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RightClickSaveAs posted:A magazine called Design Bureau had an article about Carolla and his house: http://www.wearedesignbureau.com/2010/11/adam-carolla/ This was great, thanks a lot for this. Every time Adam talks about TAC Project, he talks about how much everyone seemed to love it and how he's surprised it's not on DVD, etc. He actually seems appreciative that people have sought it out without being able to get it on DVD, so it's probably the parent company of TLC or whatever deciding to arbitrarily assert some power or something.
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If you guys are saying that Adam owes Jimmy for his success, or he wouldn't have made it because of Kimmel, the same thing could be said for just about every successful person in the entertainment industry I'm betting. Every singer, actor, writer, dancer or athlete or whatever has a story of that one director/talent agent/producer/studio exec/coach/fellow performer etc. that gave them a chance, listened to them, helped them out and so on. The fact that Jimmy helped Adam break into radio doesn't take anything away from Adam's talent. And I'm willing to bet there was someone Jimmy met before Adam that helped HIM break into radio as well.
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Carson Daly was Jimmys assistant...Kimmel is a kingmaker!
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Ez posted:If you guys are saying that Adam owes Jimmy for his success, or he wouldn't have made it because of Kimmel, the same thing could be said for just about every successful person in the entertainment industry I'm betting. Every singer, actor, writer, dancer or athlete or whatever has a story of that one director/talent agent/producer/studio exec/coach/fellow performer etc. that gave them a chance, listened to them, helped them out and so on. The fact that Jimmy helped Adam break into radio doesn't take anything away from Adam's talent. And I'm willing to bet there was someone Jimmy met before Adam that helped HIM break into radio as well. No, I think they are saying that the entertainment industry is unique and lessons learned from one's success in it may not be applicable to the lives of most people living in the real world. For example, if you want to be a financial adviser the best course of action is probably not to work as a day laborer and call in to radio shows until someone gives you a shot. That said, in a lot of ways Carolla seems more grounded than most of society when it comes to accepting one's limitations. When he busts on people for attending community college he isn't doing it to mock those who can't do better, he is pointing out the absurdity of people following a path that they've already proven is not for them by being there in the first place.
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Ez posted:If you guys are saying that Adam owes Jimmy for his success, or he wouldn't have made it because of Kimmel, the same thing could be said for just about every successful person in the entertainment industry I'm betting. Every singer, actor, writer, dancer or athlete or whatever has a story of that one director/talent agent/producer/studio exec/coach/fellow performer etc. that gave them a chance, listened to them, helped them out and so on. The fact that Jimmy helped Adam break into radio doesn't take anything away from Adam's talent. And I'm willing to bet there was someone Jimmy met before Adam that helped HIM break into radio as well. While this is true, I think the point that people are making here is that Adam can't really attribute much of his success to him "pulling himself up by the bootstraps." He's very talented and he worked very hard to get where he is today, but neither of those two things would have amounted to much if he hadn't been born with a few structural advantages and hadn't had some amazing strokes of luck during his career. So the fact that he thinks the difference between him and someone who doesn't make it big is simply that he worked hard and they didn't, and then is so vehemently against extending some structural advantages to other demographics, is just a little galling to me. What can I say, I am a fan scorned. I know Adam is smarter than this; I know he is capable of much deeper, more abstract thought than this. I see it as a waste of a perfectly good mind.
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Majorian posted:I know Adam is smarter than this; I know he is capable of much deeper, more abstract thought than this. I see it as a waste of a perfectly good mind. I think this is where people go wrong. Carolla isn't smarter than this. He's not very smart at all. His comedy doesn't involve creativity or intelligence. He doesn't do stand up comedy when he's on the road because he is not capable of doing stand up comedy. He does his radio show live. He rants. He plays himself as a character and his views lack depth because the character he is playing, Adam Carolla, lacks depth. People should enjoy it for what it is and stop trying to find valuable life lessons unless they are a teenage girl on her third pregnancy or a 23 year old going to community college and smoking meth.
