Howie Mandel
speaker
241 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2023
last heard May 2025
Howie Mandel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Well, I would imagine whatever you can earn in there.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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?
This is not the job.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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