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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my on the ball here on
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Speaker 4: Now we have Kobe with breaking news.
Speaker 6: Breaking news from last night. The Ravens defeat the Chargers
Speaker 6: thirty or twenty three in the Harbor.
Speaker 4: It was a good game. It was a good game.
Speaker 4: Did you watch the game first time?
Speaker 3: But I heard some commentary today about the parents not
Speaker 3: being there because it was an anniversary. Oh and they're
Speaker 3: easy had the game when they played each other, but
Speaker 3: I guess they didn't go to this one.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Okay, well there's important stuff, and thre's important stuff.
Speaker 3: Your two sons playing against each other NFL. I gu
Speaker 3: it's not that important.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's why they had the anniversary. Now they
Speaker 2: have the kids, right, let them enjoy it. It was
Speaker 2: a pretty good game, I thought. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 2: good game.
Speaker 6: Memphis defeats number two Yukon and ot Thriller, giving Dan
Speaker 6: Hurley and the Husky's their first loss in February.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think they had won seventeen straight. He went ballistic.
Speaker 2: Yeah did you see that? No, he went ballistic. They
Speaker 2: lost for the first time. It was he claims it
Speaker 2: was a bad call over the top against Memphis. They
Speaker 2: won today. I think they were winning today. They were
Speaker 2: playing Colorado. Yeah, so you know they're gonna be good again.
Speaker 2: We know what happens in November, right, not a damn thing.
Speaker 3: Well, but you guys cover sports all the time. Do
Speaker 3: you like when you know when people get upset, when
Speaker 3: a coach gets upset over a loss like that.
Speaker 2: In our capacity, Yeah, I'm just for the story.
Speaker 3: But losing with Grace is that is that a good
Speaker 3: thing or is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Really, should you really be more upset about a loss?
Speaker 3: Let's talk about that. Who who's part of view conscious
Speaker 3: of what we're going through right now with football? Like
Speaker 3: should he be more upset or should he be?
Speaker 4: A good question? You know, good question.
Speaker 2: You think that he would be rich Rod. I'll give
Speaker 2: you rich Rod. Rich Rod was kind of like a
Speaker 2: little brat who lost. And I did that story, he says,
Speaker 2: because he hated to lose. And he would tell me
Speaker 2: when he was a kid, he wouldn't talk to people,
Speaker 2: he'd cry, put a towel over his head, and I
Speaker 2: got that.
Speaker 4: I'm sure you were like that when.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I was. I know, like I hung out
Speaker 3: more with the Stoops brothers if anything, because that was
Speaker 3: a different time and I was I had more time
Speaker 3: in my life to have kids yet, and so I
Speaker 3: hung out with those guys a lot. And I know
Speaker 3: those guys hated to lose. They really did. And you
Speaker 3: have to beat up each other about you have to.
Speaker 2: If you're if you're gonna be, if you're gonna be
Speaker 2: good at what you do, you have to hate to lose.
Speaker 2: In fact, the question I always asked when I talked
Speaker 2: to a new coach, is do you hate losing more
Speaker 2: than you like winning? And every time it's hell, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: You kind of wonder right now, do our guys hate
Speaker 3: losing or are they accepting it?
Speaker 2: You're that's the number one question one. And and see,
Speaker 2: this is what I observe Ray, and I may or
Speaker 2: may be totally wrong. They're just not playing hard for bread.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, I can't speak to the injuries.
Speaker 3: I don't know enough about football. I don't know about sports.
Speaker 3: I just I believe that sometimes that feeling that you
Speaker 3: get from somebody helps motivate you in a way that
Speaker 3: you didn't even think about it exactly. Like you know,
Speaker 3: I can tell you right now, my mom, who's our
Speaker 3: our iconic leader and the boss, still hates to lose, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, she doesn't like when her food's wrong, she
Speaker 3: doesn't like when something goes wrong. And she's the nicest person.
Speaker 3: Was Oh, she's an angel. Yeah, get her in a
Speaker 3: room where things didn't go right.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this because I'm glad you kind
Speaker 2: of went there with you and her. When you go
Speaker 2: visit your stores, right you go probably shopping around kind
Speaker 2: of see what's going on the Do the employees that
Speaker 2: you have do they I want to say, work harder?
Speaker 2: But do they do they feel different when you're in
Speaker 2: the room.
Speaker 3: Well, I hope not. I mean we hope that there's
Speaker 3: an intensity all the time about hospitality or whatever. There's
Speaker 3: no doubt. Then when we walk in a room, you
Speaker 3: know there is a there is a sure you know,
Speaker 3: their hair raises up on their back a little bit
Speaker 3: because we're here and we and there's others who just
Speaker 3: ignore it. But I think the biggest thing for me
Speaker 3: that I want to get out of them is like
Speaker 3: that intensity not to lose the guests, to win on
Speaker 3: the hospitality side is something that we're trying to get
Speaker 3: all the time. And if we accept the failure, then
Speaker 3: we are teaching them.
Speaker 2: That translate into sports and you're good. That's exactly what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. And I don't know, I don't know if
Speaker 2: it can can be fixed or not. It's like to me,
Speaker 2: the absenity landlord or the substitute teacher. Once you lose it, how.
Speaker 4: Do you get that back?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you're not the teacher, you're the and I
Speaker 3: and like I said, I think all these guys now
Speaker 3: with the nil and what they're dealing with. I can't
Speaker 3: imagine it, you know, because they can just jump ships
Speaker 3: so quick, and they've got so many year you know,
Speaker 3: ear voices in their ears and things on their phone screens.
Speaker 3: But it's still it's still something that even if we
Speaker 3: have injuries, and even if we I'd just like to
Speaker 3: know that they hate losing, you know, I get it.
Speaker 3: But do they hate losing?
Speaker 4: Right, right, because we'll hate with you.
Speaker 3: We'll hate losing with you, right yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you change the culture, right, you change the culture,
Speaker 2: you change them to get it right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure Brent hates losing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The thing is, I think that people want to see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that may not be a style or maybe
Speaker 3: they'll get there. I don't know, And it could all
Speaker 3: be just this wave of things that are happening that
Speaker 3: we don't know about. Sure, I'm sure as heck know
Speaker 3: that he he's not. This is not what he wanted
Speaker 3: to have happened, And I sure I feel for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if it did, well, he's in the wrong game.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, you don't plays lose.
Speaker 3: I feel for him, go want him to win.
Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers says he's undecided on playing in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 6: but returning to the Jets would be his first choice.
Speaker 3: You you know again, I you know, it's kind of
Speaker 3: like what they what happened in politics just recently with
Speaker 3: our president. Sometimes you just got to know when to
Speaker 3: hang up the cleats too, you know. And and whether
Speaker 3: it be sports or politics or leadership, you know, you
Speaker 3: got to turn it. You got to turn it over.
