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Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye

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on the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen
fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, he's Jaganzas

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got our guy sit in Today it's
revolving door with the kids. Welcome to

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Friday, last week show the week. Yeah, I'm excited twenty four less

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than twenty four hours for the game
tomorrow. Yeah, although they tell me

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Steven it's gonna rain tomorrow, it
should ring. Well, you know when

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they do those forecasts, did you
did you know? I I think we

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talked about this one time. When
it says fifty percent chance, it doesn't

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mean fifty percent chance in the city. Its like fifty percent chance around the

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city. Yeah, that it's various
parts. Yeah that fifty percent of the

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area. Yeah, is gonna have
rain? Right, I hope somewhere it's

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gonna ring. Maybe it'll miss Kale
or not Mchaeale. But there was only

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stadium last year, wasn't it?
Was it rainy? At Utah. Right,

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last year when we went to Utah, wasn't it pretty rainy? It's

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always raining this time. I remember
going anywhere but southern California this time of

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the year in the Pac twelve is
the wedd is generally not good. So

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Steve, you guys ready at El
Tour we are getting ready where we had

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about five thousand and six thousand people
come through get their packets. Got about

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three more thousand to come in tonight
and in the morning it's going to be

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a lot of people. What time
is the seventh The big race starts seven

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seven o'clock seven five seven. Yeah, a lot of things going on,

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obviously a very pack downtown. Uh, we're we're indoors. We're not outdoors

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anymore, so that'll be good.
What's indoors? We're in the arena where

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they have the exhibits. So that's
where all the the that's the festivities and

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stuff right right, So it's not
like at the like an armory what was

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it Armory Park is not indoors?
Correct? Oh, okay, correct?

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And then the party's near there and
if you need to get inside, there's

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going to be inside. Yeah.
So there's a band, the rat the

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race is one hundred and two miles
of the big one is in sixty three

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and then thirty two. All right, so I don't know. I'm interviewing

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you now. So for people who
you know aren't in the race, you

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know, what what should they look
for and what should they try and avoid

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and what should they plan for in
terms of trying to get around or of

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course of the day. A good
question, because I get that question of

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all the time. Well, we
have maps out everywhere. They've been all

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over Facebook and on our website,
and the directions for what's going to be

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closed. We have fewer roads closed
this year because of construction. In the

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previous years they had to kind of
zigzag through the city. And now we're

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going south and this is our third
trip down south. Uh So, a

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lot more freer space, a lot
more flagging than closing and cones. Uh

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So, they'll be It's if you're
going in the direction of the ride,

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it's gonna be tough. But if
you're going against the flow, it's not

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because all those lanes are open.
So if you're going away to the north

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outside on cold and houting and all
that, you're good to go. But

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if you're coming with the flow.
It's going to be tough for me,

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a little harder. Yeah, And
they'll stop you. They'll stop you.

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We're hoping not for extended periods,
but they'll stop you. And I think

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I heard you say say everything is
south of Broadway, south of Broadway,

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correct, Yeah, everything south of
Broadway and the TCC because they're going down

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to the Vale, going to the
Green Valley area, the uh and then

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they're circling back up Mission. I
mean, I like those the old days

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when it would actually loop the city
through the foothills around you know that,

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you know the fifty mile ride that
I did, Yeah where that started years

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That started at you'd All Park.
Oh you're doing from back in the day,

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Yeah, Okay, started you'd All
Park. Then you went up towards

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Sabino Canyon in that area, down
Houton down below the airport, then up

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into downtown. Right, so it's
a half loop of the city. But

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that was back when you know,
they would start downtown, go up into

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the foothills and basically go around the
perimeter of the city. Right. And

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the one you did last was when
Morana right now, well last year that

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was Bullra still like mad at TJ
for that because it was uphill. Because

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it was all uphill, it wouldn't
seem like it would be you didn't know.

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Look, you're in a car.
You don't know that it's uphill,

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or when you're headed towards Marana that
you're going down because you're going down to

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Tucson. Right, you get on
a bike, you know, and Tucson

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is above Marana, right, you
know, and and and and the reason

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we know that is because when the
Santa Cruz River flows, it flows north

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here, so that that's that's downhill. And so you started, Miranda,

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come this way. Everything was uphill, sure, even even little uphills,

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but it was all uphill. So
you started. It was twenty eight miles

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I think. Yeah, we started
at uhcle Marana Park, whatever park it

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is up there. We just missed. You rode down the front of road

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like pretty pretty seemingly a straight shoot. Yeah. So my question to you

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was, or is, at what
point did you think, what did I

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do? What did I get myself
into about about when we got to we

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were coming down Silver Bell, you
know, getting to like getting close to

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Grant that's like maybe fourteen miles in
fifteen miles in Yeah, coming up towards

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Grant, I'm like, this is
this isn't what I expected, right,

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you know. I mean I I
thought I was in way better shape because

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I had, you know, because
when I when I trained, I was

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riding from my for my house,
which is Sabino Canyon Tanka Verty and I'd

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come I'd come west and my last
final ride was I went I went on

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the loop, right, So I
went from Sabino Canyon and Tanker Verty on

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the loop all over here to La
Choya and back. So if you're going

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uphill part of the way or some
on the way back, you were going

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downhill, so that made sense.
But this one, you know, it

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was a straight shot and it was
uphill all the way. Yeah, so

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you were but you made it.
I made it. But you're not when

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you're not a cyclist, right you
did this out of kind of a back

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Yeah, you kind of did this
just to prove something to whoever. I'm

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not sure. So you did and
you and you completed it, which,

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of course, but you're not running
hard. I mean you were not spelling.

