Chapter 1: What is the purpose of Corolla Classics?
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 exclusively available through PodcastOne.plus.
And if you'd like to get access to the ad-free archives of The Adam Corolla Show and 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 adamcarolla.com. All right, let's get to the clips.
Coming up first, we have Adam Carolla Show 187. This one's from 2009, featuring Teresa Strasser and Brian Bishop. It might be the only episode of Teresa and Brian that's never been played in classics, if it hasn't already been played. We're running out of Teresa and Brian stuff. We've played so much over the years and so many different clips from it. It was such a short time in the podcast run.
This is when they were coming on doing weekly episodes. After the death of the morning show format, Adam would still have Teresa and Brian once a week or twice a week. News stories, sometimes sound effects once they actually got a board installed for Brian and once his treatments allowed it. Hope you guys enjoy this episode.
We're doing one of our day and date shows. It's Wednesday, the 28th. And who's in studio? Well, Teresa Strasser and Bald Brian. Lots of news for both of them personally, and then we'll do a little bit of news outside of their own personal news. First... Let's talk about the benefit. Thank you all who have purchased your tickets.
We have sold out essentially the floor of the Wilshire E. Bell Theatre. We've sold about 650 tickets already. They said we couldn't do it, but you guys have stepped up in a huge way. Now we're opening up the rest of the theatre, the balcony and the loge and maybe even the lobby and parts of the roof.
The early aspects are far less than a solo ready. Yeah. So we're way ahead of our projections.
Well, here's what I want to say to everyone. I actually got into it with my agent because my agent basically said, look, he represents Jon Stewart and he represents Stephen Colbert and he represents a lot of guys who go out and do a lot of live shows. And he said... The industry is really bad right now. The business is really bad. Even guys like Jon Stewart are having trouble selling tickets.
I don't know. Leno had to cancel a show or had to cancel his love ride this year and so on and so forth. So not only are ticket sales and comedy ticket sales sort of in the toilet, but the benefit stuff goes too. When the economy goes bad, let's face it, people don't have $100 to see Dana Gould. That's the bottom line.
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Chapter 2: What clips are featured in this episode?
So he basically said... You guys are going to try to do a 1,250-seat venue at $100 a ticket. It ain't going to work. You're going to embarrass yourself. You're going to embarrass the talent. You better think this over. And I said it, but in a much more insulting way. That's a nice version. I said, we're few, but we're proud.
We have a very dedicated audience, and I think they're going to step up and come through for us. And he said, I don't think they're going to do it. And as a matter of fact, he's the one who suggested we lock off the loge and lock off the balcony until the bottom section got sold out just so it could appear that we had an audience when you're up on stage.
Right. This is very heartwarming. You know, some of the planning was going down at my place. And Christy, Brian's wife, was saying what Babydoll doesn't get is how dedicated your listeners are. They're not, I mean, they really have stepped up.
Yeah, and so you could have four or five million people watching Leno, but a very small portion of them might go out and see the show, which is we have a much smaller group with a much larger percentage coming out and supporting and just showing the love of Bald Brian. So fantastic. So the message I want to send to everyone is thank you, the ones who have bought the tickets.
The ones that haven't, we've sold quite a few tickets in less than a week or about a week's time. And this thing is another three weeks away. So if you're thinking about sitting on your wallets or your checkbooks and waiting until the end, which is what I would do ā
I was going to say, even I haven't bought my ticket, though I fully plan to buy one. I just haven't actually done it yet. So go to LaughsForBaldBrian.
Correct. And long as we're doing benefit talk right now, the winner from last week, they donated $20 online and won two free tickets. It's Steven Lutz of Portland, Oregon, L-U-T-Z. And if you go online this week to LaughsForBaldBrian.com, if you donate $50, you win two chance to win two VIP tickets, value $600.
Hang out backstage with Jimmy and Dana Gould and Greg Fitzsimmons and Joel McHale and many other names.
Open bar.
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Chapter 3: What challenges are faced with ticket sales for events?
Yeah. It was removed. Look at it as an eight-pound tumor.
Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. Very benign. Yeah.
And how do you feel? How did it feel? I know you were in the hospital longer than you thought. Yeah.
Well, I had a C-section because the baby was breached, and that was just, that was gnarly. I did not expect that. The way people talk about it, I thought it was just going to be getting a tooth out.
Right.
You know, they numb you, they cut you, they taste the baby. What does that mean, breached? Breached means the baby was, he's supposed to be head down. But he was head up. So I guess when that happens, there are a few doctors, real old school doctors, who will still let you do a vaginal delivery.
You know, they did a study that I thought was interesting.
Yeah.