Speaker 3: And it's hard right to the end. Game is definitely tough.
Speaker 2: Well, if again, your mom has been this forever, right,
Speaker 2: I don't even say her age, but she probably loves
Speaker 2: doing this.
Speaker 4: And you're probably thinking, Mom, you.
Speaker 3: Know, well life, Yeah, yeah, I do. I would like
Speaker 3: for her to do that a little bit more. And
Speaker 3: she's doing it. But you know what I'm saying. You know,
Speaker 3: fortunately we own the business we owned can control that destiny.
Speaker 3: But when you're working for an organization like the Jets,
Speaker 3: or you're running the country, or you're running you're running
Speaker 3: a state office, or you're a Supreme Court justice, if
Speaker 3: you don't get out when you're getting out is right,
Speaker 3: then you may actually make everything you did worse off.
Speaker 4: Legacy change, legacy changes.
Speaker 6: Coach prime, Shadore and Travis Hunter all expected to play
Speaker 6: in the Bowl game.
Speaker 4: When they when they play in the play.
Speaker 2: That's not a shock. Maybe will they be there? Will
Speaker 2: will Prime be there next year?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Spectacle when he comes around though, right?
Speaker 4: I mean, well, he sold out the U of A.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's I don't think he's bad for
Speaker 3: the sport. I think he's a good you know, I
Speaker 3: think it's good for the sport. Sure you know, did you?
Speaker 3: I'm sure you? It was sold out here. It was
Speaker 3: a good game. It was good, It was a good
Speaker 3: it was a good financial game, right for our for
Speaker 3: our for the what we do that?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 6: Hawks find one hundred K for sitting Trey Young in
Speaker 6: the NBA Cup game.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I'm not too too I'm not a big
Speaker 2: NBA guy until till April May.
Speaker 3: June.
Speaker 6: Auburn's Johnny Brown tipping with one second remaining gave number
Speaker 6: four Auburn and eighty three eighty one come from behind
Speaker 6: victory over number five Iowa State Eracing and eighteen point.
Speaker 3: Is that today was last night? Okay, okay, we'll go
Speaker 3: back to NBA. What do you think about, you know,
Speaker 3: the Lebron and the Browny thing? Because you know, in
Speaker 3: a family business that I have, it is a f
Speaker 3: I mean, that's their family.
Speaker 4: Business, right, So go ahead, I want to hear this.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's kind of unfortunate that he
Speaker 3: didn't perform well, but I also can't knock Lebron for
Speaker 3: doing what they did. I mean here, I mean, he
Speaker 3: surely makes that thing financially work, and I don't think
Speaker 3: it was a bad financial bet on Brownie. I'm sure
Speaker 3: to have said some people that he took that he
Speaker 3: might have took a seat at the table, but hey,
Speaker 3: you know that that could have been a fault of
Speaker 3: an injury, right, or it may have worked out. So
Speaker 3: it's interesting to me how much anger that's created on
Speaker 3: the WebSphere if you will.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, because you know go there because you
Speaker 2: said you won't have a family business.
Speaker 4: Did you feel some of that too, well?
Speaker 3: Sure, I mean, you know, nepotism and favoritism come hand
Speaker 3: in hands, and my fifteen year old is busting tables
Speaker 3: right now, and you know they may not like that
Speaker 3: he's there making money when they may be taking a
Speaker 3: shift away from them or something. So you know, we
Speaker 3: tell them like, hey, you got to be conscious that
Speaker 3: these are folks livelihood. We're not there to take them away.
Speaker 3: I want you to learn the business. I want you
Speaker 3: to learn from the ground up. So this is part
Speaker 3: of it. But you're not going to get and nor
Speaker 3: do I want it to oversee you know, his school
Speaker 3: or his his sports work. But I wanted I want
Speaker 3: him to learn, right, But it's not the NBA right, Right,
Speaker 3: and dram positions are different.
Speaker 2: I don't think you have to apologize for that, right,
Speaker 2: it's you, it's your toy, right, let him play. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Lebron though I'm in different to it. I'm in different
Speaker 2: to it. But you know, the can the guy played
Speaker 2: probably at this level, it's not I'm not paying him
Speaker 2: to play, so it doesn't mean.
Speaker 4: Anything to me.
Speaker 3: They say that they're playing they're playing him harder than
Speaker 3: they would They're saying that in the G League he's
Speaker 3: getting the harder elbow in the chest. But at the
Speaker 3: same time, if he makes it through that, sure, you know,
Speaker 3: we can say it's unfair, but we could also say
Speaker 3: that will prove him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to be the word to go for, Yeah, to
Speaker 2: see if he is will happen?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 6: North Carolina football team has fired their coach Mac Brown.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do you know he told me worked with him for
Speaker 2: a while back in Texas. A heck of a good coach.
Speaker 2: He's seventy three.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you something, right, because I always ask
Speaker 2: everybody who comes out of these the kids, how old
Speaker 2: is old to you?
Speaker 3: I think old is a state of spirituality than at
Speaker 3: his age, you know, I think.
Speaker 4: So when you were a kid, what was old?
Speaker 3: Oh well, you know, I think seventies were old when
Speaker 3: I was a kid. I think now that's not old.
Speaker 4: At all as we creep up that, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I think, But I think it's I think it's an
Speaker 3: energy level measure than anything else.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Look, some people have you know, i'd cancer once. I
Speaker 3: mean it's it's you know, things take a toll on
Speaker 3: you eventually. Sure that may not be anything to do
Speaker 3: with what you've gone through life or your or anything else.
Speaker 3: It just could be a genetic issue. But I do
Speaker 3: think that there is a time that you have to
Speaker 3: recognize that you may be old for what you're doing. Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: and maybe that needs to change, you know. I think
Speaker 3: that there's there's definitely some energies needed differently for different
Speaker 3: parts of life. I'd like to see some of these
Speaker 3: older folks go into more mentorship roles, right and teach,
Speaker 3: because I think we can learn a lot from them.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's something that's available out there often,
Speaker 3: but it'd be nice to hear from some of the
Speaker 3: older the older people that are out there as to
Speaker 3: what you know, did get this country to this point
Speaker 3: and what.
Speaker 2: We learned from Yeah, yeah, I was gonna ask you
Speaker 2: another coach BA ask you out there.
Speaker 6: And this was a day after Brown said he intended
Speaker 6: to return next.
Speaker 4: Right right in the eighties. This is none not coming back. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: anything else, that's probably it.
Speaker 6: Right, that's it for breaking news.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, cool, we'll just come come back to We
Speaker 2: got about four minutes before we touch to ben here
Speaker 2: on the other side, he'll be calling us, I assume, yeah, right,
Speaker 2: So I was gonna ask you, so you said you're.
