Florida Is Bracing For Hurricane Ian | Mark Cuban

Florida is bracing for Hurricane In Joe Biden speaks to the dead and we'll tell you why ice cream tra are evil. Plus our guests tonight is the very successful owner of the Dallas Mavericks and he's one of the stars of Shark Tank. Mark Cuban is joining us on the show. Everyone. That's gonna be a ton of funds.

So let's do this. Let's go straight into today's headlines. Okay, before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world, starting with Lizzo, who made history last night at a concert in Washington, d C. When she played a two hundred year old crystal flute that once belonged to President

James Madison. Yeah, that's a really cool way to bring attention to American history because now students will know that James Madison was that guy who did a collab with Lizzo in education News And Indiana teenager just learned that he was the only student in the world this year to get a perfect score on the ap calculus exam. Yeah, very impressive. What's even crazier is that the kids sitting next to him had the second best score in the world.

What are the chances? Think about it, though, the only person in the world with a perfect score? Do you do you have any idea what the odds of that are? I don't. The kid does, I don't. That's how smart he was, I don't know. Oh and from the world of fine dining, McDonald's has launched a limited edition series of Happy Meals for adults. Yeah, yeah, and look, I know there are adults who are nostalgic for happy meals.

But it's not the cheap plastic toys you cherish. Is that memory of your dad picking me up from school and then surprising you with a trip to Mickey D's getting that happy meal in a colorful box, you know, explaining it to you that it's not your fault, and both he and your mother still love you even though they need to be a part now. Man, those two ways were so cool. I remember those days all right. But let's move on to some of the biggest stories

of the day. Starts with the monster hurricane that's shutting Florida down. Breaking news. Hurricane Ian has now officially made landfall as a Category four storm, one of, if not the most powerful storm ever to make landfall on the western coast of Florida. Truly an historic and potentially catastrophic

day for much of this state. Ian's impact here is it moves inland, will be a catastrophic surge of up to eighteen feet, destructive wind gus they're going way over a hundred miles an hour, and flooding rain which could be up to two ft because of the slow movement of the storm. This thing is the real deal, Uh,

it is. It is a major, major storm. Yeah, people, as we speak, Hurricane in is slamming into Florida, and I honestly hope that everyone in the Sunshine State is staying safe, you know, and I mean, like, like rest of America safe. Yeah, you're not like Florida safe, you know, like where someone wears like a long sleeve shirt to wrestle a gator. I'm being safe, No, not that, just be safe safe, because I mean, I know you guys

are brave, but this hurricane. I mean you heard Governor to Sanctus, he said, this thing is the real deal, not like the usual stuff I tell you to be

scared of, like drag queens are critical race theory. I'm talking real like I might find myself to Martha's vineyard because you understand, you understand the storm is way worse than usual, right, A hundred and fifty five mile and our winds, violent waves and a storm surge of up to eighteen feet high eighteen feet you understand most pools aren't even eighteen feet deep, right, it's like eight feet of water and then maybe like another two to four

piss that's it. But hurricane in this ship is wild. And by the way, why are we still naming natural disasters? Like what why do we do this? It's a weird thing we do hurricane here, Fiona, Like, we don't do that with personal disasters. You know, there's no doctor who's ever been like I have some bad news. Jeremy has spread to your brain. Just a cute little name I came up with so you would remember it. But let's

move on to some political news. After a shaky start to his presidency, Joe Biden has recently gotten some of his groove back. He's signing legislation, he's re establishing America's status in Europe, and he's the new brand ambassador for aviators. In fact, many people actually saying that Biden might have a really good shot at winning a second term in office. All he needs to do, though, is avoid doing stuff like this. An awkward moment for President Biden today at

a White House conference. While calling out people in the audience, he accidentally included Indiana Congresswoman Jackie will Orski, who was killed in a car crash over the summer. And I want to thank all of you here for including bipartisan electrificians like Representative Governor, Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative Jackie. You here, where's Jackie? I don't think she school to help make this a reality? No, no, ju, what are

you doing? Ah? That's so awkward. A man and his explanations didn't help, you know, It's like, of course I knew Jackie was Now I was looking for Jackie Kennedy. Where's Jackiekennedy? Where is where are you Jackie? Where's Jackie here? Look? I mean, I guess on the upside, at least he noticed that she wasn't there. This is a good thing. Yeah, it could have been much worth if he was like, where's JACKIEO that she is? That's jack Everyone look at Jackie.

