Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Now onto the clips. Coming up first, we have Adam Carillo's show 2469 with the great Alex Winter. Actor, director, producer, all around super interesting dude. Him and Keanu Reeves just recently wrapped up a run of Waiting for Godot on Broadway. By all accounts, it was indeed excellent. Of course, the Bill and Ted trilogy, all three masterpieces, and all this documentary work.
He often comes on to promote his docs. It always makes for an interesting episode. Along with guest Jeff Clark, R.J. Bill, not in this portion. Gina Grad and Brian Bishop from 2018.
Good day, Gina Grad. Good day to you. Handball, Brian.
Cool.
Sonny Macaboney.
You've got to get Sonny into Bill and Ted.
Yeah. I've been thinking about Sonny.
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of Alex Winter's career?
I did Ace on the House today, and I did it with an author named Ace Christiana. He's been in before, and he has a book called Handmade, and it's a nice book. It's this book about stuff you can make, do on your own. Different people have done different projects, lights and belts and- Adirondacks. Kits and things and all sorts of stuff.
And I'm in the middle of working on a house right now and all that sort of goes into that. And- I've realized it's so important, and all stuff we've discussed before, but here's what I was really drilling down on today with Asa and Stromer, and I made myself some actual notes, which is...
We are in a weird point in our nations, in our world history, which is we did not toy with any of these notions of really self-governing. We were governed by the elements. We were governed by hunger and food and danger. Seasons. Seasons. In nature, we were governed by nature, essentially, like it's starting to snow, moving on, moving south. You know what I mean? I'm hungry.
Let's go get some spears and hit a buffalo. And I'm cold. We'll skin the buffalo and tan the hide. You know, like we weren't governed. I mean. You can always say, well, I don't know, the pilgrims had self-determination or something. They got on to the Mayflower and the Pinto and the Santa Maria or the Mangria or whatever it is.
They wanted a strawberry in November. Better wait.
Yeah, but we didn't have everything all the time. And then we grew up, as an example I like to use, but I think it's ā which is excited about The Grinch That Stole Christmas or excited about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, but we didn't get to control when we watched it. In the height of July.
And my kids get to control when they watch it and they get to control lots of things that probably aren't good for them. Many of the things aren't good for them. So this notion of... As human beings. Now, here's the part that I sort of was really thinking about. We have an sort of internal motion machine that says, hmm, I don't want to go chase a wildebeest around with a spear for four days.
Like that sounds like a fool's errand. But I'm hungry.
Right.
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Chapter 3: How does the conversation shift towards societal issues?
I don't have to think about it. It's that little a thought. As a matter of fact, if I could eat a bucket of gooey orange chicken, I would pay him $50 if I could do it and my body would think I had one of Gina Grad's lovely offerings.
Every minute you spend thinking about whether or not you should buy it is costing you money.
That's right. You can't afford not to. So now we're living in a world where for the first time the kids can take zero money, at least as it pertains to me and my income or the things I think about, things I have to pay for and the nut I have to make and so on. The percentage of that is zero. So they're going to go over there.
And they're going to walk over there, and they're not going to be attacked by a Kodiak bear. And then they're going to come home with a couple of buckets of gooey, orange, sticky rice and chicken and then bring it back to my house and bust it open like a pinata. And my job is to smell it and keep walking into the den eating a handful of dry roasted cashews or raw cashews unsalted.
And the scent is making a cum hit their hand. Yes.
All I'm saying is this is an experiment. It's brand new. It's brand new. And we better all start coaching ourselves up essentially in the middle of running a pass route where essentially the ball has been snapped. There is no chalk talk. Just on the fly. We are actually moving. The ball's been snapped. The game has been started. And we're running down the field. And we're in the middle of it.
We have to do it on the fly. And it's going to be a very interesting experiment. And as I've hypothesized and I realized and I intentionalized and emotionalized.
Theorized.
