I'm a high school teacher and I sat through this interview audibly agreeing with so much of what Carolla is saying. I see it happening in schools right now - and no matter what we do to try to push back against it, to infuse a dose of reality and pragmatism - the government or board shuts us down with more changes to conduct and/or curriculum. Hard work matters. Hardly anyone will think you're special. There is value in the trades. You may not like deskwork but use that time to build habits like resilience and work ethic. Nobody will help you as much as you can help yourself. Go out there and *do* something!
I teach Jiujitsu. The parents bring their kid and say “make my kid tough, he needs to suffer some. He’s too soft.” Some parents are great and know what their kids need.
@@ransakreject5221 yes make my kid tough, I am headed to the bar i'll pick him up in 2 hours. those parents need to be taken to the mat. last thing parents want to do is raise their kids. they are too lazy or too dumb to be parents and like most americans they would rather pay somebody to do the tough stuff.
I am a GenXer with a 5yr old son. We keep him away from technology and we are raising him like a little boy. I wrestle with him and we go outside every chance we get. My wife and I do drawing and basic educational stuff everyday after preK ( not overloaded). I would like to ask you. as a teacher do you think parents and our culture relys to much on schools teaching our kids? I feel as a Father it is also my job to make sure he will do well in school. God Bless
I love Adam too. I'm curious if he is still friends with Jimmy though. Jimmy is the bipolar oppisite. Complete sell out for a couple nickels and dimes.
I've been a high school teacher and university professor for the past 30 years. I'm scared to death with the quality of kids I see entering the workforce and real world today. It hasn't been a gradual transition. This has all been done in the past 5-7 years at a neck-breaking pace. Parents...discipline your kids. Stop making excuses for them. All them to fall and skin their knees. Allow them the opportunity to develop mental grit. Our society is in serious trouble unless something drastically changes.
I totally agree. The expectations that are being set for what reality is like are WAY off. Young people come into jobs expecting to "get" more than to "give". That's not how capitalism works. Capitalism is a moral system precisely because you have to GIVE (work) in order to RECEIVE (get paid).
@@JohnPapola Spoken like a true high school dropout. First you comment is totally off topic and deranged. Second it's either overflowing with utopic ideology or just plain ignorance. The only people getting a "free ride" are the rent seekers our economic system thrives on. It's nice to be in the club. Nobody engaged in wage labor gets or expects to get more than they give. The question is how is the surplus value their labor creates distributed. Morons like you are always broke, under educated losers well trained to deep throat the boot on your own neck. Doesn't bother me one bit. I'm a rent seeking capitalist. Rent is due, peasant. You on the other hand are just a dumbass. A deluded zombie. A pleb.
My high school son tried out for the wrestling team, was the starting center for the football team and is a relief pitcher for the varsity baseball team. All this as a sophomore. I couldn’t be more proud. It’s not that he’s a superstar athlete. He’s probably not a prospect for any division 1 college. I’m just proud that he embraces the work to get out there, recovery from failure and loss.
As people have stopped worshiping God they’re going to worship something because we’re made that way so pets have become idols and it’s truly sickening. Also less people are having kids so it becomes a substitute. albeit a pathetic one.
I grew up around hundreds of dogs over the years as my dad had a kennel. Some of them were pets, but we never treated them like people the way so many do today and we certainly never degraded them by dressing them like a child’s doll. 🤮
My son was bullied. I told my son bullies have a sad life probably because their parents suck and bullies need friends more than anybody. I said dont take sh¡t and stick up for yourself and protect others but you can always walk away. My precious lil sonny rose above and helped those kids.🥰 He stopped being bullied and found respect. P.S. i had to teach him how to f¡ght tho
i dont like the idea of "bullies" and "heroes" . . . everybody is mean to each other in some form or fashion. tell a feminist you're not a feminist, and all the sudden you're gonna be bullied by a girl half your size, who you could literally beat the fuck out of if it were socially acceptable. so bullies and bullying isnt always about "fighting".
Bully talk from the eighties that's obviously bullshit. Listen to Adams podcast and hear some of the stories of his friends. They were just jerks to each other which fine, but don't act like your sons special. Adam claims he got literal human shit thrown at his face by his friend Idk why but boys are just mean and gross
He spot on cause thats how his kids are. I kinda thought hed be a more involved teaching parent but hey somebody's got bring in the bacon be can't do it all. I blame Lynette.
I've got 3 millennials (two barely, 94-95) and none of them are hobbled by this anxiety stuff. One big difference? They were adults before the smart phone was in every pocket. It's a horrible thing for teens and developing minds.
How true is all of this and sad.....my friends 19 year oldboy demanded to go to emergency bc he had a redened cut on his finger. His greandfather at the same age, was crossing through Europe by foot to go home after the war....go figure
That’s what Adam is doing too. He’s going to blame his kids malaise about working on their mother (which is probably true) but Adam is going to hold their hands and nepo the crap out of every contact he’s ever had because who would want to work all day and night to live not even a quarter of the life they grew up in. Trusts are probably already in place and guaranteed and known about by the kids. He’s great and he’s my favorite but he is not immune to doing everything for his kids that makes them love him even more.
The money becoming invisible is a great analogy, I’m 57, I remember my first job they actually handed me a physical paycheck with the stub explaining how much of that pay went to the government, etc., and I would deposit most of it but always pulled out some cash because we didn’t have Apple Pay. Even writing a check keeps the money from becoming invisible because you had to physically write the words and numbers of the amount the check was for, so in a way you were still connected to it.
I'm 72 and I looked at covid just like Adam explained. Nobody around me was sick and dying..the 2 doctors from Bakersfield who explained what was happening before TH-cam shut them down made me realize the risk was very minimal.
And people like you make me sick. My sister and her husband spoke those words. Young, no preexisting conditions so they wouldn’t get vaccinated and now they are both dead. It’s not just about you.
@Will get better eventually sorry for your loss. . Healthy People die in car accidents every day but do we stop driving? After all this time the only people I know who have died were 2 doctor's and it was right after getting vaccinated. They would have lived had they not gotten the shot. It works both ways
@Skeptic right, I thought I knew one person that had died from covid, now or 2 dead not long after first vax, then turns out the one who died from "covid" was pumped remdesevir which pretty much shut his kidneys down and filled his lungs of fluid, wish I had told him stay out of the hospital
@@Skeptic2244 everybody I know who got the shot got COVID, and one of my college friends died. I didn't get the shot because I got COVID in Jan 2020, but I never got COVID again. I didn't let my kids get it. They never got it. We went out every day, your vitamin D, played on the playground (it was a private one). I worked until they shut the schools down, and I had to stay home with my kids. I always thought it was a huge power play. And sadly, most of the world failed.
So relatable what Corolla says about loss of sensibility to the invisibility of pay and recognition of the effort made to earn that pay. As a family, we make it a point to at least save those family dinners EVERY day.
