Adam Carolla discusses “trophy monsters” on GBTV

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Glenn welcomed Adam Carolla, comedian and TV/radio host, to GBTV on Tuesday night to discuss the millennial generation, “trophy monsters”, and entrepreneurship.

The interview started off with Carolla echoing comments he made late last year about the negative attitude pinned to success and wealth in this country. Whereas in the past people knew that if, and only if, they worked hard they would be rewarded, the current millennial generation seems to think that the pursuit of success is a bad thing and that they should be rewarded and taken care of even if they do not contribute to society.

Carolla also discussed his background and how he never went to college and had to work multiple jobs, saying he never achieved a taste of success until he was 31 years old. His background gives him a unique position to talk about the problems coming from millenials and how they have become “trophy monsters”, craving awards simply for participating in anything from sports to life.

“I know what it’s like to work hard and work multiple jobs and bust your butt too,” Carolla explained.

“Now I’m the bad guy for telling other people to do that,” he added.

Glenn complemented Carolla on his success, and while he wasn’t familiar with everything that happened with Carolla leaving radio and starting a podcast, Glenn was impressed with both his talent and entrepreneurial spirit.

“I’m really proud of it,” Carolla said, “and what you’re doing and what I’m doing are not dissimilar.”

Carolla said that when he was fired from his radio show he could have sat back and collected unemployment, but instead he went out and started one of the most successful podcasts of all time. He said that now he is putting money back into the economy by creating jobs, paying taxes, building studios, and more.

Adam Carolla also discussed his new book,Rich Man, Poor Man.

His website describes the book:

If you turn on the evening news or listen to NPR you’ll be bombarded with a non-stop parade of commentators pontificating on the ever expanding gap between the rich and the poor. But is the chasm really that wide? In Rich Man Poor Man, comedian and bestselling author Adam Carolla exposes the phenomena that are embraced by the really rich and the really poor–but never the middle class–like having an outdoor shower, wearing your pajamas all day, or always having your dog with you. Combining Adam’s inimitable comedic voice and four-color illustrations by his friend Michael Narren, Rich Man Poor Man is a hilariously accurate look at what the people born with silver spoons in their mouths have in common with the people whose only utensils are plastic sporks stolen from a Shakey’s.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carol-Morgan/100000253121773 Carol Morgan

    i ADMIRE YOUR CLEAR VISION AND TRUE AMERICAN VALUE ATTITUDE!!! YAY FOR YOU!

  • Anonymous

    I love when glenn focuses on bashing education in America.
    If it were up to this idiot, all of his huddled cult would crowd around their radios and his web show lapping up his bullsh** and believing his lies.
    The fact that his cult doesn’t recognize the parallels with the kool aid drinkers of the past is kind of depressing to most Americans.
    It is a known fact that education is the starting block for ending ignorance.  I guess this goes to prove why glenn beck is the ignorant bigot that he is!!!

  • SoThere

    For today, and every day you post here, I will post your lies on every comment you make on this site….

    Why don’t you just go away you liar and Phony Soldier. Everyone would understand that move on your part. Your hate and ignorance is not winning any converts here. You’re the butt of jokes and ridicule.

    Please see a professional about your fixation on little children strtlk/mtclayboy.

    You’re a lying sack of crap. You denied serving on a submarine, and knowing what SSBN was. I posted your words verbatim.

    You’re a Wikipedia sailor and a lying puke.

    Here’s your “one on one” you little puke of a man.

    1. As mtclayboy you claimed that you served on a BOOMER. As strtlk you claimed not to know what a Boomer or a SSBN was “I don’t care” were your exact words. You also stated that you didn’t know where Bangor, Wa. was which is where Boomers (submarines) are fitted for duty.
    Any real Submariner would know that. You didn’t!

    2. You then changed your story and claimed that you were on a BOOMER. You lied.

    3. As mtclayboy you claimed that you had damaged your ears while serving on a Submarine. As strtlk, you claimed that you damaged your ears while serving on a submarine.

    4. As mtclayboy you claimed that you joined the Navy and served for five years on a submarine but according to the timeline you gave that was proven to be a lie. You lied.

    5. As mtclayboy you said that you were a Fireman. As strtlk, you claimed you were a Fireman.

    6. As mtclayboy and as strtlk, you posted the same bigotry and hate against Glenn Beck almost word for word even using the same spelling and grammatical errors and focusing on the children. I’ve posted many of them here already.

    Are you catching on everyone? He’s a liar plain and simple and nothing he claims can be believed.

