The Nick DiPaolo Show - Adam Carolla | Nick Di Paolo Show #1732

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

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Music Welcome to the show folks, how you is, what it was. I say this calls for action and now. That was a good tough cop that guy. We got a good show today. Let me tell you something. A guy I haven't talked to in a long time and he was nice enough to put me on his podcast when I was out in LA doing other stuff and you see him pop up on Fox News and a few other plays.

He's a good pundit on TV as they say. He's got a special. Dallas, what was the special? Adam Carolla Comes Clean. What? See, folks, it's really getting scary. If I find my way home tonight, I'll be very happy. Yeah, Adam Carolla Comes Clean, you'd find it like on YouTube and Dry Bar, which is all clean comedy and stuff like that. And he writes books. He builds houses. He plays with cars and shit. A regular guy.

It's what we like about him. So here's my sit down, the first part, with a great Adam Carolla. My guest today, very funny guy, bestselling author. Does everything. Made a boxing movie a few years ago that I loved actually. And you see him on all the political pundit shows, or the Fox News, or wherever. And a really good guy, what we call a regular guy, a blue collar guy, but with a lot more smarts. It's my friend Adam Corolla. Welcome to the show, sir.

Thanks, Nick. Thanks for having me. How you been? What have you been up to? Every time I see you on TV, you're plugging a book or what's the latest? I write books every couple of years. It's not really my job.

I do documentaries every couple of years. It's not really my job. I do I do documentaries every couple years was not really my job I do you know daily podcast and I've been doing a lot of touring a lot of stand-up. I have a Stand-up special I just did a couple of dry bar specials. So there's a couple of really and up specials out there Yeah, yeah, I think you can it's called Adam Corolla comes clean and you can see him on YouTube or dry bar or whatever. I can't believe they haven't knocked on my door dry bar. I mean, I'm as clean as I think they're gonna. I think they're they're gonna start branching out. It's interesting. Yeah.

The concept of doing a clean 45 minute stand up show presents a challenge. Sure. And I'm always up for a challenge. I was like, I'll do it. And it was a great experience. Before we get to the stand up, I would like to talk more about that. You know, we, podcasters owe a lot to Adam. I mean, you're the one who sort of blew this thing up for us, didn't you?

Is that correct? Uh, I was definitely very early into this space and I definitely probably paved the way to a sort of monetization, um, um, recipe or, or guide or architecture, like I sort of, I think people podcast before me, not a lot, but there were some out there, but I guess I could take credit for taking a sort of a business model to it, which was just radio, just, you know, build an audience and then sell advertising.

It's, you know, a 120 year old model that I pioneered 15 years ago. You refurbished it. I refurbished it and I also started doing live podcasting over 15 years ago at clubs and theaters all over the country and all that is is an old-timey radio format as well. Did, but yours sort of took off quick. I mean, did that have to do with you being on Comedy Central

and you were pretty big on radio, right? In LA, I mean, did all that help when you, as far as the podcast blowing up, they knew who you were before you started it or no? I think what happened with me is I was on a lot of markets in with a syndicated show called Love Line. Oh yes, True Pinsky. Right, right, right. And so that show was a popular show and it was a heavily syndicated show. So maybe that show was in 110 or 125 markets, right? And then I took over for Stern on the West Coast

and started doing mornings. And that was a syndicated show. But that show was only in like 10 or 12 markets. So now I go from 125 markets to 10 markets. So kind of a lateral move. Yeah, well, in a sense, I'm on late night, which in the radio world is not prime real estate. And then go to Mornings taking over for Howard Stern so that is prime real estate but in much less markets. So now there's all these people who are in Boston or Chicago or Minneapolis who do not get

the Adam Carolla radio show anymore because I'm done doing late night. So they go to the computer and they start listening evidently. I don't know anything about this at the time, but they evidently listen to my show from their computer. So now I'm essentially podcasting in a sense, and this is, you know, 2006 and well then the program directors are coming in every other month and they're saying you got they're basically saying this they're going look you're number five in Los Angeles and that sucks and we need you in the top three or number one in Los Angeles and what have you. So we're disappointed. Also you have 19 million minutes of streaming,

second only to the fan in New York. And so I go, well, that sounds like something, right? And they go, no, it's nothing. We're not interested. We don't care. We don't care. So, well, they couldn't figure out a way to sell it. We're not interested. We don't care. We don't care. What the hell? Well, they couldn't figure out a way to sell it.

Right? Oh, I see. But the markets, but you have a following at that point. Right. It's a huge one. So I have all these million minutes of streaming, but there's nothing to do with it because I'm on terrestrial radio So when I leave terrestrial radio, I think to myself Well all these million minutes of streaming they got a that got account for something

So I when I went to podcasting I was able to Gather up all the people that were already on the computer listening to my radio. Yeah Well, that sort of answers my question. You did a lot before. That was and that was very instructive. I like how like you got into radio and you then I moved to Sternsley. You did all the stuff that I was trying to do because I love radio. I love radio. It's one of my favorite. I listened to it when I was young and people would laugh at me. My butt. You listen to Rush Limbaugh. I go, yeah, I'm fucking listening at the Rush Limbaugh. And I love the art form, whatever you want to call it.

