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Tell us about Jack 1st. Excuse me. Jack. Jack Jack 1st. I mean I'm trying

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to blank. It's funny because I never
actually knew Jack's first name.

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Everybody called him Dallas Dallas.
Oh, Dallas. Yeah, now we're talking,

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I know a lot about Dallas. How would I
describe Jack first? I've never

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seen Jack without caffeine. I met Jack
when I was about 18. I don't really

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know if he ever sleeps. I thought Jack
was a good guy, mainly because he

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was a fellow texas. The classic Jack
first issue pull over. I don't even

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think Mark Zuckerberg was born yet
before Jack was where it was warm and

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it was genuine. So I knew we were
dealing with the guy who was very real.

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He was not pretentious at all. He
never tried to impress anybody except

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with his intelligence, wit and sense
of humor. He could run circles around

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people. We had the first fundraiser,
uh, that we had at Paradise Valley

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Country Club and I was panicked
because we weren't gonna be able to get

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him in there with jeans and hoodie on.
But we worked it out. Question I

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have is we're filming, this is really
have it on tonight, Jack. I said, do

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you know that you're eccentric? And
Jack just went ballistic and the whole

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room was dumbfounded. They were
shocked on the phone with the mouth and

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I'm not eccentric. How dare you come?
And then finally he blew himself out

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and he said, what is eccentric? And I
said, okay, so I got a dictionary by

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reading the definition and he admitted
it. I said jacket. if you weren't

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so wealthy, you just be weird like the
rest of us.

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What he's seeking to do here is no
less than transform our physical space

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into a gathering space that will unify
all sun devils, whether you

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graduated, uh, 60 years ago or whether
you'll graduate 60 years from now.

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What he means by that is once the
reinvention of this state and once this

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venue to belong to all of the issue,
all of the community For purposes way

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beyond just seven or 8 football games
a year. Jack is part of a new breed

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of philanthropist that are really
going to be important for Arizona State

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University As we move forward. He
wants to be in the hunt, He wants to be

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in the race. He wants to be part of
what we're doing. His involvement has

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been the difference in the success and
failure of this project. Jack had a

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completely different vision of it.
That was truly transformative for ISU.

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He wants to impact the student
athletes. He wants to impact people. It's

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not just about building a stadium. We
call him the general manager, Our

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players really connect with him. He
really has a true interest in them,

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not just from winning football games.
We don't need a football stadium.

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We're the largest university in the
country. What we need is we need a

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student union on steroids. 365 is a
vision that basically says that if

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you're not in your classroom and
you're not in your dorm, you're at 3 65

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you're at sun devil place, whatever we
decide to name. And it is a student

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union on steroids. It's a s you total
access all the time in the most

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creative digital format and content.
It's a transformation project. And it

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was that that I was prepared to roll
up my face to make an investment when

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you have the Jack first and Bill Kintz
and steve butterfield's and joe

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cause grows and the leo abuses and the
tom gardeners and craig Weatherup.

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Uh and oh by the way, family members
and spouses who support all of that

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giving, I think what gives Jack and
Deborah his lovely wife Joy and giving

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back is that they can help lead their
colleagues and their friends in this

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kind of effort butter, He said, the
only thing that restricts us is how

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big we dream and I believe that Jack
and I'm total follower, the dream

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that you have here Arizona state and
I'm proud to be a partner withyou