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Speaker 3: These Steelers have announced Russell Wilson will be their starting
Speaker 3: quarterback over justin Fields.
Speaker 2: How good they get? Are they gonna be? God? They've been?
Speaker 4: How good can they be with Russell Wilson?
Speaker 2: Is the good point? Good point? They're you know, their them, Dallas,
Speaker 2: the Raiders. I'm talking about old time. Yeah, fantastic programs
Speaker 2: they've been. They've been irrelevant for years.
Speaker 4: I mean, of the of those three, the Steelers have
Speaker 4: been the most recent the best, you know, most most recently.
Speaker 4: But they haven't been much Sincethlisberger retired them again as always.
Speaker 4: You know, if you don't have a quarterback, you really
Speaker 4: don't have much of anything. Sure, you know, and I
Speaker 4: know people thought about thought that about the forty nine
Speaker 4: Ers when Brock Purdy was suddenly their quarterback. But you know,
Speaker 4: they they you know, they found a pot of gold
Speaker 4: there and he's and he's been great, and he's going
Speaker 4: to be a fifty million dollar quarterback next year. But
Speaker 4: you know, the Steelers have been, you know, running quarterbacks
Speaker 4: in and out. Russell Wilson after what he did in
Speaker 4: the you know, uh uh, you know with the Super
Speaker 4: Bowl and stuff like that, but you know, the Broncos
Speaker 4: he just kind of fizzled. And now there's still this
Speaker 4: expectation that it can be a Super Bowl quarterback and
Speaker 4: I just don't know that he is anymore. Yeah, So
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know how good that the
Speaker 4: Steelers are going to be. And look if if, in fact,
Speaker 4: what's his name, Justin Fields becomes the starter, you know,
Speaker 4: the Bears kind of pitched him away, and so how
Speaker 4: good can you be if Justin Fields is your starting quarterback?
Speaker 4: So I don't know, I don't know how good the
Speaker 4: Steelers are going to be and how good they can
Speaker 4: be with those guys are as a quarterback.
Speaker 3: The NCAA has proposed eliminating the spring transfer window and
Speaker 3: only having the transfer period be the thirty day period
Speaker 3: from early December to early January.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we kind of talked about this, and I don't
Speaker 4: know how that's going to hold up down the road,
Speaker 4: right that that that the courts are going to say
Speaker 4: you can't keep guys from from going to different schools,
Speaker 4: you can't keep guys from transferring and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: And maybe you know there's some sort of exception that
Speaker 4: that there's some sort of exception that they can do
Speaker 4: that if they're entering into contracts and things like that.
Speaker 4: But for now, I don't know how you can just
Speaker 4: say you can't go anywhere, you can't go to the
Speaker 4: school if you want to.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you do that.
Speaker 3: Bengals receiver Jamar Chase is now practicing with the team
Speaker 3: as he seeks a contract.
Speaker 4: Is not or is not he's not And I saw that.
Speaker 4: I think Brandon and I you didn't show up for
Speaker 4: practice to dahty nine A yeah as well.
Speaker 2: So I don't know how is it then? And I
Speaker 2: get this because it's all about money, but that you
Speaker 2: dream about going to college, doing well, becoming all American
Speaker 2: and playing didn't you dream about playing pro ball for
Speaker 2: making some pretty good money. You get to play the
Speaker 2: pros and then you get paid pretty well, and then
Speaker 2: you decide not to play because of money because you're
Speaker 2: not getting paid because I don't get it. I really
Speaker 2: don't get it.
Speaker 4: That and that see it. But that's from a perspective
Speaker 4: of you and me. Yeah, normal people who who you
Speaker 4: could only dream right to be in that kind of
Speaker 4: a position, which is you see a guy turned down
Speaker 4: a twenty five million dollar contract because he wants thirty
Speaker 4: or he wants forty. Well, it's kind of going, what
Speaker 4: are you doing?
Speaker 2: Well, it's like, I guess, let's say you're making thirty
Speaker 2: five bucks an hour and you refuse to go back
Speaker 2: to work because you're looking for sixty five.
Speaker 4: Well, I want put a job that I was making
Speaker 4: two dollars and thirty cents an hour because I wanted
Speaker 4: to thirty five and they wouldn't give it.
Speaker 2: Is that McDonald's back at that? I think I remember
Speaker 2: that story.
Speaker 4: Well, I took my talents to the mall to Spencer's exactly.
Speaker 2: If I recall from an earlier conversation today, you're also
Speaker 2: the guy that started the didn't you didn't Abaut the
Speaker 2: major league ball player?
Speaker 4: So you know, I don't. I don't know because it's like,
Speaker 4: you know, you've got an opportunity that half a percent
Speaker 4: of the planet gets, right, and you're saying it's just
Speaker 4: not good enough for.
Speaker 2: Me, right, And maybe because I don't know what money is,
Speaker 2: but how much is too much? Or how much is enough? Right? Right?
Speaker 2: How much is enough?
Speaker 4: I'm with you, Steve, You and I are you know,
Speaker 4: we're we come from the same place on that. But
Speaker 4: you know, then you get up there and you go,
Speaker 4: you know, well, yeah, I'm I'm getting twenty million dollars,
Speaker 4: but I really think I'm more, you know, thirty million
Speaker 4: dollars and I should get thirty million dollars. And what
Speaker 4: they think is somebody's going to give them thirty million dollars. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: And then they you know, then they don't get it.
Speaker 4: And it's like, now you're what's his name? The guy
Speaker 4: who ran off the field with Antonio Brown? Antonio Brown
Speaker 4: got that. You get some points.
Speaker 2: To it, all right.
Speaker 3: Arizona women's basketball has added Camiko Williams to its staff
Speaker 3: as special assistant to head coach, as announced by Adia
Speaker 3: Bornes earlier.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 4: Can be interesting, you know, while they've taken all these
Speaker 4: limits off of coaches, because you know, all these people
Speaker 4: who are special assistants and director of this and director
Speaker 4: of that. They're just more coaches, is what they are,
Speaker 4: right in that, I mean, what what.
Speaker 2: These Yeah, well we talked about you people up.
Speaker 4: A lot of these people get hired as analysts and
Speaker 4: this and then the other the coaches. Yeah, and and
Speaker 4: and that's I don't know if that's what this position is,
Speaker 4: but more than likely, right, it's somebody who you know,
Speaker 4: they're usually people who have played who DIDN'TY say if
Speaker 4: she's played. She was at Tennessee before she came here.
Speaker 4: So yeah, she played played somewhere right, And so you
Speaker 4: know she.
