August 11, 2025 • 11 mins
According to a reddit thread, many users agree that Dallas is a big city with NO culture, do you agree??
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and Skin Show ninety one point one The Eagle
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Speaker 4 (00:28):
For this kill.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
The thing's big, Yeah, Cynthia, We're talking about Dallas culture
because it broke out into this whole thread on Reddit
and then the Morning News was writing about it and
the d Magazine was writing about it. What is the
culture of our city? And as we were kicking this around,
we're talking about, you know, the food scene, the art scene, architecture,
what does your city look like, the people, the personality
(00:56):
of the people, the stereotype of the residents, how easy
is it to live there? And then kind of some
of the things that branches off some of that, and
you know, Ben was just talking about the first thing.
He thinks about the oppressive heat, and then he thinks about,
you know, you just got to drive everywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
There's so much driving because we're so spread out. And
I'm like, I.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Don't know, I don't want to put words in Neill's mouth,
but I think of DFW, I include fort Worth in it,
but also even saying that fort Worth is wildly different
than Dallas, that is, I mean, they're like they're like
two different places, but they're all interconnected. You know. Anytime
I'm out in fort Worth, all those people love cowboys
and Mavericks and rangers.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I mean, it's it's all one big kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And the music scene too, Like I think you brought
up art like music scene here, but especially in fort
Worth is huge and it's fun. And I do want
to go back to what Ben was saying about, like
the topography.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I don't know how to say it.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yes, landscaping, it would be nice to at least see
mountains on your drive, right, Like if you have a
fifty minute drive, it's not so bad when you have
a gorgeous mountain to look at the whole time. But
you may take advantage of that if you're seeing that
every single day, does that mountain get old? I don't know,
but it would be nice to actually have that, maybe
a beach.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
That you could just drive down the street too. We
don't have any of that.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And so one thing that struck me to this because
especially when I went to New Orleans, so I even
mentioned Boston a few weeks ago, Like when you go
to those cities, there is like a clear like vibe
going on there, especially New Orleans. You're like, man, this
is what this city is really cool? You know immediately
if you hear something like that's New Orleans. Dallas doesn't
(02:32):
have that like at all. And I think part of
that is what you mentioned like Fort Worth, Like it's
not just Dallas, it's all these little suburbs.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
So we're just so scattered.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's kind of hard to have one central culture thing.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, I think you're exactly right.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And that's kind of like the idea too of environment
and structure informing the culture. So think about a placem
was bringing up oceans and mountains. Yeah, that's going to
attract a certain kind of person too. Like if you
got has ever been in a ski resort community, Like
there's a lot of in Colorado or Canada. Like when
(03:07):
we went to Whistler in Canada that's north of Vancouver,
there were people living there from all over the world
that moved there specifically because they wanted to work at
a ski resort community. And they all had kind of
a similar personality. And the personality of the people starts
to inform the culture of the city.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Nobody the only reason.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And we might think about this, we're having this conversation now,
we might circle back in ten years and we consider
the culture of the city way different because there is
such an influx right now of people from other parts
of the United States moving here, but they're not in
the world and the world Yeah, but they're not moving
here because of the environment. They're moving here because of
(03:52):
the economic growth of the city, which is just a
huge part of what the culture is here. Yeah, it's
booming business, you know, and no state income tax, all
those things. You know. Yeah, there was a person we
were talking about in the previous segment that said, the
culture of Dallas is money and that's it and that's
the end of story. And for a long time, you know,
there was this stereotype that Dallas is just La wannabes. Yeah,
(04:15):
you know, and like I know a lot of people
that have lived out in LA and they went out
there for reasons involving the entertainment industry, and pretty much
all of them hate La.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I run into so many people who hate California who
moved from there and couldn't get out of there fast enough,
just like, oh my god, this is going to hell
in a handbasket. Yeah, and even particularly like La, I
think La is kind of like Dallas and that like,
if you've ever seen quote unquote downtown La, it ain't impressed.
