Adam Carolla's show on SPIKE. I know some here give AC the 'Can Do no wrong" label but this was pretty bad of him.

Adam goes and gets "Pedro" who did the original work in someones house.

The guy put in a skylight that leaks !!!!!

Now, I don't know if Pedro has insurance or is licensed, but I will guess he has neither documents. I will also guess Pedro works for $25 an hour.

Can you find someone that will do good work for $25 an hour. Sure you can, but you have the same odds of finding someone who does terrible work, or even just takes the money and runs (Thats called Craigslist)

Adam knows what kind of guy Pedro is. He doesnt come back to fix problems and if the problem is too big and he is going to start losing money on the project, he leaves the project.

So Carolla has his TV crew, the new fancy contractor, the homeowners, everyone circles around Pedro and starts ripping into the guy. Odds are pretty good, Pedro isn't even a legal resident of the US.

Does Adam ever turn to the well to do , upscale LA family who hired Pedro? NO, does he ask them what they were thinking? NO...it's all on pedro

So, he is going to go around LA and find deadbeats that did bad work and didnt come back to fix it. Gotta be better than that. Turn to the family and say "hey cheap mother fuckers, why didnt you call a roofing company that is established and insured?" Oh because you are too cheap!

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Is it entertaining at least?

If you enjoy picking on immigrants, sure

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I watched the first one. Not that great. Not sure about the stuff BigFan is saying , I have little experience with contractors


But immigrant or not they should finish thee job right?

The episode I saw, the couple didn't seem well off

So it's basically the Mike Holmes show where he swoops in and fixes someone elses fuck up, except he takes it one step further and publically shames the guilty party?

Sounds terrible.

As a licensed GC, I am quite sure about the stuff I am saying. Carolla knows it. If that guy showed up on a job, Carolla would never hire him.

Here is a hint. If the guy rolls up in a beat up old van with tons of papers on the dash, you have a 50/50 shot at it going well. You have less of a chance of him coming back to fix it.

Pedro, might be a decent roofer and I as a GC might hire Pedro, but I would watch everything Pedro is doing to see it is done right and I would pay Pedro until I see that it was done right.

I would not hire Pedro as my GC and have him find someone.

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I like Holmes and he seems to have a very good knowledge base but it always rubbed me the wrong way when he would rip the guy doing the work to shreds without acknowledging that the homeowners were cheap ass fools for hiring someone off the bottom of the barrel to begin with.

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Yup

he brings in entire crews to do work without cost objectivity as well. "You have a hole in the drywall...let's rip out the wall and rebuild it!"

Maybe I should start a show going back to Holmes and Carolla projects ten years later...."Look at this flimsy door..whoever out this in didnt know what he was doing"

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Mike Holmes kills furnaces.
Don't use his filters.

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+1

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CARE TO EXPLAIN?

The part where the contractor finishes the job and then meets the original people is a little weird -- they are glad the job is done, but hate the contractor's guts, so not sure what is being accomplished there.

I watched the first two, and that will probably be it -- there's other better fake reality out there.

Though this is much better than Mystery Diner.

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Also, BigFan he's said none f these people are well off. The pilot episode house was tiny

That's what he says anyway


Carolla benefits from the podcast platform its perfect for him. I don't think he could ever really be funny on any type of regular TV

Are you arguing with Bigfan or imitating him?

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Leash giving me the Frank treatment?

Frank agrees?

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Jerry want taxpayers to pay for this thread?

Irony! RPB not sure? LEAH DUNHAM!

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Actually I said "They are well to do" and that size house in LA is close to a $1M house fixed up.

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First five minutes of his latest podcast with DrDrew says all this almost down to the word.

http://adamcarolla.com/adamanddrew/

Dr Drew is s smart man.

Its a weak show and pretty shitty for a guy like him to be a part of it.

"I want my house to look like our friends house, but not like our friends house."

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Why are you internet yelling?

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What is the chance a GC doesn't do a great job? What is the chance that same GC pushes you off repeatedly because they've already got final payment before you discovered your problem?

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GO BEARS!!!

chances rise that you get treated like that when the guy has no website, no corp, no license, no insurance.

People should realize the chances of a GC coming back to fix something or change it to "The way they wanted it" are slim to none because then it starts costing the person to do the job. Becomes a losing proposition.

It is a major area I focus on making sure guys are not put in a position to lose money, because then you dont see them anymore. Its why I can assemble a great crew of guys because I look out for them. If the job is bigger then originally thought, I go back and get more money.

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Now that you have taken the role of Frank #2, have anything else to add?

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i watched an episode of this last night....it was weird

not particularly funny...kind of awkward

I thought the man show was hilarious TV as much for Corolla as Kimmel.

I hired Pedro to work on my basement, although on recommendation from a highly respected source. He's been doing great. I do think some of his crew are learning on the job but my wife is familiar with managing construction so she has them correcting as they go along.

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you don't get radiated floors without flashing a little titty

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