WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.480 It's The Downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak TikTok. Yet I'll 2 00:00:04.519 --> 00:00:08.919 stop down to the TikTok yet, I'll stop down to the TikTok Yet, 3 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:14.320 I'll stop down to the tick took Yet I'll stop the We did a five 4 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:19.839 pair of tickets to see Adam Sandler in the last segment. Congrats to all 5 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:23.440 that won and keep listening throughout the week. We have three more tickets, 6 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:26.960 three more pairs of tickets to see Trevor Noah to give away later in the 7 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:31.079 weekend. I've been in Skinner, given with Shaky Graves tickets. The DownBeat's 8 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:35.320 given away some big tickets as well. We had given you things here on 9 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:39.280 ninety seven to one the free and all we asked of you is just to 10 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:42.880 listen to us. That's how you give us and you grab a podcast. 11 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:46.399 We podcast every single segment we do. This show specifically starts at six am. 12 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:51.560 We're called The Downbeat and uh we uh will post everything so if you 13 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:55.000 want to catch up on something. We had a pretty in depth conversation on 14 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:00.280 Mark Cuban selling the MAVs a little bit earlier. We'll get in that little 15 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:04.239 bit more though, as the day moves on Mike last night, that's on 16 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:10.799 the phone. No damn with who. I don't want to tell you. 17 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:14.799 My phone kept cutting out, you know. So every time you're on the 18 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:18.760 phone with someone and your phone cuts out, mm hmm, you assume it's 19 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:22.319 them. Yeah, they're they're in a bad spot, they're in a tunnel, 20 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:23.760 or they're going Yeah, they're in a tunnel. They're always in a 21 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:30.359 tone. We don't have any tunnels or overpass though. Put your phone will 22 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:34.519 cut out when you go in an overpass. If you have my cell service, 23 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:40.680 well you're thinking about dropping, Well I think you should. Why don't 24 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:44.280 you drop it? It's time to get the fourth wireless network. Do what 25 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:49.599 everyone else is doing. Man call eight five five five five boost or go 26 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:53.480 to boost infinite dot com. Just do that, Just go to boost infinite 27 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:56.159 dot com and you can read exactly what I'm talking about here, Bubba. 28 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:00.599 It feels like the best play is to just do that. Mm hmm. 29 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:06.159 I think it would be irresponsible to not do that. Imagine if you're under 30 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:07.680 this underpath, right, there's traffic. You're stuck in this underpath. I 31 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:13.120 don't know whatever service you're linked to or connected to it's not working. Imagine 32 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:15.759 if zap You're already on the best closest one, zapp, and then when 33 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:19.560 you get out from the underpaths, you go to a different one. I 34 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:22.560 don't know how it works. That's why boost Infinite has it all figured it 35 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:27.319 out and they just zap you to the best possible network carrier and then you're 36 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:31.599 working full steam ahead. Bubba, that's the I'm bubby, but Bubba me 37 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:37.560 magic. You know what you turned And this shows how spoiled we are probably 38 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:42.159 with technology. But on Monday, for whatever reason, my in my desk 39 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:46.319 computer here in the building, I just just having struggles. You know what, 40 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:50.159 you want to turn me into a little bitch boy. I watched it 41 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:54.159 fash than anything else. Take away my internet at will. If you take 42 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:57.759 away my internet, even at hell of my router goes out for a little 43 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:00.439 bit. I'm mad. And that's because we're spoiled and we're conditioned to have 44 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:06.080 these things work. And you get a fourth wireless network out there like boost 45 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:10.919 Infinite, who's able to bounce to the best nearest network just like that, 46 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:16.240 it's already done in and then you just bounce back to another network task do 47 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:19.639 it all online too. You don't have to go into some store and talk 48 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:23.960 to someone. Goofy kid all online at boost infinite dot com. What's better 49 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:45.039 than that? How about the news? It's baby what fortys take it? 50 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:58.280 Take it? Boner? I guess magic, Michael handleis. It's Dingo's Morning 51 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:03.319 News. It's brought to you by an American pizza kitchen. Just delicious. 52 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:06.199 Oh. I don't know if they don't even need like a zinger or slogan 53 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:11.919 or anything. Just damn delicious. I've been craving Chicago style and I haven't 54 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:15.039 even had it there, Dude. All I had was Detroit and Dallas style. 55 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:18.279 I just want the fat boy, the deep dish, that thick. 