Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on
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Speaker 2: T having me Steve. A big show, a big show.
Speaker 2: This is Henriett. Have you met? Yeah, Henry and our
Speaker 2: close friends. We text all the time, mostly about you.
Speaker 2: You went to the you went to the games. That's
Speaker 2: right to the No. No, we've been on there to
Speaker 2: yeah baseball. Yeah. And he's a New Yorker. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's close to my heart. Okay, it's a big one,
Speaker 2: big happy family. Welcome everybody, Welcome back, Blake, big show.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a fun show, informative show.
Speaker 2: We have one of your buddies who said he was
Speaker 2: your buddy, Ray Flores. Yeah, he is my buddy, Kim Madair,
Speaker 2: very close, uh huh. And then another person who's close
Speaker 2: to you, Yeah, mister Dallas Howe. Dallas how I don't
Speaker 2: think i've ever I recognized his face, but not his name,
Speaker 2: but you know him from I mean he's Jack Howe's
Speaker 2: son who's on the Mount Rushmore of Tucson. He's a
Speaker 2: son in law for Andy Lopez. So yeah, I want
Speaker 2: to talk to him about some of his time that
Speaker 2: he's spent in Japan as a male model when he
Speaker 2: was over there, and we'll get into that. What a combination,
Speaker 2: the son of Jack Howell and the son in law
Speaker 2: of Andy Lopez. Yeah, I mean he's a Nepo babyl
Speaker 2: Nepo baby baby. Yeah, that's tough for me to say,
Speaker 2: Nepo baby. There you go see three times. You're gonna
Speaker 2: have to explain what the hell that is to me.
Speaker 2: I'm too old for that. What is it? It's just
Speaker 2: me and you have famous parents?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Is that what me? And the rest of your life
Speaker 2: is easy? Walk? Okay, cool, Cool, We're on the air,
Speaker 2: which is great. Look at us. Yeah, Henry is good
Speaker 2: at this stuff. Good job. Henry could get him a job,
Speaker 2: we'd be fine. But he's going back to New York. Yeah,
Speaker 2: New York. They said that, right. I mean that it
Speaker 2: is like a New Jersey accident with the New York. No,
Speaker 2: it's like you've got like your you were supplanted in
Speaker 2: like Iowa for a little while and then you went
Speaker 2: back and it's like too long. It's got to be
Speaker 2: in and out. Yeah, okay, okay, never I'm not perfect. Well,
Speaker 2: good to see it, but maybe you want to call
Speaker 2: you can five two zero four one six seventy four forty.
Speaker 2: It's funny. After the show yesterday, Blake, someone texted me.
Speaker 2: Whatever our listeners, he says, please don't bring Blake back
Speaker 2: on kind of I read that. Well, let me finish.
Speaker 2: My god, he says. I've been listening for the last
Speaker 2: thirty minutes, he said, And I didn't know who you
Speaker 2: were talking to. Yeah, And I said, well, it's Blake
Speaker 2: and he's been on that for a long time. I
Speaker 2: guess I need to explain who you are if you know.
Speaker 2: And again I don't know. I mean, I'd rather fly
Speaker 2: under the radar. I don't get all the negative publicity.
Speaker 2: You've come to the right place. We fly under the radar.
Speaker 2: We're only on We're only on the radio. Nobody listens.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about it. So no cool. I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a fun show today, informative for nil reasons
Speaker 2: and local sports reasons with Kim and Ray and yourself,
Speaker 2: and then some have some fun on the other end
Speaker 2: of the four o'clock hour. So good, good, good Anything
Speaker 2: happened the last twenty four hours since I saw you last.
Speaker 2: I see more than I see most, which, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a good thing. No, I mean not much. We're working
Speaker 2: on some things behind the scenes for film, trying to
Speaker 2: bring here. So I know I always tease things on
Speaker 2: this show. But hopefully the next couple a couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: I'm able to announce. I know how those things go
Speaker 2: because you teased me for months and I was, come on,
Speaker 2: give me the information. No, sorry, hey man, you got information.
Speaker 2: I want to I want to be wanted already. ILL
Speaker 2: wore you down. I wore you down until you finally said, Okay,
Speaker 2: this is what's going on. The lasted too long. It
Speaker 2: is like courting somebody. How are you doing. I'm okay,
Speaker 2: I'm busy. Well, well today we uh we had our
Speaker 2: guy on yesterday TJ just Kitz. We went uh. Registration
Speaker 2: started this noon and this afternoon I saw. Anybody who
Speaker 2: wants to get into the tour in November, now is
Speaker 2: the time to get in for a relatively well the
Speaker 2: cheapest price that you'll get into it. You know, really,
Speaker 2: I see relatively because if you wait two months you'll
Speaker 2: have to pay more than two hundred dollars. It's almost
Speaker 2: double right, Yeah, get it now. Yeah, okay, so we'll see.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get a hold of Kim, Kim and Ray
Speaker 2: in about ten to fifteen minutes, so that'll be good.
Speaker 2: Did you see a women's basketball team you They is
Speaker 2: picking up more. Yeah, she's doing Coach Burke's doing a
Speaker 2: good job. Again. Well that's that's the funny thing. You
Speaker 2: know how panic is, Oh she dumped me on there?
Speaker 2: Or see anybody again? And by the way, you find
Speaker 2: somebody to move on this. They worried about who they
Speaker 2: were going to get. They found somebody pretty good. They're
Speaker 2: worried about the roster. Just what they're filling the roster.
Speaker 2: Assistant coaches. Yeah, right when we closed the door yesterday, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we heard that Julie Brosey was going to be one
Speaker 2: of the assistants. Yeah, hit the ground running. I remember,
Speaker 2: go ahead, are your right a little older? She's a
Speaker 2: little older, okay, yeah, okay, yeah, but I know I
Speaker 2: know that family from Kelleen Foothills, and yeah, there's some
Speaker 2: connection there, a great family. I mean, obviously pedigree, whys
Speaker 2: game you can get better than that. But this couple
Speaker 2: of years ago, I think I called Allie far Haaning
Speaker 2: because I was freaking out about the transfer portal and
Speaker 2: Tommy Lloyd and he's like, just oh before before I
Speaker 2: was just like he was just like relaxed, like they're
Speaker 2: they're gonna figure it out. Yeah, yeah, okay, But I'm
Speaker 2: I'm one of those fans that immediately starts panicking. Like
Speaker 2: when Basar went in the portal, I was like, is
Speaker 2: it it's over a collapsing him crying in a fetal position. Yeah, yeah, No,
Speaker 2: there's always more. This university, in this basketball program has
Speaker 2: been on a long time. Yeah. And how many times
Speaker 2: in your lifetime forty year, forty two? Uh, that'll get
Speaker 2: us back to what nineteen eighty three ish, that's what
Speaker 2: showed up, I think, Yeah, so eighty fourty three four.