It's not like Chicago or New York or any of
(04:49):
these big cities.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And we were talking about this last week. I think
about this.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I spent I live in Allen, I live right off
one twenty one, and I spend so much time when
I'm driving in on one twenty one and I look
at that little area where the toll way and one
twenty one come together, and it's almost like driving into
downtown Tulsa or downtown Oklahoma City. But it's far away
from downtown Dallas and even further away from downtown Fort Worth.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So we have these little hubs that are growing.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Because of what you know Ben just talked about with
the economic environment, and again it's like, I there is
one comment or that I agree with if you live here,
Like if you visit Dallas, where you're gonna go You're
gonna go to Uptown, You're gonna go to Deep Elum,
you're gonna go to down Like where are you gonna go?
And you're not gonna be that impressed with it? And
then you're gonna leave. But if you live here, like
(05:41):
there's tons of stuff to get involved in, I think
it depends on what your age and your interests are too.
There's kind of something for everybody. Yeah, right, Like I
don't have any interest in going to Deep Elum. I
did when I was young, but I get it, like
if you're young and that's your scene, you may dig
going to do that. But I'm just I'm more likely
to want to go to the you know, PG and Frisco.
Oh yeah, it's gonna say you did going to the
(06:02):
Star Legacy West or any of those kinds of places.
But I you know, when I think about Dallas Fort
Worth in the culture of the city, like there's not
it's you go to a lot of the cities on
the East Coast, and there's a big, rich history because
those we have been here forever and they've just grown
and they're everyone's on top of each other.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You know, this is so big and sprawling. I do
know this.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The thing that I like about our culture here that's
not everywhere, is people are mostly kind and nice. Like
I like the people like we would go to New
York when the Rangers were playing the Yankees, and we
would try to do man on the street stuff and
interview people. They want no part of talking to you.
They think it's a setup, like who sent you over here?
(06:44):
Like why you're talking to me? I'm not talking to
you know, get that out of my face, you know.
And here it's like you're standing next to somebody in
line at like the grocery store, and you're instantly best
friends or whatever. I think people for the most part
are nice here to strangers. Okay, let me throw this
out here. This is a Dallas site. I think he
went to Kimball High School. He lives in La now.
(07:04):
But you've seen him. Even if you don't know his name,
you've seen him. You've probably seen him. The movie I
always think of is groundhog Day. He's in that he
was in California, caation was I didn't see it, but
apparently he was in Freaky Friday, and since Freaky or
Friday is coming out, they just interviewed him in the
morning News. But it's Stephen Toboleski, like, if you see
(07:25):
a picture of me, oh, I know that dude. But anyways,
they asked him this question, this Dallas culture question. He said,
because he went to SMU that's where he went to college,
and he's probably in his sixties. Maybe he might be yeah,
he's I'm sure he's in his sixties.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
He said.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
There were so many young writers when I was in
Dallas at school, and they stayed writers their entire life,
creating things. There were ideas coming out of people's heads.
Culture comes in a lot of forms. Dallas certainly a
business center, but it also has art. I get people
from Dallas texting me every year saying, we're doing a
project in Dallas. Would you be a part part of it?
He's like, when I'm free, I come back. So they
(08:02):
followed up and said, how would you describe Dallas to
people who have never been here.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I really like to think about this.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
People are walking fast, They're not lazy, they're doing stuff.
Dallas is a town for doers and not just for watchers.
And I thought, you know what, man, there's a lot
of different things that we can talk about, but it
is it's not like a hustle bustle kind of vibe
like a New York or a Chicago. But there is
(08:29):
always something going on in people trying to start stuff
and make something big happen. I like that doers, doers,
that's probably good ways, not just watchers. And in the
case of Christina, my god, she walks so fast. Yeah,
well I was I was looking up like, what is
the culture of all the major major cities and so
let's just talk about that real quick.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Okay, what is the culture of New York City?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
New York is the city that never sleeps, the hustle
and bustle people scramble.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's uh.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And it's also like every like every block is a
new part of the world where someone lives. This is
what this is what it said said to me when
I looked it up on the Innerweb. Fast, ambitious, diverse,
always hustling culture of grind, fashion, finance, and a little
bit of rudeness worn as a badge of honor. Yeah, absolutely,
LA image driven, creative, laid back yet status conscious, entertainment, industry,
(09:19):
core car culture, wellness, trends, and relentless sunshine. Yeah, and
that's a really I think that's an interesting thing too.
