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Florida is bracing for Hurricane In Joe

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Biden speaks to the dead and we'll

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tell you why ice cream tra are

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evil. Plus our guests tonight is the very

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successful owner of the Dallas Mavericks and he's

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one of the stars of Shark Tank. Mark Cuban is joining

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us on the show. Everyone. That's

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gonna be a ton of funds. So let's do this. Let's

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go straight into today's headlines. Okay,

1:20

before we get into the big stories, let's catch up

1:23

on a few other things going on in the world, starting

1:26

with Lizzo, who made

1:28

history last night at a concert in Washington,

1:31

d C. When she played a two

1:33

hundred year old crystal flute

1:36

that once belonged to President James

1:39

Madison. Yeah, that's

1:41

a really cool way to bring attention to American history

1:44

because now students will know that James

1:46

Madison was that guy who did

1:48

a collab with Lizzo in

1:52

education News And Indiana teenager

1:54

just learned that he was the only

1:57

student in the world this

1:59

year to get a perfect score

2:02

on the ap calculus exam.

2:04

Yeah, very impressive. What's

2:09

even crazier is that the kids sitting next to

2:11

him had the second best score in the world.

2:14

What are the chances? Think

2:17

about it, though, the only person in the world

2:19

with a perfect score? Do you do you have any idea what the odds

2:22

of that are? I don't. The kid

2:24

does, I don't. That's how smart he was, I don't know. Oh

2:26

and from the world of fine dining,

2:29

McDonald's has launched a

2:31

limited edition series of Happy

2:33

Meals for adults.

2:37

Yeah, yeah, and look, I

2:39

know there are adults who are nostalgic for happy

2:41

meals. But it's not the cheap

2:43

plastic toys you cherish.

2:46

Is that memory of your dad picking me up from school

2:48

and then surprising you with a trip to Mickey

2:51

D's getting that happy meal in a colorful box,

2:53

you know, explaining it to you that it's not your fault,

2:55

and both he and your mother still love you

2:57

even though they need to be a part now. Man, those

2:59

two ways were so cool. I

3:02

remember those days all right. But let's move on to

3:04

some of the biggest stories of the day. Starts with

3:06

the monster hurricane that's shutting Florida

3:08

down. Breaking news. Hurricane

3:11

Ian has now officially made

3:13

landfall as a Category

3:15

four storm, one of, if not

3:18

the most powerful storm

3:20

ever to make landfall on the western

3:23

coast of Florida. Truly

3:25

an historic and potentially catastrophic

3:28

day for much of this

3:30

state. Ian's impact here is it moves

3:32

inland, will be a catastrophic surge of up

3:35

to eighteen feet, destructive wind gus

3:37

they're going way over a hundred miles an hour, and flooding

3:39

rain which could be up to two ft because of

3:41

the slow movement of the storm. This thing is

3:44

the real deal, Uh, it is. It is a major,

3:46

major storm. Yeah, people, as we

3:48

speak, Hurricane in is slamming

3:50

into Florida, and I honestly

3:53

hope that everyone in the Sunshine State is staying safe,

3:55

you know, and I mean, like, like rest of

3:57

America safe. Yeah,

4:00

you're not like Florida safe, you know, like

4:03

where someone wears like a long sleeve shirt to wrestle

4:05

a gator. I'm being safe, No, not that, just

4:07

be safe safe, because I mean, I

4:09

know you guys are brave, but this hurricane. I mean you heard

4:12

Governor to Sanctus, he said, this

4:14

thing is the real deal, not

4:16

like the usual stuff I tell you to be scared of,

4:18

like drag queens are critical race theory. I'm talking

4:20

real like I might find myself

4:23

to Martha's vineyard because

4:26

you understand, you understand the storm is way

4:29

worse than usual, right, A hundred and fifty five mile

4:31

and our winds, violent waves and a storm

4:33

surge of up to eighteen feet

4:35

high eighteen feet you understand most pools

4:38

aren't even eighteen feet deep, right, it's

4:40

like eight feet of water and then maybe like another two

4:42

to four piss that's it. But

4:45

hurricane in this ship is wild. And

4:48

by the way, why are we still naming natural

4:51

disasters? Like what why do we do this? It's

4:54

a weird thing we do hurricane here, Fiona,

4:57

Like, we don't do that with personal disasters.

