If we had a syndicated radio show that was No. I never had any preconceived notions. Carolla's infamous for his rants; if his M. Carolla grew up a product of divorced parents in North Hollywood. After graduating from North Hollywood High, Carolla had a variety of jobs, from cleaning carpets to teaching traffic school and boxing.
Birchum later a character on Crank Yankers. All over the world, his fans followed him, but instead of trading tapes, they streamed and downloaded. Listening to the first week of the new Adam and Dr. Drew podcast, the energy feels different. Got older with us. How can we help you? Sweet James has my permission to help provide a free police report. News News See all. Food See all. But Ace and The Weez became neighbors again in Toluca Lake when Carolla moved across the street after his girlfriend's apartment was red-tagged as unsafe after the Northridge quake.
By then The Weez was working for advertising agencies, editing commercials. Ace was no longer digging ditches; he'd moved up to construction work, hanging drywall and pounding nails. Was he funny enough to turn pro? Everybody in L. When the show put out the call for someone to train Jimmy the Sports Guy -- Kimmel -- for a boxing match dubbed "The Bleeda in Reseda," Carolla, a fight fan who worked out constantly, knew the gig was made for him.
He walked over to the KROQ office and dropped his name in the basket at the front desk. It probably didn't hurt that the name he dropped was Adam Lakers Carolla. His parents hadn't given him a middle name, so when it came time to get a driver's license, he chose his favorite sports team: the Lakers. It stuck; he uses the name to this day. Carolla got the gig training Kimmel and they clicked. Big time. Kimmel advised him that to get more airtime on the show, he should come up with a regular bit, and that is how Mr.
Birchum came to be. He called in to KROQ to teach lessons because he assumed his students were listening. Carolla did the shtick without pay for a year. It was hilarious, and it caught on.
Birchum launched Carolla's career. The bit caught Pinsky's attention, and he and Carolla would spend 11 years together, on the radio and later on the MTV version of "Loveline. The Weez was movin' on up, too. He jumped into digital media early, mastering Avid, the software program that made videotape obsolete.
Misraje says he was moving into directing and producing when he stepped up to help Carolla launch his podcasting career in February His reasons may not have been purely altruistic when he rallied to help his old friend. There was opportunity there, no doubt. But he contends that Carolla used him and then threw him away. I can't begin to tell you how bad I feel. That's the hard part, that the relationship is over. He compares it to a bad breakup.
Or a death in the family. It wasn't like that. We have been close, tight, for more than 30 years. He's like a member of my family. Imagine having a fight with a brother or a sister. It's a mind-blower. What puzzles him the most, Misraje says, is that Carolla didn't seem to understand that backing out of the partnership deal would end their year friendship.
But as far as he's concerned, "the friendship is over. Two old friends who once shared a futon in a crummy apartment when nobody expected either of them to amount to much will meet face to face in court this week. It will be awkward. They haven't had much to say to each other in the two-plus years since Carolla fired Misraje in a vitriolic email. It will be up to a jury to decide whether Carolla had a right to do that, or whether it should cost him more than it already has. See more comedy content at CNN Comedy.
My feeling was that it was something I enjoyed, something I was deeply committed to. I would hear everything first. And it will be nice to go to bed at a reasonable hour and wake up at a reasonable hour. Pinsky still dabbles in medicine, but he gave up his addiction medicine practice about five years ago. It was a couple of years ago that I said, all right, its OK to admit to myself that I am on to my second career.
I tell everybody, no one understands how challenging and stressful practicing medicine is. This all feels like vacation to me.
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