Howie Mandel
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Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
We love Howie. Howie. You've met him before, right?
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
No, she's always like that. That's her disposition. I live with her.
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
He does deep voices, and then he has an angelic voice on top of it.
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
Yeah, and then are you four? I mean, where are you in the ranking?
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
Howie, can you look at Simon? Just be real. And just look at him, lock eyes with him, and go, enough of that.
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
And I'm going, yeah, that's what the Chicano said. You know, whatever, right? And then I just look to the right and I go, what's going on?
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
Why do I? Yeah. I mean, just a standard, like, you know, solid color, solid color. He's very like, you know, elect.
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
It takes him like 20 minutes to get the fuck out of there. Right.
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
Mom. Mom. Mom. I'm Bobby Mom. Yeah, and she... My mom, when I sent her the flowers... She said, what is? And she loved every single one of them. I love the flower.
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Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
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Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
go ahead say what do you want to say you know I act a certain way when I'm around you but really you act a certain way yeah I try to be confident around you like I'm the guy whatever but it's like at the end of the day I'm just I've always been a fan of yours like when I you and Arsenio you know doing that tour together yeah yeah and I just love both of you guys so it's like you've got the shit all over here what is it just a lot of shit
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
I know, but are there guys that you didn't like that are still around?
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
Yeah, that was a whistle. What was that all about, guy?
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
Can we do it? Bob, can we really? I would love to do it. All right. I don't want to start a fight with you, but I have to say it. We get it. You know John Mayer. Let's move on.
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
I'm not allowed to wear the shirt of the fucking band? Hey, look who I'm friends with.
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
Why can't I say that? No, no, you know what, dude? I think what you're doing... It doesn't sit right. Let me say that again.
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
He goes, I didn't like cocaine. I just liked the way it smelled.
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
And I'm trying to like get his number, right? But I don't want to directly, you know what I mean? So I start like angling, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, you know, so Jawbreaker started when you started. You know, I'm trying to get into like, you know what I mean? But I can never get it to a place where I can get his number.
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
I go, Billy, check it out, dude. I love your shit, dude. That's not good?
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
No. Yeah, yeah. Okay, go ahead. Billy, Billy, what's up, man?
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
I've been slowing down. Look at me today. I was all over the fucking show.
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
They don't have dentists. We should do a test.
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
Or there's like a buzzing. How do they say Charlie Horse? What do you call it? Charlie Horse.
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
My Mexican friend is dumb, but he's got no Julio Iglesias. I don't know.
Bad Friends
Ancient Korean Wise Tales w/ Howie Mandel
What? That's not true. That's not true. Hold on. That's not true.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
There's a lot of room. And I showed you when we were walking through. I bought go-karts. And I was just here about this eight years ago. It's in my 60s. I bought go-karts and I have a big empty warehouse and I'm just driving around alone in the warehouse and listening to TikTok like an idiot. And then I find a band on TikTok that I like. I say, want to come in the warehouse?
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
And they come in the warehouse. And then I see a guy who put Tupac at...
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
at coachella on on instagram and i dm'd him and i said can i see your new product and i went and saw it and i went this is great i'm going to invest in this company because i want to be part of it and you want to expand i have a i have a warehouse so come to my warehouse so now this is the head office for proto holograms which is blowing up all over the world and then i you know other people there's just so many there's a gaming i like gaming yeah esports here there's
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
I was so interested in you because I love, I believe just being entrepreneurial is, as a good friend of mine told me, do you know who Robert Greenberg is? Yes. Robert Greenberg is a good friend of mine.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
art people who do art yeah where and in any given day today's a kind of a slow day but any given day you walk around and i don't know what's happening because these are mostly just friends or like-minded people who either are part of my team or they're just, I'm part of their team and they do their own.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
You know, I'll walk in, the other day I walked into that room and there was Ice Cube shooting something. I don't know what they were shooting.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
I walk around and I get inspired and somebody says, you want to do this? And I'll sit down, they're playing like Call of Duty and it's live and it's streaming and I'll sit down and play or talk to their team. And then all of a sudden I've, you know, the key now The key now for success across all businesses is one word, and it comes from social media, and that's engagement.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
If you can engage, it's not only seeing you, but if you can engage somebody where they wanna interact with you, They want to buy what you're talking about. They want to be like you. They see you. But you need those... We live in such a fractured society because of social media. Everybody's got their own algorithm and they're really... their feed is so different than your feed.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
Right. And that's why I'm sitting and talking to you. I'm hoping that somebody who wants to pay a lot, like a hair product brand, will come to me because why would they? But if I engage with you, there's a good chance I could be the next...
