There are plenty of people that think Adam Carollais a jerk. Others call him a clown.Here at Mr. Skin, we just call him a friend.

What Carolla really is, is painfully honest. There's no opinion he won't share, and when it comes to working with the Weinstein Company or another movie studio of that ilk, he is quick to tell you that after his experience working on his critically acclaimed 2009 film The Hammer, he just isn't interested. That's why he's turning to his fans for help.

It shouldn't shock you this is the route Adam's taking to fund his next movie Road Hard. When CBS Radio fired him he relied on his fans' dedication to make his podcast a success. They came through for him in a big way. You could argue that they came through for the entire genre. Maybe crowd funding doesn't need the boost in 2013 that podcasting did in 2009, but FundAnything.com threw their support behind Adam in hopes that their site could receive a nice bump.

Carolla is offering fans everything from an advanced copy of the script to VIP treatment at the Road Hard premier and an Executive Producer credit. When I spoke with Adam on Wednesday he was getting his car, risking, in his words, "a chicken shit ticket" by driving and talking on a cell phone.

How did the idea for crowdsourcing Road Hard come to you? I've heard you say working on The Hammer was a pain in the ass. Did you decide you never wanted to deal with a studio again?

It just became such an arduous task. I couldn't put myself through it again. And I just realized that if I was gonna do this again, it would have to be done this way.

Why Fund Anything over a site with better name recognition like Kickstarter or Indie Gogo?

We went with them because they came to me. They basically came to us and said we want to be in business with you guys and we believe in you and we want to incentivize you to come and work with us. So, I wouldn't have gone with them, because I had never heard of fund anything, but theyyou know it's like being asked to the prom instead of walking around asking everyone else to the prom. They just showed up in a nice suit with a boutonniere in it, gave me a nice corsage and said "you wanna go to the prom?". And we said "yeah, nice of you to show the effort."

You've talked about your hyper vigilance before on the podcast. I wonder do you always know how much is in the fund for the movie at a given time?

Well, that's something - I'd have to be around a computer.

Right

I mean right now I have no idea because I'm not close to a computer. [As of July 17] we're close to 600 grand, which is a nice sum of money for under 14 days. That part's good.

[beeping sound]

Hang on. Let me back my car up. Yeah, now it becomes a challenge to keep that going.

So when you first put together that total - the $1 million you're asking for - what in your mind will that pay for? I did an interview with Glen Phillips from Toad the Wet Sprocket for another publication and he told me when they hit their goal of $50,000 for their Kickstarter album project they very quickly realized that may only pay for the incentives they offered for people to donate to the cause.

I love Toad the Wet Sprocket by the way and I love Glen as well. It should cover making this movie. I don't know if it will cover a lot of the other expenses that are involved in the process of a movie in terms of post production or things like that, but it should definitely cover the price of making this movie.

Considering how popular crowd sourcing has become, I don't know if you saw the recent article in USA Today about the US Speedskating Team, is having to use crowd funding to cover the expenses of training and competing for the 2014 games in Russia. Are you surprised by the blow back you've received? You spoke on the podcast the other day about a radio host in LA that was yelling about why Adam Carolla had to go begging for money.

No, I'm not surprised by the blowback at all. I would be surprised if there wasn't blowback.

Yeah

Especially when you're talking about celebrities asking for money. I understand it fully. You know?

[Laughs]

By the way, there should be blow back against the state of California and our insanely high taxes, because that's not optional. This is optional! If you would like to participate you can. If you do not want to participate you don't have to. And it's not charity. You're buying a Blu-ray. You're buying a copy of the script, a t-shirt, a part in the movie perhaps. It just keeps going, but it's not me saying "Give me money. I wanna make a movie. And you'll get nothing, not even so much as a thank you, in return." People are deciding, "Do I want to go to a premier party or a launch party or a live podcast at the Adam Carolla Studios?" You know? For those people who want to be involved they're getting involved. For those people who don't want to be involved they're not. Sadly, of course, but they're not obligated.

TabooYou've talked on the podcast at length about your love for the Taboo franchise. I'm wondering if you've looked into licensing the soundtrack to Taboo 2 for Road Hard.

[Laughs]

"He's Got it All" is gonna be the song that's playing underneath every scene where I do comedy.

[Laughs]

I like that. Maybe some emotional shots of you pondering your life on the road.

Yes. Every time I'm on an airplane looking out the window we're gonna hear "He's Got it All." Yeah. I like it.

We're you surprised to learn that [celebrity attorney] Mark Geragos shares your love for women in prison movies?

[Laughs]

He seemed to know a lot about them.

Chained HeatHe was ready to jump in on that Chained Heat discussion.

Yeah baby.

You have little over a month left in the campaign, right?

That's right. A little over a month.

So do you have plans for what you want to do if you go over the $1 million goal? Anything you'd like to do with the movie that you haven't even thought may be a possibility yet?

UmWell, I'd like to pay myself for writing the script. That would be nice. I never got paid on [The Hammer] for writing the script. We could do more things obviously. Travel more and do moreLook, I would put every penny back into the movie and we would theoretically have a better product. The main thing you buy with that sort of thing is you buy time.

Right

If you have a budget and that budget dictates you know if you have $1 million you have to get it made quickly and you have to get it made now! And that's maybe 21 days or 22 days. If you could get another couple hundred thousand dollars, well then you could buy yourself another 3 or 4 days of shooting and thus have yourself a better product.

Will Road Hard have a lot of shameless plugs for [your signature beverage] Mangria in it?

No. I mean other than me driving the Mangria mobile?

[Both laugh]

It's - think the giant Oscar Meyer hot dog mobile, but with Mangria. Other than that no. And that's pretty subtle.

Sure. It could have some sort of Mangria sound it plays when you hit the horn.

That's right. "La Cucaracha" baby!

[Laughs]

So will [Adam Carolla Show cast members] Alison [Rosen] and [Bald] Brian have parts in the movie?

No. They will not have parts in the movie, because I don't do it that way where I try to think of ways to get people into the movie. I just write scenes and I write characters. If one of them happens to be bald, disagrees with me and does sound effects, then there's a part for Brian in the movie.

It would be a shame if here at Mr. Skin we didn't ask if there were any topless or nude scenes in the movie.

I will be topless.

Terrific.

Also, through the magic of Blu-Ray you will probably also get a little back sack, but that's as much as I'm showing.

You have just given the Skinterns their assignment for all of next summer.

The Skinterns. I forgot about them.