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I mean, I really did first see you sitting at the stupa outside the cat club. That is the first time I saw you. You remember. You do remember that story. Oh, yeah. Of course I remember that. You always say I look like a hooker, but I didn't really look like a hooker. It's not that you look like one. It's that I thought you were one. You had on fishnets, knee-high boots. You were smoking a cigarette. You were kind of like, I've been out here. I've been working. What's going on? Did not say that. Yeah. Okay, so then you go, but you knew that I was dating a guy. Yeah.

No, I didn't know right away, obviously. You know, I was trying to like, I was like, she's cute, playing it cool. Yeah. Right? And then... Can I talk to you for a second? I was like, let me holler at you for a second. And then, yeah, I just remember, I probably didn't figure, I mean, I can't remember exactly. I didn't find out that night. But it's one of those things where, you know, after we met... Through the grapevine. Kind of either heard it through the grapevine or you go to...

I don't know, do spots and you're like, oh, what's going on with her? And then somebody mentioned. And I always had that thing too, where it's like somebody seeing someone, you're just like, okay, like, you know. You're done. Yeah, you just accept. So it actually probably made us more like just coworkers, right? Yes. Yeah. It forced you to get to see me as a person, not just blonde hair and tits a little bit. Right. And I always feel like that's so, like I hate,

honestly seeing women as people because I've never really thought of them that way. Well, they're kind of stupid, right? Yeah, and also it's like, you know, you guys were kind of made for one thing and one thing only, I feel like. What's that? I think it's pretty obvious. I think three, cooking, cleaning,

Those are, I'm not really one of those guys that's like, you got to clean for, you got, like, I don't, it's nice that you do, but like, it's, it's really just be a jizz receptacle. You know, that's your number one priority. I do though. I do know this about you. Yeah. Coming and eating are your priorities. Yeah. And I'll figure out the eating on my own. So the, the main thing is, you know, what's that tit stitch like and what that mouth do. So, well,

Well, I did when I met you, I had the best pair of tits. I had such good tits because I wasn't like fat. I didn't have kids. They were so good when we met. You got my tits at prime titty time. It's prime time tits for sure. And then kids, cancer. But guess what? In August, I'm going to have my deep flap. They're going to reconstruct my tits out of my belly fat. I'm

I'm going to have a tummy tuck and new tits. You can choose. We can sit down and choose the tits of our dreams. I'm dreaming about when I go to sleep at night. These new tits. Stupid. So fucking stupid, huh?

Yeah, you know, oh, I guess I should probably... There's people watching who don't know who are like, what the fuck is going on with this guy's face? They get so upset. They get so upset. They get so bummed out when you're shaved. I know. Like, I was looking at a picture I posted of us on Instagram, and they're just... All the comments are like, Tom's face. It's offensive. I know. It's honestly offensive to me. Yeah, it's like... So hurtful. Come on. It's not that bad. So what happened was we did...

a live show, YMH Live 10. At this point, it's two weeks ago. So if you saw last week's show, that was actually before we recorded, so it's been two weeks. It was, and I...

Don't think I'm exaggerating. Not only the most fun for us, but I think clearly the best live show we've ever done. Hands down the best. It was fucking awesome. Everything went so perfectly. The comedy, the sketches were bangers. Dan Soder, perfect guest. The best. Couldn't have been better. You, by the way, were the bell of the bowl. Yes, yes.

We all know Tom was Robert Smith of The Cure and I could not take my eyes off of you. If you're not aware of what happened, if you're like, what is this? It's that I committed to the idea of being your fantasy on the live show who is Robert Smith of The Cure. God, you look so good. I couldn't stop staring at him. Look how happy I am. I loved it. You know what the best part is? We were getting ready for the show and you were talking to the team and I was like, oh my God, Robert.

oh my God, Robert Smith's here. Like, I loved it. You looked so good. Look how bummed out you are too. It's so good. I was trying to be his, you know, depressed, regular kind of guy. Oh my God, Robert Smith, are you so happy to be inducted in the Hall of? Not as excited as you apparently. Sucker.

He said later that he felt bad about that. Did he? Yeah, he said that he didn't realize he was being video recorded. So he was just kind of like, he felt bad that it was seen as really shitty to her. Yeah. Yeah, he felt bad. Yeah, I think he's a decent dude. I've never heard anything bad about Robert Smith. Yeah. Never. He just likes being a musician. They have a good band. I don't know anything about him. I do. I know a lot. He's been married to the same woman, Mary Poole, since they were like 20-something years old. Mm-hmm.

They live in Sussex, or he's from Sussex. Oh, there we are. Tommy Scissorhands. Look at me. I love it. Yeah, well, we'll get into all this. It really was the best, dude. We've done 10 YMH Lives, which is also a huge accomplishment. Yeah. You know? It really is. But it had been a while and really wanted to do another one because it's just so much fun. This one had...

Like everything out of 10. And that's why, and I think for me, primarily the thing that makes it, you go, this was so great. It's that the, the prerecorded bits were such bangers. Like they really were Charo with Alexis Fox on doing an only fans was amazing. Um, Charles had no idea that the things that were there were the things that they were.

And then I just can't say enough about it. The Tony Johns dating bachelor kind of show that we did. Unbelievable. Well, you guys don't even realize how crazy that was filming it with him. I wish we could show the hours of footage of him being a lunatic. And then don't forget, live on the show, Alexis Fox. I know. It's crazy. That was magical. That was a magical moment. I mean, I feel like that's what like...

Took it over the top. That was fucking insane. If that had not happened, I still think it was just incredible. But that took it to a whole other level. That Alexis was watching, heard us talking to Tony Johns, blabbing.

about his desire to enter the adult industry and then she was like yeah she was like i'll do it it was just insane magical and i broke my sobriety i haven't had alcohol in 90 days i had to drink during the heavy segment that's how good that segment was oh look at them she's a lot she loves she loves alexis oh yeah who doesn't though she's so sweet

Oh my God. Oh, the whistler. Ralph the Whistler. He had multiple whistling bits and then his off mic stuff. Holy shit. Talking about storming the Capitol and there's nowhere to piss. Just like crazy conspiracy shit. It was unbelievable, dude. Yeah. And then of course his whistling is just. That's phenomenal. There's nobody better. Yeah.

And then we played our short film for her that people really responded to. It was a touching tribute to my father. Yep. And then... Daniel Pineda. Daniel Pineda was in that. Ryan Sickler was in that. There she is. There she is. Gosh, she's so thoroughly talented. It's upsetting. When you make... So I've made multiple shorts. When you get real actors, like serious actors in something...

It actually makes you realize like, oh, this is why in features, like when you go like, why are movie stars like paid? So you really go, they elevate the thing so much. Like,

Our silly little idea just takes on a whole new thing when you have a really good actor in it. Well, she's got to say some absurd lines and deliver them sincerely. It's very hard. So it's a fine line she has to walk to make it believable and funny and everything. It's really, she's very talented. No, she can do it all. She's amazing. She has a big movie coming out, I think, next month or this month. Amazing.

Yeah, it was just bangers, dude. The accountant, too. Yeah, she's going to be in the accountant, too. Just bangers. This YMH, you and I were buzzing for days after we recorded YMH Live. Yeah. I couldn't sleep that night. I was so jazzed about how it all went. Yeah. Oh, my God. And Soder was like perfect. Will Blunderfield did his thing. Duncan Trussell did his thing.

our own tanner and that's so good there's duncan and tanner pissing together in a cup god yeah the will blunderfield thing was amazing everything um oh there we are watching the heavy not really watching that yeah dan was dan it got to him he was like i'm fine this is good and then he was like oh god

We'll get to that. We'll get to those in a second. Why don't we open the show and then we'll get to our favorite clip from that. So much to talk about. Okay. Here you go. We were in bed and I guess, you know, I'll just be honest with you. I buried my face in her vagina. She didn't shave and that's what I wanted. And I basically sucked this woman's pussy for an hour and a half. An hour and a half. And I loved every fucking minute of it.

I mean, just, I didn't let nothing go. Of course, she did the same to me. And of course, I had a hard time getting hard.

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You know that Rogan texts me almost every day. Yeah. And there's no words. It's always just somebody dying. That's real friendship. I know. We don't like real like sometimes we have back and forth. Yeah. Words. Yeah. But 95 percent of the time it's links. I know he and I have the same relationship. We send each other tick tocks and various clips. Let's see what today's is.

I'm trying to see. Can I tell you something? That's how I knew that Joe was thinking of me when I was sick. Can I talk to you for a second? He would send me all these cancer memes. It was really cancer articles and stuff. He's very thoughtful. He's very sweet. And then he'd send me funny shit. It's really like... Of transitioning people. It is the mark of a friendship. It is. It is. He and I, we send each other...

- Yeah, ridiculous shit. - It's usually just somebody dying. - Not with me. Nobody sends me death. I'm into like the gender people, you know, like pronoun people being ridiculous. That's our jam. - Our videos are usually either a street fight that ends up with head trauma, shootings, stabbings, war videos, trains hitting cars, people. - Yeah, that's cool. - Yeah, explosions. - That's cool.

Yeah, a lot of stuff like that. It's a real friendship.

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Why does this man say he's like, of course I couldn't get hard? And it cuts off. That's it? We don't know. Oh, there's got to be. There's obviously more to this video. Explain yourself, sir. Why? Of course. He seemed pretty jazzed. Was he hard for an hour and a half? Sucked this woman's pussy for an hour and a half. Was he hard for too long? I don't know. And I loved every fucking minute of it. There's more to this video. No. Yeah. Do we know where it is?

Let me see if I can pull up the original. Okay. By the way, see how he decorates his apartment? This is how I decorated our first house. Yeah, of course. Remember? This is how everyone's apartment looks when you're out of college, except he's 67.

It's crazy. He's just got work shit and mail on a desk. This is how I decorate, though. A couple boxes. Yeah, this is... I think it strums a guitar. That's pretty cool. Yeah. You should put something up there. Something up there. You need artwork. It really helps the vibe. Okay, so here's...

Guys, buy my lipsticks before we move any further. I'd like to plug it. Robert Smith was wearing the perfect red on YMH Live 10 because it is indeed the most perfect shade. I'm wearing it today. I have Atomic Red, Madison, and Berlin. Buy them all. ChristinaP.com. This was the favorite thing that I always have said I love about the live show is getting...

My favorite thing about the heavy segment is not the heavy segment. It's watching people watch the heavy segment. So whenever we play the heavy segment, we get these videos that get sent in of reactions of people who are doing like watch parties and stuff. I've never done a YMH live before and I've only heard the lore of the heavy segment before.

And I'm excited to finally see it because I don't think, I don't think it's going to get me. No, please, please. That was the worst one. That was bad. Oh my God, I think I'm going to pass out. That was gnarly, dude. That was a guy's ankle literally snapping off of his leg. Like it just came right off. Completely torn, skin and everything. That was insanity.

Which was actually, it wasn't even in our heavy bank of clips. It was in our other bank. That was like a sorbet? Yeah, it was supposed to cleanse the palate as we moved on. Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, make-out. It's so...

