Chapter 1: What is the main theme of this episode featuring Dana Gould?
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Chapter 2: How does Adam Carolla promote BetOnline and its features?
Head to BetOnline today because at BetOnline, the game starts here. From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Corolla Show. Adam's guest today, Dana Gould. Plus the news with me, Mike Dawson. And now, Adam Corolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice but to get it on. Mandate you get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling a friend. I love that about you.
Dana Gould. I always said, literally... talking to somebody yesterday and, you know, you get into that. Is this guy funny? Is that guy funny? Could they hang? Can that guy hang? And I have to explain to people. And I said to him, I go, you know, there's really, there's a handful of guys who can sit and roll.
Now there are a million comedians, but they're just a sort of handful of guys who can sit and roll. And I was, I was talking, you know, I said, well, this guy, I was bringing up these sort of, you know, household names. And then I said, oh, and Dana Gould. Because Dana Gould can sit and roll as well.
But I just don't, I think most people aren't sophisticated enough where they go, I've seen the guy, five minutes, the guy's act, he's super funny. And I go, but yeah, it's just not the same as that ability to roll along. Right. Yeah. And I think I got that when I moved to San Francisco in the in the 80s. And there was a we called it riffing. Yes. Yes. It's just as obnoxious as it sounds. Right.
But yeah, it was it sort of taught you to think on your feet and just I mean, they're just people that are there are people that are funny and there are comedians and they're not always the same. Yeah. Like my brother, Kevin, is a home inspector and he would be a great guest. Right. You know, because he's just hilarious. He's got that Bill Murray, like he walks to the fridge and it's funny.
He's not a comedian, but he's just he can roll. How many times do you think your home inspecting brother has uttered the phrase? There's trouble with the flu because there is no house that can pass an inspection of a chimney that does not have a crack in the flu. Or, because he's in Massachusetts, your moisture barrier. Oh, your moisture barrier.
But once he called me up, he's like, drive my brother in. He never calls me. I'm like, what the hell? Hello? Hey, are you near a computer? Yeah. He goes, will you look up 425 Elm Street in Grafton? I go, why? He goes, is this haunted? Is there any stories about this being haunted? Wow. I go, nothing I've found.
He goes, well, I'm in it, and I'm alone, and it looks like the house in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. Don Knotts?
Yeah, exactly.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Dana Gould share about comedians and their craft?
Or you can hit L7 to be transported back to the 90s on K-Rock and listen to some alt-lady bands. I would go in a minute. So, you're right. But also, the person who's driving... Every single valet, whoever pulls the car around, has the seat all the way up. And then...
Some people argue, they go, well, if you borrow my car, then my seats, it's much easier to hop into a car where the seat's all the way back. I'll give you the one example where people always undo. If you share a computer with your wife. Oh, then you will undo it.
Yes.
Yes. The valet guy not only has the seat all the way up, but he always has the tab in the windshield wiper and never pulls that out because they are done is the answer. And people always go, oh, they forgot. No, no. When I used to work in people's houses and I worked in everyone's houses when I was a carpenter and I was always hungry.
I was always like, I'm going to the pantry and I was going to see how many Ritz crackers I can kite before I would think they would see some missing, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then there's the mixed nut pot over here. Don't get greedy because they'll know you got into it. So I would go and I would take the Ritz cracker box down and I would take like nine crackers and then I would position it. Like I would literally... As if they took a photograph of their pantry before they left the house.
But I would always just put everything back exactly as it was because I didn't want to get caught on. That's well advised. There was a story, talking about the computer thing, about a guy who didn't know how to delete his cache or was looking at something that was so vile that his wife went college weekend with her friends and then came back and turned on the computer and was like...
It's like about like, congratulations, your hard drive has been successfully wiped by McAfee. You really scrubbed everything down. I went to an open house once with a woman and she went in and used the bathroom, but sort of lied. She said, I just want to check out the entity. But.
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Chapter 4: What humorous anecdotes does Adam Carolla tell about his brother?
Was it E3? It was like 75, 76. Is that a Corman movie? No, I don't think so, but it's got Jan Michael Vincent in it, and I'm in. Match. I'm in, right. So I'll play you this, and then we can... Play a little made-up movie, but I think you're going to enjoy it. It's Chris Christopherson, too. 200th birthday. Bar fight. Head of a bar fight. A lot of shotguns. Yeah.
