The Wayback #55 | Adam Carolla

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Wayback #55 | Adam Carolla

Released on January 16, 2025

In The Wayback #55, host Ryan Sickler sits down with comedian and radio personality Adam Carolla for a nostalgic and candid conversation that delves into Adam’s early life, his first vehicles, high school experiences, and memorable adventures at the Mulholland Club. The episode is filled with laughter, heartfelt reflections, and amusing anecdotes that offer listeners a glimpse into Adam's formative years.

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Early Life and Family Dynamics

Adam Carolla opens up about his upbringing in North Hollywood, shedding light on the financial constraints his family faced.

Adam Carolla [05:17]: "The cars my parents drove were if you go out to a decent steak dinner, the price of the steak dinner is the price of the car that we drove when I was a kid."

His parents' divorce when he was around eight years old significantly impacted his childhood, limiting his family's ability to take vacations beyond local camping trips.

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First Vehicles: Motorcycles and Pickup Trucks

Adam reminisces about his first mode of transportation—a modest Honda 404 motorcycle—which he rode after high school.

Adam Carolla [05:46]: "I rode a motorcycle, a Honda 404 motorcycle for a while that was out of high school. It had four super small cylinders because without getting too techno, but Harley. So like a thousand CCs with two cylinders. This is 400 CC's with four cylinders."

He discusses the challenges of riding a motorcycle, especially navigating the practicalities of carrying his carpenter’s tools.

Adam Carolla [06:47]: "I would hook it up and then I would sling it over my neck and then I would drive into work on my motorcycle with my bags hanging around my neck."

Transitioning to his first truck, Adam shares his frugal approach to purchasing vehicles.

Adam Carolla [08:25]: "I ended up just buying an old... of me standing in my bathrobe with my 4 in front of my old apartment with a 404 next to me."

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High School Years and Football

Attending North Hollywood High, Adam highlights the diversity of his school and his involvement in football.

Adam Carolla [12:14]: "North Hollywood High was pretty diverse. It had some kids who were well off, Jewish kids who lived up in Laurel Canyon... and then there were the Mexican kids who lived in the valley deeper."

He recalls the camaraderie and the undefeated season his team experienced, despite ultimately losing the championship.

Adam Carolla [13:18]: "That was the only game we lost that year. We had an undefeated season. Go to the championship. Lose the championship."

The conversation touches on notable teammates, including NFL quarterback Eric Kramer, adding a layer of humor and pride to Adam’s high school memories.

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Adventures at the Mulholland Club

One of the most engaging segments revolves around Adam and his friends' escapades at the Mulholland Club—a secluded venue perched atop Mulholland Drive.

Adam Carolla [16:33]: "We would climb up the back cliff, jump the fence, and then have access to the pool in the Jacuzzi."

He vividly describes their antics, including skinny dipping, jumping off rooftops into pools, and the ingenious methods they used to access the club without authorization.

Adam Carolla [21:32]: "Multiples of us would stack lawn furniture on top of each other... to get onto the roof and jump into the pool."

A particularly humorous and harrowing story involves his friend Rudy, who became paralyzed after a failed jump, leading to their desperate attempts to assist him.

Adam Carolla [24:50]: "In the middle of my speech, my friend Todd just went sailing past me... And then when he went, Ray went next, and they all just went, 'Fuck it,' and they all started launching themselves off the thing. But not Rudy."

The recounting of these events not only entertains but also highlights the bond and recklessness of youth.

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Rebuilding the Family Home

Towards the end of the episode, Adam discusses his venture into television with the "Adam Carolla Project," where he undertook the task of rebuilding his family home.

Adam Carolla [31:37]: "I bought that house and I rebuilt that house for a TV show I did called the Adam Carolla Project."

He shares insights into the challenges faced during the renovation, including dealing with extreme temperatures and the absence of amenities like air conditioning.

Adam Carolla [32:00]: "In the valley. And it was real brutal. So what I would do is I would wake up in the middle of the night and I would hop the fence in the backyard and lower myself into the neighbor's pool."