People like, there's no jack She's that. Everybody's Jackie. And look, I know a lot of people are saying that this is another example of Biden's brain being foggy, But I think, if anything, this makes Biden a better president. Yeah. Think of how hard he must be working right now to keep Americans safe, knowing that Osama bin Laden is still out there somewhere. Where's it? Where's the jack where's it?

Where's he? If I let's talk about air travel. The lumber of people flying is nearly back to pre pandemic levels, And if you're one of those people about to take a flight for the first time in a few years, here's a reminder that you might experience some weird ship up in the air. A new video is showing the moment that left passengers on board in American Airlines flight very confused. They were on their way to Dallas from l a X when strange noises started coming from the

plane's public announcement system. Take a listen. The video has since gone viral and has gotten the attention of American Airlines. Some people have floated around the idea that the p A system was hacked. The company says the cause was a lot less sinister, blaming it on a malfunctioning system. Hell no, what the hell was that? You hear them on the air. I don't even know how to describe those sounds because it sounds like Chewbacca getting a hand job or something. What was that? And how is this

guy so calm? He's just like, yeah, you hear those? You know. If I'm on a plane that starts making sounds like like like that, I'm getting a parachute. I'm getting a parachute and a few extra pretzels and I'm

opening the emergency exit. I'm gone. A lot of people who were speculating that the p A system was hacked by a prankster, but the official explanation from American Airlines is that the sounds were caused by quote a mechanical issue with the p A amplifier, which raises the volume of the p A system when the engines are running, which somehow is less comforting like a hacker. I understand, No, I get it, a hacker. But but you're telling me that the plane is always making sounds like Frankenstein is

getting a prostrate exam. But we're only hearing it now because of a mechanical issue. That's not reassuring information to me. The best case scenario is if the pilot accidentally left the p A system on in the cockpits and all the sounds that the peoplehood were coming from him. All right, everybody, we're on on the island. Now, let me just check some of my air crypto investments. Oh that sucked, everybody.

I kind of get my spirits back up. You know what, I'm gonna watch that new video from the try guys. Let's see that sucked. Oh wait wait wait, what are this giant rent doing it here? What more? No one can know? That would have been better? All right, that's it for the headlines. Before we go to a break, Let's catch up on the traffic without very own what would junior. Everybody caught on manok Man. A lot of traffic, you know, people evacuating over there in Florida. We hope

that they stay safe, get the supplies you need. It could be a long time in the car, you know. But the thing I always wondered about evacuations where where is where? Where? Where are they going? Just the one car? It's always just one person going to the danger because it's it's really only two reasons to go into a storm. That's money and sex. Those are the only two reasons you and you don't never had disaster sex like doing a natural disaster. You ain't never has Man, what y'all

they doing in South Africa? You know, bro, I've had sex in the tornado. I've had sex in the wildfire, an earthquake. Wait, wait, you have sex in an earthquake. We were having sex in an earthquake. Happen. It's not like the earthquakes starting there. I was a quick, cool move. We gotta do it like that's not you wait with the cool thing. The cool ning by having sex and earthquake is that you get all the credit from making a bad rock. And that's the dope car about being

in an earthquake. This thing, this this thing is Florida is getting really bad. I heard that the waffle house is shutting down, and waffle house is apparently notorious for staying open. It shows you how bad this this situation is. That's one metric. But I don't think the whole waffle house of a waff house open, cause I don't think that's the most accurate measure of how bad a storm is. You want to know how bad a storm is where you are, just ask yourself one question. Can I get

cocaine right now? The last person to evacuate in a storm is the drug dealers. You don't understand. The drug dealer has too much inventory at risk. They got to be there and make sure hold the money, stay safe, and make sure all the dope stay. You can't get your cocaine wet it turning the stucko. That's terrible. Get the drug dealer is what we look out for. I'm telling you, if a storm is hit it your way and you can't get cocaine, it's too late. Okay, okay, right,

