Welcome to Krolla Classics, I'm your host superfan Giovanni.

This is the podcast where we play the best moments, highlights, and fans like the clips from all 16 years of the Adam Carolla show. We have a companion podcast title, Crolla Classics. You can find the ad-free archives exclusively available through Podcast 1.plus. And if you'd like to get access to the ad-free archives of the Adam Crolla Show and the Adam and Dr. Drew show, as well as access to the brand new podcast, Beat It Out. make sure to check out Adamcrolla's substack, Adamcrula.com. And if you like to request a clip, please email it's classics at Adamcruly.com. Now on to the clips. Today's episode of Cural Classics is made up with episodes from 2009, the very first year of the podcast. The first episode of, episode 191, Mike Tolan, director, he'd direct the movie radio and a bunch of other things.

This is an episode that probably hasn't been heard by most people since it originally aired.

I thought it'd be really fun to dig it out of the archive and see what happens.

Hope you guys enjoy.

Welcome to the podcast, Mike Tolan.

Mike, you may not recognize the name, but Mike is a big-time director.

He's recently did Who Killed the USFL, which is part of the 30-for-30 documentary series that's on ESPN, which I've been enjoying the shit out of.

But then you have wild hogs.

Jesus, that movie made some money.

Norbert, all that.

Coach Carter, varsity blues, one of my favorites, and I don't even know why.

And many others to your credit.

So you like sports and you like directing.

That's good.

Sports has been good to me to paraphrase somebody who was talking about baseball.

Yeah, Chico Esquale, I think.

Well, I started doing documentaries, and then I worked for Major League Baseball,

and then I came out here and hooked up with Brian Robbins, and we found –

it's a great place for storytelling.

You know, you've got winners and losers, good guys and bad guys, you know what you're rooting for. It's the best. Well, it really is. I mean, when you're watching sports, you're watching things unfold and the drama and the pageantry and all that kind of stuff, it's built in. I mean, why should you sit down and write anything? It's already all happened. I mean, every home run's been hit in the seventh inning. Every 20-to-one underdog is knocked out the champ. You know, all these things have happened. But that's part of the challenge, Adam, because you just assume you're watching a sports movie. You've seen enough, like starting with Hoosiers, which is hard to top. You assume the good guys are going to win at the end. So we always adopted the approach that there's more drama in losing. The first documentary we did, well, we didn't have a script, but the reality is the team that we followed lost in the state championships. And then, you know, in hardball, the little kid gets killed at the end, and they don't actually play the big game. And in Coach Carter, they actually lose in the playoffs at the end. So, you know, Friday Night Lights had the same thing happen. So, you know, it's, we always like to say, yeah, we're making a sports movie, but it's about something else, and you've got to sort of hook into the characters and what's

at stake but it's just really accessible it's a common language and people love it we're working on a

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