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No, I wasn't. I wasn't
hauling, but yeah, you know,

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I was winded a pretty decent pace
I set a pace for myself,

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I mean, which was so many
miles ago, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,

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Yeah, I think I think it
was the twelve thirteen. Yeah.

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So that and that's me, and
I mean that's the past. It's just

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kind of yeah. I mean,
you weren't the last dude coming in.

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I wasn't the last dude coming in, and people there weren't a lot of

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people passing me. But I wasn't
passing anybody either, Right, Well,

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we'll have those people. In fact, I just did a story about a

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hand cyclist who just so you heard
me doing the interview that's raised. He's

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a hand cyclist, he's gonna he
just did five miles last year. He's

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ready to do thirty two. Uh
hand cyclist. Uh. He's you know,

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disabled with the spine injury. Uh, and more than happy to do

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it. Right. You had the
interview. Give it for those and that's

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what inspired that's what's inspiring about the
RYE. It's they're they're raising money to

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make come about five hundred five and
a half million for people like like this.

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Who are you know and you see
people doing you know, along the

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way, you do see hand cyclists
and you know, people with different disabilities

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and stuff like that. You go
in and give it out. Yeah,

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yeah, no, And I have
a hard time walking a mile or two,

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you know, compit winded. I
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It's been nice. Yeah. Well
anyways, just uh, you know

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again, one, give give a
heads up to everybody, you know,

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be on the lookout beyond the lookout
for bicyclists everywhere, you know, whether

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you're around the ride or not.
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And I'm spotty speaking that turn,
but I'm speaking kind of Uh.

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We know it's a we know it's
a big event, right. It comes

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out just the fortieth year. We've
done this for forty years. I've been

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involved for ten. Uh. There
will be some delays. We understand that,

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and we're sorry for that, but
it is you know, we can't

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event be patient. It's a worthy
event and understand that whatever little inconvenience you're

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having, you know, that's your
contribution to the call. And it's a

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one day thing. It's a one
day thing out of three hundred and sixty

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five. I know people are yelling
at me right now as I say this,

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but it is what it is,
and it's from seven to about two,

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and it starts to seven to four. But you know, the the

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barriers start to go away about it
one or two, you know, and

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I'm saying, it's it's a free
year area to to you know how you

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avoid any issues with this if you're
not, if you're not in the race

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to go go to the football game. Yeah, yeah, it's about it's

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above, it's north. Yeah,
go to the football game. Go to

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it, Go to a tailgate,
go hang out around the stadium, go

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there early and go to the game. Yeah. And by the time the

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game is over, everything will be
done, pretty much done. You can

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go home without any trouble. Sure
you won't even know what happened. Exactly,

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yeah, exactly. Yeah. Okay, well thanks for that, Jake.

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Real quick. So we have a
game tomorrow. We have our picks

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today. Yes, we have Jake
today. And who else do we have?

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And we have Eric Warre Walden,
excuse me, Eric Walden of the

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Salt Lake Tribune. He covers,
he covers the youths for them. So

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he's here, he's getting in the
town probably as we speak, he'll be

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coming on at four or fifteen.
Like we always do, try to get

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a media member from the uh from
the other team, to give us a

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sense of, you know what we
can expect from uh from this game,

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you know, try and get a
prediction from him, but UH also just

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to get a sense of you know, who are the youths. You know,

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they're seven and three. You had
same record as Arizona. They've lost

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three conference games and not two like
Arizona, and so they're pretty much out

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of the race, but still have
you know, some things they want to

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prove it. Look, Utah's Utah
is a team that they're not gonna you

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know, unlike some other teams that
we may know of. They're not going

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to come in here kind of with
their tent all folded. They're still coming

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in here to kick Arizona's butt.
And uh, you know, they're not

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going to quit on the season.
But Kyle Kyle, Kyle Whittingham does not

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know well not let his team do
what's spread down. They last I saw

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it was still one. Yeah,
they prochecked it this morning. Arizona's a

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favorite. Arizona is still the one
point for that come on a month ago,

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two months ago, you think,
well, that's what you you know,

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that's what you're hearing like, you
know, one of the one of

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the podcasts that I that I listened
to, and they do you know,

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they pick games, and they picked
this game. Now they all said,

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I still can't get I still can't
get to taking Arizona over Utah. But

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they're saying, who, you know, who would have thought that, you

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know, at this time of the
season, Arizona would have a better conference

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record, have a better chance to
get into the Pac twelve Championship, or

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even have any chance to get into
the Pac twelve championship, and would be

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favored over Utah. There's nobody in
their right mind thought that. Really,

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they're really praising, you know,
the job that Jed Fish is doing,

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also saying that don't be surprised if
some people come looking for him, uh,

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you know jobs. But you know, just what a turnaround. It's

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been a lot of talk at Text
A and M. Now, I mean,

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well Text is gonna they're gonna get
somebody bigger than that, you know,

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Jed's I don't think Jed's the text
M level unless text and then says,

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Okay, we can't spend one hundred
and forty million dollars on a coach.

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We're gonna give Jed four that will
take it. But you know,

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but you know more buzz that that
Chip Kelly is is out. Yeah.

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Well it was reported last week,
les this week, this week, but

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by website, nobody picked up on
it. And then until now it's he

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picking up that that that if they
lose to if they lose to USC,

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they might not even let him go
to the locker room. So wow.

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Well another thing, another thing with
that is who's going to quarterback USC.

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I guess there's no definitive answer that
he's going to quarterback. I saw something

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ever Saturday, Saturday tomorrow that he
might not play tomorrow. I haven't heard

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anything. I saw something just as
we sat down. I mean, I've

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heard that there's just no way in
hell he's gonna play in any bulk.

