Artie Lange's Podcast Channel - 37 - ADAM CAROLLA

Episode Date: December 13, 2021

Artie welcomes radio personality, comedian and podcaster, Adam Carolla. Mike Boccetti also joins. www.bluechew.com Promo Code ARTIE to try it for free! www.betterhelp.com/ARTIE for 10 percent off www.lucy.co Promo Code ARTIE for 20 percent off Join Patreon.com/ArtieLange to get an additional full length episode every week plus access to nearly 400 "Artie Quitter" podcast episodes

we're back with arnie lang's halfway house mike borchetti is joining us what's in the back of you it's a blue screen but it looks like a blue trampoline is that it is a trampoline. It's actually my toilet sheet. I was going to say, who uses a trampoline in your family? I used to at one time five or six years ago. Five or six years ago? You were pretty

heavy, man. I started working out then. I started training again. I started working on cardio kickboxing. And is that the... Really, do you have a trainer? Yeah. I started a few weeks ago. But the thing is, I went to my cardiologist yesterday, right?

Oh yeah, no kidding. And all my vital signs, he said, are phenomenal. It's like I never even had a heart attack. How many heart attacks have you had? Just one. I'm not looking for another one. No, no, no. That's good. Good, that's good. How many heart attacks have you had? Just one. Okay. I'm not looking for another one. No, no, no.

That's good. Good for you, Mike. I'm glad you got a good bill of health there. Well, if I do die, I hope it's an upscale salad bar and I fall into it. An upscale salad bar? I don't think there's things that remain. Like at Bennington's or something like that. That's upscalenington's or something like that.

That's upscale? The minute is, yeah. Now your earpieces keep falling out. Well, everything falls out with me. Why don't you like the headsets, like I'm wearing? I got one. I'm not sure if it works. I haven't used it yet.

You're afraid it'll mess up your chartreuse hair? Oh, yeah, yeah, because what was I going to say? Who's coming in? You said Adam Carolla? Adam Carolla, yeah. I love him from the man show. Yep, absolutely. Well, he came on your show as well. What do you call it? On DirecTV.

Yeah, no, Adam's a good friend. He's funny. I love him because, you know what That was one of my favorite shows I still love the I forgot the name of the girls Speaking of trampolines Yeah

Well, the Juggalos Oh no, the Juggalos are Like a part of Insane Clown Posse Yeah They're tough The Juggalos are like a part of Insane Clown Posse. Yeah. They're tough, the Juggalos, I think. Yeah, they're a rough crowd. Absolutely.

Oh, you know who came on your show on DirecTV? We had a lot of musicians. Gwar. Gwar did? No, I don't remember that. I don't remember Gwar doing it. With all the masks and stuff? Yeah.

Well, they came dressed as civilians and they put the costume on. In fact, one of the guys died from Gwar, right? After a couple of years later, I think. From doing our show. No, but you know who was really cool? I still say his name wrong. Niles or Nils Lofgren was really a nice guy. Nils.

It's very simple. Nils. Nils. Nils. All the Viking names sound the same. But it's like the easiest name on the planet to pronounce. N-I-L-S. Nils.

It could be Nils. No, it's Nils. Well. There was also a cool guest that loves you? I found out Armistice Pyle. Who? From Leonard Skinner. Artemis Pyle.

Artemis. Artemis Pyle, yeah. Yeah, he was the drummer. He's got an insane story. He lasted throughout the plane crash. Yep. He walked away from a plane crash and then got shot by some guy. Some farmer's son, right? Yeah, some farmer's son. And he survived both things.

A plane crash. No, he was in a couple of plane crashes, actually. He was? Yeah, he was a Marine as well. So, on this is no joke. No, I'm not saying he is Well Mike So behind you

Real quick That's why you can't Get it to like Fully cover the screen It's because You You have a trampoline Instead of a blue screen

It's a trampoline Slash toilet sheet Depending on what day it is All right Who do you like In the football games this week? I'm not a football fan It's a trampoline slash toilet seat, depending on what day it is. All right. Who do you like in the football games this week? I'm not a football fan. I'm not American as it sounds.

