Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Coming up first, we have Adam Carolla's show, 804, featuring Kevin Nealon, Alison Rosen, and Brian Bishop from 2012.
Good day, Alison Rosen. Hello, Adam Carolla. Good day, Paul Bryan. I got two turntables and a Kaiser roll. I was excited about Nealon coming in here. Good, good man. Good man. I was doing a little homework with Sonny before I came out here tonight, and it was a little, it's so, everything is so bad now. Like, everything's just a punchline to what we've turned into. It was like,
oh 10 things you can do to help the planet earth like everything is they're indoctrinating these kids into this whole you know earth thing it's all it all it's it's all kind of most of the stuff that goes on is just stuff where no one will ever complain about it like you go well we're going to talk about diversity and we're going to talk about the planet earth and we're going to talk about fairness we're going to talk about and everyone just goes yeah yeah yeah like it's like you know
rescuing puppies from the pound. No one could ever put their hand up and go, that's bullshit. Yeah, nonsense. And so the kids, I had to write, he said, well, one thing we could do is clean up. That would help the planet Earth if we cleaned up. And so I had to spell it for him, and he was writing it out, and I had to get the eraser out because I went C-L-A.
I had to stop and get the eraser out and had English second language nanny laughing at me from across the way. C-L-A.
At what point will the kids suppress you in terms of spelling? Have they?
No, not yet. Understand, I learn to spell a little bit every day because I didn't know how to spell so well a few years ago. Still learning. I would say that their cursive is better than mine at this point. They write better than I do. That much I can say. But the spelling, I still – because I think I got Recycle. I think I nailed recycle. Do you want to try it? Pretty sure. R-E-C-Y-L-E.
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of Adam Carolla's show featuring Kevin Nealon?
Yeah, I got it in there. Yeah, I got recycle. And then I was going to try to work my recyclerola in there, which is my recycling thing that's built into every home. But I thought that would be a little self-aggrandizing. You know me. I don't like to talk about myself. So I did not work the Recyclerola in there. Although I have installed one in my home and Jimmy Kimmel's home as well.
Very, very satisfying. Piece of PVC pipe. You realize a piece of 3-inch PVC pipe will handle every can, 96% of bottles, up to wine bottles. Not going to handle the one-gallon milk jug, but all the beer bottles, all the soda cans, and all the wine bottles. possibly even a 40-ouncer, pow, straight down the thing.
And you put the can on the outside, and on the inside is my little brass flap that I had made up. And you flip it open, fire the bottle down. They don't gather up on the sink.
It's awesome. It's a fucking brilliant – it's one of your all-time best ideas. Really? Absolutely. But my question is, what would you advise someone who wanted to put it in their own home? This is not – yeah, go through a wall.
Well, first, you have to send me money because I've registered it. Although, I guess if you called it after your last name. Right, Rosenarola. Recycle it, Johnson, and then it'd be fine. Step two. The hole in the wall, you know, your hole, let's talk about your hole for a second. Your exterior wall is going to either be two by fours or it's going to be two by sixes.
Either way, there's going to be a bay there. There'll be an opening. It's tough. You have to find some space. Outside the wall is going to be clapboard or stucco or something like that. You want to put it up high enough so that it's above the recycling can on the outside.
You almost have to have a two-story house, right? No.
No?
Oh, because you could have the low-lying kitchen.
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Chapter 3: How does Kevin Nealon reflect on parenting and spelling with his kids?
Look, whether you're getting started, whether you have a business, whatever it is, bigcommerce.com. Go to bigcommerce.com. Click on the radio icon on the homepage and enter my name, Adam. Enter the name Adam. All right. Allison Rosen. Shall we get into a little bit of the news and then we'll see what Nealon's up to? Yes. The News with Allison Rosen. She'll read some news from her iPad.
Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. It's Allison, Allison. And when it's time to wrap it up, she'll sign it off with Zip It Cut. It's Allison, Allison.
I want to take a moment to just thank the people who contacted me who are concerned about me since I was not here yesterday, although my virtual representation was. And she did an excellent job. I'm fine. I was at the hospital all day yesterday with a family member who was having surgery. I agree with Charles Manson. And now I'm back.
And in terms of things where all you're really doing is sitting there but it feels like you ran a marathon, hospitals, right up there with airports or being on the plane. Potentially worse, actually. Yeah, they're zappers. Yes, very draining. Yeah, I know. I was walking through the kids' hospital on Thursday with the celebrities. And, you know, maybe I'm out of line. Maybe I'm jaded.
But I'm like, why are we going up an elevator and going room to room when we're the celebrities and they could just come down to the lobby? Yeah. Can't they wheel them past you? Number one. Yeah. And why am I putting on a gown and putting on the weird cootie gloves? And number two, they have no idea who the fuck any of us are. Right. That's the real problem. Yeah.