There was a female comedian on a Adam Carolla Show once and asked “who would be his ideal dream partner to marry?”He responded with “Mike Rowe.” Then she said “but you can’t have kids with him” Adam responded “oh but we would die trying.” Lmao
The wife and I have drilled our son about CREDIT. And work ETHIC. The same ethics and moral compass , that were passed down from our male and female veterans in the family . I'm proud to say he's learning an awesome TRADE in our home state. Getting certified for EVERYTHING. So in 5 or 10 years he's going to be a BUISSNESS owner and a BOSS🤞. SO lucky& PROUD because we're on the poverty line off and on FOREVER its seems. But our son won't be for long...PRAISE JESUS.
Sounds like you're taking responsibility and making sure he learns the proper things in life!🙏 Sadly most parents are just incapable and rely on public systems, and media to raise their kids then wonder wtf happened lol
Why do parents let their kids dictate everything? It seems parents don’t want their kids to be even remotely uncomfortable. It’s so frustrating! Thank you for the conversation 😊
I used to be a nanny and saw this a lot. It's frustrating to watch. I don't think it's about how the kids feel, the parent just don't want to deal with any discomfort. They're scared of confrontation even with their own children.
Parents started telling children the biggest lie of all time "Your feelings MATTER." Which turned into "no physical discipline like spanking - time outs work for all scenerios" "I am your friend not your parent so u can tell me anything"
Various reasons I suppose, but one stands out to me. They fear that making them uncomfortable will just drive the kids to the path of least resistance for catharsis, which is social media, video games, and other things in the digital realm that have become the Soma of this age we live in. What those particular parents dont realize is, approaching being a parent as a labor of love as described in 1 Corinthians 13 "The Way of Love", even when some tough love is required, tends to defeat the empty, short-lived, Soma of the easy access digital realm which just soothes but leaves them still starving inside as it cant feed the soul like proper love does.
So true. My 16 year old son seems to have no burning desire to get his license. I find it strange because I couldn’t wait to get mine. My cousin and I were competing to see who would get theirs first. It was a huge deal. These kids today have zero desire to obtain independence and freedom. Everything is available in their room and computer.
Neither one of my parents worried about me when I was outside climbing trees or riding bikes or exploring the woods or playing in the mud. That's how life was in the 50' s and 60s.
I grew up in rural Montana in the 80s and 90’s. I rode my bike dozens of miles a day down dirt roads to the reservoir and we played in the old slaughterhouse. Hung out with livestock. Pretty much the most freedom any kid had, but we knew all the neighbors and the town only had 80 people. If you stepped out of line, someone would tell your mom. 😂 it was a truly idyllic childhood experience. I hated school starting in junior high, though.
Thanks for the info, Gramps. It was also the same in the late 90s and early 2000s too. 😂 There are little kids on my block who live the same life now that I’m nearly 30. Kids haven’t stopped playing.
Here's a tell tale sign of where we are. This gentlemen was saying he gave his son an apple card because he needs gas. What came next was unexpected. He says "I wonder if I should just give him cash". I'm thinking he's gonna say "maybe I should let him get a job and pay for his own gas". Guess I'm just old
A fair criticism! I will say that my son has actually had jobs since 7th grade. This past summer he worked for the city's public works department digging ditches in the Texas sun 8 hours a day.
@@JamieLeeKnoxville well he has change over the years.. you would probably like his earlier stuff.. its fast and funny and straight to the point.. like the man show, Love Line and crank yankers
Not too long ago comedians were expelled from performing at Universities... that really was a sign of things to come, wasn't it? Can you imagine being in college and not wanting a comedian to come to the school, because you were afraid of being offended?
@@Dave-cf4vd As early as 20 years ago, Millennials loved live shows by rappers, rock and nu-metal bands at college. And comedians, weed and stoner humour and breasts. Look at the movies "Old School", "American Pie 1-3" and "Road & Euro Trip", great fun, but you could never make them anymore, because you'd they'd never fit the new Gen Z "social agenda"...
This was so good! When I was young we played outside from after school until dark. We drank out of the hose as going inside was unthinkable. We roamed the neighborhood and played in the gully. All the neighbors knew each other so if we were getting into trouble our parents would get a phone call (the phones were physically connected to the wall). We climbed trees, road the wagon down the park hills and learned risk tolerance. I dug holes in my grandpa's garden. I'm I firm believer in digging holes. It's builds character.
When I was a kid if I wanted to go somewhere, I either road my bike, hitchhiked or walked. Kid's now have a parent to drive them everywhere and anywhere they want to go. I couldn't wait to drive!
It's sad but true that most kids today are just happy to be at home where the food is free, tv's or vid games are always available...so why bother going outside? Also, cars and gas and insurance have become expensive and too many teens just can't be bothered taking the driver's test. 3 out of my 4 kids are like that!!
I'll tell you exactly where it started. When they started arresting parents for punishing there children. They have no fear of consequence for anything they do or say. It's amazing how people act if they get there ass whipped for bashing in someone's window with a rock, makes you think!
We are headed for extiction when the dominant out number those that produce. You would think the producers in this world would hold the power but this is not the case. The violent, dominant, deceitful ones without morals who break all the most important rules of society are the ones who rule this world and consecutive generations of our species emulate and revere these behaviors of power over others.
Grandma: that was the millennials. They learned a harsh lesson when they entered the real world. Therefore: their children, are Gen Z. That's this Generation. They're not coddling. The opportunities Carolla had, you and I had, even digging ditches, doesn't pay their high rents.
It is one's job as a parent to work very hard to teach your kids to become strong responsible productive adults. 'No' is a word that is good parents use.
The Ace Man - he's aging well and it's no mystery why he's weathered this storm-- brains, talent, and sucess. Awesome combo to grind it out through the slog heap. "The Hammer" baby!
I listened to Adam explaining his up-bringing. I'm 58 now and my childhood was much the same. At 15 though, they divorced And life got tougher living w/mom. Time to pitch in and make Due.. I'm a 40yr Senior Veteran Carpenter w/ a shit ton of builds and an extreme makeover build in my cap! SempreFi Adam. Structural Door frames have doublers! LOL
I started roofing when I was 16, I started during summer vacations. I graduated in 93 and worked for my Uncle full time. I remember him showing me his calloused hands when I was 8 or 9 years old. They looked like a baseball mitt. I thought it was the coolest thing. My hands still like that and I am very proud of it. I am already training our son for work.
Loved this interview. So all true. My kids are late teens and we feel the same. Mine are working and I think it’s been one of the best things for them. One is also paying for college as she goes. Make’em work hard and they will go far
Love Line... isn't that the show where teenagers would call and ask questions about threesomes and anal? I'm not sure the guy who made his bones like that should be lecturing anyone on anything.
As a kid we were never bored because our Canadian winters were always a Shinny game of hockey to go out and play. That's why we have such a passion for the game!
