The Ben Shapiro Show - November 03, 2017


Exclusive: Ben Shapiro with Adam Carolla

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Ben Shapiro sits down with Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager to talk about everything from politics to life to pizza toppings, apparently. Adam and Dennis also discuss their friendship and how they came together to make a documentary about what's going on on the college campuses and why it's a good idea to do a movie about the insanity that is happening in the world of college campuses, and why you should never sit next to a comedian during a congressional hearing. Also, if you missed it, you can also go watch Adam testify in front of Congress about bias on college campuses. And if you don't know who Adam is, you're not going to want to miss that! Adam is a three-time New York Times best-selling author, and he's also teaming up with my other friend, Dennis, on Wednesday, November 29th at the King's Theater in Brooklyn, New York for an evening with Adam's good friend, comedian and podcaster, Adam's old pal, Adam Van Zandt, and they're going to talk all things politics, life, and pizza. And it's going to be a lot of fun! If you haven't been to one of Adam's and Dennis's events, I'm sure you'll agree that they're great fun to be there, and that's what you should do! Enjoy the episode! Ben Shapiro is a comedian, writer, and host. He's also a podcaster. He writes for The Weekly Standard, and hosts his own podcast called "The Weekly Standard" and is a regular contributor to the New York Magazine. and The Daily Beast. He also hosts a podcast called The View From The Other Side and hosts a show called . and is also a regular on the radio show hosted by his own radio show on SiriusXM's Morning Drive. He's on the Morning Drive with Alex Blumberg. And he's a friend of mine and I'm also a writer and host of the podcast "The Realest Man in New York City. . He's got a podcast on the Realest guy in the Midwest. , and he also writes a book called , which you can catch him on the road with me on his podcast, and I also do a podcast with his wife and his wife on the podcast is . And he also has a new book out in LA, which you should check it out! and so much more! -

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00:00:00.000 Alrighty, so here we are on another Ben Shapiro Show Facebook Live special with our good friend Adam Carolla. 0.95
00:00:05.000 Adam, of course, if you don't know him, it's because you're ignorant, but he is the host of the incredibly popular Adam Carolla Show.
00:00:10.000 He's also three times New York Time best-selling author. 0.94
00:00:12.000 His books are hysterically funny.
00:00:14.000 And he is again teaming up with my other friend Dennis Prager on Wednesday, November 29th at the King's Theater in Brooklyn, New York.
00:00:19.000 For an evening with Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager, and they're going to talk about everything from politics to life to pizza toppings, apparently.
00:00:26.000 And if you've never been to one of Adam's and Dennis's events, I've been to one of them, and they're really fun and enjoyable.
00:00:31.000 Adam, thanks for joining me here.
00:00:32.000 Thanks for having me, Ben.
00:00:34.000 So aside from raking in some extra cash, why do you do these events with Dennis?
00:00:40.000 You know, I love being up on stage, but I like doing different things and working with different people.
00:00:46.000 And I've always been a fan of Dennis.
00:00:50.000 We come from completely different worlds, but I used to like listening to him when he did Religion on the Line a million years ago, and I'm not religious at all.
00:01:04.000 I was always a fan of his.
00:01:05.000 Of course, he had no idea who I was, because, you know, he doesn't know who Janis Joplin is.
00:01:12.000 He doesn't know.
00:01:13.000 He probably doesn't know Henry Ford.
00:01:15.000 Like, there's nobody who knows less in terms of pop culture, references, celebrities, and especially C-celebrities like myself.
00:01:23.000 So he had no idea who I was.
00:01:25.000 But eventually his producer, or I think his engineer, made him aware of me.
00:01:31.000 We were thick as thieves as soon as we got along because
00:01:34.000 Even though we're totally different, we both agree on common sense.
00:01:40.000 And I think if you can agree on common sense, it trumps everything.
00:01:45.000 You can break down everything, you know, abortion, gun control.
00:01:53.000 You know, build a wall, whatever it is, vouchers, whatever topics.
00:01:57.000 If you are very tuned into common sense, and you're tuned into common sense, and Frager's tuned into common sense, you'll agree on 98% of the subject.
00:02:09.000 Because if common sense prevails, you're not going to land on another side of the topic.
00:02:16.000 So
00:02:17.000 We're a million miles apart, except for the common sense, but that always brings us together.
00:02:22.000 You guys get along so well that I know you're doing a documentary together, too, about what's going on on the college campuses.
00:02:27.000 I was lucky enough to meet up with some of your guys who came along with me to the Berkeley insanity.
00:02:32.000 But how's the documentary going?
00:02:33.000 When is that supposed to come out?
00:02:35.000 It's going to be mid-early 2018.
00:02:37.000 It's going very well.
00:02:42.000 It was the perfect time to make this.
00:02:44.000 They just came to me and said, do you want to be part of this?
00:02:46.000 Do you want to work with Dennis?
00:02:47.000 And you know, any excuse to work with Dennis.
00:02:50.000 So we are following people like you.
00:02:53.000 We're talking to college professors.
00:02:55.000 We're following ourselves out on stage.
