🗑️👟Tales From The Landfill “Mark Cuban’s Garbage Bag Hustle as a Kid”

Recorded: May 25, 2023 Duration: 0:39:28

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While you wait, please retweet this show and tap the purple bubble. Use that to answer this trivia question. How old was Mark Cuban when he started selling garbage bags door to door? 14, 12, or 21. Great news, you're next in line. I can't believe you waited on hold this long.
You can send in your request to come up and play trivia at this time. Welcome to Tales from the Landfill. Here's your host Dave Plowton. Yo, yo, yo! What's going on, everyone?
As everybody doing, thank you so much for joining the show.
Tails from the landfill, Mark Cuban's garbage bag hustle that he had as a kid. You know, all these tails are tied to garbage in one way or another. And this one I think is pretty inspirational. So definitely going to be nice to kind of get everybody's thoughts on, you know, your side hustles at
as kids and like somebody like Mark Cuban that's a huge entrepreneur now, a billionaire and from a young age, dude just was like selling, selling, selling so it's one of those things where it's great to dissect that a little bit, dig in the garbage and
and here that story. So yeah, please request to come up. We got a couple of people requesting to come up to play some trivia to win some garbage. So that's great to see. Got Joe the coworker in here. We got Jerry. We got Swan and if T-Sounds. Shout out to these guys.
Let's get some people up here. Awesome. Thanks for dialing in. I'm done. Good. Last week of school, skip school for days. I'm chilling.
Like, yeah, it is a very chill day. I cannot wait for school to over and get it for summer break. And I'm cutting too. I was at like 200 pounds. Now I'm at like 180, lost 20 pounds already. I'm on the grind.
That's what's up, man. I thought you were cutting class for a minute. I was about to say. Like go to school, bro. Like we watch you moving every class. Even if you skip class, you get by with it. Like there's no like strict rules for it. Gotcha. Well, thanks for coming up. What's going on?
man. I'm doing that bro. I'm just chilling. You guys fucking doing this here exactly at midnight when I'm supposed to be asleep. Hey thanks for staying up man. You excited for tomorrow? Yeah that's uh yeah
you get a oo spot? No actually I didn't man like I'm I didn't get lucky with it 3d ruffle you know but yeah I'm trying to like snipe if possible like for on the same mint price or so in case people don't see volume and the stock getting scared because yeah you know
how the space is. Yeah, I mean, you gotta just dig in the garbage man. Just wait, wait and see, you know. I think no point in one eight to solid price to be fair. Yeah, for sure. Well, thanks for joining. Gonna say how to a few more people and then we'll get this trivia going here. Sure.
You guys feel free to jump in and say hey yo what is up what's up how we doing doing good man are you yeah I'm excited for tomorrow yeah you got a spot yes I do nice nice
nice, nice, congrats. I know. I'm so I was excited. I was like confused. I was like, yo, I won. No way. Like, I'll double check in everything. That's the that's the great thing to see. I mean, I'm seeing a lot of like new faces or, you know, holders that I haven't seen in a while.
people like coming through a winning so I'm always just chilling in this gorg you know I've been here since the mint I'm super happy since no picked me for a white list obviously for a while back I don't I just still believe in this team so you know hold them
Awesome, that's great to hear, man. Well, thanks for coming up. We'll get into this trivia in a minute. Lucky, what's up? Hey, Bros. It's going on. It's going good, man. It's going good. I don't feel a little slimy, so I can't complain. Yeah, tomorrow's going to be a good day. I ain't went nothing for any of that.
but I'm just happy you know for like the holders and the collection as a whole. It should be a good one. Yeah for sure. And it's you know it's not over I mean we got Garbage University. We're opening back up soon for the enrollment and it's actually going to be kicking off so I mean I think people are going to have some chances to get their garbage from spots as well.
But you know this is for an this 250 collection is is gonna be super rare as well, you know, it's not just a spot. It's the the rarity So it's it's gonna be exciting to see how that all unfolds. Yeah, let me just get Detroit up here and then we're gonna
to play the tail. So what we usually do is play the tail and then we'll talk about it a little bit and then we'll play some trivia for some of these garbage cubes. Detroit, thanks for calling in. How you doing?