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Conclusion

Throughout the episode, Adam Carolla provides a humorous and honest portrayal of his younger years, marked by ingenuity, camaraderie, and the quintessential struggles of growing up. His stories about the Mulholland Club, in particular, offer a nostalgic glimpse into the adventurous spirit of his youth.

Adam Carolla [36:21]: "I'm doing a dry bar special... You go to AdamCarolla.com everything's there and most of it's free."

The episode wraps up with Adam promoting his latest projects, leaving listeners both entertained and eager for more insights into his life.

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Notable Quotes:

• Adam Carolla [05:17]: "The cars my parents drove were if you go out to a decent steak dinner, the price of the steak dinner is the price of the car that we drove when I was a kid."

• Adam Carolla [16:33]: "We would climb up the back cliff, jump the fence, and then have access to the pool in the Jacuzzi."

• Adam Carolla [24:50]: "In the middle of my speech, my friend Todd just went sailing past me... And then when he went, Ray went next, and they all just went, 'Fuck it,' and they all started launching themselves off the thing. But not Rudy."

• Adam Carolla [36:21]: "I'm doing a dry bar special... You go to AdamCarolla.com everything's there and most of it's free."

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Conclusion

"The Wayback #55 | Adam Carolla" offers a rich tapestry of memories and experiences from Adam Carolla's early life, presented with his characteristic humor and candidness. Through discussions of his first vehicles, high school football, and wild adventures at the Mulholland Club, Adam provides listeners with an engaging and insightful look into the moments that shaped him.

Transcript

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[Adam Carolla]

Thanks for having me.

[Ryan Sickler]

I should say back in the Wayback. Thank you for doing this. Well, I'm excited for this because you're a local guy, you're a car guy, and I definitely want to get into some of your old stories. But before we do, please promote everything you like.

[Adam Carolla]

You can go to AdamCarolla.com I have a lot of live dates as well and the podcast is there and it's.

[Ryan Sickler]

Free, so I usually not usually. I do try to start this these episodes with. If you've ever sat in this back seat facing traffic and it's not a slam when I say this, obviously I'm an older man. You are as well. At least you grew up in the era of these cars. Did your family have one? Did you ever ride back here?

[Adam Carolla]

No, we didn't have these cars with the seat that faced Mecca in the back were. I assume that's why they were designed that way. These were newer, more expensive cars that the Corollas did not have.

[Guest]

Did the Corollas have a Corolla?

[Adam Carolla]

We should have. But my mom had a VW square back, which was like a VW station wagon, but it didn't have the suicide seat.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah, there we go. Like that green one up there on the left.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah. Just a real basic, funky vw.

[Ryan Sickler]

So that one didn't have the seat facing back?

[Adam Carolla]

No, no. The engine was in the back. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

Is reverse force in and over and up in that thing too, Remember?

[Adam Carolla]

I'm trying to think. It was so weird because my dad had a VW Bug, so we were just poor people cars, you know?

[Ryan Sickler]

Got it.

[Adam Carolla]

And my. The VW Bug, the engines in the back. I mean, just for your car, non car people, when the engine is bolted straight to the transmission, like in an American car, the shifting is very positive. First, second into third, you feel it go in. When the engine is eight feet behind you and you got this little coat hanger stick shift. The linkage is so sloppy that you could never really tell, like, are you in first gear here? Are you in reverse?

[Ryan Sickler]

You know, reverse was the son of a.

[Adam Carolla]

Fine.

[Ryan Sickler]

You have to push in over and up for reverse.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

You ever drive a three on the tree?

[Adam Carolla]

No, no. We didn't have American too much. We had the old cheap used. We. We drove cars that you would buy for 300. Like the cars my parents Drove were if you go out to a decent steak dinner, the price of the steak dinner is the price of the car that we, that they would purchase that we drove when I was a kid.

[Ryan Sickler]

What was your first car?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I rode a motorcycle, a Honda 404 motorcycle for a while that was out of high school.

[Ryan Sickler]

That was your first mode of real trans?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And then I was told by my construction foreman that if I bought a truck, he would give me another dollar an hour.

[Guest]

And I remember jobs like that. You were like, let me get that.