Speaker 2: So how many times in that forty two year stretch
Speaker 2: have you said this team sucks? Not many? Not many?
Speaker 2: Maybe that first year, maybe that first year, his first year,
Speaker 2: because it was they were recovering from four to twenty four.
Speaker 2: But you can see at the end of that year
Speaker 2: that they were gonna get good. Yeah, and then there
Speaker 2: haven't been maybe twice, and I would beg to ask
Speaker 2: you which was the other year? Oh no, no, But
Speaker 2: even when they had done lap and penal. They went
Speaker 2: to the sweet sixteen. You know the NBA guys on
Speaker 2: that team, right, Yeah, So it's you know, it's forty
Speaker 2: two years of run is pretty good. Another second last
Speaker 2: oh maybe his first year, maybe his first year, but
Speaker 2: he went to twelve and twelve. He went to twelve
Speaker 2: the second last year, maybe because it was kind of
Speaker 2: like filled with controversy. Yeah, it's just a lot of
Speaker 2: you know, okay, this team maybe okay, two or three,
Speaker 2: but forty two years that's pretty damn good. That's that's
Speaker 2: a really good Listen. We talked about all the time.
Speaker 2: We're very fortunate as a fan base. Uh. And then
Speaker 2: the women's golf team won the big tournament, Yeah, tournament
Speaker 2: with just what a new coach, A new coach, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because the other one was swiped away from Texas. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I meant content took him from here. It seems. It's
Speaker 2: funny how well the Conte is the new aight to
Speaker 2: that new ad, he's the idea of Texas formerly assistant
Speaker 2: here under Jim Levon. Good how they take a lot
Speaker 2: of the Arizona. It's fun out of it. It's a
Speaker 2: it's a it's similar to like an NFL family or
Speaker 2: a coaching tree right where you you you know what
Speaker 2: you know, and you're comfortable with what you know, and
Speaker 2: you know the product and it shows that there's talent
Speaker 2: and Theresa and I say that because he took well,
Speaker 2: he hired Sean Miller, obviously a long time guy here
Speaker 2: and then the you know, she was the coach here
Speaker 2: and she's now at Texas. So yeah, yeah, I got
Speaker 2: to get to get the news of golf coach on
Speaker 2: she's from Mexico, obviously a very good one. Yeah. You
Speaker 2: know what a life to be a golf coach. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean you spend your day on one of some
Speaker 2: of the best golf courses in the world, right and say, hey,
Speaker 2: that swing, it's just a little to the right, You're good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you know, like so for me. So you get
Speaker 2: to that level, right, in that collegiate level, all those
Speaker 2: players have their own personal swing coaches, right, because it's
Speaker 2: I don't want to say a country club sport, but
Speaker 2: it's it's in that same run. Yeah. So as a coach,
Speaker 2: you're really just trying to maintain a focus level, right,
Speaker 2: a mentality and a work ethic. You don't you don't
Speaker 2: really want to talk about swings. It's like a big
Speaker 2: league hitter is a big lead of Most of those
Speaker 2: guys have personal swing coaches. So you've got like Kevin Long,
Speaker 2: who one of the greatest hitting coaches of all time,
Speaker 2: not even arguable. Uh, you've a guy right. Uh when
Speaker 2: you talk to him, he's like, yeah, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 2: I just don't want to mess them up. Right, you're
Speaker 2: trying to work on maybe rhythm timing, but not really
Speaker 2: mechanical fix So so no so coaching because you've done
Speaker 2: this managing as well, right, both Well, okay, so tell
Speaker 2: me what does a manager do? Uh, because you're not coaching.
Speaker 2: Maybe you are coaching, but even coaching at that level,
Speaker 2: they already know what the hell they're doing. They're good
Speaker 2: at what they do. So what's that. It's more of
Speaker 2: a lineup dealing with the management dealing what is it
Speaker 2: you're you're you're dealing with a couple of different things,
Speaker 2: right what Uh? What your game plan is? Right, You're
Speaker 2: gonna have abc D depending on how the game flow goes. Uh,
Speaker 2: You're dealing with player personalities because that really needs to
Speaker 2: come from the mature. I understand that you're going to
Speaker 2: have some clubhouse vets that take care of a lot
Speaker 2: of that stuff. But when it gets to a point,
Speaker 2: you've got to control that and then setting the example
Speaker 2: for the season and maintaining that example no matter whether
Speaker 2: it's well, wait, give me an example. So you're so
Speaker 2: from a baseball standpoint, you're going to training, right, your
Speaker 2: game plan has been done for the last six months.
Speaker 2: This is how you're going to execute. You have an
Speaker 2: idea of who that roster is going to shake out,
Speaker 2: and there's maybe two to four spots that you need
Speaker 2: to fill. And then once that happens, you have to
Speaker 2: make sure that everybody in that clubhouse is bought in,
Speaker 2: no matter what happens on that same page. And then
Speaker 2: you're imagining game flow. Right, you're getting your assistant coaches,
Speaker 2: whether it's a pitching coach, whether it's hitting coach. This
Speaker 2: situation comes up, you already have two plans, right, They're
Speaker 2: gonna bring this guy in, I'm gonna have this guy
Speaker 2: ready to hit. This guy comes up, I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: this guy pitch. So it's really just game flow. You're
Speaker 2: not trying to really get involved. You should not be
Speaker 2: involved on their personal mechanics, like their game thoughts is
Speaker 2: that the coach is just that's really the pitching coach.
Speaker 2: You're you're, you're, you know, you're you're empowering those the
Speaker 2: pitching coach, the hitting coach, the bench coach, those guys
Speaker 2: should be taking that. So so kind of like the
Speaker 2: assistant coaches here to a degree, uh, the the pitching
Speaker 2: coach to the betting coach and any other coaches. Listen,
Speaker 2: you know whatever body's running. Coaches our closer probably to
Speaker 2: the players than the manager is, yeah, I think to
Speaker 2: some degree, right, I mean don't deal with them day
Speaker 2: to day.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then you're trying in college and pros a little
Speaker 2: bit different, right, because you have to go from a
Speaker 2: recruiting standpoint, so you have to build this trust factor
Speaker 2: now when kids are maybe thirteen or fourteen. Uh, and
Speaker 2: then you have to maintain that throughout. So there's personality
Speaker 2: traits and you're gonna divvy up in coaches meetings. You're
Speaker 2: gonna say, Steve, you're closer with these three guys. I
Speaker 2: want you to stay with these three guys. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take that fourth guy. And I know it's not yours,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna take that fourth guy because I know
Speaker 2: that guy's personality. I recruited him since he's fourteen. I
Speaker 2: know the parents, I know where they come from. So
Speaker 2: you just have to identify those personality traits. At the
Speaker 2: professional level, that manager has to deal with, a front
Speaker 2: office has to deal with, a GM has to deal
Speaker 2: with ownership, the president. Like that's the go between, right
Speaker 2: where a lot of times you're asking managers, why do
Speaker 2: you make that decision? Or why is this guy playing?
