Andrew Ti
Writer
43
APPEARANCES
4
PODCASTS
Sep 9, 2026
Andrew TiGUEST
This is like the first actual, like, I feel like in a good way, like a tech regression.
Andrew TiGUEST
Like there is obviously this sort of like digital component that you could only do with like 21st century-ish computers, but also it's a photo booth.
Andrew TiGUEST
I do think we're kind of, especially with, it sounds like Gen Z and Gen Alpha are like, you know, are regressing a little bit away from the sort of like voracious technology-ish technology Yeah.
Andrew TiGUEST
So the way that Silicon Valley has those people that just call themselves futurists and their actual job mostly is like, what is the like digital Internet non-union regulated version of an existing industry? I wonder if like Gen Z, Gen Alpha are going to start having like class.
Andrew TiGUEST
who are like taking the digital version and like, okay, but how can we concretize this and bring this into like an actual like 19th, 20th century version of this thing? Because that's what this is.
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Andrew HeatonGUEST
So I'm hoping that Tallarico takes him, but I'm just like, I'm not going to bet money on it given the staying power of the Republican Party in Texas.
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Andrew TiGUEST
I was, you know, at the time, I was obsessed with death, and I'd always ask my dad, like, "What is being...
Andrew TiGUEST
What do you think being dead is like?" And he would always say, like, "Like li- like when you're taking a bath, lay your head under, your ears under the water, close your eyes, and just try and float in that middle space" [laughs] is what he told me when I was, like, fucking six.
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Andrew TiGUEST
I'm sorry, I'm r- gonna repeat a thing that I'm hopefully repeating, paraphrasing correctly, which is, like, a lot of people really, like, disability is the type of, um, like, minority or, like, dif- status that, like, everyone will probably get to at some point in their lives.
Andrew TiGUEST
For some reason, even though I know it's propaganda of some kind, I have been watching kind of equal measures of, it's actually mostly just like those, like, I guess the Millie bloggers, all the fucking vloggers from, like, Ukraine, basically, and just straight up...
Andrew TiGUEST
And there's a lot of American ones who are very clearly right wing, but just love war.
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speaker_5ADVERTISER
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Andrew TiGUEST
some reason, even though I know it's propaganda of some kind, I have been watching kind of equal measures of...
Andrew TiGUEST
It's actually mostly just like... those, like, I guess the Millie bloggers, all the fucking vloggers from, like, Ukraine, basically, and just straight up...
Andrew TiGUEST
And there's a lot of American ones who are very clearly right-wing, but just love war.
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Jack O'BrienHOST
But first, Andrew, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you
Andrew TiGUEST
This is more of a class of searches from my search history because I had to almost do it this morning.
Andrew TiGUEST
Because this morning I got a marketing email from the company that makes the ions that come in a little packet that I put into distilled water with which I use to brew coffee.
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Anders HolmADVERTISER
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Andrew TiGUEST
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Andrew TiGUEST
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Sophie LichtermanPANELIST
Andrew, you wanna do a plug real quick?
Andrew TiGUEST
... m- you... 'Cause again, like, "Oh, you need dirty men to protect, you know, your fucking life," that's like sort of sounds good when it's Dirty Harry, I guess.
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SophieHOST
Yeah.
Andrew TiGUEST
Yeah, Starter Trek, uh, it's my new Star Trek podcast, uh, with Tawny Newsome, Jesse Gender.
Andrew TiGUEST
They both know more than me because I only ever watched Star Trek extremely stoned, uh, in syndication.
Sophie LichtermanHOST
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Andrew TiGUEST
I guess, as producer Catherine started pointing out, he could easily be in a place where he actually doesn't need much attending to.
Andrew TiGUEST
I, I, I will just say also, though, I think it's, like, a little bit the studios tr- sort of realizing or, like, brass tassing the, like, diminishing returns on some of this digital shit.
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Andrew TiGUEST
Like we t- we talk about, um, the CSI bias where like shows are like, well, you know, it, it bleeds into like how juries think about things.
Andrew TiGUEST
They're like, "Well, there should be this sort of evidence," and like that sort of evidence is exactly right.
Andrew TiGUEST
And I feel like that whole idea of we can definitively prove things with these tactics kind of starts with Sherlock Holmes.