Speaker 2: Was druncted by the New York Liberty and she she
Speaker 2: went to Tennessee.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so she's coming to you know, she's coming to
Speaker 4: you know, offer more than as a special assistant. What
Speaker 4: does that mean? Uh uh? Duties, duties to be determined
Speaker 4: or whatever.
Speaker 2: But this is the this is the funny thing.
Speaker 4: Duties as a sign.
Speaker 2: We've seen this before. So Audia Barnes, we all know
Speaker 2: how she is. She's a very confident woman making a
Speaker 2: million dollars a year now, Very confident, very done, very successfully.
Speaker 2: I have been successful. I'm not sure it's like Lorenzo
Speaker 2: Wilmar helping Sean guess who the boss was? Who's the boss?
Speaker 2: Do you think he ever took advice from from from Ransom?
Speaker 4: I would hope you would. Look, if you're if you're
Speaker 4: a confident boss, you're gonna surround yourself with people who
Speaker 4: are smarter than you, right, and you're gonna use that
Speaker 4: right now, you have to do it. If you're a
Speaker 4: confident yes, you they're there for a reason, right. So
Speaker 4: my point, my point is it's hard to change some
Speaker 4: DEDs on your personality. And I mean, Sean the kind
Speaker 4: of guy who's going to be that guy. I know
Speaker 4: I was when I was a supervisor. I wanted people
Speaker 4: smarter than me around me. But that's my personality. Not
Speaker 4: everybody is like that. There's guys who say, well, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna bring you in, but you're gonna.
Speaker 2: Listen to me. Yeah, then that doesn't work.
Speaker 4: And and then it doesn't work. Yeah, I mean, so
Speaker 4: we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 2: You're bringing them in for a reason, right to maybe
Speaker 2: hear the sounding board, a sounding board to help.
Speaker 4: To help in some way, to help in some way,
Speaker 4: and whatever way that is. You know, that's something that
Speaker 4: develops between you or between the you know, the person
Speaker 4: coming in and the coach and Jay, you'd like to
Speaker 4: think there's the expectation is is understood before you get
Speaker 4: in there?
Speaker 2: Jay? When I brought you on four years ago, I
Speaker 2: thought you complete me? And well, how's that going? Is
Speaker 2: that right up there? With? You had me at hell? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you had a jello that's a joke. That's stupid.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead, let's go ahead looking at it. We're
Speaker 4: getting off the rails here and Henry bring us back.
Speaker 3: Arizona was named pre season number two in the country
Speaker 3: and triathlons behind Asu.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk to Jesuary about this because they're two
Speaker 2: years in, yeah, maybe three two years in here there
Speaker 2: are number two and two in the country and she's
Speaker 2: get this. She gets these questions what about sports? Yeah,
Speaker 2: being cut blah blah blah. She has the number two try,
Speaker 2: whether by default or whatever, whatever. Yeah, what are you
Speaker 2: gonna do? Yeah? What are you gonna do? I saw
Speaker 2: issues the number one team. Are you of age? Number two?
Speaker 2: And then they have a bunch of a bunch of
Speaker 2: other schools.
Speaker 4: Like there's not even anywhere to swim around here.
Speaker 2: See, that's a good swim in the Santa Cruz River
Speaker 2: up hill, you go.
Speaker 4: To Lakeside Park or what do you do looking for? Yeah,
Speaker 4: we're let's would they do it? I don't know, we
Speaker 4: should know that. I mean, I I'm I know. I'm
Speaker 4: not jumping in the water at Reed Park, that's for sure. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: I don't know where do you practice?
Speaker 2: We'll talk to we'll oscar. All right, that's all I got.
Speaker 2: All right, So you got it well that you needed
Speaker 2: to be a savory.
Speaker 4: Here's what in the interest of raising money, Steve, I'm
Speaker 4: finding ways to do that. Just Bret McMurphy posted a
Speaker 4: photo of bud like cans Bud like cans of beer,
Speaker 4: bottles of beer with college logos on them. I don't
Speaker 4: know if Arizona's got one. I only see is.
Speaker 2: It legit that's gonna happen, Yes, but it's his bud.
Speaker 4: Light is releasing limited edition college team cans featuring twenty
Speaker 4: six schools. I don't know if a Zone was one
Speaker 4: of those, but I see it from the Big twelve.
Speaker 4: I see Ohio, Oklahoma State, Iowa, Stay, Kansas.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's another desirey question Texas.
Speaker 4: Tech, Kansas State. They say Kansastan, I said, Iowa State.
Speaker 4: So that's why, that's why I seeing there. Even Wyoming's
Speaker 4: got a can, Arizona better have Wyoming's got a can.
Speaker 4: Arizona better have a can. Missouri's got one. That's a
Speaker 4: that's that's race at school. Yeah, we'll talk about s
Speaker 4: U Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky.
Speaker 2: There must be something in it for the school then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well yeah, sure.
Speaker 2: Another way? What is it?
Speaker 4: But like I'm gonna have to go get me. Can't
Speaker 4: give me some Arizona can. Okay, I'm trying. I can't
Speaker 4: type bud light in my into my computer.
Speaker 2: Bud like football. They probably we'll ask her when she
Speaker 2: comes when she comes up, and see what happens. What
Speaker 2: she says, Oh, some guy some I'm not some guy.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you right now. Andy Brown sent me a
Speaker 2: send me a note. You're talking about fields. Let me
Speaker 2: see if he send me a text or uh oh wait,
Speaker 2: I guess Andy Brown's texting me saying Arizona is a
Speaker 2: course light school. I don't know if that's true or not.
Speaker 4: Oh well maybe that's why. Okay, I say, how does
Speaker 4: East Carolina University get one? But Arizona does not. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that makes total sense if you're like a Nike score.
Speaker 4: And then he described that, well, they sell beer in
Speaker 4: the stadium.
Speaker 2: And then in his course, do you buy twelve dollars beers?
Speaker 2: I don't drink cors No, I don't drink cors anyways. Okay,
Speaker 2: But then and he says that the Steelers, if you
Speaker 2: have two quarterbacks, you don't have any you have no quarterback.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and well, I think and I think that's why
Speaker 4: they're saying Russell Wilson is the starter.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, they're not going to say, well, he's a
Speaker 4: starter until they're just saying he's Well.
Speaker 2: It's like what Denver did with bon Nix and the
Speaker 2: other guys. You know, a little upset.
Speaker 4: But why can't I think of that? I still can't
Speaker 4: think of that guy's name? Ar Jared Steadham?
Speaker 2: Where were you heading Monday? Tuesday? We needed you yesterday?
Speaker 2: Andrey I couldn't think of his name yesterday. Henry knows.
Speaker 2: He doesn't study. He just knows. He went on.
Speaker 4: I mean, he went on press conference. And I think
Speaker 4: I'm a starting quarterback in the.