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
Originally, these people put Tupac at, you know what I'm talking about, at Coachella. That technology, that company, the technology is Pepper's Ghost. Have you ever heard of that? Pepper's Ghost is kind of easy. Everybody knows it.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
i'm sorry i'm contractually i have to hold up a sketchers but he owns sketchers he said it's a sport you know it is it is and and making money and trying to be successful like that is is a fun game that even if i am not in the shape you're in i could play the game yeah and sometimes score a goal
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
If you go to Disneyland or Disney World and you go into the haunted house, you've been to the haunted house, so you have to create, you have to light a whole space or not light a whole space, make it dark, and then project something on an opaque surface
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
screen like a piece of glass so that and then what happens is if you light the area behind that you see all the people at the dinner table and then all the people that you can kind of see through or if it's tupac and you can't see through it he's in front and snoop was in back right yeah That is the most cumbersome kind of setup in lighting.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
David Nussbaum, who was sitting right there, was smart enough to say, well, people are intrigued by this, but we can't spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours every time somebody wants to see a hologram. How can we send a person in real time, or an image at least, in real time outside from another place, other than a projector.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
And he built from this dream in his living room, he built this proto box. And it is this box and there's real depth in it. It's not just a screen. It's about how it is lit. It is about how it is built. And he built a software company where you could stand anywhere in the world with the lowest technical footprint that you can imagine. There isn't anybody watching this right now that can't do this.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
They can stand in their kitchen with their iPhone and that image will be projected onto the hardware that he has created in a three-dimensional image in real time with no latency. It is like FaceTime or Zoom on steroids.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
You are there. I'm telling you, you haven't used it yet. You've just been on it. I'm telling you as somebody who uses it, and I'm telling you as a germaphobe, the reason what intrigued me was the fact that in the middle of the pandemic, I was doing all these Zoom shows. And then I saw this and I said, well, this is not Zoom. And it looks better. Like you're saying, it looks...
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
But being on that until you use it, I'm talking about using it, until you stand in front of it and your return could be just a laptop or whatever to see what the box is seeing. I'm in the room. I don't feel like I'm on the phone. And maybe it's because I'm standing there freely. I'm here. Whereas FaceTime, I gotta stand like this. Or Zoom, you set it up and you're adjusting it.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
The fact that I'm standing here, like I'm sitting here with you, I can put a stool in front of it and you project my full body. And I could look in the thing and I'm looking, I'm going, Rudy, I'm right here. And I've done this in front of live audiences of thousands. And they scream. And you saw during March Madness, they used it. ESPN uses it.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
And on game day, they bring in athletes from their homes. The arena went crazy like they're there. We've done a festival, a 20,000 seat country festival where every artist showed up themselves. One artist, for whatever reason, couldn't make it and decided to beam in on our proto. they got like 10 million or 100 million clicks on that.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
People were more fascinated and enjoyed that because he was taking suggestions from the audience. Because it's not just, you're not watching a video.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
But beyond that, companies have come in and said, well, you know what I think I could do with this? I can, and our app is agnostic, right? So you can use our app and build your own platform on it. So jewelry companies have come in and scanned their jewelry, their jewelry's on it.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
And then they, you know, it's got Bluetooth so you can operate whatever you're seeing on the screen from your mobile device. and move it and order it and buy it and communicate with it. Medicine is using it where doctors are now have the ability to see and communicate and help people in rural areas where you can't get the top doctor.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
Not everybody can go to the Mayo Clinic, but the Mayo Clinic could go to everybody.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
