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Lou Perez Podcast: Anson Frericks

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4.6672 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r My mother drank Budweiser when she was pregnant with me, so this episode of The LPP on Bud Light is close to my heart. (Albeit Mom was a Bud-Heavy drinker.) I hope you enjoy my very sober conversation with Anson Frericks, a former president at Anheuser-Busch and author of Last Call for Bud Light. https://amzn.to/4i7kCSz  We talked about Dylan Mulvaney, Shareholders vs Stakeholders, millionaires hating billionaires, and how much European ass the US of A is kicking. Check out my short story "Paul's Ghost" in Nothing Sacred from Heresy Press and Skyhorse Publishing. Catch me on tour, opening for the brilliant Scott Thompson. (Dates Below) Tickets here: https://newscottlandland.com/live-events Philadelphia, PA - June 3 Alexandria, VA - June 4 Atlanta, GA - June 10 I’ve been rocking XX-XY Athletics wares. WORK OUT, SPEAK OUT! You can get 20% off your purchase of the perfect burpee gear with promo code LOU20. https://www.xx-xyathletics.com/?sca_ref=7113152.ifIMaKpCG3ZfUHH4 Support me at www.substack.com/@louperez     Join my newsletter www.TheLouPerez.com   Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../the-lou-perez.../id1535032081   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU   Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/.../2b7d4d.../the-lou-perez-podcast   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ   Who am I? Lou Perez is a comedian, producer, and author of That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore. You may have seen him on FOX's Gutfeld! and Open to Debate (with Michael Ian Black). Lou was the head writer and producer of the Webby Award-winning comedy channel We the Internet TV and produces Comedy Is Murder, a sketch comedy series with Free the People. Lou is a FAIR-in-the Arts fellow, on the advisory board of Heresy Press, and hosts the live debate series The Wrong Take and The Lou Perez Podcast.  During my tenure at We the Internet, I made the kind of comedy that gets you put on lists and your words in the Wall Street Journal: “How I Became a ‘Far-Right Radical.” How’d I start out? I began doing improv and sketch comedy while an undergrad at New York University, where I was part of the comedy group the Wicked Wicked Hammerkatz. For years, I performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (both in NYC and L.A.) in sketch shows with the Hammerkatz and my comedy duo, Greg and Lou. G&L are probably best known for our sketch "Wolverine's Claws Suck," which has over 20 million views across online platforms. I was a writer for Fox Sports' @TheBuzzer; produced The Attendants with the Above Average Network; produced pilots for FOX Digital and MSN Games; and was a comedy producer on TruTV's Impractical Jokers. I hosted the stand-up show Uncle Lou's Safe Place in Los Angeles, performed at the Big Pine Comedy Festival, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and co-created the political comedy podcast Unsafe Space. I’ve opened for Jimmy Dore, Rich Vos, Dave Smith, and Rob Schneider. I’m currently on tour with Scott Thompson. I taught creative writing at the City College of New York, "writing the web series" for Writing Pad, and comedy writing workshops for the Moving Picture Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

That joke isn't funny anymore.

0:01.7

Available on Amazon and everywhere.

0:09.2

Hey guys, welcome back to the Lou Perez podcast.

0:12.3

I'm your host, Lou Perez.

0:14.3

And today I am so happy to be joined by my next guest.

0:17.9

He is the author of this awesome book called Last Call for Bud Light.

0:23.5

His name is Anson Freirex.

0:25.7

And Anson, I want to let everybody know that I have a signed copy of this.

0:29.7

It's legit.

0:31.0

And it says, Lou, bring out your best.

0:35.2

And I wish I could, Anson, for you today. But I'm in pain a little bit.

0:41.6

I want to just tell you just a little bit about the pain I'm in. I technically trained Brazilian

0:47.8

Jiu-Jitsu, but I haven't trained Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in like maybe close to two years. So I decided to go back yesterday.

0:56.6

And I got so beaten up, my ankle is mangled. I can't breathe because my left my left lung

1:03.3

is just terrible. So my apologies for not bringing out my best for you today, dude.

1:11.8

Hey, Lou, don't worry about it.

1:13.2

You know, it's, you know, Bud Light, which is the story about this book's about,

1:17.2

they haven't brought out their best over the last couple of years.

1:19.8

But it's funny enough, when the company originally launched Bud Light,

1:23.8

so when Anna Hasa Bush launched Bud Light in 1982,

1:25.8

its original tagline was Bring Out Your Best. So, you know, there's always an opportunity to bring it back. I'm sure

1:30.4

you recover really quickly. Get back out on the mat and be back to fighting form in no time here.

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