Like you talk about Dallas, you start talking about culture, man,
Dallas has a very very strong Latino culture that if
you're you know, if you're a Hispanic, you probably talk
about that.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
That's what represents you. But in the mainstream it's not
talked about.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
LA is the same way They've got this amazing Chicano
culture with low riders and tattoos and music that go
along with it. That's a big part of LA, but
it's not listed there. Chicago blue collar pride meets big
city sophistications, strong sports loyalty, food obsession, and resilient in
bad weather. Is going to say, I think it's one
(10:01):
of the greatest food cities I've ever been to.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Some food's got to be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Washington, DC politically obsessed, status conscious, and transient mix of
policy wonks, diplomats and idealists colliding with bureaucracy yep. Miami flashy, multicultural,
And then you get to Dallas and It says business forward,
sports crazed and outwardly friendly, with an undercurrent of competitiveness,
big on growth, suburban sprawl, and everything's bigger energy.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
That is exactly right.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
We're growers, not showers.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Christina ends it with the line of the day.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Well, this is on our social media, so go in
the comment section and tell us what you think about
all this.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We have a pack of Ranger tickets every day this week,
so we'll be listening for that. I'll never forget the
time KT got to interview Hulk Cogan. He looked him
dead in the eye and he said, thank people who
know how to code. I think they can do some stuff.
And then Hulk said, brother, you ain't got a lot
to offer. Christina, are you gonna stick around and play
music till ten o'clock? Christina's next right here on the eagle.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
There you going, well, I want to get my sack back, dude,
A straight summer that's yours.
Ben and Skin Show ninety one point one The Eagle
all week this week giving away a four pack of
Ranger tickets for the August twenty seventh game. As we
barrel towards playoff season, will the Rangers still be in
the mix? You can be at some of these games.
Be listening all three hours. We'll give you a chance
to win. You have to have that free iHeart app.
You stream programs, you listen to us, you listen to
(00:20):
to podcasts. It's got it all, just like Monte Ellis.
So get that free iHeart app and have a chance
to win. Right now, it's time.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
For this kill.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
The thing's big, Yeah, Cynthia, We're talking about Dallas culture
because it broke out into this whole thread on Reddit
and then the Morning News was writing about it and
the d Magazine was writing about it. What is the
culture of our city? And as we were kicking this around,
we're talking about, you know, the food scene, the art scene, architecture,
what does your city look like, the people, the personality
(00:56):
of the people, the stereotype of the residents, how easy
is it to live there? And then kind of some
of the things that branches off some of that, and
you know, Ben was just talking about the first thing.
