Kevin Bacon + Monica Mehta (Carolla Classics)

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Welcome to Carolla Classics. I'm your host, super fan, Giovanni. This is the podcast where we play the best moments, highlights and fans like the clips from all 17 years of The Adam Carolla Show. If you'd like to gain access to the entire archives, The Adam Carolla Show, The Adam and Dr. Drew Show, as well as the newer podcast, Beat It Out. Make sure to check out Adam Carolla's sub stack, adamcarolla.substack.com. Sign up, subscribe, listen and add free. If you'd like to request a clip, please email us, classicsatadamcarolla.com. Now on to the clips. Coming up first today, we have Adam Carolla Show 2773 This is from March of 2020 We tend to stay out of the COVID era, mostly pandemic stuff. I play some of it, there's no rules about it. It's just sometimes a little dreary and it's also not that far in the past. However, this episode seemed like it would be a foam to play. This episode is featuring Kevin Bacon, Gina Grad and Bryan Bishop, Adam, Gina and Bryan in the studio doing like a full hour long episode. Just a fun vibe of what that show was at right before things got weird. And then Kevin Bacon joining Foner as like the beginning of the social distancing era. Interesting hybrid of how the show was evolving. They even did intro-outros for both segments.
Very reminiscent of how the show was produced back in 2010 when they would do two-parters, they would break them up with intros and outros and still release them on the same day. Sometimes recorded back to back, sometimes paired together. Ten years later, repeating the format they had abandoned. Interesting. Hope you guys enjoy Adam Carolla Show 2773 from March of 2020

**SPEAKER_3** (3:09)
Good day Gina Grad.

**Gina Grad** (3:10)
Good day to you.

**Bryan Bishop** (3:11)
And Bald Bryan.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:12)
We've got Tom Hanks in quarantine and Forrest Gump in the White House.

**Gina Grad** (3:19)
So good.

**Monica Mehta** (3:20)
That was from...

**Gina Grad** (3:22)
Joy Behar.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:22)
Yeah, Joy Behar. All right. I'm curious what everyone, how everyone reacted over the weekend when things got ramped up quite a bit.
I just went out and did what I do.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:39)
Spit on the audience.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:41)
Yeah. I, when I...
Look at these moments in time, all I think is, oh, less traffic for me.

**SPEAKER_11** (3:50)
I got here in 23 minutes. And if you know where I live, that is a, that's a flash.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:56)
Find the, sorry, Max Patta, but ask Matt, the porcelain punisher, Fondelier, the two sushi joints he was trying, he made reservations for on Friday night. One was full, the other wasn't. But I have an interesting observation. Yes, I drove to the Laugh Factory on Friday night. No, actually it was Saturday night.
I drove Friday and Saturday night. But on Saturday night, I came off the Hollywood Freeway, I was driving down Highland, passing the Hollywood Bowl, turning right onto Franklin by the big AIDS church there. No backed up car.

**David Wild** (4:32)
That's an unpleasant drive most of the time.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:34)
No nothing. It gets backed up, it gets brutal, and I just blew right on through that place. Full Omega Man style.
I had an interesting, there was an interesting thing I noticed though. I said, oh, okay, well, Friday, after I do my set at the Laugh Factory, let's go get some sushi, because the sushi places that are normally packed aren't going to be packed either. So not only is the drive going to be good, but we're going to eat some good sushi. And the best sushi place was the one we tried first.