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Yeah, well I saw that earlier. You have to go back and check.

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He who was not said he was
noncommittal. He was noncommittal by playing

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tomorrow's rivalry game. I don't want
that guy on my team, Steve.

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If I'm in the NFL, I
do not want that guy on my I

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absolutely don't want him on my team. That's a quitter. That's a quitter

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in in the in every sense of
the word. It should be the one

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game that you play, and this
is you see, this is the one

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you don't want to miss for anything. If he oh, man, if

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he doesn't play, I'm getting I'm
losing my mind already. He doesn't play,

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though, I would never draft that
guy ever, I wouldn't draft him

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in the last round if he was
still there. Mm hmm. I'm just

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not taking that guy to lead my
team, not investing millions of dollars into

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that guy the world. If he's
not going to play the bowl game that

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everybody's doing that, I get it. Don't don't play the bowl game.

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It's meaningless. Uh, you know, for the most part, fine,

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I don't have an issue with that. But I do have an issue with

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is you said you're gonna go to
the USC game and you're not gonna play.

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You're gonna leave all your guys hanging
out there, your sor you're you

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know, your seniors and and you
and the rivalry. No way, I

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can't. I'd be shocked if he
didn't play. But you never know.

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But Chip is Chip is the one
who's in big big doodoo over there.

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Man. He's a big Yeah.
Well, he's kind of well, he

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hasn't been very he hasn't been the
Chip that we used to know. Right,

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He's kind of like just another dude. Well and and and the and

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the bigger thing Steve. And again
this goes to you know, when remember

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when Mike, when Mike Stoops got
let go. You know, he didn't

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have any friends here too to stand
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but not very many with all of
course you stand up for, because he

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didn't want to be out there doing
stuff, doing the other stuff that coaches

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have to do in the community.
And Chips, that guy too, he

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doesn't do any of that stuff over
there is what I'm doing, and he

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hates it. He all he ever
does is piss off the boosters and the

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and the donors and and and and
so nobody likes him. When when it

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comes time to say, you know, hey, let's keep him, if

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you don't have anybody saying let's keep
him, then they're not going to keep

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you. Well, if that's the
case, and and and we all know

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that's the criteria now because the a
d's job now is not also to run

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the programs, to shake hands and
kiss babies, chase down some money,

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right, uh, And and that's
what they do. That's just what it

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is today. Guess who would be
a perfect fit for that job at UCLA?

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Should I even say we know who
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I mean that's which which just says
what he which is said, that's

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what that's You know again, he's
in Jetfish has embraced that here and and

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we and we said we said this
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it's a good thing because that means
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trouble and who would think it would
have been seventy three exactly exactly. All

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right, we're gonna take our first
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Hey, welcome back to you.
I on the Ball here Fox Sports forteen

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fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jake. You have Jake Fischer, the procrastinator

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on the show today. How you
doing casinator? Prognostic, procrastinatory, procrastinatorize

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whatever the You're not a proctologist,
are you? Never? I'm not gonna

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apologize for my views. I know
I read your Twitter right know. Yeah,

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you should have saw the one today. That one was fun. What

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did you What was the argument today? It was just you don't think like

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I do. So you're a terrible
person. So I called the guy at

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Douche and told the shut up and
go away. Hey, right to the

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point, man, right to the
point. It's always best I am you.

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Uh So, how many people were
like you? You think who believe

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that they would win eight nine games. Well, I think there's a lot

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of us, like former players and
just folks that are close to the program

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that see, you know, how
far they've come. Obviously, I talked

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to a lot of folks that are
close to the program, and you know,

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they talk about how how good we're
going to be, and how we've

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got a bunch of NFL talent on
the team, and you know, they

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really believe in jet Fish and you
know, I kind of base my my

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bets on that, to be honest
with you, I thought we were going

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to get eight wins. I mean, I thought that the eighth woman was

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going to be in a Bowl game, and even I under soul them here

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to this point. So I just
think there's a lot of us that,

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you know, we've seen how far
Jed and those guys have, you know,

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taken the program. And again,
I mean you just watch some of

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the games and you're like, that
guy's going to be an NFL player,

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that guy's going to be an NFL
player. A couple of teams I was

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on, even though we went to
Bowl games, it's like maybe one or

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two guys would stick with an NFL
roster. So it's just one of those

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things. To where as long as
we have good coaching and these guys are

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motivated to you know, their hearts
are in the right place, they're going

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to do well well well. And
again, you know you talked about the

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talent. I mean it's you know, you look at it, especially especially

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as you know and we all know, you know, offensive defensive lines at

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Arizona have never been the thing as
as as the way they are now.

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And you know, when you're talking
about guys you know who are NFL talents,

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there's a whole bunch of them on
the two lines and that's we've just

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never had that here. Yeah,
And to be honest with you, I

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mean, just on that offensive line. You know, I'm not entirely sure

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about Plito because you know, I
haven't seen a lot. You know,

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he hasn't played very much this year
and I haven't seen you know, I

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don't really specifically watch wen no mo, I need to start watching more.

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I saw a couple of awesome blocks
he had. He had that one crack

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blocker. I think they were going
to trap and you know, they just

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let that three technique go through and
he absolutely just murdered the kid. And

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you know, I didn't know he
had that kind of explosion. I know

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he had quick feet and he's a
big boy, but you know he got

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Savna and Morgan. I mean,
those guys are both going to be first

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round draft picks, and it's just
like you just start with those two.

