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Richard Rawlings’ Road to Success + Tim Hardaway on Why Kids Today Are Softer
24 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
In this episode, Gas Monkey Garages, Richard Rawlings is going to join us also, NBA great Tim Hardaway, and we'll do that right after this. Hey, it's Adam Carolla from the Adam Carolla Show. Football season is heating up. Thanksgiving weekend is coming up with the NBA and college basketball seasons. They're off to a running start.
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From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Corolla Show. Adam's guest today, from Gas Monkey Garage, Richard Rawlings, and NBA great Tim Hardaway. And now, this weekend in Texas, he had a belly full of barbecue and an ass full of Mike August. Adam Corolla. Adam Corolla. Richard Rollins. Good to see you, my friend.
Gas Monkey Garage, Gas Monkey Energy Drinks, and we'll get to all the stuff. Fast and Loud, I think, is where a lot of people know you from initially. At least that's where I caught you. But the story is pretty interesting. So if you're just listening, we're at the garage right now, your facility. I've seen the cars. I've seen the stuff you're working on. You're doing the fabrication.
You're doing all the work in-house, right? Absolutely. We do everything in-house here except for technically interior, but we do it here. I just have to bring in the interior guy. We got all the equipment, but we don't have a full-time interior dude. And you're a car guy for sure, but I feel like you're sort of an entrepreneur at heart. Absolutely. That's the fair, who has a passion for cars.
I found a way to take what I was really into and, you know, make some money doing it. Yeah, I think that's the goal, you know. I used to do, well, you were a fireman, right? I was. I was a police officer and firefighter before I was old enough to drink. Really? So I was carrying a badge and a gun. I couldn't order a beer. Really? Well, how did that... How'd that work out?
Well, I got shot in 92, got over that, stayed on the force until around 95, 96. Well, okay, so when did you go into the academy? Like at 18 and a half, 19, right before I turned 19. Out here in Texas.
Out here in Texas, and then I was applying, I got my police certification, and I was applying to be a police officer in a town here called Coppell, and I was working part-time as a police officer at another location, and They were taking applications for firemen also. I'd never even thought about it. But back then, we didn't have all these computers and download.
So it was a big old stack of carbon copy papers and copies of everything. And so I just duplicated it and chunked it in there too. And next thing you know, I got one of those spots was in the fire cabin. So you're, it's funny, I tried to be a fireman too, probably about the same time, but I'm in LA, California, and they weren't hiring white dudes.
They basically just said, you want to be a fireman, you're not going to be a fireman because we're only hiring non-white dudes. It was sort of like that here. Well, how'd you get in then as a white dude? I don't know. I don't even know how I was considered strong enough to even do it. I probably weighed 120 pounds. So you're a cop and a fireman at the same time? Yeah.
So it seemed like, now what does your dad do? Well, my dad all growing up was like, most of his jobs were a produce manager at like grocery stores and stuff. I like to say that I'm as white trash as it gets because my birth certificate says Piggly Wiggly. Really? Yeah. So you guys out there, you know what a Piggly Wiggly is? Yeah. Like an old grocery store.
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Chapter 3: What was Richard Rawlings' journey before Gas Monkey Garage?
And they my dad, my stepmom taught me at that time, I think I found my first taxes at 12, the 1040 easy. What? Yeah. So they made me fill it out the kitchen tape. So that's kind of interesting, your dad, because my dad didn't make any money. But he also didn't preach about work ethic and this kind of stuff. You know, somehow, your dad,
was a good inspiration for work and hard work and sort of holding down more than one job at once and stuff like that. But he worked in a pretty pedestrian. Absolutely. My dad was very uneducated. I don't think he got out of maybe eighth grade. And so he wasn't
book smart but he was street smart and he he wanted to instill in me hard work and and saving and and uh and then his love for cars and motorcycles so as hard as he worked as little as we had he always had a toy in the garage you know whether it was a it wasn't the best one it wasn't the nicest one and it wasn't like a show car or a show motorcycle but he was proud of it and he'd clean it and wax it and i'd sit there and learn from him
And so you become, you get out of high school, you don't go to college, you become a cop, and you become a fireman at the same time. So now you're a cop and a fireman. Are you able to work both jobs simultaneously? I was, it's called dual certification. So sometimes you're at work at the fire department, sometimes you're working at the police department.
And towards the majority of the end of my career, I was only fireman, but I was carrying a police badge. I was still certified. And so how is it that you got yourself shot? Man, I got carjacked at a freaking, I almost said the name. I'm not supposed to. But I got carjacked at a very famous hamburger stand. When you were a cop? Yeah, but I was off duty. Right.
Because I was so young, I thought it was stupid for me to carry my gun. I carried my badge. But if I went out partying, trying to pick up some chicks and stuff like that, I think I was 22. I just was like, no sense in carrying a gun. That's dumb. Did they require that you carry your gun as an off-duty officer? No. No. Okay, so you get carjacked. at 22.
But you don't have to get shot just because you get carjacked. Dude, these guys, it was kind of a setup. Long story short, I pulled around to the window. It was 2 in the morning. Me and my buddy went to these bars. He got lucky. Went home with some chick. I'm by myself. I'm like, I got to have a hamburger. You know, it's 2 in the morning. Drive through and I heard her take the $20 bill.
But when she shut the window, I heard it lock. click. And that just caused me to look in the rear view mirror and they were already coming up on me. And I went right down where I keep my gun. And it wasn't there. So I just slung it into gear and they just started firing. Really? I got hit. You put it in drive and took off. First gear. First gear. This is a real car. Three pedals.