    Folks, I have the posts of these two Phonies and have posted just a couple to prove he is a liar and just makes up stories about his Military Service. His latest story is right out of Wikipedia. His classified VMS crap is also right out of Wikipedia and US NAVY.mil. I’m a member there.

    He wants to take me on “one on one” when he’s already proven in his own words that he’s a liar and a fake.

    Flag the idiot so he can come back as another loser like his other fake ID “Vinny” where hes a 10 year Army Sargent on another classified secret mission that he can’t talk about.

    There you go loser, “one on one” only I backed up my posts with facts and your own words as proof. Why don’t you have the balls to admit to your lies, tuck your head up your A$$, take your bigotry and hate and Phony Soldier ID and leave us honest people alone?

    Once again, Here you are caught in your lies. These are your words verbatim:

    strtlk said: on Hollywood elites want to be taxed more 09/24/11 07:51 PM

    “1. No idea where Bangor, WA is. I thought Bangor was in Maine!
    2. What the heck is a “Boomer” or SSBN? You know what…I don’t care!
    3. Reminding people that glenn was a dead beat dad is a factual statement about him, not his innocent children. Nice try though slime ball.
    3. Either talk about something relevant and stop this, you are jason bourne crap!”

    Caught in your lies strtlk.

    Thanks for proving me correct.

    Folks, strtlk/mtclayboy has been caught in his lies, He’s a lying sack of crap.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3E63J5EAXFHJ7W7INNUW2INCZY John

    I love it when ignorant people who obviously don’t watch Glenn on a consistent basis make judgments like this.  Had this person actually paid attention to what little time he watched Glenn (and do it with an open mind (think about the irony of that one a minute)) he would know that Glenn doesn’t bash education.  As a matter of fact, he is very much pro education.  He bashes the indoctrination that happens in our government run school systems.  He bashes the fact that it is, in fact, YOU who have been fed the “bullsh** and lies”.  He often says not to believe someone just because they said it (to include Glenn himself) and that you should do the research and find out the truth yourself and THEN see who is actually lying.  He often encourages people to go out and find the old books, written by the historic figures themselves.  Listen to the words THEY say.  Not some interpretation by someone who has an agenda of his own and has a captive audience in the school system and can “teach” his book to all the unwitting people.  And, face it, those taking those classes are not going to argue with him.  They are either paying to go there (in the case of colleges) or are kids in the public education system who either don’t care or don’t want to cause a stir because in the end, the person you are pissing off holds the power of your grade in his hand.

    The things Glenn says are the same things many of us have been upset about for years (decades even).  He is just the person who has the courage to speak up and speak out against both sides, neither of which has the whole truth in mind, and give voice to our concerns.  He has the courage to strike out on a new venture and break new ground to develop a media source not beholden to the entrenched media moguls.  Most of us DO fact check what he says.  He is not always right and the times he isn’t he is usually the first one to say “Hey guys.  I got this one wrong”.  I can respect that even more.  

    And the most important thing is that most of the time he is RIGHT.  He is saying these things years before other media, takes the hits and the nay-sayers like you who dub him “crazy” and “cultish”. He plays back the recordings what is said in the media at the time, the predictions he made at the time, then when the truth comes out he’ll play the clips of the media saying now exactly what they laughed at him for saying months or years before.  If it wasn’t so pathetic, it’d be funny.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sue-DeLisle/100000152833742 Sue DeLisle

    If @strtlk thinks “education is the starting block for ending ignorance”, why doesn’t he get some…

  • Anonymous

    I am a high school teacher and, be assured, education is a HUGE problem in this country. It’s an awful mix of the “trophy monster” and indoctrination and relativism.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Poirier/100001115054734 John Poirier

    You want to talk about mindless drones huddling around to lap up bullcrap, that is what is going on in our university system today, where they have been seized by radical marxists to become indoctrination centers.  Lies?  You want to talk about lies?  Everything that the Democrat party stands for today is based on lie after lie after lie.  Glenn speaks more truth in one broadcast than the Leftmedia will in a year.

  • 11BRAVO3V

    @strtlk - Hang on, I need to put my glass of Kool-Aid down…Look, if “education
    is the starting block for ending ignorance,” what happened to you?  It sounds like you didn’t even make it to the
    track. I read your post and thought, “Wow, dude has issues.” But then I read
    the post by “So There”  and became
    intrigued.