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I mean, have we ever had
two first round draphics or just two guys

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get drafted in the first couple of
rounds? You know, on the same

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line, we probably have, but
it's just been such a long time defensive

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line. We're able to swap guys
in and out. You know, they're

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getting only you know, twenty five
to thirty snaps each, you know,

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keeping each other fresh, you know, you keep in. This last game,

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it was a little bit different.
I mean, you have a guy

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with an NFL talent arm. He's
also very agile, so that one was

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a little bit different. But I
mean, these guys are making plays in

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the backroll for the most part.
They're they've been pretty decent against the one.

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So we're gonna have most home back. So I mean, imagine what

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next year is gonna look like.
Let me ask you about about the you

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know, you mentioned the twenty five
snap you were aligned back as a linebacker.

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You were in there a lot,
right, I mean, you didn't

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you didn't come out and get off
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that that whole issue of how many
snaps you play and how many snaps,

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how many snaps do you want to
play in the course of a game,

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particularly if your alignment, huh,
you know, what's your what's your max

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that you can you know, just
go give it all and and not ever

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you know, be you know,
lagging or tired or whatever. Well,

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it's kind of on your you know, on your own terms. I mean,

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you know, as a defensive lineman, you want to get three an

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ounce as much as possible, and
uh, you know, especially when you

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get uh, you know, these
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want to be able to get the
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more run stoppers and get some guys
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to wear down the other team,
you know. So it's kind of different

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for both sides of the ball.
But as a linebacker, you guys got

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to remember my junior year, our
defense after the first you know three or

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four games, had way too many
people that were just obviously injured and we

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were just never the same out the
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some games where you're out there for
damn near hunterd snaps, Like at that

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point, it's not fun anymore,
you know what I mean. It's just

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you know, your your tied hands
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multiple times throughout the entire game.
You know, worst game I've ever been

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a part of was that dan Nevada
game, last game in my junior year

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where you know, one of the
one of the the strength guys had the

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damn near carry me off the field
because I've been hitting the head way too

408
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many damn time. My senior year, it was much better because we had

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a much better defense, and you
know, we kept the snack count down

410
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for the most part. And it
was really nice because you have some guys

411
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you can fall back on, uh
you know, if you need to,

412
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he get a breeder. But I
think these defensive coaches are doing a good

413
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job. They brought in a lot
of great, you know, really great

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pieces, uh you know that want
to do what they want to do.

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And uh, you know, if
you if you have all of your you

416
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know, uh energy here at the
end of the game, then you're gonna

417
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be a better player for it.
Into that he's talking to his dog,

418
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Yeah, talking to his dog.
Hey, Jake, are you there well

419
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Paris? Yeah? Man, Okay. So we talked about this yesterday and

420
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we thought it maybe kind of odd. Maybe you agree or don't agree,

421
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but the Kadem is going to be
the captain here on the field tomorrow.

422
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Uh. And we talked, you
know, he's kind of been kind of

423
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like underrated as an ex guy here
even though he was fantastic when he was

424
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here. So I posed this question
to to Jay, Uh, do you

425
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think that Scooby is probably more well
known than Kadem even though Kadem probably had

426
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a better career. Uh, to
be honest with you. In the Tucson

427
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area, No, in the Tuson
area, Kadem's a legend. I mean,

428
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damn here, broke everything record in
the book in high school. And

429
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you know he was there in CDEO
when they are good and they're they're back

430
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to being a really good program.
But you know, back when they were

431
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awesome, you know, getting the
state titles, and whatnot. And then

432
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you know from his softmore year on
he started and you know, he did

433
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extremely well. So I don't think
how the tuc Sound area is. I

434
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think they're both very well known.
I mean, they both won national records

435
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and you know, both of them, you know, they should be held

436
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in every single Arizona Lolcat's heart because
I mean, hell, they both played

437
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tremendous football for us. So I'm
not going to go and say one's more

438
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popular and well known than the other, but I will tell you in Tucson,

439
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just because you know, Kadein grew
up there, he's definitely, you

440
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know, a little bit more of
a celebrity. All right, Okay,

441
00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:47.359
you played with both of those guys. Are they really different guys? Same

442
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guy? How did they take the
but the notoriety that they were getting here?

443
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You know, they both heard a
lot just because they had some fantastic

444
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seasons, but it didn't really stop
them for prepared in the way that they

445
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wanted to. And uh, I
mean they both go out and play every

446
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single snap. I mean obviously you
guys saw it just like I did.

447
00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:10.920
You know, the Scooby's either hitting
somebody and if he makes a mistake,

448
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he's doing it at a million miles
an hour, looking like he's running around.

449
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You know, they get, you
know, just a mad person.

450
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And then Kadeen, I don't think
I saw very many times where somebody would

451
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hit him, you know, whether
it was one person or two guys that

452
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would push him forward. He'd always
find a way to roll, you know,

453
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roll with the ball talk, you
know, just kind of bounce off

454
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a defender, bastra yards whether you
know, big time first down, big

455
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time touchdown. I mean, if
anybody wants to know what that looks like,

456
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go lost the Oregon game, you
know, right, So I mean

457
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they both played tremendous football. Both
were all Americans for a reason. One

458
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awards, you know, stuff like
that. So I mean they both deserved

459
00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:52.079
it. Yeah, so let me
ask you this and maybe Jake maybe explain

460
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a bit of me. Uh So, a few years back, anything with

461
00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:59.319
Jed Firscott. Here people are saying
if Arizona could just be Utah, right,

462
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eventually be Utah. And the question
was today or yesterday right about Utah?