Everyone pictures these sort of like— Pearls before swine, right? Yeah. Everyone pictures that sort of Babe Ruth thing where it's like hit a— But it's not like there's a six-and-a-half-year-old little cami going, Hey, it's former UFC heavyweight belt holder Cain Velasquez. Like, that doesn't happen. And it's not like these are going to be future podcast listeners because they're sick. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. I mean, let's just be realistic. Well, look, obviously some of them are going to live to fight another day, but do they have credit cards? Are they doing a lot of online commerce? Who vetted these sick children? It's like you were listening to me talk to my publicist. It really is. It is just like that.
So speaking of hospitals, I recently was on the receiving end of an aggressive rectal exam. That happened in a doctor's office, actually. I didn't even have to be admitted. Sad news, Dick Clark died. I just clicked. That was weird.
That was weird.
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Chapter 4: What are the dynamics of Glendale's city council meetings?
It's usually two Tuesdays. It's the second and last Tuesday on each month. Anybody could speak at those, right? No, I'm talking about the behind-the-scenes stuff. I'm not talking about the city council stuff. I know I said that where people were crazy guys who have hats with a lot of pins in them. Yeah, yeah. By the way, I don't know what happens. I'm a veteran of the Korean con. Okay, buddy.
Stop shouting.
He's crazy. And he's wearing a down vest. Yeah. And a short sleeve shirt. And a knapsack. And a knapsack. And he has... He has the ball cap with the pins, tons of pins through it, and he never fucking stops talking about gerrymandering. And you know what the fuck he's talking about? Scuba tanks. Crazy guy, middle of the year, like middle of the day, like what the fuck is he doing here?
Why do those meetings attract crazy people? The one that I was at involved a lot of schizophrenia. Well, that's what homeless schizophrenia people like. They like to be heard. That's why they shout on the street. They should get podcasts. If they can find a place that has a mic and people listen, they love that.
It starts off – they always start the same way because I see them on the public access stations every once in a while. It's the guy. He's got the mustache. He's got the gray mustache. He's perpetually 61. He's never 82, and he's never 31.
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Chapter 5: Why do comedians feel the need to confront their fears?
He's like 61. He's got the cap with all the pins in it. He's got the trucker's down vest on, and he starts off with – I proudly serve this country and then fill in the blank. It's Vietnam-Korean conflict for whatever he did. He was in the rear with the gear, but he doesn't mention that part. You know what I mean?
First, he lays down his resume about proudly serving this country, blah, blah, blah. And then he starts getting into the thing. And usually the city council people just weather the storm. They weather the crazy storm. There's a hot wind of energy.
denture cream and livoris coming at them you know and they just sort of sit there for a while and then they at a certain point they run out of time and they go all right three minutes we're moving on yeah the thing just just just clicks down and then they move on they never really address their concerns or say anything about it and no one ever goes hey uh That's a pretty decent point.
We never really thought about that. You know what? You bring up a pretty valid point there. It's always just like, okay. We share your concerns. We share your concerns. Next crazy guy. Should we get the fuck out of here and get to fucking Arts Deli? I did one of those ones where you get, I think it's like three minutes or something. You speak at the bottom of your 90 seconds or something. Right.
And I said everything I had to say after like 60 seconds. I ran out of stuff to say. So I would just start recapping, you know, and, you know, recapping. So I feel this way about that. And I didn't even use up all my time. Well, it's it's weird because it's. It's not a conversation.
It's a one-way blowhard veteran that's shouting at this sort of multicultural group of eye rollers that don't give a fuck.
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Chapter 6: How does the discussion of Bob Marley reflect on celebrity culture?
And then at some point you move on. And that's about it. At least from what I've seen. I've never seen anyone engage. I've never... There's never been anyone who's been up on the city council who went, hold on, what was that last part? And then they listened in to your thoughts. Where was this? They started whispering to each other.
All right, I'm sorry. Have you spelled that name?
Because that's a goddamn solid idea. Is that yours? That's a good one. That's Corolla's, actually. We've got it up a napkin. We're definitely going to implement that. That's awesome stuff. Yeah, it's like, okay, sir, your time is up. It's one of these things where I think it's much like Charles Manson just came up before the parole board a couple days ago.
It's probably about the same glazed over look the parole board has. I am horrible at my job. The guy with the swastika carving his forehead sits there with a crazy beard and starts talking about going on a killing spree if they ever let him out. He's like, okay, all right, can we get this procedural bullshit over so we can get something to eat? And by the way,
Most importantly, we can all say we did this. We have the city council thing. What happens is we get crazy people yelling in parkas. We put cotton in our ears and roll our eyes for about four hours, and then we all go out and nosh. It's a great form of government. What were you speaking at?
