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Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome

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to Eye on the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera,

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still sound like poop alongside my partner
Jagan Zawas and the least. We'll

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be here later. And I'm telling
you, Jay, we may never have

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another guest after today. You know, as they say in Star Wars,

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the kod is strong with this one
man. I texted Ray right after and

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said, please don't blame us,
and I'm sure he did. Make sure

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Dorothy did. He laughed, and
I said, well, don't blame us,

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just blame Jay because it's not Mike
k If you were here yesterday,

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we had Rebecca you knows, the
head softball coach a pima On. We

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had at least I had not wanted
to get her on, being a superstitious

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one that I am, and not
wanted to get her on during the winning

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streak. But it got to twenty
six games, you got to talk about

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it. At some point we had
her on yesterday and of course we killed

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it. They got beat today in
the first game of a doubleheader. Was

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so we killed the uh, the
the moment winning streak and it's over and

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uh, you know we are who
we are. Yeah, well, don't

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put me in the week category.
Oh I am associated with you. You

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know what you were, you were
there for that. On a good note,

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they will take a shower today,
right, they'll take a shower and

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watch this song. So that's that's
a good thing. Yeah, So we'll

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see what happens. I hope they
win today in the second game to kind

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of get us up the hook or
at least maybe start a new streak.

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And as we speak, and at
least as in the building in the house,

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welcome, welcome. Uh. We
were talking about you know, the

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kod J. You know, Steve, I mean, if you want,

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you have some blame on this,
because when I said let's get her on,

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you said we should. Yeah you
know you didn't. No, No,

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you're right, I thought the same
thing, because we don't know when

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we're going to get her on in
the first place, because seasons almost over.

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So no, I thought it was
a good idea. We're not just

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an accessory. Okay, you were
a big part of no killing that this

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was a crime. I'm going to
jail with you with me, right,

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you know, fell any murder,
whatever you want to Officer. I didn't

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know he was driving the car and
going to the bank and stealing the money.

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I hadn't I was I thought he
was an uber driver, even when

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he got the gun out of it. But I didn't know what he was

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going to do. I told him
to drop me off in the court.

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He kept kept be going. Anyways. Actually, some people sent a text

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in the last couple of a good
interview with her. Was a lot of

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fun until it was how did the
surgery go? Uh? The other surgery

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go? Doctor? Uh? The
surgery went well. The patient died.

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They should die. Yeah. Other
than that, it was going well.

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So let's be bad. I'm looking
to see if we can get a part

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of the score update on the other
game going on right now. At least

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your time is coming, baby.
You got two and a half weeks and

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you better get a job. I
know I'm trying and a half. Yes,

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well not even half. You'd be
like the Obama's you get that gap

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year. I don't want to go. I want to get right into it.

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Yeah, I hear you. I'd
start in May eleven. Anyone listening

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looking for someone? Yeah, we'll
get two good recommendations from US. I

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graduate May tenth. Ready May eleven. There you go. That's a Sunday

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Sunday. Yeah. No, no, that's give yourself till the thirteenth.

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Are you are you going to do
the whole stadium thing and all? Very

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cool, that's very cool. It's
it's you know, I know how much

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of it it's for the parents,
but it was very cool. You know.

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When we did it with with my
son and my daughter Alana when she

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graduated, was during COVID, so
that we had a zoom uh graduation.

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Yeah, with just her. I've
never had graduation either, because my high

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school was I graduated twenty twenty,
we had graduation. Who's the speaker this

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year? Oh, it's that he's
an actor or he does the voice for

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he does the voice for like someone. I know that he does the voice

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both in The Incredibles or something.
Because you're skulking skoking out right now,

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I get that. For the coach
he was he was oh Steve, Yeah,

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the coach and the coach. He
was the coach. He was the

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coach. Yeah, he was the
coach, the old guy. Yeah,

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Okay, everybody knows who we're talking
to. Coach, he's the coach.

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Yeah yeah, yeah. Oh man, we're gonna get a text her.

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Yeah, I know. Craig Nelson, Greg Nelson, Greg Nelson. Yeah,

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also known for Poultergeist. Yeah.
See Poulter guys on the scariest movies

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ever. Yeah. So that's that'll
be fun. That'll be good. A

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known guy, so uh yeah.
But anyways, my son's a place that

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in Rutgercy with Stevie ray Vaughan.
I don't know really it's gonna work with

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President Robins resigning, Well, he's
not. He's still the president. I

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know, he's still the boss.
Yeah. I know he'll be there,

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he'll get you know, but it's
just kind of were I thought the same

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thing last week. I went to
an event, to the ribbon cutting of

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the golf tournament Golf up in Veiling, and he was there and people were

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like, oh, he's still here. And he had just come from U

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a board meeting, you know,
the border regions, and they saw him

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santerine and he loves this stuff until
he can't do it anymore, right,

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you canna you gotta pull him out
of the door. Yeah, you know,

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so you'll be fine unless what happens
in the next two weeks. I

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know that a new person, I
guess. I don't think it'll happen in

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the next two weeks. Okay,
where are you graduating? Now? How

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high I think I'm gonna be?
Suma. You gotta get a job by

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the thirteenth, I know. I'm
like, I'm so qualified. That's if

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I get the last three closka pressures
are pressures make make your people here proud.

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Yeah, exactly. We're gonna We're
gonna put one out into the world.

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Yes, okay, Well and her
one day a week here for the

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last you know, however many weeks
it's been. Whatever time you get,

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it's all because of us. Yeah, thank you, guys. Yes,

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we'll expect to kick back later.
Okay, Okay, I won't forget about

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you guys, Yeah sure, yeah, you people in Tucson never mind.

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Okay, Well, come everybody.
You guys have a chance to call us

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anytime. Five two zero four one
six seventy four forty. My voice may

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sound better, may not. I
don't know. We have. You know,

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it's amazing how much worse you sound
on them on through the headphone than

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you do in person. Okay,
it's funny to me. It's because I

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you know, I can We talked
and I can barely Understan right now.