Speaker 2: Sometimes his hands are you know, his handcuffs Jerry Jillson
Speaker 2: and Jerry Jones into it. Yeah, you're looking at Billy Bean, right,
Speaker 2: I mean he I mean he had to prove in
Speaker 2: Oakland that he's the one that's making those decisions really
Speaker 2: not the manager anymore. Right, No, No, it's spot. The
Speaker 2: thing is, they make tons of money to deal with that.
Speaker 2: It's a good problem to have, right, I mean, would
Speaker 2: you rather wake up at three am and go to
Speaker 2: a coal mining job or would you rather be on
Speaker 2: the greatest golf courses in the world and just making
Speaker 2: sure guys are doing their best. I'll get back to
Speaker 2: you on that one. Yeah, yeah, no, but I think
Speaker 2: that same applies and the reason why I'm having this
Speaker 2: conversation with you. It applies to a lot of the
Speaker 2: levels even here, because the coach has to deal with stuff.
Speaker 2: He probably puts a roster together, right, and then he
Speaker 2: has the assistant coaches actually working up and coaching to
Speaker 2: a degree is not okay. You put your feet here,
Speaker 2: your arms here, and the guys already know all that stuff.
Speaker 2: They're already good at that. That's why you recruited them, right.
Speaker 2: You just don't want to screw them up unless it's
Speaker 2: drastically bad. You want to kind of figure their mechanics out.
Speaker 2: But you need the kid and you and it's more
Speaker 2: of a mental coaching than it is physical coaching. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So let me give you a scenario, like how often
Speaker 2: you've shown up to work and said the show that
Speaker 2: I do today could either end my career or further
Speaker 2: my career. Like how often does that happen on a
Speaker 2: day and day out basis for you? Twice a year? Maybe? Okay.
Speaker 2: So those guys when they ride a lineup or they're
Speaker 2: making decisions on who that's starting five is or football
Speaker 2: starting eleven, whatever it is, that's their livelihood, especially in football,
Speaker 2: right because you don't get so many games, so that
Speaker 2: kind of. I think that kind of stress level going
Speaker 2: into that position doesn't allow for a lot of those
Speaker 2: coaches to get creative as some other people would. So
Speaker 2: the outside looking in, or we call it backseat quarterback,
Speaker 2: isn't always on the front of their mind because every
Speaker 2: time they put a lineup in or they put they
Speaker 2: put a lineup on that field, that could be the
Speaker 2: end of their career or it could further along their career. Right,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of stress. Okay, we'll talk more about
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Ravera on
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Speaker 2: Hey, and welcome back to I I on the Ball
Speaker 2: here Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Vera with me today.
Speaker 2: Is Lake Eager? That very waiting for us? And uh
Speaker 2: Kim Adair. I think it's on the line as well
Speaker 2: as Ray Flores or we're trying to reach Ray Kim.
Speaker 2: Are you there?
Speaker 9: I'm here. I'm here, but I can't I couldn't get
Speaker 9: Ray on, but I'm here.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, maybe we'll talk to Ray after after we
Speaker 2: talk to you briefly. Welcome to the show. I was
Speaker 2: good to talk to you, Kim.
Speaker 9: Thanks for having me. Nice to be on.
Speaker 2: I got two and had Ray been here been a
Speaker 2: trifective for me to the heavy hitters of local do goods.
Speaker 2: I'm minor league compared to Kim's like big league all
Speaker 2: star level. Hi, Cam, it's Blake, Hi.
Speaker 9: I appreciate that. No, we're all big league all Star.
Speaker 2: Well you guys, guy, You guys are all to get
Speaker 2: you what the thing is? You guys are we are
Speaker 2: the world? Whatever that song was. You guys are always
Speaker 2: holding hands to make Tuson a better place.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 9: Well, yeah, I mean why shouldn't we we? I mean
Speaker 9: everybody should be trying to make tisan about it place
Speaker 9: as they can. And you know, a rising tide lists
Speaker 9: all folks and there's and that space for success for everybody.
Speaker 9: So we should all be working together to make this
Speaker 9: place even.
Speaker 2: More amazing, right right. And one of the things we
Speaker 2: wanted to talk about, and I think we'll talk to
Speaker 2: you for about maybe seven minutes and then get ready
Speaker 2: on as well, is the big nil move that you
Speaker 2: guys are doing to help the University of Arizona. Can
Speaker 2: you kind of explain that to the listeners?
Speaker 9: Yeah, and it's not just in IL, it's really just
Speaker 9: to help student athlete programs generally for the University of Arizona,
Speaker 9: and you know, the landscape of college athletics has really changes,
Speaker 9: of course the last few years, and we want to
Speaker 9: support and help one of our biggest partners, you know,
Speaker 9: at the Snookgog Arizona ball which is the University of Arizona.
Speaker 9: They are so important to this entire community. So when
Speaker 9: we were trying to think about how we could add
Speaker 9: and you'll talk to him, I'm sure about that shortly,
Speaker 9: and then we kind of jumped into really start hosting
Speaker 9: fifty to fifty raffles to support student athlete programs and
Speaker 9: scholarships at the University of Arizona.
Speaker 2: Kim, you know, you and I for this conversation, and
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be where I'm at without you. So I'm
Speaker 2: grateful for everything you do for the that's Kim, That's
Speaker 2: I'm being honest.
Speaker 9: You give me way too much.
Speaker 2: That's not true, way too much credit, not only from
Speaker 2: a mentor standpoint, just from just an overall perspective in life.
Speaker 2: But you're always at the forefront of change and positive change.
Speaker 2: How did this come about? And can you just take
Speaker 2: us through kind of the process and the steps of
Speaker 2: from start to finish.
Speaker 9: Sure, And you know, I can't take credit for a
Speaker 9: great ideas. You know that I didn't come up with.
Speaker 9: This was the brainchild of Race Flaores and you know,
Speaker 9: wanting to help and support the University of Arizona and
Speaker 9: knowing that here at the Newdog Arizona Ble, we have
Speaker 9: the same types of you know, commitments, and he had
Speaker 9: this idea. We've done fifty fifty rapples at our kickoff
Speaker 9: luncheons and at the snow Jog Arizona bull for the
Speaker 9: last few years, and we thought, why can't we be
Speaker 9: doing this to also support student athlete programs at the
Speaker 9: University of Arizona. I mean, they have a fine night
Speaker 9: you know wallet there to help support these athletes, and
Speaker 9: it's getting more and more difficult to do that. So
Speaker 9: he thought this might be a really good way for
Speaker 9: us to make an impact. Yeah, make it a win
Speaker 9: win for the whole community. You win half the plot
Speaker 9: and then the other half goes to support the student athletes.
