was like, we want to think of something different. And he goes, what if we did? Cuz him and I met playing in a softball league together. He said, what if we did like a home run derby?
Grace O'Malley
Oh, that's fun.
Andrew Santino
And I was like, yeah, dude, that's so smart. I was like, I'll get. I'll make celebrity friends of mine. Be like, you have to come do this.
Grace O'Malley
Hell, yeah.
Andrew Santino
And pitch to people and let local people in LA come hit off of you. And I'm going to try to get some athletes and stuff to come out. And I don't know. I've always. We've Maone who's on our show. His parents both work for Special Olympics.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Andrew Santino
And so. And when Bobby and I did Family Feud, our. Our prize money was going to Special Olympics. I don't know. I just like it. I think it's rad.
Grace O'Malley
I thought you guys were great on that, by the way.
Andrew Santino
We had so much fun. We got Flavor Flav. They cheated.
Grace O'Malley
Dude, you say Flavor Flav's name three times, he just shows up. Have you ever noticed that?
Andrew Santino
Flavor. Flavor Flav, Flavor Flip Life. He comes down. What time is it?
Grace O'Malley
I interviewed him on. On my other podcast, and I was just like, what?
Andrew Santino
He's the best.
Grace O'Malley
He rocks.
Andrew Santino
He's unbelievable. He's 146 years old.
Grace O'Malley
He brought his 13 sons.
Andrew Santino
They brought him all the Family Feud. Two of them met for the first time behind backstage.
Grace O'Malley
You got to be me.
Andrew Santino
I swear to God.
Grace O'Malley
That's so wild.
Andrew Santino
He's like, my kids don't even know each other. They never met. And I was like, you guys are siblings and you don't know each other. He's like, yeah. With their half the Family Feud. Yeah. It was insane, dude. They had met for the first time in the trailer backstage.
Grace O'Malley
Holy.
Andrew Santino
And I'm eating breakfast burritos. I'm like, this is gonna be wild for you guys. So stupid.
Grace O'Malley
Really famous people together.
Andrew Santino
Flav is the man.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. He seems like he rocks.
Andrew Santino
He was so cool. When I. My first day job, I was working in the music industry doing, like, passports and visas and stuff for bands. And we had done Public Enemy, and Flav showed up to the office to sign his visa, you know, his, like, entry for Japan. And then he was like, yo, Drew, how do I get down to the car park? And I was like, it's just right down the elevator that you came up. It's one elevator. And he's like, show me. So I took him. I hand walked him. I, like, held. I was like, come on this way.
Grace O'Malley
You were walking your grandmother down the aisle.
Andrew Santino
I did. I did. My little bride. And I took him down to the car park and then the valet. It was an IHOP next to our building. The valet was working the IHOP. And he came running over and he's like, Mr. Flave, your car. Your car is ready. And Flavor had, at the time, a stretch Escalade. They're already big. And he's a small guy. And I even said to him, do you want help getting in there? He's like, ah, you crazy. And then give him a little boost. This is very Flavor Flav. He takes a. He takes a lot of money. I mean, it was like this dude. It was a knot out of his pocket. And the valet's standing there in the valet's, like, he's like, to have a good day. And he's like, no, no, come here. Come here, man. Come here. And the valet's like, oh, okay. And he's just standing there kind of uncomfortably, and I'm standing there, waiting to say goodbye by. And he's thumbing through money. And I mean, like, it's like, thousands of dollars. And then he gets to, like, inside a chunk of hundreds, and there's, like, a $1 bill, and he takes it out, and he hands it to the valet. And the valet goes, thank you. Thank you very much. He goes, I'm just playing. And then he breaks him off a couple hundred bucks. Yeah, dude. He was just with me.
Grace O'Malley
No, he's the man.
Andrew Santino
And I looked at him. I was like, that's very funny. If you. I will also. I would also so need money.
Grace O'Malley
You wouldn't have been here without.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, did I get the money, man?
Grace O'Malley
Show me the money.
Andrew Santino
I needed it bad. He was the best.
Grace O'Malley
My mom worked at a bar in Belf. Devo. You know that guy?
Andrew Santino
Yeah, Bell B. Devo.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, yeah. He doesn't tip.
