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I don't know, it might make you a fan of this sport because this
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we support it. It's time for the scuttle butt. Mike Siroy Hello,
my name is Mike Siroy. Nok To today usually handles the butt, big
mind, but it's time for big mon, Big Mike's butt, Big Mike's
beautiful. But uh, this is more a topic than a news thing,
and I've realized that as I've handled the butt last week and today, I
don't know. We have Dingo's Morning News and a couple news segments per day.
It is certainly fine, but I don't know. I kind of like
larger topics. And as Danny said, if you do want to participate in
this, when I think some people will have thoughts for things to say.
Two four seventy one jump in be a part of this. I was,
don't worry, it's not about car racing, but I was watching the Vegas
thing. And now every time you see Vegas, whether it be that golf
thing a few days ago, the Netflix Cup, or the race, this
damn sphere is stealing the show. Now again, this is also not about
the sphere. This is about Dallas. It's about ideas for our town.
But of all the places on earth, for them to open up something new
and it to just be the visual focal point, Las Vegas is the hardest
one. What on earth to do it? I mean, you have so
much candy to look at, but you're gonna still open something up. And
everyone's been like, good lord, look at that, Like what an ambitious,
crazy project that they did. And it worked. Now financially did it
work? I don't know. You did the story about the CEO quit and
they've lost a billion dollars or a hundred million dollars whatever. I don't know
anything about all that. All I know is that every time I see a
picture of that skyline, you can't look away from that thing. It's so
damn big, it's it's beautiful, massive, It's just beautiful. Even the
two year old is like, hey, look, daddy is a big ball.
Yeah, there was a big ball. Marshaun Lynch during the golf tournament
talked about the flashing egg. It's awesome and it brings me back to something
that I've thought for many years since I've lived in this town that we need
our sphere. And I'm not suggesting we build a sphere, but if you
want to build a sphere, fine, build the sphere. I don't care
build sphere too, sphere too much like Earth two, popular upcoming film from
Soroy Pictures. Why don't we have something like that? We need it.
I'll tell you this. On the very first circ Deceroy show I did with
my brother Cash, I don't even know what year it was, oh,
nine, ten, whatever, I remember, we were so nervous and we
had so much stuff planned, and one of them was something that we had
talked about recently, and that was we wanted them to rewrap the Ball of
Reunion Tower with essentially what the sphere is, granted a far smaller version,
but a very high tech digital thing where you could have done everything that you
see on that sphere. We could have done it on a far smaller version.
I mean, the Reunion Tower is nice and it's probably the symbol of
downtown Dallas, right, yes, And what year was that thing built doesn't
matter. A long time. I don't know, seventies long long time ago,
yep. But that is sort of you know, if you have a
silhouette of the Dallas Skyline, it's that ball is what you essentially need,
and that's what kind of lets you know, Oh that's Dallas. And we
wanted that thing rewrapped digitally and you could put whatever you want on it.
And I like the messages they put. I like go Smu, I like
Rangers win hell, I like they have Jordan Speith when he won the Masters
a few years ago, and they highlight that stuff. But that would have
been it to rewrap that thing and give us something really futuristic digital like worthy
of the city that we are, the city and the metroplex that we've become
and are becoming. We're the fastest growing metroplex in America. Crazy stat but
we say it every time. Twenty one hundred, right, that report that
we read that by the year twenty one hundred, which check your calendar,
ain't that far We're going to be the biggest metroplex in the United States of
America, number one market, Bigger than New York, bigger than Chicago,
bigger in LA Number one biggest will be DFW in twenty one hundred at least,
that's what projections indicate. If things keep going on the curve that they're
on, then and maybe you're extrapolating the last ten years of incredible growth or
twenty years, but it feels pretty consistent, and we need it. Our
skyline is great, but we need a thing. And I'm not even really
just saying Dallas. I mean this can be Fort Worth, this can be
anywhere in the metroplex. We thing. You got some ideas for tons of
ideas, and the first one is is the cheaper, easier one. And
I've pitched this one to Cash, who's got to create a production company.