463
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And didn't you ask the questions I
did? So go ahead and tell

464
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Jasey, well what I what I
said was and last year We had this

465
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conversation when they were getting ready to
play Utah and and Jed said, you

466
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know, we aspire to be a
program like Utah. There are a lot

467
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of people here who took that like, wait a minute, don't we want

468
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to be better than Utah? Aren't
we? You know, isn't in Utah

469
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the little brother that you know?
Why are we trying to be like our

470
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little brother? Because that's how people
see Utah from, you know, whac

471
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days and stuff like that. But
when you look at what they've done,

472
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including going to two rose bulls in
a row, it's like, why wouldn't

473
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you want to be Utah? So
we asked Jed today yesterday, where do

474
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you think you are on that track
now? Because you know here you are,

475
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You've got the same same season record, you're ahead of them in the

476
00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:48.000
conference standings, you're ranked higher than
them, your favorite to beat them.

477
00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:51.960
Where are you? And he said, we are still a long ways away.

478
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:56.119
I mean, how do you feel
about trying to be Utah? Trying

479
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to be Utah? Is? I
mean, where else in the past twelve

480
00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:03.000
would you want to be besides them? An Oregon right now? You know

481
00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:06.000
what I mean? I mean,
you look at SD and they had an

482
00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:08.079
atrocious defense. I wouldn't want to
be a team that has to rely on

483
00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:11.359
having a Heisman candidate every single year, which it seems like they will under

484
00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:15.920
Lincoln Riley. You know, Washington, I don't know how they're gonna be

485
00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:18.960
after they lose Penis and those you
know, wide receivers that they have that

486
00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:22.400
are both going to be in the
NFL next year. You look at Utah,

487
00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:26.400
they don't even have Cam Rising and
there's still what seven and three,

488
00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:29.720
and they just took Washington to the
end of the game. You know,

489
00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:33.279
the only blip on their radar basically
has been you know, that game against

490
00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:36.160
Oregon. I mean, you know
in then Oregon State. But Oregon State's

491
00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:37.759
a hell of a team. So, you know, if you want to

492
00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:44.000
be a team in this conference besides
Utah, pitt, you know Oregon because

493
00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:48.000
Dan Lanny, I think has them
playing awesome defense. They're running the ball

494
00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:51.400
as good as ever, and he's
kind of got that hitting the face mentality,

495
00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:55.160
but I mean, coach winning hands
awesome. They have guys that are

496
00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:57.680
sticking around for a while. You
know, they're not bringing in these five

497
00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:00.319
star kids. They're bringing in guys
that they have to develop kind of what

498
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:03.759
you know, what we have to
do here in Tucson. And if he's

499
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:07.759
able to keep that coaching staff together
for a while and he's able to continue

500
00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:10.960
to develop, then yeah, we
might be able to becoming the top.

501
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:14.319
But it's not the Utah goal.
It's not the Utah that you know.

502
00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:17.599
As soon as they came into the
Pac twelve, they beat a couple of

503
00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:19.559
Pack twelve schools because you know,
they have some down years, but then

504
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:23.079
the next couple of years we beat
the heck out of them physically. It's

505
00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:26.279
just one of those things where hey, they caught up and they're doing it

506
00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:30.880
better than damn near everybody else in
the conference. I agree with that completely,

507
00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.519
right, No, because they are
they are. If they're not the

508
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:36.920
model, there's the second model.
I mean again, but but you know,

509
00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:41.039
Jake's right, do you want to
be USC where you know, just

510
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:44.839
like you're awful undecided the ball,
so you're great over here and how people

511
00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:47.720
were doing seeing why the hell can't
you be better than that? Theerly don't

512
00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:51.039
want to be UCLA, sure right, sure you know, so you don't

513
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:52.720
want to be U c l Ai. No, especially with chip Kel you

514
00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.119
don't want to be that. Yeah, so you know, I mean he

515
00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:57.200
doesn't have the Nike money, so
he's not going to do as well.

516
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:00.799
Right, you know, we don't
know if Washington's going to sustain what they

517
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:04.240
have, as you said, after
Michael Pennock's leaves, but Oregon just seems

518
00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:07.000
to keep doing you know, whoever's
there, they do it well with them.

519
00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:12.599
And then as you said, you
well and then Dan Landing, you

520
00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:14.359
know, like I said, he
has that you know, hits in the

521
00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:16.279
face. But now he's got that
Phil Knight money back at him, so

522
00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:20.839
he's gonna be able to bring in
guys that are still form five star kids.

523
00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:24.400
But uh, you know having that
uh I suct the mentality was speed

524
00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:28.960
and size. Well that's gonna be
scary. Wait a second, that said,

525
00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:31.759
I'm sure, uh back in they
think as a kid coming out in

526
00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:36.599
high school and you you're Chick Fisher
and you were offered who would you play

527
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:39.119
for? Who would you play for? So what I played for was in

528
00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:45.599
when I was coming up Oregon obviously, you know, honestly, wasn't that

529
00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:47.720
great. You know, I just
saw Arizona beat Oregon. You know,

530
00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:52.480
I think it was Nixon that had
just gone down, but we beat them.

531
00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:57.039
And then my freshman year, honestly, they went to uh you know,

532
00:32:57.119 --> 00:32:59.240
the Rose Bowl, but it was
down to them and us, and

533
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:00.480
if we would have ground Kowski,
I don't think that game would have been

534
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:04.000
with a two peschdowns. So,
to be honest with you, coming out

535
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:07.160
of high school, uh FC had
an insane defense. I mean they had

536
00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:12.079
five first round drafts on the defense
every damn year under Carroll. They were

537
00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:15.200
winning Heisman's every year. So I
mean, the only difference between them and

538
00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:20.160
today's see if today's see gives up
forty points a game or hoping to score

539
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:22.279
fifty, right, yeah, no, but you would play for Landing.