Andrew TiGUEST
Just a couple of the methods that he uses in his stories, uh, he was a believer in physiognomy
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Margaret KilljoyHOST
... not squish it into a ball to force it to do whatever the fuck you want it to."
Andrew TiGUEST
I will just say, you know, I know some of my friends and family have kids, and I watch them sort of get to step one of, like, "Okay, we're not using punitive, like, you know, means of correction," without always knowing plan B or what should be plan A.
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Andrew TiGUEST
Well, the cold, calculated punishment is so much worse on so many levels because it also communicates to the kid a thing.
Andrew TiGUEST
Like, like there's like, you know, the one lesson is, like, sometimes people will react, you know, to violence on them.
Andrew TiGUEST
And the other reaction is at a time when you might not even remember what you did-
Andrew TiGUEST
Troy, do, can you give us one p- like, one order from a chain restaurant that you feel like is y- like, underrated or, like, something that everybody should get?
Andrew TiGUEST
It, it is telling that, like, the best, most funded, absolutely cutting-edge of right-wing thought is basically the same as on the playground when they said, "If your hand is bigger than your face-
Andrew TiGUEST
... it's just, like, the evidence, it's like the pattern continues to build, and it is like...
Andrew TiGUEST
I, I, you know, again, this goes back to, to my biggest thing has been, like, the fuck was Trump thinking with release the Epstein files, really? Like, what did he, what did he-
Andrew TiGUEST
That is my favorite part about conspiracy theorists in general, is the amount of time they think people doing evil stuff spend anagramming.
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Andrew TiGUEST
You know what? I should actually say, um, Solidarity in Snacks is the mutual aid crew that I, I run with out here in Los Angeles.
Robert EvansHOST
You know, I, I think I just kinda let fame and, and money, uh, uh, drive me a little crazy, you know? Uh-
Andrew TiGUEST
That's, that's the great thing about you, Robert, is somehow you're gonna be known as Robert Evans, comma, somehow the lesser scumbag.
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After the Montgomery Bra.
Andrew TiGUEST
This Black History Month, the podcast Selective Ignorance with Mandy B unpacks Black history and culture with comedy, clarity, and conversations that shake the status quo.
Andrew TiGUEST
The CROWN Act in New York was signed in July of 2019, and that is a bill that was passed to prohibit discrimination based on hairstyles associated with race.
Andrew TiGUEST
To hear this and more, listen to Selective Ignorance with Mandy B from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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The, the Montgomery bra.
Andrew TiGUEST
This Black History Month, the podcast Selective Ignorance with Mandy B unpacks Black history and culture with comedy, clarity, and conversations that shake the status quo.
Andrew TiGUEST
The CROWN Act in New York was signed in July of 2019, and that is a bill that was passed to prohibit discrimination based on hairstyles associated with race.
Andrew TiGUEST
To hear this and more, listen to Selective Ignorance with Mandy B from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Andrew TiGUEST
if you're a lis- you're probably not listening to this if you're this kind of person, but if you have the exact opposite personality as Mike, you can also find advice columns that just tell you women are the problems for all of your problems.
Andrew TiGUEST
You know, the thing that needs to be, like, distributed more than even money, I feel, is self-doubt.
Andrew TiGUEST
... that is, that is the whole proposition put forth by these fucking Wild West people.
Andrew TiGUEST
So we'll test it, I suppose, or it's gonna have to be in some, some regard tested.
Andrew TiGUEST
Like you have BORTAC there, that's an expensive place for them to be, and if they have nothing to do, they just wasted a bunch of money.
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Andrew TiGUEST
And yet do not like s- waste your time thinking like, "Oh, well they're doing this, so I j- do this." Th- They're, they're not thinking of that.
Andrew TiGUEST
Um, I do think I recommended this last time I was on near a tragic time in our government, but, um, the song, uh, the cover of Spanish Bombs by the band Hinds, I have been listening to a lot this week.
Andrew TiGUEST
I don't often, like, cry at music, but somehow this kind of makes me cry a little bit.
Andrew TiGUEST
Um, and also, I will say, um, I know lots of teams have been doing great stuff, but, um, I know this isn't really a work of media, but a work of something, but, um, uh, Angel City-
Andrew TiGUEST
... uh, outside the game, and there were like, you know, practically none this week.
Andrew TiGUEST
And I know so many terrible things have happened and, you know, it- it's like churlish that when the thing that hits you makes you emotional, but it really got me and made me really very sad.
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