Andrew Santino
Really?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, really. Screwed my mother a bunch of times.
Andrew Santino
You. Dude, there's three guys in Belliv. Devo. But which one was it, Bell or Biv or Devo?
Grace O'Malley
Mr. Bivins.
Andrew Santino
Oh, yeah, Mr. Bivins.
Grace O'Malley
Sorry, I thought that was his name.
Andrew Santino
Did not.
Grace O'Malley
Did not tip. Fucking local guy.
Andrew Santino
I take pride. I tip pretty well. But I will say, a girl called me out one time in Seattle, and it made me so fucking mad. Her friend called me out on Twitter or Instagram and was like, apparently, Andrew Santino thinks you don't need to tip at a coffee shop. And I was like, first of all, I tipped the dollar on the coffee. Then I came back and I bought a water, and I didn't tip on the water.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, my gosh.
Andrew Santino
I just bought the water. Water.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
And then she called me out and was like, oh, celebrities don't tip as well as everybody says, like, what do you want from me, dude?
Grace O'Malley
You tipped on the. Like, it would have been part of the whole thing.
Andrew Santino
I gave the dollar on the. It Was a hot cup of poured strip. It's a dollar. The coffee was 250. What?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, that's, that's more than 50.
Andrew Santino
What do you want me to do?
Grace O'Malley
I don't know what the.
Andrew Santino
That's the problem. I say that to my wife all the time. Once when someone, we go out and somebody knows me, me, you know, if we're out at a restaurant, the guy's like, the server's like, big fan. And I'm like, now here we go. I have to over tip.
Grace O'Malley
I'm gonna tip exactly what the order.
Andrew Santino
Now I have to over tip because if they know you, if they don't know you, it's great. Then I can just tip regular 20 some odd percent of whatever I usually do. If they know you.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, yeah.
Andrew Santino
Now I have to over.
Grace O'Malley
Now I'm, I'm going a little bit crazy with it now.
Andrew Santino
I feel like a fool. I do that all the time. And she's always like, you don't have to. I'm like, yeah, you do.
Grace O'Malley
I, I over tip. Just, just, just anyways, cuz working in those things, like, I was like, it would be so sick one day to be able to over tip somebody.
Andrew Santino
I like over tipping. I've never under tipped that, that I, that I've never done. But I will do appropriate tips. But if you're the. I sometimes do give people a lot more than I should.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I, I'll go the extra mile if someone gives me something for free. Oh, yeah, I'll charge me a penny so I can tip you. I don't have cash, that kind of thing.
Andrew Santino
We got to get you cash.
Grace O'Malley
Cash. Yeah, I gotta get a flavor Flav cash.
Andrew Santino
Come on, baby.
Grace O'Malley
I gotta empty out that atm.
Andrew Santino
Baby, get that money. Your sister's got all the money. I can tell. I know where the bank is.
Grace O'Malley
She handles everything.
Andrew Santino
You know where the bank is, baby.
Grace O'Malley
What else do I got here? Oh, who's on your Mount Rushmore? Of people from Chicago. Ooh.
Andrew Santino
Jordan is not from Chicago, but we own him a little bit as far as our heart goes, right? He's not, he's from North Carolina, but Chicago born and raised. Who's on my Mount Rushmore? Chicago born and raised. I loved Vince Vaughn my whole life and, like, knowing that he was Chicago. Yeah, I like, loved him as a kid, especially because, like, I was like, Chicago guy.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
This is interesting. I don't know if he's on my Mount Rushmore, but like, Bob Odenkirk, I think, is like one of my favorite comedic actors. We've I've never met him and I would kill to work with him one day. And he's a Chicago guy.
Grace O'Malley
Would you ever like call him up to go on your part? Blood?
Andrew Santino
I, I would ask someone by way of, but I'm afraid like, he, he's just like a really intelligent, funny guy and I am intimidated by him.
Grace O'Malley
So, yeah, I was. I mean, I personally, if we're being honest about these things, I was, I was very nervous coming here. I don't know, I'm just a huge fan.
Andrew Santino
No, I love you so much.
Grace O'Malley
I was like, I don't know.
