Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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.
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. Now on to the clips. Coming up first, we have a request from Sergio.
Sergio writes, Hello, my name is Sergio and I'm a huge fan of ACS. I've been listening to Adam since he would cover for Stern. I really miss the old days with a full cast and absolutely miss bald Brian's drops and Gina Grad's news.
I have several favorite moments from the show, but there was an episode where one of the staff members moved Adam's car and happened to leave the radio station on something that Adam would not normally listen to. Adam starts the car in the song I'm in Love with the Strippers like T-Pain is playing. Adam's guest is one of his favorite artists, John Popper.
Adam tells a story, then John Popper whips out his harmonica and starts playing it to the song. Is there any way that you can share this with me? The episode number, or even better yet, play it on Corolla Classics someday? Thanks so much for taking the time to read my email. I really appreciate it. Long-time listener, first-time emailer, Sergio. Here we go, Sergio. Got it for you right now.
It's Adam Corolla Show, episode 2452. Joe Coy, John Popper, Gina Grad, Brian Bishop from 2018. Hope you enjoy.
Hey, you know how I love John Popper fixes songs? Yeah, I've got them ready. I got into my wife's car and Gabe, who's five feet away on the other side of the wall, had put it on the Drake channel. I was surprised that Gina had her visceral reaction to Drake. I'm not a fan. I don't know anything about Drake other than I don't get it. I don't get most of it.
That's exactly how I feel. Nothing personal. He seems like a nice guy.
I don't get it. He seems like a nice guy. The video where he was dancing in that cube.
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Chapter 2: How does Sergio's request highlight nostalgia for classic moments?
That's a while ago. Yeah.
And I don't hate him. I kind of just hate his fans.
His T-Pain, anyway, on the Drake channel on the, I guess it was SiriusXM, T-Pain had a song called I'm Gonna Love Wit. Is it witness stripper? Yeah, wit. Okay, witness stripper. So this was playing when I got in my wife's car.
Okay.
Finding which harmonica to use.
There's so many.
There's so many.
As long as 10,000 times more.
We'll be right back.
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Chapter 3: What memorable stories does John Popper share about his music career?
Well, it's actually a one-on-two. That is me, Adam Parola, and, of course, David Wild from The Rolling Stone joining us, and none other than John Popper from Blues Traveler. Hey. Always good to see you, John. Good to see you, too. As you know, I'm a huge Blues Traveler fan and maybe a bigger John Popper fan. You have said so much nice stuff about me, I just want to come and give you a giant hug.
It can be arranged.
You rock. Yes.
You rock. We'll get my assistant Matt on that immediately. John, well, let's see. I saw John over at Jimmy Kimmel's house when Rowdy Roddy Piper got a friend of ours, David, in a sleeper hold and actually put him out. Yeah.
You're excited about that.
It's weird how the big wrestlers always, they hug and love you as they put you out. Like, it's okay.
Yeah. It's all right. Just going to sleep.
It's all right. Just going to sleep. Yeah. I think it's like when the vet puts a dog down. Yeah. I felt like he was putting him to sleep and we wouldn't have to worry about him again. It's okay. We'll dispose of him. Yeah. I remember you got a nice kick out of that. Oh, man. John, a couple things I love about John. I love the fact that he says that Bob Dylan's a horrible harmonica player. Well.
And I agree. I mean. Yes. He's bad at it. I'd like to see him and Alanis Morissette duel it out. That would be kind of cool.
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Chapter 4: How does the discussion about song writing reveal John Popper's creative process?
He goes, man, I thought when you became a rock critic you had to leave your dick at the door, but you're still holding on to yours with both hands. There you go. And I went, oh, thank you. Nice to meet you. And he goes, I want you to write liner notes. I read your Aerosmith. I want you to write a box set liner notes for me. And I hesitated because I'm not a particular Ted Nugent fan.
And within one second of hesitation he knew. And he goes, don't worry, David. I love me enough for both of us.
Oh, that's cool.
And literally, if you ever read the liner notes to the out-of-control Ted Nugent box set, I never say anything good about him. I just quote him saying great things about him. Oh, that's awesome. Oh, there you go. It was great.
Great personality. He's sort of David Lee Roth and Gary Busey-esque in that they're a little bit nuts, but they can talk a mile a minute. Yeah. And everything they say, you get the feeling they've said it 20 times that day, but you haven't heard it before. Exactly. So they pulled it off somehow. Yeah. I'm very terrified that I'm going to become that person.
