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He's had major cutbacks at his podcast and with competition increasing I suspect his numbers are going down and he's becoming increasingly irrelevant. Compare his guest list from 20110 to what he had this year.
You don't hear this kind of negativity from Jimmy Kimmel.
http://www.king5.com/news/Occupy-Seattle…
I remember when Dennis Miller used to be funny.
Now he isn't.
(Also if you actually just used the phrase "kids today" you might want to check your own best-by date because you may be approaching expiration.)
I'm not defending Carolla. He is an asshole and an idiot. But he is successful in his chosen field
One thing about him is that he is very candid about knowing how stupid he is. He talks at length about how he studied hard in school and still got C and D grades because he is stupid and not good enough. He should be ignored on anything not directly humor related and even ignored on some of that.
@Paul Constant -- Adam Carolla actually grew up in a single parent household and survived on welfare and food stamps throughout his childhood. He also dropped out of junior college and worked in contruction before getting into show business in his 30s. He's a perfect example of someone who's just worked really hard and pulled himself up by his own bootstraps.
Good try though?
Rick D
the poster of this "idiotic rant" didn't do their homework at all and really comes off as snarky (par for the course for the stranger) and arrogant. Carolla did come from a single parent household on welfare. he DID work construction, digging ditches in Southern California before WORKING his way up to being a skilled carpenter. THEN he took classes (after he dropped out of jr. college) at groundlings (improve group in LA) and WORKED on being a sketch artist/comedian. so, all of you going ON AND ON about how he sucks are no better than the genius that posted the rant, and are probably the entitled kids/now-young-entitled-adults he was ranting about originally BEFORE he switched gears to the occupy people. his message in what he says is clear, and true. the people who are mad at him about it are probably mad because he's describing THEM. like it or not, there are a LOT of people right now asking for things THEY DON'T DESERVE. but, go on hipsters, keep on doing the fashionable thing and call names and point fingers at anyone but yourselves. again, YOU are who he was talking about first.
People these days spend too much time being angry, and less time assembling a quality rant. For that, at least, I give Adam Carolla a modicum of respect, even when he is full of shit.
Dan Savage earns my respect in similar fashion for his over-opinionated ranting.
So bring on the ranters! :)
If he survived on welfare and food stamps then he didn't do it all on his own by pulling himself up by his own bootstaps now did he?
No, he and his family relied on the same social services that are being cut today. That's the whole point of the 99% movement. I don't begrudge any person success in life, but I do value our basic lifeline social services more than the 1%'s desire to horde more money.
Knowing the right people is a better path to success than working hard. I've seen what successful people call "hard work." It usually consists of drinking and smoking dope in college and then landing a good paying job set up by daddy.
I came from a similar background as Mr. Corolla. Although I have had modest success (college educated, lawyer, house, white picket fence, etc.), I haven't worked ten percent as hard as my mom. I received all the benefits she worked for.
In my experience, those who claim they work hard generally have no idea what hard work is.
Read more: http://www.inkkc.com/content/aimless-ada…
Yeah, lots of work, that getting lucky stuff.
Oh, also, he dropped out of community college. That was just *too* hard for his ass-busting self.
Left side wants the rich to pay more, right side thinks the rich pay enough as it is. Both arguments have merit, but the one thing thats painfully obvious is that neither side is willing to come to a compromise.
FUCK YOU PAY MORE, FUCK YOU PAY LESS. Thanks to the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, we now have the birth of a serious class war.
Also, Jimmy Kimmel dropped out of college too. Better go dig up some dirt on him to discredit his success too, since he's a college dropout and therefore obviously just lucked into any money he has.
Carolla like many that like to claim the OWS movement is just a bunch of entitled kids, is probably pretty far removed from the realities of the situation on the ground.