00:02:58.000 We're going to do recreations.
00:03:00.000 It's not going to be just a straight ahead documentary.
00:03:02.000 It's going to be a little more of a film with young Dennis and young Adam and all that kind of insanity.
00:03:10.000 So I think it'll be very compelling.
00:03:12.000 It'll always be funny.
00:03:13.000 It'll be interesting.
00:03:15.000 And hopefully it'll make you think and entertain.
00:03:18.000 Awesome.
00:03:18.000 Well, Adam, if you missed it, you can also go watch Adam testify in front of Congress.
00:03:23.000 I had to play second fiddle to Adam testifying in front of Congress about bias on college campuses.
00:03:27.000 You never want to sit next to a comedian during a congressional hearing.
00:03:30.000 It's always a mistake.
00:03:31.000 But that was sort of my lot in life.
00:03:33.000 Anyway, I will say about that, you don't want to sit next to an A student during a test either.
00:03:43.000 Especially the one where you can't cheat off of, because I had that feeling about you too, which is I'm a horrible student, always was a horrible student, and probably got my improv chops through being a horrible student and learning how to wing it, so to speak.
00:03:59.000 Just sort of make it up on the fly.
00:04:02.000 And I flew in late to Washington the night before
00:04:07.000 We're good.
00:04:22.000 I'm thinking, what have I gotten myself into?
00:04:24.000 Because I had a notepad with ideas and arrows leading to the ideas.
00:04:30.000 Like, oh, I want to say this idea after this idea, but it's ahead of it on the page.
00:04:35.000 I'll draw an arrow that'll remind me to say it later.
00:04:39.000 Well, I do have to ask you, Adam, are you doing any college appearances?
00:04:41.000 Because I know that every time I do a college appearance now, I have to have these massive security teams.
00:04:46.000 Have you actually done any events at colleges in the recent past?
00:04:49.000 Are you planning to?
00:04:50.000 It's so funny that you brought that up because I just found an old page with an itinerary on it that I can hold up from June of 1998.
00:05:04.000 This is me and Dr. Drew and it's us at Northern Illinois and DeKalb, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, University of Cincinnati, Kansas, Florida, Clemson,
00:05:18.000 Kansas again, Alabama.
00:05:20.000 This is all in the course of like five weeks.
00:05:24.000 We played like 19 colleges and we would routinely tour the country and tour colleges.
00:05:31.000 And I think those days are over.
00:05:33.000 It was no big whoop back then.
00:05:35.000 You just show up with your opinion, say whatever you wanted on stage and get paid and leave.
00:05:41.000 Yeah, I mean, so are you going to do any more colleges?
00:05:44.000 Have you been invited?
00:05:45.000 Are you just avoiding them at this point?
00:05:47.000 No, I'm not invited to play any colleges, and I think those days are over.
00:05:53.000 I mean, quite honestly, I don't even know what I would want to tell a 19-year-old anymore.
00:06:00.000 I mean, I know it's prestigious, and I know you can also make some money doing it, but
00:06:08.000 To sit there and have to endure that and hassle it and deal with the security and the safety and the whatever.
00:06:15.000 I mean, we're living in a super weird world right now, right?
00:06:19.000 Like, I just had the conversation with my wife 20 minutes ago where she explained in L.A.
00:06:27.000 there's supposed to be some big Antifa rally or attack or whatever it was, you know, this weekend.
00:06:34.000 And I said,
00:06:35.000 Well, I'm due to go to the convention center to do... I'm going to interview Sylvester Stallone.
00:06:42.000 I'm going to do a talk on podcasting to like the Wealth and Real Estate Expo or whatever.
00:06:47.000 And then I was invited to go to the Lakers game and I want to bring my son with me to the Lakers game.
00:06:53.000 And she said, I don't want him going downtown during this Antifa rally.
00:06:58.000 And I thought, well, first off,
00:07:01.000 This is never gonna happen.
00:07:03.000 But on the other hand, why does my wife and my son's life have to be ruined by this?
00:07:12.000 Like just the, just the idea that I'm saying to my wife in 2017, Hey, good news.
00:07:19.000 I got seats on the floor.
00:07:21.000 Someone gave me tickets to see the Lakers game this weekend.
00:07:24.000 And she goes, hold on.
00:07:26.000 There's an Antiva rally.
00:07:28.000 I don't know.
00:07:28.000 She didn't say, I don't want you going.
00:07:32.000 Well, I mean, I assume that she inherits in your will, so it's probably okay if you go and you get killed by Antifa, you know. 0.92
00:07:37.000 Right.
00:07:38.000 She lives on, but.
00:07:39.000 Right, but I don't, yeah.
00:07:41.000 You put your, here, don't forget your Make America Great Again hat before you leave the house.
00:07:47.000 But my son is gonna have to run serpentine from the car into the Staples Center, and I just thought, what the hell's going on with our societies?
00:07:58.000 It is totally nuts.
00:07:59.000 I mean, you know, you've seen some of it.
00:08:01.000 I've obviously been at the center of some of this stuff.
