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Katie Couric + Bob Saget (Carolla Classics)

16 Nov 2025

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Chapter 1: What promotional content opens the episode?

0.031 - 19.208 Unknown

Hey, what's up y'all? Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair. My favorite thing about the holidays? Decking out my whole house. It's not a competition, but if it was, well, I'd win the season with Wayfair. Outdoor inflatable Santa? Got it on Wayfair. Trees, lights, and ornaments? Wayfair. Hosting must-haves like dining sets, beds, sheets, and towels? Wayfair.

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19.529 - 30.038 Unknown

For everything in your style delivered with fast and free shipping, visit Wayfair.com or the Wayfair app to win the season. But again, it's not a competition. Wayfair. Every style, every home.

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45.762 - 61.118 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. There is a Corolla Classics podcast dedicated to just this show with the replays of The Adam Corolla Show. You can find the ad-free archives through podcast1.plus.

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61.138 - 76.355 Superfan Giovanni

And if you'd like access to the ad-free archives of The Adam Corolla Show, The Adam and Dr. Drew Show, or exclusive 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 into the clips.

76.616 - 82.969 Superfan Giovanni

Coming up first, we have Adam Carolla's show, 2239, featuring Katie Kirk, Adam Ray, Gina Grant, and Brian Bishop from 2018.

87.359 - 93.211 Adam Carolla

Good day, Gina Grant. Good day to you. And bald Brian. Katie Kirk is in studio.

94.133 - 95.496 Katie Couric

I'm afraid.

96.522 - 123.077 Adam Carolla

I'm in love with Katie Couric. I sat down for a while, about 40, 40, maybe almost an hour. And we did was interviewed for her program, which is America Inside Out with Katie Couric. It's a six part series and it's coming to Nat Geo. And that is on April 11th. So what I did will be featured, I think, in the sixth episode. also the podcast, the Katie Couric podcast, available now on Apple.

Chapter 2: What is the significance of Katie Couric's upcoming series?

371.396 - 371.878 Katie Couric

No, no.

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371.898 - 374.623 Adam Carolla

Damn it. It says it right on. That's what Wiki said.

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374.683 - 383.758 Katie Couric

But your dad was a teacher and your mom was on welfare and she got a degree in Chicano studies at Cal State Northridge. Damn you.

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384.059 - 391.872 Adam Carolla

See, this is why she's got the Peabody's. I read that your dad was like a publicist.

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391.852 - 392.333 Katie Couric

No.

392.993 - 394.094 Adam Carolla

What was his title?

394.114 - 418.5 Katie Couric

So my dad was a newspaper man, actually. He wrote for the Macon Telegraph. He covered politics for the Atlanta Constitution. He was the bureau chief of United Press. And I think, honestly, he had a hard time supporting a family of four kids on a newspaper man's salary. Before I was born, my parents and their then three children, because I'm the youngest of four, moved to Washington.

418.48 - 443.236 Katie Couric

where my dad worked in public relations. Oh. And, you know, it was public relations, a little different. And then he also taught public relations at various colleges in the Washington, D.C. area, like the University of Maryland and American University. And my mom was primarily a homemaker who also volunteered at Planned Parenthood and worked in the gift department of Lord & Taylor.

443.276 - 465.087 Katie Couric

But I always thought – In a different era, my mom would be like a kick-ass stockbroker. I remember she bought a lot of Trojan stock when the AIDS crisis came to the forefront in the early 80s. She's very – unfortunately, both my parents have passed away. But my mom was very, very savvy and quite ambitious for her children.

Chapter 3: How does emotional intelligence play a role in interviews?

860.4 - 881.303 Adam Carolla

He's the kind of guy you want to have a beer with. And it's like, it's kind of weird because... It's almost like saying, would your thoracic surgeon be the kind of guy you'd like to have a beer with or your accountant? Like you'd kind of like the best accountant, the best surgeon, the best, you know, sort of fill in the blank. And then guys that beers with those are guys that beers with.

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881.343 - 882.124 Adam Carolla

I have those guys.

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882.104 - 900.465 Katie Couric

It is hard because there's so much pressure, I think, to be kind of affable and likable. And yet you have to be, you know, hopefully – well, you don't have to be apparently, but imminently qualified, right? And so it is a very – very tough thing, I think, for people to navigate. I agree with you.