Oh, my God. I can't. That's the best. That's awful. I love this stuff, man. Yeah. I love people with pillows and blankets over their eyes. I'm this guy. I wasn't done. You're listening. Why are you fucking not listening? I love it, dude. I love it. Look at her face. Poop. Poop. It's poop. She's eating the poop.

No. Yeah, it's so gnarly. The cat is like, what? What is it? Oh, it's so bad. And then even here...

In the office, the live show was streaming into the conference room, which had like 20 people in it. And Alan was like, I have to watch it. He told him he had to watch it. So upset. That's Alan in ad sales. Ryan's got up.

Ryan's got his hoodie over his eyes. Leanna. Chris Lars. Everybody was just mortified. But that's the fun. I mean, how do you not have fun with that? Aren't you enjoying watching that? That's the best part. Yeah. I mean, look, the reason we do these live shows is because we can't play the good stuff on YouTube. They flag everything. And it's also to bring people together, bring communities together.

How does that not make you want to have a watch party where you set up a camera and record your friends? It's the most fun. So anyway...

Huge thanks to all of you and also to the YMH staff, the crew for making that. You guys did an amazing job, each and every one of you. Thanks, man. Yeah, really. Truly. Amazing work, kids. It was so good. And shout out to Connor Galvin, too. Heavy clips were outstanding. Who worked with us writing stuff. Oh, yeah. What a great time. Oh, so babe, the clip is getting laid for the first time in almost 30 years. Oh, that's why. Wow. And that's why he was so...

Okay. Now it makes sense. Now it makes sense why he was shit. Because I was like, why are you uploading this, bro? Getting laid for the first time? But, Jonna, she didn't shave, and that's what I wanted. And I basically sucked this woman's pussy for an hour and a half. Well, it's 30 years. An hour and a half. He felt the need to document it. And I loved every fucking minute of it. Sure, man. Congratulations. But, I mean, just I didn't let nothing go. Yeah, we got it.

Of course, she did the same to me. And, of course, I had a hard time getting hard. And she understood, but I made up for it orally. So I'm in this bed with this attractive woman, clean, don't have a scar on her, don't smoke. And, you know, it was just enjoyable. She was there to serve me. She came there and said, she said, I want to do everything that you want me to do.

she said i want everything i want to do everything and she did anything that you can think of every second you can't believe it uh a woman about it i mean every fantasy i'd ever seen on porn she loved every bit of it and she basically orgasmed i don't know how many times on my face i can't believe i'm telling this video this is what happened to me on december the 30th i'm checking my calendar again day before new year's december

The 30th was just five days ago, five nights ago. Oh, it's fresh in his mind. So straight-faced, though. No joy. We went at it for an hour and a half. Couldn't have intercourse because of my problem, the reptile problem. But she was satisfied. I was satisfied. I mean, we laid in bed for a few minutes, and then she went to the restroom and came back, and she said,

She started putting her clothes on, so I knew she was ready to go. I mean, she had driven, even though I drove the greater distance. I drove 85 miles, but she still said she had to drive an hour, which I don't understand because Alpharetta was supposed to only be 30 miles away. But she came an hour. Can you imagine a woman, a 54-year-old woman driving an hour?

to see me in a motel to suck my you know what and let me eat her for an hour and a half you already broke the you know what barrier i'd love to ruin it and i was just as horny when she left as before she came but i didn't care yeah uh that was horny i mean in fact i had met a woman and satisfied me i can't i got uh i like that he he

The title of this, getting laid for the first time in almost 30 years. Thoughts on Alan Roger Curry restarting my channel. So this is what motivated him to, I guess, get a channel up and going again. Well, he's got 701 subscribers. That's nothing to sneeze at. They're all eager to know. Love left me forever. Oy vey. Oh, shit. Quitting the postal service. Got this. Okay.

But this still is more entertaining than anything on television. Oh, that was awesome. I mean, that was an amazing police wellness check. I like this. Oh, fuck. Fascinating. Clean anger. What the fuck is going on with this channel? Can we please do a dive on this guy at some point? Yeah, please flag that. Make that somebody's mission. This could be the next cool guy on the wall. It could be. I don't know. It was very cool. I mean, the video itself, vintage cool. It was very cool.

He shares this. I mean, I can't believe. You know what else is cool that I haven't had the chance to share on this show? I saw this a while ago. I had never seen this clip. They said I had to take a steamer before I could get out of here. Hulk Hogan is taking a shit. So I just unleashed a major toxic. Fuck yeah. Go for it, Hogan. I think the paint is starting to come off the walls.

I don't know the story behind this, but it's very cool. I don't know watching shit. Taking a steamer. That's cool. Yeah, we don't have much info on it, unfortunately. Nah, you don't need much. I feel like... I think we get it. I get it, yeah. It's just most people, you know, sort of like the last guy, you don't have to upload this, right? No. You can just take your heater, but... You can make choices and keep stuff private, but...

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Look, there's a few highlights in my career, I would say. Yes. Yes, getting on Netflix is pretty exciting as a stand-up comedian. Working on various television shows. I think the highlight of my career so far has been getting in the National Enquirer. Yes. For the Garth Brooks stuff. And I just want to shout out Daily Mail UK. You guys know I'm a huge Anglophile. Put out a post about...

A TikTok I did on Megan Markle's new show. Is that in here? Do I have that or you have it? I am so excited to...

Netflix comedian Christina Bajitzky gives scathing review of Meghan Markle's new cookery show, telling fans she's no Martha fucking Stewart. You better believe it. Oh, they're posting it. I'm watching the new Meghan Markle. Wow. I'm sorry. Meghan Sussex cooking show, craft show. I don't know what the show is. Thanks. It's perfect red. It's inauthentic. It's not fun. Is that a reason to hate it? No.

No, it's not. I think I don't like that she's just... Here's what it is. When Martha Stewart came out with her homekeeping type shows back in the 90s or the 80s or whatever, I remember women being like, yeah, right. Like, who's at home making their own beeswax candles? Yeah, right. Who's making their own croutons from scratch? Well, you know who was? Martha Stewart.

Martha Stewart was because that's who she was. That's who she is. She was doing all this crafty stuff even when the cameras weren't rolling. That's a good point. And that is probably one of the main criticisms of

Megan, is that people find it to be inauthentic. I'll tell you something else. And scroll down. Oh, it's fantastic. Oh, yeah. You got a whole write-up. They wrote such a complimentary article. And by the way, I'm so thrilled to be in the UK news because let me tell you,

You know my love of the royal family. Authentic. It's authentic. I read books about these people. I'm interested. I'm not a British citizen, so I don't have the same relationship the Brits do to their monarchy. But I'm fascinated by their system that's existed for hundreds and hundreds of years. And I've read books about Meghan Markle. Had a lot of time when I had breast cancer. Let me tell you something about her. Can I tell you? Please.

I've read books that are pro-Megan and books that are pro-monarchy. Here's what I've deduced about her, because I don't go after people lightly. I really don't. I do it for a reason. This Megan Markle is beautiful, stylish, manipulative. She's a fame-seeking, money-seeking succubus, right? Here's the problem, which is fine, by the way, because Hollywood is full of succubus. The problem is there's no talent.

Yeah, that'll catch up to you. You need to do... There needs to be an exchange. And what she used was the royal family. She tried to take down an establishment that's long revered, long existing, and it's not cool. Now...

You could say that in America there's talentless fucks like the Kardashians, right? You know what they give? Tits, ass. They give us a reality show where they show us their bad relationships and their dad who became a woman and all that stuff. That's still entertaining. She's pretending to be perfect and using the Sussex name.

Now, Harry H, she calls him H, not Harry, H, is not without fault, too, because he wants out of that goddamn family. Right. Right. So he did the the the chicken shit move instead of saying to daddy and granny, I don't want to be in the family. He married a bitch. And then she takes the fall for this.

You understand? Yes. But she is a big phony. She just wants fame and money and celebrity, but she doesn't want to do anything for it. That's the problem. I got to tell you. That's the problem. I don't think this is going to help you get invited to Buckingham Palace. I'm team Middleton. Team Middleton. All day long. They get the rules. She knew the rules going into this family. Give me a break. She pretends like, oh, I didn't know. Yes, you did, bitch. So Kate and William...

Right? Yeah. They are... They're there. They're the ones that are going to... They're holding it down. They're still in good graces, obviously. They're the royal couple now. Yes. Because aren't Harry and Meghan not even considered royals anymore? So here's the deal, man. So here's what happened. They went to the queen when the queen was alive and said, we kind of want to do like a halfway royal thing. You know, maybe we do some duties, but not all. But that doesn't... That's not how they work, the royals. Either you're in, you're a working royal, or you're out. The reason being...

The taxpayers fund this stuff, okay? So there's no, you can't do your side businesses and make money

and be a working royal because working royals do good for the public. Their whole thing is like showing up at a hospital opening. So weren't they ousted? So what happened is the queen basically was like, no, this is not how this works. You're either in or out. What are you going to do? We're out. Okay, see you later. So they pull their security because they're not working royals. Why should the taxpayers fund their security? He's got enough money from Princess Diana's trust. He can pay for his own security. And then Meghan, this is totally shameless. This is why I don't like her too.

Just from a human level. You're in this new family. You don't like your in-laws. Okay, fine. Don't go on Oprah Winfrey and say, oh, my in-laws are racist. They're bad people. Everybody hates me and do the sobbing story. You understand? She put them on blast.

To make herself a name. It's disgusting. And I think it's really gross. Well, I don't think it worked either. Most people don't feel like they like her more. No sympathy for her because she was claiming racism when she was, oh, the tabloids are racist. It's like, I don't see that. The queen wanted her. They even fast-tracked her getting married in Westminster Abbey because they liked her. So they revoked the security. They revoked titles too, aren't they? So that's the thing. So I think...

I'm not sure about the title business because I thought they would. Can you see that? Can you look? So she says, she's talking to Mindy Kaling and she goes, I'm Megan Sussex. You know, I'm Megan Sussex. So she gets to keep the title, I'm guessing, but you can't say you're a Sussex and carry title while you're not a working Royal. It's like, dude. So it says the Royal, I don't know when this was. Oh, go up. When is this?

Royal family prepared to sanction removal of Prince Harry and Meghan Sussex titles amid new bombshells. When is this printed? This was last week. Okay. Yeah. So the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have pivoted away from publicity. Speaking about the royal family for over the last year, the royal family are prepared to sanction the removal Prince Harry and Meghan's Sussex titles if the couple...

Released further damaging bombshell claims about the monarchy, according to a royal source, the Duchess of Sussex hit out at the firm in a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey. That's the one you just, after she stepped down as a working royal. In January of 23, Prince Harry released his autobiography titled Spare. Which I read. Which provided intimate details about his relationship and arguments with senior members of the royal family. It would take an act of parliament to take away the couple's Sussex title.