I was just going to say this has nothing to do with that, but would you ever fly on one of those double-decker planes? The biplanes? No, the windows on two levels. Oh, you mean like the huge Airbus 780 or whatever it is that holds like 750 people? Yeah. Interesting. Would you fly in one of those? Would you feel comfortable? I would. Why? Because I saw one the other day.
It was parked at the terminal. I think it was Australia Airlines. Oh, no. I saw one landing. Oh, it's a 380. Yeah. I saw one landing, and the wingspan, it went over Lincoln Boulevard, over the terminal. Right. It was huge. I... I had a moment where I went to the Paris Air Show, and the Paris Air Show is insane.
I mean, there's international munitions dealers and stuff, like the guys selling, like, Sparrow rockets and shit like that, like crazy satellites. And then guys doing crazy things in MiGs, like doing the Cobra on the MiG where they drag the rear end and do that. There's a crowd of 200,000 people there. I went to the Paris Air Show when I was a kid. Oh, sure, yeah. Dad's Mr. fucking Sikorsky.
That's right.
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Chapter 7: What examples do they give about role models in music and life choices?
is you know john lennon or bob marley or something they're great musicians and they're great spirits and they're amazing at what they do but we shouldn't follow them much like athletes you know i don't uh having having 11 kids from nine different women not a great example to set and when somebody tells you oh you have cancer you need to take care of this you're going uh you know don't worry man you know ross they'll take care of it again not a not a great example
He's probably not a very smart guy. He was like a country guy, probably has a second-grade education, if that. So he was an amazing spirit, and you should enjoy his music, but don't live your life like Bob did. Universally the most recognized, beloved artist.
I've been anywhere I've ever been. I remember being in Morocco in like a little, you know, trying to see what music was there in this little village. And that was about all you would see. Michael Jackson and Bob Marley, the two artists that have gotten there.
Another good example. But I will say this about as crazy as Michael Jackson was, I feel like his kids... sort of loved him, respected him, whatevered him. The carrots and blanket will be okay. Yeah, just having shitloads of kids with shitloads of mommies and not being around is not a good thing.
My problem with Marley is just every single college dorm room I've ever been in with playing the Bob Marley and the big Bob Marley poster and the M.C. Escher poster everywhere.
Adam, did it deal with, because I didn't get to see it. It was at South by Southwest, but it was opposite this movie I had done, so I never saw it. did they get into the fact that he was hurt, that black America didn't really embrace him, that it was really the white kids? I know that at the end of his life he was on the road with the Commodores trying to get black America to take notice of this.
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Chapter 8: How do they discuss the impact of race on Bob Marley’s legacy?
He he was. Yes, it was one of those things. And again, it's it's it's one of these things. What was funny, because there's this thing where, you know, we never stop, as I always say, beating ourself up. Oh, don't don't be naive. We're wildly racist. It was a hugely racist country. It's like we're so racist that Bob Marley is selling out football stadiums and it's 99 percent white people.
You know what I mean? And this is in 1978. And I was thinking about the irony of that because I'm at Phil Rosenthal's house with 15 white people sitting around watching the Bob Marley special. And like I said, I don't... Look, if they came, you know, I don't know if there's such a thing as 20 black folks sitting around watching the Tom Petty special. I don't think there is.
I don't think it exists. Maybe I'm wrong. I could be wrong. But I don't think that exists. We never stop beating ourselves up. But this is literally 25 white people sitting around watching the reggae Rastafari guy. And this guy's selling out. stadiums and theaters all over the country. And it's a whole bunch of white people. So this whole thing of like, we're so racist. Well, really?
Why is he selling millions of records? Why is he selling? Yes, he was upset. He felt, you know, he felt like. In the States, at least, where's the black people? And so what he did, because he couldn't find anything but a white audience in the States, is he agreed to open for the Commodores. Which is crazy. Which is crazy in those years, 79, 80, whatever. And he was a much bigger international...
draw than the Commodores but he wanted a black audience so he was going to open for the Commodores and he did and he would also was guaranteed some airplay because they weren't he wasn't getting play on the urban stations as they call them so he would get some airplay if he agreed to open for the Commodores and he basically opened for the Commodores and Madison Square Garden or something like that everyone loved it the next day went out jogging
I don't want to give away too many details, but that was about it. By the time he got to the Commodores, that was his last concert.
I went with Phil and Jeff Garland. Phil took a bunch of us, Jeff Garland, a really fun group to see Bruce this weekend, and there were a lot of white people there.
What?
I was shocked. Springsteen?
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