{"id":1714,"date":"2013-07-14T16:30:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T23:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2013-07-14T16:34:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T23:34:02","slug":"podthoughts-the-adam-and-dr-drew-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1714","title":{"rendered":"Podthoughts: The Adam and Dr. Drew Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.launchpaddigitalmedia.com\/images\/podcast\/300x300\/adamanddrdrew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/center><strong>Vital stats:<\/strong><br \/>\nFormat: golden-age\u00a0<em>Loveline<\/em>, more or less, but with fewer calls and more discussions of the breakdown of society<br \/>\nEpisode duration: 45m-1h10m<br \/>\nFrequency: 8-9 per month<\/p>\n<p>Mention this though I often do when writing about things Adam Carolla-related, I tuned in to\u00a0<em>Loveline<\/em>\u00a0throughout my adolescence with a near-religious dedication. Those nightly two hours with Carolla and \u201cDr. Drew Pinsky\u201d on sex, drugs, medicine, home improvement, auto repair, and the state of the republic had formative effects I can\u2019t possibly overstate. (They even taught me, broadcasting out of their decrepit Culver City studio, quite a bit about the geography of Los Angeles that would come in handy when I landed here myself.) Though ostensibly an advice show, and one that did sometimes spend a solid hour taking calls from stoned fifteen-year-old snowboarders worried about herpes,\u00a0<em>Loveline<\/em>\u00a0produced its most memorable gems of wisdom \u2014 not just about pills or booze or dental dams or plywood, but about life itself \u2014 with nobody on the phone, and nobody in the studio (certainly not from the gallery of \u201cdrunken rockers and stupid actresses,\u201d as Carolla has since described the guest list) but its co-hosts. They admitted that they didn\u2019t do the show for the callers, who half the time wouldn\u2019t even pretend to accept their counsel, but the listeners. As one of those listeners, I can vouch for the benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Like any nightly live show, especially one hosted by fellows busy even by celebrity standards,\u00a0<em>Loveline<\/em>\u00a0weathered the occasional absence: another doctor sitting in for Drew, another comedian for Adam. This taught us that, while either individual could hold their own, we tuned in for the combination, the pairing, the duo \u2014 the sum greater than the parts. The inquisitive, education-loving, clinically-minded, mild if sometimes twitchy Dr. Drew\u2019s yin balanced the education-free, down-and-dirty\/nuts-and-bolts, outwardly base but secretly incisive Adam\u2019s everyman yang, making 1995 through 2005, the years between Carolla\u2019s hiring as a co-host and his departure to helm a morning show on KLSX, the program\u2019s near-official golden age. (Pinsky\u2019s presence goes back to the early eighties, and continues to this day, alongside that of someone named Psycho Mike.) Apart from occasional guest appearances by Carolla on\u00a0<em>Loveline<\/em>\u00a0or Pinsky on Carolla\u2019s radio show and, later,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/podthoughts-by-colin-marshall-adam.html\">flagship podcast<\/a>, 2005 through most of 2012, constituted lean years indeed for we who consider ourselves appreciators of Adam and appreciators of Dr. Drew, but out-and-out fans of Adam\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0Dr. Drew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/2013\/07\/14\/podthoughts-colin-marshall-adam-and-dr-drew-show\">Maximum Fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vital stats: Format: golden-age\u00a0Loveline, more or less, but with fewer calls and more discussions of the breakdown of society Episode duration: 45m-1h10m Frequency: 8-9 per month Mention this though I often do when writing about things Adam Carolla-related, I tuned in to\u00a0Loveline\u00a0throughout my adolescence with a near-religious dedication. Those nightly two hours with Carolla and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podthoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}