You know, on the garbage transfer, you know, during the use of the whole space, I was kind of preoccupied with university stuff. So, I actually made it, but you know, I'm excited for the garbage university because that was why I was here initially. So, for still.
for them for the who's main tomorrow and the whole thing and ready to come with you know. I'm a university to come up eventually. Yeah man yeah over 20,000 students man like just nuts.
I mean, especially in this bar, it's great to see. Yeah, yeah, it's a lot. If you're considering it, 20,000 and I saw an announcement, it go up this back, okay, well, there's only like, kind of 1,250 spots left.
that is going to be for people that are not holding either the invisible friends or who is the who's feet I'm not sure, I mean I kind of saw it I think I was going through the Twitter and then I saw someone say it I'm not sure about that
Yeah, I don't want to speak on you know allocation and all that but I mean it's it's gonna be You know, it's the most sought after project. Yeah, definitely in the spare market, so A lot of people want it man. Yeah, but I'm wishing wishing you the best on that
Yeah, yeah, yeah, thanks man. I'm really I'll just straight from her base. I'll do everything I can to get in of course Hey don't don't grind, you know, yeah, everyone I know you know don't grind don't kill yourself
It's all love, you know. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, thanks. Sure thing. Thanks for coming through. All right. I'm going to pin the tail to the top here and then we're going to play it and then we're going to
talk about it a little bit and I don't know why this thing isn't lighting me. Oh, here we go. Just pin that up to the top and then we're going to get into this. We've got Joe the coworker coming up.
His famous guy got a celebrity dialing in.
Yo, I didn't respond because I knew that wasn't for me. What's going on? Yo, we got we got freaking people out here asking for garbage all this and who's friends all this stuff I'm just here to hear the tales from the landfill. I need to figure out what's going with Mark Cuban
I'm trying to get I'm trying to collect some real garbage. What kind of garbage? What kind of trash we got in those little cubes coming to us today? Oh, you got some some black garbage bags some some booze and some converse so there's all kind of stuff in there man. So it's
It's kind of slimy and a little nasty, but I'm here for it. Yeah, man. I'm excited for people to get these. You know, I hate mail in them out because I want to keep them, but awesome, awesome, man. The awesome experience with his. He actually cracked his open, which I need to
I was interested in what was going on so I thought you would be open. I was having like 30 minutes trying to open that stuff up. So like yeah it was crazy though. I love this climb though. I don't know how to create one but I got a question for you. Is it like a pair of converse?
one covers. It's like a one just one cover. Converse that we're getting in a box. In the box there's actually I believe three pairs. Three pairs? Okay, I need a third leg. So this isn't the same size cube. It's something different this time.
I don't know, it's the same size cube. I watched Ant Man the movie the other day and I got some ideas. I was able to shrink down the converse. So yeah, they're going to be shrunk down to a three inch by three inch box. Well, I want to give a early congratulation to whoever wins this from Tesla.
landfill. If you want to reach out to awesome to figure out what's the quickest strategy to break them open, just reach out to him. But usually just keep it as a drink it, as a figure, and maybe a paperweight. And enjoy it. Who knows? I think Dave starts switching up the slime. It might be radioactive this time, so be careful.
Yeah, it's getting kind of crazy. Alright, yeah, let's get into this tail and then we'll talk about it a little bit and then we have two cubes for these converse garbage cubes so we'll get into that as well and give it as way.
This is a tale about how billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban had a garbage bag side hustle at 12 years old. One day Mark's dad was playing poker and he asked his dad for a new pair of converse. His dad replied, "When you have a job, you can buy whatever you want, but until then those shoes on your feet still work."
replied that he couldn't get a job because he was 12 years old. One of the other poker players spoke up and said, "I have a job for you. I have some boxes of garbage bags and you can go sell them around the neighborhood." Mark accepted the offer and went door to door in his neighborhood selling the garbage bags. He'd get a box of 100 bags for $3.
and sell them for $6. He made $20 a week in profit until he could afford to buy a new pair of converse shoes. That experience taught Mark to be confident. He also realized that selling to people is not about convincing them to buy. It's about helping them with something they need. And every garbage collector needs garbage bag.
