Adam Carolla (111:27)
So Mark Cuban's going to be joining me in a minute. Owns the Dallas Mavericks. We'll talk about him before he hops on because he'll probably blush. But he bought that thing in 2000 for about 280 million. And seeing how the Clippers just sold for 2 billion, I think Mark put a little money in his pocket. But when you go back in, it's so easy just to go, oh, look at the rich guy. But you just go back and look at the guy's history and his first endeavor. He was 12. He was trying to buy a pair of tennis shoes and he sold garbage bags so he could buy basketball shoes. And that's what you want in your kid, by the way. That's something you should see. That's what you call a good sign when you see your kid going I want something. So instead of bitching about it or bellyaching about it, or blaming the man or begging mama or daddy for it, or stealing it, I'm gonna come up with a way to get what I desire. And it's gonna be legal, but it's gonna involve me burning some calories. And that's what Mark Cuban did. And then basically he's just done that. I'm just looking at his bio here. Started a company in 1990, sold it to Microsolutions and made like few more million dollars after that. And then he just 95 did it again. And he just kept going down the line. Just bigger and better details. Just never, never stopped. Ah, speaking of not stopping, speaking of making a little bit of money, let me get to one of our sponsors early so I don't interrupt Mr. Cuban with a read. STP Complete Fuel System Clean. These guys have been around a billion years. These guys have been around before cars were around. That's right. Mr. SDP, way back in the day said, you know what? I should come up with something to fix. And somebody chimed in and said, horses? And he said, no, the automobile, my friend. And then he yelled, good day. That was a thousand years before they invented the first car. STP Complete Fuel System Cleaner. 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And I love the fact that he speaks his mind. And I love the fact that in a world that just tears everyone apart. I was just thinking about this. I was thinking about Cuban. Oh, he got in some trouble when he's talking about Sterling and what he'd do and stereotypes and all that kind of stuff, but I was really just thinking it's A weird position because you're rich, you have a microphone, you have a platform, but you can't say anything anymore because you'll be torn apart. I'm looking at Dawson now because I'm lonely. But you know what I'm saying? It's a weird time in history when all the people that have the pulpit, that have the microphone, that have the power, can't really say anything. I mean, you want to talk politics, you better shut your face. You're going to get torn apart if you're. It used to be the man got up on his pulpit, grabbed his microphone, started saying to everyone, here's how you do it, here's what you need to do, and here's what you're going to do. And now it's a lot of, hey, man, I'm wearing cargo shorts and flip flops just like you. Right? But you're worth $8 billion. Right, man? But no, whatever floats your boat. Like, ain't no judgment coming from my side. So it's this weird thing where you're not above anything because everyone can get to everyone through social media, through tmz, through whatever websites, through whatever. So you can be Mark Cuban, you can be Seth MacFarlane, you can be whoever you want, but you better watch what you say, cuz they'll pick your shit apart. And Cuban was talked to about the Sterling thing and racism and the NBA and this, that and the other. And he said, look, if I'm on one side of the street and a young black kid with a hoodie's on that side, I'm walking to the other side of the street. And everyone went like, what the. And they said, but if I go the other side of the street and there's a white dude and he's all sleeved up and covered with tattoos, then I'm going back to the black dude side side, which is kind of how we all think. But then Cuban gets in a world of shit because he's Mark Cuban. But do you want to interview with Mark Cuban or you just want him to sit there and smile and nod his head and go, I love everyone. And be Richard Simmons, essentially. Like, can the rich guy speak his mind? And that's the interesting part, because here he has this incredible freedom that his power and his wealth has bought him. I mean, if he wants to go to Maui tonight, he'll just gas up the private jet and he's going to Maui. But he still is not above speaking his mind and then being torn apart on SportsCenter and social media and all That I like the guy because he stands by his words, the only thing. And Gary, look up the word ignorant because we'll get into that with Cuban when we speak to him. But he was saying that that kind of thinking was ignorant, but yet that's. He admitted to it. Basically said that that thinking is ignorant, but yet I admit to it. And I said as I was watching it, it's not ignorant. It's based on something. And if you just want to remove race from the whole equation, then fine. If I see the guy who. Who's covered with the tats, who looks like trouble, the white guy, I do walk on the other side of the street. That's not ignorance. That guy looks like he's been in prison. There could be trouble there. Show me an Asian woman on the other side of the street and I'll go to her side of the street. But that's not based on ignorance. That's probability. That's statistics. I think ignorance is based on nothing. This is based on something. I opened my door today. There's a guy was coming to my house today, and the door opened. And sometimes being ignorant is being uninformed. This is not uninformed. A guy came to my house today. And sometimes I know my dog, and my dog's a sweetheart, but my dog is 65 pounds. And there's some people that are a little bit freaked out by dogs. And I don't like to be one of those people who, when you come up my driveway, fling the door open, and my dog comes running out, and that moment, that person has to kind of go, what? What? Your dog's out? Like, sir, hold on. Or maybe they got bit when they were kids, but Molly's a lab, and she's wagging head to tail, like the middle of her body is wagging as well as her tail as well as her head. She's literally coming down the driveway in this weird, syncopated, kind of wagging, full body wag. I know that that guy knows that this is a breed of dog that is good with people and good around kids. And since the dog's body language is wagging, I usually just open the door and go. And they always. They look down and go, oh, hey, little girl, come now. If I had a Rottweiler and that dog was not wagging its tail, even if that dog is the coolest dog on the planet, that person that's coming up the driveway just sees the Rottweiler. Statistically higher likelihood of getting bit. So when you're walking down the street, old Person, young person, male, female. Tattoos. No tattoos. We're just doing this. That ain't ignorance. That's us balancing our shit. It's. It's, by the way, lacking knowledge or awareness in general. See, if you have no awareness and you have no knowledge, then you don't walk to one side of the street or the other based on anything. Doesn't matter. You don't. You have no preconceived notions. Now, it'd be nice if it could be corrected. But again, calling an ignorance is not quite right. It needs to be called something else. It needs to be addressed and it needs to be dialed in. I agree, but it ain't uninformed. All right. Cuban is now officially a couple minutes late. But that's all right. We got stuff to talk about. All right, well, there you go. Plug for Dawson and my book. Thanks for putting it on the New York Times best seller list. I was laughing because I think it was Esquire, remember, a few months ago, had their bullseye and it was. Do you need. Does it exist? Does it sort of exist? Does it kind of exist? My book was. Doesn't exist. Wasn't even in the bullseye. If it was a dartboard, it would be the wall that the dartboard was on. That's where my book landed, except for you guys got it to the New York Times Best Seller list. And that's what I love about the pirate ship. And you guys, no matter what fucking shit everyone else tries to talk constantly. No matter how often Entertainment Weekly does the who. What, Adam? Fuck that. No matter what horrible reviews, whatever preconceived notions they have, whatever they call me, however hard they try to pretend this stuff isn't working or doesn't exist, you guys make it work. You guys make it exist. Yes. Thing or not a thing. My book was not even not a thing. It's as far outside of the bullseye as anything that they had, they had. It's a bullseye where, you know, if you're right in the middle, you're a thing. And if you're next to it, you're a thingy. And I'm in. I'm in a. I'm in a not. Not a thing. Yes. Kerry's writing me. Yeah.