Andrew Santino
I would never make you feel stupid or bad or like, like. And I don't think anybody that I would ask would, but sometimes I get in my head that I think like a guy like Oda Kirk would be like, like, you're a podcast guy. Yeah, I'm an Emmy award winning actor. You. I don't know. He probably wouldn't be that way.
Grace O'Malley
And here I am thinking, oh, I'm just, I'm. I'm tick tock girl. Wanted to do standup girl thinking, you're.
Andrew Santino
Once you're a comic, you're all the same. But also like odenkirk's not a stand up. They're sketch guy, sketch and improv guys. And so that's a class thing too. They're better than us.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Andrew Santino
I mean, I don't think standups ever think they're better than sketch or improv, but I do think sketch and improv people think they're better than us. I'm not saying him, I'm saying saying communally. There's a thing that. They mock him. They mock stand ups.
Grace O'Malley
I don't know why everyone can't just get along. Because I've heard standups mock improv.
Andrew Santino
No, I like, I think it's great.
Grace O'Malley
I think it's sick. It's like a, it's a whole different thing. I, I'd love to tap into.
Andrew Santino
Look, there's hacky about both of them.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, that's true.
Andrew Santino
Stand up is just as hacky as improv is just as hacky as sketch. We're all hacks. At the end of the day, we're just trying to make people feel something because we don't have a good grip on our own feelings.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I get that.
Andrew Santino
It's because your dad got electrocuted.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Just because your dad is my dad. Just Chicago.
Andrew Santino
Well, we're, we're siblings.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. It's when, when it gets down to it, I, I have a segment Here. Where I just kind of ask you to explain. It's called disgraceful receipts.
Andrew Santino
Okay.
Grace O'Malley
Things I found on the Internet of you, and I just like a little bit of an explanation, if that's all right.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, you got it.
Grace O'Malley
All right, here we go.
Andrew Santino
This is. This is actually. This is for. This was the promo for the Special Olympics. Olympics. No, no, that was. I don't know. You know what's so funny is that was a. I think that was a photo shoot. I might be wrong, but a guy named Mino, Mino Palo and his daughter, we were at his studio at his house, and his daughter was, like, running around the room, and there was like a. It was like a tutu. It's like a. You know, whatever.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
And he was like, you should put that on. And I was like, it's so small. And he's like, put it on your neck. And I loved it. I don't know why I put it on my neck and I look like.
Grace O'Malley
You go to the Met gal.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, well, yeah, this one's tough. Now, that's Photoshop. That's not me. No, that's me. That's. I used to hang out at the Abbey a lot back then. I was a West Hollywood bad boy.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
I was a leather daddy.
Grace O'Malley
Is this so, like, you. Were you pumped about this?
Andrew Santino
No, this is a. This was me trying to be funny.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Andrew Santino
This is me thinking it was funny to put that on.
Grace O'Malley
I think it's funny. I just. You seem like a little like. Like. Like it fits too much. Like you're really, like, trying to.
Andrew Santino
Who I really want to be. It's my alter ego.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. What is name?
Andrew Santino
That's Bruce.
Grace O'Malley
Bruce, of course.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. Yeah. What is that?
Grace O'Malley
This is.
Andrew Santino
Oh, me holding a big. I'm taking a. In the air on at midnight. Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
And Chris is loving that.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, for sure. Absolutely. Absolutely. This is.
Grace O'Malley
This working at the passport.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. This. Yeah. This at the music industry. That was the day with Flava Flav. This is me wearing. This is me in a movie I got cut out of called the Room with James Franco and Seth Rogen's movie. It was about the worst movie of all time. Tommy Wiseau's do you know this? You know this movie?
Grace O'Malley
Mm.
Andrew Santino
And I got cut out of that movie. They cut me out. I shaved, and I wore a wig for to be cut out.
Grace O'Malley
Damn.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, it was really sad.
Grace O'Malley
There weren't that many people in that movie, so I got.
Andrew Santino
No, there were a lot more than you think. Really? I didn't make the cut. I was on the floor. By the way, you know what's all fucked up? I didn't make the cut. And I went to the premiere. Premiere. Do you know how much that hurts my feelings?
Grace O'Malley
Did you know that you got cut?
Andrew Santino
No, they don't. They don't. Yeah, I found out at the premiere.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, at the premiere?