Speaker 4: How old you feel?
Speaker 3: It comes and goes, right, I think when you know,
Speaker 3: I I when I'm with my children, I feel older.
Speaker 3: Sometimes when they speak languages I don't understand anymore, or
Speaker 3: I have to look a word up and definitely feel older.
Speaker 3: You know, It's funny. I actually felt really old the
Speaker 3: other day, Uh, I went to a concert. My wife
Speaker 3: gave me tickets for my birthday.
Speaker 4: Was it?
Speaker 3: We went to go see Sting in concert.
Speaker 5: I grew up.
Speaker 3: I grew up with Police band D I loved aadies.
Speaker 2: Where was this?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 3: The Police were like my favorite brand? And where was
Speaker 3: it in San Francisco?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 3: And we had seen him when he played in Phoenix.
Speaker 3: It was a great show. It was a different venue.
Speaker 3: Phoenix was a little bigger venue and it was more
Speaker 3: crowd The venue in San Francisco was smaller, more, more compact,
Speaker 3: more maybe maybe both in him minute, if you want
Speaker 3: to call it that, But the crowd was so much older,
Speaker 3: and I realized I saw people that looked that they
Speaker 3: could have been my grandmother out there. And then I realized, like, well,
Speaker 3: in you know, eighty six, eighty seven, eighty eight, when
Speaker 3: they were out, I'm you know, I'm in my youth.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm eleven, twelve, thirteen years old. But there
Speaker 3: were people that liked him at that point when they
Speaker 3: were in their thirties and forties, and now they're at
Speaker 3: a show, right, So I'm sitting there at fifty five
Speaker 3: amongst people that are seventy five eighty and they're they're
Speaker 3: rocking out and they're doing their thing and they're doing
Speaker 3: this thing thing. But I mean I felt really old
Speaker 3: because I was in alignment with them, so it was different.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure you've been to countrits down here, and
Speaker 2: I'll simplify it for me. Does ez tops that come
Speaker 2: to to Ava or the Kansases and stuff like that?
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking that the people were in their area
Speaker 2: in a in a being a break and their men
Speaker 2: obviously with their jackets.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking I don't know that old, do I?
Speaker 3: Well, you know it's old when like today, I went
Speaker 3: into one of my doctor's offices and ac DC Dirty
Speaker 3: D's was one of the background music. So you know,
Speaker 3: when ac DC becomes background, you've got.
Speaker 4: Right and they're trying to make everybody happy.
Speaker 2: No, no, I asked that question just to get out
Speaker 2: of you know, curiosity or whatever. Yeah, so okay, I
Speaker 2: will talk more about the aresultable obviously, the stuff that
Speaker 2: how it impacts you're part of that too. Right inside
Speaker 2: the stadium, nothing changes with the menu or nothing.
Speaker 3: Well, well look at that guy. There's a guy that's
Speaker 3: older and look at snoops and Grandpa and look like
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Yeah, there's there's age. Right,
Speaker 3: he's redefined himself at an.
Speaker 2: Older age, and to a degree of he's almost a
Speaker 2: folk hero today, you know, with so many things.
Speaker 3: Are now more people than he was when he was younger.
Speaker 2: Right, and a very syvy businessman. Very what what makes that?
Speaker 2: What makes that?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean I think he got lucky.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, not just that, because you're here
Speaker 2: that too. I mean, is it kind of not sleeping
Speaker 2: you twenty four to seven?
Speaker 3: I think you have. I think you're competitive. You know,
Speaker 3: he may not have been competitive, like in a sports way,
Speaker 3: but I think he's a sportsman of site, of typewriter.
Speaker 3: I think he's competitive in his business and his environments
Speaker 3: that he surrounds himself with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all competitive, All those successful people are like that.
Speaker 2: Just I think you have to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And again we're talking about hating to lose, yeah, or
Speaker 2: hating to fail, right, But if you do fail, that's
Speaker 2: what drives you.
Speaker 3: Well, Yeah, you've got to like it too, right, You've
Speaker 3: got to like the game you're in. And that's hard,
Speaker 3: very much because if the game's static, it's not fun
Speaker 3: to very much.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you hate going to the office. If you don't, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: let's come back. We'll reach out to Ben and on
Speaker 2: the other side in about three or four minutes.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
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Speaker 4: Guy and marketing guy, marketing.
Speaker 2: Guy and events manager at the at the Arizonable Stoop Dog.
Speaker 5: At the Stoop.
Speaker 14: Yeah, the stup Dog Arizona Bawl presented by Gin and Juice,
Speaker 14: Byre and Snoop.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I talked to Ray about this. You uh,
Speaker 2: perfect timing, right. You get this guy and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden he's already blown up, but then you get him.
Speaker 2: He's really blown up after the Olympics. And I don't
Speaker 2: think you guys. Have you guys actually met him.
Speaker 5: No, No, we've had when.
Speaker 3: I was in the conference, he'd come here Snoop. He
Speaker 3: used to be able to get Snoop for pretty good money,
Speaker 3: like under one hundred grand. Now he's like five hundred
Speaker 3: a day. Really, So, I mean there was a time
Speaker 3: where Snoop was a value entertainer. Now he's now he's
Speaker 3: back to being the top dog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know if you saw my story
Speaker 2: on the Arizona Bowl of ben in the busins Tucson.
Speaker 2: But you know, I don't know how you feel.
Speaker 4: You have kids.
Speaker 2: I do so my lead was a kid of there
Speaker 2: became cooler because his the daughter thought, you know, she
Speaker 2: was talking to Snoop Dogg. The same for you.
Speaker 14: Absolutely, yeah, my uh my kids have used that in
Speaker 14: there when they have like their ice akers two truths
Speaker 14: in a lie and they say, my dad works with
Speaker 14: Snooth Dogg and it's.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they definitely love it.
Speaker 4: No, very cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got you got almost a month to the day.
Speaker 2: How are you guys going, and how's how you guys
Speaker 2: doing it?
Speaker 5: It's it's coming up quick, isn't it.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's it's on December twenty eighth.
Speaker 5: We are.
Speaker 14: We're grinding, We're in that that home stretch now, trying
Speaker 14: to get ready, trying to put all the final you know,
Speaker 14: dot the teas and or dot the eyas and crust
Speaker 14: the t's. But we're excited. We're talking to several schools. Dean,
Speaker 14: you can definitely feel a different vibe and energy for
Speaker 14: the Bowl this year. We get there's a lot more interest,
Speaker 14: a lot more incoming interests for us versus US trying
Speaker 14: to go out and pitch people to to support the bull.
Speaker 5: It's been great.
Speaker 3: It's a one of a kind situations, do you because
Speaker 3: having been in the hospitality haven't been in the food
Speaker 3: and average business having you know, heck, I wrote a
Speaker 3: book on tequila, having understood the beverage and spirits business.
