I spent many nights in high school falling asleep to Germany or Florida, lightning rounds, and betting on what age girls were molested at. Then in 2002, Adam got popular from the radio show and from the Man Show on Comedy Central and split to take over for Howard Stern.
Adam is a god. But even that didn't help the morning radio show. After changing up the co-hosts and other aspects of the show, the ratings were still in the shitter, and the radio station carrying it changed formats to Top 40 and ended the morning radio show.
However, this was definitely a blessing for all those not in LA who didn't get to listen to Adam every day. Since he's waiting for his pilot with CBS to take off, he doesn't have much to do, so decided to start up a daily podcast, for free.
While under contract with CBS, he can't earn money from the podcast, so its unsponsored, meaning he can say and do whatever the hell he wants, which is when Adam is at his best. I highly recommend checking it out, if you haven't yet. Each episode is only about an hour long, so it's perfect to listen to while driving to work or waiting for the bus. He's already set the all-time record for the most downloads of a single podcast (upwards of 600,000) and gets about 1 million downloads a week. So even though bandwidth is costing him nearly $50,000 a year out of his own pocket, it'll remain free at least through the end of this year.
The Adam Carolla Podcast
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Just a brief correction, from what I know, the Aceman was forced out of Loveline. They slashed his contract and raised Drew's, and Drew went ahead and signed anyways.
he's got a really good radio face.
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