And it didn't have, I was on Comedy Central a lot, so they handed me a show on Howard Stern's station, K-Rock, at noontime, right after Howard. And I was all excited and did it for a couple months, and then I'm at home and I'm painting my house. I'm on a ladder on the roof doing something, which I'm not like you. I don't do a lot of that shit.

I was very proud of myself. I was actually on a roof fixing something. And my wife says, I forget the general manager's name at K-Rock, Tom Sowansow is on the phone. And my wife goes, well, he's up on the, up on the, he goes, tell him he doesn't have to come down. I go, what, this isn't good. Just tell him that the, that this, the, everything's,

the whole network's canceled or whatever, because they had no money. I was new to radio, I jumped into it, and I noticed a lot of long faces in the coffee rooms and shit people who work there and one guy Goes to me he goes. Yeah, they're losing money left and right or whatever the fuck and this isn't gonna last long and I'm like bullshit Sure enough like after two months or three room might have been three or four months But yeah, that was that and that was a I mean, it's a pretty good, you know, K-Rock, I had already, I had a bunch of cops listening to me, a bunch of construction workers, all the stuff,

the people that like you and I. So, but I stayed with it and every, you know, I jumped back and forth. Me and Artie got that show right, right and right that was kind of Directly we're doing that show. Yes, we had you on yeah. Absolutely. Yeah Artie Artie was a little uh, Say he was being Artie. We didn't know

I knew something I knew we had a problem Adam. We had a celebrity chef on and Artie was throwing food at him from our desk across the room. True story. And then the next thing you know, next thing you know, I'm the bad guy. I'm keeping the thing on the tracks. Artie believed they did the show because of his name. I'm the one who brought the deal to him. We were looking for somebody, you know, and anyways, that's how that ended. And here I am.

Yeah. You know? Yeah, no good deed goes unpunished. That's what I learned in show business. I know, I'm telling you. My wife wouldn't even believe me because when we were doing the radio part of the show, Artie, after about two two weeks would turn his back to

me and kind of talk to the sidekick we had this guy Mike Bo Shetty who was a little nuts and he kept talking to Mike and he had his back to me half the show and my wife didn't believe me because she was only listening to it I go fucking watch it and then even some of Artie's fans are going Nick's getting elbowed out under the you know under the basket or whatever and then the tension grew a little bit. It was funny because we did Jimmy Kimmel right after we got the show and me and Artie flew out there and Jimmy goes he goes you guys have your first fight yet? I didn't even know what he's talking about. Oh and about about two weeks later, it's like a bloodbath.

And you know that from radio. Well, I mean, radio guys, you know, look, comedians, radio personalities, they're sort of inherently flawed. True. And, you know, taking two guys and putting them in the same room, who sort of have the same genetics, comedically radio. Yes. Dr. Drew is one of my best friends,

and we've been at it for 25 years, but he's not a comedian, he's a doctor. So we don't have that sort of two hot chicks sense. You know what I mean? He's a fat homely chick and I'm the belle of the ball. So we don't have that right or it's the other way around. Right. Possibly be the other way around. But either way, the analogy stands, which is we don't we're not competing for the same dude, you know, right. And especially like two alpha males. That's like, you know? Right. And especially like two alpha males that's

like, you know, it's just... Anyway, look, it's an interesting thing for your audience, I think, to kind of think about and maybe something to weave into their own relationships, which is I've had a few partners in my day. I've had Dr. Drew, I've had Jimmy Kimmel, I've had Skip Baddell from Catch a Contractor. I've been teamed up with guys. And I'm happy and proud to say that I'm very good friends with all of them

and didn't really have tough times with them at all, which is baked into a creative partnership on camera on mic, you know, it just happens. You know, Jerry Lewis hates Dean Martin and vice versa. And it's just, it has to happen that way. And I avoided it by kind of looking at each partnership as its own entity. And I realized like with me and Dr. Drew,

I was going to be the alpha in that thing. I was gonna do most of the talking and sort of I was gonna guide that partnership. With Jimmy, Jimmy's completely different than Drew. And so I was different in that partnership with him. And then with Skip Baddell, it was a different dynamic. You can't just stay the same. You have to factor in who you're dealing with.

True. And all those guys you just mentioned is one thing. None of them were heroin addicts. No. I mean, that's what I was dealing with. Jimmy did Molly, but that's the name of his wife. Let me ask you about Jimmy. Now we're talking to Adam. I almost said Sandler. Holy shit. Adam Carolla.

Let me ask you about Jimmy. I know you're probably still friends, so I'm not going to get into how I feel about him. I always liked him. I thought he was a regular regular guy I got a whole different vibe about him. I don't again he's your friend or whatever but I don't care I don't like this guy anymore. What the fuck happened? Well it's kind of interesting because he might say the same about me or you as well, although I don't I don't change I've changed. You'd have it. Well, then he'd be fucking wrong. He's the fuck. I know but the problem with I haven't changed I'm sure Chas Bono yelling at Cher. I haven't changed. It's you. It's like Yeah, it's like honey you have a dick now used to have

It's like honey, you have a dick now. You used to have. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. A lot of it is, you know, Hollywood, late night. I mean, there's a whole ecosystem out here that I've sort of chosen to be estranged from. I don't live in it. I don't work in it. I don't thrive in it.

