Ben Shapiro and Adam Carolla promote their November 29th Brooklyn event and upcoming college documentary, contrasting Carolla's improvisational congressional testimony with Shapiro's six-page prepared notes. They address campus security threats, citing recent Antifa incidents, while Shapiro reviews a Commentary Magazine book on anti-Semitism and Carolla defends Dennis Prager against such accusations. Ultimately, the conversation highlights the growing tension between free speech advocacy and rising campus hostility. [Automatically generated summary]
You know, I love being up on stage, but I like doing different things and working with different people.
And I've always been a fan of Dennis.
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.
I was always a fan of his.
Of course, he had no idea who I was, because, you know, he doesn't know who Janis Joplin is.
He doesn't know.
He probably doesn't know Henry Ford.
Like, there's nobody who knows less in terms of pop culture, references, celebrities, and especially C-celebrities like myself.
So he had no idea who I was.
But eventually his producer, or I think his engineer, made him aware of me.
We were thick as thieves as soon as we got along because Even though we're totally different, we both agree on common sense.
And I think if you can agree on common sense, it trumps everything.
You can break down everything, you know, abortion, gun control.
You know, build a wall, whatever it is, vouchers, whatever topics.
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.
Because if common sense prevails, you're not going to land on another side of the topic.
So We're a million miles apart, except for the common sense, but that always brings us together.
Anyway, I will say about that, you don't want to sit next to an A student during a test either.
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.
Just sort of make it up on the fly.
And I flew in late to Washington the night before, you know, slept till 530 in the morning, got up, had no idea what I was going to say.
And then I saw Ben Shapiro, a student with his six pages, you know, 51 seconds a page totaling out five minutes.
And I think, what have I got myself into?
Because I had a notepad with ideas and arrows leading to the ideas.
Like, oh, I want to say this idea after this idea, but it's ahead of it on the page.
I'll draw an arrow that'll remind me to say it later.
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.
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, Kansas again, Alabama.
This is all in the course of like five weeks.
We played like 19 colleges and we would routinely tour the country and tour colleges.
And I think those days are over.
It was no big whoop back then.
You just show up with your opinion, say whatever you wanted on stage and get paid and leave.
No, I'm not invited to play any colleges, and I think those days are over.
I mean, quite honestly, I don't even know what I would want to tell a 19-year-old anymore.
I mean, I know it's prestigious, and I know you can also make some money doing it, but To sit there and have to endure that and hassle it and deal with the security and the safety and the whatever.
I've obviously been at the center of some of this stuff.
And it is crazy how much people are willing to lend credence to these people.
Especially, I was reading a book today that was sent to me.
I'm reviewing it for Commentary Magazine about, you know, the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States.
And I'm not a big believer that there's been, like, some tremendous rise that Jews have to live in fear.
I mean, you know me.
I wear my yarmulke everywhere.
Whether or not I'm on TV or not.
You know, like, I'm walking around the streets in my yarmulke.
I've never felt unsafe in Los Angeles wearing a yarmulke.
I mean, half the city's Jewish.
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.
If only they would just stop with all this free speech nonsense.
Then we could really, you know, sort of in a common sense way regulate the sort of speech that people are allowed to say.
And then they wonder why people are rioting when I go to speak places.
I mean, it's total craziness.
And you're getting it too.
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.
If you went on a college campus now, I mean, what you're saying is right.
You'd get protested.
There would be people outside calling you a racist, people calling you a homophobe, and you'd have to wear Kevlar.
I mean, if you're calling Dennis an anti-Semite, I mean, he's literally the biggest Jew I know.
Like, physically the biggest Jew I know.
So that is not correct.
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.
And it's probably like a 2,000 or 3,000 seat venue.
It's a big venue.
They're on now.
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.
You'd be like a medium, small, potent.
Potent, but still medium.
He would be the biggest tumbler of Jew that ever came out of a blender.
And I'm definitely looking forward to all the alt-right websites now photoshopping memes of me in a blender after this particular conversation.
Adam Corolla, folks, if you don't listen to his show, you're really missing out.
Adam's fantastic and has been forever, and as I told him before he went on air, 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.
So Adam Carolla, institution in the industry.
Go check it out.
An Evening with Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager, November 29th at the King's Theater in Brooklyn, New York.
Adam, also quick question.
Is there a website that people should go to to get tickets or is it like Ticketmaster?