5:00

You know, there's no doctor

5:02

who's ever been like I have some bad news.

5:06

Jeremy has spread to your brain. Just

5:09

a cute little name I came up with so you would remember

5:11

it. But let's

5:13

move on to some political news. After a shaky

5:15

start to his presidency, Joe Biden has

5:17

recently gotten some of his groove back. He's

5:19

signing legislation, he's re establishing

5:22

America's status in Europe, and

5:24

he's the new brand ambassador for aviators.

5:28

In fact, many people actually saying that Biden

5:30

might have a really good shot at winning a second

5:33

term in office. All he needs to do,

5:35

though, is avoid doing stuff like

5:37

this. An awkward moment

5:39

for President Biden today at a White House conference.

5:42

While calling out people in the audience, he accidentally

5:44

included Indiana Congresswoman Jackie

5:46

will Orski, who was killed in a car crash

5:49

over the summer. And I want to thank all of you here

5:51

for including bipartisan electrificians

5:53

like Representative Governor, Senator

5:56

Braun, Senator Booker, Representative

5:59

Jackie. You here, where's Jackie? I

6:01

don't think she school to

6:04

help make this a reality? No,

6:09

no, ju, what are you doing? Ah?

6:13

That's so awkward. A man

6:16

and his explanations didn't help, you know, It's like, of course I

6:18

knew Jackie was Now I was looking for Jackie

6:20

Kennedy. Where's Jackiekennedy? Where is where are you

6:22

Jackie? Where's Jackie here? Look?

6:25

I mean, I guess on the upside, at least he noticed

6:27

that she wasn't there. This is a good thing. Yeah,

6:30

it could have been much worth if he was like, where's JACKIEO

6:32

that she is? That's jack Everyone look at Jackie. People

6:34

like, there's no jack She's that. Everybody's Jackie.

6:38

And look, I know a lot of people are saying that this is another example

6:40

of Biden's brain being foggy, But I

6:43

think, if anything, this

6:45

makes Biden a better president.

6:47

Yeah. Think of how hard he must be working

6:49

right now to keep Americans safe, knowing

6:52

that Osama bin Laden is still out there somewhere.

6:55

Where's it? Where's the jack where's it? Where's

6:57

he? If

6:59

I let's talk about air travel.

7:02

The lumber of people flying is nearly back

7:04

to pre pandemic levels, And if you're one of

7:06

those people about to take a flight for the first time in

7:09

a few years, here's a reminder that

7:11

you might experience some weird ship

7:13

up in the air. A new video

7:15

is showing the moment that left passengers on board

7:17

in American Airlines flight very confused.

7:20

They were on their way to Dallas from l a X

7:22

when strange noises started coming from the plane's

7:24

public announcement system. Take a listen.

7:36

The video has since gone viral and has gotten

7:38

the attention of American Airlines. Some

7:40

people have floated around the idea that the p

7:42

A system was hacked. The company says

7:44

the cause was a lot less sinister, blaming it

7:46

on a malfunctioning system.

7:53

Hell no, what

7:57

the hell was that? You hear them on the air. I

8:01

don't even know how to describe those sounds because

8:03

it sounds like Chewbacca getting a hand job or something.

8:05

What was that? And

8:08

how is this guy so calm? He's just like, yeah,

8:10

you hear those? You know. If I'm on a plane

8:13

that starts making sounds

8:15

like like like that, I'm getting a parachute. I'm getting

8:17

a parachute and a few extra pretzels

8:19

and I'm opening the emergency exit. I'm gone. A

8:22

lot of people who were speculating that the p A system was

8:25

hacked by a prankster, but the official

8:27

explanation from American Airlines is that the

8:29

sounds were caused by quote a mechanical

8:31

issue with the p A amplifier, which

8:34

raises the volume of the p A system when the engines

8:36

are running, which somehow

8:38

is less comforting like

8:41

a hacker. I understand, No, I get it, a hacker. But

8:43

but you're telling me that the plane is always

8:45

making sounds like Frankenstein

8:48

is getting a prostrate exam. But we're only hearing

8:50

it now because of a mechanical issue.