Really? I was a Jets fan growing up. That makes a lot of sense. I know. And I also was a Knicks fan growing up and a Mets fan growing up. All the losers I loved. Mets, the Knicks, and the Jets. That's a lot of heartbreak, my friend.

And the Rangers. The Rangers got one in 94, at least. That was the first one they won since the 1940s, I think. 1940. Unbelievable, right? You know what? It's funny because I did a gig that week with Jim Florentine for the first time in 94. What are you talking about? That was the first time I met Jim back in 1994 when the Rangers won the Cup.

Oh, really? At a gig? You were doing a gig? I met him in a place called My Way in Queens. We did a gig together. That's how I became friends with Jim way back in like June of 94. All right. Well, we got to go, Mike.

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That's patreon.com slash artylagnagy or hit the join button on Arty's YouTube page. Arty Lang's Halfway House, Adam Carolla, my guest. Adam, first of all, Adam Carolla, my guest. Adam, first of all, thanks for coming on, buddy. My pleasure. Yeah, so more political these days than I remember you.

With the No Safe Space documentary. Yeah, I just started to feel like the world was kind of closing in on comedians and people that had something to say and the free thinkers. And there was a lot of people being sort of removed from their jobs and deplatformed and things like that. I started to feel it a few years ago. So I started to kind of push back on that. Right. Good for you, by the way, because there's no bigger supporter of that than me. And you did this with, what's your partner's name, Dennis? Dennis Prager is a radio guy that I've been a fan of for a million years, even growing up in Los Angeles,

listening to talk radio. I always listen to talk radio because I was a carpenter and I was lonely. Like I was working on job sites with guys that didn't speak English or English, but you didn't want to speak to them. And I found myself just listening to talk radio like you turn the radio on when you're going to leave your dog in the apartment for 10 hours. So it felt like they had a friend. Right. And I used to listen to Dennis Prager and everyone who was on AM talk radio. And I ended up being like a fan of talk radio and probably what led me into talk radio at some point. Yeah, definitely. Well, you definitely got a talent for that. That's for sure. But how much do you think listening to Prager developed your outlook on politics? Well, Prager is a very conservative Jew. He's really the you know,

he's really a deeply religious Jew and I'm an atheist. Right. So it works. I still feel like there's a lot you can learn from religion, even if you're not religious. You know what I mean? Like, you know, you you see people that are, you know, like I feel the same way about, you know, Scientology. Like I'm not in with Scientology. I wouldn't be a Scientologist, but, you know, they make a couple of points we could all probably benefit from and i i always felt i feel that way about mormons right you know like i'm not down with the mormon cause but they make a couple of you know i've interviewed donny osmond he makes a few good points yeah every every uh religion or group of people if they're sort of known probably have at least one or two good points you know you

don't get you don't get a following without having one or two. Most of them, even like maybe the Juggalos of Insane Clown Posse, maybe they have a couple of good points. I think you could learn, you should cherry pick from Mormons and Juggalos and create a collage of a great life. Yeah, absolutely. So I know. Would you consider yourself a libertarian or a right wing guy?

I think of myself as a libertarian, but I've always thought myself as sort of a libertarian. But, you know, the way society is going, it doesn't really matter. All you have to have is one thing that goes against the sort of conventional leftist thinking. And then you're a right winger. So if you say I'm for gay marriage, I'm for legalization of marijuana, I'm for legalization of prostitution. But I would like a stout border. They go, OK, you're right winger. Yeah, right. Exactly. I'm cherry picking. I'm doing what we're doing with the Mormons and the juggalos. I'm I'm not anti abortion. I'm not anti drugs. I'm not anti-abortion. I'm not anti-drugs. I'm not I'm not anything. I'm a I'm just a sort of live and let live kind of kind of guy. But I do think there should be cops and I do think there should be a border.

