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Bill Simmons + Shaun White (Carolla Classics)

07 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

15.168 - 28.541 Superfan Giovanni

Welcome to Corolla Classics. I'm your host, superfan Giovanni. This is the podcast where we play the best moments, highlights, and fan-selected clips from all 16 years of The Adam Corolla Show. We have a companion podcast titled Corolla Classics. You can find the ad-free archives at podcast1.plus. Check it out and sign up.

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28.882 - 43.58 Superfan Giovanni

And if you'd like to get access to the ad-free archives of The Adam Corolla Show, The Adam and Dr. Drew Show, as well as access to the brand new podcast, Beat It Out, make sure to check out Adam Corolla's Substack, adamcorolla.substack.com. And if you'd like to request a clip, please email us, classics at adamcorolla.com. All right, let's get to the clips.

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44.082 - 51.756 Superfan Giovanni

Coming up first, we have Adam Curler Show 1615. Live on stage with Dan Finnerty, Dana Gould, Gina Grant, and Brian Bishop from 2015.

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55.718 - 63.735 Adam Carolla

I think our dinner with Howie Mandel is finally going to take place.

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63.815 - 66.36 Brian Bishop

The long, gestating dinner with the wives?

66.641 - 89.792 Adam Carolla

Yes. You guys will never experience this anguish firsthand. But as a celebrity... When you get together with other celebrities, you always make promises to get the wives and you together and go to dinner at some point, but it never, ever happens. Why? Why? Why does it happen?

89.772 - 91.434 Gina Grad

These are very busy men, Brian.

91.994 - 103.204 Adam Carolla

It doesn't... Usually, because one celebrity is above the other celebrity, I find probably doing America's Got Talent in this particular case... Poor Howie.

103.224 - 104.846 Superfan Giovanni

Someone's got to break it to him. Yes.

Chapter 2: What are the challenges of celebrity social gatherings?

180.849 - 183.112 Brian Bishop

I think you said you were excited about that. It was great.

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183.352 - 184.974 Adam Carolla

Sherry O'Terry was there? Yeah.

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185.435 - 186.977 Brian Bishop

She was crazy that night.

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187.097 - 212.193 Adam Carolla

It was great because I was sitting between Meg Ryan and Helen Hunt, and Helen just sort of looked at me and said, Hey, Adam. And I said, oh, hey, Helen Hunt, who I've never met before and only seen on television. And she went, hey, I really enjoyed your movie. And I said, you saw my movie? Yeah. How did you see my movie?

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212.253 - 228.917 Adam Carolla

I went to the movie theater with my boyfriend, and we saw it, and we loved it, The Hammer. We loved it very much. We thought it was great. And I was like, oh, my God, oh, my God. And then I turned to my right. I can't believe there's a picture up here. The internet's good that way. I know, I guess so.

229.037 - 253.003 Adam Carolla

I was like, holy shit, Helen Hunt went to the theater and saw The Hammer and then I turned to my right and Meg Ryan was sitting there and she said, and what do you do? And I said, all is right with the universe. I can breathe again. We're back. Yes, Meg Ryan had no idea what I did. But as it should be, right? Meg Ryan should not have any idea what I do, right? I'd be shocked if she did.

253.684 - 259.549 Adam Carolla

Well, you... I'm supporting it. It's a yes and, people. Yes and. But who else was there, Dan?

259.89 - 271.841 Dana Gould

If Meg Ryan marries John Cougar Mellencamp, does she become Meg Ryan Mellencamp or Meg Ryan Cougar Mellencamp?

272.001 - 299.985 Adam Carolla

Wow. That's deep. The question is the plague man. Hey, Dixie Riddle Cup people, look out. There's a new sheriff in town. And his name is Dana Gould. Cosmic. Yeah. I think those days of writing clever things, for me, I went from the Dixie Riddle Cup to the bottle cap of the Lucky Lager. Do you guys know what I'm talking about?

Chapter 3: How does Adam Carolla share his celebrity encounters?