Speaker 3: To get a beverage brand, you know, an adult beverage
Speaker 3: brand like this on top of the bowl in a
Speaker 3: community like in Arizona's like a well known state for
Speaker 3: consumption of things because we're hot and you know, beverages
Speaker 3: are always It's one of those markets where big brands
Speaker 3: go if you do well in Arizona. That's what we
Speaker 3: need to do. So to have that here, to have
Speaker 3: this this amazing icon of an entertainer and cultural figure
Speaker 3: here at a time when really like our town needs it,
Speaker 3: to be honest with you, you know, right after you know, Christmas,
Speaker 3: in fact, even right before Christmas. The hospitality trade. You
Speaker 3: know which Tucson, you know, city of astronomy, one of
Speaker 3: the best, you know, maybe the best Mexican food, you know,
Speaker 3: Mexican food capital of the world. All they like to
Speaker 3: say of America I call it the world. But you know,
Speaker 3: we go down, like sales drop big because people are
Speaker 3: tied up with money from after the holidays or kind
Speaker 3: of everyone's full. They want to go back on their
Speaker 3: diets pretty soon, and it's just a stressful, you know,
Speaker 3: not our sales go down. So to see this influx
Speaker 3: of visitors, especially when they come from towns that are
Speaker 3: easy to get to, you know, New Mexico shows up,
Speaker 3: or if you and LV came or with schools might
Speaker 3: be even closer to get to, it's phenomenal. But I
Speaker 3: think this year they might come from anywhere. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think I think people are gonna come from far
Speaker 3: and around to be part of this because of the
Speaker 3: Snoop Dogg connection.
Speaker 14: Then true, yeah, absolutely that ticket sales have been highest
Speaker 14: that you know, before announcing the teams, uh, the tickets
Speaker 14: were you know, we're way ahead we've ever been. And
Speaker 14: that's there's people that you know, it's the stop Snoop effect.
Speaker 14: People want to be a part of this because of
Speaker 14: Snoop dog They want to check out and you know
Speaker 14: some people that this maybe Snoop Dogg is the one
Speaker 14: that kind of shine the light on on what we
Speaker 14: do and they're they're excited about all the different activities
Speaker 14: and and and the mission of the Bowl and now
Speaker 14: that Snoop Dogs that tied to it, they want to
Speaker 14: be a part of it.
Speaker 5: So it's it's been really cool.
Speaker 2: And he sells merchandise. I mean there's a nice little
Speaker 2: penny there too.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, he sells merchandise. We you know, we have
Speaker 14: we have an online store that we're selling shirts, our gear,
Speaker 14: our give it when we're out at events in the community,
Speaker 14: we have giveaway gear and that stuff goes really quick.
Speaker 5: And he draws viewers.
Speaker 14: We have I have people reached out to me. I
Speaker 14: had a couple of people yesterday reach out to me
Speaker 14: about trying to find out how to buy ads in
Speaker 14: the broadcast that's on the CW. And that's a big
Speaker 14: part of our success too. Is if our TV broad
Speaker 14: broadcast partners successful, it benefits the Bowl.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Ben, I think, I know you say it.
Speaker 3: I don't think people understand. And it just happened.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, the folks from Tucson Values Teachers, it's a
Speaker 3: group put together to help, you know, encourage support for
Speaker 3: our local teachers. You know, they were they had missed
Speaker 3: the mark to get in on the on the charitable
Speaker 3: side of the bulls efforts. But you know what the
Speaker 3: team that you and Kim Dare and Dellarbio and Ali
Speaker 3: Faring and put together, they're a yes group of people.
Speaker 3: And when you have a community like Tucson and they
Speaker 3: know that they get yes answers from something like the
Speaker 3: Arizona Ble tell us. Tell Steve a little bit about
Speaker 3: how much the nonprofit our community benefits from the Bowl.
Speaker 14: Yeah, well, you know, we are a nonprofit. We donate
Speaker 14: one hundred percent and I'm sure you've heard all this
Speaker 14: part before, donate one hundred percent of our net proceeds.
Speaker 5: To local charities.
Speaker 14: But we have a community village that is part of
Speaker 14: a tailgate festival that we have. Nonprofits have an opportunity
Speaker 14: to come out and showcase what they do, kind of
Speaker 14: spread awareness to what they do, and celebrate that kind
Speaker 14: of have a celebration of the community.
Speaker 4: A big part of that.
Speaker 14: Is a parade that happens inside the stadium. The parade
Speaker 14: starts at the tailgate, goes to the stadium, and in
Speaker 14: the quarter break between the first and second quarter, all
Speaker 14: those nonprofits marched down the fields. Uh, you know, from
Speaker 14: end zone to end zone with a banner that of
Speaker 14: their organization that they're proudly representing. So it's really just
Speaker 14: a great opportunity. And one thing that's really great with
Speaker 14: these with the Community Village is it's a great opportunity
Speaker 14: for those nonprofits to network within themselves that to have
Speaker 14: connections and and kind of discuss best practices and you know,
Speaker 14: best ways of fundraise and drive awareness. So it's it's
Speaker 14: a great networking opportunity for all of the community partners
Speaker 14: that make up the Community Village.
Speaker 4: At the tailgate, let me ask you.
Speaker 2: A dumb question, So has him Has he made your
Speaker 2: job easier or more difficult because of the situation.
Speaker 5: Both, if that makes sense both.
Speaker 14: No, it's it's definitely it's more fun, that's for sure.
Speaker 14: And you know, the the crazy thing, like you guys
Speaker 14: are saying that timing is just incredible that we announced
Speaker 14: Snoop as our part nerd in May. The Olympics happened,
Speaker 14: the Voice happens, He's on T mobile, he's on the
Speaker 14: cover of People magazine, He's all over the place now,
Speaker 14: and he has a new album coming out in about
Speaker 14: two weeks. With it, you know, collaboration with Doctor dre
Speaker 14: Uh thirty years from the anniversary of his of his
Speaker 14: first album. So he is extremely extremely busy, which is great.
Speaker 14: He's blown up, but it's also hard to you know,
Speaker 14: get get answers on questions on certain things, so that
Speaker 14: that part's been a little challenging.
Speaker 4: But we are.
Speaker 14: We're in a good spot and moving forward with weekly
Speaker 14: meetings with his team now and and kind of in
Speaker 14: the home stretch here at everyone's kind of, you know,
Speaker 14: now that they've gotten through the Voice and some of
Speaker 14: these other projects that seems been working on. It's you know,
Speaker 14: all the focuses on the Bowl game, well his album.
Speaker 5: And the Bowl game.