thank you. What's What's what's happening in the traffic? Nothing? Nothing real quick but McDonald's. Oh Yeah, the dolts have a doult happy meal. Like I get what McDonald's is trying to do. People of stress, and you know, you want people to smile, so they try and give them a little, a little little, a little, a little bit of happiness. But adults need more than foods. Need food and a toy. That's the kids. Kids are stupid, but the grown people. You got to give grown people more

than that. You can't just give them foods. You gotta give them an experience. You really want to make adults happy. This is what McDonald's needs to do. The first thing that they got to get a liquor license. They gotta get the games, the ball pit, ski ball pizza. Get somebody like in a mounsel a little bit one of the rap suits. Get them to stand out front and play with everybody. That's that's that sounds like check and cheese. No, No,

I'm talking I'm talking about something different. This is what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about. It's like, you get all of that stuff and then also McDonald's could add card games, live entertainment, a smoking section, gambling. Maybe it's some dice no windows. You wanted to do you want people to focus on the happiness that's going on right there with the money and the food. So you're pitching a casino. No, I'm not pitching a casino. I'm not pictured that. You know what, man? It was a

pater and you always have there. Every time I rolls an idea, all you do is give me pushback, bro, instead of supporting me. Instead of support me, I thought you're a black man. I'm a black man. You're supposed to be helping brothers, uplift brothers, like like like the time I pitched you the box that heat the food up real fast. You start talking about a little but there's a microwave. It's not a mic awave. It's different. The food going through the top, not the front. That's

a totally different de fight. And I would think that you, my friend who I've been rocking with on this show for seven years, will go Roy. That's a good idea. Here's half a million dollars to invest into your product, and I would love to be a partner in your business. What I can't to give you half a million dollar, I want to lose half a million dollars. You'll not hold this, mean baby, You're not gonna lose the money.

You're sto gonna lose the money. Dog, I'm telling you, man, this is gonna be a good place to stop saying casino because that's not what it is. It's a different type of spot. I'm talking about for the make adults happy, don't happy building. Okay, So like can can I can I buy like chips with my money? That's a good idea. That's a casino. Now casino different, you know what. Just give us the traffic. I don't put you you want you try to Google, pull up, pull up to the

Google map. That's something on your phone. I'm straight, man, store casino run? Would you and everybody? Right? When we come back, we're gonna talk about the conspiracy theories that they do want you to know about. Don't go away, Its welcome back, So the Danish All. If you've spent any time online at all, you know that there are conspiracy theories about everything. The CIA killed Tupac, Paul rod

is immortal, the moon landing faked us. But those are just the obvious ones, which is why we have a special segment that reveals the conspiracies you never even knew existed. Conspiracies They're everywhere or are they nowhere? Or is that exactly what they want you to think? So that's where my wallet is. Well for every day there's a meet. I'm Kevin Matthew Kelp. Follow me as I pull back the curtain to find the truth behind the curtain. This

is project conspiracy. Everywhere we go, vehicles are spying on US cop cards, unmarked fans, roller coasters. But what if I were to tell you there was another kind of vehicle monitoring Americans right underneath our noses or should I say our mouths. I'm talking about ice cream trucks. The classic All American ice cream truck seems like just an innocent way to get a tasty treat until you do some digging. Meet Harry Burt, inventor of the ice cream truck.

He patented his creation with you guessed it, the US government a k a. The people monitoring us so closely they even know my social security So why did Burt team up with Big Brother? I'll tell you why. Because of the massive amount of intel these spies, cream trucks can gather in plain sight for traffic patterns, snacking habits. A third thing I'll figure out later. All they needed was the perfect cover the ice cream Brainford. Oh, it's time to figure out what exactly these trucks are up to.