There's almost no point listening to the "wisdom" of celebrities. They'll always tell you to believe in yourself and try your hardest. It's like asking a lottery winner for advice -- of course they're going to tell you to buy lottery tickets every day. To them this kind of advice makes sense, even if the reality is it's about the dumbest bet you could ever place.
i've listened to some of his podcasts, and the guy has near expert opinions on classic cars, fixing cars, and carpentry. and i know personally some men in the same fields, and they seem to have some valued opinions on the economy. BUT, KUDOS to YOU for never hearing of Adam Carolla. I'm worse off for knowing about him - he's another talking head like Maddow, Constant, etc.
It is amazing what paper currency will do.
a) Although he may think these thoughts, he is not speaking as a Senator or TV personality or on public radio; HE IS COMPLAINING ON A PODCAST THAT YOU HAVE TO SEEK OUT; that YOU are not subjected to!! YOU FUCKS! He is a comedian, (I am using that term loosely) And that's what his show is about. BEING FUNNY. Was that rant funny? Of course it was fucking funny. Was it stupid and ignorant? OF COURSE IT WAS!! Do your kids or YOU have to be subjected to it? NO!! So shut the fuck up it doesn't have any effect on you.
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b) He worked fast food, carpet cleaning jobs, dug ditches, framed, and built himself into a respected worker and eventually a contractor I believe. He got very fucking lucky in meeting Jimmy Kimmel. Which I think I have only heard him mention like 500 times. SO SHUT THE FUCK UP.
HE CAN SAY WHATEVER THE FUCK HE WANTS. It is his show and one of the reasons he is now in podcast format, is so he can do that. Not to mention the first amendment that the Occupiers are fighting so strongly to protect.
And guess what? You posting this, and the whole news story around this, just added about 20,000 more listeners for this previous weeks podcasts and probably next weeks also. Guess who is still laughing?
HIM.
In a big house. That he built. Up on what I can only imagine is a picturesque hill. Let's not forget he owns at least one corporation or business and pays taxes on. He also employs I would say, 10-30 people maybe? An engineer with brain cancer, an aspiring comedian/actress, his father, his long term friends, comedian Larry Miller, his Guatemalan nanny...how's that for 1%? huh?
Those guys are real assholes huh?
I hate people who create jobs and companies and employ uniquely skilled individuals and stick by there side.
FUCK PAUL CONSTANT. FUCK HIM RIGHT IN HIS DUMB LITTLE FACE.
It's always amusing to read, hear, or see white hetero antigay racist trash defending white hetero antigay racist trash.
Good for you sweetie! Someone has to do it.
@52, speaking of qualities required for basic employability, you might want to consider literacy. I'm pretty sure I can hear my junior English teacher crying, and he's been dead for 14 years.
So how come we had to bail them out? With betters like that who needs parasites?
Anyway, I hope Occupy really pisses them off. Offends them so much they stop talking about Atlas Shrugged and finally do it: quit. Leave. Disappear. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, you hard working fucks. Take Adam Carolla with you.
Also, they're thinking about leaving: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading
In truth, he was just an elitist asshole who made other elitist assholes feel good about being elitist, condescending assholes to other people.
Remember, his worldview peer was (ahem, still is) Victoria Jackson, and their primary difference was only that Dennis owned a dictionary whereas Victoria owned a lifetime supply of blond dye.
The truth is if any of the people reacting so strongly to his rant --- which is really the same type of shit he's been saying for years -- actually thought he was as stupid as they're accusing him of being, they wouldn't care what he thought. He's obviously struck a chord.
Not intelligent. Not important. Meaningless. Just another whatshisface-the-plumber.
moving on...
hum.
working hard is a virtue, and I strongly believe it is immoral not to do so. But it most certainly is no guarantee of anything except a sore back. In many cases a willingness to do work others will not do can insure that you will not succeed (eg: try listing that manual labor job you took to make ends meet on your resume and getting an interview for an IT job-you're better off having been unemployed).
Meanwhile, the partners of Goldman Sachs are made whole for every transaction they entered into with AIG. Instead of going bankrupt, as they should have, the partners of Goldman Sachs are paying themselves bonuses with millions of dollars of taxpayer money.
