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Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: Kickoff time has been announced yesterday for Arizona's next game.
Speaker 1: It will be their Big twelve opener at Utah. It
Speaker 1: is set for seven fifteen specific time kickoff, and it'll
Speaker 1: be on ESPN ESPN.
Speaker 6: All right, okay, good, So if AI Zone gets this
Speaker 6: ass kicked again, everybody will get to see it.
Speaker 4: That was another disappointed thing. Everybody got to see how bad.
Speaker 5: They were, yeah or or or whatever.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, you know, it was funny because I
Speaker 6: got up to watch game day the next day and
Speaker 6: now just hoping that the big twelve round up had
Speaker 6: already had already been done before I before I turned
Speaker 6: it on because I don't want to turn it on
Speaker 6: here talk about how bad Arizona was, and I got
Speaker 6: to I missed it. They did it already happened, so
Speaker 6: I didn't have to see it. I'd have to set
Speaker 6: through that.
Speaker 1: Like your signed former Arizona center Christian Colloquial a two
Speaker 1: way contract.
Speaker 4: He still has to pass his academic his is uh
Speaker 4: this physical manicle, right because he was out last year
Speaker 4: because of the Yeah, yeah, he came to remember he
Speaker 4: visited you a explain.
Speaker 5: To me again, hopefully you know that. What is a
Speaker 5: two way contract?
Speaker 4: He goes to the G League if he's not in
Speaker 4: the with the home team Lakers, So he spends time
Speaker 4: going back.
Speaker 5: And forth, going back and forth, right, right, he was
Speaker 5: like a player.
Speaker 4: True, yeah, yeah, he'll probably pay more than the G League.
Speaker 4: But good for him. I mean, he's been out for
Speaker 4: the year, blood clot good guy.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, who didn't think his career was
Speaker 5: over right? Right? Right? And they talked about that.
Speaker 4: He just has to clear and then he'd be able
Speaker 4: to play, had a good first year or two and
Speaker 4: then now this happens to him. But even though we
Speaker 4: don't get to know those guys and we didn't with him,
Speaker 4: he was one of the good guys.
Speaker 5: You know, he wasn't he wasn't you know, he was
Speaker 5: just on the.
Speaker 6: Show a couple of times, wasn't he He was here
Speaker 6: with us maybe I'm certain of it.
Speaker 5: I've got his picture.
Speaker 4: And then he's been on you know, he was on
Speaker 4: the show him and Kerr was on it. You know,
Speaker 4: we'll have a few of those guys, but there there
Speaker 4: are good guys as much as we uh well, because
Speaker 4: he was with Tommy and with and with the Sean,
Speaker 4: but we didn't get to meet or get to know
Speaker 4: a lot of the Sean.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Good for him, Yeah, no, great for him. Dolphins quarterback
Speaker 1: to a tongue of Lola. He's been placed on ir
Speaker 1: after the concussion that he had on Thursday night.
Speaker 5: What do you think? What do you guys think? Will
Speaker 5: he Will he play again? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Because because he's hard headed. Yeah, he's gonna play. He's
Speaker 6: gonna come back and he's gonna play. He's not gonna
Speaker 6: let He's not gonna let it in like this.
Speaker 4: Uh did you watch a Sunday show with Teddy Bruski
Speaker 4: He talked about, talked about, talked about and it was
Speaker 4: one great come back to It was a great segment.
Speaker 5: I did see that how how And we see this all.
Speaker 4: The time athletes who are there for eight, nine, ten years,
Speaker 4: they have no endgame right and refuse the end game
Speaker 4: right because they still think they have it in them
Speaker 4: injury or otherwise.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: But I can see that because the checks are fantastic, yeah,
Speaker 4: and you don't want to go, but it's a bought.
Speaker 5: More than the checks for those guys too.
Speaker 6: For a guy like Teddy Bruce, he was about again,
Speaker 6: you know, feeling like he can still play right and saying,
Speaker 6: if I feel like I can play, I'm going to
Speaker 6: play right. And I like where he said how his
Speaker 6: his wife said there was what like a three second
Speaker 6: rule or something like that if he was on the
Speaker 6: ground for longer than three seconds or four seconds or
Speaker 6: something like that, but that was it.
Speaker 5: He said that it was over.
Speaker 6: And this was that he'd get knocked on and he'd
Speaker 6: get up right away. This was after the stroke thing, Yeah,
Speaker 6: after the stroke and because he went because he went
Speaker 6: back and played after the stroke. But you know, I
Speaker 6: you know, he just talked about how I wasn't ready.
Speaker 6: I wasn't ready to quit. I didn't I felt I
Speaker 6: could still play, and so he played. But he also
Speaker 6: had to consider his family and his wife. And there
Speaker 6: were rules that that that he had to follow.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he's in the lester of his domain. The
Speaker 4: wife and and the Smith was there too, the freest
Speaker 4: personally in the quarterback from Utah Alexamith Alex Smith, who
Speaker 4: said the same thing.
Speaker 5: You know, I didn't want to go away.
Speaker 4: Eventually, it was the best time in his life when
Speaker 4: he came back because he valued his family right more right,
Speaker 4: you know, you kind of get a perspective that you
Speaker 4: didn't have before. Right, you know, you're there to provide
Speaker 4: for your family. But if you're not there for your family,
Speaker 4: what's the point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, too, is gonna play again.
Speaker 6: I'll be I'd be shocked if he didn't, unless unless
Speaker 6: there was some diagnosis. It says you play one more
Speaker 6: down of football you can die. Then then I think
Speaker 6: he won't play, and that could that could barely be
Speaker 6: the case too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't know.
Speaker 1: Georgia governor has signed an order to allow schools to
Speaker 1: pay players. Uh see, schools in Georgia have at what
Speaker 1: level high school? I think it's just in C double A.
Speaker 6: Well, that's what they've been doing anyway, what's the what's
Speaker 6: what's what's new about that?
Speaker 5: Exactly? Oh, so.
Speaker 1: Schools in Georgia have legal cover to immediately begin paying
Speaker 1: their athletes directly according to an executive order, an order
Speaker 1: that prohibits the n C Double A or athletic conferences
Speaker 1: from punishing any university or college in Georgia. We're offering
Speaker 1: compensation or compensating and inter collegiate student athlete for the
Speaker 1: use of such.
Speaker 6: Well, I I can't tell you that that that will
Speaker 6: get held up in court all day because you know, again,
Speaker 6: if you want to be an NC double A program,
Speaker 6: you have to follow NC double A rules. And just
Speaker 6: because some state passes a law that says you can
Speaker 6: break the rules doesn't mean you get to break the rules.