Which is the breech children, babies, tend to like that seat on Southwest Airlines that faces the wrong way. Wow. Yes. Interesting. Several million dollars was dumped into that study.
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Chapter 4: What insights are shared about C-sections and recovery?
Like, let me quit while I'm ahead while this other person still seems to like me.
Yeah.
feel that way about phone calls.
You want to hard up in life. Yes.
Yeah. So, uh, yeah, you're, you're, you're like the baseball player who triples first time up and then wants to, wants to pull a hammy. And so you don't, because you feel like you're, you're going to end up going one for four. Yeah. If, if you get another few, few cracks at the plate.
I think about that every time I watch sports. Like I, I see a guy, you know, strike out the, you know, the best hitter. And I think, don't you wish you could get pulled from the game right now?
Yeah. Yeah, that's an interesting way. It's a weird sort of pessimistic, cut your losses kind of... Gun on top. Yeah, although that's not the way it feels. It's go out now before you fuck something up.
Go ahead.
Or before somebody realizes you're fraught as a parent or a comedian or whatever it is you're doing.
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Chapter 5: Why is ordering an Egg McMuffin becoming difficult?
And I say, you know what? I'm going to get it. Although, by the way, just a little quick aside.
It's become hard to order an Egg McMuffin. Yeah. It's like sausage. Yeah, I get confused. You say Egg McMuffin. They go, well, would you want sausage or bacon? Are they going to beat off on it or not? They're like, huh? I want the one I ordered in 1965.
Chapter 6: What humorous driving incident does Adam recount?
I want the same one. The one.
I know. So, and by the way, they're like three bucks now. But anyway, it's the only thing on the menu that's gone up. I think, like, they had a big meeting at, like, the corporate McDonald's. Which one does Carolla like? And they were like, he likes the Egg McMuffin. Well, raise the price of that 300%. Everything else will be locked off 1969 prices. Still get a cheeseburger for 39 cents.
My fucking Egg McMuffin's like 350 now. But anyway, so I'm going to go through the drive-thru on my way to Kevin and B. All right. I see the arches. I'm driving down Olympic.
Chapter 7: How does Adam's experience with a drive-thru reflect on society?
I'm heading west toward Fox, toward the ocean. And I'm going to cross over Fairfax, where I'm going to make a left, but now I'm going to cross over Fairfax, and I'm going to go to the arch, and I'll make a left across Fairfax.
olympic into the drive-thru of mcdonald's and right as i'm starting to slide over some bitch into like a pontiac sunfire or sunbird or sun chase anything if it's made by pontiac has the word sun in it that it's a pile of shit slides in front of me can't see your head over the headrest assuming it's a woman and slides in front and then does a sort of tentative
I'm going to turn left on this side street right before McDonald's, of which my reaction is relief. Like, okay, I won't have to get. There's nothing worse than pulling into a drive-thru or a car wash and having a car slide in right in front of you just to queue up in front of you. So I was like, oh, please don't go through the drive-thru.
And then I was like, oh, good, you're turning left into the side street. And then she went, no, I'm not. I'm going to go straight. And now I'm going to turn left into the drive-thru at McDonald's. So I'm like behind her and I'm like, all right, I got to do live radio in 13 minutes. But either way, you go ahead of me. But she wouldn't turn left. There was no traffic coming the other way.
But it was open. But she wasn't going anywhere. I'll tell you what she did. And you tell me if you've experienced this. What was that? In town. It is this phenomenon. It is this phenomenon, which I've experienced many times driving in this town. You've done Jimmy Kimmel's show many times.
When you leave Jimmy Kimmel's show on Hollywood and Highland, you pull out a little side street that runs along Hollywood High School. Holloway or something. Back on to Highland.
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Chapter 8: What surprising turn of events occurs at the airport?
Yeah. And there's no signal there. Oh, yeah. And once in a while, you'll pull up and it'll be open.
Yeah.
And you'll be like, hallelujah. Yeah. The oceans have parted for Moses and you're just hanging your left.
Yeah. Otherwise, I go right. You're gone. It's impossible.
But there are a lot of people... Think about this. You've been behind these people a lot. You've driven with a lot of them. A lot of people will pull up to a gap, an opening or something, and go, oh, now I'm going to wait for the next. Like, this isn't my opening.
I didn't create this opening.
I've never seen that. No, I'm not talking about... can't see a car in either direction for miles. But you and I know that certain intersections, if you pull up and there's an opening, jump on it because it ain't coming for another couple of cycles. At 8.45 in the morning when there's daylight, you turn.
So they pull up, but it's almost as if they have to emotionally prepare for what they have to do.
There's a warm-up to the space.
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