Andrew Santino
Well, they. They maybe had me in a scene, but I don't talk. You don't see any of my stuff. And it hurt to a degree.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, stuff.
Andrew Santino
And I said to my wife, we were leaving, and it was up at the Egyptian Theater on how. In Hollywood. And at the time, we were living in West Hollywood. And she said, do you want to go to the after party? And I said, I want to jump off the roof of the Egyptian Theater. I don't. The after party? No. I'm gonna kill myself.
Grace O'Malley
What am I. Yeah, I'm gonna go.
Andrew Santino
Suck on Hollywood Boulevard. So we walked for a little while. Cause I was like, I'd like to walk. My anxiety was through the roof.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, shit.
Andrew Santino
I was so embarrassed that I got cut out, that I didn't want to be seen. So we walked home. But she's a dog. She's a homie. She walked with me. She was like, it's okay, because the drive. They give you a driver. And I was like, send him home.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, we're walking.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, we walked like, three miles. I was like, I need to walk it off, dude. Because I was. It fucked me up for a long time. I was bummed. I was like, oh, I didn't get anything in that. It's not even a big deal. But I just. It's like a. It hits.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, no, it hits.
Andrew Santino
It hits. It hits. It hits a type of way.
Grace O'Malley
It's nothing against you. I feel like.
Andrew Santino
No, no, no, no. I just. I must not. There was nothing they could have used. It probably wasn't good enough.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, this is definitely good enough.
Andrew Santino
It's giving suicide the caption.
Grace O'Malley
Well, you might want to kill yourself after seeing this one. And then the caption's pretty. Pretty bad, too.
Andrew Santino
Pure sex, you know, it's interesting. Did Justin post that?
Grace O'Malley
I don't think he would.
Andrew Santino
200 likes.
Grace O'Malley
Banger.
Andrew Santino
Banger. What does it say? 2000. What? 12?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I was 13.
Andrew Santino
Hot shit, dude. My little tiny penis. This is immmykimmel. Look at how young Justin is.
Grace O'Malley
That looks like someone's house.
Andrew Santino
No, that's backstage at Kimmel.
Grace O'Malley
Really?
Andrew Santino
Yeah. Yeah, that's in one of the rooms at Kimmel. Because here's why I wore that Speedo on Kimmel. We did a promo for Punk'd with him, and I was supposed to jump on the desk and bark like a dog on Jimmy Kimmel's desk.
Grace O'Malley
What happened?
Andrew Santino
I did. I did it. I ran out and did it.
Grace O'Malley
You get cut?
Andrew Santino
No, no, it's on there. And Guillermo had a Taser. And that part of the bit was that they were gonna, like, have him chase me up, but he really tased me. And it hurt. Oh, yeah, it hurt like crazy. But that was tased beforehand. No, dude, that's.
Grace O'Malley
That's tough on live cameras.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, it sucked.
Grace O'Malley
Have you done the dog collar thing?
Andrew Santino
No. I refuse.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I don't think it's funny.
Andrew Santino
I feel like I'm gonna have a stroke and die, and that's how I die. I don't want that to be the way I go.
Grace O'Malley
It would be. Well, we're prone to electricity, but, yeah.
Andrew Santino
It'S in your blood.
Grace O'Malley
I'm a Boston cream pie. You just posted this.
Andrew Santino
I did.
Grace O'Malley
Is this your signature? Is this what you write?
Andrew Santino
That's what I wrote in Boston.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
I'm a Boston cream pie.
Grace O'Malley
I think I saw this.
Andrew Santino
It was this at the Wilbur. Yeah. Yeah. Well, because they were like, what do you write on the wall? And I was like, I don't know. Fucking something. And then I think my. The guy Zach, who opens for me, we were joking around, and he said. He made a derogatory comment to me, and I said, I'm a little Boston cream pie.
Grace O'Malley
And then you guys have fun together on the road. He seems like a good duo.
Andrew Santino
He's the most goofball fun. The only thing I care about if an opener is, are you easygoing?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Like, are you a fun hang? And do you work hard on your own? Like, are you. Are you working hard on your stuff? And are you a good hang? And he's both. He's super funny, and he's a really dope hang, and that's all I care about. Don't complain. I don't want someone to be complaining. That's all I want is no one that's like, I don't like that. This is. It's like, dude, shut the up.