Speaker 6: They'll say, they'll say, okay, Georgia, go ahead and pay
Speaker 6: your players, but you guys aren't part of the NC
Speaker 6: double A anymore. And then now you got to now
Speaker 6: lawyers start making all kinds of money because you know
Speaker 6: that'll get fought in court. That's just really stupid and
Speaker 6: perfect for what goes on in that part of the
Speaker 6: country when it relates to football. It's like football's in
Speaker 6: charge of everything else, so ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Baseball season is coming to a close. One of the
Speaker 1: big series coming up this week is the Brewers and
Speaker 1: Philliescuse me, Brewers can clinch the you know essential tonight,
Speaker 1: but they also so we're trying to get that top
Speaker 1: top spot, trying to get the buy. In order to
Speaker 1: do that, they will have to sweep the Phillies in
Speaker 1: order to tie the season series. But they they they've
Speaker 1: lost the season series to the Dodgers, so.
Speaker 5: They can't catch the Dodgers. Wait.
Speaker 4: Wait, so because I don't pay attention to this, because
Speaker 4: I don't give a crap, So tell me, tell me
Speaker 4: who are the who the who are the playoff people?
Speaker 5: Right now? Right now?
Speaker 6: You've got you got the Dodgers leading the West, You've
Speaker 6: got the Phillies leading the East.
Speaker 5: And those two, those two are in, those three are in.
Speaker 5: They're not. Nobody's clinched. No, nobody's cleaned.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers clinched the playoffs, but they've not clinched anything else. Okay,
Speaker 6: but the Dodgers have the have the Phillies have the
Speaker 6: best record in baseball.
Speaker 5: By one game, so they're pretty much by the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: So Phillies, Dodgers, and the Brewers the bruise. Okay, those
Speaker 5: streets and who's the car?
Speaker 6: And then in the wild card race, it looks like
Speaker 6: you've got the Padres and the Diamondbacks are are uh
Speaker 6: and the or not the in the other league. The Padres,
Speaker 6: the diamond and the Diamondbacks and the Mets are the
Speaker 6: three teams that are in the in the wildcard's with
Speaker 6: the Padres in the best position.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, because I think the Diamondbacks just put their
Speaker 4: tickets on sale.
Speaker 5: Yeah, with the potential.
Speaker 6: The Padres have a three and a half game lead
Speaker 6: over the Mets and a two and a half game
Speaker 6: lead over the Diamondbacks for the wildcard spot, and then
Speaker 6: the Mets only have a one game lead in the
Speaker 6: wild Card over the Braves, so there's still a lot
Speaker 6: to be decided there. But uh yeah, there's a star
Speaker 6: by the Dodge. So I'm guessing the Dodgers have clinched
Speaker 6: a playoff, not clinched the division because they're only three
Speaker 6: and a half up on the Padres. So the Dodgers
Speaker 6: in there, Like I said, one game behind Philadelphia for
Speaker 6: the best for the best record in the National League.
Speaker 6: I thought you were going to bring up the show
Speaker 6: hate Chase Man. He's got he's got forty eight homers
Speaker 6: and forty seven stolen bases, trying to get to fifty fifth.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna ge the first player.
Speaker 8: They've got what a week and a half of games,
Speaker 8: it's about ten games, about twelve, twelve, thirteen.
Speaker 6: Let's see, they played one hundred and forty one hundred
Speaker 6: and fifty games, so they got twelve games left.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we'll you get there. I think I think he will.
Speaker 8: I think you will. They're playing the Marlins. They get
Speaker 8: the Marlins for three starting today. So go do it
Speaker 8: in the first inning, all right.
Speaker 6: You beat up on your braves a little bit these
Speaker 6: last two games. I mean braves swatted them for two,
Speaker 6: and then the Dodgers blew up on him and kind
Speaker 6: of got pissed off and started hitting the homers all
Speaker 6: over the place.
Speaker 1: Did he hit it last night? Because I turned the
Speaker 1: game off?
Speaker 6: No eating eating a yard last everybody else did? They
Speaker 6: won nine to nothing.
Speaker 1: I turned it off. After I think it was like
Speaker 1: the seventh inning. I was like, Ah, they're gonna lose.
Speaker 1: That's that's all I have today.
Speaker 5: Okay, does it right now?
Speaker 6: Just you know, just kind of been keeping an eye
Speaker 6: on all the all the football stuff. You know, a
Speaker 6: lot of talk about how bad some of these good
Speaker 6: teams are. Right, you got Florida State at zero and three,
Speaker 6: You've got Florida is terrible. I thought they were going
Speaker 6: to fire their coach on Sunday because the word got
Speaker 6: out that there was a board of trustees meeting or
Speaker 6: something like that. But it didn't happen. But you know,
Speaker 6: billion apries he's gonna get fired real soon. So then
Speaker 6: obviously the you know, the all the news starts, you know,
Speaker 6: starts talking about what would they take Jed fish?
Speaker 5: But Jed didn't look so good over the weekend.
Speaker 4: I was thinking that after they lost the third game,
Speaker 4: Florida yet and Jed suffered what he suffered over the weekend.
Speaker 4: But had Jeff and j and Jed's mind, God, I
Speaker 4: wish I should have stayed one more year. And we
Speaker 4: talked about this one stay one more year, then leave
Speaker 4: to Florida because we kind of saw this happening in Florida. Right,
Speaker 4: they'll suffer, they won't be that good. He'll have a
Speaker 4: chance to go back there. Yeah, and he decided to
Speaker 4: jump to Washington. And I'm wondering deep in his mind,
Speaker 4: and I don't want to talk about jet he's gone, but.
Speaker 5: He's thinking, maybe I should have waited a year and.
Speaker 6: Then his his love here would have been fine, right
Speaker 6: people Instead of people hated him here, they would have been, yes,
Speaker 6: stay one more year, and they want to know, you
Speaker 6: built this thing, right, you know, see it through and
Speaker 6: then then go off and do whatever you're gonna do.
Speaker 6: People would have been fine with that. But nobody expected
Speaker 6: him to stay, you know, for ten years.
Speaker 5: Right, right?
Speaker 9: Or four?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because he did a great job, and good good
Speaker 4: for him. But waiting more in a year, but hey,
Speaker 4: how do you cry for a guy who's mating five
Speaker 4: million dollars a year he left?