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Well, that's what relatives is like. You got a mouthful of model balls

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in your mouth or something. That's
a that's a typical any day. That

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was just worse. But I hope
it gets better soon, sometime soon.

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Uhday. We got a pretty good
show today. Kind of a different one,

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yeah, I think so, but
a needed one in the second hour,

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Yeah, because go ahead for well
Troy Hutchinson in the second hour,

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because we've got to catch up on
football, catch up on football. In

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the first hour, we have we
have Roadrunners. I think, Oh,

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Adrian Denny, he wants to go
book that one because you've forgotten. Yes,

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I'm the one that was my idea
to call him, and I called

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him and you forgot it. But
and then I forgot about him. Adrian

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Denny Tucson road Runners that he's their
TV uh TV play by play guy as

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well as the media communications guy.
The road Runners start their playoff run tomorrow

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at home it's a three game series, so all three games will be here

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if it goes to three games.
But they started they start this tomorrow,

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so we'll get the lowdown on their
on their playoffs from from Adrian. We

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talked to the coach, Steve Popman
last week. They had, you know,

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a couple more guys or a guy
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know, I think on that day. But so they're still dealing with that

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kind of stuff. But we'll get
a we'll get the loaddown from Adrian on

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the road Runners hosting a playoff here
for the first time since I believe what

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it was it twenty seventeen or twenty
eighteen or something like that, that they

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were in the playoffs that they were
that they're hosting. Oh yeah, loaf

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Before this, this whole radio show
predated the show, so we'll and and

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for those of you who don't know, you can you can catch their road

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Runners Happy Hour after our show on
Tuesdays, which that means today, and

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also their games are on Fox Sports
fourteen fifties. You can listen to this

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as well. So a whole Fox
Sports fourteen fifty family thing going on with

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the eight and if you're into all
that like the like the Coyotes one.

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It became a popular thing at the
end when they knew they were going to

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leave the support the road Runner size. They probably are going to go.

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I don't think anything official has been
announced right well, they're not like a

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news release, but their owner,
the owner did say we're bringing them up

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to Phoenix. Our plan intent is
to bring them to Phoenix to play in

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ASU's arena. Yeah, okay,
so they are you know, it looks

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like they are going. Okay,
okay, so those are our guests.

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I'm looking forward to both of them
in the second half because we need to

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catch up on the football what's going
on. Would try the scene before the

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road before the game on the spring
game on Saturday, which we've just requested

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our credentials for that, at least
I did mine too. Yeah, so

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we'll be there for that and hopefully
be able to come back with some semblance

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of what we saw out there.
If by Monday we can remember what we

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saw. Are you going to that? I don't. I might go watch,

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but I'm not covering it. Okay, Yeah, but I might go

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watch. Yeah, I've gone before. It's never the most exciting to me.

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It never is well, you know, well, first of all,

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first couple were someoning or maybe the
first one was someone which was just awful.

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Then you know Jed, they look
they looked like practices with Jed,

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they weren't games, right, you
know, I like a game. I'm

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like you, I want to see
a game, not just another practice where

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you know, the the you know, okay, we scored a touchdown,

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let's go put the ball back on
the twenty. I want to see it.

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I want to see a game.
Yeah, you know, kick it

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off. I think Mike Stoops did
a couple of those. I don't remember

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too much on rich Rod's spring games. But you know, if I want

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to go see a practice, I'll
go see a practice. But I'd like

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to see more of a more of
a game scoring however, they want to

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score. Yeah, and at least
at the Red and Blue for basketball,

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it's like more of a spectacle.
They do the lights, and they have

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the three point contest and the dune
contest, and you know, they bring

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out to his mom. The game
part of that is the most woring part,

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but they do. It's cool to
see the dunk competition, the three

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point competition. But at the spring
game, they don't do anything. I'm

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gonna agree. I'm gonna agree with
you only because I like you, but

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I disagree with you totally. It's
boring as all. Hell. Yeah you

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know that. Yeah, I mean, well, I'm to too many.

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I'm there to do the stats,
so I'm twiddling my thumbs until ye yes,

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yeah, and then the game is
it. You don't like to see

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the dunk competition, but it's real
quick, and they do it real quick,

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and it's over and it's done.
You know, it's it's not as

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spectacular as you think it would be. It's more of a it's a recruiting

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tool pretty much. Maybe it's good
for me because I'm sitting there trying to

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get the footage and it's really great
footage. And I think I saw some

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of that footage because you were putting
a package together, right yeah, maybe,

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yes, yes, I saw some
of that. Yeah, right,

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So that's why you hired me because
of the package I showed you from the

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Red and Blue game. Sure I
needed somebody. On Tuesday said yeah,

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sites of your No, what are
your qualifications? I don't need to see

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the resume. We will take you. That's funny. What are you having

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one more two more weeks or what
happened? Yeah? Maybe two more Wait

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wait wait wait the important we brought
the lead. How did the trip to

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Saint Louis go? Oh right,
this is the lead of the day.

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It went well, we got second
in our division? Oh okay, yeah,

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would you lose to Michigan? They're
pretty good they honestly we probably could

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have beat them, but we were
so tired. Three days playing in a

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row. How many games the last
day that was our fourth game in a

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row, no break, So I
think we were just it was playoffs the

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last days. It's just like go
go go, and I we had a

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game against Boulder before that went to
three sets. We barely won. I

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gave everything I had in that game
against Bolder, and we were so tired,

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so sore, so much rest before
the next one, like and then

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it's like it's even worse because you
get you sore up. It was even

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better if we just kept going,
kept playing, you know, if it

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was right away. But we had
like a twenty minute break and then you're

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kind of sitting. Then your body
starts to hurt, and it's like you're

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not warm anymore. And again,
is this inner murals or is it club.

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It's a club, okay, club. Okay, So hold, you're

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like twenty two, we're sixty and
sixty. We get that all the time.