     You do realize it is
    a crime to impersonate a member of the military, right? Aside from that minor
    detail, there is the use of a “military” persona to gain credibility with other
    folks on the web. The problem with that is there is always someone, like me,
    who was in the military, until recently, who is going to call you on your Bull
    Sh*T.  If what is posted about you is
    even remotely true, you are a coward.  A
    Punk. You have no honor and that makes you useless, to yourself, your family
    and society. If you want credibility earned through military service, go
    enlist.  That is of course, if they’ll actually
    take you.

    You have no clue what a cult is, nor do you understand the
    dynamic that is occurring in this country. Yes, all the Kool-Aid drinkers in
    Jonestown were a cult, but the (several) million viewers / listeners of Beck’s
    shows are far from it. Nearly all think for themselves and are some of the most
    articulate audiences in the country. He doesn’t insult their intelligence by “dumbing”
    down his presentation or pandering to any one group, and unlike any modern day
    educator, he will tell you to verify anything he tells you, for yourself. If
    you did that in today’s education system, especially in one of our fine
    institutions of “higher” learning, you would be castigated.

    On education he is right on the money. My wife is a teacher.
    They have to teach a set  curriculum many teachers don’t even agree with. Any
    deviation from the set lesson plans is prohibited, and the subject matter,
    especially history, social science and political science have been distorted to
    the point that it is obviously agenda driven.  Any opinion expressed in opposition to the curriculum
    is quickly addressed and the person(s) expressing such opinions are dealt with
    by intimidation and belittlement. The influence of Marxist / socialist leaning
    administrators is evident in nearly every major school district in the U.S. and
    the end product is dismal. Education in this country is in the tank, and the kids
    are suffering the consequences. Even our universities have been
    compromised. I have a guy working for me who has a Bachelors Degree from a major N.W. university. He spells “sure” s-h-u-r-e. How did he make it through 16 years of school and not learn to spell? Yet, he can rattle of all manner of distorted nonsense about the founding fathers and the triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution. College department heads only hire
    like minded instructors and adjunct professors, people who have the same political leanings as they espouse. How does that foster open minded thinking? How does
    that “educate?”  That is called “indoctrination.”
     Indoctrination is what tyrants use to
    control populations.  That is how we end
    up carrying “little red books.” One world view and only one view is the
    definition of Myopic.  That is the goal
    of the current education system, one world view, the acceptance of the “truth,”
    as they see it. That is closer to the cult mentality than anything you will
    find coming from Beck, or most other conservatives. Nice try though.

  • Anonymous

    Are you so small minded to think that because Glenn has a problem with our public education system (so do most clear thinking people), he’s against all education?  What the hell is wrong with you?  Oh wait, I know… you’re a typical clueless, tunnel-visioned, brainwashed, nonsensical, half-wit, zero-substance, mentally ill, IGNORANT liberal.  Nevermind.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Irina-Krasnyuk/745534442 Irina Krasnyuk

    I know what it’s like to work hard in this business. It’s like to develop multiple personalities

  • Ryan Frederick

    ARE YOU HIGH.

  • Ryan Frederick

    i just love this guy.

  • Anonymous

    GLENN BECK YOUVE GOT TO READ AND LEARN THE CONSTITUTION  –  TRUTH YOU SAY YOU STAND FLOR– WHOSE TRITH GLENN  –  MAY BE JUST YOUR ONE SLANTED SIE–  NOT VERY AMERICAN GLENN–  YOU DONT KNOW THE CONSTITUTION SO YOU FLAUNT A RON PAUL SUPPORTER–  THAT STINKS  –  NOW THE WORLD KNOWS YOUR TRUTH ATTITUDE TOO    —  LEARN THE CONSTITUTION GLENN  — DONT ABUSE YOUR TALK SHOW POWERS  –  WE’LL  BE KEEPING AN EYE ON YOU IN THE FUTURE GLENN FOR MORE STUNTS     -  AND LEARN THE CONSTITUTION

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/MSJOLMGJK7EAWYFFT46VOYHPW4 Peppermint2

    @bressler:disqus   Before you go suggesting that Glenn learn anything, I suggest you go back to school and learn to spell and type. Come back after you do that and possibly others might listen to what you have to say.

  • Anonymous

    Wait, what? You’re, like, all “water is a starting block for ending thirst, therefore Beck is an ignorant bigot”, and I’m, like, all “huh?”

    OHHHH! 

    I get it! This is an IRONIC post. You write a bunch of non-sequiturs as an attack on Beck, and everyone can see how the AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM has failed our generation, and how Beck is so right about Americans needing to educate themselves and their children. 