Speaker 2: Right right, Because you know, the one question I get
Speaker 2: a lot with nil and I don't have any of
Speaker 2: the answers because I'm just me, is where does the
Speaker 2: money go? Who gets it, who benefits. And I used
Speaker 2: to just say call you of A and they'll help you.
Speaker 2: So this at least you know, you know that if
Speaker 2: you spend five, ten, twenty dollars whatever, they know they
Speaker 2: have a chance of getting some back or if they
Speaker 2: win it. And then helping the kids exactly exactly.
Speaker 9: I think sometimes you know, in the in the climate
Speaker 9: of college athletics, there's a lot of asks like hey,
Speaker 9: write a check for this or help us with yes,
Speaker 9: and there's and it's sort of like you see that
Speaker 9: money and it kind of goes away. At least in
Speaker 9: this instance, there's an opportunity to actually, you know, win
Speaker 9: some big pots over the course of the year and
Speaker 9: you know, get some of that money back in your pocket.
Speaker 9: Well at the same time helping student athletes and so
Speaker 9: I think it's really a win.
Speaker 2: Win for everyone.
Speaker 9: And it's a creative way to try to attack this
Speaker 9: problem and while bringing together, you know, partners within the
Speaker 9: community to make it happen.
Speaker 2: One of the things that you guys have done so
Speaker 2: phenomenal over the years, and that's that's going from the
Speaker 2: Nova home loans to barstool to now Snoop Dogg. But
Speaker 2: can you kind of update the public on how much
Speaker 2: you've given back from a financial standpoint and to the
Speaker 2: communities and nonprofits.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so, we are actually celebrating our tenth anniversary this
Speaker 9: and so in those ten years we've given back, I
Speaker 9: think the number is close to five million dollars to charity,
Speaker 9: and that's a number we're really proud of. We want
Speaker 9: to continue to make an impact here locally with our
Speaker 9: charitable giving so that we can support those that are
Speaker 9: making such great strides in our community and helping our
Speaker 9: friends and neighbors with some of the difficult challenges in
Speaker 9: their lives. And it's sort of you know, it's a
Speaker 9: real pleasure to be able to work hard on an
Speaker 9: event like the Snoop Dog Arizonable every year knowing that
Speaker 9: when it's over, the best part of the actually happens
Speaker 9: in my right checks out to charity. And in fact,
Speaker 9: our charitable grant application is now live on our website
Speaker 9: at the Arizona bl dot com and people nonprofits can
Speaker 9: go there and apply for our charitable grants this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I think I've been to the check presentation
Speaker 2: of time or two to do a story or too. U.
Speaker 2: There's no question that they appreciate anything, right, and you
Speaker 2: give them significant amounts of money to help support their causes,
Speaker 2: which of course again they're they're very grateful for even
Speaker 2: when you give them the checks, right, Kim, you can
Speaker 2: see that the smiles and the happiness.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's like it's the best. I mean, it's really
Speaker 9: why we do. What we do is to make this
Speaker 9: impact on our community and be good, you know, citizens
Speaker 9: of Southern Arizona. It's when we get that chance to
Speaker 9: be able to have those big, large ceremonial checks and
Speaker 9: hand them and take pictures with the charity, and then
Speaker 9: knowing that they're going to take the real checks home
Speaker 9: to make an impact here with our friends and neighbors.
Speaker 9: It's just it's awesome.
Speaker 2: That's the best job in the world for the sake
Speaker 2: of equality. We're going to get a hold of Ray
Speaker 2: after we talk to you in about three minutes, right,
Speaker 2: We've got them in oother three minutes. So I assume
Speaker 2: what your four months removed from Snoop Dogg Bowl. I'm
Speaker 2: sure you already do you read from the next one.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we are already in the planning stages for the
Speaker 9: next one. We were just in Las Vegas the past
Speaker 9: few days with our Bold colleagues at our annual Bull
Speaker 9: Season Conference. We got shared a lot of great ideas,
Speaker 9: learned a lot of great ideas and are really excited
Speaker 9: to come back and even you know, even increasing excitement
Speaker 9: and innovation around this year's game. We've got a lot
Speaker 9: of fun things planned. It's so excited. He wants to
Speaker 9: be more involved in the planning. He really had a
Speaker 9: great experience when he was here with us a few
Speaker 9: months ago, and we're excited to see what the future. Burum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you you're saying the next Arizona BWL. So,
Speaker 2: I mean Kim and her team, Eric and Dell and
Speaker 2: Lusette and Ben went from the Arizona Bowl to the
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve Bash and New Year's Bash and then
Speaker 2: straight in the World Baseball Classic, and so you guys
Speaker 2: have been kicking button taking names. What's the next thing
Speaker 2: up that the the public can get involved with? Kim?
Speaker 9: Yeah, So really, the next big thing that we will
Speaker 9: be doing, well, we're gonna have a thank you party
Speaker 9: for all of our volunteers that have supported us this year.
Speaker 9: That's a big deal. But for the public, it's our
Speaker 9: kickoff lunch and which will happen in October, and you know,
Speaker 9: that's when we really start gearing up again for all
Speaker 9: of the events that happened at the end of the
Speaker 9: year around the game, and people can you know, start
Speaker 9: signing up to be involved and help us make this
Speaker 9: a reality again this year. And so it's just the planning.
Speaker 9: But that's the next big event that we'll have. And
Speaker 9: of course before that, you know, sometime in June or
Speaker 9: July will be you know, handing out some big checks
Speaker 9: to charities again. So you know, we've got to to
Speaker 9: list forward too as well.
Speaker 2: So this and I al think we'll go back to
Speaker 2: it one last time before we leave kind of reminds
Speaker 2: me of the Result Bowl in as much as you
Speaker 2: guys are the like the little bowl that can right
Speaker 2: or could, and you guys have to come out think
Speaker 2: out of the box. You're in Tucson, little Tucson, and
Speaker 2: you have to come up with ideas how to make
Speaker 2: this happen and keep it surviving.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we're scrappy, you know, and I say that with
Speaker 9: full pride. I mean we have to be. Complacency is
Speaker 9: not a word that we believe in. And we have
Speaker 9: never felt like we had the opportunity to be complacent
Speaker 9: or comfortable. We're always looking to be better every year
Speaker 9: so that we can do more for our community. And
Speaker 9: so yeah, we're scrappy and keep looking really hard to
Speaker 9: come up with some fun ideas every year and keep
Speaker 9: our community involved and excited about what we're doing, and
Speaker 9: then bring in those fans who are going to spend
Speaker 9: money here in southern Arizona and support our restaurants and
Speaker 9: businesses and help us get back to charity.
Speaker 2: Okay, Kim, thanks a bunch, Kim. I've got one serious question.
