Adam Carolla | Club Random with Bill Maher

Another great episode! I'm gonna check out Adams podcast...

I love Adam!!! He’s so smart and funny.
Sorry to hear he’s getting a divorce 😢

You talk as if many students are PUSSIES today. You both are right.

This is WHY they are PUSSIES...

In 1959, C.S. Lewis wrote an essay called "Screwtape Proposes a Toast," where he has a devil in Hell give a toast (a speech) on how to destroy our civilization. It's an interesting picture into Lewis's mind on political things (in the widest sense).

He argues that there is good democracy and bad democracy. The good kind means that everyone gets a vote. The bad kind is an attitude: "I'M AS GOOD AS YOU!".

Here's what Lewis has the devil say about this attitude concerning the future of education (and compare his description to today's political correctness)...
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"In that promising land the spirit of I'M AS GOOD AS YOU has already begun something more than a generally social influence. It begins to work itself into their educational system. How far its operations there have gone at the present moment, I should not like to say with certainty. Nor does it matter. Once you have grasped the tendency, you can easily predict its future developments; especially as we ourselves will play our part in the developing. The basic principle of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' These differences between pupils – for they are obviously and nakedly individual differences – must be disguised. This can be done at various levels. At universities, examinations must be framed so that nearly all the students get good marks. Entrance examinations must be framed so that all, or nearly all, citizens can go to universities, whether they have any power (or wish) to profit by higher education or not. At schools, the children who are too stupid or lazy to learn languages and mathematics and elementary science can be set to doing things that children used to do in their spare time. Let, them, for example, make mud pies and call it modelling. But all the time there must be no faintest hint that they are inferior to the children who are at work. Whatever nonsense they are engaged in must have – I believe the English already use the phrase – 'parity of esteem.' An even more drastic scheme is not possible. Children who are fit to proceed to a higher class may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma — Beelzebub, what a useful word! – by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval’s attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT.

In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'M AS GOOD AS YOU has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers – or should I say, nurses? – will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.

Of course, this would not follow unless all education became state education. But it will. That is part of the same movement. Penal taxes, designed for that purpose, are liquidating the Middle Class, the class who were prepared to save and spend and make sacrifices in order to have their children privately educated. The removal of this class, besides linking up with the abolition of education, is, fortunately, an inevitable effect of the spirit that says I'M AS GOOD AS YOU. This was, after all, the social group which gave to the humans the overwhelming majority of their scientists, physicians, philosophers, theologians, poets, artists, composers, architects, jurists, and administrators. If ever there were a bunch of stalks that needed their tops knocked off, it was surely they. As an English politician remarked not long ago, 'A democracy does not want great men.'"

Besides being wrong about Benny Goodman dying in a plane crash Corolla mistakingly credited, "Take my wife... please!", to Henny Youngman. That was a Rodney Dangerfield line. What's that? No. I'm not old. 😒 😏

One of the funniest Club Random's. You and the Ace man make a good team.

Classic rock survived because of the internet. Generations b4 didnt have that access. Try to find a recordsstore now w streaming is everything

I love Bill, but he was particularly interruptive in this one.

Bill needs to smoke less. To annoying

“Just put rightfully so after they’re angry” smh. blacks paid their dues, just like whites. If blacks weren’t slaves they wouldn’t get to be in a first world, modern society. Watch videos on Africa, not one American black would trade his ancestors freedom to live in Africa, not fucking one.

A couple of old white guys...I remember my grandpa talking like this with his cronies. The pendulum has swung too far, but that's the way it has to go if we want change - history shows it will come back toward the center.

No lie -Kris Jenner, matriarch of the still puzzling Kardashian empire, actually BROUGHT UP marriage with Bill, wondering where his wife was, as this is filmed at a portion of his house, not knowing Bill would squeeze it in inevitably anyway...then later on tells him she 'never misses the show', lol. These two are less pretentious and relatable by a factor of ten, Adam especially, despite being 'rich celebrities' in Hollwood, too.