540
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:25.079
Come on, you would play for
him. Oh he would have been fun

541
00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:28.799
to play for. Yeah, absolutely, But you know, Jet, this

542
00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:30.200
seems like he'd be really fun to
play for, and so you know,

543
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:34.200
would he him? You know what
I mean? So again, right now

544
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:37.319
in the pack, if you're trying
to mold the program after anybody other than

545
00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:43.359
you thought it would be organ Yeah, it makes a lot of sense because

546
00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:45.000
they just keep going, Okay,
no, we need a score, yes,

547
00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:50.599
or for tomorrow we win by ten? Wow? Okay, I don't

548
00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:52.480
know what the hell the score is
gonna be we win by ten, Okay,

549
00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:58.200
I think it's and the difference will
be. The difference is going to

550
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:00.279
be our defense is as long as
we don't allow them to make any of

551
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:08.000
those big plays. With Colorado,
I think we would have won by fourteen

552
00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:12.039
to twenty one if we didn't get
pen on the Dan two yard line every

553
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:14.559
four plays and then have to kick
it, and we had a bunch of

554
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:19.039
slow guys on that uh you know, punt team happen to basically, you

555
00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:21.320
know, just make sure that they
don't make a big play, block it

556
00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:22.320
out of the end zone, you
know, do whatever the hell they were

557
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:25.440
doing. So, you know,
I think that as long as we're solid

558
00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:30.280
on special teams, which is you
know that in defensive first half I was

559
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:32.599
very worried about during the Colorado game. But they're getting the short field every

560
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:36.880
damn play. So we just need
to be, you know, solid on

561
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:39.480
all three phases, and I think
we'll win. All right. I ain't

562
00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:43.519
gonna I ain't gonna dispute you because
doing too well. Yeah, you kicked,

563
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:46.480
but how about the zone against Duke
game. We didn't even get to

564
00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:54.000
talk about a pat Sorry, final
four bus. Let's go that was going

565
00:34:54.079 --> 00:35:02.679
overboard. That was going overboard.
Relax a little, go fight with people

566
00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:12.960
on Twitter, exactly, have a
great weekend. Many Yeah. You know.

567
00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:15.840
The funny thing about is I can't
argue because he's doing so damn good.

568
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Yeah. Oh, we forgot to
let him plug his company real quick.

569
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:28.920
Uh where is it? Uh?
Uh uh, I can't there Arizona

570
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Health Insider. Uh, Jake Fisher, he's a he's a he's you know,

571
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he goes out and gets insurance for
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572
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575
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Uh, he's helped us out.
I'm a bit of a client of his

576
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as well. So he's a he'll
do a great job for you. All

577
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Right, that's it for this segment. Let's say great questions for you so

578
00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:00.760
well, we'll get to Steve's questions
after the break. Well, also take

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Salaz they have their eye on the ball

621
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on Tucson's sports station yet Fox Sports
fourteen to fifteen. Hey, welcome back

622
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to you. I boat here on
Fox Sports Sports is fifteen. I'm Steve

623
00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:19.920
Rivera here, Jacob Zalas got a
guy sitting here working the board. I

624
00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:23.800
want to ask you real quick about
a couple of things. Let's go something

625
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:28.519
thats us first, the PAC twelve. So the PAC twelve is alive and

626
00:39:28.679 --> 00:39:32.719
well according to people with Washington State
ties at Oregon State ties. So they

627
00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:37.079
have a boatload of money until they
won't have a boutload of money if things

628
00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:42.360
change, right, what's gonna happen
there? God man, Well, what

629
00:39:42.519 --> 00:39:47.280
it sounds like to me is that, you know, the the Oregon State

630
00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:53.840
and Washington State have been granted the
rights to be control all that money that's

631
00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:58.800
and that was money for everybody,
right, that's it. I'm hearing there's

632
00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:04.199
like four hundred million in current money
that's at stake in this that was going

633
00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:07.039
to be distributed, distributed to all
the schools and what was supposed to happen,

634
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:15.920
Yeah, well after this fiscally fiscally
so you know, they won this

635
00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:19.960
injunction and says they they're they're in
control of it, but then there was

636
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:24.239
a stay put on it because well
when the judge granted them their injunction,

637
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:29.199
he said, but that you're in
control, but you have to do this

638
00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:35.639
fairly and without harming the other schools. So they're going to get to decide,

639
00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:37.400
but they can't just say well,
we're going to keep it all okay,

640
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:42.559
so the Arizona will get some money, right right. The question is,

641
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:45.599
you know what, what what a
judge or whoever decides to be fair.

642
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:52.079
Now, the thing got the thing
got stayed while the the other ten

643
00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:55.079
schools appeal the the the approval of
that injunction. So I don't know how

644
00:40:55.199 --> 00:41:00.400
what's going to happen after that.
But the other thing you're hearing is that

645
00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:06.280
Washington, Washington and Oregon State are
entering into this alliance with the Mountain West

646
00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:10.480
and they're gonna pay for a bunch
of games with that money. Sure,

647
00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:15.320
you know they're gonna use that money
to be able to get games and pay

648
00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:17.639
all these schools to play them,
whether they play them at home or away

649
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:22.679
or whatever. And and what what
the Mountain West apparently is gonna do is

650
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:29.599
is both of our mics, oh, I'm back on. But apparently what

651
00:41:29.719 --> 00:41:32.559
the mount West is gonna do is
they're going to reduce their conference games from

652
00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:37.840
eight to seven and eat and they're
each one of them is gonna play either

