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Sonny Carolla + Fred Dryer (Carolla Classics)

04 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the purpose of Corolla Classics?

15.286 - 28.952 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 17 years of The Adam Corolla Show. If you'd like to hear any of the clips played today ad-free, in full, make sure to check out Adam Corolla's sub-stack, adamcorolla.substack.com.

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29.353 - 46.378 Giovanni

You can find the ad-free archives of The Adam Corolla Show, The Adam and Dr. Drew Show, as well as the podcast, Beat It Out. And if you'd like to request a clip, please email us, classicsatadamcorolla.com. All right, let's get to the clips. Coming up first, we have Adam Carolla Show 2248. Sonny Carolla in studio. Gina Grant and Brian Bishop from 2018. Check it out.

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50.823 - 74.43 Adam Carolla

Thanks for supporting us for all these years and making this whole thing possible. Creating all these jobs and all that good stuff and putting food in the mouth of my... Young boy, Sonny Carolla, who's here now. Gina Grad is running late. That's all right. She'll be here in time for the news. And that's Paul Bryan who brought his dad. Yeah. How I hate you.

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74.69 - 83.862 Giovanni

Pop's Bishop is here. Mike. He hasn't been here since the Orange Couch days. Oh, really? I've shown him around. He's like, wow, this is really impressive. I mean, you know, we get used to it because we see it every day. But he's like, this is amazing.

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84.403 - 85.043 Adam Carolla

That's nice.

85.885 - 90.13 Giovanni

He didn't say that, but his face said it. No, he's very impressed.

90.295 - 95.161 Adam Carolla

Sunny, how are you doing, boy? Good. Okay. What's going on in your life?

97.944 - 98.264 Sonny Carolla

School.

98.785 - 99.025 Adam Carolla

Yeah.

Chapter 2: How does the family dynamic influence discussions?

276.14 - 302.798 Adam Carolla

You don't hassle us. We won't hassle you. We won't have any curfews or homework or timeouts or there'll be nothing like that. And in exchange for none of that, there'll be no money and no college and no food. Go have fun. And so we just ran around. You reached an agreement early. Yes. Now it is. It has turned about to the point where we have essentially become slaves for the kids.

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303.279 - 305.564 Adam Carolla

It has completely gone the other way around.

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305.625 - 306.246 Giovanni

Is this true, Sunny?

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307.77 - 308.131 Sonny Carolla

In a way.

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308.592 - 313.504 Adam Carolla

Yeah. Give me an example. All right. Where's your mom today?

313.872 - 320.325 Sonny Carolla

In Irvine, she had to get up at 5.15 in the morning to drive my sister to volleyball with her friend.

320.866 - 330.264 Adam Carolla

In Irvine. Okay. Nothing. My parents didn't have a... I didn't know where Irvine was when I grew up out here because that was considered out of range.

330.324 - 330.504 Giovanni

Oh, yeah.

330.524 - 357.379 Adam Carolla

You'd heard tale of Irvine, but getting... I don't even know that... I heard tail with whispering in the wind. An old guy with a beard down his knees and a staff and a robe would talk to me about Irvine and this. So she's at Irvine. Yeah. Yeah. Because my mom had a VW square back that would get vapor lock if it got on the freeway. Like we didn't have that kind of range, but she's in Irvine.

Chapter 3: What are the plans for the upcoming sports events?

1213.449 - 1236.705 Adam Carolla

Check the DVD box. And don't worry. I will supply you with DVD players. At this point, I was making money. And she's like, all right. And then we went. And it was like two months later. And the screeners started rolling in. They're all VHS tapes. And I was like, Grandma, they're all VHS. She's like, yeah. And I was like, what about the DVD box? She's like, I didn't check it. W-N-O.

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1236.805 - 1245.536 Adam Carolla

I was like, okay. Why do I talk? I have no idea why I speak, but okay. All right.

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1246.437 - 1249.6 Sonny Carolla

Wait, did you still end up buying the DVD player?

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1249.62 - 1256.108 Adam Carolla

That would be a cruel joke. Yeah. I bought it, and I lit it on fire like Jimi Hendrix.

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1256.257 - 1257.66 Sonny Carolla

You should have sold it for more money.

1258.242 - 1266.843 Adam Carolla

Flip it. I should have flipped it. No, I never bought it because the deal was when the movies start coming in, I'll get you a DVD player. But we never switched formats.

1266.863 - 1269.068 Giovanni

It was to entice Grandma to...

1270.128 - 1293.112 Adam Carolla

So they like writing. They like the Oscars and they like like all that kind of stuff. And for me, I was like, well, you like football and wrestling and chucking dirt clods and making and riding your BMX bike and working on your bike and riding wheelies and doing all this stuff. They have no interest in any of that. So I guess that's it.

1293.233 - 1312.14 Adam Carolla

I mean, I guess the reason they have no interest in what you're doing is because they have no interest in the things that you're doing. They don't like football. They don't like BMX. They don't like all that crap. And then later on, that gave way to, I love cars. I'm a gear head. And it's like, well, we hate cars. We're non, we're non gear heads.

Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Larry Nassar scandal on USA Gymnastics?

4017.722 - 4031.724 Adam Carolla

You want some tacos? You want a smoke detector? Batteries for the smoke detector? A little mangrove? A little pie? Some endless ran? Anything, anywhere possible. Anytime. Whatever it is, Postmates, we'll get it. We use these guys all the time.