Speaker 2: NFL, right, right, Yeah, that's what that's what we're talking.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he was taking a shot.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't read or see the the interview.
Speaker 2: But no, but you need to have that, you need
Speaker 2: to have that kind of that attitude.
Speaker 4: Maybe he's hoping another team will come along and say, okay,
Speaker 4: we'll take him. But you know, uh, look they drafted
Speaker 4: bone next for bone Next to be their quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's as simple as that. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens anything else out there, Soccer, volleyball.
Speaker 2: You have a volleyball plays this weekend in the in
Speaker 2: their classic. You didn't mention that, did you.
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, but they do.
Speaker 4: They've got that Cactus Classic, well that Steve Qust was
Speaker 4: talking about on the show yesterday. Right, so they've got
Speaker 4: volleyball going on over the over this weekend. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 4: and we'll see what the treated Stubbs has going over.
Speaker 2: And the soccer team plays tomorrow as well.
Speaker 4: They're off to a good start. Yeah see were they
Speaker 4: three and one or something like that? And then when
Speaker 4: when they had a close game against against uh uh,
Speaker 4: North Carolina, who's traditionally a you know, good soccer, good
Speaker 4: soccer team. So yeah, you know, look it's all you know,
Speaker 4: it's all going now, got it. I mean we're just
Speaker 4: a little over a month away from Arizona basketball gating
Speaker 4: going with its red and blue games.
Speaker 2: And right and all that. In fact, the tickets went
Speaker 2: on sale for that August twenty second. Someone said they
Speaker 2: were like paying twenty five dollars for a ticket and said,
Speaker 2: that's not right. I guess they're starting. They're starting at
Speaker 2: ten dollars. Yeah, and I guess going up, well, you
Speaker 2: get back.
Speaker 4: So it was the reserve seats because they used to
Speaker 4: be ten bucks, and you get there early and you
Speaker 4: get a good seat because that's what it used to be.
Speaker 2: I know what it is. Yeah, I guess that's what
Speaker 2: it is. I mean, they're gonna do well, they're gonna do.
Speaker 4: Okay, how good?
Speaker 2: How good do you think they're gonna do? Third in
Speaker 2: the conference? Third in the conference? And I think it
Speaker 2: only helps some there. It's funny. I tell this a
Speaker 2: lot of time and swim people ask me how good
Speaker 2: they're gonna be. When was the last time someone tell
Speaker 2: you they're not gonna be any good? You'll be a
Speaker 2: basketball right? Yeah? In forever? Ever since you've been around
Speaker 2: and h third in the conference, third in the conference.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have actually have to go a little longer
Speaker 4: because the DEAs Ray's not gonna call him til twenty.
Speaker 2: Hats oh okay, okay, so we probably another minute, yeah
Speaker 2: okay before we go to break. But you know what
Speaker 2: if they take their hard knocks, which is third in
Speaker 2: the league whatever, Right, that's fine, yeah, because they'll get
Speaker 2: them ready for the tournament.
Speaker 4: And all anybody cares is how to do in the tournament.
Speaker 4: It matters in the end, right, How good to Arizona
Speaker 4: Arizona fans feel about winning the PAC twelve championship versus
Speaker 4: how the season from the tournament they feel, they feel
Speaker 4: worse about how it ended than feeling good about the
Speaker 4: fact they won another league a title and a and
Speaker 4: a conference champige.
Speaker 2: And bear me out on this, because I think you'll
Speaker 2: agree with me. People say, well, it was a good season.
Speaker 2: They won the PAC twelve tournament, they won the regular season,
Speaker 2: they finished twenty eight and whatever. And I'm thinking, is
Speaker 2: that what you're playing for these days you're in Arizona. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm sure, No, you're not. You're not.
Speaker 4: I I can't, I know, I can't think of anybody.
Speaker 2: You've given all that stuff.
Speaker 4: I mean remember when Luke kept winning championships, people didn't
Speaker 4: even pay attention to it. It was even not even a
Speaker 4: big deal anymore. Okay, yeah, they won another PAC twelve
Speaker 4: champion back in championship. Well, you know, go win a
Speaker 4: national champions then let's talk.
Speaker 6: Sure.
Speaker 2: And I think Tommy I know him, I know from
Speaker 2: that's he knows. He knows now, Yeah, Sean, Sean knew Sean.
Speaker 2: It's funny because a guy I know, a guy you know,
Speaker 2: told me, I don't know, fifteen years ago, Sean came
Speaker 2: on board and he met him and he liked him
Speaker 2: whatever or didn't like him. I don't know what he says.
Speaker 2: He says to me, Sean's not the guy that's gonna
Speaker 2: take this to the final for the team, the program,
Speaker 2: to the final four. This is like three years in,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2: I think he's the guy. I think, you know, I
Speaker 2: think he's the guy, and I'm thinking he's not. And
Speaker 2: I really didn't press him on it. And we may
Speaker 2: have made a wager. Wager gave me a few years. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he won that wager, and I couldn't I couldn't tell
Speaker 2: why until I kind of noticed more.
Speaker 4: Well, why do you think he did too tough? That's
Speaker 4: question for a whole show.
Speaker 2: Too tough on the kids, and they stopped playing for him.
Speaker 2: You think so of twenty seventeen eighteen was exactly that
Speaker 2: he had talent and then he ran into some bad luck,
Speaker 2: some bad luck. He played one of the best teams
Speaker 2: in the country in Wisconsin two years in a row.
Speaker 2: The thing about it, Jay, you gotta beat those are
Speaker 2: the teams you're gonna see it, then don't beat me
Speaker 2: to my punch. That was exactly if you're gonna win
Speaker 2: the test national title, you gotta beat those, Yes, because
Speaker 2: there are even better ones after that.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, Yeah, I mean yeah, I just you just
Speaker 4: felt like he was there.
Speaker 2: He was at the beginning, then he was, and then
Speaker 2: he wasn't. Yeah. I think I think, and I said
Speaker 2: this to Cosgrove, I think he had to feed and
Speaker 2: I wrote a story for business. He had to feed
Speaker 2: the beast, and he it was like almost engulfing him
Speaker 2: where he didn't know he became too much exactly, and
Speaker 2: it just overwhelmed him. All right, that's my philosophy for today.
Speaker 4: We'll have a send send money to Steve's go fund.
Speaker 2: Me paid. Yes, I'll take anybody's copay insurance exactly.
Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna take our break. We're gonna come
Speaker 4: back and Desiree Read fran Swa, the athletic director at Arizona,
Speaker 4: should be here. We'll be talking about coming into this
Speaker 4: academic year, the season, and just some of the things
Speaker 4: that they're going through over there, So stick around.