56 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:23.920 It's cuffing season. Give me the big deep dish, Daddy. It's a 57 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:30.360 cheese pie, right, It's essentially a cheese pie with meat sauce. Oh 58 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:36.720 my god, your iPhone map will show you the way head over to double 59 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:44.199 APK. Don't clap, don't do not clap. All right, we talked 60 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:46.079 about it earlier and we're going to talk about again. But I mean, 61 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:53.199 this is massive. Uh That Mark Cuban has apparently decided to sell the majority 62 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:58.199 interests in the Dallas Mavericks. That is a basketball team that this radio station 63 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:04.120 is the radio home of to a woman named Miriam Addelson. Miriam a lovely 64 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:11.160 woman named Miriam Addelson, who is the forty fifth I believe, richest person 65 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:17.560 on planet Earth. I am tire fifth oldest, oldest, fifth wealthiest woman 66 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:25.360 in the world and its oldest else I mean that at all. And she 67 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:30.879 is the person in charge of the Las Vegas Sans Corp. And they formerly 68 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:34.600 owned a bunch of casinos on the Las Vegas Strip. They sold I think 69 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:40.680 all those in twenty twenty one, and now they own a couple of international 70 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:47.240 resorts and casinos. She's very wealthy. They are very vocal and significant donors 71 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:55.480 to Republican politicians in our state nationally as well. I believe they were the 72 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:01.040 largest donor to the presidential Trump campaign in sixteen and twenty twenty. This is 73 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:06.600 their jam, but they also are at the forefront of the casino and resort 74 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:11.399 world. And we talked earlier and again you can download the podcast from the 75 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:14.279 six to thirties segment about some angles of this, and I think we just 76 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:17.120 kick around a few more here because it's massive. This kind of hit me 77 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:21.279 since the last segment we did what if, because we know Mark Cuban has 78 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:28.439 been infatuated with this idea of a new Mavericks arena in the middle of a 79 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:30.959 resort in Casino. He said it verbatim. Here's the quote. My goal, 80 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:34.000 and this is two years ago. I believe my goal, and we'd 81 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:38.240 partner with Las Vegas Sands, is when we build a new arena, it'll 82 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:42.000 be in the middle of a resort in Casino. That's the mission. And 83 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:46.800 that was a year ago, December fifteenth, twenty twenty two. And you 84 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:51.000 know he, I think thought that it might be a twenty story Madison Square 85 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:57.240 garden like structure with window views of Dallas and fans arriving in autonomous cars, 86 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:00.680 a view of the future. But that's what he wanted a year ago, 87 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:05.920 and now nearly a year to the date. What we didn't expect was the 88 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:12.240 sale of the majority ownership of the Dallas Mavericks to a to that exact company 89 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:15.920 that he mentioned before. I bet it makes him sad knowing what the AAC 90 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:20.920 is. Not that the AC's a bad venue, but almost what it's turned 91 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:26.079 into from a sight seeing standpoint, with all the high rises around it. 92 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:28.680 You can't even see it from the highway anymore like he used to be able 93 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:30.519 to. Yeah, and I bet, I bet he doesn't love that. 94 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:35.639 But for him to have mentioned specifically the Las Vegas sands a year ago, 95 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:40.959 Yeah, the work that he's been the works for a while. And I 96 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:45.959 do think because of the way this thing is structured out where he will maintain 97 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:51.879 his job of, you know, in the organization, still being the head 98 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:58.040 of basketball operations or whatever, which is rare for something to happen the way 99 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.439 this seemingly is happening. It does need to get proved approved by the NBA 100 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.800 and whatnot. So I win win for everyone, probably is what this probably 101 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:13.439 was. Yeah, is it? I think so. I don't know what 102 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.839 changes with the Dallas Mavericks as a result of this, but do people. 103 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:22.399 That's why the real reason for it is the mystery, and I or is 104 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:26.079 it a mystery? I think the real reason is this probably helps facilitate facilitate 105 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:31.759 legalized gambling and casino gambling coming to the state of Texas. I'm pretty sure 106 00:08:31.799 --> 00:08:35.080 that's the case. Every major sports franchise in Texas is already part of something 107 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:39.600 called the Sports Betting Alliance. It was formed in twenty twenty one with the 108 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:48.159 objective to legalize and regulate sports betting here thirty one other states have already sanctioned 109 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:52.440 this sort of thing, and we in Texas, in most people's minds, 110 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:54.039 will be one of the last ones to do it. So that's what I'm 111 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.440 thinking. It will be the same way with marijuana too. Yeah, does 112 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:05.000 I don't think human needs the money now to buy something for what two hundred 113 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:09.919 and thirty five or two eighty five? Yeah, we bought it four just 114 