8:52

That's not reassuring information to

8:59

me. The best case scenario is

9:02

if the pilot accidentally left the p A system

9:04

on in the cockpits and all the sounds

9:06

that the peoplehood were coming from him.

9:13

All right, everybody, we're on on the island.

9:15

Now, let me just check

9:17

some of my air crypto investments. Oh

9:24

that sucked, everybody. I kind of get my

9:26

spirits back up. You know what, I'm gonna watch

9:28

that new video from the try guys. Let's

9:31

see that

9:34

sucked. Oh wait wait wait, what are

9:36

this giant rent doing it here? What

9:44

more? No one can know? That

9:48

would have been better? All right, that's it for the headlines. Before

9:53

we go to a break, Let's

9:55

catch up on the traffic without very own what would

9:58

junior. Everybody

10:04

caught on manok Man. A lot of traffic, you know,

10:06

people evacuating over there in Florida. We hope

10:08

that they stay safe, get the supplies you need. It could

10:10

be a long time in the car, you know.

10:12

But the thing I always wondered about evacuations

10:15

where where is where? Where? Where are they going? Just

10:19

the one car? It's always just one person going

10:22

to the danger because

10:24

it's it's really only two reasons

10:26

to go into a storm. That's money

10:28

and sex. Those are the only two reasons

10:32

you and you don't never had disaster sex like

10:35

doing a natural disaster. You ain't never has Man,

10:38

what y'all they doing in South Africa? You know, bro,

10:41

I've had sex in the tornado. I've had sex in

10:43

the wildfire, an earthquake.

10:46

Wait, wait, you have sex in an earthquake.

10:49

We were having sex in an earthquake. Happen. It's

10:51

not like the earthquakes starting there. I was

10:54

a quick, cool move. We gotta do it like that's not you

10:57

wait with the cool thing. The cool ning by having sex and earthquake

10:59

is that you get all the credit from making a bad rock. And that's

11:02

the dope car about

11:04

being in an earthquake. This thing, this this thing is Florida

11:06

is getting really bad. I heard that the waffle

11:08

house is shutting down, and waffle house is apparently

11:11

notorious for staying open. It shows you

11:13

how bad this this situation is. That's one

11:15

metric. But I don't think the whole waffle house of a waff

11:17

house open, cause I don't think that's the most accurate measure

11:19

of how bad a storm is. You want to know how bad

11:22

a storm is where you are, just ask yourself one

11:24

question. Can I get cocaine

11:26

right now? The

11:29

last person to evacuate in a

11:31

storm is the drug dealers. You

11:35

don't understand. The drug dealer has too much inventory

11:37

at risk. They got to be there and make sure hold the money,

11:39

stay safe, and make sure all the dope stay. You can't get

11:41

your cocaine wet it turning the stucko. That's terrible.

11:45

Get the drug dealer is what we look out for. I'm telling

11:47

you, if a storm is hit it your way and you can't get

11:49

cocaine, it's too late. Okay,

11:52

okay, right, thank you. What's What's what's

11:55

happening in the traffic? Nothing?

11:57

Nothing real quick but McDonald's. Oh

11:59

Yeah, the dolts have a doult happy meal. Like

12:01

I get what McDonald's is trying to do. People of

12:03

stress, and you know, you want people to smile,

12:06

so they try and give them a little, a little little, a little, a

12:08

little bit of happiness. But adults need more

12:10

than foods. Need food and a toy. That's the kids.

12:12

Kids are stupid, but the grown people. You

12:15

got to give grown people more than that. You can't just

12:17

give them foods. You gotta give them an experience.

12:19

You really want to make adults happy. This is what McDonald's

12:21

needs to do. The first thing that they got to get a liquor license.

