00:00When people visit Dorea, what sort of feedback are they giving you?
00:03What are people telling you struck them the most when they came here?
00:08Yes, there's two things, and I'm going to try and say this briefly.
00:12One is what the foreigners say, non-Saudi.
00:16Let's call it non-Gulf.
00:18The number one reaction is so interesting and makes me so happy.
00:24What did you think of your experience at Today for the UNESCO site?
00:28You know what the number one answer is?
00:30Very emotional.
00:32And we're seeing a nervous habit from people coming to the UNESCO site.
00:37They don't even know they're doing it.
00:38Many people, when they're walking in a site, they find themselves running their hands along the mud.
00:44It's a very organic, very emotional, very authentic experience.
00:49And now it's so beautifully lit at night.
00:52It's the largest night-lit UNESCO site, right?
00:55So that's the foreigners.
00:57But I'm going to tell you a quick story because it's a very, very important story.
01:01On Fridays, I walk the UNESCO site, and I chase my protocol team away, and I say, leave me alone.
01:08I just want to walk amongst the public, say hi to everybody.
01:12So I come across a family, very traditional family.
01:17Father, mother, four children, young.
01:21But I notice when I'm walking that the mother is crying.
01:24So I say to myself, oh, boy, I don't want to upset anybody.
01:29But I walk by without trying to disturb the family, not knowing what's going on.
01:35And the father, the husband, says to me, are you Mr. Jerry?
01:39He recognized me.
01:40So then I said to him, salaam alaykum, how are you?
01:43Yes, that's what I like to do.
01:44I like to walk with my neighbors.
01:47So he said, oh, we're so excited to see you.
01:51Can we take an only one day a picture with you?
01:54I said, my pleasure.
01:55But I see that your wife's upset.
01:59Is everything okay?
02:00And he says, no, no, no, no.
02:02She's crying because she remembers when she walked here as a little girl with her grandfather.
02:08And it was all, it wasn't in the condition.
02:11And she's so proud to take her children to see what it is now.
02:16She was crying out of tears of joy.
02:19Isn't that beautiful?
02:20So that makes our job so happy because it shows that we're the custodians.
02:28of the cultural preservation of what is uniquely Saudi.
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