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Get you sit down there, it's
hard to get up. Well,

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I get out of bed and I'm
sorry, So we understand you're twenty two.

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You could come back boom. No, it's hard, guys, I

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was doing. This is really mentally
tough to just push through this pain.

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But it was fun. Want to
be twenty two again? It was really

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fun. Yeah, okay, good
for you. Cit a place so you

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get a trophy or whatever. Nothing
oh never. But then what it was

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cool because the teams that make it
to the final of like the highest divisions,

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they play the guys and girls they
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in Kansas City and the huge arena
and everyone goes to watch. So that

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would have been really cool. So
what did you play just in a convention

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center? But if you make it
to the final, they like wait a

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few hours and have the big game
in the convention center. And it was

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for the girls. It was U
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but U c l A won their
club, their club volleyball team. And

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that's pretty cool. Okay, congrats
second place, second place man, pretty

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good, like a trophy. He
doesn't pay attention to my question. I'm

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reading. I'm okay, not like
a coupon for a big mac. Nothing

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barbecue barbecue? Did barbecue? Joy
is good? Yeah? I think Jay

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talked about that last Yeah. Okay, we've got to go to Roadrunners though.

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Oh you remember Roadrunners? Yeah,
Adrian Daniel, all right, we'll

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fifteen OX team. He's Jay now
on the phone. We have a dream

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Denny of the Arizona road Runners.
Well, I don't know what they're called.

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Now, what are you called?
Now? No road Runners? Of

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course, Yeah, we'll just call
you the road Runners for now AGA because

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you know you know right? Hey, So have things going you guys are

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ready for the playoffs? Uh?
A little two games sweep or do you

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hope it goes three games for the
extra revenue? Uh, we'll take We'll

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take the two games to move on
it. If that's If that's in the

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card, we'd love to play Wednesday
Friday. Take a couple extra days off

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for the players to get ready for
for round two and have a couple more

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weeks to get ready. A couple
more days, a couple more weeks to

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get ready for the next round of
home games. So fill us in on

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the schedule. Just keep winning,
Yeah you do. Uh well, we're

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good on revenue when we're winning,
exactly. Fill us in on the schedule,

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game times, all that kind of
stuff, tickets and all that.

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Yeah, yeah, seven pm Wednesday, seventh game Friday. For Game two,

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it's a best of three series the
Roadrunners in Calgary. It's a wide

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out. So that's a turning to
the TCC. We've got white out rally

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thousands to giveaway on Wednesday. We
also have an offer the TCC just sent

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our way five dollars is caring the
draft years coming up tomorrow sixteen ouncers,

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So we've got that coming up tomorrow. And then Friday pregame tailgate party on

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the plaza and whiteout t shirts is
our giveaway. So it's going to be

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a party. We've brought in a
bunch of additional game presentation elements. That's

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the folks on enjoy a Live DJ
and it's gonna be great and it's the

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team that we think can go a
long way. When this season started,

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I think you guys were ruled off
some pretty good wins. I think we

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talked to the president about that.
Did you feel that this was a playoff

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team right away? So we were. I felt like all season long,

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we've overachieved to this point. Right
we had nineteen players called up, so

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just constantly adjusting on the fly,
right, But now that we've got everybody

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back, everybody they got called up
is back with us. I think I

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think we've got a team that can, as I said, really make a

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long run content for the Calder Cup
Championship with just every everything that we've needed

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we've got back. So I think
during the course of forty fifty to sixty

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seventy games, we were overachieving because
we had so many call ups and we

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were so young. But now that
you look at it six months later,

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it feels like a season group that
does have that maturity, that does have

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that experience for big games, for
playing in the NHL that maybe I thought

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we go from a first round playoff
team that of the division versus finishing second

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place. Is the hottest team in
the AHL going out of the playoffs,

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as we were unbeaten in seventh straight
games regulation. So what can you tell

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us about the Calgary Wranglers. You
know who are they? Well, you

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know, what's the expectation. They
had the best record in the division last

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year, the MVP goalie, So
the last couple of years they've been pretty

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pretty hot. This year, they
they finished in seventh. They enter the

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playoffs win lessen five. I've always
felt like, let's finish as high as

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we can and then take, however
a fall the other way, right,

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don't worry about the matchup. Just
finished as high as you can. So

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you've got us unbeate and seven.
They're winlessen five. They got five guys

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back from their affiliate, the Calgary
playing two. It's it's it's it's a

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it's a good it's a good match
up. The game this year have been

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pretty close. Been goaltending right.
Redins have Matt Mwall too, led a

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league and and wins. But we
played a couple three two games against them

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and we won and went to overtime
against them. So so three of the

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four games we were within a goal. Renners finished two to one one against

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against Calgary. Does this this is
a dumb question, but obviously a playoff

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team does the season kind of become
more enjoyable as you know, this is

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gonna happen. You know something.
I'm sure you'd done this long enough where

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it's a grind. Was it a
grind this year? I think I've said

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this to my staff, you know, just just in the office. Right

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there are years when you're in the
American Hockey League and you can kind of

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start getting the feeling like this is
special. This is going to be a

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year that you always remember, regardless
of how far you go in the NHL,

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right, like, there are years
that you have in the American Hockey

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League that you're gonna remember, is
that was a special team back in Tucson

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in twenty three, twenty four.
And I started feeling that way about this

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group maybe November, December, January, and right now still even better with

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the success that Josh Doone and Johan
Gunther and Michael cassorin playing sixty five games

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the Pieties had up there at the
NHL level, and now coming back year

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with all that they developed on up
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and now coming back to Tucson with
the desire to prove that they can lead

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a team to a championship and have
that pride of we won a championship in

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the AHL with the Roadrunners because we
were the best players and the best leaders

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in the AH all that year.
And when you're when you're a number two

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seed in your division, I mean, the expectation is that you should be

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playing at the very least for your
you know, for your division championship in

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the you know, in the bracket. I mean, is that how the