@@Meowface. CBA..... Canadian Ballhockey Association.....Year round Indoor ballhockey league at Firepark in Calgary, for all those who feel they hung there blades a wee bit to early. Our Game Hands Down!
same here, but if I wanted something I could find ways of making money and earn to buy what I wanted and felt more proud of it! However, I was born in '68 and for me finding ways to earn extra money in the early 80's was way easier than it is now..
i'm 37 and when COVID happened i worked 7 days a week 10 hours a day for 7 months straight I loved it i didn't wear a mask i didn't get a vaccine neither did my children I made it a point to ask everyone with a mask on why were they wearing one and did they understand how the immune system works
Same here. Through the entire Covid19 Dempanic Nov 19 through Now, I wore a mask an hour a week food shopping. Worked 6 days a week. Remember this quote : "We humans have an immune system......and it needs practice." (George Carlin )
Such a great podcast! Never had any disrespect for Carolla but my respect for him skyrocketed. Sounds like me talking plus he had some great insights and metaphors that I absolutely loved!
Any kind of discipline for a child is looked at as abuse, these days. Look how many people won't even tell their dog the word "no" because they think this will cause psychological harm to the dog. Telling a kid "no" or setting firm boundaries or making rules, or making them do their homework, it's all "abusive" now.
I've been listening to Adam since the early 90s, starting here in Los Angeles on local radio station KROQ with Dr. Drew. He has always been entertaining with his sardonic insights... even more so as the years have gone by with society crumbling right in front of us...
Kinda wish you'd have asked about his divorce and if his conflicting ideas with the Hollywood culture she's been accustomed had anything to do with it.
@@JohnPapola I respect this approach, however I now disagree with it to some extent. We all grew up working the jobs. I definitely learned more working than playing high school sports. I felt like I got a bit of Stockholm syndrome. I am raising my kids to learn skills for life and developing skills. I definitely make them understand that life is difficult and serious. And they are expected to stand on their own early as adults.
Adams perception is pretty spot on in regards in attempting to understand things completely opposite of our growing up (79' last of generation X aka facts over feelings generation and im so blessed). Sadly he hit it on the head when he said, " its kind of....pathetic." Great analogies on many different points of the topic. Im a dad of 3 girls 20, 14, and 11. And i still trip out on some of the stuff they DONT wanna do🤦🏼♂️
Sorry i didnt meet you when i went to North Hollywood High.But your thoughts and words are no doubt are truly Home Slice.Proof that there is a greatness from struggling! Great interview.I dont know how you picked my brain ,spoke my thoughts.Thanks Adam Corolla. Your a BAMF!
This is a really great podcast. I am 42 now, but I grew up with Adam and Dr. Drew. Fell asleep Monday through Thursday listening to Love Line. Even as a full on adult there is something comforting about hearing all of Adams stories. You did an excellent job asking questions and injecting your takes and life lessons into the conversation. You won a new subscriber and Adam made a book sale. Looking forward to more of your upcoming shows.
I had a client I was doing an addition on a house for about 1 1/2 years ago. Her and her wife would openly talk down about my guys and I with their daughter, (who was a boy in reality). I asked her to please stop and she said my words were an attack against her and were full of violence. I told her my price was now $20/hour higher and all my guys were $10/hour more because her words required reparations. She still owes me $3,000 and I’ll never see that money. Also her addition is still incomplete because she and her wife are so aggressive and mean and now nobody is available to do the complicated work we started so to complete it she’ll have to actually pay even more then my inflated amount. (She’s called my wife a few times begging me to return and even “offered” to pay me the money she still owes me).
My mom after divorcing my dad and bankrupting him she threw me out on the streets at 14.. i was still the first one of all my friends to have my own car.. i had no choice i had no where to live so after school i had no home so i went to work cleaning dishes in a pizza place.. until i had enough for my own car which i moved into then my dad got me a job at 17 in the electrical union and i was able to get an apartment so while my friends were still in school i already had my own apartment and car before all them.. however i lost a ton stuff from being homeless i couldnt finish school because of it. So i missed all the highschool years because i had to drop out early so i can work and have food..
@@Maras70D that's so true, sucks it was a thing that was forced on you instead of a choice that was made but yeah mostly ceremonial if you've found another path.
And???? Me too. I read Dostoyevsky, Camus, Dickens, Poe, Rimbaud, Sexton, the French, Spanish, English poets, philosophers, history, Miller, Nin....I traveled to countries and saw the great artists, met different cultures, And no one told me to. I didn't get a college degree. I'm completely self-taught. I guess literacy, empathy, and good grammar are now known as "elitism"
Great interview. It all makes sense. Gratefully my kids didn’t grow up with a silver spoon and grateful they missed this new generation issues. Btw, a bit too many ads that interrupt the conversation.
I am a therapist and just got off the phone with a parent who was concerned that her 13 year old step son was “suicidal” because he jumped off of a low roof onto a trampoline to see how high he could bounce. I call that “thirteen year old boy”, and she wasn’t satisfied- kept pressing for a diagnosis.
Believe it or not, me and my family are fortunate enough to live in a place that is still very old world. Not quite like when I was a kid, I'm 40, but definitely more than what you guys are describing. My kids are blessed.
I realized a quarter of the way in that everything he is saying about "society" really means "society in California". Most of that stuff did not resonate with me and where I live.
@@PeteQuadMaybe the more populated areas of the country are like what Adam is describing…here in the Philly area I resonate with what Adam is talking about…as a parent and someone in my 40s. My childhood is light years away from that of my children’s…and it’s a huge effort to try to “right the ship” in terms of the effects of the current culture my kids are growing up in and around.
@@Seeker0fTruth Sorry that it is like that for you. I'm in Charlotte and my high school age kids are probably a lot more "normal" then I was and they and their friends think most of the online stuff is silly. I did of course make a regular effort over the years to discuss life and society with them, but I'm not sure if it mattered or not.
I have a 15-year-old but definitely both of us would be upset about climbing a tree. I think his grandmother would be more worried about the tree than my son.
( Robert Diello ) 🇺🇸 Adam Carolla is 100 percent correct. I am so glad that I was a boy in the '70's and a teenager in the '80's. Dad was Dad. Mom was Mom. I have 1 younger brother, he got me Adam's book "In 20 years we'll all be chicks" for Christmas in about 2003. He was right, I was right, and Dad was right. Even Mom was right; and probably our dog and cat too. Grandpa and Grandma in fact, the WW II generation have more in common with us Gen-Xer's. With me Grandpa was also a big influence on me, and Grandma as well, kind of a 2nd Mom who didn't take any cr@p or shenanigans from me or my brother; having gone through The Great Depression. I really do think they were "The Greatest Generation". My brother is 6 years younger and also Gen-X, he's basically the same too. Somehow, somewhere along the way something went VERY wrong. It's insane to me now, and sad.
Here's a real time 2022 example of teens & cash vs CC or apple pay. Five high school boys (seniors) came in and had lunch where I work. Very polite and easy little group. They had separate checks and I presented each with their bill. One young man hesitantly handed me a fifty dollar bill and asked me ''so how am I going to get change back from this??? I thought he was kidding and quickly saw he was serious and explained I would give him change back from the fifty and told him how much he would get back. He apologized because he didn't use cash much and relied on "plastic or PayPal or his parents to do his transactions ….17-18 year old's not being taught how to handle or count CASH is a modern society failure on the part of parents and our public school curriculums. Adam is absolutely correct about connecting personal value to the earning of tangible money.