And, you know, people should pay taxes. But once it passes 50 percent, I might say something, but that doesn't make me Rush Limbaugh. In their world, you disagree with anything they say and you're to the right of Rush Limbaugh. Were you a Trump guy? No, but I wasn't a Hillary Clinton guy. Hillary Clinton guy. Yeah, I was like and I was a Trump guy in the sense that. I didn't care about the rhetoric or the tweets or the, you know, sort of boastful, blowhardy, bloviating nature of Trump. I was just sort of policy oriented, you know, so if you were going to lower some taxes and make us energy independent then i was down with that and then if you wanted to send out some tweets at 3 a.m about what a pig you know some you know what a pig one of the ladies of the view was i was like i i don't know

i found that entertaining in a way. I mean, you know, so boring, you know, I sort of miss Trump sending, you know, scrapping with Rosie O'Donnell. Yeah, and that's something that we all can say we miss. Well, what was your documentary called, by the way? I've made a whole bunch of documentaries. There's no safe space thing. No safe spaces was called no safe spaces.

What other documentaries have you made? I made one called the winning the racing life of Paul Newman. Oh yeah. Yeah. I saw that actually. Great job. Yeah. I made a racing doc as I made it. Paul Newman racing doc. I made one called the uppity about the first black driver at Indy.

I made I'm making one on K-Rock radio, at least K-Rock out in Los Angeles radio. I made one on Carol Shelby called Shelby American, uh, made one called the 24 hour war, which was basically Ford V Ferrari. Right. That movie came out sort of Ford versus Ferrari at Lamar. Um, most of them are on Netflix. Um, but if people want to see them for free, they're, uh,

up on my Pluto TV channel channel. Uh, I think it's six 87. It's a chassis channel, uh, which is, um, Oh man, I just hit something. Can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. I'm trying to get the screen back uh there we are um yeah i i made a bunch of doc docs and like i said uh i have a a production company called chassis which is c-h-a-s-s-y and you can you can find them on our cludo tv channel yeah what what would you consider your break when you when you got into this whole business here? What, what was the first thing? Like how did, how did it come about that you hook up with Dr. Drew Penske?

I, uh, my break was really meeting Jimmy Kimmel when Jimmy was at K rockRock Radio doing sports in 1994, and I was working as a boxing trainer, and I trained him to box for a morning show kind of stunt, you know, where the maintenance man was going to fight the sports guy. You know, it was one of those, you know it well. So that was kind of my break and and uh dr drew was doing k-rock and was on a show called love line on k-rock and that's kind of you know

hosting love line this big syndicated juggernaut of a late night show was probably my, my break. Yeah. That was a very successful show. Uh, love line, uh, a show I did for, do you remember how I did that show? Uh, intoxicated. Yeah. Well, besides that, no, you guys were shooting a pilot, uh, to go to Fox TV. And I was on a show called Mad TV at the time. And they asked us to be a guest on it. And it was me, Orlando Jones, and Nicole Sullivan, two other people from the show.

And from there on in, I said to myself, God, the Corolla guy knows how to host a show, man. Oh, really? Yeah. I thought you handled it great and i said a bunch of bunch of off-color shit that dr drew didn't like but um you know just a great way to get into the business is anything in radio i think do you like radio yeah i love radio i've always loved radio. As I told you, I was a fan when I was a carpenter all those years ago. And I loved radio because I never liked being seen.

I didn't like the makeup and the hair and the wardrobe and being on camera. And I was kind of sweaty. I didn't like being seen, but I wanted to be heard. Right. So I thought radio is good because I can just sort of put my ideas in your head without you seeing me. And that was always my number one sort of wish was to just be heard and not seen. Yeah. Well, you did one of my favorite things in the history of radio.

You got a show on a morning station in L.A. And I don't know if it was syndicated, but it was in L.A. And they put Danny Bonaduce on the show with you. And you said, I refuse to come into work. You didn't go to work because you didn't want to work with Danny. Well, I did a year with Danny. And after that year, I decided that a year was, you know, probably about 11 months too much.

So when it came time to do the next year, I said, I'd like to do it, but I'd like to do it without Danny. And they said, okay. Cause you know, radio. Yeah. Right. Okay. Well, we have an agreement. They said, yeah. And then they signed Danny to another year. I said, okay. And I just stopped showing up. I love that. I love that gum should have not showing up. And how did that end up? Well, what happened was, is I realized the best way to not show up was not to call them and tell them I wasn't going to show up. I just didn't show up. So our last show of the year before we went into the Christmas break was a live show at like Senior Frogs, you know, nighttime show with the Tequiza girls or whatever it was.

