on larry king a skateboarding champ turned the world wide business mogul it's rob dyrdek it's what skateboarding is its allies down right and it's a very expressive sport too and that that independence and expressiveness pulled me away from team sports so entrepreneurship is taking over your life oh yeah i look more missiles as a as a creator plus you with sweep done with troops apprenticeship they try to get me down there so you really do the sleeve you'll be a lot but i'm too busy running an empire over here for you to leave it right you would fire trump. all next on larry king now no. problem no larry king now rob dyrdek professional skateboarder turned on debra do

a producer actor t.v. star he created street league skateboarding and international competitors skateboarding series he's known for his an m.t.v. t.v. shows robin big rob dyrdek fantasy factory and ridiculousness ridiculousness if i can say it airs thursdays at ten pm on m.t.v. well rob dyrdek fantasy factory is in its final season that airs thursdays at all of them also on m.t.v. what was going to skateboarding in a while when did you become this industry you know i think even when i was very first became a vessel skateboarder i used to always say i got to treat it like a business you know it's my career and this is a way before even the idea of understanding that you can be a personal brand and i just think that sort of spirit i was what i like to call raised by entrepreneur or walls for my influences other early age where all of the closest people around me started companies so it sort of grew up in ohio and then

so be all successful. no they weren't bad so it's it's in some of them i use as examples of not what what not to be but it was from starting skateboard companies the clothing companies to to retail stores to restaurants to clubs like this inner circle i had was very entrepreneurial so it instilled in me in a very young age that that's just what i was meant to do and i love him big was the big thing for you right now what was robin big you know initially sort of as a professional skateboarder your career is walked by these video parts and we had a huge one for d.c. shoes and i just knew that my skateboarding wouldn't be that good so i wrote this idea of a skit where we go everywhere and skateboard and get kicked out and by security guards phil now i'm going to bring my own security guard to deal with security guards and i would go to

a place they'd come to kick me out they'd have to talk to my six foot six home instead of talking to me yeah and it kind of blew up in skateboarding in then and he just remain from jackass and ruben fleischer had approached us about doing a television show and i was i gonna have time for something like that and then we ultimately developed that and then that's really when i began to understand it and learn what media was and how to create it now your current show rob did that fantasy factory is very similar robin big right then and that's in this final season what do we expect will be a hint you know it's kind of a very extended show you know doing crazy things going i'm breaking the world record for jumping a car backwards ramp to ramp and i jump in ninety feet for the series finale me in big black go on a journey of becoming but brothers where i go support him to get his prostate and it's one of the most awkward thing he's ever been involved in my life you can

imagine you know things. get really rich all funny when you're making and we don't get is but gold plated to get it all x. moved up to get ready for the presentation factor and then we got to go to a doctor and he's got to go and get dug out you know you know kid you know i said you know thank god i'm night light it's not runs in my family and i'm under forty because i'll probably die before i left and that's a good thing or my bad well someday it'll happen to iraq incest and you try to tell me larry that they have not come up with the technology they have is ideas in however if you only do the p.s.a. that's all you do and you don't do the things that as the late journal schwarzkopf discover that told me he was a general any went to the doctor and the the doctor who was a lieutenant colonel who was afraid to put his finger in the end this was called logical and was going to have prostate cancer at least they didn't discover because

they've got to do the things that some face trying to tell you that there's not an app this day and age on my cell phone i can just lean back clear in the wrong place it takes a minute that certain people rob like you and i don't want you there i am told you and a douche bag and eventually what the hell is that well here's the thing my cousin he was my assistant started a clothing company went on to make millions of dollars incredibly successful you know not one of the great stories of the fantasy factory but but now he's you know driving rules royce he got off a t's we call him a man dime you know perfect ten and he's a douche bag you know and the reality of it is we had to step in do a douche bag intervention right in was in definition would do well. it's where you're trying too hard right and you're kind of doing all these things that you think make you look cool rather than just being naturally cool that's stupid it's pointless when you have you're standing on a rolls royce shoot

a photo of yourself throwing money in the air and your head to one. and some kid from all you do if you went. you had a believe over here with the comedy central host daniel tosha what's that all about you know i think what it is more than anything is is there's from his perspective which i get it's like i took his show and copy it and give you a very good dream here is i did write it so i'm who i did copy for war in full fledge is very de-bone right like i had initially read an article about america's funniest home videos global syndication business and this was during robin wright and and so at the time when they wanted me to do a new show up as robin big because we were doing big i sold them ridiculousness because i was like man like i just got to shoot in a studio so easy to do if i get to one hundred episodes i've got a global syndication i'll get paid forever so they had initially offered mean to