One chocolate a Claire bar or did you already know that? No? Actually make it too. I'm really hungry and I'm getting ready to a steak out. Not for you, though, And now, okay, I hope you got what you were looking for, Mr ice cream man. This is don't don't. My interaction with the ice cream Gestapo seemed normal, all too normal. So I kept watching for hours, fighting the temptation to get more ice cream, and only succumbing all of the time. Why couldn't I resist this truck? That's when I realized

they're most dangerous with me. Uh uh uh. The song. It's the song Hey did you spine on kids? You pervert? No? I mean kind of. But it was never just the ice cream. The truck Sirens song was its secret weapon the whole time, and I'm going to prove it. Oh, I don't have any I was just proving a theory

and it works, so thank you. Run Run music has long been a psychological tool for deep state forces like the c i A, the Radical Left, and Chili's convincing ordinary citizens to con fast, to vote, and to eat against their own self interest. It's kids math. These kids are tough. But if I'm ever going to get the real scoop on this musical conspiracy, I need to go inside the belly of the beast. Let's go. So this is where everything happens. So this is the ice cream truck. Okay, man,

I'm ready for the job interview. So you know we don't make you dress like that anymore? Right? So where do you turn on? The mind control song? Excuse me? The ice cream totally normal? The jingle? Hm? So you're some sort of undercover conspiracy reporter. How do you know that? Who do you work for? You put it on your resume. That's that's a typo, the whole job description. Yeah, I've been made aboard aboard, I've been Ain't aboard aboard aboard?

Got come on? So do you not want the job? Clearly, whatever deep state agency is behind these trucks will stop at nothing to stop me from stopping them. But don't worry, resistance is possible thanks to these noise canceling headphones. The only thing I'll be hooked on is the sweet taste of Freedom, Russian peace caval Art. Stay tuned because when we come back, Mark Cubans will the journey right here

on the show all the way. Talking about the show, my guest, there's an a trip in there, who owns the Dallas Mavericks and recently started Cost Plus Drug Company, which makes low cost versions of generic prescription drugs. He's here to talk about the new season of his EMI winning hit series Shock Tank, which as Friday nights on ABC. Please welcome Mark Human, Mark hum what's up to? Lot's going on? And welcome to the Danny Show. Thanks for

having good to have you here in person. First thing I want to know, because I see the clips all the time, everyone watches the show all over the world. How many people come up to you and just pitch you things in real life? Like all the time. It must be your life now. Everywhere in room, sitting in urinal, you name it, I get pitched everywhere. What's the best pitch you've got at a urinal? Do you remember it?

Turn around? Congratulations season fourteen of the y I don't have to know when you started this did you think it was gonna be as big as it is? Is this a business that you saw coming. Oh, they asked me to come on as a guest in the second season and it would bounce around like when Desperate Housewatch, remember that when it wasn't on, we take its place and not that this thing is dead. So I'm just gonna go on there raise hell next thing. You know

that we're in season fourteen. Season fourteen. It's successful. It's it's it's fun. People love the show. It's syndicated around the world. How does you know what you think makes it so successful? Why do we all love watching people come on and then try and pitch you an idea that you either trash or invest in or completely try and take over. Because everybody wants to be that person who can just have an idea in their garage, in

their bedroom. You know, we all get it, right, You get that feeling in your stomach and you're all fired up. You check it with your friends. But these are people who made it in front of us, and if we say yes, they go from being just a business to be that guy that business and that that's why anybody can be that person. You. I feel like you were that person I was you know, you know I've read about you and there were parts in your life where you thought you were going to retire at thirty five,

and yet here you are, many decades later. You look like you love No, that's not a this is there's many decades. Thank you a lot. Come on, this is true. You you're living, but it feels like you assholes. Don't listen to them. These people are assholes. What I'm saying is you're you're having a great time and it feels like you haven't lost that drive, like what makes you get out of bed every single day If it's not

the money. I'm competitive. I like to kick ass. When you started business and you're in my business, I'm gonna you up serious real, I mean I love to compete. Right. That explains a lot. That explains. That explains like the Dallas Mavericks. You're talking to someone who works on the show, and he said an interesting thing he said. He said, Mark Cuban seems to me like one of the only super fans who took over a team. Because some people buy teams because they have the money to buy a team.

You seem like you you bought a team because you love the team. You of the sport. Everyone says the team changed because of you. Many people have credited you in the NBA of being part of changing the culture, of trying to make it so that even the people who work behind the scenes are happy and are enjoying themselves. Like why did you decide that you could have just gone in for a team, but you put basketball, Like, I'll get out there and I'll shoot with the guys.

