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You're listening to the downbeat on ninety
seven one the Freak. All right,

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I'm so Yes, eight o'clock Adams
saying, look, get anything ruined an

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Algreen song? Yes, Kevyo's Adams
Sadler Kevo doing Adam Sandler. It's got

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about seven thirty. Get some stuff
for you today, Mikey's Morning News at

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eight thirty, of course, but
the big story have today. Let's attack

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it head on right now, and
the most important thing in the world,

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Yes, Toky draft here though.
All right, all right, well,

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I guess sort of as we discussed
just moments ago. I'm scrolling through the

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phone and then my eyes get real
wide as I see essentially the headline mark

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Cuban's selling majority interest in the Dallas
Mavericks to Miriam Addelson, Miriam Miriam.

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You don't see a lot of Miriams
anymore or ever. That was my first

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thing. That was the first thing
I didn't say that to me was you

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know what, I'll say, pretty
name, Miriam Miriam classy, but you're

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right, not not popular. You
think this is a classy lady. We

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should probably get on her good side
now, she okay, I thought of

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that too. I mean we're gonna
bounce around a million angles on this,

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but yes, I mean, you
know, my other works very closely with

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the Mavericks. I sent him the
news when I saw it, and he

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was like, oh my god.
He didn't know. It's called a lot.

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Everyone off guard, everyone off guard. And keep in mind Monday,

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Mark Cuban announced that he was leaving
Shark Tank in twenty twenty five because he

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wants to spend time with his teens. Is you wants to have a couple

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of years with his teens while they're
still in the house, which I think

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that's great, a couple of summers. No one does that, right,

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That's what everyone says when they need
the force field around why they're really leaving

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to do anything? I think,
doesn't that open up the other thing?

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You don't do that already? It's
too late to even jump into that,

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isn't it. Yes, we're talking
about the presidency. Okay, Well,

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I mean I have it at the
bottom of my page. The conspiracy is

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tied to this thing, which yeah, I mean that is one. Yeah,

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it crossed my mind. And if
you're clearing the decks for that,

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and then I'm like, okay,
that makes a little bit of sense.

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I mean, he's been sheepish about
that forever. We've had him on the

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Normathon back in the day every year, and every year Norm would say,

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you run for president, you know, and he'll and he always he always

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mentions his kids. And then he
does say when my kids are a little

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older, how older as kids?
So they mid teens, they might not

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having Adam saying their day all day
long. I'm not going to trigger Kevin.

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Dude, I knew I knew a
kid or one of our buddies sons

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who's now in college now, who
went to school with one of Mark's kids,

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so he might have one that's college
aged. As crazy as that sounds,

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like three kids, okay, I
guess just figuring out their age would

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give you a little info on if
when they're I just want to spend more

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time with my kids when they're annoying
teens and the last thing they want to

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do is talk to their dad.
I mean, if they're like five or

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two, I don't know. I
don't have kids, but according to Wikipedia,

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it would be a twenty, a
seventeen, and a fourteen year old.

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Okay, that's not that doesn't work. Then one kid's already gone.

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One kid is gone before you leave
shark tank, and then you have the

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one leftover kid that you want to
spend. No, well that's the boy.

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No, yeah, yeah, that's
the boy. So maybe you know,

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Okay, no, that's not it, that's not this. So I

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yeah, it cross my mind.
All right, run for president and in

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the you know what we currently have. I think, assuming he would run

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as a Democrat, he you know, there is room in this world right

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now for a young, younger,
you know, candidate to swoop in.

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I think you would run as a
Republican, you really do, because the

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Democrat is already there. He is
already the president. He is so openly

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liberal on a lot of a lot
of core policies that I don't think he

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could legitimately run as a republic I
don't know. I don't know. He

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that you can't win as an independent
too. He knows that he would go.

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He would have to take down maybe
he has to take down Trump,

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who's yeah, and god, he's
I mean it might take a celebrity to

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do that, is you now?
I mean, look, celebrity political candidates

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work. They've worked for a long
time. Is the new owner of the

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Dallas Mavericks. Would they appreciate him
running against Trump? Right right? Considering

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they were Trump's biggest financial donor in
the twenty sixteen election in the twenty twenty

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re election campaign. Yeah, I
guess before we kick around everything, let's

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cover just the x's and o's.
So yes, she and her husband were

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the largest donors of Donald Trump throughout
his presidency, like number one, the

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largest donation of his twenty sixteen campaign, his presidential inauguration, his defense fund

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and the Mueller investigation in a Russian
interference, and his twenty twenty campaign.