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Speaker 1: Ball with Steve Rivera and Jacobzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 2: Hey welcome back to I'm the ball here Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's chicken sauce, you're good drink,
Speaker 2: and we're waiting for call here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they call here, waiting for Desiree read Francois to
Speaker 4: join us and uh talk about this uh really her
Speaker 4: first season, Yeah, as Arizona athletic director and what she's
Speaker 4: got in store. There's a you know, always a lot
Speaker 4: happening when football season is getting started, and we'll see, uh,
Speaker 4: we'll see what's going on in addition to everything else
Speaker 4: that's happening over there.
Speaker 2: Here we go, here's our here's our call. Hello, Desiree's
Speaker 2: is shoe ah, yes, and we're doing well. Jay's with me.
Speaker 2: Good to hear from you.
Speaker 11: Nice to hear both of you.
Speaker 2: Good to have you on the show. Well, we're going
Speaker 2: to ask you a few things, Jay.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So first season coming into the uh you know, coming
Speaker 4: into as a as the adad Arizona.
Speaker 2: Just that feel.
Speaker 4: What's that like for you right now? With you know,
Speaker 4: see football season getting started, the other sports that started.
Speaker 4: Just what does Desiree read Francois thinking about this job
Speaker 4: right now?
Speaker 5: I am so excited and the energy is just you
Speaker 5: can feel it. It's in the air. And I was
Speaker 5: walking to go meet with a dean today and I
Speaker 5: walked across campus and it's fantastic to see my student
Speaker 5: athletes in our building here in Jinny L. Clement Center,
Speaker 5: but also to walk to campus and see all the
Speaker 5: other students and it's just it's so special. I love
Speaker 5: when school starts and I love that first game week.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, because I've asked you this a
Speaker 2: couple of times with other stories, how is the bibe
Speaker 2: now compared to when you walk to the campus.
Speaker 5: In nineteen ninety four?
Speaker 2: Whatever year We weren't going to aid you.
Speaker 5: But yes, oh boy, you know in nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 5: it's gosh. We were sort of isolated a little bit
Speaker 5: over there in the law school, but it was pretty special.
Speaker 5: The championship expectations were you could feel that, and so
Speaker 5: the people and the city of Tucson. Uh, And just
Speaker 5: that championship expectations. That's consistent. Some of the buildings are
Speaker 5: a little bit bigger and brighter.
Speaker 2: UH.
Speaker 5: And I probably look at it from a little bit
Speaker 5: of a different lens that I did, And at least
Speaker 5: I hope so than I did in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 4: Well, so there's a lot of conversation about, you know,
Speaker 4: the environment in college athletics back when you took the job,
Speaker 4: and there was a lot of discussion about how are
Speaker 4: you going to handle this?
Speaker 2: What do you you know? What, what's you know? How
Speaker 2: does this?
Speaker 4: How's this going to work right? What have you learned
Speaker 4: about not only yourself in running this program, but just
Speaker 4: how things are going uh with the landscape of athletics
Speaker 4: and the things that are continuing to change. How are
Speaker 4: you dealing with that on a day to day basis.
Speaker 5: Things are changing. Both are absolutely right. Both nationally we
Speaker 5: have our first expanded college football playoff starting this year.
Speaker 5: We haven't played a game yet in the Big Twelve,
Speaker 5: So we have new conference, we have the house settlement,
Speaker 5: and locally here on campus, we have a new president
Speaker 5: coming on board and I'm looking forward to working for
Speaker 5: doctor Garamela, President Garamela, So there's there's a lot And
Speaker 5: then we have coach Brennan is brand new as well,
Speaker 5: and so there's a lot of changes. But like and
Speaker 5: you know the budget situation. Everybody asked me a lot
Speaker 5: about that when I first got here. But you know,
Speaker 5: like we do with any any challenge, we look, we
Speaker 5: assess what's going on, we design, design the optimal system,
Speaker 5: we implement it fairly and competitively and being responsible, good
Speaker 5: stewards of our resources. So we take it each challenge
Speaker 5: as they come and work through it very methodically and
Speaker 5: very systematically.
Speaker 2: What are the differences here, uh, compared outside of the
Speaker 2: don't even mention the money, because we all know that
Speaker 2: there's many issues there. When you first landed at UNLV
Speaker 2: and then Missouri, now here any key differences when you
Speaker 2: started there and there and now here.
Speaker 5: Well, each place was unique at that moment. And at
Speaker 5: UNLV my first day on the job, we were negotiating
Speaker 5: the joint uth agreement to build a leaded stadium. When
Speaker 5: I got to Missouri, we were I think maybe two
Speaker 5: weeks before before our first game, and that was a
Speaker 5: unique set of circumstances. And then coming coming here to
Speaker 5: the University of Arizona, it's a special it's a special place.
Speaker 5: It's an you don't always get the opportunity to go
Speaker 5: home to an alma mater. But what was What each
Speaker 5: place has in common is the people, and you develop
Speaker 5: a true care and love for the people I was
Speaker 5: very fortunate at Missouri to just get to know some
Speaker 5: incredible The fan base was fantastic and the people at
Speaker 5: UNLV were wonderful. And so that's what I love about
Speaker 5: what I do. And I'm enjoying getting to know the
Speaker 5: incredible people here in Tucson. And like I said, it's
Speaker 5: just a it's special to me. The University of Arizona
Speaker 5: was there when I needed them, and I'm so thankful
Speaker 5: and I feel very blessed to be able to serve
Speaker 5: this university.
Speaker 2: Well, the community has been kind to you. They've been
Speaker 2: kind to Brennan and the football program in their first year.
Speaker 2: Given that the sales of the season tickets have gone
Speaker 2: very well, Oh.
Speaker 5: My gosh, I could not be I should have started
Speaker 5: our conversation. It's just saying an incredible thank you to
Speaker 5: our Wildcat fans throughout the state and beyond. We have
Speaker 5: not had over twenty thousand season tickets since I think
Speaker 5: twenty eighteen, and we're over. We're over nineteen percent increase
Speaker 5: in season tickets since the end of last last season.
Speaker 5: And I I haven't checked for a couple of hours,
Speaker 5: but I think the Zona Zoo is almost sold out.
Speaker 5: It's just it's pretty exciting the momentum that we have.
Speaker 5: So thank you for the reminder, and again, most importantly,
Speaker 5: thank you to our incredible fans. We are still appreciative
Speaker 5: you mentioned.
Speaker 12: Hey, don't forget we gotta wear white.
Speaker 4: Okay, Saturday?
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 4: Okay, we're not going to call it a white out,
Speaker 4: but we're gonna wear white. You know, I, as a fan,
Speaker 4: you need to know, because I personally do not have
Speaker 4: a white Arizona shirt. What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 12: What size are you?