But according to the Mail, a royal source has said it is still considered a potential sanction that could be explored if any further bombshell interviews or books are released. So they still have their title. So here's the deal. But here's the real fun part about all this. So she's on this stupid show. She's pretending to be a Martha Stewart, right? She's like, I'm...

harvesting my beeswax even though she doesn't give a fuck about the bees there's a beekeeper that comes and does all the work she's like my best friend who's her makeup artist that she's been on you know been on payroll for a million it's coming over i'm gonna make him some bath salts and put them in like first of all who the fuck is taking a bath when you're a guest at somebody's house it's so fucking gross anyway what was i gonna say i'm so fired up about her i see this jesus

Oh, the point of the story is I've read numerous accounts of her and it says that she is not a good employer, that she's very nasty, very mean. And do you know that the people who work in the palace in Buckingham, they basically do it as volunteers. You don't get paid anything to work for the royal family. Nobody does? Not really. Like I think they get a tiny amount of money, but what they do get is, I don't know, tiaras or hand-me-down stuff.

very cold and withholding to staffers created a really awful workplace people have quit working you guys feel the same way about us no no never of course not ever can i tell you the show i'd want to watch how she can fix this any you're our megan what how do you how do you feel uh you said i'm your megan is that what you said that's fucking crazy i fucking missed that i'm your megan

Do you feel like this is a cold and we're withholding? I'm not going to lie. This entire topic is super white people shit. I'm not following whatsoever. Can I tell you what the show is? I'm with you. Please, I'm fired up. Can I tell you what the show is? Yes. She's a bitch. This is the problem with Meghan Markle. She's not a nice girl. She's a bitch. I want to see the show where she's yelling at her gardener

For trimming the hedges incorrectly. I want to see the show where she's talking shit with her fake ass friends in Montecito about whatever. I want to see the show where she's crying in Harry's lap like, why do they hate me? The press, everybody hates me. That's the Meghan Markle I want to see. This is like... I know. This is bullshit. This is like... It's bullshit.

Why people sometimes just hate somebody that marries into a family. It's like she then... But then doesn't take the responsibilities of said family. I know, but brings with them the entitlement of somebody that you would think...

would have to be born into the family. You know what I mean? Like you just joined it and then you're acting. And you're shitting on an establishment that's existed for hundreds of years. And you're not even English. You're not British. Don't forget, we, I mean, I don't think it's going to happen anymore because of how outspoken you are, but we did have an agreement that if we were to meet the Royals, obviously we're, I don't think we're going to meet Megan and Harry, but if we met, if we met William and Kate, that I, we have an agreement that if I am introduced to,

To Prince William. Yep. That I would tip my hat and go, hello, governor. Yes. And then. This is where hello, governor came from a year ago. We were in London. And I said, one day you're going to meet William and Kate. We're going to be invited. Maybe he's a comedy fan. Sure. And you have to say it. You have to do that. Look, I think they know. She's right. She's right. I'm team Middleton. I'm team William and Kate. Mm-hmm.

Thank you. They seem like a nice couple. They are nice. You know why? Can I tell you what I respect about them and the queen? They respected the post. They respected the title. They respected the job of what they have to do. It's not an easy job to uphold these values. He's got an old man spirit, too, because he embraces the horseshoe bald look, which is really crazy. That's usually men that are...

Honestly, boomers. A much older man goes, I'll rock the horseshoe. For him to do it, he's like 40-something. Here's the deal, man. Crazy. There's hairdos they're allowed to have. This might be in the royal protocol or whatever. That's insane. There's certain haircuts. No, it's true. You can't have certain hairdos. You can't do certain things. He can't clip the sides. He may not be able to.

Because I don't think there's ever been like a bald. I don't know. I know that there's limitations on the women, like what kind of hairstyles they can have and such. It's not an easy gig. You don't see this with men our age.

The horseshoe. You don't. It's really like the previous generation. Traditionally, within the British royal family, the prince is expected to maintain a neat short haircut, typically considered military style, with minimal styling and is generally expected to be clean shaven, meaning no beard or mustache. Although there have been exceptions like Prince Harry. I'm sorry, H. I-ch. The douchess of sucks. She sucks. I don't know. I-ch. She's the worst. All right. Such a phony. I can't take it.

It hurts to watch her stupid fucking job. Pretty cool. I just had to say my piece. You got it out there. You got it out there. Look how cute William was. Yeah. See, that's what he looked like bald. Looks good. He looks handsome. He looks better. He's got a great face. Yeah. Handsome. Growing out the sides is fucking insane. You know, there's a rumor that Prince Harry is actually the son of someone that Diana had an affair with. That's awesome. And if you look at the pictures, you're like, yeah, that's fucking, that holds up. He definitely doesn't look like his brother. Not a lick. Not a lick.

Doesn't look at all. I mean, that's Charles and Diana, but you look at the other boy, Harry. Yeah. I mean, look at that. Yeah. That's the dude. Look at him. And he's got the polo helmet on or whatever. I like that. This is Prince Harry was fathered. Like it just says it like it's a statement. I know. Yeah. They vehemently deny that claim. Of course. Like obviously, but come on. Of course. It's possible. Anything's possible. Yeah.

Well, I'm glad we got that out of the way. You can take this down. You know, I just don't care anything for these. They're so interesting. We just gave it like fucking 20 minutes. What are you talking about? Jesus. I'm very passionate about this. I mean, your passion is felt. Everybody gets it now. I'm very invested. Okay. We got it. I just wish you shared my interest. I definitely do. Now I feel ashamed.

Don't feel ashamed. Here, let's get... It's what I care about. You care about sports and cum. This is my sports and cum. Jesus. That's so fucking offensive. It's not what I care about. It's really rude. I wish there were more girls in the office. I'm always the only woman caring about girl shit. Okay.

I finally got a decent foot job. So let's talk about it and read it one through 10. Somebody on Twitter reached out to me and said she gives amazing foot jobs. And I was like, there's absolutely no way. And turns out she was close to me. So I had to try it. I told her, come on. Yeah, let's link up. We're going to collab. I'm going to post it. I did the method. I'm not going to post the video. I just wanted a free foot job. We linked up. She put like a special type of oil on her feet.

And I can't lie, it was pretty decent. But the reason I say it was decent is because what even is a good foot job? There you go. More dick stuff. Cool. From Prince Harry and Prince Charles to a foot job review. He's doing more reviews. The best is that he told her he was going to upload it.

I guess I was like, yeah, I'll share it with people. And then he was like, no, of course I'm not going to do that. So he was like, that's crazy. To share the actual foot job. He was going to share it. I guess she wanted it shared. And then, yeah, he was like, no, I'm not doing that. There's boundaries. Well, he tricked her. That's what I'm saying. He tricked her. You know what I mean? Have you ever had a foot job before? He's going up to the sky. A foot job?

I mean, I mean, a foot massage, like a foot job. How do you even know if a foot job is a good one? Like, what are you supposed to compare it to? She couldn't make me finish. I don't think I would ever finish from feet. Honestly, she was kind of mad that I wanted the buns. But it's like, what do you expect? You come over here and expect to just give me feet. So, yeah, I would give this experience like a six out of 10.

It's probably my last time trying this. She is expecting me to post it and tag her to give her a little bit of clout, but I'm not going to lie, bro. I'm not going to post that shit. What the fuck? I look like posting me getting a foot job for it. I don't care about digital footprint, but I don't want my future kids to see me getting a fucking foot job. Well, what about this video? This is the best. We got to really got to link up with him at some point too.

Maybe we should have him do, yeah, official reviews. Yeah. We see all the places in Austin. Yeah. We got to get more out of him. Jeez. This guy, too. You know, Kanye was all in the news because he was selling his swastika t-shirts. Yeah, I saw that. But then there's another level you can go to, which is what this guy did. Swastika tat on the chest. Yeah, I see that. And he's Asian. That's interesting. That is interesting. Yeah.

Drugs are powerful, man. They'll just do things that...

You would never think possible. Like, he actually went to a shop and was like, right here, if you could... That's wild, but I'm surprised the shop did it. Usually they have limits. You can find people. You can find people in the tattoo world that are looking for it. Depending on the state, I guess. Sure. You could be like, hey, how about right here? I watched the Charlie Manson doc. Yes, I know. You know everything about your buddy Charlie now. Fucking... You want to talk about, like, the rascal of all rascals. It's Charles Manson. I mean...

It's really, really... Oh, I'm reading that book, Chaos. That's what the doc is called. That makes sense. It's the same guy. The guy that's in it is the author. Is the author, okay. That's why it makes sense, the CIA connection. Yeah, Tom O'Neill's the guy that they interview throughout. Yeah. It's really good. Yes. And basically, if you like conspiracy theories and there's got to be a motivation, what's the story behind the story...

this is the book or the documentary for you because the theory on this is like, okay, how did this guy, why would he do this? How does he, how do you get people to commit crimes for you? Right? Like that was, people always were like, how does he get his followers to kill people? And that's what the documentary and the book explore. It's basically Charlie Manson went to Northern California after he

He was let out of prison. He did like an eight, nine year bid in prison. And when he went to Northern California, it was the summer of 67. And this is as the explosion of summer of love and hippies and everything is happening, especially in Northern California. There's a health clinic that opens that starts, you know, basically providing services to these people. And one of the people there is a guy by the name of

Dr. Jolly, I think his name was Jolly Davis, Jolly West, that's it. And his nickname was Jolly. So this guy was doing kind of experimental stuff on people with LSD and hypnosis. And it turns out he was doing it because the CIA was paying him to do it. They were funding his research, which is the entire basis of the MKUltra program, which is pretty well known by people

which is the idea that you could build, you know, the Manchurian candidate kind of stuff, like get someone to be an emotionless killer and just have them be under complete mind control. He's doing this in this building where this clinic is. In the same building, you know who has an officer there? Charles Manson's parole officer. So Charlie is bringing people into this building who are both going to the clinic,

some would say under the oversight of Jolly West. And his parole officer is writing these incredible reviews about Charles Manson, even though he's consistently violating his parole. And they're talking about how well he's doing. So it's almost as if

The parole officer is doing this for another reason. Like, why is he writing that Charlie is doing so well and improving when he's clearly in violation of his parole all the time? Well, a year after that, Charlie comes back down to L.A., moves into the spawn ranch, has all these followers. He's drugging them with LSD. He's giving these speeches to them. He's doing sermons.

And shortly thereafter, he has this legion of followers who will do whatever he wants, including killing people. So it's exploring that entire story. And it's pretty crazy. Well, I'm reading the book. And it goes into great detail. The murder of Sharon Tate and the people in the house and how they did it. I mean, literally, the first, I'd say, quarter of the book is just outlining the brutality with which these people carried out. So I...

It's so hard to read. The doc, you know, it goes into really great detail about the murders as well and the investigation. And basically how lackluster the LAPD. Yes, they knew. They knew. They didn't get them. It took months before they even showed up at the ranch. And the second murder that happened. The LaBiancas the next day. They were just like family business owners. They weren't show business. They weren't like, you know what I mean? And the public word from LAPD.

was that they said the LaBianca and the Tate murders were not related at the time. This is what they put out publicly, and everyone was like, what? Yeah, it was the same style. They sure seem like they're related. Painted the same words on the walls. It's a mind fuck, the whole story is, but it's a really good watch. You know, Charlie Manson, usually you and I don't overlap in our interests of this nature. You're not interested in the Royals. Got it. Noted. I'm not always interested in murder.