He thinks about the oppressive heat, and then he thinks about,
you know, you just got to drive everywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
There's so much driving because we're so spread out. And
I'm like, I.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Don't know, I don't want to put words in Neill's mouth,
but I think of DFW, I include fort Worth in it,
but also even saying that fort Worth is wildly different
than Dallas, that is, I mean, they're like they're like
two different places, but they're all interconnected. You know. Anytime
I'm out in fort Worth, all those people love cowboys
and Mavericks and rangers.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I mean, it's it's all one big kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And the music scene too, Like I think you brought
up art like music scene here, but especially in fort
Worth is huge and it's fun. And I do want
to go back to what Ben was saying about, like
the topography.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I don't know how to say it.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yes, landscaping, it would be nice to at least see
mountains on your drive, right, Like if you have a
fifty minute drive, it's not so bad when you have
a gorgeous mountain to look at the whole time. But
you may take advantage of that if you're seeing that
every single day, does that mountain get old? I don't know,
but it would be nice to actually have that, maybe
a beach.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
That you could just drive down the street too. We
don't have any of that.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And so one thing that struck me to this because
especially when I went to New Orleans, so I even
mentioned Boston a few weeks ago, Like when you go
to those cities, there is like a clear like vibe
going on there, especially New Orleans. You're like, man, this
is what this city is really cool? You know immediately
if you hear something like that's New Orleans. Dallas doesn't
(02:32):
have that like at all. And I think part of
that is what you mentioned like Fort Worth, Like it's
not just Dallas, it's all these little suburbs.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
So we're just so scattered.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's kind of hard to have one central culture thing.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, I think you're exactly right.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And that's kind of like the idea too of environment
and structure informing the culture. So think about a placem
was bringing up oceans and mountains. Yeah, that's going to
attract a certain kind of person too. Like if you
got has ever been in a ski resort community, Like
there's a lot of in Colorado or Canada. Like when
(03:07):
we went to Whistler in Canada that's north of Vancouver,
there were people living there from all over the world
that moved there specifically because they wanted to work at
a ski resort community. And they all had kind of
a similar personality. And the personality of the people starts
to inform the culture of the city.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Nobody the only reason.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And we might think about this, we're having this conversation now,
we might circle back in ten years and we consider
the culture of the city way different because there is
such an influx right now of people from other parts
of the United States moving here, but they're not in
the world and the world Yeah, but they're not moving
here because of the environment. They're moving here because of
(03:52):
the economic growth of the city, which is just a
huge part of what the culture is here. Yeah, it's
booming business, you know, and no state income tax, all
those things. You know. Yeah, there was a person we
were talking about in the previous segment that said, the
culture of Dallas is money and that's it and that's
the end of story. And for a long time, you know,
there was this stereotype that Dallas is just La wannabes. Yeah,
(04:15):
you know, and like I know a lot of people
that have lived out in LA and they went out
there for reasons involving the entertainment industry, and pretty much
all of them hate La.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I run into so many people who hate California who
moved from there and couldn't get out of there fast enough,
just like, oh my god, this is going to hell
in a handbasket. Yeah, and even particularly like La, I
think La is kind of like Dallas and that like,
if you've ever seen quote unquote downtown La, it ain't impressed.
It's not like Chicago or New York or any of
(04:49):
these big cities.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And we were talking about this last week. I think
about this.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I spent I live in Allen, I live right off
one twenty one, and I spend so much time when
I'm driving in on one twenty one and I look
at that little area where the toll way and one
twenty one come together, and it's almost like driving into
downtown Tulsa or downtown Oklahoma City. But it's far away
from downtown Dallas and even further away from downtown Fort Worth.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So we have these little hubs that are growing.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Because of what you know Ben just talked about with
the economic environment, and again it's like, I there is
one comment or that I agree with if you live here,
Like if you visit Dallas, where you're gonna go You're
gonna go to Uptown, You're gonna go to Deep Elum,
you're gonna go to down Like where are you gonna go?
And you're not gonna be that impressed with it? And
then you're gonna leave. But if you live here, like
(05:41):
there's tons of stuff to get involved in, I think
it depends on what your age and your interests are too.
There's kind of something for everybody. Yeah, right, Like I
don't have any interest in going to Deep Elum. I
did when I was young, but I get it, like
if you're young and that's your scene, you may dig
going to do that. But I'm just I'm more likely
to want to go to the you know, PG and Frisco.
Oh yeah, it's gonna say you did going to the
(06:02):
Star Legacy West or any of those kinds of places.
But I you know, when I think about Dallas Fort
Worth in the culture of the city, like there's not
it's you go to a lot of the cities on
the East Coast, and there's a big, rich history because
those we have been here forever and they've just grown
and they're everyone's on top of each other.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You know, this is so big and sprawling. I do
know this.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The thing that I like about our culture here that's
not everywhere, is people are mostly kind and nice. Like
I like the people like we would go to New
York when the Rangers were playing the Yankees, and we
would try to do man on the street stuff and
interview people. They want no part of talking to you.
They think it's a setup, like who sent you over here?
(06:44):
Like why you're talking to me? I'm not talking to
you know, get that out of my face, you know.