He didn’t take the opportunity to mention his other (awesome) book Not Taco Bell Material when asked about his first jobs. He was literally told during the interview, that he wasn’t Taco Bell Material. 😂😂😂
Too many responses went through my head to even begin! Every parent and every kid in the country should listen to this at least 3x!!! 100% accurate!! … and not a single rant, just two gents having a conversation about reality!!!
I have only watched Adam's episode but I wonder how Comedian Joey Diaz would do on this podcast? He is way late to the children having game and had a very colorful past. Wonder how that influences his dad-skills.
The show made me think back to when i was a kid growing up just a few years behind Adam and yeah we spent our time outside mostly. I think the comforts of modern living make kids want to stay home. Before we would escape to the mall for the A/C the movies, the socializing, ECT.. we spent our time interacting with our peers in actual real space. The real spaces have been being replaced with being on the internet and sitting around a entertainment centric household with nice air conditioning
49:53 We gave my daughter construction toys and she had no interest in them. My son, on the other hand, was obsessed with Front End Loaders from an early age, to the point where we had to go visit the "Front End Loader House" every few days.
The true test is what AC had, boy-girl twins. Same age, both gendered toys about , and most kids are just attracted to the toys aligned with their gender.
I'm Pretty sure Adam was that kid I never knew his name, that was along on every part of my life,Except the famous part, Master Plumber Adam is correct on all work related stories. Miss those Days actually, You can never be bored with woods and a swamp by your house!
@1:09:67; god damn dude. That was MY life, growing up with a father in geology. Always away @ camp, but when he was home? He ALWAYS made time for me. He Always worked hard to provide for us, and I've never forgotten that. Thank you SO much Dad. You're the greatest man I've ever known. 🖤🖤🖤🤘
I work in the public schools. The number of 17 and 18 year olds still riding the bus absolutely baffles me. I attended this same high school in the 80s and we hardly ever saw anyone that age taking the bus still. I’ve asked some of my students, they simply don’t care and lack the motivation to take drivers ed let alone pass the tests. My students all live in million dollar homes, near a private golf course and club. Money is not the issue.
This is why our national anthem is so powerful. It ends in the ultimate question. Do we still live in a country populated by brave and free people? Are you still brave and free! Am I? Is it important to even aspire to be brave and free anymore? Scarily, the signs are everywhere that an increasing number of Americans, especially people considered Millennials and younger are saying NO; that being brave and free is no longer important to them if it ever was.
Ditto on all my dads home construction, mechanical, and landscaping projects. It was a rural area. No McDonalds for 70 miles. I spent a ton of time on a roof, attic, crawl spaces. You name it, I did it. This might as well be another planet compared to 1995. I also wonder if you have been in the city or California in particular too long. There aren’t so many people like that where I live in Utah or where my family is in Montana. What I notice is that youth today think that even the slightest discomfort is trauma and you get the role of being a victim. They like the attention and righteousness they feel as a victim. And they just keep going with it until it’s automatic.
It all starts with parents. It’s up to us to regulate what they can and cannot do or have. We are the ones who are supposed to teach them. It’s our responsibility to correct them when the education system is corrupting them in school.
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I'm a high school teacher and I sat through this interview audibly agreeing with so much of what Carolla is saying. I see it happening in schools right now - and no matter what we do to try to push back against it, to infuse a dose of reality and pragmatism - the government or board shuts us down with more changes to conduct and/or curriculum.
Hard work matters. Hardly anyone will think you're special. There is value in the trades. You may not like deskwork but use that time to build habits like resilience and work ethic. Nobody will help you as much as you can help yourself. Go out there and *do* something!
I teach Jiujitsu. The parents bring their kid and say “make my kid tough, he needs to suffer some. He’s too soft.”
Some parents are great and know what their kids need.
@@ransakreject5221 yes make my kid tough, I am headed to the bar i'll pick him up in 2 hours. those parents need to be taken to the mat. last thing parents want to do is raise their kids. they are too lazy or too dumb to be parents and like most americans they would rather pay somebody to do the tough stuff.
@@DogAlpha yeah but better than nothing I guess but yeah I agree
Teachers unions should be illegal to start with. That would solve a great many issues.
I am a GenXer with a 5yr old son. We keep him away from technology and we are raising him like a little boy. I wrestle with him and we go outside every chance we get. My wife and I do drawing and basic educational stuff everyday after preK ( not overloaded). I would like to ask you. as a teacher do you think parents and our culture relys to much on schools teaching our kids? I feel as a Father it is also my job to make sure he will do well in school. God Bless
Have loved adam since his beginnings. He is a voice of reason in this mad world
That is true 👍
JUGGIES!
I love Adam too. I'm curious if he is still friends with Jimmy though. Jimmy is the bipolar oppisite. Complete sell out for a couple nickels and dimes.
Still friends
He's stupid and angry.
I've been a high school teacher and university professor for the past 30 years. I'm scared to death with the quality of kids I see entering the workforce and real world today. It hasn't been a gradual transition. This has all been done in the past 5-7 years at a neck-breaking pace. Parents...discipline your kids. Stop making excuses for them. All them to fall and skin their knees. Allow them the opportunity to develop mental grit. Our society is in serious trouble unless something drastically changes.
I totally agree. The expectations that are being set for what reality is like are WAY off. Young people come into jobs expecting to "get" more than to "give". That's not how capitalism works. Capitalism is a moral system precisely because you have to GIVE (work) in order to RECEIVE (get paid).
@@JohnPapola Spoken like a true high school dropout. First you comment is totally off topic and deranged. Second it's either overflowing with utopic ideology or just plain ignorance. The only people getting a "free ride" are the rent seekers our economic system thrives on. It's nice to be in the club. Nobody engaged in wage labor gets or expects to get more than they give. The question is how is the surplus value their labor creates distributed. Morons like you are always broke, under educated losers well trained to deep throat the boot on your own neck. Doesn't bother me one bit. I'm a rent seeking capitalist. Rent is due, peasant. You on the other hand are just a dumbass. A deluded zombie. A pleb.
You Govt Hack Slug teachers & your corrupt unions are to blame for the condition of public schools today.
@@JohnPapolacapitalism is a moral system? There’s a new one.
@@HiGlowie Right. Because working for what you want is immoral and demanding people give you what they earned is moral. Don't breed.
My high school son tried out for the wrestling team, was the starting center for the football team and is a relief pitcher for the varsity baseball team. All this as a sophomore. I couldn’t be more proud. It’s not that he’s a superstar athlete. He’s probably not a prospect for any division 1 college. I’m just proud that he embraces the work to get out there, recovery from failure and loss.
You lucked out with you unicorn
Shame from failure is far better than shame from not trying.
In California, dogs are loved like people, and people are treated like dogs.
Not just in California sadly
As people have stopped worshiping God they’re going to worship something because we’re made that way so pets have become idols and it’s truly sickening. Also less people are having kids so it becomes a substitute. albeit a pathetic one.
I grew up around hundreds of dogs over the years as my dad had a kennel. Some of them were pets, but we never treated them like people the way so many do today and we certainly never degraded them by dressing them like a child’s doll. 🤮
thanks i'm gonna steal that
That's everywhere now. Pets won't destroy you.
