Transcript
Giovanni (0:15)
Welcome to Korola Classics. I'm your host, superfan Giovanni. This is a podcast where we play the best moments, highlights and fans like the clips from all 15 years of the Adam Carolla show. We have a separate podcast feed titled Cruella Classics that is exclusively available through Adam Crolla's substack. Make sure to sign up. You'll also get access to Beat it out, the new show with Jay Moore. So now there are three Corolla classics airing every week. We also have a YouTube channel, YouTube.com, make sure to subscribe like some clips and if you'd like to request a clip, please email us. Classics. Now, let's get to today's clips. All right, the idea for this episode is based around the Lotzi tape, singular. It was a recording that was given to Adam at a live show by a fan of his late grandfather, Loti Goreg, giving an interview about his immigrant story of coming to America, escaping Nazi Germany, career, his life, his ambitions. It was a very interesting piece that was put together as part of a different audio series of some kind that would have been lost to time had it not been for this fan. So they turned into this tape and Adam wanted to play clips of it. They started doing this over the course of 2011, and they would play select clips from Lazi talking about his life. And then they ultimately aired the full Lazi tape as a bonus episode around the Thanksgiving holiday of 2011. And we've played the full Lotsi tape before, and we played episodes that contain some of these clips, but we've never played the whole thing. So what we're going to do is I'm going to play every single episode leading up to the full latte tape playthrough where Adam played a select small clip. And we're going to take a chunk of that episode before they play the clip and then the clip itself maybe a little bit after. So comes first, we have Adam Carolla show episode 590. It's Evan Sayett, Allison Rosen, Brian Bishop. It's from 2011. It's the very first clip from the Lottie tape and the story of how it came to be.
Adam Carolla (2:03)
All right, I got some fun stuff first. Interesting stuff. A guy at one of my live shows. And I have to say, people are cool. People ask me all the time, you ever get tired of people bothering you or coming up to you or whatever? I go on the road, I sign autographs. Half the people bring me a sack of nuts to eat on the plane on the way home. And the other half of the people bring me toys to give to my kids. And it's insane because I come home and the kids are even surprised. But I give them the toys that the people give me, and no people are cool. And I was at the last show or one of the shows I was at. I can't remember which one. Joe Campagna, he gave me a disc along with a cd, along with some paperwork, which was my grandfather, from some Ellis island thing they did, where they went around. And it's smart. They archived it. I don't know if it was for the Smithsonian or what, but they went around and they interviewed everyone who sort of passed through Ellis island from a certain time to another time. Basically, let's get hold of these guys before they die. My grandfather was in his later 80s by then. It was surreal because I could hear my grandmother in the background. They cut it off every once in a while. It'd be like, Laszlo. And then they'd come back to now, back to the Nazis. And I could hear the planes flying over from Burbank Airport. They'd have to contend because they're right over the flight path flying out of Burbank. And also, I had to do some math myself. I was like, 1989. How old was I? And then I was also doing. My grandfather was born in 1903. I think he was 85. I don't think he was 86 yet, for some reason when he did this, but 85. 86.