Chris Christopherson, star of Academy Award-winning Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Jan Michael Vincent, dynamic young star of Whiteline Fever and Buster and Billy, come together in Vigilante Force. The last time I tried to go back home, they gave me a parade. In one end of town and out the other. Chris Christopherson is out. Put the punches to the gut. What war? My war. No punches ever made.
Wow. Whoa! That Michael Vincent is Ben, who finally took the law into his own hands. All right, get in the hell. And when you good people hired me to come take care of your garbage, nobody was there telling me how to do the job. Nobody wanted to know. Like a pack of mad dogs, they were unleashed to clean up the town. Of what? What is this movie about? We don't know. I watch it.
I don't know what it's about. There's no story. A lot of people thrown through windows. That was a big deal. The candy glass budget of this film. And now the time had come to settle the score. We're coming after you. Victoria Principal, sensuous young star of Earthquake, is Linda, who trusted a man once too often. That happens. I'm going to kill you.
Broadway's Bernadette Peters dazzles as Little D, who loved not wisely, but very well indeed. You're a cop, I hate cops. No way. I'm the cops. I was going to do something terrible to all of you. Perfect. Peter's barely slow. Yeah. Like her mouth wasn't big enough to act. She was like Montgomery Clinton. Chris Christopherson. Jan Michael Vincent. Fighting it out.
In vigilante mode.
I don't know what this movie's about. It's a Gene Corman. Gene Corman. Who is Roger's brother. Oh, really? It was a four-minute trailer. You have no idea what the movie's about. I watched the movie. I have no idea what the movie's about. Okay, I'm going to... These, again, not similar. Something that you can't believe was real. Either do it now or everyone at home. Google on YouTube...
Robert Loja, Orange Juice. Mm-hmm. It's all we need? It's all you need. For... You'll just play it. Robert Loja, Orange Juice. Orange Juice. This was really on televisions. Mm. Now, I could remember... You know Robert Loja. Sure. Robert Loja was in everything. Yeah. And... Here we go.
and uh jane bryan i would have thought with orange juice all right let's see robert loja orange juice try some new minute made orange tangerine it's got calcium then i'm not drinking it oh no it's sweet you'll like it i don't believe you well then who would you believe i don't know robert loja Whoa, Robert Loja. Billy, your mother's right. New Minute Maid Orange Tangerine tastes great.
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Chapter 5: What humorous analogy does Dana Gould use involving bell bottoms?
If bell bottoms were people. Right. And then he had Ryan O'Neill look after her. Yeah. Who's never a good idea. Yeah, I took a little dive into Robin O'Neill. It'd be like saying in 1978, John Belushi, I want you to watch my pile of cocaine. I'm going to Canada to shoot a movie. Now make sure it's all there when I'm back. That's essentially what's saying Ryan O'Neill to watch Farrah Fawcett.
Yeah, take care of my wife. Oh, look at him. He's got his Fila sweat jacket on. Evidently, the zippers didn't work very well back then. They all stopped about four inches. So much hair. Yeah. Just, that is, yeah, that's everything. They're going to go have an RC. Cola. Then the other thing that freaked my son out is the movie, the TV show Emergency came on, right? How did that freak him out?
Well- Produced by Jack Webb. Right. And then they went to commercial. And when they came back from commercial, they do that tight shot. It was tight on a hand light on a lighter. And then they pulled back and the guy was lighting the cigarette. And then they pulled back and they were in the doctor's office and was the doctor in his lab coat.
Chapter 6: What is the significance of the TV show Emergency in the conversation?
He was talking. No, he wasn't. He was lighting. Oh, he was lighting the cigarette of the other guy. He's like, all right, Jim, here you go. Now, what about that banquet? Yeah. And my son just watched that, and I was like, this is inside of a hospital. Sure. Inside an office. That guy's a physician, and he just got done lighting this guy's cigarette. Was it the doctor with the white hair? Yes.