[Adam Carolla]

Truck, I could work my way up to minimum wage, you know. And I was like, is that it? Yeah. It's a 400cc four cylinder bike. So it was weird. It had four super small cylinders because without getting too techno, but Harley. So like a thousand CCs with two cylinders. This is 400 CC's with four cylinders. So. So the pistons were size of ping pong balls. It was gutless. But it wound up and it handled nice and it got me around. It got me around.

[Ryan Sickler]

And you're driving flat valley streets mostly, are you not?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I'm not going through the hills of Monaco in this thing. So I got around real good. But I'd have to pull into work with my tool bags around my neck. Like I would fasten them and hang it like a, like a bandoleros belt, you know, because how was I going to travel with. How was I going to carry my bags, you know, my carpenter's bags. So I would hook it up and then I would sling it over my neck and then I would drive into work on my motorcycle with my bags hanging around my neck. And my foreman, I was getting $7 an hour, maybe $8 an hour and I was going to get from $8 to $9 and I buy a truck. So I bought a really beat on used Mazda long bed pickup truck, like a 78 or something, real junker, but you know, for 700 bucks or something. And I drove that around for a while. But for me it was all Japanese pickup trucks because I was poor. They were bulletproof and I was a carpenter and I needed a truck.

[Ryan Sickler]

Those little white Toyota guys, those, those fucking lawnmowers will run forever.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, they'll run forever. The Toyota was a little rich for my blood. Toyotas were a little more expensive than the Datsuns were. And, or then the Nissan, the dots.

[Guest]

That existed back then.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, so. Well, it was Datsun back then. Then it became Nissan. So then I ended up just buying an old. There's a picture on the Internet somewhere. Of me standing in my bathrobe with my 4 in front of my old apartment with a 404 next to me. And you can see the back of my Dotson pickup truck behind me. Yeah, that's it.

[Ryan Sickler]

Kirsten, you're amazing.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, that is okay.

[Ryan Sickler]

So this is the Dotson behind it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, that's.

[Ryan Sickler]

That bike looks Good.

[Adam Carolla]

That's my 404. That's me in a bathrobe that somebody gave me but didn't have a tie so I had to hold it close.

[Ryan Sickler]

What year is this?

[Adam Carolla]

84, 84, 85. 84, 85 Nissan pickup with the tool bed box for the carpenter back there. And that's. Yeah, I guess I had the 404. I guess I kept it and then bought the truck that wasn't the Mazda. This a couple years after that and I guess I drove around my 404 and had my, my Datsun pickup as a family.

[Ryan Sickler]

You say you're telling me you're buying, you know, cheaper cars, things like that. Do you ever go on vacations? If so, what are you doing? What are roll a family doing? Are you flying somewhere? Do you save up? Are you driving? Is it going to visit relatives? What are you guys doing?

[Adam Carolla]

We wouldn't fly anywhere because that would have cost, you know, tickets and stuff. We didn't have like credit cards and stuff. So I, we, we definitely didn't fly anywhere I went. We. We could go. Not as a family because my parents got divorced when I was probably about 8. I don't think my dad would really want to go anywhere but like we could go camping, you know, some. We, we were limited in our scope and our range. Like we had the couple things that are hindrance when it comes to vacations, which are no money and no transportation that'll slow your vacation rolls just a little bit. You know what I mean? Like, you want to go to the south of France? Yes, I do. Well, here's what that's going to take. So we didn't have luggage or, or transportation or money or, or things, so we couldn't really go anywhere. But we could get with like the friend, the neighbor down the street who had a car that could make it up over to the pass, you know, to Gorman or Agua Dozi Canyon or something like that. We could pack up, you know, blankets and pillows and you know, Ritz and a Triscuit and like go somewhere and sit for free in dirt, you know, in dirt. And, and so there was a little, there was a little bit of that. But. But that that was about it. We couldn't get out of town.

[Ryan Sickler]

What high school did you go to out here?

[Adam Carolla]

North Hollywood.

[Ryan Sickler]

And what's that like back then? Like, what do you guys. What's the, you know, where everybody hangs back then? Where are you all going back then? We had a mall called the Carrolltown Mall. We called it the Carrolltown 5. Drive around that thing and there was a McDonald's over here.

