You don't really have to be doing anything until you're 30.

Like, I know in your Dugie Hauser world,

you have to graduate with honors at 16,

otherwise there's going to be an issue.

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Go to expressvPN.com slash ben. That is E-X-P-R-E-S-V-N.com slash Ben for three months free with a one-year package again. Visit expressvvpn.com slash Ben to learn more. Well, Adam Carolla, thanks for joining me on the Sunday special. My pleasure. It is a pleasure to see the founder and creator of the pirate community. I mean, Adam Carolla, for those who don't know, created essentially the podcast medium. I mean, it was really Adam who, well, you did. I mean, there were other podcasts out there, but Adam's the guy who actually made podcasts a thing where people could support themselves and have a living doing it.

Yeah, maybe. Yeah, there were others, but yeah, I was probably the first one sort of independently to figure out a way to do without maybe a parent company like NPR or ESPN or something like that.

I want to talk about exactly how you came to do that. I want to start by talking a little bit

about your upbringing because you're a really eclectic dude. I mean, you have the podcast. You're making a documentary now with Dennis Prager about bias on college campuses. You didn't go to college. You aren't really overtly conservative. You're more just a common sense guy. Yes. So where did, where did you come from? I mean, you're now listened to by a million people per episode, right?

I was squeezed out of a bar rag.

That's where I came from.

And I grew up in North Hollywood, California, which has a word Hollywood in it, but couldn't be any further than Hollywood.

It was like from Hollywood.

Like every once in a while I'd be like,

I saw Robert Yurik in the parking lot of the Quigleys. Oh my God. You know, and like, there's like

weird things like that, but really no celebrities. I grew up food stamps and welfare and a kind of

disjointed family where we got stuff for free from my

grandparents and the in the man and I kind of quickly I got a quick lesson in how that works like

so I grew up in North Hollywood. My grandparents had a house in

North Hollywood. These are one bedroom, one bath houses, like 900 square foot houses. And the second

house they bought in the 50s for literally like $10,000, we got to live at because my mom was not doing very well

and my parents got divorced and so on and so forth.

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