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NotWearingPants posted:I think this is where people go wrong. Carolla isn't smarter than this. He's not very smart at all. His comedy doesn't involve creativity or intelligence. He doesn't do stand up comedy when he's on the road because he is not capable of doing stand up comedy. He does his radio show live. He rants. He plays himself as a character and his views lack depth because the character he is playing, Adam Carolla, lacks depth. Clearly you're forgetting the brilliance of "AIDS Butler."
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Majorian posted:While this is true, I think the point that people are making here is that Adam can't really attribute much of his success to him "pulling himself up by the bootstraps." He's very talented and he worked very hard to get where he is today, but neither of those two things would have amounted to much if he hadn't been born with a few structural advantages and hadn't had some amazing strokes of luck during his career. So the fact that he thinks the difference between him and someone who doesn't make it big is simply that he worked hard and they didn't, and then is so vehemently against extending some structural advantages to other demographics, is just a little galling to me. What can I say, I am a fan scorned. I know Adam is smarter than this; I know he is capable of much deeper, more abstract thought than this. I see it as a waste of a perfectly good mind.
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TomSellek posted:I disagree 100% but i'm not going to Debate and Discuss the issue. Is "structual advantages" the new internet socialist catchphrase though? No, it is a legitimate way of describing the nature of certain advantages. Don't mind me though. I am a filthy socialist.
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TomSellek posted:I disagree 100% but i'm not going to Debate and Discuss the issue. Is "structual advantages" the new internet socialist catchphrase though? It's actually something that's discussed pretty frequently in political science. That Adam and I, for example, both had the fortune of being born white males, are structural advantages that we share.
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Jimmy Kimmel would be nowhere without Kevin and Bean.
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Dr Drew is in the hospital with a disease you get from contact with animal urine. Perfectly normal, perfectly healthy.
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Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur posted:Carson Daly was Jimmys assistant...Kimmel is a kingmaker! Only if you consider Adam Carolla and Carson Daly "kings".
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BV posted:Only if you consider Adam Carolla and Carson Daly "kings". You realize that words are not always 100% literal, right? They still teach that in school I would assume, if you young ruffians weren't always on your Kidbook and Youngspace maybe you would learn something about the English language instead of putting up your photos of scandalous alcohol parties
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Bolkovr posted:Dr Drew is in the hospital with a disease you get from contact with animal urine. Pee on this stick.
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ChaosMonkey posted:Pee on this stick. If I find you stealing my underwear again, here's what's gonna happen rear end in a top hat.
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CatchrNdRy posted:If I find you stealing my underwear again, here's what's gonna happen rear end in a top hat. I've had anal sex, but my hymen is still intact so I'm a virgin?
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Now listen, it's the-- Listen. LISTEN. LISTEN.
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TomSellek posted:And Venice is in Italy Wait, let me grab the scratch-pad... Venice.... in.... italy.... We'll send you out a windbreaker.
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Vertigus posted:He talked about that at length on one of the podcasts. Do you by any chance remember which episode that was? Very interested to hear about the Adam/Lynette separation. Only thing I remember was Adam mentioning being single on some 1999/2000 Loveline episodes.
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Adam is absolutely correct in that Design Bureau interview when he says Ty Pennington isn't much of a carpenter. I listened to the Loveline episode where Adam quizzed him, and I knew more answeres than Ty even though the sum of my construction experience is a few summers of glazing curtain wall.
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Hip Gelatinous Cube posted:Do you by any chance remember which episode that was? Very interested to hear about the Adam/Lynette separation. Only thing I remember was Adam mentioning being single on some 1999/2000 Loveline episodes. August 3rd, 2010, with Lisa Lampanelli.
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NotWearingPants posted:I think this is where people go wrong. Carolla isn't smarter than this. He's not very smart at all. His comedy doesn't involve creativity or intelligence. He doesn't do stand up comedy when he's on the road because he is not capable of doing stand up comedy. He does his radio show live. He rants. He plays himself as a character and his views lack depth because the character he is playing, Adam Carolla, lacks depth. I think you're dead wrong. Adam's brilliance lies in the fact that he can cut through all of the chaff clouding certain issues and identify the root issue like a laser guided missile. Admittedly sometimes he goes too far and ends up oversimplifying matters for the sake of proving a point, but I think overall that's his key strength.
