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Adam Carolla Show

Part 1: Papa John Schnatter (ACS Nov 15)

Adam Carolla Show

PodcastOne / Carolla Digital

Comedy

4.5 • 36.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Adam sits down with the founder of Papa John’s Pizza, John Schnatter. They talk about John about starting his business in the back of his father’s tavern in Indiana and Adam asks about franchising a business and how McDonald’s became the most profitable eating establishment in the world. John then details the various events that got him in trouble with the NFL and eventually ousted from his company. Lastly, Adam asks John about his business plans for the future. Thanks for supporting today’s sponsors: Try.Scribd.com/ADAM Apartments.com TommyJohn.com/ADAM Lifelock.com enter ADAM Geico.com RockAuto.com MarshallHeadphones.com enter CAROLLA15 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to the Adam Corolla Show on Podcast One.

0:07.0

Well in the first half we do a one-on-one with Papa John's founder, John Schneider, talk about business and then we talk

0:16.0

about the business of being cancelled and the culture and what really happened.

0:21.7

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1:04.0

From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Corolla Show.

1:16.0

Adam's guest today, the founder of Papa John's Pizza, John Schnau, and Jay Leno.

1:26.0

And now, excited to announce the new tailback

1:29.6

out of Purdue University,

1:32.0

delivery fee. Purdue University, Delivery Feed, Adam Carolla.

1:36.0

Yeah, get it on, got to get on a church,

1:38.0

get on mandate.

1:39.0

Get it on, and welcome to a day of one-on-one interviews.

1:44.0

Papa John Schneider is here.

1:47.0

Jay Leno is going to join us in the second hour.

1:49.0

Good to meet you, John.

1:51.0

Oh, pleasure. Thanks for having me.

1:52.0

Yeah, I'm very interested in your story. I'm a lot of cancel culture going around out there. Talk to a lot of guys who started businesses. Talk to to the fellow who started, oh God I'll think of it in a

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