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guys look at it, or you
know, is it kind of like,

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you know, we just got to
take care of business here. I think

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it's been a group so far that
SIS works so hard that they can have

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time to look at the standings.
Right, we were we were in first

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place going into the All Star Break, and that we enjoyed, right it

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was it was last game before the
All Star Break. It was us was

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Coachella Valley. We beat them in
a shootout, so they were in second

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place. We were in first place. After that. That might be the

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only time all year, three days
of an All Star break, after that

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game that our guys really had a
tint back of think, wow, we're

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a first place team. This this
could be something that we do have all

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the pieces. It's not just the
belief and the work that we have that's

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accomplishing everything right man, No question, the coach must have had a pretty

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good magic formula for the group because
of you said, there was a lot

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of turnover back and forth. You
have to find that right magic spot right

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and still be good at what you're
doing. Steve Potman and his group are

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absolutely unbelievable. Steve spent here all
eight years assistant coach or a head coach.

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His first year with US in Tucson
and twenty sixteen he was a development

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coach of the Coyotes, who he
was here right pretty much every day working

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with us while he wasn't on the
bench during games. And he's a guy

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that like he played pro that he
moved his family to to Phoenix because that's

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where they wanted to live post pro
hockey. And he started coaching kids with

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the Ice Dend, including Josh doone, and so he's coaching fourteen year old

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fifteen year old and then you know, he's a skills coach for the Coyotes

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and one year after that he's a
road Runners assistant coach in the AHL.

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And it's just really quite quite the
path that he's had. But he's a

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guy that can communicate with anybody,
relate to anybody, get anybody on board

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because of the message that he has
for their personal success, which is going

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to lead the team success. And
there's so many guys in the NHL right

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now that have come through too soon, that have gone out of their way

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to say, man, it had
a couple of rough days. Steve Popman

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stuck with me and we just kept
rolling and we got things, got things

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to a good level. And that's
why I'm here. So I every player

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is going to say that about him. He's just got an unbelievable ability to

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we're going to do and how we're going

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to get there, how you're going
to be a part of it, how

408
00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:07.680
you're going to have access, and
how you're going to end up in you

409
00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.079
know, not not to take the
team apart right before I go to the

410
00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:12.759
playoffs, but you know, I
mean, when these guys are at this

411
00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:15.680
level, they're you know, they're
a step away from the NHL and some

412
00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:18.440
like, as you said, get
up there. Some what about Steve Popmin's

413
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:22.519
future as far as that goes,
We're you know, how much longer do

414
00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:25.200
you think? You know? Where's
he headed? Those kinds of things,

415
00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:27.839
because you know, when you guys
are doing well and you're again managing him

416
00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:30.559
the way we when we talked to
him last week, you know, it's

417
00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:36.519
evident he's you know, he's probably
ready. Yeah, So his first year

418
00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:40.039
as head coach was the bubble season. It's right twenty one, when Jay

419
00:28:40.119 --> 00:28:44.440
Verdy went up to the counties to
be an assistant, and then Jay came

420
00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:48.200
back and Steve became associate head coach
again, and then Steve took over last

421
00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:52.000
year when Jay became an assistant with
the Detroit Red Wings, got us to

422
00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:56.319
the playoffs, got us back to
the playoffs, and then this year.

423
00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:02.200
So I think you're looking at an
incredible Gills, a development coach who's brilliant

424
00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:06.559
running a power play, who's now
in his third full season as an HL

425
00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:10.799
head coach and having you know,
the record the Roadrunners had this year.

426
00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:15.119
I don't think it's too far before
he starts ending up on every single list

427
00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:19.680
that comes out when there's a head
coaching opening from a young prospect head coach

428
00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:26.680
in USA, that might be your
next next big guy that you pull from

429
00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:30.799
the AHL. I think we're I
think we're really really close and we might

430
00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:34.759
even be closer than we think on
that now. He would not want to

431
00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:41.680
hear any of that focus on my
job. That's that's why we didn't ask

432
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:45.880
him last week. So how cool
is it to host him. It's been

433
00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:51.839
a while. It has been,
believe it or not, the pandemic,

434
00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:56.039
and we missed the playoffs by a
point a year before that, and coming

435
00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:00.119
back and the bubble season, the
playoffs were all all off site. Oh

436
00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:03.440
and and last year we were the
seventh seeds, so all of our games

437
00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:06.240
are on the roads. It's been
to eighteen since we had the white out

438
00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:08.960
two son, and we talked about
it. Last year. We were one

439
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.240
game away from bringing the playoffs hockey
year. We quite do it against Cashella

440
00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:19.640
Valley and we've been talking about it
every day this season. Number one,

441
00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:26.720
number one goal bring the white out
back to two. So and it's and

442
00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:32.160
it's here and and tickets are moving
moving great, and it's it's gonna be

443
00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:37.039
a really awesome Wednesday night for for
Game one tomorrow. We still got still

444
00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:41.680
got tickets availables dot com. Past
fun for the TCC box office to come

445
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:45.200
come be a part of it.
But it's it's it's gonna be awesome on

446
00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:48.079
the ice. We've we've got some
in game elements, so we're we're adding

447
00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:53.440
and uh going to be more excited. So when you when you get to

448
00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:56.640
the playoffs like this, and you
know my experiences with the Sugar Skulls got

449
00:30:56.680 --> 00:31:00.119
to the playoffs a couple of times, you know, when I was working

450
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.240
with them, there's just a it's
like what this town is waiting for.

451
00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:07.640
You know, there's just a certain
feel to it. And now you're getting

452
00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:12.000
to host, which I think we
said the first time since when since twenty

453
00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:15.079
eighteen. There has to be a
different field when you have to be hearing

454
00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:21.799
from your fans and whatnot about you
know, this opportunity for you guys.

