Robert Lang
Robert Lang
experience happened
These things have always happened organically. What we don't have experience with is a contrivance of this, where it's engineered.
act circus experience gone less pack rat regular shopping vegas western
It's gone from a circus act to a regular city. The experience of Las Vegas now is less Rat Pack and more brats in the car, from Dino (Dean Martin) and his friends and swingers to minivans and shopping malls. It's just a big Western city.
hurt played reason sure
I'm sure he was a little sore. He played well. There was no reason for him to get hurt more.
allow connected cultural people qualities receive south zone
They have two qualities that allow them to receive so many people: They're big and they're close. They're also part of a cultural zone in the South that people would feel most connected to.
check good
It was a good check (of) where we stand,
low moved puck
We had the play set up well. We moved the puck up high, down low and over to me.
basis casinos center economy land telling village
Are you telling me they're going to do a new urbanist village when the center of the economy is vice? ... Casinos in Mississippi were such a pariah land use that they were not even on land. Now they're going to be the basis of a traditional community?
best event good schedule
The schedule isn't favoring us. But it's a good event and you have to make the best of it.
couple
I'd like to get a couple more of those.
less pack rat vegas western
Las Vegas now is less Rat Pack and more brats in the car. It's just a big Western city.
build energy orleans
New Orleans has a lot of energy talent. You can't build that from scratch.
along began boom coasts country decade economy economy-and-economics found kept match mountain nearly places population record rolling seeking south track
The decade began with the economy off track, but the population boom kept rolling along and is on track to nearly match the record 1990s. The country found places to keep booming, shying away from the high-cost coasts and seeking the South and the mountain West.
high
I told him he set a pretty high standard.
bit easier swing
It's a little bit easier to be in the swing of things than when you are just not getting out there all the time. Like every player, you like to play as much as you can.