ADAM WITH DANNI BOATRIGHT AND BUSY PHILLIPS – January 31, 2006 – 5am to 10am, PST
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6:00 HOME IMPROVEMENT
Adam mentions that people are fascinated by having the knowledge of anything apart from what they do for a living. People are impressed if someone is an attorney who has a black belt, or if you are a doctor and fire black powder rifles, if you do comedy and you do anything else.
6:04 BEING RECOGNIZED
He also mentions that he is noticed and recognized by people in the supermarket from 40 nautical miles away, but those same people can’t remember from where.
6:06 TATTOOS
Anyone who has a name of someone tattooed on them has condemned that relationship to failure. Adam and Rachel talk about the fact that there’s some overcompensation for something with the tattoo. People are trying to compensate for a love or affection that’s missing in the relationship with the tattoo of a name.
6:10 SPECIAL NEEDS
What ever happened to the children with one leg that was shorter than the other one? Adam thinks we need to stop correcting these birth defects because we need to have these people in society to make the rest of us try harder.
He also says that the greatest asset a special needs child has to anyone’s life is at work. This enables you to leave anytime you want. All you need to do is tell your boss that you got a call from home and that you need to leave. No boss is going to make you stick around and work when you need to rush home and take care of anything when you mention something like “Stephen is having a pretty rough day.” The boss immediately tells you to say no more and leave. The beauty in this is that you don’t even need to be specific about what’s wrong, because everyone else’s problems pale in comparison.
6:19 HOUSING QUESTION
A caller asked Adam a question about removing a wall so he wouldn’t bring down the roof of the house. Adam told him to check and see if the rafters are resting on the wall or if they’re broken up.
6:21 MORE ON SPECIAL NEEDS
Adam has a great theory on starting a new job. Always tell your new boss that you have a special needs child. Your boss will never check on it; most people don’t check on anything you tell them short of saying you’re an astronaut. Then you can leave work early and, sure, you might have to worry a little bit about karma, but as long as you’re not having kids there’s no problem.
6:32 RELATIONSHIPS
Is it better to have a relationship with someone you don’t have a lot in common with? Relationships where both people share a love of something similar – like a love of the sea – end up with one of the partners being dead.
6:35 HOLLYWOOD HAPPENINGS
The Oscar nominations were announced this morning. You can see all of the Oscar nods here: http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/20060131/113872752000.html.
“Brokeback Mountain” was nominated for eight categories.
Adam thinks that he should be commissioned by movie companies to put a curse on movies and say that he’ll never see it, because once that happens the movie is destined for Oscar greatness.
“Walk The Line” was shut out of the best picture nominations, but several of the actors were nominated.
George Clooney picked up three nominations.
Philip Seymour Hoffman was nominated for best actor in “Capote.”
6:53 THE SOCIAL EXPERIMENT
If you have a label in something that says, “If found, please call…,” then you have a cry for help. You have some hope that someone will return it. If you don’t do this, it’s like dropping something into a lake.
We’re sending out our intern to place a wallet – filled with money and with a label inside asking someone to call if found – at an undisclosed location. We’ll see if someone calls in to return the wallet. If this works again, the experiment is running five for five.
7:02 OZZIE
Mark offered up his house generously for Ozzie’s party. Mark tells Adam that he was happy to see a lot of people from the show and Ozzie’s family there. Rachel, unfortunately, didn’t show up.
Ozzie worked hard for his party. He was covered in soot and sweat from working on the barbeque all day because it’s his party. No one works harder than Ozzie there.
Adam talks about some of the uncomfortable parts of parties, like meeting someone’s parents and having to exchange pleasantries. But with Ozzie’s family, since none of them speak English, the formalities are dispensed with and you don’t have to spend time trying to combat the language barrier.
7:10 THE NEWS
Rachel reports the news.
A female ex-postal processing worker killed six employees at a mail processing plant and committed suicide right outside of Santa Barbara this morning.
On Al-Jazeera, Jill Carroll was aired on tape weeping. The US has released a statement saying that we will not give into the demands of the captors.
Alito is on the way to becoming the 110th Justice on the US Supreme Court.
President Bush will be giving his annual State of the Union address this evening.
Al-Zawahri, Bin Laden’s number two man, was in his first video since US failed to kill him in a strike.
7:18 THE SPORTS
Dave reports the sports.
5 days until SuperBowl 40.
NBA
Clippers lose to Miami.
Seattle knock off the Sonics.
Mighty Ducks beat the Kings.
Bronco’s coach Shanahan meets with Owens to possibly sign him in a trade.
The Mayor of Detroit gave the key to the city to Jerome Bettis.
7:32 THE WALLET
Big Tad printed up a lot of the “if found” labels for the social experiment. Our intern is out on the street and leaving a wallet filled with cash for someone to find and hopefull call into the studio.
Big Tad was put on duty to print out 10 labels for Adam to put on his stuff. Adam wrote down 5544 for his number, but Big Tad printed up 10 labels with 5546 on them.
7:38 JOHN MADDEN
John Madden is on the phone (Frank Caliendo). He’s all broken up because Brett Favre may be hanging up his football gear.
7:46 MORE WITH JOHN MADDEN
Adam tries to calm John down after Brett Favre’s announcement that he’s not having fun and, if he was given the choice, he’d say he wasn’t coming back next year. John is staying hopeful that Brett won’t quit and will be back next year to play.