Speaker 5: Because I will go to.
Speaker 4: Just give about you. That's not why I said that. Okay,
Speaker 4: I'll go pick one up. Look, you don't need to
Speaker 4: get me one. I'll go get what d I'll go
Speaker 4: get with But you know what, you check.
Speaker 5: Nate, and we will get you that shirt and I
Speaker 5: will personally go bring that over the radio station.
Speaker 4: But okay, so we're wearing white, but we're not calling
Speaker 4: it a white out. But well, okay, why what are
Speaker 4: we doing here on Saturday?
Speaker 5: We're wearing white and we're coming together and we're cheering
Speaker 5: on the Wildcats and we are fired up and run
Speaker 5: take on New Mexico, and uh, I am looking forward
Speaker 5: to our hopefully our first victory in the Coach Brennan era.
Speaker 5: You know, this is something our marketing team had put
Speaker 5: together and I'm looking forward to embracing it and seeing
Speaker 5: how this all worked out.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you so you and Coach Brennan are both
Speaker 4: new you have do you have a little I don't know,
Speaker 4: commiseration with that? You know, yeah, that you're both new
Speaker 4: to the program and you know you're kind of going
Speaker 4: through some similar things. I don't know, I mean, how's that.
Speaker 4: How's that relationship been in terms of you got you
Speaker 4: guys both being new to the program, even though you've
Speaker 4: both been here before.
Speaker 5: It's been fantastic.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: Coach Brennan was in the offensive coordinator the ASU offensive
Speaker 5: coordinator's wedding. His name is Marcus Arroyal, and Marcus Arroyal
Speaker 5: was my student athlete at San Jose State in I
Speaker 5: think nineteen ninety eight, my first job out of law school,
Speaker 5: and so I've known Marcus. Marcus was our president of
Speaker 5: our sack and I've known him for a really long
Speaker 5: time and them being really close friends. There was an
Speaker 5: that and Coach Brennan and I had actually met one
Speaker 5: another during our tenure in the Mountain West through Marcus
Speaker 5: and then also through his former athletic director who's a
Speaker 5: friend of mine and he actually even met my brother.
Speaker 5: And so what I find about Coach Brennan, he's about
Speaker 5: as genuine as they come. He is a continual learner,
Speaker 5: and he's such a team player and true partner and
Speaker 5: as well as a great football coach, he knows what
Speaker 5: to do with less resources, and he's a type of
Speaker 5: person that sees the challenge and he's like, all right,
Speaker 5: let's figure it out, let's take it, let's link arms
Speaker 5: and take it one step at a time. So he's
Speaker 5: someone that you inherently root for. For example, we had
Speaker 5: a welcome back barbecue on Sunday and we had a
Speaker 5: dunk tank that was a little new this year. And
Speaker 5: I said, all right, who wants to volunteer to be
Speaker 5: in the dump tank? And Coach brand I sent a
Speaker 5: text to all the coaches and Coach Brennan, first guy,
Speaker 5: I'll be in and I'll do it first. And that's
Speaker 5: just the kind of he does those little things that
Speaker 5: really matter, and he builds, he builds community and he
Speaker 5: just is a great partner.
Speaker 4: Well, he mentioned that you got dunk pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: When you got in there.
Speaker 5: He wasn't kidding. I was actually taunting. I thought that
Speaker 5: it was going to It was a swimmer that was
Speaker 5: up next, and I had to get in there and
Speaker 5: I was like, come on, you're a swimmer. You can't
Speaker 5: possibly know how to throw. And oh yeah, that's what
Speaker 5: I get for running my mouth knock me in.
Speaker 2: So does Ray. We all know the community loves this
Speaker 2: of things on Friday night. What was the decision or
Speaker 2: did Arizona Flix have anything to do with it and
Speaker 2: not having it Friday?
Speaker 5: You know, I don't know too much about that.
Speaker 2: That was.
Speaker 5: I think it's a campus initiative as well as I
Speaker 5: think it's like the.
Speaker 2: Marshall family, right yeah, right, okay, okay.
Speaker 5: And I think athletics uh has been kind of a
Speaker 5: I don't want to say the entertainment, but we provide
Speaker 5: like the speakers, but I think they don't choosing to
Speaker 5: maybe do it three games uh. And and I'm just
Speaker 5: kind of show up where I'm told, and I believe
Speaker 5: that they're starting it in October instead of doing this
Speaker 5: this season.
Speaker 2: Right right right? Okay. Let me transition from there if
Speaker 2: we can to the food that you're going to have
Speaker 2: Jay loves this because he loves the food.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm I'm intrigued by the fact that you
Speaker 4: guys are gonna have barbecue in the stadium. Nowt bits
Speaker 4: and stuff? What what what do we got going on there?
Speaker 5: As from or fan tactic? And yes, we're gonna have
Speaker 5: Rudy's barbecue. We have Chick fil A and if you
Speaker 5: haven't had the Tamali bull from Cicaro, it's phenomenal. So
Speaker 5: it's yeah, we're trying to you know, we're not all
Speaker 5: the way there, but we're going to keep continuing every
Speaker 5: like and when I say we're not all the way there, like,
Speaker 5: we always want to make the fan experience that much better.
Speaker 5: And so every week we'll send out surveys and we'll
Speaker 5: see where we can continue to improve.
Speaker 2: Now, have you have you received any surveys? Now? Have
Speaker 2: you sent them out? And what's the what's the kind
Speaker 2: of general consensus of maybe the concerns of the fans, Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: we did.
Speaker 5: We sent them out over the summer, and people talked
Speaker 5: about making sure bathrooms were clean, they wanted different food offerings.
Speaker 5: They also wanted us to and so that's why we
Speaker 5: brought in Chick fil A and Rudy's Barbecue, et cetera,
Speaker 5: and Cicharo. They also wanted to have less commercials on
Speaker 5: the video board, and they wanted the video experience to
Speaker 5: be much more engaging. So we bought a couple of
Speaker 5: additional cameras and we're going to really try to make
Speaker 5: that fan experience something special. They felt like it was
Speaker 5: a bit a bit too commercial, So we're working on that,
Speaker 5: and like I said, we're just going to keep and
Speaker 5: then they wanted more more fireworks, and so we're going
Speaker 5: to keep working on that. Ass is to also look
Speaker 5: at the third quarter and see how we can continue
Speaker 5: to improve in that space. So little by little, we're
Speaker 5: going to keep making uh, making those memories as special
Speaker 5: as we can.
Speaker 2: Sounds great.
Speaker 4: So we're all excited about the games starting this weekend,
Speaker 4: But gotta gotta, you know, touch on the serious stuff.