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900.485 - 913.472 Katie Couric

I want a leader to be hyper-intelligent, experienced, cool under pressure, and have some humanity, right? But I don't want to necessarily have a beer with the president.

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913.512 - 939.242 Adam Carolla

I really don't. Statistically, the chances of Most of us having a beer with that person are very low. Katie could definitely get a Chardonnay of Hill. Hillary was in there. But so since this thing's never going to happen, let's just have some sort of Elon Musk type or something. It's just incredibly smart and incredibly he or she great at their whatever and focus and let them do it.

939.262 - 946.173 Adam Carolla

So on the on the presidential thing, a lot of Oprah talk. These days, you must know Oprah.

946.393 - 948.559 Katie Couric

I know her a little bit. I don't know her that well.

948.879 - 950.904 Adam Carolla

What any predictions?

951.385 - 973.55 Katie Couric

I don't know. You know, I think probably. Gosh, I don't know. I mean, first and foremost, putting right that right out there. I have no idea. I can see why people would find her really appealing because I think celebrity has taken such an important role in our society. You ask college kids what they want to be or high school kids rather.

Chapter 4: What humorous fruit-themed band names are mentioned?

4286.859 - 4310.92 Adam Carolla

What a jam it would have been. I had no idea where that was going. You want to talk about a $13 smoothie? Right there. The concert would open with this. And it would be like, hello, where are the raspberries? Cranberries will be out after we play this song seven more times. Let's go. And then I look at the drummer and I go... Two, three, four.

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4312.201 - 4314.244 Unknown

Oh, man.

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4315.205 - 4321.914 Superfan Giovanni

It makes you wonder, what other fruits were they contemplating?

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4322.294 - 4325.558 Unknown

Blueberries doesn't have a good ring to it. Kumquats. Kumquats.

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4325.899 - 4327.441 Adam Carolla

But just any, the berry world.

4327.561 - 4328.903 Unknown

Yeah.

4328.923 - 4330.224 Adam Carolla

You know, the Gordy Berries.

4330.805 - 4331.526 Unknown

Oh, yeah.

4332.772 - 4338.419 Adam Carolla

Barry Gordy. Oh, the Barry Gordys, yeah. All right. Wild Cherry. Wild Cherry.

Chapter 5: How do personal experiences with Uber drivers impact the discussion?

4364.931 - 4375.926 Adam Carolla

Yeah. Wow. Yep. One big jam, but choose some music over here. Well, anyway, so my dream of the raspberries opening for the cranberries will never be realized. And she'll be missed.

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4375.946 - 4390.492 Superfan Giovanni

You guys ever have a Lyft or an Uber driver that's really fun, plays the fun music, turns it up, and you're on the way home from dinner or the bar or whatever? Yep. You talk about the great magnet, you know, these coincidences that are – they're coincidences, but it's kind of a weird coincidence.

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4390.532 - 4406.36 Superfan Giovanni

Chrissy and I went out to dinner on Friday, had a fun Lyft driver on the way home, and he was cranking the 90s hits, and Zombie came on. And we're like, turn it up. Turn it up. When's the last time you heard Zombie? Right. And we rocked out to Zombie. And on the way home, we're like, oh, Cranberry's pretty great. And then here we go, 40 hours later.

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4406.38 - 4410.085 Superfan Giovanni

It's nice to get reminded of a song that should be in your rotation of tunes.

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4410.265 - 4418.977 Unknown

I mean, I don't know more than the three we named, but she had a voice like- Unique voice. I put her in the Annie Lennox category of just like, there's only one of those pipes.

4419.277 - 4427.731 Adam Carolla

Yeah. I also have not shared the same fortune you have. I got picked up by Habib and he played soccer music.

4428.252 - 4448.773 Superfan Giovanni

But once at least. Have you had the fun driver? Not had. A couple of times I've been lucky enough to have. Have you had the Uber driver that's doing shady business but then wants to not act, but doesn't want to give any consideration to it and goes right back into trying to be an Uber driver where he's like, he'll pick up a phone and go, hello? I'll call you back. Tonight? I'll call you back.

4448.753 - 4449.634 Superfan Giovanni

Good.

4450.135 - 4453.999 Adam Carolla

By the way, I have fruit stripe or Bubblicious. And you're like, no, what was happening just now, though?