[Guest]

We'd do a loop.

[Ryan Sickler]

What are you guys doing back then?

[Adam Carolla]

North Hollywood High was pretty diverse. It had some kids who were wellish to do. Jewish kids who lived up in Laurel Canyon and what we call the Hebrew Heights up in the hills up there. I didn't name it Hebrew Heights, but it certainly stuck with me. The Jewish kids lived up in Hebrew Heights up in Laurel Wood, you know. And then there were the Mexican kids who lived in the valley deeper, like North Hollywood, Sherman Way and Vineland and stuff like that.

[Ryan Sickler]

I used to live at the corner of Sherman Way and Fulton.

[Adam Carolla]

Right, right. That was something. That's where the Mexicans lived. And you and then told me, yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

They were like, you know, you're the.

[Guest]

Only white guy in the neighborhood.

[Adam Carolla]

And then there was sort of the white trash kids that was like me just sort of living in Hollywood, just by the high. Okay. And like a handful of Asians. But we never figured out where they lived. No one knows where the Asians live.

[Ryan Sickler]

So what are you and your sleep. You know, what are you guys doing?

[Adam Carolla]

A couple black kids from the inner city got bused in, you know, to play the skill positions, you know, and I played football and we, my buddies and I, no one had any money, so we had to kind of have cheap thrills, you know. And so we used to break into the Mulholland Club, which is one, one thing we would do.

[Ryan Sickler]

Look at this.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, that's me. Young, playing football.

[Ryan Sickler]

Good looking young man there.

[Guest]

You got a good looking head of.

[Ryan Sickler]

Hair on you too.

[Adam Carolla]

Losing only game we lost all year. So undefeated season. Go to the championship. Lose the championship. Patriots and this is the end of that game, bro.

[Guest]

You're about to break.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm about to break. I was like, I didn't think we could be beat. I was like nine. North Valley Golden Bears. Probably Burbank Vikings or somebody. I remember going, we beat every single team we played all year. And that's all I know. And we're unbeatable. And that picture. I played offense and defense. I. That was. Take the starters out, put the scrubs in, let them get a couple snaps. This game's out of reach. And that picture was taken of me just looking at that field going, I cannot believe we lost this game. And it's also. It's all I got. The family's a mess. Everything's a mess. All I got is football. And now we just lost. I went to two championship games. Very sure we're going to win each one in Pop Warner and never no wins.

[Ryan Sickler]

But coach back there.

[Adam Carolla]

Coach Steen. Steen, as I recall. Yeah, yeah. You know who was on that team?

[Ryan Sickler]

Who?

[Adam Carolla]

So funny. I still stay with Kevin. Eric Kramer, guy at a 14 year NFL career as quarterback. Played quarterback for the Detroit Lions, for the Vikings, for the Bears. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

This guy.

[Guest]

He played with you.

[Adam Carolla]

He was the backup quarterback. That's how stacked that team was. Right?

[Guest]

That's hilarious.

[Adam Carolla]

Literally backed up a dozen years, backed up Scott Whitman at quarterback and then plays 12 years in the NFL.

[Guest]

That's.

[Adam Carolla]

As a starting quarterback.

[Guest]

That's.

[Adam Carolla]

Who else does that?

[Guest]

That's bad.

[Adam Carolla]

Warner. You don't start. Yeah, and his dad was one of the coaches, couldn't give him the nod.

[Ryan Sickler]

Did they put him in that last.

[Guest]

Game to just throw some. Some darts around?

[Adam Carolla]

You know, if you talk to him, he would probably say he played this other position as well. But the reality is is Scott Whitman was the starting quarterback. Eric Kramer was second string and probably played some flanker or something. But he did not start at quarterback, which is what he wanted to do until. He really didn't start at quarterback until he got to the NFL and then played for like 13 years at the NFL as a starter.

[Ryan Sickler]

Insane.

[Adam Carolla]

At college he didn't. He traded off. He went to junior college out here and at Pierce and didn't start.