Speaker 2: So so you can break the news here if you
Speaker 2: like any time. Ben I try to get Kim to
Speaker 2: do that, you know, and Eric is his partner going
Speaker 2: to he could be here too, Doctor the Doctor.
Speaker 4: I can need.
Speaker 14: Confirm or deny that it actually hasn't.
Speaker 5: I don't think that's been decided yet, to be honest
Speaker 5: with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it could be a surprise if it is.
Speaker 14: Yeah, there's there's definitely some talks of some fun surprises
Speaker 14: that if they come to Fluition would be pretty cool.
Speaker 14: So recommend everyone to be at the stadium to be
Speaker 14: able to kind of check it out and see what
Speaker 14: these surprises are.
Speaker 3: How much it and then if you will, because I
Speaker 3: think when of the coolest parts is the youth football
Speaker 3: team part of it. I know my wife is, uh,
Speaker 3: she's in youth cheer, and I know there's a big
Speaker 3: cheer part of this for youth cheer that is I
Speaker 3: mean she I think they're over full already, like how
Speaker 3: many Yeah, yeah, I mean the youth cheerleading thing is
Speaker 3: going to be huge with this with local Tucson kids
Speaker 3: that are cheer in the cheer system and the cheer teams,
Speaker 3: and then you've got the youth football teams he's bringing.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is just it really is going to
Speaker 3: reach into all kinds of generations.
Speaker 14: Yeah, the cheer clinic, we introduced that last year and
Speaker 14: that was a big success and and I think the
Speaker 14: popularity a bit last year plus you know, the snoop
Speaker 14: effect is really ramped that up. I get an email
Speaker 14: notification every time a registration comes to our website, and
Speaker 14: my email is just ringing all the time.
Speaker 5: So that's gonna be exciting.
Speaker 14: They're going to perform at halftime and then yes, there's
Speaker 14: a youth football component to this. Snoopez his youth football
Speaker 14: league and does national tournaments. He's actually his youth league
Speaker 14: is bringing a tournament here to Tucson, twenty four teams
Speaker 14: from out US state. There's gonna be a couple from
Speaker 14: the Arizona competing to out of that twenty four, but
Speaker 14: they'll be competing the twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and the
Speaker 14: twenty ninth in a tournament, with the championship game taking
Speaker 14: place the next day on the twenty ninth on the
Speaker 14: field at U have a stadium.
Speaker 2: One of the things that I think that you're getting
Speaker 2: so so so much excitement from from the players is
Speaker 2: that they're going to be paid for this thing too.
Speaker 4: Right, the NIL is going to be in a way.
Speaker 14: Yeah, that was something that Stupid was excited about and
Speaker 14: I wanted to reached out to his team reached out
Speaker 14: to Kim a few weeks, just a few weeks after
Speaker 14: we made the announcements that he wants to do an
Speaker 14: ni L deal for all the players, So every player
Speaker 14: will will get a deal, they'll do a little there'll
Speaker 14: be some community outreach that they'll do while they're here
Speaker 14: in town as part of that NL deal that will
Speaker 14: connect with with youth football. Uh so, yeah, it's pretty
Speaker 14: pretty unique for for a bowl game that I have.
Speaker 14: I think they might be the first one that's announced
Speaker 14: the full a full team bowl game, assuming the players to.
Speaker 5: Opt into it.
Speaker 3: Do you think about this, Steve Tucson, Arizona is going
Speaker 3: to have a bowl game that maybe setting the way
Speaker 3: that future bowl games that they operate like this is
Speaker 3: cutting cloth. Other bowl games may actually have to emulate.
Speaker 2: To Kim's Kim, that was Kim's hope, I think saying
Speaker 2: with you, Ben, I'm sure I want to say this,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, record it was all Ben, Kim and dell
Speaker 2: Alie far hanging.
Speaker 3: Nothing to do that far.
Speaker 4: No, it was all you know, Kim.
Speaker 14: I don't know if she shared the deal the story,
Speaker 14: but I think she she sealed the deal with with
Speaker 14: a zoom call with with you know, snooping his team
Speaker 14: by cracking open the gin and juice, you know right right,
Speaker 14: you know when it's time to wrap it up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they were very h Yeah, they loved.
Speaker 2: It, so I know that there you have a lot
Speaker 2: of I think the blue coats, right, blue coats, blue blazers.
Speaker 4: Blue Blazers. I'm sorry with the mispronunciation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're out there trying to sell the tickets hopefully.
Speaker 2: What are you hoping for in terms of size of
Speaker 2: crowd realistically.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, I think we're hoping for forty thousand
Speaker 14: out there. That would be the lower bowl and that
Speaker 14: sold out. We're hoping that we have to have a
Speaker 14: conversation about opening the upper deck on the east side.
Speaker 14: Historically that's been closed off. I mean, put some sponsored
Speaker 14: band on the on the seats up there. Hopefully we
Speaker 14: have to have the conversation with those sponsors saying, you
Speaker 14: know what, we're gonna have to figure out something else because.
Speaker 5: We need to we need to use that deck for
Speaker 5: the for the seats.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And uh, purchasing tickets, I know I've got mine from
Speaker 2: some realtors. I think they have a big push there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: where can they find and maybe the many ways that
Speaker 2: you're selling tickets, Yeah, Arizona.
Speaker 14: The Arizona Bowl dot dot com you can buy those.
Speaker 14: We have a link to seat geek to purchase tickets.
Speaker 14: We also have group tickets available for people that want
Speaker 14: to order fifteen or more. They can get a little
Speaker 14: bit of a discount and they can inquire about those
Speaker 14: with an email to info at the Arizona BWL dot
Speaker 14: com and find out what group ticket options are available.
Speaker 3: Okay, there's a couple of other things, you have something, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I think there's there's a whole week of activities,
Speaker 3: right besides the youth football sports, filling hotels, eating out often,
Speaker 3: the campaign that Kim and Bannon the team there put
Speaker 3: together for places to be Bowl ready, a lot of
Speaker 3: local restaurants and to be part of that. And then
Speaker 3: they've got their New Year's stuff that they do, the
Speaker 3: pep Rally downtown. So there's a lot of activity, a
Speaker 3: lot of good kid friendly stuff. Even though this is
Speaker 3: you know, a Snoop Dogg thing with a gin and juice,
Speaker 3: don't ignore the fact that there is a ton of
Speaker 3: family friendly things going to happen day and day in,
Speaker 3: day and day out. Yeah, for that whole week.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and everything, everything is besides attending the game itself.
Speaker 14: Everything is free. The pep Rally is free, the Bull
Speaker 14: Bash downtown is free. So there's a lot of great
Speaker 14: opportunity to enjoy free entertainment and activity around the Bowl.
Speaker 5: You don't have to, you know.
Speaker 14: Obviously we want you to purchase a ticket, but there's
Speaker 14: you know, many ways people can connect and enjoy what
Speaker 14: happens during Bowl week.
