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This is a downbeat on ninety seven
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controversy coming out of the Las Vegas
Grand Prix, which was late late late

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Saturday night early early Sunday morning.
A lot of you probably did not stay

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up for that, or maybe a
lot of you aren't typically too terribly interested

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in that sport as of yet.
But man, we've got something that we

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were going to play for you coming
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I don't know, it might make
you a fan of this sport because this

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is a big deal that happened in
the race the other night. Yep.

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It's got really cool local ties and
we've got exclusive audio to play. Yeah,

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and we'll do that at eight o'clock. There was an emergency and a

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local driver was in the field huge, a very old the oldest driver in

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is going to get to some exciting
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has for the city of Dallas in
the scuttle Butt. And look, if

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it is time for this brought to
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All the great things that you do,

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we support it. It's time for
the scuttle butt. Mike Siroy Hello,

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my name is Mike Siroy. Nok
To today usually handles the butt, big

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mind, but it's time for big
mon, Big Mike's butt, Big Mike's

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beautiful. But uh, this is
more a topic than a news thing,

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and I've realized that as I've handled
the butt last week and today, I

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don't know. We have Dingo's Morning
News and a couple news segments per day.

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It is certainly fine, but I
don't know. I kind of like

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larger topics. And as Danny said, if you do want to participate in

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this, when I think some people
will have thoughts for things to say.

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Two four seventy one jump in be
a part of this. I was,

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don't worry, it's not about car
racing, but I was watching the Vegas

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thing. And now every time you
see Vegas, whether it be that golf

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thing a few days ago, the
Netflix Cup, or the race, this

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damn sphere is stealing the show.
Now again, this is also not about

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the sphere. This is about Dallas. It's about ideas for our town.

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But of all the places on earth, for them to open up something new

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and it to just be the visual
focal point, Las Vegas is the hardest

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one. What on earth to do
it? I mean, you have so

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much candy to look at, but
you're gonna still open something up. And

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everyone's been like, good lord,
look at that, Like what an ambitious,

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crazy project that they did. And
it worked. Now financially did it

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work? I don't know. You
did the story about the CEO quit and

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they've lost a billion dollars or a
hundred million dollars whatever. I don't know

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anything about all that. All I
know is that every time I see a

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picture of that skyline, you can't
look away from that thing. It's so

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damn big, it's it's beautiful,
massive, It's just beautiful. Even the

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two year old is like, hey, look, daddy is a big ball.

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Yeah, there was a big ball. Marshaun Lynch during the golf tournament

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talked about the flashing egg. It's
awesome and it brings me back to something

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that I've thought for many years since
I've lived in this town that we need

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our sphere. And I'm not suggesting
we build a sphere, but if you

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want to build a sphere, fine, build the sphere. I don't care

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build sphere too, sphere too much
like Earth two, popular upcoming film from

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Soroy Pictures. Why don't we have
something like that? We need it.

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I'll tell you this. On the
very first circ Deceroy show I did with

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my brother Cash, I don't even
know what year it was, oh,

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nine, ten, whatever, I
remember, we were so nervous and we

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had so much stuff planned, and
one of them was something that we had

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talked about recently, and that was
we wanted them to rewrap the Ball of

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Reunion Tower with essentially what the sphere
is, granted a far smaller version,

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but a very high tech digital thing
where you could have done everything that you

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see on that sphere. We could
have done it on a far smaller version.

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I mean, the Reunion Tower is
nice and it's probably the symbol of

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downtown Dallas, right, yes,
And what year was that thing built doesn't

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matter. A long time. I
don't know, seventies long long time ago,

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yep. But that is sort of
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silhouette of the Dallas Skyline, it's
that ball is what you essentially need,

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and that's what kind of lets you
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wanted that thing rewrapped digitally and you
could put whatever you want on it.

