Why Cat Haters are Insecure

http://www.hark.com/clips/ccxyvfsxpp-adam-carolla-why-cat-haters-are-insecure
>> ^dannym3141:

That's why cats are shit.

What is it with him quoting (2:28) the "Great Adam Carolla Rant On OWS" and pretending that they're his words. http://videosift.com/video/Great-Adam-Carolla-Rant-On-OWS

I feel like they are just quoting the memo of "Things to say."

Adam is great...and like Cenk I agree with him on many issues....but it's not hard to believe that Adam doesn't really understand what OWS is really about. He doesn't study this stuff...he is a casual observer of the news and uses that to spin off on rants and stories. What he know about OWS is the general information the news media feeds us which is OWS is about rich vs poor, bums and slackers wanting everything for nothing, etc...>> ^ghark:

It's not above Adam Carolla's head unfortunately, people like this know exactly what they are doing, trying to make the people who are robbing entrepreneuring you look awesome.

It's not above Adam Carolla's head unfortunately, people like this know exactly what they are doing, trying to make the people who are robbing entrepreneuring you look awesome.

With no analysis and the title, "Great Adam Carolla Rant On OWS." I can not upvote this. This is pure propaganda parroted by an idiot.

I've noticed that conservatives like Corolla and Victoria Jackson seem really confused about what OWS stands for - Opposition to corporate control of our democracy and the many resulting injustices it has created at home and abroad. Do you and other conservatives really not get it? Are you trying to re-characterize it as a negative in order to rationalize dismissing the movement? Or, are you just trying to be insulting? Or is it a mix of all three? Or something else? Just curious.

Downvote for holding such an arrogant position on an issue Carolla does not seem to grasp. >> ^cito:

Love Adam Corolla!
Been a subscriber to his podcast for years now, he's great.
I got a signed book from him and got to hang out for little bit backstage at the comedy store back in the 90's
I agree with most what he says.

>> ^Sagemind:

I understand what he is saying, and aside from all the course language, he has a point.
(because youth today is far too "entitled" and he's right as to how they got that way.)
BUT
His argument falls apart because the economy has changed. If the economy was the same as it was even 20 years ago (never-mind 35-40 years ago in the 70s) and this attitude of youth existed, then I'd completely agree - but it isn't. Today's economy says I can't feed my family and own my own house, even with two full-time incomes in the household. I work damn hard, I'm not a slacker.
I may not run my own company but, my job, as it is today, and would have been 20 years ago, would have paid the bills and allowed some extra cash to take my family on a holiday once a year. My wife would have been able to stay home with the kids, at least part-time.
I bought a house. It cost me $400,000. Ten years ago, the same house was valued at $140,000-170,000.
Twenty-one years ago, when my house was built, it cost $100,000 brand new. Wages, on the other hand, haven't changed all that much. As I left high school, people with good jobs were making $19-25 an hour working at the mill. Today, the wages are much the same. No one is making 300% more for the same job they were doing 20 years ago. So why has housing gone up, why has everything gone up(fuel, food etc.)? The truth is I can't afford a $400,000 house, no regular person can, but what choice do I have, the cheapest rental I could find was $200 more than what my mortgage payment is.
It's the economy, it's the banks, It's globalization, It's International Trade, It's Corporations buying up all the little guys and then jacking up the prices, paying employees less and paying all the politicians to stay out of their way.
His analogy about seeing Mr. Rich and respecting him in the old days and slamming him today also doesn't stand. Today, very few people own their own business and are successfully wealthy. Most small businesses are barley hanging on, operating in the shadows of the companies like Wal-Mart. Most small businesses need to barrow money to set up shop. These businesses pay more tax and interest than they ever did.
In the sixty's to late eighties, both of my uncles owned their own businesses. They were very successful and made a decent living and had many employees. Life was good. That bubble popped in the late eighties to nineties not because business was decreasing but because new governments raised business and property taxes to the point that, they both had to close up their shops. Taxes more than doubled over night and the interest on banking skyrocketed.
So Adam's rant is fun. It makes a good point about entitlement and winy brats wanting reward without working for it but that's it. It doesn't explain Occupy of the financial state every one is in now.
Period.


