Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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We're in the home stretch. Now on to the clips. Coming up first, we have Adam Carolla's show 832, featuring Dan O'Brien, Dave Damoshek, Alison Rosen, and Brian Bishop. This one's from 2012.
I'm excited. Good day, Allison Rosen.
Hello, Adam Carolla.
Good day, Bob Ryan. Okay, now the fun begins. Yeah. Dan O'Sheck. O'Sheck coming in. Going to talk a little sports. Dan O'Brien, the decathlete, won the gold U.S.
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of Adam Carolla's podcast archive?
1996. And that is world's greatest athlete business right there. Because it really is... It's got the world and athlete in it. You know what I mean? I mean, look, we have the world's greatest athletes. And you can probably just assume that whoever wins the NBA championship is the best basketball team. But they're not playing the world. We're playing us.
And every once in a while, Greece will sneak up on you for some weird reason. But not Dan. Dan is the world's greatest athlete. At least he was in 96. So he'll come in here. We'll talk to him.
It's like Miss Universe versus Miss America.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Covers more territory. And by the way, can that ever really be proven? Do you know what I mean? I am Miss Universe. It's pretty fucking lofty. Like, who sat around and went with that? You know, Miss Continent. Nah, nah. Not big enough. Not big enough. Miss World? No. Still find it limiting. There could be some fox on some planet somewhere.
It could be Planet Stone Fox where everyone is not under six foot and they're all tall and blonde and decaps. What if one of them came down in a capsule and fucked our shit up? Or what about Miss Hemisphere? Yeah.
Mm.
You're getting warmer. Miss Milky Way is probably too much, right? You got to reel it in a little bit?
Yeah, plus it has some weird connotations to it. That's a great point. You don't want to say Milky. So Dan will come in here. Sheck will come in here. A couple things. We're ordering some pizza. I'm excited to say that Matt went to great lengths not to fuck up the pizza this time, and so did Mike Lynch as well. So he went over.
He actually reviewed the tape from the last time I was complaining about pizza and fixed it. But again... Just got back from New York and had a slice of good pizza. And when pizza's really good, cheese will do just fine. As a matter of fact, when pizza's really good, the other shit kind of gets in the way. Right. A little bit. Gilding the lily.
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Chapter 3: What are the notable moments from Dan O'Brien's athletic career?
Yeah, I do too.
And then you get used to that extra stimulation. I'm saying a really good slice of pizza to me just requires, A, I like the paper plate because I like to see where it drank up just a little bit of oil. That weird little oil spot at the end of the thing. I like the paper plate. I like a dusting of garlic powder. Not garlic salt, but the garlic powder. You ever do those things?
Some people's houses are purely garlic salt. I'm sorry.
Yes, I don't like that. You ever have that thing, too, where people tell you it's okay to do something the way you're doing it and you feel okay, but it's then stupid that you asked? Like, you know, you'll say to some guy who's a real foodie or connoisseur or guy, whatever, you go like, I've got some really nice single malt scotch, but I like to put a little bit of water in it. Is that okay?
And they go... Oh, no, that's perfectly fine. And you go, oh, good, good. I get to drink it the way I like it. I've been doing it for the last 12 years. I asked Phil Rosenthal's permission to put garlic powder on my slice of pizza. The garlic powder that was offered at the pizza joint. Yeah, and he was like, oh, no, go ahead. And I was like, oh, good, thanks. Thank you, millionaire Jewish guy.
He was like, no, go ahead. The captain of pizza decreed it okay. This is fine. This is fine. You should have the pizza how you want. And I was like, thank you. And by the way, can you tailor these slacks while we're talking this way? So I thought, but there's that part of you that goes like, okay. Like I would have put it, like if he said no, really, you'll ruin the sanctity of it.
I would have been, I would have said like, hey, what's that over there? And then I would have shook it on there and then ate it anyway. But I'm glad to know that I can do it this way. He accepted you. The best pizza sometimes is the simplest. Now, Matt went and checked, and Matt actually had a meeting using GoToMeeting with Mike Lynch so as not to fuck up the pizza order this time around.
That's right. GoToMeeting. This is a genuine endorsement. Did you really use this?
Yeah, we absolutely did. We were having our advertising meeting. Once I was wrapping up, people were signing off. I was like, Lynch, you need to stay on the line. We have very important business to discuss. Mm-hmm. I'm really glad that there was a video conferencing because I got to see the sincerity in his eyes. Yeah. I really believed his pizza choices, you know? Yeah. But it was very intense.
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Chapter 4: What challenges arise when searching for biological parents?
Have you gotten hold of your biological parents? Good. Screw them. Not at all. You don't need them. That whole thing, that whole thing where it's like, I want to meet my biological mom or dad. First off, be prepared to be disappointed. It is not like, well, I'm hard at work in the lab trying to cure AIDS and cancer. Oh, who's this at my door?
No, it's just going to be some guy with some crappy job and some chick who's, you know, there's oftentimes some abuse, some drugs, some whatever involved. There's a reason. And why?