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4031.744 - 4043.074 Adam Carolla

Like I said, when you're sitting around and you've got a bunch of guys and you're watching a football game, who wants to get up and miss a quarter of football? Go stand in line. No, use Postmates, man. 30 days. You can try it out for free.

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Chapter 5: How does the conversation shift to the XFL and its future?

4043.094 - 4067.861 Adam Carolla

They'll deliver any order over $20 when you sign up for Postmates Unlimited. So let's get going here, people. Download the Postmates app on iOS or Android and... Get anything, anywhere, anytime. Look, 2018, people, your time is worth something. Time is money, man. Postmates, they get it. All right, we'll do a quick break. We'll come back with news right after this.

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4068.402 - 4072.007 Alison Rosen

Give me the news with Grad. News with Gina Grad.

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4072.207 - 4081.078 David Wild

Breaking viral, all those crazy Trump tweets. Give me news with Gina Grad. Trouble in the Middle East.

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4081.099 - 4082.12 Adam Carolla

Celebrity drunk meltdown.

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Chapter 6: What insights are shared about In-N-Out's work culture and employee benefits?

4082.26 - 4084.543 Adam Carolla

Seek news with Gina, Gina Grad.

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4087.207 - 4089.409 Alison Rosen

The News with Gina Grad.

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4089.889 - 4110.908 Gina Grad

So, you know, a few days ago we talked about Larry Nassar, the doctor for the Olympic team that is now charged with molesting hundreds of girls, gymnasts. Yeah. Well, the entire USA Gymnastics Board will resign now in the wake of the scandal stemming from the sexual abuse of all these athletes by former Dr. Larry Nassar. That's according to CNBC and The Washington Post.

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4110.928 - 4131.372 Gina Grad

Nassar, he was the former gymnastic sports doctor. He's pleaded guilty to molesting girls and young women. was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison. Now, some of the nation's top gymnasts, including Olympians Ali Raisman, Simone Biles, you know, household names, said they were among victims and that cleaning out the entire USA gymnastics board is just a start.

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4131.942 - 4154.587 Adam Carolla

The Olympics are kind of a metaphor for how big everything, just international, big everything just always goes south. It gets corrupt. Whenever you see any stories about Olympic and international and how they pick the cities and how they choose the this, it's always a big corrupt mess. It's always going to be a big corrupt mess.

4154.607 - 4158.591 Giovanni

That is systemic. I mean, it's in every bit of the whole thing.

4158.571 - 4181.725 Adam Carolla

Yeah, it's it's my kind of argument for like human nature. That's just this is international human nature. This is this country is better than most. A lot of the countries that are part of the international whatever. Their sort of thing is like if you're not trying to scam somebody, you're an idiot. You're weak. You're a sucker if you're not scamming the person.

4181.745 - 4186.393 Adam Carolla

So now we'll just do the Olympics version of that. And it could go no other way.

4186.473 - 4190.46 Giovanni

And the city for the Olympics is awarded to the best scammers. Yeah, exactly.

Chapter 7: What are the challenges of interviewing childhood heroes?

7837.951 - 7855.313 Unknown

And I was there to do the Rolling Stone interview, which is the career retrospective. And there was all this shit he did not want to go over again. And I literally just got into like a little argument with my hero, which was very uncomfortable. What year was this? This was Spike when he had Veronica. And I'm pretty new to Rolling Stone.

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Chapter 8: How does the discussion shift to the impact of celebrity relationships?

7855.553 - 7874.738 Unknown

And the next day I had broken his spirit and he gave me the interview I wanted. And it was amazing. I weirdly feel I just wrote the thing with him for the McCartney tribute where we did like a little tribute to Paul. But my real, and let's put it out there in the ether, I'm pretty sure I introduced him to his wife, Diana Krall. Oh, really?

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7874.758 - 7887.156 Unknown

I believe they met at the Grammys when they presented together. And it was literally, I remember going, Elvis, do you know Diana? And I think that's when they met. It would be a more charming story if he wasn't already with someone at the time, but it's still charming.

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7887.136 - 7899.432 Adam Carolla

I judge people by how I think they would judge me. And I think Elvis Costello would think I was a buffoon. And I also think Michael Stipe would think I was an asshole. So I don't like them automatically.

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7899.452 - 7907.982 Unknown

Based on my knowledge of those two, you're only half right. I believe Elvis would love you. Oh, really? He loves the quick-witted and no one is quicker in the wit than you.

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7908.163 - 7912.468 Adam Carolla

But we'd never get to my nougaty center through my thick candy shell.

7912.448 - 7914.972 Unknown

I will get Elvis in here. I know Elvis.

7914.992 - 7916.795 Adam Carolla

Michael Stipe, I'm sure hates me.

7916.915 - 7922.203 Unknown

He hates me. I am a big R.E.M. fan. The minute I met him, I couldn't. He was so a freak.

7922.223 - 7937.967 Adam Carolla

Why do I hate? I hate him from a thousand miles away. Like when I fly over Georgia, I'm like, oh, God. I hate my. And I like the band. And I've never even spoke to the man. And I know I hate him. Is it the scarf? Yes. That's part of it.

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