Neil Freiman

For Sphere, National Harbor marks progress in its bumpy quest for world spherical domination, plopping immersive entertainment orbs in cities all over the globe.

A second Sphere is already being planned for Abu Dhabi, but projects in London and South Korea have faced setbacks.

For National Harbor and D.C., local politicians are hailing it as a big tourism win for an area whose economy has been hit hard by federal workforce layoffs.

Apparently, their minds were made up after Governor Wes Morris saw Kenny Chesney rehearse at the Sphere in Vegas and a county executive took in a Zac Brown show.

Toby, I might just have a reason to go back to my old stomping grounds.

Your anti-Terp bias is showing.

You clearly haven't been to National Harbor.

Well, okay, National Harbor, for people who don't know, is basically this...

Yeah, it's like a mini Vegas, a little south of DC on the Potomac.

There's an MGM casino that they kind of just built a city.

There's an MGM casino there.

There are restaurants.

There's a huge Ferris wheel.

And they do think that they can bring huge acts like you two or Zach Brown or Kenny Chesney there.

And DC is a big tourism city.

And

But the thing is, it's going to be a little outside D.C.

and PG County, Prince George's County, where if you haven't noticed, I've made a lot of Maryland references.

I went to the University of Maryland, which is in Prince George's County.

That's suffered a lot of setbacks recently.