do that show straight to series and in my own reality show and that's when i wrote fantasy factory so we decided not to do ridiculousness and do fancy factory since it was more of a wheel house of well what do you have to do with with toast well what happened is by the time my ship ridiculousness came out it was already after the first season of tosh came out right so what happened is then he got out of pocket and then i made the brutal mistake if we're normally i would like air it's i want to fifty things that i do but i made the mistake the and can mistake of coming out of pocket on social media just said yeah like i'll see when i see the thing right so you got to know then it turned into this like whole leg you know thing about about. this beef the tween us you know you know that doesn't hurt it doesn't get it's whatever they print things are good to me it's more bothersome out of the idea

regardless of how much i know i had done the idea way before he ever came out sold it to them it's a he still can't convey that the reality of it is my show came out after his and he created this is what it is just stop with me and we're just talking and i've been struggling with. with what. what is this just behind the scene funny photo also i mean that's why he's throwing money on his rolls royce well leopard jacket and that means that it's a joke i'm about to say something and it's from a deep deep place of love because i love you ok you know it isn't like you feel more comfortable i. i think unite kind of there for that was a clip of rob show fantasy factory he is an enormous hit in so many circles reality

t.v. does everything but let's go back to where it all began a professional skateboarder at age sixteen by the way a professional skateboarder how does a state border make money when you know back then it was very different you know you sort of you build a name in the streets you venture the term pro you're a signature board you get royalties you start to get sponsors endorsements and nowadays back then you know in december of ninety one i got it sold one board signature board got it set for two dollars you know today these kids make millions of dollars in as the number one skateboarder when you started when i started out man i was it was twenty odd and christian and so i tony still around twenty pave the way you know i think he is the first true millionaire leg mainstream skateboarder that showed the world and expects the our industry the k. it's possible to elevate to the mainstream why did you choose state boarding and it's what skateboarding is it's a lifestyle right in it's

a sport that's driven by progression right it's it's it's the beauty of it is you make it your own and there's many ways to do it and it's a very expressive sport too and that that independence and expressiveness pulled me away from team sports like soccer and baseball at the time and really do mean it's dangerous though and i don't think it's any news that exists to sticks will tell you it's no more dangerous than football or baseball or basketball it just innately can be if you choose to push them and ever been badly hurt i haven't been and i've done a lot of dangerous stuff you know really and i don't the totals of the twists and i mean of the grind of the twenty's their hand ribbon and you know i'm taking it to the next step of doing crazy carstens and get attacked by sharks and tigers and and all kinds of crazy and i think you weird i think i'm unique in i think there's a reason the good zones. i think there's no doubt and i live a very unique path and have created quite a world that that i could have never imagined you know you know dream does exist

what's what's the mind set of a skateboarder. you know i think when it when it comes to understanding tackling fear in relentless problem solving and it's a reality of learning tricks you have to try it over and over and over and over and it keeps just in every a little aspect of your body to ultimately get it to work and then when you get it to work it's like this incredible at all my god i can't believe i learned this and that progression drives you even further you know what is street league skateboarding what i basically did was was funny organized the world of professional skateboarding you know where the x. games in the do tour and all these things are aren't really representative of a league or you know a lead standings and so i basically own the n.b.a. or the major league baseball skateboarding and i mean it seems it's more like golf or tennis friend were out in the mountains it's individuals i've signed the twenty best guys in the world exclusively to miley and where's the competition held we

hold them in arenas throughout the world last year we did a global. tour with with e.s.p.n. and they key is our title sponsor and you have judges right so i created a unique judging system in a new scoring format that basically makes it easy for anyone to follow and it it it it's a format much like what happened with poker when they finally started showing the hole cards it became easy to understand and learn or how they when they organize the u.f.c. in the weight classes and stuff like that that's what i've done for skateboarding to allow it to elevate into a sports entertainment property are you i know are a skateboarder who is an entrepreneur or are you an entrepreneur who skateboards i'm an entrepreneur who's gay porn and so on too but no ship has taken over your life oh yeah i mean it's it's on every last level and i look more myself as a creator you know. you never skateboarded again you'd be fine oh yeah on and on and abel and i couldn't stop skating ten years ago and then find you know and you

know i don't even them even sort of the business that i created before i ever got into t.v. or any of that i was always alone so what do you love i love to create and whether that's a television show whether that's a brand whether that's a lever that's a cartoon you know you'd understand i have a cartoon coming out on nickelodeon of. in february as well second season the wild ground is the skate gang a well grounded as well ground as the gang i was in as a little kid in. you know on top a launching out of this season the street league and while holding a role thirty nine married and not you you're not cut for marriage only because you're too i don't know you know you're outside of the world i'll tell you this man you have to someone like me i'm in the as i get older i'm understanding scale ability and processes and limits right and in order to be able to do what i want to do at an efficient level i have to have a ton of really highly skilled people that are under really sound processes that i

can oversee and i think i have to adapt that to life where if you do in fact want to get married at some point you've got to look ahead to where you can slow down because you know working at this pace and doing this much it wouldn't be the most ideal thing for when did you move here i quit high school at sixteen and moved to california to become fashion skateboarder quit high school is such a bright guy why would you quit and you know at the time i don't remember the story my mom says i sat down with the principal the counselor and all the and them and convince them that i didn't need to go to school anymore and they all bought and let me leave after the break be amazing rob will give us his keys to entrepreneurial success don't go away.