12:24

They gotta get the games, the ball pit, ski

12:26

ball pizza. Get somebody like in a

12:28

mounsel a little bit one of the rap suits. Get them

12:30

to stand out front and play with everybody. That's

12:33

that's that sounds like check and cheese. No,

12:36

No, I'm talking I'm talking about something different. This is what I'm

12:38

talking about. What I'm talking about. It's like, you get

12:40

all of that stuff and then also McDonald's could

12:42

add card games, live entertainment,

12:45

a smoking section, gambling. Maybe

12:47

it's some dice no windows. You wanted to do you

12:49

want people to focus on the happiness

12:51

that's going on right there with the money

12:53

and the food. So

12:56

you're pitching a casino. No,

12:59

I'm not pitching a casino. I'm not pictured that. You

13:01

know what, man? It was a pater and you always

13:04

have there. Every time

13:06

I rolls an idea, all

13:08

you do is give me pushback, bro, instead of supporting

13:10

me. Instead of support me, I thought you're a black man.

13:12

I'm a black man. You're supposed to be helping brothers,

13:15

uplift brothers, like like like the time I

13:17

pitched you the box that heat the food up real

13:19

fast. You start talking about a little but there's a microwave.

13:23

It's not a mic awave. It's different. The food going

13:25

through the top, not the front. That's

13:28

a totally different de fight. And I would

13:30

think that you, my friend who I've

13:32

been rocking with on this show for seven years, will

13:34

go Roy. That's a good idea. Here's half

13:36

a million dollars to invest into your product,

13:38

and I would love to be a partner in your business.

13:41

What I can't to give you half a million dollar, I want to

13:43

lose half a million dollars. You'll

13:45

not hold this, mean baby, You're

13:47

not gonna lose the money. You're

13:49

sto gonna lose the money. Dog, I'm telling

13:52

you, man, this is gonna be a good place

13:54

to stop saying casino because that's not what it is.

13:56

It's a different type of spot. I'm talking

13:58

about for the make adults happy, don't happy

14:00

building. Okay, So like can

14:03

can I can I buy like chips

14:06

with my money? That's

14:08

a good idea. That's

14:11

a casino. Now casino different,

14:14

you know what. Just give us the traffic. I don't put

14:16

you you

14:18

want you try to Google, pull up, pull up to the Google

14:21

map. That's something on your phone. I'm

14:24

straight, man, store

14:28

casino run? Would you and everybody? Right?

14:30

When we come back, we're gonna talk about the conspiracy

14:32

theories that they do want you

14:34

to know about. Don't go away, Its

14:58

welcome back, So the Danish All.

15:01

If you've spent any time online at all,

15:03

you know that there are conspiracy theories

15:06

about everything. The CIA

15:08

killed Tupac, Paul

15:10

rod is immortal, the

15:13

moon landing faked us. But

15:16

those are just the obvious ones, which is why we have a

15:19

special segment that reveals the conspiracies

15:21

you never even knew existed. Conspiracies

15:25

They're everywhere or are they nowhere?

15:28

Or is that exactly what they want

15:30

you to think? So that's

15:32

where my wallet is. Well for every day

15:36

there's a meet. I'm Kevin

15:38

Matthew Kelp. Follow me as I pull

15:41

back the curtain to find the truth behind

15:44

the curtain. This is

15:46

project conspiracy. Everywhere

15:51

we go, vehicles are spying on US

15:53

cop cards, unmarked fans, roller

15:56

coasters. But what if I were to tell you there

15:58

was another kind of vehicle monitoring

16:00

Americans right underneath our noses

16:03

or should I say our mouths. I'm

16:05

talking about ice cream trucks.

16:10

The classic All American ice cream

16:13

truck seems like just an innocent

16:15

way to get a tasty treat until

16:17

you do some digging. Meet

16:20

Harry Burt, inventor of the ice

16:22

cream truck. He

16:24

patented his creation with you guessed

16:27

it, the US government

16:29

a k a. The people monitoring us so closely

16:32

they even know my social security So

16:35

why did Burt team up with Big Brother? I'll

16:38

tell you why. Because of the massive amount

16:40

of intel these spies, cream

16:42

trucks can gather in plain sight for

16:45

traffic patterns, snacking habits.

16:48

A third thing I'll figure out later. All

16:50

they needed was the perfect cover the

16:54

ice cream Brainford.

16:59

Oh, it's

17:03

time to figure out what exactly

17:06

these trucks are up to. One

17:10

chocolate a Claire bar or

17:12

did you already know that? No?