My dream and the reason I invested in it, and this is where I believe it's going to go, it's going to be ubiquitous. I believe that Proto is going to be like Kleenex. And Kleenex, you know the term because you came from London? Kleenex is tissue. But people call it a Kleenex. So the point is, I'll Proto you at four. Yeah, you know, I believe that or I just went to shopping today.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
I just brought out. You should see the stuff I got. Yeah, I love that. You know, and people are finding ways to interact and ways. And the beauty of it is the the amount of creativity that people are putting into inside and outside of it, whether the box is going and it's wrapped by a company, the Coca-Cola, and now Coca-Cola presents whatever they're seeing.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
And you will see them now, maybe now that we've talked about it. They're in airports. They're in schools. They're in hospitals. They're in all the Christie's. There isn't a business that is not using it now. It's in stadiums. It's in the O2. It's all over the world. We're in 39 different countries now. 39, wow. You know, and the traditionally I think Proto is more of a software company.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
And I am fascinated now that this is their head office and this is the I share that this space with them this every week, every week. The the leaps and bounds of what they are doing in the world of A.I. and connectivity and engagement is what makes this company. I think everybody is going to have it in their house and you're not going to have to be rich.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
Right now, you could have it in your house for like six grand. Yeah, yeah. Which is which is not everybody's going to spend six grand now. But I believe that there'll be a time within the next few years for a few hundred dollars for less than your iPhone.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
Just being successful. And I think just being successful in whatever it is that you pursue, I think, and I said this to somebody before, if I could tie up whatever I believe it takes to be successful in one word, that one word is yes. And I think we have too many no's. And no is spelled N-O, which is the first two letters of the word nothing. Nothing comes from no. Yes, even if yes
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
But the amount from getting to where this started in David's living room to being able to put it in your house for $6,000 has not been that long. No. So being able to put it in your house for a few hundred dollars, and that could be your form of entertainment. That is going to be your form of communication. Family connection.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
Instead of a phone call, I'd rather you stand in front of me and talk to me.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
People ask that, and I'm sorry that I don't have an answer for that because I don't think I'll be remembered. I don't think anybody... Well, maybe I'll be remembered because my hologram will be living forever on Proto. But the truth of the matter is I am a father and a grandfather. And I believe... I'm fascinated by the fact that people... in my business who chase fame.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
You know, you chase, you know, people recognizing. Sure, sure. I don't really chase that. I love what I do. I love comedy. I like it. For me, it's like an art. Yeah. You know, I love comedy. I love business. It's also an art and a sport. And I'm fascinated and blessed by the fact that somebody wants to come up and spend any time with me because there's so much out there.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
There's so many people out there. But the biggest stars of the world, the biggest stars, it is so fleeting and so fast. I mean, maybe your viewers and listeners right now, like the Beatles don't mean anything to my grandkids.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
So as big as you could possibly get. And there was nothing bigger than the Beatles at that time. And they're... forgotten. Most people can't name every president. They were the president of the biggest power in the world. They can't name every president. So to be remembered is kind of shallow. But here's what the legacy that I leave is to try to be a good human being
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
a charitable human being, a respectful human being. And hopefully from doing that, my kids learn to be that and their kids learn to be that. So my legacy is to leave other human beings here who maybe were changed a little bit toward the good because of who I am and how I am. And that's all it is. And while I'm here, I'm going to have fun. And no matter how much
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
We make, you know, as Sharon Osbourne once said to me, she goes, who's the richest person in the graveyard? We're all on equal ground. We start the same. We'll end the same. Let's just all play.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