we should be happy that all the increases in wage/salary/benefit that we should have been getting over the last 30yrs have been going to a small group of individuals

we should be happy that money is allowing for the degradation of rights and civil liberties

we should be happy that every noble endeavor should be stifled and made irrelevant for the sole reason of monetary gain

we should be happy that our elected officials blatantly lie to our faces, and serve only their greed, and thus the whims of those with money... and not so much individuals as much as corporate interests... corporations who while now given the same "rights" as humans, bear none of the responsibility... either to their local communities or to the nation they are now a "citizen" of

we should be happy that education is becoming something you pay off over your life as opposed to something nutured and pushed by your nation, because it's how we seize the future and progress as a society... better we become ignorant and uneducated so that we are easier to control and are reduced to grunt manual servitude to our feudal lords

we should be happy the rich get bailed out; are allowed to gamble with our money consequence free... then because of it, we lose our home and our children lose their future

better we lose our right to privacy than be subjected to invisible boogeymen
better we lose our freedom of speech than be allowed to exercise it

i honestly hope not... but I can't help feeling the road back to sanity starts with the rolling heads of politicians and bankers... and I don't mean that metaphorically

i honestly hope they have the humanity to overcome their greed... because no amount of money will overcome the fury of the masses... right now the bear is waking up... best not poke it with a stick

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I heard that interview with Pollack- and was thinking of checking his podcast out too - as the interview was funny. The only thing that put me off is that he literally used "literally" to mean figuratively about 7 times in the interview- I'm not sure I could take that. >> ^lucky760:

I'm right there with you. I enjoy the things they discuss on Nerdist (e.g., the conversation with Drew Carey), but it feels sort of impotent because it's delivered like you're just eavesdropping on a conversation rather than being presented a production. I'm really surprised it's #6 among all podcasts and #1 in the comedy category above Ricky Gervais and Adam Carolla, but he does have a bit of a built-in podcast-centric geek audience.
ACP is always my first podcast of the day. The Bob Zmuda interview was great, but was cut too short due to the double booking.
Have you listened to Kevin Pollak's Chat Show? I discovered it thanks to his interview on Carolla. He has some really quality stuff. I also listen to the Parent Experiment, Frosty Heidi and Frank, After Hours with Heidi and Frank, the Pretty Good Podcast, and Loveline.
I haven't heard of the Marketplace of Ideas, but I'll give them a go.

I'm right there with you. I enjoy the things they discuss on Nerdist (e.g., the conversation with Drew Carey), but it feels sort of impotent because it's delivered like you're just eavesdropping on a conversation rather than being presented a production. I'm really surprised it's #6 among all podcasts and #1 in the comedy category above Ricky Gervais and Adam Carolla, but he does have a bit of a built-in podcast-centric geek audience.

ACP is always my first podcast of the day. The Bob Zmuda interview was great, but was cut too short due to the double booking.

Have you listened to Kevin Pollak's Chat Show? I discovered it thanks to his interview on Carolla. He has some really quality stuff. I also listen to the Parent Experiment, Frosty Heidi and Frank, After Hours with Heidi and Frank, the Pretty Good Podcast, and Loveline.

I haven't heard of the Marketplace of Ideas, but I'll give them a go.

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I've tried listening to the Nerdist a couple of times but couldn't get into it - mainly because they were always talking over each other most of the time. I'll have to give it another go.

For Podcasts, I listen to Adam Carolla- he had a great one with Andy Kaufman's buddy Bob Zmuda today.

and lately- the MarketPlace of ideas. Check out their episode on North Korea.

Download Adam Carolla's podcast of him interviewing James Nguyen here (though you'll notice by the URL they thought his name was John Nguyen): http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/2010/04/11/adam-and-john-nguyen

If there are just three uncomfortable words I take away from that interview (which is unfortunately wrought with language and culture confusion), they are: vultures are scavengers.

He is frakking hilarious. I regret I missed a chance to see him at a local Improv club a couple of months ago.

For a bit more funny from him, listen to the live Adam Carolla podcast on which Jim Jeffries was a guest. (On the Part 2 MP3 here.) I seriously LMFAHS.

*downunder

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Such an amazing scene. I love the way the camera just sweeps around them in the first part.

I'm with Adam Carolla- if Christoph Waltz doesn't win an Oscar for his Landa- we riot.

Wow, that's great. Thanks for the feedback. Glad I turned *someone* onto it!

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Great find on that interview. It took me most of the morning at work to get through, but totally worth it. Thanks!

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First heard of Gale Sayers this morning in an interview of Patton Oswalt by Adam Carolla. Interestingly, Patton Oswalt says he watches videos of Gale Sayers on the field to inspire his comedy writing.

Great find on that interview. It took me most of the morning at work to get through, but totally worth it. Thanks!

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First heard of Gale Sayers this morning in an interview of Patton Oswalt by Adam Carolla. Interestingly, Patton Oswalt says he watches videos of Gale Sayers on the field to inspire his comedy writing.