Speaker 3: The New Year's party Steve was last year was one
Speaker 3: of the coolest things I've been involved with in Tucson
Speaker 3: because it was just this great amount of people. I
Speaker 3: mean literally the street was full of people downtown. But
Speaker 3: it was just a great family outmosphere but a lot
Speaker 3: of fun. It felt like a mini Times Square down
Speaker 3: in downtown.
Speaker 4: To so good weather too, I think.
Speaker 3: Good weather, Yeah, good weather. And he did the Taco
Speaker 3: drop a friend of our Taco Bell Todd. He does
Speaker 3: his Taco bellt drop, which I'm fine with. I'm let
Speaker 3: to have it. He can write a bigger check for
Speaker 3: that one. So good for you. Talk, good for you
Speaker 3: talk keep doing that. But yeah, the Downtown party, it's
Speaker 3: a worthy party for even those who are like hardcore
Speaker 3: party or it's a good party.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then another thing one of the things that it hits
Speaker 2: me for Tucson, I'm sure it's not universal to Tucson,
Speaker 2: is the late arriving crowd to you know, late tickets
Speaker 2: purchase and so what do you want to do tonight, Mildred, Well,
Speaker 2: there's a game going on, let's go buy some tickets.
Speaker 2: You wish that wouldn't happen, but that's something you have
Speaker 2: to deal.
Speaker 14: With, right Oh yeah, yeah, everyone in Tucson. I used
Speaker 14: to work at the Universus of Arizona that was that
Speaker 14: was an issue too. But you know, like I said,
Speaker 14: this is uh, this is a year that we're selling
Speaker 14: a ton of tickets in advance. So my advice to
Speaker 14: people is not wait because the seat location that you
Speaker 14: might think that you'll be able to get last minute
Speaker 14: won't be there. So let's let's try to get those
Speaker 14: those tickets sold quickly and go ahead of me.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and also, no, go ahead, I've got something
Speaker 3: I want to tell you about because I think it's
Speaker 3: important on the ball.
Speaker 2: And lastly, well, one of the things I thought is
Speaker 2: when do you announce the teams? Because those those you
Speaker 2: know you can't get in your Mexico state this year,
Speaker 2: or you're talking about the Vegas showed up the local
Speaker 2: driveable teams.
Speaker 4: So when is that announced?
Speaker 14: That's announced on December December eighth, Sunday, December eighth, the
Speaker 14: selection Sunday, we you know, the day starts off with
Speaker 14: the college football playoff announcing their twelve teams and then
Speaker 14: everything kind of trickles down to there, so we will
Speaker 14: be kind of waiting and seeing what happens here and
Speaker 14: down the stretch. With Boise State, you know, they're in
Speaker 14: the mix to be in that playoff and that has
Speaker 14: an impact on us in the Mountain West side. So
Speaker 14: it's going to be kind of interesting to see how
Speaker 14: this how this plays out right your turn, Well, I want.
Speaker 3: To say that I think Ben and they have like
Speaker 3: number one. Job Number one is the Bowl game. Job
Speaker 3: Number one is for these for these folks to put
Speaker 3: on as great a Bowl event the Bowl week, get
Speaker 3: twoson Bowl ready, to get everybody in that stand. Let's
Speaker 3: let's do fill to fill up that upper Bowl and
Speaker 3: set a record. But also, you know the Arizona ble team,
Speaker 3: the team that's Kim Adair and these folks, you know,
Speaker 3: they're also helping with other sports activations in Tucson, So
Speaker 3: they need a you know, golf clap round of applause
Speaker 3: in this room, and they need to also be supported
Speaker 3: year round because they are and there's an opportunity here
Speaker 3: for us to change the landscape of sports and Tucson
Speaker 3: and the Arizona Bowl is one part of that in
Speaker 3: correlation with the University of course, and continue to double
Speaker 3: down on the bear down like we talked about and
Speaker 3: things like World Baseball because sports need energy and when
Speaker 3: there's positive energy, sports starts coming to town and we
Speaker 3: need that.
Speaker 2: Let me give you one more before you say respond.
Speaker 2: Then you were part of the l Tour this weekend.
Speaker 2: I'm part of the El Tour obviously, how did that go?
Speaker 2: And I'm sure you saw the craziness because it was
Speaker 2: the first year with you guys.
Speaker 14: Yeah, no, that was our first year and we loved it.
Speaker 14: It was great for us. We were at the expo
Speaker 14: all day on Thursday and Friday, and you know, as
Speaker 14: you know, a lot of writers from out of town
Speaker 14: coming in to check out that, you know that to
Speaker 14: participate in the event. So it was a great way
Speaker 14: to generate awareness and educate people on on on the
Speaker 14: Bowl game. And then the day at the race itself
Speaker 14: was awesome. We were out with our inflatable helmet. We
Speaker 14: were near the finish line for the the five k
Speaker 14: race and the fun ride with a lot of kids
Speaker 14: around there. So it was awesome just to see all
Speaker 14: the community pride around the UH THEO on. My hats
Speaker 14: off to them, but I what a what an incredible
Speaker 14: event and and a lot of logistics to to coordinate,
Speaker 14: but it was it was great. We're looking forward to
Speaker 14: a long term, you know, your partnership with with them to.
Speaker 4: Race point two.
Speaker 2: Then before that, Uh, you still have jerseys available through
Speaker 2: you guys with the racing because those are.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we're yeah, those are still available.
Speaker 5: We have a they're they're.
Speaker 14: Running low on on on sizes, but there's still a
Speaker 14: couple available if you go to El tor de Tucson
Speaker 14: dot org and go to their shop there, that's where
Speaker 14: you can buy those and and proceeds about forty of
Speaker 14: the sales of those jerseys goes to our Heroes ticket
Speaker 14: ticket program.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: And then to raise point with the need for the
Speaker 2: stuff like this in Southern Arizona, off is always pushing
Speaker 2: the sports stuff in Southern Arizona.
Speaker 4: Someone needs to write.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean look at their look there what they
Speaker 3: like you just brought up out tour. They're helped us
Speaker 3: with World Baseball. Uh, you know they're out there high
Speaker 3: school football games. I mean, Ben, how many time, I
Speaker 3: mean every game. You guys are out there every Friday,
Speaker 3: the helmet with a helmet, you know, championing youth sports
Speaker 3: and Tucson that's critical.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were there every every week.
Speaker 14: We made out to a game and we also went
Speaker 14: out to I think four or five girls flag football
Speaker 14: games on Tuesdays and Thursday. So yeah, we're really we're
Speaker 14: really trying to get out. It's it's the Bowl game
Speaker 14: is a you know, the game itself happens once a year,
Speaker 14: but our organization is involved year round trying to make
Speaker 14: an impact in the community.