610.45 - 636.504 Adam Carolla

Who else was there? Was like Charlotte Rae there? Oh, shit. Yeah, probably Charlotte Rae. Fucked her. Yeah, I know. Mrs. Garrett. She was at your party, right? Yes, she was. I don't know. Gary would have to dig really, really deep into the alternate to find out who was on this show. I think they used to just shove me and Dr. Drew on whatever.

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636.864 - 647.42 Adam Carolla

They should just start a game show and just call it what it is. Sloppy seconds. Like celebrities you don't give a fuck about making an ass of themselves in the afternoon.

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647.641 - 649.283 Brian Bishop

Yeah, yeah, right. But...

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649.668 - 670.785 Adam Carolla

Who are you to pass judgment guy in his socks in house code at 1.45 p.m. on a fucking Thursday? Who's just cracked his third tall boy? You want to pass judgment on me and my fucking career? Yeah, all the commercials are for trade schools. Yes. Want to learn to work in a doctor's world but not actually be a doctor?

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670.865 - 671.085 Brian Bishop

Yeah, yeah.

671.943 - 691.015 Adam Carolla

Would you like to learn to draw? We can get you your Class D long-haul trucker's license in as little as nine days. God rest his soul. Yeah, yeah, Wally Thorpe, School of Trucking, yeah. Well, it is something we talk about, which is a sad, sad testimonial.

691.4 - 723.568 Adam Carolla

which is when I used to stay home from school and watch commercials that were playing during the day for unemployable adults, it was learn to repair toasters and get certified and begin your lucrative career in toaster and toaster oven repair. There'd be learn to drive an 18-wheeler, learn to be a dental technician. It was all this learn to be Debbie Dootson. Debbie Dootson would tell you.

723.928 - 731.899 Adam Carolla

You want to know how you know Debbie Dootson knows about long-haul trucking? She could tell you. She's Debbie Dootson for the Dootson School of Trucking.

732.099 - 734.222 Superfan Giovanni

Dan, remember I told you about the decades-old references?

Chapter 4: What humorous insights does Adam provide on pissing stories?

890.37 - 895.136 Dana Gould

Like that don't have a prescription. Sponsor. It's magnifying glasses in a frame.

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895.316 - 895.877 Adam Carolla

Oh.

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895.857 - 896.839 Shaun White

Right.

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896.859 - 906.176 Adam Carolla

I watch Perry Mason on MeTV, so all the commercials are like, why not buy your coffin now so your family doesn't have to?

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906.196 - 913.309 Gina Grad

Everything's craftmatic adjustable. Everything's craftmatic adjustable. The elevator, stair, well, a lot of that.

913.289 - 916.832 Superfan Giovanni

The bathtub you walk into. I love the bathtub.

916.932 - 919.595 Adam Carolla

The bathtub with the barn doors on it.

919.755 - 922.878 Gina Grad

I want that shit. That's what success looks like to me, by the way.

922.938 - 959.952 Adam Carolla

Tired of being lowered in your bathtub with a cherry picker? Well, now you can waltz in your bathtub. And all the products are named for things that the people buying them no longer have. Pride, serenity, assurance, continence. By the way, growing up, if there was one of those bathtubs with the suicide door on it, is there any possible way that somebody could get to double digits in bath?

Chapter 5: What incident caused a door to be blown off?

3661.387 - 3663.33 Brian Bishop

He literally tore a hole through the door.

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3663.35 - 3665.934 Shaun White

Was it an Olympian or was it just a random guy?

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3666.014 - 3670.241 Brian Bishop

He must have been because what average human being could do such a thing?

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3670.541 - 3672.945 Dana Gould

I think it was like a luge or toboggan guy.

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3673.077 - 3675.062 Brian Bishop

You know what I mean?

3675.082 - 3687.037 Adam Carolla

Yeah. It was not ice dancing. It was one of the more manlier sports. And he just tore apart the door. That's what I'm saying.

Chapter 6: How does the conversation shift to personal anecdotes?

3687.057 - 3688.86 Adam Carolla

Sure, too. Yeah.

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3688.941 - 3690.984 Superfan Giovanni

As a former carpenter, that's a pretty shoddy door.