[Ryan Sickler]

Oh, yeah, I know.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. We didn't have any money. House parties.

[Ryan Sickler]

What are you doing? Where are you drinking?

[Adam Carolla]

We would go to the Mulholland Club.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah, that's right, the Mulholland, which was.

[Adam Carolla]

Up at the top of Mulholland, which is kind of an exclusive club that the folks who resided in the Hebrew Heights frequented. We would climb up the back cliff. It was hanging off a real like a Rocky Mountain cliff. And we would climb up it, jump the fence and then have access to the pool in the Jacuzzi.

[Ryan Sickler]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

And God willing, try to get some girls up there and a 12 pack of Mickey's Big Mouth or something. And yeah, you can see the pool is still there. Yeah, it's still there.

[Guest]

Oh, it is.

[Adam Carolla]

And we would climb up and we'd sit in the Jacuzzi and we'd Skinny dip in the pool. And then we would climb up onto the roof and jump off the roof into the pool in the back. And it was.

[Ryan Sickler]

Sounds like a great time.

[Adam Carolla]

It was all free. And like I said, if we get some girls up there and get, get them skinny dipping or something. That was pretty. That was a pretty big deal.

[Ryan Sickler]

I've never heard of the Mulholland Club.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's, it's, it's. It's literally on top of Mulholland, like way up there. And yeah, there's the pool. They got some tennis courts. There's a Jacuzzi there to the right. And the roof is, is like three stories. And you could jump off that roof.

[Guest]

And see where you.

[Adam Carolla]

Cool. No, yeah, there was a diving board too, back then. So you had to miss the diving board. But yeah, that's the, that's the cliff. Right. And you would, you would hike up this rocky hill. You park down at the bottom, you jump the fence.

[Ryan Sickler]

Are you that first hill down here?

[Adam Carolla]

You're parked right here. Park here.

[Ryan Sickler]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

We're going up the hill, which used to be really rocky. Miss. Got kind of grassy or something. Jump the fence, get naked and start having fun.

[Ryan Sickler]

And there's no security guard or anything like that back then. Now no cameras or any of that.

[Adam Carolla]

Now place closed at, you know, 9:00. We'd show up at 10 and hop the thing, fire up the Jacuzzi. Sometimes people would leave. Sometimes people, sometimes they have a wedding or something out there and there'd be food trays out there. We start throwing food at each other, get naked, piss on each other, jump off the roof into the, into the pool. Was hard getting up that roof. There was no ladder or anything we had to go up. There's an upper patio in the back and we'd have to go up to the upper patio where the tennis courts were and stack lawn furniture on top of each other. We'd have to stack tables on top of each other. To get up to a piece of rigid conduit with like a light on it that some would pull ourselves up that stucco. Naked.

[Guest]

Naked, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

To get onto the roof of this place. So we could jump into the swimming. Swimming pool. Yeah. There's the upper. It is what it is. We would climb up to that upper patio on the left where the umbrellas are. Yeah. And. And pull ourselves up onto the roof.

[Ryan Sickler]

And then walk over here and walk.

[Adam Carolla]

Over there and run down that roof and launch ourselves into man balls out. Oh man. I remember my one friend Rudy froze up and he was like I can't do it. It was a pretty good jump.

[Ryan Sickler]

I was going to ask. Yeah, like from here to where do you think maybe the couch?

[Adam Carolla]

I've jumped off a ton of roofs into a ton of pools. And. And what? I I've jumped off neighboring apartment buildings into pools that weren't even part of that apartment.

[Guest]

Are you serious?

[Ryan Sickler]

That was your thing back in the day.

[Adam Carolla]

That's all I did.

[Ryan Sickler]

You guys do have a ton of in ground pools here too.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm from the above ground all in ground. So. Okay, so the New Year's here.

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[Adam Carolla]

Here's the thing about jumping off high stuff. You travel in the air quite a bit, and if you got to cover 10ft of concrete, which we did, you didn't have to sprint and launch yourself off. You Just shove yourself off and you'll cover that ground in the air. The only problem with this place is it had a long diving board, so you had to kind of pick if you're going to the right or the left. Yeah, that's the upper.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's the upper job, Kirsten.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And then we're all up on the roof and my buddy Rudy had a panic attack or something. He didn't. He didn't think he could make it. He's. Everyone's naked now. He's just standing on the roof naked, panicking. There's no way to get. You can't get down because you gotta go.