And here it's like you're standing next to somebody in
line at like the grocery store, and you're instantly best
friends or whatever. I think people for the most part
are nice here to strangers. Okay, let me throw this
out here. This is a Dallas site. I think he
went to Kimball High School. He lives in La now.
(07:04):
But you've seen him. Even if you don't know his name,
you've seen him. You've probably seen him. The movie I
always think of is groundhog Day. He's in that he
was in California, caation was I didn't see it, but
apparently he was in Freaky Friday, and since Freaky or
Friday is coming out, they just interviewed him in the
morning News. But it's Stephen Toboleski, like, if you see
(07:25):
a picture of me, oh, I know that dude. But anyways,
they asked him this question, this Dallas culture question. He said,
because he went to SMU that's where he went to college,
and he's probably in his sixties. Maybe he might be yeah,
he's I'm sure he's in his sixties.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
He said.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
There were so many young writers when I was in
Dallas at school, and they stayed writers their entire life,
creating things. There were ideas coming out of people's heads.
Culture comes in a lot of forms. Dallas certainly a
business center, but it also has art. I get people
from Dallas texting me every year saying, we're doing a
project in Dallas. Would you be a part part of it?
He's like, when I'm free, I come back. So they
(08:02):
followed up and said, how would you describe Dallas to
people who have never been here.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I really like to think about this.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
People are walking fast, They're not lazy, they're doing stuff.
Dallas is a town for doers and not just for watchers.
And I thought, you know what, man, there's a lot
of different things that we can talk about, but it
is it's not like a hustle bustle kind of vibe
like a New York or a Chicago. But there is
(08:29):
always something going on in people trying to start stuff
and make something big happen. I like that doers, doers,
that's probably good ways, not just watchers. And in the
case of Christina, my god, she walks so fast. Yeah,
well I was I was looking up like, what is
the culture of all the major major cities and so
let's just talk about that real quick.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Okay, what is the culture of New York City?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
New York is the city that never sleeps, the hustle
and bustle people scramble.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's uh.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And it's also like every like every block is a
new part of the world where someone lives. This is
what this is what it said said to me when
I looked it up on the Innerweb. Fast, ambitious, diverse,
always hustling culture of grind, fashion, finance, and a little
bit of rudeness worn as a badge of honor. Yeah, absolutely,
LA image driven, creative, laid back yet status conscious, entertainment, industry,
(09:19):
core car culture, wellness, trends, and relentless sunshine. Yeah, and
that's a really I think that's an interesting thing too.
Like you talk about Dallas, you start talking about culture, man,
Dallas has a very very strong Latino culture that if
you're you know, if you're a Hispanic, you probably talk
about that.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
That's what represents you. But in the mainstream it's not
talked about.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
LA is the same way They've got this amazing Chicano
culture with low riders and tattoos and music that go
along with it. That's a big part of LA, but
it's not listed there. Chicago blue collar pride meets big
city sophistications, strong sports loyalty, food obsession, and resilient in
bad weather. Is going to say, I think it's one
(10:01):
of the greatest food cities I've ever been to.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Some food's got to be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Washington, DC politically obsessed, status conscious, and transient mix of
policy wonks, diplomats and idealists colliding with bureaucracy yep. Miami flashy, multicultural,
And then you get to Dallas and It says business forward,
sports crazed and outwardly friendly, with an undercurrent of competitiveness,
big on growth, suburban sprawl, and everything's bigger energy.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
That is exactly right.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
We're growers, not showers.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Christina ends it with the line of the day.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Well, this is on our social media, so go in
the comment section and tell us what you think about
all this.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We have a pack of Ranger tickets every day this week,
so we'll be listening for that. I'll never forget the
time KT got to interview Hulk Cogan. He looked him
dead in the eye and he said, thank people who
know how to code. I think they can do some stuff.
And then Hulk said, brother, you ain't got a lot
to offer. Christina, are you gonna stick around and play
music till ten o'clock? Christina's next right here on the eagle.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
There you going, well, I want to get my sack back, dude,
A straight summer that's yours.
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