All right, what do you guys think? What do you think about this this tail? I think it's very inspirational because like the hustle to like go to every door to door and like over offer a box is it's a whole not a level like
For these days, internet and everything they made it so easy like sell stuff like you know, it's not like that like it used to be like our father's day and stuff like it's very hard like Mark human is to go anyways, so like it's not surprising Yeah, man in the way he's
He said he walked up to the door, he would go up to him in his neighborhood and he would just knock on the door and ask the person, "Do you use garbage bags?" Of course, everybody uses garbage bags. And I have garbage bags to sell you for cheap kind of thing.
It's like fulfilling that need so it's pretty cool. I think we had a missed opportunity for coded when toilet papers without You imagine going door to door with with freaking toilet paper people now, you know you wouldn't even make a door to door because you knock on
right knock you over the head. Yeah I just thought like you can't he couldn't work you can't get his pairs pairs of shoes right he found the way to overcome and achieve that obstacle and he found his own way of making money I just thought that was that like
If you were back then, you were his age, no one would have thought of that. You would have just waited till you're old enough, get a job. But he started way early. That's why he's how he is right now. Yeah, a lot of those kids that we grew up with that were selling candy and stuff in the classroom.
know, I'm sure most of them moved on and have some kind of business because that's just, you know, how they're wired. But, you know, going back to Joe to the, the toilet paper reminds me of the 3D invisible friends. I was like one of the best traits.
I've gotta say that whenever we say 3D. Damn it. Set it again. You know, I agree. I do love the toilet paper trade on the 3D invisible friends. God damn it.
All right, so first person put their hands up gets to play trivia. That's how we can run this. Awesome. You're accepting you won last week. You can't go first. You go last if nobody wins.
I bet, but I think we got lucky was the first one to put up. So I'm. All right, lucky we'll hit you. Yes, first see how you do. Hold on. Let me see whose request to come up real quick. Blindies coming up.
Say hey to blindy real quick Hey blindy thanks for dialing in how you doing? I'm doing great too. Yeah
Perfect perfect. Yeah. Oh, you should get some like preparation each for that your your butt's a little itchy. G's oh Blondie, I caught on you. What's up? So it took like 10 seconds for me to even like
hear anything and so then when I came into like able to hear you guys I based on your one-sided conversation I assume you were possibly talking to me. Yeah thanks for coming up. No it's a good assumption it's a rich yeah very rich assumption. Yeah probably it's
It took like it took forever. It was awkward. I was like, oh, hopefully he's not saying anything lately. But actually the toilet paper salesman is first seen in one of Marcus's original animations on his Instagram page. Ooh, a little extra trivia there. Yeah, it's like a snapple factor.
Yeah, like a snap of fact I think I have it saved somewhere. I'll try to post it Awesome Dr. Handboner what's going on? Thanks for dialing into the show. How you doing? Hey, was a good Perfect when me
Yeah, man, let's try to get you in here too. We're gonna go with Lucky first. We're gonna go with I think Irrigated and then seven eight nine or seven nine seven sorry and then handball if
for able to go that far. But we have, I believe, three or four to give away. So might be able to get off for you guys in a few if you win. So this is going to be sudden death. We're just going to do one question lucky, okay? Yes, sir. I'm ready. All right.
Who did Mark get the garbage bags from? Oh, that's Trent. That is correct. And these questions are too easy. Awesome, man, awesome. Thank you so much, brother. Oh, no, thank you for coming through.
I'm doing this old style. I'm writing down your handle and I will reach out to you after the show. Sounds good. DM's always open. All right, my send you some feedbacks as long as they're green, baby. I'll try.
Alright, who we got up next here? Who did I say?
You're getting it. So.
Get on a meat man. Oh, you're good. All right, next question is how old was Mark when you started selling garbage bags? 12?
Yeah, that is correct man. I got to make these questions harder Yeah, I'm Yeah, I don't know I don't have it to say you know Thanks
Sure thing. Damn, I almost like totally switched over to another account, probably with a rug to go space. But yeah, let me just get your handle real quick.
Perfect congrats man 797 how you doing? You ready? I got to think of a question now let me think um
You want me to help you up? No, no, I've got this. No, I'm telling tales like you want me to give me a question to ask him. Yeah, awesome. You had some good questions last time. Yeah, go ahead and ask questions. Should I go harder?