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Wompa164 posted:I think you're dead wrong. Adam's brilliance lies in the fact that he can cut through all of the chaff clouding certain issues and identify the root issue like a laser guided missile. Admittedly sometimes he goes too far and ends up oversimplifying matters for the sake of proving a point, but I think overall that's his key strength. I agree that he's right except when he's wrong. edit: The world is you oyster, because that's all the world is.
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UltraRed posted:I agree that he's right except when he's wrong. Hey wait, when did I say that?
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Wompa164 posted:I think you're dead wrong. Adam's brilliance lies in the fact that he can cut through all of the chaff clouding certain issues and identify the root issue like a laser guided missile. Admittedly sometimes he goes too far and ends up oversimplifying matters for the sake of proving a point, but I think overall that's his key strength. one of his best ideas was to change the culture of the 4 way-stop. He was tired of having overly polite people slowly wave each other through. He then decided rather than waving, to point at people like "a guy on aircraft carrier flight deck points at pilot". Apparently it worked, and people would gun through. his crusade didn't seem to stick with him though like his other hot topics.
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If he had any education at all about any of the things he rants about he'd be pretty brilliant. He starts to build up to a point about something profound and then oops! takes the xenophobic racist fork in the road instead.
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CatchrNdRy posted:one of his best ideas was to change the culture of the 4 way-stop.
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Whitey Ford posted:As a non-American who has done a considerable amount of driving in America, 4 way stops are loving absurd. As an American who has done a considerable amount of driving in America, 4 way stops are loving absurd.
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As an American who has done a considerable amount of driving in America, I blow through red left turn arrows when there's no traffic.
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CatchrNdRy posted:one of his best ideas was to change the culture of the 4 way-stop. He was tired of having overly polite people slowly wave each other through. He then decided rather than waving, to point at people like "a guy on aircraft carrier flight deck points at pilot". Apparently it worked, and people would gun through. his crusade didn't seem to stick with him though like his other hot topics. I just listened to that episode a couple months ago and it literally changed my life. It works so well, and other drivers don't question me for a second.
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CaptainViolence posted:I just listened to that episode a couple months ago and it literally changed my life. It works so well, and other drivers don't question me for a second. I am also joining in to say that this works wonders on the suburban women in Michigan. First, you point at them, and if they don't start moving in .3 seconds, you point directly at where they are going, never taking your eyes off them. ninjoatse.cx fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Jan 21, 2011 |
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CaptainViolence posted:I just listened to that episode a couple months ago and it literally changed my life. It works so well, and other drivers don't question me for a second. I would like to listen to this episode... could you list it on the loveline archives, please? Thank you!
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Carolla's podcast is in the 'pilot' stages of taking over Bubba's spot on Howard Stern's H101 Sirius channel. The podcast remains free, but it will be extended with 30 more minutes of content, and will be simulcast live on Sirius. There will be additional commercials on Sirius' end, but I'm not sure if they'll be cut out of the podcast.
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Just when I was finally accepting the new format where it was 30 to 45 mins of bullshit and than a real interview, he moves on to this. Good for him to make money but gently caress, 1 on 1 is what all the fans love. Not his stupid loving bits!
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Vintersorg posted:Just when I was finally accepting the new format where it was 30 to 45 mins of bullshit and than a real interview, he moves on to this. Good for him to make money but gently caress, 1 on 1 is what all the fans love. I feel like just keeping the interview segments to 30 minutes or so is what allows Adam to get more celebrities on more often. But yeah, when somebody like Patton Oswalt is on they need to be in the whole show.
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Revol posted:Carolla's podcast is in the 'pilot' stages of taking over Bubba's spot on Howard Stern's H101 Sirius channel. This... This is great news.
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