He could maybe facilitate this. But if you get a dozen buildings in downtown
Dallas to all have the same digital lighting and they can all be synchronized and
changed together, and essentially, it's a skyline that you look at and say,
oh my god, you can't look away, a dancing, beautiful,
synchronized skyline. So if all of the relevant big buildings in Dallas followed like
the same thing that the Green Building has. For example, Yes, essentially
you probably talked about something a little more elevated than just the what the Green
Building offers right now. But if you had all of that were essentially from
any vantage point north, south, east or west, if you're looking at
the skyline at night, it would almost the whole entire skyline would be to
a certain degree outlined, Yes, in lights, Yes, in unified color,
synchronized digital beautiful skyline. Yeah. And as far as expense goes,
I have some other ideas that are way more expensive that one I don't think
is through the roof. But like this, that would be adding to an
existing structure rather than building exactly something exactly. I think that would look cool.
I want us to be. You said it on the phone last night.
What like Hong Kong or like Dubai, Yeah, Dubai, uh,
Sydney, Australia. Because the truth is a lot of those places Dubai,
for instance, doesn't have a whole lot else like they're selling themselves as this
oasis in the desert. Come see this, the beauty of this of the
lights of how crazy it all is. Well, that's kind of what we
need to do. Las Vegas and Dallas in a lot of ways have some
things in common because they're both pretty young cities. We don't have the history
that the East Coast cities do. So it's also a city that doesn't really
value what history it has for the most part, and will, without hesitation,
just knock down an old building or an old home. So with that
in mind, and I don't love this idea. I love the idea of
history. But then again, you know, these buildings were all probably built
for the most part in the late eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds that we would
consider historical. It's not like going to say, for example, you've been
to Boston semi recently, and if you go to you know, Copley Square,
where you have the position of buildings where you'll have like one of the
oldest buildings in America right next to this giant Prudential building, you know,
yeah, that's kind of cool. We don't really have that. We got
that one church on Ross Avenue that looks old. Yeah, you know,
everything else is new. So my whole point last night is just lean into
lean into it. If you're going to destroy what little history you have.
They just lean into it and go full Hong Kong. Hong Kong. Yes,
go full Hong Kong. Make this thing the most gaudy, bright,
flashy, ridiculous city in the entire state of the of the country. Whoa
inside of the table of the country. I do it every time. It
happens every day in America, and we have that Omni. Yeah, I
mean that's the vibe we're talking about. Everybody who drives in on that road.
You look at the Omni and you're like, damn, look at that
thing him. I don't know if people think it's an eyesore. I think
it looks awesome. A lot of people think think it looks really stupid.
I think it's modern as hell cool. And we're talking about it downtown.
We need something for people to look at. God forbid, come visit.
We need something that people walk up to. And you're coming to Dallas.
What do you have to do in Dallas? Shove ribs in your face and
go to a place where a president got killed? I mean, what else?
Yeah, Christina and I are talking about this for a while, like
who who? What family is? Like I want to go to Dallas.
We're gonna We're visit Dallas. No, you come to Dallas to visit,
visit family, if you have them for business, maybe to eat, I
will say, maybe to play golf. And Frisco and that whole game up
there is sort of changing it. And they're trying to do what I'm saying
up in Frisco, which is make it a destination at a Universal studios whatever,
golf. But I don't think many families are like I want to visit
Dallas, And I don't know that a bunch of lit up lights will change
that, but it will start to change it, and it'll look like a
place like I just got to see that and why and I think we can
do it. Okay, Well, let me ask you this. If Vegas
didn't have gambling and it was just a bunch of hotels and buildings with lights,
would people want to go to Las Vegas. No, there's got to
be a bigger a llure, there's got to be more to it, Like
we Dallas and look there. Our city is not great about marketing these things
to the masses. But we literally have, if not the largest, one
of the largest art districts in the entire country. I've completed the word that
time. But when you think about you know, that whole area from one
Endo Ross Avenue all the way down basically to the middle of downtown, which
is the wind Spear Opera, it's, uh gosh, what the Myerson it's
all. And then all of the art galleries in museums and aquariums. I
mean, that whole north side of downtown is pretty much wall to wall art.