Speaker 2: So I mean we're on the air, you can you
Speaker 2: can ask it honestly or I answered honestly. Now, every
Speaker 2: office pool we get into and I get into him
Speaker 2: always in first place until the last day, and somehow
Speaker 2: I lose Is it rigged? Is our office pools rigged?
Speaker 3: Is it just me?
Speaker 2: Do I need to find a different office space? Are
Speaker 2: we still okay?
Speaker 9: Blake? If you look at that, you're in first place,
Speaker 9: I'm always in last.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was, it would a little differently.
Speaker 2: That's a good point, all right, my friend. And I
Speaker 2: guess I have it too because now he's one of
Speaker 2: my partners here. Yeah, and Steve keeps. Thanks for telling
Speaker 2: me now, thank you, Kim, appreciate it all right, thank you. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: we're going to get a call here from Ray. I
Speaker 2: think any moment now that was that was nice to
Speaker 2: talk to Kim. But we got right Ray. Are you there?
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I'm here right, Ray.
Speaker 2: Good. We just obviously I spoke to Kim. Let me
Speaker 2: ask you something. When you started this thing, you talked
Speaker 2: to me, I think maybe ten months ago, nine months ago.
Speaker 2: You came up with this idea. You said to me,
Speaker 2: I said, what a fantastic idea, and you said, well,
Speaker 2: you gotta go through a lot of hoops. How was
Speaker 2: it getting to this point? Actually?
Speaker 10: I started this almost two years ago in just trying
Speaker 10: to put together an idea to be you know, professional,
Speaker 10: because the professionals, I'll do it. You know, you go
Speaker 10: to an MLB game, Oh yeah, you go to you
Speaker 10: know a lot of the professional sport and they're in
Speaker 10: there there and I'm like, well, why can't we do it?
Speaker 10: And then I had seen that ASU and the Sun
Speaker 10: Devil Foundation or whatever they are, had one for a while.
Speaker 10: I don't know what happened to theirs or not, but
Speaker 10: I think there was just you know, the the unknown
Speaker 10: about the gaming laws, the responsibilities of where and what,
Speaker 10: and the and the need to have a really sophisticated
Speaker 10: nonprofit partner to make this work, one that's goals and
Speaker 10: charter were aligned with the concept and and we're just
Speaker 10: really fortunate that we have that with the Arizona Bowl
Speaker 10: team here. I mean, you know, it's a hard act
Speaker 10: to follow Kim Madera on a phone call like this
Speaker 10: because she just they just do. They're doing so much
Speaker 10: good sports in this community and education and whatnot. I mean,
Speaker 10: they do the teacher awards every year. I've know, I
Speaker 10: personally have had been involved when they've given awards to teachers.
Speaker 10: So doing good for the community. And then you know,
Speaker 10: you guys know I had sports tars in my background.
Speaker 10: We play sports on our TVs. Hoors Fars went through
Speaker 10: this kind of dip you know where everybody, you know,
Speaker 10: when Direct TV and Dish were competing and everybody could
Speaker 10: get them at home, and they were they were giving
Speaker 10: free Direct TV out to people that signed up, and
Speaker 10: all of a sudden, you know, you have all these
Speaker 10: TVs and like we had bars full of TVs and
Speaker 10: they weren't that important anymore. Hors fars took a hit
Speaker 10: for a while. Now all of a sudden gamifying sports
Speaker 10: with everybody betting on apps and all that, and I'm
Speaker 10: not I'm not weighing in on what that means. But
Speaker 10: let's face it, a lot of people, you know, bet
Speaker 10: on sports and it's growing every day all of a sudden.
Speaker 10: You know, those kind of things like game offying sports
Speaker 10: is an important part of the experience. So just think
Speaker 10: now when you go to a U of A game
Speaker 10: where if you're involved with U of A athletics, there's
Speaker 10: a gamification to this that actually could win some money
Speaker 10: and actually could do some good. I think that's the
Speaker 10: benefit of it, all right, Like somebody's gonna be well,
Speaker 10: somebody's gonna win money, and the other part of the
Speaker 10: money's gonna go do some good. There's no loser in
Speaker 10: that in that, unlike betting on you know, a DraftKings
Speaker 10: or something where you're definitely gonna lose money if you
Speaker 10: don't win, and you're not gonna know anybody else it
Speaker 10: does that goal goal goes to a private company and
Speaker 10: not to the athletes. This is going to a good cause.
Speaker 10: It's game of fine for a for a purpose and
Speaker 10: I'm really happy that it finally came together, and it
Speaker 10: was a big chunk of it was the leadership of
Speaker 10: the u of A identifying new models and new revenue
Speaker 10: stream opportunities, and it just all married together and Kim's
Speaker 10: nonprofit team and whatnot solved for the legality piece of it,
Speaker 10: we developed the software and the branding at all and Desiree,
Speaker 10: Tony and the team at the u of A have
Speaker 10: been great. You know, it's gonna take some time to
Speaker 10: build up team, but I mean probably probably, we're probably
Speaker 10: looking at it could be an easy fifty to one
Speaker 10: hundred thousand dollars a year that could come from this,
Speaker 10: just on the most minimum amount to the YouTube U
Speaker 10: of Athletics every year, just from what we're seeing already
Speaker 10: in our first week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Ray's true superpower is seeing like ten
Speaker 2: steps in front of everybody else and then being able
Speaker 2: to kind of understand what the tasks are ahead of
Speaker 2: and getting the right people in the room. I raids Blake.
Speaker 10: I'm just I'm ten years younger than every older than everybody.
Speaker 10: That's why that's not true.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 10: I mean.
Speaker 2: I was just thinking that maybe I know Ray from
Speaker 2: the back of the day. I'm wondering if you're a
Speaker 2: pretty good book pool player, because if you play pool,
Speaker 2: you're not shooting for the shot you get, You're shooting
Speaker 2: for the shot you want.
Speaker 10: Still, my eyes went bad, you know. I mean I
Speaker 10: was a pretty decent pool I probably play poker better
Speaker 10: now than I play pool. But no, I look, you know,
Speaker 10: you look at what we're at right now, Steve. And
Speaker 10: we've talked about this before too, Like if we only
Speaker 10: had this team on before spring chaining left right, if
Speaker 10: we had a Kim Adair in her role, we had
Speaker 10: a Blake Eager in his role, if we had Cody
Speaker 10: Ritchie established like he is now, Ali Farhank. I mean
Speaker 10: some of these folks now that are putting these deals together, like,
Speaker 10: I don't know, man, we might add a really good
Speaker 10: shot of turning the turning the tides and keeping Spring
Speaker 10: training here now that we're fighting for our place in
Speaker 10: the sun amongst sports. I think unique applications like this,
Speaker 10: like the bare down fifty to fifty go to Beardown
Speaker 10: fifty fifty dot com. You know it's gonna be running.