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3691.545 - 3717.087 Adam Carolla

Yeah, what? Well, that's called a hollow corridor. It's not a solid corridor, and that's just a bunch of honeycombed cardboard that's inside. Still, as the first person that walked up on the bathroom with the door blown off, you're like, whew, someone ate Mexican. Easy, Chad. What was it? Navy beans and pinto beans and Pepsi? What did this?

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3717.488 - 3718.69 Brian Bishop

What's the culprit here?

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3718.83 - 3720.232 Adam Carolla

Yeah, you can hold some borscht.

3720.252 - 3721.734 Brian Bishop

Like what went on here?

3723.037 - 3730.667 Adam Carolla

Yeah, I just I think that was more. He probably could have worked it out, but I think he probably just got angry at the door.

3730.747 - 3743.383 Brian Bishop

One of my favorite things is because in order to do the music with these guys, they have to come up and hang with me at the mountain. It's the only way it's going to get done. We're writing the album. After I've been writing for three hours, we come down, and then the music starts.

Chapter 7: What are the challenges of transitioning from sports to music?

3744.063 - 3754.536 Brian Bishop

And these guys, Davis grew up in Van Nuys, but you put them in the mountains, and he's just like... I mean, he had to get cigarettes one day, and that was probably...

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3754.516 - 3758.662 Shaun White

It was sort of a snowstorm, and I had to walk a mile to the next 7-Eleven.

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3758.922 - 3763.128 Brian Bishop

But they're bundled up like they're touring Alaska.

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3764.409 - 3771.419 Adam Carolla

Poor Davis grew up in Van Nuys. I know. City boy. I grew up in North Hollywood, so I feel your pain.

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3772.74 - 3773.942 Superfan Giovanni

The good part.

3773.922 - 3791.438 Adam Carolla

My dad's first house after they got divorced was on Laurel and Oxnard on Vantage Street. Bought it for $15,000. That's not the best area in the world.

3791.678 - 3791.838 Shaun White

No.

3791.858 - 3818.845 Adam Carolla

I mean, it's not Compton, but... No, but it's weird because you trade in the random gunfire of gangbangers for super boring architecture. It may not... Just as damaging? Well, psychologically, well, not everyone gets hit in a drive-by just because you grew up in Compton. What I'm saying is, like, it's devoid of culture or architecture or anything.

3818.885 - 3831.199 Adam Carolla

Like, everything is bad sponge stucco with aluminum sliding windows and a flat roof with rocks on it. It's just weird. Like, there's just no culture. When you go into, like...

Chapter 8: How do personal experiences shape artistic collaboration?

3831.179 - 3845.937 Adam Carolla

Formally, when you go like, oh, it's the south side of Chicago, it's a bad part of – but at least the architecture is something from the turn of the century or something. North Hollywood is just shitty 7-Eleven, mini Van Nuys, just mini malls with zero.

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3846.057 - 3852.084 Brian Bishop

And you park your yellow Harley there and it's just – Yeah, man. There goes the neighborhood. So many yellow Harleys.

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3852.144 - 3856.95 Adam Carolla

Now, where in Van Nuys did you grow up? It was like Sepulveda and –

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3858.938 - 3870.05 Shaun White

Van Owen or something. Just the asshole of Van Nuys. Actually, Van Nuys now, I guess, is Sherman Oaks, right? There isn't really a Van Nuys proper.

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3870.07 - 3894.242 Adam Carolla

Well, at a certain point, North Hollywood decided to call themselves Valley Village. And Van Nuys decided to call themselves Sherman Oaks or something because they're tired of the stigma of the piece of shit that they created for themselves. Now, one good thing about Sepulveda and Van Owen is you're near Dr. Hogley-Wogley's Tyler, Texas barbecue. And that's all I can say. The rib joint.

3894.602 - 3898.95 Adam Carolla

That's right. That's the only good news about that entire place.

3899.05 - 3901.574 Superfan Giovanni

Silver lining. You're right next to... Barbecue sauce lining.

3902.255 - 3905.26 Adam Carolla

A good rib joint. Very good rib joint.

3905.28 - 3905.921 Superfan Giovanni

Is that still there?

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