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They are the largest. So that's
another thing. If you're Cuban and you're

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really planning to run for president,
I guess I assumed it would be Democrat

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or maybe independent. But that is
something that a lot of people are gonna

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think is odd that you just sold
your team to the number one largest Trump

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supporter family in the world. Yeah, But what it could be is that

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an independent run that you know,
is not going to work. Just to

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get your name out there, just
to get it, you know, people

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to view you like that and then
in four years maybe try something and they

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try that sometimes too, you know, just get your name of the hat

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and then make your big run.
But I don't know. I don't either.

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That's all way past the point.
Yeah, it's a great deal for

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him. He bought them after two
eighty five million dollars in two thousand and

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now he sells them for three point
five billion and gets to keep us some

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stake of the ownership and gets to
continue to be the leader of the organization.

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At nine o'clock, we're gonna have
Tim Cato on, yeah, from

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the Athletic and he will shed light
on any questions we have or things we

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don't get right. And one of
my biggest ones is I think it's two

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billion dollars goes toward the purchase,
and that would mean Adelson would be acquiring

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about fifty seven percent of the NBA
team based on the three point five billion

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dollar valuation, So he's not essentially, he's not just selling the team that

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he bought for two eighty five for
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two billion, and he still has
that minority stake and he continues to run

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basketball operations entirely for now. But
whatever, Yes, just financially, it's

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incredible, and god, is there
anything more profitable than buying a professional sports

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team. Yeah, that's the play. Especially basketball has seemed to be growing

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too. Yeah, you had good
timing. You may think a little different

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about baseball. We're very fond of
the Rangers right now. But you know,

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baseball might not be the one where
you see a high trajectory. Buying

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a hockey team might not seem like
the grace of that. Buying a pro

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football team or an NBA team is
absolutely cannot miss. Yes, sure shot

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stuff. I think if you buy
any NBA team or NFL team, you

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essentially wait a year, wait two
years, and you make a billion dollars.

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Just flip it, I mean oh
yeah, oh yeah, or make

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it there or you just flip it
and make more. Yeahtient. Did you

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know anything about the Addelson family before? I mean no, Why didn't I

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know who they were reading up on? It was like very interesting, very

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interesting people. Yeah, Like you
know, sometimes you just go when you

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look at people have a lot of
money. I don't know, maybe I

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shouldn't be this way, but I
have been like, oh, they probably

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just got it handed down to them, like you you forget that, like

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people earned it, like they did
a lot of stuff. She's the richest

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Israeli in the world, forty second
richest person in the world, fifth richest

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woman in the world. Is that
Wow? Think her husband's died twenty twenty

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one. Yeah, her husband died
and her husband was the man or dude

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behind the Sands Casinos Las Vegas Sands, that's the company and they own,

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I guess primarily casinos in resorts in
Singapore and Macau. I think they sold

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all their two properties, both properties
and the last veiggest strip in twenty twenty

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one, and that may be where
all those billions, you know, actually

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came from that he passed away.
And I all want to her, but

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she's a doctor. She's a medical
doctor. It's not like she's a who's

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the RAMS lady? The Rams lady? Oh yeah, I'm McCaskey or something.

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No, fuck a rams lady.
I think she was like a showgirl,

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right rams Zone donkey? No for
her before him? Yes, who

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owned? What a dumb turn that
I'm wasting everyone's time with. Yeah,

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but you just have to know and
Walton No. Georgia Frontieri Frontiera, Yeah,

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died in two thousand and eight and
she had a twenty eight year ownership.

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But I'm pretty sure she was a
showgirl dancer maybe in Vegas. Hell

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yeah, who was just a hot
that married whoever the dude was. He

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died, and she suddenly is one
of the richest people in the world world.

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And you know, anyway, it's
not that she's a medical doctor,

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Mary Maddilson, and you know it
is very successful on her own right,

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maybe not to the tune of fifth
richest woman on planet Earth, but I

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mean she's a legit businesswoman and a
very legitimate Israeli doctor for a long time.