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i marinate join me on going back for india in our home and plans are for very different and much. only on going bust and only. bad with rob dyrdek he's into everything st least a boarding rob deer ducks fantasy factory ridiculousness the fantasy factors in his final season thursdays at eleven on m.t.v. he's the star of m.t.v. is you have to have fun or your ventures too is that part of this i think that just

solid business for you and me it's never it's never solid business but i just enjoy seeing stuff come alive in the process of creating and and watching young other talented people get good help to get focus to realize their potential in these money drive you when he doesn't drive me you know it's it's because you got to understand all money will ever do is is give me back more and more balance and more security to do more but it's it's there's a peacefulness and i'm sure you understand as of not necessarily needing to ever think about that aspect of your life anymore and focus on what you love to do is is a blessing you know you would sweep donald trump's apprenticeship feel they've tried to get me on their side you really do it does look it would be a lot but i'm too busy running an empire over here for not going to where you don't need it right you would fire trump. do you have an entrepreneurs

hero is there someone in the world of entrepreneurship i'll tell you what there's a lot of people i look up. i think you know one of the people that i really respect and and love is the wrens of. who owns the sea and just just how there's this layer of a transparent sea right it's like the great entrepreneurs that i love the most is like there's not there's not a bill be honest about everything and they'll tell you exactly how it is good or bad and we'll just put a stake in the ground on opinion but not drive it home and it's like that's the stuff i respect them obviously humble to me it's i think you stay humble by. not really ultimately taking any of it that seriously you know it's a you get more excited about these new opportunities and doing new things and i get excited about being healthy when i go on a twelve day run of legs you know try a new health kick in it all working aside now i have this incredible energy i just

want to share with and learn from your failures you had to have survived i have had some failures at so many levels and i think even i only really started to get it in grow up a year and a half ago when i finally brought on a c.e.o. from my company right where he really began to to help me learn to continue to grow and then start put surrounding yourself with with mentors and really smart people that have done what you're trying to do or what you may want to do so you can learn from them and that really revolutionized sort of my entire process because before i was making millions losing millions making millions by and then doing this you know i wrote produce finance films lose a couple million like lever out how this i was so driven that it didn't matter to me and i just wanted to get things done you know what did you think would be the biggest hit was your biggest failure is was this something you said this and this and it missed me and i would say when i when i long i wrote produced and fine and

starred cast this feature film about skateboarding and you know finally the first author. i spent two million dollars of my own money i was like there's ten million skateboarders in the world all i gotta get is is a few of them into the theaters on making that kind of modest story yeah one hundred percent false story or is it a little movie called street dreams what happened and then i put a bomb around money because all everyone in hollywood said not is not a market for the science fine i'm a do it myself then right so then i go out and they would only offer me a d.v.d. distribution deals i made it rated r. they're like it's rated scape of film it is raise and i was going to put this in the theaters so then i said ok i put in theaters myself so then i for walden put it in forty theaters went on this like massive marketing campaign multi-platform let's go in. i got a check i think last week for two dollars and thirty. and it's the first time i

got us single dollar towards that two million dollars and it was nice and i was a to my finance guys and this is incredible and i would it was a two large economic evidence of i mean we're finally going to release took a shot at it after like five years we did it we did really well and. i felt some big when recently you know i i grew up in when the skateboard company that i turned pro for was from dayton ohio and twenty years after they started they sold the burton snowboards and they were having a lot of trouble and i went out and bought that thing because i was like the kid from ohio twenty years later comes around and buys the company and i got slapped across the face in reality of like emotionally purchasing a company and being faced with a hornet's nest on the inside of trying to turn it around and evolve people that have been doing something for twenty years it's a it's a brutal lesson that i've learned this year that i will never face again oh many americans skateboard. according to the latest poll that i saw was six point three

so it's been as many as ten million i think it fluctuates i think that's one of the big movements from the sustainability side where i've built so many skate parks all over the world and continue to be one of my major move movements is building places for kids to skate standardizing is the number one injury brain no no no it's almost nonexistent in the entire thing it's i would say probably ten times in football that was in skateboarding really well there's some social media questions for you yams on instagram i asked when was the first time you knew skateboarding was your passion i think the moment i saw my sister's boyfriend with four bandanas on his right leg four on the left four on his right arm left on spike belt across his chest and he skateboard it was for me oh boy eleven years old. surely gravatt on facebook wants to know the jever gets stared doing attrit i have you know i've

