Episode Details

Mark McGrath sits down with Adam, for a delightful and hilarious deep dive interview about his career, his extensive No Jumper knowledge, and more!

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0:00 Intro

0:15 How the "losing hearing" rumor started on a red carpet, he said it as a joke and it went viral

2:55 Mark won the jeopardy rock trivia at one point: "I dont like to brag but yes" lol

3:30 Being called a one hit wonder w their song "Fly"

5:00 "I loooove music Adam22!" and by 8th grade he tried to figure out how to become a musician full time

6:50 Adam says by way of Nu Metal he went to Hardcore and Metal, Mark says Fred Durst would be happy to hear that

8:15 First album with Nicole Eggert n*ked on the cover, they had to make a statement coz there was so much competition

9:01 Nirvana is directly responsible for Sugar Ray success

10:18 In the 90s you could lie to labels, no social media to counter anything

11:14 The Shrinky Dinx, they started the group to drink beer and play old songs

12:23 Growing up in Newport Beach, Mark was in awe of reggae, he was breakdancing too!

12:54 Changing their name to Sugar Ray, Sugar Ray never trademarked his own name, Mark says he can use it anytime tho

13:00 They told the label they were bigger than they were and 500 songs recorded, one thing led to another and they got signed by Atlantic for 1M

14:43 They set themselves apart by making a music video on a VHS in a pizza box and sent it to every label

15:55 Mark calls Adam the Joe Rogan of the Zesty Disciples

17:27 Adam is really locked in when he interviews ppl which is amazing

18:46 Howard Stern influence + Meat Puppets, one of Kurt Cbain's favorite band, they were gonna record one of Howard Stern's song called “Psychedelic Bee”

20:30 They pulled up to a college while on tour, they recorded the song that day, sent to their manager thru Fedex and that was it, couple weeks later the manager tells them "leave all your shit in Wyoming and come here to be Howard Stern"

24:50 The Fly appeal, they toured for 2 years with that song alone

27:20 Mark briefly gets emotional talking about the music memories with his mom

29:21 Mark s