17:15

Actually make it too. I'm really hungry and I'm getting

17:18

ready to a steak out. Not

17:20

for you, though, And

17:26

now, okay,

17:30

I hope you got what you were looking for, Mr ice

17:33

cream man. This

17:37

is don't don't. My

17:39

interaction with the ice cream Gestapo

17:42

seemed normal, all too normal.

17:45

So I kept watching for hours, fighting

17:47

the temptation to get more ice cream, and

17:49

only succumbing all of the time.

17:52

Why couldn't I resist this truck?

17:55

That's when I realized they're most dangerous

17:57

with me. Uh

18:02

uh uh. The

18:07

song. It's

18:10

the song Hey did

18:13

you spine on kids? You pervert? No? I

18:15

mean kind of. But it

18:19

was never just the ice cream. The truck

18:21

Sirens song was its secret weapon the whole

18:23

time, and I'm going to prove it. Oh,

18:35

I don't have any I was just proving a theory

18:37

and it works, so thank you. Run

18:44

Run music

18:51

has long been a psychological tool for

18:53

deep state forces like the c i A,

18:55

the Radical Left, and Chili's convincing

18:58

ordinary citizens to con fast, to

19:00

vote, and to eat against their

19:03

own self interest. It's

19:06

kids math. These

19:09

kids are tough. But if I'm

19:11

ever going to get the real scoop on this

19:13

musical conspiracy, I need to go

19:15

inside the belly of the

19:18

beast. Let's go. So

19:22

this is where everything happens. So this is the

19:24

ice cream truck. Okay, man, I'm ready for the job

19:26

interview. So you

19:28

know we don't make you dress like that anymore? Right?

19:31

So where do you turn on? The mind control song?

19:33

Excuse me? The ice cream totally normal?

19:35

The jingle? Hm? So

19:39

you're some sort of undercover conspiracy

19:42

reporter. How do you know that? Who do you

19:44

work for? You put it on your

19:46

resume. That's that's

19:48

a typo, the

19:51

whole job description. Yeah,

19:58

I've been made aboard aboard, I've been Ain't

20:00

aboard aboard aboard?

20:03

Got come on? So do

20:06

you not want the job? Clearly,

20:11

whatever deep state agency is behind

20:14

these trucks will stop at nothing to stop

20:16

me from stopping them. But don't

20:18

worry, resistance is possible

20:22

thanks to these noise canceling headphones.

20:25

The only thing I'll be hooked on is

20:27

the sweet taste of Freedom, Russian

20:43

peace caval Art. Stay tuned because when we come back,

20:45

Mark Cubans will the journey right here on the show all

20:47

the way. Talking

21:06

about the show, my guest, there's

21:09

an a trip in there, who owns the Dallas

21:11

Mavericks and recently started Cost

21:13

Plus Drug Company, which makes low

21:15

cost versions of generic prescription drugs.

21:18

He's here to talk about the new season of his EMI

21:20

winning hit series Shock Tank, which

21:23

as Friday nights on ABC. Please

21:25

welcome Mark Human, Mark

21:38

hum what's up to? Lot's going

21:40

on? And welcome to the Danny Show. Thanks for having good to

21:43

have you here in person. First thing I want to know, because I see

21:45

the clips all the time, everyone watches the show all over the world.

21:47

How many people come up to you and just pitch you

21:49

things in real life? Like all the time. It

21:51

must be your life now. Everywhere in room,

21:54

sitting in urinal, you name it, I get pitched everywhere.

21:56

What's the best pitch you've got at a urinal? Do you remember

21:58

it? Turn around? Congratulations

22:04

season fourteen of the y I don't have to know when you

22:06

started this did you think it was gonna be as big as it is? Is

22:08

this a business that you saw coming. Oh, they

22:10

asked me to come on as a guest in the second season and

22:12

it would bounce around like when Desperate Housewatch,

22:15

remember that when it wasn't on, we take

22:17

its place and not that this thing is dead. So I'm just gonna

22:19

go on there raise hell next thing. You know that we're

22:21

in season fourteen. Season fourteen. It's

22:23

successful. It's it's it's fun. People

22:26

love the show. It's syndicated around the world.

22:28

How does you know what you think makes it so successful?