And it was a big live show and a bar, you know, and I just physically didn't show up. I didn't show up and I didn't I didn't answer my phone and I didn't do anything. And they couldn't find me. And I wouldn't talk to my agent and I wouldn't answer the phone and I wouldn't do I wouldn't do anything. And they were kind of freaking out because I wasn't negotiating with them. I just wasn't there. And then at some point after about a week of this, there was a ring on my gate at my house and I opened the gate and it was Kimmel standing there. What are you doing here, Jimmy? And he said, uh,

I'm telling you to pick up the goddamn phone. I said, uh, screw those guys, Jimmy, I'm not picking up the phone. And he goes, they won't stop calling me. So pick up the goddamn phone. They're driving me nuts. And so you picked up the phone i just pick up the phone i'm not coming back it with bonaduce and they said all right well we signed him to a year so you know tough shit and i said fine and And at some point they got rid of Bonaduce. Right. And put me back in, which I kind of knew they would do.

But I didn't want it to get to that. But it got to that. Now, you know, James Dixon, James Babydoll. Of course, I love Dixon. You know, Dixon is my agent and he's on the East Coast. And, you know, Dixon, he wanted to keep those checks coming. Right. So he was like, baby, baby, just go in. Just go in. Who cares about Bonaduce?

I said, I can't do a morning radio show with Danny Bonaduce. He said, baby, ignore him. Ignore him. I said, baby, the guy. Just ignore him. Baby, the guy's sitting right next to me for four hours every morning. What do you mean ignore him? Baby, just go in and ignore him. I said, James, what if I just let a macaw parrot loose in your house?

And I just said, just ignore it. Just, you know, when you open the shower curtain and the macaws, they're flapping its wings, just get in the shower, keep your head down, just ignore it. Do you think you could do that? That is the best way to negotiate. Just don't show up. You're pulling a Chappelle as we say. Well, that, that, that was one of my favorite stories got even funnier there uh so what about crank anchors came back huh yeah that's good for you yeah went away for i don't know i i guess crank anchors ran three seasons, four seasons. It says here in the bio 2002 to 2007.

So it's 12 years without it. Yeah, 2007. Then it went away for, you know, over a decade. And then I think at some point Comedy Central did some sort of survey and they were like, what show did we used to do that you guys would like to see come back meaning the audience of comedy central and crank anchors was at the top of the list so we got the band back together and came back for a couple of seasons yeah this says 2019 to the present. That's a long time to be away, 12 years.

Yeah, yeah. I wasn't, you know, obviously I wasn't thinking about it after year nine. I decided it was time to move on with my life. But it just came back. You know, when it comes to podcasting, you really are amazing at it. I always said that, that Adam Carolla is a guy I could listen to talk forever. And how did that come about? So how does that spin off into a podcast?

Where does that come in your life? Well, now Danny Bonaduce is out for my third year of syndicated radio taking over for Stern on the west coast markets right and i had about 12 markets and we were doing great we're number one in a lot of markets i

was getting bonus checks and everything else and had a good year and going into year four a good year and going into year four, I was informed that they were going to flip the format of the mother station. I was on KLSX in Los Angeles and I'd be out of a job. But I still had about eight or nine months left on my contract. So I knew I could go home and get paid for about eight or nine months before I was completely out of work. Right. And part of the contract was you couldn't go back to work for another competing radio station. So I was kind of in a holding pattern. And I remembered from doing the radio show that they would come in every couple of months and go, you know, you had 16 million minutes of streaming last month. And you're the highest streamed show out of any of the radio shows. And I would say, what do you mean streamed?

