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SPLASH ’N‘ GO with Adam Carolla ON... …NASCAR:
“NASCAR has become like the nutria in Louisiana. It multiplied and is killing a lot of indigenous life forms. I like NASCAR, especially the road courses, but I need more variety in my racing diet. I’ll watch the Goodwood Festival, Moto GP, F1, salt fl ats, jet cars, sprints, drag racing, hill climbs, etc. NASCAR used to have a handful of big, must-see events. Now, they try to have a Super Bowl every weekend and it pushes a lot of other cool stuff to the side.”
…BEING A CARPENTER: …WHAT WOULD IMPROVE NASCAR:
“Bring back cars that look stock. When they crash, I want to see car parts fl ying, chrome bumpers and real headlights, damn it, not stickers.”
“I was a fi nish carpenter until the mid-90s — doing trim work, cabinets, countertops and hanging doors. People don’t realize what an art there is to hanging stain-grade oak doors and getting everything to line up just right — especially oversized, French, or as I like to call them, ‘Freedom,’ doors.”
…HIS RECORD-BREAKING PODCAST:
…CARS THAT ATTRACT DUDES:
“Dudes are drawn to sound. If it’s loud, guys like it. However, if you go anywhere in a 1970 Plymouth Superbird — the one with the huge wing and preferably a Roadrunner graphic on the side — dudes will gather.”
… “CHICK MAGNETS”:
“In L.A., it’s not about the car. Women don’t really care about cars. They want to know who is driving it. More specifi cally, they want to see the guy driving get out and open the door for the guy they really want to meet. A Rolls-Royce is nice. A Rolls- Royce with a driver carrying an umbrella is money.”
…“THE CAR SHOW” HITTING ITS STRIDE:
“It’s all about the time you have to work. When a group like the four of us start fi lming segments in two hours instead of four, that’s when we’ll know the chemistry is really working.”
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“I hope the American people recognize the service I did in knocking Ricky Gervais from the top spot. He’s foreign. I brought the title back to America, where it belongs.”
The Carolla File A
s host of SPEED’s “T e Car Show,” Adam Carolla has many NASCAR fans’ dream job: He gets paid to
drive and talk about cars. But the new show is one of
many vehicles for the voluble Carolla’s famously sarcastic take on the world. After a long career in
radio and TV — he co-hosted “Loveline” with Dr. Drew Pinsky on syndicated radio and on MTV — Carolla was named as Howard Stern’s replacement after the shock jock switched to satellite. But three years into the gig, Carolla’s show was cancelled as part of a format change. So, Carolla turned to a new medium: podcasting. T e “Adam Carolla Podcast”
went on to become the most- downloaded podcast in history — look it up in the “Guinness Book of World Records” — and carried the standard for the fl edgling medium. Carolla’s show, released
fi ve days a week, is now the tent-pole property for the ACE Broadcasting Network, a family of podcasts. He also performs live comedy across the nation and last November, his fi rst book, “In Fifty Years, We’ll All Be Chicks,” hit the best-seller list.
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