Speaker 6: He's gone exactly, no, I think. But you know, it's
Speaker 6: funny because I was watching that game. I you know,
Speaker 6: I had I had two separate parlays with Washington.
Speaker 5: On the money line. All they had to do was win.
Speaker 5: All I had to do was win.
Speaker 6: They're in Seattle, I know, it wasn't in Husky Stadium,
Speaker 6: but they're in Seattle and they're playing the Apple Cup
Speaker 6: there clearly got better players and just he just crept
Speaker 6: on it.
Speaker 5: And when they lined up for that.
Speaker 6: With the same play, Yeah, they lined up for that plan, like,
Speaker 6: I know what they're doing here.
Speaker 5: I know exactly what you're against USC. Yeah, I know
Speaker 5: what are you doing?
Speaker 6: And and I mean if I knew what they were
Speaker 6: what they were running, you know, Washington State knew what
Speaker 6: they were running, and they and they and they buried it.
Speaker 6: I mean it had it never from the snap, it
Speaker 6: never had a chance to to you know, run that
Speaker 6: option on the short side of the field. And then
Speaker 6: you got up there. In his press comments said if
Speaker 6: we would have executed, it would have worked. Well, of course,
Speaker 6: if you'd have executed, it would have worked, but you
Speaker 6: weren't going to execute it because Washington State was waiting
Speaker 6: for it. That's that's a funny statement. If it was
Speaker 6: of course, it wouldn't have worked had you executed it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: so it was, you know, but I I saw it
Speaker 6: coming and who didn't, now, you know, and then Oregon State,
Speaker 6: you know, just kind of crapped all over it and
Speaker 6: let Oregon run all over them and the other in
Speaker 6: the other rivalry game.
Speaker 5: Now you know coming out of the out of the
Speaker 5: Pac twelve.
Speaker 4: You're done right with Let me ask you a question, Jake.
Speaker 4: I don't want your honest opinion as opposed to you
Speaker 4: as opposed to so, so do you. I know you
Speaker 4: make observations. I think I may have asked you this
Speaker 4: last week just in your observations of Brendan because now
Speaker 4: it's him, and somebody last week told me he didn't
Speaker 4: like how he is on the sidelines because he's clapping.
Speaker 5: He's clapping.
Speaker 4: We've got Tom calling about delay, which he didn't say
Speaker 4: good or bad, but his his good guy. Look, you
Speaker 4: have any issues with him per se early.
Speaker 6: No, I don't, because here's the deal we have gotten
Speaker 6: used to here, uh, not counting Kevin Sumblin with between
Speaker 6: Jed and rich Rod and Mike Stoops, coaches who were
Speaker 6: look like they were purposely in the middle of it
Speaker 6: animated yet and I know that there were times when
Speaker 6: I thought, particularly with Mike Stoops, like Mike, you got
Speaker 6: to let your coaches coach. The way you're running around
Speaker 6: and jumping around and screaming at coaches, I mean, some
Speaker 6: of those screaming matches he had with Mark Stoops and
Speaker 6: stuff like that, and you thought the opposite. You thought,
Speaker 6: he's so intense about everything that he's not giving anybody
Speaker 6: a chance to coach. You know, it's kind of like
Speaker 6: do it my way or get the help, you know.
Speaker 6: And rich Rod, you know, he was so zeroed in
Speaker 6: on the offense that all his defenses sucked, right, And
Speaker 6: then you know, then Jed the same thing. Yeah, he
Speaker 6: was calling the plays on the offense. What was going
Speaker 6: on defensively? You know, you know who was you know
Speaker 6: what I mean, Johnny Nansen did a good job with
Speaker 6: it last year. But it's kind of like you just
Speaker 6: felt like like Jed was only concerned with half the
Speaker 6: football team. So now you've got a guy that's he
Speaker 6: went on and got a former head coach as his
Speaker 6: offensive coordinator. He got a well respected, well regarded defensive coordinator.
Speaker 5: He's letting the coaches coach. I don't know a problem
Speaker 5: with that.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm sure he's you know, and he's total
Speaker 6: Dick told me when it comes to that, the way
Speaker 6: he walks the sidelines, and that's exactly what Dick did.
Speaker 6: And that's where he took his taking his cue and
Speaker 6: that's how he coaches. I think I'm not a problem
Speaker 6: with it. I think from my mind I don't either.
Speaker 6: But time will tell, Yeah, tell, because we need to
Speaker 6: see how the guys adapt to him, right exactly?
Speaker 5: And who knows after three games? Yeah? Okay, all right,
Speaker 5: let's take a break word and come back.
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Speaker 1: Eric, how are you.
Speaker 2: Doing today?
Speaker 5: We're doing okay.
Speaker 4: You probably have on your calendar the day's remaining before
Speaker 4: the big Bull game because there's been a lot of hype.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean, we get an email every day from our
Speaker 7: polygue dollar bio is telling us how many days. Sometimes
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Speaker 7: it is on its way and we could not be
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Speaker 6: So what are the types of things you guys are
Speaker 6: doing right now to get ready? You know, what's what's
Speaker 6: the daily work? I guess I should add as the
Speaker 6: bowl games? You know, what's football season on? Right you
Speaker 6: start talking about being ready for this. What are you
Speaker 6: guys doing?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, we're this sounds terrible that this is
Speaker 7: our job. We're watching a lot of football right now
Speaker 7: because one of the things we pride ourselves on is
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Speaker 7: You know, we're we're much more national than we've ever
Speaker 7: been from a sponsor and partner standpoint, so we're work
Speaker 7: with a lot of national partners on how we can
Speaker 7: get that message across to southern Arizona and really short
Speaker 7: a spotlight on the community we all love and spend
Speaker 7: all of our time in.
Speaker 4: So let me ask you, we know who's coming in
Speaker 4: the big sponsor with Snoop Dogg. Has he been a
Speaker 4: little more hands on? Well, not a little more. Has
Speaker 4: he been hands on to this point where he's he
Speaker 4: going to wait?
Speaker 7: You know, it's it's always a toss up when you
Speaker 7: work with somebody at that level. But he's been great.
Speaker 7: He's been excited. They are wanting to do new things.
Speaker 7: Every day we meet with their team, if not a
Speaker 7: couple of times a week, at least once a week
Speaker 7: talking about you know Snoop schedule, which is not something
Speaker 7: I ever thought I would say, I know his holiday
Speaker 7: plans and where he's going to be pretty much every week,
Speaker 7: which is, you know, kind of an odd thing to do.