Speaker 10: You know, if the raffles are running, we're gonna stay
Speaker 10: consistently running. Throughout the summer and whatnot, the Arizona Bowl,
Speaker 10: the World Baseball Classic. You know, I just heard about
Speaker 10: you know the it was in a visit Tucson meeting.
Speaker 10: Heard about the Big Garment Race that could be, could
Speaker 10: be a huge marathon coming to Tucson. So but again
Speaker 10: we're all connected now. Felipe and the visit Tooths on
Speaker 10: Team Nicky, they work with Blake, Blake works with Kim,
Speaker 10: Kim works with you know, Kevin at the Sugar Skills.
Speaker 10: Kim works with with you know are you know Hoffing
Speaker 10: at the Bob at the at the Roadrunners. And then
Speaker 10: you've got guys like us in the private sector going, hey,
Speaker 10: we love this for our businesses. Let's figure out how
Speaker 10: can we help. And then we bring Raymond Wabel to
Speaker 10: the table, we bring the government to the table. If
Speaker 10: we had this kind of energy and the kind of
Speaker 10: public and private commitment that we have today, back when
Speaker 10: Spring Training was waffling, I think I think we'd be
Speaker 10: in a better in a different light right now in
Speaker 10: this town. But you know, there's hope and uh, there's progress.
Speaker 10: So we need people like us doing what you're doing,
Speaker 10: championing on the media, bringing awareness to people, because it's
Speaker 10: hard to tell people the story right when your knee
Speaker 10: deep every day.
Speaker 2: Right, So let me ask you, because thank you for
Speaker 2: doing of course, of course, all right, let me ask
Speaker 2: you something. So so you give the website, let's talk
Speaker 2: about that, and I have a quick question. So you're
Speaker 2: doing it now. I think there's a drawing here soon too.
Speaker 2: But is it just going to be if you're at
Speaker 2: the football game, you're gonna do that, or is it
Speaker 2: all collective through the whole year? How does that work?
Speaker 2: Game by game, season by season one?
Speaker 10: It's going to be, well, I think to you of a,
Speaker 10: I mean it's up to them, right, It's not up
Speaker 10: to me. I just we just you know, I invested
Speaker 10: to develop the software and give it to them, like
Speaker 10: that's kind of my thing. And then there's a you know,
Speaker 10: obviously you've got a credit card company that has the
Speaker 10: charge fees for credit cards or whatever, and Kim not charging.
Speaker 10: She's just riding checks to the winners into the and
Speaker 10: to the non you know, to the athletes stuff that
Speaker 10: they're going to do. It's gonna run throughout the year.
Speaker 10: Right now, it's running like an eleven day or so program.
Speaker 10: And then as the season gets back, it will probably
Speaker 10: be every home game will be one announce for football,
Speaker 10: and then basketball will maybe change to where they're announced
Speaker 10: on home games. So I think it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 10: be up to them based on their schedules right now,
Speaker 10: they're running it so that it's probably gonna be every
Speaker 10: like two weeks or so, eleven to eleven days to
Speaker 10: two weeks, you know, and I think there will be there.
Speaker 10: You know, there's probably gonna be a thousand dollars one
Speaker 10: by somebody, a thousand dollars going to the you know
Speaker 10: right now this week going to uh going to the
Speaker 10: athletic program and the athletes that they and the things
Speaker 10: they need for these athletes that you know, a lot
Speaker 10: of these Olympic sports that are great for our community.
Speaker 10: They bring bed tax, they bring they bring travel, they
Speaker 10: bring food and bever sales. But you know they're not
Speaker 10: they're not part of the big NIL capture. So you know,
Speaker 10: our track team are our gimmis, our our baseball team
Speaker 10: even even soccer softball, these teams that don't have the
Speaker 10: big NIL money or the big TV money, UH, this
Speaker 10: is going to be another way to help them. So
Speaker 10: I'm really glad it happened. I'm thankful for the new
Speaker 10: you know, the leadership at you to get it done,
Speaker 10: and to folks like Kim and Blake and everybody that
Speaker 10: helps put sports on the map in Tucson.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, one thing we were talking about yesterday
Speaker 2: right with Nil, at these bigger schools, maybe with the
Speaker 2: potential of losing other programs, whether it's swimming and JAPS,
Speaker 2: syste and what what Ray's doing in the area and
Speaker 2: Kim and the Juve is thinking outside the box to
Speaker 2: maybe secure some of those funds to keep those athletes
Speaker 2: on campus, to keep those sports on campus. It's it's
Speaker 2: a huge effort when everybody comes to the table and
Speaker 2: works together, but when it actually happens, people see that
Speaker 2: progress and they see the proactiveness of it, and it
Speaker 2: creates a It creates a different culture that we talk
Speaker 2: about all the time here in southern Arizona, and Ray
Speaker 2: hit on it earlier. It's there's a lot of change
Speaker 2: that's happening right now behind closed doors, and Raise at
Speaker 2: the forefront of it as a community leader, as one
Speaker 2: of the public and private sector leaders. But to be
Speaker 2: able to have somebody like Ray and his team at Cicharo,
Speaker 2: but just Ray in general kind of leading that charge.
Speaker 2: We're really really fortunate. So I want to say thank
Speaker 2: you Ray for everything you've done. I mean, big thing
Speaker 2: with this where World Baseball Classic doesn't happen without Ray
Speaker 2: and Candae with ci Charo making sure that everything was
Speaker 2: catered at the highest level for MLB standpoint, and just
Speaker 2: being there to be able to be an advisor. So
Speaker 2: thank you again, Ray, No, thank you.
Speaker 10: And look, guys, I promise you there's a little bit
Speaker 10: of greed in it. I'm not dumb guy, I mean,
Speaker 10: you know, not as numb as my wife thinks I am.
Speaker 10: But there's a little greed because look, people staying in
Speaker 10: Tucson in hotels that don't have kitchens where they're cooking,
Speaker 10: they're going out to eat. So I love to see
Speaker 10: things that generate bad taxes. See things that generate bad taxes,
Speaker 10: big groups of sports coming to town to play, family sports,
Speaker 10: youth sports where multi generation's mom, dad, grandma, aunt, uncle
Speaker 10: come to Toothson to watch a kid's soccer tournament for
Speaker 10: a weekend. Those kind of events drive bed tax and
Speaker 10: when you look at bedtaxs, when you look at sales,
Speaker 10: when you look at what happens in room nights and Tucson.
Speaker 10: We were very much telling visit Toothson. I'm a board member,
Speaker 10: I'm proud of what they're doing with the LEEP in
Speaker 10: that group. Hey, guys, look at those dates. Four out
Speaker 10: of the five biggest dates for travel and bed tax sales,
Speaker 10: bedroom and room nights in Tucson are tied to the
Speaker 10: university and sports.
Speaker 2: And visitors coming here for.