Chapter 5: How do personal experiences shape views on adoption and biological connections?
I don't understand. I find it sort of disrespectful to the people who did spend the time and the money to raise me to go, I'm on a quest to, To go find this biological parent.
I think I would feel compelled to find them. Does it feel- I'm very curious. I'm like too curious.
It feels narcissistic to me.
Oh, yeah. And that too. I mean, but you have not tried to find them.
Well, I did try. Oh. And there was even talk of a few years ago, there was a talk about a reality show where they were going to put- celebrities or stars with normal people and they were going to search together. And they they did a professional search for my biological parents.
And before that, I had just put my name into the Oregon, you know, the Oregon board where you could you could put your name and your parents could put their name and they could connect you. But I thought, you know, it'd be interesting to find them. But As I was growing up, I thought, you know, I am a wanted kid. I'm an O'Brien. And it felt like I was making history.
And that was the one thing that was different than other people. Would I love to see what my mother looked like? Would I love to look at somebody who, you know, had my same features and everything? I think so. But I also heard a lot of horror stories about people that did find their biological parents and were horribly disappointed. So I'm happy with where I'm at.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of the Affordable Care Act on healthcare access?
And especially when I was competing, I didn't want to put that into kind of my whole little situation. And... I didn't want another mouth defeat as well, like you say.
Do you think your parents ever got the, like, when you're winning the gold and it's all about that, and someone goes, that's my son, and then they go, really? Oh, adopted son, and they go, oh. Like, is there an element of not your genes? Do you know what I mean? And I don't know if you can answer this question. I'm just wondering, like, as a parent, there's that sort of pride of, like, those.
Like, let's say your dad, especially when you're an athlete. Like, those are my genes kicking ass on that track versus, you know, those are my adopted genes.
If there was that, my dad surely would have shot it down. He was so proud of me. He was the kind of guy that, you know, on the movie Friday Night Lights, I had to ask him not to come to football practice. Really?
To practice?
Well, he wanted to show up and sit in the stands with the other fathers and shoot the shit, you know, especially when I was a starter. But he didn't miss a game. And so, I mean, he's the kind of guy, it doesn't matter. You know, he and I were good buddies in high school. And, you know, we were best friends, you know, when I was growing up.
Genes or not, or blood or not, he was my father, and he would tell everybody that. And I think everybody in town knew.
I love that story. All right, Allison Rosen. And again, all chronicled in the book, Clearing Hurdles, the quest to be the world's greatest athlete. Get it at Amazon, and you know what to do. You click through adamcarolla.com, and you get Dan's book. And pow, win, win. And that's what Dan is used to doing anyway, so let's keep the streak going. Little news, Allison Rosen?
Mm-hmm. Well, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that by the time everyone hears this, Adam will be another year older.
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Chapter 7: What are the risks associated with CAT scans and concussion treatment?
All right. Next story. We can talk about several things. Again, CAT scans and cancer risk is in the news, and some people go, boring. But CAT scans are something that people, kid bumps their head, they come to the ER, and this for me is a daily headache. they want to have their kid get a CAT scan.
And so there have been study after study looking at how much radiation this is, which it's a lot of radiation. And another study came out indicating that If you have two CAT scans, it can triple your risk of getting brain cancer. Really? Yeah. And, again, we question why is there so much. And Brian, he's looked into this. And there seems to be a lot more brain cancer.
And certainly people have questioned whether cell phones. So CAT scan. A lot.
Chapter 8: How do CAT scans compare to MRIs in terms of safety and effectiveness?
So. Everyone's getting a CAT scan because this whole concussion thing is now at the tip of everyone's tongue. I mean, it wouldn't really exist five years ago, and now everyone's all this concussed Pop Warner football and all the contact sports and all that kind of shit. And so everyone's getting a lot of CAT scans because of the threat of the concussion. And now we're adding to this.
Right, but the question is, what are you looking for in a CAT scan? When I explained to parents, come in, their kid bumped his head. And if I call a neurosurgeon and say, gee, I want some support for not getting a CAT scan because the kid saw some stars, but I don't think there's ā what are you looking for with a CAT scan? Are you looking for a skull fracture?
Are you looking for a bleed into the brain?
Why would one choose to give a CAT scan over an MRI?
Well, now, that was something else. That's a great question. Thank you. MRIs are magnetic. There's no radiation.
But the amount of time it takes, there are fewer scanners, so there's always a backlog getting somebody in, and there's a tremendous amount.
more of data produced, and it takes longer to read. Are they more expensive as well? Hold on. More data with an MRI? Well, it produces a lot more information to process. More expensive. But you'd rather, all things being equal, you'd rather have your kid have an MRI than a CAT scan. Oh, absolutely. But there's no ER in the United States right now that's primarily going to do an MRI.
So is this going to be one of those DDT things where it's like we go ā hey, we've got to eliminate this thing. It's unintended, but we double down on something. DDT is, you know, you're killing the fish, so we get rid of it.
It's an awesome finishing maneuver from Jake the Snake Roberts.
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