22:31

Why do we all love watching people come

22:33

on and then try and pitch you an idea

22:35

that you either trash or invest in

22:37

or completely try and take over. Because everybody wants

22:39

to be that person who can just have an idea

22:42

in their garage, in their bedroom. You

22:44

know, we all get it, right, You get that feeling in your stomach

22:46

and you're all fired up. You check it with your friends. But

22:48

these are people who made it in front of us, and

22:51

if we say yes, they go from being just a

22:53

business to be that guy that

22:55

business and that that's why anybody can be

22:57

that person. You. I feel like you were that

22:59

person I was you know, you know I've

23:01

read about you and there were parts in your

23:04

life where you thought you were going to retire at thirty five,

23:06

and yet here you are, many decades later.

23:09

You look like you love No, that's not a

23:11

this is there's many decades. Thank

23:13

you a lot. Come on, this is

23:15

true. You you're living, but it feels

23:17

like you assholes.

23:20

Don't listen to them. These people are assholes. What I'm

23:22

saying is you're you're having a great time

23:25

and it feels like you haven't lost that drive,

23:27

like what makes you get out of bed

23:29

every single day If it's not the money. I'm competitive.

23:32

I like to kick ass. When you started business and you're

23:34

in my business, I'm gonna you up

23:39

serious real, I mean I love to

23:41

compete. Right. That explains a lot. That explains. That explains

23:43

like the Dallas Mavericks. You're talking to someone

23:45

who works on the show, and he said an interesting thing he

23:47

said. He said, Mark Cuban seems

23:50

to me like one of the only super fans

23:52

who took over a team. Because some people buy teams because

23:54

they have the money to buy a team. You seem

23:57

like you you bought a team because you love

23:59

the team. You of the sport. Everyone says

24:01

the team changed because of you. Many people have credited

24:03

you in the NBA of being part of changing

24:05

the culture, of trying to make it so that even the people

24:08

who work behind the scenes are happy and are

24:10

enjoying themselves. Like why did you decide

24:13

that you could have just gone in for a team, but you put

24:15

basketball, Like, I'll get out there and I'll shoot with the guys.

24:18

I mean, just think about it. You love played basketball.

24:20

I get to walk into my own arena

24:22

get up shots. You know. The best part

24:25

is, you know, game when he shot, the crowd's going

24:27

nuts. Everybody's pile driving, jumping on the

24:29

guy. I get the jump on him too, and I don't

24:31

I don't get arrested, right anybody else? You all

24:34

run there, I'll arrest your ass. I run out

24:36

there. I'll have fun. The NBA

24:38

has been has been, you know, an interesting period

24:40

where you know, for a long time politics, I

24:42

mean it's everything NBA and NFL, and then you

24:45

know, the NBA was seen as this place where you

24:47

know, players were speaking their mind. It was really aware

24:49

organization. Adam Silver gets a lot of credit, for instance,

24:51

many of the owners do as well. Recently, though,

24:54

there's been a scandal that has rocked the Phoenix Suns.

24:56

And you know, everyone's been talking about how to deal

24:58

with an owner where he's been accused of everything

25:01

from racism to inappropriate messages

25:03

at work. And I think the fine came down at

25:05

ten million dollars in a year. Some have

25:07

said it isn't enough. Some have said it's it's just enough.

25:10

What do you make of that? And more than the fine, because

25:12

I mean that's not your job, But what do

25:14

you think the position

25:17

of an owner in a team needs to be in

25:20

terms of how it's outward facing? Like why

25:22

is it important to be a certain way as the owner? You know?

25:24

Rather than talking about that situation specific, I can

25:26

tell you what I think. Right. I may be responsible

25:29

for writing the checks for the Dallas Mavericks, but

25:32

all of North Texas really owns the Dallas

25:34

Mavericks. It's the only business where

25:37

I get emails from people saying, my

25:40

son has cancer. You know, can

25:42

you bring some players out? Can we will you visit?

25:45

You know, my son just died or my daughter just died.

25:47

Can we bury him in a Luca doncheous Jergey?

