December 8, 2025 • 6 mins
In the Weekday Update, one of the richest men in Dallas passed away over the weekend, plus why lcoal businesses are stoked about the World Cup draw.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle. Hey,
let's give away those Lamb of God tickets. They're coming
in the spring and they're gonna be at Toyota Music Factory.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Let's use your iHeart app.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The first person that can use the talkback feature leave
your name, your phone number, your email address and can
answer this question. Earlier, during Christina's Cookie Jar, famous rock
lead singer Christina talked about his redemption. One dude did
something for the homeless in LA that was amazing. Christina
pointed it out, you can name that guy from a
(00:32):
very popular rock band that we play here on the station.
You're gonna win those Lamb of God tickets. We'll give
one one pairaway every day this week, but right now
it's time for this. Are you excited?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Featuring Veteran news anchor Katie fun tweets.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Former Mavericks I'm not sorry.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Former Rangers and Stars owner Tom Hicks passed away this weekend.
I saw that he drew constant ayre from Rangers fans,
even though he did sign Alex Rodriguez. But there are
a lot of people who are very unhappy with Tom
mixturing that time. He also got the Stars of Stanley Cup.
Though if you think about it that way, and he
is so rich, it was so rich, I guess yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
He so.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
A couple of things about Tom Hicks. One, he at
one point lived in that house over there. I think
that's off Park Lane that is sold for more money
than any house in the.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
History of Texas.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It was at one point bought by Andy Beale that
owns all those Beal banks. Yeah, and I think I
think he's the richest guy in Texas. I've seen that before.
I think when you get that rich, who knows, well,
hell that does Elon live in Texas?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Now, I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, technically he does, Okay, so, but he makes more
than every elementary school teacher in the world combined.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
But anyways, Tom Hicks was famous for being in the
media business, owning a bunch of media properties. He was
also famous for owning the Rangers and the Stars. And
he was also famous for having the most expensive water
bill every year when they would post it in the
Dallas Morning News. So we would have these droughts and
people were only allowed to water their yard like once
(02:16):
every three months. And Tom Hicks was like had a
water park in his yard. But that's just like a
rich guy thing. I think sports fans had a disdain
for Tom Hicks. But one of the things that like
really stayed with me is I can remember Ben and
I there used to be this deal we did at
ESPN where it was, like I forgot what they called it,
(02:36):
lunch with a legend.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I think that's actually what it was called.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
We'd go to a steakhouse and we'd do the Ben
and Skin Show Sports.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We would do it.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
From a nice steakhouse and people would pay money and
we would interview famous sportsman like Nolan Ryan, and one
time we did Mike Madonno and Brett Hoole and h
kind of got into Tom Hicks, like jokingly, like yeah
that Tom Hicks. And man, their demeanor change, like don't
(03:04):
you say anything disparaging about the Holy time?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Like they loved him. They loved him.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, And I saw over the weekend our boy Michael
Young posted really nice things about Tom Hicks, and that's
a guy that I don't I don't know if this
ever got public or not. I just me and Been
were around the Rangers a lot that they were taking
cold showers because water bills hot water.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Didn't get paid and then I don't know. Yeah, there was.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
There was a lot of issues before the Rangers got
sold in bankruptcy court. There was like a lot of
stuff that was not being kept up around the ballpark
and for players.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
There were rumors of like baseball's and gum and stuff
like that. Wait, they cut back on gum, They cut
back on everything.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, So whatever he brought a he brought a title
with the Stars and the Rangers. He was He's the
guy I responsible for getting John Daniels here and Nolan
Ryan here.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
That was Tim absolutely all that.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Andy Bill the currently one hundred and first most rich
Texan oh, twelve billion dollars, okay, wall I have the
Jerry Jones family coming in at fifty Wow, Michael Dell
number ten.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh, it's kind of a big one right now. One
hundred and twenty nine billion. Okay, So there you go.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
There's that.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I also would like to say that the World Cup
draw was Friday, very long, very.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Awkward, and amazing television if anyone watched it.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I heard Gretzky crushed it. It was very long and awkward,
and there's.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Like did you see Shaq and Kevin Hart. That was
my favorite part was just them interacting because they're clearly friends.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I didn't see that for real life.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
And so Shaq was just trying jokes every time they
went to him, and it was just silent, like I
guess no one was really for jokes at the draw. Anyway,
it was great.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Well, they gave Trump the FIFA Peace Prize because he
didn't get the Nobel Peace Is that he wanted, so
they created the FIFA piece fries but in the drawl,
which is very interesting to me at least. And this
is an article and Channel eight WFA that I read,
and it's they talked to a bunch of like local
business owners and they're someho how thrilled they are because
(05:16):
they're expecting a two billion dollar economic impact for this.