Then that's adjacent to Clyde Warren Park, which goes directly into that bad
Assue bridge, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, just adjacent to the biggest Eye,
that big old eye thirty thing that connects you to downtown. Visually,
it's it's it's up and coming. But we just don't have anything to offer
the masses to come here because we don't have any real history and other than
killing the president, and there's no gambling, there's no there's no water.
Yeah. I just don't know what else you could do. I mean,
you could put a lot of bells and whistles on this thing, but there's
still gotta be some substance, yes, for people to do. Once they're
here, they just look around and go cool man. Why do people go
to Phoenix. Uh, probably the weather and it's deserted. Jason, I
don't know. I mean maybe you want to see Sowara cactuses, maybe play
golf again, you know, like golf and desert weather. But I think
we have enough here. I think, and we have enough shows and like
you said, theater and the food is incredible. People are curious with Texas
Dallas. I mean they want to come to at and t come a cowboy
game. Whatever. We have a lot of We have enough. We meet
the minimum requirement of a city, because what do all cities have? Some
of them are just the vibe. Yeah, New Orleans, Boston's history,
the character. Yes, we got enough. We got enough. We just
need to encourage people and have things, and we need a thing like even
Chicago, all the history that that city's got and the public transportation, which
having that the l there just makes everything so easily navigatable. But you've got
the lake that his badass water is a cheat code for totally something to sit
by and eat and drink. And you look at the water and Boston has
that as well. Yep, you got a caller. So I don't know
what they're saying, but we'll talk to you. Hello, high caller.
Hey Mike, Hi Mike. My name is Mike too. That's awesome,
what a wonderful name. No, I love your idea to simply do anything
to get some sort of attention on Dallas, because I do feel like it's
the biggest city in the country where people just go to work and then leave.
Yeah. I don't know how you do that with buildings, though,
I do think it has to do with how spread out we are. There
are so many events that I would love to support. But the question answer,
am I going to sit an hour in traffic and drive from McKinney.
Yeah? Really build up, build up the culture around here, because I
don't think it's quite there yet. But that's a fair point. And it
is very spread out, and the Northeast obviously is not like that and can't
be. Yeah, so it's a different category, doesn't matter. I mean,
Phoenix is spread out, Denver's very spread out. You know, these
newer Western cities are spread out. Yeah, I mean we can't have what
we're talking about. Well, you have an option. It's probably cheaper to
go wide than it is vertical, of course, you know. Thanks Mike,
And if you've got the land to acquire and spread out. It makes
more sense. And another thing, though we keep asking for people to come
visit here. People aren't coming to visit here, They're coming to live here
by the drugs. We provide incentives for them to do that. Yeah,
yeah, a lot of them. And it's a great place to live,
not a great place to visit. And I don't know what maybe the answer
is we don't need do we not want tourism? You know? Do we
want an influx of seasonal tourism for some reason? I mean maybe that's just
the fundamental question here. And it's like, no, but we want a
beautiful city. I mean every city does you want to be a desired place,
But a lot of these places start to a lot of these places that
it's very touristy, like is because that's what they depend on. Yeah,
yeah, we really do, and Vegas does, Phoenix maybe does more than
we do. But what do you feel is so touristy about Phoenix? No?
I just because I think Phoenix in Dallas are kind kindreds. I do.
That's why I've that's a new uh and then they're newer, a newer
city. I've always saw to Phoenix's Dallas West and vice versa. I feel
like more people. Maybe again, I'm not gonna say the G word again,
but Phoenix is a golf destination that people go to Scottsdale and you party
and you stay there and and maybe I'm just adding too much weight on that,
which is a personal preference of mind. Maybe it's not. There are
casinos in Phoenix, not like Vegas, but they have the Native American lands
that are real, real close to town too, which is an option.
So anyway, we're kicking around options, and I'm like, Okay, Saint
Louis the arch. We all picture it, we all see it. It's
on everything. What does Saint Louis really have there? River? Yeah,
great food, great music. I mean it's a great city. I love
Saint Louis, great stadiums like in town, but it's that damn arch.