[Guest]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

We had to stack furniture, lawn furniture. Two tables, two outdoor tables on top of each other and then reach up onto the conduit and pull ourselves up. And then the first guy up had to do the fireman grab and help the other guys up. You couldn't get down on your own. And I was up there giving a safety speech, you know, on. On top of the roof when. See the upper.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah, see it.

[Adam Carolla]

See, the upper balcony will get you closer. Now we're looking at it. Those umbrellas are still seven feet off the ground, so you still got to cover another five feet. So that's why two tables on top of one another and then the pole.

[Ryan Sickler]

Then you sprint out off that ledge and you still got to cover that little.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, they didn't have solar panels back then, so there. But there is a parapet. You know what? A parapet?

[Ryan Sickler]

No, it's a parapet.

[Adam Carolla]

Parapet is when you're looking from the ground, you see a roof line. But the rallies. The roof is a foot lower than what you're looking at. You're looking at a parapet. It's a miniature little wall. Pony wall, maybe a cripple wall. I used to be a carpenter. The holes in them are called scuppers. That's where. That's where the stuff drains out. So parapet is a wall on top of your roof. So. Meaning if you were going to run and get a jump on it, you couldn't just run straight off. You had to hit the turtle.

[Ryan Sickler]

Hit it and push.

[Adam Carolla]

You had to push off it and hit it. And it was. It was dark and we were drunk. And so that's not easy. It's not easy. And so I was given a safety speech. Like, I. I had a normal mind and my friends didn't, you know? And I was like, look, we're all up here, we're all drunk. It all sounds like fun and games until somebody misses that pool and Then it's a situation like, because if you miss the pool, you're. You're going to be operating a wheelchair with a straw for the rest of your life. And you're only. We're all 16 and a half, right? Like, it's gonna be a long life of wearing a diaper, you know? So I said I was giving this speech. I go, look, if you're gonna miss the pool, miss it completely or hit it in the middle of the pool. Don't land half in the pool. For some reason, you get the most fucked up. I don't know why you should be 50% less fucked up, but you're 50% more fucked up by doing half the pool.

[Guest]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So I was giving this safety speech, and in the middle of my fucking speech, my friend Todd, I just. He went sailing past me. Like, the end of the night, I just saw his bare ass, like, just went. And I was like, hey, I'm not done with my speech. And then when he went. Ray went next, and they all just went, fuck it. And they all started. They all launch themselves off the thing. But not Rudy. Rudy didn't want to go. And now we all jumped. And now he's up on the roof by himself.

[Guest]

He's just left up there.

[Adam Carolla]

Eventually people would call the cops and stuff, because eventually we made enough. No, you know, we screamed enough and threw enough food, knocked enough stuff over that somebody would show up. And we're like, rudy, you know, you can't climb down off of this. You. You have to jump. He was later featured in the show Hoarders, by the way. By the way. At least that's what I heard.

[Guest]

That might be his origin story right there. Just trapped him, kept himself inside, safe. How did he get down? Did he just finally fucking do it?

[Adam Carolla]

I think. I think he went and crawled, you know, hung himself off that rigid conduit and dragged his nutsack along the stucco and, like, landed on the table that was stacked on top of each other. I don't know.

[Guest]

I don't remember no situation in my life where I've ever thought my. My ball bag would touch. Stuck up.

[Adam Carolla]

It was a. It was a.

[Guest]

That would rip your nuts.

[Adam Carolla]

It was a sponge finish. Sponge finish. Very raised aggregate, you know, very abrasive. It's how every apartment building from the 60s. No, it's a. You, you. You finish it. If you finish it with a steel trowel, it'll be smooth. If you do it with a sponge trowel, it gets rocky.

[Guest]

That's what. That's.