I don't know that they say it anymore because I don't really listen to radio. I don't know that anybody does, but there used to be Wednesday was considered hump day.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
Well, hump day, the connotation is you're halfway over this dredging hump to get to the weekend because you hate every day And then you're gonna get to the weekend where you're not even gonna do anything exciting. You're just not gonna have to do the things that you find crappy. And I'm telling you as somebody that's 70 years old, this goes fast.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
Every day, every moment that you waste, this is all you have. All you have is now. That's why I don't say set a goal, because you don't know if tomorrow is even going to come. You don't know what tomorrow brings. You don't even know if yesterday is exactly the way. If two people spend the day together, they'll have two different stories. So that's not even real.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
That's just pretend or your perception of how yesterday went. The only thing that's real is now. And if you can make the most of now, if you could say yes and live in the now, I promise you, I promise you, you can interpret that as success.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
lead you into a failure, that's a piece of education. That's an experience. That's a path that you won't travel down again. But no gets you nothing. So I've said yes to everything I am not doing or existing in a place that I ever dreamed I would be.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
know even geographically yeah yeah yeah you know me too yeah yeah so and i think it's just as human beings and i think everybody has the capability i believe that as a human being instinct is king yeah the problem with what we do is instinctually we know what we're drawn toward and then intellectually we think about it and if you think about it
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
There is so many reasons why not to go with your instinct. And most people are where they are in life because they overthought. And I don't think there's anybody alive your age or my age that doesn't have a shoulda, coulda, woulda. And if you could minimize your shoulda, coulda, wouldas, I think you'd be further ahead.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
How he continues to play big behind the scenes. Whatever I believe it takes to be successful in one word, that one word is yes. I think we have too many no's and no is spelled N-O, which is the first two letters of the word nothing. the key now for success across all businesses is one word and it comes from social media and that's
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
I'm not goal-oriented. I don't believe in a goal. To me, in my mind, to me, if you set a goal, there's your goal. And this is just semantics. But then you're aware that you're not there. And you're spending your time and your effort. That makes it more negative. Everything that I've ever achieved in life, and where I am now isn't where I planned to be.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
And I don't know that you planned to be this. So what you do instinctually in the moment, you know, you go, I feel like putting my left foot in front of my right. I'm going to do that. I'm going to put my right foot in front of my left. I'm going to do that. I'm going to put my left foot in front of that. And then you end up here. Now, I wasn't standing here going, I want to be here.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
I was enjoying putting my left foot. By the same token, I got dared in the mid 70s. I'm not an athlete. I'm not good at sports. I don't drink. I don't play cards. I don't gamble. In the mid 70s, disco was big. I'm not part of the disco era. In my hometown of Toronto, Canada, they opened up a comedy club and I just went to the comedy club to watch the show.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
The guy, the people that I was sitting with or the guy that was the host of the show was Yuck Yuck's comedy.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
uh club mark breslin said at midnight if anybody wants to try this yep well you get five minutes at midnight and somebody at my table went you should go up i went okay and i don't think of ramifications and what was the i'm not a comedian so what do i have to lose yep and i thought it would be funny if somebody went ladies and gentlemen howie mandel and it
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
They went, ladies and gentlemen, how I met. And then I had nothing, nothing. And nothing but terror of all these strange people just staring at me. And they were staring at me and I didn't know what to do. And I have a rubber glove because I carry rubber gloves because I have OCD and I didn't want touching. I put it over my head and I blew it up and it popped off.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
And that became, you're too young to know, but that bought me my first house. They said, come back tomorrow night and do it, come back. And I just took...