Chapter 6: What are the implications of Dennis Rodman's behavior on his neighborhood?

4482.79 - 4503.552 Adam Carolla

That's your laundry hamper. When you leave in the morning and you're an Uber driver and you're going to the airport and sometimes there's more than one person and sometimes they have bags and things, you may want to just throw that stuff in the garage before you head out. You're not allowed to be shocked. Who did the electric prune? What was the electric prune song? We'll see if we can find that.

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4503.913 - 4541.029 Adam Carolla

Here is I Had Too Much to Dream last night. Oh, yeah. This song sounds like a parody of a 60s psycho electric anthem. These guys love their tremolo. You know, these guys are from Muncie, Indiana, and... One of them sold dental equipment or something before this, but when the Beatles hit with Sgt. Pepper and everything, someone went, you've got to change your sound.

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4541.49 - 4542.231 Unknown

It's our time.

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4542.331 - 4552.428 Adam Carolla

Yes. Put these Nehru jackets on and get a Page Boy haircut. This is not the song you want the doctor to play before he gives you a prostate exam. No.

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4553.45 - 4555.954 Unknown

This has a very Waiting for Guffman vibe.

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Yeah. Right.

4559.268 - 4572.615 Adam Carolla

You didn't have too much to drink last night.

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I had too much to drink last night. Too much to drink. I'm not ready to face the light. I had too much to drink.

4577.341 - 4584.497 Adam Carolla

But you know what would be funny? If you saw these same guys in the 80s, they'd be dressed like MC Hammer, moving puffy pants.

Chapter 7: What issues arise from referee involvement in sports?

8005.688 - 8016.283 Adam Carolla

Why are the refs getting so involved with this? I hate that. I hate it, too. We're not there to see them. Well, first things first. You're not there to see them. Did it have anything to do with the outcome of the play?

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8017.293 - 8018.494 Superfan Giovanni

The taunting? Absolutely not.

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8018.815 - 8019.536 Adam Carolla

Yeah, well, could not.

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8019.556 - 8022.259 Superfan Giovanni

And possibly not even the stupid leverage play.

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8022.459 - 8038.318 Adam Carolla

Yeah, sorry. All right, so, RJ, we're disgusted. Well, listen, Adam, I'll be candid with you. You know, I'm a big fan of yours. I think you're distracting from the Adam Carolla jinx. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Right?

Chapter 8: How does the discussion shift to personal experiences with football?

8038.338 - 8041.061 Unknown

Because when you – is this the first Rams game you've gone to?

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8041.782 - 8043.845 Adam Carolla

I went to a preseason game with my dad in 1974.

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8045.474 - 8061.761 Adam Carolla

And lo and behold, this great team loses at home. Yeah. Now the slide begins. The stink of corollas all over him. God. And your head and the best quarterback in the league gets pulled out of the game and the backup comes in and beats you at home.

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8062.142 - 8063.404 Superfan Giovanni

I think you're sitting pretty at that point.

8063.544 - 8085.541 Adam Carolla

Yeah. All right. Sorry, RJ. No, I agree with you. I think the league, I think in general, they've got agendas beyond that individual game. But when you really care, and that's what's so tough, I think, quickly, about caring so much, right? Because it's one thing to say, all those people on Twitter are nuts, but you want them to care that much if you're the league.

8085.802 - 8105.627 Adam Carolla

That's the only way you'll spend that much money for jerseys and tickets. But when you care... and the calls seem to be capricious or unrelated to the game, it's very frustrating. I remember as if it was yesterday, I told you the guy, John Biggert, the guy I played with on my team, had a missing pinky.

8106.468 - 8122.588 Adam Carolla

You had to have that one kid in your school that had the missing finger with the story behind it. Always painful. It was never like, oh, what happened to your finger? Well, I fell asleep and an elf stole it. It's never that. It was always, I was wearing a ring and I hopped the fence and the ring got caught in it.

8122.608 - 8138.149 Adam Carolla

And it's like, how else is it going to... There is no... Of course, it's going to be gruesome. There is no story where a 13-year-old has their finger removed that ends with, my dad thought my right hand was heavy. So we went to one of the best hand surgeons in America. We wished it away. Yeah, there isn't.

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