Get it on: The Dennis Prager--Adam Corolla Story

[pollyannaish]

: Like peanut butter and jelly, like Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager were meant to be together. Their on-air, on-stage chemistry works because it was meant to work. Its supposed to work.

 

I am simply the one who made it all happen.

 

 

But unlike a coming together of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and a tall glass of cold milk, the union of the foul-mouthed atheist comedian Carolla and the erudite religious conservative Prager was not something as plain as the delicious smell wafting into the nose on your face. There was preparation and man-hours involved. There is a backstory.

 

Here it comes.

 

In 2005, while sitting on the roof of a house whose shutters I was painting to make some side cash during my senior year of college, I heard for the first time the commanding voice and demonstrable wisdom of Dennis Prager. In spite of the poor sound quality my small boombox offered, I heard the intellectual mentor for whom Id been searching. Although the work I was doing at that exact moment was mundane and thoughtless, the monologue Prager unfurled had a zeal and depth that made one want to drop the paintbrush in order that he might go read an important book or start a charity or help an old lady cross the street.

 

Or, at the very least, do the best job of painting a shutter that one possibly could.

 

Like greater men such as Andrew Breitbart and David Mamet before me, I found Dennis in much the same way Gary Cooper in Sergeant York found religion.

 

To be fair to the Cooper-Breitbart-Mamet analogy, conservatism already coursed through my veins, but up to that point my political appetite had been fed primarily by the red meat served up daily on cable news shows and in Sean Hannitys books. I believe in Ronald Reagans 11th Commandment, and so please understand that I mean no disrespect to any of the fine people who represent my values in the media, but it was then, finally, that I heard in Dennis presentation a voice of strength and breadth and insight that I had secretly craved.

 

A man of substance. A man of thoughtful inquiry. A man of big ideas.

 

This was my introduction to what I affectionately call Prager Conservatism, and from that point until today I havent gone more than a few days without listening to his nationally syndicated radio show or reading his discerning weekly columns. Eventually, after graduating from college, my friends and I began hosting Prager Hour nights twice a month where a bunch of guys in their 20s would come over, enjoy a cigar if they so chose, hear a pre-selected segment or two of The Dennis Prager Radio Shows podcast, and engage in lively discussion and debate for a couple of hours. Dennis was Obi-wan to our band of Luke Skywalkers.

 

Read the whole thing: http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2012/10/21/get-it-on-the-adam-carolla-dennis-prager-story/

[pollyannaish]

We saw Prager and Corolla in Seattle and they have awesome chemistry.

 

If we want to energize a new generation of conservatives, we need to read this and take it to heart. There are good kids out there longing for smaller government and all they hear is yelling. It's got to stop.

 

I now think if myself as a Conservative Evangelist. It works best if you learn the language and culture of those you are evangilizing. Prager and Corolla are a Good way to start.

 

Reminds me a lot of @Valin's approach of "one simple question"

[Valin]

We saw Prager and Corolla in Seattle and they have awesome chemistry.

 

If we want to energize a new generation of conservatives, we need to read this and take it to heart. There are good kids out there longing for smaller government and all they hear is yelling. It's got to stop.

 

I now think if myself as a Conservative Evangelist. It works best if you learn the language and culture of those you are evangilizing. Prager and Corolla are a Good way to start.

 

Reminds me a lot of @Valin's approach of "one simple question"

I cannot take credit for simple questions, that goes to Socrates, and he probably stole it from someone else.

 

When CGP was going there was a young (30?) guy there, HARD LEFT I would ask him some simple question and soon BOOM his head would explode. When confronted by reality.

[Valin]

http://youtu.be/gCyweigmyzg