[Adam Carolla]

That's every stucco. Every st Stucco building in the valley had that had that rough sponge finish. I know because I used to do it later on, sadly. But that's what this place was. So you were naked, you were dragging your sack along the Rocky Stucco, which I always thought would be a great gay porn name for me.

[Guest]

You know Rocky Stucco?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. You would work with that guy, wouldn't you? He's a pro.

[Guest]

I would 100% trust Rocky stuck.

[Ryan Sickler]

Stuck.

[Adam Carolla]

It's a great name. Rocky Stucco.

[Guest]

It is good, dude.

[Adam Carolla]

So I guess Rudy I maybe we got down there and held the tables in place so he.

[Guest]

His nuts are all coming down, man.

[Ryan Sickler]

Come on, Rudy.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Guest]

Quarters he ends up on is too much.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, we love. So Mulholland Club was free and now.

[Ryan Sickler]

Are you guys pool hopping in the neighborhoods and too. Are you doing that? You said you jumped off a ton of roofs. Is that just you talking about at parties or friends houses or are you. Cuz we used to pool hop in the above ground pools. We'd go get in one, you know, they weren't out here when you. When I fly in, it just looks like pool, pool, pool, you know.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

And it's not that way there, but you can at least get one until they either come home or the neighbors call the police.

[Adam Carolla]

I had. Well, yeah, we would. Well, okay. If we showed up to your party and you. Everyone was going in the pool and my buddy Ray, who was kind of an animal, you didn't have a choice whether you're going in or not. You would go in. We would actually have people at parties. I remember Jack Donitz, when he saw Ray, who was an animal come in, was like, listen, I'm going in on my own accord. And he took his loafers off, his leather loafers, he took his wallet, said, you know, I know you're going to throw me. I'm going in fully dressed, jumped in the pool. When he came up, his loafers in his wallet were floating right next to his head. Because that's the way we did it.

[Guest]

That's fucking great.

[Adam Carolla]

It's great.

[Guest]

That is great.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. No, everyone had to go. Everyone went in the pool where they wanted to or not. That's. That's how it worked. And then also when I grew up, when I lived in the Valley in my dad's garage.

[Ryan Sickler]

So real quick, I was going to ask you this. Do you remember any of your old addresses that we could look up right now? Yeah, the family are no longer there. I don't want to dox anyone, you know, or anything. Do you remember any homes you grew up in, Addresses?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it was pretty easy. I grew up on 11752 Houston Street H U S T O N. And that house was sold about eight years ago.

[Ryan Sickler]

Now, which one is this? This one here.

[Adam Carolla]

It's the nice house.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Now the reason you're looking at a nice house is because the house I grew up in was sold about eight or nine years ago for about $680,000. And it was bulldozed. That's the house I grew up in. Weird old funky, 100 year old.

[Ryan Sickler]

So they did what everyone's doing out here. They buy a house and then they pay a bunch of money to destroy it, get rid of it, and then a bunch more money to build a brand new one on top of it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah. They build.

[Ryan Sickler]

Wait, go back again real quick. I'm just looking at this house now. I want to see the difference.

[Adam Carolla]

My neighbors. That's where the.

[Guest]

Your neighbor's holding on like, we ate them.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Ed and sue and Dorothy. I don't know what happened to that house, man, but. And now you're looking at a nicer version of my house. There's old versions where it's dirt lawn, basically, but. So that was the first house I grew up in. The another house then I grew up in. My dad had a junker house. My dad was like North Hollywood van eyes, and he grew up in a junker house. I mean, like, like an $18,000 house. Then. Then we moved. Then my dad moved to a normal house, which was 11752. No get the same address.

[Ryan Sickler]

What are the odds of that?

[Adam Carolla]

I know. It's the same.

[Ryan Sickler]

It's such a long one. You said 1175 and then you hit it with a 2. I was like, God, that's a lot of numbers.

[Adam Carolla]

117525 streets over. Now, that was a kind of normal. I mean, you know, 1300 square foot ranch, you know, no central air, but it was kind of a normal house. And then I bought that house.