7:53 TRAILERS
Adam wishes that when you’re on a movie or television set people would only come and get you when you are absolutely needed. They always run false alarms, constantly checking on you, making sure that you’re ready for the camera.
7:56 SHAVING
In movies set 300 years ago, why don’t they ever cover how men get to be clean-shaven and without a nick on their face? Adam says he uses a three-blade safety razor and he’s cut to ribbons after using it. Yet in movies, a guy can use a bowie knife and they don’t have a scratch on their face.
8:04 DANNI BOATRIGHT CALLS IN
Danni, the winner from “Survivor: Guatemala – The Maya Empire” called into the show. Her IMDB profile is here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1989614/.
She says that the first thing she did when she won was pay her taxes. They took around $350,000 out of the pot. On the show, she got her weight down to 100 pounds and she’s 5’10” tall.
Adam wants to know how women look more beautiful as the show goes on especially when they don’t have their typical overnight bags. He thinks women spend too much time working on how they look and should just be natural. Danni thinks the tan helped a lot. Adam says that her pouty lips didn’t hurt either.
Danni says that she never would have left for “Survivor” during basketball season. Adam mentions that she couldn’t leave during baseball season either, because she’d miss the pivotal games 27 through 86 in a 500 game season.
8:13 SPORTS TRIVIA
Dave and Danni have a trivia competition. She proves that she knows college basketball.
8:16 OZZIE
Ozzie tells Adam that he enjoyed his party. Horizon foods donated all of the food for Ozzie’s party.
Adam asked if Ozzie got the gift Adam gave him. He said yes, it was very good.
8:17 OZZIE’S MOVE REVIEW
This week, Ozzie reviews “Capote” starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. The movie left the reviewer cold.
8:34 BUSY PHILLIPS IN THE STUDIO
Busy Phillips is in the studio today. Her IMDB profile can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005311/.
When Adam and Busy were working on Dawson’s Creek three years ago, Adam met an unassuming and generous woman. She says that she got Adam the job, pitching that Adam and Drew do LoveLine on the campus.
She found that Adam hated acting. He’d walk on, complain about the craft services and hang on his cell phone. Adam says that was because he’d do LoveLine at night and then get to the set early in the morning.
Adam had to catch a plane to North Carolina for the shoot. He had to navigate around the L.A. Marathon in order to get to the airport because he didn’t want to take the early flight to North Carolina. The car didn’t get to the airport on time because no car could get to his home in the Hollywood Hills. So, he had to charter a jet to get him to the set so he could be on the show.
She’s in the studio promoting “Love, Inc.” on Thursday nights on UPN after “Everybody Hates Chris.”
8:50 MORE WITH BUSY PHILLIPS
Adam saw Busy in “White Chicks” on cable the other day. He watched her dance. Busy tells Adam that they had a choreographer come in and kick their butts to get them in shape to dance. Unfortunately, the producers thought she was too good and needed to actually look like a white chick who didn’t know how to dance.
Adam plays a game of hypothetical questions with Busy. Who would you whether be in a cab with?
Born-again gang-banger or bucket-head white guy?
She says born-again gang banger.
Adam tells her she’s wrong. The bucket head would be a safer choice, because the gang-banger has tasted blood again.
Lady who thinks her dog is a person or sober guy with a ponytail who never stops giving out the dates?
She says the woman.
Adam says she’s wrong again because the ponytail guy would give her better conversation.
9:01 THE WALLET FOUND
A man named Dave called in from a payphone and says he found the wallet. David is a student right now at West Los Angeles College. He works at See’s Candy right now and makes very little, and yet he still called in to return the wallet.
The wallet has now been released five different times and the wallet has been returned each time.
9:01 MORE HYPOTHETICAL QUESTIONS WITH BUSY PHILLIPS
Big Fan of Star Jones or Big Fan of Oprah?
Oprah.
Adam called it as wrong.
Male pastor with a guitar or a female PETA activist?
Guitar.
Adam called it as wrong.
Ponytail through the hat guy or Man sporting a leather fanny pack?
Ponytail.
Adam called it as right.
Open mic poetry guy or denim jacket guy covered in Disney pins?
Open mic guy.
Adam called it as wrong.
9:12 THE NEWS
Rachel recaps the news.
Alito was confirmed today in a 58 to 42 vote.
9:19 THE SPORTS
Today is media day for SuperBowl 40. The Seahawks and Steelers are sitting on the field and talking to the press about the upcoming game.
9:22 SEATTLE
Marlina from Seattle called into the show to tell Dave that the Seahawks are going to destroy the Steelers in the SuperBowl.
9:31 BRITTANY
Brittany from the sales department is in the studio.
Brittany was asked out by Flava Flav when he was in the studio last week. She gave him her number, and to this date, has not heard from him.
9:46 SEATTLE
Greg in Seattle will be the man on the street to continue the social experiment with the wallet in that area.
9:49 MIKE
Mike wants to intern for Adam Carolla, so Adam is interviewing him for the position with a game of ass-kiss rodeo. Technically he was solid, but he didn’t have a lot of pizzazz. Adam says it was solid for his first time out of the gate.
Adam finds out that Mike also knows how to clean and detail cars, so Adam says he’s in.