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Sheldon Adelson, you know his nickname, Mike Old Sheldon the king Maker?

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Is that right? Because of his
frequency and the size of his donations

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to the Republican Party over the years, they called Sheldon the king Maker.

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I don't know, man. They
also have the thing they have in common

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here though you might be like,
how does well. I think a bigger

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topic that we can get into if
we want is the new Arena. But

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there is a focus on healthcare.
And Miriam had helped with addictions and things

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like that, treated patients with addictions, and her and her husband, Sheldon,

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had started a charity. It's about
healthcare obviously. You know Mark Cuban's

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company that's basically about, Hey,
if the insurance companies are screwing you,

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we can try to help you get
your prescription medical meds that are way more

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affordable than you know, what you
would have to pay out a pocket for.

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And it's a very good thing.
I mean, I've used cost Plus

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Drugs Mark Cubans Company for the last
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I take, and it's great.
Yeah, it's great. It saved a

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lot of people money and helped a
lot of people so far. But you

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know, I don't know deeper than
that. I don't want to go into

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big pharm of mumbo jumbo because I
don't know anything about that. Two hundred

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and eighteen million dollars to conservative candidates
and causes during the twenty twenty election cycle,

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two hundred and eighteen million in one
elect in one election cycle, and

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more than ninety one million directly to
President Donald Trump's re election efforts in twenty

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twenty. And they're huge, you
know, advocates of gambling obviously. I

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mean they're the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, a big supporter of state legalization to

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legalize sports betting, and established casinos. They've spent millions on lobbyists there,

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so there's an obvious tie in with
that. You know, Cuban a couple

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of years ago said that he then
mas next arena should be part of a

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massive casino. I agree, Oh
that sounds awesome. And you weren't do

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the Venetian. Just do the Venetian
here. Yeah, put the basketball,

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put the arena on the fifth floor
like Madison Square Garden. I don't know

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if it was Danny. Last week
I was talking about how Dallas needs something.

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We need our own sphere. We
need a couple of statues, we

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need something to make people come here
and be like God, I have to

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take a picture. I was worth
going to Dallas take a picture. And

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it's not just a grassy knoll.
But this might be the medium, the

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happy medium where we suddenly look like
Macau or Singapore and it's because of a

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casinos. And whether that's a good
thing or a bad thing, I guess

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I don't know, but it sounds
kick ass. So the you know,

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a new restaurant opened up a Reunion
Tower. It was the old Wolfgang Puck

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spot, but now it's a new
restaurant. I forget what it's called actually,

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and it was fine, but I'd
never been. Part of the reason

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I went is i'd never been to
Reunion Tower. I said, oh,

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I've lived here all these years,
I never went up there. So I

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went up there. And what they
do, you know, because you can

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see out it, you don't know
where you're gonna sit. They seat you

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at a table. Well, I
happen to be sitting on the southeast side.

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And then all you do is look
out, so it's the opposite side

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of where the buildings are, you
know, and you go, yeah,

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look at all this open land.
Incredible, we live in this city.

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You know, look, you know
it exists, you know what it's like

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down there. But you get up
from that point of view and you go,

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man, there's a room for so
much more here, you mean,

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like Cedars area. And then okay, that's interesting because I was wondering that

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on my drive in this morning,
if we were gonna build mini Vegas or

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mega Vegas over the next hundred years
in DFW, where it would be.

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I think I have to be east
of seventy five and probably a little further

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south. I could see, I
guess I could see it being just the

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cedars that right there, right across
because it makes more sense to make it

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halfway up the day, up seventy
five toward Frisco Plano, where everything is

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already modern up there and it's just
sitting there ready to go. Boy,

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I think it might be up there, and maybe maybe even further north,

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and maybe that's what he's thinking.
Maybe it's more closer to North Dallas,

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maybe even further north. Maybe maybe
where roller town sits north of that even

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Yeah, I don't know, because
that's where I guess you can still get

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the land. I mean, if
you're casino owners. The Mavericks a little

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different than like the Rangers had to
be really careful about cannibalizing the uh fort

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Worth crowd. Rangers score very well
in the eight one seven. The Mavericks.

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There are tons of match fans in
the eight one seven, but it's

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a little bit further of the hall. It's whatever it is. It's twenty

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minutes and on a weeknight game,
that counts when you're thinking about buying tickets

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to a game. It absolutely matters
to everyone. So I don't know,

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Hey, maybe it's just keep adding
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that deep Elm area. Maybe they
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don't know. I don't know.
There's a lot of a lot of things.