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And I like the messages they put. I like go Smu, I like

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Rangers win hell, I like they
have Jordan Speith when he won the Masters

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a few years ago, and they
highlight that stuff. But that would have

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been it to rewrap that thing and
give us something really futuristic digital like worthy

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of the city that we are,
the city and the metroplex that we've become

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and are becoming. We're the fastest
growing metroplex in America. Crazy stat but

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we say it every time. Twenty
one hundred, right, that report that

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we read that by the year twenty
one hundred, which check your calendar,

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ain't that far We're going to be
the biggest metroplex in the United States of

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America, number one market, Bigger
than New York, bigger than Chicago,

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bigger in LA Number one biggest will
be DFW in twenty one hundred at least,

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that's what projections indicate. If things
keep going on the curve that they're

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on, then and maybe you're extrapolating
the last ten years of incredible growth or

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twenty years, but it feels pretty
consistent, and we need it. Our

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skyline is great, but we need
a thing. And I'm not even really

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just saying Dallas. I mean this
can be Fort Worth, this can be

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anywhere in the metroplex. We thing. You got some ideas for tons of

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ideas, and the first one is
is the cheaper, easier one. And

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I've pitched this one to Cash,
who's got to create a production company.

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He could maybe facilitate this. But
if you get a dozen buildings in downtown

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Dallas to all have the same digital
lighting and they can all be synchronized and

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changed together, and essentially, it's
a skyline that you look at and say,

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oh my god, you can't look
away, a dancing, beautiful,

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synchronized skyline. So if all of
the relevant big buildings in Dallas followed like

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the same thing that the Green Building
has. For example, Yes, essentially

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you probably talked about something a little
more elevated than just the what the Green

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Building offers right now. But if
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any vantage point north, south,
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the skyline at night, it would
almost the whole entire skyline would be to

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a certain degree outlined, Yes,
in lights, Yes, in unified color,

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synchronized digital beautiful skyline. Yeah.
And as far as expense goes,

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I have some other ideas that are
way more expensive that one I don't think

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is through the roof. But like
this, that would be adding to an

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existing structure rather than building exactly something
exactly. I think that would look cool.

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I want us to be. You
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What like Hong Kong or like Dubai, Yeah, Dubai, uh,

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Sydney, Australia. Because the truth
is a lot of those places Dubai,

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for instance, doesn't have a whole
lot else like they're selling themselves as this

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oasis in the desert. Come see
this, the beauty of this of the

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lights of how crazy it all is. Well, that's kind of what we

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need to do. Las Vegas and
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things in common because they're both pretty
young cities. We don't have the history

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that the East Coast cities do.
So it's also a city that doesn't really

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value what history it has for the
most part, and will, without hesitation,

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just knock down an old building or
an old home. So with that

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in mind, and I don't love
this idea. I love the idea of

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history. But then again, you
know, these buildings were all probably built

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for the most part in the late
eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds that we would

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consider historical. It's not like going
to say, for example, you've been

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to Boston semi recently, and if
you go to you know, Copley Square,

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where you have the position of buildings
where you'll have like one of the

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oldest buildings in America right next to
this giant Prudential building, you know,

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yeah, that's kind of cool.
We don't really have that. We got

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that one church on Ross Avenue that
looks old. Yeah, you know,

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everything else is new. So my
whole point last night is just lean into

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lean into it. If you're going
to destroy what little history you have.

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They just lean into it and go
full Hong Kong. Hong Kong. Yes,

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go full Hong Kong. Make this
thing the most gaudy, bright,

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flashy, ridiculous city in the entire
state of the of the country. Whoa

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inside of the table of the country. I do it every time. It

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happens every day in America, and
we have that Omni. Yeah, I

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mean that's the vibe we're talking about. Everybody who drives in on that road.

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You look at the Omni and you're
like, damn, look at that

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thing him. I don't know if
people think it's an eyesore. I think

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it looks awesome. A lot of
people think think it looks really stupid.

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I think it's modern as hell cool. And we're talking about it downtown.

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We need something for people to look
at. God forbid, come visit.

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We need something that people walk up
to. And you're coming to Dallas.

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What do you have to do in
Dallas? Shove ribs in your face and

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go to a place where a president
got killed? I mean, what else?

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Yeah, Christina and I are talking
about this for a while, like

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who who? What family is?
Like I want to go to Dallas.

