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00:06:17.200and he's he's he's a business common man um and i i said yo what do i what do i ask kevin
00:06:23.740you know and so uh he told me to ask you about your routine yeah well mark and i get up at the
00:06:30.100same time 5 a.m 5 a.m and i work out for an hour right away um either i take my bike out on you
00:06:36.720know on the causeway or i take a cruise down the beach or something or i hit the machines but
00:06:42.160i'm reading stuff uh from five to six and then maybe i do a cnbc hit or something tomorrow i'm
00:06:49.200going to do good morning america but i want to be i want to be wired by the time i'm on television
00:06:53.980i want to be worked out and i want to feel you know healthy and he's the same way and that's
00:06:58.820we sort of got to know each other around that routine and i just think it's a good way to live
00:07:03.760because you get that time by yourself to do your stuff nobody bugs you nobody's up at five o'clock
00:07:09.480I am. And, you know, and I do a lot of work in the Middle East now, and I'm doing stuff in Dubai and Abu Dhabi and all these international investments. And people work 24-7 anyways. So you can get a lot done.
00:07:22.580What are you reading? What do you read?
00:07:23.960I read research that's sent out to me because my biggest business is financial services.
00:07:30.360And, you know, we make indexes for sovereign wealth and pension plans.
00:07:34.580So I got to know what's going on in the financial markets.
00:07:36.800But, you know, at this conference that we're all at here, Miami, crypto, Bitcoin 2022, for the first time on the first day, I looked out in the audience.
00:07:47.460It was all the giant institutional investors.
00:07:50.920They've never come to this conference.
00:07:53.960And I started asking guys, what are you doing here? And they're saying, we sense the world's changing. We see the policy coming. We see these senators showing up here. We know they're going to make this thing investable. It's going to be huge.
00:47:54.800You know, everybody calls me the mean shark, but I'm just telling the truth.1.00
00:47:59.700And if you can't handle the truth, the real world's going to bite your ass anyways.1.00
00:48:03.640When you leave the Shark Tank, if your deal sucks, it sucks.1.00
00:48:07.540And the reason it sucks, it's a bad idea.1.00
00:48:10.280And I'm the only shark to tell you, your idea sucks, it has no merit, you're going to go bankrupt, you're going to lose all your money.0.99
00:48:15.660And now that you're going to cry, like I'm your best friend.0.99
00:48:18.560i just saved you and you know some people can't handle it it hurts when you're invested personally0.95
00:48:25.640and you love something it definitely hurts to get i don't give a shit it's still a bad idea0.84
00:48:29.720yeah we've had there's stuff you haven't seen on shark tank where people they don't they lose0.98
00:48:34.980their shit oh they spaz out they should keep that in i feel like they should but they don't0.97
00:48:39.620and they can't take it and you know we have a psychiatrist on set for those moments when it1.00
00:48:44.680happens actually you actually have a psych yeah yeah we do throw a couple prozac i think i think
00:48:49.520producers are smart that way because you've been you've been waiting your whole life for that
00:48:53.400moment in front of the sharks and they don't bite they don't want to invest for whatever reason
00:48:57.320it's hard yeah and we should give you support but you know you got to deal with it that's if you're
00:49:02.320an entrepreneur you got to deal with failure i said that at the beginning when we start talking
00:49:05.920yeah that's what matters can you imagine going in for a shark tank deal and you leave and have0.99
00:49:10.000to get a lobotomy they strap listen we see some incredible ideas but we also see some dog shit i0.97
00:49:16.080was gonna say any anyone anyone come in there and pitch an idea and like you can't say it but in0.99
00:49:20.420your head you're like you stupid all the time i do say that i do and i say you know and it happens0.95
00:49:29.500sometimes we let them come back do you do it because it's good programming no or is this1.00
00:49:33.140i gotta be honest with you that you know we've been doing this for 14 years there's 20 plus
00:49:38.900cameras in there there's all the lights and everything we don't see that stuff anymore
00:49:42.580we're just so in the moment we're so into the deal and we just we start competing with each
00:49:47.880other it's a good deal and we're barking at each other and you know we we know each other so well
00:49:52.440that we just forget we're making tv and that deal might be an hour and 20 minutes long and they cut
00:49:56.260it down to eight minutes and you know barbara and i sit beside each other and you know we don't agree
00:50:01.040on anything and the only reason she gets to the set every year on time is i buy her a new broom1.00
00:50:06.060because she's a wish oh i didn't say that i said she needs a broom that's how she flies in it's
00:50:14.640fantastic but when i actually have beef in real life no she's a great we're both great cooks we
00:50:19.840meet up at her place um you know it's fun to have barbara cook for me it's fantastic i like her
00:50:25.140family we hang out all the time uh our crews work together all the time she's really uh has a she
00:50:31.800looks at things differently she's not into numbers she's into emotion so she'll say i don't care what
00:50:37.120i'm offering at what valuation i'm just going to do the deal and i look at her say barbara why are
00:50:41.100you doing that let me negotiate for you you got to stop talking like it's just but she just goes
00:50:45.960on her own way that's how it works i have a lot of respect for that no no no it was good it was
00:50:53.420it was good i swear no no no please please please oh it's good i have something no but it was
00:51:00.440important it was good it's got to be great it's important set up high expectations go go can i
00:51:05.640can i can i pitch you here oh can we do that yeah listen it could end badly no i won't because this0.63
00:51:11.880is a sure shot idea kevin i'm sure as shit this ain't this ain't going behind the barn dude all0.89
00:51:17.940right do you have pets i did have pets but i travel so much it's very hard funny you bring0.97
00:51:26.880that up kevin okay we look at our pets as family members right right our dogs are like our little
00:51:31.420brothers our little sisters right yeah love them we like to sleep with them they run around the
00:51:35.160yard we hang out with them all day it's a pet product you're pitching well it's a it's an
00:51:40.020infrastructure of sorts okay kevin when i want to go on a trip to new york city when i want to go on
00:51:45.300a trip to miami it hurts me that i cannot fly with my little brother my little sister my pet
00:51:52.000it's an age-old problem it's an age-old problem now of course the rich people can afford to fly
00:51:56.520private yes but there's a ever-growing upper middle class and middle class that doesn't travel
00:52:02.400because they can't bring their pets with them got it we at terrier terrier