653
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:42.199
Oregon State or Washington State. They're
they're gonna pay for those games out of

654
00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:45.440
this money. The one thing they're
not allowed to do is poach the Mountain

655
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:49.119
West team to start a new league. But it sounds like, you know,

656
00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:52.800
even though the judge granted them the
the the injunction that says they get

657
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:55.519
to you know, they're in charge, he's not gonna let them, say,

658
00:41:57.519 --> 00:42:00.400
you get all the money. Okay. So some of that money possibly

659
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:04.599
could be used to help Arizona get
out of its financial one, but it's

660
00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:07.440
money that they were expecting. Yeah. Yeah, it's money that was already

661
00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:09.760
in their budgets before all this stuff
happened. With this seems like could be

662
00:42:09.840 --> 00:42:14.920
more than twenty five thirty thousand dollars. I mean, well, I say,

663
00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:17.400
yeah, see that my bank sucks. My bank answer, so I

664
00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:21.440
checked Covie's bounces. No, no, you're right. Millions. So then

665
00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:24.159
yeah, then they'll fifteen and so
and and that's what the one judge say

666
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:28.920
said, you know you're in charge, but we're not gonna let you just

667
00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:31.760
ord the thing, right Okay.
So then my second question was, uh,

668
00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:36.119
and just keep an eye on the
phones. You were in Vegas recently

669
00:42:36.519 --> 00:42:38.400
and I was there in June and
it was the start of or the middle

670
00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:42.840
of the construction of all the roads. So they said back then, it's

671
00:42:42.840 --> 00:42:45.880
gonna be a disaster. Oh you
can't get around, blah blah blah.

672
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:47.519
You were just saying, how was
it. It wasn't hard to get around,

673
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:53.239
but you could see that, you
know what you because all the construction

674
00:42:53.400 --> 00:42:57.880
is done right, so the roads
were open, you know. I mean

675
00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:01.320
we literally going from one place to
another. We're on the Formula one track,

676
00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:07.760
right. We stayed at a hotel
where we stay was right when they're

677
00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:12.480
coming up on the finish line on
Tropicana Avenue. So you know, we

678
00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:16.199
come out in a cab to go
to the west gate and we're on the

679
00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:20.760
racetrack and then we you know,
and so it's, oh, you know,

680
00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:22.239
kind of open at the end and
then we are out into the regular,

681
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:27.440
regular surface streets. But the hotel
that we were staying out you look

682
00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:30.280
out the window and the track was
right below us. So it looks cool.

683
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:36.119
Oh, it looks really cool.
They've built this massive grand stand around

684
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:38.159
the corner from where we were staying, and we went right by it and

685
00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:42.920
they said, that's a permanent building. It's well two buildings, it's one

686
00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:45.519
on each side of the track.
Because this is a ten year deal,

687
00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:52.400
right, what it is it's four
years for sure, with an option to

688
00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:57.360
do to go up to ten years. So they built this permanent facility right

689
00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:00.159
near where we were, and it's
massive, you know, it's it's it's

690
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:04.480
where the race starts. You know, it's the paddock they call it,

691
00:44:04.920 --> 00:44:07.639
it's the it's a grand stand,
it's the skyboxes, it's all this stuff

692
00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:12.880
that's built there. And that's a
permanent deal. It's very cool. And

693
00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:15.599
in fact, during one of our
breaks, I was looking at a watching

694
00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:19.639
a video of a of a driver, you know, on the track,

695
00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:22.599
and it looks really cool. The
thing is, Steve, what you're hearing

696
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:30.760
is that it's a disaster from an
economic standpoint, that people aren't coming,

697
00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:35.079
they're staying away because of it.
That I you know, there was a

698
00:44:35.159 --> 00:44:37.840
guy on Twitter and I can't remember
who it was. He said, I

699
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.639
got a room at the Flamingo,
which is right on the track. Right.

700
00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:44.239
I could look out my window and
there's a track. I got room

701
00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:47.440
for eighteen bucks, eighteen dollars.
Before you couldn't get a room for it,

702
00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:52.599
right, he said. The restaurants
are empty, the hotels are empty.

703
00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:57.719
People aren't going. Now there's going
to be people who have come in

704
00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:00.800
for the race, but they're not
filling up the hotel else he said,

705
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:05.079
it's been an economic disaster. It's
what you're hearing. Let's not go because

706
00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:08.159
it's like yoga. Don't go there
because two people don't. Yeah, don't

707
00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:12.639
go this weekend. Yeah, you
know, I mean it was it was

708
00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:15.760
busy last weekend, you know,
but I could see I could see that.

709
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:22.239
You can envision the problems they were
having building all this stuff and roads

710
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:25.159
being closed, right, having to
build all this stuff. So we're you

711
00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:28.760
know, we're there and it's all
built, so every it's ready to go.

712
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:32.159
So so the streets are open.
Traffic wasn't horrible, It wasn't hard

713
00:45:32.199 --> 00:45:36.079
to get to our hotel. But
now they well now they have people who

714
00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:39.119
go show up, not necessarily to
see the race, but to continue to

715
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:44.920
fill up the hotels. You know, if you're on if you're inside the

716
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:49.880
loop of the track, which is
basically almost the whole strip, right,

717
00:45:50.239 --> 00:45:54.880
it's it's the MGM Grand it's Planning
Hollywood, it's Paris, it's you know,

718
00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:59.840
the hotels on that side of the
strip. But then you go to

719
00:45:59.880 --> 00:46:04.079
the other side of the strip in
place like the Bellaggio and Caesars and and

720
00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:07.880
you know all of those, you
know they're right on the track as well.