But you and I and our Venn diagram of interests, I like Charlie. Maybe because it's an L.A. guy. Maybe it's that he's a unifier. Maybe the guy's actually... Yep. I mean, he's a pretty neat guy. He's a pretty cool guy. He's into peace and love and LSD. We both like music. He was a musician. He was a musician. Yeah. Well, so they say that he wanted to kill the Tates, right? Sorry, the famous guy. He didn't want to kill the Tates. No, he didn't want to kill him either. That's who he wanted to kill. The music guy that rejected him or something? Terry Melcher.

So the problem was that Terry Melcher used to live at Cielo Drive, the house that Sharon Tate was in. Charlie Manson sent them to kill him. All right. But he didn't know that he had moved. Not there anymore. So he told the people, kill Terry and kill anybody who's there. Well, they just showed up and just killed everybody who was there.

It was brutal. And the person who they didn't kill was the guy that didn't live there anymore, which was the guy they wanted to kill. Yeah. And they strung them up. You know that? The bodies hung them up. Who? The Manson killers. They strung up the bodies. I mean. They hung them up. Tate was on the floor. No, she was on the floor then when they found her, but they hung her up. I think they slit the bodies. They like hung them up in the rafters or something and did some shit like that. That's what it said in the book. Yeah. I don't know.

I didn't see that. Well, maybe they didn't detail it, you know? All right. This is the part I remember. Okay. What? Okay, I mean, yeah, sure. It was gnarly. And you know what, too, is that I...

Had a business meeting one time at this house, the Sharon Tate Murder House, because the guy is a big television producer of like a family sitcom show, bought the house, changed the numeric address. And I asked him, I was like, hey, just curious, why would somebody buy...

the Sharon Tate murder house. This is pretty notorious. And he goes, well, it turns out murder land is discount land. So instead of paying 6 million, I paid 4 million or whatever. And you're like, that really? Personally, I don't think I could live in that house, right? I mean, that land? I mean, you probably wouldn't want to, right? Like it's kind of bad vibes. That's the house. It's a beautiful home. Yeah. It was really nice, but like, man, that was a weird one.

That's the house now. That's the house you went to. Yeah, that's the house I went to. We had lunch. There was a butler that served us lunch. So weird. Very weird. It was super weird, dude. I was like, I don't know if I could work with this dude. But I had to go to the meeting because I'm like, it's at the fucking Tate murder house. And his big thing was like, this is discounted land. Yeah, he liked that there was a discount from the murders. It's wild, right? Yeah. And he said it so nonchalantly too. Like, no, I mean, you know, it's cheap.

Spoken like a true Hollywood guy. Yeah, that's a good producer right there. I was like, I will get this movie made. All right, let's take a quick break and then we'll be right back.

Hey, come on with it. Hey. Welcome back, and we are back with a very special guest. The last time we saw him, he was here just railing against the less fortunate. He was washcloths, and today he's here to talk about so much more. You know him from Shark Tank. You know him as the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and you know we're going to get into CostPlusDrugs.com. It's Mark Cuban, everybody. Hey.

Thank you for coming. Thanks for having me. Hey, any place that's got vodka on the table, at 10 in the morning, whatever it is, yeah. Would you like a glass with some ice? No, fuck no. No, no. Are you a drinker?

It depends on the moment. Yeah, I don't drink as much as I used to, but I'll find a reason to. Yeah, it's fun. I don't like to do it all the time, but this is ours. So this is like... Well, then you've got to do it all the time. We've got to do it, yeah. But I mean, you know... You mean by example, right? I try to. I try my best. Try to do it in the a.m., kind of power through the day. Right? Yeah, man. But I don't have a problem. No, that's nice. No, not at all. No. Look, man, I remember watching something once. It was an interview you were doing where you said...

Everybody who stops me on the street wants to talk about Shark Tank, and I just want to talk about basketball. Right. So let me lead. Oh, great. Now you want to talk about basketball. What the fuck happened, man? I have no idea. Wait, is that for real? No, I'm lying.

But like, it's beyond... If I had any influence, no, yeah. But just to lay things out for people who might not know. Because literally the last time I saw you, I think it was about Fresh News, that you had sold your majority shares in the Mavericks. In the Mavericks, yeah. And you're like, it's a great situation where I sold the team, but I still have operational control. Of basketball, yeah. That was the mission. But what part of basketball do you control and what do you not control? I don't anymore. And I haven't for a while. So you...

relinquished all of it. I didn't relinquish. They kind of... Muscled it out of you. Yeah, I wouldn't say muscled, but the majority owner, Patrick Dumont, decided that he was comfortable with Nico Harrison, the general manager, and the team he had put together, which is his choice. His choice. I mean, and you can't totally argue with him because we went to the finals. Yes. Now, I could tell you, but stuff, but...

Yeah, it was his choice, and he made his choice. And so I'm just a fan now. You were in the position of having some... Yeah, when I originally sold the team, that originally was the conversation. That originally what was supposed to happen. Okay. And then over time, and initially it was, you know, and then over time, it was like, okay, and Nico, we trust. And so here we are. So I have to imagine that in the... Of course, we're talking about Luca being traded, which was, I think in like, we're not, you know, sympathizing.

similar-ish. Like the biggest trade in American sports that I can... Like I remember Herschel Walker being traded. Remember that? When you're like, what the fuck? Yeah. It was crazy. That turned around the Cowboys. That was great. Yeah. But like...

I imagine your phone blew up a lot. Well, I was in Florida at a conference. And I don't know, 11 at night, whatever it was. Yeah, it was late. Yeah. And I get a text. And it was from our general manager. And I thought he was asking me what I thought. And then I realized very quickly he was telling me what happened. And I told him I didn't agree with it and da-da-da-da-da and various reasons. But whatever.

wasn't my decision to make. Wow. Yeah. And it, I mean, for people on the outside, I mean, I know people, a lot of people in Dallas, it was pretty well reported. They're very, we're very upset. Oh yeah. My family, my, my daughter was at a party and, you know, had to hide when it came out. Oh yeah. It was, and still like I was at here at South by Southwest. Um, I was at the premiere of the accountant too. Great movie, by the way. And somebody started yelling fire, Nico. Yeah.

Wow. You know, I mean, it's like the new let's go, Brandon. Yeah, exactly. But this is like, it's so insane to people that when you have, I mean, Luca's a legit like generational talent. You don't have to convince me. Yeah. I mean, I don't get it either. You don't get it either. No.

And it is one of these things that, as people have said early on, time will tell. Yeah, that's the way all trades work. Look, 2004, I let Steve Nash walk, and he won two MVPs the next two years. But the good news was he beat us in the playoffs the first year after he left the team.

And then we made it to the finals and won a championship. So it kind of covered all that. Is it hard being in that position to go, you know, this guy, you like the guy, you go, this is a skilled guy, but you have to look at a team's needs. Yeah, it is. Right. Because you develop personal relationships with them. And I love,

Luca, right? You know, we weren't best buddies, but I would text him all the time and DM him and, you know, try to, you know, I would give him all these motivational quotes, even gave him books to read and stuff to read, you know? And so we had a good relationship, got along great with his dad. I mean, I was just as dumbfounded as everybody else. Yeah. And then the current rumor mill is that they're going to look talking about waving Kyrie.

Yeah, man. You don't watch the rumor mill? I don't watch the rumor mill. Yeah, man. No, there's no... That'd make no sense whatsoever. Well, the first one. What? Fucking Luca going. Well, yeah, but, you know... Okay, you're right. That didn't make sense to me either. And I love Kyrie, too. Maybe they're just trying to get rid of the people I like. Maybe that's the whole mission. Somebody comes in, takes over a company, gets rid of the old guys. Maybe you need to do some reverse psychology and talk about...

How awful they are. Yeah, yeah. I love Kyrie, actually. Yeah. No, I mean, he's amazing. He's a good dude, too. Amazing talent. Both those guys are really good guys. All right. Now Christina's like, all right, I don't know anything about basketball. No, I know this guy, Luca, because he's my tribe, right? What is he? Slovenian. Yeah, Slovenian. Yeah. I get it. I don't know.

speaks better spanish than english too seriously yeah yeah front door yeah seriously yeah when he was 13 he moved to spain yeah didn't know the language learned it speaks english slovenian all these yeah isn't that crazy yeah but i mean it was like that too with italy right yeah yeah um i'm excited i really want to see this guy like i'm so excited to watch what happens

I'm such a fan of his and this story. I mean, I just want to see what... I know we're not allowed to cheer for the Lakers here, but I just want to see what happens with him. Yeah, it's just brutal. It's painful no matter how you look at it. Yeah. All right. It's like talking about the... Yeah, it's just... Yeah. Like a pet dying. I know. I'm in mourning kind of still. I understand. Hopefully...

But they paid me to buy the circus. And so, you know. That's true. I just look at my bank account and feel better. There you go. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. Hell yeah. Let's talk about money. Let's talk about rich guy stuff. Well, no. It just is what it is, right? You know, I sold for a reason. And, you know, nothing more I can say about that. I mean. Yeah. Yeah. It's what it is. Can we ask you a rich guy question, though? Sure. So.

It's better than being asked poor guy questions because I used to get asked those too. Yeah, true, right? Nothing worse than being poor. Yeah, I've been there. We've been there too. Is there any secret rich guy stuff that people should, what I mean is everybody knows about bigger homes, planes, boats. Like that's like the accessible stuff. But I think the exciting thing is to learn that there's some secret shit you don't know. Oh, there is. Yeah. Like it makes ugly people handsome and pretty. That too. Right? Yeah.

That's it. No, I know what you meant. No, no, no. Jamie Foxx said it great. He goes, there's a fame mist. Once you become famous, people like you a lot more. It's the same with money, yeah? Yeah, I mean, they go hand in hand for the most part. Maybe the level of fame isn't the same. But yeah, I mean, people, when you're on these lists and everything, people know who you are. Right. And they treat you differently. And that's probably the hardest part. And that's why, you know,

I can go places and say, hey, hey, hey, hey, that's Mark, da, da, da, da, da. You lose your anonymity for better or worse. Right. And then you also develop...

some skill for reading whether somebody authentically kind of no because i'm not looking for new friends really so you're just like yeah good you know my friends are my high school buddies my college buddies my rugby teammates you know the people want my roommates from dallas when i moved to dallas all the same people you know um guys i played basketball i mean you know i've been around long enough that i've got you have your core group of friends i've got you know

three kids 15 18 and 21 and that's kind of all your your focus and your your mental focus your emotional focus and everything so yeah that's true because you are from pittsburgh you grew up working class yep so you grew up hustling i remember i read this thing that you when there was a

newspaper strike. Yeah, that's funny. Someone else just asked me about that an hour ago. Tell the story. I want to hear that. So in Pittsburgh, it was the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Press were the papers. And if I remember right, they were both printed the same place, so they went on strike. And so there were no newspapers. And so I had a 1966 Buick LeSabre, a big old boat. And me and my buddies piled into the car and drove to Cleveland.

And back then the newspapers were like a quarter each or whatever. I don't know. And so we had, you know, rolls and rolls of change. And we just went to, we waited for the new papers to come out and we went and hunted down every Cleveland plane dealer truck that we could find and just tried to buy out and bought out literally all the papers that would fit in our car.