You gotta get a picture with the arch. Yeah, what do you get
a picture with when you're here? A A knowle should be the skyline.
So I was like, hell, let's build an arch. Let me just
steal it. A beautiful digital arch that you just cannot look away from.
We need to give them something that every person who comes to Dallas because I
have to go get my picture by this damn thing. That's what I'm coming
to look at. Maybe not an arch, maybe a bigger arch, maybe
a wider arch. I mean, maybe not a sphere, maybe a square,
the cube, the Dallas cube that just dances with whatever the hell and
you have a venue inside of some kind. How much did the sphere cost?
Like several billion? Yeah, three or four two point four? I
think we can afford that. It's a lot. But I just don't know
what the investment and if the investment always just goes to infrastructure versus actual public
works projects that like make exactly what we're talking about, I don't know that's
the same pot of money. And we got roads to fix and schools and
you know, police to fund, which I'm all about. But I also
had this suggestion years ago. This is the wildest one, a major public
works project to build three huge statues, like how big six hundred feet tall
Jesus, which would exceed the five hundred and ninety seven foot Statue of Unity
which is in India that's currently the largest statue in the world. You want
three six hundred foot statues. I want the three largest statues in the world.
I want one of them at fair Park, give or take. I
want one of them just south of Arlington. I want one of them just
west of Fort Worth. You want one south of Arlington. Yeah, I
want three that represent the entire metroplex, all the way across. And you
can even have them have like vibes or themes like one. The one that
looks to the east by Fair Park acknowledges our past. One looks westward to
our future, if you want to do that. One is the gateway to
Central and South America in Arlington looking south. Want to represent everything that we
are here. I mean you could go simpler and have love, friendship,
and unity as the three whatever agriculture, industry, technology, however you want
to separate them, or racism, greed and oil. Probably not gonna win.
Probably not gonna win the contest for that one. But three. And
they're so big that you can see the other two from the top of them,
and you go up them the Saint Louis Arts. I tried to go
up in the Arts. I had a panic attack. I went straight out
of that inclinator and I wouldn't go anywhere. But you have these huge you
could you could do this? What are they statues of? Are they people
from our past? Yeah, someone from the past, a woman, a
modern woman? And then who knows? No, I'm not anyone you want
looking west. I don't know. That's for an artist to decide. I'm
the ideas. Okay, how many gifts can I give and have them remain
unopen on desks around the world? But that would be insane. The three
loves, like I always think, would be cool if we have the biggest
building in the world. We challenged the birds Khalifa. Why not? Why
not in America? Should we be a contender for the biggest building in the
world. Is they don't need to build big buildings downtown Dallas because everyone's moving
elsewhere and they have enough empty office space. So I get that. But
imagine those three statues and then you'd have to go to all three and it
would encourage people to for your gram and it would encourage people to actually traverse
the metropolex and check out the different areas if they have their own complex with
What if each statue? What if the statues were connected by some form of
cable car Okay, don't think I haven't thought of zip line connectors and all
that fun stuff. But and you could take a cable car to Arlington South
Arlington, a speed cable car. Okay, all right, dude, As
crazy as that isn't I don't disagree with that. Either you have to pass
like love Field or something, they wouldn't let you do it. I don't
know. I just think some ambitious thought into the next like eighty years or
one hundred years of what this place inevitably is becoming an investment in that would
be really cool and really fun and make us look like what we are,
which is one of the more modern cities in America and certainly fastest growing.
And looking at that damn sphere made me think, why don't we have our
damn sphere. I don't know anybody that loves the sphere as much as you.
I want to interview the sphere. We'll do that next. What is
next is we're going to do a little Formula one talk, right, it
is gonna be Formula one talk. We're going to review the race that I
was pumped for, and you know, Danny watched it and Danny has questions,
which is always fun. But more importantly, there's audio we have to
play because there was a one of the F one teams was in an emergency
situation and they had to use a backup, backup driver, and they called
in DFW's fastest Man, Garland Richardson. He was in an F one car.
And we went through some back channels and found some audio of this this
man in a race car over the weekend and it is something let's do that
next, and let's do it right here on ninety seven to one, the freak