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We're gonna We're visit Dallas. No, you come to Dallas to visit,

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visit family, if you have them
for business, maybe to eat, I

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will say, maybe to play golf. And Frisco and that whole game up

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there is sort of changing it.
And they're trying to do what I'm saying

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up in Frisco, which is make
it a destination at a Universal studios whatever,

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golf. But I don't think many
families are like I want to visit

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Dallas, And I don't know that
a bunch of lit up lights will change

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that, but it will start to
change it, and it'll look like a

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place like I just got to see
that and why and I think we can

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do it. Okay, Well,
let me ask you this. If Vegas

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didn't have gambling and it was just
a bunch of hotels and buildings with lights,

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would people want to go to Las
Vegas. No, there's got to

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be a bigger a llure, there's
got to be more to it, Like

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we Dallas and look there. Our
city is not great about marketing these things

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to the masses. But we literally
have, if not the largest, one

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of the largest art districts in the
entire country. I've completed the word that

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time. But when you think about
you know, that whole area from one

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Endo Ross Avenue all the way down
basically to the middle of downtown, which

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is the wind Spear Opera, it's, uh gosh, what the Myerson it's

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all. And then all of the
art galleries in museums and aquariums. I

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mean, that whole north side of
downtown is pretty much wall to wall art.

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Then that's adjacent to Clyde Warren Park, which goes directly into that bad

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Assue bridge, the Margaret Hunt Hill
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that big old eye thirty thing that
connects you to downtown. Visually,

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it's it's it's up and coming.
But we just don't have anything to offer

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the masses to come here because we
don't have any real history and other than

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killing the president, and there's no
gambling, there's no there's no water.

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Yeah. I just don't know what
else you could do. I mean,

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you could put a lot of bells
and whistles on this thing, but there's

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still gotta be some substance, yes, for people to do. Once they're

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here, they just look around and
go cool man. Why do people go

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to Phoenix. Uh, probably the
weather and it's deserted. Jason, I

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don't know. I mean maybe you
want to see Sowara cactuses, maybe play

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golf again, you know, like
golf and desert weather. But I think

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we have enough here. I think, and we have enough shows and like

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you said, theater and the food
is incredible. People are curious with Texas

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Dallas. I mean they want to
come to at and t come a cowboy

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game. Whatever. We have a
lot of We have enough. We meet

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the minimum requirement of a city,
because what do all cities have? Some

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of them are just the vibe.
Yeah, New Orleans, Boston's history,

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the character. Yes, we got
enough. We got enough. We just

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need to encourage people and have things, and we need a thing like even

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Chicago, all the history that that
city's got and the public transportation, which

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having that the l there just makes
everything so easily navigatable. But you've got

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the lake that his badass water is
a cheat code for totally something to sit

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by and eat and drink. And
you look at the water and Boston has

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that as well. Yep, you
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what they're saying, but we'll talk
to you. Hello, high caller.

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Hey Mike, Hi Mike. My
name is Mike too. That's awesome,

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what a wonderful name. No,
I love your idea to simply do anything

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to get some sort of attention on
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the biggest city in the country where
people just go to work and then leave.

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Yeah. I don't know how you
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I do think it has to do
with how spread out we are. There

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are so many events that I would
love to support. But the question answer,

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am I going to sit an hour
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Yeah? Really build up, build
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don't think it's quite there yet.
But that's a fair point. And it

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is very spread out, and the
Northeast obviously is not like that and can't

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be. Yeah, so it's a
different category, doesn't matter. I mean,

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Phoenix is spread out, Denver's very
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newer Western cities are spread out.
Yeah, I mean we can't have what

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we're talking about. Well, you
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go wide than it is vertical,
of course, you know. Thanks Mike,

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And if you've got the land to
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more sense. And another thing,
though we keep asking for people to come

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visit here. People aren't coming to
visit here, They're coming to live here

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by the drugs. We provide incentives
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yeah, a lot of them.
And it's a great place to live,

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not a great place to visit.
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is we don't need do we not
want tourism? You know? Do we

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want an influx of seasonal tourism for
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the fundamental question here. And it's
like, no, but we want a

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beautiful city. I mean every city
does you want to be a desired place,

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But a lot of these places start
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it's very touristy, like is because
that's what they depend on. Yeah,

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yeah, we really do, and
Vegas does, Phoenix maybe does more than

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we do. But what do you
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I just because I think Phoenix in
Dallas are kind kindreds. I do.