We're getting nine games here total at at and T
Stadium or inn DFW. We're getting right Dallas Stadium, and
that's it. We're getting Messy.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And we saw Messi Craze when we did it friendly
with him here in town for MLS, but that is huge.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Did y'all go to that game?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, we know, we know.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
He called into our show, the show I was on
at the time. MESSI did, MESSI did. Yeah. So Dallas
Stadium is obviously it's bigger than any other venue here
because it can hold over ninety thousand fans. It's fifty
percent large sure than the Cotton Bowl was when Dallas
last hosted the World Cup. Oh wow, and that was
in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I can't wait to go to Dallas Stadium in Arlington.
That is gonna be fun. So yeah, Messy, that's good.
That's great. The legend uh. And we're gonna have teams
stationed in Frisco.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Not far from We're gonna go, man, We're gonna probably
go play in some of these games.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, I'd like to call next been in Skin Show
ninety seven point one, the Eagle KT. What's the Grammy game?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We'll find out.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Man, that's a great tease. We tell you about our
friends at Pluckers. We're gonna be doing our show from
there on Friday. Lovers and Greenville. That's the OG location
here in the DFW
And Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle. Hey,
let's give away those Lamb of God tickets. They're coming
in the spring and they're gonna be at Toyota Music Factory.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Let's use your iHeart app.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The first person that can use the talkback feature leave
your name, your phone number, your email address and can
answer this question. Earlier, during Christina's Cookie Jar, famous rock
lead singer Christina talked about his redemption. One dude did
something for the homeless in LA that was amazing. Christina
pointed it out, you can name that guy from a
(00:32):
very popular rock band that we play here on the station.
You're gonna win those Lamb of God tickets. We'll give
one one pairaway every day this week, but right now
it's time for this. Are you excited?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Featuring Veteran news anchor Katie fun tweets.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Former Mavericks I'm not sorry.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Former Rangers and Stars owner Tom Hicks passed away this weekend.
I saw that he drew constant ayre from Rangers fans,
even though he did sign Alex Rodriguez. But there are
a lot of people who are very unhappy with Tom
mixturing that time. He also got the Stars of Stanley Cup.
Though if you think about it that way, and he
is so rich, it was so rich, I guess yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
He so.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
A couple of things about Tom Hicks. One, he at
one point lived in that house over there. I think
that's off Park Lane that is sold for more money
than any house in the.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
History of Texas.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It was at one point bought by Andy Beale that
owns all those Beal banks. Yeah, and I think I
think he's the richest guy in Texas. I've seen that before.