mean streamed. And they would say, well, there's people you don't have an affiliate in Chicago, but people in Chicago are listening to the show on their computer. They're streaming it on their computer. Oh, OK. And I was like, oh, OK. So. When I got done with radio, I was like, I just wanted to keep connected to the audience and talk to the audience and check in. I didn't like the idea of breaking from the audience that way. I hadn't been off the air in 13 years at that point. So I just said, well, I'm just going to go do this streaming podcast show and I'll just do it for an hour a day. And there's no money in it and there's no network support there's there's no financial support there's no business model there's no advertisers i'll just talk and i'll bring in guys like kimmel and seth mcfarland and guys i know who could they just come over to my

house and sit in my office and we'll just chat for 45 minutes and I'll put it up at midnight. And I just did it. And it just took off and it got really popular, but there's still no business model to it. And I was paying $8,000 or $9,000 a month in streaming costs because it cost a lot of money for bandwidth back then. And the show was popular, but there was no advertisers. There was no model. There was no way to make money. But I had this notion that, well, you know, I'm able to sell tickets to do live shows and T-shirts and stuff like I can kind of keep afloat by not making money from podcasting,

but I could make money indirectly from podcasting if I was promoting a show I was doing and we could sell a lot of tickets. You can justify the podcast thing for that. Right. And at some point, advertisers started to kind of trickle in and it just turned into a business. Yeah. Well, you're sort of a pioneer of that with podcast sponsorship. Yeah. I mean, I was a bit of a pioneer of an independent podcast getting you know national brands to come on board and and advertise yeah right now you did dancing with the stars and the celebrity apprentice what describe what doing dancing with the stars is like what i can't picture you doing that doing dancing with the stars is like what i can't picture you doing that well i was uh finishing my morning radio show and i don't know oh seven or something

and i was in the parking structure of the radio station and the phone rang and it was uh baby doll dixon and he said baby they want you to do dancing with the stars. And when he said it, I felt a little tinge of, of fear. I felt fear. Right. Like remember when you're 13 and they were like, Butch Whitaker wants to meet you after school to fight. Butch Whitaker.

It's a good bully name. Yeah, that's perfect. And remember that feeling you had? Like, oh, crap. Yeah. And now you had to make a decision. Like, you had to go, oh, I'm going to run home serpentine or you're or you'd go, oh, you tell Butch, I'll meet him by the tunnel, you know. And I felt the same fear.

Right. I mean, people call it lame and goofy. And what are you doing? The rally is it's it's the scariest shit you'll ever do in your life. Yeah, my God. that's what i'm saying it is it's like i can't see yourself putting yourself in that awkward position like that i was like i can't dance this sounds like the scariest thing ever and i think people you know people are like oh how much money did they pay you i'm like like, I have no idea. I, I, I,

to this day, I have no idea what the payment was. I was working. I was doing other things. I didn't need the money. It wasn't for the money. It wasn't because I thought I could dance. It wasn't to promote anything. I, I just did it because it scared me. And I thought, well, if it scares you, you should do it. And that that was basically the decision. And how did you do? I got about four rounds in. I got dance of the night or whatever, and then I got kicked out. But I I did. Oh, you know, I did fair did fair to midland you know i wasn't going to practice

nine hours a day i was i was doing morning radio you know yeah you got me for two hours a day however far we can get on two hours a day that'll that that'll that'll work and then celebrity apprentice you did that with Trump? Yeah. And what was that like? What was his involvement in that whole thing? Like, did you just see him at the desk telling you everything sucks, or was he involved in any other part of it? He was, you know, he wasn't doing the lighting or or grip work or you know the whole or craft service or anything he would blow in sit down do his thing and blow out right yeah it was it was just as you

would expect and he'd do a good job you know when he was there but he was always just sort of blowing in, doing his thing and blowing out again. Yeah. Well, you know, he was good at that. Oh yeah. He was, he was good at it. His kids were good at it. You know, they were good in that boardroom and on the, you know, during the challenges and all that stuff. That would infuriate me. Like I could take it from Trump, but when his kids start giving you shit, that to me, that's where my blood would boil watching the show. Like, you know, you got this, like, clean-cut kid,

Trump's son, giving shit to Gilbert Gottfried. It's just to me, like, you know, shut the fuck up. Yeah, I was like, you know, it's like, you know, shut the fuck up. Yeah, I was like, you know, I wasn't you know, when I was done and everyone would go, you know, what was Trump like? You know, and I would I would say, I mean, I you know, I had a joke about Trump, but I would say that, you know, he's a blowhard. He's exactly what you think he is and so on and so forth. But I would say he his kids really respected him and he got along well with his kids. And I don't trust an adult who, you know, hasn't spoken to their son in six years or is estranged or whatever. It always seems like a bad marker when you talk to that adult guy and he doesn't have a relationship with his son.