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:15.120 a fifty million dollar discrepancy that I just threw around flippantly to eighty five is 115 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:16.960 what he bought it for. And then he sells it for I don't think 116 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.559 it was the three point five billion. I think the percentage that he sold 117 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:24.200 was closer to two billion dollars, as he still will maintain, you know, 118 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:28.840 forty something percent of the franchise. But I'm like, did he do 119 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:33.600 this knowing that that's his goal and it's going to be so dirty that he 120 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:37.639 can't get it pushed through or he doesn't want to be at the forefront of 121 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:41.879 getting it pushed through and have to have a different majority owner whose expertise is 122 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:48.039 this sort of thing and has a long history of contributions to Republicans who in 123 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:54.440 this state will determine the legality of casino gambling and legalize gambling in this state. 124 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:58.799 Is that a factor? You don't just conveniently sell it to a casino 125 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.120 company that you won year ago, said that'd be a great partner for us 126 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:07.120 to finally achieve my dream. So it's taking a minor step back to put 127 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:09.639 them at the forefront. Them be the bad guy, if you want to 128 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.399 call it bad guy, and force this thing through, because you're gonna have 129 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:18.559 to go to war with the contributions of the Native American tribes in Oklahoma, 130 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:24.879 whose nightmaret is for the legalization of this thing in Texas. That's their job 131 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:28.120 up there is to make sure it doesn't happen here, and they have a 132 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:33.320 lot of financing to ensure that it doesn't happen. And that's contributed to why 133 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:39.000 it's taken so long and continues to take take a long time. I wonder 134 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.480 if that's part of it. Is this gonna be so bloody and our Cuban 135 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:46.840 maybe doesn't have the direct expertise to handle this sort of thing, and you 136 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:50.080 need a big dog in here. That can make this happen and make it 137 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:54.120 happen faster than it was happening under Cuban's watch. Does that make any sense 138 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:56.720 to you? No? I mean, I think you're right. I think 139 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:03.840 you're all over it. But this is like everything in political type situations, 140 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:13.080 it's always about negotiations and allies, like big brother guy alliances. That's right, 141 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.720 huge, and that's how you get stuff done. And I think I 142 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:22.279 think it's exactly what this is unless we somehow here that Miriam Maddelson and her 143 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:28.320 family want to be heavily involved in the Mavericks moving forward. But I don't 144 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.279 think we have any evidence of that well, because we're just not learning who 145 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:35.879 she is though, you know, oh yeah, but we aren't paying real 146 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.639 close attention to the real swing and d's of this world. And I imagine 147 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:43.240 many are, and they know exactly who this family is and probably have for 148 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:46.679 a long time. I mean, they sold a percentage of their stock in 149 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:54.919 their company, the Sands Company, to facilitate this purchase. They already own, 150 00:11:54.399 --> 00:12:05.279 her son Maton owns Israeli basketball team, Hip Pole Jerusalem. I mean, 151 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:07.919 you know, I don't I don't know if it's as cut and dry 152 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:11.559 as just the casino thing. I tend to think it is, because then 153 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:15.480 I go back to why would Cuban sell I don't think he needs the money 154 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:22.519 because you could sell them but keep basically continuing owning the team. That's I 155 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:24.679 mean, I think, as I'm trying to get as wild as I can 156 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:28.679 with it with this, I keep coming back to the base point of I 157 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:31.360 think it was a business deal that he kind of just couldn't turn down, 158 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:35.440 and maybe something that he's seeking out for the arena and all that stuff. 159 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:41.000 But like at the bottom line, the factor is I can sell the Mavericks 160 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:48.039 but essentially own the Mavericks. And that goes back to the category of I 161 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:52.720 don't know how billionaire life is. I know, but there has to be 162 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:56.440 pride and power in knowing that you are the owner of the Dallas Mavericks that 163 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:01.320 you don't have this morning. And I again realize the deal has not been 164 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:07.080 finalized, but that's a big part of his identity. I think. Is 165 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:11.960 that enough of his identity to offset the billion two billion dollars that he's I 166 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:13.960 guess pocketing as a result of this, And how much does he need that 167 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:18.399 two billion dollars and what that's two billions for, is it let them take 168 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:20.080 the lead, get this thing pushed through, and then buy the team back 169 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:26.080 from them at a five hundred million dollar profit to