Theorized. I was driving down the street. I was looking for some tile. I was driving down the street, and I saw, in a weird part of town, Jiu-Jitsu dojo. Jiu-Jitsu dojo. And then I started thinking to myself, I've seen a lot of Jiu-Jitsu dojos popping up, like Learn Jiu-Jitsu. You know, picture of the guy in the key in the front throwing the other guy under the mat.
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Chapter 4: What identity protection measures should you take during the holidays?
You need to protect your identity. They're out there, man. Better Business Bureau warns you to watch out for holiday scammers, bogus emails with links to lookalike websites and social media gift exchanges. Plus, the grandparent scams, they're scamming, they target seniors, and they pose as family members who need money urgently. Let's not get caught up in this. Let's not.
It's a holiday, so you're exposed, so you're out there, so your information's out there. You need protection. That's LifeLock.com. Good thing they have that identity theft protection. It's the power of Norton Security. It protects all your devices against cyber threats.
If you have a problem, their agents will work to fix it, but I bet they won't, and you won't, because they are LifeLock, right, Dawson?
Of course, no one can prevent all identity theft or cyber crime or monitor transactions at all businesses, but LifeLock with Norton Security is the right choice to help look out for threats you might miss on your own.
Chapter 5: How do social media platforms impact our perceptions of reality?
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That's promo code ADAM for an additional 15% off at lifelock.com. So, Jeff, you were sort of queued up to speak on this.
Yeah, I mean, that was a great segue for Facebook there.
Or Facebook, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I think with a lot of these Silicon Valley companies, they don't necessarily think about the ultimate outcome of what they're creating. And we at Futurism talk a lot about how do we create a positive future? And I think initially they go into that thinking, you know, the same thing.
But as they get deeper and deeper into it, they don't realize, much like with Facebook, that you could throw an election or an entire community now is going to be ā thrown out because of a group that now has gained all this popularity on Facebook. You know, I don't think they thought about the fringes of what could happen.
They were just trying to get more money, more users, more advertisers, grow as fast as they can. I mean, Mark Zuckerberg said it himself. His theory was move fast and break stuff. And he didn't care what broke as long as they were moving fast. And clearly that has come back to haunt them now.
And I think in the coming year, I think we will see an even larger backlash, especially in the UK with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica and all of these data mining companies that influence us every day. And not just on elections, but the products we buy, what we're thinking, you know, all of that is so heavily influenced. We don't even realize it at all.
I don't want to put words in your mouth, Adam, but you were of the opinion at one point that whatever would happen with Facebook, Cambridge Analytica didn't affect any votes or something to that. Again, I don't want to speak for you, but what was it?
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Chapter 6: What are the consequences of living in a digital age?
You know what I mean? We all statistically stick to one or two issues and that's what we vote on. We all have one thing that really gets us. And if you have all the analytics from me for the past 10 years of my life, you can very easily look through that and you know exactly what's going to like turn me on or off or vote this way or do that or not buy that or buy this.
That's the power of these algorithms that no one truly understands.
The scary part to me, and we're going to have to all change pretty quick, but how sort of pliable and fragile everybody is. Like there's something wrong with me and I don't have like proper nerve endings or something. Like, I talk to people all the time. They're like, oh, I'm going to get off Twitter. And I'm like, why? Because I'm bummed out all day. Like, I sob.
I sob.
I sob openly in front of my children. Fighting with trolls all day. You're 51. What are you doing? I openly sob. And I'm like, I'm on Twitter. I get a few that-a-boys and a few fuck-yous. And I sometimes explain the fuck-you. And sometimes I say thanks for the that-a-boys. And then I shut my phone off. I go to bed. Like, oh, it's hell out there. It's hell. Hell. I'm like, it is?
It doesn't seem like, I don't know. I don't know that we're going to be able to change. The way we communicate, we can change how we receive at least some of it. Now, I get the part where we're being manipulated by the sort of invisible hand. Right. And I get that sort of part where if I saw one and a half sushi commercials during the day, I'd be like, what?
Tonight we do sushi. What do you mean?
Because it's high time. Because I've run this household. Right. All I have to see is like one and a half. You mentioned, actually, now I'm eating sushi tonight because I said the word sushi three and a half times.