I always felt like something's wrong with that guy or there's something going on there. And I always said about Trump, I was like, he's a blowhard. He's a loud mouth. He's this, that and the other. But his kids respect him and he respects his kids. And you've got to kind of give the devil his due for that. They do get along. They do work well together. And it's more than I could say for me and my dad. and it's more than I could say for me and my dad. Yeah, I'll tell you, you know, it seems like his kids want to be him more than anything.

There's no rebellion against him, which is odd. There's no kid who wants to be like a roadie with the Rolling Stones. They're all in for the Trump ride. Yeah. Yeah, so now what do you got coming up next? You do a lot of films too. You did one film about the boxer

and you did another film about the road. Yeah. I did a couple of independent features. One's called The Hammer. It's about a boxer. And that's told me it's free on YouTube now, they tell me.

And you box, right? Yeah. A long time ago. And then you did something with The Road, right? I did a movie called Road Hard, which is just a movie about a, you know, kind of failed comedian or a guy who used to be pretty famous in Hollywood, who is now sort of back on the road playing clubs after the divorce and after the TV shows dried up little autobiographical. But yeah, one's a story about a boxer and the other is a story about a road comic. But they both star me and they both are things in both worlds that I knew pretty well. And they're both comedies with, you know, a little heart in there.

And they're they're well received, considered good. I mean, the Hammer is 80 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and like 90 percent with the critics. It got Sports Illustrated, like best sports comedy, you know, 2007 or something like that. So there were good movies. People can find them out there. I think they're on. I think they go to Chassis, my production name, chasssy.com. I have a Pluto TV channel and I think everything's up there for free. I think that the documentaries are up there and road hearts up there and so forth. What made you want to do standup?

Well, I did a little bit of standup at the very beginning. I would say at the beginning of my career, but I wasn't having a career. So it was not really the beginning of my career. It was just at the beginning. I did stand up. I did open, you know, I did open mics, you know, and I wasn't any good at it. And I didn't really find my voice. And it just, it was the kind of thing that I thought I could be good at, but I just didn't know how to be good at it. And I never put the time in and I probably couldn't get past myself in a lot of ways, emotionally, psychologically. So I just kind of left it alone. And then I got into sketch comedy and improv comedy. And then I got to radio. Then I got to TV. And then it became like, well, why would you go back and learn stand up comedy if certain point, you know, I became Michael Jordan going to play baseball. I don't care. I want to learn how to do this. And, you know, when the syndicated radio show ended

and I was podcasting and the offers weren't coming in and the money wasn't coming in, they were like, go out on the road and do stand up. And I was like, I don't really know how to do stand up. And they're like, well, people like you, you know how to talk, just get up on stage. You know, so I kind of did that. And not easy to do, by the way. What's that? Not easy to do that, by the way. Yeah. It's not easy for a lot of people to do it. For me, it was pretty easy. It just sort of came naturally to me. So I was like, OK, I can do this. I just kind of bumblefuck my way through it. And then at a certain point, I thought, you know,

stand up is its own art form and you should try to learn it. And so that's what I've been doing for the last several years. I've just been going, act like a standup, right. You know, put, put jokes together, get an act and, and work out and go do it. Do you actively do it now? Yeah. Yeah, I do. What about, um, well, uh, Do you actively do it now? Yeah. Yeah, I do. What about, well, we talked about the fact that you, we didn't talk about that, the fact that you're from Hollywood.

How much does it influence your career to be from Hollywood? Well, I'm from North Hollywood. I'm from the San Fernando Valley. So I'm not really, you know, in, you know, Hollywood, but Hollywood sort of adjacent, but North Hollywood may have, you know, may as well been North Des Moines, you know? Oh, really? Yeah. There wasn't any Hollywood to North Hollywood.