And so we then drove back to Pittsburgh and stood on the corners in the morning because we went, you know, midnight the night before, got back to Pittsburgh, you know, six in the morning. And I remember standing downtown, you know, papers for sale, papers for sale. And instead of it being a quarter, they were a dollar each. And people would tip us just because everybody got all their news from the newspaper back then.

Wow. How old were you? 16. So this entrepreneurial spirit is just in somebody, right? Yeah. For me, it's been since I was nine, 10 years old. I wonder, cause you mentioned that like you have three kids that are like 15, 18, 21. And there's gotta be a thing when your dad is super successful and it's also super public. Yeah.

like, how do you deal with like a kid being like, it's hard. What am I going to do? Right. Yeah. It's hard. Right. And you know, you try to just let them be themselves. And I try not to say, you've got to go in this direction or that direction. Like I was talking to one of my kids about college the other day. And it's like, you don't have to know what you're going to be when you grow up. Yeah. Even, even put aside, you know, our financial situation at

I don't think any kid should be under the pressure at 18 or 22 when they graduate from college to know exactly what they're going to do. And everything's changing so rapidly from a technology perspective, just the world in general. So just be curious. That's what I try to get them to do. Be curious so that you always want to learn something, figure things out.

be, you know, the more knowledge you have, the more, not power, but the more capabilities you have and the more options are available to you. And so I try to, you know, my wife and I try to really let them be themselves. Yeah. You know, and there are times though, you know, which I hate where my kids are like, no, we don't want you there, dad.

There are times like both of my younger kids play basketball. And they know if I go to a basketball game, the other team will come up and take pictures and this and that. So I'll come up like, yeah, that's tough. I hate it. Or no, we don't want you there, Dad, because it'll make a scene for whatever reason. I'm like, that's brutal. That is brutal. But

But at the same time, I understand it. Yeah. Now, most of the time, I still show up. Yeah. Come in the side. Back door or whatever. Yeah. But it sounds like you're, I mean, it just sounds like you're so grounded. But how? You're like this crazy billionaire. Yeah.

I mean, you're not crazy. Not crazy, but like crazy amount of money. I'm saying. No, it is an insane amount of money. That changes people. Like we've seen it in our business. People can go nutty because the bar gets raised on reality. You know what I mean? Like really? But you can choose to, I think the thing is that money allows you to have the choice. Yeah.

Yeah, no, no question. Like I've been in situations where, you know, I've been out and my credit card got taken, you know, I've come home and the lights are off and all that stuff. Right. Um, hold my forebore in my car, all, all the stories of when you're broke, you know, and, and,

But my attitude has always been if you were happy when you were poor, you're going to be happy when you're rich. If you were miserable when you were poor, you're going to be miserable when you're rich. Miserable people just stay miserable no matter what the circumstances. And I tried to be a fun guy, enjoy my life when I was broke. I was sleeping on the floor of five roommates in a three-bedroom apartment and had a blast. And I just always felt like when it's weird when you've

first make money it's like okay what am I gonna buy so I bought a plane you know and fuck yes that's awesome can you just give us a good like can you first of all be a bro and just kind of talk about how it wouldn't be a poor idea for me to invest in an aircraft

I think it's brilliant. That's what I'm talking about. Here's the thing. This is what we're going to do. I'm going to clip this out and I'm going to send it to my business manager. Let's start from the beginning. Mark, do you think I should get a plane? How could you not? Of course. Brilliant. The time that I save is money in the bank because you are an earner. You are an entrepreneur. You create wealth and the more time you have, the more money you'll make for your business partners.

You are doing it not for yourself because you are not selfish like that.

You are doing it for them. You need a plane, not because you need a plane, because you care so much for their future. Oh, I like that. That you are going to help them grow their net worth. And you are going to put, because most people wouldn't buy the plane. Right. Most people might just stay at home, put on a Netflix show, work out, whatever. But not you. I'm out there grinding. You're grinding because you are a grinder. And with a plane, right?

Grind even harder. Your grindability is multiplied. That's what's up. And then your wife can take that plane wherever she wants. Oh, hell no. That ruins all that. Josh, you know where to clip it. You got it. I got to go to LA for the day. Right? Yeah. Fuck yeah.

Can I ask you what, did you read a lot? How did you learn? Are you reading Napoleon Hill? Who are you reading? I read your book. Me too. How to win the sport of business. Yes. Short and sweet. Yes. But you know what? It's so informed. First of all, it gets, it got me fired up. It's called how to win at the sport of business. It's like 64 pages. It's great. Um,

The thing that I also get is so many people, you'll hear this thing your whole life. You hear like, man, if I had a million dollars or whatever they go, you'd never see me again. And then you see these guys like you

super successful guys who you're like, hey, how come you're working? You're like, because that's like my life. That's what I like to do. That's what you enjoy. Yeah. But, you know, I love to read, right? To this day, you know, reading, driving around, listening to motivational speeches. Who are you reading? Tell me. Who do you like? There's not anyone. Like now I just read about artificial intelligence and health care. Yeah.

You know, it's not like, oh, I've got this great fiction guy or, you know, this, you know, biographer. But like when I was just getting to Dallas, I drive around listening to Zig Ziglar, the same motivational tape all the time. Zig Ziglar. Over and over. And I drive by the big houses, you know, just this is the motive. Yeah, there you go. Zig Ziglar, my man. Yeah.

Great name. Yeah, what a great name. And so it was just anything I could do to get motivated because the way I always look, particularly in technology, right? The way I always looked at tech was there was the person who or people who created it and then there was everybody else. And I was tied with everybody else.

And so if I put in the effort to learn it, that put me ahead of everybody else who was selling it, integrating it, doing whatever. So it was just a question of effort. And that's the way I've always looked at business. If I put in the time, like healthcare with costplusdrugs.com. Oh, you can't disrupt pharmacy. Well, we have. This is a brilliant business. No, it's killing it. It's killing it. It's called costplusdrugs.com. And most people, when you go to the doctor and get a prescription-

And the doctor just says, okay, you need this prescription. What pharmacy do you use? And that's it. And you have no idea if you can afford it. You don't know what your copay or your deductible or your coinsurance is. If you have insurance or if you have high deductible or no insurance, you're screwed, right? Because you have that fear of walking up. Like I was saying, when I was broke, if I needed a prescription, it's terrifying to stand in line. So what we did at costplusdrugs.com,

We decided to bring some transparency. So you go to costplustrugs.com. You put in the name of the medication that you need, and we carry about 2,500 of them. Not all of them, but we're getting there. And first thing that comes up is our cost. We show you what it costs us to buy. What it costs you. Yeah, what it costs us to buy. And so put in Tadilafil, T-A-D-A-L. It's generic Cialis, and I know you want to know what it costs. Hell yeah, dude. T-A-D-A something like that.

Tadilafil. So you see, for five milligrams for a 30 count, so a whole month, it's only $6.60. And that's including our 15% markup. And then I think that includes our pharmacy fee as well. So then it's $5 for shipping and handling. So for $11.60, I'm just telling you, you could get 90 of them. Click on 90. Click on 90. 90 count. Okay. For $9.70, which costs less?

A big bag of M&M's or now 90 generic Cialis. Dude, look at the comparative price. Retail price with other pharmacies, $920. Yeah, but that's not even the point. The bigger point is what brings more joy to your day? An M&M sitting next to your bed or generic Cialis? Just Cialis. That's what I'm saying, right? I start my day with this. You know how the birth rate is declining in the United States? That's what we're here for, to increase the birth rate. I love it. So everybody out there,

Get your prescription for Tadalafil or whatever. Can I tell you something about Tadalafil too? Some people are really married to this idea is that you pop one before you're going to have intercourse. What I like to do is pop it in the morning and just see where the day takes me.

I love going to the urinal and being like, look at this guy. It's way more than I thought. It's like Morty Wood is back. It's back. It's back. It feels great. See, that is the whole mission, right? We are here for every guy of a certain age to have a smile on his face in the morning. And by the way, if you're going to go sit with the boss and you're asking for a raise, it's way better to do it with a chubby than fully flat. Right? You feel like you sit up and we'll talk. And when you get that plane, let me tell you.

Let me just tell you. What about the yacht? Do we do the yacht? I'm not a yacht guy. Not a yacht guy. Because you're stuck. Did you ever charter one, though? Yes. And you enjoyed it or no? My family did. Me, not as much. You, not as much. Yeah, me, not as much. Why didn't you like it? Because I was disconnected from everything. Wow. I don't like that. You know, I'm...

I run all my businesses 95% via email. And so when I'm disconnected, so I can get caught up and put my phone down. That's fine. Right. But if I don't know how far behind I am, that's just anxiety for me. And does somebody, everybody like when there's a thing where,

No matter who you marry in this world, there's things you accept about a spouse, right? Yeah, of course. Your wife just has accepted from the beginning, like, this guy works. Yeah, she's very independent. She's super smart, independent. So it's more like...

My wife is doing her thing. Oh, her thing. Yeah. And I can either come along. Okay. It's up to me. Right. She's not waiting on me. That's why I love her. Cause she's like strong. Um, she does her own thing. Um,

She's got things that, you know, her responsibility in the house. I don't touch it. You know, there's just certain things that I know that that's Tiff's. Yeah, I think that's a good way. It's kind of how you have to if you're married to a highly motivated, career-driven man. The woman has to be able to do her own thing. Well, in this case, she's more motivated than I am.

You know, she really, I mean. What is she into? What does she do? Tennis. Oh, I like that. Yeah, kids. Yeah, family. Different stuff. Yeah, charity stuff. That's nice. Yeah, but she's on the go all the time. That's awesome. Do you have a, because the show, obviously, Shark Tank is a worldwide global phenomenon. Sure.

Do you have an immediate bullshit meter thing that goes on when it starts? Oh, yeah. What's your tell that you're like, this is some bullshit? You know, the number one tell is when they talk about, well, if you only get 1% of this billion-dollar market. Oh, okay. Because everybody says that. The valuation is just...

Well, no, like if I get 1% of a billion dollar market, that's $10 million in sales and it's only $100,000, but you're not going to get 1%. So that's the number one thing. But literally the hardest part of Shark Tank is coming up with something to say to go out. So the minute they come on and they start talking, I'm not looking for reasons to go in. I'm looking for reasons to go out. And because I've done too many deals, but-

once they, but then sometimes it'll just be like, no, I got to do this deal. So really, yeah. And you just, everything lines up for you. Not everything, but you know, I ended up selling myself. It's like, okay, they're not good at a, B or C, but I'm really good at a, B and C. So if we combine forces, um,

And I'm wrong probably half the time. But it has to be. Well, that's interesting. You're wrong half the time. Do you think that accepting failure is part of why you're so successful too? Like do you just move on? Well, you've got to. Yeah, you've got to, right? Because if you're not failing, you're not trying. I mean, it's cliche-ish, but it's true. You know, you've got to dive in and try things and see what happens and –

You know, that's okay if it doesn't work. Because especially in investing, you know, you want your wins to cover all your failures. Like down here in Austin, I'm going to see the guys from Beatbox Beverages. You know, they were a Shark Tank company and they're just crushing it.

They went from struggling initially when they came on the show to through more effort on their own to now being hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and being worth hundreds of millions of dollars as a company.