My son was bullied. I told my son bullies have a sad life probably because their parents suck and bullies need friends more than anybody. I said dont take sh¡t and stick up for yourself and protect others but you can always walk away. My precious lil sonny rose above and helped those kids.🥰 He stopped being bullied and found respect. P.S. i had to teach him how to f¡ght tho
Bullies are underrated. They are a benefit to understanding life and the obstacles you will face. Attempting to eliminate bullies would be a mistake.
Good !! To fight is alright.
i dont like the idea of "bullies" and "heroes" . . . everybody is mean to each other in some form or fashion. tell a feminist you're not a feminist, and all the sudden you're gonna be bullied by a girl half your size, who you could literally beat the fuck out of if it were socially acceptable. so bullies and bullying isnt always about "fighting".
Bully talk from the eighties that's obviously bullshit.
Listen to Adams podcast and hear some of the stories of his friends. They were just jerks to each other which fine, but don't act like your sons special. Adam claims he got literal human shit thrown at his face by his friend
Idk why but boys are just mean and gross
Adam is so spot on about kids.
I remember the kind of days he grew up in. My dad made sure we knew the value of a dollar.
I did the same with my kids plus very limited (2 hours a day of either tv or digital games)
He spot on cause thats how his kids are. I kinda thought hed be a more involved teaching parent but hey somebody's got bring in the bacon be can't do it all. I blame Lynette.
I've got 3 millennials (two barely, 94-95) and none of them are hobbled by this anxiety stuff. One big difference? They were adults before the smart phone was in every pocket. It's a horrible thing for teens and developing minds.
How true is all of this and sad.....my friends 19 year oldboy demanded to go to emergency bc he had a redened cut on his finger. His greandfather at the same age, was crossing through Europe by foot to go home after the war....go figure
06 cents, right?
Chris Rock once said he created the type of children he hated growing up
That’s what Adam is doing too. He’s going to blame his kids malaise about working on their mother (which is probably true) but Adam is going to hold their hands and nepo the crap out of every contact he’s ever had because who would want to work all day and night to live not even a quarter of the life they grew up in. Trusts are probably already in place and guaranteed and known about by the kids. He’s great and he’s my favorite but he is not immune to doing everything for his kids that makes them love him even more.
Sad but probably true
The money becoming invisible is a great analogy, I’m 57, I remember my first job they actually handed me a physical paycheck with the stub explaining how much of that pay went to the government, etc., and I would deposit most of it but always pulled out some cash because we didn’t have Apple Pay. Even writing a check keeps the money from becoming invisible because you had to physically write the words and numbers of the amount the check was for, so in a way you were still connected to it.
or theres cash....
I'm 72 and I looked at covid just like Adam explained. Nobody around me was sick and dying..the 2 doctors from Bakersfield who explained what was happening before TH-cam shut them down made me realize the risk was very minimal.
And people like you make me sick. My sister and her husband spoke those words. Young, no preexisting conditions so they wouldn’t get vaccinated and now they are both dead. It’s not just about you.
@Will get better eventually sorry for your loss. . Healthy People die in car accidents every day but do we stop driving? After all this time the only people I know who have died were 2 doctor's and it was right after getting vaccinated. They would have lived had they not gotten the shot. It works both ways
@Skeptic right, I thought I knew one person that had died from covid, now or 2 dead not long after first vax, then turns out the one who died from "covid" was pumped remdesevir which pretty much shut his kidneys down and filled his lungs of fluid, wish I had told him stay out of the hospital
@@Skeptic2244 are people really on here still sharing the "loss of a loved one" story. cus i honestly dont care.
@@Skeptic2244 everybody I know who got the shot got COVID, and one of my college friends died. I didn't get the shot because I got COVID in Jan 2020, but I never got COVID again. I didn't let my kids get it. They never got it. We went out every day, your vitamin D, played on the playground (it was a private one). I worked until they shut the schools down, and I had to stay home with my kids. I always thought it was a huge power play. And sadly, most of the world failed.
This is one of the best interviews I’ve seen in so long. Thank you for this. A lot of what was said is 100 percent truth.
So relatable what Corolla says about loss of sensibility to the invisibility of pay and recognition of the effort made to earn that pay. As a family, we make it a point to at least save those family dinners EVERY day.
100%. We're far from perfect, but we've prioritized having dinner together. Makes a big difference.
I’d love to hear a discussion between Adam Carolla and Mike Rowe
I definitely want to have Mike on the show. I’ve interacted with him a little bit through video work I’ve done for SkillsUSA. Great guy!!
Mike Rowe has been on the Adam Carolla show a few times now
Rowe was even on his radio show in the '00
It’s happened. Look up Adam Carolla Show Mike Rowe
There was a female comedian on a Adam Carolla Show once and asked “who would be his ideal dream partner to marry?”He responded with “Mike Rowe.”
Then she said “but you can’t have kids with him”
Adam responded “oh but we would die trying.”
Lmao
The wife and I have drilled our son about CREDIT. And work ETHIC. The same ethics and moral compass , that were passed down from our male and female veterans in the family . I'm proud to say he's learning an awesome TRADE in our home state. Getting certified for EVERYTHING. So in 5 or 10 years he's going to be a BUISSNESS owner and a BOSS🤞. SO lucky& PROUD because we're on the poverty line off and on FOREVER its seems. But our son won't be for long...PRAISE JESUS.
Good job. What's left of the world will thank you. Serious.
Sounds like you're taking responsibility and making sure he learns the proper things in life!🙏
Sadly most parents are just incapable and rely on public systems, and media to raise their kids then wonder wtf happened lol
Clifton, chill. Start with spelling things correctly. If you can manage that your son might not think you are a complete tard.
What is a "Buissness"..🤔
@@censortube7160 what is "your point"?
Why do parents let their kids dictate everything? It seems parents don’t want their kids to be even remotely uncomfortable. It’s so frustrating! Thank you for the conversation 😊
I used to be a nanny and saw this a lot. It's frustrating to watch. I don't think it's about how the kids feel, the parent just don't want to deal with any discomfort. They're scared of confrontation even with their own children.
Parents started telling children the biggest lie of all time "Your feelings MATTER." Which turned into "no physical discipline like spanking - time outs work for all scenerios" "I am your friend not your parent so u can tell me anything"
Not me , people like my kids funny enough.
Various reasons I suppose, but one stands out to me. They fear that making them uncomfortable will just drive the kids to the path of least resistance for catharsis, which is social media, video games, and other things in the digital realm that have become the Soma of this age we live in. What those particular parents dont realize is, approaching being a parent as a labor of love as described in 1 Corinthians 13 "The Way of Love", even when some tough love is required, tends to defeat the empty, short-lived, Soma of the easy access digital realm which just soothes but leaves them still starving inside as it cant feed the soul like proper love does.
This is the age of divorce and it seems both parents are on the campaign trail trying to secure votes.
Mom: "Please don't break a bone"
Dad: "You better not break that tree!"
Haha. Nailed it.
So true. My 16 year old son seems to have no burning desire to get his license. I find it strange because I couldn’t wait to get mine. My cousin and I were competing to see who would get theirs first. It was a huge deal.