00:08:03.000 And it is crazy how much people are willing to lend credence to these people.
00:08:08.000 Especially, I was reading a book today that was sent to me.
00:08:11.000 I'm reviewing it for Commentary Magazine about, you know, the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States.
00:08:16.000 And I'm not a big believer that there's been, like, some tremendous rise that Jews have to live in fear.
00:08:19.000 I mean, you know me.
00:08:20.000 I wear my yarmulke everywhere.
00:08:22.000 Whether or not I'm on TV or not.
00:08:24.000 You know, like, I'm walking around the streets in my yarmulke.
00:08:26.000 I've never felt unsafe in Los Angeles wearing a yarmulke.
00:08:29.000 I mean, half the city's Jewish.
00:08:30.000 But this book does this whole routine about how the real problem with the rise of anti-Semitism is people giving too much credence to free speech.
00:08:38.000 If only they would just stop with all this free speech nonsense.
00:08:41.000 Then we could really, you know, sort of in a common sense way regulate the sort of speech that people are allowed to say.
00:08:46.000 And then they wonder why people are rioting when I go to speak places.
00:08:49.000 I mean, it's total craziness.
00:08:51.000 And you're getting it too.
00:08:52.000 I mean, I don't know a lot of people who are more moderate on politics than you are, especially because you're not coming from a place where you're deeply concerned with political matters of the day more than stuff that just sort of pisses you off.
00:09:03.000 If you went on a college campus now, I mean, what you're saying is right.
00:09:06.000 You'd get protested.
00:09:07.000 There would be people outside calling you a racist, people calling you a homophobe, and you'd have to wear Kevlar.
00:09:12.000 I mean, I have it a couple of campuses.
00:09:14.000 The thing I don't get is guys like the aforementioned Dennis Prager are called anti-Semitic.
00:09:20.000 I mean, if you want to—it is insane.
00:09:25.000 To me, that we are now living in a time where like the number one Jew in the United States, Dennis Frager, just returned from Israel.
00:09:37.000 When he goes to do a college, part of, amongst the things they call him, they include anti-Semites.
00:09:45.000 Like at this point,
00:09:48.000 We've completely jumped the shark.
00:09:55.000 I don't even know what to believe.
00:09:58.000 And also, for those who are accusing everyone of everything, be careful because it's completely lost its teeth.
00:10:08.000 There is no more, I don't know who the actual racists are anymore because everyone's a racist.
00:10:15.000 And as I always say, it's never been a better time to be an actual racist.
00:10:19.000 You'll get lumped in with me and Dennis Prager and Ben Shapiro.
00:10:23.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:10:24.000 Exactly.
00:10:24.000 I mean, if you're calling Dennis an anti-Semite, I mean, he's literally the biggest Jew I know.
00:10:28.000 Like, physically the biggest Jew I know. 0.85
00:10:29.000 So that is not correct.
00:10:32.000 Well, Adam, he's going to be hosting, Adam Carolla is going to be hosting with Dennis Prager an evening with Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager, aptly named, Wednesday, November 29th at the King's Theater in Brooklyn, New York.
00:10:42.000 Do you know when the tickets go on sale?
00:10:43.000 How many seats there are?
00:10:45.000 What the cost is on that stuff?
00:10:46.000 They're on sale now.
00:10:49.000 And it's probably like a 2,000 or 3,000 seat venue.
00:10:53.000 It's a big venue.
00:10:54.000 They're on now.
00:10:55.000 And just to put a fine point on Dennis Prager being the biggest Jew, literally, if you were making a Jew smoothie and you put him in a blender, you would have a grande tall boy Jew smoothie. 0.98
00:11:11.000 You'd be like a medium, small, potent.
00:11:15.000 Potent, but still medium.
00:11:17.000 He would be the biggest tumbler of Jew that ever came out of a blender. 1.00
00:11:21.000 And I'm definitely looking forward to all the alt-right websites now photoshopping memes of me in a blender after this particular conversation.
00:11:29.000 Adam Corolla, folks, if you don't listen to his show, you're really missing out.
00:11:32.000 Adam's fantastic and has been forever, and as I told him before he went on air,
00:11:35.000 Adam's an inspiration to people like me because Adam's the guy who realized that you could actually create pirate ships outside of the normal radio channels in order to actually distribute your content to people who want to listen.
00:11:45.000 So Adam Carolla, institution in the industry.
00:11:47.000 Go check it out.
00:11:48.000 An Evening with Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager, November 29th at the King's Theater in Brooklyn, New York.
00:11:53.000 Adam, also quick question.
00:11:54.000 Is there a website that people should go to to get tickets or is it like Ticketmaster?
00:11:57.000 If you go to adamcarolla.com and hit live events, I think you'll find it.
00:12:02.000 Perfect.
00:12:03.000 Okay, go and check it out.
00:12:04.000 Adam Krola, thanks so much for joining me here on The Ben Shapiro Show, Facebook Live, YouTube Live.
00:12:08.000 Good to see you, dude.
00:12:09.000 Thanks, Ben.
00:12:10.000 Catch you in a bit.