So that's awesome. And that's a, that's a shark tank. Yeah. Like dude wipes, bring up dude wipes. Same thing. Yeah. Dude wipes is a major brand. Now everybody knows what dude wipes is. They're marketing and everything. That was a shark tank deal. No way. Yeah. I'm the only investor that they've ever had. It was Brian and Sean and crew. Um, and like I gave him, I forget maybe, um,

$200,000 for 15% or something like that. And they're worth hundreds, probably half a billion dollars. Wow. So is that your biggest success? Is that the biggest one? Those two are the biggest. Another one, Mush Oats is crushing it. Dude Wipes are everywhere, man. Everywhere. These guys are brilliant markers, both of them. We have Dude Wipes here. Yeah. I knew I liked you guys. Now we just got to get you some beatbox. Yeah, we'll get some beatbox in here.

Would you be interested, and I don't know if you're willing to take risks, in funding a porn shoot between a modest Walmart worker and a world-famous porn star to make a dream come true?

Have you gotten in that business yet? No. Okay. All right. No. Fair enough. He's looking for a way out. He was looking for an out. What on Shark Tank, what is the dumbest pitch you've ever heard? His brain right now is shifting. So many. So, so many. Like there was one that came on years ago called Tail Lights.

And what it was, it was like a circular thing that had little lights flashing. And it was meant to be attached to the back of someone's jeans for a girl teenager in particular, because, you know, shake your taillights. This guy thought it was a great idea and it was great TV. And so he had a girl, 16, 17 year old girl who turned out to be his niece.

And so I said to the girl, I'm like, would you wear this on the date? And she was just so conflicted because her face just dropped because it was a horrible idea. Nobody's going to wear it on a date. They're probably long gone. But yeah, that was one of the worst. Fart candles. Oh, what? Hold on. Now you're speaking our language. There you go. Right. Yeah. No different flavored candles, but like, you know. Fart candles. Yeah. Spencer. Yeah.

exactly and when you shart instead of fart dude wipes dude wipes there you go so you get both covered you get two for one i can't believe you didn't do fart candles no there was like awakened bacon like in the early days of shark tank there were a lot sillier because people didn't know who we were what it was there was another one where um there was an alarm clock that made bacon so you were waken to bacon that's pretty rad yeah it was funny as hell but you know what if it caught

fire or whatever. Yeah, sure. Your hair's on fire. That's hilarious. How do you keep the bacon fresh, too? Like, what? There's so many problems. You know that also to develop the prototype, that guy ran that thing. Oh, the guy was great. The Waken Bacon. The Waken Bacon. Is he still? Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

He was like, his whole story is like Mark Cuban told me no. Season two. Yeah, that's when I was on as a guest. That's hilarious. Oh, my God. And then there's the ones that should have been good. Like there's one breathometer. And it was great. It was a personal alcohol detector to tell your blood level. This guy, right? And made perfect sense. We all got in. You see a picture of me and him.

I started looking at his Instagram feed right after we gave him the money. We gave him a lot of money. And he's on this island at this party and this party. And I'm like, dude, right? What are you doing? What are you doing? You're supposed to, oh, I'm marketing. The whole thing crashed and burned. It had other problems. But it was such a great idea and it just didn't make it.

Yeah, and also, you can also see the ones too where I've seen ones where you guys are super competitive. Like you guys are really wanting it. And then the person...

just talks themselves out of any deal, but also doesn't then take the business into something. Like, like sometimes people go, I don't want, I'm just actually not going to do this deal with you guys. Right. And they're able to have their business still succeed. Right, right, right. But the ones who kind of self implode after it, that's a bummer to watch. No, I mean, and it happens, right? Because there's, there's people that in life to office shark tank where you oversell,

And there's times that we'll say to them, just shut up. You have our interest. And the more you talk, the worse it gets. You're talking yourself out of the deal. It's like a guy trying to get laid. Right? Goddamn, yeah. Say anything. Just shut up. Shut up. They don't want to give away equity. That's always the thing. You're talking about the guy trying to get laid? No. I'm still working on that, bro. There's a new angle, right? That's a new angle. Yeah.

They never want to give anything to get stuff. Well, no, and that's also a tell, right? So when a company comes in and they want $500,000 for 2%, they know how the game is played. And what's worse is they practice their pitches over and over and over again with the producers. Because it's hard to come on knowing you're on national television and millions and millions of people are going to be watching. So they practice it. And part of it is what your ask is.

And so the producers basically can't specifically tell them yes or no, but they'll say, when you're practicing, this is probably better. And they'll practice it. So it was $100,000 for 3%, right? I'm like, okay, you can get along with that. And then they'll come on and say $500,000 for 2%. Oh, in the moment, they'll switch it. In the moment, they'll say it. And we're just like, no, it's not, you know. It's not worth your time. No, that's like a $25 million valuation. You have $17 in sale.

You love your company, but it's not going to work. Yeah, delusional. One of the things I've always, because I've heard this topic discussed so much, but I've never actually had the conversation with someone, is there's this thing related, I guess you could say, to the giving pledge, where super wealthy people pledge to give away the majority of their fortune. Right.

But how do you feel about, I've always wondered when you have the money, everybody wants to leave things for their kids. Right. Do you feel like you're throwing off someone's development? If you go like, by the way, one day you're going to get like several billion dollars. Well, they're smart. They know how to do the math. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My bigger worries, are they going to knock me off? Right. Right. Now,

No, it is something I think about. My wife and I talk about it all the time because how much is too much? Yeah. Right? But at the same time, you want them to be able to survive it. And so, like particularly when I sold the Mavs, I was like,

I kind of organized it so that they'll be okay, but not so much that they can just go buy planes and stuff. Okay, so it is a consideration. Oh, yeah, for sure. And then there's certain things that they have to do, certain benchmarks, graduate, not do certain things, and like that. Yeah, okay. Yeah, because sometimes you see, obviously, in the news, so-and-so inherited $40 billion. Yeah, and it's like,

it's scary. Scary. You know, because I don't want, you know, I've seen, you know, I've watched secession. Yeah. You know, you don't want, I don't want that for my kids and I don't want it to be a battle. And that's one of the reasons I sold the Mavs. Yeah. Really? Is it really? Yeah, for sure. Like all the backlash from the Luca trade. What if they made a mistake like that? They took over and they made a mistake like that. And they're just, you know,

They may not have a problem with it, but it would tear me apart. And I want them to go on their own path. Yes, that's the part I'm thinking of, just the path. Yeah, whatever it may be, I want them to be themselves. I don't want them to be Mark Cuban's kid for their entire lives. Well, I think that there's an amount of money that somebody can inherit where you have just

distorted the path. Yeah, because 100%, right? Because at some level, you want them to understand the value of money and not just to be something that's just there all the time because why not? Yeah. Mark,

Have you had fun with your money? Yeah. What's the best? Tell me the fun stuff. I mean, owning the Mavs, winning the championship, running on the court on the game winner, no longer stressing about bills, being able to go...

I mean, even like when I was younger, before I had a B next to my name, I bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines and just being able to be at a bar, meet somebody, or call a friend and say, let's go to Barcelona. Let's go to wherever. Yeah, I mean, but more... You doing prompt-to-trips a lot?

Not so much anymore because of the businesses and kids, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But at one point you were like, let's just go. Oh, let's go. When I was single, it was like, hell no, let's go. And it was just like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom all the time. But now it's just more like stress reduction. I can focus on my kids, focus on cost plus, and it opens the door. I would say it's not so much the impromptu stuff that's rewarding, but with cost plus drugs, I'm getting emails almost every day saying, you know,

I'll tell you when I got two weeks ago where somebody sent me an email saying I have cancer. And when I went to the pharmacy, they told me it was going to be nine hundred dollars a month for this this medication I needed. And I literally decided that I'd rather die sooner than put the financial stress on my wife and family.

And then I found out about costplusdrugs.com and instead of $900, it was like $73. And now we can afford it. Crazy. That shit feels good. That feels good. That feels really good. And that happens all the time. I had a friend from college and they got in touch with me and he was on this drug, droxodopa, and he lost his insurance. And he called up the local pharmacy, one of the big chains. It was going to be $10,000 every three months. Our price is $73 a month. And it's gone down since then.

And so when I was in Nashville and somebody walked up to me and just started hugging me and crying. Oh, it's so nice. I mean, what's better than that? I mean, this system is so fucked up. It's so fucked. But we're fixing it. Yeah. We literally are changing it. Wow.

How do you wind down at night? You sound like you're pretty mentally active. What is down to... For a guy that's so driven, and I don't think there's anything wrong, by the way, with the fact that somebody loves to work and loves to do things. I mean, it's not hard work. It's not like I'm sweating my nuts off all day all the time. No, I know, but I'm saying, here's the thing. You love being in the game. And for you, the thrill of competition exists in business. And you want to get involved. I get it. I totally get it. But is there a...

fun thing that's not working? Yeah, I go to the gym. I work out. Yeah, I hang out with my kids. Go do their, you know, go to their games. Do you guys do family trips too? Not so much because they're teenagers. They decide, right? Oh, right. You know, but when we could force them to go, they call it force family fun. So we got to force them for a while. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, I will. Oh, yeah. Right now they want to be with us. Yeah. Oh, they're six and nine. Six and nine. Oh, yeah. Perfect age. Perfect age. It's so fun.

We're going to go to London next week for Tommy's shows. And I like to travel with them. I think it's so important to learn the world. The six-year-old will still hold my hand. Oh, I miss those days. And you tell yourself, you're like, this isn't going to last. Oh, for sure. And my son gave me a hug. Any hug, right? My favorite word in the universe is dad. Yeah. Right? Just dad this. Even if it's dad, it doesn't matter. It's still, oh.

Dad. Are you a religious guy? No. No. No. I know you're Jewish. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm culturally religious, if you will, but I'm not going to services. No. And what do you watch at night? What are you watching? Not, you know, Mavs games, but other than Mavs games. Murder? You watching Charles Manson docs? No, no. I don't get into the docs. Yeah. I don't. You know, in the middle of Night Agent, I'm

What's that? On Netflix. I'll give you some better ones. Yeah, they're all good, right? Have you watched The Agency yet? No, but my wife did. The Agency is fantastic. For me, if I can't make it to the gym and I'm on the bike at home, that's typically when I watch shows. Just anything to distract me while I'm working out. Speaking of working out, if you're wealthy, is there any excuse to be out of shape?

Yeah, because some people go to dinners and go do all the fancy nine-course dinners that are 9,000 calories. But shouldn't – if somebody with those resources, isn't there like – you look great. Yes. Thank you. You take care of yourself. Shouldn't there be a certain bar where it's like after you get this many zeros –

Like next to your name, they're like, hey man, you got to start breathing. No, it's not even that because it's like I was fat for a while. I mean, definitely chubby. And it's because I was taking advantage of every opportunity. There were no nights off. It was just like going out. So I went from being like ripped to being, you know, porky pig. Yeah.

And it was just like, because I was going out and the pants were getting a little tighter. But then when you get older, it's more just because of age, right? Because the consequences are a lot worse. They are. And so it's like, okay, let me figure out what's best for me and the best way to stay in shape. And plus, I don't drink as much as I used to, and that just made it a lot easier. Yeah. Yeah. You like to drink. I like to drink too. But I got breast cancer, so now I can't. Oh.