I use the same jokes over and over again, you know, like with the harmonica. It's like life. Sometimes you blow, sometimes you suck. Right, right. And I've said that for 20 years, and I'd said it on Kelly Ripa, the beginning of this tour, and everybody loved it. And I felt like, God, get some new material.
It's terrible. And yet Michael Strahan gets the job instead of, I think John Popper would be much more exciting.
But it's just such a great go-to line for the harmonica. Well, the thing about most lines is most people haven't heard them. As a comedian, when I repeat myself, I always pause for a minute and think, oh, who's heard this? Yeah, don't you want to be like, why are you laughing at this? I've said this 50 million times. I try to keep it in the mid-30 million times that I repeat myself.
But it is weird, and then you realize people make whole careers out of doing this. You've got to do it. And then at a certain point, if you don't say get her done in the middle of your set, people are going to actually want their money back. They'll get mad at you, yeah. So now if you don't say blows or sucks, people are going to be disappointed by John Popper.
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Chapter 5: What song is considered the worst created by the speakers?
This is the worst song ever created. I heard it on the way here and I cringed.
All right. This is, again, I was told John off the air, he's like melting cheese on something. It just makes it better.
It's amazing. I've never enjoyed that. I'm the bacon of rock and roll.
Yeah, you're like, yeah, bacon and melted cheese of rock and roll.
And Steve Miller, didn't he have a guy named Norton Buffalo? Norton Buffalo is awesome. Who's a pretty good harmonica player. Oh, he's amazing. But he wouldn't, if Steve would just stop singing and stop the drum machine and just have harmonica.
Oh, here is, I will tell you. What is to me the antithesis of creativity and artistry and song smithing and everything else?
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Chapter 6: What are the speakers' opinions on Steve Miller's music?
The fact that he took this song that had to be one of the worst things that came from the 80s. And I'm talking I'm including AIDS, by the way. It's not just music. I'm including everything from the 80s. As a straight guy, this song has done much more damage, just touched my life in a much more negative way than A. In his defense, A's never had a drum machine.
That's true.
Was there an unfortunate locker room incident to this song? I feel like I've been ear raped by this song every single time I've heard it. It's a lot of rape with you in music. Somehow. I would avoid the disco text.
In 2009, he took out this piece of shit again and came out with a 2.0 version of this song about, what, three years ago to expose a whole new generation of ears to this horrific mess of a song. And that, to me, is the opposite of creativity. By the way. What song is this? This song, Abracadabra. Steve Miller. Oh, there we go. Here should be Steve Miller's reaction to Abracadabra. Huh?
Chapter 7: How do the speakers feel about Prince's music?
What? Not this Steve Miller. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Are you kidding? I did the jet airliner song. I don't even know what this fucking song is. Is that the song we just played to? Yes. Yeah. He should be disavowing any. Now he should be going OJ on this fucking song. He trotted this piece of shit out like three years ago and did another version of it.
Chapter 8: What is the significance of the song 'Abracadabra' in the conversation?
That's what a hack is.
That's a war crime.
That's not a recording. Yes, we get the hag on this motherfucker. Yeah, but I mean, all the songs kind of sound alike. All right, his songs suck, but why take the worst of his songs? I mean, Joker is basically... I mean, there's a point... We do Joker, and there's a point where I actually do other songs in Joker, like... You really love me. That goes to Joker. Right. You can do anything you want.
Yeah. You really love me. Because it's a non-song. Underneath it all.
Yeah, it's a non-song. We had a love. A love. A love you don't find every day.
Everything sounds better with a little John Parker on it.
Hang on, Sloopy. Sloopy, hang on.
All right, get ready with your harp again because I'm going to play you another one of my... Now, this song's controversial. Oh. Because it's a Prince song. Oh, I love this song. Everybody loves Prince. Everybody but me. I got to admit, when he does Purple Rain on TV, I jump in. Loves Prince, but this is a horrible song. Oh, I love this song. This is a pretentious piece of shit.
Well, yeah, but come on. and it does not hold up very well. See, I love playing people songs. I get out my John Hyde songs, Bring the Family, and I play them songs off of, you know, I play them Drive South or whatever. They don't know what year that song was made. And I tell them it's 1986, and their mind is blown. They can't believe it's an 80s song.
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