This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor welcoming.

Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch. And here at year's end, it's time to do a who had a good year, who

had a bad year. Jeff, a very good evening to you.

Leading our Goodyear list is Las Vegas itself.

You've introduced this topic over the years.

I wasn't listening carefully to you

because I was keen on California's troubles. But Las Vegas has the opposite

problem. It has too many good things to list. I just listed Las Vegas and thought of

Sphere, but you have a much longer list of who had a good

year in Vegas good evening to you Jeff.

Good evening John, great to be with you through another year here and yeah if all the

things we've been saying about California for the past few years, I would say Vegas has been listening and said we're going to do everything the other, the exact opposite way, and they've succeeded beyond anybody's wildest imagination.

Let's start with probably the biggest event they've had all year and that was Formula One.

While some people in Vegas groused about the inconvenience of traffic and things like that, it turned out to be a huge

winner. As a matter of fact, they have a 10-year contract now. They had one of the biggest

viewerships not only for Formula One ever, but certainly in the US where it's not as popular.

It just has drawn all kinds of interests around the world.

So we're going to see that race grow in importance and prestige.

They're going to move it back earlier in the year so it matters for this year the

winter of it all max for stop and had it all wrapped up probably a month or two before

they even went to Vegas so they're going to make Vegas a more important stop on the way and I'm sure

you'll have even more people out because it'll be very it'll be full of drama like many

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