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From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's the Treatment, although today I'm not in Santa Monica.

I'm in Glendale.

If you see the new movie, Rodhart, takes a look at the life of a guy who got his start kind of in about 20 years ago using stand-up in other venues like on a TV show making fun of masculinity on radio.

It's a lot like the life of my guest, Adam Carolla, who co-wrote and co-directed in the film, Rodhart.

First of all, Adam,olla, who co-wrote and co-directed the film, wrote Hart.

First of all, Adam, thanks so much for doing this.

Thank you so much for having me.

Because I think it's really, what's really funny is how much of your life is in both this and the hammer.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, it's really these like bookends, aren't they? Yeah, well, I felt like I've lived a few lives.

The first movie I did The Hammer was a carpenter who was a boxer, which was part of my past.

And then this is more of a stand-up comedian who had some success in television and had to go

back and get in touch with his stand-up roots, not because he wanted to, but because he got

divorced and he needed money, and Hollywood was, you know, all honey-boo-boo-boo now. And it's, you know,

semi-autobiographical, but it's true in that when I lost my job in Terrestrial Radio in 2009,

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