I mean, just think about it. You love played basketball. I get to walk into my own arena get up shots. You know. The best part is, you know, game when he shot, the crowd's going nuts. Everybody's pile driving, jumping on the guy. I get the jump on him too, and I don't I don't get arrested, right anybody else? You all run there, I'll arrest your ass. I run

out there. I'll have fun. The NBA has been has been, you know, an interesting period where you know, for a long time politics, I mean it's everything NBA and NFL, and then you know, the NBA was seen as this place where you know, players were speaking their mind. It was really aware organization. Adam Silver gets a lot of credit, for instance, many of the owners do as well. Recently, though, there's been a scandal that has rocked the Phoenix Suns.

And you know, everyone's been talking about how to deal with an owner where he's been accused of everything from racism to inappropriate messages at work. And I think the fine came down at ten million dollars in a year. Some have said it isn't enough. Some have said it's it's just enough. What do you make of that? And more than the fine, because I mean that's not your job, But what do you think the position of an owner in a team needs to be in terms of how

it's outward facing? Like why is it important to be a certain way as the owner? You know? Rather than talking about that situation specific, I can tell you what I think. Right. I may be responsible for writing the checks for the Dallas Mavericks, but all of North Texas really owns the Dallas Mavericks. It's the only business where I get emails from people saying, my son has cancer. You know, can you bring some players out? Can we will you visit? You know, my son just died or

my daughter just died. Can we bury him in a Luca doncheous Jergey? You know, there's there's no other industry, you know, and when you win, when Google has a great quarter. Nobody in their city, you know, Mountain wherever it is, celebrates when your team wins a chance opionship, the whole city goes, not to the cities on fire, right. It's just such a different industry, and with that comes

a responsibility you have to have. You have to, you know, lead, You have to be able to set examples for diversity and inclusion and show people that you know, this is the real world and we can change it and we can be part of it and making better. And you know, I think that's the responsibility that comes with on in a sports teams. It's probably why you've been so successful. It really is you Also, you know you're also behind.

I remember reading this, and you know, we live in a world where billionaires tweet all kinds of crazy things all the time. I won't mention names, but billion theres will treat whatever, and then they'll say, I'll change the world, I'll do this. I remember seeing a tweet of yours where you're basically talking about up ending the drug industry and lowering prescription drug prices, and I was like, here we go again, hopes up and nothing's gonna happen, but

you actually doing it. We're the real deal. Yeah. We started a company called cost plus Drugs dot Com. And if you take any medication at all, just go there, put in the name of it. And what we do that's different every other drug manufacturer. I mean, no one trusts the drug industry, right, And so what we said was, you know, sunlight is the best disinfected. So if you go and you put in the drug and if we carry it um it will show you not only what we sell it for, it will show you your cost

and actual actual costs. But we really pay for it. We mark it up. That's it. We have a three dollar pharmacy fee and five dollars for shipping. That's it. And so you know exactly what we paid and so you can trust it. And that's the first time in the pharmacy industry where when you're buying a medication you can trust that you're paying a fair price. So you're making money. Not yet, yeah, but we will. We will business will make it will make money. So then so

then help me understand this thing. Somebody who isn't a billionaire, how is it's How is it that you've decided to get into a business way you won't make money now you will make money in the future and you're still able to provide people with the drugs, and it seems like it's a win win favor. Then why don't other

drug companies just do this? Why? What? That's what's happened is all when someone like me, a start or anybody have started a company like this and they're cut the cost of medications, what happens is someone buys them, right, one of the big companies buys them out and puts them away by the company buys that company, so that takes them off the market. I can't be bought right, I don't need that. You can't. I don't. My next

dollar is not going to change my life. But if I get a chance to the pharmaceutical industry, I mean the drugs Like I just had a friend literally two days ago, a guy that I knew in college, Landing Turner, is taking this drug, Derek, I don't even know what help was pronounced. It's like Mark, it cost me three thousand dollars a month. I can't afford it, can you help? And it was literally it's a generic. So I had our guys go into a nut five minutes ago while