These kids today have zero desire to obtain independence and freedom.
Everything is available in their room and computer.
Freedom is something that's only appreciated when it is earned. We are in a era of privilege and abundance that has spoiled everyone.
So refreshing to hear sane people still grounded in reality
Great interview. I enjoy Adam's perspective because it sounds like my own. I like the back and forth. Not one person talking too much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My kids sure learned fast that to mope around the house and whine about being bored was definitely the last thing they wanted to do! 😄
"Only a boring person gets bored!" That's what I always said to the kids! 🙂
My son said that to me yesterday and spent the next two hours shoveling snow.
As a kid on summer break, if I came across as bored, I could be put to work. I learned to entertain myself. Haha
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Sounds like you gave him something to do I agree
Neither one of my parents worried about me when I was outside climbing trees or riding bikes or exploring the woods or playing in the mud. That's how life was in the 50' s and 60s.
I grew up in rural Montana in the 80s and 90’s. I rode my bike dozens of miles a day down dirt roads to the reservoir and we played in the old slaughterhouse. Hung out with livestock. Pretty much the most freedom any kid had, but we knew all the neighbors and the town only had 80 people. If you stepped out of line, someone would tell your mom. 😂 it was a truly idyllic childhood experience. I hated school starting in junior high, though.
70s too
I was going to say 70s too
50's and 60's !!! :)
Thanks for the info, Gramps. It was also the same in the late 90s and early 2000s too. 😂 There are little kids on my block who live the same life now that I’m nearly 30. Kids haven’t stopped playing.
Here's a tell tale sign of where we are. This gentlemen was saying he gave his son an apple card because he needs gas. What came next was unexpected. He says "I wonder if I should just give him cash". I'm thinking he's gonna say "maybe I should let him get a job and pay for his own gas". Guess I'm just old
Wasn't it just a given that you worked and paid for things for yourself as a teen? The kids today have no self respect. Nothing to be proud of.
@@carolyna.869 Exactly that's why we all have jobs now. These kids today are in for a treat when being a socialedia star doesn't work out
A fair criticism! I will say that my son has actually had jobs since 7th grade. This past summer he worked for the city's public works department digging ditches in the Texas sun 8 hours a day.
@@JohnPapola I used to dog ditches too in my concrete days. It's a mf'er
I thought the same thing......I love Adam....but I was like DUDE!!!!!
Adam gives the Best interviews.. so much wisdom from this man
He bores the fuck out of me and I tapped out after 3 min or so but to each their own. He just complains so goddamn much about everything.
@@JamieLeeKnoxville well he has change over the years.. you would probably like his earlier stuff.. its fast and funny and straight to the point.. like the man show, Love Line and crank yankers
@@xtraxtrathirsty I have never "got" him. Not my cuppa. The shows you mentioned are un-watchable to me. But as I said, to each their own. Peace.
@@JamieLeeKnoxville you lost boy ?
This was a very level headed conversation. Loved every minute of this
Adam is one of our nation’s treasures.
Actual man, living in actual reality.
We’re lucky to have him -
LOL, as literally everyone is his former orbit thinks hes trash now because of his descent into far right madness.
Corolla's the dude. Been a fan since the Loveline days. Rock on, Ace Rockolla!
Our Dad was a 'critical thinker' and hard worker. Thanks Dad! Adam sounds a lot like him.
100% true that the comedians are the canaries in the coal mines.
Not too long ago comedians were expelled from performing at Universities... that really was a sign of things to come, wasn't it? Can you imagine being in college and not wanting a comedian to come to the school, because you were afraid of being offended?
George Carlin
As Steve Martin used to say, comedy isn't pretty.
@@Dave-cf4vd As early as 20 years ago, Millennials loved live shows by rappers, rock and nu-metal bands at college. And comedians, weed and stoner humour and breasts. Look at the movies "Old School", "American Pie 1-3" and "Road & Euro Trip", great fun, but you could never make them anymore, because you'd they'd never fit the new Gen Z "social agenda"...
This was so good!
When I was young we played outside from after school until dark. We drank out of the hose as going inside was unthinkable. We roamed the neighborhood and played in the gully. All the neighbors knew each other so if we were getting into trouble our parents would get a phone call (the phones were physically connected to the wall). We climbed trees, road the wagon down the park hills and learned risk tolerance.
I dug holes in my grandpa's garden. I'm I firm believer in digging holes. It's builds character.
When I was a kid if I wanted to go somewhere, I either road my bike, hitchhiked or walked. Kid's now have a parent to drive them everywhere and anywhere they want to go. I couldn't wait to drive!
It's sad but true that most kids today are just happy to be at home where the food is free, tv's or vid games are always available...so why bother going outside? Also, cars and gas and insurance have become expensive and too many teens just can't be bothered taking the driver's test. 3 out of my 4 kids are like that!!
I have so much respect for you Adam. I love that you refuse to back down when pressured. Truth only prevails because of people like you.
I'll tell you exactly where it started. When they started arresting parents for punishing there children. They have no fear of consequence for anything they do or say. It's amazing how people act if they get there ass whipped for bashing in someone's window with a rock, makes you think!
We are headed for extiction when the dominant out number those that produce. You would think the producers in this world would hold the power but this is not the case. The violent, dominant, deceitful ones without morals who break all the most important rules of society are the ones who rule this world and consecutive generations of our species emulate and revere these behaviors of power over others.
I think that's an urban legend.
Grandma: that was the millennials. They learned a harsh lesson when they entered the real world. Therefore: their children, are Gen Z. That's this Generation. They're not coddling.
The opportunities Carolla had, you and I had, even digging ditches, doesn't pay their high rents.
It is one's job as a parent to work very hard to teach your kids to become strong responsible productive adults. 'No' is a word that is good parents use.
The Ace Man - he's aging well and it's no mystery why he's weathered this storm-- brains, talent, and sucess. Awesome combo to grind it out through the slog heap. "The Hammer" baby!
This is one of the best interviews I’ve ever seen. Great topics, wise perspective, honest easy dialog.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I listened to Adam explaining his up-bringing. I'm 58 now and my childhood was much the same. At 15 though, they divorced And life got tougher living w/mom. Time to pitch in and make Due.. I'm a 40yr Senior Veteran Carpenter w/ a shit ton of builds and an extreme makeover build in my cap! SempreFi Adam.
Structural Door frames have doublers! LOL
I started roofing when I was 16, I started during summer vacations. I graduated in 93 and worked for my Uncle full time. I remember him showing me his calloused hands when I was 8 or 9 years old. They looked like a baseball mitt. I thought it was the coolest thing. My hands still like that and I am very proud of it. I am already training our son for work.
The Risk Management discussion was a excellent choice Thanks
It’s so nice to know, that I’m not the only one who thinks like this.
Loved this interview. So all true. My kids are late teens and we feel the same. Mine are working and I think it’s been one of the best things for them. One is also paying for college as she goes. Make’em work hard and they will go far
Adam Carolla is a national treasure. Started listening to him on Love Line way back in the day and been a huge fan ever since.