    Cool.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carl-Rye/100003292683713 Carl Rye

    the most important thing in this whole conversation you all seem to have missed. Glenn questioning why can not people of different opinions get along and discuss things in a good way. Why cant people that are different associate with each other.
    I am fortunate I and the people I know go one step further. Even if we do not agree on religion and politics we are still friends. 
    You all should think about that hard

  • paula marshall

    The thing is, at this precarious point in time, the Government cannot control what we teach our own children in our own homes, although that is going to be FEMA-camped at some point, I can imagine.  Its up to US.  I SURE wish I had more access to my tiny grandchildren, since my children are all grown and indoctrinated.  We need people to invent hands-on media, even color books and games, that we can use to teach the TRUTH about our history.   I am a crummy artist, so please, some of you, work on making it a beautiful, gifty-thing to buy-  children’s illustrated books with the REAL stories in them, color books, with the real story, puzzles with the real story printed on the box, -u know!  T-shirt decals et al.  IF WE the People dont start doing it, it will never get done.  When you get your kids picked up from daycare, each night, right after dinner, maybe clean the table, and do a history-activity together, with dessert, before they are excused to their video games… Maybe even prizes for Geo. Wa. trivia correct answers!  There HAS to be a way to actually start teaching our young instead of just wishing we could.  

  • RICHARD CLAESSENS

    if you have 10 cars maybe your richif you have a home thats mobile and ten cars that are not then you might be a millionairein a motor home with a classic car collection or a broke redneck I remember a time in my life when I was homeless [well sort of living in my van in college]
    and I would camp in a place in the mountains near a stream, make tea every night and once even make a pie from the wild blackberries.     I stopped while drinking my tea , realizing that life is good after all and thinking thatonly the very rich or the very poor [I was the latter] could live this free .

  • RICHARD CLAESSENS

    wow  I must have missed that part …..  
     sounds like you bumped into a Soros paid troll
    you said it perfect ….. maybe you should be on GBTV  keep hammering those keys

    [[ ANYBODY but OBAMA 2012]]
     

  • RICHARD CLAESSENS

    you should mention that the “koolaide drinkers” at Jonestown were made to drink it at gun point and those that did not were in fact shot to death. My point is that, … they followed a man who looked great offering ”hope and change” . he offered to fundmentaly change their lives..  Only did they find out too late that he was deceiving them and planning their destruction.   sound familiar, you democrats out there, who I wonder is the real koolaide drinkers.and dont think that this leader of the democrats would shy away from using guns to get people to “drink” if he had the chance. 
    Oevil is a profound student of Marx,Lennin and Stalin.  With some Mao piled on.  those three combined murdered over 50 million [thats 50,000,000 people or 5*10E6]    Obasta thinks those guys were great leaders.

    [[ anyone but Obama in 2012 ]]

  • RICHARD CLAESSENS

    good job little brother  now get a spell checker

    http://www.tinyspell.com 

  • RICHARD CLAESSENS

    Dont forget situational ethics [the only ethics they get] and moral relativity
    as well as bent history and unneeded classes in advanced psychology to
    break down your “norms” and be a progressive thinker [as if it was a good thing]

    thats what was being fed to me in the 70s

  • RICHARD CLAESSENS

    dont want to go to a FEMA camp?   BUY AMMO, LOTS !

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Irina-Krasnyuk/745534442 Irina Krasnyuk

    What is a true storyy?- It’s a sorry that is through it

  • Ryan Frederick

    thank you.

  • RICHARD CLAESSENS

    …. umm Did you graduate high school ?   what ron paul does to the constution is just as off as the leftys arePaul has his Ronstitution  and in no way is he espousing what the founders thought, or
    fought and died for .   so you go study at the CATO institute http://www.cato.org  andat hillsdale college  http://www.hillsdale.edu 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jw-Appling/100001282155183 J.w. Appling

     Wow and all this time I thought he was just a moron posting Media matters talking points on here.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jw-Appling/100001282155183 J.w. Appling

     I think its media matters Glen Beck derangement syndrome. Its often found in people who have a rare birth defect that causes their heads to be firmly lodged in their rectum.

  • Anonymous

    THANK YOU for your service!  I have so much gratitude and gratefulness to you and your family for the sacrifice made for us all.   God bless you and your family.
    I continually pray for our service people and their families. 

    Your post is amazing.  You were very insightful and articulate. ”So There”  has been very good at exposing this foolish person.
     This “strtlk” person has been quite the maundering idiot.