Highly suggestible.
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Chapter 7: What are the social dynamics of dining with strangers?
The person across you is three feet across.
And the person next to you is a foot away from you.
Right. Okay. Who's the worst then? Who's the worst? I'm so with you on this. Is it the person that comes in alone and then sits next to you alone so you know that person is hearing every fucking syllable that's going back and forth? Who's worse, the alone person who just chooses to sit next to you? And also there's an element of, oh, that's Brian. Oh, I saw. Oh, now I'm. Makes it more awkward.
Kimmel took me out to lunch two years ago for my birthday. We sat at like an Italian place and a guy just sat alone. So like other booths were open. And then, of course, at the end, he was like, hey, man, I'm a big fan. It's like, of course, he listened to every N-bomb Jimmy dropped one after the other. I lost count. I didn't see that coming. Why would he say all those things?
So every F-bomb, both F-bombs, and one of the N's, or maybe there's two N's. And anything you have an opinion on.
If you talk about politics, if you talk about anything, you're concerned that somebody next to you is absorbing it.
And now, in today's world, who knows if they're recording it. So what is worse, then? The person who sits alone next to you and you think, well, this person's listening to every word I'm saying. Or the couple that sits next to you but refuses to talk to each other. Like you're sitting there and you're having these stupid things like you're yelling at my wife. We should fire the nanny.
Come on, man. That's just bullshit. The kids are too old. And then you look to your side and there's just two people sitting there. They're just sitting there.
Looking down at their food.
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Chapter 8: How do comedians perceive their interactions with audiences?
Like, if that's what you're having, then you're having your own thing. Who's worse, single person or couple that won't talk?
I think a single person would be much more awkward because you know that there's nothing else going on with them, at least the couple. Well, the couple not talking is strange as well. I had a show in Hawaii recently, and I went to this little place for lunch, and there was a couple sitting nearby, just a couple. And the guy was on his iPad at the table. Yeah.
And the woman was like looking around like, does anybody see what I'm dealing with here? And like rolling her eyes. And I'm like, I don't know if this is like their first Hawaiian vacation, but this is also their last Hawaiian vacation. You know, I don't know what the guy was thinking, but. Well, I'd like to add one more contender to that list. There's the single person.
There's the couple who clearly hates each other. And what about a couple who has zero respect for the fourth wall? We can at least pretend we're ignoring each other. But if someone's like, I'm so sorry. I just ā that looks really good. What is that? Like no respect for the fourth wall. Let's pretend we're having some privacy.
And all the shit we talk about this person ā The greatest moment of my restaurant-going life was because I was sitting with a couple. Danny Two Sheets was one of them. You guys know the story. I was sitting in a New York restaurant with Danny. two sheets and his then wife. And I was talking, I was engaged to Lynette and then we broke up and then like, I felt horrible.
And then I was like, I, we should get a condo. She should live in a condo. And then he was yelling, you pay for the condo. And then I was saying, I'll put the down down for the condo and she can make the payments. And he was like, buy her the condo, you cheap fuck. It's the least you could do.
And I kept saying, I want her to treat the condo like she owns it, not as like some consolation gift or some breakup gift or something like that. So I'll put the down down. She'll make the payments, you know, 900 bucks a month or whatever at the time. She's got a job. It's fine. Let her own it. We went back and forth for about 20 minutes.
At some point, a guy from another table just came around and went, Let him get out of the fucking condo. Shut up. Just shut up. I can't take it anymore. Like he starts screaming at Daniel Kelson to shut up about the fucking condo. And in that particular case, I did like it. You're probably saying it even louder, you know, to get people to like, you know, weigh in and condone your opinion. I did.
There's so Brian Regan. I have you on a on a list. But tell me if this is fair of comedians. who are stand-up comedians who have made their bones doing stand-up comedy and not guys that did sitcoms and then went out and did stand-up after and then did some stand-up and then quit stand-up as fast as they could quit stand-up as soon as they got a network gig and blah, blah, blah.
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