Speaker 2: So last quick question, Ben, and I don't know what
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to translate for me because I'm one
Speaker 2: hundred years old. Some guy text me, not some guy
Speaker 2: one of our colors. I wonder if they'll have some
Speaker 2: Snoop Doggie Land stuff from YouTube explain.
Speaker 14: So Snoop Snoop has so many different things that he's
Speaker 14: involved with, but when he became a grandfather, he created
Speaker 14: a kid's line of content, so kind of like nursery Rhymes,
Speaker 14: Andy and kids show. So he has like a Doggy
Speaker 14: Land CD that has uh, you know music, He has
Speaker 14: music just for kids. So there's a there's a song
Speaker 14: called the Affirmation Song. You know that it's a it's
Speaker 14: a nice song that does kind of start your day
Speaker 14: to get you, uh, gets you in the right state
Speaker 14: of mind.
Speaker 2: Well, are you talking about sharky shark or whatever that
Speaker 2: shark thing is.
Speaker 3: I'm just hoping he's gonna bring the mariachi, I think.
Speaker 2: Oh, did you see about the boxing, Yeah, mariachi. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're right, Yeah, yeah, Okay, thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 2: We will probably talk to you guys as we get closer.
Speaker 4: To the event.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I appreciate it anytime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks a bunch, take care, Thank you. Yes, uh,
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera, he's got his eye on the ball on
Speaker 1: Tucson's sports stationed Fox Sports fourteen fifth day.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my about here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today is
Speaker 2: Ray Flutis from Charro. Got Kobe working the board with me.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, Kobe help me out a few times.
Speaker 2: We got about twelve minutes, thirteen minutes. You've got a
Speaker 2: call five to two oh for one six seventy four
Speaker 2: forty We already had one call Cassic back. Are you
Speaker 2: gonna go to the Arizona Ball? Have you already got
Speaker 2: your tickets? Obviously the weather is a factor and it's
Speaker 2: always good. It's maybe a maybe a cold time or
Speaker 2: two before.
Speaker 3: Two o'clock game, though it should see it should be.
Speaker 4: Sunny time for that. Yeah, Sonny, you've been to most
Speaker 4: all of them.
Speaker 3: I've been involved since day one.
Speaker 4: How was that New Mexico State one cold? Yeah, they
Speaker 4: sold a lot of beer.
Speaker 3: They came out, they came out, they drove him. I
Speaker 3: just had dent lunch with somebody from New Mexico and
Speaker 3: they were asking me, and you put in a good word.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't think I have any day at all.
Speaker 3: I just make the talk.
Speaker 2: Oh from you and m from the New Mexico because
Speaker 2: you know I'm from there. Yeah, I'm a nigy. So yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: good luck with that New Mexico tea. They're better And hey,
Speaker 2: you guys played them, Yeah, the first first game of
Speaker 2: the year. Yeah, so we'll see what happens. You're a
Speaker 2: big You're a big. Uh. Do you get grief for
Speaker 2: being a big tusonan pusher like you? I don't know
Speaker 2: if you would, but you know maybe, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of people that you have
Speaker 3: a lot of transplants in Tucson, transplants to I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think. I think people get confused as to
Speaker 3: the passion that comes from something like supporting the universe. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I want wins and I want calms, you know, checks
Speaker 3: in the wind calumn, But what I really want is
Speaker 3: just for us to support the effort, because I know
Speaker 3: what it means economically, socially and every to this, to
Speaker 3: this community. I see the numbers, I know the math
Speaker 3: behind it, So yeah, I won't and winning does matter
Speaker 3: to keep those numbers growing. But if we start from
Speaker 3: a negative, it even wins are hard, right because it
Speaker 3: could take us whole season and then all of a
Speaker 3: sudden we're behind the eight ball. And you made you
Speaker 3: made a reference. And I think Ben talked about selling
Speaker 3: tickets in this town. I was in the concert event
Speaker 3: business for a while in this town, and I always
Speaker 3: as I did boxing and whatnot. You know, it's it's
Speaker 3: not an easy town to sell tickets. I had Van
Speaker 3: Halen here, it's this story about Tucson. What year this
Speaker 3: would have been in five? Four oh five? Okay, so
Speaker 3: the last year they toured with Sammy Hagger was the
Speaker 3: last year they actually played together. And it was a
Speaker 3: cool show because Wolfgang came when you just started playing
Speaker 3: with his father, Eddie. Eddie was you know, obviously still played.
Speaker 3: We had the last two shows that they were ever
Speaker 3: going to play together. Well, they had sold out Phoenix
Speaker 3: thirteen thousand person venue in like fifty seven minutes. We
Speaker 3: couldn't sell out a thirty five hundred person venue like Abba.
Speaker 3: Granted was two days in a row, so call it
Speaker 3: seven thousand seats, so half we couldn't sell out half.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day. For the second showing,
Speaker 3: we were doing two for one seats. Wow, and you
Speaker 3: know you just go come on two song, like, whether
Speaker 3: you like it or not, this is the last time
Speaker 3: these guys played here.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 3: It was an iconic rock and roll group. We would
Speaker 3: never have gotten in a normal arena.
Speaker 2: So just tough to tell tickets sometimes, Oh, what's the issue,
Speaker 2: what's the problem.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Number One, the media, we all have
Speaker 3: to always say it. I will always say the media
Speaker 3: like champion, local, champion events, champion things to do like
Speaker 3: get out, get out and spend, you know, spending contages,
Speaker 3: take the wallet out, go out and spend. But I
Speaker 3: also think it's like there's a thing in two so
Speaker 3: onwhere hey, are you going to go to that, you know,
Speaker 3: and then you wait to hear the response back, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm going, Okay, I'm gonna go too, And it's like
Speaker 3: that's how you almost have to market in twoson. It's
Speaker 3: almost like pure pressure is more important than media pressure.
Speaker 3: So maybe we just don't have those densities. Maybe it
Speaker 3: is very much like a family in a community. Like
Speaker 3: you know, well, I know, okay, I like that TV
Speaker 3: show too. I'll watch it too with you. It's funny
Speaker 3: like that. And that's how selling tickets and two soon is.
Speaker 2: Is there a reason why you got out of that
Speaker 2: business or maybe a side gig or whatever, you.
Speaker 3: Know that we were really we were really successful. I
Speaker 3: had a partner and I kind of had a fall
Speaker 3: out with the group we were working with, and you know,
Speaker 3: just change of life, kind of a different you know,
Speaker 3: wasn't great for the marriage, the first marriage, and it
Speaker 3: was pretty hectic, and I think at the at the
Speaker 3: end of the day too, you know, times of change,
Speaker 3: like being in that business was tough. We were we
Speaker 3: were kind of at a golden age opportunity, you know.
