Comedian Orny Adams + “Jackpot” Director Paul Feig

Adam Carolla Show

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Comedy, Talk Radio

4.5 • 36.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Adam welcomes Orny Adams for his 20th visit to ACS and they open by talking about the 20th anniversary of Dave Matthews’ tour bus dumping its waste onto a tour boat in the Chicago River. Then they discuss how auto commercials went from selling toughness to selling love and how this is mimicked in politics. Next, Dawson joins to read the news including stories about how the California plastic bag ban actually led to more plastic waste, Snoop Dogg’s rumored $500k Olympics day-rate, a new Australian “flying car” and a revised way to sing the alphabet song. Finally, director Paul Feig returns to the show to talk about his new movie “Jackpot”, dealing with network/studio notes, working with John Cena, starting comedy at the age of 15 and if he ever thinks about returning to stand-up. For more with Orny Adams: ● INSTAGRAM: @ornyadams ● WEBSITE: www.ornyadams.com ● The Comedy and Magic Club - Hermosa Beach, California August 15th ● CB Live - Phoenix, Arizona August 30th through September 1st ● Ice House - Pasadena September 14th For more with Paul Feig: ● INSTAGRAM: @paulfeig ● New film Jackpot on Amazon Prime August 15th Thank you for supporting our sponsors: ● http://SimpliSafe.com/Adam ● This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp http://BetterHelp.com/Carolla ● http://ForThePeople.com/Adam or Dial #LAW (#529)

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0:00.0	Comedian Ornie Adams is in studio.
0:02.4	Dawson's going to do the news, director, writer, all-round good guy.
0:06.8	Paul Feig is in studio, and we'll do all that right after this.
0:11.2	Despite the modern myth, the ancient Olympics were far from being a pure expression of untainted
0:18.2	athleticism.
0:19.2	But that doesn't mean they weren't badass.
0:23.0	So allow me to take you on a little tour through the ancient Olympics.
0:28.0	But I'll warn you, ancient Olympian tour guides were notorious for being liars and propagators of historical myths.
0:37.0	One Roman era sightseer named Lucian once quipped, quote, abolish lies from Greece and all the tour guides would die of starvation,
0:49.0	since no visitor wants to hear the truth even for free."
0:55.2	If Lucian can be trusted, then even in ancient times the history of the Olympics was riddled
1:01.4	with mythology and fake history.
1:04.0	So I think the only way to get a sense of those games
1:08.0	is to dive right in to the mythology.
1:12.0	Let's do it. Check out the mythology. Let's do it.
1:13.0	Check out the podcast Our Fake History and the Olympic myths episodes
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