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
incoming calls yeah my intellect told me that this is not a living this is not but i wanted to get married i've been married for 45 years i have three kids three grandchildren i was already with my girlfriend i was engaged i wanted to be able to support her so my favorite game growing up was monopoly yeah mine too so wow we have so much in common you know did you ever play chess
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
i i do i i i do but it's so strategy yeah and then but and and you don't i always say to people you know i don't have a ged you know the g yeah yeah you live in america i don't have a i didn't go to i got thrown out of high school later on i in my 40s i got diagnosed but i have severe adhd every time somebody gave me a job in this business and even to this day
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
I truly don't think this is going to get me someplace or it's going to get me my next job. So I've always been of the mind. to make whatever I get work for me. I read a book years ago. Do you know Rich Dad, Poor Dad? I do, Robert, yeah. I love that. Yeah, it's great. Now, I don't know that it's the best book, but it is the best theory. It's great.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
And every dollar that comes your way, think of that dollar as an employee. A lot of people take that money and they go, what can I buy? I take that money and go, what can I make? My wife got mad at me when I made my first, $10,000 when we were here. I bought a term deposit, a CD, a term deposit at 12%. And I had $600 left in the bank. And we were watching, I landed a series called Saint Elsewhere.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
That's where Denzel Washington and me came out of the same, that's where we both started on television. I had a black and white TV. I wouldn't spend any money on anything. I didn't buy anything. I was so cheap, but it wasn't cheap. I just thought like, if I'm out here, I don't know anybody out here. People are giving me jobs pretending, you know, I'm going to pretend like I have money.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
And they gave me good money. But the first $10,000 I had, I bought a term deposit for like a five-year term deposit that was paying 14% at the time. You know, it was the end of the 70s, the beginning of the 80s. And I was guaranteed that I was going to make $1,400 a year.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
and that was exciting to me that i didn't even have to work but that's way different to most people because when they have especially quick success like athletes entertainment they go out and buy a new bmw right or something so so they buy a debt yes they buy something they gotta they gotta keep digging themselves i never want to dig myself out of anything so everything that i do in life everything i've always done
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
so that if I can't show up, I'm still in the black. I know you like to be in the red, but I don't know if you're familiar with accounting, but red is not the best representation of somebody who wants to make it. I agree.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
But still, I would imagine, I don't know you that well, you say spending a decent amount of income. Yeah. If you go by percentages. Very small percent.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
So the average person. Yeah. overspends a percentage of what they are making yeah i think if you have the mindset of this is not all for the giving yeah you know it's funny because i i teach that too i said for the last uh eight years i paid myself the same salary even though my business has grown 10 times bigger
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
You know, there's an old saying, you can't make money without money. But it's not without... You could do it without spending money. You can do it... A dollar is the best employee you will ever have. And with... We talk about even where we're sitting right now. There are people here who are in my space who are not only my partners, but they're my tenants.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
And so there is a source of income just to have this, even this studio like this could be considered a large overhead. Not if it's being paid for when I'm not talking into this, somebody else is talking into this and they're paying to be here.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
Well, I would imagine whatever you can earn in there.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
Well, here's here's what first of all, success is is just a word. What is success for me? Success is being excited about what you're gonna do today. I became successful April 19th, 1977, when somebody dared me to get up on stage. As soon as I found that, it's the first time I had any acceptance. It's the first time I was excited about getting on stage again.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
I still, to this day, will drop in on the, even when I'm not touring, and I'm always touring, if you go to HowieMandel.com, I'll drop in at the comedy store, the Laugh Factory, the Ice House, just to get stage time. I love doing it, not for the money.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
And I even say when people fly me to concerts and they want to pay me a lot, they're paying for me to leave this fun place, to walk away from my family, to stay in a hotel room, stage time's free. So the idea, the chasing, the entrepreneurial, being an entrepreneur was...
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
the need to be able to sustain myself and give me the time and the place where I can just, I can go tonight to the comedy store, even without getting paid, or two, three times a week and do that. I don't have to take three jobs and not have time to do what I want. I understood that this existed because even in show, Show is one syllable. Business is two. Business is the bigger word.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
Everything is a business. Absolutely. And everything is basically real estate. Yeah, it really is. So even you're doing this podcast, you're creating a property where You're not making money now talking to me. The way you'll make money is we've probably had one or two ads already that people have seen. Is this on YouTube right now?