Love Line... isn't that the show where teenagers would call and ask questions about threesomes and anal? I'm not sure the guy who made his bones like that should be lecturing anyone on anything.
As a kid we were never bored because our Canadian winters were always a Shinny game of hockey to go out and play. That's why we have such a passion for the game!
And ball hockey in the summer :)
@@Meowface. CBA..... Canadian Ballhockey Association.....Year round Indoor ballhockey league at Firepark in Calgary, for all those who feel they hung there blades a wee bit to early. Our Game Hands Down!
Man I would have loved to experience outdoor hockey as a child!
It is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful.
I had to do a lot of chores and work as a kid I didn't want to do and didn't get everything I wanted. I thank my parents for that.
same here, but if I wanted something I could find ways of making money and earn to buy what I wanted and felt more proud of it!
However, I was born in '68 and for me finding ways to earn extra money in the early 80's was way easier than it is now..
Such a treat to experience Adam on your show. You were a gracious, disarming host who allowed him to let the wisdom flow.
i'm 37 and when COVID happened i worked 7 days a week 10 hours a day for 7 months straight
I loved it i didn't wear a mask i didn't get a vaccine neither did my children
I made it a point to ask everyone with a mask on why were they wearing one and did they understand how the immune system works
You obviously don’t work in a hospital and who was watching your sickly kids.
Same here. Through the entire Covid19 Dempanic Nov 19 through Now, I wore a mask an hour a week food shopping. Worked 6 days a week. Remember this quote : "We humans have an immune system......and it needs practice." (George Carlin )
Thanks Doctor.
Cool story bro
most poeple knew that the masks were nonsense but if you didn't wear a mask it was no supermarket or anywhere else for you..
“Challenging childhood”?? Well, guess I had one too. Thankyou DAD and Mom . Thank GOD.
Adam Carolla a true American !! Someone that realizes the insanity happening in our country right now..
What a wise man Adam is. Great interview 👍🏻. Thank you.
Such a great podcast! Never had any disrespect for Carolla but my respect for him skyrocketed. Sounds like me talking plus he had some great insights and metaphors that I absolutely loved!
I have recently become Adam's biggest fan. I know, what took me so long!
Adam simply tells it like it is. Thank you Adam for who you are.
Any kind of discipline for a child is looked at as abuse, these days. Look how many people won't even tell their dog the word "no" because they think this will cause psychological harm to the dog. Telling a kid "no" or setting firm boundaries or making rules, or making them do their homework, it's all "abusive" now.
I've been listening to Adam since the early 90s, starting here in Los Angeles on local radio station KROQ with Dr. Drew. He has always been entertaining with his sardonic insights... even more so as the years have gone by with society crumbling right in front of us...
Wow I’m very impressed with Adam… big fan because of this interview!! Work hard, use your hands and your brain.
We agree!
Adam Carolla is a great guest on whatever show he's on ! So honest ,
Kinda wish you'd have asked about his divorce and if his conflicting ideas with the Hollywood culture she's been accustomed had anything to do with it.
Don't give your kids money , give them a chance to earn it . They will thank you inn the end .
Great advice. We try to have our son earn every nickel. He's worked jobs since 7th grade.
@@JohnPapolaaqqà
@@JohnPapola I respect this approach, however I now disagree with it to some extent. We all grew up working the jobs. I definitely learned more working than playing high school sports. I felt like I got a bit of Stockholm syndrome. I am raising my kids to learn skills for life and developing skills. I definitely make them understand that life is difficult and serious. And they are expected to stand on their own early as adults.
So much respect for Adam
Adams perception is pretty spot on in regards in attempting to understand things completely opposite of our growing up (79' last of generation X aka facts over feelings generation and im so blessed).
Sadly he hit it on the head when he said, " its kind of....pathetic."
Great analogies on many different points of the topic. Im a dad of 3 girls 20, 14, and 11. And i still trip out on some of the stuff they DONT wanna do🤦🏼♂️
Sorry i didnt meet you when i went to North Hollywood High.But your thoughts and words are no doubt are truly Home Slice.Proof that there is a greatness from struggling! Great interview.I dont know how you picked my brain ,spoke my thoughts.Thanks Adam Corolla. Your a BAMF!
When money became invisible, the providers also became invisible. … what a great insight!
This is a really great podcast. I am 42 now, but I grew up with Adam and Dr. Drew. Fell asleep Monday through Thursday listening to Love Line. Even as a full on adult there is something comforting about hearing all of Adams stories. You did an excellent job asking questions and injecting your takes and life lessons into the conversation. You won a new subscriber and Adam made a book sale. Looking forward to more of your upcoming shows.
Adam nails it!!!❤️
The phone is the new freedom. They already have a whole life their parents don't know about, why leave the house.
I had a client I was doing an addition on a house for about 1 1/2 years ago. Her and her wife would openly talk down about my guys and I with their daughter, (who was a boy in reality). I asked her to please stop and she said my words were an attack against her and were full of violence. I told her my price was now $20/hour higher and all my guys were $10/hour more because her words required reparations. She still owes me $3,000 and I’ll never see that money. Also her addition is still incomplete because she and her wife are so aggressive and mean and now nobody is available to do the complicated work we started so to complete it she’ll have to actually pay even more then my inflated amount. (She’s called my wife a few times begging me to return and even “offered” to pay me the money she still owes me).
My mom after divorcing my dad and bankrupting him she threw me out on the streets at 14.. i was still the first one of all my friends to have my own car.. i had no choice i had no where to live so after school i had no home so i went to work cleaning dishes in a pizza place.. until i had enough for my own car which i moved into then my dad got me a job at 17 in the electrical union and i was able to get an apartment so while my friends were still in school i already had my own apartment and car before all them.. however i lost a ton stuff from being homeless i couldnt finish school because of it. So i missed all the highschool years because i had to drop out early so i can work and have food..
You didn't miss much and you got a head start on real life.
Well done you. That's real strength of character
@@Maras70D that's so true, sucks it was a thing that was forced on you instead of a choice that was made but yeah mostly ceremonial if you've found another path.
@@Maras70D not really.
The trades really don't pay that well.
And????
Me too.
I read Dostoyevsky, Camus, Dickens, Poe, Rimbaud, Sexton, the French, Spanish, English poets, philosophers, history, Miller, Nin....I traveled to countries and saw the great artists, met different cultures, And no one told me to. I didn't get a college degree.
I'm completely self-taught. I guess literacy, empathy, and good grammar are now known as "elitism"
Great interview. It all makes sense. Gratefully my kids didn’t grow up with a silver spoon and grateful they missed this new generation issues. Btw, a bit too many ads that interrupt the conversation.
Thanks the heads up, Carlos! The stupid mid-roll ads were on. Annoying… and fixed.
I am a therapist and just got off the phone with a parent who was concerned that her 13 year old step son was “suicidal” because he jumped off of a low roof onto a trampoline to see how high he could bounce. I call that “thirteen year old boy”, and she wasn’t satisfied- kept pressing for a diagnosis.
They want to be special!!!
You guys are so great. And your kids and grandkids will this nice conversation
for posterity.
Love ❤️ Adam Carolla!!!!