Speaker 7: But he has been very hands on. He's very excited
Speaker 7: to be part of our community, not just this year
Speaker 7: but long time. You know, we're locked into a three
Speaker 7: year contract with an option for t more, and they
Speaker 7: are constantly saying, well, can we do this, can we
Speaker 7: do this?
Speaker 5: What about this?
Speaker 7: Almost to the point where we're having to say, like, hey,
Speaker 7: hold back just a little bit, because we want to
Speaker 7: make sure we have three years of exciting stuff. We
Speaker 7: don't turn doing all in year one.
Speaker 6: Will there be a point where you kind of have
Speaker 6: a sort of a map of everything that you're doing
Speaker 6: that the public can look at and say, okay, this,
Speaker 6: you know, these are the things that are that are
Speaker 6: going on places where he might be or you know,
Speaker 6: just events and those kinds of things. When will that
Speaker 6: stuff start to filter out to the public with events
Speaker 6: and things like that happening related to the.
Speaker 7: Ball great question today, It's probably gonna be a mountain
Speaker 7: mid November. I will say that he is a hard
Speaker 7: man to rail down. Of course, more out and I
Speaker 7: mean you see it everywhere. He's in People magazine right now,
Speaker 7: which we got a little shout out in, which is
Speaker 7: exciting for us. He's hosting the Voice, he's one of
Speaker 7: the coaches on the Voice. Obviously the whole world saw
Speaker 7: him in Paris doing his thing. Uh so he does
Speaker 7: not ice trained company, and he has you know, a
Speaker 7: kids show. So uh, your question day probably about mid November,
Speaker 7: Wilson and they have the public. Well you might be
Speaker 7: able to get some snoop tags.
Speaker 4: Oh well, nice. I just hope that he drops it
Speaker 4: like it's seventy two degrees.
Speaker 14: Jada.
Speaker 4: By the way, by the way, yes, well, by the way,
Speaker 4: Eric I put that in the story and my guy
Speaker 4: here took it out.
Speaker 5: He didn't get it. I didn't get it.
Speaker 7: That's a great reference.
Speaker 16: Come on, you guys must be We're a business magazine
Speaker 16: man's hipster.
Speaker 4: So you guys, I mean every day, I mean I
Speaker 4: don't every day. Can you kind of tell the excitement
Speaker 4: because I know you have the realtors in town doing
Speaker 4: a lot of the busy stuff trying to get sales
Speaker 4: for tickets. Do you know kind of the progress with that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're We're way about schedule as far as ticket
Speaker 7: sales than we've ever been before. We sold more over
Speaker 7: the summer than we ever have. We traditionally don't pick
Speaker 7: up from a ticket sales standpoint, so kind of mid
Speaker 7: October once football season starts and people start thinking about it.
Speaker 7: But we sold a really nice chucking tickets over the summer.
Speaker 7: We continue to sell almost every day.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: Our Kickoffs luncheon is coming October the fourth, which is
Speaker 7: be exciting for us. It's always a good time, you know.
Speaker 7: I'm sure you both will be there. Our future guest
Speaker 7: this year is rich Clark, the executive director.
Speaker 5: Of the CFP.
Speaker 7: So all those questions you want to say, like what's
Speaker 7: going on in college foot Paul, this is I got
Speaker 7: to ask.
Speaker 5: And so he's in charge.
Speaker 7: We're excited to have to here in our community. He's
Speaker 7: a big Snoop Dog fan.
Speaker 5: That's so.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're ahead of schedule further than we've ever been
Speaker 7: in our senior history.
Speaker 6: You know, that's been quite an event over the years.
Speaker 6: You've had Gronk, you had Rudy Rudiger, You've had you know,
Speaker 6: people like that. How are the ticket sales going for that?
Speaker 6: And where can get people get tickets for that?
Speaker 7: Gosh, you just always setting me up to make me
Speaker 7: good at my job. I appreciate that you can go
Speaker 7: to the Arizona Bull dot com, like you know, the
Speaker 7: Ohio States the Arizona Bull dot com for tickets we
Speaker 7: have we usually have about a thousand people on the
Speaker 7: lunch in between eight hundred nine thousand. We're already over
Speaker 7: the six hundred ticket sales mark. So we're you know,
Speaker 7: a month to go still here. So this is one
Speaker 7: of those things, you know, being a native too soon
Speaker 7: in we always wait till the week of You probably
Speaker 7: don't want to do that because those tickets will be
Speaker 7: gone and then we might have a surprise guest also
Speaker 7: this year. Well, I can't guarantee anything because it would
Speaker 7: be a surprise, but uh, you know we might have
Speaker 7: song here to visit that folks would want to see.
Speaker 4: Well, I was just gonna ask you maybe this is
Speaker 4: a surprise yest. So I'm not sure about saying anything,
Speaker 4: but I saw Francona's face on some kind of flyer.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, he's not a surprise. He's we're telling people.
Speaker 6: Don't be there.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So you know, every year we get to taketoll me
Speaker 7: to some strong awards, and so it's got a lot
Speaker 7: for our community, you know, kind of in the world
Speaker 7: of athletics, and so yeah, Terry Francona is our recipient.
Speaker 7: This here will be there to receive the awards. I mean,
Speaker 7: and I think we're a little spoiled. Hear too some
Speaker 7: that we see a lot of people. But when you
Speaker 7: look at that man's resume, I mean he is in
Speaker 7: an echalogue by himself as far as the Golden Spike,
Speaker 7: sword winner, college World Series, Major League, a couple of
Speaker 7: World Series as a manager his playing career, and he's
Speaker 7: just such a down to earth guy who we see
Speaker 7: all the time in the Kato and basketball and baseball,
Speaker 7: and I think you don't really know what's sitting in
Speaker 7: front of us from a historical standpoint. So yeah, he's
Speaker 7: not the surprise guest that he will be there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very cool, very cool.
Speaker 6: So how how is the stuff that's going on with
Speaker 6: the with the game? How different is it from you know,
Speaker 6: previous years because of the Snoop dog effect, you know,
Speaker 6: but I mean, is it more urgency, more stuff that
Speaker 6: you're coming up with?
Speaker 5: How has it been different?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a great question.
Speaker 5: Dan.
Speaker 7: I think one of the things that I've tried to
Speaker 7: colin in my own thinking is, you know, how we
Speaker 7: all learned to about AD and BC is kind stamps.