Speaker 10: That homecoming, parents weekend, things like that that are tied
Speaker 10: to sports. That's generating beds and nights, people eating out,
Speaker 10: people going to store, shopping, spending money. That trickles down
Speaker 10: to everybody. That's why sports matters, you know. And people
Speaker 10: that don't understand it, they really need to get more
Speaker 10: foundation of information on their financials tied to sports. It's
Speaker 10: not about oh, you know, we're just all we care
Speaker 10: about is you of a win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we want you of a to win.
Speaker 10: But you based an economic engine, sports economic engine. We
Speaker 10: need to be respectful of that at all times.
Speaker 2: That's that's the thing. Give me the website. You have
Speaker 2: a drawing soon, tell me about that, just real quick.
Speaker 2: The website. Where can people go to either buy or whatever?
Speaker 10: Beardown fifty fifty dot com, ww dot beardown ear down
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Speaker 2: And you'll find out everything you need to know there.
Speaker 10: Right, you'll see QR You'll see yep, you'll see QR codes.
Speaker 10: You gotta be in Tucson. You gotta be in Arizona.
Speaker 10: You can't be out of state. Sorry. Uh, there's the
Speaker 10: website has GEO tracking on. It's an Arizona gambling.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 10: You know there's rules to the game. So uh, you
Speaker 10: got to be eighteen and above, but it's on there
Speaker 10: and I got to be eighteen over to win.
Speaker 2: So okay, no, great, Greg Grey. We'll talk more about
Speaker 2: this as we spend some time you. You'll come in
Speaker 2: and visit. You'll be the new Blake a time or
Speaker 2: two this summer. Okay, thanks, Thanks.
Speaker 10: I'm here to help shoes to play.
Speaker 2: Thanks. Thanks. We got to go appreciate it. We'll come
Speaker 2: back and talk more about it. But I thought this
Speaker 2: idea when he's talk to me about it last year
Speaker 2: and trying to help, I think that's a pretty good idea. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: maybe a little bybe a lot, but the generation that's
Speaker 2: right behind me. You guys are doing some pretty fun stuff.
Speaker 2: I think you're out of the box. You have to
Speaker 2: with that, Well, you have to, of course. That's what
Speaker 2: makes this town a little bit more progressive. Progressive, I mean,
Speaker 2: I hope so right, we I mean we. I think
Speaker 2: people talk about Tucson in the same breath as Austin
Speaker 2: or Portland. And it's not that it's not that so,
Speaker 2: but I think you can talk about in the same
Speaker 2: breath as El Paso and Albertquerque, and you look at
Speaker 2: both those towns and their light years ahead of us. Well,
Speaker 2: you're funny you say that, because no one in this
Speaker 2: town would believe you. No one would believe you unless
Speaker 2: they went to see it, Because I drive through there,
Speaker 2: go to safe all the time, and I'm thinking, I
Speaker 2: see the stuff, and I'm thinking, you'd never Tuson would
Speaker 2: never admit that, first of all. Yeah, but you can't
Speaker 2: deny it with what they're doing. From a sports stand
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with you, and I'm saying saying this
Speaker 2: with sincerity. I'm sorry to say that. And you know
Speaker 2: this from an alpacaret standpoint, You and m tied into
Speaker 2: University of New Mexico is tied end to everything. And
Speaker 2: that's it's it's a love affair. It's the same love
Speaker 2: affair up there that this one is down here. They
Speaker 2: just do a little bit more. In fact, in fact,
Speaker 2: this is something silly. When I go and visit my
Speaker 2: relatives and go see the sites, I hear the commercials
Speaker 2: for NIL. If you're with us, you know, be I
Speaker 2: don't have anybody knocking down my door to get innile commercials.
Speaker 2: I don't know. You don't know by anybody from the
Speaker 2: University of Otherwise saying hey, you love the Wildcats, help
Speaker 2: us out. I hear them them over there all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I'm sure they're everywhere or across the country in
Speaker 2: college towns, but I don't hear them in town. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I mean, and you bring up a good point.
Speaker 2: Albertquerque and Two's don't have a lot of connection from
Speaker 2: because I guess you can consider both of them college
Speaker 2: towns or at something very much. But I mean, Albertquerque
Speaker 2: from a film standpoint, from a professional sports standpoint, kill it.
Speaker 2: They kill it absolutely. I mean, they are tendancies out
Speaker 2: of this world, and we're almost the same size, right,
Speaker 2: So why why wouldn't we try to mirror what people
Speaker 2: are doing successfully here, and I think that's what we're
Speaker 2: trying to do right now. Here's the funny thing. They
Speaker 2: kill it with Triple A baseball, with isotopes. Yeah, USL Championship, soccer, soccer,
Speaker 2: and tell me they kill it with soccer. I know
Speaker 2: there's not much to do, but guess what in Tucson here,
Speaker 2: there's not much to do outside of soccer. We had
Speaker 2: probleming on yesterday, right, I wasn't As you asked me
Speaker 2: who to bring on, I said John, because I talked
Speaker 2: to him. We've got a wait. So Jonathan does a
Speaker 2: great job, but he doesn't have the same attendance that
Speaker 2: you'd like them to have. Yeah, I mean that's that's
Speaker 2: gone through some fluctuations. I mean, thankfully John is a
Speaker 2: probably as loyal as they possibly can come. So he's
Speaker 2: still here and what he's doing, he's working with the
Speaker 2: I brought FIFA to the table for all of us
Speaker 2: to work on, uh hopefully becoming a World Cup training site.
Speaker 2: So we're we're I mean, there's nothing there to be said,
Speaker 2: but it's one of the things that we're worth trying
Speaker 2: to get it. So yeah, I mean we've got a
Speaker 2: lot of positive people and a lot of great people here.
Speaker 2: It's just getting everybody to move in that same direction. Well,
Speaker 2: I think when you first came on the show a
Speaker 2: few months ago and we talked a lot about that,
Speaker 2: let me ask you, I'm hoping you were gonna be
Speaker 2: honest with me since here, what is Tucson lack in
Speaker 2: that department to bring to bring and or maybe help
Speaker 2: pull the rope if you're going to be I don't know,
Speaker 2: Like you said, I don't know anything about al Paso,
Speaker 2: but you know, to al Passos in the same boat,
Speaker 2: they have both Triple A and USL championship in the
Speaker 2: same stadium. So what So what what's the magic? What
Speaker 2: do you need? What kind of magic do you need?
Speaker 2: You know, I think the forefront thought process from the
Speaker 2: public sector and then somebody with some capital on the
Speaker 2: private sector that are both working simultaneously and to pull
Speaker 2: something off together. And I think you have that right now.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if we've and this is a
Speaker 2: so I think we have it right now. I mean,
Speaker 2: you just had two people on a phone call that
Speaker 2: are doing it together, whereas before you didn't you know,
Speaker 2: and I wasn't That's unfair for me to say because
Speaker 2: I wasn't around, But yes, I mean I think there.