What were you driving? 65 Mustang 2 plus 2 fastback. 65 Two plus two. He's got to fold down here, see. Oh, okay. I was trying to think what the two plus two was in 65, four speed. Yep. And you... 289, I guess. Would be. And you just take off. I just took off. And they just start firing into the car. Yeah. Which is kind of crazy for... It was, but bad neighborhood.
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Chapter 4: How did Richard Rawlings transition from firefighting to entrepreneurship?
Now, you think they just wanted your money? I can't imagine that they wanted the car. I mean, I don't think people get rolled for a 65 Mustang back in the 90s. Right, right. It wasn't worth anything. And one of the bullets strikes you? Yeah. Came through like up here on my shoulder and through my arm because my arm was on the steering wheel and out down here. Oh, I can see it. See the scar. Yeah.
And what do you do? You drive yourself to a hospital or something?
no no the uh i was close to the house so i drove to the house and uh wake up my roommate tell him i've been shot and uh he grabs his guns i grab my guns we're gonna go out looking for my tie knot you know something around it t-shirt i don't even remember and we get back in the car and go looking for him and we didn't find anybody obviously we get back to the house and the house is surrounded
with cops and they got the big lights on it and they're yelling at everybody to come out of the house and I walk up there like you got to get out of here and I was like well, that's my house, they're like someone's been shot, I was like it's me know and they're like who's in there and I was like nobody and I was like who called the cops and Mark was like he was very many times because when you said he got shot a call the cops and then he said let's go I just hung up on him so.
Never find the guys now. Is that a turning point for you or you not really it didn't bother me at all. I mean it got healed up and you know and went back to work a big deal. And so you continue to do the dual top fireman thing if you have a few more years. Yeah, it was just I had an entrepreneurial bug and it was one of the first times I ever saw my dad actually cry is when I quit.
He thought I'd throw my life away because I didn't have a plan I didn't have like something else I was going to do I just like that if I stay here.
i'm gonna be sitting here in 20 years with a little pension and nothing else to show for it you know and like some of the you know i was pretty young in the fire department and the the older guys in there like richard you don't understand because you're too young you made it to be a fireman so you just need to shut up get a fat wife and a bass boat easy chair right right i was like that's not exactly what i see my life as i'm going to figure out something
Yeah, I had the same aversion of that doing construction because construction guys, well, also a lot of firemen do construction, do carpentry, side jobs because of the schedule. And they also know how a home is built. So they end up just gravitating to that world, you know. So I knew a lot of firemen, carpenter guys.
And I hung out with the same guys and it was like, go down to the lake, get a jet ski, you know, get a boat, you know, it was always get some rims for your dually and that sort of stuff. And I watched it because I worked with guys that were older than me. And I was like, I don't think this is a big picture way to go, you know?
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Chapter 5: What challenges did Richard Rawlings face in business?
You won't make it. You'll lose. Your business will fail. They finally started doing it. Now we're in Costco's, Walmart's, and every C-stores out there. How'd you get hooked up with the Kelsey brothers?
Chapter 6: How did Richard Rawlings get involved with the Kelsey brothers?
I didn't. The company was foreign, but they came to me. And I got involved. And then I guess they went to the Kelsey brothers. And the Kelsey's own a much larger stake in the company than I do, but I do own part of it. And I still haven't met them. But they're doing real well with the brand. You know, it's going good. I'm pretty excited about it. It's growing fast.
You have a sort of what's next thought? I mean, I know it's cars. It's really cool stuff. Six-wheel Testarossa and whatnot. But is there something you got like sort of a holy grail out there? Is there something you want to do? You want to drive at Sebring or something? You want to... drive it 24 hours at Daytona. It's their thing. When it comes to the racing, I can't do it.
I don't have the patience to sit and wait and to get my time on the track or to sit around while I'm waiting to switch drivers or especially I was in drag racing for a long time as a team owner. Um, and I didn't even like being there to wait, you know, so I'm really antsy. So I don't think I could ever be the driver guy. Uh, but, uh, you know, building those kinds of teams.
I like, I like being a part of, uh, I'm bringing my tequila back. Uh, we were doing real well, uh, prior to COVID, but part of my exit from, uh,
Chapter 7: What future plans does Richard have for his business ventures?
We'll call it Hollywood as a whole. I had to shut some divisions down and get rid of some partnerships. And so now we own everything outright. So I'm bringing back tequila and I'm bringing back Gas Monkey Energy. And those are that and opening more restaurants and bars. We've located three more locations. I've got the one big one here in Dallas, Gas Monkey Ice House.
And then I've got Gas Monkey Sturgis up in Sturgis, South Dakota. And next we'll be going to Pasadena, Odessa, and Galveston.
Chapter 8: How does Tim Hardaway view the differences in kids' upbringing today?
Pasadena, Texas, I'm guessing. You wouldn't dare try to do anything in California, would you? If I never have to go to California again in my life, I'm super happy with that. I feel the same way, except for I'm going back in a few days. But I still feel the same way. Do you know the tax advantages of living in Texas? Oh, my goodness. It hurts.
All right, Richard, I think we should give you a plug and then go check out that six-wheel. Plug away. Gas Monkey Energy Drinks, right? YouTube, Gas Monkey. Well, not yet. Gas Monkey Garage is where you should just go on YouTube and check it out. GasMonkeyGarage.com and Gas Monkey Garage on YouTube is where they need to be. I left Discovery.
Six years ago, and we have tours coming here with 200, 300 people on Mondays and Fridays, and they don't know that I'm on YouTube because Discovery is still making so much money on the show. They're playing it worldwide. It's still the number one automotive motorcycle lifestyle show in the world. Wow. And it's been six years since I made a new episode.
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