Speaker 4: You know, you came in the idea, you're you've got
Speaker 4: to you've got a responsibility or the job of having
Speaker 4: to fix the financial situation over there amid all the
Speaker 4: change that we talked about a little bit.
Speaker 2: We had doctor Robinson a.
Speaker 4: Few months ago, a couple of months ago, and he said,
Speaker 4: this thing's going to be fixing eighteen months. What do
Speaker 4: you say to that or what you know? How is
Speaker 4: this going to how is going to get fixed? And
Speaker 4: what's the main thing on your plate in terms of
Speaker 4: all of that.
Speaker 5: Well, I think when I can't really speak for doctor
Speaker 5: Robbins's eighteen months, I'm not sure if that was in
Speaker 5: reference to athletics or overall.
Speaker 2: Well, the overall university, our.
Speaker 5: Colleague across campus are working very hard under John Arnold's
Speaker 5: leadership to continue to ensure that we have the right
Speaker 5: business operations model and we're big good fiscal stewards of
Speaker 5: our resources. Over here in athletics, we're taking it, we're
Speaker 5: assessing the problem and we're figuring out what we have.
Speaker 5: In the EY report. I don't know if you've had
Speaker 5: a chance to read that, but that provided us a
Speaker 5: really good roadmap, and they talked about the different areas
Speaker 5: where we need to get better, and we recognize that.
Speaker 5: We put together a five point plan to begin to
Speaker 5: operationalize that EY report, but we spend a lot of
Speaker 5: time that I was very fortunate that e Y came
Speaker 5: in and evaluated our business model and gave us our
Speaker 5: roadmap so that's what we're using to follow and continue
Speaker 5: to uh to address our challenges.
Speaker 2: So maybe last question for us Disrae. I was reading
Speaker 2: a story today, I think the Wall Street Journal, I
Speaker 2: can't remember, and I said, this would be a great
Speaker 2: question for Desrae, and here it is, what do you
Speaker 2: think about when you have nothing to think about because
Speaker 2: you're you're a busy woman, You're a busy person, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: Is it always about being an AD? In fact, we've
Speaker 2: had live and Good here a few times. Not too
Speaker 2: long ago, we had Guerro, we had Noon yet from
Speaker 2: from you and m uh that don't envy. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's tough being an a D these days.
Speaker 5: Well, you know what, I think, it's tough. A lot
Speaker 5: of people have really tough challenges. And you know, every
Speaker 5: morning I pray for guidance and I you know, I
Speaker 5: pray every morning, and it just I worry about I
Speaker 5: worry about my student athletes. You know, are we providing
Speaker 5: everything we can? Are they I have five hundred and
Speaker 5: eight young people that I have a responsibility to protect
Speaker 5: and to make sure that we're giving them everything they
Speaker 5: possibly need so they can achieve and fulfill their hopes
Speaker 5: and their dreams, but I worry about them like they're
Speaker 5: my own children. I worry about our staff, I worry
Speaker 5: about our coaches. I worry about you know, how's our
Speaker 5: game day atmosphere going to be. So I worry about
Speaker 5: a lot. But really, in the end, I sometimes I don't.
Speaker 5: Sometimes every day, you know. I each morning I pray
Speaker 5: for wisdom and I pray for guidance and pray for
Speaker 5: a lot patients.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, me too. That's what I do when I
Speaker 2: have jays.
Speaker 4: My partner.
Speaker 2: Ja's deserrate. Hey, we'll see you Saturday.
Speaker 4: Thanks a whole bunch. I'll go get myself a white
Speaker 4: shirt desert.
Speaker 5: I promise, I'm going to go bring me one. You
Speaker 5: just need to tell me to side.
Speaker 4: I'm an exil. What can I tell you? I'm an exil.
Speaker 11: You got chaff.
Speaker 12: I'm gonna bring your shirt, all right?
Speaker 5: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Thanks for jing Desiree read francois.
Speaker 4: Great to have her. Finally you get a shot. I
Speaker 4: know she's busy, busy, but.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask I'm gonna ask you this same question.
Speaker 2: I'll put it on my fixbook page. I thought it
Speaker 2: was a fantastic question. What do you think about when
Speaker 2: you have nothing to think about, we'll talk about another side.
Speaker 2: We got to go take a break.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna have to think about that. All right,
Speaker 4: that's good stuff. Okay, we'll be back. We'll take your
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the exes and oh, it's Steve Rivera
Speaker 1: and Jagen Salmas. This is I on the book on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteenth.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to wind the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Roverta, you're Jagan's aus. I
Speaker 2: hope that Desiree comes back at some point and says
Speaker 2: these two guys are fool. I think we didn't embarrass
Speaker 2: ourself that much.
Speaker 4: Oh, you know, you know, we you know, we covered
Speaker 4: all the bases of you know, everything from you know
Speaker 4: Game Saturday to Brennan to you know, the challenges that
Speaker 4: not only that she has, but that yeah, all athletic
Speaker 4: departments have.
Speaker 2: I'll go back to the question I asked you before,
Speaker 2: but let me, I uh get a story for you
Speaker 2: on the media rights thing. Right, you need to look
Speaker 2: at the Ernest Young report. Yeah, very scathing, very honest,
Speaker 2: honest and scathing well in a sense that a lot
Speaker 2: of things need to happen well.
Speaker 4: And they said a lot of Look when you when
Speaker 4: you do something like that, the idea is to get
Speaker 4: a real picture of what's going on with no filter, right,
Speaker 4: and that's what it well, you know, I mean I
Speaker 4: went through a couple of those things when I you know,
Speaker 4: at my job at TEP. I came into that job
Speaker 4: at a time when TP was a mess. They were
Speaker 4: a mess, and we had to find out what are
Speaker 4: the messes? What are the messes that need to be fixed?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: And while you read that stuff and you go that's
Speaker 4: hard to take. You had to because you know, if
Speaker 4: you don't know, then you don't know what to fix.
Speaker 2: So a thing like that.
Speaker 4: That's the and she came in at a perfect time
Speaker 4: that that study was done, so that now you know,
Speaker 4: without somebody sugarcoating things, this is the stuff you gotta fix.
Speaker 2: Whether it had been you or her, this is not
Speaker 2: a This is not an apology or alibi for her.
Speaker 2: You would have been that person to look at that
Speaker 2: report and said, I think I need to make some changes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because it's that's what it's calling for.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: See, and that's the thing, you know, and she's you know,
Speaker 4: she comes into it into into a place where things
Speaker 4: have been kind of cozy for years and years and
Speaker 4: years ago. There people there have gotten cozy. Right, we
Speaker 4: know that, you know that, we know a lot of
Speaker 4: people who work there, and we know that things are
Speaker 4: just kind of let's just keep going, let's just keep going, let's.