I think when you get that rich, who knows, well,
hell that does Elon live in Texas?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Now, I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, technically he does, Okay, so, but he makes more
than every elementary school teacher in the world combined.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
But anyways, Tom Hicks was famous for being in the
media business, owning a bunch of media properties. He was
also famous for owning the Rangers and the Stars. And
he was also famous for having the most expensive water
bill every year when they would post it in the
Dallas Morning News. So we would have these droughts and
people were only allowed to water their yard like once
(02:16):
every three months. And Tom Hicks was like had a
water park in his yard. But that's just like a
rich guy thing. I think sports fans had a disdain
for Tom Hicks. But one of the things that like
really stayed with me is I can remember Ben and
I there used to be this deal we did at
ESPN where it was, like I forgot what they called it,
(02:36):
lunch with a legend.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I think that's actually what it was called.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
We'd go to a steakhouse and we'd do the Ben
and Skin Show Sports.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We would do it.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
From a nice steakhouse and people would pay money and
we would interview famous sportsman like Nolan Ryan, and one
time we did Mike Madonno and Brett Hoole and h
kind of got into Tom Hicks, like jokingly, like yeah
that Tom Hicks. And man, their demeanor change, like don't
(03:04):
you say anything disparaging about the Holy time?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Like they loved him. They loved him.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, And I saw over the weekend our boy Michael
Young posted really nice things about Tom Hicks, and that's
a guy that I don't I don't know if this
ever got public or not. I just me and Been
were around the Rangers a lot that they were taking
cold showers because water bills hot water.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Didn't get paid and then I don't know. Yeah, there was.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
There was a lot of issues before the Rangers got
sold in bankruptcy court. There was like a lot of
stuff that was not being kept up around the ballpark
and for players.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
There were rumors of like baseball's and gum and stuff
like that. Wait, they cut back on gum, They cut
back on everything.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, So whatever he brought a he brought a title
with the Stars and the Rangers. He was He's the
guy I responsible for getting John Daniels here and Nolan
Ryan here.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
That was Tim absolutely all that.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Andy Bill the currently one hundred and first most rich
Texan oh, twelve billion dollars, okay, wall I have the
Jerry Jones family coming in at fifty Wow, Michael Dell
number ten.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh, it's kind of a big one right now. One
hundred and twenty nine billion. Okay, So there you go.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
There's that.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I also would like to say that the World Cup
draw was Friday, very long, very.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Awkward, and amazing television if anyone watched it.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I heard Gretzky crushed it. It was very long and awkward,
and there's.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Like did you see Shaq and Kevin Hart. That was
my favorite part was just them interacting because they're clearly friends.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I didn't see that for real life.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
And so Shaq was just trying jokes every time they
went to him, and it was just silent, like I
guess no one was really for jokes at the draw. Anyway,
it was great.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Well, they gave Trump the FIFA Peace Prize because he
didn't get the Nobel Peace Is that he wanted, so
they created the FIFA piece fries but in the drawl,
which is very interesting to me at least. And this
is an article and Channel eight WFA that I read,
and it's they talked to a bunch of like local
business owners and they're someho how thrilled they are because
(05:16):
they're expecting a two billion dollar economic impact for this.
We're getting nine games here total at at and T
Stadium or inn DFW. We're getting right Dallas Stadium, and
that's it. We're getting Messy.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And we saw Messi Craze when we did it friendly
with him here in town for MLS, but that is huge.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Did y'all go to that game?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, we know, we know.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
He called into our show, the show I was on
at the time. MESSI did, MESSI did. Yeah. So Dallas
Stadium is obviously it's bigger than any other venue here
because it can hold over ninety thousand fans. It's fifty
percent large sure than the Cotton Bowl was when Dallas
last hosted the World Cup. Oh wow, and that was
in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I can't wait to go to Dallas Stadium in Arlington.
That is gonna be fun. So yeah, Messy, that's good.
That's great. The legend uh. And we're gonna have teams
stationed in Frisco.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Not far from We're gonna go, man, We're gonna probably
go play in some of these games.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, I'd like to call next been in Skin Show
ninety seven point one, the Eagle KT. What's the Grammy game?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We'll find out.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Man, that's a great tease. We tell you about our
friends at Pluckers. We're gonna be doing our show from
there on Friday. Lovers and Greenville. That's the OG location
here in the DFW
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