Why do I get the feeling that Bill says everything to prove a point or start an argument? Maybe because it seems like the guy I grew up with in the other room who I’m still friendly with today, a.k.a., my brother, uses every discussion as a means to leverage a win in what became an argument.

Loveline was a show with an audience consisting of obese shutins & professional victims😝🤣😂✊🏾

Breaking news flash for Bill, you don't have a wife because nobody loves you enough to put up with you, as far as other people's homes, you are the guest the kids live there..

Adam Corolla is a HIDEOUS clown (inside & out)✊🏾

Not much substance. Could have done without 60 minutes of the kids now a days talk.

Lawrence Welk didn't make it. They play Zepplin in nursing homes now lol

Adam and Jimmy Kimmel did the Man Show. Kimmel is now a politically correct mediocrity. Adam still rocks though!

It’s hilarious seeing two rich guys talking about raising kids come on a lot of kids get put in there place

Love it!

There’s nothing more crooked than city government in California. Especially Glendale California.

I’m a big Carolla fan ! I do love Maher too but not fully aligned with his politics but he’s a sane liberal and calls out the absurd…

I do love the Knob Creek product placement branding as I’m a big fan of Knob Creek as well 😊

You can’t proclaim to be a demon on stage and then show up in Jerusalem one day, weeping on a national television show like an a hole

What I don't get about Bill - he claims to live a healthy life, but he drinks and smokes pot liike crazy - too much, I think. JMHO. i guess he knows what he's doing.

This might be a record for amount of ads. WTF

Bill acting...and high as hell, like usual. Sad.

I’m 66 this month and kids my age were out of the house by 18. No one hung around.

California: 365,996. Florida: 62,166. Texas: 52,585. California has been so bad for EM. LOL

Ya gotta love how Bill is always under the assumption that there’s a woman on this planet who would actually marry him.

May I suggest Red Breast Irish Whiskey for the Guests !!

So when bill is at the valley rest home with Adam and no one comes to visit them was it worth it

Adam your wife was a ten and you were a four But you got famous and you decided I am a ten and my wife is a four really

Can’t believe this is already a year old.

"Whitney Houston started singing about children are our future and we all were fucked"! LMAO!

Carolla wasn't the crazy R wing-nut he was on his podcast with Roseanne

Loose the glasses and Adam Corolla looks exactly like Gilbert Gottfried now 😂😂

Another topic on point:Kids becoming empowered. I work at a popular high-quality grocery chain(you can probably guess which one)where I frequently hear parents allowing their precious little 6 or 8 year old darlings make all of the dinner choices,which leads to a generation of largely entitled young people.
Parents,make the kids eat what you decide is for dinner.When they move out,then they can eat whatever the fuck they want!

so does this mean Carolla is SINGLe now Maher?!? 🤔

Poor Bill has been Screwing whores his whole life and just doesn’t get alot of things. He’s Lost

Adams a funny bastard.

Carolla has a Jack Benny like speaking style.

How the hell has rap lasted THIS long?

Private property rights is a right wing issue...for Totalitarians...the current Democratic political party is the most Totalitarian it's been since they believed people can own people...and every political ideology is to the right of them...

He didn't tell a single lie involving the worlds fastest ppl being the slowest in a crosswalk. 100 percent true. We whites don't have that low a gear and I drive 18 speed. As grandpa always said we are just different. Again. No lie present. 100,% for segregation at 50 yrs old. Incompatible

To Elon: " You wanna live on terra firma?"
Elon: " No, I'm goin down or I'm going up"
😂😂😂😂😂😂

Adam got Bill to lighten up on politics and laugh a lot more than he usually does. A great conversation. Have Ace back on the show.

I'm just now watching this episode (9/30/23) and thinking about some of the later episodes I've already seen. That guest chair🪑 does need an adjustment. I agree with the viewer that suggested a trip to Home Depot for a sheet of plywood. 🔨🪚🧰🪛