Speaker 2: Just keep going.
Speaker 4: Well, now you find out, well all of that has
Speaker 4: led to this, and so people are going to have
Speaker 4: to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. That that was the thing.
Speaker 4: And we've heard we heard it from Richrod, Right, wasn't
Speaker 4: he the one who said that all the time. I've
Speaker 4: heard that in my jobs, you got to be comfortable
Speaker 4: with being uncomfortable because things are going to be uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: I heard, you know, on on my first day of
Speaker 4: tp UH, one of the senior vice presidents invited me
Speaker 4: to lunch because you know, my job was to communicate
Speaker 4: how t EP was going.
Speaker 2: To change itself. That was my job. That's why I
Speaker 2: got hired.
Speaker 4: And he said to me, he said, you need to
Speaker 4: figure out a way to tell people to get comfortable
Speaker 4: with the fact that the train is leaving the station
Speaker 4: if you want to come in, and if you want,
Speaker 4: you're either going to get on it or you're off
Speaker 4: of it. And they got to understand, we're not here
Speaker 4: to rip on anybody. We're not against anybody, but we're
Speaker 4: just saying this is where we're going. Sure, either you're
Speaker 4: a long for the rider or you're not go It
Speaker 4: went great.
Speaker 2: Did people stand in the bus.
Speaker 4: There were a lot of people who got off or
Speaker 4: a lot of people who wanted to get off but
Speaker 4: knew they couldn't get off.
Speaker 2: To the financial reasons.
Speaker 4: And then they had to get they had to get
Speaker 4: on it. Yeah, and the company the TEP is today
Speaker 4: or even was when I left, was one hundred percent
Speaker 4: different from what it was when I got there. And
Speaker 4: you left it better, way better place. Kick you off,
Speaker 4: kick me off the train. But I did, I got
Speaker 4: I get, we got it done. Then they said, okay,
Speaker 4: your job is done, get the hell out of here.
Speaker 2: And I did well. One of the reasons, no question,
Speaker 2: And part of that question I asked you, And we'll
Speaker 2: go back to that. It was part of a story
Speaker 2: that I really thought was fantastic. It's in here's the headline,
Speaker 2: why talented people don't use their strengths. And as a boss,
Speaker 2: and we're kind of diverting from sports, you have to
Speaker 2: find people's strengths. So you might find somebody who's a
Speaker 2: pretty good being counter but he has a mind that's
Speaker 2: used for something, and then you have to convince him
Speaker 2: that he's probably better off over here. How difficult is
Speaker 2: that it is?
Speaker 4: It's hard. It's hard because my job changed like that.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: I came in as a media guy. I came in
Speaker 4: to do the media relations. The next thing you know,
Speaker 4: I'm running the entire public relations department. That was uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: I'm we're talking community relations programs, education programs, employee communication.
Speaker 2: Probably pushback for people who believe that you weren't capable
Speaker 2: of doing it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, for sure, and so but I embraced
Speaker 4: it because I felt like I had a great future.
Speaker 4: And me, look, the my time at Tape, it was great.
Speaker 4: It didn't end the way I wanted it to, but
Speaker 4: it was great. While I was there. Things changed and
Speaker 4: you know what, I had to adapt to that as well.
Speaker 4: And you know, things changed, and you get into a
Speaker 4: corporate world like that, and you never know from one
Speaker 4: day to the next. But the point being that you know,
Speaker 4: and to this day, Steve, I kind of I operate
Speaker 4: that way, you know, whether we're deciding what we're going
Speaker 4: to do on the show or my other jobs that
Speaker 4: that I have. Wait, wait, we decided as we go along, right,
Speaker 4: But think no, but seriously, think about how flexible you
Speaker 4: and I are on this show. We don't know and
Speaker 4: we get here, but yet we're comfortable with not knowing
Speaker 4: right right Yet most of the time we put on
Speaker 4: a good show. And you know, people think I know,
Speaker 4: people that I talk to, think, how much time do
Speaker 4: you put into talk?
Speaker 2: Were you none?
Speaker 4: There are some days that we both get here fifteen
Speaker 4: minutes before the show is going to start and we
Speaker 4: just start right and we're comfortable with that.
Speaker 2: Right right. It shows sometimes but no, you're right, you're
Speaker 2: right because we kind of you know, we get and
Speaker 2: we kind of libit. That's what we're good at.
Speaker 4: How many times are you in a commercial break are
Speaker 4: we saying, okay, maybe we should talk about this, and.
Speaker 2: Then we do. Yeah, it's very it's very rare, but
Speaker 2: it's that's part of the excitement because we're not rehearsed. Now,
Speaker 2: this is not a rehearsal. This, we're not.
Speaker 4: We're we're the guys that in the are sitting at
Speaker 4: the bar with a couple of beers and whatever comes
Speaker 4: to our mind is what we talk about. Yes, we
Speaker 4: try and keep it to what's going on around right.
Speaker 4: We're talking about Arizona football today because that's what's happening
Speaker 4: around us. You know, on another day we might be
Speaker 4: talking about you know, uh, you know what Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 4: is doing or whatever. But you know, we we it's
Speaker 4: it's I don't know, this is gonna not kind of
Speaker 4: google's from the heart, right, yeah, yeah, of course, of course,
Speaker 4: because this is this is what's in front of us. Yeah, right, right,
Speaker 4: that's why sometimes we go off the rails. We have
Speaker 4: some dinner, that's all we have. The kids remembering names
Speaker 4: for you know, not kids do. But I mean, you know, yeah,
Speaker 4: you asked that question. You know, what do you what
Speaker 4: do you think about? What you think about when you're
Speaker 4: not thinking about anything? And I'm I thought, I don't
Speaker 4: think I'm ever not thinking about anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you're married. You're married, so you've been married
Speaker 2: a long time. So if you were younger, and Gad
Speaker 2: would say, what do you think about?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: You tell her the ASU game from nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 2: But that's what we'men doing. You're just staring off in
Speaker 2: the ears. Yeah, what are you thinking about?
Speaker 5: Me?
Speaker 2: It's usually nothing, I.
Speaker 4: Fortunately or unfortunately, because there's some people that this is
Speaker 4: unfortunate for. My mind is never at rest ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ever.
Speaker 4: I mean if I'm sitting in front of the TV
Speaker 4: and I'm watching I may be watching something, but I'm
Speaker 4: playing a game on my phone, I'm looking through Twitter,
Speaker 4: I'm reading emails. I have to have a lot going
Speaker 4: on for me to not be uncomfortable. They never stop
Speaker 4: doing things when I go to sleep at night, Right,
Speaker 4: I go sleep at night. I don't just roll over,
Speaker 4: turn everything off and go to sleep. I put something
Speaker 4: on in some headphones to go to sleep because my
Speaker 4: mind can't stop.