them. Yeah, maybe 170 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:31.279 that seems like a lot, though I don't know. And I think we're 171 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:37.519 also dealing with someone who's got more money than him right way, So they 172 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:39.440 wouldn't They probably wouldn't take that deal. They probably would try to keep the 173 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:43.519 franchise in their name. But why And I don't care how many billions for 174 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:52.039 the investment if you have a right Yeah, well yes, no, no, 175 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:56.240 I get that. Cuban at six point two billion according to quick Search, 176 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:58.720 this family at like forty five billion. Can you believe that he sold 177 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:03.600 broad dot Com for more than he sold the Mavericks for? That's wild. 178 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:07.639 Five point seven is what he sold broadcast dot Com for in nineteen ninety nine. 179 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:11.720 Seven bill a nap of a and he was wealthy before that, but 180 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:16.559 in the snap of a finger, him and Todd Wagner turned into multi billionaires. 181 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:24.279 That Fast Silicon Valley was a wild TV show, and just the whole 182 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:28.279 tenure of Mark Cuban, it's been wild. It's I do do people like 183 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:30.840 him around here. I do. I like, you know what, let 184 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:31.559 me tell you I do. I think there are a lot of people who 185 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:37.399 are hot and cold on him based on like billionaires. Oh yeah, you 186 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:43.080 know you just we inherently resent and probably dislike most billionaires. Let me tell 187 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:46.279 you this, and I don't think we ever said this on my previous station. 188 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.600 Mark Cuban would come to the Normathon almost every year. And I sat 189 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:56.120 right next to Mark Cuban as he requested that it I don't think he said, 190 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:58.720 I request this remain anonymous. Thats why I don't feel bad about it. 191 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:03.360 This is ten years ago. He pulled out his personal checkbook, like 192 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.080 and it's a check that looks just like you and your grandma's checkbook that you 193 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:09.279 may be able to find in your house because we don't use them all that 194 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:13.559 much. And he wrote a check directly to the Normanthon, directly to the 195 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:16.200 Austin Street Shelter, which is the probably the best homeless shelter we have in 196 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:20.480 town, and amazing people that run it for a quarter of a million dollars 197 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:26.759 and just like you would pay for your groceries back in the day. I 198 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:28.639 watched him write that figure. I've never seen a check of that size, 199 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:33.799 much less seen one being written. And he folded it in half and handed 200 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:39.159 it to Norm and Norm I watched it. Norm wasn't watching, and then 201 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:43.080 you know, he gave a hug and thank you guys and left and I 202 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:50.440 watched Norm unfold the check for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Didn't ask 203 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:54.159 for one thing, didn't want anything. Yeah, at his root, Mark 204 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:56.559 Cuban is a good person. Idly it too. Bennetskinna have told stories of 205 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:00.679 the years when I worked to them about donating to Check. And then also 206 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:06.879 he won't talk about it right like we have no the places he gives to, 207 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.120 we have no idea about it. And some people still will roll their 208 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:14.200 eyes at things like that too, you know. But yeah, I do 209 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:18.759 agree that Mark Cuban wants to do good and you know, is at his 210 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:19.840 core as a good person. I do believe that, a do you too, 211 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:23.720 And I don't believe that about many billionaires. And then I don't want 212 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:27.799 to really get back into the whole presidential aspiration thing, but I was curious 213 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:33.440 what you think the national perception is of Mark Cuban versus what our local perception 214 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.360 is of Mark Cuban. I think nationally he gets tied into the way people 215 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:44.879 think about Elon and Jeff Bezos. He may not even be on their level. 216 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.559 Yeah, and probably don't don't even think about him that much and think 217 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.840 of him as the guy on Shark Tank. Yeah, I think I think 218 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:56.399 that's it. I do think there's something that you said something earlier. It 219 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:59.960 could getting your name out there and then preparing for a twenty twenty eight run. 220 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:03.680 Yeah, because you know twenty twenty four you can't run it as a 221 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:11.880 Democrat. Nothing, he would say, I mean his the financial backing now 222 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.319 comes from. If you wanted to run his Republican and take on Trump, 223 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:18.680 he could You just said, you don't want to get into it. No, 224 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:22.079 I know. Yeah, it's a part of it. That's part of 225 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:29.279 it. And the mystery of this sale begets conspiracy questions and like why, 226 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:33.440 