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
So what I'm saying is I realized that, you know, I was a carpet salesman when I got thrown out of school. I'm colorblind, but I realized I'm still a carpet salesman. I'm just selling. I'm just creating a brand. We all are a brand. And that's the only way to expand. is being a brand.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
And the more people that know your brand, the more access you have, or the more, I don't think there's anybody alive that doesn't have an opportunity. I think doors open for everybody every day. I just think they don't step through them.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
They don't. They're not going to, you know, it's ridiculous. And I would imagine, including what you're doing, what I'm doing is ridiculous. I was engaged to be married. I, you know, I had a job in Toronto in retail to take my fiance 3000 miles away. For me, this is a culture shock. Like for you, it's a very different world to a place where I don't have any connections, don't know anybody.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
and think that I'm going to support myself, put food in my stomach, and hers, and eventually our children's, by putting a rubber glove on my head is, can I swear? Is fucking ridiculous. It's ridiculous. But I didn't think about that. If I really think about it, I probably wouldn't have done it.
Living The Red Life
TV Star Howie Mandel on Success & Showbiz
And by the same token, at this age, at this stage of my life, I'm 70 this year, why would I buy a warehouse? Why? Why? But this is the most fun. And when I bought it, it's not like I didn't even have a plan. I just thought I just wanted some space. It might be part of my ADHD, but I don't think of ramifications. I don't think of the downside. It never hits my head. But I thought I could have fun.
The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1023: Ben Wittes: Sorry, We Still Have Due Process
I can't tell you how often I hear, oh, I'm a little OCD. I like things neat. That's not OCD. I'm Howie Mandel, and I know this because I have OCD. Actual OCD causes relentless unwanted thoughts. What if I did something terrible and forgot? What if I'm a bad person? Why am I thinking this terrible thing? It makes you question absolutely everything and you'll do anything to feel better.
The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1023: Ben Wittes: Sorry, We Still Have Due Process
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The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1023: Ben Wittes: Sorry, We Still Have Due Process
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The Jordan Harbinger Show
1153: Drew Carey | The Price Is Right, But These Stories Are Priceless
Wow.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1153: Drew Carey | The Price Is Right, But These Stories Are Priceless
Yeah.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1153: Drew Carey | The Price Is Right, But These Stories Are Priceless
Yeah.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1153: Drew Carey | The Price Is Right, But These Stories Are Priceless
So what happened was we were doing, not unlike we're doing now, we were doing an interview and he says, thank you. And we'll probably go to a commercial and thank you, Howie. And I got up and I started walking to the door and I thought he was like wrapping it up and going to commercial. And then I just said to somebody really quietly, can you grab the door?
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1153: Drew Carey | The Price Is Right, But These Stories Are Priceless
And he's going, what are you afraid of the door? And then he goes, just open the door. And I go, I can't open the door. He goes, just open the door. And then what happened is I started getting a panic attack and I started breathing heavy and I just turned to him and thinking that he had already thrown the commercial because he was just talking to me. Howard, please, this is really serious.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1153: Drew Carey | The Price Is Right, But These Stories Are Priceless
I go to therapy for this. I have something called obsessive compulsive disorder. I'm about to pass out. If you don't open the door for me now, you'll be calling 911 and taking me to the hospital. This whole thing was on national radio. I thought, oh, my God. That was probably the darkest space I've ever been.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1153: Drew Carey | The Price Is Right, But These Stories Are Priceless
And I'm walking through the lobby toward the door out into the steaming streets of Manhattan. I might as well just continue walking and walk right into traffic. And I stopped just outside the door. you know, millions of people are on the street, but I felt very alone. And some guy came into my periphery and said to me, are you Howie Mandel? And I, you know, I just nodded affirmatively.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1153: Drew Carey | The Price Is Right, But These Stories Are Priceless
And he said, just heard you on Stern in my heart, dropped him in my stomach. And right before I could take off in the traffic, he said two words, which means something very different today, but they changed my life. And he went, me too.