Just kind of blue collar folks. Like anywhere, really. Your neighborhood and my neighborhood had the same amount of celebrities. Zero. But the thing that was a little different for me is. I never dreamt of coming to Hollywood because I was already here. So it wasn't a type of thing where, you know, I interview people in show business and they all had to leave their hometown. You know, they wanted to get out. You know, i was already sort of here and it's a weird

place to try to start your career you know it's probably better off being in a smaller market getting stage time working out and then coming to hollywood you know um i never learned my craft. I was just from here, you know? Right. Right. And so it was it was kind of interesting in that I never felt like I needed to go somewhere. On the other hand, I felt like if I was from somewhere, I would have worked it out. And when I was ready, come to Hollywood. Right. I grew up just outside of New York City, and the same thing could be said for that,

as far as stand-up is concerned, that's for sure. But, you know, it does make you, it does add more pressure to it, absolutely. I also wanted to bring up the fact that this was funny to me. You brought it on my show, my old show on DirecTV. You invented a liquor. Yeah. You would describe that.

Well, I took some, I had a little bit of red wine left in a bottle one Friday night. I was already like in my bathrobe. I like to drink red wine at night. I didn't want to get dressed and go down the hill and buy a bottle of wine, but I wanted to get my buzz going. So I took what was left of my red wine. I dumped it in a glass and I thought,

you know, how could I stretch this out a little? So I poured some vodka into the red wine. And you thought you had a problem. All right. Jesus. And it tasted like ass. So I was like, of course it tastes like shit. And so I said, well, how do I fix this? Because now I've ruined whatever red wine I had left.

Right. So I dumped a little orange juice in with it and I put a few ice cubes in it. And all of a sudden it tasted awesome. And I was like, I think I just invented something called Mangria,ria, like sangria, but it was like high octane sangria. Yeah, it is. Absolutely. Instead of taking wine and stepping on it with a bunch of muddled fruit and juice, I'll take wine and put vodka in it and step it up, you know, and put some orange juice in it. And I was like, I love this shit.

And so I decided to bottle it. Who decides that? You can go to CorollaDrinks.com if you want to get a bottle. It's good stuff. And it's kind of fun for your next Christmas party. Why not? Why not? I mean, absolutely.

Of all the drinks out there, I'd say that would be a fun little festive thing around the holidays. Well, listen, Adam, I appreciate you doing this and all you got going on. Anything you got a plug up to lately? Yeah, I'm doing a series of standup specials. I'm doing six standup specials for the daily wire. And the first one's with Jay Leno and the second one's with Rob Riggle and they're hour long standup specials and they're on the daily wire. So if anyone wants to go check those out, we've done the first two the jay leno one's up

and the rob wriggle one is up and we're doing a few more but uh they turned out real good they're kind of a not quite this the format you would be used to in a stand-up special little improv little stand-up a guest segment it's kind of interesting and i think uh your audience would like it so i was gonna i was gonna say what what is that like as you say stand-up special but then you have a guest and how much of it is actual stand-up i go up and do about the first 15 or 20 minutes of just straight stand up and then we bring the guest on and do like a interview and they do a little stand up and then we'll play a game or two and at the end we do this thing where before the show i hand out balls to the audience and they write one word on the ball and we put all the balls in a bingo hopper.

Right. At some point at the end of the show, the guest just pulls the one ball out and reads the word. And whatever the word is, I have to do a stand up bit on the word. But of course, the guest gets involved. Right. And it's just pure improv. the guest gets involved right and it's just pure improv and you and i've been up on stage and just sort of done that just it's a free association but you got to do the you got to craft a bit around whatever the single word is on that ball that gets pulled out of the hopper see i got to respect that because you said before that dancing with the stars scared you what you just described scares a lot of people including myself uh i consider myself kind of quick on the draw when it comes to comedy but that's that what you just described is as balls man literally i've done it all around the country

it always works and it's a little scary, but it always works. Yeah, well, listen, Adam, I appreciate you coming on. And we'll look for that at thedailywire.com. And I appreciate you doing this, bud. Thank you. Thanks, Artie. Come on my show soon. Absolutely. I'd love to. All right, brother. Good seeing you. Take care, Adam. You too. And thanks for listening to

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