You live in reality. Yeah. But it's also a different reality. It's a reality where you lose a lot of friends, you know, not Jimmy, but I just mean if you want to go down that road in Hollywood, you can, but it's going to cost you something.. And you know, as far as Jimmy goes, I know him as a very decent, moral, generous guy and a funny guy. And that's kind of where it ends with me. I just, I like him, I owe him my career.

He got me started and we've always been friends. And there's political differences. And I have that with a lot of people I would say but I still can recognize the good people from the from the bad people and I recognize him as a good person well in all due respect I think he's a bad person for what he's turned into because he spews that left-wing horse shit that are outright lies and same with Seth Meyers and

these guys are all, it's all like, they're all like, I don't know, they're like puppets for the DNC and they play a pivotal role because Jimmy has a big audience and Stephen Colbert and stuff and I just find, it took me years to come to this conclusion, they're just not themselves but they're peddling this dishonest horse shit. And that's the only way I can say what the Democrat Party represents and what they talk about and how they treat Trump and all the shit that's come out. And I just laugh. I'm flipping through the channels.

I see Seth Meyers doing a burn on Trump like a couple of weeks ago. And it rings so hollow and so stupid and I just I don't know how these guys look themselves in the mirror and Jimmy I knew Jimmy he put I just stand up on a show and me and Artie did a show and I know what you mean decent guy but and I usually never let politics change my opinion about but but this transcends politics what's going on right now how do you feel about how how the media treats Trump and all this resistance that's going on Adam how do you how do you feel I mean I know you're like me you're I don't want to say right-winger but you're a traditionalist

and a common yeah I think that the media just sort of pushed her way right out of any kind of relevance. You know, here's what the media did. They did basically to themselves what an Oprah endorsement does for a candidate now, which is sort of nothing. Right. You know, like it used to be sought after. We needed to get these celebrities together. We need to see if we can get Oprah and Meghan Markle to give us a blessing before we run

for district select committee. And then we found out the Emperor has no clothes. Nobody cares anymore. You know, you see these, you know, I saw some, I saw some tweet the other day, some, I think it was yesterday, it was a headline, said Rolling Stone magazine says Trump, and I'm like, oh yeah, Rolling Stone magazine. You know, yeah, those are the guys who were talking about horse pace 20 minutes ago, right?

They did it to themselves. I used to subscribe to Rolling Stone. I liked Rolling Stone. I would read Rolling Stone. There was a time where if somebody said, you know, CNN said this or Rolling Stone. There was a time where if somebody said, you know, CNN said this or Rolling Stone said that or Los Angeles Times says this or there's a poll from the New York Times, I would have went, oh wow! Now I go, oh who cares?

Yeah. And they did it to themselves. And it didn't just happen though, under, since Trump's been around. I was arguing this shit. I brought this up many times on my show. My first album 1995, I think, or 96 called Born This Way, I actually say on sage, diversity is our strength is the biggest fucking lie. And I was saying that way before anybody. And it, you know, it affected my career. Like you said, it's got to gonna cost you most guys wait till they have a few million in the bank like Bruce Willis or Arnie before they you know reveal their true colors but I couldn't keep my mouth shut but yeah it's they did it to themselves they are you know the NBC's ABC CB they are irrelevant like you say right now and

well they're they're like Al Sharpton Al Sharpton says you know cares with the old race house talking about now, you know Al Sharpton Al Sharpton is gonna boycott Pepsi because they're they're getting rid of their DEI Office, you know, do you think Pepsi cares? Do you think anyone cares? Yeah. No, you're right. These are all they're basically It's like what it is is they had a magic wand but it's out of batteries and It doesn't do anything anymore and they get it out and they still shake it at you Like they're gonna turn you into a lizard and put you into the cornfield, but nobody cares

Yeah anymore and that's kind of what mainstream media is. And then they do this, now they're having to do this sort of circle back thing where they have to get up there and explain that there are things they could have done better in hindsight covering Biden or covering Hunter Biden's laptop or covering COVID. It's like, it's not things that you need to do better.

You need to stop fucking lying. They would, they just do better you need to stop fucking lying they would they do better it's stop lying you know folks you know a stand-up my next gig ladies and gentlemen I don't know could be my last for a while I don't know I'm teeter-tottering if you guys in Illinois that live anywhere near Rosemont or don't even well I people drive a couple of, I've had people fly in, I don't know, they must have money. But Thursday night show is a little light. I think this Friday night show is almost sold out already.

Thursday night's a little light. If you're going to come see me come Thursday night because it's going to depend a lot on my decision whether I continue. Not that I can't draw it from I'm just saying I Feel like I have a book in me that I want to do and shit. I can't I'm not like Colin Quinn I can't multitask I have to focus on one thing or the other Yeah, but doesn't the book crossover with your stand-up maybe but I can't do that shit Anyways come see me on May 15th to 16th at Zanies in Rosemont, Illinois.

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