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Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino

Gianni Paolo

Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino

Andrew Santino & Wave

Comedy

4.87.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Actor, podcaster, and all-around hustler Gianni Paolo joins Santino to talk about his rise on Power, the chaos of working with 50 Cent, and why fame doesn’t always come with a paycheck. They dive deep into acting, podcasting, blowing up on social media, and why Gianni’s done trying to be what people expect. It’s raw, funny, and surprisingly heartfelt. 🎤 Check out Gianni’s podcast and follow him for tour & guest dates 🔥 Subscribe for new Whiskey Ginger episodes every Friday 🎧 Full audio on Spotify, Apple & all podcast platforms 👕 Merch & tour: andrewsantino.com FOLLOW GIANNI: Instagram: @giannivpaolo TikTok: @giannivpaolo Podcast: @barelyfamouspod YouTube: Gianni Paolo FOLLOW SANTINO: Instagram: @cheetosantino TikTok: @cheetosantino #GianniPaolo #WhiskeyGinger #AndrewSantino #PowerBookII #BarelyFamous #ComedyPodcast #PowerForce #GianniPaoloPodcast ========================================================= Sponsor Whiskey Ginger: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/whiskeyginger SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS BETTER HELP 10% OFF YOUR 1ST MONTH https://betterhelp.com/whiskey ======================================= Follow Andrew Santino: https://www.instagram.com/cheetosantino/ https://twitter.com/CheetoSantino Follow Whiskey Ginger: https://www.instagram.com/whiskeygingerpodcast https://twitter.com/whiskeygingerpodcast Produced and edited by Joe Faria https://www.instagram.com/itsjoefaria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.5

You were that creature in the ginger beard.

0:07.8

Sturdy and ginger.

0:09.4

Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse.

0:11.7

Ginger's a fugitive.

0:13.1

You only $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse.

0:17.0

Ginger is all hell now.

0:18.3

This whiskey is excellent.

0:37.5

Ginger. I like gingers. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people. I don't know that's say that for all my guest, but I mean once again today. He still got it. It's Gianni Paolo. Gianni Paolo. Yes. Gianni Paolo. Would have been a good soccer player name. It would have. It would have. Like an Italian soccer player would have been sick. Gianni Paolo. Would have been a good soccer player name. It would have. It would have.

0:57.2

Like an Italian soccer player would have been sick. Yeah. Gianni Paolo! Yeah. And I just look like the whitest guy ever. No, you do look. Doesn't he look a little something? You look a little something. What is it? Just white? Yeah, I just look like. you You're white, but man, I've never met someone who gets more work on non-white shows. You're the king of black TV. I know. Like, seriously, you're the only white guy that they hire on black TV show. Yeah. That was me for a little while. It was. Wait, what was your first, like, what was the first, like, black TV show I did? punked right MTV punked that wasn't that was universal that wasn't black

1:14.2

I know but black your first like what was the first like black tv show i did? Punked

1:10.8

right mtv punked that wasn't that wasn't universal that wasn't black I know but but

1:14.8

black people loved it more than white people did yeah oh you feel yeah yo I saw you

1:18.6

want that you fucking with Bieber bro I will say like so I was with Theo last weekend at the

1:23.3

UFC fights oh yeah and I have the best fan base ever and I didn't realize it until me and Theo were adjacently walking around New Orleans. And all of his fans are like fucking hammered. Like, boo! Like touching them and all out of them. And my friends are just like, hey, bro. I love what you doing, actually a gang. And they just keep it pushing. I'm like, oh, Mike, I didn't appreciate it until... Well, what you're trying to say is the best fans are black fans.

1:46.8

Yeah, I guess essentially that's what I'm saying. Yeah, they really are. Because they honestly, they really like, I ain't on no fanned out shit. Like, bro, I'm just keep doing what you're doing, gang. And then they keep it, like, they keep it pushing. Theos fans like, they're, you're my god, we got to do a shot.

2:01.1

And you're like, ah, like that's why he, and then he chokes a guy out.

2:03.8

The balloon part. pushing. Theos fans like, they're, you're my god, we got to do a shot. And you're like,

2:01.4

ah, like that's why he, and then he chokes a guy out with the balloon party clip. That was one of the funniest things I think I've ever seen in my life. The guy got in his face. And everybody was like shocked that he overreacted. But you're like, dude, it's when you're, also, he's sober so when you're in a bar

2:17.2

you've been this way when you're not drinking and other people are to our are really

2:21.2

drinks it's when you're also he's sober so when you're in a bar it you've been this way when you're not drinking and other people are too are i really drink so i see that yeah it's just annoying man and you're like dude please give me a little bit of yeah so when people are like i can't believe he you know it's like bro when people are drunk and they're in your face there's almost nothing you you can do, but push them by the throat.

2:34.7

Right, yeah.

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