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)

Adam Carolla does no wrong...

Plain and simple...
there is no honesty... no true insight... no opinions these days. Adam Carolla is the truth.
Check out his podcasts.
from old lovelines to his true self in his podcasts u can't find better...
always insightful...

Very Funny

I'm glad I listened to this rather than read it, he adds a ton of stuff. It's very good.

a must read

best book this week. I can listen to Carroll's all day and all night. great!

Hilarious & entertaining, Corolla can tell a story

Where does In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks... rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Adam Corolla is very opinionated on a lot of subjects. I found that he's right far more often than wrong. Even if you don't agree with a particular stance he takes, you'll still find yourself laughing. Mr Corolla has a way with words, and a reading style that's pleasant to listen to. If you like his daily podcast, you'll love this book. If you listen to this book, you'll want more and inevitably find yourself listening to the podcast, it's a win win situation.

What did you like best about this story?

The author narrates the book himself, this is a really good thing in thus case.

What does Adam Carolla bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

A way with words, and those patented rants that only Adam Corolla can go on. He often goes off script as another story out thought pops into his head.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The end, sorry it was over

Carolla?

Where does In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks... rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

His politics are horrible, but his podcast is wonderful. Just listen, then give him the what for in comments.

Great Listeb

Would you listen to In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks... again? Why?

This book is hilarious! I love Adam Carolla reading his own book- you get more out of it.

Insanely funny and truly genius insights.

My husband and I laughed out loud many times. His story is very inspiring and he has very intelligent insights.

Yes!!!

Any additional comments?

Ten stars!!! I love Adam Carolla. His ideas are intuitive, enlightening and hilarious. While I may not agree with all of his thoughts and opinions, I do appreciate Adam's ability to illuminate a subject and to look at things from a whole new perspective that usually leaves me wondering why nobody has thought of that before. Anyway, an entertaining and fun audiobook. I laughed my ass off.

Great read - loved it - want more

a must read for all Americans and Canadians also. Just as good as Bossy Pants ;-) Loved it. Please make the next book 16 hours long. Well read, well written and nicely paced. Clean sweep 5 star rating is warranted!

Crude but funny

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

Only certain friends would appreciate this

Any additional comments?

An interesting listen, you have to have the right sense of humor and the ability to ignore the f-word. Most chicks wouldn't want to read it but I'm not most chicks, Adam Carolla makes a lot of interesting and valid points.