And I guess you don't even have to call them conspiracy to just ask why 227 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:36.839 why? Now? Why? This? I think far more logically is the 228 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:42.079 Casino connection that somehow these people can help facilitate this with their history of payments 229 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:48.440 to Republicans who make this decision. Yes, but every time we asked him 230 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:51.319 for all those years if you have any presidential aspirations, he says, I 231 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:52.400 maybe when the kids get out of the house. We looked up his kids 232 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:57.319 ages in twenty twenty eight. The kids are long gone, so it could 233 00:17:57.359 --> 00:18:00.279 be sort of a through your hat in the ring, get your name on 234 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:06.319 a couple of years as the nation then would view you as a at least 235 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:08.839 as a potential candidate, no matter how much waves you make. And you 236 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:14.559 could do that as an independent, and then you pull out in time to 237 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.759 flip those votes wherever you want them to go, which is always what third 238 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:22.880 party candidates do. They hope they do, or they drink up much needed 239 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:26.160 votes for one side or the other that ends up hurting someone and then in 240 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:30.480 the next election cycle for twenty twenty eight, maybe it's a possibility. I 241 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:36.119 think every one of these angles is like interesting to talk about, but I 242 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:41.440 keep coming back to I think it's like his life doesn't really change much and 243 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:47.359 he just gets more money. But I don't think, what does someone even 244 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:51.480 if he has one billion dollars of liquid cat I don't know what do you 245 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:53.559 call it? How does his life change if he has two billion more? 246 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:57.880 The only reason in this world if I had one billion dollars that I'd want 247 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:02.160 to have three billion dollars, saying it is because it would increase my chances 248 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:07.720 of maybe owning a sports team, which he just gave up the but also 249 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:14.319 is still doing. If you're still making all the decisions, don't you still 250 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:18.519 own the team? Does this give the Allison family the ability to think, 251 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:22.319 well, I'm not real happy with it. Some of the decisions that the 252 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:23.960 guy we have run in the team are making. We're the majority owners. 253 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:27.839 My son has owned this Israeli basketball team. He's doing a real good job. 254 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:30.079 I think my son might do a better job. And what's in it 255 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:33.759 for them might be, well, we're gonna get a casino in Dallas one 256 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:40.359 day. I don't know, man, very mysterious. One thing, real 257 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:44.079 quick new, he tweeted out. Mark Cuban confirmed to me MAVs will not 258 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:48.160 relocate to Las Vegas, because that was another one on the uh, you 259 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:53.400 know, on the quick reaction list of things that might happen on the sans 260 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:56.599 court, Cuban said, coming in to upgrade and hopefully build a new arena, 261 00:19:56.640 --> 00:20:00.920 which will hopefully be a Venetian like resort here in that's the goal. 262 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.680 So he reiterated that that's the master player he wants. Yeah, and this 263 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:11.599 is and it's for them. It's good because they get Dallas who sans court. 264 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:14.480 Yeah, if it gets approved, if he gets it, their job 265 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:18.160 to prove it it will get proved, so that he won't the Houston owner. 266 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:21.839 Uh, I think it's important in Texas. The Houston owner I think 267 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:26.440 for Titta is his name. Yeah, he owns casinos. So this is 268 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:29.480 not gonna get shut down. So does this end with them the Sands people 269 00:20:29.519 --> 00:20:33.920 getting gambling legalized in Texas with their money and influence. And then Cuban then 270 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:38.839 essentially being a minority owner in this new casino, but still from a which 271 00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:42.960 will decision making far more money. Is the majority owner? Well no, 272 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:47.440 no of the Mavericks. But I'm saying, does this lead to minority ownership 273 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:51.440 in some form of the casino that comes up? Maybe maybe that's a trade 274 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:53.480 off that you're certainly willing to make. And that's how you go from having 275 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:57.359 six point eight billion dollars to twenty billion dollars, which, when you got 276 00:20:57.400 --> 00:21:00.559 that much juice, I think is the only thing that makes it move. 277 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:04.960 Gotta make it move, Gotta make it we'll try to make it move. 278 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:11.119 For Tim Cato from the Athletic he has got good connections on this. He 279 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:14.000 was at the Man's Game last night. Of course, Tim Cato will join 280 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:18.240 us live on ninety seven one. Did you know that my penis was in 281 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:26.799 the Guinness Book World Records and a librarian made me take it out. Come 282 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:32.400 on, duper shake that tiny d that's your joke today. For Mike Us, 283 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:33.119 here's Kevin Turner for DNM Leasing.