Speaker 7: And when we were in school, I started to coin
Speaker 7: the phrase ps pret snow. So all of our numbers
Speaker 7: and all of our activities of what it used to
Speaker 7: be pretty snow and now what we're going to do,
Speaker 7: So we're actually going to add some stuff that's great
Speaker 7: for our community. That whole week, we're hosting the Snoop
Speaker 7: Youth Football League's National Tournament here in Tucson. So we'll
Speaker 7: have about thirty youth football teams here playing in the tournament,
Speaker 7: which will culminate in the Snooper Bowl, which is just
Speaker 7: a fun name to say. On the twenty seventh of
Speaker 7: the game, before our game, we're going to host the
Speaker 7: Snoop Special Stars, which is, you know, young people with
Speaker 7: disabilities who are going to play football game in the
Speaker 7: stadium on the field which will be all painted up
Speaker 7: and everything. You know, and have that experience. So adding
Speaker 7: us to your new things, a few new wrinkles you
Speaker 7: haven't seen with or and of course when you have
Speaker 7: an entertainment goal who not only travels with himself but
Speaker 7: with quite the entourage, it opens up a few more doors.
Speaker 7: But you know, I don't want to quite give that
Speaker 7: all the way. That's one of the teasers, like you've
Speaker 7: got to be present to win. You got to be
Speaker 7: the game to see what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4: Right along those lines, when Kim came on the show
Speaker 4: a couple of months ago talking about the game when
Speaker 4: it first announced, I said, I can't wait for our
Speaker 4: media surprise or our media gift. The Snoop is going
Speaker 4: to be part of it.
Speaker 7: Well, you know that's that's when I get to choose.
Speaker 7: So you're setting me up. That's the media gift is
Speaker 7: getting nicer by the minute here because.
Speaker 6: That's his way of saying, I want a case of
Speaker 6: gin and juice or whatever or whatever.
Speaker 7: No, I mean, you guys both know where our office is.
Speaker 7: If you happen to make your way to our office,
Speaker 7: we may or may not have some some beverages that
Speaker 7: you and then of course we'll make sure you ober home.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's funny because when you got this a couple
Speaker 4: of months ago and you announced, uh, a story that's
Speaker 4: coming out in this Tucson in a month or so, right,
Speaker 4: you said, you guys must have had like a huge
Speaker 4: celebration high fives that you were because it's a fantastic gift.
Speaker 5: How was that?
Speaker 7: I will tell you? You know, you guys, you're you
Speaker 7: know Kim and Era, gnecutive director, is a good friend
Speaker 7: of your show. You guys are kind of enough to
Speaker 7: have her on often. She's a fun boss to work for.
Speaker 7: So when we officially signed an All the Ink tried,
Speaker 7: she got to our office early and as we walked in,
Speaker 7: it sounded like a pool party because there was some
Speaker 7: beverages out. There were speakers playing lots of snoop mesi
Speaker 7: to the point where we shared an office with a
Speaker 7: law f room and the floors beneath us, and we
Speaker 7: definitely got some people, you know, like banging on the
Speaker 7: ceiling with the quiet, But yeah, it was it was
Speaker 7: really exciting. I mean, you guys have both been around
Speaker 7: since the beginning of this game, so you know the
Speaker 7: trajectory we've been on, and it's a bit surreal to
Speaker 7: be on this show with the two of you talking
Speaker 7: about how Snoop Dogg, right, you know, America's mascot right
Speaker 7: now is going to be so heavily involved in Tucson,
Speaker 7: our community, not just for one day, but for a
Speaker 7: week plus for the next three years. That's just so
Speaker 7: exciting for us.
Speaker 6: We're talking to Eric Rhodes, VP of Communications for the
Speaker 6: Arizona Bawl. We're talking Snoop Dogg and his impact on
Speaker 6: the game. You know, it's I'm sitting here, you know,
Speaker 6: listening to you and talking about this and thinking, I
Speaker 6: just can't wait to see what this is going to
Speaker 6: look like, right uh, you know, with all the events
Speaker 6: and with him being here for the game and just
Speaker 6: what I mean, the game is going to be the game,
Speaker 6: but there's going to be a whole lot going around it,
Speaker 6: and a whole lot of attention around it. I mean
Speaker 6: when the game shows up that week and you know,
Speaker 6: and Snoop Dogg's a big part of it, you know,
Speaker 6: you guys are going to be all over you know,
Speaker 6: the talk shows all over the you know, pregame shows
Speaker 6: about with with Snoop Dogg being.
Speaker 5: A part of this.
Speaker 6: I just want to see what that's going to be
Speaker 6: like at that time. It's it's I.
Speaker 5: Don't know that. You can't even predict all yeah, right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean we we certainly, it's like the best
Speaker 7: laid plans of mice and men, right, Like, we certainly
Speaker 7: have a logistical plan. But you just don't know how
Speaker 7: many people are excited by Snoop. I mean, you just don't.
Speaker 7: You don't get it, Like you know, the questions we get.
Speaker 7: Here's the three questions I get every single day. Is
Speaker 7: Snoop going to be answered on?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 7: Absolutely, He's going to be in twth on for multiple days,
Speaker 7: so he is going to be here.
Speaker 12: He will be in the game.
Speaker 7: He's going to do at least a quarter on the
Speaker 7: broadcast in the boot, so that'll be entertaining. Question two,
Speaker 7: is he performing at halftime? And I can very honestly
Speaker 7: tell you we don't know yet. Yeah, like we would,
Speaker 7: we would love him to. We don't have it for
Speaker 7: sure on that because we're not talking about like just
Speaker 7: handing someone on the microphone to to, you know, sing
Speaker 7: the national anthem as we've had many lovely talented people.
Speaker 5: Do you know?
Speaker 7: Snoop comes with a fairly long and you know, like
Speaker 7: you mentioned, there does happen to be a football game
Speaker 7: going on as well, so you know, we have time
Speaker 7: constraints as far as how long our halftime can be.
Speaker 7: We've got to get approved from the conferences if we
Speaker 7: want to link in it for a small concert, if
Speaker 7: you will, how you get everything on and off the field,
Speaker 7: Which goes back to your earlier question of we have
Speaker 7: kind of like three different plans of Okay, here's what
Speaker 7: it's this, here's if it's a big halftime show, here's
Speaker 7: if it's a smaller halftime show. One of the things
Speaker 7: that I deal with now every day is like who
Speaker 7: for Snoop entourage is going to come and how are
Speaker 7: we going to accommodate now. Also, you know, like doctor
Speaker 7: Dre and Jimmy Adan who founded beat Ti Tree and
Speaker 7: Apple Music and Inner Skill Records, they're all great friends.
