Three Run Jimmy Jack

My wife and I listen to the Loveline radio show. Not just casually, we are addicts. Yes, we are Loveline-aholics. In the last 10 years I figure we have been in our bed listening to Loveline from 10 pm to midnight Sunday through Thursday for roughly 90 percent of those nights. Roughly 250 shows a year for 10 years...2500 shows. And of those shows we heard at least some of 2250 of them. And they were great.

Last Thursday night was Adam Carolla's last night on Loveline. His career on Loveline lasted almost exactly as long as our addiction, and that is not a coincidence. Adam Carolla is a comedic genius, but that genius is most ingenious when he is ad-libbing and taking calls from mixed up teenagers.

The sum of Adam and Dr Drew is greater than the parts. If either is gone, the show suffers a lot. We often turn off the program if one of them is absent. I get the feeling that neither will ever be as great again in anything they do.

So I am in mourning, the loss of the greatest radio team of all time. Adam will do a morning show starting in January. It might be good, it might be great, it won't be as good as Loveline. Loveline was on last night, the first night of the post-Adam era. Drew was there. We couldn't stand it, we turned it off. We are going to have a tough time with this withdrawl.