    Be Well Friend.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_53KU7RFW3WM2FFYIPAAXQW552U njsackman

    we need more entertainers like these two…the democrap party needs to be exposed for the commies & socialist they are. their are  more  anti Americans in that party than ever before!!!

  • Anonymous

    Agree and Love your post :)

  • Ryan Frederick

    i know the type one is even calling me a Jew yah like i am going to take that as an insult.

  • Ryan Frederick

    i know the type one is even calling me a Jew yah like i am going to take that as an insult.

  • Anonymous

    My mother always reminded her children:  “Show me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are.”     I try and stay clear of people who distort what they perceive as truths;  especially when its intentional.

  • Anonymous

    Wonderful post, but falls on dead & deaf ears.   I believe this person is a media matters hack working on loan from moveon,org.

    Thank you for your sacrifice-together we can make a difference.    God hear our prayers.

  • Anonymous

    I blame the parents..yes, and that includes me.  I didn’t wake up from my stupor until my children were in theirteens.  What they did get right was due to the fact that I am a good person with morals.   They turned out to be great kids, but the system poisoned their political views which I’m working on changing.  Very slow process since they are in their late 30′s.  
     I urge parents to never give up their childrens upbring to the government!

  • Anonymous

    Keep up the comedy Adam;  laughter is so healing. 
     Using humor to reveal an agenda by the left/right crowd,  that no one I know of wants;  an idea that is nothing to laugh about, but exposed in a language everyone understands. 

    Thank you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Norman-Hatfield/1735466398 Norman Hatfield

    I’m a retired state social worker.  We actually had people on welfare apply for the very same job I had and turn it down when they found out they’d be losing money if they took it.  Sometimes I would take a random welfare cases, look at the benefits and show my co-employees that the welfare recipients were making more money than we were.  Something is wrong with that.  I used the slogan: We work hard so you don’t have to. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jw-Appling/100001282155183 J.w. Appling

     Jesus was a Jew so its hard to take it as an insult unless your a godless commie.

  • Ryan Frederick

    oh boy now you made Palmer mad just watch.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jw-Appling/100001282155183 J.w. Appling

     In reply to Ryan
     When I piss off people like that I’m doing whats right.

  • Ryan Frederick

    amen sir!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MOQ7XAGQ7DJDFIVN6FL3Q2V5WU nonetotell

    11BRAVO3V, you should call that guy you know on his spelling, not to embarrass but to defend your position. I know some people like this as well, some in my own family. Also, regarding today’s indoctrinating ”skool” systems (many public AND private, btw), this is a major reason I chose 4 yrs ago to begin homeschooling my children. I am a single mother of teenagers. We are not on welfare, even though we are financially poorer than anyone I know of, and even though I’ve thought about food stamps a lot since graduating college and becoming unemployed (not that welfare or food stamps, in honest situations, are bad). We struggle greatly, but I put my children and the urgency of truth first. BTW, I commend your wife for her (I assume) perseverance in the crazy realm of union-led non-education, deconstructionism, and calculatedc idiocy. That’s truly brave. I also know several public school teachers who are very good, whom I would trust in helping form my children’s opinions and mindsets (which is what education really is). It’s sad that I couldn’t import them all from other grades, districts, and states to create my own little private school. But, I can teach my kids myself and know that they are forming solid foundations of truth and truth-finding for the rest of their lives.

  • 11BRAVO3V

    It is always at gun point or spear point or sword point that in the end. It has always amazed me that the left forgets about the millions of people killed by fascists, socialists and communists since the Bolshevik revolution. Mao,Stalin, Pol Pot, made Hitler look like a punk compared to their body counts. Pot “only” killed a measly million of his countrymen, but it was 20% of the population at the time. Does anyone really think that couldn’t happen here? Far fetched maybe, but…

  • Anonymous

    I too homeschooled my children.  It was not easy, but very rewarding.   I did not want them indoctrinated with all the filth I believe is allowed in our schools.  I also wanted them to have the solid foundation needed to make right choices.  I believe our school system today is the source of much of the desensitization of our children.  It is truely sad what our government has been given the rights to do.
    My children graduated college and have moved on to be, productive, well rounded,  God fearing individuals, with families of their own. They also homeschool their children. 

    God bless

    NUMBERS 6:24-26

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Phillip-Waller/100000028132731 Phillip Waller

    Bravo, Sir. Outstanding. I wish I knew more like you, personally. America needs your kind, NOW, more than ever!