I was waiting in the green room. He came back Landing was paying three thousand dollars a month. It's not going to cost some sixty three dollars a month. Oh wait, wait I was wrong with wait wait wait, no, I was wrong sixty three dollars for three months three months. So okay, that's how crazy this industry is. But so I get that you can't be bored, but surely people on out happy with what you're doing, Like it doesn't

seem like you are. It's weird business. It's weird. So people like Martin Screley is trying to cut you up with people like Martin Screley became famous for coming in buying a drug that people need to survive and then hiking it up. I don't know how many thousands percents of whatever it was, but it feels like you're gonna make a lot of enemies doing this. And as you say, your competitive, so you don't really care. But is there is there no way they can on the cut you?

I mean, there's ways, right, but there it ain't gonna happen, right, So what the way it works? Now, there's there's three big companies that are insurance companies that only these things called pharmacy benefit managers who are responsible for really distorting the prices. And then they also owned the big retail pharmacies, all the big names you've heard of, and so they're able to control all the pricing elements. We work outside

of that. So right now we're mail orders. So if you go to cost plus Drugs dot Com, like Landing will be able to buy his drug um for all that less money, and then we'll ship it to we'll mail it to him. Soon we'll be able to do it at local independent pharmacies. But because we work outside of that system, they can't stop us. And the cooler part about it is we all look at manufacturers of insulin and other drugs and say they're the cause of

the problem. They're really not. It's these big three companies that are distorting their prices and the manufacturers don't have any other way to sell it. So now we can sell it for them. And so you know, we're not there on instantly yet, but we're working on it. We're not there on some of the big brand names, but we're close, and so you know, we literally literally, Trevor, I mean five years from now, we can look back and say you come up and that would be like

a dream up. That's my goal. Yeah, I think. I think one of the reasons you're you're so popular and interesting is because you have a different view on how to be successful in what success means. You know, Um, those who are familiar with your stories will know that when you when you sold your first company, you made a lot of money, but you also made many of your employees millionaires. And they weren't like stockholding the options that you just said, all right, everybody, but I made money.

We all make money. And then you did it again with your next company that was like a big sale, and you do it again. And you've had this attitude that seems counter to what many Americans think these days, where they say if I get rich, I get rich. Scrowl of you, and everyone who's been in your past, everyone who's gone along with you can go, oh, yeah, I worked with Mark Cuban, and you can see that we made money. In this instance. Let's say you are successful.

This company could go on to become, you know, very rich. It could make a lot of money. How do we know and and I'm assuming you that kind of person, but how do we know that at some point you won't raise those drug prices when everyone is on cost plus, Like, can you make a promise to the people, Can you say this is what we're gonna Cuban problem. It's not. Seriously, that's the whole goal, that's the mission. I'm not because I get asked that all the time. He's just you know,

low prices now, yes, shack him up later. If anything, we've been lowering prices. If you follow us a cost plus drugs on Twitter, I take pride in every couple of weeks we're cutting prices. We're not We're not increasing prices. I mean, in this day and age, and you talk about this all the time, it's just insane. Somebody has to choose between rent, food and medication. And you know, people think capitalism is just about how much money can

I make. It's not. Capitalism is me being able to start a business and choose the outcomes that I want. No one else can tell me what my mission is. No one else can tell me what my goal is. No one else can tell me what's important to me. I get to make that choice for some people. Look, if I'm twenty five years old, it's making as much money as I can right. But now, like I've been saying, if you get a chance to turn around an industry where people now don't have to make those choices, that's

the best reward of all time. I ask you to bust. I'll thank you. I'm gonna hold you to your word. If you want to find you, I'm using you to find her exactly where you are on datis talk to you and everybody. We're gonna take a cook place after this.

Thank you again for I love it. Well, that's our show, but tonight, but before we go, Before we go, Hurricane in as we spoke about, is one of the most powerful storms to hit the United States in decades right now, the Florida Disaster Relief Fund has been activated for response and recovery, so if you can help them, then please donates at the link below to support these efforts. Until next time, Stay safe out there, and remember a real

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