25:49

You know, there's there's no other industry, you

25:52

know, and when you win, when Google has

25:54

a great quarter. Nobody in their city,

25:56

you know, Mountain wherever it is, celebrates when

25:58

your team wins a chance opionship, the whole

26:01

city goes, not to the cities on fire,

26:03

right. It's just such a different industry,

26:05

and with that comes a responsibility you

26:07

have to have. You have to, you know, lead,

26:10

You have to be able to set examples for diversity

26:12

and inclusion and show people

26:14

that you know, this is the real world

26:17

and we can change it and we can be part of it and making

26:19

better. And you know, I think that's the responsibility

26:21

that comes with on in a sports teams. It's probably why you've

26:23

been so successful. It really is you

26:26

Also, you know you're

26:28

also behind. I remember

26:30

reading this, and you know, we live

26:32

in a world where billionaires tweet all kinds of crazy

26:35

things all the time. I won't mention names, but billion

26:38

theres will treat whatever, and then they'll say, I'll change

26:40

the world, I'll do this. I remember seeing a

26:42

tweet of yours where you're basically talking about

26:44

up ending the drug industry and lowering

26:47

prescription drug prices, and I was like, here

26:49

we go again, hopes up and nothing's gonna happen,

26:52

but you actually doing it. We're the real deal. Yeah.

26:54

We started a company called cost plus Drugs dot Com.

26:56

And if you take any medication at all, just go there,

26:59

put in the name of it. And what we do that's different

27:02

every other drug manufacturer. I mean, no one trusts

27:04

the drug industry, right, And so what

27:06

we said was, you know, sunlight is the

27:08

best disinfected. So if you go and

27:10

you put in the drug and if we carry it um

27:12

it will show you not only what we sell it for, it will

27:15

show you your cost and actual

27:17

actual costs. But we really pay for it. We

27:19

mark it up. That's it. We

27:22

have a three dollar pharmacy fee and five dollars

27:24

for shipping. That's it. And so

27:26

you know exactly what we paid and so

27:28

you can trust it. And that's the first time in the pharmacy

27:31

industry where when you're buying a medication

27:33

you can trust that you're paying a fair price. So you're making

27:36

money. Not yet, yeah,

27:38

but we will. We will business will make it will make

27:40

money. So then so then help me understand this thing. Somebody

27:42

who isn't a billionaire, how is it's How is

27:44

it that you've decided to get into a business way you won't

27:46

make money now you will make money in the future and

27:49

you're still able to provide people with the drugs, and

27:51

it seems like it's a win win favor. Then why don't

27:53

other drug companies just do this? Why? What? That's

27:55

what's happened is all when someone like me, a start

27:57

or anybody have started a company like this and they're cut

28:00

the cost of medications, what happens is

28:02

someone buys them, right, one of the big companies buys

28:04

them out and puts them away by the company

28:06

buys that company, so that takes them off the market.

28:09

I can't be bought right, I don't need that. You

28:11

can't. I don't. My next dollar is not going to change

28:13

my life. But if I get a chance to the pharmaceutical

28:15

industry, I

28:19

mean the drugs Like I

28:21

just had a friend literally two days

28:23

ago, a guy that I knew in college, Landing Turner,

28:26

is taking this drug, Derek, I don't even know what

28:28

help was pronounced. It's like Mark, it cost me three thousand

28:30

dollars a month. I can't afford it, can you help?

28:32

And it was literally it's a generic. So I had our

28:35

guys go into a nut five minutes ago

28:37

while I was waiting in the green room. He came back Landing

28:39

was paying three thousand dollars a month. It's not going

28:41

to cost some sixty three dollars a month. Oh

28:45

wait, wait I was wrong with wait wait wait, no, I

28:47

was wrong sixty three dollars for three months

28:51

three months. So okay,

28:54

that's how crazy this industry is. But so

28:56

I get that you can't be bored, but surely

28:59

people on out happy with what you're doing, Like it doesn't

29:02

seem like you are. It's weird business.

29:04

It's weird. So people like Martin Screley is trying to cut you up

29:06

with people like Martin Screley became famous for

29:08

coming in buying a drug that people need to

29:10

survive and then hiking it up. I don't know how many

29:13

thousands percents of whatever it was, but it

29:15

feels like you're gonna make a lot of enemies doing this. And

29:17

as you say, your competitive, so you don't really care. But is

29:20

there is there no way they can on the cut you? I

29:22

mean, there's ways, right, but there it

29:25

ain't gonna happen, right, So what the way it works?