721
00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:14.800
You know a lot of what those
what are great about those properties you

722
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:19.639
can't experience because the track is in
the way. Like you can't go see

723
00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:22.119
the fountains right now, right,
I mean you can't go see them from

724
00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:27.159
the street like we normally at the
Bolagio that that that you would go see.

725
00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:30.880
You can't walk to Caesars because you
know, like we we you know,

726
00:46:31.079 --> 00:46:34.920
the place we started in near playing
Hollywood, and we wanted to go

727
00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:38.159
across the way to where the Aria
is because the street you had to go

728
00:46:38.239 --> 00:46:42.840
for a bridge, but there there's
nobody there. Well, well, I

729
00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:45.960
guess we'll see what happens upter this
weekend. But it's just Saturdays. It's

730
00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:49.400
still very cool looking. Yeah,
well there's that. Yeah, so you

731
00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:52.880
know, but you know again after
the race tomorrow they got to break it

732
00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:57.519
down and what's that going to be
like? So who knows how long it's

733
00:46:57.519 --> 00:47:01.000
gonna take. It's over. It's
that night. The race starts at eleven

734
00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:08.079
o'clock two some time pm PM.
Okay, well it's still well did you

735
00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:12.599
see what happened last night? No, you didn't see this, but so

736
00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:19.079
they had. Yeah, so they
had a practice. We're gonna do an

737
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:23.960
hour of you know practice run letting, letting the drivers you know, run

738
00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:28.639
the track. And it was on
ESPN, and so like eight minutes into

739
00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:32.119
it, a car, you know, driving through your straight away, no,

740
00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:36.960
No, one of the the race
cars driving through the normal straightaway.

741
00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:40.360
As it went by, it pulled. It basically pulled up a man not

742
00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:45.360
a man, but like a like
like a small manhole cover. It pulled

743
00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:49.639
the whole frame of it out and
sparked and flying all over the place.

744
00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:54.840
And I'm sure it damaged the car
because this thing was not built to withstand

745
00:47:55.840 --> 00:48:00.679
the whatever you call the g forces
or whatever of a car going that fast

746
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:04.039
over the top of it. That
when the car went over the top of

747
00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:09.039
it, it basically if you can
imagine a whole manhole cover and it's frame

748
00:48:09.719 --> 00:48:14.280
being pulled out of the street,
that's what happened eight minutes into the truck

749
00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:16.400
into the practice, and they had
to halt the practice. And they've got

750
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:20.960
to fix that before the race tomorrow, all of them, because there's they

751
00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:23.679
got they gotta go make sure all
of them are are are fixed. Yeah,

752
00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:30.800
I said, Carlos Sis Siens crashes
into Las Vegas man drink cover.

753
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:32.639
It was it was a drain cover, So it wasn't it wasn't the size

754
00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:37.320
of probably a you know, probably
less than a foot across, you know,

755
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:42.079
in diameter. But you know,
there's video of this car going over

756
00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:47.119
the top of it. It basically
explodes, so that hundreds of thousands of

757
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:52.400
dollars car is done. And you
don't think about, you know, how

758
00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:57.079
fast these cars are going on what
is otherwise a city street and what the

759
00:48:57.280 --> 00:49:00.840
pull is going to be on a
car going over at the top of something

760
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:04.039
like that. Now, they got
to go make sure every single one of

761
00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:09.280
those on the track can withstand a
car going over there two hundred miles an

762
00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:15.880
hour. Wow, it's a messy
it right now. It's a complete mess

763
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:20.480
and a complete disaster. And you
know, I haven't heard the laces because

764
00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:24.159
there's supposed to be tonight, there's
supposed to be another hour of these practice

765
00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:29.800
runs, you know, and well
then there's and then there's qualifying tomorrow morning

766
00:49:30.199 --> 00:49:32.000
and then they race tomorrow night.
Yeah. I saw he's just kind of

767
00:49:32.079 --> 00:49:35.639
just the car is going, but
it just blow it. Yeah, just

768
00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:39.039
like a big ball of fire.
Yeah. Wow, well, no,

769
00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:43.400
he's out of the race. Well, I'm sure you can probably get the

770
00:49:43.440 --> 00:49:46.320
car, he said. I think
he said, there's a couple of people

771
00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:51.960
who said they're out of the race. Wow. Okay, we'll get about

772
00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:53.800
a minute left. It was kind
of hanging out and there's a there's a

773
00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:58.519
Formula one talk for you. That's
the only time we've ever talked about Formula

774
00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:01.679
One. It's really cool, though, I gotta say, I'm I mean,

775
00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:05.880
I don't know that I'm gonna watch
it, but I'm paying attention to

776
00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:08.039
it. I'm watching videos of you
know, people, the cars, you

777
00:50:08.119 --> 00:50:10.639
know, running on the track.
It looks really cool. They're going by

778
00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:15.440
these hotels, are going flashing by
them. It goes around the sphere,

779
00:50:15.719 --> 00:50:20.800
right, they make this slow turn
going around the sphere over there that you

780
00:50:20.880 --> 00:50:23.639
know, all that looks really cool. And like I said, my room

781
00:50:24.199 --> 00:50:28.239
where I was saying, I was
looking down right on right on the track.

782
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:30.639
Yeah, and it was really cool. Cool. Okay, all right,

783
00:50:30.880 --> 00:50:34.320
that's the first hour pretty much.
Okay, let's take our break.

784
00:50:34.519 --> 00:50:37.559
We're gonna come back. We've got
Eric Walden from the Salt Lake Tribune coming

785
00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:39.159
up in the during the hour and
since got breaking new. All right,

786
00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:39.880
we'll be right back.