This is Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batcher.

Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch.

We go immediately to the happy story of watching the West, which is Las Vegas.

Jeff, the Sphere, I'm Charm by it.

Never been there, haven't seen it, just to talk about it.

And I love the fact that the Sphere watched every moment of the Formula One race, zipping the the Popsicles but not sphere stayed right on it the audience of one that matters

The sphere looks fabulous every time every picture I take you tell me however the jury is still out it it's mixed, what is the thinking?

So the jury is still out, it's mixed in two ways.

One in terms of, if you're a neighbor of the sphere,

this building, which is immense and very bright it's covered with video panels

light panels that create video images so if if you're within eye shot of it you're going to see it and certainly at night and it's really

very striking but very very bright and recent photos from nearby

neighborhood show that you know at night it can be really quite a distraction lighting up the whole neighborhood in a way that you know is really beyond what we expect with street lights at night

And it can be distracting if you're in the neighborhood and playing golf, like people playing on the golf course

adjacent to it have sometimes been distracted, but they laugh it off.

It's kind of funny because the sphere would actually make faces at the golfers as they try to

make par. But money-wise, it's still out. This is something that cost more than $2 billion. It was about 2.3 billion dollars to create and build. And it was sold out throughout its residency of, you know, you two's concerts

there, which end in March. And so that's been a big financial boon for them. But for the

other days when you two isn't there and it becomes just a massive

movie theater, they're not able to fill the thousands of seats with people willing to pay substantial amounts of

money for a movie ticket essentially.

So it's the in-between times that they're worried about.

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