455
00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:26.160
Oh, they are so excited and
you can feel the buzz. And we

456
00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:30.119
had a media lunch in yesterday and
every station in town was there and the

457
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:36.000
more came back today and it's just
a market for us. It's just been

458
00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:42.880
so supportive and so welcoming and so
you know, anxious to bring the playoffs

459
00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:47.680
back here and share on the team. And even you know there's nights.

460
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:48.880
I mean, we had we had
our best home record ever this year,

461
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.920
but I mean there's there's nights where
you just don't always have your fastball,

462
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.839
and even on the rare occasion like
that, you just don't feel it.

463
00:31:56.880 --> 00:32:00.039
They're always behind the team, no
matter what I felt my first game here.

464
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:05.079
It's why, it's it's why it's
so special. Yeah, I bet,

465
00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:08.480
I bet so. How how good
is Calgary coming in? I know

466
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:15.200
they were good last year, but
this year, yeah, they're they're they're

467
00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:19.160
good. Like it's it's it's one
thing I I don't think there was.

468
00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:22.519
That's why I wanted to finish as
high as we could, because you just

469
00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:27.440
there, you just in no position
to start picking anybody, because everybody's got

470
00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:30.640
their positive everybody's got the reason you
don't want to face them. And Calgary's

471
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:36.839
got the goaltender of the year coming
in the previous two years and in Dust

472
00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:39.960
and Wolf, and they've got that
that that experience of you know, they

473
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:44.480
went to the conference finals and they
were based in Stockton, California two years

474
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:47.839
ago. Last year they had a
good run that and then against the Coachella

475
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:52.880
Valley. It's so it's it's you
see it with in the NHL playoffs every

476
00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:59.799
every night. Uh, you know, it's it's you got to be on

477
00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:01.880
your game. And Steve always says, our keys of the game. We

478
00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:07.480
want to be the best version of
ourselves every single day, and and that's

479
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:13.720
that's the biggest focus. So what
makes you guys good? What's made you

480
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:20.559
guys good all year? I think
I think the biggest example, I think

481
00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:27.079
is so our last fifteen wins of
the year, we had fifteen different players

482
00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:32.480
score the game winning goal. So
with all of the call up, everybody

483
00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:36.000
just went next man up. You
didn't know who was going to be the

484
00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:40.119
star. And they're just a very
selfless group. And and you know,

485
00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:44.400
the game after Josh Stones got called
up, he got we got shut out.

486
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:46.160
The first game that he got called
up to the comaty. He's leading

487
00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:52.799
the league in rookie scoring by you
know, by active players, and third

488
00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:58.480
overall and led the league and rookie
goal. So losing a guy with that

489
00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:00.079
a big deal. And our first
game that and we got shut out three

490
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:04.519
nothing. The next game we came
out, we got one of the first

491
00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:08.559
and then and then we just kept
going and we ended up beating San Diego

492
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:15.920
seven to three. Because there's just
a plan of just go out there and

493
00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:20.920
work. Steve and I joke in
our in our conversations, like we've got

494
00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:22.360
to lay some bricks, we got
to build some engines, We're going to

495
00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:25.679
chop down this oak tree. We've
got to finish this race. We can't

496
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:30.119
just stop a final number twenty four. We need all twenty six, and

497
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:32.719
that's kind of been been The message
is we need everybody and we need to

498
00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:37.880
finish. And the Roadrunners this year
twenty three to one goal wins, which

499
00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:43.320
is second in the league, and
thirty nine wins in regulation, which means

500
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:46.719
they're finishing games off without having to
go to overtime. And I think those

501
00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:52.159
are some really big deals going into
the postseason. All right, Adrian,

502
00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:58.920
Well, good luck starting tomorrow.
What tomorrow again? Game time seven o'clock

503
00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:02.400
right here on Fox Sports fourteenth fifty
am rons blow up start at six forty

504
00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:06.920
five. A Rally Cole giveaway that's
just added. You just heard it here

505
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first. I just got the email. Five five dollars, sixty ounce draft

506
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pears. So game one it's gonna
be. It's gonna be a great atmosphere,

507
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:19.760
the white Outs back in Tucson,
Arizona's hockey playoff traditions, So couldn't

508
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:23.119
be more excited and so excited and
so appreciative to be able to come on

509
00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:25.360
and share that with you guys.
Thanks a lot for having me, and

510
00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:30.039
you still got road under Happy hour
after our show today, right, yeah,

511
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:31.719
we're headed over to two Soon Appliance
in just a few minutes. We'll

512
00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:37.320
be live Kim Cutter rebels to myself
from from five to six right after you

513
00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:43.880
guys. All righty tickets tomorrow you
have tickets, go to the Roadrunner dot

514
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com, YEP, two soun Verners
dot com, Fast Fun TCC box office

515
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and if you guys ever wanted to
give any tickets away, we can do

516
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that too, So just let me
know. Okay, okay, keep on

517
00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:57.760
the playoffs so we'll do right man, Thank you, Adrias. Let's go.

518
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:02.199
Let's keep this rolling. Let's have
some hundred degree chapters. Let's not

519
00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:07.679
get carried away. Yeah sounds great, Adrian, best of luck, Thank

520
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:10.239
you, thanks guys, take care
of you, okay, success, Yeah,

521
00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:13.559
but if it comes out to the
expense of D and ten, you

522
00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:15.599
know, yeah, yeah, all
right, that's great Adrian Danny with the

523
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:20.000
two Sound road Owners. Their playoff
run starts tomorrow at the Arena, so'll

524
00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:22.800
be sure to you know, head
over there starting tomorrow and then Friday.

525
00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:24.960
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562
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Hey, welcome back to one of
them all here on Fox Sports Sports and

563
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fifteen. I'm Steve, He's Jay. We've got to analyst with us.

