Mark Cuban on Kamala Harris, Cost Plus Drugs, and the Dallas Mavericks

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Bakari Sellers is joined by businessman, TV personality, and part owner of the Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban to discuss the arc of his career (1:04), his transition to pharmaceuticals with his new business Cost Plus Drugs (4:34), and the challenge of raising good kids as a billionaire (13:19). Plus, where he stands on the electoral races in Texas and Massachusetts (15:34), why he supports Kamala Harris for president (26:22), and quick takes on the NBA and WNBA (32:53). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Mark Cuban Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.
0:07.0	I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.
0:15.0	And welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.
0:18.0	Today I'm actually in, where am I, what city, state, and my own?
0:20.0	I'm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
0:22.0	Tonight, having a in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
0:23.0	Tonight having a black man around table,
0:25.0	and as we chat, Kamala Harris is in Washington, D.C.
0:29.7	And she is preparing to come to Philadelphia
0:31.4	for her town hall with Anderson Cooper tonight.
0:34.8	And today we have the former owner of the Dallas Mavericks and currently he's doing something
0:41.2	which I can't even imagine.
0:42.4	I always thought
0:43.0	owning a professional franchise would be the epitome or pinnacle but cost plus drugs
0:49.1	is actually far cooler than that so we have Mark Cuba how you feeling today? I'm feeling good. I still want
0:55.6	27% of the math, so I just don't have the majority, but I still got a big old stake in it. So,
1:00.4	and Costa's drugs.com is killing it. So that's good.
1:04.0	But before we talk about politics, let's start there. Like, let's talk about the
1:08.5	arc of your career because you are known as one of the people who during the tech bubble in the late 90s was able to have some
1:16.2	similar success. What did that look like and what made you buy the Dallas Mavericks?
1:20.8	So I started a company with my partner Todd Wagner in 95 and it was called
1:25.8	AudioNet. We were the very first streaming media company, very first. And so we
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