29:27

Now, there's there's three big companies that are insurance

29:30

companies that only these things called pharmacy

29:32

benefit managers who are responsible for really

29:34

distorting the prices. And then they also owned

29:36

the big retail pharmacies, all the big names you've

29:38

heard of, and so they're able to control

29:41

all the pricing elements. We work

29:43

outside of that. So right now we're mail orders.

29:45

So if you go to cost plus Drugs dot Com, like Landing

29:47

will be able to buy his drug um for all

29:49

that less money, and then we'll ship it to we'll

29:51

mail it to him. Soon we'll be able to do it at local

29:53

independent pharmacies. But because we work outside

29:56

of that system, they can't stop us. And

29:58

the cooler part about it is we all look

30:01

at manufacturers of insulin and other drugs

30:03

and say they're the cause of the problem. They're

30:05

really not. It's these big three companies

30:07

that are distorting their prices and the

30:09

manufacturers don't have any other way to sell

30:12

it. So now we can sell it for them.

30:14

And so you know, we're not there

30:16

on instantly yet, but we're working on it. We're

30:18

not there on some of the big brand names, but we're

30:20

close, and so you know, we literally

30:23

literally, Trevor, I mean five years from

30:25

now, we can look back and say you come

30:28

up and that would

30:30

be like a dream up. That's my goal. Yeah,

30:35

I think. I think one of the reasons you're you're so popular

30:38

and interesting is because you have a different view

30:40

on how to be successful in what success

30:42

means. You know, Um, those who are familiar

30:45

with your stories will know that when you when you sold your first

30:47

company, you made a lot of money, but you

30:49

also made many of your employees millionaires.

30:52

And they weren't like stockholding the options that you

30:54

just said, all right, everybody, but I made money. We all make

30:56

money. And then you did it again with your next company that was

30:58

like a big sale, and you do it again. And you've

31:01

had this attitude that seems counter

31:03

to what many Americans think these

31:05

days, where they say if I get rich, I get rich. Scrowl

31:07

of you, and everyone who's been in your

31:10

past, everyone who's gone along with you can

31:12

go, oh, yeah, I worked with Mark Cuban, and you can

31:14

see that we made money. In

31:17

this instance. Let's say you are successful.

31:19

This company could go on to become, you know, very

31:21

rich. It could make a lot of money. How

31:24

do we know and and I'm assuming

31:26

you that kind of person, but how do we know that at some point

31:29

you won't raise those drug prices when everyone

31:31

is on cost plus, Like, can you make a promise to

31:33

the people, Can you say this is what we're gonna Cuban

31:37

problem. It's not. Seriously, that's the whole

31:39

goal, that's the mission. I'm not because I get

31:41

asked that all the time. He's just you know, low prices

31:43

now, yes, shack him up later. If

31:46

anything, we've been lowering prices. If you follow

31:48

us a cost plus drugs on Twitter, I

31:51

take pride in every couple of weeks we're

31:53

cutting prices. We're not We're not increasing

31:55

prices. I mean, in this day and

31:57

age, and you talk about this all the time, it's just insane.

32:00

Somebody has to choose between rent,

32:02

food and medication. And

32:05

you know, people think capitalism is just about how

32:07

much money can I make. It's not. Capitalism

32:10

is me being able to start a business and

32:12

choose the outcomes that I want. No

32:15

one else can tell me what my mission is. No one else can

32:17

tell me what my goal is. No one else can tell me what's

32:19

important to me. I get to make that choice

32:21

for some people. Look, if I'm twenty five years old,

32:24

it's making as much money as I can right.

32:26

But now, like I've been saying,

32:29

if you get a chance to turn around an industry

32:31

where people now don't have to make those choices,

32:34

that's the best reward of all time. I

32:39

ask you to bust. I'll thank you. I'm gonna

32:41

hold you to your word. If you want to find you, I'm

32:43

using you to find her exactly where you are on datis talk

32:46

to you and everybody. We're gonna take a cook place after

32:49

this. Thank you again for I

32:51

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