Speaker 2: I think that's one of the things. And you have
Speaker 2: the tickers on the on the TVs and you all
Speaker 2: the information late breaking whatever it is. I think and
Speaker 2: this is just me saying this that I think this
Speaker 2: is one of the reasons why people in the world
Speaker 2: have a d h D or a d D because
Speaker 2: they have too many things going on with their you
Speaker 2: know news here, there's their bottom flashing all this stuff.
Speaker 2: Your your mind doesn't shut off. It doesn't mind doesn't know.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people don't just because they
Speaker 2: want to.
Speaker 4: Where we're here on the show and I'm looking at yeah,
Speaker 4: you're like you're talking, looking looking at Twitter and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. I'm you know, it's my mind just doesn't
Speaker 4: ever stop. So I don't know that I'm a person
Speaker 4: that doesn't.
Speaker 2: You gonna call real quickly.
Speaker 4: Think about things all the time. Let's take this, Hi,
Speaker 4: you're on the air.
Speaker 2: And eye on the ball.
Speaker 12: Well, you know ADHD is that that that thing? You
Speaker 12: know what I mean? But like it depends on your existence,
Speaker 12: like in a mass existing you know, you got your
Speaker 12: stuff together, and that's a whole comfortable and being uncomfortable.
Speaker 12: And I could relate to what Jamee's saying. Sometimes like
Speaker 12: you got so much on your plate. You know, your
Speaker 12: your getaways or where you don't want to think about
Speaker 12: is your sports. But then you got traumatic sports that
Speaker 12: you got, sorry teas that make you mad, like the
Speaker 12: basketball or the Dallas Califoys. I think they even want
Speaker 12: to think about that stuff. Bo both when I'm getting
Speaker 12: that with people filling time when they're not thinking about nothing,
Speaker 12: That's why their social media consumption is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: It is, right, Hey Michael, I know, are you in
Speaker 2: town working or no?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm in Miranda, driving back and forth. They ain't
Speaker 12: that far from I'm in a solar field, and pretty
Speaker 12: soon I'm going to be at that new casino.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me let me tell you this. You
Speaker 2: can take it for what it's worth. I'm driving down
Speaker 2: Oracle to come to the show here, maybe last week,
Speaker 2: ten days ago, and I'm thinking, hey, hey, there's fat Mike.
Speaker 2: Look he's doing some construction on Oracle. And then I
Speaker 2: passed by. It's not it's not tat mic. So then
Speaker 2: I drive about another two hundred yards of guy and
Speaker 2: of yellow with a hard hat. Hey there's time, Mike.
Speaker 2: All you dudes look the same.
Speaker 12: Oh my god, got around he was a rolling.
Speaker 2: So you know you got the hard hat, the yellow shirt,
Speaker 2: and a little heavy look heavy.
Speaker 12: That's very nice. Remember I'm an electrician outside, I'm not
Speaker 12: a hard working drugs and I'm not not taking anything
Speaker 12: from electricity. But where the thinkers on the job site.
Speaker 2: Well, good to hear your voice. I think you're gonna
Speaker 2: be at his tailgate coming.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, I gotta get back at him. See what's
Speaker 12: up where they cost? I don't know, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2: All right, man, look for it.
Speaker 4: Look for us in that last brow. Man, that's usually
Speaker 4: where we are.
Speaker 2: Welcome back home.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I big dog.
Speaker 2: Take the bear down, dude, I saw him all three times.
Speaker 2: There is all they all look to save dudes wearing
Speaker 2: the hat and the yellow shirt.
Speaker 4: That's too funny. It's too funny.
Speaker 2: Uh So I was just kind of a tough.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, that's a that's an interesting I tell
Speaker 4: you what. Since you brought that up, it's got me
Speaker 4: thinking maybe I do need to shut my brain down
Speaker 4: every once in a while.
Speaker 2: If you don't know, I can't. I don't know how
Speaker 2: because I'm the same way when I I had to
Speaker 2: learn how to sleep again. So I know, I just
Speaker 2: shut it off, but you finally, I mean it.
Speaker 4: Assume if I wake up. If I wake up at
Speaker 4: four o'clock in the morning or later, I'm up. That's it.
Speaker 4: I can't go back to Now I might. I might
Speaker 4: go throw myself on the couch and turn on Dan
Speaker 4: Patrick and doze off for another half an hour. In
Speaker 4: terms of going back to a hard sleep. After about
Speaker 4: four or four thirty in the morning, that's it. I'm up,
Speaker 4: and that's it for the day. I did that yesterday.
Speaker 4: You know, on Tuesday mornings, I have a five thirty
Speaker 4: wake up call for my breakfast club. I was up
Speaker 4: at four and I didn't go back to sleep, and
Speaker 4: I was up the rest of the day, and then
Speaker 4: I'm still up until ten thirty eleven o'clock midnight.
Speaker 2: You know, at night, it doesn't matter when you're when
Speaker 2: you're older. As you're getting older, you go to sleep
Speaker 2: early and you'll wake up early.
Speaker 4: Have my dinner at two thirty in the afternoon with potatoes,
Speaker 4: little mashed potatoes and some tapioca.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's a good show today, kind of a weird show,
Speaker 2: but it's good show. It's fun.
Speaker 4: Dave grow fantastic, right, good stuff from Dave. Good luck
Speaker 4: to them.
Speaker 2: And I guess well, you get a free white shirt.
Speaker 4: I got a white shirt comment.
Speaker 2: I told you put that up. I told him not
Speaker 2: to not to let her come over here with it. Yeah, yeah, no, no, we.
Speaker 4: Don't want her hanging around this parking lot. I would
Speaker 4: hate for something to happen over there because she was
Speaker 4: bringing me a shirt. What my son works in the department.
Speaker 4: Go give it to him, let him bring it, don't
Speaker 4: come to the office. Although we're moving in a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks, Dave, we.
Speaker 2: Are moving the announcement, but we are going to be
Speaker 2: moving to the George Jefferson area, to the east side,
Speaker 2: East North.
Speaker 4: There's still a chingling fence around that McDonald's. Man, they
Speaker 4: need to bring that open.
Speaker 2: And we're showing to get everybody and let every know
Speaker 2: what's going to happen with the show right here in
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks. Right, sounds good? Cool?
Speaker 4: Okay, Hey, thanks for being here again, Desiree read Francois,
Speaker 4: thanks for thanks for joining us. If you miss that,
Speaker 4: I'll be putting that up on the podcast tonight, so
Speaker 4: give it a listen. Also had Dave Cosgrove in the
Speaker 4: first hour.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, see you tomorrow. Jay, all right, see you