564
00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:20.800
Oh and we got about fifteen minutes. I think I have a question for

565
00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:23.719
you. Okay, have you ever
tried playing hockey where? Anywhere? Have

566
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:28.079
you ever tried playing hockey anywhere at
all? You mean hockey? Hockey,

567
00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:31.400
hockey, like on skates hockey.
I heard hooky is hockey hockey? Oh

568
00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:35.239
no good on skates hock? God? No, I have you ever I

569
00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:37.840
skated at all? No, I
was gonna go there because my mom grew

570
00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:39.320
up in a place where you could
do that. No way. I like

571
00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:45.880
my ankles too much. Skates and
skates skates yeah, no, no,

572
00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:47.480
no, no, no, I
like my ankles too much. Friend of

573
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:52.719
mine did. He was he's kind
of funny, but he got his son

574
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:57.679
to play and he was really good
at it. He could skate the hell

575
00:39:57.719 --> 00:39:59.920
out of it. So he decided, yeh, what the hell you know,

576
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:02.760
it doesn't look that hard, I'll
go play a recreational league. It's

577
00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:06.880
funny because you talked about how the
only way he could stop was running into

578
00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:09.880
the wall. Yeah, I would
be that guy, and how exhausting it

579
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:14.559
was to, you know, fall
and have to get up just gonna go

580
00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:16.199
there. I do not ski,
never have because I don't want to ski.

581
00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:20.360
I love I don't want to fall
run to a tree or flying off

582
00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:23.719
the cliff or skating because I know
I would break an ankle or something and

583
00:40:23.800 --> 00:40:27.480
none that ain't gonna happen. Yeah, I mean, I mean I've I

584
00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:31.920
skated a couple of times, but
I wouldn't do it anymore. No,

585
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:37.480
you've done TikTok videos. That's that's
that's just as bad. I don't.

586
00:40:38.639 --> 00:40:43.480
I'll show you my TikTok video break
you love it. It was. It

587
00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:46.519
was done during the COVID quarantine.
My two daughters and I did a video.

588
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:51.159
So it was just a little one, a little one of those dances

589
00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:53.559
that had gone viral. It's pretty
funny. And then I posted and then

590
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:55.800
got really upset me. I said, why do we do it if we

591
00:40:55.800 --> 00:41:00.880
weren't going to post. It's like
it's like I didn't put on TikTok.

592
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:02.639
I just put it on. We
put on face. It's like getting a

593
00:41:02.679 --> 00:41:07.320
tattoo. And that COVID everything was
acceptable. Yeah, it's still in my

594
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:10.800
it's still in my computer. Does
it seem long ago? Because you were

595
00:41:10.960 --> 00:41:15.119
one of those students, It does
seem long ago. That was crazy,

596
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:19.440
I think about it. Okay,
so you graduated in twenty twenty. Okay,

597
00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:23.760
so you were in high school when
in March when it all happened.

598
00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:27.960
Yeah, but then came in on
the freshman year. Yeah, so no

599
00:41:28.039 --> 00:41:34.440
prom, no graduation, no senior
classes. We did the AP exams online.

600
00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:39.519
Yeah, like the AP exam to
get college current online. We passed

601
00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:44.039
those. So your highlight was,
oh, the president came to say hi

602
00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:47.079
at the COVID door at the COVID
COVID Dorm. Then I got COVID the

603
00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:52.079
first week of school from did you
really Yeah? And then they took me

604
00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:53.639
and it picked me and my room
made up on a golf cart and took

605
00:41:53.679 --> 00:41:57.800
us to the COVID dor and we
packed up our stuff and they took us

606
00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:00.440
on a golf cart, drove us
through campus on a golf and then you

607
00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:05.440
have to jump out and the ladies
in a hazmat suit. Really, you're

608
00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:09.519
like, you're kidding me, crying
like, oh my god, we're gonna

609
00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:13.679
die. And this lady's in a
hazmat suit and we don't even know We've

610
00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:15.159
just been here a week. We
don't even know what this place is.

611
00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:20.000
So they take my roommate and I
to the COVID dorm, which was the

612
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:25.000
COVID dorm with its street by the
McDonald's. I don't even believe people live

613
00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:29.519
there. My son did his freshman
year there. You're kidding. That used

614
00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:34.800
to be That used to be the
athletic dorm. Okay, it was the

615
00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:37.599
worst storm. I was just gonna
say, tell me describe the dorm.

616
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:39.239
It was the worst worm I've ever
seen. You know, you know the

617
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:44.400
McDonald's on speed Okay, it's behind
it. You're looking at the McDonald's looking

618
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:46.400
north. It's kind of behind it. Into the right. It looks like

619
00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:50.320
an apartment. There's a pool,
and some people still live there. Now,

620
00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:52.159
yeah, I think that people live
there. It's it's a die.

621
00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:55.960
It used to be the best dorm. No, but that was thirty years

622
00:42:57.000 --> 00:43:00.280
ago. Not to die. That's
where that's where I did manage is with

623
00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:04.480
you know, Sean Elliott, that
whole basketball team, right, Elliott,

624
00:43:04.519 --> 00:43:07.079
Tom Tolbert, all those guys lived
in this and it was nice. Yeah,

625
00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:12.119
yeah, it was nice. And
then my son lived there his freshman

626
00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:15.599
year and it was it was a
dive. It it's not very nice.

627
00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:22.360
Two weeks, like ten days,
and then I actually think we got out

628
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:24.840
kind of early though, because we
kind of were like we had symptoms before.

629
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:27.679
Yeah, so I think I was
there for eight days, but it

630
00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:30.840
was supposed to be ten days.
The lady in the hazmat suit dropped us

631
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:32.960
off and then we were the first
ones because this was the first round of

632
00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:37.239
mandatory testing in my dorm. They
did that like earlier that morning, and

633
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:39.599
so we were waiting for the results. We got them, and so we

634
00:43:39.639 --> 00:43:45.480
could see everyone coming in and getting
dropped off from the golf carts. So

635
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:47.000
you couldn't leave the room. No, you could walk, you could go

636
00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:50.719
anywhere in the dorms, you could
do whatever. Everybody else had it.

637
00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:53.119
Yeah, and then people would like
drop off stuff for us and we'd you

638
00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:55.639
know, go by the pool like
I don't know, because everyone had COVID.

