In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks...

. . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy

By: Adam Carolla

Narrated by: Adam Carolla

Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

"A couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar. It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning for silver in them thar hills. He ordered a Jack Daniels straight up, and that's when I overheard the young guy with the earring behind the bar asking him if he had ID. At first the old sea captain just laughed. But the guy with the twinkle in his ear asked again. At this point it became apparent that he was serious. Dan Haggerty's dad fired back, 'You've got to be kidding me, son.' The bartender replied, 'New policy. Everyone has to show their ID.' Then I watched Burl Ives reluctantly reach into his dungarees and pull out his military identification card from World War II."

It's a sad and eerie harbinger of our times that the Oprah-watching, crystal-rubbing, Whole Foods-shopping moms and their whipped attorney husbands have taken the ability to reason away from the poor schlub who makes the Bloody Marys. What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we now settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers. Adam Carolla has had enough of this insanity and he's here to help us get our collective balls back.

In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks is Adam's comedic gospel of modern America. He rips into the absurdity of the culture that demonized the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, turned the nation's bathrooms into a lawless free-for-all of urine and fecal matter, and put its citizens at the mercy of a bunch of minimum wagers with axes to grind. Peppered between complaints Carolla shares candid anecdotes from his day to day life as well as his past Sunday football at Jimmy Kimmel's house, his attempts to raise his kids in a society that he mostly disagrees with, his big showbiz break, and much, much more. Brilliantly showcasing Adam's spot-on sense of humor, this book cements his status as a cultural commentator/comedian/complainer extraordinaire.

Adam Carolla is a radio and television host, comedian, and actor. He is the host of the "Adam Carolla Podcast", before which he hosted a weekday morning radio program broadcast from Los Angeles, and syndicated by CBS Radio. Besides these shows, Carolla is well known as the co-host of the radio show "Loveline" (and its television incarnation on MTV), as the co-creator and co-host of Comedy Central's The Man Show, and as the co-creator and the performer on Comedy Central and MTV's Crank Yankers and is a frequent contributor and contestant on ABC's top-rated program Dancing with the Stars. Carolla also starred in, co-wrote, and co-produced the award-winning independent film, The Hammer. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their two children.

©2010 Adam Carolla (P)2010 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

"If comedy books were a big-breasted porn collection, In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks would be Christy Canyon." (Bill Simmons, ESPN columnist and best-selling author of The Book of Basketball)

"Adam Carolla is a genius. And no, I'm not kidding."(Jimmy Kimmel)

“I don’t know this guy from Adam, but Carolla’s humor - fearlessly crass, shamelessly honest and irresistibly funny - sucks out like liposuction the layers of fatty pride to expose the often warped and wounded psyche buried deep within the modern American male.”(Ken Burns)

Hilarious

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

If you enjoy Adam Carolla's rants - this book is perfect for you. I read it first - and couldn't stop laughing - so I figured it would be even funnier read by him. I was right. Great entertainment.

Classic Carolla

If you love the Ace man and his long off the cuff rants, than you'll love this. I always prefer getting his Audio books because of the extra anecdotes and digressions. highly recommended if you're a fan.

Entertaining

10 years after it was written and it still holds up, maybe even more than when it was released in 2010. Mix of humor and actual GOOD ideas! I never got bored with it and it moved quickly.

Oh my god…..

From Adam’s voice to God’s ears. This was an absolute joy to listen to. I can’t wait to listen to the rest of his books.

Hilarious

Ace is the man. His points of view are hilariously accurate. If you're an opinionated person that likes his pod cast then you'll love the book. MUST listen.

Carolla's podcast is better

I am a regular listener of the Carolla's podcast and I must say I was disappointed in the audio book. It just wasn't that funny and the reading was dreadful at times.

Insightful & Funny!

Fantastic audio book! I listened on a long road trip and the time flew by! Adam Carolla has great insight and he read the book like you were having a few beers with an intelligent, funny friend. Highly recommend.

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What did you like best about In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks...? What did you like least?

Adams grasp of the idiotic things in life that one would think are obvious to everyone, but they are not. Some topics weren't as good, but that's just personal taste

If you’ve listened to books by Adam Carolla before, how does this one compare?

Haven't heard anything else by Adam

What about Adam Carolla’s performance did you like?

His easy going style felt like we were just telling tales over a case of beer or something

Did In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks... inspire you to do anything?

No

Any additional comments?

Some funny stuff Adam, I love your guest spots on Dennis MIller and I'm sure stand up would be good also. It's hard to ramble for a long time without hitting some dead spots.

Ace Aces

Loved the riff aspect of his recording. I really couldn't imagine Adam reading his book verbatim, and I guess he felt the same way (thankfully). Highly entertaining listen, exceeding all of my expectations. Well, he is a radio professional, and I love to listen to his shows, so why was I so surprised? Listening to his delivery is like having a chance to casually hang with the guy, like we're best friends. How about introducing me to Jimmy, Adam?

Great book

Everything I've ever complained about all in one book. It was great hearing someone else validate all my points!