Speaker 7: And of course this is the third question we get
Speaker 7: every day, is Martha Stewart coming, which because you know
Speaker 7: Snoop and Martha are friends and we have reached out
Speaker 7: to her team and we would love for her to
Speaker 7: be here, and they can tell you at this point.
Speaker 5: It's not a note.
Speaker 7: Not Y's for sure, but it's not a note. And
Speaker 7: she might be one of those fun surprises that keep
Speaker 7: finding going around her tailgate and rings in our game.
Speaker 4: You just might have more a moment nothing like knowing
Speaker 4: your thread count of your bed and.
Speaker 5: You know, I know, right, yeah, yeah, there was something.
Speaker 7: That's got to be like a signature Arizona ble turning
Speaker 7: she could put together.
Speaker 4: We got to because this minut or two, I wanted
Speaker 4: to talk to you about one of the cool things
Speaker 4: that's going to happen, the nil stuff, because everyone's talking
Speaker 4: about nil. Right, you walk across the street and you
Speaker 4: get five hundred bucks, that's going to be special to
Speaker 4: you guys as well.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, the first ball game on the country to
Speaker 7: do it. I think a couple have followed suit since.
Speaker 7: And ours is going to be based right, you know,
Speaker 7: it cannot be based off performance, So every student athlete
Speaker 7: who shows up to our game as part of the
Speaker 7: travel roster for each school will be given and at
Speaker 7: this point an undisclosed around and nil money, and it'll
Speaker 7: be centered around doing a youth clinic the day before
Speaker 7: or the games. So the NL is attached to the clinic,
Speaker 7: not performance. And so we want to maximize a couple
Speaker 7: of opportunities. One, we want to make sure we elevate
Speaker 7: our ball and every chance we can get. And so
Speaker 7: we've become as you know, the bolt landscape changes and
Speaker 7: postseason changes almost by the minute in college football. We
Speaker 7: want to be one of those those bowls that isn't
Speaker 7: part of the oh, maybe that doesn't exist any more conversation,
Speaker 7: and we're quite confident we're there and then be as
Speaker 7: we all see a lot of people opt out. We
Speaker 7: want to make an honor tractor to come play in
Speaker 7: our game, like you know, make make make a certain
Speaker 7: amount of money to come play if you're possibly going
Speaker 7: to be drafted, or give me your chance, whatever it
Speaker 7: might be. Like, we want to give every student athlete,
Speaker 7: because we have some great teams come to our game
Speaker 7: with some some outstanding players. We've had a player drafted
Speaker 7: each of the last three years who appeared in our game,
Speaker 7: so you know, we want to make sure those people
Speaker 7: continue to come and perform so our fans can see that.
Speaker 5: Super well, Thank you, Eric, appreciate your time always.
Speaker 7: Han Punger, Guys, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 5: We'll talk to you zip great.
Speaker 4: Thanks Abuchus, Eric Rhoades, VP of Communications from the Arizona Bowl.
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Speaker 4: Hey, welcome back to im Ball hero Fox Sports Fortune fifty.
Speaker 4: I'm Steve Rivera's jakinsaucutter guy Kevin.
Speaker 5: With us today known a few minutes. Anybody want to call?
Speaker 5: Would I say Kevin? You're Kevin today? Kevin? I call Hivin.
Speaker 5: Vin's not even an intern anymore.
Speaker 4: Dude, Kevin, You're lucky I call you Ray or somebody
Speaker 4: this long as I don't call you link for dinner,
Speaker 4: I don't know why I can't get your name Mark
Speaker 4: right right? You're my host for the Saturday show, the
Speaker 4: show what are these days?
Speaker 6: All?
Speaker 5: Adopt? You go? How's that going? It's good.
Speaker 6: We only had two shows. It's the home games. Okay,
Speaker 6: that's we almost came to blow. The second show was okay,
Speaker 6: right right, I forgot you got a good show. It
Speaker 6: was a good show. A little uncomfortable, but it was fide.
Speaker 5: It was fine. It was good. Uh so what else?
Speaker 4: Anybody call? We got a couple of minutes five two
Speaker 4: oh four, one, six, seventy four, forty uh what do
Speaker 4: you want to talk about?
Speaker 5: Anything? You want to show? Hey? Went aard?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah that he went big fly upper
Speaker 6: deck while we were on the on on with the
Speaker 6: Eric Rhodes. He's at forty eight homers, forty eight stolen bases,
Speaker 6: and he's got two of each. Okay, I know you
Speaker 6: don't really give a crap, but I'm gonna ask you anyways,
Speaker 6: even though.
Speaker 5: He's a d H, if he gets to fifty fifty,
Speaker 5: is he the m v P. That's been the time.
Speaker 5: I think I asked you this next week because you
Speaker 5: you said no.
Speaker 6: I initially thought no, but now that if he if
Speaker 6: he gets this milestone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think you have to give it.
Speaker 4: I think I think so too, because tonight I'm gonna
Speaker 4: see some of the guys and he talked about that too.
Speaker 4: They're they're saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, look at this accomplishment, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's so rare.
Speaker 5: No, I agree with you. I mean, it's extraordinary what
Speaker 5: he's doing. I mean, nobody, you know, nobody does that.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: Similarly, I heard a conversation coming into the show today
Speaker 6: about Travis Hunter, and you know, the amount that he
Speaker 6: plays both sides of the ball as good as he is,
Speaker 6: even if Colorado kind of sucks or maybe there's six
Speaker 6: and sixteen, But if he's doing all that and he's
Speaker 6: one of the top receivers in the country, he's one
Speaker 6: of the top defensive backs in the country.
Speaker 5: Is he he's been worthy? Yes, he's been worthy. Yes.
Speaker 5: Will he get it?
Speaker 4: Probably not, But he's been worthy, of course, yeah, because well,
Speaker 4: at its core, and we know this doesn't always fly.
Speaker 4: It's the best call, it's supposed to be the best
Speaker 4: college football and how many times does that happen? Never
Speaker 4: so exactly, so why not be worthy? But if he was,
Speaker 4: if he was on a better team or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he could win it, but no, I mean he won't
Speaker 4: win it, but yes, why not? I mean yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean you know, I'm a voter, so you know, I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know what I would do at this point
Speaker 5: because I'm look from last year, right, I mean my
Speaker 5: whole argument all season long, yeah, was that I thought
Speaker 5: one of the reasons you give the Heisman Trophy to
Speaker 5: Michael Panis is because of how good better better team? Right? So,
Speaker 5: but you know what Travis Hunter is doing is is, uh,
Speaker 5: he's really good.