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That's why I've that's a new uh
and then they're newer, a newer

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city. I've always saw to Phoenix's
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like more people. Maybe again,
I'm not gonna say the G word again,

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but Phoenix is a golf destination that
people go to Scottsdale and you party

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and you stay there and and maybe
I'm just adding too much weight on that,

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which is a personal preference of mind. Maybe it's not. There are

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casinos in Phoenix, not like Vegas, but they have the Native American lands

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that are real, real close to
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So anyway, we're kicking around options, and I'm like, Okay, Saint

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Louis the arch. We all picture
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on everything. What does Saint Louis
really have there? River? Yeah,

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great food, great music. I
mean it's a great city. I love

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Saint Louis, great stadiums like in
town, but it's that damn arch.

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You gotta get a picture with the
arch. Yeah, what do you get

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a picture with when you're here?
A A knowle should be the skyline.

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So I was like, hell,
let's build an arch. Let me just

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steal it. A beautiful digital arch
that you just cannot look away from.

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We need to give them something that
every person who comes to Dallas because I

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have to go get my picture by
this damn thing. That's what I'm coming

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to look at. Maybe not an
arch, maybe a bigger arch, maybe

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a wider arch. I mean,
maybe not a sphere, maybe a square,

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the cube, the Dallas cube that
just dances with whatever the hell and

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you have a venue inside of some
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Like several billion? Yeah, three
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think we can afford that. It's
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what the investment and if the investment
always just goes to infrastructure versus actual public

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works projects that like make exactly what
we're talking about, I don't know that's

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the same pot of money. And
we got roads to fix and schools and

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you know, police to fund,
which I'm all about. But I also

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had this suggestion years ago. This
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works project to build three huge statues, like how big six hundred feet tall

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Jesus, which would exceed the five
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which is in India that's currently the
largest statue in the world. You want

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three six hundred foot statues. I
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I want one of them at fair
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want one of them just south of
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west of Fort Worth. You want
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want three that represent the entire metroplex, all the way across. And you

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can even have them have like vibes
or themes like one. The one that

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looks to the east by Fair Park
acknowledges our past. One looks westward to

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our future, if you want to
do that. One is the gateway to

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Central and South America in Arlington looking
south. Want to represent everything that we

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are here. I mean you could
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and unity as the three whatever agriculture, industry, technology, however you want

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to separate them, or racism,
greed and oil. Probably not gonna win.

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Probably not gonna win the contest for
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they're so big that you can see
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and you go up them the Saint
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up in the Arts. I had
a panic attack. I went straight out

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of that inclinator and I wouldn't go
anywhere. But you have these huge you

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could you could do this? What
are they statues of? Are they people

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from our past? Yeah, someone
from the past, a woman, a

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modern woman? And then who knows? No, I'm not anyone you want

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looking west. I don't know.
That's for an artist to decide. I'm

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the ideas. Okay, how many
gifts can I give and have them remain

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unopen on desks around the world?
But that would be insane. The three

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loves, like I always think,
would be cool if we have the biggest

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building in the world. We challenged
the birds Khalifa. Why not? Why

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not in America? Should we be
a contender for the biggest building in the

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world. Is they don't need to
build big buildings downtown Dallas because everyone's moving

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elsewhere and they have enough empty office
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imagine those three statues and then you'd
have to go to all three and it

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would encourage people to for your gram
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the metropolex and check out the different
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What if each statue? What if
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cable car Okay, don't think I
haven't thought of zip line connectors and all

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that fun stuff. But and you
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Arlington, a speed cable car.
Okay, all right, dude, As

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crazy as that isn't I don't disagree
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like love Field or something, they
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know. I just think some ambitious
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one hundred years of what this place
inevitably is becoming an investment in that would

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be really cool and really fun and
make us look like what we are,

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which is one of the more modern
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And looking at that damn sphere made
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damn sphere. I don't know anybody
that loves the sphere as much as you.

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I want to interview the sphere.
We'll do that next. What is

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next is we're going to do a
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is gonna be Formula one talk.
We're going to review the race that I

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was pumped for, and you know, Danny watched it and Danny has questions,

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which is always fun. But more
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play because there was a one of
the F one teams was in an emergency

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situation and they had to use a
backup, backup driver, and they called

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man in a race car over the
weekend and it is something let's do that

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next, and let's do it right
here on ninety seven to one, the freak