Grace O'Malley
What are we doing here?
Andrew Santino
People do. I know people complain a lot.
Grace O'Malley
I'm very, very new, and I've had. I've even had openers do the same thing. And I'm like, just. What are we doing? What. Can we just be pumped to be here?
Andrew Santino
Yeah, you should be pumped. This is a free ride, man.
Grace O'Malley
I don't understand it.
Andrew Santino
Okay, What's This.
Grace O'Malley
It looks like. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
What is that? Let me see you showing a little leg. This is on promoting at the Laugh Factory in Las Vegas when I played there with Sandro and Jeremiah. Unbelievably stoned, actually. You can kind of see it in my eyes. That's why I'm wearing a hat so low. But I was ripped off my head.
Grace O'Malley
I don't know why they still allow comedians on the news.
Andrew Santino
Well, this is so long ago, too. But, yeah, I. I don't think they should. It's embarrassing. We should not be on that.
Grace O'Malley
It's great. I did my first, like, little news zoom thing.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
And I. I had a bad hair day, so I tossed a hat on, and the hat said number one. The. The gloves.
Andrew Santino
Oh, the Glizzy Goblin.
Grace O'Malley
The Glizzy Gobbler. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Andrew Santino
You loved Glizzies.
Grace O'Malley
Well, it just was, you know, I thought it was a funny hat.
Andrew Santino
Do you love me?
Grace O'Malley
I love Glizzies. You know, don't make me do it.
Andrew Santino
I'll suck down six or seven Dodger Dogs. Don't get me started.
Grace O'Malley
I'm actually not even sure you're gonna have to explain on this one.
Andrew Santino
That's Adam, Ray, and I shooting a sketch about. That was our submission for the Olympics. Bobby Lee plays Hoota Tootie, our coach. That was, like, one of.
Grace O'Malley
The.
Andrew Santino
One of the first sketches we all did together.
Grace O'Malley
Did you guys have fun making those?
Andrew Santino
Oh, my God. Dude. That was back when everything was a favor. So we had to beg people for cameras and beg people, like, help edit and stuff. Those were really fun days. Now you shoot something and everybody. It's a little bit. It's just different back then. We was like. We were all on the same plane of, like, just trying to get it done.
Grace O'Malley
It's the. It's that favorite thing. It's like, yeah, you do this for me, and then I got you down the line. Yeah. People still doing that? I will say.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Certain. Yeah, they do.
Grace O'Malley
You know, this is.
Andrew Santino
That's your dad?
Grace O'Malley
No, no, my dad's much way more.
Andrew Santino
That's. Who's that? Like, the head of the unions in Boston or something? Who the. Who is?
Grace O'Malley
I thought maybe it was your principal.
Andrew Santino
Let me see. My principal?
Grace O'Malley
Yep. Your principal.
Andrew Santino
Well, I'm 41. I don't remember what they. Well, what's this guy's name?
Grace O'Malley
I can't recall. I thought maybe we would have got you on.
Andrew Santino
Honestly, I'm being very honest with you. This is, like, a scary thing to admit.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
I don't remember any of my teachers names. Oh, I don't remember anything. I had. Something bad happened to me.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
I don't know it.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, boy.
Andrew Santino
But it must have.
Grace O'Malley
It's nice. It's nice. That's kind of like a cool, cool thing that your body does.
Andrew Santino
My memory is so bad with school when people are like, oh, Mrs. Schoenfield from fourth grade. And I'm like, nope. I remember Mr. Miller because he. I had to stay in from. For lunch every day. He wouldn't let me go out. Yeah, you got one, Miller?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
I remember Mrs. Rose who asked my mom if I was on medication. And she stood up for me. She's like, your son needs medication. And my mom was like, my son doesn't need anything. You need to mind your own business.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
And I was like, yeah, Mommy, take that road, you pig. She's dead. She's 100.
Grace O'Malley
All the best ones.
Andrew Santino
She was 70 back then. And then. The only one. The only other one I remember is Mr. I see his face. He was like my. He was like our econ teacher. But he'd show up drunk.
Grace O'Malley
That's classic.