Speaker 6: You know I I I watched a lot of that
Speaker 6: that Colorado State game, and he made some plays that
Speaker 6: you just go, yeah, man.
Speaker 5: Who's better him or team as a receiver?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think teams a better receiver, but team can't
Speaker 6: play defensive back.
Speaker 5: Right right, No, they're both fantastic and and I think
Speaker 5: that we'll see down the road.
Speaker 4: We do you see down the road if team continue
Speaker 4: to do why not think about him as a Heisman guy?
Speaker 4: But he hissed be a better team? Yeah, because he is.
Speaker 4: He is, if not the one or two three best
Speaker 4: receivers in the country, right, I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 5: But to you to your question.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, you should at least consider him at
Speaker 4: that core. That's what it's supposed to be. I know,
Speaker 4: we don't go there. It is fortunately it's unfortunately we don't.
Speaker 5: So we'll see. Yeah, I hear, we'll see him in
Speaker 5: a couple of weeks. I mean it should be a.
Speaker 6: Lot of fun. Yeah, a month maybe. Yeah, they come here, right, yeah,
Speaker 6: they do come here. That's a gameboard. It could be
Speaker 6: sold out. Yeah, people are gonna want to come and
Speaker 6: see that. Okay, hey, let's take this call. Hi, you're
Speaker 6: on the air and high on the ball, Nico.
Speaker 5: Hey, I got two questions for you, man, cool. First
Speaker 5: is you think the PAC twelve will take Arizona back? Man,
Speaker 5: I don't think Arizona will take the Pack twelve back.
Speaker 5: How's that. Let's be out of that Big twelve. It's
Speaker 5: not a good shilling there. It's a terrible showing. But
Speaker 5: I still think it's a better place.
Speaker 16: It is a better place.
Speaker 6: But bottom get the penalty six man, Yeah, bottom line, Nico,
Speaker 6: A Pack twelve contract, TV contract with the teams that
Speaker 6: it's gathering. And let's say you add Arizona in AARs
Speaker 6: on the state hypothetically, which isn't gonna happen.
Speaker 5: But let's say you did.
Speaker 6: You're talking about max fifteen million dollars a year where
Speaker 6: they're getting thirty and change up in the Big twelve.
Speaker 5: So that's not going to happen.
Speaker 15: Hey man, they have to go to the league.
Speaker 13: They can win.
Speaker 5: Why they can win the Big twelve if they just
Speaker 5: get their stuff together. I used to think, dude, I
Speaker 5: used to think so too, But I don't know. No,
Speaker 5: they not. They didn't show well on Friday. And my
Speaker 5: second question, heay, how the hell did you get a
Speaker 5: Heisman voter trophy?
Speaker 13: How'd you get to vote for that?
Speaker 16: Because I know somebody, I don't think you're qualified. Whoa, whoa,
Speaker 16: whoa whoa? Of course, wow, you breaking the heat. I
Speaker 16: guess so well, because.
Speaker 5: You're a good guy. I never read your stuff in
Speaker 5: the paper.
Speaker 6: But you weren't born when I was writing for the paper.
Speaker 10: That seems like a big responsibility.
Speaker 6: Man, It is a big responsibility, and I and I
Speaker 6: accept it as a big responsibility. And in doing that,
Speaker 6: it's because I do watch a lot of football. I
Speaker 6: pay attention to a lot of it, I read about
Speaker 6: a lot of football. I feel like I have a
Speaker 6: good sense of players. Uh so I take I take
Speaker 6: it seriously and and so yeah, I had I am
Speaker 6: qualified as all hell, I'm qualified that a lot of
Speaker 6: the guys who voted last year.
Speaker 5: I know that for sure.
Speaker 6: Hey man, you're winning me over.
Speaker 9: But it sounds like you got back.
Speaker 5: That could be true that this is my second time
Speaker 5: around as a voter. I was a voter.
Speaker 6: Background was covering the football team in the in the
Speaker 6: late eighties. Okay, I appreciate youno. Gosh man, what the
Speaker 6: hell's am I unqualified as a college football better maybe,
Speaker 6: but not as a not as somebody who has an
Speaker 6: idea what's going on?
Speaker 4: Give him the old wings next time he shows up
Speaker 4: at your seriously seriously chicken wings and whatever your pizza.
Speaker 6: Give him the old stuff exactly. Okay, cool, all right,
Speaker 6: we gotta take this one more call. And then we
Speaker 6: got to make a little bit of an announcement. Here, Hi,
Speaker 6: you're on the r and I on the ball.
Speaker 5: It's team money money, what's up?
Speaker 8: Should this should establish your bona fides or not?
Speaker 5: Did did you or did you not vote for Gino
Speaker 5: Touretta to win the Heisman Trophy? I did not? Okay,
Speaker 5: I did not one at a time. That was a
Speaker 5: while back. God, I can't remember what I mean, that
Speaker 5: was around that time. Who the guy money? I don't know.
Speaker 7: I just remember being a kid and Touretta won it,
Speaker 7: and I'm like, what is going on here?
Speaker 4: This is that's that's how my trust in the system just.
Speaker 6: I'm looking up to see when he won it, because
Speaker 6: I might not have voted the year that he won it.
Speaker 6: He wanted to ninety two. Yeah, I wasn't voting at
Speaker 6: that time anymore.
Speaker 5: I voted.
Speaker 6: I only voted one year because then I left sports writing.
Speaker 6: And it was the year that Barry Sanders won it
Speaker 6: and Rodney Pete was second and Troy Aikman was third,
Speaker 6: and I voted for Rodney Pete.
Speaker 5: It's a little it was a little biased.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeahay too money, too money. What the hell's going
Speaker 4: on with this football program? What's your evaluation?
Speaker 14: Well, I just think expectations are everything, and I think
Speaker 14: we failed the team and that we expected too much.
Speaker 5: And I think we'll have to crow even in tacos
Speaker 5: taste like craps crow Tucky. It's gonna it's gonna be
Speaker 5: one of those seasons. As long as we can beat
Speaker 5: b YU, Colorado, and ASU.
Speaker 1: I think that's the baseline.
Speaker 4: Three four three four, that's okas are three, right, and
Speaker 4: then you get maybe Texas Tech that's four.