Speaker 3: We had irban A's off come to Tucson, one of
Speaker 3: the most prolific concert and musician, music minded professionals in
Speaker 3: the industry, and he came to Tucson. He's the one
Speaker 3: who brought Van Haalen. He's a reason we had them.
Speaker 3: We had Dave Chappelle one year who did a show
Speaker 3: with us. The year that he left County Central. He
Speaker 3: only did eight concerts that year, and he'd he did
Speaker 3: one of them with us, so we were proud. But
Speaker 3: it did the game changed.
Speaker 4: Got a call.
Speaker 5: Nico.
Speaker 4: How are you doing, Nico? How are you doing? Nico?
Speaker 17: Hey man, you redeemed yourself?
Speaker 2: See how did I redeem myself? I always need to
Speaker 2: be on the good side of Nico? What's up?
Speaker 17: Hey man? First of all, I tried Kanye busy. Oh yeah,
Speaker 17: he talked with basketball man.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, no, no, yesterday we didn't know what the
Speaker 2: hell was going on with the phones. But but you're
Speaker 2: here now, give me my give me my kudos. I
Speaker 2: need to hear something.
Speaker 17: Hey man, you were talking too much basketball anesterday man
Speaker 17: in the desert, come oh.
Speaker 2: Come on, we got two more days to talk about football.
Speaker 2: Basketball was like the crisis the world is gonna end.
Speaker 17: Hey man, I get it. Man, you pitch a tent
Speaker 17: for basketball, Look come out. Then you gotta be fair here.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take the compliment, and I understand the criticism.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 2: What's what's gonna happen, Satary? Tell me what's gonna happen you.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you and your dad are going to be there.
Speaker 2: I'll be there.
Speaker 17: Man, today is gonna win who It's just gonna happen.
Speaker 17: I have a feeling.
Speaker 4: Okay, Arizona to winner. I got I'll take the eight points.
Speaker 17: Then in half t MA is gonna have a game.
Speaker 17: It's just gonna be good.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Nico, thanks for calling, continue to listen.
Speaker 4: Appreciate you, hey man.
Speaker 17: And this guy that you're guessed. I know he doesn't
Speaker 17: have a say in the beer prices, but they need
Speaker 17: to lower those a little bit.
Speaker 3: I don't disagree.
Speaker 4: What are they?
Speaker 3: What are they? Thirteen fourteen for the big tall to
Speaker 3: the tall can and you know, like I've talked about
Speaker 3: it in defense of them, they get they get six
Speaker 3: or seven football games to make their nut for the
Speaker 3: whole year. So you know, it's a big investment. So
Speaker 3: that's why they charge what they charge.
Speaker 17: Yeah, okay, hey, then the prize wouldn't be bad if
Speaker 17: the beers were cold.
Speaker 3: Man, Well that that's that's another factory really and again
Speaker 3: I don't control that. I wish I did, but.
Speaker 4: He's gotta uh, he's got to put that in the
Speaker 4: complaint box.
Speaker 3: Well I think you know, again, more seats, more people,
Speaker 3: so more sales'll they'll keep improving that. The pressure's on
Speaker 3: to improve right on all facets of that.
Speaker 2: If if you were the A D and you've been
Speaker 2: around long enough and you've known every A D here,
Speaker 2: I'm sure you're you're talking to Desiree every now and again,
Speaker 2: what would you do?
Speaker 4: What would what were the like maybe top two or
Speaker 4: three priorities?
Speaker 3: Well, I think communication is really important with who with
Speaker 3: everybody that is on the inner circle and on that
Speaker 3: fringe it wants to come into the circle, right. I
Speaker 3: do think that she has her she has her work
Speaker 3: cut out for that because unfortunately, she came in at
Speaker 3: a time where it wasn't just the athletics, but the
Speaker 3: entire university was under the under the you know microscope, right,
Speaker 3: the cloud of the finance. So you know, even if
Speaker 3: she was the most shining star of all, and I
Speaker 3: think she's a really smart person and she seems like
Speaker 3: a very good leader in that'spect, I just don't know
Speaker 3: how you get out from that cloud when the entire
Speaker 3: university brand has been clouded by that financial situation. So
Speaker 3: over communicate, right, don't over promise, be honest and over
Speaker 3: community people know and and real fans know, real fans
Speaker 3: knew you know, forever with the Chicago Cubs, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: but they sold out all the time. Real fans know,
Speaker 3: real fans will support, and then you build from there
Speaker 3: and you ask those fans to bring their friends into
Speaker 3: the circle and bring more people in. But constantly communicate,
Speaker 3: constantly tell people what you're doing, why you think it's
Speaker 3: gonna work, what other risks for that decision, Because it
Speaker 3: is a it is a community, and it is a
Speaker 3: fragile nucleus right now, because we have a we have
Speaker 3: a factor, right, We talked about it all day long
Speaker 3: on this call, on this show that nil is a
Speaker 3: factor that we all really don't know yet. We hope
Speaker 3: it's getting to be some clarity, but they still don't
Speaker 3: know everything yet. And so as long as but but
Speaker 3: keep communicating, I think that's what needs to happen for
Speaker 3: the university.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: So that's number one. We got about a minute. Give
Speaker 4: me another one.
Speaker 3: Well, I think don't like to lose. I think we
Speaker 3: said that that's for the teams. Yeah, I think for
Speaker 3: the team, well, for the for the and for the
Speaker 3: financial side too, you know, like we don't want to
Speaker 3: lose money. We don't want to lose we don't want
Speaker 3: to lose players.
Speaker 4: I can't afford to lose this anymore.
Speaker 3: No, No, it's a really it's a real business and
Speaker 3: it needs some It needs real accountability and transparency and communication.
Speaker 2: So we got about thirty seconds up the dumb question,
Speaker 2: how disappointed were you to hear about the finances?
Speaker 3: I was disappointed. I was diappointing because it's an education
Speaker 3: facility and I don't know what message we're sending to
Speaker 3: the to the kids out there. Then there's crazy stuff
Speaker 3: going on, right, I mean, you heard think about Macy's
Speaker 3: today or somebody you know did something regarding one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty million. They can't even announce porly financials because
Speaker 3: somebody frauded the company of some money. You're about the
Speaker 3: thing down and down in Nogallas, right where the person
Speaker 3: that worked in government defrauded the county of thirty some million.
Speaker 3: I mean, these these are big numbers, and they're becoming
Speaker 3: smaller in people's minds because they're happening too often.
Speaker 2: Right, you know, and that can't happen be normalized if
Speaker 2: you will, Yeah, okay, thanks rating for coming on in.
Speaker 4: Enjoyed it. We'll have you back back again sometime soon.
Speaker 3: Appreciate, thank you, Kobe,