Ant and Adam are real guys who are interesting, opie went to broadcast school, he's is the product of what he claims to hate, and I don t even think he realizes that whenever he would trash hack shows his excuse when you called him on hack was that he realized he was bad and changed, but once stripped of his partner, given the reigns to run a show and a station, he immediately jumps back into his hack learned bullshit, he never learned shit

I'm sure he did he's just too much of a talentless coward to make use of the knowledge.

*Lovelines

It was a reference to how Opie always said "LoveLines" when referencing the show. He's not good with words, okkkkkaaayy? But he's really fuckin' good at math. Like a math whiz growing up.

In a way I'm glad that "OpieRadio" has gotten bad enough to where I no longer even listen. When it was just coasting on mediocrity for a while there I had hope it would get better so I had a hard time letting go. I've been listening to the Classic Loveline podcasts, which are just the old Loveline w/ Adam & Dr Drew from the 90's, and they're so great, especially when you consider the lame shock-jockery that radio was at at that time, most of which hasn't aged well at all. Most the shit Adam talks about on those Lovelines from almost 20 years ago is still hilarious and relevant today.

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& now Carolla writes books about fatherhood with him & his kids on the cover. Being funny is a hard thing to maintain

I agree, the name is douchey and the books aren't the greatest, but not everything has to be a winner. There's no one who you can throw any topic to that can riff on it quite like him. Norm does an impression of Adam where he's riffing on the shape of ice cubes, forget which podcast it was on but it's one of the greatest things ever.

The "can riff on anything" reputation, I'll agree about that in the 90s. But in his podcast era, it seems like he has 3 rants that he just repeats over & over again. I don't even know how many times I've heard him tell the story about his mom being a fan of Jon Stewart until she learned that Adam knew him.

But in his podcast era, it seems like he has 3 rants that he just repeats over & over again.

We're O&A fans. Where do we have room to complain about this?

I agree. Also the "give me one good reason why I should pay for cable" while he had two shows on cable at the time story. But those aren't things he talks about when riffing so much as they are things that sometimes come up which he does shoehorn in on occasion.

But I like Adam. Adam is a flawed man, which he admits himself. He has unintentionally surrounded himself with yes-men who haven't yet told him that he's grown complacent in his content. He doesn't seem to challenge himself to find new material. That all being said, he's said some of the funniest things I've ever heard in my life and I will always think of some things he said as being great advice. Curiously enough, his advice on dealing with a shitty family is really helpful.

I haven't listened in the post-Alison Rosen era, but her & Bald Bryan were such "yes men" agreeing with everything Adam said that I think it made for bad radio. Because Adam is funny when he's defending a point and working from the top of his head. But on his podcast it's him talking about how tomatoes aren't a good pizza topping for the 10,000th time & Bald Bryan sucking his dick about how right he is about that opinion

Adam once had the nerve to say that Oreos were awful cookies, and Bryan and Alison agreed with him. If you don't like an Oreo cookie, then I feel sorry for you

He has the "tomatoes are bad pizza topping" conversation atleast weekly. 1 time Bald Bryan goes "you think if you like tomatoes, it's already taken care of with the sauce!". It's like, he has to go out of his way to make up stupid shit just to agree with him.

Ugh, we don't need to talk up Adam Carolla just because Brother Wease hates him. Nasally voiced narcissist.

Corolla sucks. He has never been interesting or original. He's just put along side someone who is less funny (Dr. Drew, Sarah Silverman's ex, Danny Bonadouche) and he is funny by comparison. The guy is a multimillionaire who pretends like he is a regular Joe. He has been on radio and TV for decades and pretends like he isn't making enough money-- that's because he lives in the second most expensive neighborhood in the country!

He is a nose speaking wank.

Have you ever listened to him? He talks about being rich all the time and how spoiled his kids are and how he refuses to fly anything but first class.

His movie Road Hard is about having to hit the road to get money.

He constantly talks about when he worked construction.

He references being a working stiff and how he relates to them when he talks about politics.

His movie wasn't a documentary. He talks about being rich now and how he wants other people to work hard like he had to before he got rich. He basically speaks about it the same way that Anthony does.

I agree, the name is douchey and the books aren't the greatest, but not everything has to be a winner. There's no one who you can throw any topic to that can riff on it quite like him. Norm does an impression of Adam where he's riffing on the shape of ice cubes, forget which podcast it was on but it's one of the greatest things ever.