[Ryan Sickler]

Yard, though.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I bought that house and I rebuilt that house for a TV show I did called the Adam Carolla Project. And we just got it, demoed it and flipped it, whatever it did. But that house, I had a neighbor who had a pool, and that house had no air conditioning. And the garage I slept in didn't have air conditioning.

[Ryan Sickler]

But in the Valley.

[Adam Carolla]

In the valley. And it was real brutal. So what I would do is I would wake up in the middle of the night and I would hop the Fence in the backyard and lower myself into the neighbor's pool. Yeah, yeah, that's. That's how I rolled back then. So I would, like four in the morning, go in their pool for a dip. Yeah. And north. Yeah, North Hollywood High is right. Right in there. And, you know, we ended up putting a pool in my dad's house for the TV show I did. But the pool. I wasn't there when I was living there. We did it for the show. So. Yeah, I'd hit the neighbor's pool in the middle of the night and just try to get my core down, you know? Yeah, it was humble living back then.

[Ryan Sickler]

That's fun, though. Yeah, that's a good one.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Then my first apartment was down, you know, off of Laurel and. Yeah, yeah, that's it. It's right there on the corner. Yeah, it's got trees growing up above it now and stuff. But I lived in the first unit.

[Ryan Sickler]

I mean, I also remember when air condition. Getting it in your car was an. It was an extra feature back in the day. It was a big one. I remember my dad got the first car with air conditioner. It was probably in the 90s for real. We brought all the 80s.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Ryan Sickler]

70S, 80s. And we're like, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah. There's more. My bedroom upstairs, right there, top left. Yeah. Except for I didn't have curtains. I had foil back in the day.

[Guest]

Foil?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Guest]

Wait, what is it that you and Drew always say about guys that put foil in the windows?

[Adam Carolla]

Shooting porn, shooting heroin, Shooting something.

[Guest]

Always paranoid about the. The. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Have drape money. You know what I mean? Yeah. So that was one street next to off of Hartsook street where I grew up. So I just moved to the closest apartment, basically.

[Ryan Sickler]

So where I grew up, we actually had the freedom to have a field party or something like that. Where are you guys going? Is it always a house party? Like, if it's not. Where do you guys go? Is there enough.

[Adam Carolla]

We go to the roof of the Mulholland Club. Yeah. Somebody would. Somebody. There'd be word. Every weekend. It'd be. The word would be someone's having a party, someone's parents and someone's out of town. And sometimes we knew them, and sometimes we didn't. And sometimes we just roll into these valley parties with these dudes, you know, wanted to fight and stuff. You know, it was like my crew would roll into the party. Their crew was there. Like, there was issues sometimes. Other times, it was just like, Stacy Wallen's parents are out of town. We know where she lives go up there, you know, throw everyone in the pool, raid the, raid the pantry. Sometimes some, on rare occasion, pee into a shampoo bottle and put it back. You know, stuff like that. The basics, man.

[Guest]

When I hear some basics, when I hear like this, it makes me mad that I can't have a time machine and go back like I'm doing.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, the fundamentals. Oh, listen, if you. Listen, look, I, you know, if you want to go there, let's do it. I'll go there. All right. I. I will tell you this. At the Mulholland Club, there is a Jacuzzi. The jacuzzi has a jet in the side and it's down about 16 inches from the top deck.

[Guest]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

That length is about the average length of a femur bone of a. Of a 17 year old male. And if you put your feet up on the deck and put your ass down, it is lined up perfectly with that jet and you can fill up, my friend, and then you can step out and then a rooster tail of jacuzzi water will come flying out of your ass. Which we discovered pretty quickly over there and also discovered it could be weaponized as well, which it was on more. On more than one occasion. Yeah, man.

[Ryan Sickler]

Thank you for doing this, Adam Kroll. This was a great episode.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Talking about going to the Mulholl Club.

[Ryan Sickler]

Promote again one more time. Whatever you'd like.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. I'm doing a dry bar special. It's coming out, so a clean dry bar special. Then I got another one on Fox Nation, but that's probably not coming out till next year. You go to AdamCroll.com everything's there and most of it's free.

[Ryan Sickler]

All right, thank you, man. Thank you very much. We'll talk to y'all next week.