Nick Gerlach & Drew Birch on Dean Cain Going ICE, Andy's Kid Fans & Ice Cube's 0% Movie
Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast
Andy Frasco
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Nick Gerlach and Drew Birch take over hosting duties while Andy tours the East Coast. The duo breaks down the week's wildest stories and Andy's meteoric rise to family-friendly rock stardom.
Topics Discussed:
- Dean Cain (aka Dean Tanaka) signing up as an ICE agent despite playing the ultimate illegal alien
- Andy Frasco's Levitt Pavilion show breaking all-time attendance records with 7,000 fans
- Ice Cube's new War of the Worlds movie achieving a perfect 0% on Rotten Tomatoes
- Why musicians need to stop complaining about having to pay for promotion
- The cringe factor of political merchandise and celebrity endorsements
- Flamingos' new album "De Estrada" dropping September 12th
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| 0:00.0 | Dean Kane. You see this? Oh yeah. I didn't even know who that was until you mentioned that. |
| 0:04.2 | So he played Superman like 30 years ago. Yeah. And now he's like a Trump cut guy. He's like the new Scott Beio. |
| 0:10.1 | Yeah. He kind of looks like Scott Beio. Yeah. He's like he like looks like if Scott Beaux was on steroids. He's like signing up for ice. He's like going to be an ice agent. |
| 0:17.1 | Yeah, I saw that. And his dad's an immigrant. His dad's like a Japanese immigrant. Oh, really? Look at his last name. Dean Kane's last name is Tanaka. Wow. Dean George Tanaka. So. So he's an immigrant. And then also the irony of that is like Superman is like the ultimate illegal alien. Yeah. He played an illegal alien, made all the money off of it. I don't know. It's so weird when actors, like, cuck out for any politician, but especially Trump. |
| 0:40.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.4 | What's wrong with you, dude? Yeah. I don't know anything about him. He's just, like, a handsome guy. It wasn't even called Superman. It was called Lois and Clark. He wasn't even the first... He wasn't even the first character listed in the show. Boom, we're here. |
| 1:28.4 | Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast. Andy's not here. He's here. Yeah, he is here. We need to put a giant picture of him there, don't we? There's going to be one. It'll be great. Do you think we'll be able to find any embarrassing pictures of Andy on the worldwide internet? I don't know. Speaking of Andy, we had a show. We opened for him last week at the Leavitt Pavilion. Guess what I found out the other day, my friend. What's that? I'm not going to say her name because she's a good normal person with a real job, but she's on the board there over there at Leavitt Pavilion. Okay. And she said that we, that was the most tickets they've ever had there. Okay. Girlock Bump, still in effect. Here we go, baby. It's because of you and me. Yeah, it's because of you and me. Frasco's band is getting really good. How much merch did you sell? I sold $0. dollars, but I didn't lose any money because I didn't bring any. Yeah. So I think Andy sold about $3 million of merch. |
| 1:47.9 | Um, I sold $0. But I didn't lose any money because I didn't bring any. Yeah. So I think Andy sold about $3 million of merch. But his band's getting pretty wild, huh? Yeah. This is insane. Remember they used to be like a bar blues band? Yeah. Used to come through Arkansas, yeah. Didn't he live there for a while? I think so. I think he lived in Fayetteville, but I'm not sure. |
| 2:02.2 | Is he the first person in history to move from L.A. to Arkansas? Falaidville. Falaetville. Who was that guy? He's a basketball player from Arkansas. Not, fuck. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. There's a couple of them. Oh, you're talking about the white Kobe? |
| 2:17.6 | No, no, no, he is dope, though. |
| 2:19.7 | He's one of the cold-ass you're talking about the white Kobe? |
| 2:17.8 | No, no, no. |
| 2:18.7 | He is dope, though. |
| 2:19.7 | He's one of the cold-ass white boys of this year, right? |
| 2:21.8 | Yeah. |
| 2:31.1 | But I'm talking about, I think he's been on the pot. It doesn't really matter. But the show was pretty dope. There was like 7,000 people there. a lot of kids there's children |
| 2:32.3 | I'm trying to realize that |
| 2:33.9 | Andy might be like |
| 2:35.5 | the 12 year old boys |
| 2:37.5 | like A lot of kids. There's children. I'm trying to realize that Andy might be like the 12-year-old boy's like dream. Yeah, the band, the whole band. Yeah, but especially Andy. Do you see when he had that, were you out there when he had that kid on stage or were you backstage? I was backstage singing piano songs. Yeah, that was fun. I walked in and you guys were just like singing a, I think Lion Richie or something. That's what got me off the couch. They were singing Dream on and when they got to the high part. Dream on. I was wanting to take a nap. It was a legendary hang because it was like all the home. Barbara was the one of three. That's the girl indie rock band. They opened up. They were... They were actually rip. |
| 3:07.7 | Yeah. They're getting better. I always like their songs, but now they're getting better at playing live. Yeah. They had percussion. They had E-Man on the, on the guitar. He left early to go to tech... He left out right after the set to go to... He had a gig? No, he went to Tedeschi trucks. Oh. It's hard as right. That sounds pretty sick actually |
| 3:23.9 | trucks |
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