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Well with the Mavericks practice facility now
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Yeah, but there's room for one
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a whole bunch of things. I
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I don't know that they're going to
think of building a single one off casino

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with a MAVs a new MAVs facility
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I think they'd be thinking the strip. That's reason one for this though,

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right are we? Do we agree
like that is the big motivation for this?

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Well, I don't understand it.
But with what Cuban has said in

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the past and her you know,
her family's success in the casino business,

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yeah, that you have to immediately
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But if Cuban wants to do that, why be a minority owner?

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Like why sell? Now? Why
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the relationship, especially when gambling is
not legal in Texas yet? Right,

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And I'll go ahead and tell you, like I think it should be.

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I've thought that for a long time. But until the Dan Patricks of the

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world and the greg Abbots of the
world and the Ken Paxtons of the world

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are no longer walking among us.
I don't really see gambling being legalized in

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Texas. I mean, dude,
Bally thought gambling was going to be legal

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in Texas and they had a miscalculation
there. I don't think I have a

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hard time believing gambling will be legal
in Texas by It won't be a by

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twenty twenty five. Well, what
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of the world is when the largest
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And maybe that's what it takes.
Wants things done directly. You're talking about

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Miriam Addelson who once said that there
should be a book of Trump in the

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Bible. Now he will finally have
an answer to his favorite Bible verse.

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Well, it's a very personal I
don't want to answer. Now, just

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give us one book. Well,
look, I would hate to say it's

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a very personal but I love the
book best book. But I just name

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one book in the Bible. Are
two Corinthians, Uh Trump, it's very

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personal Trump Chapter four, verse sixteen, Sleepy Joe. This serves to be

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prosecuted. This is wild. It
is very wild and here at one other

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angle, and we'll talk about this
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where when I was shut my eyes, I was like, what does Kyrie

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think of this? You know,
I dot he cares really dude, whether

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he's a I think he's a smart
man. But however he comes off,

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he has been seemingly happy here saying
all the right things. Your boss as

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of what not today, But whenever
this finally goes through, your boss is

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now the largest donor. I mean, he considers himself politically minded, and

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there was probably some peace of mind. I would think. Maybe I don't

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know what he really thinks of Mark
Cuban, but some level of respect.

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I mean, he could be the
dude, I'm not showing up for work.

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I don't I'm not working for this
person. Well, it's also just

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telling maybe he loves it too.
I don't know, Like, I don't

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know where Kyrie exactly politically aligns.
I just know his wheels off well.

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I think also, I think there's
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time believing he would care about that, because it's almost like you just take

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their money. They've got the money
either way, and might as well take

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it. There don't think Mark might
be doing this might have just been too

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good of a deal for him to
pass out. I thought that it might

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just be straight up business. Imagine
if they keep the job I like doing.

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I agree with that. I thought
of that as well, like what

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if Mark does have political aspirations,
what's better than taking billions from someone who

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would never contribute to you, assuming
you would be liberal at all or independent

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sure, and use that money to
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campaign which it wouldn't necessarily come out
of his pocket. But there's a lot

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of misinterpretations of this. Timmy so
Kevin Sherrington wrote an article is like Mark

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Cuban wants out? Why now?
And I'm like, well, he's not

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getting out. It's very clear that
he's not getting out now. He could

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be in the future. The other
this is a small thought that crept in

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my head and I don't even want
to entertain it that much, but it's

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like, you can't ignore the thing
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I kind of went, does he
maybe know that Luke is unhappy and might

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not want to be here? And
maybe it's like, what's the point of

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sticking around? And trying to rewire
this thing again if he were to go,

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and maybe it's just getting ahead of
it. I thought that now I

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didn't think too much about it,
and I kind of went, now,

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that's stupid. So I want you
to know I don't full I don't believe

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that, but it is something.
As we entertain ninety different angles to this

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story, and we'll get into more
of it little bit at eight, a

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little bit eight thirty, a little
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should do a similar story next because
I think we touched about it. I

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think we're about to enter a world
where money is about to just take over

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everything in American sports, and we're
seeing an example of that possibly, and

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we'll discuss that with you next on
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