Let's do a mix. Do you like a medium one? Okay, so he how much money he sold per week and how much money he made in that week and after how much? I'm gonna leave you
How much profit did he make making a week? There you go. $20.00. Oh, God. I had it. Perfect. It cost $10.00. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good.#
Awesome. The wedding light crazy. Alright man, I'm right in down your handle right now. Congrats. Thanks a lot bro. I'm glad to come. Glad these are kind of easy questions. I mean this this tail was a little bit shorter than the Atari.
So, you know, there's only so much information for this one. But at the end of the day, I mean, we're doing this for the community and, you know, I want everybody to be able to get some boxes of slime and garbage. Dr. Dr. Howard.
Are you ready man? Perfect. I might I like this I like this met a man of letting like people kind of Ask the questions instead of me you know people that have studied up on the tail, you know like awesome Do you have another one that you want to actually? Yeah, I'm out of that
I gotta make you like get another question man. I gotta make you co-host first. Yeah, our co-host for the show. Okay, I'm the co-host. Am I the co-host? A D- An unpaid intern. Okay. I'm budget span of time. Okay.
So who am I asking this time? Dr. Hamboner. So Dr. Hamboner is a question. How many boxes did he sell for $3? I mean, our bags. How many bags he sell for $3? Box.
Bro, he's old him for $6. Was that a trick question? Yeah, how many bags? You got to give him a different one though because you got to give him like, you know, how many bags did he sell? You're asking how many bags?
How many garbage bags were in each box?
Thanks. Cool, yeah. Dr. you can answer either one of those questions. How many bags were in each box or how much did he pay for each box from his dad's friend?
Can you repeat that I can as well you're on mute You're still on mute Maybe he's rugged whoa, oh, damn he's rugged
All right, we're gonna give him a second to come back up 'cause I wanna make sure he's able to answer that. He might be going to watch the video right now. (laughing) - He's got to do his research. - Let's give him a second, see if he pops back in. Oh man, he's gone.
All right, we're going to give him like 10 seconds. We just play like some music for a second, see it becomes back in.
Yeah, we only got three more minutes to show is only supposed to be 30 minutes. So yeah, got them. Kind of close. You guys want to hear a fun fact? Yeah, what's up?
It would take more Cuban 16 weeks to save up for an ooze friend to mint one. Wow So you guys we don't we don't have to wait 16 weeks. He would have waited 16 weeks. That's kind of crazy Damn
But for your kids out there that want to go out there and sell garbage bags to a door, you know, every garbage collector needs garbage bags to be able to collect that garbage. So go out there and do that responsibly if you can. Yeah, they don't recommend door to door sales.
They tried to tell kids not to do that. They had a few disappear here and there. I think they kind of said don't do that anymore. Then you got grown as men like acting like their kids trying to sell candy door to door right? Or like on Halloween. Home invasions. All right.
Doctor has left the building. I think maybe he's doing some surgery on a hammer who knows. So next person, anybody else want to play trivia? Nobody wants a box. Okay. I could answer that for the rest of the book.
there's Detroit Detroit right okay bring it up let me see what that can do do you want do you want a fresh question or do you want yeah of course the one of the ones we had no actually you guys have been talking why I'm actually on the road I want you to get something
And so it kind of means everything you guys were talking previously. So just for me, in pretty quick, share with me, let me sort of can do. Alright, cool. It's a sudden death. So you got to answer correct. Awesome. Do you have a question? The frown new fresh one? Yeah. I don't see anything.
We are just you can actually repeat the question
Maybe a new yeah, thanks You guys want me to Oscar. Oh, yeah, go ahead. She got a fish one go ahead. What was the brand of the shoes that
I got it.
question you want to ask some more questions? It's sudden, man. Now you want to just take the box or you know like you just got to take the box and run, man. You get the second class and run, you lose your box. Okay, that's tricky. Okay, what was the benefit for you T5?
get a DCO question right? If you get the second question right we get you an ooze friend. I'm joking I'm joking. I don't even know if I have a ooze friend so I gotta worry about myself.
so first before I can help you out brother. Alright, okay, this is the, there's no benefit, I guess I'll just want to we'll make books. Yeah, man, I got your handle written down so congratulations man.