done a lot of dangerous takes in you you got to have a lot of pressure on you in fight you've got a basically what i call you know break the fear threshold to even attempt it you know it was the best to give a saw. witnessed i went to china and watched a friend of mine danny way it was one of the great escape waters of all time jump the great wall of china that was pretty amazing tama for how to make giant ram play literally leg of ninety foot tall ramp that goes to like us eighty foot gap and he spoke of the great war times and what was his funeral like the way that guy is like superman i'm going through his story as it to be told is right when that rodney mccarthy has via twitter what's the worst prank you ever pulled on and who is it on you know and say the worst thing i ever did is i feel i've got arrested for april april fool's day to my mom and i told them when i was in junior high you

know i thought to be cute in and buy ice if she starts getting upset get me out a car so she is balling and i'm law and i get me i'm screaming to get him because he's. in my head and mom i am so sorry if you have your water ok there's a good question sam flaps on twitter how important is a good skate board i think it's really important depending on your level if you want to evolve in really become be able to do a lot of tricks and take it to a second tier i've equated to leg you can play golf with any golf clubs you go rent clubs skateboarding the same way but if you really move volved your game if you will you got to you have to disagree one cost one hundred twenty dollars and it's all you know. ken dawson via twitter was in or do you plan to have kids and will they follow in your footsteps you know that i've had this theory of like maybe all impregnate like five different girls at the same time of all different races and

have like a small armies and then a promoter pointed to shows up and one point in rob's family. maybe the final game here if you only knew him of the first girl you kissed i certainly don't remember name that and remember her it was in ohio i go our way or another i think about now i can think of i want to say i was probably in the fifth grade up on the hill behind the school just locking in a lock on him what was the worst skateboarding injury ever had. i got a bone spurn my ankle and had to have surgery on my ankle to get a remote that's it. sitting with the best skate parks city with the skate best skate parks hands down nowhere in the world even compares because we created a straight movement is the city of los angeles five years ago there was zero today there's probably thirty biggest misconception about l.a. . that everyone say can phony you know the logo it's a reality of there's fake and phony people everywhere in the world i don't they

were out to that crazy as proposed test from a fan and i'm i had a fan tattoo my i had this article in the wall street journal about someone buying my car on e-bay and she got the wall you know the wall street journal it cuts do that real nice at your face she got it at stat to donna and then asked me to sign it to get so she could tattoo my signature on it i said absolutely not like gnome want tattoos like this ridiculous than a year later a star again another autograph signing and she took the signature i did on the poster and just had it done on her body you wanted to we had people write a little weird life biggest accomplishment in i don't. i don't feel any one thing is any bigger than the other i think i think evolving in learning to. to learn that you need to constantly evolve and grow is my biggest accomplishment and settling in

is that most overrated part about being famous. at hand and on and on that there's nothing bad about governing and that's our name for the fantasy factory. i would say the the business launch or biggest regret that. and i don't necessary i got a really bad memory so i don't remember regret not my that's kind of the gift in the curse i may not remember your name but i certainly don't remember if we had a problem proudest moment i think one of the proudest moments is when i finally stood in an arena after after six years and of trying to get this lead off the ground and seen this this urban concrete plaza in the middle of the arena with ten thousand people in it was a pretty remarkable feeling when you worry about when you show up at night i am i think even for the most part not much man and i think you know it's a good will go through pockets of worry of of people that i work within and in

certain situations but there's no grand thing that that love is being worked for you at the mike or you need better inside the building is about twenty and then you know you've got to think that. you know all the companies and all the people that work for that all the partners so it's a loan what you dream car or do you already own it yeah i don't know the human dream lady's dream car was as i just built like a full waffle so i don't gotta drive anymore so i can work in between driving and we don't really mobile you drive a lincoln lawyer you drive around you can also have a full time driver and i got what i like to call the street jet right so i have life old t.v.'s and satellites and all my computers and everything set up so i can do meetings in between is i don't have to do it on the traffic for four hours i'm not pulling my hair out of my ferrari i'm going to let st jet work in that amazing man rob priest is there fishing special bands so i guess rob did that they don't

come any better his shows ridiculousness and rob did that span isn't bad three airs thursdays at ten and eleven pm on m.t.v. and don't forget to follow me on twitter at kings things a c.n.n. extra. i was a new alert innovation scripts scare me a little. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news. alexander's family cry tears of the war you and your great things out there that have had regard to the core of

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