Aloha and mamaste everyone and welcome Tim

politics with John Heilman a puck and odyssey joint featuring fresh topical

candid conversations with the people who roam the

corridors of power and influence in America from Washington to

Wall Street Silicon Valley Hollywood and beyond shifting and shaping the

warp and weft of our politics and culture. Without tooting our horns too obnoxiously our Top Flight, First Class, Blue Chip, USDA Prime Cut guests.

And today we keep that hot streak very much alive.

There are, in fact, very few people in public life who really merit the phrase,

Our next guest needs no introduction.

But I got to say that our guest today, actually, factually, does.

I first met Mark Cuban almost exactly 26 years ago just before the sale of his pioneering live streaming company

broadcast.com to Yahoo for 5.7 billion with a B dollars a sale that turned Cuban into one of the world's richest men and spawned

everything that would follow. His purchase of the Dallas Mavericks, an

emergence as one of the most colorful and controversial figures in pro sports his long running Emmy winning starring role on Shark Tank which came to an end last spring after 15 seasons

the far-flung array of investments and startups that he has gotten into from Landmark

Theaters, Magnolia Pictures, and HDNet, to his latest company that could change

the whole world of pharmaceutical distribution, cost plus drugs.com, and now his

latest role, we'll see if it's his greatest role as Kamala Harris's most

valuable and arguably most valuable supporter in the business world a symbolic

counterway to Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley Titans who have flocked to Donald Trump's side,

and a guy who's vast and avid following, social and mainstream media ubiquity,

boundless energy, inexhaustible appetite for attention,

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