The Adam Carolla Show is Gone
The Adam Carolla Show is gone, back to classic Loveline.
For the past few years I have woke up every morning, plugged my Zune in and hopped off the take a shower. While in the shower, the Zune software would start up and automatically start downloading my favorite podcasts that would get me through the day. I enjoy the sounds of Indiefeed, Skeptoid, The Onion Radio News, Clark Howard and most importantly, The Adam Carolla Show every day while sitting at my desk hammering keys and clicking away like a good little techie nerd.
Well, my days just became a little less entertaining after yesterday. The radio station that hosted Carolla’s show, 97.1 FM Talk in Los Angeles, has gone the way of the Dodo and changed over to another Top 40 Hits station.
For a guy like me, who lives and works in and around Atlanta/Metro Atlanta, podcasts are my only source of decent and engaging radio. Here in the ATL it’s all either County or Hip Hop. You’re either a cow boy or a gangsta around these parts! Sure, there are a few rock stations, but they’d only satisfy the most brain dead, musically shallow of us. If you want to envision what it’s like to listen to a typical, Atlanta FM rock station, you only need to load about 20 songs on your MP3 player and set it to shuffle. Heres a sample of what you’ll need to match their expansive catalog:
The 70′s: Stairway to Heaven, Hotel California and Free Bird. The 80′s: Welcome to the Jungle, Sweet Child of Mine and Back in Black. The 90′s: Jeremy, Interstate Love Song and maybe NIN’s Closer if it’s an edgy rock station. And Today!: Something from 3 Doors down, Trapt or one of those other poser bands.
Why does every damn station in this damn town play music from “The 70′s, 80′s, 90′s and today”? I am not exaggerating. There are maybe four rock stations in this town and they all basically play the exact SAME THING! And the morning shows are simply abysmal. You’d think Atlanta was home to some of the dumbest white honkey hicks and fat lipped negroes in the country! It’s almost as if the phone screeners just look for idiots to put on the phones. I simply can’t tolerate it. We really aren’t that stupid around here… I hope.
So I have turned to gathering my own tunes and talk radio off the net in the form of Podcasts and downloaded MP3s. So far it’s been awesome. Screw traditional radio, I’ll listen to my shows when I want, pause and resume them at my leisure and skip the commercials in most cases.
Adam Carolla’s show being cancelled is simply another example of what’s wrong with the music and radio industry. It’s all turned to crap. There are no more niche shows or programming. Now they all take the approach of throwing out a big net and nabbing as many ears as they can. Well, I think you guys have over fished the pond and more and more of us are going away and not coming back to listen. I can’t remember the last time I actually turned my radio on. Screw all of you. When they shut down 99x here in Atlanta about a year ago, that was the last straw! To hell with FM radio.
While I wait for Carolla to land on his feet and start up a new show, I’m going to start a podcast feed out of this site featuring classic Loveline from 1999 up until his departure from the show. I’ve got 40 gigs of this stuff to burn through. I’ll upload more and more as I listen to it. Feel free to subscribe to the feed if you want to add it to your podcast software of choice. I don’t have many readers, so I don’t fear server overload too much. But if it does become an issue, I’ll expect all of you to start hitting up some of those google ads to help me out!
If you’re interested in the torrent, you can grab it here!
UPDATE! Carolla is about to launch his own personal podcast. Check it out here: http://carollaradio.com/.
Because the Loveline collection is so massive, I’m holding off on posting it from my server. Download the torrent if you want the recordings. I’ll be seeding it for months.
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:33 am
That guy should have been off the air a long time ago.
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:10 pm
So who do you prefer to listen to then, Jawsh? Ryan Seacrest?
You’re obviously a homosexual.
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:35 pm
I wish my name was Jawsh!
March 13th, 2009 at 1:55 am
It’s too bad, I really enjoyed Adam too. I hope your podcasts work out.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:56 am
I read a couple other posts by the way.
March 19th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Peavy, I have been desperately awaiting your next post for almost a month now. I have the urge for some of you sarcasm and witty diction. Please satisfy my craving soon!
Love, AthensWriter