Speaker 2: I mean you we lost a lot more than we gained,
Speaker 2: but we're trying to fight in different directions, think outside
Speaker 2: the box and more people holding that rope. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: we had this conversation earlier. Right, it's the same model,
Speaker 2: get off your butts and go to the games, but
Speaker 2: we're missing a connection, like why aren't people going, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't care what you say. SC two sounds great.
Speaker 2: People went to the ice cats. That's that's clubs, that's
Speaker 2: club hockey. But it's great to watch, right, Like we
Speaker 2: don't have the opportunity to see higher levels, So why
Speaker 2: aren't we supporting these And if we're missing something we
Speaker 2: didn't know from the general public, like where are we
Speaker 2: getting our information? Where's the source coming from? And I
Speaker 2: think people are trying to figure out those answers instead
Speaker 2: of just putting the blame on people. Well, here's your
Speaker 2: here's your your publicity. Why don't you go? Yeah, why
Speaker 2: don't you go? Yeah? That's the reasons why, And we
Speaker 2: talked about it. I would love to have a survey
Speaker 2: sent out to everybody asking why, right, why don't you attend.
Speaker 2: I mean, why didn't you go to this? Why didn't
Speaker 2: you do that? Whether it's food, ticket prices, whatever, it's
Speaker 2: across the board. You know, we have We're lucky enough
Speaker 2: to have Broadway in Tucson, right, Not a lot of
Speaker 2: cities have that like you. And this is an arts thing.
Speaker 2: You can have that, right, You've got realta that's great
Speaker 2: to You've got all these great things. If you don't
Speaker 2: go to it, what do you think is going to happen.
Speaker 2: It's going to go away. But if you're not going
Speaker 2: to it for a specific reason, let's let's understand what
Speaker 2: that is. So maybe we can change the narrative there, sure, sure,
Speaker 2: or pivot or pivot yeah, or pivot to something else.
Speaker 2: Maybe it doesn't work here, right, I mean you can
Speaker 2: have those conversations at different points, people going, oh, I
Speaker 2: don't need to go after that because I know this
Speaker 2: slot's going to work really well in this area. So
Speaker 2: now everybody else has to travel up north or they
Speaker 2: have to go somewhere else. But you know, when we're
Speaker 2: talking about creating partnerships, Las Crusis is a perfect city,
Speaker 2: right because it's close enough to help, it's right next
Speaker 2: to our passes close enough to albur it's kind of
Speaker 2: that middle point. Why haven't as a Tucson market because
Speaker 2: we always try to think about, oh, we're gonna get California.
Speaker 2: California's not coming here. There's no need for them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so why don't we create a stronger partnership with Los Crusis.
Speaker 2: Why hasn't that been done? Funny thing about you say
Speaker 2: that it's about three and a half hours to Albuquerque
Speaker 2: Lost Crusis and four here for three and a half
Speaker 2: three Okay, depending on how if you want to go
Speaker 2: eighty five miles an hour, but yeah, it's closely. It's
Speaker 2: the same distance. And let me tell you, do you
Speaker 2: know this better than me. There's a lot of recruitment
Speaker 2: going on in Las Crusis up for the kids here
Speaker 2: in Tusso. Yeah, for tone, missie, Oh, I think for
Speaker 2: a long time you're talking about baseball and softball. A
Speaker 2: lot of Tucson kids ended up at those schools, and
Speaker 2: especially in New Mexico State. I mean you had look
Speaker 2: at short coach all Gonzales. Yeah, yeah, there's a there's
Speaker 2: there's more than Gonzalez. There's a lot of people. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you have tons of people over there, But no, I
Speaker 2: think that's that's a heck of a move. In fact,
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking about something now for the show. Because
Speaker 2: there is a connection. There should be a connection. It's
Speaker 2: only three and a half three and a half. You
Speaker 2: say three and a half hours, I'll say four because
Speaker 2: I'm not going to go fast. Do you the speed
Speaker 2: limit when you drive on the house? Seventy seven probably
Speaker 2: is more? You ever get in the left land or
Speaker 2: do you try to stay in the right lane? I
Speaker 2: do when I'm passing. Yeah, yeah, I mean obviously, but
Speaker 2: do you write it? I hate that worse right, I
Speaker 2: hate those people. What is the what's the top mentality there?
Speaker 2: They don't because they don't think. They don't care about No, No,
Speaker 2: they just don't think. They don't think they're doing I
Speaker 2: get to piss off people. Where do you would you
Speaker 2: rate let's say, Tucson drivers, where would you rate them?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 2: What time of year?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 2: Horrible? See I've said this, and I said this publicly
Speaker 2: on the show, and I told this to Justin. He
Speaker 2: had no idea until I do.
Speaker 9: So.
Speaker 2: I see a lot of invisible cars this time of year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you probably don't know what I'm talking about. You're
Speaker 2: at a the four way stop sign or stop sign,
Speaker 2: and you wait, and you wait behind a car that
Speaker 2: sees as invisible cars, no one's coming, but they take
Speaker 2: a minute to see if anybody's coming. But they see
Speaker 2: the cars, they're not coming.
Speaker 1: Just go.
Speaker 2: So I've got to say this. I think in the
Speaker 2: last week driving home, I've seen like four terrible crashes
Speaker 2: an intersection like the moan, Yeah, the one by Davis
Speaker 2: Montan that happened maybe two seconds before I got to
Speaker 2: that intersection. And I'm going, what does the deal with
Speaker 2: people trying to run? Like you see a yellow light
Speaker 2: thirty feet thirty why are you trying to run it?
Speaker 2: You're gonna get to the place to the place a
Speaker 2: minute earlier, Like, I don't get the mindset. And I've
Speaker 2: we've all done it right, We've all and I don't
Speaker 2: want cameras to come back. And I know we're getting
Speaker 2: off topic here, but it's a topic that I think
Speaker 2: people are interested in talking about. We are we are
Speaker 2: consistently rated in the worst drivers in the United States,
Speaker 2: probably as we should. Mean it'll get change that it'll
Speaker 2: get better in three or four weeks, maybe because we
Speaker 2: the people a lot of people aren't from here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and that's kind of the problem, and not that it's
Speaker 2: a problem problem, you know. I don't want to sound
Speaker 2: poopool on it, but it's true. Yeah, the city turns
Speaker 2: into a kind of a mortgage slower paced type of thing,
Speaker 2: and it turns better. Here's a question I was going
Speaker 2: to ask you, and let me do. We got to
Speaker 2: go about a Minuteyeah, okay, okay, real quick market study.
Speaker 2: Has anybody ever done a market study of what our
Speaker 2: population changes? Is between our we should I mean, that's
Speaker 2: why Why don't we have to keep that thought? Keep
Speaker 2: that thought because we have other ideas. That's a good idea.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go