639
00:43:55.679 --> 00:44:00.679
But then the first day President Robbins
came and knock on my window.

640
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:04.079
We were in there like unpacking our
stuff, and he knocked on the window

641
00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:07.440
and said like hey and waved and
said are you guys okay? And we

642
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:13.679
said, I was like, oh, come out here. Well, I

643
00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:17.679
liked him ever since. Really sick, I didn't not at all. I

644
00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:23.679
didn't even know. I didn't feel
a thing. But then my friend did

645
00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:29.679
lose her smell. Wow. Yeah, And we were lucky that they were

646
00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:32.199
able to since we said we're already
roommates. We you know, they put

647
00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:36.480
us in the same room so we
didn't have to be alone. So how

648
00:44:36.599 --> 00:44:38.760
was life in there for ten day? Oh my god, it's like a

649
00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:43.679
fever dream. It doesn't feel real. It was. It was honestly like

650
00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:45.840
everyone had it. So it was
kind of like I met a lot of

651
00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:50.599
people my friends that I still have
or because I met them in the COVID

652
00:44:50.599 --> 00:44:53.599
dorm. And I'm not kidding,
like it was. That was the thing.

653
00:44:53.639 --> 00:44:57.199
It was kind of the place to
be. People would like come to

654
00:44:57.239 --> 00:45:02.519
the COVID dorm to Yeah, did
you know friends for life? Yeah?

655
00:45:04.360 --> 00:45:07.280
You know, like you get shipwrecked
and then you become friends for life and

656
00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:08.800
we'd all sit out there, you
know, it was August is warm out.

657
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:12.400
We'd sit out in the courtyard.
I went to you, I graduated

658
00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:15.400
from UA, and all the guy
was this COVID. Yeah, all I

659
00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:19.760
got was President Robinson knock on the
door. Wow. And so like you

660
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:22.039
got it the first week you were
here. I mean the first week I

661
00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:24.880
think it was like September first or
something. How much for that sucks?

662
00:45:25.960 --> 00:45:30.880
The years sucks because it's not college. It's just not college. But it

663
00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:34.360
didn't suck though, because I think
it's worse if you were in college at

664
00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:37.079
the o A having a great time
there's sports, it's this amazing school,

665
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:40.639
and then it's taken away from you. I came into it and it got

666
00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:45.000
better every single year. Freshman year, it was still like new and exciting.

667
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:47.599
I'm in a new state, new
people, online classes, but it's

668
00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:51.599
still you know, I still was
doing u a t V. It was

669
00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:53.360
online, but you know, I
was still like it was on new And

670
00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:58.840
then it got better sophomore year,
and then junior year was like fully kind

671
00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:02.519
of done here, and then now
it's pretty much back normal. But it

672
00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:05.880
got better every year. So it
wasn't like I feel like if you were

673
00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:07.480
a freshman, then you got it
taken away. That's what happened to and

674
00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:12.280
then didn't come back until like really
senior year for it to be normal,

675
00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:15.800
that's like your whole college. But
for me it was like a progression.

676
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.760
And my senior year of high school
got taken away though, which is like

677
00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:22.639
those are monumental events. I've never
had prom. Yeah, that was my

678
00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:25.119
daughter. She had she had gotten, she had gotten you know, a

679
00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:29.840
nice uh scholarship. It was in
the Honors Dorm, brand new dorm,

680
00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:34.280
first first one in and in March
we had to go yanker out of there.

681
00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:36.199
Yeah, and you know, as
you said, she was having a

682
00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:38.800
great time, the time of her
life, new friends, new dorm,

683
00:46:39.039 --> 00:46:44.039
her roommate was, you know,
one of her friends from high school and

684
00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:47.639
just and then all sudden and it
was a beautiful, beautiful it is and

685
00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:51.239
all of a sudden, we're packing
up her stuff and bringing her home,

686
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:53.000
you know, and then she had
to come home, and then we did

687
00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:58.280
a TikTok. Yeah, and then
all you could do was TikTok's is dad?

688
00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:01.920
No? And then I knoweople who
you know went abroad that year and

689
00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:07.599
then they they were like in Barcelona
whatever, and they're Yanks back. Yeah,

690
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:08.440
you know, they're like, you
got to get out now, yah

691
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:10.840
house, you don't know what's going
to happen. Yeah, it was quite

692
00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:14.760
a time. Yeah, it was
an incredible time. Just wow, you

693
00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:16.840
thought, wait a minute, we're
in the United States of America. This

694
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:20.880
is a you know, it is
twenty twenty. What are we doing?

695
00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:23.880
Right? And it was nuts.
It was just nuts. But wow,

696
00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:28.320
what an experience did you ever get
COVID Steve, No, You've never.

697
00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:30.119
You haven't gotten it. I can't
talk now, I don't know. Yeah,

698
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:34.599
go find somebody to give it to
you. No, No, I

699
00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:37.400
got sick, in fact, very
bad. When I had the show by

700
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:42.480
myself at the other station ten thirty, I got sick. I got sick

701
00:47:42.519 --> 00:47:45.320
for like a week. I couldn't
It was like this but but really sick.

702
00:47:45.639 --> 00:47:49.599
So I did the show sick like
this in my room because they didn't

703
00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:51.599
want me to come into the show. So I took the portal like our

704
00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:52.760
portal, yeah, and did the
show that way. I think I did

705
00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:58.519
the show with you guys right before
twenty nineteen whatever that was twenty nineteen to

706
00:47:58.559 --> 00:48:01.119
twenty yeah, priest, because you
were just starting started in twenty right,

707
00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:05.880
and I had I had a guy
coach guy come in and made and that's

708
00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:07.880
when he was saying, we're gonna
hold on. We're gonna We're gonna hold

709
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:09.679
on. Then like a week later
it was over, and then I got

710
00:48:09.679 --> 00:48:12.400
the call. Then I got the
call what are you doing? I got

711
00:48:12.440 --> 00:48:15.320
fired for the first time. Well
then I called you the next day or

712
00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:19.199
not? What are you doing?
What do you want to think? I

713
00:48:19.199 --> 00:48:22.679
don't have a job. If that's
what you know, why you called me?

