Hi, I'm your unused PTO. It's almost the end of the year and if you don't put me on a time sheet, I will be gone forever.

Use me or lose me. Let's get away!

It's Getaway Time. Get our best deals of the season on a new Hyundai. It's your journey. Own every mile at the Hyundai Getaway sales event.

Now get zero percent APR, zero payments for 90 days and a thousand bonus cash on select vehicles.

Visit your local Hyundai dealer today. Hurry, the Hyundai Getaway sales event ends January 3rd. Call 15623144603 for offer details.

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo.

Today we're talking with my friend Adam Corolla. Yes, that Adam Corolla finally had a chance to have Adam on the show and we'll discuss coming up in comedy and resisting negative influences.

Plenty of those in many of our backgrounds, especially Adam. We discussed why trading time for money is a losing proposition, how he came to that conclusion, how we can break that cycle and what led Adam to do the same.

And we'll learn how to tell if we're doing something for ourselves or doing something based on pressure from others and why it's important to run towards your fear.

Adam's a great storyteller. That probably goes without saying he's a radio legend and there's so much covered in this episode.

I really think you'll enjoy it. Even if you're not sure why what what Adam Corolla teach me about life, I think there's a lot here. I mean, remember, this is a guy who when we were kind of kids was doing love line and influencing a lot of the generation that's broadcasting right now that you're hearing right now myself included.

Don't forget we have a worksheet for today's episodes. You can make sure you solidify your understanding of all the key takeaways here from Adam Corolla. That link is in the show notes at Jordan Harbinger.com slash podcast. All right, here's Adam Corolla.

So when you started off in comedy, I know you said before your friends were making funny you for going to groundlings and taking opportunities like that.

Well, they're really looking at them as opportunities. They were making fun of me in the sense that they didn't understand what the notion of doing improv and paying to do improv was pretty foreign to them.

Like you make stuff up and it's not even for free. You make stuff up and then you pay somebody to watch you make stuff up and that seemed like a fool's errand to them.

Well, at the time for you, did that feel like a negative influence or did you just feel like, all right, I'm an alien among my contractor buddies or my construction buddies.

I guess growing up not really having a dad that I confided in or took direction from or discussed or had any.

My dad never did need like mentoring and no one in my family didn't need what you would call sort of mentoring. So I guess I realized that I was going to be sort of left to figure things out of my own.

And I never really thought like I should really talk to one of my friends and then weigh their advice and really see where they're coming down on this whole doing comedy or stand up versus radio or radio versus sketch or improv or whatever it is.

I didn't feel like the world was against me. I just felt like nobody cared and why should that guy know anything about improv or sketch or whatever.

And then when I, you know, later on when I ran into the Jimmy Kimmel's of the world, I was like, OK, well, that guy knows about radio. He's been doing radio for, you know, 10 years or by the time I met him, I don't know, maybe maybe eight years.

And I was like, OK, listen to that guy about radio, but don't don't listen to your buddies are doing Earthquake rehab about comedy.

...