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Adam Carolla - FI Achiever
« on: December 02, 2013, 03:39:11 PM »
Does anyone else enjoy the Adam Carolla podcast?  (Adam Carolla Show + Adam & Dr. Drew Show).  I've noticed he promotes many Mustachian principles.  Here are some of the big ones I hear him talk about from time to time.

1) "Get your shit together!"  - Adam says this a lot about his friends, and callers, and people in general.  I find it's a great motivator when I've been putting something off.  I just hear Adam Carolla in my head yelling "Get your shit together!"  aka, stop being a complainy pants, and just do it!.

2) Feed you family.  - He says a lot of problems could be solved if people just made food for their family.  Why are your kids getting fed crappy school food 2-3 times per day?  Why are you going through the drive through? 

3) Buy quality stuff - He has talked about buying quality items vs cheap items.  They work better, and last longer.

4) DIY - Adam is a big DIYer as he started out as a construction worker before he became a comedian.  He actually researched, designed, and built the pod casting studio he uses to create the podcast.

http://adamcarolla.com/

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Re: Adam Carolla - FI Achiever
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2013, 04:01:35 PM »
I used to share a workspace with a coworker who liked to listen to that podcast. It wasn't always work-appropriate but I like that sort of thing and no one complained.

The only thing I didn't like about him was his extremely anti-Mustachian car obsessions.

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Re: Adam Carolla - FI Achiever
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2013, 04:10:18 PM »
Yes, he does have quite the racing obsession.  I bet he uses more gas in 1 year than the MMM family does in a lifetime!

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Re: Adam Carolla - FI Achiever
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2013, 10:42:29 PM »
Haha, good show, not really mustachian. More like common sense stuff which MMM has a lot of. I do like his story, how he worked hard and made himself a multimillionaire. I love when he first got famous he was in letterman and told his old high school teachers by name on national tv to fuck themselves for not believing in him.

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Re: Adam Carolla - FI Achiever
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2013, 08:45:15 AM »
Used to listen to the podcast a few years back.  That was when it was just him and a guest talking for an hour. 

Then he went to a more "radio" type of format with cohosts and whatnot and I dropped it.  Funny guy.  And he seems to have his shit together.  His books are good too.

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Re: Adam Carolla - FI Achiever
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2013, 06:00:11 PM »
For me, Carolla is a mixed bag.  On the one hand, some of his messages could be taken as Mustachian and he has a great sense of humor, which makes him awesome at taking phone calls (if you really want to laugh your ass off, go back and listen to his old Loveline calls).  On the other hand, I find the guy just has a generally negative outlook and becomes tiresome to listen to after a while.  I had to stop listening to his podcast because my whiny-ness meter was getting waaay too snappy.  Talk about a Complainypants...they have an entire segment called "What can't Adam complain about?"!  All the guy does is complain!  Funny at first but it's enough to drive you to insanity after awhile!!!

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Re: Adam Carolla - FI Achiever
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2013, 08:47:36 AM »
Haha, yes I totally agree on the complainy pants thing.  I have like 4 podcasts I rotate though because of the same reason.  They all get annoying and repetitive after awhile, and you gotta rotate them out.

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Re: Adam Carolla - FI Achiever
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2013, 09:46:55 AM »
Haha, good show, not really mustachian. More like common sense stuff which MMM has a lot of. I do like his story, how he worked hard and made himself a multimillionaire. I love when he first got famous he was in letterman and told his old high school teachers by name on national tv to fuck themselves for not believing in him.

Interesting..... I used to be a teacher so my thought on this is that he changed significantly from the person he was in high school to the person he grew into as an adult.  I bet his teachers had good reasons not to believe in him at that point in time.   I bet he was a pain in the ass to just about every teacher, ever.

Every teacher has days when they just hope and pray that So-and-So will be absent from class that day. 

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Re: Adam Carolla - FI Achiever
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2013, 08:35:39 PM »
Recently listened to his rant about lotteries. It was good.

Why does the government sponsor lotteries? He says it's the complete wrong message. That we need to go and spend a $1 in hopes of winning it big. That that's the way out of the ghetto.

The govt, he says, should be promoting saving and hard work. That's what will lift one up to a better life.

Great guy in my book.

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Re: Adam Carolla - FI Achiever
« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2013, 09:10:07 PM »

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Interesting..... I used to be a teacher so my thought on this is that he changed significantly from the person he was in high school to the person he grew into as an adult.  I bet his teachers had good reasons not to believe in him at that point in time.   I bet he was a pain in the ass to just about every teacher, ever.


A met a teacher once who said he would pray at the beginning of every semester, not for better students, but to be a better teacher to his students. With that kind of attitude, I'm guessing his students became the children everyone wishes they had in their class.

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that more people have great potential than they realize (especially children, who aren't yet entrenched in their ways). They simply need discipline and guidance, which is hard work but it is worth it.

You never know whether the seeds of greatness will grow and flourish or die in a person, and you might not live to see the harvest, but you sow the seeds anyway. It's not up for us to decide which child should have that chance.

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Re: Adam Carolla - FI Achiever
« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2013, 02:32:57 PM »

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Interesting..... I used to be a teacher so my thought on this is that he changed significantly from the person he was in high school to the person he grew into as an adult.  I bet his teachers had good reasons not to believe in him at that point in time.   I bet he was a pain in the ass to just about every teacher, ever.


A met a teacher once who said he would pray at the beginning of every semester, not for better students, but to be a better teacher to his students. With that kind of attitude, I'm guessing his students became the children everyone wishes they had in their class.

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that more people have great potential than they realize (especially children, who aren't yet entrenched in their ways). They simply need discipline and guidance, which is hard work but it is worth it.

You never know whether the seeds of greatness will grow and flourish or die in a person, and you might not live to see the harvest, but you sow the seeds anyway. It's not up for us to decide which child should have that chance.

  I agree discipline and guidance.  As student I remember many classes being disrupted by children needed discipline.  Not sure how that should have been done.  Doubt I could be a teacher with some of the kids today.

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Re: Adam Carolla - FI Achiever
« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2013, 09:57:15 AM »

 I agree discipline and guidance.  As student I remember many classes being disrupted by children needed discipline.  Not sure how that should have been done.  Doubt I could be a teacher with some of the kids today.

It's sort of that Broken Windows theory - a break in decorum left unaddressed leads to more of the same.

Today, as it was in the past, the most successful schools do not tolerate a break in discipline.

Regardless of type (public, private, charter, home),  a school which enforces its regulations encourages the errant parent and student to shape up or ship out. Most of them begin to follow the rules.

When Mommy, Daddy and teacher are on the same page and no one waffles, the kid cannot pit one authority figure against another and get away with rebellion.

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Re: Adam Carolla - FI Achiever
« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2013, 10:15:39 AM »
Just chiming in to say that I agree wholeheartedly with mikefixac's (upthread) comment on government sponsorship of lotteries.

I used to work with kids whose families barely scraped by on government assistance.  Usually, there was no father in the home.  The mom (of 6!) in one household with which I was familiar spent much of her time either at the track (betting on greyhounds) or in bars throwing rolls of quarters into legal/illegal video gambling machines.  I'm sure she also spent way too much money on lottery tickets of all sorts.