I'm okay, though. I'm totally healed. I'm good. Oh, good. Good, good, good, good. But yeah, it's a carcinogen. I'm so bummed because I love alcohol. You know, there's a lot to be said for it, especially when there's a bottle right here. Your willpower is really good. What did you drink? What was your jam? Usually just beer, Bud Light, Miller Light. You are from Pittsburgh. Yeah, right. Iron City Light if I'm in Pittsburgh. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. But then Tito's and Soda. Okay.

But only because of the calories, not because I'm a big, you know, I'm not a wine drinker. Osos and soda. Osos and soda. Exactly. Texas made, by the way. All the better reason. I never heard of Tito's. I've heard of Osos and soda. By the way, Osos. When I drink alcohol, it's only Osos. And every now and then I'll add soda. Yeah, there you go. That's fine. I like it on ice too. But it sounds like you're not in the trap of like,

rich guy stuff where stuff isn't exciting anymore. Like for instance, we found that you can pay a Russian company to take you out on a boat and hunt Somali pirates. Is that something you would be interested in doing? Like to go shoot them and kill them? Well, here's the thing. It's just rolling the dice. So what it is, do they know that the Somali pirates have guns that can shoot back? Well, it's the, you know, you Russians are wild, bro. So what they do is you got to pay between 7,500 and I think $12,000 to

to go on a boat that will pass through the strait that usually has Somali pirates. Do they play Russian roulette while they're waiting? And then you just have there like a .50 caliber and like an RPG, and then they're like, if you see one, let her rip, you know? So, yeah. What the fuck? No, that is not like... You're not into that? Yeah.

forced family fun that's not the hey kids guys we're going that would be a fun they're only some molly pirates shoot away right they would love that or hunting endangered species you guys don't want to do that no see you're so grounded man that's that's the definition of grounded now i wanted to shoot some molly pirates the thing is that with the the i mean those are extreme examples but i think the thing that is like refreshing in a way is that

So many people or people that a lot of times have a lot of money, there's just like this entitlement that comes with it. Like I should be able to do it. And we see it. We see it, you know, very public people like that. That's just not my style. But I mean, there's a lot of people who think I'm a dick, right? And it's just like more, but I like to challenge people intellectually, right? I like to bully up, you know, not bully down. You get into some real X wars. You definitely have it out with people. You let people go.

Come back at me. Oh, yeah. I don't mind. Challenge me. If you can change my mind, fine. I'm here to learn. But I like that challenge. So that's probably my other time killer. But I'm more on Blue Sky now than I am on X. What's Blue Sky? Blue Sky is kind of an alternative. And I'm M-Cubing there. And they've got like 33 million users. It's a social media platform? It's like the guy who started Twitter started Blue Sky. Oh.

And it's more extensible. Yeah, Jack did, yeah. And so, yeah, I'm on there all the time. But it leans, where Twitter leans right, Blue Sky leans left. I got you. So if I want to argue politics, Republican politics, I'll be on X. If I want to, you know, argue or support Democratic politics, I'll be on Blue Sky. And is it completely like,

Far-fetched to believe that you would run for office? Yeah, completely far-fetched. Completely. No. I wouldn't put my family through that. That's the real reason. But without the family... Oh, yeah. If I was single, I'd be like, let's go. Let's go. Yeah, let's go because, yeah, it didn't matter. Yeah. That's so true. Wow. It just destroys your private life. Terrible. I mean, yeah, I have no private life as it is, but just like...

the grief. I mean, I sold the Mavs cause I just told you, I didn't want them to go through the shit. Right. Yeah. Now imagine running for president. Oh my God. There's nothing that can prepare anyone for that. No, no, no. You know, and I could deal with it. Yeah. I could deal with it, but it's not even a job that I really want. Yeah. You know,

And plus with healthcare and the thing we're working on there, if I can change healthcare, I'm happy with that. Because no one likes healthcare the way it is. No. Right? So it's like, okay, that's a win. That's good for the legacy. What's your thing on... Because you've also been pretty outspoken about AI, right? Uh-huh. So there's so many possibilities. Yeah. There's no limit. There's no limit. Like in our business, there's a lot of...

I would say on the creative side, there's a lot of apprehension, resistance. People are not thrilled with the idea. No, it should be the opposite. But they're not because what, what the reason, one of the main reasons is that, you know, like studios, for instance, could and have had AI do treatments, write-ups of things where writers then see this as like a threat. Because you still need to be able to tell a story. Yeah. And you still need to know the beginning, middle and end. True. And you still need to know your audience. Yes.

And AI can propose a million things in a second. But then somebody's got to go through and decide what they're going to put their money into. AI is not going to hit your bank account and produce a movie for you, produce a podcast or whatever. Sure. And using the technology, you guys could extend. So have you guys looked at Notebook LM? No. Oh, my God. So bring up Notebook LM, the podcast feature. Okay. It is insane. Yeah.

So literally like you've got your rundown list, you could feed your rundown list into it and have it go look up things and do summaries of all those things and then have it create a podcast. And the podcast sounds like,

Wait, I don't understand. So like I'm into listening to an advice podcast. I'm listening to Joe Rogan. I'm listening to whatever murder podcast and it mashes the three together. No, no, no, no, no, no. So like you just want to do a general podcast like this about all the different topics, like a traditional radio show type thing. Right. And you take your rundown list like you guys have. Oh, and you know, like you guys had all your topics. And so all your topics. Right. And then you send it out and say, do the homework on these with, um,

We should do that. And then put it in there and it'll have these two people talking just like we're talking. Oh my God. Oh, and it's insane. It's insane. Like for business, it's great because like you can take your training manuals, your onboarding manuals, all these different things. And because kids particularly, they don't want to read. They just want to listen. So you can be walking, taking your walk or on a bike or whatever and listening to, you know, your training guidelines. That sounds like a regular podcast. Yeah. And make it entertaining. Yeah.

But that sounds kind of scary on one end, but you can start training it to do the things that you want it to do with your voices. So if you wanted to pick the topics and fill in the information you want discussed in this podcast, instead of having one and the show's the way you have now, you can add a thousand of them.

That's amazing. Yeah. And I mean, it's just, what's this? This is an actual audio example of it. Uh-huh. Ever feel like you're just drowning in information? Oh, tell me about it. These are research papers, articles, like even a whole shelf of books on one topic. Right. And you just need to like get a handle on it all. It's a struggle. Yeah. And there's got to be a better way. Oh, there definitely is. Well, that's what we're diving into today. Okay. Notebook LM. Interesting. Oh my God.

It's this experimental AI research assistant thing Google's come up with. Really fascinating stuff. Literally, so you know, these are not real people. These are AI voices. These are AI voices that could be your voice. Let's do a YMH one. We should do a full episode. With our stupid topics. Yeah. When you're in London, we just put out this. Yeah. Yeah.

A rundown. Tom took a shit today. It's insane. Do you then, I mean, it feels like the natural thing for anybody in business to do is figure out how AI can help these different parts, right? Yes, I mean, look what you're using right now, right? So, you know, you guys have been in radio and the industry forever, right? And think going back when you had your first

you know, used to be they played records. Yeah. And there was a DJ that just spoke. And then all of a sudden there were the different playback systems, right? Yeah. And then you had editing and then, you know, the DJs were editing right on the spot, different songs. Technology's influenced every industry always. And, you know, it,

It's no different now. But the difference is, like going back to PCs and then software and going from analog to digital, you could try and kind of extrapolate where things were going. With AI, there's no way you would have anticipated what we just heard. Right. You know, and it goes into a thousand, a

a zillion different directions. Are you investing heavily in AI? Yeah, I mean, but more importantly, just trying to learn it. Learn what the possibilities are. Right, because like for kids, they're going to grow up, this will be native to them. For us, we've got to put in the effort to learn. But like on my Instagram feed now, it used to be, you know, sports, sports, sports, sports, business, but whatever. Now it's,

AI hack, AI hack, AI hack, AI hack, new AI software, new AI software, because it's changing so rapidly. But to me, it's fun. It's fun to learn. That's very cool. We should have fun with that. You can, right? So we're taking a break. Now we have, you know. You know what's interesting? I'm listening to you speak in the way that your mind works. It seems to me that you're always looking towards the future. Like you're looking for what's

Undiscovered yet. Is that how your business mind works? 100%. Yeah. You first want to bring it up. Steve Jobs called everything, said everything is a remix.

Right. Well, you take what's already in place and then you add whatever value you can add to it to get it to the next place. You know, when we started AudioNet, which was the first streaming company, it was like, OK, there's here's the Internet. And here's how we listen to Indiana basketball over distances because the Internet solves that, you know, HD. Well, here's high definition. It's all going TV's going digital.

And even though the first high-definition televisions in 2001 when we started HDNet were $25,000 for a screen like that, I knew the price was coming down. So it was just a question of when. Now with this, with AI, it's not a question of if it's going to change things. The only question is how.

And who's going to do it? And so by informing yourself, you can figure it out. Yeah, I can stay ahead. So I can say, OK, this is how this works. So now like what we just talked about, once I saw Notebook LM and the podcast feature, it wasn't OK, what's going to happen to podcasters? It was where are there situations where people don't want to read?

but like to consume information via audio and or video. Because when you talk to kids today, they're not big readers. You know, your kids aren't as much as you're going to want them to read. Yeah. More stuff is going to be, it's different, you know, and it's not that they're not learning. It's that they're learning differently. Right. And so for kids who are learning differently, what can we do?

I like that. I like that idea, especially shit that you don't want to read, like manuals to technical things. Well, even, you know, stuff like to get your rundown. So you literally could use Notebook LM and just Gemini or ChatGPT or whatever. And they have just

You can just list it and just say, do me a resource summary of all these topics using the latest news. Like ChatGPT has these task features where they'll go out and they'll look it up just like Google Alerts would work.

and you can have them summarize it for all the topics you're interested in or you can say give me the hottest 20 topics that are being discussed across the internet and see what it comes back with to see make sure you're not missing anything yeah right because it takes time for you to research all this and for sure you've got to dig in and you've got all your sources having a research assistant seems like a it's

brilliant. It's brilliant and it'll save you so much time. And so learning how to use these things. Okay, what are the number one trending topics on Twitter, on Blue Sky, on Instagram? What are the number one hashtags on Instagram? You do this? This is how you do your research? No, but I could. I want to know what allows me to do it. And so when I'm trying to look at

an industry or a company or I'm doing something, then I'll go on there and I'll, you know, now the research capabilities are just blowing up. It's moving so fast. So there's tools like deep research. I'll say, okay, tell me about this company.

Now it doesn't get everything, right? But it's just like if you hired a research assistant, they're not going to get everything, right? So if you have an intern here or whoever, and you're like your social media, whoever, you know, your producers, and you say, find me all the hot topics. And then you say, oh, I just heard about this. I was listening or I saw this and you add to it. It's no different. It's not going to be a hundred percent, but it's, but it saves you time. That's true. Dang, dude. What topic can you talk about forever?

Healthcare these days, I mean, I could go all day on healthcare. It's just like that's where my brain is right now because I want to change it. And everybody thinks it's impossible to change, but it's not. It's actually, healthcare is really simple. You go to the doctor and they prescribe you a medication or don't.