Also, what the fuck is wrong with people that 1. don't believe hard work gets you anywhere, or 2. believe no one works hard and life is just luck.
I'm assuming brain dead fuckers that believe such nonsense have never worked a day in their lives.
And so, occupy wall street.
incorrect. Carolla frequently points out that he's not smart. that would suggest that he is one of the people that has actual competence, but lacks self-confidence. he doesn't claim to be smarter than anyone. way to cite a cognitive bias study, that you probably heard about in a college class once, or one of your friends told you about, to make yourself look smarter. good for you!
And so Adam works hard (coming from a social services upbringing) and makes it rich. So, his hard work is different than everyone else who works hard and lives paycheck to paycheck? HIS hard work is somehow better and more DESERVING of riches? Wtf !?
For the most part AC is totally on target. Most of the 1% and the 10% for that matter have worked and studied hard for years to get to where they are.
But, please distinguish working years and decades directed towards career oriented self-improvement from mindlessly working at a wage slave job and hoping things get better.
Most of the 1% thru 10% had a plan and they executed that plan for many years to get to where they are.
Such plans probably did not include making time for unlawfully camping in public parks and marching in streets.
You're the smartest person on this thread. The discussion should have ended with your post.
Adam Corrolla has stired such a pointless thing to argue about and focus on. He has all of you in a non-sensical daise of a topic. It's about the private international banking cartel and their corrupt abuse of the control of our currency. And the participation of our corrupt congress and representatives. This whole topic introduced by the perspective of an uninformed Adam Corrolla on such a miniscule aspect of the OW and perpetuated by the media is such a diversion from the real point of the protest. Who do you think controls the media? Correct, the top 5 media corporations of the nation. And what do they want you to think? Correct again, that the occupy wallstreet movement is about lazy people who are suddenly socialist and want a balance of hand-outs. Thanks Adam and the media, you have what you wanted, a bunch of idiots wasting their time on this subject alone. Wake up everyone, it's about the corruption of the fed and our congress and the abuse of power we've given them.
what you describe, at length, very well might be the root of the movement, BUT the most vocal mouthpieces for the movement have been quoted as saying such revolutionary declarations such as: "I just think somebody should throw me a bone and pay for my college tuition." "Why?" "Because... that's what i want." if the movement had kept a SINGLE idea and developed an actual GOAL, then they'd have more support from the rest of the 99% they claim to represent, but... let's, be honest, DON'T. Carolloa, if you listened, was calling out those children who are misbehaving as a form of protest. you assumed that he was complaining about ALL of them, he was talking about the ones giving the movement a bad name, AND unfortunately, they're the ones getting all the press and doing all the wrong things to send their message... whatever it might be. (however, it's certainly not the one you described.)
#44's post: "There's almost no point listening to the "wisdom" of celebrities. They'll always tell you to believe in yourself and try your hardest. It's like asking a lottery winner for advice -- of course they're going to tell you to buy lottery tickets every day. To them this kind of advice makes sense, even if the reality is it's about the dumbest bet you could ever place."
THAT warrants the title of "smartest person on this thread?" maybe you shouldn't be giving out awards. believing in yourself and TRYING HARD are "dumb bets?" that's basically what Proteus says. every TEACHER and good PARENT, tells you similar things throughout your entire life. how is it bad advice? the lottery winner analogy doesn't even connect with the advice of believing in yourself and trying hard. they're not alike at all. YOU though it was an intelligent post? wow.
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It was the worst recession previous to where we are now, at the exact time he was finding and working shitty ass jobs, and the rest of the country was complaining about unemployment which was it it's highest, and equal to todays.
Why? Because in an era of saturated Libocracy, it was a crack in the unisex curtain. It had the balls to say that guys like hot looking pliant females in short skirts. Much as it seems odd today, the Agenda was in full swing back then and the Man Show was like hearing VoA in Bulgaria during the Cold War.
That said, its twenty years latter, and the whole "i hate France" style of neocon comedy is...stale.