714
00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:25.199
So what do you know? That
is the funniest, one of the

715
00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:28.840
funniest things ever, because like,
you know, I get this text me

716
00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:30.800
and I thought, oh, he
found out that I got fired. And

717
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:32.239
that's why you were calling, Oh
you want to do the show. Okay,

718
00:48:32.280 --> 00:48:36.079
let's do it. I need a
partner, come on exactly. Oh

719
00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:42.440
you said, let me talk about
you. It's been good. Yeah.

720
00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:45.920
Good. But then my parents were
happy because they were like, you have

721
00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:50.239
antibodies. You know, you're not
going to get us sick. So sure

722
00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:52.920
they were happy I got it because
I wasn't even sick. But you know,

723
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:55.679
but I remember we talked about that
all the time because your brother got

724
00:48:55.679 --> 00:48:58.639
it, I think in that time, and they were thinking, oh,

725
00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:00.119
yeah, my brother Jean, Yeah
he got it. I mean I thought

726
00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:04.119
he actually got it, went into
the hospital, and I thought, he's

727
00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:06.280
going to die and we're not going
to see him again. That's the last

728
00:49:06.480 --> 00:49:08.079
I mean, that's what the that's
what that's what it was like, you

729
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:12.320
know it was. It was in
that time when people were getting it and

730
00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:15.000
if they went into the hospital,
they didn't come out. And four days

731
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:21.800
later he was at what year like
month was that in March of twenty twenty

732
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:24.440
scary. I mean, it was
right at the height of yeah, maybe

733
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:29.000
maybe April, but it was at
the height of it when people were getting

734
00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:31.199
it and when they went in they
didn't come out. He got it,

735
00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:35.039
and I was like, that's the
last time I want to see him.

736
00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:37.119
And then he came out and he
was fine, and yeah, and he's

737
00:49:37.119 --> 00:49:40.480
still fine. My grandparents got it
and that was scary. Yeah, that's

738
00:49:40.599 --> 00:49:45.480
that's what it is, because reality
when you're older and you're not okay,

739
00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:51.480
yeah, they're they're all good.
So no, it was It's crazy,

740
00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:54.440
you know. I ended up getting
it. I got it in twenty twenty

741
00:49:54.519 --> 00:49:58.440
one, and I just you know, had it for a week and had

742
00:49:58.480 --> 00:50:00.800
to do the show from home.
You had something like this before, maybe

743
00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:07.880
something I remember I got the something
I got the Bell's palsy, can only

744
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:09.360
talk out of the side of my
mouth, I remember that was that was,

745
00:50:09.880 --> 00:50:14.719
Yeah, did you have a stroke? No, Bell's palsy, my

746
00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:19.559
lip is hanging. Yeah. And
my mom's actually an epidemiologist, so she

747
00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:22.440
works on you know, these diseases
and these viruses. You know, you

748
00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:25.440
know, normally she works in Africa
and you know, like in the Congo,

749
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:30.239
but she was working really closely with
the CDC on COVID, so she

750
00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:34.880
would get all like the intel about
when stuff was be closing, and I

751
00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:37.400
remember she was like, all the
nail salans are going to close tomorrow.

752
00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:38.360
And I was like, how do
you know that, and She's like,

753
00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:42.719
I just know. And then the
next day all the nail salans were closed.

754
00:50:42.760 --> 00:50:45.679
And so she had all this secret
intel and she really liked the way

755
00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:50.920
Robin's handled COVID at the u of
A. Well, look for all that

756
00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:54.360
you want to say about about Robin's
and you know what, he always administered

757
00:50:54.360 --> 00:50:58.719
the u A particular the last couple
of years. He was at the forefront

758
00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:01.119
of what was going on with but
he was, you know, a university

759
00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:07.599
president something well as a doctor who
understood and wasn't trying to deny, you

760
00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:13.559
know, and who was in charge
of a university. His response and what

761
00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:17.519
was going on on campus was was
really second to none. And Arizona the

762
00:51:17.559 --> 00:51:23.199
JOV and this community was very lucky
to have him in that position in this

763
00:51:23.360 --> 00:51:30.280
town because one, you know,
with nearly forty thousand students on campus dealing

764
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:35.199
with that, and then two as
big as the ju A is to have

765
00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:44.719
somebody with some credibility running that show. This community can never thank him enough.

766
00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:46.679
I think what he did during COVID
hear and I'll just say that he

767
00:51:46.760 --> 00:51:51.639
was one of the first presidents come
out and really do something about it.

768
00:51:51.760 --> 00:51:55.280
And he was personally checking up on
his students. Right, we have him

769
00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:58.840
on the show. I think he's
a friend of the program coming on.

770
00:51:58.840 --> 00:52:02.199
One of the things is he's he
became polarizing. You have so many people

771
00:52:02.199 --> 00:52:06.480
who think he did a great job, and then vice the other side who

772
00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:08.239
think just you need to go.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, which

773
00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:10.880
is unfortunate. I get it.
He's you know, they messed up the

774
00:52:12.119 --> 00:52:15.639
financial situation, and you know,
and look, we all you know,

775
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:20.679
we've said a million times a job
like that take at some point you've you've

776
00:52:20.719 --> 00:52:23.159
you've made enough on people and enough
people unhappy that they want you to Well,

777
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:27.880
there is a life expectancy in that
position that it's about seven years soon.

778
00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:30.679
All right, let's take our break. We're going to come back breaking

779
00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:34.679
news at the top, uh and
Lisa is all loaded up, and then

780
00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:38.000
we've got Troy Hutcherson talk some more
U of a spring football after the first

781
00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:39.360
break next hour, So let's stick
around