Believe it or not, me and my family are fortunate enough to live in a place that is still very old world. Not quite like when I was a kid, I'm 40, but definitely more than what you guys are describing. My kids are blessed.
I realized a quarter of the way in that everything he is saying about "society" really means "society in California". Most of that stuff did not resonate with me and where I live.
@@PeteQuadMaybe the more populated areas of the country are like what Adam is describing…here in the Philly area I resonate with what Adam is talking about…as a parent and someone in my 40s. My childhood is light years away from that of my children’s…and it’s a huge effort to try to “right the ship” in terms of the effects of the current culture my kids are growing up in and around.
@@Seeker0fTruth Sorry that it is like that for you. I'm in Charlotte and my high school age kids are probably a lot more "normal" then I was and they and their friends think most of the online stuff is silly. I did of course make a regular effort over the years to discuss life and society with them, but I'm not sure if it mattered or not.
I have a 15-year-old but definitely both of us would be upset about climbing a tree. I think his grandmother would be more worried about the tree than my son.
"don't break that branch!" I remember this lol
Why would you be worried about climbing a tree? My teenagers have climbed trees their whole life.
I really missed Adam Carolla. Most real person in Hollywood.
( Robert Diello ) 🇺🇸 Adam Carolla is 100 percent correct. I am so glad that I was a boy in the '70's and a teenager in the '80's. Dad was Dad. Mom was Mom. I have 1 younger brother, he got me Adam's book "In 20 years we'll all be chicks" for Christmas in about 2003. He was right, I was right, and Dad was right. Even Mom was right; and probably our dog and cat too. Grandpa and Grandma in fact, the WW II generation have more in common with us Gen-Xer's. With me Grandpa was also a big influence on me, and Grandma as well, kind of a 2nd Mom who didn't take any cr@p or shenanigans from me or my brother; having gone through The Great Depression. I really do think they were "The Greatest Generation". My brother is 6 years younger and also Gen-X, he's basically the same too. Somehow, somewhere along the way something went VERY wrong. It's insane to me now, and sad.
Here's a real time 2022 example of teens & cash vs CC or apple pay.
Five high school boys (seniors) came in and had lunch where I work. Very polite and easy little group. They had separate checks and I presented each with their bill. One young man hesitantly handed me a fifty dollar bill and asked me ''so how am I going to get change back from this??? I thought he was kidding and quickly saw he was serious and explained I would give him change back from the fifty and told him how much he would get back. He apologized because he didn't use cash much and relied on "plastic or PayPal or his parents to do his transactions ….17-18 year old's not being taught how to handle or count CASH is a modern society failure on the part of parents and our public school curriculums.
Adam is absolutely correct about connecting personal value to the earning of tangible money.
He's the smartest guy around!!
My son turned 16 yesterday... He's chomping at the bit to get the freedom that comes with a car... Thank God
Adam is always a great interview. Peace
He didn’t take the opportunity to mention his other (awesome) book Not Taco Bell Material when asked about his first jobs. He was literally told during the interview, that he wasn’t Taco Bell Material. 😂😂😂
Taco Bell is only 30% cardboard
Great interview I just found your channel and I think what you are doing is very important! Keep em coming!
Thank you! Will do!
This dude is insightful and articulate.
Hearing a smart honest 'regular Joe' is refreshing and is straight up therapy for this embattled soul...
Too many responses went through my head to even begin! Every parent and every kid in the country should listen to this at least 3x!!! 100% accurate!! … and not a single rant, just two gents having a conversation about reality!!!
Thanks for such a great comment, Craig!
I have only watched Adam's episode but I wonder how Comedian Joey Diaz would do on this podcast? He is way late to the children having game and had a very colorful past. Wonder how that influences his dad-skills.
I’ve always liked and supported Adam Carolla. It is a travesty that Hollywood alienates talent like his.
The show made me think back to when i was a kid growing up just a few years behind Adam and yeah we spent our time outside mostly. I think the comforts of modern living make kids want to stay home. Before we would escape to the mall for the A/C the movies, the socializing, ECT.. we spent our time interacting with our peers in actual real space. The real spaces have been being replaced with being on the internet and sitting around a entertainment centric household with nice air conditioning
49:53 We gave my daughter construction toys and she had no interest in them. My son, on the other hand, was obsessed with Front End Loaders from an early age, to the point where we had to go visit the "Front End Loader House" every few days.
The true test is what AC had, boy-girl twins. Same age, both gendered toys about , and most kids are just attracted to the toys aligned with their gender.
I'm Pretty sure Adam was that kid I never knew his name, that was along on every part of my life,Except the famous part, Master Plumber Adam is correct on all work related stories. Miss those Days actually, You can never be bored with woods and a swamp by your house!
@1:09:67; god damn dude. That was MY life, growing up with a father in geology. Always away @ camp, but when he was home? He ALWAYS made time for me. He Always worked hard to provide for us, and I've never forgotten that. Thank you SO much Dad. You're the greatest man I've ever known. 🖤🖤🖤🤘
Getting your drivers license used to be a right of passage, and if you had a gf or a part-time job, it would definitely be something you would want.
I work in the public schools. The number of 17 and 18 year olds still riding the bus absolutely baffles me. I attended this same high school in the 80s and we hardly ever saw anyone that age taking the bus still. I’ve asked some of my students, they simply don’t care and lack the motivation to take drivers ed let alone pass the tests. My students all live in million dollar homes, near a private golf course and club. Money is not the issue.
Adam, the one and only! Truth in in Hollywood, I’ve been following you forever will follow you to my grave!
Screw driver's license when kids are married to their phones .
I mean I don't have a license depends where u live and what your needs are. I live in NYC so it would be more of a hassle to have a car
You don’t need a license to operate a screwdriver.
This is why our national anthem is so powerful. It ends in the ultimate question. Do we still live in a country populated by brave and free people? Are you still brave and free! Am I? Is it important to even aspire to be brave and free anymore? Scarily, the signs are everywhere that an increasing number of Americans, especially people considered Millennials and younger are saying NO; that being brave and free is no longer important to them if it ever was.
It’s heartbreaking
I get what adams saying but he's the enabler. He could say no and tell them to get a P/t job if they want extras
Ditto on all my dads home construction, mechanical, and landscaping projects. It was a rural area. No McDonalds for 70 miles. I spent a ton of time on a roof, attic, crawl spaces. You name it, I did it. This might as well be another planet compared to 1995. I also wonder if you have been in the city or California in particular too long. There aren’t so many people like that where I live in Utah or where my family is in Montana. What I notice is that youth today think that even the slightest discomfort is trauma and you get the role of being a victim. They like the attention and righteousness they feel as a victim. And they just keep going with it until it’s automatic.
I haven’t seen a kid mowing grass in forever
It all starts with parents. It’s up to us to regulate what they can and cannot do or have. We are the ones who are supposed to teach them. It’s our responsibility to correct them when the education system is corrupting them in school.
Great interview. Really enjoyed it.
Thanks!
I thoroughly enjoy Adam Corolla and his ideas. I’m glad I found this podcast and I’m now subscribed for more discussions.