Andrew Santino
He was so dope.
Grace O'Malley
You gotta have one.
Andrew Santino
He was like on his way out. He had tenure. And he would show up, just up, and he would have booze in his coffee. And it wasn't even like a bit. It wasn't that. It was like a. Not like a high school rumor. Like. But there's booze in his coffee. You legitimately looked at it. You're like, that's not coffee. Yeah, that's literally not coffee. It's just not coffee. Coffee is not that consistency. It never has been. He would get fudgeing drunk. Yeah. So I don't. But teachers and all that stuff. Like, dude, it's wild. I have.
Grace O'Malley
You didn't have, like, a teacher that was like. Like, oh, that teacher changed my life. Because I didn't.
Andrew Santino
I know I didn't really have one that did the thing. No, I think I had, like. I had cool teachers in college, Professors that I thought were fucking rad. That, like, let me be free. And where'd you go? Arizona State.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, that's right.
Andrew Santino
Harvard of the West.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. That is. Is. Isn't it hard to get into.
Andrew Santino
It's. It's so hard that I almost didn't get in the first time. Seriously, I almost didn't get in.
Grace O'Malley
Well, I graduated high school with a 1.59.
Andrew Santino
My girl. Dude, I knew I loved you. Yeah, dude, I think I was a 262 6.
Grace O'Malley
That's enough to get you to ASU.
Andrew Santino
Barely, dude.
Grace O'Malley
I was looking it up all the time. I'm like, dude, that looks like a fun party school. And I think I could get in.
Andrew Santino
Where'd you go?
Grace O'Malley
Community college.
Andrew Santino
Cc.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, baby.
Andrew Santino
Where's the community college? In Mass.
Grace O'Malley
In Massachusetts. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
So great.
Grace O'Malley
And then I transferred, and then I dropped out.
Andrew Santino
She went to real school. Hey.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Where'd you go? Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
She was first to graduate.
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
With the whole family.
Andrew Santino
With what, though?
Grace O'Malley
Doesn't matter. She was the first to graduate college.
Andrew Santino
And what is she doing now?
Grace O'Malley
Working for assistant.
Andrew Santino
Working for big sis, baby. Don't ever forget that. Where your British buttered? Yeah, no, I. I went to Arizona State. I'm one of, like, my only friends that actually graduated on time.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, really?
Andrew Santino
Yeah. The other guys took about seven or eight years.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I mean, out of my crew, three dropped out. So one was delayed, and then another one was delayed five years.
Andrew Santino
Wow.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Like with the pandemic, I think.
Andrew Santino
Oh, panty, you're right. Yeah. You guys went ahead to go through that.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, that's why I dropped out. But, yeah, whatever.
Andrew Santino
It is what it is, dude. You have such a bright, fun career. I can't wait to see what happens. I mean, I'll be dead soon, but really, I'll watch you from the afterlife.
Grace O'Malley
You look better now than you do in those pictures.
Andrew Santino
That's 100% true. That's kind of crazy. Money does a little bit of good for you, but also, I'm gonna retire soon. I'm out.
Grace O'Malley
Really?
Andrew Santino
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
You don't do it for the love of the game.
Andrew Santino
No, man.
Grace O'Malley
You done. Damn, that's. That's tough.
Andrew Santino
I want to move. I'm trying to move.
Grace O'Malley
Are you doing Allison?
Andrew Santino
No, no, no, no.
Grace O'Malley
Okay. All right.
Andrew Santino
I'm going to move.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Okay.
Andrew Santino
I'm going to probably move to Montana.
Grace O'Malley
Montana.
Andrew Santino
Montana.
Grace O'Malley
Nice. French Montana.
Andrew Santino
Yeah, I want to move to French Montana.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Yeah. I'm gonna open up a comedy club there.
Grace O'Malley
That's just Kansas. Canada. Yeah, it is French Montana.
Andrew Santino
That's Texas in the north.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
I'm going to open up a comedy club called the Brothership.
Grace O'Malley
It's just black comics. What's the deal there?
Andrew Santino
Okay. Funk music and soul every night of the week.
Grace O'Malley
Okay. I think Chappelle just did that. It's in Ohio.