Speaker 5: Get you to six? Yeah, yeah, U c F and
Speaker 5: West Virginia in there. I think those are that's a
Speaker 5: hard one. They got a month, they got like three
Speaker 5: weeks to get this stuff figure now. They got to
Speaker 5: figure it out. They got a lot to find. The
Speaker 5: question to you is what hurts more this or nineteen
Speaker 5: ninety nine. I can't figure it out. Well, this doesn't
Speaker 5: hurt near as much as nineteen ninety nine. Yeah, you're
Speaker 5: not done yet. We're not done yet, done right? You know?
Speaker 6: The Penn State beatdown was one of the worst things
Speaker 6: I've ever seen in Arizona football.
Speaker 5: And so this doesn't get there yet. So had somebody
Speaker 5: on the phone during the middle of the third quarter.
Speaker 5: It was it was yeah, anyway, all right, man, Lene's
Speaker 5: basketball season.
Speaker 7: I'm out talking to that.
Speaker 6: Don't stop calling us Tea Money. I wonder if that's
Speaker 6: his real name, the last name money. Yeah, maybe maybe
Speaker 6: it's like Tea change.
Speaker 5: Hey, what's up with you? All right? So I got
Speaker 5: a little bit of an that I shouldn't say a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 6: Of an announcement kind that wich time. We had about
Speaker 6: five minutes, four minutes, four minutes enough time for you. Yeah,
Speaker 6: just making a little bit of a life announcement here
Speaker 6: for me. I've been trying to figure out how to
Speaker 6: put this, and I think the best way that I
Speaker 6: can put it that sort of fits with what we
Speaker 6: talk about is I've entered the transfer portal. I'm going
Speaker 6: to be leaving the show at the end of this
Speaker 6: week kind of. I've accepted a job with a local
Speaker 6: public relations firm. You know, radio is a tough business,
Speaker 6: and it was tough to make ends meet with this
Speaker 6: and it just didn't It just didn't work out, and
Speaker 6: I had to I had to go seek some employment
Speaker 6: and I've been hired by a local pr firm with
Speaker 6: a group.
Speaker 5: That I've known for a really long time. And so
Speaker 5: my last day on the show will be on Friday. Now.
Speaker 5: Steve and I had previously cut a deal with a
Speaker 5: casino del Soul. We're going to be doing a show
Speaker 5: once a month there leading into NFL Football on Thursday nights,
Speaker 5: and so I am still going to come back and
Speaker 5: do that show with Steve once a month, but other
Speaker 5: than that. I'm off the show. Uh, starting on Friday.
Speaker 5: You also might be an occasional caller.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I may call in and if I if I'm
Speaker 6: listening to the show and it sounds like you need help,
Speaker 6: I'll give you a call. You can rip it to
Speaker 6: as Yeah, Nico, all right, I'm qualified for a lot
Speaker 6: of things. But uh, you know, it's it's been a
Speaker 6: it's been a great ride. Steve and I have been
Speaker 6: together for over four years. Came at a great time
Speaker 6: for me after I got punched out at the Two
Speaker 6: Sugar Skulls. It's been fun. We've done a lot of
Speaker 6: good stuff, continue to be fun. Yeah, and Steve is
Speaker 6: going to keep the show going with a likely an
Speaker 6: somebody else, somebody started, somebody is worthy and hopefully more
Speaker 6: worthy than than me.
Speaker 5: I just went to the back to the fourth, back
Speaker 5: to the fourth, back and forth. Yeah.
Speaker 6: But you know, I think Steve and I have had
Speaker 6: a had a great chemistry here and we've had a
Speaker 6: lot of fun. I think people talk about that when
Speaker 6: they talk about this show. They talk about that more
Speaker 6: than anything, that that Steve and I seem like good,
Speaker 6: good partners on this show.
Speaker 5: Were back and forth off but it's.
Speaker 4: Been fun, but it'll be fun, yeah, because you'll be back.
Speaker 4: You'll be back on Thursday nights. We'll have fun there
Speaker 4: and casino. Make sure when we announced that that you
Speaker 4: go down there if you have a chance to say hello,
Speaker 4: you know, might even buy you a beer or so
Speaker 4: and just kind of be in the audience with us.
Speaker 5: Put it all on red put Okay, no, don't do that.
Speaker 5: But it's a nice facility. We'll be down there.
Speaker 4: We're at our new facility, so we still have a
Speaker 4: lot to learn here. I had the interns coming in yesterday.
Speaker 4: They spoke with me because there was no guest. So
Speaker 4: that'll kind of be the show for a while.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 6: I'm a little bummed about the timing of this because
Speaker 6: we did just get to this great studio.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think it's I mean, it's it's small, but it's
Speaker 6: technologically it's awesome.
Speaker 5: It's clean, yeah, because we've got to take our stuff
Speaker 5: back to.
Speaker 6: It's clean, and and you know, we're getting the kings out.
Speaker 6: But it it looks you know, it looks like a great,
Speaker 6: great system for us. But anyways, I you know, well,
Speaker 6: I'll say my formal goodbye on Friday. On Friday, but
Speaker 6: I just want to let everybody know this is happening,
Speaker 6: and Friday will be my last day on the on
Speaker 6: the Daily Show, but we'll be uh, we'll be getting
Speaker 6: together once a month on on Thursdays, probably from a casino.
Speaker 4: Del right, right, Okay, cool, cool, get that out of
Speaker 4: the way. You've known for a little bit. Yeah, just
Speaker 4: a little bit. We were kind of holding off with
Speaker 4: that in the casino notice. Yeah, so we know it's
Speaker 4: not done yet. We're still going to continue this, uh
Speaker 4: in a different form, right, but I'll be here with
Speaker 4: probably a new a new host, Tartner, but some at
Speaker 4: some point I'm not sure when.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I should tell you to go
Speaker 5: get yourself a white guy or not, or you know
Speaker 5: what you ought to do there. I just want to survive.
Speaker 5: I just want to survive.
Speaker 4: I kind of want to get some guy that's gonna
Speaker 4: go back and forth with me too, because that's that's
Speaker 4: part of the part of the show, you know it.
Speaker 4: Don't want anybody to agree with me, and I don't
Speaker 4: want to agree with them. So you know, there there
Speaker 4: is momentum or no momentum. You are not a basketball
Speaker 4: blue blood like that.
Speaker 6: Can continue to find ready, we gotta get the heck
Speaker 6: out of here on top of the hour where uh
Speaker 6: gotta get off. So everybody, thanks, thanks for everybody, and
Speaker 6: we'll be back tomorrow, tomorrow,