Because that doctor was Bobby Troop, a jazz musician, who was married to the nurse on that show, who's Jack Webb's ex-wife. Wow. And her name, you know who... Oh. Going deep with Dana Gould. Jack Webb. I just had her name. Julie. London. Julie London. Yeah. Former Mrs. Jack Webb. She leaves Jack Webb for Bobby Troop. Jack Webb hires them both to be on Emergency. I don't care. Wow.
I just want you kids to be in love.
Chapter 7: How do Dana and Adam discuss the portrayal of characters in 80's movies?
Wow. Jack Webb above it all. And Julie Lennon, great singer, Julie Lennon. Really? Yeah. Had a bunch of albums. Not better than Lee Majors. She's much better than Lee Majors. Julie Lennon's version of Black Coffee is one of the best ones. Really? Mm-hmm. All right. Should we try one more title? It's awesome. Give us one. And this, by the way...
Why this this knowledge that I have is why I'm swimming in women. That's right. It's why I'm so big on TikTok. Yeah, the young ones, the young ones. The final offering from AI is Code Red, Hoover Dam. Code Red. All right. So Chinese are going to blow up Hoover Dam. Right. OK. And something's happening downriver that's going to be destroyed. That's why they're blowing it up.
Well, it's kind of two stories at once. Right.
Chapter 8: What insights do they share about the themes of masculinity and identity in film?
You know, it's the couple with their kids that are camping down River, 10th anniversary. The kids are celebrating or whatever. That couple is Marjo Gortner and Heather Menzies. Marjo Gortner wearing the wig from Earthquake. Right. And Heather Menzies. They're the couple. So they got to stop. They know there's a plot to blow it up, but it's also got a Jaws. Okay, you ready? Sorry.
It's got a Jaws type feel to it because it's the 50th anniversary of the Hoover Dam and we have a big celebration. Right. And the president's coming. Yes. And Gene Hackman is saying, you shut it down. Shut it down. And we have credible information. They're like, we don't know what day it's on. We're not going to ruin the party.
But he knows as those Chinese jets are scrambled heading toward the dam, you see marching bands on top of the dam. John Forsyth is the president. He's coming. Yes. It's got a little Black Sunday to it. Little Black Sunday, and the president's chief of staff is in on it, and he's not relating the messages that there's danger. And that chief of staff, Bob Urich.
Bob Urich from SWAT, from Spencer for Hire. From Vegas. He parked his car in his house. The fumes. Damn, the fumes. It's not like he's driving a Prius. He's driving a 56 Thunderbird. Pre-catalytic converter. Yeah, burning fuel. Burning oil. That thing's just dumping gas and burning oil. I mean, your eyes would water. Yeah, he's parking in the living room.
He's driving a V8 car from the 50s that he's pulling in. It's the greatest show ever, by the way. He had a super hot secretary. He had what every good bachelor had, which a heavy bag just hanging. They had a heavy bag. By the way, which is how you know the bachelor. It's how you know he doesn't live with a woman. There's a heavy bag that you can see when you walk into the house. And...
They found – it's so funny because they made his sidekick Binz. Right. Binzer. Yep. And they were like, we need a super pathetic Jew to make him look even taller and stronger and more competent. Yeah. My – I will give you – I've given him before. I'll give it again. I have two – His name should have been – the actor's name was Jaime Juman. Bart Braverman. Bart Braverman. That's right.
All right. So – There are two great scenes. Two great scenes in Dantana, or in Vegas, that were real, like, perfect for the time. The women loved Dan. Dan would wear, like, a suede vest and a peasant shirt, like, undone. Undone again. Big dingo boots, you know, flares, tight wranglers. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he was a dude. Yeah, he was a dude. And there were two funny scenes.
One is—and back then when chicks—when a guy was popular with the chicks, the producers would have to let you know it. Like, they'd go, where are you going so fast? You know, like, they just always—the chicks were always coming on to them. And there's two hot showgirls, like, having a drink at the bar at Caesars. And— They page Dantana at Caesars.
And they go, paging Dantana, paging Dantana. And the one girl says to the other girl, who's Dantana? And the other one goes, you don't know Dan? But who would ask? The person next to him. Yeah, who's Dan Tanna? If you were in an airport and they said, paging Les Goodman, I wouldn't turn to you and go- Who's Les Goodman? Because you'd go, how the fuck do I know?
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