Andrew Santino
Okay. Dude, that's Yellow Springs. This is Billings, Montana.
Grace O'Malley
Okay. A little different.
Andrew Santino
Come on down to the Brothership. Preach. That's what it says when you walk in. Preach.
Grace O'Malley
Preach. Speaking of songs, what's your walkout song.
Andrew Santino
It changes a lot. But right now it's OT Genesis. I look good. It's just hype and stupid. And I think like they drop it right when it hits. And the crowd, it's like their noise matches how you're not really even hearing it. Yeah, but you can just feel this, like Spanish guitar.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, that's good.
Andrew Santino
But it changes all the time. But that's what it's. That. That's what it was on my last tour. I shot the special.
Grace O'Malley
That's a classic.
Andrew Santino
That's a. I look real good. You look good today. I love how it's. Honestly, it's truly. It's truly just him. He's just jumping on like a little wave. I'm sure he went in the studio. The. The song itself is a minute, a minute, 17 seconds.
Grace O'Malley
Figured. Yeah.
Andrew Santino
You know, he went in the studio and was like, I look good today. And someone's like, put that on track on I play that.
Grace O'Malley
The brothership Mar.
Andrew Santino
That's right. Come to the brothers ship.
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Grace O'Malley
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Andrew Santino
I think plug and promo. Watch one of my 19 podcasts, Whiskey Ginger if you want me. And interviewing young human humans. This human is going to come on soon. What's that you said?
Grace O'Malley
No, no, I said I'm super pumped.
Andrew Santino
But okay, good.
Grace O'Malley
I like.
Andrew Santino
And then for some reason and we're Having a drink, by the way. So get. We're gonna get tuned up and then please listen to Bad Friends and watch it everywhere it's possible. And then if you like golf. I know it's lame for a lot of people, but I interview celebrities and athletes and famous people that you may know that like golf. And I try to blend this philosophy of golf and life. It's called no Bad Lies. Watch that. And then that's it. I got a special coming out in September on Hulu. Please watch that part of the Hulu Larious. I'm hoolarious. I love it. They pitched it to us. They were like, how is it, bro? Was like, could you believe this? He was so mad we were in New York. He's like, dude, what the.
Grace O'Malley
Hilarious.
Andrew Santino
Throw me off a bridge.
Grace O'Malley
No, it's good. What the.
Andrew Santino
I think it's just a funny campaign. I. I don't. I'm like trying to figure out a way to market it when the time comes. So this summer I'm going to be working on marketing the show. I don't even have a name for the spot special.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, really?
Andrew Santino
Name it.
Grace O'Malley
Name it. Just call it. Name it.
Andrew Santino
That's good.
Grace O'Malley
That's untitled.
Andrew Santino
Untitled Andrew Santino.
Grace O'Malley
What should I call this?
Andrew Santino
What should I call?
Grace O'Malley
Just be blonde about it? I don't know.
Andrew Santino
I could do.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Andrew Santino
Tariffs.
Grace O'Malley
Tariffs. You talk a lot about tariffs on Big T. Yeah, big tariffs.
Andrew Santino
That's all I talk about, dude, is tariffs.
Grace O'Malley
Buy low, sell high.
Andrew Santino
Price of eggs. I might call it price of eggs. I do have a name for. For it.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, you do?
Andrew Santino
I'll tell you off air.
Grace O'Malley
All right.
Andrew Santino
We haven't made it official yet, so. Cuz I don't know if I'm going to keep it.
Grace O'Malley
Okay. I like. I love the names of things like tours and. And specials.
Andrew Santino
So hard to do. Cuz you. You're like. They're corny and stupid, but you're like, what? You got to do it.
Grace O'Malley
I think it's cool. You guys are also jaded. It's. It's. It's tough to watch. Anyways, thank you so much.
Andrew Santino
Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Bye.
Grace O'Malley
Thank you, man.
Andrew Santino
Thank you. Foreign.
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Which are connected, and each one more expensive and more complicated than the last. It can be pretty stressful.
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Episode: Andrew Santino: No Bad Lies, Only Good Banter
Release Date: June 19, 2025
In this vibrant episode of Disgraceful with Grace O'Malley, host Grace welcomes the esteemed comedian Andrew Santino, known for co-hosting the Bad Friends podcast alongside his sister, Nora O'Malley. The episode delves into their dynamic sibling relationship, Andrew's comedic journey, and his insights into the evolving landscape of comedy.