Thank you. You are welcome. Yeah. All right. Anybody? Anybody have any final words? Anything before we shut down the show? Yeah, I wanted to ask if you guys are dipping to the outside of U.S.
Oh yeah, these are gonna ship worldwide so you're good there. I'll try to cover any duties or anything like that, but you know outside of that, you know. I need hope with that. I can like give you a tip of sir.
because I play an up-to-experience with my ship. Cool. Yeah, I don't know what I'm going to put down as of the disclosure. It's like, "I'm shipping garbage now." I'm going to have to put a collectible on there somewhere. Yeah, I mean, you can
They play as gift and most countries I think it's like under 20 bucks. They were in tax. Yeah no problems. 30 bucks and I have to pay like 35 bucks extra on tax.
basically pay double the price of the item you know yeah yeah we'll figure it out man appreciate it doctor is back in the building yeah you got cell services yeah I got red my bed
Oh good, oh good. You guys give me like 30 seconds to double check to make sure we have another garbage cube and then we'll get you in here doctor, okay? No problem. Let me just make sure because
Because we have four winners, but I want to see if I have a fifth box to be able to do it. I just didn't want to be like, "Oh, Dr. Ambo, I'm just fucking left us." No, I mean, but I definitely want to give you the opportunity to play because you're in the community.
We all see you around. We all know you. You need to show a lot of support. So definitely want to give you the shot to be able to get your hands on one of these sessions. Yep. Just give me, give me like 30 seconds to check the landfill.
(upbeat music)
Doctor, we have some good news. Oh shit Awesome we have one. Oh, let's go Doctor, yeah, I like to hear yeah hit me
So how many bags did he have in one box? How many fans in one box? How many garbage bags did he have in one box? I gotta do math, hold on.
Okay, 12 I Did not know there was a count to the bags. I guess I was not listening to my bad. No, we were like seeing out loud in this video
Okay. Let's hit him with the original one. Let's see the original question we asked him. We asked him how many garbage bags were in one box. I know before
before that though, before you got rugged. I think we asked Detroit what was the brand of the shoe that Mark was selling. No, no, no, I mean the question we asked Dr. Hambon and before you got rugged, I think it was how much was the box of garbage bags? How much did Mark pay for the
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, boom. Yeah, six dollars. Got it Awesome, man awesome. All right, so we got five winners today
My Twitter handle is easy too.
And I love people like you because I hate people everyone in here if your name is different from your handle Oh You're so garbage in a good way, but yeah, it's sometimes it's hard to find people if their handle doesn't matter
match, especially if it's way off, even Twitter doesn't know how to auto-populate your name if it's totally different from your handle. But hey, thank you all so much for coming through. This has been fun. Got five people that are getting some garbage today.
So look out for a message from me and your DMs. Maybe they'll come with some feet picks as well, who knows. But I'll be reaching out to you to get your mailing addresses and then I'll hand deliver them to your house through the back door.
Nice. What I do so much for having us. Yeah, be up and we are going to take this show out. So I'll let the other co-host take us out here. I like to add
If you got the got the boxes you want to feel the ooze effect oh break it open Yeah, just don't hurt yourself. Yeah, be careful. All right, I'm a finger. Yeah, exactly Hey make sure
you go over to typical friends discord get up in there some other perks for the winners of this week and last week I'm trying to see maybe we can get you guys a discord role nothing's promised but we'll see what we can do there it won't give you any other perks besides just like bragging around
rights, but see what we can do. But yeah, everybody have a great rest of your day, great rest of your morning, great rest of your night, wherever you are in the world. Thank you for calling the tails from the landfill show hosted by Dave Plough, GM and GM. Congrats
to everyone minting a news friend tomorrow. You lucky bastards. As Joe the coworker would say, have a tubular Thursday. Shout out to all the corny co-workers out there. Wow Dave, you didn't blow at this time. GMGN.
shout out to all you later later sounds with the sounds everybody go follow NFT sounds make sure you send him all your your giveaways that you guys see on the blockchain out there you love skibbos tag him in all the
give away so you see it. I'm surprised you had come up to this one. This is pretty much a giveaway. These questions. Stay garbage my friends.