You go to the doctor, they say you're fine. Maybe you need some more care for whatever. And there's only two questions. What are they going to charge you and how are you going to pay for it? And those two questions have been so complicated by everybody that it's like, why is it like this? And so my whole mission, starting with Cost Plus, and we're doing this thing called Cost Plus Wellness for the healthcare side, is just to simplify healthcare by moving all these extraneous companies out. They must fucking hate it.

hate you. Oh, they hate me. They hate me. You should hear the shit they've said. But because they know that when you remove these pieces, it's actually not hard. Right. You know, and so now it's overcomplicated. It's overcomplicated. And the CEOs who run, who make the decisions on health, self-employed, there's companies that self-insure, meaning they don't use the insurance component of insurance companies. They take on that risk themselves. And

I'm going to them and saying, look, you're getting ripped off. You know, you're paying too much. You're not getting the care you need. You're getting pushed in these directions that you shouldn't go. And they're like, I didn't know that. And so I'm just spending all this time educating CEOs and each one that I get to change, I

is one step closer to the whole system. And so changing, that's what I'm doing. - That's an awesome mission. - That's awesome. - Yeah. - How would you change, this is completely not as important, but would you change anything in basketball today? - Oh, there's a ton of shit I would change. - What's like a top three or whatever, top one? - So people talk about too many threes. - That is a big criticism of today. - So the question is why?

if you're behind the three point line and you're shooting three, a defender, if they're even anywhere, if they're in the landing zone where your feet might come down, it's a foul. And that's three free throws. So in other words, the three point shooter is so protected that they can't even put their feet anywhere near, the defender can't put their feet anywhere near you. You go a

an inch inside the three point line, they can beat the shit out of you. Yeah. And it's called incidental contact, right? You get closer to the basket. The more, the closer you get, the, the, the more contacts allowed contact and abuse can happen. And so you've got to change that so that you call the game by the rules inside the line so that they're not so disadvantaged when you're shooting a shot inside the three point line. And to compensate,

say for that now you know they've let offend um offensive players like lower their shoulder and knock over defenders or knock them out of the way to get space and that makes the game worse too yeah so whenever you see a drive like jay shay gilchrist alexander you know most likely the mvp yeah he gets down by the free throw line boom he's lowering his shoulder and taking a step back and he's money yeah five years ago you couldn't lower your shoulder like that

And so we need some rule changes. You need some rule changes. Yeah. Um, so you know that to me that that's one of the biggest, um, you know, Adam Silver talked about shortening the game. I believe it. You believe it. Yeah, I believe in it. I really do because it's slightly yet to 40 minutes. Yeah. Because it's a commitment to watch a whole NBA game. And,

And we're so used to right now consuming NBA highlights on social media. Totally. Like your kids, if they're becoming sports fans, are they boys, girls? They're boys. Boys. Okay. So they're starting at your oldest is starting to get into sports and follow it. Right. And you're trying to keep them off of social media, but on YouTube, we'll see highlights and everything. Yeah.

Right. That's how they're going to grow up. Were you, you know, the three of us had family teams. Yes. You know, in Pittsburgh, it was the Steelers. It was the Pirates. Yes. No matter how bad the Penguins, you know, in Dallas, it was the Mavericks and the Cowboys. Now it's players on social media. Yes. And, you know, it's hard to commit to watching a full game. And if you look at ratings, there's an inverse relationship between the amount of actual playing time in the ratings.

If you watch an NFL game, there's 11 to 15 minutes of actual playing time. Like you can watch a play, go grab your dude wipes, run to the restroom, use a whole package of dude wipes, come back before the next play. It's crazy. You can't do that with the NBA. Do you think that there's a real possibility that that could pass that like, that they could reduce it? Not right. The second. No, but you know, the way Adam is and he's smart, the commissioner of the NBA, he socializes these things.

And then over time, and it just depends where the numbers go because we have a brand new TV contract starting next year with a lot of streaming providers. And it'll be really, really interesting to see how it all plays out. Now, one other thing we wanted to ask is that I really feel like when you ask people what's your favorite thing, there's always something...

false in there because people have this natural ambition to want to say the right thing or say the more impressive thing. I agree with that. And that being that way, I think one of the

one of the people that you can only get like the most honest takes from is somebody who can actually afford to get back it up. Yeah. So I wanted to ask a series of like, what's your favorite of this? Sure. Where you just tell whether it's expensive or not. So you're a basketball guy. Favorite sneakers. Um,

adidas adidas oh okay let's see them which ones oh there you go those are good because they're light for when i work with nike socks with nike socks that i get for free from the mavericks there you go but yeah so when i go um play basketball shoot baskets work out i like because they're lighter lighter okay feel good okay so there you go it's an honest take i believe you yeah t-shirt you're a famous t-shirt guy yeah do you have a favorite brand of t-shirts yeah um

I like t-shirt classics. And then probably, yeah, is that what I have? Yeah, and then I like Nike. I like this. So not $2,300 Loro Piano special. I do have some Loro Piano. I can never remember their name, but I do have some, but not for t-shirts. Okay. Right? I have them for like dress shirts. Oh, nice. Yeah, so they're my favorite dress shirts. There you go. Okay.

see what about like pants how do you pronounce it again Loro Piana Loro Piana Piana I never knew I just knew it was like the Italian company yeah yeah like suits and stuff where are you buying so I don't really buy suits so um when I'm shooting shark or was shooting shark tank um um

The wardrobe director would come in and say, okay, time for new suits. And they'd bring someone. They'd measure me. And I like Tom Ford because I don't have to wear a belt. That's why I like Tom Ford. That was the only reason, right? I don't have to worry about practical things because I didn't have to worry about bringing a belt. I like Tom Ford. Okay. Tom Ford suits. See, I believe you. I do. I believe you, Mark Cuban. It's the truth. You're very down to earth. I'm trying to find chinks in the armor. I'm not seeing any. This one means a lot to me. So please take your time. I'm really trying, you guys. Okay.

I think he's a good spirit. Car? Car. Favorite car. Do you want to know what kind of car I drive? Oh, shit. I think it'll upset me. Guess. By this smile, I know it's not cool. You're telling me like, hey, guess something that's not cool. Fuck. Is it like a Honda Insight or something? It's a Kia EV6. You're a Texan. What are you doing?

That's your favorite car? I like it. I have a Tesla that I haven't sold, but for a lot of different reasons, I went from the Kia to the Kia. And I've had it for more than two years now. This is it? This is it. That's the only thing you drive? Yeah. Get the... What? For real.

I like it. I'm comfortable with it. Okay. Oh, my God. What about, I mean, does your wife have a fancy car? Does she like something fancy? She's got a Range Rover. Okay, that's nice. That's good. A hybrid Range Rover. May I ask you the why? You've never gotten the supercar? Yeah, I've had a Hummer. I've had a Ferrari. Porsche. Lamborghini. Okay, all right.

Thank God. I was getting upset for a minute. But it was too loud. And it was just like, you know, those work as almost as well as Cialis. They can really get. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I mean, I had I had the Lamborghini recently and I got it because my kids gave me so much shit because Luca got one. Yeah. I got the same one. And it was the SUV. That's right. The Urus. Yeah. The Urus. Right. Yeah. And it was just too loud.

And I had to get gas every 17 minutes. And so it was just like, no. But it was a cool car. It was beautiful, but it was just too loud and

Too much of a gas hog. Yeah, my kids just gave me so much shit. And they would go, oh, Luca's yours. They were like, you just want Luca to be your fourth child, don't you? I don't blame you, dude. Yes, Luca got the car, you got the car. So wait, so tell me about the Kia. What is it? What do you love? It's all electric. It's all electric, yeah. And I just plug it in at night and it has 300 mile range. It's got stereo system is good. Dude, I just test drove.

the new all-electric Escalade, it has a 450-mile range. That's what I'm talking about, right? That's impressive. Yeah, because I'd look at that. I'm not like, I like the Kia, and it's cheap, right? It's not like the price matters to me all that much. But the other thing I liked about it, it doesn't try to be too fancy. Yeah. It's got like, your turn signal is like...

turn signal, right? Whereas on the Tesla, you've got to find it and push the button. And that's like, when you're driving, you can't pay attention to the road as much. And so, yeah, the best part is, so my 15-year-old is learning to drive now. He's got his learner's permit. And so, yeah.

We got my oldest daughter a Volvo when she learned to drive. And then when she went away to college, it was passed down to my middle daughter who is going to need it when she goes away to school. And so my son's talking about, okay, dad, here's the kind of cars I want. I'm like,

kia baby he's like it's not cool dad and i'm like it's a nerd car i'm like yes it is yes it is he wanted some cool shit yeah but when i came down to austin he was like dad um i need to because you guys get so many hours in yeah right you go dad you need to leave the kia so i can practice i'm like oh you're gonna practice on the kia so i had to take the tesla oh nice so you drove here

I didn't drive down to Austin. I drove to the airport. Okay, I got you. I have a plane, remember? Oh, snap. Oh, favorite plane? I've got actually the Bombardier and I've got a Gulfstream. My old Gulfstream that I bought originally. And so we kept it because the price was...

it wasn't worth selling. So as a backup, because the way the planes are, once they get a little bit older and the Bombardier is only like four years old, they have to go into maintenance more often. And so it's just easier to have. Four years, that's it. The fucking most baller shit I've ever heard is my backup plane.

I got a backup plane. Yeah, you know. Sometimes when this is getting detailed, I take my backup plane. What's your death row meal? My death row meal, probably a big ass steak. Nice. Huge mountain of onion rings. Yeah. And then just...

Something I'm just going to cover with cheese so it is like so slick. Slow the heart down. Oh, yeah. Do you get your steak Pittsburgh style? No, like I don't even eat red meat anymore. At all? No, like I was a vegetarian, straight vegetarian for a while, but I would starve when we'd go out to dinner. Like I was having to eat like only sides. Yeah. So I went pescatarian. Okay. Do you have a favorite fish? Salmon's probably, you know, sea bass is good, but mostly salmon. Okay. Okay.

Well, I mean, those are the most important questions I think anyone can ask. Yeah, I mean. We've covered everything. Everything. Your favorite movie? The Counting 2 now. The Counting 2. Shout out Ben Affleck. He was actually really good. Danielle Pineda. Danielle Pineda is in it. She's a friend of ours. She's a fantastic actress. Cool. I can't wait to see The Counting 2. It's actually really good. All right, cool. And go check out Mermaid. I know I need to, but don't bring the kids. Do not bring the kids. I mean, you can bring the 21-year-old. Yeah, bring the wife. Yeah.

All right. Date night film. Dude, it was a pleasure. Thank you for coming in. No, always. You guys are always fun. That's why I like to come back out here. It's so fun to see you. And don't forget, check out costplusdrugs.com. Look at what you're spending on medication. Yeah, whatever. If you have a prescription for anything, even if you have really good insurance, there's a good chance we're cheaper than your copay or your coinsurance. Yeah. That's awesome. Stick it to the man mark. Stick it to the man mark. Yeah. All right. We'll see you guys next week. Bye-bye.

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