Grace and Andrew kick off the conversation by exploring their unique sibling bond, highlighting a significant nine-year age gap that initially separated their friendship.
Andrew Santino [02:08]: "We didn't really. I graduated college before she got to high school, so it was a little. It was kind of."
Despite not growing up together, their adult friendship blossomed, allowing them to support and root for each other in their respective careers. Andrew shares anecdotes about missing his sister's presence during their formative years but expresses deep affection and pride in her achievements.
Andrew Santino [02:29]: "She's the one who parties, dude. She's the one who leads the way. She's the... I love her to death."
Andrew provides an insightful look into his life as a comedian, recounting his early days, touring mishaps, and the challenges of performing in diverse cities like New York, Chicago, and Minneapolis. He reflects on the differing comedic vibes of each city and how they shape his performances.
Andrew Santino [02:38]: "It's pathetic."
He humorously discusses adapting to city atmospheres, especially New York's unpredictable weather and crowds, which often influence his comedic material.
Andrew Santino [03:12]: "Just never go back."
Transitioning to his podcasting ventures, Andrew elaborates on the evolution of his audience and the symbiotic relationship between his Whiskey Ginger and Bad Friends podcasts. He emphasizes the importance of maintaining a balanced audience demographic as both he and Bobby Lee’s fan bases mature.
Andrew Santino [18:01]: "Our numbers have skewed better as time has gone on to being pretty good. Like, our audience is now... you see them."
The discussion highlights how Bad Friends has organically attracted a diverse listener base, moving beyond a predominantly male or female demographic to include couples and varied groups.
A substantial portion of the episode is dedicated to Andrew's interactions with famous personalities. He shares memorable moments from his experiences working with icons like Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, and Flavor Flav, illustrating the unpredictable and often humorous side of celebrity encounters.
Andrew Santino [51:07]: "She was so cool. She was so much better because she was like, you're supposed to be mad that we were fucked up."
Andrew reminisces about his time on the sketch show American TV, detailing the creative processes, improvisations, and the challenges posed by critical reception despite positive personal experiences.
Andrew Santino [39:00]: "We were like the largest FX comedy. I think Hulu."
Andrew opens up about personal struggles and lessons learned throughout his career. From dealing with severe sunburns during tours to overcoming the emotional impact of being cut from a film, he provides a candid look into the resilience required in the entertainment industry.
Andrew Santino [56:04]: "What was your first big gig doing?"
He discusses moments of vulnerability, such as contemplating the impact of being cut from a movie, and the importance of having supportive relationships to navigate these lows.
Andrew Santino [74:27]: "You do some dumb. It's you. I would have done so much worse than whatever that kid did."
Grace and Andrew analyze the current state of comedy, noting the shift towards digital platforms and the decline of traditional stand-up venues. They express concerns over the cancellation of beloved shows and the increasing difficulty of sustaining a career in comedy.
Andrew Santino [91:46]: "I think it's sick. It's like a whole different thing. I, I'd love to tap into."
Looking ahead, Andrew shares his enthusiasm for upcoming projects, including a Special Olympics event and potential new shows that blend philosophy with entertainment, aiming to keep his comedic endeavors fresh and impactful.
Andrew Santino [85:01]: "There's a new... I'm going to start taking out... I'm doing like a home run derby. Celebrity Home Run Derby in the Valley."
The episode concludes with a heartfelt exchange between Grace and Andrew, underscoring the importance of mutual support and authenticity in their professional and personal lives. Andrew reflects on his journey, the lessons learned, and his unwavering commitment to his craft despite the industry's challenges.
Andrew Santino [103:03]: "Yeah. I think I was a 262 6."
Their conversation leaves listeners with a blend of humor, insight, and genuine camaraderie, encapsulating the essence of what makes Disgraceful with Grace O'Malley a standout comedy podcast.
This episode is a must-listen for fans of Andrew Santino and anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes realities of a comedian's life. Grace and Andrew's engaging dialogue offers both laughter and profound insights, making it a rich addition to the Disgraceful series.